Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one sixty four,
Speaker 1: Episode five of DIR Daily. See guys to production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where you take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. Unfortunately it's Friday,
Speaker 1: December eighteen thirty three days until January, Patrick Ewing days
Speaker 1: until January. Uh. There were UH and this is something
Speaker 1: I've been doing UH in the past two episodes, not
Speaker 1: just because of today's guests, but there were zero new
Speaker 1: COVID cases in New Zealand yesterday and zero deaths since
Speaker 1: late September. There were thirteen new COVID cases in Victoria, Australia. UH.
Speaker 1: Continue to be zero deaths in the month of December,
Speaker 1: and in the US UH there were two forty five
Speaker 1: thousand new cases three thousand, six hundred eleven deaths, a
Speaker 1: new high or one eleven by dinner time on the EASCO.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to start using nine eleven as
Speaker 1: the corollarya, but that seems to be what the media does.
Speaker 1: So just to put things in perspective, we really drastically,
Speaker 1: catastrophically fucked this one up. Um. Yeah, they say three
Speaker 1: thousand people will probably die before cool Cool, Cool Uh, well,
Speaker 1: my name is Jack O'Brien a K it's a beautiful morning.
Speaker 1: Uh think I'll host this podcast with Miles send Dan Files. Ah.
Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Christie. I'm Gucci Man and the Rascals.
Speaker 1: I love that band name the Rascal and I'm thrilled
Speaker 1: to be joined. As always buy my co host, Mr
Speaker 1: Miles Gray, God like God, sing It, Jeez goes by
Speaker 1: my ald trump Balls, Rush Landow cold, this looks Badcky
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Speaker 1: all okay, how do you go out of body and
Speaker 1: channel Eddie Kendrick's rights? Almighty hot Eddie Kennedy. My goodness,
Speaker 1: the falsetto had to come through. That was the closest
Speaker 1: I've come to seeing God and shout out to Oh
Speaker 1: my God, the discord I see, I was seeing this one.
Speaker 1: I was getting music. I are getting nervous. I had
Speaker 1: to rehearse. But Jay music, Chicago, I see you, thank
Speaker 1: your music. Chicago Temptations versions of Silent Night. Um Man,
Speaker 1: I I thought you started too high. I thought you
Speaker 1: started too high, but you pulled it off. Beauteous, well, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined by a real dick,
Speaker 1: real real jerk who we're not gonna take it from
Speaker 1: probably the most hated New Zealand shit. He is the hilarious,
Speaker 1: the talent to the legendary gi Mon Gummer wanted to
Speaker 1: be here as a man on the ground, just chi
Speaker 1: into heaven. What's it making sure my mad lads are doing? Okay?
Speaker 1: The mad lads? I cannot I just cannot believe how,
Speaker 1: just as a you know, binary, looking at the US
Speaker 1: and New Zealand, how different things are going. Because the
Speaker 1: latest the news story I woke up to yesterday this
Speaker 1: morning was that, Yeah, New Zealand's economy has bounced back
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, surges out of recession in V
Speaker 1: shaped recovery. Like it's all happening. It's all come, everything's
Speaker 1: coming up kiwi right now. That's right. And I would
Speaker 1: like to accept a huge amount of responsibility for that,
Speaker 1: injecting what limited disposed by income I have to your
Speaker 1: local cafes, occasional flights to different cities, you know, domestic
Speaker 1: tourism if you will. Yeah, it is life as usual
Speaker 1: in New Zealand. And I will say I'm honored and
Speaker 1: flatted that you guys checking in with news, So really
Speaker 1: has America bothered to keep the a finger on the
Speaker 1: thrumbing pulse of the things of altern on New Zealand.
Speaker 1: And then now you guys are schooled up and you know,
Speaker 1: this is maybe a first in um transnational relations. But
Speaker 1: I barely know what's going on over there, Fellas. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you the amount of American like pretty much
Speaker 1: since your election, remember that really efficient little piece of
Speaker 1: democracy you guys exercised over there, But since the outcome
Speaker 1: of that, there's just been like it's like the entire
Speaker 1: nation has just been slowly turning the dial down on
Speaker 1: the US to the point that like if I skim
Speaker 1: read the local newspapers or generally the news, you guys,
Speaker 1: it's like it's it's really odd. I hadn't actually thought
Speaker 1: about it, but I mean, and I think part of
Speaker 1: it is that Trump has not been given the oxygen
Speaker 1: he once was. It's sort of like this low level
Speaker 1: thrumbing anxiety even for down here, is just has just
Speaker 1: been shown the door. Yeah, I think it's a combination
Speaker 1: of being too much of a bummer to tell people about, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that that thing, that dumpster fire. Still somehow
Speaker 1: the flames are getting bigger. I thought, yeah, how there
Speaker 1: was Yeah, that was the analogy I thought during your election,
Speaker 1: it was like America was voting between a massive kerosene
Speaker 1: fire and a bucket of water. Guys voted for the
Speaker 1: bucket of water, but as not a big enough bucket.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm talented New Zealand for sure. Is this
Speaker 1: a return to what things were like before the Trump administration?
Speaker 1: Or is this even quiet for New Zealand's honestly, the
Speaker 1: way that the way that we are, the way that
Speaker 1: people consume using information now, I cannot cast my mind
Speaker 1: back that far from relevant comparison before. It feels um.
Speaker 1: I haven't spoken to people in America actually been on
Speaker 1: a zoom call with people in America for a while,
Speaker 1: and it is a It is um because it's hard
Speaker 1: to not sound like a total ass. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about life in New Zealand, but it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just you're just doing your You're doing your business.
Speaker 1: You know, you're out and about your doing your business,
Speaker 1: and you don't have the same volume of time in
Speaker 1: which you're just looking at a computer for new information
Speaker 1: about what's happening. And so I I feel less informed,
Speaker 1: and honestly, Bellas feels really good, really good. Fuck you man,
Speaker 1: do we do we look a little more dead behind
Speaker 1: the eyes than the people you've been interacting with on
Speaker 1: a daily basis over there. Yeah, the energy is a
Speaker 1: little different, but it's it's it's it's great to be here,
Speaker 1: and you know, like it's it's a it's a process.
Speaker 1: But surely you've gotta be you've gotta feel as though
Speaker 1: you're turning some some sort of corner. The numbers are
Speaker 1: bad and you're going into winter. Yeah, but we're turning
Speaker 1: the corner in the wrong direction. But it's like knowledge,
Speaker 1: this must be the worst corner. And then you think,
Speaker 1: once we were around this corner, surely there's a much
Speaker 1: more mild corner. And then we realized we're in a
Speaker 1: maze of brutality for like, wait, they're just it's just
Speaker 1: all corners and each one worse than they let last.
Speaker 1: And then you wake up the next morning and you're
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson from from the Shining just frozen solid. Uh exactly. Yeah, well, guy,
Speaker 1: we you're giving us life. We appreciate you giving us
Speaker 1: a little beam of sunshine from Wellington is my new Washington. Yes. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know they'll be they'll be overwhelmed to hear that.
Speaker 1: I know it took me. Took me a while for
Speaker 1: it to build the courage to say that on Mike,
Speaker 1: but I did. Yeah. All right, we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're
Speaker 1: talking about. We're talking about getting that second stimulus check.
Speaker 1: It might actually be happening. Uh, We'll we'll talk about
Speaker 1: why it might actually be happening. We'll talk about why
Speaker 1: like that, the president, who's still our president guy, despite
Speaker 1: the fact that you guys have turned the volume down
Speaker 1: on him, is reportedly having just a long, prolonged, to
Speaker 1: quote an advisor of his, a fucking temper tantrum. And
Speaker 1: the advisor speculates he's going to leave. He's just lashing out,
Speaker 1: but some people don't think so. Uh, he might have
Speaker 1: to be dragged out. And uh, he's also gonna be
Speaker 1: dragged out throwing out pardons. We'll talk about that, why
Speaker 1: his plan to move to mar Lago might be in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Dan Crenshaw just because you know, we
Speaker 1: we've seen the fun Avengers meme Crenshaw. But and not
Speaker 1: not that he is great, but I do want to
Speaker 1: talk about like what he does when he's not putting
Speaker 1: out viral videos. Uh, we'll talk about the former CIA
Speaker 1: directors take on those UFO videos. Um, and of course
Speaker 1: America's favorite gatorade flavor, all of that plenty more. But first, guy,
Speaker 1: we like to ask our guests, what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history that's revealing about who you are? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: as recently as yesterday, in my search history, I looked
Speaker 1: up knots two kilometers per hour converter. You know what
Speaker 1: do you know? What? Knots are? Nautical miles per hour? Right,
Speaker 1: ridiculous system. I just don't understand why we can't have
Speaker 1: one universal unit of speed that we will go. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's exactly how fast that thing is. But the
Speaker 1: reason I was researching knots is because, um, we currently
Speaker 1: here in New Zealand, specifically actually in Auckland, New Zealand,
Speaker 1: hosting a sailing boat regetta called the America's Cup, named
Speaker 1: after your fine home nation. And um, there are all
Speaker 1: these big boats and all these people they're on the boats,
Speaker 1: and the boats, you guys, they're going so fast. These
Speaker 1: boats are going so fast, and I was like, God, damn,
Speaker 1: how fast these boats going. And then someone said to me,
Speaker 1: you know, like fifty nights, and I thought I have
Speaker 1: no use for their information. So I researched it and
Speaker 1: there was upwind and not two kilometers confider as one
Speaker 1: kilometer period out, which also is a system you don't use.
Speaker 1: I've just realized you use miles. I should have should
Speaker 1: have looked up I should Yeah, yeah, that's right. You
Speaker 1: just asked miles and he tells you. There's a busy
Speaker 1: job anyway, pretty much. It turns out that and not
Speaker 1: one knot is one point five kilometers per hour, and
Speaker 1: one point five kilometers perut, I guess is probably just
Speaker 1: shy of three miles per hour. But this is what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. We need a system that works for everyone.
Speaker 1: It's like one point one five miles per hour, which
Speaker 1: I always assumed that not knots was like slower because
Speaker 1: boats go slower than land vehicles or something. But it's
Speaker 1: actually like it under counts how fast the things going.
Speaker 1: Knots is actually fifty two miles per hour. And that's
Speaker 1: and these are what I want to emersizes. These boats
Speaker 1: are not motorized, and so when you see them going
Speaker 1: there first, you think you think, well, that's fast, right,
Speaker 1: you know, without a motor I can't run that fast,
Speaker 1: and I can run fast. But I was, yes, I've heard,
Speaker 1: we've heard tell of that. Aly just reading the way
Speaker 1: this was like done, it just seems like we should
Speaker 1: abandon this system of measurement, Like it's from the seven
Speaker 1: teenth century when people were like there was a coil
Speaker 1: of rope with uniformly spaced knots attached to a piece
Speaker 1: of wood shaped like a slice of the piece of
Speaker 1: wood was lowered from the back of the ship and
Speaker 1: allowed to float behind it. The line was allowed to
Speaker 1: pay out freely from the coil as the piece of
Speaker 1: wood fell behind the ship for a specific amount of time.
Speaker 1: When the specific time had passed, the line was pulled
Speaker 1: up and the number of knots on the rope between
Speaker 1: the ship and the wood were counted. So come on, now,
Speaker 1: it doesn't stand for nautical from literally a bunch of
Speaker 1: knots that they're throwing out. And I would like to
Speaker 1: say that, Miles Cursory Glance said it then also as
Speaker 1: an insight into who I am, and how I am?
Speaker 1: Because I just looked up literally the unit measurement and
Speaker 1: that makes and forgot about it. But you were answering
Speaker 1: a very important question because someone says forty five knots, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, that looks fast to me based on
Speaker 1: how I normally make sense of speed, which is kilometers prower.
Speaker 1: And then I'm just sort of like how the funk like,
Speaker 1: because you always want to know, like usually they're people
Speaker 1: coming like it's actually better because it's it's based on
Speaker 1: this and like the way the water works. But if
Speaker 1: we're looking back and based on this, we're saying we're
Speaker 1: talking about counting literal knots in a piece of rope
Speaker 1: that we were hanging out the back of a ship
Speaker 1: on a piece of wood. I feel like we owe science,
Speaker 1: uh a little bit more than to just hold on
Speaker 1: to this, you know. But the boat people, but like
Speaker 1: the yachting people, there's so um they they love history.
Speaker 1: They're all like rich old nerds, you know, they won't
Speaker 1: let go of their language. Yeah, of course, funk man,
Speaker 1: I just looked up not like the Wikipedia, and it
Speaker 1: has to do it. There's also a uh like air
Speaker 1: speed for planes are measured in knots, and it like
Speaker 1: changes based on the altitude, longitude, latitude. I guess, I
Speaker 1: guess that might makes sense for like if you're a pilot,
Speaker 1: because for for us, we're thinking like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting down, why don't you just call at one speed?
Speaker 1: But like that's when the perspective of passenger, not a pilot,
Speaker 1: and we're like, well, actually it's very important to know
Speaker 1: speeds at those different altitudes. But come on, just say
Speaker 1: pick a speed, right, so it's speed relative to the
Speaker 1: error around you as opposed to relative to the ground.
Speaker 1: I guess would it would it be? I don't know,
Speaker 1: science ologist, I don't know, myles. You read that one
Speaker 1: paragraph on the Wikipedia? Yeah? Yeah, A panic Google search
Speaker 1: rendered that answer. But I can't go past that. This
Speaker 1: is a podcast. Come on now, people know, Uh, guy,
Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? Look? Well this
Speaker 1: one goes out to um, to all of your country folk,
Speaker 1: and I would actually like to say that I think, uh,
Speaker 1: staying indoors vastly, vastly underrated. You gotta love it indoors.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me. You've been out there. That's terrible nasty stuff.
Speaker 1: But indoors, you've got audio, creature comforts, a fridge, a
Speaker 1: vessel in which you can pull liquid, perhaps a plate
Speaker 1: on which you can put food, the screen to just
Speaker 1: while away you're you're Viking. How is patriotizing? Guy coming from?
Speaker 1: That guy who who literally the guy who goes out
Speaker 1: there to Regatta's talking to people, asking questions and hanging
Speaker 1: out hanger's cup asking questions about notts to miles and
Speaker 1: then I'm over. We're looking at you guys, activity rates
Speaker 1: by the by county. We're like, what part of the
Speaker 1: city is also? I just it sounds like like when
Speaker 1: a king like is telling like the poppers, how like
Speaker 1: how good they have it. It's like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: really you think about is delicious? Woa look at this
Speaker 1: and you have wood to burn as well? That is neat.
Speaker 1: Get me out of here. That's right. So the great
Speaker 1: endured a huge shout out to my favorite place on it.
Speaker 1: Have you spent it? Have you spent much time outside
Speaker 1: since you were freed? Well, totally enough, that's my um,
Speaker 1: that's my overrated All right, let's hear it out outdoors,
Speaker 1: exposed to the elements. If it's windy, you're gonna know
Speaker 1: about that. And if it's raining, you'll be wet, but
Speaker 1: indoors sheltered from the wind, and you're so nice and
Speaker 1: dry and outdoors you get the sun will burn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sun, what is responsible for all the power in
Speaker 1: the world, it also burned you, just downright disrespectful. No,
Speaker 1: I find it my way. I wouldn't. I wouldn't leave
Speaker 1: the house. Oh man, that feels good. See, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'll take that with me into the holiday. They go, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know New Zealand where they're back to normal.
Speaker 1: They're saying, outside it kind of sucks. Yeah, And you're
Speaker 1: also at risk of running into people like you know.
Speaker 1: One of those things that I forgot about after that
Speaker 1: is small talk. When you run into someone and you
Speaker 1: gotta talk about your Ah, it's so bad. The first
Speaker 1: time I had to do it, after one of our lockdowns,
Speaker 1: I saw someone at a cafe and I was like, ah,
Speaker 1: there's a reason that we didn't talk at all while
Speaker 1: we were in our houses, because this this incidental thing happens.
Speaker 1: We've got nothing. And I came back and I told
Speaker 1: my partner, I said, I I realized I don't like
Speaker 1: small talk. And she said what are you talking about? You?
Speaker 1: You're great at small talk. When I said, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not me. It's not me, I'm worried about I would
Speaker 1: kill to run into me. It's everyone else. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? What are you going? Man? How
Speaker 1: about this COVID stuff? That's my that's my open gambit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love the lack of running into people. Although the
Speaker 1: one time I ran to someone, luckily, it was like
Speaker 1: someone that was like close to me, like a friend's
Speaker 1: older brother who I knew really well. So like, hey,
Speaker 1: look at those ones. Feel really good. Those are life affirming.
Speaker 1: But the ones are like I'm high, and then I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh that's like that's like the old basketball coach from
Speaker 1: my high school, Like no, no, give me the funk away,
Speaker 1: like I'm putting three masks on and like walking into
Speaker 1: ship because I can't see anything with articulation of it.
Speaker 1: It's so see like how outside the responses to seeing
Speaker 1: someone you're vaguely familiar with that I don't want to
Speaker 1: NAVI give five sentences with this person, which is wild
Speaker 1: because like you don't really care about them, But that
Speaker 1: the rest, like the energy, lish the panic you feel
Speaker 1: and be like I can't engage them. We're both better
Speaker 1: off even if we see each other. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: feel bad that we ignored each other. We're not. That's
Speaker 1: just the reality. So let's just you know, run, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna leave my grocery card here and just run
Speaker 1: to the corner of the grocery store. It's interesting because
Speaker 1: when you move cities or whatever, like the measure of
Speaker 1: how homely a place feels or I always think a
Speaker 1: huge benchmark for sort of you know, having your feet
Speaker 1: on the ground as a as a resident of that places.
Speaker 1: When you start having incidental runnings, you're like, oh, ship, like,
Speaker 1: I know people here, this is what it feels like
Speaker 1: to sit up my stool in this place. But then
Speaker 1: you know you you lived there long enough and it
Speaker 1: becomes too much. You got your basketball coach to worry
Speaker 1: about its geometry. Teachers like always catch them getting the
Speaker 1: foe pack of many Sutter home wine bottles dinner. And
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't even I don't even want, I
Speaker 1: don't even I can't, I cannot, I cannot go up
Speaker 1: to old teacher. It's there's something just like I was
Speaker 1: kind of a ship headed in high school sometimes and
Speaker 1: sometimes Peo'll be like, oh, you're doing well now, okay,
Speaker 1: can but anyway, that's why Helways wears like and gear
Speaker 1: daily zys Gear. Yeah. I'm like, yeah, yeah, for your information,
Speaker 1: Mr Selta, I'm doing pretty fucking good. I got a podcast,
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah you're cool math teacher and said get symbol. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's a geometric observation miles from you on this day?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Actually we just started talking about not
Speaker 1: so yeah, right exactly. Alright, guys, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll come back. And we're back, and so
Speaker 1: are the stimulus checks? Hell yeah, kind of half as
Speaker 1: big as before. And yeah, late Mitch McConnell, yeah, doing
Speaker 1: the barnum. Yeah, it could not do less um because
Speaker 1: a long time we're like, are we going to get checks?
Speaker 1: Because they're talking about how the big thing that he
Speaker 1: was holding onto was this corporate liability shield, basically saying, uh,
Speaker 1: destitute working people who need relief will not get cash
Speaker 1: unless we can ensure that no one can sue a
Speaker 1: company for being reckless and greedy and possibly uh you know,
Speaker 1: having their business business. His practices lead to an infection
Speaker 1: for an employee or a customer. That was the hill
Speaker 1: that he wanted to die on. He suddenly gave that
Speaker 1: up and was like, you know what, let's maybe talk
Speaker 1: relief here. And of course, you know, we're talking about
Speaker 1: a sentient douche bag that's powered by corporate donations. So
Speaker 1: it didn't arrive at this conclusion based on something like
Speaker 1: human decency because it's all about Mitch McConnell power playing
Speaker 1: and ship like that. So his whole thing is not
Speaker 1: any anything to do with that. Quote. Mr McConnell said
Speaker 1: that Senators Kelly Leffler and David Perdue, who are both
Speaker 1: facing runoffs in January that will determine which party controls
Speaker 1: the Senate, were quote getting hammered for Congress is failure
Speaker 1: to deliver more pandemic aid to struggling Americans, particularly the
Speaker 1: direct payments, and that enacting the measure could help them.
Speaker 1: That's why because of the because of David Perdue and
Speaker 1: Kelly Leffler um so, and now we're at six hundred
Speaker 1: or maybe seven hundred. There's still things being hashed out,
Speaker 1: but that's us to be the amount that people will get,
Speaker 1: including children, and then that will top out at per household,
Speaker 1: as he will treat constituents and the American people as
Speaker 1: much like ship as he can get away with while
Speaker 1: maintaining powers between between their opportunity exercise the democratic right
Speaker 1: to vote, and then I know I can clear this
Speaker 1: very low battle I've seen myself. And then you get
Speaker 1: what you want and you go back to how you were.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm starting to think this Mr McConnell guys
Speaker 1: up to no good. I mean, yeah, it's true, and
Speaker 1: the relief bill is really it's you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that people need and want, so I
Speaker 1: I want to point those things out before I probably
Speaker 1: start having a meltdown about what isn't in there. So
Speaker 1: you know, the first this there was a bill passed
Speaker 1: I think back in fucking May that I've left that
Speaker 1: was that was ready to be signed into by Mitch McConnell.
Speaker 1: But again he couldn't protect his corporate fucking bays, so
Speaker 1: he did not want to go through with it. And
Speaker 1: also suddenly he thinks he knows if people need twelve
Speaker 1: hundred or six hundred dollars when you're a fucking millionaire
Speaker 1: like Bill Gates doesn't even know the fucking cost of
Speaker 1: laundry detergent, So how the funk are these millionaires gonna
Speaker 1: tell people what relief looks like. Um, But there will
Speaker 1: be an additional three hundred dollars per week on top
Speaker 1: of whatever state unemployment benefits people are receiving. There will
Speaker 1: be an extension overall of unemployment benefits because that program
Speaker 1: was like set to sunset um. And then there is
Speaker 1: also gonna be funds for schools, vaccine distribution, extending a
Speaker 1: moratorium um on evictions, more PPP loans. But the big
Speaker 1: thing that's missing is a lot of funding that goes
Speaker 1: to the municipalities, like at the state and local level,
Speaker 1: because that's those places are really struggling, and without those payments,
Speaker 1: it's going to be very difficult to have like the
Speaker 1: kinds of meaningful relief that you know, a city can
Speaker 1: provide it citizens as well, because everyone has just been
Speaker 1: blowing through money um without getting any you know, substantial relief. So, uh,
Speaker 1: this is still ongoing negotiations. Negotiations are still ongoing, and
Speaker 1: this might not be resolved until the beginning of next week.
Speaker 1: But it's all just a very cynical, you know, low
Speaker 1: ball move, and you also just wish that the you know,
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer might say something more than like maybe this
Speaker 1: is the best we can do, Like, you know, twelve
Speaker 1: dollars was already a low bar for people, so the
Speaker 1: fact that we're having that is just fucking barbaric. It's
Speaker 1: fucked up, and it completely doesn't acknowledge like what people
Speaker 1: whose backs against the walls, what that means the difference
Speaker 1: between twelve and six hundred dollars, Right, yeah, it's enormous.
Speaker 1: And this is the idea, is that this is going
Speaker 1: to hold them over for how long? Like this is
Speaker 1: I don't know, yeah, I mean the last one was
Speaker 1: what nine eight months since the last one, and that
Speaker 1: was for that many months, right yeah? Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: wild thing too, is like the math that they're using,
Speaker 1: uh for like these unemployment benefits, like the three dollars
Speaker 1: a week that people are getting. They cut that program
Speaker 1: by four weeks. Normally it was it was going to
Speaker 1: be a sixteen week extension, but they made it twelve
Speaker 1: and then so now that's twelve dollars of that unemployment
Speaker 1: money to give to like people who are even beyond
Speaker 1: the unemployment level. Like the way they're just like shrinking
Speaker 1: an existing thing to carve out a little more money
Speaker 1: for they think it's not actual additional relief. It's just
Speaker 1: this fucked up math. They're doing a number crunching, and
Speaker 1: again it's these are the reasons why we have such
Speaker 1: ills again because you know, you think most of the
Speaker 1: senators are actually literally millionaires, and the debates around there,
Speaker 1: like what constitutes effective relief for people is really just
Speaker 1: it's sad to hear and even hear these people negotiate
Speaker 1: these things because these these dollar amounts are afterthoughts to them.
Speaker 1: But they're so this like faux austerity that like the
Speaker 1: Republicans are suddenly interested in things. It's just it's it's
Speaker 1: it's tragic to see, especially at a time when you know, uh,
Speaker 1: COVID rates are spiking and they're still trying to say
Speaker 1: like stay home and don't go out and maybe work
Speaker 1: or I don't know, m m, yeah, do the responsible
Speaker 1: thing while we you know, let you starve essentially, and
Speaker 1: then they get frustrated with the people for you know,
Speaker 1: not not following the rules. Selfish people in a windowless
Speaker 1: room deciding what to give people outside of the room.
Speaker 1: I can't see. They don't know, you what's happening, right,
Speaker 1: They're like this is you know that'll do. I mean
Speaker 1: I still think about like Nancy Pelosi's two dollar freezer
Speaker 1: that she has, right, this is what we're talking about,
Speaker 1: Like this is I'm you know, I think most people
Speaker 1: listening to this show have no fucking idea who don't
Speaker 1: even probably don't even have a fucking car, you know,
Speaker 1: like a thing that you vile to commute and make
Speaker 1: money with that we're dealing with people with such excessive
Speaker 1: amounts of money there at that point where they go,
Speaker 1: fuck it, Yeah, it's twenty four K on a fucking freezer.
Speaker 1: That is such a level of opulence that Americans will
Speaker 1: never fucking know yet. We these are the people who
Speaker 1: were trusting to synthesize what's happening in the country and
Speaker 1: then be like, this is what relief is going to be.
Speaker 1: Even though I've got, yeah, all this other money, you
Speaker 1: got to imagine it. G Nivig gets um ice cream.
Speaker 1: Nivigates that yes, there, m there must be nice when
Speaker 1: you do you have it and it so you do
Speaker 1: get that I see crunch. This isn't what it's like
Speaker 1: in the store, right, Yeah about this, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: that theory on class that people you know about the
Speaker 1: class that's directly above you and the class that's directly
Speaker 1: below you, but you're not aware really in any real
Speaker 1: sense of the class that's like two above you or
Speaker 1: to below you. Um, and to below Nancy Pelosi are
Speaker 1: the people that she is supposed to be trying to help,
Speaker 1: and she just has no concept of what life for
Speaker 1: them like. They might as well be fictional characters to
Speaker 1: her and by the sounds of things, to below Nancy Pelosi,
Speaker 1: even on the sliding scale of how people are doing like,
Speaker 1: they're not. They're not the most hied up for it either,
Speaker 1: Like to below Nancy Pelosi is Jason Derulo, Like that's
Speaker 1: that's where it ends, you know, and it's And the
Speaker 1: other thing is to like, even if you have experienced, uh,
Speaker 1: like some bit of like upward mobility economically, chances are
Speaker 1: if you started at a certain place and worked amongst
Speaker 1: people who were like actually working people too, you can
Speaker 1: sometimes you can take those things with you most of
Speaker 1: the time, unless you're decades removed. But this is the
Speaker 1: other thing too. We have so many people who just
Speaker 1: come out of this like I went to Harvard and
Speaker 1: now I'm in like office, I'm a lawyer. I'm a
Speaker 1: businessperson that the sense of like what it means to
Speaker 1: like earn money in the same way that you know,
Speaker 1: nineties seven percent of the country does is just completely
Speaker 1: abstract to a lot of these people as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There their main concern is people thinking that they earned
Speaker 1: the money that they inherited and like making it seem
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, that's what they're about, not where their
Speaker 1: next meal is coming from. It's impossible for them to
Speaker 1: actually understand the value of money, like yes, the numbers,
Speaker 1: a number twelve or six hundred is just an abstract
Speaker 1: notion to them. It's like, yeah, was what was the
Speaker 1: politician who was like throw away your iPhone and by
Speaker 1: more milk or something like? He just had such a
Speaker 1: skewed concept of how much things cost. I feel like
Speaker 1: it might be but a few ways. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: Wilbur Ross was. I think Wilbur Ross seems like that
Speaker 1: probably came out of him because he was one of
Speaker 1: like had a can of beans and he was like
Speaker 1: you like you probably purely comedically in a in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: I do enjoy it when they when you know, people
Speaker 1: do these big sort of staged bits. It takes you know,
Speaker 1: it takes courage to get up there with a can
Speaker 1: of beans and yeah, you're prepared peace, especially for someone
Speaker 1: like him, who's like a just so wealthy. Like to him,
Speaker 1: it's so abstract. He's like, what are those poor people batteries?
Speaker 1: I mean canned food. Another great example of this is
Speaker 1: when Mitt Romney was asked what his favorite meat is
Speaker 1: and he says, my favorite meat is hot dog. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's like, obviously not man, Obviously that's not the case
Speaker 1: because you don't even know how to use that now
Speaker 1: in a sentence. My favorite meat is hot dog. I
Speaker 1: love that. Yeah, software needs an update. Alright, let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about Donald Trump still in the White House. The
Speaker 1: further we get from you know, him actually not being
Speaker 1: a lamb duck, the the more surreal it seems to
Speaker 1: me that he is still in the White House, uh
Speaker 1: and just completely disconnected from reality, still has access to, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, being the commander in chief of the biggest
Speaker 1: military in the history of the world. Uh. He So
Speaker 1: it's being reported he's having a hard time with his
Speaker 1: election loss. Should not be surprising to uh anyone, but
Speaker 1: the based on how he's been tweeting, what he's been
Speaker 1: saying to his followers the it's always a surprise how
Speaker 1: he you know where his tempered tantrums take him though. Uh.
Speaker 1: And right now the focus of his energy seems to
Speaker 1: be um claiming he's not going to leave the White House. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then also talking about you know, pardoning everybody. Uh.
Speaker 1: Four things that he claims they didn't do but would
Speaker 1: have to admit they did in the case of his kids,
Speaker 1: are like for what crimes or even other people. He's like,
Speaker 1: I can get you a pardon. They're like, I didn't
Speaker 1: do anything. You want one? And he's like, no, you're
Speaker 1: not understanding. That's not it's not like a card I
Speaker 1: cold onto for later in life, Like I didn't. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I've not committed a crime, all right, But he's I
Speaker 1: think one. It's a couple of things, right, They're all
Speaker 1: this fucking scumbag scammers just smell the blood in the water.
Speaker 1: And apparently like if you have even like the most
Speaker 1: tenuous connection or link to the administration, your phone has
Speaker 1: been blowing up from like just the most unsavory characters
Speaker 1: begging to try and get you to get their case
Speaker 1: in front of the administration for a pardon and it's there.
Speaker 1: You know, they're saying it. It's just an absolute, just chaotic,
Speaker 1: uh moment right now in the White House. And the
Speaker 1: President is like really loving it too, because it's like
Speaker 1: the one few things like in his like quiver of
Speaker 1: like power moves he has left and so he's just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can do that. I can hook that up. And
Speaker 1: we're already seeing there's already investigations into you know, bribes
Speaker 1: for pardons schemes, so I can only imagine two with
Speaker 1: him on the way out. This is also a sellable thing.
Speaker 1: Like if I was, if I was a scumbag like him,
Speaker 1: and maybe I am, I would start being like, okay,
Speaker 1: low key, like, um, you need to talk to somebody else.
Speaker 1: I can get you that pardon, but you need to
Speaker 1: put a hundred thousand dollars in this bank account and
Speaker 1: then you can just start making you walk out of
Speaker 1: there like fucking you know, twenty million rich or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I think that's one of the other things that
Speaker 1: people are sort of looking into. But you know, right now,
Speaker 1: they say the count is around two dozen people in
Speaker 1: his orbit that he's talking about giving pardons to, and
Speaker 1: one of them is Alan Weisselberg. Who was think the
Speaker 1: CFO at the Trump organization, here's the guy who's behind
Speaker 1: all the checks, like the hush money payments. Um, he's
Speaker 1: also the one who they who was involved in the
Speaker 1: New York Times investigation. Right, Yeah, he was kind of
Speaker 1: their main source of documents. Right, So maybe he could
Speaker 1: get a pardon because that will help the president. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, you know, like when you get a pardon,
Speaker 1: or like when you're issuing a pardon, you have to
Speaker 1: write the crimes in which they are being a pardoned for.
Speaker 1: So if that was a bribery hush money scheme to
Speaker 1: cover the president's tracks, like, how are you gonna part? All? Right?
Speaker 1: You know what, why don't just go ahead and pardon?
Speaker 1: In man? And I owe you right, it's issuing a
Speaker 1: paton for the idea of a crime. Right, It's like
Speaker 1: a not it type thing. He's not what do you
Speaker 1: mean he's not at it for what? Doing what? Just
Speaker 1: not it? He's on base. Yeah, it's pretty I'll tell
Speaker 1: you who. You don't need to worry about the guy
Speaker 1: right there? Why do you keep bringing this up? Um?
Speaker 1: I would I would be surprised, Not only would I
Speaker 1: be shocked if he isn't doing some shady ship with
Speaker 1: pardons and like accepting money or bribes. I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: if we don't catch him doing that because he's so
Speaker 1: bad at doing things like this. I bet they're on
Speaker 1: stock X right now, Like you can just fucking bid
Speaker 1: on a presidential pardon and like, you know, lowest bid
Speaker 1: right now, forty thousand from you know, wherever the funk.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's I think it's only it's a logical end.
Speaker 1: And the thing with the not leaving on January, that's
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, everyone's like, yeah, he's he's just full
Speaker 1: of ship because that's who he is, and he wants
Speaker 1: to say that tough guy ship. But part of me
Speaker 1: also wants to believe him because it reminds me of
Speaker 1: like those viral videos or like white women like think
Speaker 1: they can like crash their car into a cop car
Speaker 1: and then they're surprised when they're ripped out of the
Speaker 1: fucking driver's seat, but they're like, no, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, I feel like he has that energy
Speaker 1: to where he's gonna be like trying to get me
Speaker 1: the funk out of here, and they're like trying to watch.
Speaker 1: They're like okay, and they're like, he's like one of
Speaker 1: those sovereign citizens in court that like right exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just like but I don't know. I could, I
Speaker 1: honestly could see it going both ways, because if you're
Speaker 1: you're sometimes your ego. Like I think the logic would
Speaker 1: be his ego wouldn't be able to handle being tossed
Speaker 1: out of the White House and the visuals of that.
Speaker 1: But also I don't know if where his ego meets
Speaker 1: the road where it's like, but I also can't handle
Speaker 1: acknowledging the laws and going to Mara Lago and not
Speaker 1: coming back. So we'll see. But I think all eyes
Speaker 1: on Mara Lago when you know, we go into one
Speaker 1: to see how quickly he returns to the Capitol. As
Speaker 1: satisfying as it would be to see him dragged out,
Speaker 1: kicking and screaming with a taser connected to his chest,
Speaker 1: I do worry about what that would do in terms
Speaker 1: of all the people who seem like they're just like
Speaker 1: itching for an excuse to start shooting people in the
Speaker 1: name of like winning the country back. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's gonna be harder to see, like that image would
Speaker 1: be harder to find than like a Rod's like steroid
Speaker 1: chest photos than and you can't find anymore like I
Speaker 1: feel like they would know you can't have like it's
Speaker 1: It would just be too provocative. Yeah, but I would.
Speaker 1: I would spend a lot of time looking for them.
Speaker 1: I mean people already doing like deep fake videos sort
Speaker 1: of imagining it. So you know, if we can live
Speaker 1: through the art um when he does leave the White House,
Speaker 1: the plan has been he changes residency to Florida from
Speaker 1: New York because of the way he was treated in
Speaker 1: New York by people. He claims that he was treated
Speaker 1: very bad, the most unfair anyone's ever been treated in
Speaker 1: New York City. That was pretty good, by the way, chick.
Speaker 1: And this is a quick side, but it really shines
Speaker 1: a lot on what I will miss the most about
Speaker 1: this presidency, which is Felons skating and hysterical take via impression.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean Fallon but you know he's going
Speaker 1: to have a hot take on the Biden presidency. I
Speaker 1: mean the guys, uh, one of our great political minds.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine, Like Foul just outs himself and he's
Speaker 1: doing like way hard like not even like leftist hard like,
Speaker 1: just fox hard like on, Like, what the fun is this?
Speaker 1: I don't know, bred Biden looks like he's really sick. Huh.
Speaker 1: He should probably just handed back over to try. I
Speaker 1: don't know, that's what I would do anyway. Well, here's
Speaker 1: my guitar hurting ding dings. Also, he said he's being
Speaker 1: treated unfairly. Meanwhile, he's the person who called for uh
Speaker 1: the Central Park the guys who were accused of the
Speaker 1: Central Park five demanded that they be executed even after
Speaker 1: it was proven that they did did nothing wrong. So uh,
Speaker 1: interesting double standard there, that's it, guys. I think Trump
Speaker 1: has a double standard. Uh, you heard it here first.
Speaker 1: But so his plan is to move into mar Lago. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that is apparently not legally like he he when
Speaker 1: he bought mar Lago, the neighbors, the people in the
Speaker 1: community did not want him to buy it. He had
Speaker 1: to like do all these different things, including turn it
Speaker 1: into a club. Uh. That and that they like put
Speaker 1: his stipulation and that was like, you can't stay here
Speaker 1: for more than three weeks at a time, like you're
Speaker 1: and more than three weeks out of the year. Uh,
Speaker 1: we we don't like you. Uh. And so he's I
Speaker 1: don't know it's just interesting. I mean he tends to
Speaker 1: you know, use Roy contact X to get whatever he
Speaker 1: wants and these sorts of situations. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: so like becoming the president was the worst career move
Speaker 1: he could have made. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like just
Speaker 1: putting all your ship out there in front of everyone.
Speaker 1: So he could have lived at totally you know, like
Speaker 1: it was still an intolerable prick, but like at least
Speaker 1: a passable life. Is just this caricature of a billionaire
Speaker 1: or a millionaire or whatever. Yeah, it's just made it's
Speaker 1: just made everything so impossible and obviously for so many
Speaker 1: people as well. But just it really got that one wrong,
Speaker 1: really really he beeped that one. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: another quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back.
Speaker 1: And guy, I'm actually curious, what is the like, what
Speaker 1: what are what would you say the national consensus in
Speaker 1: New Zealand is around UFOs aliens like as compared to
Speaker 1: what you've experienced in America. Um, we we just we
Speaker 1: struggled to do anything on the same scale as you guys.
Speaker 1: It's such a nice way of putting it. We don't
Speaker 1: have a roswell um this time last year. Actually I
Speaker 1: visited I was in ros I visited Roswell in New Mexico,
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know that they sort of like, ah,
Speaker 1: people said they saw something that got heavily debunked here
Speaker 1: sixty years ago. Why don't we brand our entire town
Speaker 1: around it here. It's like it's it's probably just, um,
Speaker 1: there's nothing. There's nothing in the mainstream. You know. You
Speaker 1: talked to a few people who do a hobbyists to
Speaker 1: sort of very like low level fringe conspiracy theorists to
Speaker 1: get excited, but it's it's not really a feature of discourse,
Speaker 1: right what about over there? I dabble a little bit
Speaker 1: and there's something there's there's some wild sightings off the
Speaker 1: coast of Australia and now it's Hemisphere. It's it's almost
Speaker 1: like an exit strategy for you guys like this. It's
Speaker 1: only fucking explanation. Um, well, just an update that John O.
Speaker 1: Brennan very close to having my same name was but
Speaker 1: the oh was a middle initial. Um he was CIA
Speaker 1: director under Obama. Uh so completely you know, evil and
Speaker 1: manipulative monster, but someone with the highest security clearance, like
Speaker 1: he probably knows who killed Kennedy and all the where
Speaker 1: all the bodies are buried, all that good stuff. But
Speaker 1: the surprising thing here is not just that he's like
Speaker 1: open to the possibility that UFOs are the result of
Speaker 1: intelligent life, but also like how mysterious and completely wide open.
Speaker 1: The whole thing seems to him like there's At one
Speaker 1: point he says, uh, life besides what's in the States,
Speaker 1: meaning like that other it seems to apply that other
Speaker 1: countries might be aware of different life forms that we're
Speaker 1: not aware of. And then he says that there might
Speaker 1: be life defined in many different ways. Uh, and something
Speaker 1: that we don't yet understand that couldn't involves some type
Speaker 1: of activity that some might say constitute a different form
Speaker 1: of life. So it's like he's opening the door too.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if it's robots or what.
Speaker 1: Like Ted talk at Burning Man director, but he just
Speaker 1: sounds like a great classroom. He legit sounds like us
Speaker 1: when we first saw those videos. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we should be open to everything. Those videos
Speaker 1: are fucking wild man, right right. Essentially, he's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know when people talk about it, is there other
Speaker 1: life besides what's in the states in the world, the globe.
Speaker 1: Life is defined in many different ways. I think it's
Speaker 1: a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that
Speaker 1: there's no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe.
Speaker 1: What that might be is subject to a lot of
Speaker 1: different views. But I think some of the phenomenon we're
Speaker 1: going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might
Speaker 1: in fact be some type of phenomenon, uh that is
Speaker 1: the result of something that we don't yet understand, and
Speaker 1: that could involve some type of activity that some might
Speaker 1: say it constitutes a different form of life. Okay, your
Speaker 1: cryptic fuck as if being the head of the CIA
Speaker 1: wasn't enough, You're like, it might be, couldn't it? Wouldn't
Speaker 1: it be hilarious if like we were just so wrong
Speaker 1: scientifically that like something like oh, yeah, waters aliens what
Speaker 1: they're like? Yeah? What then do you think, like that's
Speaker 1: the whole reason ships popping here is because of water?
Speaker 1: That ship is aliens. That's the aliens, the water drinking aliens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my body is aliens. Alien. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, I don't that the way he's speaking
Speaker 1: and it's almost like his mind has been fucked, Like
Speaker 1: he's totally at his mind blown, like someone who's like
Speaker 1: just has like the calm of like seeing like zooming
Speaker 1: out to a point where you're like, honestly, man like
Speaker 1: clothes don't even fucking matter, dude, after the ship. It's
Speaker 1: real high a plane of conscious, this sort of galaxy
Speaker 1: brain stuff, right, It's like hearing anyone who is a
Speaker 1: very specific expert at a thing try and explain it
Speaker 1: to you in layman's terms, and you're like that. You
Speaker 1: can see that their brain is working over time to
Speaker 1: try and articulate it in a way that's accessible, but
Speaker 1: what comes out is just completely fails. Like there's no
Speaker 1: there's no forced salads going out to your sides. A
Speaker 1: word salad where the cruton is the word phenomenon. He
Speaker 1: use the word phenomenon like every couple of bites of
Speaker 1: that phenomenon. If you take the phenomenon out, it would
Speaker 1: just be a wit myth. The CIA, did you know,
Speaker 1: during the Cold War have a habit of dosing each
Speaker 1: other with lsd uh for you know, as a bit
Speaker 1: kind of uh and also because they thought it a
Speaker 1: way to control people's mind. Yeah, but uh, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe maybe he's dabbled. It sounds a little bit like
Speaker 1: somebody here does. Yeah, like you said, had their third
Speaker 1: eye opened a little bit, right, it's a guy who
Speaker 1: came back from a shroom trip for the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like really just even decided to like look at
Speaker 1: a problem with this set, like with this vocabulary of
Speaker 1: just being like, you know, when someone goes like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's weird, Like some people call it pain,
Speaker 1: and I realized, if you zoom out a bit, it's
Speaker 1: a sensation. And then from there we fork off to
Speaker 1: say whether or not that sensation is pleasure or pain.
Speaker 1: So I take a view even further back that that
Speaker 1: sensation not pain. And this guy's like, you know, this
Speaker 1: first line that he says, I think it's important for
Speaker 1: analysts to do. The important thing for analysts to do
Speaker 1: is not go uh into this type of challenge, either
Speaker 1: discounting certain types of possibilities or believing in advance that
Speaker 1: is likely X, Y or Z. It's that's such a
Speaker 1: good articulation of Hallucinogens's just like it's just a person
Speaker 1: pushing zoom out on the epispice of of life, and
Speaker 1: some people I just get they think it caught on
Speaker 1: the zoom out button. They're like, get your the command
Speaker 1: minus key. You know, the text is too small now
Speaker 1: if anyone wants to I think one thing we're learning
Speaker 1: here is that if anyone wants to immobilize John O'Brennan
Speaker 1: or render him moot for like seven months, they just
Speaker 1: have to introduce him to the Joe Rogan podcast, because
Speaker 1: this motherfucker would love the Joe Rogan or he's like
Speaker 1: too hard for Rogan. He goes on there, goes dude,
Speaker 1: you're full of ship. Dude, you don't even you fucking no,
Speaker 1: you're out here with your fucking Navy seals who run marathons.
Speaker 1: You're fucking stupid. Man, what's this podcast even? You? Fuck?
Speaker 1: I can't be here, man, I can't even be here
Speaker 1: right now with this ship. I know, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I talked to this journalist who I want to He's
Speaker 1: like a historian journalist who I want to develop a
Speaker 1: podcast with, and ahead of our call, he had like
Speaker 1: clearly just like tread less the podcast a couple of
Speaker 1: times for the first time, and that was his exact vibe.
Speaker 1: He's like, Joe, listen to Joe Rogan. What the fund
Speaker 1: is that? Like, it's just so unimpressed. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we wouldn't we wouldn't do that necessarily. But he's like,
Speaker 1: what the fund is that? Man, that's the future exactly.
Speaker 1: Ship Elon Musk smoked a blunt on their can dog.
Speaker 1: Who Um, let's talk about America's favorite Gatorade flavor and
Speaker 1: our favorite gatorade flavors. Um, do you guys uh funk
Speaker 1: with Gatorade? In New Zealand? We got we sort of?
Speaker 1: They like fringe drinks here. Power Ride is the sort
Speaker 1: of um is our vision that we will we really
Speaker 1: behind and get behind. I'm sure that they're exactly the
Speaker 1: same drink um pretty similar. I think is actually a
Speaker 1: little sweeter. Oh yeah, you guys go pow right there
Speaker 1: as well? Oh yeah yeah yeah because because that's a
Speaker 1: Coca Cola company, Because I think is pepsi big in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. Uh it's over there, but um yeah, Powerade
Speaker 1: here is like all of our you know, Gatorades. All
Speaker 1: the athletes over there, they love to drink Gatorade, according
Speaker 1: to the commercials enhance us their performance. The same is
Speaker 1: true for Powerade in New Zealand. Have you believe every
Speaker 1: professional athlete is living on a diet. But if you
Speaker 1: breakfast cereal and powerade. But you watch professional sports, they're
Speaker 1: never drinking Gatorade. Like the physios are like handing them
Speaker 1: like these pouches that you could never buy in a
Speaker 1: store and to like drink three. Now, yeah, like we
Speaker 1: can't sell that ship to normans. If they have that
Speaker 1: kind of hydration, you're a high performance Actually you need
Speaker 1: this other ship. But well, I love about the list
Speaker 1: of flavor names that Gatorade has is that, um, a
Speaker 1: lot of these are not flavors. They are not defined flavors. Right,
Speaker 1: So this article in the Takeout the Great Food blog,
Speaker 1: they got an email from like a Gatorade rep who
Speaker 1: just kind of wanted to like hit him with some
Speaker 1: inside knowledge. Now I don't know how you know reliable
Speaker 1: this is, but according to them, this was someone from
Speaker 1: Gatorade who they they said was giving them this information
Speaker 1: about the favorite flavors of Americans of Gatorade. And in
Speaker 1: order of least popular to most popular, it's orange, then
Speaker 1: glacier freeze, then lemon lime fruit punch, and then the
Speaker 1: number one flavor cool blue. Wow. That that's those are
Speaker 1: that's not least popular overall, that's the top five most popular.
Speaker 1: And so you started this, this rep from Yeah Gatorade
Speaker 1: is saying, that's the ones that Americans like. We're like
Speaker 1: in order of what we have to put out to
Speaker 1: keep up with people. People are loving the funk out
Speaker 1: of that blue gatorade. That's incredible. Only two of those
Speaker 1: are sort of clearly defined flavors. One of them is
Speaker 1: the idea of a drink, and two of them are
Speaker 1: just an edjective and a noun. I gotta say, I
Speaker 1: like there are sometimes glacier freeze is also blue. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the difference is between cool blue and
Speaker 1: glacier freeze. They're both blue flavors, but glacier freeze. Geidor
Speaker 1: Right is one of the few benefits of global women.
Speaker 1: They runoff from glaciers are melting and they bottle it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's millions of years old. I'm like, personally, the only
Speaker 1: Gateorade I buy are the ones that are like the
Speaker 1: half water half Gateorad's like, they're like lower calorie, lower
Speaker 1: gatorade content his his an ideagic. A regular bottle of
Speaker 1: Guidor right and twice doesn't hit the same the same,
Speaker 1: and they also have a fierce grape version that I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know that My statement doesn't make sense. Yeah
Speaker 1: that what you're saying is agro was the fierce flavors
Speaker 1: were little too much for me when they came out.
Speaker 1: I was like, easy, Gatorade, we get it, like your
Speaker 1: fierce as ship. But for me, lemon ice is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite Gatorade flavors. I don't it's hard to
Speaker 1: find now, um, but it's like I remember that was
Speaker 1: like the fucking ship in the nineties when it came out,
Speaker 1: because it was like it was clear as water, but
Speaker 1: it had that like refreshing lemon flavor then. But right now,
Speaker 1: my favorites are mango and limon pepino. The lime cucumber
Speaker 1: one is probably now, without a doubt, my favorite gatorade flavor.
Speaker 1: If it's never oh yeah, yeah, you gotta have it,
Speaker 1: it's it's fantastic, is it? Is It more mild than
Speaker 1: your other traditional gatorade flavors, Like the fly is stronger,
Speaker 1: but the white I've it text your mouth is more
Speaker 1: like it's isn't the flavor rather than like syrup? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's still built for the North American palette. So it's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's about as subtle as a American comedy, but like
Speaker 1: you know, it's still comparatively, it's it's a departure because
Speaker 1: like you can you can tell they're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: actually like they're kind of the cucumber flavors coming through
Speaker 1: on that, and I think most people, like if you
Speaker 1: don't culturally used to having cucumber or whatever all the time,
Speaker 1: like fun that, I give me blue. I want blue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely also lemon lime gang I like. And there's
Speaker 1: also something about the blue stuff, like something about that
Speaker 1: adventure golf tinge water that just like tells my brain
Speaker 1: I should be refreshed. Yeah, it's like it's the color
Speaker 1: I would color in water when I was like doing
Speaker 1: coloring books as a five year old, and so it's
Speaker 1: like my brain just wants that to be the color
Speaker 1: of refreshment. And then yeah, and well like the the
Speaker 1: only power ride flavor I would even really remember, craving.
Speaker 1: I don't know when I last hid it is the blue.
Speaker 1: I think it's called mountain blast here, yes, you know,
Speaker 1: because it's like your blasting a mountain or whatever the hell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: removal coal mine but if you if you're like, if
Speaker 1: you're severely like dehydrated. For me, the exercise or um
Speaker 1: perhaps over indulging the night before, I can still imagine
Speaker 1: a world in which I crave a blue an ice
Speaker 1: cold blue powered. Yeah, that's funny. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: that's still one time I'll look at blue and be like,
Speaker 1: I'll entertain it is a hangover because I don't know it.
Speaker 1: I think, to Jack's point, like I have this association
Speaker 1: of like, that's water, that's like the that's the essence
Speaker 1: of water. Blue. That's why I naturally impossible color is
Speaker 1: what I'm connecting with hydrationed water. Yeah, that's why the
Speaker 1: capitalist geniuses at Adventure Golf decided to color their water
Speaker 1: that color, because they just boiled it down. Um. Barbicide
Speaker 1: also should not be that color. Very tempting. I find
Speaker 1: myself just sitting there when I'm getting my hair cut,
Speaker 1: just fantasizing about gulping the whole thing down. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I said I don't go to Whole Foods.
Speaker 1: But the reason I don't go to Whole Foods is
Speaker 1: I'm banned because I drink all the wind necks when
Speaker 1: I'm there. Because I'm like, give me, you can't tell me.
Speaker 1: And finally, there is a charity auction on the horizon
Speaker 1: that might might be worthy of of our attention. They
Speaker 1: might be offering people like most of those dogshit charity
Speaker 1: auctions exactly fuck charity. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small announced
Speaker 1: that the Trump demolition auction will be going forward. The
Speaker 1: proceeds from the winning bid will go to the Boys
Speaker 1: and Girls Club, which provides the host of after school
Speaker 1: educational training programs for young people in Atlantic City. And
Speaker 1: what you get if you if you win this auction
Speaker 1: is the ability to blow up the Trump hotels. Yeah
Speaker 1: in Atlantic City, fucking you for whatever they're hoping they're
Speaker 1: gonna get around. They're hoping it's at least a million dollars,
Speaker 1: Like they get to at least a million in the
Speaker 1: bidding war for this thing. But you will get to
Speaker 1: push push the button, um like basically implode the fucking
Speaker 1: Trump Plaza. Barning or earning thanks shout out to the
Speaker 1: Chemical Brothers was um Atlantic City. Was the Casino e
Speaker 1: Stida which lost money, right, yeah, like all of them.
Speaker 1: But that is it's just like it is, you know,
Speaker 1: it is almost inspiring. The incompetence. You have to have
Speaker 1: to sit up a casino and then immediately lose. It's
Speaker 1: like the house always wins unless the real dumbasses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can like see you can see this game occurring
Speaker 1: to him, and you can see him being like, well
Speaker 1: this is a short thing, and people saying it's not
Speaker 1: that easy, and he goes, who's gonna know more about this? U?
Speaker 1: And then now you can blow the thing up for charity. Well,
Speaker 1: the Trump Plaza has been in bad shape for like
Speaker 1: a minute, so if I think would feel much, you know,
Speaker 1: it would be feel a lot better to blow up
Speaker 1: like the Trump Tower in New York. But you know
Speaker 1: that's for another auction down the road when someone buys
Speaker 1: that because he isn't crippling debt. So who knows, you know,
Speaker 1: you might who by the end of this we may
Speaker 1: be able to buy some of these properties to tear
Speaker 1: them down ourselves. Um. But yeah, it's been in some
Speaker 1: pretty awful shape and like parts of they they're sending
Speaker 1: get kind of giving a caveat there, like, look, we
Speaker 1: know it's kind of fucked up already, so it's it
Speaker 1: might not feel as good as blown up the whole thing.
Speaker 1: If we're intact, but you still get to blow up
Speaker 1: like a big chunk of it and you'll see the
Speaker 1: name come down and all that. So please please don't name.
Speaker 1: It's the funny thing that he like, Trump's auctioning off
Speaker 1: pardons and other people are just auctioning off ship he
Speaker 1: used to own the ability to blow up his name.
Speaker 1: The circle of life. Yeah, I mean, who knows. I mean,
Speaker 1: the way this country operates, they might be doing this
Speaker 1: to distract the people from the fact that they aren't
Speaker 1: actually going to try and bring any kind of justice
Speaker 1: for all of the transgressions and crimes he committed while
Speaker 1: in office and before, Like it'll be like, oh yeah, look,
Speaker 1: look we we can't. We got to heal the nation.
Speaker 1: But you guys can funk up the Trump Tower with
Speaker 1: pick axes this Monday, uh, like, for fucking three hours.
Speaker 1: Just go fucking wild with it, because we obviously don't
Speaker 1: have the resolve to actually, you know, protect the country
Speaker 1: UTU transgressors. Yeah, what are you gonna do? Guy? It
Speaker 1: has been a pleasure as always having you on the
Speaker 1: daily zeitgeist? Where can people find you? Follow you? Experience here?
Speaker 1: If you use Twitter or Instagram and you punching at
Speaker 1: guy Underscore montmo Int. You will be treated to a
Speaker 1: peppering of my musings and photographs. Um, and it's as always.
Speaker 1: I got to tell you, it's high quality stuff. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of people run a perfect Twitter account and
Speaker 1: somehow there I am, is there a Twitter some of
Speaker 1: the work of social media you have been enjoying. There
Speaker 1: was actually a tweet that's hopefully it hasn't already been covered,
Speaker 1: but it's it ties them with the Joe Rogan podcast thing,
Speaker 1: which was by a guy called Patrick Monaghan at Petty
Speaker 1: mo and it's Joe Rogan. Yeah, I read a thing
Speaker 1: about this. There's a lot of noise around Christmas and
Speaker 1: hoovill and it's a problem. That's right, Joe Rogan. Ah,
Speaker 1: oh Ship Miles. Where can people find you? With tweet?
Speaker 1: You been enjoy Twitter, Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also, uh,
Speaker 1: the other pod. I'm on a few podcasts this week
Speaker 1: aside from four Fiance Talking ninety Day, I'm on will
Speaker 1: You Accept This Rose Art and Marines Show with like
Speaker 1: Fortune Feamster and Scott Ackerman. They somehow let me up
Speaker 1: in the mix with those two people, and also on
Speaker 1: Bechdel Cast with Jamie and Caitlin Durante talking about was
Speaker 1: this Christmas, Yes, the movie This Christmas with Delroy Lindo
Speaker 1: and all all kinds of people. Uh, some tweets that
Speaker 1: I'm liking. Me let me just run down the list here. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is from Derek at Derek five through three zero
Speaker 1: zero five. I wonder if that's his name from the
Speaker 1: value on my hall aret too. Uh. He says COVID
Speaker 1: has ruined doing push ups on the gas station floor
Speaker 1: to show the gas station employee that you are strong.
Speaker 1: I agree with that has ruined that. And then another
Speaker 1: person not here in New Zealand still doing that every
Speaker 1: day petrol station push up contest. That's a called petrol stations, right,
Speaker 1: don't you ever there exactly because they put patrol in
Speaker 1: the cause. Uh So the next tweet I like is
Speaker 1: from at thick vic uh quote tweeting something from Tyler Perry.
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry took out like a mirror sofie where he's
Speaker 1: just like jacked, like clearly was just working out in
Speaker 1: like a very tight under armour shirt with his muscles bulging,
Speaker 1: and Tyler Perry tweeting, this is what a midlife crisis
Speaker 1: looks like ifty one single and wondering what the next
Speaker 1: chapter of my life will look like. Whatever, it looks like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk with God and be the best father.
Speaker 1: And it's like a thread. And then thick Vic tweets
Speaker 1: if you've got a billion dollars and no hose, that's
Speaker 1: on you, Tyler, Um, that's funny calling him Tyler without
Speaker 1: the Tyler Perry is Yeah, that actually sounded really weird.
Speaker 1: Always a white person, Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And Tyler Perry is the one, like we have to
Speaker 1: modify it with that to make like this right, Tyler
Speaker 1: Perry the black man, not any Tyler who. Everyone close
Speaker 1: your eyes when I say Tyler, what do you see?
Speaker 1: Because it's not Tyler And I say Tyler, you say
Speaker 1: lacrosse Tyler. Yeah, I see some muscle bound, red heated guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, uh terrifying. Oh you can open your eyes, guy,
Speaker 1: yeah you look No, no, no, I'm quite liking this
Speaker 1: because one single tear streaming down is either interesting. H
Speaker 1: tweet I've been enjoying from Grace Spellman. She tweeted me
Speaker 1: gender is a social construct me to my cat, Mr sir,
Speaker 1: you were just a little boy who is a man boy. Uh.
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Speaker 1: to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
Speaker 1: as well as the song we ride out on miles
Speaker 1: What are we riding into this afternoon upon? I guess
Speaker 1: the weekend to write, not just that the weekend? Uh,
Speaker 1: this track is the week A bitch out of tune. Um.
Speaker 1: So this is a track by Nate Mercero called This
Speaker 1: Simulation is a Good One. Very interesting title because like
Speaker 1: the vibe is very like sort of like new jazzy,
Speaker 1: almost sounds like loading screen music from like Ridge Racer
Speaker 1: from the like if it had way more swag, Like
Speaker 1: it's got this very familiar, like sort of cheesy equality
Speaker 1: to it, but also rhythmically it's like super on point
Speaker 1: and it just it feels like like swaggy elevator music
Speaker 1: and I love it. So this is Nate mercer Ro
Speaker 1: with really apt title actually titled This Simulation is a
Speaker 1: Good One. That is a great title. Reminds me of
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