There’s more news and less comprehension today than any historical period that didn’t involve literal witch trials, and trying to stay on top of it all can feel like playing a game of telephone with 30 people, except everyone’s speaking at the same time and like a third of them are openly racist for some reason. From Cracked co-founder Jack O’Brien, THE DAILY ZEITGEIST is stepping into that fray with some of the funniest and smartest comedic and journalistic minds around. Jack and co-host Miles Gray spend up to an hour every weekday sorting through the events and stories driving the headlines, to help you find the signal in the noise, with a few laughs thrown in for free.
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty nine,
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episode one of My Guys, a production of My Heart Radio.
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This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
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into American's share consciousness. And it is Monday, October seventeen two,
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which of course means you know, we got it all.
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It's National Pasta Day. What can you hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I heard you. I'm just taking I feel like there's
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something happening with my brain where every time I hear
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one of these, I was like, it was just that
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two days ago. But maybe right we heard somebody say
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that pop pasta was whacking, so we were having a
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long conversation about pasta. I don't know, Oh, yeah that
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was that was Mark Schindler. Yeah, I'm basketball writer who's
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like anti pasta. It's all scrambled eggs up here, folks,
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it's all it's all gone. Uh yeah. It's National Pasta Day,
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National Mulligan Day, Black Poetry Day, now, National Edge Day,
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and World Trauma Day. I don't know. I'm trying to
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figure out what is National Edge Day? Is it for edge?
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Just oh for straight edge? Joe? Oh, if you got
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the black x is bro if you're not now you
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never were. That's all the straight igel him. You talk
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around me, so shout out to the straight edge. Do
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they not even smoke cigarettes? They don't do anything. I
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mean pretty yet, know you it's a clean lifestyle. It's
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a clean lifestyle. It's like boy Scouts definition of nothing.
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No drugs, no drinking, no none of it. Just do Yeah, dude,
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just refrain, bro, you know it's so appropriate. Also, that
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is a National Mulligan Day because we actually did that
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rendition of what days it is twice, so we took
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a mulligan on National Mulligan Day because we had we
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had an internet. Incredible. We're really living National Mulligan Day
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to the fullest. Well anyways, my name's Jack O'Brien. A
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K too fastly, too furious. That is from marsh in Tech.
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I think it is a reference to the fact that
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I used the word fastly on an episode, which is
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not a word. You don't you don't need to add
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the l y, but I think I think you'd like
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to be a word. Yeah, sometimes you just need to
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add the l y. It just feels verbify whatever you want,
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and I mean fast doesn't need it to be an adverb.
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But it doesn't hurt unless you want people to think
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you're smart. Fast lea fast least do it please fastly, sir. Anyways,
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I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co
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host Mr Miles Grass Miles Gray a k. It was
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all the dream I used to read Tago Beat magazine,
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shack up in the limousine. Yeah, Moss written void bellower
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a void written on Twitter. Thanks for that one, because yeah,
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I still can't, like, I can't get that Aaron Carter
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video out of my mind. Yeah, oh it's gonna it's
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there for the worst thing I've ever said part of
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Who We Are, Miles shout out the homie Kylie who
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work with who go on his campaign. She tweeted at me,
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She's like, I saw Aaron Carter perform in twenty thirteen
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and he opened with how I Beat Shock and the
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crowd went wild. That was in Iowa, so yeah, I
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mean that is That was in Iowa too, so yeah,
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they were feeling it. That's a that is the classic.
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I'm surprised it didn't even hit. I mean, I was
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probably a little bit too old for to be noticing
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what Aaron Carter was up to at the time. That
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that song came out, but it seems like a real
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slam dunk of a of a premise, you know, like
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a parents just don't understand for the just it turns
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out talent is important. Having Will Smith perform perform a
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straightforward premise is a little bit better than Aaron Carter Anyway,
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It's Miles. We are thrilled to be joined in our
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third seat by a very funny comedian whose writings appeared
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to make Sweeney's and whose comedy has been highlighted an
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NPR Vulture, The l A Times one of illuminative Native
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American comedians to follow, and you can catch him on Friday,
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November eleven at ten pm hosting Thanks but No Thanksgiving
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at Dynasty Typewriter. Please welcome back to the show, the
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hilarious and talented Brian Body. Welcome. What's up? Happy National
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Edge Day? Yes, National We can celebrate however you want.
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You can celebrate by being a straight edge. That you
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can celebrate by edging, you know, as we do on
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this side completely. It's up to you. But Briant, wait, Brian,
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you moved out to l A, Right, I moved out
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to l A. I'm writing on this animated show on
04:39
Fox called The Great North. Watch it on Sunday's seven
04:43
pm Pacific. That's from the people who do Bob's Burgers, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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shout out Lauren, Wendy, Lizzy, all all the people from work,
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everybody there. So I I just because I remember. Yeah,
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when I think you didn't you like to throw up
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a pick of your office because you'd be writing now. Yeah,
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I see what you pick. Yeah, let people know that
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I can read. You don't use words like fair. Yeah,
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there's rumors out there, and you gotta, you know, keep
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set there sometimes just dead the rumors immediately for sure.
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How are you finding l A? You like it? You
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love it? Right, everybody moves from the East coast back
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to l A. They love it. I do. I do
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love it. I do love it. There's a lot of Uh.
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I did try to get dinner last night. Everything closed
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at ten pm, though, So I will say that is
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an error on the city's end, that mistake. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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it's it's something we're trying to change. No, I don't
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think we are, and that's why you need to vote
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this November. Yeah, keep at the very least. Yeah, I don't.
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Maybe there will be something on the belt to be like,
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can you just be open a little bit fucking later?
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Right there there is I live in West Hollywood. There's
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a lot of signs up for it's like elect Steve Martin,
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and I'm just like Steve Martin running for local. Wait,
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wait a second. The banjo logo was a pretty normal name.
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But I feel like I would have noticed that if
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he was really running someone named Steve Martin. Someone set. Yeah,
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I I like walk do do a couple of laps
06:29
around the block, just to get my blood pumping every
06:31
every once in a while in the morning. And today
06:33
I did it like a little bit earlier and realized
06:36
that everybody in in l A Is like up and
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out by like seven in the morning, like they're It
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was packed. It was jam packed at like whereas like
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I normally do it at nine and it's just me
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and like one old guy. Damn. Yeah, so so many
06:53
dogs people on walking their dogs. Yeah. L A loves
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to go to bed or wake up in the morning
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bright and early with the with the dogs and uh
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just talk around into the cities a mess exactly. All right, Brian,
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We're gonna get to know you a little bit better.
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In a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
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couple of things we're talking about. We're talking about more
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evidence than January six was the plan all along for Trump,
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and that it was a cynical plan that he at
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no point believed that he actually won the election. We're
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gonna talk about the black vote with regards to the
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Pennsylvania Senate, races V Fetterman and yeah, real people as
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props type ship going on. Ye, yeah, And we will
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talk about why the police are a bad idea, all
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of that plenty more. But first, Brian, we do like
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to ask our guest, what is something from your search history?
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Alicia Cuthberg. Cuthberg, I don't know if you remember her.
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She was like she was, isn't it Burt? Is it
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with a T? Maybe Alicia Cooper? She was on Yeah,
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she was on twenty four. She was in that Wheezer
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music video. Yeah it's it's yeah, Kuthbert. I think it
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was a T. I like Kuthberg, Alicia. I think Alicia
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Alicia cook Bert. Who, man, you're so on like some
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Swedish intonation in there. Yeah it's you know why I
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said it because one time I met her in like
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the odds or somebody introduced me and they said Kuthbert
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Uber and I was like, oh for real. And I
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don't know if they were mistake. I don't know if
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they were like mispronouncing. But then I've always been unsettled
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on how to say her name because the one time
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someone introduced like was like and this, oh, yeah, Alicia
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Kuthbers's over there, and say what's up? I was like
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kuth And I think I always pronounced it as Elijah
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for some reason, even though that's not the right, that's
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not right. But I was like, Alicia, what are you
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guys talking about? It's Elijah like character in the Bible.
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It's Elijah Cuthberg. This is why Google exists. So what
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are you looking at? Our our main home, Queen. We
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do this game at lunch called the movie game. I'm
09:16
sure you've heard of it, where you like, you list
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an actor a movie, and then you and if somebody
09:22
says a movie, you have to name an actor in
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that movie, and then you have to name a movie
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from that actor, and it keeps going on and on
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until you know, elimination, until somebody gets eliminated. I have
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never won this game. I'm bad at it, and it's
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punishable by death, right, punishable by death. The closest, the
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closest I ever got was this week. I was given
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Alicia Cuthberg Cuthberg, Elijah Elijah Cuthberg, Elijah Cuthberg, Elijah Cuthberg,
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Alicia Cusberg. And I knew who she was in a
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movie I had seen, but I couldn't think of the title.
10:05
And then so at Old School that was what it
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was based on. Somebody said old School. Then I think
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I said Old School. The other person said, um, Elijah
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Elijah Kuthburg, And then I was like, what is that
10:21
other movie? I couldn't remember? I lost so I immediately googled,
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googled her. Right, and she was in two two kinds
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of big movies that were pretty pivotal to my you know, adolescence,
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not really Girl next Door. I saw that, yeah, right, yeah,
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and then House of Wax, Oh yeah, And then that's
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kind of it for that was a wrap on cous
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that was on the coup. We're a wrap on couth
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just for as a career here in Hollywood. Yeah, she
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was blown off the screen by the screen acting debut
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of Paris Hilton, and I think from that point forward,
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you know, we just have them. Looking back, we've been like,
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Paris Hilton is a film star. I mean, who could
11:09
forget Ripo Genetic Opera or whatever that was. I actually
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don't know what you're talking about, So apparently you don't
11:15
know Repo the Genetic Opera. Repo the Genetic Opera was
11:20
like this fucking horror musical that like Paul Sorvino isn't
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and also Paris Hilton. Yeah, I haven't. I haven't seen that.
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I'm sorry. That was just like a meme. I felt
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like in pop really end the game with Repo. The
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next time you're playing the game. Oh yeah, if Paul
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Sorvino gets pulled, yo, Brian, put that one in the Yeah,
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put that one in your pocket for the next one.
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If you ever get Paul Sorvino fucking Alexa Vega from
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Spy Kids, Oh, Paris Hilton, you could deploy that m
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Paul Sorvino Father. Yeah, yeah, Nina, I think is also
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damn pauls Orvinos and good Fellows? Is that correct? Yeah? Yeah,
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I'm just trying to I'm trying to chain it back
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to like some movies that might be thrown out during
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the thing, so we can arm breath with the ability
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to pull Brian your next Like, the strategy of the
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next one is you try and seed different answers to
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eventually get to Paul Sorvino so you can throw out
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repo the Genetic Opera and debt debt it from there. Wow. Yeah,
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I totally missed that. What is something, Brian that you
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think is overrated? I touched on this a little bit.
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I think that overrated breakfast sandwiches in l A. And
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when I'm talking about l A, I feel like anywhere
12:51
I go to get a breakfast sandwich or just get food,
12:55
they have a breakfast sandwich on the menu, and it's
12:58
always like it's good. I'll say, I'll give it that,
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but it's always just like an egg and like a
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meat and like mixed greens on like a decent bread
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with like from sauce. And I'm like, I this is good.
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But I'm also like and it comes with like a
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side salad, and I'm just like, why does every place
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have this? Right? Yeah, it's funny when I when you
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say that, I'm like, well, I mean I feel like
13:25
New York, New York got the better breakfast sandwiches. Because
13:31
they feel like they're just protein grease bombs that could
13:35
set you back hours if you digested, which I like
13:38
personally and like in l A. Yeah, the idea of
13:41
a breakfast sandwich that comes with a side salad that
13:43
I'm like, please, let's not do this. I'm not here
13:46
for the side sound that I'm here for the cholesterol
13:49
bomb that is betwixt two pieces of bread. Yeah. Like,
13:52
if I'm getting food that early, I'm getting it for
13:56
a reason, like I'm not operating at full capacity of
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me what my body wants, which is protein. And Greece,
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I think I think l A are it's our breakfast
14:08
burrito game is that's that's where we excel, right, And
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sandwiches we can't. We're fucking, We're sucking. We're copying other places.
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And that's when like l A food is the worst,
14:19
is when it's copying other like regional ship rather than
14:23
just like, well we do well. That's why the breakfast burrito,
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I feel like, send you a few places that you
14:28
would be like this is the size of a cinder
14:30
block and I could put in the freezer and take
14:34
a little slice off every day for a year and
14:36
be fully filled and that's what I need that exactly.
14:39
I don't think I've even had to breakfast burrito since
14:41
I've been here. Oh, Brian, alright, alright, don't you want
14:45
to just be in be in a coma for a
14:47
whole day? Is that not what you're craving. We let's
14:54
let me put my ass right back to bed here. Yeah,
14:58
it's hard. Every bread, baste thing, every bread based like
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food in l A is like, oh yeah, these people
15:05
came out here from Brooklyn. They they even like import
15:08
the water from Brooklyn, so like that's why it's good.
15:11
They they've just admitted defeat except for doughnuts, which are
15:15
I guess the pastry, and l A does donuts pretty
15:19
pretty well and with confidence. But all the yeah, any bagels,
15:23
any pizza, any sandwich, bread, it's all like and here's
15:28
why it doesn't suck. I know what you're thinking. It sucks,
15:33
I guess, or they do the thing. They're like, don't worry,
15:35
it's not our shitty l A bread. These are Amoroso
15:38
rolls straight from Philly, you know. And you're like, okay, okay,
15:42
all right, okay, don't worry. What you're eating wasn't made here. Yeah,
15:49
don't worry. Was something you said you think is underrated bread? Yeah? Sorry,
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coming heavy, hot and heavy with like the food related ship.
15:58
But that's kind of just like what my life has
16:00
been like recently. As I said it earlier. Underrated staying
16:06
past staying open past ten pm? No, yeah, that do
16:11
it on a Thursday too. What's okay? When you were
16:15
when you were in New York, what was your go
16:16
to past ten? Okay? So, and then like where they
16:23
had like a little hot food or they could put
16:25
like they had a little deli section. Yeah, they had
16:27
a Delhi section. You could get like a cheese steak
16:29
or something. Still, right, I think I'm trying to think
16:34
of Wow, I mean like street vendors typically are out late.
16:39
That's usually the food that is open late because they
16:42
understand people fucking work past ten and may need something
16:46
like a quick bite to eat on their way home.
16:49
That's usually the most luck I would find is like
16:51
you gotta find like your mobile tucket idea or like
16:55
taco truck or something. They typically stay out past ten,
16:57
but certain areas, Yeah, like it's a wrap like a
17:00
fucking like nine thirty even and you're basically going to
17:04
the sleep of your sound. They're going to sleep of
17:07
the sounds of your stomach, just gargling. For dear life,
17:10
your stomach is gonna sing you to sleep. I forgot
17:13
about street vendors I need. I haven't really seen one
17:16
in my area, which is kind of that's my fault. Well,
17:20
I mean that's and that's a big issue in l A,
17:22
right because street vending is like this huge thing and
17:25
it's it's just it's just such a vibrant economy, but
17:27
there's so many forces at work trying to make it
17:31
illegal or make people jump through fucking hoops and be like,
17:34
oh my god, this food is so unsafe when people have,
17:38
you know, like time and again you're like, man, I've
17:40
gotten more sick out of fucking brick and mortar like
17:43
chain restaurant than I have from like someone selling like
17:46
alta or something on the fucking street. And yeah, like
17:49
I think that's what's kind of it depends on like
17:51
some areas just have better street like food vending culture
17:53
than others. You gotta like crawl around the city and
17:56
actually use your nose. You gotta be like, oh wait
18:01
a second, it smells like might be a does it
18:07
feel does eleven feel like a fair time to close,
18:10
Like you can't like ten feels. I feel like ten
18:14
is like when the nightly, like the ten o'clock local
18:16
news comes on, you should have to at least eleven
18:19
eleven even just like pair down the menu. I would
18:22
be fine with that. Like you can't order like, you know,
18:26
extensive stuff, but give me, give me the option to
18:30
get like fries right right, the very least right. Yeah,
18:36
it's it really feels like my My experience with late
18:39
night eating in New York is an adventure of going
18:43
to just like different bodegas and you know, hazy chop
18:47
cheese and like weird sandwiches, and every l a experiences
18:53
Jack in the Box or some other like drive through window.
18:57
And I had actually convinced myself that I thought Jack
19:02
in the Box was good food until I tried it
19:04
sober and I was like, okay, all right, this is
19:08
actually a pretty smart business strategy. I will say that
19:11
Jack in the Box does do it for me in
19:13
a way I do. I do like that they you
19:16
can't really pin down where what their ankle is in
19:19
terms of food. You're just like the tacos, but there's fries.
19:22
But there's fish. It's just like it's all over the place.
19:26
I love it. But as somebody who doesn't own a car,
19:29
they're there, Um, they're like what are they called little
19:34
the place where you have to walk in that closes
19:36
early too, yeah, so you need to go through the
19:41
drive through. So then I'm like there's no winning, you know.
19:45
Yeah yeah, And that's why the city is ultimately hostile
19:48
people who do not have cars, Like, oh my fucker,
19:50
you can't even eat. Jack in the Box is not
19:52
you know, Jack in the box, well a cabin. Well,
19:57
I mean ship, dude, ship pops off at Jack in
20:00
the Boxes in l A like on Friday nights. Like
20:03
every Jack in the Box in l A. I feel
20:05
like has like just wild security because it is like
20:09
kind of like the Late Night Spot. Everybody's kind of
20:11
fucked up. Like the ship goes down with the check
20:15
your bags right right, just to go through the what
20:21
you need to look inside my trunk so I can
20:22
go through this jacket box. They take out your laptop,
20:26
my man, take out your laptop. What I just want
20:29
to ultimate breakfast sandwich? Yeah, man, ang your shoes, come on, man,
20:32
we don't have time. Also, just you know, the Taco
20:37
Bell does now offer breakfast, and it's starting to show
20:40
up in my Twitter feed quite a bit. So just
20:43
in case you're looking, in case you're, you know, really
20:46
at a loss for what to eat in the morning,
20:48
Taco bells making a play for that's that's something that
20:53
it's showing up in your feed. Yeah, no, it's a problem,
20:57
they're like, yeah. That's usually how I realized I'm pressed
21:00
is when Taco Bell was like, all right, it's time
21:03
turned on the feet Twitter. All right, let's take a
21:08
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
21:23
And a couple of piece of evidence hitting the media
21:28
that suggests what I think most of us assumed all along,
21:32
which is that Trump knew he lost the election from
21:37
before the election. You know that it was actually closer
21:41
than the media thought, and apparently was closer than he
21:44
thought it was going to be, and they had the
21:47
plan to claim that the election was stolen, and you know, YadA, YadA, YadA,
21:54
he gets to stay president. And within that, YadA, YadA YadA.
21:58
You there has to be some January six type event, right,
22:03
you don't just get to, you know, imagine your way
22:06
into remaining president. So yeah, the past few days, I've
22:10
just repeatedly been reminded of that Michael Chay as Lester
22:13
Holt sketch where he's just like I think. I think
22:17
at the time, it was actually Trump admitting he fired
22:20
Comy because the Russia investigation, and I was like, wait,
22:25
so I did I get him? Is this all over?
22:28
And then he like gets a thing in his earpiece
22:30
and he's like, no, I didn't. Nothing matters, Absolutely nothing matters,
22:34
and and that yeah, So, I mean we've come a
22:37
long way since thinking that him admitting that he fired
22:40
James Comby because he was investigating Russia seemed like a
22:43
gotcha moment, Like now it's just smoking guns raining out
22:47
of the sky, and like you need to take shelter
22:50
from all the smoking guns because it's just, yeah, we
22:54
like it's not even a question of like whether he
22:56
did something wrong. It's like, what whether he knowingly did
23:00
something wrong and had like premeditated it, and we'll be
23:03
able to prove it in a court of law. So
23:05
he's not allowed to run for president again. And it
23:08
seems like maybe it's so that January six Committee just
23:12
played footage of Steve Bannon saying he's going to declare victory.
23:18
But that doesn't mean he's a winner. He's just gonna
23:21
say he's a winner, which is a pretty accurate description
23:24
of what Trump did. But that audio was from Halloween
23:27
night before the election, so like four nights before the
23:30
election happened, wasn't there also talked that he was trying
23:34
to declare victory before the election even happened. I'm not
23:38
sure like the so that there was all kinds of
23:41
hair brained ideas that he was throwing out there. I
23:43
think in pursuit of this, like basically, I don't know
23:45
if I'm gonna do. This is gonna be l city
23:47
or something where one of them was like just to
23:49
preemptively be like na one and they're like, that's like,
23:53
so that's not how That's not how any of it works, right, Okay,
23:57
there's there's also Roger Stone told up supporters on November
24:01
one that the election would likely remain too close to
24:04
call an election night. The key thing to do is
24:06
to claim victory. Possession is nine tenths of the law.
24:10
Which have you seen that clip of Stone saying that no, rogers, dude,
24:15
he's a full lot, dude. I gotta find this he's
24:18
fucking off his ship like so violent. He's like, fuck you,
24:23
we want hold on, I gotta hold on. I'm gonna
24:25
find this clip because it's really something. That's the one
24:28
on November feet because that that this one is before
24:31
the election happened. Yeah, there's one where he's talking to
24:34
like these dudes and like outside of his car about
24:37
the nine tenths of the law thing, and he like
24:40
he goes on to say, like it's nine tenths, like
24:42
you know, possession is nine tenths of the law. We
24:45
want to fuck you try and do something about it.
24:46
We'll fucking fight you kind of a thing, and they
24:49
kind of just sort of clip out the whole. I'm
24:51
gonna find it, like okay, here we go. Now we
24:53
can hear it. So this November I suspect it of me.
24:59
I really just to aspected it will still be up
25:01
in the air when that happens. The key thing to
25:03
do is to claim victory. Possession is nine tenths of law. No,
25:07
we want to sorry, you're wrong. Like that's that was
25:12
him like rallying him up, like and that's the talking
25:15
to these people who are you know, basically like they're
25:17
far right goons on the ground to just sort of
25:19
see this idea of like just fucking run with this
25:23
and don't worry about what the funk they say, like
25:24
this is like and I think just saying like doesn't
25:26
matter if we won or lost, because at the end
25:28
of the day, we're not fucking leaving, so fuck you.
25:31
There were emails flying around from advisors like October thirty one, again,
25:35
we had an election day today, and I won, is
25:38
his suggested remarks, even though they're like anticipating losing or
25:42
being too close to call. Greg Jacob, who was Vice
25:45
President Pence's counsel, learned days before election day from Pence's
25:50
chief of staff Mark Short that Trump planned to prematurely
25:54
announced that he had won. So it's like everybody knew this.
25:57
Robert Costa tweeted Thursday he had seen text from that
26:01
night from some aids indicating they realized declaring victory was
26:04
Trump's plan, and that White House lawyers were alarmed, but
26:08
presumably not alarmed enough to do ship. Speaking of not
26:12
less enough to do ships, secret Service apparently knew about
26:15
January six then that they were going to try and
26:18
assassinate Mike Pence. On January six, like ahead of the
26:22
event that that's another thing that is being indicated by Yeah,
26:30
I think you know, like in that line of like
26:32
White House lawyers were alarmed, Like no they weren't, but
26:34
thank you for adding that into your journalism to try
26:37
and like give them some cover, like if they would
26:40
have seen much more massive fall up. But either way,
26:43
I mean the as the trial, as we've seen from
26:46
the trial, and then even Trump's response to them, you know,
26:49
being like, what I think we need to subpoena him.
26:51
It's it was, it's everything has been clear from the
26:55
second he was even questioning the like like voter fraud
26:58
in the summer, And I don't, like, I understand they've
27:03
done their work. We've done like we've we've reached night
27:06
nine of Couchella at this point, we've closed it out.
27:10
But I'm just like, where the funk is this going?
27:15
That's it? Are you actually going to reform the laws
27:18
to like protect something like this from happening again, to
27:21
like have more rigid legal structures that someone can't just
27:24
be like fuck you, it's nine tenths of the law.
27:27
Or is it just gonna be a thing where it's
27:29
like I don't know we tried, y'all, And now the
27:30
Republicans have taken over the House and all they're going
27:34
to do is start all kinds of committees and ship
27:36
just to flood the zone with bogus like investigations to
27:40
just prop Trump up. Like that seems like what the
27:43
plan is now. And I don't see anything in the
27:48
playbook that suggests that's not gonna work, Like I don't
27:50
know what the January six Committee is going to do
27:54
that would suggest that that's going to work. Like I
27:57
still think there is this part of their brain that
28:00
is still stuck in like you know, mainstream Democrat thinking
28:05
where they were the ones who tried to help Trump
28:07
win the Republican primary because I thought he was gonna
28:10
be easy to be Like I still think they're like, well,
28:13
you know, if Trump is the nominee, that wouldn't be
28:15
all bad for us, because he's going to be like
28:18
convicted of all these things, are like easily convictable in
28:23
the court of public opinion. And it's like, you don't
28:26
you don't understand how little of the ship people give
28:31
about that who who are inclined to support him, and
28:35
like it's just we're still in the position where you know,
28:39
Republicans aren't going to do ship to stop this, and
28:45
you know, the like the only alternative to the mainstream
28:51
like we'll let the market handle it. Corporations are the
28:54
ones actually making the decisions. Option that we've been running
28:58
with for the past. You know, however many decades. Is
29:03
fascism like that they're they're going to run that, And
29:08
I don't know, it's still it's very scary. It's it's
29:12
pretty dark times. I guess. I think it's pretty cool.
29:17
I think maybe we'll see the maybe we'll see the
29:20
end of this fucked up experiment in this country. But ah, yeah,
29:23
it's you know where we continue to just like look
29:27
at these like existential threats like directly in the eye.
29:30
And I'm just kind of like feeling like that Lester
29:32
whole thing, like all right, so what we uh got it?
29:37
And I think I think the most Republicans would do
29:40
is just not be so forceful in defending him. And
29:44
I think they if if they are going to, let
29:48
you know, try and purge him, it's gonna be very passive,
29:51
and it'll be in the hopes that he's just sucked
29:53
himself over legally to the point that they're like, yeah,
29:57
like we're not going to come to your aid, but
29:58
we're not gonna we're not gonna a raw raw the
30:00
left either or just let that happen, like, you know,
30:03
because luckily the Supreme Court like rejected hearing, you know,
30:08
his attempt to overturn that decision in the documents case.
30:11
So the special Minister, the special Minister gambit. Yeah, and
30:15
also like what they say doesn't really matter because again
30:17
there's no energy behind mainstream Democrats or mainstream Republicans. The
30:22
energy is behind Trump. So I don't know, it's and
30:26
it's also I mean it ties to this next story
30:28
about Fetterman vas and like some of the like the
30:32
knives coming up for John Fetterman. This is somebody who's
30:35
you know, outside of the mainstream and got some actual energy. Yeah,
30:41
like ish, I mean, I'm not going to paint him
30:43
as like some far foot half of he has half
30:46
a foot outside of the main stream, Right, It's enough
30:49
to have gotten energy and gotten people excited supporting him,
30:54
and it just feels like they don't they don't have
30:56
the appetite to protect him or like do the things
30:59
they likely due to get people elected. Right, Yeah, I
31:02
mean well, right now, like obviously, you know, the polling
31:08
has had John Fetterman in the lead because people are like, yeah, okay,
31:11
clearly as a binary people are like, I like Fetterman
31:13
over this Hollywood goon. But his lead has been shrinking.
31:17
We've been talking about that thanks to like you know,
31:19
fearmongering around crime and you know, having journalists like equivocate
31:23
recovering from a stroke to like being a sociopath that
31:26
may not deserve to be in office or like incapable
31:29
of holding office, And a lot of observers of the
31:33
of the Senate race have said, like, look, it's clear
31:36
right now that oz Is tactic is shifting to try
31:38
and suppress the black volte like bringing up like this,
31:41
you know, when Fetterman pulled like a shotgun on a
31:44
black jogger because he thought like, oh, this might be
31:46
someone involved in this like other crime, and a lot
31:48
of people like, look, okay Fetterman, like that's not the
31:52
best look for you, homie, But he said, look, I
31:54
was a mistake. Blah blah blah. It seems that the
31:56
people who were supporting him had moved past it. But
31:59
like a few groups have been dumping millions of dollars
32:01
into like amplifying that or you know, this just the
32:05
general optics around OZ being a more uh like I'm
32:10
I'm down with the black community type energy. And it's
32:13
it's interesting because half of it isn't necessarily that Oz
32:16
is trying to court the black vote. He's also just
32:19
trying to suppress the black vote because it wants to
32:21
not turn out for feederment. Because in if if you
32:24
look at exit polls from you know, black people made
32:27
up around eleven percent of the electorate. Joe Biden got
32:30
nine percent of that vote. Donald Trump got seven percent
32:33
of that. So I think, you know, if you're playing
32:35
the strict numbers game of your you know plus one
32:38
math that all the people in the campaigns are doing,
32:40
you have to find those margins to try and shave
32:42
off to eke out your win. So last month in September,
32:47
Oz went like all in on showing the black community
32:50
he understands the plight. And he had an event in
32:53
Philly where this this black woman comes up and they
32:57
they were saying he was holding like a safer Street
33:00
type meeting to talk about gun violence in the city
33:04
and this black woman, you know, she's holding a poster
33:06
of some of her family members who had to come
33:08
to gun violence. And I'll just play this for you
33:10
because this was like a moment where like the local
33:12
news covered it as like just sort of like a
33:15
like this campaign event that doctor Oz was throwing what
33:18
his campaign called a Safer Streets community discussion, where Armstrong
33:22
shared the story of losing both her brother who was
33:24
shot on his porch, and a nephew. My nephew at
33:27
the time of his murder was only fourteen years old.
33:30
I'm honestly angry and fed up with the system. I'm
33:35
fed up with the system that is playing playing politics
33:39
with the lives of us that live in these communities.
33:44
So doctor Oz in that thing, he's like looking at her.
33:46
He's like, oh wow wow. Like there's a photo that
33:49
like the newspaper ran where she's in tears and he's
33:51
like consoling her. The AP wrote this as this is
33:55
what the reporting. As Sheila Armstrong grew emotional and recounting
33:58
how her brother and nephew were killed in Philadelphia, Dr
34:00
Memiaz sitting next to her inside a black church. Their
34:03
chairs are arranged a bit like his former daytime TV
34:06
show set, placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Later
34:09
he gave her a hug and said, how do you cope?
34:12
And they just ran with that. Okay. The problem with
34:14
all of this is that this woman, Sheila Jackson, is
34:18
a paid staffer for dr OZ, Like she's not someone
34:22
from the community. She works on the campaign. She was
34:26
sharing picks on her Instagram of her new ODZ campaign
34:30
business cards about how she's like organizing like the Philadelphia
34:33
County like organizer type thing. And if you look at
34:37
the FEC filings the Federal Election Commission, she's receiving payroll
34:41
payments like she's not. She's like they got receipts like
34:45
you are. You are being funded by dr OZ. And
34:48
this is just so funked up because I'm not sure
34:50
what her motives are, but OZ definitely knows what the
34:53
funk he's doing here because he is using like black
34:55
bodies as props to like make himself seem like he
34:58
gives a funk about the community. And we see this
35:00
all the time with politicians like I still haven't forgotten
35:04
Kente Cloth Fest at the Capitol Rotunda with the Democrats,
35:08
like I'm still having like this is just it's just
35:11
his virtue signaling without any action, and the wild shit
35:14
is for all the doctor oz, Oh my god, honey,
35:18
how do you cope with the gun violence? Listen to
35:21
his answer when like the local reporters again are asking,
35:25
They're like, hey, man, can we ask you about like
35:28
what your plan is with I don't know, fucking gun control.
35:32
Something not in the plan he put out today. One
35:34
thing that that your plan does not talk about is guns?
35:38
Gun violence. What can voters expect from you on that?
35:41
Would you oppose any additional gun restrictions? He was just
35:45
in this church talking with this woman talking about, oh,
35:49
the plight of gun violence, right, like using that for
35:52
emotional points, and then they just asked, okay, so what's
35:54
your platform. We have a new gun law and I'd
35:57
like to see what happens with it. I'm happy that
36:00
we have a lot of money for mental health in there.
36:03
Big problem for violence way beyond guns, I'm gonna tell
36:07
you most of them. I'm sorry. What that's a big
36:10
problem for violence way beyond guns. That's his fucking plan,
36:16
you know what I mean? Like this is it's just
36:18
like so disingenuous on its face that you're gonna then
36:22
use this woman's like legitimate loss of family to then
36:26
go out there and be like, I don't know gun control.
36:28
I don't know, man. I just said that just so
36:29
like I could, you know, embrace like just crying gun control. Yeah,
36:34
I don't give a funk man, Like let it rock. Yeah.
36:36
I feel like you should have, Like if he's gonna go,
36:39
I think he's gonna go as far as to like
36:41
have like somebody on his payroll to like tell their story.
36:44
Like I'm like, you should have just like gotten a
36:48
paid like an interviewer, you know, to ask you those
36:52
questions after be like just like throw softballs at you, right, yeah,
36:57
go full stalin. You know you're gonna right paint this
37:01
like alternative reality. I mean, you know a lot of
37:06
people were noticing too. Like even at that church event,
37:09
there was this one state like local representative. It was
37:12
like he was like that event was happening in his
37:14
district as a state legislator, and he wasn't invited, so
37:17
he had to like force his way in to see
37:19
what was going on. I was like, oh, y'all are
37:20
my community like what's going on here? And he showed
37:24
there were there were more journalists there than people participating
37:27
in this event. You know what I mean, Like and
37:29
the media didn't cover that, like they were just showing
37:31
that side of it. This guy was showing the reverse
37:34
view of like the people that were like on this
37:36
quote unquote panel looking back there maybe three people suceeded,
37:40
and a lot of people noticed that some of the
37:42
other people of color that have been involved in these events,
37:44
like you've seen like campaign ads and things like that.
37:47
So it's just just like, you know, this very lazy
37:50
way of like astro turfing or pretending you have some
37:53
kind of legitimate alignment with a given community. But it's
37:57
like at this time, like a lot of people are like, hey,
38:00
doctor ows and stuff with that. Haven't heard a comment
38:02
back yet, but it won't matter because you know, the
38:05
hypocrisy doesn't really matter to the right. But it's just
38:08
a stark reminder of how like continue to use like
38:12
people as props, communities as props, like like a much
38:15
larger issue. It can be any given issue that we
38:18
did see all this like disingenuous, like oh man, I'm
38:22
with you, but where are your votes, what legislation are
38:25
you backing, Like who are you taking money from? And
38:28
what are their aims? When it comes to gun violence
38:31
or we got and there's a lot of stuff in
38:35
there about mental mental health and that, Like I asked,
38:40
couldn't what's on your what's on your platform? What can
38:45
people expect from your platform? Doctor? Is not existing legislation?
38:48
I think I read about something with mental and mental illness. Anyways,
38:53
I'm going over to Geno's to prove, prove that I
38:57
have been to Philadelphia, and Pats and be a Geno's
39:00
and Pats holding up today's issue of the newspaper so
39:04
that you can tell that I was in fact here
39:06
on the dates in question. Thank you, further questions, your honor. Hey, hey,
39:11
and I just want to practice my Philadelphia accent with you. Guys.
39:14
Go Eagles, all right, doctor, Yeah, full Federman's already been
39:22
slamming it. He's like, this guy's a Cowboys fan. He
39:25
doesn't support the Eggles, and people were like responding to
39:29
it again, like it's just such a bizarre race trying
39:32
to figure out, you know, at the end, what is
39:35
going to actually win out with message is going to win.
39:39
But you know, if you continue like this sensational shiit
39:43
around people suffering for you know, campaign points right, and again,
39:48
I mean nothing, nothing new but just my god, just
39:53
so so fucking lazy, like people like your campaign staffers. Right,
40:00
I remember when they used to just get people off
40:02
the street and give them money. What happened to that
40:04
day of wrangling fake support for our campaign? The good
40:08
old days, good old days when you just have voting
40:11
parties and get everybody drunk and then to make them
40:15
vote for you. All right, let's take a quick break,
40:18
we'll come back, we'll talk about the police, and we're back.
40:33
And this is kind of constantly happening, like the police
40:36
will funk up spectacularly, and then it kind of slides
40:38
out of the media because I think they have a
40:42
very powerful union and are nicely situated as the only
40:45
source that the mainstream media uses on crime, and and
40:49
the mainstream media loves to write about crime. But there
40:52
are two stories from I think it was September, but
40:56
I didn't want to let them slide because they're just
40:58
such strong examples of how blatant the case against police
41:04
should be for anyone paying attention and not brainwashed by
41:09
the car sorrel system. And like Law and Order and
41:13
eighties action movies where the hero is always a cop.
41:17
But you know what, we have We've had Alec Karack
41:20
Santas on before and he's one of the points that
41:24
he makes a lot is that all the arguments around
41:29
violent crime statistics being affected by policing, first of all,
41:33
they're not there's they're not convincing, they don't suggest the policing.
41:40
And also they ignore the violent crimes in just general
41:44
like second degree funk up re ending in citizens death
41:49
that is caused by the police. And we have very
41:52
little way to track all the people who die from
41:55
police and competence because they were walking or driving on
41:59
the wrong street during a police chase, for instance. And uh,
42:04
it's the rare accidental police killing that the police can't
42:07
use their power of control and monopoly on violence to
42:10
cover up, you know, it literally like has to be
42:13
on body camera that then like people become aware of somehow.
42:17
So there there are two examples that we're hard to
42:22
ignore for the sheer levels of just like buffoonery and
42:26
because the police took a situation that may not have
42:29
been deadly probably wouldn't have been in one case, and
42:34
made it so because yeah, just because it's kind of
42:38
standard operating procedure. So let's start with the one in Colorado,
42:42
the police pulled over your any Rios Gonzales and locked
42:46
her in their police cruiser while they searched her car. Unfortunately,
42:50
when they heard a train horn sound in the distance,
42:53
it didn't jog their memory that they had parked their
42:56
police car on the fucking train tracks, and they didn't
43:00
notice until the train hit their car with Rios Gonzalez
43:05
in it. And as always, the details of the police
43:08
behavior in this moment are not so much heroic as
43:12
you don't pay me enough to give a shit about
43:14
these people vibes. So the officers appeared to take note
43:17
of the This is a direct quote from the like
43:20
local news article on this officers appeared to take note
43:23
of the train only as it came within feet of
43:25
of a police vehicle parked on the tracks with Rios
43:28
Gonzalez handcuffed inside. According to authorities and body camera footage,
43:32
a mail officer standing near the tracks looked at the
43:34
approaching train, grew frantic, the footage shows, and then started screaming,
43:39
stay back, you know. Dashboard camera video shows him walking
43:43
quickly away from the vehicle just before the train plowed
43:46
into it. So Rio's Gonzalez miraculously survived but again it
43:51
highlights that we have the least responsible human beings doing
43:55
the job that should seemingly require the most training and
43:58
responsibility in a society, or failing that, maybe it shouldn't exist.
44:03
Maybe maybe I mean it's the fun Like this is
44:08
like really, just how fucking bad is that? Where you
44:11
don't you're not even aware of the train tracks, Like,
44:15
I mean, I don't know if that's you're either so
44:18
negligent because you were trying to kill this woman with
44:21
the train and then trying to be like, oh, I
44:23
didn't notice, you know what I mean, it's just saying
44:25
like it, let's see what happens, or you want you
44:28
are so out of sorts and unaware that that's that
44:33
you allow that to happen. It's like hard to fucking
44:36
figure out which one they could have been because I
44:38
could also see, I mean, you see really vile ship
44:41
happened if people in police custody to like, I don't know,
44:45
it's just really hard to wrap my head around. It's
44:46
like you can't even sucking you don't even notice train tracks.
44:49
Like my first thought was, oh, maybe they maybe they
44:51
did that on purpose, Like who knows. I feel like
44:54
they I wouldn't be surprised if they were just like
44:57
that happened. They parked. They've literally parked the tracks, just
45:00
like out of straight up incompetency. I think that like
45:04
the standards for like becoming a police officer are getting
45:08
so like lower and lower that it's just like there,
45:12
you know, they'll truly take anybody. And yeah, yeah, I
45:18
feel like I heard on the radio like L A
45:21
p D. Is like they're like doing at like an
45:24
AD to be like we we need Maybe it was
45:26
an AD, maybe it was a new story, but it's
45:28
like they need police officers because like no, I don't know,
45:32
they're just like running low or whatever. But I'm like
45:36
I'm like there, that just means people are applying and
45:40
I don't know, it's like the worst of the worst,
45:42
you know. Yeah, well I think yeah to your point
45:45
though too about like there, I think the third option,
45:49
whether it's I'm so stupid and oblivious I don't know,
45:52
or I'm criminally negligent, is like it's just like this
45:56
cop privilege that these people have, like they probably like, yeah,
46:00
I can park on the fucking train tracks, my fucking
46:02
cram in a cop car. The funks a train gonna
46:05
do hit it, you know, like in their mind, because
46:08
all the time I always see like cops parked in
46:11
the most fucked up ways on the street in l A,
46:13
like where they're not even doing ship Like they're like,
46:16
y'are almost sucking thurn my lights on to get through
46:18
a fucking signal, then them up sucking like double park
46:21
to go into Baja Fresh and you're like, many follow
46:25
the laws for all this other ship that I could
46:27
also see a version where like just the Eric shere
46:29
arrogance too of like yeah, whatever, I'll park wherever the
46:32
funk I want. Oh it was a train track whatever. Yeah,
46:36
I mean we were in the story we did on
46:39
the history of jaywalking, what like the people who were
46:43
studying this, you know, found not only that they were
46:47
using the crime of jaywalking as a way to you know,
46:53
racial profile and just like they only enforced it with
46:56
black and brown people, but also that like the police
47:00
were constantly, like they they caught the police on camera
47:03
just constantly jaywalking, so it was like they were not whole,
47:06
they were not holding themselves to any standard whatsoever. But
47:12
I also just want to just to close the loop
47:14
on that story. Rio's Gonzalez's vehicle was being searched in
47:17
the first place after a report of a road rage
47:20
incident involving a gun. They presumably had the wrong car
47:24
because no gun was found, but it wasn't for lack
47:26
of trying, because the body cam footage from the night
47:29
shows them searching her truck both before and after the
47:33
train hit her. They were like frantically being like it, say,
47:36
it must be here somewhere. It's got to be here
47:38
somewhere because they wanted that. That was their concern, was
47:42
covering their ass for getting her hip, because it's okay
47:46
if a train hit a lady, if she had a
47:48
gun in her car, right, yeah, Like it was the
47:51
logic there. It's like, well, fuck, we have to like,
47:53
you know, typically we can get away with brutalizing people
47:56
if we can say some crime was gonna be like
47:58
she had weed, yeah, so you know train hit her. Yeah,
48:03
but you know she had weed, so that's bad, right, folks, Okay,
48:06
please move along. And then there was a case in
48:10
California around the same time in September where everybody in
48:14
California got an Amber alert where a man had shot
48:18
and killed his wife and kidnapped his teenage daughter, Savannah Graziano,
48:23
and after issuing an amber alert for Savannah, the police
48:27
caught the father with the kidnapped child into in the
48:31
desert heading towards Vegas and just got into a massive
48:35
shootout with him, and despite the fact that the daughter
48:39
was in the car, you know, we're exchanging gunfire. At
48:42
one point she appears to have made a break for
48:45
it and run towards the police, at which point she
48:47
was gunned down by the police, and I suspect I
48:51
can only say I suspect it was the police because
48:53
the details have been very slow and sparse since it happened.
48:56
But at first they said she was in tactical gear
48:59
gear and they have been armed. So the fourteen year
49:02
old girl who was a hostage may have been armed
49:06
and a threat to officers behind a bank of police
49:09
cars and a shootout, and they eventually had to turn
49:13
the incident over to the Justice Department as potentially qualifying
49:17
under a law that requires the Justice Department to investigate
49:20
cases in which the death to the to the unarmed
49:24
civilian is caused by California peace officer. So like that's
49:29
the that is the level that we're dealing with just
49:34
how they're called peace officers. When they find somebody who
49:39
is a kidnapping victim, they just start shooting. They just
49:43
start shooting with a you know, a child in in
49:46
the car and then kill the child when the child
49:50
makes a run for like a break for it. Well,
49:54
I think at the very least, right that, like in
49:56
that example, it just shows that we're the police in
49:59
that form just cranking out a group of people who
50:02
are so trigger happy and have just been trained to
50:05
look at every single person as a threat that there's
50:09
no helping, it's just harm. It's like you're getting near
50:12
a cop and like, what the funk you want? What
50:13
the funk you want? They started like reaching for their
50:14
ship and you're like what directions? Right? Right? You know
50:20
what I mean? And like for all like we constantly here,
50:25
I don't know why it's taking I mean, I know
50:27
we know why. It's so hard to shift the conversation,
50:28
but it's it just seems so logical, right, Like that
50:31
one fact about the amount of money that's spent on
50:34
law enforcement, Yeah, we have these crime rates that the
50:37
the way they are shows that paying funding the police
50:41
has nothing to do with our safety. In fact, it's
50:45
cause the cause of a lot more violent interactions when again,
50:49
all that money is better served being like in social services.
50:54
And there is a new there was a pull that
50:56
came out that I haven't seen really talked about a lot,
50:59
where like they're like something like sixty percent of Republicans
51:04
seventy of like independence and like way more version of
51:08
like uh like liberals, we're saying that police funds should
51:12
actually be diverted towards social services, right, Like a majority
51:16
of Republicans are even saying that what what did they
51:20
think defund the policeman? Like because they treated that like
51:25
it was the worst thing that anyone has ever said.
51:29
But yeah, well, I mean, yeah, we need to start
51:31
making movies that action movies about social service workers kind
51:37
of like Jack's like social service workers that like you know,
51:42
glorified work. Yeah yeah, right, like we we there's like
51:47
a hostage situation, but what you do, well, I don't know,
51:50
if there's a hot you would almost need to be
51:51
like he's saving some person's like life and be like
51:54
hey man, here's you know, here's some here's like a
51:57
place for you to get back on your feet. Yeah,
51:59
all right, here's like a job here's an address you
52:02
can apply so you can get so when you apply
52:03
to a job, you actually have an address and a
52:05
phone number you can put on your application, because that's
52:07
a big hurdle for a lot of unhoused people. And
52:09
then they're like, look what I did, And I said
52:13
this person up for for success and treated them like
52:16
a human and everyone's like, oh ship, and we I
52:18
don't know how we make that sexy, but we had
52:21
the perfect opportunity to make the point that social services
52:26
are the thing that keeps crying down when you know,
52:29
in the like during the pandemic lockdown, you know, cris
52:35
certain crimes did go up, and the actual data suggests
52:40
that they went up because not not because anybody was
52:43
defunded because the police, no police anywhere, we're defunded in
52:47
a way that was significant or impactful. Uh. The thing
52:51
that happened was that social services and programs that used
52:56
to help people stopped because it was a fucking endemic.
53:00
And so like you have this very clear evidence, and
53:05
the media, the the only version that I heard of
53:08
that story was crime one up because they defunded the police,
53:11
and like that protesting the police or suggesting that we
53:15
needed to defund the police was the cause of crime
53:19
going up, and it's like demonstrably not true with statistics,
53:23
and it's like it is the subject that we were
53:27
protesting over and they turned it into basically the like
53:33
a big story about how protesters were the cause of
53:37
murder rates going up. I feel like the easiest way
53:40
to just like, why don't journalists be like a local
53:43
police department lower the crime rate challenge? Right, let's see
53:48
if you can lower that like significantly, right, because y'all
53:51
are out there policing. Yeah, and we're and you're we're
53:53
giving you constant unending trenches, tranches of cashever. You want
53:59
to say that just piles of money, But where are
54:02
the results? And I think that's what's wild, is like
54:05
we're for all the money that's going into it. It's
54:07
like one of the few things are like we're not
54:08
looking at the results and actually like analyzing them, Like
54:11
what the is going on? Because again it's like its
54:13
own industrial complex. But like if you would just give
54:17
them tactical nuclear weapons that like they have been asking
54:21
miles Like that's the thing. It's just we they've been
54:23
asking forever just small nuclear arms, not like just so
54:26
that they can do targeted nuclear strikes and then you
54:29
would start to see a difference. I feel like that's
54:31
what's next, Like bombing like that, Like bombing that neighborhood
54:34
in Philly like in the eighties was right enough, They're like,
54:37
I think we go bigger than that, and yeah, I
54:40
don't know. I mean it's well, eventually, like you see
54:43
more and more people again. This is why, at the
54:46
very least, like you have to be heartened by the
54:48
kinds of people that are getting into local politics, because
54:51
that's the area too. Just when I look around me,
54:54
like my life is affected by the l A. Sheriff's Department,
54:56
in the Los Angeles Police Department. So I'm curious to
54:59
hear from the p that are the elected city officials
55:02
how they see fixing issues like the unhoused community and
55:07
any kind of crime. But but they're always like the
55:10
real the people of good character, uh and are actually
55:14
analytical about these issues. They're all saying the same thing
55:17
is that we just have to support our neighbors. Right,
55:20
that's it. That's it. It's that easy, doesn't We don't
55:24
need fucking you know, more humbies and ship we don't
55:27
need more fucking you know a r S and in
55:29
the hands of police. We just need to support people
55:32
and help them. We need to give people a base
55:34
of foundation of stability to operate from. That's it. That's it. Yeah,
55:39
I did see. I was like walking to the post
55:41
office and for some reason, like an unhoused guy was
55:44
getting arrested, and there were straight up like nine like
55:49
cop cars that like rolled up on this corner. And
55:51
I'm like, this is this is like past like absurdity
55:55
at this point. It's just like nine cop cars that's
55:57
like just for what one person. It's like it's so
56:01
obvious that if you just like funneled that the money
56:04
that it took to like pay those people to like
56:07
you know just like do social service work or something,
56:09
you know, that like this problem would be so much better.
56:14
Like yeah, you know, help help that guy in a way.
56:18
And we've seen where they have a program where calls
56:23
for somebody who is in distress or is having a
56:25
mental health crisis, those calls don't get rooted to the police.
56:29
They get routed to like people with training in situations
56:34
like that and with access to the social service programs.
56:37
And it works, but unfortunately it also doesn't fund the
56:42
a military industrial complex worth of money at a local level,
56:46
which I think is what we're dealing with in a
56:48
lot of cases here. Yeah, pressures on Steve Martin, right,
56:55
I blame Steve Martino. Well, Brian as always such a
57:03
pleasure having you on the daily zeitgeist? Where can people
57:06
find you? Follow you all that good stuff? You can
57:09
find and follow me at Brian b R I A
57:12
n underscored b A h E on all social media outlets.
57:19
And Yeah, probably going to be doing doing some live
57:23
shows here in l A at some point, so we'll
57:27
post about that. Definitely November eleven. Definitely November eleven. Yeah, wait,
57:32
so what's what's thanks but no Thanksgiving? I have I
57:34
have an idea. It's it's basically me to other Indigenous
57:39
comedians Tyler Claire Gash Turner, we do uh like a
57:42
variety show. We already have all native like character people
57:47
stand ups who do a show. It's it's a good time.
57:51
So we should on white people. We ship on white people.
58:00
Said we should end the white people. I mean, like,
58:07
you know, I can't really just thanks but no thanks
58:10
you What is there a tweet or some of the
58:13
work of social media you've been enjoying. Yeah, I've been
58:16
doing I've been enjoying this Like Tera read, I feel
58:20
like has been posting a lot of interesting stuff on
58:23
her TikTok and some of that's made it. Two. There's
58:27
this one TikTok video that where she's just kind of
58:31
like on a balcony and somebody like does like a
58:36
three second video of her and it's like, really does
58:40
not need to exist, but it's fascinating. I know you
58:45
sent the link. Let me just check this really quick.
58:49
Never let them steal the light behind your eyes. Wow.
58:56
So that it looks like she's at Griffith Park or something,
58:59
the griff of Griffith Observatory and not. I like that
59:03
she's not talking and it's just narration, but it's her voice. Yeah,
59:10
she's been coming out with a lot of these lately,
59:11
and I'm like, hey, where have you been this whole time?
59:15
And be I'm glad you're back. Do you do best,
59:19
which is narrating your life? That's amazing. People should go
59:28
watch that. Will link off to it in the foot notes.
59:29
Miles Where can people find you? What the tweet you've
59:32
been enjoying? To find me on Twitter and Instagram at
59:34
Miles of Gray. Also check Jack and I out on
59:37
Miles and Jack got Matt boost. He is our basketball podcast.
59:40
This season is about to begin, so we can fully
59:42
you can watch us unravel or be excited. I don't
59:45
know based on the results of the league, but hey,
59:49
come join the fun on that show. Hope Springs Eternal
59:53
Son my favorite, one of my favorite parts of the season,
59:57
and I get to watch. Yeah, Russell Westbrook looked like
59:59
some alienated step child. I'm trying to make sense of that. Uh.
1:00:04
And also check me and Sophia Alexandra out on four
1:00:07
twenty Day Fiance where we talk that heaping pilot trash
1:00:10
called ninety day Fiance. Uh. Some tweets that I like.
1:00:14
The first one is off Brandon at Dropkick. Pikachu tweeted
1:00:18
they really fucking did it. They straight up got inflation
1:00:21
to be synonymous with price gouging and now you can
1:00:24
just price ship however you want and they'll say, damn,
1:00:27
this unstoppable natural economic force called inflation is really going wild,
1:00:33
which is so true. Like that is basically if they
1:00:35
have fully just transition to using the word inflation and
1:00:38
we're not talking about corporate profits anymore than another one
1:00:42
is from a damned serious at brow brow Tweeting tweeted me,
1:00:48
I think some people are birds in disguise. Friend, Hello, Well,
1:00:52
can I tweet that me narrow's eyes? Can you what?
1:00:58
And then oh laugh. Lastly, at I'm Not Catholic tweeted,
1:01:02
white boys start freestyling in the smoke sEH like hello
1:01:05
my baby, Hello, Hello my rag time gah ship. That's
1:01:16
always a man, I missed that feeling when you're like
1:01:19
you're somehow that turns into a freestyle cipher and you
1:01:22
see something like you see somebody gets ready and you're like, yo,
1:01:25
where are they going with this? And it's like, okay,
1:01:28
that that wasn't bars, but okay, they were feeling themselves
1:01:33
nice to you know, this is just an instrumental music track.
1:01:37
I wasn't playing a beat for you to spit over.
1:01:39
But I get it, man, the blunts are hidden all right.
1:01:43
Some tweets have been enjoying. At Singing Flesh tweeted A
1:01:46
ginger Ale will cure ailments of the body and a
1:01:49
Dr Pepper ailments of the mind and spirit. It is
1:01:52
just the medical facts. And then Caitlyn Greenige tweeted how
1:01:58
I knew I was at a Brooklyn kids but day
1:02:00
party dusk fell in the park and the mom hosting said, Okay,
1:02:04
pack it in, rats are out. We're in their house,
1:02:06
so we have to go. It's just a good way
1:02:09
to think about anyways. You can find me on Twitter
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1:02:24
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1:02:27
we talked about in today's episode, as well as a
1:02:30
song that we think you might enjoy. Might as what
1:02:33
song do we think people might enjoy? Okay, So I
1:02:36
stumbled on this album called The Sound of Siam Volume two,
1:02:40
and it's like all this music from Northeast Thailand from
1:02:43
the seventies and early eighties, and there's just one track
1:02:46
my here called kind of look Forgive Me. I don't
1:02:49
I'm just saying the words out loud, so I don't
1:02:51
know how I might be butchering them. But it's called
1:02:53
fang Jive Young John f A N G j A
1:02:57
I V I A N G J A N. Those
1:03:01
are three words, and the artist is step Born, Petcha Bond,
1:03:05
t h E P p O r N and then
1:03:08
the last name p E t c h U b
1:03:10
o N Step Bond, Step Foreign, Petcha Bond. This track
1:03:14
is like it reminds like it's like have R and
1:03:18
B funk like Latter Day like Temptations, but this guy's
1:03:24
vocals like the vocal scales of like Southeast Asian music,
1:03:27
and like his the timber of his voice and like
1:03:29
the just the little like vocal flares are fucking dope.
1:03:33
It just has like that throwback quality when you listen
1:03:35
to it, I just feel like I'm it's it'll transport
1:03:38
you somewhere to a different time in place, and I
1:03:39
think that's what I really appreciate this song. So this
1:03:41
is fang Jive Young John by step Foreign Petcha Bond.
1:03:45
Or you can just look for the album called The
1:03:48
Sound of Siam Volume two. A lot of those tracks
1:03:50
are built on there, but check this out. Find that
1:03:52
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