Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one, Episode one
Speaker 1: of Days Guys, the production of My Heart Radio. That's right.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
Speaker 1: into America's share consciousness. It is Monday, August. My name
Speaker 1: is Jack O'Brien ak Chugga chugga, chugga chugga dude due
Speaker 1: because I chug some dow baby. That is courtesy of
Speaker 1: Aunt Triffy, and it is to the tune of a train,
Speaker 1: as they put it, which I appreciate it, and I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Speaker 1: Mr Miles Gras. It's the most fucking awful time of
Speaker 1: the year because the students are coughing and parents are
Speaker 1: scoffing at mandates. They fear is the worst fucking time. Okay,
Speaker 1: that was I was just thinking that to myself because
Speaker 1: I saw that old stable right in your own You're
Speaker 1: you're a singer songwriter. All of a sudden, you know
Speaker 1: of your a K. I've just been working it out
Speaker 1: in therapy, and you know, my therapist has been like
Speaker 1: embraced that part of yourself. You know, you don't need
Speaker 1: to be good at something to say that you do
Speaker 1: that and I'm like, I don't have record like that.
Speaker 1: Sing your song. Yeah, so shout out to doctor tring
Speaker 1: Schmitra james E. I got that. It's my therapist, all right.
Speaker 1: She said I could say her name? Did I could
Speaker 1: keep it? Yes. She's like, I don't mind if you
Speaker 1: tell people. I'm like, all right, I wouldn't mind if
Speaker 1: you did. Well, Miles, We are thrilled to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by the comedian and thought leader
Speaker 1: behind Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born takes place in
Speaker 1: an alternate reality where nine eleven never took place. Let's
Speaker 1: say are a TV writer and producer whose work you
Speaker 1: can see on a couple of small outlets called Netflix
Speaker 1: and Cartoon Network. May have heard of them. You can
Speaker 1: hear them on Jack Am Hot and Rich. This podcast
Speaker 1: is self Care. Please welcome the hilarious Kate. Hello, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for having me. It's so good to
Speaker 1: be back here. Welcome back the Yellow One. What a dream?
Speaker 1: What a dream? Yes, a lot a lot of you
Speaker 1: have subdued yellow. Look today, just pops of yellow today.
Speaker 1: So I am wearing a black and white checker shirt
Speaker 1: with pops of sunflowers on it because I didn't invent yellow,
Speaker 1: and I do almost exclusively wear yellow, but I've shifted
Speaker 1: my style into slutty crazy taxi Summer, which is my
Speaker 1: current fashion theme. So I'm wearing it. I'm wearing anything
Speaker 1: that would like kind of be a yellow like nineteen
Speaker 1: sixties taxi. So like lots of checkers, black and white
Speaker 1: checkers have made their way into my fashion along and yellow,
Speaker 1: any like abbas a type, So like Abbasaba sort of aesthetic. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: abbas Abba aesthetic. I mean, you know, we'll get into
Speaker 1: the season's technically it is summer, but I think it's fall,
Speaker 1: so I should update the theme. The seasons are state
Speaker 1: of mind. Obviously, seasons are obviously a state of mind. Abbazaba,
Speaker 1: what a pool? I haven't I forgot about? As you know?
Speaker 1: That's how bad fucking how what is it? Half baked?
Speaker 1: Fucked me up? Because that's like a scene where he's like,
Speaker 1: Abba Zaba, you're my only friend and he's an Abbasaba,
Speaker 1: And I remember always seeing at seven eleven like, man,
Speaker 1: this should look like a weird ass cab, and then
Speaker 1: because I fell in love would have baked. Then I
Speaker 1: started eating him, like actually, these are kind of good
Speaker 1: m M. Yeah, it's long lasting fun. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've had an abazaba since like I was like trick
Speaker 1: or treating age, ye see, and in my neighborhood I was,
Speaker 1: I don't know, for whatever reason, there was not abasaba
Speaker 1: was being handed out where I'd like, never encountered it
Speaker 1: in a halloween you out in the wild until I
Speaker 1: did it myself at a seven even so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just to give you an idea of my struggle as
Speaker 1: a child, okay, I just discovered your magnum opus about
Speaker 1: why Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born takes place in
Speaker 1: an alternate reality where nine eleven never took place. I'm convinced, Um,
Speaker 1: can you tell the people give them a little It
Speaker 1: can't be fully encapsulated and just you know, a teaser,
Speaker 1: but just to give they need to go check it out,
Speaker 1: watch the watch the entire power point presentation themselves. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is a twenty plus minute video essay where I
Speaker 1: make the very strong case that Bradley Cooper is A
Speaker 1: Star is Born, starring Lady Gaga, is a movie that
Speaker 1: takes place in an alternate reality where nine eleven never happened.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of, you know, things to strengthen that
Speaker 1: thesis statement that I you could just go to my
Speaker 1: pined tweet. It's my pin to tweet at Kate Raft.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the things is that Alec
Speaker 1: Baldwin was like, they get the host of SNL when
Speaker 1: Ali was the musical guest for the season finale, and
Speaker 1: I I thought this was back when you know, the
Speaker 1: movie came out, Trump was president and Alec was doing
Speaker 1: all the all the Trump impressions, and I was like,
Speaker 1: there's no way Alec would be the host of the
Speaker 1: season finale if this was a universe where Trump was president.
Speaker 1: And then I like did a lot of thinking and
Speaker 1: I realized Trump never got elected because nine eleven never happened.
Speaker 1: And there's so many more things, but that's just one
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, the level of fame I found very
Speaker 1: compelling that like he is pre nine eleven famous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like his genres like country ish rock, which like
Speaker 1: just isn't like a thing that is as popular as
Speaker 1: it is in the movie universe, and it kind have
Speaker 1: was headed in that direction, Like Willcoe was getting really
Speaker 1: popular right as eleven hit, and it's like, what if
Speaker 1: we kept going on that trajectory exactly. And I think
Speaker 1: that if the Dixie Chicks didn't get canceled for saying
Speaker 1: George Bush was bad, there would have been a more
Speaker 1: like politically ambiguous country music scene, whereas like after an eleven,
Speaker 1: I feel like it became way more like conservative never happened.
Speaker 1: It would be more like everybody would listen to country
Speaker 1: instead of it being like this like politicized, like we
Speaker 1: love America genre that it like to ship. The film
Speaker 1: is meant to ask get the audience to examine what
Speaker 1: our world would have looked like had we not just
Speaker 1: launched into this failed war on terror and exactly exactly,
Speaker 1: And as we get to the twenty year anniversary of
Speaker 1: ninol then next month, I think it's important for people
Speaker 1: to watch My power Plant. Really, it's so good, it's
Speaker 1: so convincing that people need to check it out. All Right, Kate,
Speaker 1: we're going to get to know you a little bit
Speaker 1: better in a moment. First, a few of the things
Speaker 1: we're talking about. We kick it off maybe with Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 1: This is a silly little story, but I think it
Speaker 1: explains a lot about America. Yeah, so we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that we'll talk about this being that most wonderful time
Speaker 1: of the year when we returned to school and just
Speaker 1: checking with America. How's how's that going. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: Caitlin jenner Or's run for California governor. Very serious run,
Speaker 1: very seriously, that very serious. Sorry, I didn't mean to,
Speaker 1: you know, not not put that disclaimer in there. We
Speaker 1: will talk about the eviction ban and rent relief programs
Speaker 1: and why they're so damned complicated by design. And before
Speaker 1: we get to know our just a little bit better, miles,
Speaker 1: we have to tell the listeners of the August six
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Speaker 1: two thousand. Speaking of pre nine eleven, we're talking to
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be going off. There will be a little
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Speaker 1: we've said a hundred times before, there is a video
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Speaker 1: and we'll show notes check out the handles you to
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Speaker 1: description of this episode and you can find the link
Speaker 1: right there. All right, Kate, Hello, Hello, Sorry for all
Speaker 1: of that, but I don't know I needed to know.
Speaker 1: I needed to hear that too, Yes, other than just
Speaker 1: searching for our live show after you just heard us
Speaker 1: tease it right there? What is something from your search history? Okay?
Speaker 1: So I just I had to check because I couldn't remember,
Speaker 1: and I looked and it was it was Craigslist electric
Speaker 1: scooter because I really want to buy, like I want
Speaker 1: someone to have like stolen a Lime or a bird
Speaker 1: to scooter and like converted it so that it's no longer,
Speaker 1: like you know, an app scooter and I want to
Speaker 1: buy it from someone on Craigslist, like I want to
Speaker 1: do a shady scooter deal. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: the one to convert the stolen scooter, but I want
Speaker 1: to buy like a spoil and sto property, right yeah,
Speaker 1: but I like a stolen abscuter off of Craigslist, like
Speaker 1: so bad. I really want to. I want to like
Speaker 1: zip around Echo Park in like a in like one
Speaker 1: of these like scooters. But I don't want to have
Speaker 1: I want to like just buy it operated scooter. There's
Speaker 1: there been no there's nothing like that. I don't there
Speaker 1: has to be there. There definitely has to be and
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't, I didn't search that hard.
Speaker 1: It's still a journey. I want if you listening to
Speaker 1: this and you live in l A, please I will
Speaker 1: buy the scooter from you. I want one wink wink,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll buy allegedly. Allegedly, I'll take it off
Speaker 1: your hands to repair it myself and then return it
Speaker 1: to the rifle owner obviously because I'm obviously I know,
Speaker 1: I'm not even trying. I'm just openly doing crimes on
Speaker 1: this podcast, not even trying to hide it. That's what
Speaker 1: we're here for. Nobody listens to it, don't. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I sell catalytic converters that I steal off of cars
Speaker 1: on the side and link for that too. But I'd
Speaker 1: imagine if you were looking for when you would go
Speaker 1: to like a scooter, like an East scooter repair place,
Speaker 1: you know, like because I'm thinking of like a nineties movie,
Speaker 1: where are it's like eight millimeter and you're like, how
Speaker 1: do I get down? Like first you gotta get an
Speaker 1: orbit of the scene, and then from there be like
Speaker 1: who are the shadiest cats? You know? They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's Rick, and then Ris probably. Then Rick leads you
Speaker 1: to like those Limes Like he's like, I have a
Speaker 1: first gen Limes scooter. If you're looking for it, yes,
Speaker 1: I need a guy like that. Like I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a guy. There's got to be a guy probably
Speaker 1: like on my block that does that. I just have
Speaker 1: to find it. Or if you work for the companies,
Speaker 1: let us know how to just make it ourselves. You know,
Speaker 1: is there some tracking chip in there? I'm sure there is.
Speaker 1: That's how they find you and tell you not to
Speaker 1: sell them. In front of the Metro station, But you know,
Speaker 1: what are the secrets here? Yeah? Yeah, I like the
Speaker 1: idea of somebody just trying to open their own like
Speaker 1: one scooter, like an indie taxicab company, just a shady
Speaker 1: indie scooter. Or you can use mine. Okay, how about this? Okay,
Speaker 1: would you buy one? If someone it's that it's an
Speaker 1: above board scooter, but it's meant to look they got
Speaker 1: all the body pieces on it, so it looks exactly
Speaker 1: like an app scooter, but it's actually above board, not stolen,
Speaker 1: and you can do whatever you want with it, honestly,
Speaker 1: Like that's what I was expecting to find. I just
Speaker 1: think it'd be funny to find someone that like stole
Speaker 1: it and spray painted it black or something like. But
Speaker 1: like I actually, like genuinely just want an electric scooter.
Speaker 1: I would do it above board, of course, but the
Speaker 1: bonus if bonus if it looks like one of the
Speaker 1: the app ones. But like I just like I live
Speaker 1: I live it on a hill and I'm like so
Speaker 1: sick of like walking up and down it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: would love just like a little help, you know exactly
Speaker 1: if like that would be not only a very commonly
Speaker 1: stolen a piece of property. But I feel like the
Speaker 1: police wouldn't even blame the people after they stole them.
Speaker 1: If you had a private scooter that looked exactly like
Speaker 1: a line scooter and somebody you just came through and
Speaker 1: like took it, they'd be like, well, that's the problem.
Speaker 1: Kind of have to cut a break on this one.
Speaker 1: That's pretty funny. I love that idea. What is something
Speaker 1: you think is overrated? Summer? I'm over it. I'm done.
Speaker 1: It's fault. It is fault, but I'm over like it
Speaker 1: being hot, I don't have a c right now. It's
Speaker 1: a mess, and I'm over it. I know this is
Speaker 1: like this is a basic answer, but I'm done. I'm
Speaker 1: done with summer, right. I mean because when last time
Speaker 1: you were here, we were like things like the end
Speaker 1: of April, so I feel like we had eyes. It
Speaker 1: was like the vaccine optimism was up. Everyone like because
Speaker 1: it's up, then it's stuck and we're ready to go
Speaker 1: out there. And now did you go did you have
Speaker 1: a bit of a like were you feeling hot vack summer?
Speaker 1: And then you're like, I'm off this ship. It it's
Speaker 1: all up. I went I went so hard, like I
Speaker 1: was so strict during like most of the pandemic, and
Speaker 1: then as soon as I got VACS, I went so hard.
Speaker 1: I was like I went to Vegas, I went to
Speaker 1: Catalina Island. I like went on like trips with friends.
Speaker 1: I like went like dancing without a mask inside and
Speaker 1: packed like clubs and like, I you know, I went
Speaker 1: super hard. And then that one I didn't go to
Speaker 1: I went to I would danced at Akbar a lot.
Speaker 1: And then I went to like some warehouse party that
Speaker 1: I paid twenty five dollars for. That was too, that
Speaker 1: was like not worth it, but it was fun still, right, right,
Speaker 1: like cleaning the LCD sound system song or that's a
Speaker 1: part dance party, got it as it used to be
Speaker 1: at the satellite or something, right, And yeah, yeah I
Speaker 1: gotta parties. Yeah I was there. I know. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: went to Los Globos. I've been all around, but but
Speaker 1: you've kind of but now what the summer? What's happened?
Speaker 1: Why are you souring on summer? I think it's too hot.
Speaker 1: I think the vibe is bad. You know, people are
Speaker 1: getting freaked out about Delta, Like I think, like I
Speaker 1: haven't decided like what I'm going to change about Like
Speaker 1: I think I think I have to stop going to
Speaker 1: maskless dance indoor dance parties for one. It sounds like it.
Speaker 1: I think, like, so that's one thing I've had to
Speaker 1: stop doing. And now that that's not on the table,
Speaker 1: I'm over summer. I'm like, let's just get on with Fall.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to just like have a pumpkin spice latte
Speaker 1: m hmm, dive headfirst into a pumpkin patch. Like, I
Speaker 1: just want Fall to go back to school shopping. I'm
Speaker 1: not in school, haven't been for over a decade, But
Speaker 1: damn that would be fun. I just wow, I would
Speaker 1: that feels like a fun time. I just I would
Speaker 1: get so high and just buy back to school supplies.
Speaker 1: Like but the version I used to try to do
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and my mom like, you
Speaker 1: ain't getting that fucking binder. I'm like, but it's it's
Speaker 1: a five star need one. It's supposed to last for
Speaker 1: at least two years. Those are the good that's the
Speaker 1: good ship, the five star made binders with like the
Speaker 1: cloth covers and then put you bomb that ship with
Speaker 1: the white out, you know, with so good. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: also had that experience where my mom wouldn't let me
Speaker 1: like buy everything I wanted back to school shopping. So
Speaker 1: I do think as an adult this year, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: like go full on back to school shopping. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna wait outside by a man. You want the ship, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll just give it to like some cool kid outside
Speaker 1: the target. I just needed the experience of like not
Speaker 1: saying no to myself in the back school shopping context
Speaker 1: because it's all peachy folders all the time. Do you
Speaker 1: guys have the same sense memory as me? Where the
Speaker 1: like it's kind of like a sweet eraser smell. Do
Speaker 1: you have that? Oh? Yeah, that was erasers that were
Speaker 1: like on Asian pencils and stuff like that. It was
Speaker 1: like that it was different than that hardass red rub
Speaker 1: or like the colored mark Like I remember I would
Speaker 1: have like these Japanese erasers that were like look like
Speaker 1: food and ship that I would bring back from Japan.
Speaker 1: Why did they smell so delicious? I don't know. Probably
Speaker 1: to mask all the other terrible chemicals. They just spread
Speaker 1: a little reeking. Okay, what does something you think is underrated? Well,
Speaker 1: to piggyback on what I thought was overrated, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say fall is underrated. I know, everybody already likes fault,
Speaker 1: but they don't like it enough. It's it should be longer,
Speaker 1: it should be all year round. Even Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: fall is a state of mind, and I think it's underrated.
Speaker 1: What what what do you think people are overlooking? Like?
Speaker 1: What are the obvious reasons you think people like fault?
Speaker 1: And what are the reasons that you're like, But y'all
Speaker 1: are missing the whole other part. I think, like people
Speaker 1: like that the weather is cooling down, people like that
Speaker 1: the leaves are changing. I mean not here necessarily, but
Speaker 1: like in other parts of the country. I think people
Speaker 1: like just the cozy vibe. But I think but they don't.
Speaker 1: M what's what's the underrated part about fault? The celebration
Speaker 1: of death and decay. We should celebrate that point. You
Speaker 1: just lean into that. It's already a part of our culture,
Speaker 1: our world. Everyone's dying, the world is dying. Fall is
Speaker 1: is like literally leaves dying as a season is the best.
Speaker 1: Like iconography too, It has like pumpkins are the coolest,
Speaker 1: like icons of any season. I feel like icons and
Speaker 1: then like the like it's like a fun like Halloween
Speaker 1: is so fun, and like it's all like a fun,
Speaker 1: goofy celebration of like you know, goth ship, which is like, right,
Speaker 1: that's our world that we live in. Let's have some
Speaker 1: fun with it. Let's have a let's have fall, let's
Speaker 1: have let's start every season into the goth season, which
Speaker 1: is fault yeah, which and we call it the fall
Speaker 1: like rather than just it's the fall, like the fall
Speaker 1: of civilization. I mean, we're in the fall of civilization.
Speaker 1: Let's like, let's celebrate the fall. I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: there was a climate that, like southern California is basically
Speaker 1: summer around like year round. It would because if there
Speaker 1: was a fall year round, which is impossible because you
Speaker 1: can't be perpetually falling, but is there like a place
Speaker 1: like that. There has to be like what but then
Speaker 1: but then the leaves can't the leaves have to go
Speaker 1: back up on the tree. Famously, leaves can't just always
Speaker 1: being tree. It keeps on like leaves bald and immediately green,
Speaker 1: one sprout, turn brown, then fall and it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, we should get we should get like a
Speaker 1: tree to the beach that makes you to turn old,
Speaker 1: and then it would be always changing colors like constant,
Speaker 1: like everybody rapid rapid aging. It's time. Yeah, we figured
Speaker 1: it out. The answer Jack is the Beach from that
Speaker 1: M Night Shamalan movie. Honestly, like, I loved that movie.
Speaker 1: That's another thing that's underrated is the movie Old. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: I love the first I've heard, the first positive take
Speaker 1: I've heard on Everyone hated it, everyone said it was stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm here bravely saying that The Old, The Beach that
Speaker 1: Makes You Old, is a fucking great film. It gave
Speaker 1: me a panic attack in the movie theater that I
Speaker 1: had to go to the bathroom and yeah, like it
Speaker 1: gave you, Like it stressed me out, and like I
Speaker 1: was so in it and I was like, wow, that's
Speaker 1: a good movie. Like it sucked me and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I love M Night. I always have. I'm a big
Speaker 1: M Night fan. Was there a wait? So just the
Speaker 1: concept of the film made you have a panic attack,
Speaker 1: or just the stress of the film like sort of
Speaker 1: culminated at a certain point You're like, Okay, well I
Speaker 1: need a second. I need a second. I need a second.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it's say something about my mental state,
Speaker 1: but the movie freaked me out. I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my God, like yeah, I know somebody who had a
Speaker 1: full blown like they went cat like Dave like got
Speaker 1: locked up in a panic attack during the movie Signs
Speaker 1: when the alien crosses the camera and the birthday party
Speaker 1: like footage. They said that like an ambulance had to
Speaker 1: be called and they had to stop the film because
Speaker 1: she basically was like couldn't leave her body. She was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. So I was like I don't. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I guess his movies are powerful. That was me during
Speaker 1: Old I don't know, it's it is super embarrassing, but
Speaker 1: I had a massive panic attack and then I left
Speaker 1: the theater being like that was really good. Kind of
Speaker 1: needed that. I don't know if I needed the panic
Speaker 1: attack or the movie, but wow, Like I love a
Speaker 1: movie that hurts me, you know, like a movie that
Speaker 1: painful to lot, like me more of that. Yes, Daddy
Speaker 1: take me to the beach. Yes, it really sucked me up.
Speaker 1: When the kids like went through puberty super fast and
Speaker 1: like became like adults, I was like, that is so
Speaker 1: fucked Like there's something so fucked up about that. It
Speaker 1: really sucked me up. Yes, just show them like anamorphing
Speaker 1: but you know they like have like several like sets
Speaker 1: of actors playing their kids like throughout their aging process.
Speaker 1: In your mind, you see like a werewolf transitions, like
Speaker 1: like pubic hair blowing out of the Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they should have had that shot. Should have done that. Sorry,
Speaker 1: this is a lot of spoilers for the movie Old
Speaker 1: If you didn't know they'd get older in the movie,
Speaker 1: I think the only thing people know that they got.
Speaker 1: How do they handle the clothing situation? Is it an
Speaker 1: incredible hulk situation where they just like have kind of
Speaker 1: like I think like once they realize that the kids
Speaker 1: are like growing, like the little boy like can't fit
Speaker 1: into his shorts anymore, so they kind of addressed that
Speaker 1: they have to like change clothes. I'm sure they can't
Speaker 1: fit into their Yeah, they don't. They don't hulk out though.
Speaker 1: What about the outgrow their I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 1: real stressor for me, is the kids already grow outgrow
Speaker 1: their clothes. You get like three wares out of them,
Speaker 1: And now now you're telling me it is that is
Speaker 1: such a weird part about being a kid is that
Speaker 1: you just like have to get rid of your clothes
Speaker 1: all the time because you're just like growing all the time,
Speaker 1: is there another family on the down the beach who
Speaker 1: has the kid who has experienced the same thing, and
Speaker 1: maybe we could get some of their clothes like hand
Speaker 1: me down on the beach. Here we sent like emergency
Speaker 1: clothes to school with my five year old at the
Speaker 1: beginning of school year, and we at the back at
Speaker 1: the end of the school year and they're just like
Speaker 1: comically small, like they you wouldn't fit into them at all.
Speaker 1: Great the span of a year out of this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: where is he going to school? That beach? Yeah he
Speaker 1: goes to that. Yeah. His he's shaving now, which is
Speaker 1: weird for it's weird for a five year old. But yeah,
Speaker 1: well fair your glass is broken as you guys getting
Speaker 1: into a tip. He's getting pretty strong too. He sneezed
Speaker 1: and he accidentally head but if you broke my class,
Speaker 1: the accidental head butt is real. Yeah. I saw that
Speaker 1: the other day. I felt really bad for this mom
Speaker 1: who's like looking at our baby, and the baby it's
Speaker 1: a baby, had like loose head. Yeah, and it looked
Speaker 1: like the recoil was so real. I was like, oh God,
Speaker 1: not doing that, not having a kid, just for that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to help me out well, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back and come up
Speaker 1: with another really good reason have a kid, Quentin Tarantino,
Speaker 1: and we're back. And Quentin Tarantino made headlines this past
Speaker 1: week because he basically announced that he has never forgiven
Speaker 1: his mom for being dismissive of his writing career. He
Speaker 1: just said on a podcast, he revealed this terrible back
Speaker 1: and forth about when he was a kid and his
Speaker 1: mom was essentially saying, like, you need to focus on
Speaker 1: school and not writing, and this is the quote quote,
Speaker 1: and then in the middle of a little tirade, she said, oh,
Speaker 1: and by the way, this little writing career with the
Speaker 1: finger quotes, this little writing career that you're doing, that
Speaker 1: ship is fucking over. Then he basically clarified that his
Speaker 1: mom meant that she didn't want him writing in lass
Speaker 1: when when he was supposed to be doing something else,
Speaker 1: when he was quote as he quoted, supposed to be
Speaker 1: doing something else, Yeah, fucking learning, you child. And then
Speaker 1: he goes on to say, and when she said that
Speaker 1: to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my
Speaker 1: head and I go, Okay, lady, when I become a
Speaker 1: successful writer, you will never see one penny from my success.
Speaker 1: There will be no house for you. There's no vacation
Speaker 1: for you, No Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You get nothing
Speaker 1: because you said that. There are consequences for your words
Speaker 1: as you deal with your children. Remember, there are consequences
Speaker 1: for your sarcastic tone about what's meaningful to them. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he said and like thought all those things
Speaker 1: at the moment, and then most kids like calm down
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later and they're like, oh, I guess I
Speaker 1: should not be writing in the middle of math class.
Speaker 1: Or maybe they don't, maybe they like stay mad, but dude, no,
Speaker 1: but no Elvis Cadillac. I was like that for mommy.
Speaker 1: Also an anecdote, how about him? The two times I've
Speaker 1: seen Quentin Tarantino out and like I've seen him order drink.
Speaker 1: He drinks Cadillac margharita's, So I don't know if he
Speaker 1: got he's been having Cadillac on the brain for a minute.
Speaker 1: Just a side note. I think he even put that
Speaker 1: in one of the movies he directed, didn't he And
Speaker 1: like a death proof He like makes people Cadillac margaritas
Speaker 1: and like makes the characters like he plays a bartender
Speaker 1: and makes the characters be like these are so good.
Speaker 1: Your margaritas are the best. Dude, Wait, what's a Cadillac margharita?
Speaker 1: What is that? It's a margarita and it's the floater.
Speaker 1: Let me just tell me. Let me let me tell
Speaker 1: you what the doesn't care the Cadillac margharita. Oh so
Speaker 1: they're saying uses premium top shelf. Oh, Graham one, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. That's the that's the difference makers that
Speaker 1: there's Grahamnan. I just love that he's like sticking to
Speaker 1: the same like logic and attitude that he had as
Speaker 1: like a twelve year old. It's like, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna like mature beyond this statement that I made as
Speaker 1: a child. It's interesting. Yeah, they ask his mom like
Speaker 1: the table was like, hey, what do you think about this?
Speaker 1: And she was like, I love my son, like I
Speaker 1: have no ill will towards him. I think, like, I'm
Speaker 1: glad I was at his wedding and like I heard
Speaker 1: about the She said, like I'm glad to know about
Speaker 1: the birth of his son or something, so like there's
Speaker 1: clearly some distance there. But then she go went on
Speaker 1: to say, I also quote do not wish to participate
Speaker 1: in this selacious transactional media frenzy. So I was like,
Speaker 1: good for you. I'm dead and this ship, bro, don't
Speaker 1: drag me into this. Yeah, my son's fucking fun boy,
Speaker 1: but I don't care. I don't need his money anywhere.
Speaker 1: But I also wanted to play this clip from It's
Speaker 1: a Charlie Rose interview with Quentin Tarantino from right when
Speaker 1: pulp fiction hit and he was first becoming, you know,
Speaker 1: nationally famous, and it's him actually talking about his relationship
Speaker 1: with his mom and when he's at the beginning of
Speaker 1: his fame, he has a much different kind a story
Speaker 1: to tell about his parents role in his career. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear Charlie Rose basically like, so, did you
Speaker 1: want to be a director from when you were a
Speaker 1: little kid? And this is Quentin's answer, by the way,
Speaker 1: flying on whatever substance he was flying on for. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's the only thing that the director, greenwriter. Just get
Speaker 1: me in this business. I want to be there. Well,
Speaker 1: it was funny I didn't say director screenwriter, because I
Speaker 1: guess I always knew movies were written, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know what a director was. You know, but um, actually,
Speaker 1: my my, my, my parents. Okay, I used to be
Speaker 1: a director someday and everything that I didn't know what
Speaker 1: that was. I wanted to be an actor because when
Speaker 1: you're a little kid and you want to be so
Speaker 1: you said, well, I want to do what they do,
Speaker 1: and um, so alter my childhood, all right, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be an actor. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: an actor. And I wanted to be an actor, and
Speaker 1: um but oddly enough, though I remember my my mom's
Speaker 1: tell stories and I remember him, she doesn't have to
Speaker 1: remind me of them. Where I would like to see
Speaker 1: a movie and I'd like it shape and I used
Speaker 1: to play with g I Joes. You know, I had
Speaker 1: a whole buch of g I Joes, those dolls. Remember movies. Basically,
Speaker 1: I would just kind of like do my version of
Speaker 1: whatever I saw everything. I would be acting out all
Speaker 1: the parts with all the g I Joes, and I
Speaker 1: would be like, you know, kind of like directing these
Speaker 1: little plays just for myself with the g I Joe's,
Speaker 1: And the same thing is, like, you know, I would
Speaker 1: know and I'd see some movie because I saw all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff, not just Herbie goes in mind to Carlo,
Speaker 1: but like all kinds of like, um, you know, my
Speaker 1: mom took me to Karla Knowledge and The Wild Bunch
Speaker 1: and all these kind of movies when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and so like because you wanted to do it, because
Speaker 1: she know, she just like movies. A movie. There's nothing
Speaker 1: he's gonna see in a movie is gonna miss him mom, right,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's like, I mean like and there
Speaker 1: are some kids that yeah, yeah, well today she's very
Speaker 1: happy she did that. But so huh. She went out
Speaker 1: of her way to take him two movies that we're
Speaker 1: going to feed his obsession. She told him he was
Speaker 1: going to be a director before he knew what that meant. Like, my,
Speaker 1: the reason that stuck out to me when I when
Speaker 1: I read this story is because I remember being like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's such a cool thing that somebody's actually like giving
Speaker 1: flowers to their parents, like and like you're seeing how
Speaker 1: because most celebrities don't do that. Most celebrities kind of
Speaker 1: rewrite their narratives so they never got any help. But
Speaker 1: that's why I think this is a very instructive kind
Speaker 1: of story about just how America works. That like he
Speaker 1: has rewritten his own story. So instead of like believing
Speaker 1: in him and helping him like come up with the
Speaker 1: idea that became his career and his life, he rewrites
Speaker 1: it so that his mom is like, you'll never be shit,
Speaker 1: and his mom and it's just like that's like I
Speaker 1: I think about this a lot with Drake too, Like
Speaker 1: you could. You can see the evolution of Drake and
Speaker 1: in his songs where it starts out and he's just
Speaker 1: like an actor who had a dream of rapping, and
Speaker 1: his friends and his mom like help him, and soon
Speaker 1: it becomes like everyone's against him, like starting from the
Speaker 1: bottom of like I don't know what you were famous
Speaker 1: by the time your brain was fully formed. I don't.
Speaker 1: But we we need the bootstrap Smiths so bad that
Speaker 1: we reward people for like editing it, editing their backstory
Speaker 1: so and like behaving like complete monstrous sociopaths and like
Speaker 1: turning on the people who actually helped pull them up
Speaker 1: out of you know, the muck of normalcy. We we
Speaker 1: want them to like turn on those people and just
Speaker 1: like make it so that nobody believed in me, and
Speaker 1: then I became this singular genius. And it's like rarely
Speaker 1: how it works I meant this on one level, like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. He has a lot of violent scenes involving
Speaker 1: women in this film. I'm like curious, what is going on? Really?
Speaker 1: Like what version is real? Was he did he not
Speaker 1: want to give that up in the Charlie Rose interview
Speaker 1: because he had there's some something's fucked up with him
Speaker 1: and his mom. Clearly he's got he's got some funked
Speaker 1: up ship with his mom, and like I would, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if he has that kind of complex
Speaker 1: where he like is obsessed with her in both positive
Speaker 1: and negative ways. It clearly comes something's coming out in
Speaker 1: his work, Like I mean, it sounds like I mean,
Speaker 1: my guests would be like they've probably had moments in
Speaker 1: their relationship that have been better or and sometimes where
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's bad now because she hasn't like
Speaker 1: met the kid or something with kid. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: hear about the kid like sounds like drama. Sounds like
Speaker 1: some drama, right, Yeah, I don't, And then I just
Speaker 1: think of like who I mean for him to really
Speaker 1: be like, no, I don't want to do any like
Speaker 1: I'm not fucking helping her in no way. I mean
Speaker 1: you'd think that it was chronic, just absolute undercutting from
Speaker 1: his mom because like, look, I think everybody grew up
Speaker 1: and you're we have parents were like that's not working
Speaker 1: with that nonsense or whatever, like you need to focus
Speaker 1: on it. I never took that and be like I'm
Speaker 1: a fucking show you mom, because you want to act sarcastic,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fucking wait till COVID hit. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: like I don't give a funk if you need groceries,
Speaker 1: you know, like what is this ship? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not a good it's not a good look to be
Speaker 1: like a rich person bragging about not giving your parents money,
Speaker 1: like for such a petty reason, like regardless of the reason,
Speaker 1: Like it's just like you should do that in private,
Speaker 1: like if you're if you're gonna sunk over your parents,
Speaker 1: like and everyone knows you're rich, Like maybe we don't
Speaker 1: like advertise. It doesn't look good. Yeah, those mom's clearly
Speaker 1: like just the transalacious, transactional media. Like the transactional I
Speaker 1: think is like, oh wow, she's really smart. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: that is that's Tarantinos mom. Yeah, I mean it sounds
Speaker 1: like it sounds like Lucille Bluth do not wish in
Speaker 1: the salacious trans actional media frenzy. It's like your son
Speaker 1: is crying out for help. Sound like a law understand
Speaker 1: the question and I won't respond to it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It sends names Leo two cool. I wonder
Speaker 1: if that named after her, After Leo, I hope so
Speaker 1: the vacant the vapan AirPod, fucking King of Hollywood better
Speaker 1: Yeah CNK. They did say though, that he admitted, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he did help her once, like he said, what like
Speaker 1: he helped her out of a jam with the I
Speaker 1: R S. He said, but no house, no, no Cadillac. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm not a total monster. So it's like, so
Speaker 1: you did kind of help her then, okay. It's also
Speaker 1: I think there's you know, the part where you hear
Speaker 1: him say and she doesn't need to tell me because
Speaker 1: I remember the story myself, And yeah, there's something's the
Speaker 1: anger that you can see in this podcast recounting of
Speaker 1: the scene that he has chosen to make like sort
Speaker 1: of the central memory of his mom. It's also that
Speaker 1: thing where I do feel like, when you become very famous,
Speaker 1: you stop having to develop as a human being. And
Speaker 1: a lot of this ship feels like early twenties and
Speaker 1: angst that you grow out of pretty quickly and that
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, because it's definitely like, yeah, that angst
Speaker 1: of when you're cry screaming at your parents saying you
Speaker 1: don't even know me, Like, but in the middle age,
Speaker 1: it's it is so funny, Like I mean, I think, like,
Speaker 1: you know, we all regress around our parents and like
Speaker 1: have fucked up baggage or whatever. Like it's just funny
Speaker 1: to be like doing that in public on a podcast,
Speaker 1: like when you're going to Tarantino, I guess like, hey,
Speaker 1: we're all human. We all don't want to buy our
Speaker 1: mommy's an Elvis Catalan, right. If there were means once
Speaker 1: we all still say mommy, you know, well let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Charlie. I'm like, mommy, fuck you, you know,
Speaker 1: And she was like, Quinn, I said no, Mommy, I'm
Speaker 1: done with this, so fuck you, bitch. And that's me Quentin. Okay,
Speaker 1: Like whoa, that's a good. That's good. That's a good Quentin.
Speaker 1: If I was Quint Tarantino's mom, I would just like
Speaker 1: lie about having more I r S trouble. I'd be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh no, they're after me again. Time to get a check,
Speaker 1: but actually make it out to uh Brent's pool supply
Speaker 1: and then in the notes, in the notes put down
Speaker 1: payment for hot tub and then and then my address.
Speaker 1: I'm sure all like, both of those stories are true.
Speaker 1: His mom telling him he's never going to be a writer,
Speaker 1: and also his mom taking him to violent movies he
Speaker 1: wanted to see because she could tell that there was
Speaker 1: something there with him, and also telling him he's going
Speaker 1: to be a director. It's just, you know, relationships with
Speaker 1: parents are infinite. There's an infinite number of like memories
Speaker 1: that you could choose to go with, and it's it's just,
Speaker 1: i think very American to cling to the one where nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody thought you could do it right, Yeah, because if
Speaker 1: you zoom out, it just sounds like a mom who's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not paying attention in school anymore because so into
Speaker 1: this thing. And I've been there too, I've been completely distracted.
Speaker 1: And then when your parents like, hey, knock this shift off,
Speaker 1: you need to get through school, and then saying something
Speaker 1: like that, but he's like and then she was like,
Speaker 1: this is sucking over for a little tirade. Is he
Speaker 1: called it a little wow. I love the I love
Speaker 1: the like the concept of like bashing your child's career,
Speaker 1: like specifically saying, like your writing careers over, like your career,
Speaker 1: like you're like jen years old and right you're writing
Speaker 1: career is over. Like the word career makes me think,
Speaker 1: like this conversation never happened, Like I don't know, I
Speaker 1: think you would say that because it wasn't like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he wasn't really like the child script writing contests of
Speaker 1: like the seventies or something where they're like, this child
Speaker 1: is a genius. But when you're a kid, I can
Speaker 1: imagine like inventing the word career in your mind because
Speaker 1: you think you have a career. But like I don't
Speaker 1: I can't imagine a parent saying that to a child.
Speaker 1: But whatever, probably fake, it could be, could be. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about back to school. And we're back and school
Speaker 1: is back in sash Baby in some some parts of
Speaker 1: the country, Nevada, Florida, mississipp How's how's it going, Miles?
Speaker 1: I mean, just a cursory look at the headlines and
Speaker 1: it's they're terrifying, Okay, So just I just searched school
Speaker 1: COVID this morning because I'm just because you know, I
Speaker 1: saw one thing about like in so in Florida, four
Speaker 1: teachers just died of COVID its like before the school
Speaker 1: you even started. So it wasn't that they got it
Speaker 1: in school, but they're like four teachers are like, are
Speaker 1: like the students are going to find out that their
Speaker 1: teachers passed away like days before the year started. And
Speaker 1: they said that three of the four were unvaccinated, or
Speaker 1: at least three of the four were unvaccinated, according to
Speaker 1: the school union president. And they were like on summer
Speaker 1: break when they caught it and just practically passed away
Speaker 1: right before the school. And I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: So then I was like possibly working service jobs to
Speaker 1: supplement their income, but who knows. Yeah, but then you
Speaker 1: see another thing in Florida, four hundred students in faculty
Speaker 1: must isolate after a COVID exposure at school. So four
Speaker 1: over four hundred students in Palm Beach County they had
Speaker 1: to quarantine just two days after school began because of
Speaker 1: a corona virus outbreak at school. And so they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: essentially like when school began fifty one students and staff
Speaker 1: had tested positive, so in total, four forty have had
Speaker 1: to isolate. I said, oh, my god. And this school
Speaker 1: has a mask mandate, but parents can opt out, so
Speaker 1: it's not I don't know what the point of that
Speaker 1: mandate is. Then you look at Nevada. This other one
Speaker 1: said more than eighty students were potentially exposed to COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada
Speaker 1: on Monday, after a parents sent their child to school
Speaker 1: despite both the parent and child receiving a positive COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen test just two days earlier. The exposed students had
Speaker 1: to quarantine at home and started distance learning on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, my question, the number of car wrecks.
Speaker 1: The numbers in Florida are worse than they were at
Speaker 1: the peak of of COVID, like last year when everybody
Speaker 1: was doing distance learning. It just feels like I was
Speaker 1: just talking to a friend of mine who like works
Speaker 1: in software sales and was doing a demo thing for
Speaker 1: a bunch of clients, and he was talking about how
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the day everyone was masked because
Speaker 1: they didn't know each other, but by the end of
Speaker 1: the day, he was the only person wearing a mask.
Speaker 1: He's like, it's not like we got more vaccinated over
Speaker 1: the course of the day, but people just got a
Speaker 1: tired of it and be just like more comfortable, I
Speaker 1: guess with And I feel like that's where we're at
Speaker 1: with just the pandemic at large. We're just like done,
Speaker 1: tired and also just comfortable with the idea of dying
Speaker 1: of COVID. Yes. And I think a lot of people too, though,
Speaker 1: have like their own like flawed anecdotal data set that says, Dude,
Speaker 1: I've been doing my ship and I've been healthy or
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten sick, so what is and now I'm
Speaker 1: vaccinated even better, you know what? Like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a lot of psychological things that too, that
Speaker 1: like I think make people not necessarily that they're like,
Speaker 1: I don't give a funk if I die. More so,
Speaker 1: like I mean, based on this current plan on on,
Speaker 1: I've been doing great, So why the fund should I
Speaker 1: change anything? And I think that's where I think for
Speaker 1: even my I find myself feeling like that too. But
Speaker 1: then I'm like, oh, right, but prior to this, I
Speaker 1: was not socializing. I was like I was taking my
Speaker 1: safety very seriously. And it's not it's not that I
Speaker 1: was out in high risk situations constantly and not getting sick,
Speaker 1: but like we sort of begin to, you know, rearrange
Speaker 1: the order of things that sort of make ourselves more
Speaker 1: comfortable with things, at least for me. That's how that's happened.
Speaker 1: The c d C, I think it was a director
Speaker 1: of CDC or some health official straight up said it
Speaker 1: was like weeks ago. They were like, if you're not vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you are going to get the delta variant. Like that
Speaker 1: is how communic like it is. It's happened when not
Speaker 1: if it is a thousands revalent in the nasal cavities
Speaker 1: of people, even people who are vaccinated who have breaks
Speaker 1: from infections, there's a thousand times more COVID particles. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not a scientist, but I heard someone
Speaker 1: say someone at work, and this is not a scientist,
Speaker 1: this is someone just at my work, but so it
Speaker 1: could be wrong. That might as well be a fucking
Speaker 1: Nobel prize. Someone of my work was like, the regular
Speaker 1: COVID is like a spray bottle, and the delta is
Speaker 1: like a hose in terms of just like you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it, yeah and again, and you look sorry. I
Speaker 1: wasn't even done with the headlines because we have to
Speaker 1: take a trip over to Mississippi. Five thousand in isolation
Speaker 1: after three days of school was a headline nearly and
Speaker 1: from the article quote nearly five thousand children, educators, in
Speaker 1: school staff or quarantined in Mississippi after returning classrooms at
Speaker 1: the start of the school year. I'm under mask optional policies.
Speaker 1: The sixty nine outbreaks reported between August second to August six,
Speaker 1: which is the second week of school for some districts,
Speaker 1: resulted in nearly one thousand teachers or one thousand children
Speaker 1: and three hundred teachers and staff testing positive. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that sucks so bad. I can't even say nice. After
Speaker 1: you said sixty nine, I can't even either. And I
Speaker 1: famously love six or nine? Did I say sixty nine? Oh? Yeah, six?
Speaker 1: I mean that's how bad it is. You don't even notice.
Speaker 1: You didn't even notice that you said sixty nine. Things
Speaker 1: that bring culture back to It's a shame, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I don't know. There Every article
Speaker 1: you read is like it's a bad nothing's turning out great.
Speaker 1: I think the best piece of news with God is
Speaker 1: that Blallapalooza only like could be attributed to like maybe
Speaker 1: just under two hundred or like around two D twenty
Speaker 1: infections from Lallapalooza, So it wasn't like a super spreader
Speaker 1: VET that's good. I mean, like it's not good, but hey,
Speaker 1: I look at these pictures right for as many people
Speaker 1: you're like, but it seems like it's like what is it?
Speaker 1: Because because it's outside, outside, is still outside? Is still
Speaker 1: the way to go? Yeah? But still not if it
Speaker 1: seems you know what I mean. And and again you
Speaker 1: have people who were unvaccinated to there who just had
Speaker 1: to bring negative tests and things like that. But it's
Speaker 1: just the hard part about reading all these headlines is
Speaker 1: like you just know that this is going to end
Speaker 1: tragically before they figure out that they should have never
Speaker 1: gone like gone back to in person instruction without He's
Speaker 1: like really simple safety precautions and measures put into place.
Speaker 1: And I've I'm not a parent, Jack, I know you're
Speaker 1: a parent allegedly and some people I know that our parents,
Speaker 1: but like my heart goes out to you all because
Speaker 1: like having to navigate this world where it seems like
Speaker 1: other parents ideas of safe is diametrically opposed to yours
Speaker 1: in the sense that it's like this antithetical things like well,
Speaker 1: we're just kind of dice rolling it with our kids,
Speaker 1: but we've but we feel this is safe. It just
Speaker 1: feels like total chaos. Yeah, I mean such chaos. We're
Speaker 1: not back to school yet. M hm. I have to
Speaker 1: just based on last year, it seems like everybody was
Speaker 1: very into the precautions. So I'm hoping that we have
Speaker 1: we have the right community for it. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's I have a couple of friends who are
Speaker 1: teachers and we just had a big party. I mean
Speaker 1: not a big party, you know, like eight of us
Speaker 1: came over to their house to have like a by
Speaker 1: sea until school years over, like because we're all vacs
Speaker 1: their vacs. But they were like, yeah, like we're just
Speaker 1: gonna be like vectors of disease for a little bit,
Speaker 1: like we're gonna get COVID, like just because they're going
Speaker 1: back to in person learning, and they're like they're very scared.
Speaker 1: They're not feeling good about it. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so this these are the steaks right now, and it's
Speaker 1: the most wonderful time of the year. It turns. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's fall. Yeah, the fall. It's the fall. It's
Speaker 1: the fall. It's fall, it's the fall. Why is it
Speaker 1: Why does the South go back so early to school? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I's news to me. I didn't know that. I remember
Speaker 1: when I lived in Kentucky we would go back to
Speaker 1: school at the beginning of August. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's extra hot and uncomfortable, so we're gonna go
Speaker 1: back because it's the South. It doesn't fully make sense.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's like a farming thing or something. It seems
Speaker 1: just based on a quick search, it seems like has
Speaker 1: a lot to do with farming. Earlier start of the season.
Speaker 1: Southern students will get out sooner in May to help
Speaker 1: on the farm than Northern students, who typally got out
Speaker 1: of school in June. So because they go back to
Speaker 1: school in August, while the Northerners go back to school
Speaker 1: in September. What about So Cal? We're just by then, y'all.
Speaker 1: We just have to vibe it out hit the Marina.
Speaker 1: We out well. Speaking of vibing it out in So Cal,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Jenner is running a very serious campaign for governor.
Speaker 1: Super serious, so serious, Yeah you mean Big Brother. Australia
Speaker 1: contestant Caitlyn Jenner, she was doing a like walking talk
Speaker 1: tour of Venice Beach to essentially just you know, point
Speaker 1: at the unhoused and be like, oh god, what a nuisance,
Speaker 1: right Gavin Newsom should be out what are my ideas
Speaker 1: for I don't know. Look, I just got back from Australia,
Speaker 1: I'm jet lacked, but god. During this a lot of
Speaker 1: people had a lot of questions for Caitlyn Jenner and
Speaker 1: to your point, Kate, mostly being like, uh, you just
Speaker 1: were on Australian celebrity Big Brother, like in the middle
Speaker 1: of this, Like what is going on? This feels like
Speaker 1: a stunt. So first people were asking like, hey, is
Speaker 1: this like do you have some kind of moneymaking business
Speaker 1: deals on the side that are like tied to this campaign?
Speaker 1: And she got so fucking evasive. I just want to
Speaker 1: play you some clips of people just asking very normal
Speaker 1: questions of a gubernatorial candidate at a press conference. Check
Speaker 1: this just straight up fucking pro answer from Caitlin asking
Speaker 1: are you have you pursued any money making ventures based
Speaker 1: on this campaign. A lot of people have said that
Speaker 1: this is a vanity campaign. Can you reassure California voters
Speaker 1: that you haven't pursued any money making ventures related to
Speaker 1: this campaign? Reality shows, books, etcetera. I've never worked so
Speaker 1: hard for nothing in my life. Um yeah, it's um no.
Speaker 1: I had a prior from event in Australia that was
Speaker 1: before this campaign even started. And uh not like most politicians,
Speaker 1: I actually honor my contracts. Um yes, and I do
Speaker 1: have a job. I think every candidate anyway, it's like
Speaker 1: another minute of just uncomfortable. M Well, you know, she
Speaker 1: knows everything besides make the jerk off hand motion when
Speaker 1: she refers to the campaign. She's like this campaign whatever,
Speaker 1: she's so over. She seems over it. I think like
Speaker 1: it's a I don't know if it's not, like it's
Speaker 1: a valid question. But also like it's like when you're
Speaker 1: a celebrity, the way that Caitlin Jenner is a celebrity,
Speaker 1: Like everything you do is for your personal brand, which
Speaker 1: like will make you money. Like so like obviously like
Speaker 1: she's making money from like being in the news, Like
Speaker 1: it's going to turn into money, like her relevancy, like
Speaker 1: she's going to book more reality things, Like she's gonna
Speaker 1: whatever like this, this is the this is the Kardashian
Speaker 1: business model. I think the thing my brain is objecting
Speaker 1: to is that she wasn't more ready to lie like
Speaker 1: like as a as a politician. Absolutely, And the funny
Speaker 1: thing was like after the fact, like one of her
Speaker 1: reps like reached out to like the journalists and like
Speaker 1: answered the question like directly. It's like, no, this has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with making money, and they're like, oh why,
Speaker 1: and like they just weren't prepared to answer questions on well,
Speaker 1: how are you? Then you're not a serious candidate. But again,
Speaker 1: very serious campaign, very serious, and you know, you move on.
Speaker 1: We're in a fucking pandemic. So not just you know,
Speaker 1: the un housed, which I get is a really popular
Speaker 1: talking point to just smear the poor, but also trying
Speaker 1: to say like, you know, hey, do you want to
Speaker 1: run this state? What about COVID? You know, what do
Speaker 1: you think about you know, like vaccine mandates and things
Speaker 1: like that that might be something you'd probably won away
Speaker 1: in on as the potential governor. And then this is
Speaker 1: just another great answer of just rapid response. You could
Speaker 1: tell she's been thinking about this. It was a no
Speaker 1: brainer to respond to such a simple question, what's your
Speaker 1: plan on how to deal with the delta variant? If
Speaker 1: you're a governor? Right now, we have to follow the science. California,
Speaker 1: he is mandating masks in schools for his Republican governmental
Speaker 1: in the SANTIS is fighting against masks in schools. Should
Speaker 1: kids in schools be wearing masks? Um, that's really up
Speaker 1: to the science of it. I'm the CDC says they
Speaker 1: should like that, what the CDC says, But to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I'm I don't know if that is
Speaker 1: the answer masks. Wait, so you said do what the
Speaker 1: CDC says. Yeah, we should follow the science. But to
Speaker 1: be honest, I don't know if science is the best thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Then when someone like in the crowd,
Speaker 1: like like during like the press spray, like when people
Speaker 1: are just choose taking questions, someone's like, what do you
Speaker 1: think about mandating vaccines? Blah blah blah, And she's like,
Speaker 1: I'm here to talk about the issues of the day,
Speaker 1: like referring to the unhoused. And then another part is
Speaker 1: like we're in a pandemic though, crickets, so oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're very lucky in the state of California to be
Speaker 1: looking down the barrel of just you know, bringing back
Speaker 1: fucking Gavin Newsom who's not doing the best, or just
Speaker 1: a Republican to fully fun things up, so so fun
Speaker 1: September four Californians. You know that, like you know that,
Speaker 1: like Caitlin running this like joke of a campaign, and
Speaker 1: then Kanye is like whatever that was the birthday party thing.
Speaker 1: Like Kim is sitting back and she's just like taking notes,
Speaker 1: like she's she's like definitely going to be running in
Speaker 1: the next like five years for something attorney general. These
Speaker 1: are the guinea pig campaigns testing out the waters for
Speaker 1: Kim kardadd She didn't right, She's like becomes like a
Speaker 1: total autocrat. She's like, I've been studying the great mind
Speaker 1: for decades and it's time for me to make my move.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be the one campaign that would
Speaker 1: be frightened of that. I'm terrified because she's gonna have
Speaker 1: Chris Jenner in her corner. So she's like, yeah, I know, Chris,
Speaker 1: Chris Jenner's a mastermind. But before any of that happens,
Speaker 1: we're going to see how the Donald Trump Jr. Scott
Speaker 1: Disick ticket works. Out in the right exactly, Yes, bring
Speaker 1: them together. Oh there was another thing I want to
Speaker 1: mention during this like walk and talk tour of you know,
Speaker 1: of trying to appears like a serious candidate who's trying
Speaker 1: to address things like the on house population in the
Speaker 1: in l A. She was like walking with like three
Speaker 1: like homeless miss advocates who were like trying to explain
Speaker 1: what's going on and what's needed, but they were also
Speaker 1: like pretty hostile out with her. And even though this
Speaker 1: is like an event maybe like I'm gonna be talking
Speaker 1: with advocates, none of them were like, oh yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I would never endorse her, like you want to talk,
Speaker 1: I'm telling her, I'm telling her as a candidate, like
Speaker 1: what's needed. But like those people were there as to
Speaker 1: be to endorse her at all. So the whole thing
Speaker 1: was like a very bizarre press event. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: one of those unfortunate political situations where I think Californians
Speaker 1: need to get out there and vote for the lesser
Speaker 1: of two evils, because if you know, it's yeah, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of Republicans who are voting, and
Speaker 1: Californians just all need to go out and vote. No,
Speaker 1: and then we'll hopefully do better at the next primary.
Speaker 1: But yeah, because the other thing is generous behind in
Speaker 1: the poll. Larry Elder is in front, the black conservative
Speaker 1: radio host, so you can only imagine what kinds of
Speaker 1: ideas for progress he might have or doesn't have. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's truly a fucked if you do and super fucked
Speaker 1: if you don't kind of situation because, like I said
Speaker 1: last time, if Diane finds sign were to go down,
Speaker 1: the governor is the person who would pick the replacement,
Speaker 1: the interim replacement as a senator, So if that were
Speaker 1: to happen on their watch, you could now just see
Speaker 1: the Senate math going real wacky all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: And also a lot of the executive appointments they could
Speaker 1: just replace. The policy stuff would be a lot harder
Speaker 1: because of the veto proof majorities in the legislature, but
Speaker 1: the other stuff, as it relates to executive appointments and
Speaker 1: those other responsibilities could easily cause plenty of fucking just nonsense.
Speaker 1: Find Stegn's pretty old too. Yeah, it turns out. It
Speaker 1: turns out well, Kate as always such a pleasure having
Speaker 1: you on Daily Zeitgeist. Oh, such a pleasure. I this
Speaker 1: is the most beautiful paradise of a podcast. Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me. Where can people find you? And is there
Speaker 1: a tweet or some of the work of social media
Speaker 1: you've been enjoying. My friend, my best friend, Joan haley Ford,
Speaker 1: was just tweeting about like her her tips going off
Speaker 1: at t s A and I thought that was pretty funny.
Speaker 1: So everyone follow Joan for good tit tweets at Joan
Speaker 1: haley Ford. I think where can people find you? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm at Kate Raft and I do a twitch show
Speaker 1: with my husband. It's called jack Am. That's twitch dot
Speaker 1: tv slash jack Am every week day at seven am Pacific.
Speaker 1: And also I want to plug. I have a single
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Speaker 1: group Yellow Star. If you want to stream, it's called
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Speaker 1: not having genitals. If that's your vibe stream no Genitals,
Speaker 1: just vibes, Well, I might have to write out on
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, Miles, where can people find you? What's
Speaker 1: a tweet? You've been on Twitter? Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also,
Speaker 1: if you like, check out the other show four twenty
Speaker 1: day fiance with Sophie, Alexander and I. That's also on
Speaker 1: twitch dot tv Slash four two zero day fiance. Some
Speaker 1: tweets that I like. First one is from Calli at
Speaker 1: Callie Blocks. I am bo l b l o x
Speaker 1: A M tweeted being new at a job is so
Speaker 1: embarrassing for no reason. It feels like the weirdest first
Speaker 1: day of school ships Like you at that school where
Speaker 1: you don't know anybody is definitely what those first couple
Speaker 1: of days of a new gig is like. And then
Speaker 1: another one is from Dan White at at Dan White
Speaker 1: tweeted set up my stepdad's WiFi with a screen cap
Speaker 1: of a conversation with someone called Frank do Peppi and
Speaker 1: I guess this is a stepdad and says, hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: we're having dinner guests over and can't figure out this
Speaker 1: new modem. You set up? What's our WiFi network? He replies,
Speaker 1: Frank's big fat, throbbing WiFi. Jesus Christ, why would you
Speaker 1: do that? It was the default sugg austion, I swear
Speaker 1: to God or the Axfinity guy did it, but I
Speaker 1: definitely didn't make it. What's our password password? Frank hyphen
Speaker 1: got hyphen hyphen d u I hyphen in hyphen two
Speaker 1: thousand nine exclamation point. Fuck you? How do I change
Speaker 1: this fucking thing? Like you have to bring the modem
Speaker 1: to the top of it. It just goes on and on.
Speaker 1: But yeah, one stupid one of the grades. You can
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O'Brien, you can
Speaker 1: come hang out with us at the live show. Like
Speaker 1: we mentioned link two ticks in the show notes shy
Speaker 1: Nights a tweet I've been enjoying, Jeff Lobness tweeted, asked
Speaker 1: Ted Lasso, who we voted for in two thousand sixteen. Wait,
Speaker 1: I found I found Jones tweet if I could, if
Speaker 1: I could read it, Okay, okay, it's a two parter.
Speaker 1: T s A guy felt up my tips today. He
Speaker 1: had to remain professional, but you could tell he was impressed.
Speaker 1: And then here's part two. So apparently the t s
Speaker 1: A just considers my boobs a potential deadly weapon now,
Speaker 1: which is fair since everyone who sees them comes to death.
Speaker 1: That's great. Great tweets. I also like to tweet from
Speaker 1: Alie Siegel, who tweeted a former guest Ali Segel, who
Speaker 1: tweeted whoever named the spider? Daddy long Legs seems horny?
Speaker 1: So true? So horny is name? Ever? Maybe? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What is the what's the history behind Daddy? Honestly I
Speaker 1: never thought about that, but you're like excessively horny, excessively horny.
Speaker 1: Check out Daddy long Legs over there? Uh, spider in
Speaker 1: our attic? Who is he? Who is that? Who's that
Speaker 1: very fusible spider? You can find us on Twitter at
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Speaker 1: We link off to the information that we talked about
Speaker 1: in today's episode, as well as the tickets to our
Speaker 1: live show, as well as a song that we think
Speaker 1: you might enjoy. Miles, what song are we sending people
Speaker 1: to go check out? Two days? I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like it's a no brainer at this point. You gotta
Speaker 1: go on down to Spotify and check out the new
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