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episode 5: Celebrity Cruise Sets New Obliviousness Record 08.08.25
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Speaker 1
Oh oh.
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Speaker 2
Here I come from with you mom.
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Speaker 1
If I was a bad and I people thought that
00:23
that's what my music saided like, I'd like, I'm never
00:25
doing anything creative ever again it's have you.
00:29
Speaker 2
Seen the video that's like getting passed around on Twitter
00:32
of them performing it?
00:33
Speaker 1
No, but old moll do I go. Let me just
00:40
read some of these lyrics. Alabama, Arkansas. I do love
00:45
my mom, Paul, not that way I do love you. Wait,
00:51
not that way as in, like I don't love my
00:53
mother and my father the way I love my romantic interest.
00:57
That's good they clear that up. It is important that
00:58
they clear that up.
00:59
Speaker 3
And I think that's why they said Arkansas first. They're like,
01:02
I'm gonna name these places that are kind of that. Yeah,
01:04
I don't love you like that.
01:06
Speaker 1
I'm not like that. FYI.
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Speaker 2
Well, hot and heavy, pumpkin pie, chocolate candy, Jesus christ
01:15
Ain't nothing please me more than you?
01:18
Speaker 1
And these people are from those felixes feels. It's true.
01:23
Sharp was born in a Gelson's.
01:28
Speaker 2
Born in the Whole Foods hot food section, next to
01:33
like a thirteen dollars piece of pizza. Yes, it would
01:37
be more appropriate to say Arawan but Arawan wasn't that
01:41
bougie and widespread and that far east in Los Angeles
01:44
until then?
01:45
Speaker 1
That's correct. But if I was.
01:47
Speaker 2
From Alabama or Arkansas, I would be so offended, Like
01:51
this is the most like they're like doing Arkansas hillbilly face.
02:00
He pass those spoons over here, Paul, let me get
02:03
let me get a spooning' not like that.
02:05
Speaker 1
I don't love you like that, Pa, but I love
02:07
that like Paul.
02:16
Speaker 2
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four hundred, episode
02:20
five of Dirdays. Heyay, this production of Iheartradios, the podcast
02:25
We're taking Deep to have a too American share concouenness.
02:27
It's the season finale of the eagerly anticipated season four hundred.
02:33
It's Friday, August eighth, twenty twenty five. My name is
02:36
Jack O'Brien aka. I eat pieces of pizza like you
02:40
for breakfast that.
02:42
Speaker 1
One crazy of David Lesser.
02:44
Speaker 2
Oh yes, I eate pizza yesterday for breakfast Manco and Manco's.
02:47
I felt bad, and then today I was like, how
02:51
can I eat something for breakfast that will make me
02:53
feel worse? And I ate a plate of leftover beef
02:58
and mashed potatoes.
02:59
Speaker 1
What that he was going on with you. I don't know.
03:03
Speaker 2
I come home and I eat like I don't know
03:05
how food works for some reason, but I can report
03:10
I feel like shit again for some reason.
03:14
Speaker 1
Because beef is so vague. What was it? But I
03:18
think you don't know. That's who you would have said
03:21
that it was like a steak or that's why it's
03:23
so concerning, that's what. You don't know.
03:25
Speaker 2
What it was just a red red meat of some sort.
03:30
Speaker 1
Yeah, something rare. Yeah, Now it was a couple of
03:36
days old.
03:36
Speaker 2
It's been reheated a couple of times, but it was
03:39
really good on the last reheat, and this time I
03:42
was very hungry, and so I didn't notice if it
03:44
was good or bad, And now I feel terrible. I'm
03:47
thrilled to be joined in our second seat by a
03:49
brilliant comedian, writer actor. Please welcome uh the Hilarious The
03:53
Riding of Recumbent Bicycle In short short.
03:55
Speaker 4
It's Blake Waxland's Wexler aka let me go on like
04:03
a Wexler in the sun, Let me go on plump legs.
04:08
Speaker 1
You know I'm the one when I'm out walking, I
04:11
strapped my stuff. Yeah, these plumpers are out. Big thighs.
04:14
Big thighs were come bent by I might I just
04:17
by stopped to show them off. Let me go on,
04:20
And that was from Gross Space Killer. Today is my
04:23
dad's birthday, but I don't want to talk about that,
04:25
so to talk about these leggs. He's the man I
04:30
inherited the original plump pet my dad. Your dad have
04:34
great legs. Uh, they used to. They're not aging well,
04:38
but they were once. They were once a good yeah,
04:40
a good leg like the rest of them. They're it's
04:43
gone the ship. But you know he had good legs
04:46
in his in his heyday. Heyas congratulations Blake, thank you, thanks.
04:52
We are thrilled to.
04:52
Speaker 2
Be joined in our third seat by a brilliant anti
04:56
racism educator, activist, writer, creator the acclaimed podcast White Homework.
05:02
Please welcome back to the show, Tory Williams Douglas.
05:07
Speaker 5
Thanks so much for having me back on. I would
05:09
get to be back on to This is my first
05:13
different second host.
05:15
Speaker 1
Oh really, Oh yeah, you've had Blake as a co
05:18
host before and it is an.
05:21
Speaker 5
Honor and a privilege and a delight.
05:24
Speaker 2
Tory, congratulations, thanks for having me on.
05:31
Speaker 5
Happy to be here.
05:32
Speaker 1
We're thrilled to have you back.
05:34
Speaker 2
I am coming from DTS down the shore for the
05:40
part of the Jersey Shore I.
05:41
Speaker 1
Grew up going to.
05:42
Speaker 2
Did we talk about the abandoned amusement park yesterday's episode?
05:46
Speaker 1
We somehow didn't get to it. We got to everything
05:50
else under the fucking sun.
05:51
Speaker 2
But because we were talking about the amusement park where
05:54
I appeared to pee my pants even though I didn't,
05:56
that place is now for the first time in my life,
06:00
the rides are not open this summer.
06:03
Speaker 1
It is enough.
06:04
Speaker 2
It is a straight up abandoned amusement park that's been
06:06
purchased by a hotel developer, which is like scary. We're
06:11
so close to a Scooby Doo, Like I feel like
06:15
I need to go there and start dressing up and
06:17
like you know, ghost mask and like trying to scare
06:22
people to do something with the property value. Probably scare
06:25
the hotel operators so they bring them rides back.
06:28
Speaker 1
That'll work. Both of you have kids, so you'll probably
06:33
have like a more in depth analysis on this, since
06:36
mine is purely selfish. But getting on amusement park rides
06:41
where there's clearly been no regulation or anyone looking into
06:47
how unsafe they are where, Like it's one of the
06:49
scariest things in the world. Like do you blink when
06:52
you bring a kid to a fair, you know, like
06:54
do you let them go on the better not to
06:57
think about it, just get on the ride.
06:58
Speaker 2
There's reason like Carneye is derogatory like that. The people
07:04
who run carnivals are Yeah, it's I don't know. I
07:08
guess they're good at putting the rise together because they
07:10
like take apart and put them back together so frequently.
07:14
But man, I've like gotten on rides that are like
07:16
creaking and sputtering, and the person who is running it
07:20
does not have a shirt on, doesn't have all their teeth,
07:23
and just like appears to be out of their mind
07:26
on something or another.
07:28
Speaker 5
You're risking so much.
07:30
Speaker 2
I know, you're risking everything, your children's lives.
07:33
Speaker 1
Pair whimsy.
07:34
Speaker 2
Yeah, it isn't important. It is an important milestone though,
07:38
Like I I sure very distinctly remember going on the
07:45
thing that spins around so fast that like you can't
07:48
have it at normal amusement parks, the one that like
07:51
sticks you to the wall.
07:52
Speaker 1
And as we were.
07:53
Speaker 2
Doing that at the Kentucky State Fair, the guy who's
07:57
operating it again jeans, no shirt, long long rattail in
08:01
the back.
08:02
Speaker 1
You didn't even have to say that part started.
08:05
Speaker 2
Started walking on the wall, like so that we're sticking
08:08
to He was walking on it so like parallel, his
08:11
body is parallel to the ground. And it was the
08:15
sickest thing I'd ever seen. It was so dope, just
08:19
like look what I can do. I was like it
08:23
was hock rating that. It's like like every amusement park
08:29
is like, don't get any ideas, and he's like, here's
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one exactly, Like if he had died, the thing just
08:36
would have kept going faster and faster, like taken off forever.
08:40
Speaker 1
Yeah, And some of the roller coasters are made of wood,
08:44
and it's like, okay, so you have something that's already
08:46
probably going to break and kill someone at some point,
08:49
let's just make it made of a substance that it
08:51
never should have been made out of, like to begin with,
08:53
like the like a log flume. Also, why is the
08:56
wood going in water? That's not that's great and wise
09:01
wise is the perfect. It's it's weird to me, Like.
09:04
Speaker 2
The roller coasters were invented and they were just like wood,
09:09
and we all take it for granted. We're like, yeah,
09:10
well that's all they had back then. But it was
09:12
like the twenties they were also they were making things
09:15
out of metal in the twenties. They knew knew, they
09:18
knew about metal back then, Like, well, it was the
09:21
Bronze Age.
09:25
Speaker 5
You have steam engines, so that you got the infrastructure
09:28
here for some reason, these things around.
09:31
Speaker 2
No, that's they couldn't have possibly made a roller coaster
09:34
out of anything except for what appears to be like
09:38
forty large Jenga piles.
09:42
Speaker 5
They had the Brooklyn Bridge back then, which.
09:45
Speaker 2
Is not made of wood, I mean not at all
09:47
looks like a roller coaster.
09:49
Speaker 1
Kind of those hipsters are going to make it made
09:50
of wood.
09:54
Speaker 5
I always wonder. I'm like, are the ones that they
09:58
bring into town for a week or a couple of weeks,
10:01
like they do in Portland for the roast festival and
10:03
set up and then they take it down, you know,
10:05
ten days later or whatever and go on to the
10:06
next town. Or the one that's here is just always here.
10:10
I'm like, which one is safer? And I don't want
10:12
to look it up because I actually don't want to know.
10:15
But the one that's just always here, always open, with
10:18
the wooden roller coaster that we have. Yeah, I don't know.
10:22
Should I look at the data on how many children
10:24
have lost.
10:25
Speaker 2
Digits all the high profile, like horrible things happen at
10:32
the place, the ones that are permanent. But I just
10:34
wonder if it's because when a bad thing happens at
10:37
a carnival, they leave town before the sun rises. Like
10:43
it was just like, I don't know how to pack
10:44
it up to say who that was. There's just a
10:48
mangled body in the in the field somewhere.
10:51
Speaker 1
There's no paper trail or record of anyone works there exact,
10:56
they have no permits. Yeah, they just kind of show up.
10:58
Speaker 2
Yeah, all right, well, Tory, we're thrilled to have you here.
11:02
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
11:03
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell the listeners what
11:05
we're talking about today. We're gonna talk about Trump's tariffs.
11:09
I guess I don't know. Yeah, we're gonna do that. Yeah,
11:12
it seems bad, seems dumb. We'll talk about this vanity
11:17
fair profile of like this yacht that had all the
11:23
most famous people on the planet on it, and it's
11:26
truly upsetting. It feels it feels like they should be
11:30
ashamed of themselves for this one. And we'll talk about
11:35
why that song home is suddenly so popular, to shit
11:40
all over all that plenty more.
11:42
Speaker 1
But first Tory, we do like to ask our guest,
11:45
what is.
11:45
Speaker 2
Something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?
11:50
Speaker 5
The thing that I have been searching the last week
11:52
or so, and this is just gonna be TMI and
11:54
I'm gonna do it anyway, is how soon after hitting
11:58
perry menopause you can get HRT. Because I've been feeling
12:03
very toasty lately and I'm like, well, I was going
12:07
to try to power through, and then my sister was like, no,
12:09
if you start my younger sister, who probably shouldn't know
12:12
these things, I don't think because like, no, if you
12:14
start earlier, it helps more. So I'm honestly just like
12:17
searching for HRT, and then I'm slowly watching places change
12:21
the name of it from like hormone replacement therapy, which people,
12:25
well bigots just automatically associate with trans to menopause therapy
12:32
or menopause hormone therapy, which I think is really interesting.
12:35
And so I'm going to die on the hill of
12:37
calling it HRT because.
12:41
Speaker 1
The hormone therapy to.
12:43
Speaker 5
Feel uncomfortable and I want them to be like, wait,
12:45
what what gender were you assigned at birth? I can't tell.
12:49
Speaker 2
So hormone replacement therapy is now menopause hormone therapy, according
12:55
to the Mayo Clinic, because everybody is scared.
12:59
Speaker 1
And men capitalized for some reason in menopause. They wanted to.
13:07
Speaker 5
Yeah, so just I've been searching up a lot of
13:11
gender affirming care, I guess is what we're going to say.
13:14
And yeah, it's interesting trying to figure out, like does
13:18
my insurance cover this? Do I have to pay out
13:20
of pocket? We live, obviously you will know this in
13:25
a hell country, one of the shithole countries we've heard
13:29
so much about.
13:30
Speaker 2
We live in a country, I agree, hell of a country.
13:34
Speaker 5
Hell here I am. I'm trying to figure out, hmm,
13:38
is there any going to like mitigate some of these
13:40
very miserable symptoms. And then you know, thinking about, oh,
13:44
we we don't know very much about how to deal
13:46
with menopause lash perimenopause because we don't invest in even
13:50
before all of the breeds got canceled, we don't invest
13:53
in researching anything about women's self because it's not urgent.
13:57
Speaker 1
It's a real mystery.
13:59
Speaker 2
Actually, I feel like that's like the first complicated.
14:04
Speaker 1
It's very complicated. It's scary.
14:06
Speaker 5
God intended women to suffer. And so here we are, Yeah,
14:12
believing that science isn't real. And I'm trying to get
14:17
answers from Google that aren't AI generated because helping it
14:24
turns out not helpful when the entire medical establishment doesn't
14:28
really know what the fuck they're talking about.
14:30
Speaker 2
I'm just going to trust Google's AI to kind of
14:33
summarize my way out together.
14:36
Speaker 1
Yeah, they're pretty good.
14:38
Speaker 2
So I'm sorry you're going through that. Well, the symptoms
14:41
I've heard of, the hot flashes or the hot flashes,
14:46
how hot, how flashy you're talking, you asked the tough questions.
14:52
Speaker 1
We're talking.
14:54
Speaker 5
I had this very strange moment where I've been trying
14:58
to be responsible and be in bed reading a book
15:02
at ten pm every night, right, and obviously it's summertime, right,
15:07
so the windows are open, I don't have the comforter on.
15:10
I'm just got like my little one sheet and I'm
15:13
like reading my book and there's like you can feel,
15:16
you know, how you can feel the air like under
15:17
the sheet that's like around your body. I feel it,
15:20
like I can feel the temperature rising under the sheet.
15:23
Speaker 2
As I going like a meter you're creating at the sheet.
15:28
Speaker 5
And I was like, oh, oh this sucks. I was like,
15:31
what is happening here? So I think I need to
15:34
start taking an ice pack to bed with me, just
15:37
to be safe, just an emergency. You know those like
15:39
break in case of emergency ice packs and these take Yeah,
15:42
yeah that I take on like pikes and stuff from
15:44
my kids.
15:44
Speaker 2
A chemical one.
15:46
Speaker 5
I need one of those, but like for my bed, yeah,
15:50
just to be safe.
15:53
Speaker 1
Back of the neck, yep, yep, I like it. I
15:56
have to sleep with a blanket as well, Like even
15:58
if it's like so high, I have to like need
16:01
some sort of in my mind, it's like protecting me
16:03
from an intruder. You know, this thing could come into
16:08
your They can't get.
16:10
Speaker 2
Through the blanket though, so yeah, yeah, something about like
16:13
sleeping without a blanket.
16:15
Speaker 1
My body is like we're not actually sleeping. Yeah.
16:17
Speaker 2
I don't know what you think this is, but this
16:19
is not bedtime. If you're just sleeping with nothing on
16:22
top of you.
16:23
Speaker 5
I can't even nap without something on top of me,
16:26
like that's how ingrained it is. And it's like, oh, well,
16:29
what are we doing here, We're just hanging out on
16:31
a bed. This is this is nothing. So yeah, I
16:33
really I'm.
16:34
Speaker 1
Thinking great, I'm thinking now.
16:37
Speaker 2
I'm like reverse claustrophobia. I like to have something close
16:42
and like I like, I find it nice and cozy.
16:44
I think I descend from pack or like Den you know, animals.
16:50
Speaker 1
Yeah, I got that.
16:51
Speaker 2
I got that Den animal inside of me, that dog,
16:56
that Den dog dog.
16:58
Speaker 1
I sleep with a bunk bed just laying on top
17:01
of me, and there's no yea, take the leg right off.
17:06
I did.
17:06
Speaker 2
I used to like feel very comfortable under beds, Like
17:09
as a kid, I would just like kind of hide
17:11
under a bed. Then they would come and take me,
17:13
and my dad would tell them that he has a
17:15
very particular set of skills.
17:18
Speaker 1
Torri, what is something you think is underrated?
17:21
Speaker 5
Okay, So I'm gonna lie a little bit because this
17:23
is not technically underrated, because back in the day it
17:26
was huge. It was a sensation. But I am feeling
17:30
a little bit of a way about the book The
17:33
Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, which is one of my absolute
17:37
favorite books, and it came out in two thousand and five. Right,
17:41
it's a novel and it's just really beautiful, beautifully written.
17:47
Came out during like kind of like when I don't
17:50
remember when Twilight came out, but it feels like it
17:51
was kind of the Twilight era, so like vampires were
17:54
in the air. That was just the thing, and I
17:57
just there's.
17:57
Speaker 1
A up group on every corner.
17:59
Speaker 2
Sorry, I'm not that also, vampires who were everywhere. Twilight
18:06
was at the top of the charts, there was a
18:08
duop group on every corner.
18:10
Speaker 5
This is like this book specifically was also like a
18:13
New York Times bestseller. It was amazing and I can't
18:17
believe no one's turned it into a film yet. But
18:20
it's like this really beautiful story about this girl who,
18:23
like this young girl who finds these handwritten letters in
18:28
like her father's library and that each of them starts
18:32
out my dear and unfortunate Successor, and they're written by
18:35
the historian who is very concerned that he might be
18:40
being hunted by Dracula, and so he's writing down and
18:46
they're like all date mark like nineteen thirty, like December
18:49
nineteen thirty, right, So she is like, what is this
18:53
and decides to go and ask her dad about it,
18:54
and then they have all these adventures together all over
18:56
like Southeast Europe, and it's just like very romantic and
19:00
like cozy in the way that she describes like all
19:03
of these different country sides is amazing and obviously, like
19:07
you know, you're talking about Romania because Dracula and it
19:10
just it just seems like a really perfect, beautiful story
19:13
to turn into. It would have the book is so
19:16
long it would have to be two movies. But I
19:18
am on a campaign. If anyone is listening, please hit
19:21
me up. Please. I just really want to see this
19:24
on film. It would be stunning.
19:26
Speaker 2
I just think it's interesting that when this character writes
19:31
a bunch of letters about how they're being hunted by
19:33
a Dracula, it's art. But when I write, Blake, like
19:38
just a couple letters about how I'm being hunted by
19:41
a swamp thing, he yeah, harassment and stop doing this.
19:45
Speaker 1
Is this a joke?
19:46
Speaker 2
This doesn't really add to anything. You won't let me
19:50
bring it up and make fun of you for it
19:51
on the show. These are the things he says to me, Jah,
19:55
we just got.
19:55
Speaker 5
To punch up your writing, man, We just got to
19:57
make it eloquent and.
19:58
Speaker 1
Beautiful about the subject matter right exactly, it's.
20:01
Speaker 5
How you're writing it.
20:03
Speaker 1
He's on my six swamp I just used. The tone
20:10
is so fucked. We got a smoky in the swamp.
20:15
Speaker 5
Exactly, Jason me for twenty clicks, I'm about to die.
20:20
Speaker 2
Yeah, it sounds really lovely.
20:23
Speaker 1
It is.
20:23
Speaker 5
If you're a reader and you haven't read it, highly
20:25
recommend if you like novels not terribly smutty, but because
20:29
I know that's all the raid right now, a little
20:32
bit of romance, but yeah, mostly just good times.
20:35
Speaker 2
You just like have the misfortune of being the other Dracula,
20:40
the other vampire novel that was popular at the same
20:44
time as Twilight, and so they were like, we're going
20:46
to be busy making these over.
20:48
Speaker 5
Here, probably, and it was more for adult like I
20:52
think it was more. It was more written to an
20:53
adult audience. It's not particularly hya and obviously like ya
20:58
is where all the money is because you get all
21:00
the girlies screaming about Robert Pattinson, who turned into an
21:05
amazing actor. I just watched Mickey seventeen fucking sucked, and
21:08
I'm like sobbing because his performance is so compelling, but
21:13
it's weird. It's like two movies are two trains, one
21:18
is going fifty five miles an hour, and you're just like,
21:25
what is fucking happening?
21:28
Speaker 2
Is your recommendation? The historian as well written as Twilight?
21:33
And I'm going to read a pool book from Twilight
21:37
for you, just to get you to know what you're
21:41
competing with. Aren't you hungry? He asked, distracted. No, I
21:47
didn't feel like mentioning that my stomach was already full,
21:50
m dash of butterflies?
21:53
Speaker 1
No, are you serious?
21:55
Speaker 2
Yeah, that's a straight up bar that that. Yeah, well
22:00
I try, Okay, I can't get out of my cops spirit.
22:04
Speaker 1
I know you can't. So at this time.
22:07
Speaker 2
I walked into the street and ascertained an individual of
22:11
the description of a swamp thing.
22:16
Speaker 5
Beautiful.
22:18
Speaker 1
The guy's not a cop. The protagonist is not a cop.
22:20
That's the crazy. That's just how that's how he talked.
22:24
He's a social worker. And yet you're still making him
22:26
talk like a cop.
22:29
Speaker 2
Oh man, But that twist when she says her stomach
22:32
was already full.
22:33
Speaker 1
And I was like, wait, but what was going on?
22:36
Of butterflies? What?
22:39
Speaker 2
So?
22:40
Speaker 1
Is that a literal and by the way, we don't
22:41
This doesn't have to be a liter you know, a
22:43
literature podcast. But so is did she eat actual physical
22:47
butterflies because things or what is this like a cue?
22:51
You're not a butterfly yet.
22:52
Speaker 2
She's not a vampire yet yet, And I'm sorry for
22:55
any spoilers.
22:56
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's not a butterfly yet. She's not a butterfly yet.
23:00
Speaker 2
In many ways, she's not a butterfly yet. She's just
23:03
learning to to blossom. Creepy, creepy metaphor that if this
23:10
was written by Stephen King, there would be a lot
23:12
of butterfly metaphors probably, But yeah, she's not a vampire yet.
23:17
She's just eating butterflies by the handful.
23:23
Speaker 1
Okay, strange she's a frog.
23:25
Speaker 5
Yeah, compulsive. It's like how you get pico when you're pregnant.
23:28
That's what's going on with her. Butterflies You like craved
23:31
chalk or sand or something just like butterflies for me.
23:34
Speaker 1
Thanks, No.
23:36
Speaker 2
I was being reminded because because we're down the shore,
23:38
I was being reminded by my sister that I used
23:41
to eat sand, and I was like, was I pregnant
23:43
when I was four years old? Because I eat a
23:45
lot of sand, and I remember it being delicious.
23:48
Speaker 5
It's a texture thing. I think when you're little.
23:50
Speaker 1
It was salty too. I like salty.
23:52
Speaker 5
Beach sand is salty.
23:54
Speaker 1
Yeah, everybody salty.
23:57
Speaker 5
It's all the peah.
24:00
Speaker 1
No, that would make it.
24:02
Speaker 2
That would explain everything toy you think is overrated.
24:08
Speaker 5
Okay, So I think the thing that is overrated is
24:11
buying a new cell phone when your contract is up.
24:14
I think that's bullshit. I don't think we should buy
24:17
be buying tech on big tech schedule, and we should
24:20
try to keep our things as long as possible.
24:22
Speaker 1
So love it.
24:23
Speaker 5
That's the hell I'm dying on. I have never gotten
24:26
a new device and be like, oh my god, this
24:28
is changing my life. It's just like I need this
24:31
to be able to like contact friends, family, whoever, to
24:34
do my work right, to record podcasts. Like There's never
24:37
been a moment where I'm like, oh yeah, baby, this
24:39
is a game changer. This is it for me. And
24:43
so I'm like, Okay, what can I do to minimize consumption?
24:47
If you just like double that, like oh yeah, you're
24:49
supposed to get a new phone every two years, Like
24:50
fuck that, Like, make make it last for four years.
24:52
I know, you do get throttled. That sucks, that's real. Yeah,
24:56
but you don't that new phone is not going to
24:59
make it feel good, feels for more than like a
25:02
day or two.
25:03
Speaker 2
It immediately becomes invisible, like a day is stretching it.
25:07
It's just immediately, it's just like, oh yeah, now I
25:09
don't notice the thing that was like kind of wrong
25:12
with the last one, but impiately everything else immediately becomes invisible.
25:16
And I like put the same like, you know, protector
25:20
on the phone, so.
25:21
Speaker 1
Like I don't even remember, don't even know.
25:23
Speaker 5
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same case, same protector.
25:27
Speaker 1
It's an insane process too, where it's like, okay, so
25:29
I just paid off this phone, you know, and like
25:32
you wouldn't just buy a new car every single time
25:35
you paid off your car, Like it's just so stupid.
25:38
Speaker 5
Yeah, definitely, Like it's sure it's not as fancy as
25:41
it was. I'm about to pay off my car. I
25:44
feel very proud of myself and but yeah, I'm like,
25:49
I still love this thing. It's amazing. It's a Sumeer
25:51
roof for sor. I live in Portland, so obviously it's.
25:53
Speaker 1
The perfect I got a cross tracks they just gave
25:56
you those when you moved there.
25:58
Speaker 5
Standard issue, Yeah, if you if you're queer and you
26:01
live in Portland. So not all Portlanders get them. There's
26:03
some reparations going here for super specifically.
26:09
Speaker 1
They get in presents if you get a super impressive.
26:16
Speaker 5
Oh man, oh man.
26:17
Speaker 2
No.
26:18
Speaker 5
So it's like nobody's ever gonna spot me in my
26:20
car because it's the same car everybody else in Portland
26:22
is driving. It's the perfect vehicle.
26:24
Speaker 1
Yeah. But yeah, all.
26:26
Speaker 5
I have to say, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna have
26:28
this pubby paid off, very proud of myself, and also
26:31
like I don't I don't want a new car, Like
26:33
if I can keep this thing another ten years, that'd
26:35
be fucking awesome.
26:36
Speaker 1
Yeah.
26:37
Speaker 5
So yeah, and that's how I feel about my phone
26:41
and my lap Yeah.
26:42
Speaker 1
I feel like the battery always wear it like that.
26:44
Speaker 2
That's just the question is like how long is the
26:47
battery going to last until you need to do like
26:50
a second charge at noon every day, you know what
26:53
I mean? And that that's always the thing that like
26:57
at a certain time, can you can visibly see the battery,
27:01
like the battery chart going down.
27:05
Speaker 5
Like.
27:07
Speaker 1
It's not like a slow decline, it just jumps right
27:09
in quarters. It's not even smooth. Yeah all right, Well yeah,
27:15
you don't know me.
27:17
Speaker 2
Tim Cook, Tim Apple, Steve Job, you don't know. You don't,
27:22
I don't. I don't work for you, asshole. Let's uh,
27:25
let's take a quick break.
27:26
Speaker 1
Would that be fun? Yeah, let's take I'm exhausted. This
27:30
is fucking holy fucked up. I am so fucked up
27:36
right now. I need ten uh yeah, all right, we'll
27:40
be right back. We'll be right back, and we're back.
27:52
We're back. Oh good, Okay, thank you for confirming that, Blake.
27:56
Of course.
27:57
Speaker 2
Wait, god, are you guys ready to talk about tabor.
28:01
Speaker 1
Terrorists?
28:02
Speaker 2
My favorite thing to pretend I understand. Yes, it's I mean,
28:09
I will say it's a tool that has been used,
28:14
it's but it is the only tool that Donald Donald
28:17
Trump is. Like if a car mechanic only had a
28:21
hammer and that was the only thing he used to
28:25
work on your car with, you just like beat the
28:27
ship out of your car with the hammer. Only if
28:30
your car was like actually way more complicated than a
28:34
car and was in fact the global economy. So he's
28:39
hammering away. I'm tired of even like real, like is
28:44
this the real one? Or that, because he's like been like,
28:46
these tariffs are happening, but I think these are the
28:48
real tariffs, Like they're.
28:49
Speaker 1
Happening, right, And.
28:52
Speaker 2
Indiana, India and Brazil not Indiana.
28:56
Speaker 1
India and Brazil have been.
28:59
Speaker 2
Quote punish the worst with fifty percent tariffs, and there
29:03
are reasons that have to do with just like them
29:07
being mean or nice too, Like it's it's completely illegal
29:12
for the president to be like I'm doing tariffs on
29:15
a country because they're being mean and like I'm punishing them.
29:20
Is not at least so far beyond like how things
29:24
are supposed to or allowed to work. Brazil is being
29:29
punished for having a socialist leader that people actually like,
29:35
Like that's the subtext, and then the yeah, that's humiliating
29:40
for him. And then they're also quote persecuting his friend
29:46
Yai Ra Bolsonaro.
29:47
Speaker 5
Oh because he has consequences for his actions.
29:50
Speaker 1
Yeah, he doesn't like persecution.
29:52
Speaker 2
Yeah, that is also not great for him to be
29:55
setting the president of authoritarian leaders facing consequence says yeah, no,
30:01
thank you. And so after Brazil's justice system charged Bolsnar
30:06
with attempting to orchestraate to coup in twenty twenty two,
30:10
which that must have been weird for that of brazilience.
30:12
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's been hard. Hold on.
30:16
Speaker 2
He demanded Brazil's legal system intervene on Bolsnar's behalf or
30:20
face tariffs on the entire country. They did not change
30:25
their decision, and so they're facing big tariffs. India their
30:29
tariffs doubled from twenty five percent to fifty percent because
30:32
they were buying Russian oil despite the war in Ukraine.
30:37
Will be interesting to see how Tim Poole and the
30:40
other paid Russian assets feel about this, who are also
30:43
like mega people. But you know what one could say,
30:50
it would be we wouldn't have this problem if the
30:52
end of the war on Ukraine in twenty four hours,
30:55
like he promised he would. But I guess that's neither
30:57
here nor there. People are like, ooh, he's being mean
31:02
to Putin. I think he has a meeting coming up
31:05
with Putin, so that should end right around immediately after that.
31:11
Meetings between Trump and Putin typically involve them meeting Putin
31:16
like taking him to behind a closed door without the
31:20
media present, and then Trump suddenly deciding to capitulate to
31:24
whatever Russia wants because he is not a good negotiator.
31:29
And because it would appear that they might have something
31:33
on this guy.
31:34
Speaker 1
I don't know, it's like that toxic like your friend
31:37
who's always like, oh, I'm just gonna get you know,
31:39
like get drinks with my toxic accidents. They're gonna fuck.
31:44
They're gonna each other, They're gonna suck each other. God damn,
31:48
they're gonna get back together. Yes, and yeah.
31:52
Speaker 2
We we've I feel like the Compromat stuff, like everyone
31:57
was like, oh, the Pee tapes, and then we like
31:59
started laughing at the Pe tapes, and like Russia Gate
32:02
was maybe over a bit overblown. I don't know that
32:04
it necessarily won him the election, but as we've seen
32:08
his behavior around the Epstein files, I feel like there's
32:13
probably no shortage of potential things that they might be
32:17
holding over his head. Would be my guess, based on
32:20
how he has been acting around around that stuff and
32:24
his inability to act like it's weird to be a
32:29
sexual predator.
32:31
Speaker 1
You know, it's not him.
32:34
Speaker 5
Yeah, it's it's a power play. That's just all it is.
32:37
It's like that's what guys like him do.
32:39
Speaker 1
Yeah, you know.
32:41
Speaker 2
So anyways, well we'll see where that Switzerland got a
32:44
thirty nine percent tariff because.
32:46
Speaker 5
Boring not my chocolate.
32:48
Speaker 2
Yeah chocolate, Oh no chocolate. Americans import more from Switzerland
32:58
than we export to them. So he was like, you
33:00
got to start buying our shitty weapons and energy and
33:05
or corn?
33:06
Speaker 1
Why our corn?
33:08
Speaker 2
How would you like to make everything out of corn
33:11
for a couple of years? And they were like, I
33:14
don't know.
33:14
Speaker 1
That seems bad. We wouldn't.
33:16
Speaker 2
We've noticed that everyone in your whole country smells like corn.
33:20
We probably don't notice that, but I think we all
33:22
probably smell like corn because we're mostly made of corn.
33:26
Speaker 5
At this point, fair valid.
33:29
Speaker 2
Anyways, So they got hit with the tariff hammer, and
33:33
then the EU was able to limit tariffs by agreeing
33:37
to buy a bunch of natural gas. People are saying that,
33:42
you know the like in cases like the EU, he's
33:46
able to get a temporary concession here and there, but
33:49
the long term impacts on trade are going to be bad.
33:54
Like already you were seeing countries just decide not to trade,
33:59
like find other people to trade with, like they now
34:03
know that the US is completely unstable, completely irrational, and
34:08
so like the Prime Minister of Malaysia set at a
34:12
conference across the world tools once used to generate growth,
34:16
are now wielded to pressure, isolate, and contain. As we
34:19
navigate external pressures, we need to fortify our foundations, trade
34:23
among ourselves, invest more in one another. And India and Brazil,
34:28
the aforementioned countries that are really getting the hammer the
34:32
only thing you know how to wield, have been talking
34:35
to each other even before this latest hike, and have
34:37
planned to increase trade between those countries trade with each
34:42
other to twenty billion dollars over the next five years.
34:45
So there's just like, why the fuck would we ever
34:47
work with you? And this is also happening at a
34:50
time when America is just like naturally becoming less of
34:54
a hegemonic power, So like the you know, China is
34:59
obviously going to become like this is the best possible
35:02
thing that could happen for China, and all the people
35:05
who are like, we've got to be competitive with China,
35:08
that's all we're worried about, are like, I don't I
35:11
don't see how they are letting this happen and being
35:13
like good, good call sir.
35:15
Speaker 1
Other than they're just like scared of him and cowards.
35:19
Even if you think that there's a reason for him
35:21
doing this beyond him being a petty little piece of
35:24
shit with no fucking plan whatsoever, which is what's going on.
35:27
His other reasoning is that, oh, it'll boost like American manufacturing.
35:32
But the problem is that these alleged facilities, like you know,
35:36
these steel mills, you know, like these cold natural gat
35:40
like these these factories take a while to fucking build.
35:44
They take years to build. So you can't just go
35:47
cold Turkey and be like, yeah, no, we'll just build
35:49
this enough steel manufacturing to support all these like us
35:55
cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world. Like
35:57
that's just not humanly possible. Like, if you're going to
36:00
do this, you kind of ease into it, and it
36:03
just it's that hammer approach a tool that he's never held,
36:06
a literal tool, that he's never touched eddie tool whatsoever.
36:10
Speaker 2
But I bet he's picked up a hammer once. I
36:12
bet there's so many pictures of him with those.
36:16
Speaker 1
And like prepairing.
36:17
Speaker 2
But like, has he ever successfully driven a nail all
36:20
the way in?
36:20
Speaker 5
No?
36:21
Speaker 1
No, oh no, not once? No, no, no, no, no, he's
36:23
never swung it.
36:25
Speaker 2
Yeah, he's he's held it while wearing a suit and
36:28
in a hard Yeah.
36:30
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, that's what it is what an idiot?
36:32
Speaker 2
Yeah, I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna
36:35
be bad. I mean I always you know, the it's
36:39
like the macro economic version of the Great Leap Forward
36:43
with like this famous disastrous policy where in China where
36:47
mal was like you, we don't need to make all
36:51
the pig iron, Like, well, we'll make all the pig
36:53
iron in your backyard.
36:54
Speaker 1
And it's like.
36:55
Speaker 2
Well that what what? What exactly is that? So just
36:59
like stop up farming, start making iron, and everybody start
37:04
to death.
37:05
Speaker 5
Yeah, he's like problem solved.
37:07
Speaker 1
Everyone forward that we ourselves.
37:12
Speaker 2
Read the first first paragraph of the background section of
37:16
Wikipedia and then didn't didn't get any further than that.
37:21
Speaker 5
Yeah, it's so interesting because we clearly have I don't
37:25
know what I want to say, Like it's clearly within
37:28
like the American myth that we could resurrect all of
37:31
these industries. I think that we have like a big
37:35
enough clearly economy, we have intelligent enough people we could
37:38
do that. But that requires a plan, and that's like
37:41
antithetical to anything that Trump has ever done.
37:45
Speaker 1
Yes, and we have.
37:46
Speaker 5
Yeah, we can build up, right, we can build up
37:48
to producing enough steel or we can build up to
37:51
doing whatever, and we can offer you know, obviously we'd
37:53
have to be giving subsidies to people because it's more
37:56
expensive to manufacture here, and that's something we do already
37:58
with farm Like, like there are tools available to him
38:02
that he has no interest in using.
38:04
Speaker 2
Yeah, we have manufacturing still in this country. It just
38:09
doesn't look like it used to. The time that they're
38:12
fetishizing was a time of very powerful unions. The reason
38:18
that things worked back then was because of very powerful
38:23
unions that fought on behalf of the working people, the
38:26
people who like worked at companies and the So if
38:31
like you could rebuild manufacturing here, it's still going to
38:34
be predatory and the workers are still going to be
38:36
treated like shit and have to like get off work
38:39
at the factory and fucking drive uber.
38:42
Speaker 1
You know, like that's still going.
38:44
Speaker 2
To be the case because it's a system that completely
38:49
has given all the power to corporations. So like it's
38:53
the thing that they're looking back on, so finally fondly
38:58
is union membership and like a very strong yeah, the
39:02
thing that they think is communism. So so this is
39:08
going to be bad. The thing that these tariffs do,
39:12
it passes costs onto companies. As we've seen during the pandemic,
39:17
American companies do not take the hit, and they're like, well,
39:22
our stock price has gone down a little bit now
39:24
because of these things that are costing us money or
39:28
like making it harder for us to they pass those
39:31
costs onto consumers, and that in the form of inflation.
39:36
So we're, you know, we're going to feel the hit
39:40
of these tariffs. And then Trump is also trying to
39:45
get Jerome Pal, the head of the Fed, to cut
39:49
interest rates. But like, the thing that cutting interest rates
39:54
causes is inflation. So we're getting inflation from the tariffs.
39:59
And if he he has his way and fires Jerome
40:02
Pal and puts in like one of his yes men,
40:04
we're going to get inflation coming from that end, and
40:08
we could have you know, runaway inflation and all the like.
40:12
Speaker 5
That's Biden's thing. Man, what are you talking about?
40:15
Speaker 2
Hey man, hey, hey man, it's kind of it's' fault.
40:22
Speaker 1
That.
40:23
Speaker 2
Yeah, it's like all the all the economic like horror
40:27
stories like the Great Leap Forward where they tried to
40:30
make pig iron in their backyard and like on farms
40:33
instead of it's like, I don't know shit about economics
40:36
or economic history. But like the handful of like horror
40:39
stories I know are that and then like runaway inflation
40:42
where people are like bringing wheelbarrow wheelbarrows of like cash
40:46
to the bank, like and just like or like bring
40:50
it to the grocery store to buy like a gallon
40:52
of milk, like those everywhere like that.
40:57
Speaker 1
Those are the.
40:58
Speaker 2
Two things that are in play now with this brilliant
41:03
negotiator taking things over. So well, you know, he's a
41:07
shrewd negotiator and his ways are mysterious. Oh wait, no,
41:12
he's just a fucking idiot. It's just mysterious. What what
41:16
what is he thinking some of the time.
41:18
Speaker 5
But I think it's just self enrichment.
41:22
Speaker 2
Yeah, that's also possible that he's just like, yeah, we're
41:25
gonna like fuck this.
41:26
Speaker 5
Up the economy, buy up a bunch of shit. I mean,
41:30
that's like the game plan.
41:32
Speaker 1
The The only problem is that he's the president of
41:35
the United States. This job problem, it's just the one problem.
41:40
If he didn't have such a high stakes job, this
41:42
wouldn't matter his personality and every of the billion things
41:45
they're wrong with that fucking guy. But yeah, no, if
41:48
only there was a way not to put him in
41:50
that job.
41:51
Speaker 2
You know, I think he might if we were like
41:54
we're bringing we're firing Jimmy found Who's the one who
41:58
has like the Johnny Carson Show, Like, now, is it
42:01
Jimmy Fallon?
42:02
Speaker 1
I think not a comedy fan, so I wouldn't I
42:05
know it is is?
42:08
Speaker 2
Yeah, if they were just like we're firing Jimmy Fallon
42:12
and we want you to take over, sir. We just
42:15
need you to like resign the office of president, you know,
42:18
give it to whoever you want, but like we like
42:21
just his response when he found out that Sidney Sweeney
42:25
was a registered Republican, it was the happiest I've ever
42:29
seen him. I really think all he wants to do
42:32
is just get on TV for two hours a night
42:35
and riff and like think that he's funny and cool
42:38
and like, I feel like we might be able to
42:41
get it.
42:42
Speaker 1
I think, and you change the title from Tonight's Show
42:44
host to Tonight's Show CEO, he would shows president. Yeah,
42:49
f're Tonight's show, And I think you would do it.
42:52
I think you're right, Like he just needs to feel important.
42:55
He needs to have some sort of power over a dominion.
42:58
This dominion is too big that he has right now,
43:00
give them a smaller. Our friends who work for the
43:04
Tonight Show, I know, I think they would go. I
43:08
think they would give it up. I think I think
43:09
so too Bear. Wait, yeah, all.
43:14
Speaker 2
Right, let's take a quick break and we'll be right back,
43:28
and we're bag And as as we were talking about
43:33
before we started recording, possibly in the cold open, there's that.
43:37
Speaker 1
Song home Here Do I Go Wrong with You?
43:44
Speaker 2
That is making the rounds everywhere, causing a reappraisal of
43:49
the hey ho stop clap stomp genre of like kind
43:56
of lo fi indie from the two thousand Hens. I
44:00
guess it was like that hey hose song about lumineers and.
44:04
Speaker 1
How's that go? Oh? They go hey and then they
44:07
go Okay. I understand why is it so catchy?
44:12
Speaker 5
It's abusive, It's but this is the one that I
44:18
have heard in the most Volkswagen commercials.
44:21
Speaker 2
I believe the home heard and the lyrics. So the
44:29
thing that I think people are responding to is the performance.
44:33
Speaker 1
First of all.
44:34
Speaker 2
It's like I think we all heard it in the
44:36
car commercials and assumed it was like some American idol
44:41
runner ups, like number five pop song.
44:44
Speaker 1
You know, I did.
44:45
Speaker 2
I did not know that this is what the people
44:47
look like. I'm going to now share my screen so
44:51
we can watch this. And there's nothing wrong with the
44:54
way they look. It's just not exactly.
44:57
Speaker 1
Yeah, don't neuter all my comments before I make Their.
45:02
Speaker 2
Look is great. I think what they're doing is fantastic.
45:06
Speaker 1
It's good.
45:07
Speaker 2
So I'm playing the video without sound for you guys
45:10
so you can see the vibe of people.
45:13
Speaker 5
Is this a tiny desk concert?
45:15
Speaker 1
I can't tell.
45:17
Speaker 5
So it's a tiny desk concert, is what's going on?
45:20
Speaker 1
They had to hear that desk away.
45:25
Speaker 2
We're not gonna play the audio because a I will
45:27
crawl it and make us take this episode down. But
45:30
that that you gotta look at what they're what they're
45:34
looking like. She does herself in the head so far
45:36
that her little beanie falls off, and the lyrics are Alabama, Arkansas.
45:41
I do love my mom Pa, not that way that
45:44
I do love you. Well, holy holy me, oh my,
45:48
you're the apple, love my girl. I've never want loved
45:53
one like you. Man, oh man, you're my best friend.
45:57
I scream at to then.
45:59
Speaker 1
Anyways, these word Jack's vows heavy pumpkin pie chocolate candy.
46:04
Speaker 2
Jesus Christ, ain't nothing please me more than you, darling.
46:09
Speaker 1
So I do.
46:12
Speaker 2
Jesus Christ. Jesus Sorry, Jesus Christ, I stepped in some
46:16
chocolate candy while I was writing my vowels.
46:18
Speaker 1
Handy with Jesus Christ to hey, I write this ship.
46:26
Speaker 5
What is happening?
46:27
Speaker 1
It does? It does feel a little bit like that.
46:29
Speaker 5
It does feel a little bit like that.
46:31
Speaker 2
I did not know they looked like this. The guy
46:34
looks like he has spent I don't know if he
46:36
has actual dreadlocks in this video, but he is flirting
46:40
with him and he has he is he is very
46:43
seriously considering it.
46:45
Speaker 1
It's the look is so bad. I'm going to I
46:49
hate what I'm about to say, but it's true. I
46:51
do have this album on the final oh man ed
46:56
I didn't know they looked like this, So this is
46:59
like music that It's like, Okay, I'm shuffling around my house,
47:04
you know, uh, paying outstanding bills and taking eviction notices
47:11
off my home and this is good to play in
47:13
the background during that.
47:14
Speaker 2
But the look of like a children's song is what?
47:17
Speaker 1
Like?
47:18
Speaker 2
That's what That's how I I felt like. I was like,
47:22
this is a good. This is good children's movie soundtrack
47:25
music like and so to have a guy who seems
47:29
like a cult leader singing it into the eyes of
47:32
somebody who appears to be on all sorts of drugs.
47:36
Speaker 1
She does.
47:37
Speaker 5
She looks like a child who is on drugs. That's
47:41
that's the energy.
47:42
Speaker 2
I think that's what's throwing me. That's what throws means.
47:45
Speaker 1
That's what your hag off is David Koresh and the
47:48
Magnetic Zero.
47:51
Speaker 2
Anyways, but this song, as much as every everybody's like
47:54
it's the worst written song of all time, and you know,
47:58
it's just it. I think again, it's doing what it
48:01
set out to do, which is the earnest as hell.
48:05
Speaker 5
And the one feels try hardy to.
48:08
Speaker 2
Me, Oh so try hardy, But I think they're earnestly
48:12
trying it is the try hardest. Yeah, I think they are.
48:16
They they're trying so hard and they do not give
48:19
a fuck. Yes, try hard is one of the like
48:23
if you had to describe this in three words, like
48:25
I do feel like.
48:27
Speaker 1
Try hard, try hard, Yeah, try hard. It's it's like
48:33
the audio equivalent of like p DA, you know, where
48:37
like you're in public and you see like a couple like.
48:40
Speaker 2
Just like it's humiliating. The whole thing is humiliating. It's
48:44
so embarrassing. Yeah, what's that clip of is it Tyre
48:48
Banks saying?
48:49
Speaker 1
So you milliating?
48:52
Speaker 2
That's kind of how I feel watching this. I love her, Yeah,
48:55
truly giving us some of our great are great names,
48:59
uh speak of humiliating. I do want to move on
49:03
to a real world like kind of glass Onion situation,
49:07
real world White Lotus meets glass Onion meets Oscar after
49:12
Oscar's after party, and they like.
49:16
Speaker 5
I'm so intrigued.
49:17
Speaker 2
No unfortunately, I mean, I'm not gonna say unfortunately, but yeah,
49:21
it's for some reason they let a Vanity Fair reporter
49:25
tag along and like take acid with them on this
49:28
Ritz Carlton yacht cruise.
49:31
Speaker 1
So it's like a it's like, what what would a
49:34
what would a cruise.
49:35
Speaker 2
Look like for Dakota Johnson, Kendall Jenner, Tom Brady, Orlando
49:40
bloom Farrell, Williams, Martha Stewart, Naomi Campbell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Ricky Martin,
49:49
Jaden Smith, Toby Maguire for some reason, Alicia Silverstone for
49:53
some reason, Janelle Monet, Sophia Vergara, and of course Unheardo
50:00
DiCaprio is there.
50:01
Speaker 5
You know, but this is a yacht. It's not a
50:03
cruise because like.
50:05
Speaker 1
It's but that many people.
50:11
Speaker 2
It's like a giant Yeah, it's like a mini ship,
50:15
giant yacht. And they're just like everybody is treated like that,
50:21
you know, like they I'm sure people were being carried
50:25
around like you know what I mean, like just like yeah,
50:29
nobody's they're just like piggyback, I said, piggyback like as
50:33
they just went from daker to dakery. They do still
50:37
drink dakeries, which I was a little disappointed, and throughout
50:39
I was like, is that that doesn't seem like it
50:42
seems like they should have some version of dakeries that's
50:45
like beyond what we have access to.
50:47
Speaker 1
Well, we love Hemingway everyone.
50:49
Speaker 5
Yea, I have a dak Ray for you next time
50:51
we hang out.
50:53
Speaker 1
Next level doackries. Okay, it's not the stuff I'm picturing.
50:56
Speaker 2
I'm picturing the virgin I used to order it. Yeah,
51:00
Friday is it is nothing like that.
51:04
Speaker 1
Picturing Tom Brady drinking a TGF Friday's Dachary with a
51:08
big dollop of a whipped cream on top as his
51:12
skin continues to constrict around.
51:15
Speaker 2
Yeah, that's it does keep getting tighter. I guess it's
51:21
tightened a little bit.
51:23
Speaker 1
I need a skin tightening at noon, so I gotta
51:25
go pretty soon.
51:26
Speaker 2
The article does note that the ship set sail as
51:30
the big beautiful bill was being passed, So like as
51:34
normal people are being robbed of their healthcare and like
51:38
this massive bill to make wealthy people more rich is passing.
51:42
These people are all getting on a massive yacht and
51:47
like the the one celebrity who was there that I
51:50
have to give a shout out to is Miguel the
51:52
musician is there, but he does not post about it,
51:56
and he's just there to perform. And then he gets
51:58
the fuck out, and I'm like, hell, yeah, we go
52:01
like that probably, but we just get these little little views,
52:07
these little pinhole views into like what these people are like.
52:11
So the writer is told that twenty eight year old
52:16
Brooks Nader is poised to be the breakout star of
52:20
what just breakout star of of this like influencer and parentheses,
52:26
A mover and shaker baby, says Sarah Jane. We'll get
52:29
to Sarah Jane.
52:29
Speaker 1
In a moment.
52:30
Speaker 2
The striking blonde is a former Sports Illustrated swimwear model,
52:34
and rumor has it is dating Brady, whose head I
52:36
can see across the deck in his new spectacles, a
52:39
six foot four library and I like that Tom Brady's
52:42
like wearing glasses to be like.
52:45
Speaker 1
Then get hotter. He's a six foot four librarian. It's
52:49
like it's a new look for him and it sounds right.
52:51
I still want to fuck him. Lauren Sanchez that then
52:55
they say Lauren Sanchez Bezos first noticed Brooks on Instagram
53:00
and decided to befriend her. Sarah Jane tells me, so,
53:04
Lauren Sanchez Bezos, like Jeff Bezos's wife is just like
53:09
going around discovering people and being like you get to
53:13
come to our parties now, and like you're hot enough
53:16
to come to our party, right, jesus, Oh, this.
53:20
Speaker 5
Is so fascinating. I was wondering how all those people
53:22
wound up at their wedding, at the Bezos people their wedding,
53:27
Like what you're just you're just sending out like invitations
53:31
to everybody who is at what the oscars? Like, I
53:34
don't get what the metric is here, because you guys
53:37
aren't real friends, because you're barely even real people.
53:41
Speaker 1
They're not.
53:42
Speaker 2
They just they only surround themselves. There's a good quote
53:45
later from Martha Stewart that talks about this. Martha Stewart
53:48
is on another fucking planet.
53:50
Speaker 1
It's wild.
53:52
Speaker 2
But like Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kate Hudson, and Janelle Monet have
53:59
all been and things that are like about shit like this. Yeah,
54:04
they've been in like White Lotus and then Glass Onion,
54:06
which was about like a Elon Musk type inviting a
54:10
bunch of people on like a weird thing like this,
54:14
and like the writers like, so is this like weird
54:19
for you? Patrick Sarsner, He's like, you know, but what
54:23
am I gonna do? Say no to this horrifyingly humiliating thing.
54:29
Janelle Monet is like just straight up as like is
54:32
this glass Onion or what? Even Kate Hudson.
54:35
Speaker 1
Is here, good for her? Yeah, just owns it.
54:40
Speaker 2
I will allow it with Janelle Monet because yeah, that's
54:44
Janelle Monae can do absolutely nothing wrong. I do want
54:47
to talk about Sarah Jane though, because she has some
54:50
great quotes defending Sanchez Bezoso. Yeah, she's got some things
54:56
to say. She's like, I guess Jeff Bezos is the
54:59
top of the richest people, but like there are a
55:02
lot of big people where it's like, yeah, it should
55:04
be like that. He made it fucking big and like
55:07
they've been in love for like years or something. They're
55:11
so secure and real. If the press was going to
55:14
attack her friends, emblematic of the age of oligarchs, well,
55:17
Sanchez doesn't give a fuck.
55:19
Speaker 1
It's fuel.
55:20
Speaker 2
I find that so inspiring. So just it's not it's just,
55:27
you know, she's aspiring to be a Kardashian and like this,
55:31
like fuck the poor thing. She's like so hungry for
55:35
wealth and fame and status, and like that hunger is
55:41
like powering her, you know. Like that, so she's like
55:45
both embarrassingly like bougie and into this shit and also
55:49
embracing that in a way that she should be embarrassed about,
55:53
but like a thing that should be embarrassing.
55:56
Speaker 1
Instead, she's like, that's my personality. Actually, this isn't one mistake.
56:02
This is me. This is just my shit, this is
56:08
my ship.
56:09
Speaker 2
Yeah, this is being put on by a billionaire Israeli
56:14
billionaire who is a billionaire because he said, well, he
56:19
made his money by selling a poker site.
56:21
Speaker 1
Yeah, so don't you feel silly toy if you're making
56:24
that statement.
56:26
Speaker 5
Yeah, poker not predatory at all.
56:28
Speaker 2
No, it's actually fine. He made his money off of
56:31
people's gambling addictions.
56:32
Speaker 1
The good old fashion.
56:33
Speaker 5
Yeah, the old fashioned, good old fashioned way.
56:36
Speaker 1
It's not some tech idiot a vulture. Yeah.
56:43
Speaker 2
He talks to one of the people who like sells
56:44
these sorts of yacht experiences, and he says, say, you
56:47
want to go to Greece tomorrow, you go to Greece.
56:50
And then they explain it with with crypto and AI
56:53
cash piling up in recent years, the boats have to
56:56
get bigger. That's a very positive effect, but of course
57:00
still the ultimate luxury. So like it's they treat this
57:03
as like it's solving a problem that people have, which
57:06
is like too much money because of crypto and AI.
57:10
Speaker 1
So it's just you know, the.
57:12
Speaker 2
Upward all of these new every new development that people
57:18
write about in the mainstream media and seem excited about
57:21
on Wall Street is all just ways to redistribute money upward.
57:27
And then those people, unfortunately, they have a problem they
57:31
have to deal with, which is like what am I
57:33
going to spend all this money on?
57:34
Speaker 1
And so it's small not definitely not a small shit boat.
57:41
Speaker 2
Martha Stewart has some amazing quotes in here. So she's
57:46
talking about how, like she, it used to be cool
57:49
to be on yachts, but she says, I mean it's
57:53
almost common now extreme wealth. We know everybody that's really rich,
57:57
we know them all. I mean it started in the
58:00
nineteen nineties when I first went public with like her,
58:03
I'm Martha Stewart Omnimedia. I was hanging out with Bill
58:06
Gates and Charles Simonia.
58:09
Speaker 1
I don't know who that is.
58:10
Speaker 2
The and the Google Boys. I mean that's when it starts.
58:13
The Google boys, them Google boys, but uh now everybody
58:19
has one.
58:19
Speaker 1
She says. The reason he got a got.
58:23
Speaker 2
Envy, why she's talking about next husband was when he
58:25
visited Ron Perlman's boat. I was on the board of
58:28
Revlon Like, it's just all the shit, I don't Yeah,
58:32
she's just going from one statement. She just seems so
58:36
like bored and just insulated.
58:39
Speaker 1
I was CEO of the Atlantic Ocean, so yeah, I
58:43
was on Ron Perlman's boat.
58:45
Speaker 2
At one point, she's slipping through her Instagram feed and
58:48
finds that she's just getting a lot of outrage comments
58:52
from fans. Somebody wrote, meanwhile, people can't afford food or rent.
58:56
And her agent leans over and whispers to me, to
58:59
the writer, there's not a better Instagram follow than Martha
59:02
Stewart forty eight at Martha Stewart forty eight.
59:10
Speaker 1
So that's yeah, next president.
59:13
Speaker 2
Like they still they like know they get it. So
59:15
like the writers like does this bother you? What with
59:19
like Zoron Mamdani being nominated in New York and like
59:24
Donald Trump trying to like help billionaires, And she's like
59:28
the Roman Empire's coming to an end. I always get
59:32
that I'm mother hen I'm not supposed to be doing
59:34
this stuff. I'm supposed to be in the garden picking tomatoes.
59:37
So she turns it into like a women empowerment thing. Yeah,
59:42
and then she has a run where she's like mad
59:44
about people caving to Donald Trump. But then she goes
59:48
on to say, I'm a great admirer of Elon Musk
59:51
and what he's done. He's an inventor. He's like the
59:54
Michael Angelo of our time. And look what's happening to him.
59:58
Even he is struggling and there's very little he can
1:00:01
do until something big happens.
1:00:03
Speaker 1
People hate him. I mean I had to put my
1:00:06
tesla in the garage, and I like, my tesla? What
1:00:10
kind do you have? The fanciest one, self driving tesla?
1:00:13
Speaker 2
Even my daughter won't take it, and she's an environmentalist,
1:00:17
she won't take it.
1:00:20
Speaker 1
I can't give this fucking thing away. Yeah.
1:00:24
Speaker 2
Then there's like a model dancing and she's like, keep dancing,
1:00:28
you're setting the vibe.
1:00:30
Speaker 1
Girl. Oh why, oh why?
1:00:33
Speaker 2
Toby Maguire is there with his teenage son. Everyone's doing
1:00:37
small doses of LSD, getting shit fased on margs and daks,
1:00:42
and just like go back and forth between talking about
1:00:46
how surreal it is to be famous and around this
1:00:50
many other famous people, and then like trying to justify
1:00:53
why it's okay, and yeah, it's just they're like LARPing
1:00:59
as people from before we knew that this is unsustainable.
1:01:02
It feels like they're like, yeah, this feels like the
1:01:06
nineties anyways.
1:01:08
Speaker 1
Uh, it just it feels like. Oh.
1:01:10
Speaker 2
Also, at the end, as the guy's getting off the boat,
1:01:13
he gets a call from like one of the people
1:01:17
involved with organizing it, and they're like, oh, could you
1:01:20
not say that this person was there? Also this person
1:01:24
And then like a little later they're like, actually, you
1:01:26
can't write this article. He's like, yeah, sorry, I was there.
1:01:30
You let me there. Yeah, I'm allowed to say what
1:01:33
I saw. But makes sense that they wouldn't want him
1:01:37
to say that. It's just I guess they get they're
1:01:40
getting a little lazy and they chose not to like
1:01:43
car bomb him or whatever. Likes a person who the
1:01:47
Panama Papers.
1:01:48
Speaker 5
Yeah, oh brutal.
1:01:51
Speaker 1
Yeah.
1:01:52
Speaker 2
Anyways, how sick would it have been to be there?
1:01:54
You guys write the amount of stuff I would have stolen.
1:02:00
Speaker 5
All these people were doing drugs. I just be like
1:02:02
checking all of the doors to all of their friends.
1:02:07
You're gonna sell all this ship on eBay and then
1:02:10
just like give all the money away help someone pay
1:02:13
their rent. Like I would have been a problem on this.
1:02:16
Speaker 1
But like the FORCA signal.
1:02:19
Speaker 5
And like pointing it directly into the water, like I
1:02:21
would have been a major fucking problem. So I don't know.
1:02:23
I'm not sick for me personally.
1:02:26
Speaker 1
There's that high pitched squeal that don't ask, don't ask
1:02:31
about it's fine.
1:02:32
Speaker 5
Two more drugs, two more drugs, two.
1:02:33
Speaker 1
More drug drugs. This is going to really freak you out.
1:02:36
Winger on LSD and the and the Orc is finally up.
1:02:42
They can smell it. They can smell the LSD through
1:02:45
the whole of the boat. Orcas love LSD. They can't
1:02:49
get enough of it. Their whole world's one big acid trip,
1:02:52
those stupid fish.
1:02:55
Speaker 2
I will, I will admit that I'm a little hostile
1:02:59
to this because I'm fucking a hater and I'm jealous,
1:03:02
and like I just am not on my grind set
1:03:04
hard enough, and like I wish I could have done that.
1:03:07
Speaker 1
You know, one of these.
1:03:09
Speaker 2
Days I'll taste what a true dacory taste like in
1:03:14
the mouth of Tom Brady. That makes it sound like
1:03:17
I want him to baby burd it to me, which
1:03:20
is fine. And that's how they drink.
1:03:22
Speaker 1
There's no straws. They have to regurgitate food to one
1:03:25
another just so it doesn't get contaminated by the upper
1:03:28
middle class.
1:03:29
Speaker 5
I feel like that was the Epstein thing. I don't
1:03:31
know if that was this yacht specifically.
1:03:33
Speaker 1
You're right, gets I confuse these two things. All it's
1:03:36
easy to do.
1:03:37
Speaker 2
We have no glasses on this on this island, all
1:03:41
drinks are mixed in mouths and regurgitated between guests. Toy,
1:03:49
such a pleasure having you as always on the Daily
1:03:51
zeit Geist. Where can people find you? Follow you all
1:03:54
that good stuff?
1:03:55
Speaker 5
Yeah, definitely. I have some podcasts that I do. You
1:04:00
can find me there. White Homework that I do with
1:04:03
Benjamin Fay. We talk about collective liberation, anti racism, and
1:04:08
then I do a podcast called Go Home Bible You're
1:04:11
Drunk with Justin Gentry and we talk about what it's
1:04:15
like to survive all of the fascism when you grew
1:04:18
up in all of the pre fascism of you know,
1:04:22
just really hyper conservative evangelicalism. So yeah, I'm on Blue
1:04:28
Sky occasionally Tory Glasts Guide to Social That's usually where
1:04:33
you can find me.
1:04:34
Speaker 1
So yeah, hell yeah.
1:04:36
Speaker 2
What I'm up to is there a work in media
1:04:38
that you've been enjoying?
1:04:39
Speaker 1
You know?
1:04:39
Speaker 5
Prop posted I don't know if it was like a
1:04:42
tweet or a thread or something. It just really spoke
1:04:44
to me. He goes, Look, man, when speaking on black people,
1:04:48
anything said after the blacks in your sentence will most
1:04:52
likely make me want to punch you with a throat.
1:04:55
The blacks is the road ends and one hundred feet
1:04:58
of your sentence.
1:04:59
Speaker 2
And I was like, that is for me, my god,
1:05:04
prop is the best.
1:05:06
Speaker 1
Wait, where can people find you.
1:05:07
Speaker 2
Is there a working media you've been enjoying?
1:05:10
Speaker 1
People can find me at Blake Wexler on all social media.
1:05:14
I'm going to be doing my reviews are in show
1:05:17
in Philly on August twenty third. I'm going to be
1:05:19
in Wilkes Baerry, Pennsylvania doing stand up August twenty ninth
1:05:23
to thirtieth, and then coming up Ashville, Arkansas, Boston. I
1:05:27
also posted a video where I accidentally offered to suck
1:05:31
off an entire audience of Daily zeyicing members, So you
1:05:34
can check that out on my Instagram and then also
1:05:38
work of media. So this is not if you're not
1:05:40
a sports fan. This you don't have to be a
1:05:42
sports fan who enjoy this. There is a announcer for
1:05:44
the Phillies named John Cruck and he I don't know
1:05:49
if he's losing his mind or what's happening, but he
1:05:51
starts rambling during like these broadcasts about the craziest stories.
1:05:54
Like John Oliver did a segment on him where he
1:05:58
started talking about like playing in a prison. He's nuts.
1:06:01
So he had another one that happened the other night
1:06:04
where this Instagram account it's called the Philly fly fl
1:06:09
Y posted about it, and he started talking about how
1:06:13
you can just in the middle of a baseball game,
1:06:15
if you apply twenty five pounds of pressure to a
1:06:19
human ear, you could rip it off someone's head. He
1:06:22
just started talking about that during a baseball game. And
1:06:24
then he was like, Oh, I was at a museum
1:06:26
and I learned it. And the other announcer goes, when
1:06:29
were you at the museum and the guy goes crook
1:06:31
goes what day is it? And he goes, It's Monday,
1:06:33
and he goes, yesterday. That just doesn't matter. So the
1:06:40
guy's completely losing it. So yeah, if you get a chance,
1:06:43
you won't have to be a sports fan. You can
1:06:44
just appreciate an old man slowly losing his mind during
1:06:48
a baseball game. So yeah, amazing workmedia.
1:06:51
Speaker 2
I've been enjoying tweet from Demia did you eBay at
1:06:55
electro lemon on Twitter tweeted, Oh, that trailer is bad.
1:06:58
The movie must not be good, you goon, you stooge.
1:07:02
Listen to yourself. A marketing team's trying to make your
1:07:05
movie averse. Aun't buy a ticket and you want to
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take them at face value. You are weak. You won't
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survive the winter. You should be put down like a dog.
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I fully agree. I'm not gonna fully endorse that idea.
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Speaker 1
I don't know.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, movie trailers are not always indicative of quality of movie.
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You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscorell Brian
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on Blue Sky at Jack ob the Number One. You
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can find us on Twitter and Blue Sky at Daily Zeitgeist.
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Speaker 1
We're at the Daily Zeitgeist. On Instagram.
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Speaker 2
You can go to the description of this episode wherever
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you're listening to it, and underneath the show description you'll
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find the footnotes, which is where we link off to
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the information that we talked about in today's episode. We
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also link off to a song that we think you
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might enjoy. Super producer Justin is there a song that
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you think the people might enjoy?
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Speaker 3
Yeah, this song has a big lo fi sound that
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has like a slow tempo that makes a lot of
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space for them.
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Speaker 1
It's gonna no, it's not gonna help, no, I thought,
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because it's low five.
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Speaker 3
No, I mean no that okay, it's a ry no,
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we can stop that.
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Speaker 1
Uh man, you really threw me off there.
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Speaker 3
So the song is as a slow tempo, it has
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a lot of space for the dreamy chords and the
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silky vocals. Fittingly, it starts off with the sound of
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like a river or a creek and a forest or something,
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because it really makes me feel like I'm floating in
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warm water. So this song is called Meeting Pharaoh by
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Jadu Hart and you can find that song in the footnote.
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Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
That's gonna do it for us this week.
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Speaker 2
We're back tomorrow with a cutdown of some of the
1:08:51
best moments from this week's episodes. And then we're back
1:08:53
on Monday morning. Miles back and we will tell you
1:08:57
what was trending over the weekend and on Monday morning
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and we will talk to you all that Bye bye bye.
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The Daily Zeite Guys is executive produced by Catherine Long.
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Speaker 5
Co produced by Bee Wag.
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Speaker 1
Co produced by Victor Wright, co written by j M mcnapp,
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edited and engineered by Justin Conner.