Corporate Overlord Saviors? COVID Mascots! 3.26.21

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, seventy six,
Episode five of The Guys start production of by Heart Radio.
This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
into America's shared consciousness. It is Friday, March one. My
name is Jack O'Brien. A K. If I get lazy,
then will you still call me Jack O'Brien. If we're

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at Taco Bell, will you be there holding my blast,
I'll show you blind and white with my pasty hume
and thighs as daily'sight. Uh. That is courtesy of the Brew,
k Roger and Johnny Davis all on the discord, and

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I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host,
Mr Miles Grass. When I first met Dack, didn't lie,
could not forget pim or his white eyes. He introduced

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me to the same guys, and so I gave him
a contact high. Oh yeah, whoa god damn call me
the husband of another weird person. Ozzy Osborne is shout

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out to Christie. Almost chie made from that. There's something
it's so so savage checks. They're so simple and they
make your fucking kneecaps to shoot off. There's a real
driving energy they're like driving, although I guess in my
new favorite sport f one it is driving energy. Uh well,

(01:54):
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the agent of Yas himself. He is the hilarious,
the talented. It took us fifteen minutes to just start
recording this podcast. Too much chaos, too much, too much
to talk about the bullshit about. He is Mr Blake
Wexla a k a. The Randy Moss of Chaos a

(02:20):
k a. The Lord of Discord a k A. Mr
Mess a k a. The Horder of Disorder a k a.
The Mistress of lawlessness. Soil me with turmoil. Please, it's
Blake Wexler. It's good to see you guys. Thank you.
Soil me with turmoil please? Yes, yes, daddy, Yes. It
reads like those old Jake and Emuir scrolls that I

(02:44):
stole word for word act And I ask you, will
that be a problem for the past. That's like Drake.
You know you're honoring the mcs before you by just
killing out and exactly that every famous Uh no, no,
that's that would have happened by now for me. So

(03:05):
just like Drake, I will not be famous. Um Blake
you're telling us before when I was prepping. I think
it was my fifth rendition of of the a K.
Everybody should know that I do extensive vocal warm ups
and then rehearsals before we start recording. But you were

(03:25):
saying that three doors down our ship beag Trump supporters. Yes, yes,
of course they played the inauguration. I know that Jet
me up for a joke, and I chose not to
do it because he can never meet your heroes. Confused
the thing I said, they Hey, man, I can't be
expected to remember who in this three personal conversations that

(03:47):
we're talking about, how these things evolved on discord k
Roger at the end, sid and all done without mentioning
their ship back Trump supporters from three doors down from
insanity if you ask me that, uh there is that
let him only if you ask me cool and we didn't.
But yet you said it anything yet here here we
are alright, Blake, We're gonna get to know you a

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little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell
the listeners the things we would have talked about if
it was a normal episode. Uh, we would have talked
about Facebook wanting to help formally incarcerated people. We would
have talked about, uh, whether whether we need better gun control. Uh.

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We'll talk about the filibuster, Joe's big, big press conference
yesterday where he was noncommittal and just soothingly noncommittal. Uh.
We'll talk about apparently, Uh my four year old's fan
fiction is now. Uh my four year old is writing

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the news because there is a giant ship that has
blocked the Suez Canal and uh, they're using like big
ships and tug boats try and get it loose. It's
a It is his his dream news story. Would you
say there's trouble in the Suez? Would you first do
that way? Trouble in the Suez is actually how I

(05:14):
would phrase it. Okay, now I understand the gravity of
the situation. Uh Man. We'll also talk about the we
probably will get to this one jar rule selling the
Firefest logo as an n f t all of that.
We might even get to a vaccine mascot or two,

(05:36):
uh plenty more. But first, Blake, we like to ask
our guests, what is something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are? Do Vitamin D hills work
is i've i've i've i've hit quite the the D deficiency.
Um since since I've been on the East Coast and

(05:58):
I also had it on the West Coast. It's like, well,
if you're going to be vitamin D deficient in southern California,
then I think that's just what the rest of your
life is going to look like. But I can't get
it right here. But if you can't get it there, man,
so uh, maybe I'm getting some some raids from your
your star glow, the glow of your stars on this
podcast right now, so I feel like the levels skyrocketing.

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But um, it's mixed. Uh, there's no answer on this
where docts. Some doctors say that it does work. Studies
also say that vitamin D pills don't work. Supplements I
think might be a better way of saying that. So
I'm I'm I'm at a loss. I might just take
them and see if they work. It's the same thing.
What about like ingesting them, like where they're naturally occurring

(06:40):
as like nutrients. Oh but that sounds like more than
I'm willing to well. As long as we do, as
long as we ironed that part out, where do we
get vitamin D? I have iron? I'm sorry that you're
asking you no, no, which from the sun? Oh, that's
from the sun. Yeah, usually getting it from the sun,
but you get it from like I know, it's always
like dairy and like like fatty fish. Ship you can

(07:02):
get it because I remember when I went to the
for a checkup, like in the middle of lockdown. The
doctor was like, I'm seeing this with everyone and you
normally aren't vitamin D to fishing, but you need your
your levels to going down. Okay, I'll just tell my
doctor Miles that I'm gonna go get a fat fish.
That sounds like great advice, thank you. Yeah, exactly, Dude,
come on to my new food truck, fat fish, dude,

(07:22):
fat fish. Trying to look on a genius because there
there is that Beyonce Laric he wants he wants to
give me the vitamin D. I just want to find
out where she's getting that from and then I can
maybe a recommendation thank you to you. Okay, yeah, just
reach out to this this guy, Shawn Carter and ask

(07:45):
him to give you the vitamin D. And it seems
like he'll Hi, I'm looking for a jam and I'm
here for the vitamin D injection. Hey, I'm the guy
with the skin that's getting really pale and it makes
me not healthy. J Can I call you Ja, that's good,
I can call me Dr D, dr D dr D

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to you, my man? Uh, why why do you think?
Is it just not going outside? Not ever seen in
the sunlight? What's going on? Why why we so D deficient?
That would vibe with my general my outgoing You know
persona that I don't go outside, but I am quite
I'm outside quite a lot, So I don't know. It's

(08:27):
it's been happening for a couple of years. Like literally,
I'll go biking every single day for like an hour
and a half and it's still it's still not happening
for me. So you are going to right, yes, and
during the summer that it heats up, like the sunburn
that I get is I'll say, off putting. I'll say,
it's very upsetting. I look like a fish. I look

(08:47):
like one of those fish that Miles recommends to everybody
to eat fish. Yeah, they like it can happen from
not enough sunlight or maybe your if your skin, if
you're like melon, you have too much melanin, are not
making as much vitamin D. It can be a number
of things, you know, for maybe your body doesn't absorb
it properly, so I should figure this out. It manifests

(09:08):
itself as like you become Mr Glass from just chattering,
from unbreakable, but emotionally only emotionally anything that comes out
of emotional very emotionally fragile. From this blake. What's something
you think is overrated? Overrated? I'm gonna go with Francis

(09:28):
Scott Key, and I just, first of all, I'm like,
because you know the whole story war of eighteen twelve
and eighteen fourteen, he was he was an American. By
the way, this is funny to be. I looked up
Francis Scott Key, and the thing that comes up on
Google as his job isn't guy who penned the Star
Spangled banner. It just says American lawyer, which I thought was, Yeah,

(09:52):
it's like, all right, I guess s c O for
Francis Scott Key. But he uh, he was doing a
prisoner exchange a board of British ship, as lawyers are
want to do, and he figured out or he saw
like their plans to like bombard this harbor, so they
didn't let him off the boat until after the bombardment,
so you stuck on this boat and just like I

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just for the lyrics, don't hold up to me for
that song. And then also I'm more of like in America,
the beautiful type person you know, call me, call me nuts.
And if I was in jail, I would do some
push ups, you know, like not like I would get
in shape, not do like a side hoppy. Does that
make sense? So I think the whole Francis Scott's key

(10:34):
thing is it's not even so you're saying, since he
was locked down on that ship, he should have been
doing burpies in the yard right, not sitting there writing
music and racist as poems. I agree, become our national anthem.
I'm looking on his Wikipedia page. There's he has his
own coat of arms, and it's probably one of the
most disappointing looking coat of arms I've ever seen, because

(10:58):
it's like a really bland shield with two like horizontal
or diagonal black stripes like a white shield, two solid
diagonal black lines your usual filigree around the side. Then
you have a night helmet with like a griffin head
on top with a key in its mouth. It's so

(11:21):
fucking get it, like it is he saying get it key,
like out of a word balloon. Well even is kind
of pointing to itself with like lifted yeah, st what
now griffin? No, Scott funk, I knew the griffin was

(11:43):
a bad idea. It kind of looks like a lama too.
Mm hmmm. I like having a logo for your family.
A coat of arms is almost always disappointing, you know,
like it's never like you could choose anything like that.
That guy wasn't a night you know what I mean,
you could put anything on it, and that's what he chose.
It's like it kind of just the resurgence of coat
of arms is like my favorite thing is like you know,

(12:06):
be like the sort of Western European answer to like
ancient calligraphy or foreign languages or like yeah, this is
actually my history. This is the coat of arms for
the McMahon family. And it's like very in depth and
I'm like, okay, that's cool, and it's it always it
just yeah, it looks like a logo for a boarding
school always, you know, and it's never like at least

(12:27):
like in Japan, there's like mung or like Common which
is your family, like Crest and there's a lot of
cool ones that are like coming out of you know,
depending on where your family was at in that period. Uh.
And like when I found mine, I was like all
about that because this is my coat of arms, because
I was yelling at my Scottish friend who was showing
me his, and I felt disappointed there wasn't one for Japan.

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But anyway, I think mine is the three Fans. If
you're interested, mits mine is three Lions, which perfectly matches
up with my dynamic and tenacious personality. But I am
a Leo, so that it does kind of work like that. Yeah,

(13:09):
oh yours. It is actually three lines for the O'Brien thee. Yeah,
just three guys named Brian. Yeah, and they're like kind
of doing a like weird pose, like it almost seems
like they're doing the um the teen Wolf dance. Oh yeah,
that's how I've always interpreted it. Mind's a street sign

(13:31):
that just says rough road ahead. They give you that
when you're born, Yeah, a little bit by family. Oh yeah, well,
it's been a tough couple of centuries for the Wexlers.
It's just an expiration date. It says, uh, March expire.

(13:53):
So I don't know what that is. What do you
guys think it means? I don't know, we'll see soon,
very soon. Yeah, that's up there with like name name
meaning with like a thing that people think is significant
that probably was made up in like the seventies by
someone who is selling T shirts. Yeah that and like
any stupid as gift shop of a meaningless place that

(14:16):
shouldn't have a gift shops. Always like, look what your
name means, right, It's like means follower of Christ, soldier, dedicated,
and like what the fun? But there's so many like
contradictory and like just so many different meanings for literally
every name. But people are like, I like this one.

(14:37):
I like this possible name for my child because it
means a beautiful princess of the flowers. It's like I've
also seen where it means uh island that garlic comes from.
So which is actually the meaning of Ramsey, which is
one of my kid's names, actually does come from Latin

(14:57):
of soldier a Remember, seeing then, I was like, I
ain't a soldier, bro, Yeah, Miles is too cool and named.
I'm a deserter bro smoking weed. While everybody's like, you know,
doing where I'm like, yeah, I'm sorry. I was way
too intense for me. Right now, I'm a deserter or
through and through desert. I'm eating dessert all the time.

(15:18):
It's it's a great community. Oh yeah, very yeah, just
you know, bad teeth though a lot of sugar, a
lot of cavities. Actually, when I look up the meaning
of my name, it just says let like jacking off,
you know, Oh my god, that's that's surprising. I was
I thought would be less literal than that. Yeah, that's

(15:41):
pretty on the nose, you know, like jacking off Blake.
What is something you think is underrated? Another? I gotta
go to Francis route again, different spelling. Francis McDormand a
just incredible. We watched a nomad Land last night and

(16:01):
I just loved it, just loved it. Loved Francis McDorman.
It's just anything McDormand is in. I just call anything
McDorman f dot McDorman is in, uh like Olive Kidderidge was.
Also they're all like very like kind of emotionally like
gut wrenching movies a little bit. But um, I love
Francis McDorman. Yeah, she's so good or not and she

(16:24):
won an Academy award, didn't she? Oh not enough for
for far ago. I think, yeah, I'm just okay, I'm
you know, not to like dive in. And where do
you think she needs to be at, you know, in
terms of her being underrated, like she's saying, huh renamed
after her? Yes, also a street. That's how I speak.
I'm the worst game. I speak to one word. And

(16:47):
but what do you think, um road, I was asking
you whether or not it was useful to debate whether
or not we're debating if I hate crime is a
hate crime, and you just said street, I said, yeah,
And I think you know what I mean. Yeah. Oh,
do I have to elaborate? Oh, I understand. Look to
the people on the ground, who are the ones most
affected by two, then determine what the effect is on

(17:09):
their given community to the pavement. Yeah, of course, But
I don't elaborate as a matter of policy, I think
she should be up there, or I think McDorman should
be up there with Meryl Streep. Yeah, that's just that's
just And I only know everything about acting, So go
ahead and disagree with me if you'd like. Um, I
do the fact that most of the people in that

(17:32):
movie are not actors, is uh? They say, people who
actually do know stuff about acting, who uh is not
me say that, you know, like that is you're you're
only as good as your scene partner or whatever, and
like she just raises the level of every like there's
not a single point in the movie where like that

(17:55):
that is clearly a person trying to be in a
movie who doesn't act. Like there, Yeah, it was really
authentic throughout. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Yeah, it's because
to the point where I'm like, are these people actors there?
But it was the author It wasn't that they were
not good at acting. It was just that, like there

(18:15):
was an authenticity to it that you just don't see
that often. Yeah, except in my act right, except Jen
your stand up comedy. That's why I actually The New
York Times review of Nomad lends that it was the
performances were wexle esque. Of course, was a young comedian
whose name escapes me, who used to open for Todd
Glass but doesn't anymore because he's a headliner. Go ahead,

(18:39):
there is all right, Uh, let's take a quick break
and we'll come right back, and we're back. And also

(19:01):
a thing about nomad Land. Do you know her name
in the movie is Fern. That's apparently her real life nickname.
So they were really that's cute Fern. Hey do you
think that's who? Uh you know what I mean? Furnace
was really talking to Yeah, could miss men miss hearing?
And he's actually been addressing Frances McDorman the whole time.
That checks out. See this, there's just layers up on

(19:22):
layers of complexity, the McDorman universe. Well, I think the
theme of today's episode is I think we just let
corporations fix fix their country. Yes, and and and and
it not being a good thing. Sit back, Let's just
let's see where they're going with this one, Miles. Facebook
wants to help formerly InCAR story to people adjust to

(19:45):
life on the outside. Yeah, and it feels like some
fucked up black mirror type shit. But like it started
off because a few people on Instagram got a notification
saying like they had early access to a beta of
something called the re Entry app um. Also this according
to this notification, I said, the apps gole is to
help with quote preparing for life after prison with community support.

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Then a spokesperson and Facebook said quote We've been exploring
different ways to help close gaps faced by those in
marginalized communities across our apps. Okay um, And this isn't
new for Facebook because like there's always like weird things
they're testing that we hear about and then ultimately just
get shelved. Um. But it just feels like very on
the nose, like metaphorically, as like the idea as like

(20:29):
Facebook of the warden of the prison of social media
and then extending that to like the real world to
help people is like who are now emerging from incarceration.
There's just like layers out it that were kind of
just like the headline was fucking doing my head in.
They flirt with like black being a living black mirror

(20:49):
episode more than most massive corporations. Like I think maybe
it's because Mark Zuckerberg has not entered into the uh
like traveling to another planet and starting his own space
colony game that he has to like get that out
in his like every day actions. Because there was also
that time when they were like bragging that they can

(21:10):
alter people's alter people like how people felt, like make
people happier or sadder, just like via like adding few
clicks or subtracting a couple of clicks. Yeah, it's I
do think that is the only thing Jackie were alluding to.
That's it's preventing Mark Zuckerberg from like altering people like

(21:32):
full time. Is that he's just distracted with other projects,
you know, like he could be doing this already, but
for some reason, there's other things higher on his priority list. Yeah,
it's just one of those things where you read ahead,
Like most people would just read the headline and be like, oh,
that's nice. Facebook wants to help, you know, anyone, If
you have even half of a thought after that, it's like,
but why are they Why are they doing that? Like

(21:54):
they they're they're setting off like massive misinformation chaos campaigns
just by like letting it rock on the platform and
their algorithms exacerbated. Well, and I mean not to say
that this is actually like this is a great thing.
There there are people need to help support transitioning out
of being you know, in prison to the real world,
and like recidivism is a huge thing. So yeah, like whatever,

(22:17):
you know, things that you're we're trying to do as
a society to help I think is a good thing.
It's just weird because it's Facebook, and most of the
time they're always just kind of being like, oh, I
don't know, are we responsible for all this fucked up ship?
And now they're saying like, we're gonna help with this
very specific thing. Because in June, you know, when all
the companies were like, we get it racism bad. Mark

(22:40):
Zuckerberg put a sent a note company wide saying that
the company would quote play a positive role in helping
to heal the divisions in our society, and the company
has quote started a workstream for building products to advance
racial justice. Building products to advance racial justice sounds like
the inciting incident of some kind of tech apocalypse fucked

(23:00):
up movie, right, um, where like you know, like literally
like woke bots are like you are being problematic vaporized
and it's like, oh my god, what the fund did
they said this ship too? Yeah, it's but hey, we
shall see. Yeah, I mean you it's interesting that it's
like still a beta program and like not fully something

(23:23):
that there putting their name on and like putting out
in the in the media, because when you read reports
from inside the tech industry, there will there will be
an initiative, like a stated initiative from leadership that like, Okay,
we want to make Facebook less focused on m harming

(23:44):
people's lives, are more focused on not harming people's lives.
And they hire one person for that job, and then
they are effectively like put in the basement to mutter
about a stapler, like for for the two years. Yeah.
And also they're hiring people who are like brilliant and

(24:06):
could be out like doing great things with like nonprofits,
and they're like, no, you go, you go over there
and we'll meet with you once a week and ask
for status updates. And then hey, Milton, how's that using
our technologies to advance racial justice project going? Milton, I'm
just I don't I don't know it all right, Well,

(24:27):
sounds like you fucked that one up. Later fired, Milton,
go to the basement. I'm going to bring this place down,
please do, please do. And that's the best case scenario,
right exactly. It truly is uh. And you know, they
they've been patting themselves on the back where they're like,
we we removed over a billion posts from fake accounts. Okay,

(24:48):
saw what happened? Did I do you forget what happened
in ten or what's happening in other parts of the
world where you're just letting this misinformation manifest into real
world violence. And but look, this is uh, this is
the complexity of this corporateocracy we're in yep, uh speaking
of corporate ocracy. So, um, while we wait on the filibuster,

(25:11):
you know, Joe Joe Biden yesterday had his first press
conference of his presidency, uh in front of like many media,
like official press conference and question answer session, where he
like kind of loosely said that he was going to
make some adjustments to the filibuster and man, if they
if they're still using it bad, man, why watch what

(25:35):
happens that. It was like a lot of that, Like
they were like, uh, so we found two children who
had been detained at the border. Uh. Their mom is
in town or like lives in the United States, and
like she didn't even know they were in the United
States because your border police have like not let them
make a phone call. He was like, man, we're all right,

(25:58):
So it's not great right now, but if things don't change,
you're gonna see a lot of people leaveing. Man. It's like, well,
what does that mean? What where are they going? There's
people what we're gonna wait with them and hundreds of
that or thousands. It's just it's like walking watching somebody
do like a a tight rope walk and they're only

(26:20):
like three ft above the ground, but it's just uh,
someone slack lining for the first time. You're like, whoa,
this looks easier because it's so low to the ground.
It's all very shaky. But he also he doesn't need
to be doing a tight rope walk as well, you know,
like there's no reason, there's no reason to be there's
no downs, Like, why are you doing this tight rope walk?
You can just walk on the ground. Tight Rope walking

(26:43):
is for people that are full of shit. The tight
rope is there because you're like, oh, I'm full of ship.
If you're speaking directly from the heart, you're not tight
rope walk and good or bad, you're just like not
fuck that or yes, I will do that. That's not
a tight rope walk, that's just a tight five. That's
so funny you say that, Miles, because when I was
watching Man on Wire the whole time, I was screaming

(27:06):
bull the whole time. You're full of it, Mr. I
couldn't handle that. He faked his resume. This asshole flyar
liar on wire. I think that's got Blake. Wexler guy
got into another showing of man on wire. We banned him.
You guys are supposed to know when you take the ticket,

(27:27):
who's banned from here. I'm sorry you were a mask disguise? Sucks?
He were a guy fox mask like fine, and he
promised it wasn't Blake. Uh. The The other thing about
that press conference was a the conservative media was like,
this is the longest of president's ever gone without press
conference because it was like, I guess based on when
they took office, but honey, please find please find a

(27:51):
new angle, because no one gives a ship um. And
the other part was in that press conference he was
asked if he agreed with Obama's a set estmate because
he said at John Lewis's funeral, like talking about what
you know, just saying that the filibuster was a relic
from the Jim Crow era, and they're like, do you
agree with that assessment? He said yes, and they're like, so,

(28:13):
so do you want to get rid of it? He's like, nah, Well,
what the fuck? If you can, if you can acknowledge
it's a relic of Jim Crow and you don't want
to get rid of I'm sorry, how do you square
any of that, like, just rhetorically ideologically? What do you mean?
Because then he's just saying, oh, well, successful quote successful
electoral politics is the art of the possible. Let's figure

(28:35):
out how we can get this done and move in
the direction of significantly changing the abuse of the filibuster rule.
Oh god, Grandpa, don't you get it. The kids are
making their own drugs at home now, they don't have
to fucking buy it in the streets. The game has changed, sir, um.
But that's where we're at. Um with that specific he
wants to be the next FDR. So, uh, you know,

(28:59):
judge me by my intentions. Yeah, well, here's the question,
because I often but this is not. This sounds like
a bit that I'm about to do, but I'm not.
I do regret not asking these questions sometimes with you guys,
what is the benefit currently of having a filipbuster? There
is not like okay, cool, it's it's it's a protection
for Yeah, it's basically so that people can't uh. Like

(29:24):
the the argument that Republicans are trying to make is like, well,
when we get back into power, we're just going to
ram through all this stuff that and and you all,
you all were in power, and we saw what you did.
It was just tax cuts and a bunch of e
O s that you know, cause a bunch of chaos.
But they don't care because the ship that they try
and pass anyway is always through like a reconciliation process

(29:46):
which only needs a simple majority, so they don't even
use like it's only for them to deploy against the
agenda of democrats. Democrats, and and there's nothing like you know,
for all the like handring about like oh, well, you know,
do we get rid of it? It's like yeah, because
the second you do, you need simple majorities to pass

(30:07):
things like minimum wage hikes for you know, better voting access,
fucking you know, potentially health insurance or medicare for all
you know, but we know that's not gonna happen with
this president or administration. But yeah, that's the benefit is
that you no longer need to court ten demons to
the side of good to make anything happen. And that's

(30:28):
what the problem is right now. Um So, on top
of that, we've talked about how like all the voting
legislation that's coming out of Georgia and many other states
over you know, forty some forty three states now indicates
that the GOP is doing everything they can to limit
the ability of non white people to vote, whether it's
voter ID laws or preventing early voting. Um, they've made

(30:51):
it clear they don't give a fuck at all. They
saw what happened Georgia went blue, and they said, Okay,
time to fucking close up the shop. And that's what
they're in the process of right now. So this is
kind of and it's it's also putting a lot of
pressure on companies that operate in Georgia, UM, like Coca Cola,
ups Home Depot and the like. They're saying in the past,

(31:12):
you know, like when Georgia has run a foul of
human decency, like in twenty sixteen they tried to pass
these anti gay religious liberties laws, Coca Cola and other
companies were threatened to leave the state. They're like, we're
not about this, and we highly you know, we recommend
you don't go through with this, and they relented. But
in the face of all these voter suppression bills, like

(31:33):
they're kind of silent and they're not really saying much
aside from what we support voting rights, Which is interesting
because what happened to all that black lives matter, noise
making from all your company, from the sprite campaigns I saw,
which is a Coca Cola company. What happened to all
that we can't support politicians that voted to overturn the
election energy? I don't know where that is. And you

(31:54):
know they are these they're massive players in the state
home depot Delta, like I said, Coca Cola, but they're
really being silent. And what's even more fucked up is
that we're looking at things like this is from you know,
Judd Legoms Popular Information newsletter, which I suggest you sign up.
It's a very passive. It will show up in your
email and you can read a lot about what's going on,

(32:15):
especially with finance and money in politics, saying this is
from his report quote Coca Cola has donated to twenty
nine co sponsors of the two bills to restrict voting.
In response to an inquiry from Popular Information, Coca Cola
said that it had paused all political giving after the
January six attack on the Capitol, and that pause continues.
The company did not rule out supporting Beach was one

(32:36):
of the state senators or other co sponsors of legislation
to restrict voting in Georgia in the future. Right, it
just underscores how this country is deeply entrenched in this
relationship of corporatography. Like our elected officials are sitting on
their hands on one side of the aisle like they
can't do anything when they can as they just want
to see where the wind blows. Meanwhile, you have people

(32:58):
who are being funded by the companies who are saying
they stand in opposition to this thing, saying like, oh, well,
you know, we vaguely support rights and we haven't decided
what we're going to do yet, so yeah, like, I
guess now it's left people to try and organize boycotts
against Coca Cola, which totally makes sense, but we're all
still like, there's still people basically be like I guess

(33:18):
we have to lean on the corporate overlords. Then the
loss of capital to make these things happen. We might
actually see what happens when somebody goes to a restaurant
and orders a pepsi and the waiter says, is coke okay,
which I don't think has ever happened in written history.
Um yeah, I mean, well, I mean they should know that.

(33:43):
I don't know, Like fuck it. At the end of
the day, these companies aren't fucking people, even though they
have the rights of people somehow, but yeah, it's all
just fucking It's just so Yeah, just can't wish I
had the rights of a corporation. And this is this
is what happens when you have a business run by
white bears, right, yeah, exactly. Well they're getting there is

(34:03):
with climate change, so they're they're on their way out. Yeah,
it's very emblematic. Actually, the c suite glacier is in
utter chaos right now at Coca Cola. Yeah, but I
mean they they can get away with murder, and they
do get away with murder because it's like, well, we
didn't do I mean, I don't know, like maybe the

(34:24):
policies precipitated all this violence, but like did can you
point a finger to a person I don't know. We
are Coca Cola. We are. It does work too where
I mean, this is an odd example, but you know,
when the NBA was supposed to have its All Star
Game in Charlotte during I think it was the transgender
bathroom all that they were trying to pass there and

(34:44):
pulled out that changed, you know, like how like I'm
sorry legislators were voting there. So it is it feels
dirty as hell, you know, just at all making a
deal with the devil to stop something. But yeah, yeah,
but that's you know, this is just it's a string
of deals with the devil here American We've mastered the

(35:07):
art of the deal with the devil, and we still
get screwed every time. I know, just a in our
ongoing kind of keeping our eye on guns in this
country and whether or not we we should see see
maybe some gun control. Uh and in terms of gun
control being passed, I haven't seen anything specific. Nothing, nothing's changed.

(35:32):
The Senate goes on a bit of a break a
couple of days off. We're gonna come back to that,
probably gun stuff, probably voting stuff. I don't know. We'll see,
we'll see. I don't know. We we could get rid
of the I don't know. A couple more wild stories
that might be indicative one way or another on that.
There was somebody who was arrested Atlanta grocery store who

(35:54):
had like six guns and just uh like ready for
a three day gun battle worth of ammunition at a publix.
I think wait, like entered it or what was I
believe so ya wow, was in the produce section? Yeah right,
like what well, like open carry or like maliciously like

(36:18):
menacingly pulled up. I don't I don't think they pulled it,
pulled the gun on any anyone, but they were arrested
there is It's it is funny because like open carry
is not a thing that I ever really see, you know,
like just being like like in the northeast California, etcetera, etcetera.
But I was in Dallas, and by the way, people

(36:38):
in open carry states might laugh at what I'm about
to say, But I had never seen just someone carrying
a gun in public before, you know, like a citizen.
And just seeing a guy walk down the street in
Dallas with an assault rifle is I I like almost
I ran and hit in the bathroom and everyone's like,
oh no, this is just what this is just people
can just do this it now, that's a that's potentially

(37:02):
a good guy or a evil doer. It's hard to
know when you have such a device in your position.
You're gonna wait to find out thing because I'm gonna
I'm gonna hide in a drops you like, right, Yeah,
it seems like the guy from this article I'm reading
like he he walked in open carrying and went into
the bathroom, and then a customer alerted the store management,
and then the police showed up and he was okay,

(37:24):
uh five guns, too long guns, three pistols and body
armor on him when he walked into a grocery store.
Uh like within days of a mass shooting at a
at a grocery store. And it was in Atlanta, which
you know, within a week of a mass shooting in Atlanta.
So we're just trying to connect all those dots. Read

(37:46):
the goddamn room, right, Yeah. Well, and then so this
other story as if we need more fucking examples as
to why we can't just allow people to walk around
with these bang bangs that in their mind make him
the hero of some fucked up narrative. Um, let me
just start this story off, and you tell me where
you think you know this is headed Eleven Texas National

(38:08):
Guard members were traveling through the state to deliver vaccines
to like a remote town in three unmarked white vans. Oh,
and everyone got vaccinated. It was all fine, Well, this
is what happened. A sixty six year old man saw this,
these three unmarked vans with these National Guards members in them,
and was convinced that they were abducting a woman and

(38:29):
a child and decided to fucking intervene, trying to run
the vans off the roads. Eventually gwent into oncoming traffic
to like fully try and stop these cars, and when
they did, this man quote pointed a gun at a
National Gun soldier, identified himself as a detective and demanded
to search the vehicles. He also ordered the guardsmen out

(38:51):
of their vehicles at gunpoint. He held the eleven soldiers
there until the police arrived, at which point this asshole
with a gun that was convinced he was right and
to his heroic duty, was swiftly fucking arrested for all
kinds unlawful restraint, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, you know,
unlawful caring of a weapon impersonate in public. Like but
what the fuck? MHM. Police noted that he was, like

(39:15):
they said, quote mentally disturbed, and found additional guns and
AMMO in his car. Like we're not even doing the
base from zero to abducted there's there's no other thing
that could have been happening in those three white vans
than a woman and child being abductive, Like there's no
other just zero to that, right, And it wasn't sure

(39:35):
if this is like tied up to some q and
on like ideology or whatever. And that's why he was
sort of like in like this narrative of like someone
being kidnapped. But again, like the guns give people this
fucked up complex where they really believe like now they
have the power and the duty to funk sit up
because gun, because Second Amendment, because good guy, cowboy, whatever

(39:59):
the funk you think. And this kind of ship is
so fucking dangerous and disturbing because I can only imagine
if this is if this guy saw three vans with
uniformed National Guardsmen in the car, what an interracial family
looks like to someone like that driving on the road, right,
You know what I mean? Because that I remember growing

(40:20):
up people fucking constantly questioned if my parents were my
parents just because I didn't I looked more Asian than
my black dad, or I have darker skin than my
Japanese mom. Are you okay? Are you okay? I'm like motherfucker.
This is my dad, Are you okay? I'm like this,
knock this motherfucker out real quick, out my face. So

(40:41):
this is like, like, it's not the the amount of
guns that are on the streets, are lack of care
and support for anyone who has any kind of need
or support, uh, and just all of the cascading trauma
misinformation that's going on. There's no way this gets better
and it's only going to add to people, you know,
perception that something untoward is going on, Like it really

(41:03):
it's but again, you know, even for something like universal
background checks that have nine support from the public, the
Senate is fucking sitting on their fucking hands. What exactly
is the mechanism that because it's so there's the popularity
of legislation that would you know, increase gun control, like
just doing a radical like gun control law I think

(41:27):
would be popular at this point. But it's the it's
the n r A that is stopping it is it's
still because the n r A. It seems like it's
like dropped off in pular It doesn't know, but but
it's like, you know, it's like the fucking like the Dolorean,
you know, they don't make Deloreans anymore. But that ship
is embedded in the culture, you know, like that the

(41:47):
talking points, the ideology of the n r A is
embedded in conservative politics. It doesn't matter if people aren't
getting newsletters anymore, like because they've been fed as steady
diet of they're gonna take your guns and then what
right and dot dot dot and then we'll tell you
because watch Dan Bongino come up here and tell you. Like,
as a New York cop, I've seen everything. Brown people
are scary, strap up, like the fuck. So, yeah, bankrupt

(42:13):
or not, they have intellectually bankrupted us. Right, well, let's
get let's move on to the story. Uh that, by
the way, you might be hearing children in the background.
My kids are on spring break, so they're back in
the house. Are going to Miami there. Yeah, so that

(42:37):
this story I immediately ran down. This is the first
story that made me run down and tell my kids
about it because, uh, it's just so directly in their wheelhouse. Um.
It also feels like an oceanal eleven stunt that they're
using to like make one thread of their casino robbery possible.
So the entire Suez Canal is currently as of yesterday

(43:03):
when we record this blocked U both ways. There is
a one quarter mile long container ship that was basically
blown aground by strong winds. And when you look at
the picture, it's just it's like the the boat is
so long that it doesn't even need to be like

(43:25):
perpendicular to the canal. It's like just kind of went
sideways a little bit and blocked the entire fucking canal.
To understand why this is a big deal, one tenth
of a day's total oil consumption for for the entire
globe is currently being held up by this ship. Being

(43:46):
like because when they build a manmade canal, like it's
a trillion trillion dollar you know, undertaking. But they do
it because there's so much money and property going through
that specific location. And uh now it is blocked and

(44:07):
they're using tugboats trying and jerk it back into the
middle of the canal. That's not working. They're like trying
to dig it out with all these big, big construction trucks.
Uh So, me and my four year old are going
to be keeping our eye on this story. Did it
and did it impress the kid or not? Yeah? I
know they're they're pumped because there's like good video to that. Yeah,

(44:29):
you can really watch the like big gas boat and
all that. Yeah, it's also really bad for the company
that owns the boat is called Evergreen, and its like
just like when you look at it, it's just written
enormously on the side of the thing, like every from
every direction you look, it's like Evergreen and it's causing

(44:50):
a massive funk up. My my worst nightmare is to
like be driving in rush hour traffic and then have
my car breakdown and block like to the lanes and
just causing everybody like just sitting there. I would rather
just like jump over to the other side and dive
in front of a car and on time inconvenience that
many people because I didn't like get my car checked

(45:12):
out or I did sometimes ship like if I was
the captain of this boat, I would be nowhere to
be found ever again. I would just like sprint into
into Panama. The most apt meme was the the fucking
scene from Austin Powers where he gets stuck in the
hallways just like, dude, I don't can't ninety point turn
this funker out of here. They say that that is so,

(45:35):
what's happened is as like we've become more of a
shipping economy, both in the pandemic, but like even before
and you know, as just global economy has grown, they
have started creating these ships that are way bigger than
the ones when the canal was built. Like the English

(45:56):
were fighting over trade supremacy in the eighteen hundreds, they
just like used rowboats to write like their biggest thing.
Like their Brits hated the Suez Canal because they're like,
but we have the cape and everyone's supposed to go
around there and it's gonna funk up our naval supremacy.
It's the surembascy in the Brits. They gotta love it.

(46:18):
This revives me of what I was in college. I
went to Fenway Park for the first time, where the
seats down below are built for like people in the
early nineteen hundreds, and I wanted two larger guys, and
like just they're spilling over in the mind. My knees
are like up to my chin and it's like, oh,
these have not been updated. Let's update this canal. This
is before Americans are eating beef. Yes, this pre beef.

(46:40):
But in the New York Times article, they talk about
like how taxing and like how high pressure it is
to captain one of these ships through the canal. Like
it's a brutally difficult thing. I mean it's in what
sense because the ship's just I mean it's a straight ship,
bigger than it would be like trying to like do

(47:03):
a course, like a a navigation course that was like
meant for a you know, mini Cooper with a school bus,
Like you're trying to like get through and and there's
billions and billions of dollars. It's like there's I know
in Philadelphia, one of the major rivers here, they when

(47:25):
ships go through it, the ship stops and they have
a just like an expert like on how to navigate
the river hop on and he drives the boat. So
the captain of the boat. It's not a bit like
it sounds crazy, but like literally they switch out the
Cap'm said the right words obviously, but raularly am. But

(47:47):
they do bring in like a specialist to navigate like
and if that's happening in a big open river, I
can't imagine how difficult it would be to get on whatever.
I don't have any sympathy. It looks like a straight
shot this thing with my eyes closed. Come on, yeah,
have I ever I've ever been at the helm of

(48:08):
a seaworthy ship? No, but I've played video games that
are very hard. They were hard. Oh yeah, they're hard.
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

(48:31):
And we're back, and n f T s are back
in the news. Baby. Yeah, I mean it's not I
mean it's it's one thing that was so I just
I just sighed when I read the headline, which is
jaw Rules sells Firefest logo as n f T for
one dollars. Yeah he did. Um, so he basically sold

(48:55):
an image of the physical painting of the Firefest logo.
I guess like sat in the offices of the funked
up festival scamfest. He originally wanted six hundred thousand for
the oil painting, the physical painting, And then I was like, huh,
he's like, but I can get like other people, they'll
pay one twenty two for the picture for the jpeg. Yeah,

(49:17):
let's do that. Let's do that one. Um. And that's
where we're at. And it's the dumbest fucking thing. And
the ship sets keeps going on. The one thing I've
read about n f T is though, is that a
lot of international like the like International Finance Watchdog that
is like in charge of like sort of alerting people
to any kind of like monetary policy or just untowards

(49:39):
ship has n f T s like firmly in their
sites right now, um, because it's like the lack of
regulation and things like that. They're like, yeah, I mean
it's it could work in the way the original people
wanted it to, but also it's allowing a lot of
bad faith actors in either way. Um, I think allowing
job rule to sell it for k is a bad

(49:59):
faith to remove. But what do I know? As Ben
Rosen wrote on Twitter, the only n f T I
care about is the n nanny f from T the
nanny Um, thank you, thank you. All right. Uh, let's

(50:22):
talk about vaccine mascots, which is a thing that exists
in Brazil where they have Joe Droplet. Oh yeah, set yeah,
he so in in his most uh yikes, so sort
of central the central like official version of him that

(50:42):
they have like uh in I don't know whatever the
wherever malls. Yeah, it's like the lights are off. It
looks like a cross between the Baba Duke and the
Ghostbusters logo. It looks like or the State Puff marshmallow
Man is coming coming and it has been up on

(51:06):
crystal meth for like three days. Yeah, it is State
Puff marshmallow Man coming. Well in the Marshmallow mand survived
that movie. He that's what he would have tried because
because also it has no teeth, so yeah, it could
be you know, drug induced tooth loss as well. Yeah.
Um and just like a lot of like blue around

(51:28):
the eyes, and that would be uh, that would be
concerning for any uh, any mascot anything, and even an
image of something that would be around children like this
is about this is just that gets not doing anything, right.
I have a great US mascot. Can I pitch one? Yes? Please?
So there was Jack you'll you'll probably know about this.

(51:50):
There was a mascot for the Philadelphia seventies sixers whose
name was big Shot. So already the name big big Shot, Okay,
like like a blue blob with like sunglasses on and
like kind of like a pre gritty like gritty if
he was like like you know, an absentee father, I

(52:12):
guess you know, but he is big Shot. It's it's
perfect it's perfect. It's Gritty's boomer stepdad, you know, and
it's like his eighties yuppie ship made Pritty kind of
like go into more leftist politics. Yeah, but yeah, I
like his vibe. They gave him a Sixers uniform that

(52:33):
doesn't really fit him, and it looks like he's in
a diaper, which is a weird uh you look for him,
it looks like definitely like a rejected like sesame street guy. Yeah, yes,
totally mix and match a various sesame street things. Because
now what you got like that like buff like dog.
I like that's like, tell me more about his buff dog.

(52:54):
Tell me more about this buff dog. If you just
like a Sixer's mascot, there's some it's like go rabbit
or something, but it's got muscles. Think, yeah, there we
go rabbit. You want to see a Muscli mascot A
sentence that probably took a few years off my life
just now, but you want to see a Muscli mascot
like the rabbit, like the actual rabbit was what was

(53:16):
his name? Hip hop? Hip hop was name? It was
like the Sixers mascot during Alan Iverson era. It looks
it is a jacked up weird looking mask. Yeah. It
really was called hip hop strong as hell. Hell yeah,
say what you will strong as hell that rabbit um. Also, Uh,
this costume Joe Droplets less like official versions that they

(53:42):
like give out to people who are like visiting the
schools in the rural areas, is just a KKK costume. Yeah,
it's sucking clan hood. It's a clan jack clan hood.
Yeah that's bad. But he's like, apparently he's become this
really worked. He's like become such an important figure that

(54:04):
the fact that he so he was out there educating
kids about like how not to get sick and how
to you know, cover their sneezes and do all that stuff.
But the fact that he's not out there during the
vaccine phase is people are like, what the fund is
Bostinaro doing? Uh, bring back Joe Droplet. People are like speculating, Well,

(54:27):
maybe it's because the kids aren't being vaccinated yet, so
we'll bring it out later. But people are asking questions
because Joe Dropolt is not there in Japan, uh, where
mascot culture is obviously huge. Uh. The government sprang into
action early in the pandemic and created caronn Anti coronavirus

(54:53):
cat who handed out free face masks. So I didn't
realize that there was a lot of vaccine skepticism in
Japan right now. Yeah, and they's so they have an
app that is a doggie doctor mascot who answers questions
about the vaccine that people can go ask questions too.

(55:15):
But so our writer Jan was basically pointing out, where
where's America's mascot? Like these seem to be fairly effective
and like joke, Like the way that we use mascots
in our country is that, you know, to sell secrettes
to children, basically like Joe Cambill was, by the end

(55:36):
of his run in the nineties, uh as recognizable to
kids as Mickey Mouse. So like, maybe if we again
took some of that corporate ingenuity and applied it too good,
that would be a good idea. You know what, Actually,
I think what might make I know, I pitched that's

(55:56):
uh sixer's mascot one what could appeal to anti vax
is actually is just the clan guy. I think they
might just they might just trust that more. I don't
know what it is about this fellow. I like what
he's saying coming from he's he makes he seems grounded,
and he's like, hey, come on, everyone take the vaccine.
Uh huh, all right, what about medicare for all? Yeah?

(56:19):
I trust I trust this messenger. Whatever. I like this,
and we should expand voting rights. Go on. That's all
it took, was this someone to wear a clan hood
and say all this progressive ship. It was just people
were hoping Trump would be is like a guy who
uses racism but is actually like has economic populist ideas.

(56:42):
But Campbell, that's so true. I remember like tearing Joe
Cambell adds out of like sports illustrated what I mean,
like absolute vodka ones. I remember used to have that
in my binder, like I had a transparent binder. You know,
you you're back in the day when, of course you
put a magazine clipping or if you're super old, those

(57:03):
old Nike sneaker as I had the phone number that
you would call to learn more about the Penny phone
posit one or the Jordan eleven okay, or the Nike
shaking destruct the Dennis Rodden's shoe that laced up on
the side. Um had all that ship, And I wonder if,
like even if they did an Absolute vodka thing where
it's like the syringe, but it's like Absolute spring Break's

(57:23):
dressed up with a layer or some ship and you're like, yeah,
that's a good idea. Actually, I'm telling you it's sucking.
I mean it truly is. We're so fucked up on
consumer culture in this country to not use that to
try and get people to fucking get on board with

(57:45):
ship is just like I mean, I think it just
speaks to really have the people who are in charge
and how they think, and you know, people that need
to sell ship, they know how to do that, but
everyone else like what do we what do mean? I
don't know, you're sneezy. I guess to the people were
having trouble with is not the kids necessarily as much

(58:05):
as it's there. Uh yeah, right, so then it should
be like absolute dick growth. Yeah, it's the vaccine absolutely,
like absolute ten x your sperm count. And then I
all I have to do is shoot this into my arm. Yes,
someone else does it, bro it's sick and dude, and
then you have to wait a few months after your

(58:26):
second shot, and then if if if you have trouble,
then come tell us. And then that nausea you feel
is the blood rushing down there. You're fine, bro, It's
doing its job. That tingle in your arm as you
junk growing. Bro, That's right, it always is. That's what
I found whenever I'm out of here with my arm.
It's not a heart attack, it's my penis. Weird job.

(58:47):
That's my junk growing. That's right. And finally, there's big
news in the world of just the world. Justin Long,
the old the dude from those Mac commercials that probably
half our audience is too young to remember. He has switched.
He's switching. He's gonna he's gonna be PC guy, like

(59:09):
much much like the can you hear me now? Guy
went to Sprint from Verizon after his contract expired. Justin
Long make an old switch, ru Jack. I thought you met.
He was awed my life. I started god that he
was going to be doing politically correct p s as
he was going to be the PC guy. Like literally,

(59:30):
do you see now? It comedic stylings of Justin Long. Unfortunately,
do you ever do either of you have any Justin
Long stories other than uh enjoying him more than most
people in Live Free and Die Hard. He would be

(59:50):
hanging around comedy shows, like in twenty I want to say,
fourteen fifteen, and I remember going to like a U c.
B show and I took off early and my the
buddy that I came with hit me up the next day, goes, dude,
Justin Long would not stop talking to me for forty

(01:00:13):
minutes outside after you left, and kept talking about weed
and ship and this when I worked at Playboy. And
he's like and when I told him we worked at Playboy,
he like started pitching us all this stuff and he
was like texting my friend and ship and We're like,
all right, Justin Long, and I thought he was joking.
It was just a weird, but it's it's like one
of those things that seems like a lie when you're like, dude,

(01:00:36):
Justin Long appeared, and then when I'm like sure, like
that's such a bizarre thing to say, and then he
like showed me these texts and like a voice about
I was like, okay, Justin just a wheeler dealer out here.
My favorite thing is the idea of a celebrity becoming
an inconvenience to someone where they they're so annoying that

(01:00:56):
they it stops being cool. You know, like if a
celebrity like that, like texting me, but oh my god,
can you believe this? But once it starts becoming an imposition,
that's the stars, Like how does this person have so much?
Guys like David Schwimmer is obsessed with me. It's like
getting it's becoming a problem. Uh, he won't stop texting
me and he will not use a capital letter. I

(01:01:18):
knew they had that with Andrew w. K when I
worked at Playboy, because we made this fake ad campaign
where in the in the run up to the twenty
sixteen election, we said he was starting his own political
party called the Party Party, and it was like this
idea I pitched him and he was like I love it,
I love it, And we made this whole ad in
like a bunch of people thought he was serious and

(01:01:39):
he was supposed to tell people that it was a
co production with Playboy, but he left that out. So
he just kind of used us to like do this
thing and like court all these like subscribers and was
like setting merch with a logo may We're like yo yo,
hold on, bro, like you didn't playgrant with it, but
then would constantly like, hey man, I'm gonna be talking
to Fox News and blah blah blah, and he's like, oh,
I forgot to mention Playboy. I'm all right, we will

(01:02:00):
do it. And all my bosses were like, he's not
fucking saying anything about Playboy. And I'm like, I'm like, hey, Andrew,
like can you make sure like when you go on
Hannity like you mentioned it or something. He's like yeah, yeah,
I got you. And then he'll be like, yeah, totally
said it. We look at the clip. He didn't say it. Um.
But he's actually a really nice guy, so I don't
want to cast his first time, but his frequency of community,

(01:02:22):
like I was impressed, but also like you, he kind
of sucked us. Andrew. By the way, that story doesn't
make Andrew w K sound bad to anyone. Everybody like Playboy,
I don't. I never feel no, no, not at all,
and I think myself either. And I was like, yeah,
I don't know, Like it got viewsed, bro, and you

(01:02:42):
can sell ads against those impressions, so can we can?
I go now to my next corporate gig, back to
HEF's mansion, to chilling the grotto. Actually realizing I work
with Jamie loftus era, like yeah, anyway, That's why I
had my and you guys back then, I was like,
I know something sick recruiting class coming out of Playboy.

(01:03:05):
Got there's that dude. And the humor editor was this
guy Matt who now like whenever you see those fake
maps about like the most popular fast food thing by state,
he makes those Hell yeah, man, yeah, just a bunch
of rabble rousers over here. Those does he make up?
Have you? Have you asked him if he just makes
the information he's made some up and others will say

(01:03:28):
like he's I haven't asked him, but I just know
just from working with him, like his very kind of
like style, that he's interested in like stuff like that.
But I think some of it will also be like
the loosest pole that will literally have like sixty answers
and then he'll just extract like that to the entire nation,
like right up here we go. Yeah, it could not

(01:03:49):
matter less whether or not those are accurate either, you know,
like there's just no victim in that crime. Um. But
I so I'm wondering if we can take a couple
of minutes to predict who who would be the like
the next person to switch brands, like too, that that

(01:04:10):
would actually be effective, like Jake from State Farm Ak
Kevin Miles is the actor's name, John Hodgeman. I feel
like if he if MAC was just like bring him over.
I feel like MAC users are closer to wanting to
be like John Hodgman than Justin Long. Like these days,
justin Long feels very like an outdated image of like

(01:04:34):
what a cool tech guy is. Here's let me propose this.
This could take an hour and a half to unpack
just insurance alone. A lot of really good spokespeople. What
would you give up for flow? Like in her prime?
Like in her like pitching prime? My old improv teacher, Yes, yes,

(01:04:57):
what would you would you ask? Would you take that
class again? Um? Because like would you trade? How many
Geico commercials we could even throw that? You know, like
how many guy commercials for a flow? How many Jake
from State Farms? I mean, she's got it locked up.
I don't it's like the four five for one at least.

(01:05:17):
I feel like, yeah, I don't touch that. Maybe this
won't take that long. Maybe I just killed the conversation
after fun to talk about talking about his improv days again.
I could definitely see a future where corporations, trade mascots
and trade like various pitch people, pitch persons. Yeah, Densburg.

(01:05:41):
Can we get the Mike? Can we get Mike Lindell?
The My Pillow Guy? Now, that's what I'm talking about,
you know what I mean, that's like the new My
Pillow Guy. Yeah, I mean it's just I think the
only ones are is what's his face? The bald headed
dude um Mr State Farm? Uh? Not the actor who
animated Oh yeah yeah, the dude who won the Academy

(01:06:05):
for Whiplash the Oscar for Whiplash. Yeah, what's the initials?
And then last name the TV Jake's I believe Bishop
T D J J W. Stillwater. That's what it is.
That's what it was, um J. I think it is
A J J K Simmons, j K Simmons, j K
j K j K a K j K Simmons. Yeah,

(01:06:27):
I mean he's he's uh. I feel like he's got good,
good energy. But I think for like in terms of
like shocking switches, I think, yeah, Flow going somewhere would
probably if Flow went to State Farm, that would really
function up. Yeah. More than anything, I think Flow is
the only character who can move that is going to

(01:06:48):
cause the waves that you know that when the can
you hear me now guy went to sprint, Yeah, it's
flow would be huge blue to red. Yeah. J K.
Simmons is Uh is also the voice of the Yellow eminem.
That would be a real like mind fuck if Eminem's
were like went went for a different if um Milana

(01:07:11):
vine troupe from the T and T feel and the
answer isn't and the limu Emu switched it up. That
would be too and doug or whatever that commercial is.
That's the only thing I know the A T and
T girl. I feel like sports bros Are like fucking
love the A T dude. She's had the worst fucking

(01:07:31):
time Milana from having like she went from being on
this thing to then like the Internet figuring out like
they're like we lust after her and just like getting
all kinds of fucking weird tweets. And I hear that
has a similar issue. People just go to sex Flightless
Spirit Yeah, and they just then they just pull up
to the like the pen where he's kept and utter

(01:07:54):
chaos here. Yeah, it's a weird thing to compliment, but
I think she is like the Meryl Streep of commercial
like she gives the best fucking performances I've ever seen
in a commercial. And it's literally like the generations of
comedic schools where Stephanie Courtney, who is Flow is a groundling,

(01:08:15):
big character, ship wigs, you know, early SNL. And now
we're moving into the UCB post UCB world where it's like,
we don't do characters, we don't do wigs, we play
everything real. It's just odd looks book us an Emery mockumentary. Yeah,
like for her Lily characters, he's always got like the
natural like awkward, ship nailed, which is like the new

(01:08:35):
language of her. And then Chris Paul, I think one
of the one of our great actors, Yes, one of
the great ones. He's actually gotten better to the point
that it's not no longer. I think people know that
I'm joking when I said I prefer Cliff. When he
started out, it was so wild, like he just looked
like he did not want to be on camera. Isn't

(01:08:58):
Lebron gonna start witching pepsi as well? Oh Shack is
like Shack pitches everything though, yeah, right is including terrible
NBA takes yes, yes, yes, out of date, just like oh,
my God, get take him home someone. Uh, well, Blake,
it has been a pleasure having you on the daily

(01:09:20):
zi Geist as always where can people's find you and
follow you at Blake Wexler on all social media and
the Blake's Takes for God's Sakes podcast um where I
just free associate improvised for forty five minutes each week.
And actually all the people who listen listen to this
podcast as well. So I don't know what that says

(01:09:40):
about what you're doing over here, but it is. It's
it's been fun. So I appreciate all the cross the
cross support. And is there a tweet or some of
the work of social media you've been enjoying. Yes, and
this is uh not even a tweet, but the whole
catalog of Chris Crofton's Cold Brew in the New is

(01:10:00):
is my favorite thing in the entire world, where what
he does is he has a video or a crazy
story and then he writes, he retweets it and writes
Cold Brew in the News where I think the most
recent one was some weird convention where there's a guy
playing like the violin with a lightsaber. There's a like
a nine foot woman like walking around in the background
some people are dance. It's one of the funniest things.

(01:10:22):
It's just always one of those comedic devices where you
hear cold brew in the news and then in your
head you picture what it's going to be, and if
it's exactly what you're picturing, you laugh hysterically, or it's
the complete total opposite of what you were thinking, and
then that's really funny. So it's a great it's a
great fit. So yeah, Chris Chris Croft, what is his
I should look up his Twitter account, but he's been

(01:10:43):
on here at thousand times. Yeah, you know who he is. Miles.
Where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Uh? Twitter? Instagram,
Miles of Gray. Also the other podcast for twenty Day
Fiance Tuesdays and Fridays. Check us out on twitch dot
tv SA Fortunate Fiance of the podcast. However you want
to get it? Uh. Some tweets that I like. First

(01:11:03):
one was from Taylor Garon, one of my favorite writers. Um,
but she tweeted this like quote, tweeted a video of
this recipe if someone making macaroni and cheese where they
just laid a block of cheddar or velvita or something
in the middle of the casserole dish with dry noodles
and then they pour milk and water and shredded cheese

(01:11:24):
and then bake it and then mix it up, which
is like, that's not how you do that ship anyway.
And then Taylor tweets the lengths people will go to
avoid making a ru grow up and just you know,
for my cooking fans out there, it's true. It's not
that hard to make a rue. I think just if
you have a whisk just get into it. Baby, you're good.
That's when you have to like slowly whisk in the

(01:11:46):
flour jack. Yeah, let's just move on and act like
we didn't hear that. And to my next tweet, a
Susie Underscore Maister tweeted, the opposite of imposter syndrome is
called Megan McCain um. And finally, Kendra fort Meyer at
ken draff r a f f E tweeted, we thought

(01:12:09):
it was our ability to love that made us human,
but it turns out it was actually our ability to
select each image containing a boat. Let's see a tweet
I enjoyed. First of all, the ruth thing was a joke.
I know what rue is obviously we know same yeah, yeah, same,
same Yeah. That's you keep saying how your favorite song

(01:12:30):
is Bulletproof by LaRue. Uh no pants Papal. I don't
like that name, but I did like this tweet. Our
dog died four years ago, but her memory lives on
in the Hulu password. Find me on Twitter at Jack
Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.

(01:12:51):
Were at the Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a
Facebook fan page on a website, Daily Zeitgeist dot com.
Worry post our episodes and our footnotes. Um, but not
that's where we link off to the information where we
talked about that. You know, it's literally that that's enough

(01:13:11):
to throw me off. It's so auto auto pilot at
this point, um, where we link off to the information
that we talked about in today's episode as well as
a song, we recommend that you check out miles. What
is today's recommendation? Uh? One of the producer I really

(01:13:33):
like from Australia takou Ti hyphen ku um and this
again on SoundCloud, but it's a remix of a George
Maple track called Talk Talk, but it's by tak The
Talk kop Remix and it's just got a great um
like you know, if you like James Blake sort of vocals,
very much like that, and the production is a little

(01:13:54):
more like complex beat driven um. So it's got a
good mixing mix of like sexy this and just a
little bit of toe tapping, you know, a good pint. Yeah, alright,
go check that out. We will link off to it
in the footloads. The Dailys that you Guys is a
production of My Heart Radio from more podcast from my
Heart Radio visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast,

(01:14:16):
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. That is
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