Crumbling Empire State Of Mind, A New Scam Event! 09.27.24

In episode 1750, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, Blake Wexler, to discuss… A Bridgerton Themed Ball In Detroit Was An Absolute…Scam? No! Not Again!!, The Notebook Guy’s Salad Habit Is Grossing Everybody Out, Eric Adams Indicted Double LP World Excited and more!

1. A Bridgerton Themed Ball In Detroit Was An Absolute…Scam? No! Not Again!!
2. This $150 Bridgerton Event Was So Chaotically Bad, It’s Giving Everyone Willy Wonka Flashbacks
3. 'Scamerton': This Detroit 'Bridgerton' ball went so poorly, it's being compared to Fyre Fest
4. The Notebook Guy’s Salad Habit Is Grossing Everybody Out
5. At Home With Nicholas Sparks: Wander through the best-selling author’s palatial riverfront home in North Carolina.
6. The Internet Is Disgusted By Nicholas Sparks' Chicken Salad Recipe
7. Bloomberg posts video after trying to shake a dog's mouth

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
How's this, How's this?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
How's this? How's this? How's that? Do one of your
trademark screams? Blake there is?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, we gotta take a cry break right after that.
We're just gonna take a quick cry break on Mike.
Don't throw the commercial.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Full morning Zoo. I think we should go full morning Zoo. Guys,
fuck it.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I mean one of these, one of these video episodes.
We should just stick to the bit the entire time.
Just to you, hasn't fucking Gary Slime and Banjo? Eric?
Hey bj Eric? I heard him. I heard a rumor
about you.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Man.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was at Applebee's and Shanna says, you haven't paid
your tab in like three weeks?

Speaker 5 (00:48):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
All day?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Wait what with me for two long fucking bullshit? No?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hey, First of all, what I say about bringing up
Shawna on the show. Jesus christ My, what the fuck
did I say? Bro? What the fuck are you thinking?
Bring up Shawna?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
You can't bring up Shawna. I like my coffee with
seventeen splendors in it, and don't bring up Shawna. Those
are the two rules.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three, fifty seven,
Episode five of Days.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Production I Heart iHeart Radio. Is that right? That's right,
that's the name of the company. Yep, clever name. That's
the clever name, not just very very clever name.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
This is a podcast where we take a deep dive
into America's shared consciousness. Okay, okay, it's Friday. I'm trying
to help find Dennis Miller.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Billy the face was Wild Brokaw. Friday, September twenty, twenty
twenty four. Yes, it's Friday. Good news. It's also national.
I don't know what National Day of Forgiveness is. I
didn't even to do anything.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I think it just means, like, hey man, it's about forgiveness.
Let's skip that and let's get to National scarf Day,
National corn mile hash Day.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Forgive your parents for being mega supporters. I think that's
what it's what they're going for there. They're like, probably.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Please call us. We miss our grandkids anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
National is arthnkle and grandparents who you can't have that
Thanksgiving anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, and I'm sorry you found his Facebook burner account.
I really am. He doesn't mean half of the stuff
he says. But also, National corn Beef hash Day, one
of my favorite forms of Breakfast, National Crush of Canday
and National Gay Men's HIV AIDS Awareness Day, September twenty seven.
It's your day, there it is. My name is Jack
Or O'Brien aka.

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Love and Transphobe Return of Flavory is as Big Hope
comments on Porno as mini soldier from a peep show

(03:15):
in Carolina.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh he's a.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Black Nazi, black stack Nazi, black Nazi one courtesy of
Redunks on the discord, Redunks, who says a great name.
By the way, Capital re Capital Dunks. So it's not
like just Redunks. It's an email about dunks, you know.

(03:40):
Oh yeah, the Dunks regarding the Dunks. Yeah, read the Dunks.
Could we circle back read Dunks anyway. He's been a
fan of the show since day one and don't really post,
but this popped in my head and I thought i'd share,
and we're glad you did, Redunks. I'm thrilled to be
joined as always.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Buy My co host is mister Milesy. You know what
it is. It's Friday. I'm the Lord of Lancashim. I'm
the show gun with no gun. I'm the podcast host
whose buns went toast. Okay, but now I'm on that
bike and I'm getting my booty right. So shout out
to everybody for tuning in. Shout out Jack for having

(04:20):
me back again for this episode. We got a good
streak going. I'm really feeling good about it. So thank
you to everybody hosting that podcast. With god ass?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
What is god ass like? The ass of a god?
Which the ass of a Greek god? And as we've
talked about, the Greeks had cakes caked up they did anyways, Miles,
just thinking deeply about that, just thinking.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Just like how what I do to be a Greek god? What? Really?

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Well, just moving around, walking around enough that I had
a ass that looked like a normal human ass, you know,
enormally I look like mister incredible over here? We heard
about what that dorso do we already know? Really tiny
blow below this screen we're doing a video episode for listeners,

(05:13):
doing a video episode, but I will you can't see
my ass in the video, and that is entirely on
purpose because I go full mister incredible below the ribs.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
What it grew. Yeah, what it grew. I go full
when it grew, when it grew.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Anyways, miles, Yeah, we often say we're thrilled to be
joined in our third seat today. You know we're getting
there on this one.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, a little.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
He's given us the two finger salute. Oh, he's given
us a little wave.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
He's a brilliant comedian.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
He's a brilliant after He's brought you comedy albums such
as the Blake album, Stuffed Boy, Live from the Pandemic,
and the newest special Deady Lung Legs, which you can
go watch right now on YouTube on this very platform
that you're watching this episode on, if you're watching the
video episode. He's on the other hand, So those are
all good things. On the other hand, and I don't

(06:11):
usually go to the other hand when introducing a guest,
but he is the coiner of the truly disgusting phrase
plumpers to describe his legs. Yeah, and are so to
be honest and ours? Yeah, I mean not much in
the ass, but my legs.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Do go fast.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
At as this sir makes a lot song doesn't say uh,
please welcome the hilarious, the chaotic, the riding a recumbent
bike in short shorts.

Speaker 7 (06:40):
Is Blake wex Line, It's Blake. Let's talk about wex Baby,
Let's bring him on t d Z. Let's talk about
all the plump things and all the trump things that
maybe let's talk about wex Let's talk about I.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Figured out how to use the discord. That was from
Hugo Boss on discord, So thank you, thank you for that,
friend of the show, once a friend of music came on.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yeah, and also you know they're also a fantastic trans
ocean bounty hunter for all the Star Wars fans out there.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Boss, no term is basque. So what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (07:28):
A box simply took Blake. Are you doing good? How
are the Eagles? They're doing all right?

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Uh, they're doing all right. Their their records good and
they're not doing No one's doing alright in the city
of Philadelphia. But yeah, they're they're doing their two and
one and they're figuring it out. We'll be right back, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, all right, all right. I just want to check
it because I know that's your thing too. You host
that that show, You host that show for them.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Haven't even had media Day yet, and I'm already in
crisis mode.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, it was so hard recording boosties. He didn't want
to talk about the Sixers.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
He's like whatever, Yeah, so Eagles two and one, seventy
six ers haven't even had media day yet.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm already, oh.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
In seventy six. Yeah, that's where.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's where I'm at.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
I think it's a it's a tear down Blake. We
they went all in for big talent this offseason, and
I think we just tear it down right now, just
start selling, selling the team for parts.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I couldn't agree more. Have you seen are you following
the stadium thing about where they're going to put the
new stadium. They're looking to get a new stadium for
no reason, and they want to destroy Chinatown in Philadelphia
in order to build it again. For no I mean
the reason is probably think they can make money off
of it. But yeah, it's a huge bummer. So that's happening.

(08:56):
But I don't live in Philadelphia anymore. I moved, So
you don't care. Yeah, that it's not going to be
your tax dollars anymore. I think when it never was
because you have to pay them in order for that
to be something that affects you. Cool little hack I learned,
and if you move, you don't have to You're you're cleared.
It's like chieve it without the yeah, exactly exactly, just
to clear my dress change.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
The other option was putting it in New Jersey, which
a lot of people don't realize is a suburb of Philadelphia.
So I don't care. I don't think you would have
to change the name of the team, but I'm sure
people in Philadelphia have their reasons.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
No, legally you would. You would have to change it
because it's lying, you know, like in New York that
it's the New Jersey Jets and the New Jersey Giants,
like right, not New York they play.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I think all professional sports teams should move, should play
their games in New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I would love that. I would rock a New Jersey
Lakers outfit.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
That's well blake, it's uh been good so far. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's something to have you here, man, something's online.
We are gonna get to know you a little bit better.
The something's all mine. We're gonna get to know you
a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
In a moment.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
First, we're gonna tell the listeners a couple of the big,
hard hitting news stories we're talking about today another scam experience,
pop culture experience. Just hit the towers a second one,
just one Bridgerton themed ball in Detroit, and that one.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Just sounds like it's gonna go wrong. No disrespect to Detroit,
but you're like, the Bridgerton ball in Detroit didn't go
according to plan? What what's going on here? What's going
on here? Feel bad for the fans, but yeah, it's
it's it was quite an attempt, I must say by
the organizers. We are going to just take a look.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Eric Adams was indicted double LP world excited obviously, have
to bring that back because this one's happening in New York.
And yeah, all sorts of corruption from somebody who's like
terrible person. You know, his policies have been horrible. I
mean he's a former cop who has doubled down on

(11:15):
everything you would expect from a former.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
He's joke mayor.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Yeah, and however, also some of the wildest moments just
of public like I want I want to look back
at too, in particular his interview from earlier this year
and then at PSA he did for back in twenty eleven. Yeah,
just because I don't know it's true. It's truly like

(11:40):
some next level shit that this guy's plays.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
It's just a guy who has no self awareness. And
that's like the best kind of politician for the purpose
of this show is someone who is so hopped up
on their own shit that they're like, record this. Let's
say your child has a frame. That whole video is
so stupid. I just want to look at this. I
think we talked about it briefly when he was running
for mayor, but like really letting it breathe. You're like,

(12:04):
and this man was the mayor and in charge of
the largest police sports.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
We're gonna look at the notebook guy Nicholas Spark's salad
dressing recipe, and we're gonna look at.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Ye are ye oh yeah, okay baby.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
So we'll talk about those things plenty more. But first, Blake,
we do like to ask our guests, what is something
from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 2 (12:32):
And don't lie.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Ask and you shall receive. One thing for my search
history is Jersey City Giants hat. So moved up to
Jersey City, so basically New York about a week ago
and I saw this cool hat and I'm like, how soon,
can you wrap a place that you moved to. We'll

(12:53):
get to that in a moment. And it turns out
there's a minor league baseball team in Jersey City called
the Jersey City Giants, and it's actually where Jackie Robinson
broke the color barrier in nineteen forty six. So okay,
it's one of those things where, like it's a big
baseball fan know that story. But I just thought it
was in a regular baseball game, but it was like

(13:13):
a Triple A game, which makes sense. So yeah, first, uh,
Butler to play a professional this game, I think would
be a really dope logo for Jesus Christ. Well that's
how I'm going to actually reappropriate it. And you're stepping
on this a little bit, but I am starting a
church where you all have to wear a retro baseball
uniforms to it, and that's where it starts. So yeah,

(13:36):
it is going to be Jesus Christ.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, Jesus Christ. Yeah, this is Jesus. And you didn't
and you're looking for it now are You're gonna have
to get one on Ebot's field flannels that makes all
those vintage hats.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah, that's where I'm going to get it. That's where
I'm going to get it. So yeah, and by the way,
furthest promo, if they could throw me a four percent discount, yeah,
I would really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
S feel Come on, b I see all the Japanese
vintage jerseys you do. I'm always I in them. I'm
always in them. Holler at me.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah, come on, give me some wool. That's my thing.
I just I'm sick of all this breathable material.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
We have more wool. I just want to wear a
thick wool T shirt in the form of a vintage baseball.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Remember how athletic and comfortable Babe Ruth looked. Yep, I
found like any world class athlete.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
I think of thy Cobb's glistening skin and I think, Wow,
that's what I want to wear. And I want to
be a racist like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
The only thing more glistening than his skin was his
cleats when he was going into second base biking after
total piece of shit exactly.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
But yeah, so it turns out that was where Jackie
Robinson played his first professional game.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
You know what, do you remember the movie? It wasn't
Tommy Lee Jones ty Cob in that movie, Like that game.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Was a strong cat. It would be him or Clint Eastwood.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
I just remember I remember not knowing who ty Cob
was and just seeing that movie a kid, I'm like, Yo,
what the fuck is up with this guy? A fucking maniac?

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Anyway, Yeah, and then it's like every baseball player was that.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, I remember like that.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
That was a time during my childhood where every it
felt like every week a new like ty Cob biography
was coming out. They were like, man, this guy could
hit a baseball and was also racist like the rest
of America at the time.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
What a story.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
There was a period where I couldn't keep my tie
Cob and my Walt Disney a tay cop story or
a Walt Disney story. Yeah, who was the swastik on
their back? Was it?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
I think that's Elsa? Right? It was Elsa?

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Yeah here Elsa man.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Elsa has some really problematic tattoos. Oh yeah, you ever
noticed how she doesn't wear shortsleeves?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah? White never seen her shoulder blade.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
She always has those gloves on. Man, So the story
from Frozen is all a conspiracy theory to throw you
off the scent. Why she really has to wear the
gloves there's some wild tattoos.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, man, you don't want to down there? Yeah, down
there is a weird way to say that.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, down there on her hands, on her hands, yes, yeah.
The Jersey City logo does like also like evokes fishing.
It looks like somebody has caught the Cincinnati logo with
a fish hook. And you know who the ultimate fisher
of the city of Cincinnati was, Guy by the name

(16:33):
of Jesus.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Oh wow, Oh yeah, all right, yeah let him thank you.
I have to I know. And he was a gold
star guy skylight reason every time we do a video
episode it ends up going in like really weird Jesus directions.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
That's our first episode. If people want to see, like
the episode that would make my ship, right. I was
you know what I was saying all this ship. I
was like wanted to say Catholic and like Christian school
growing up. I was like, what's what's up wonder that?
Like anyway, check out the video. Yeah, it's the thought

(17:11):
I feel like everyone's head.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, yeah, of course we're all perverts.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Come on now, they should blur his feet out.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
You think Jesus got a wiki feet?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh yeah, I mean probably the most visible feet in
the game.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
You know, the longest arches outside of Saint Louis. I've
been saying it for years.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Wow, is that because San Louis only has one arch? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, yeah, then how do you think it got there?
Jesus on something?

Speaker 2 (17:41):
This is bullshit. No, what Jesus does have a wiki
feet page? Somebody do the fucking literal lord's work and
make sure he has a Wiki feet page. I mean
he was.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
He was a foot freak, like a lot of people
are like, oh my god. He was willing to watch
watch Yeah, yeah, willing. He was doing them a favor. Yeah,
the guy was it with my fucking mouth. Bro, I
don't care.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
That's I'll wash your feet like I don't know you.
I guess i'll eat dinner.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I guess I'll clean him with my mouth, jeez, because
I just want to show you how like relatable I am.
Why does he keep going? Then the real Jesus, the
real Jesus shows up, he goes different. What the fuck
did I tell you? Get out of here? That wasn't Jesus. Guys,
that's a fucking pervert who goes around sucking people's feet

(18:31):
saying he's me.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Why is no one arresting this guy. People are put
to death for.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Defense. No, no, no, we must forgive this young man
and to demonstrate, I will wash his feet. Yeah, and
that's all that.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Perverts wanted the whole time. Someone, it's a parable. It's
in there if you if you read close blake, what's
something you think is under rated?

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Underrated? Cuckoo clocks? We have clock? Don't don't you there?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Order the anti couner? Okay, go on, go on? Why
was that?

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Was that a hard? Like Jesus being a foot?

Speaker 2 (19:20):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Can't just go to something cute. No, I'm just gonna
take the foot of.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
I'm like anticipating, just laughing really hard. That's I'm like,
get the fuck out of here because I know you
about Okay, go on, I don't.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
I don't have to tell you what this uh what
this pick makes me do?

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Make me go cuckoo yep.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Because you're cuckoo for cuckoo clocks?

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yes, thanks your problem for cocoa clocks.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
But by my friend Todd and I used to have
a bit where it'd be like Toddy blast I don't yes, yes,
it would be like did you hear about I'm about
our friend Eric. Yeah, he's in really bad shape. He
went cuckoo for cocoa puffs and he's so he's sick,
he's completely sick. He knocks on the door in the
middle of the night trying to get them. But yeah, no,
I think I don't know if you noticed, most clocks

(20:04):
don't have a bird that comes out of them. I
would say fifty five percent of clocks don't have birds
that come out, Yeah, but the ones the other forty
five percent do And I love the fact that it
kind of helps you keep track of the day and
kind of takes the edge off of the eternal clock

(20:25):
ticking towards your death off a little bit where it's
like I lost another hour. But because what's the times
the bird? Yeah, it's like it's really not that bad.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Full of life it wait, cuckoo's for every hour? Is
that how it works? Too? Like how well grandfather oh
man when it hits eleven o'clock, So yeah, it is bad.
You're like, it's actually cuckoo for punctuality.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah it is, you know stick or yeah, so assuming
cuckoo for punctuality.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
So what so what are that bad? But yeah, no,
I love them. But one o'clock two o'clock.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
I'm gonna rock around the clock tonight. This show is
no good. We really are.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
We're gonna the show is a blemish.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I wonder if people like didn't recognize it was bad
when it was just recorded, but now that there's like
a video component, like, wait, what the fuck are we listeners?

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Okay, this is people, this is people with brains.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
They're just saying nursery rhymes. Right now? What what blake is?
Something you think is overrated?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
I'll fucking tell you what's overrated. Smart homes. Smart homes.
So we moved into a place that, you know, nice,
like just a normal place. But the guy who lived
here before, who doesn't fucking own it, just rewired the
entire apartment with smart home capabilities. And I can't turn
on the lights. I can't turn off the fucking lights.

(21:53):
The shades will go up and down. I can't operate
the shades. So it's it's an actual prison that I'm
living in. We're also it's motion detecting, so in the
middle of the night i'm groggy, I'll go to the
bathroom the fucking all the lights come on in the
bathroom and shut it off. Right, Yes, it's horrible. It's hard.
So anyway, you just get blind by the lights and

(22:18):
then yeah, I'm repped up like a douce. So I
don't buy.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
A douche that used to rent this place before. Ye wait,
so so what do you do? Like you need an
app or something like? Is there any way to rest
control from the fucking machines in any way?

Speaker 1 (22:33):
So I tried just pouring water all over spring water all.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Over the movies.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, it is just like some blue lightning, just like
a few lines of blue lights water. It also works
when with Tesla's if you want to get no, actually
that's not don't listen to that advice.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Cyber truck not in car wash mode. I think it's
it's still an issue.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
But yeah, but so it's that's the thing where it's
it's supposed to be easy, like it's supposed to make
your life easier, the smart technology, but it's actually causing
more stress. So there's there's an app that we don't
have access to. We have to find this guy, we
have to.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
It's just really like to be like, hey, sorry, did
you rent this place in Jersey City? Like can I
have like the code?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah? Wow, that's exactly what's happening, And it seems like
we're just going to have to get new like because
some advice I got is never try to do the
electric in your home yourself, Like just don't it stand
because you know your fucking room you're home.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Gave me that advice, fucking coward.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah yeah, I like small man. You had a really
soft voice. No it was, but yeah, anyway, so I'm nervous.
I'm definitely not going to do it. So I think
we have to get like an electrician here. Just take
out the things that I won't even.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Do a task in my home if it in a
room that has electricity in it.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
I agree. I have the same rule. Yes I won't.
I have to have someone come in and turn the
micro wave on me and.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Maybe I could get electric cute it. Oh shit, I'm nervous.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
I also keep my head right next to the door
when we when we microwave.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
That's just like I like to hear it cook and sizzle.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
I do.

Speaker 4 (24:21):
Yeah, well, you got to listen for the popcorn to pop.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, you between the kernels to know exactly.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Baby it's popping.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Babe, your ear is really red, is it? Babe? Times
as big as your other ear.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Ah, yeah, that's that's my listener to my microwave.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Here.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
This one's more vibration, So that's my microwave popcorn listening here. Okay,
you can't expect it to work as good as the
other one. All right, let's take a quick break and
come back and talk about a bridger ten themed ball.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
We'll be right back. And we're back. We're back. It's true.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
We are, We're back, we are and this is yeah,
this is.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
The theme giving Glasgow Yep, Willy Wanka Chopa Factory a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
A lot of a lot of uh scammy balls and
fan events out there, and yeah, it's happened again. So obviously,
like Bridgerton is a huge show with a ton of
fans that would like love to pretend that they are
in the show. I totally get the appeal, Like it
has its own aesthetic and like musically, you know, bashion wise,
et cetera. And so Netflix knows this and they haven't

(25:44):
a legit event called the Queen's Ball that has like
gone like traveled across the country and world like cities
like in like La New York, Melbourne in Australia, and
it's like a fucking full on production like set recreations.
They have actual outfits from the productions that you can
look at, really like a portrait, the photo booth, themed

(26:07):
bars with bartenders dressed in period clothing, a dance show
like a queen that shows up and chooses a diamond
of the evening. It's like an event, and that Netflix
party has tickets starting at thirty nine dollars. So I'm like, okay,
that's not bad. So when people in Detroit, reasonable, yeah,
when people in Detroit heard about a Bridgerton ball with
tickets costing anywhere from one hundred twenty dollars to one

(26:28):
thousand dollars, people got excited.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
The web miles my brain when I hear, Okay, the
other one's forty dollars, this one starts at one hundred.
It's gonna be three times better at minimum, at least
a minimum.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
That is Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
I'm such a sucker for shit like that.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Oh yeah, that's that's definitely fan math for high price
equels good goodness.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
We the website said is it made in America? Can
I ask you that is the event? Because I know
the shows in Britain, But is the event made in America?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
The event is ail. Yes, it is built for tough exactly. Okay,
it's patriotic, but so the on the event website, it said,
step into the enchanting world of the Regency era at
the Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball Join us.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
The Hygatt Regency that was the Regency era that we were.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Two thousand and two, two thousand.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
And we know it's a bando now, but we've turned
it into a whimsical event space. So it says, join
us for an evening of sophistication, grace and historical charm.
Experience a night like no other, filled with music, dance,
and exquisite costumes. And but this event started off shaky though.
The event was originally supposed to happen in late August,
but at the last minute organizers had to cancel due

(27:43):
to unforeseen circumstances and people didn't get a refund. That's
the first red flag for people. Okay, they rescheduled it
to this last weekend, and people still shelled out the
money to get in on the unique experience and paid
a lot of money. Also, like people were dressed up
like custom custom made outfits, doing their hair, all kinds
of shit like that, and what they got was not

(28:08):
quite what was advertised here, Like this is from a
local news report about the would be fantastic event.

Speaker 8 (28:16):
The way that it was described is that this was
going to be a Bridgerton evening. We were going to
have classical music, good dinner, and there was going to
be a play, and they were going to pick dime
into the season. They were going to give away all
of these prizes and we went in and it's going
to share.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Hype me in there.

Speaker 9 (28:33):
Organizers Uncle in the LLC have since disabled its website
and turned off social media comments. I saw reaching out
to the co owner, Chelsea Beard as early as five
am Monday. Monday afternoon, seven News Detroit's Whitney Burnie also called.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
And then doorstep in someone They got no response. Okay,
and yes you did have a hype man who was
also like a play because they really I mean, if either.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Of us ever get it's interviewed for a local like
something terrible happens to us, we have to make a
promise right now the other of us will go and we.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Should just be normal. Yeah, exactly, And I'll just do
like West Sky, I'll do West Side Gun fucking like anyway.
So the event was fucking shaky. The the like the
event space was empty. Uh. The food was some regular

(29:29):
ass buffet that ran out within one hour. I put
a picture here in the dock that you can see
that is it is all giving like a mediocre prom.
It's like a line outside like the Yeah, the food.
I guess does proms have food? Maybe maybe it's like
a cash bar wedding.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
They have food.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, they have Blake's a.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm a prom king.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
This is what I have. So this shit was like
you know the they said people weren't even scanning your
like tickets at the door, but there was like nothing,
So randos are just walking in and eating the food
that ran out within one hour. Like I said, the
Netflix event had a full bar. They were promising people drinks.
The only drinks they had was, I'm not joking, blue

(30:22):
kool aid. You had to buy. That was the only
beverages on sale for people. They were promised libations. Okay,
they marked it up too. Apparently the woman who is
playing the queen people were saying was totally out of
character while basically hustling her business card to anyone that
would listen. So I think you could pose and take
a picture and she was like like, Okay, that's my

(30:43):
favorite detail, just not even in characters like okay, yeah,
so if you need me, this is my card.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, good to see you. Okay, I'm the Queen of
Detroit real Estate. I'm a real here. Why don't I answer.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
I'm Detroit's muffler queen. You got any muffler problems, you
come see me. Okay, car making too much noise here?
It takes absolutely oh shut that car.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
There are pictures from inside the event that have like
promotions for other like events on the wall and shit,
like it's supposed to be this immersive thing and it
just looks like you're inside a fucking yeah bustation.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
My favorite part is like, so there was a main
sort of dining room floor that filled up immediately, so
people were relegated to the upstairs that was this It
was just a fucking empty room, like yeah, bummed out
people in the nicest fancy dress like sitting like on
their phones, like, man, this shit was it looks like
a Radison.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yeah, not a high regency, honestly, no, not even a region.
The live music they were promised, okay, they had live music.
It was people felt so bad for this woman. It
was just this young woman on violin by herself who
played They said, for like four hours straight, damn no breaks,
just having to work that violin.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I don't know how many times you can play, you know,
Desposito on violin for people, But that's what she did.
Classy though it is. I mean, look shout out to
what is it that Vitamin String quartet that their entire
catalog blew up because they were using their like sort
of rethought up remixed current songs with like string arrangements
throughout the show. They said that back right though, right, well,

(32:21):
what if we played yellow on violin? Yeah, we had
one of those of my wedding fys? Oh really? Oh yeah?
Have you heard clocks on cello? Yeah? Actually it kind
of goes is that that's a Cold Play song? Is that? Yeah? Cloth?

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Are we making fun of this? Are we saying that
we like it because.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
I was making fun of it and also saying that
I fully did it at my wedding?

Speaker 2 (32:43):
This shit goes hard. But like the backdrops again, this
is supposed to be a like again anywhere from one
hundred and twenty to one thousand dollars. You could see
like they just unfrilled some plastic rows like tablecloth print,
and they're like, and that's your backdrop for photos. This
is this poor like lady having to serve a bunch
of angry, upset people in fancy dress. The food, and

(33:04):
then the dancing. Right, the dancing was one exotic dancer.
They wheeled out the play or whatever. They wheeled out
like one of those like you don't need a ceiling
to put this poll up for someone to dance on.
And then this is the quote unquote entertainment for the evening.
I'll just play quick clip this. I don't remember this.

(33:35):
These four people, remember you weren't looking hard enough because
obviously there was string music. Okay, the royal pole dancer
has arrived. Now please get out your singers, get out
your shillings for this intrepid young business person. But yeah,
like every other fucking scam event, the organizers are saying

(33:56):
anything but sorry, here's your money back. This is what
they said, quote, we understand that not everyone had the
experience they This is like to almost like identical to
the fucking Glasgow Willy Wonka one. We understand that not
everyone had the experience they hope for at our most
recent events Sunday Night at the Harmony Club, and for
that we sincerely apologize. Our intention was to provide a

(34:18):
magical evening, but we recognize that organizational challenges affected the
enjoyment of some guests. We take full responsibility and accountability
for these shortcomings. Please know that we are working diligently
to address all concerns to ensure that all guests have
the enjoyable experience they deserve. Your feedback is invaluable, and
we truly appreciate both the positive and constructive comments shared

(34:38):
with us. They deactivated their webs like, they took down
their website, they took down fuck in everything you can, like,
there's no comments, like all the comments are disabled on
their Instagram account, so that's where things are, and people
are basically out a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Unfortunately this one. It seems like I don't know if
this is funnier or sadder, which is a question I
ask myself about pretty much any topic. But because a
lot of these had to do these scam events were
geared towards children, sure right, yeah, right, yeah, And this
is one of the first ones that's geared towards adults,
so like it is sadder in a way where at

(35:12):
least you could get angry. We're like, oh my god,
these people they deceive my child, and like yeah, yeah, yeah,
righteous anger, yeah yeah. And that was just like, oh,
I wanted to have a nice, magical evening as the
princess took this away from it.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, Like, as someone who is part of a few fandoms,
like I totally understand the urge to do something like this,
Like you know, someone is creating the world that you
secretly want to live in, or not even secretly, you
tell everybody about how you wish you lived on a
Corellian cruiser. But people, I think this is the thing
to your point, Blake, for an adult event like this,
we have to be more diligent when it comes to

(35:48):
assessing the bullshit because you start just like vague clip
art and stock images from the show without anything really
being there. And again they canceled the first event. I
was looking on Instagram. Someone claimed in a comment they
worked for the first venue, and they said the reason
the first event was shut down is because the event
planners did not fully pay out all the deposits they

(36:11):
needed to actually hold the event. And I don't know
if that's how true that is. But red flags you
already paid once, they didn't give you a recha.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
The company that the company that organized it was called
Uncle and Me LLC.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
So I don't know, I don't know why that.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Gives you the sense that they're going to do a
good job of putting on a Bridgerton gallop?

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah have you ever done anything with your uncle? And
it was like, okay, I remember, like helping my uncle
build something wasteful.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yeah, it's a support group for perverts, is what you
would call Uncle and Me. Like, that's what that should
be called. I big unc energy, huge unk energy. I
got scammed recently where with stand up, which I should
know better, Like this is a where I should know better.
I've been doing this long enough. Where there was this

(36:59):
a book or a un quote booker being like, hey,
we're putting on this event. It's uh Keenan Thompson is
presenting it and it's a talent event and I'm like,
they say he's hosting it. He said he's presenting it,
and it was very vague as to like who the
like talent bookers were going to be there, and I'm like,

(37:21):
all right, this thing's not costing me money, it's five
minutes from my place, Like it's really no sweat off
my back if this is a scam. But this seems
like a scam.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Fuck it, I'm going for it.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
I'm like, Keenan Thompson is also in France for the
Olympics right now, Like I know he's not coming.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
With this, verifiably not even on the same continent. But
you're like, I'm watching him with Kevin Hart on NBC
right now. I know he's not flying back for this shit.
And uh yeah, it was a total ripoff, but it
was funny because it didn't cost me money, whereas if
it cost like one hundred and twenty bucks a thousand,
but like that is so you it's doubled that book.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
So they booked you for this gig and you're like,
I'll do it, and then you showed up and there
just was no gig, or just was no Keenan.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
There was no Keenan. There were no talent book like
you know, like agents or like you know, talent bookers.
So it was just some scumbag from Atlantic City and
stand up. I did stand up. I killed But it
was all you know, like the organizer who fucking I killed.
I committed yeah, first degree murder, and we're trying to

(38:25):
get that down to manslaughter. No one's ever Hey listen,
I have passion for everything I do, particularly crimes of
And yeah, it was a thing where you know, they
clearly were taking the door the money. This was the
saddest part is that the audience who did pay money
thought Keenan Thompson was going to be there. So there
were like two hundred and fifty audience members there, and

(38:47):
then the host in passing is like, all right, everybody,
we got a great show for you tonight. You know,
Keenan couldn't make it, but I think and then you
just heard the whole crowd go oh.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
It was such did people get up right and couldn't
make it?

Speaker 4 (39:02):
But he's still confidently and fully presents this.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Yeah, but we we are using his name with or
without his knowledge, So there's that.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Please don't tag him in anything.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Don't tag him.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Got a bunch of season desists already. It's a it's
a head. Yeah, you know what it is dealing with
these stars. I'm sorry that that it didn't work out
for you, but you know we're here to support you.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
Thank you, yeah, I think these Bridgerton things are going
to be more and more calm, Like I think this
is just the beginning. Like we I read an article
about the ORB or whatever the fuck is, you know,
the sphere in Las Vegas, and like that is part
of this big like thing that whoever like advertisers and marketers,

(39:45):
whoever like creates psychographic networks like says that is like
it's the big thing that people just like want immersive
experiences because our lives are bad, and so we're like
they're like, yeah, the just like want to feel like
they don't exist in the context of their lives. They

(40:06):
want to feel like they are in some other world.
And so I think other than the ORB, the ORB
is the only one that I've like heard of that
like consistently people are like, yeah, it's really weird, like
you don't feel like you're on the planety at all
from some people. Some people are like, yeah, it's just
a weird bad motion sickness experience. But like if you

(40:26):
go to like disney Land or Disney World, like as
an adult, it does like that That's what that whole
experience is about, is like immersive feeling like you're not there,
and it still feels kind of to me, not to everyone. Obviously,
they're like Disney adults who like love Disney, and I
think that's great, but like, to me, it still feels

(40:46):
like you're like in a bar when the lights come on,
like on your childhood.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Right, yes, yeah, because you don't just see many and
you don't just see like goofy or whatever. You also
see a guy vomiting in the corner. You know, it's
you do get the whole right, Yeah, that's why it's
you know, for kids, it's they don't they have tunnel vision,
like they see like, oh my god, it's it's you know,

(41:12):
I was trying to think of a celebrity equivalent for
an adult. Jeff Bezos was the only. Oh my god,
it's Bezos. Have you been to Amazon Land. It's one
of my It's incredible.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
And everybody's gonna be disappointed in it because I think
the the ideal that we have is like most of
being like transported by an immersive experience is mostly from
our childhood. I totally sympathize with it. I think like
we all crave that, especially more and more in the
current environment of a disintegrating empire. But I do feel

(41:48):
like we're just going to continue to have stories where
people are like.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah, yeah, come on in here.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
If you just go through that door, it's fully immersive
and like you're gonna forget the world that you live in.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
There's there's like a sports or like a venue downtown
called or not by the Sofie like in Inglewood called
Cosm that's basically a half spear screen where they show
sporting events now and it's like a like it's the
fucking screen is oh yeah wild And they show like
soccer games there and I was gonna go see Arsenal play,

(42:23):
and like the tickets are so much money, it's unbelievable.
Here Like this is I'll just give you an idea
of like what these seats look like. God, Like, look
at this.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
It's oh my god.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Like so it's a full it's like two levels and
you can buy like a booth has eight seats and
it's like three hundred or four hundred dollars. It's a
shit ton of money just to watch on like a
freaky screen. But again, I think for a lot of people,
especially if you like to watch sports in a new way,
it's kind of worth the money. But yeah, like everything

(42:54):
is just becoming more and more immersive, and like they
pump stadium sound into there and they try and give
you a feel like, hey, can't make the game, give
us ninety dollars to sit down.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
Like yeah, it's like I could just go to the game, right, yeah,
to your to your point miles, Like that's you know,
Arsenal plays in London. You can't just go to the game.
So there must be some people who love Yetta fans
in other countries.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like, hey man, you know, doing
drugs is pretty cool, and you're like the real thing
I've read.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
All right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and
we'll come back. And we're back, and the government of
the City of New York is disintegrating as we speak.

(43:43):
Eric Adams was indicted, and before we get to that,
I want to talk about Nicholas Sparks's salad dressing, like that.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Kings Sparks is salad dressing the news. That was the
first ever indictment of a New York mayor.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
But what about this, So let's not get to head
let's not put the cart ahead of the horse. Yeah yeah,
let's get to the notebook.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Don't put the dressing in front of the bowl. Now.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
So this is going viral because an article pointed out
that he is putting. It's from a profile of him in.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
So New York Times basically did a profile of him
in their real estate section. And the reason people noticed
it is the reporter and photographer arrived as Sparks was
making himself a salad that included a dressing that one
of the ingredients was sixteen packets of Splendor.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Oh wait, that's why y'all were saying that earlier.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Oh wow, I thought you were exaggerating.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
No, sixteen packets, So I don't know. Have you guys
had experience with Splenda? Yes?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 4 (44:54):
So like one Splendor is the equivalent of, like they say,
two packets of sugar. But I think it's way sweeter
than that. It's so overpoweringly sweet. I mean it's you know,
it's lab concocted to just replace sugar, like replace your
memory of sugar.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
If my back's against the wall with like sweet and
lower equals staring me, you know, like down the barrel,
I will use Splendor, but I have to have it
at least you know, at least it's.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Like you have to just like you gotta get a
little on your fingertips and blow it right it like yeah,
like on your gun, Like when a cop finds like
a brick of cocaine in a movie and they have
to put it in there, like just put it on
your gums. Yeah, yep yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
The person writing the article about this about about this
New York Times article said that it's sweeter than a
can of coke, and I just have to take a
little issue with your police work there.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
So wow, there you go, Coast.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Defund journalism.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
They we might as well at this point, we might
so thirty two t spoots. So they're saying, sixteen splendid
packets is the equivalent of thirty two sugar packets, which
again I think that's low, but we're gonna go with that.
Thirty two packets of sugar is one hundred and eighty
two grams of sugar. That is the equivalent of the

(46:17):
sweetness of an entire six pack of coke, like cooked
down into like black tar corn ZERU Oh, it is
so fucking sweet, Like it makes sense, Like he writes
the treacliest like shit that has ever come out of
a fucking word processor. So it makes sense. But like,

(46:41):
I can't imagine having something like it would just bend
the laws of sweetness in your brain, like your your
entire overtin window of what is like sweet. Would it
would just like punch a hole through your fucking brain,
Like the pleasure cortex of your brain would just have
a hole in it. After eating this.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Salad dress, I guess if that was sugar, you might
like experience some light diabetic shock or something like that,
but luckily sucralose. Yeah, that's why I can get away
with eating one hundred and twenty eight or one hundred
and eighty two grams of that shit.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too, Where I feel like
once it hits a certain number, it ceases to matter anymore.
How much more it keeps going off where it's like, oh,
I'm in one hundred and sixty degree heat or or
two hundred and fifty degree heat, it's all right, well
you're dead. It doesn't matter if it's that or if
it's one thousand degree heat, Like it's done dead, you know.
So Yeah, I feel like it doesn't even matter.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
This description of it is fucking my mind up, okay yeah. Quote.
Earlier in the day, before a photographer and reporter arrived
at his home, mister Spark spent the morning in his
and it's at his kitchen's granite countertop, chopping two skinless,
boneless rotisserie chickens, a few stocks of celery, and a
idealia onion. He then whipped together a dressing consisting of mayonnaise, dill,
pickle relish, jalapeno relish, apple, side of a salt pepper,

(48:01):
cayenne pepper, and sixteen packets of Splendor, and.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Then rendering every other ingredient completely pointless because you can't
taste them anymore.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Like what the fuck it said? Uh? Sparks apparently avoids carbs,
explained quote. You can use real sugar, but why throws
sugar in if you can use splenda. Splenda is about
twice a sweedish sugar. So, according to the conversion chart
of the box, sixteen packets is equivalent like you said,
thirty two teaspoons of sugar.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
Thirty two teaspoons of sugar, which is one hundred and
eighty two grams. It is not a single coke.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
You got sixpack?

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Yeah, it's a six who's the person put an arrow
dipped in poisoned dart frog venom in the middle of
the day.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
It's like, what is this shit doing? Man? Wow? Is
this like does he have like some kind of like
damage to his tongue or something. It's like.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
It is like it is so on point like that
he would like salad dressing for him would be something
that like tastes like it is being coming directly out
of a uniforms ass like because he is such a
just like the ship he writes is just so. It's
like Christian romance is what he right?

Speaker 2 (49:17):
Yeah, he'll like tastes like a thousand islands. He was
like a spicy I don't like. I don't like thousand islands.
I need more, I need more sit Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
I always put a little bit of diet coke in
my thousand island dressing, just to cut it a little
bit all us, just so I.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Can slice an island is way too spicy.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
Way too Can we put a few less islands in this?
I'm fine with like one, maybe a long island.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Too long islands? What these are?

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Pacific islands that you're using?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
A long island dressing is just all the dressings put together.
Can I get that with Long Island dressing? What's that?
It's ran blue cheese, thousand Islands, Italian for whatever you got? Yeah,
it all together, French, Russian, A Long Island all right?

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Speaking of Long Island, New York's very owns island has
been indicted.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Yeah, yeah, speaking.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Of Long Island, close Long Island, where he probably lives.
There's a great anecdote, like, so he has been accruing
an amazing array of anecdotes over the course, over the
course of his mayorship doing horrible things to the people
of New York and the City of New York, you know,

(50:36):
over policing the subways, getting people shot, but also just
doing the wildest ship there. There's an anecdote from when
he was running for mayor where they were, like they
suspected he didn't actually live in New York City because
he didn't, and so they staked out the place where
he supposedly lived in Brooklyn for like a week, and

(50:58):
he came there twice, and like one of the times
that he came there, he like drove away on the
sidewalk from his residency because there was traffic outside, so
he just drove on the sidewalk.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
That's some gangster New York shit, the fucking Rush Hour movie. Yeah,
it's just like, hey, put the siren on the roof
like a fucking detective, Like all right, yeah, let's go,
let's go.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
But I just want like some greatest hits from his
time as a public figure as that time seems like
it might be coming to an end. From earlier this year,
there was an interview where he was asked to sum
up twenty twenty three. The implication of this interview is like,
you were under investigation for loads of corruption, but we're

(51:46):
not gonna directly ask you about that. We're just gonna
say it's been kind of an up and down year,
so nice, So how do you give us one word
to sum up twenty twenty three. Yeah, And this is
what he had to say.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Mister Mayor, we've come to the end of what was
a very eventful twenty twenty three, Right, So when you
look at them, it's like, Bro, they didn't they right before?
This raid his house?

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Yeah, like took everyone's phones and shit, Okay, his house.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
In the house of people like everyone who worked for him.
Totality of the year, if you had to describe it,
and it's up to do in one word? What would
that word be?

Speaker 6 (52:22):
And tell me why New York this is a place
where every day you wake up the work experience everything
from a plane crashing into our trade center to a
person who's celebrating a new business that's open.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (52:38):
This is a very very complicated city. That's why this
is the greatest city on the globe.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Yeah, it's like it feels like a weird stuff on
bit from SNLS, Like this city has everything. A plane
crashing into one of our World Clint Towers at any moment,
someone's celebrating the opening of a new business.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
And that's it. Actually just those two things.

Speaker 4 (53:08):
Yeah, he said, nine to eleven is why New York
is the greatest city on the globe. Not the resilience
in the face of nine to eleven, but the fact
that nine to eleven could happen here at any time.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
Yeah, is wise.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
It happened into Chicago, anywhere, it happened to Philly.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
La.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Sorry, he looked.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Up, saw the second plane hit the towers that only
in New York and smiled to himself.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
He did a yeah. Charles Dunton from Rudy Clapping Gifts, Alright,
what will you think of next to New York? What
motherfucker under attack? And then.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
And then there was his twenty eleven p s A
about just how to be.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
A good parent.

Speaker 4 (53:51):
I don't want to talk too much about it before
we get into it. I again, like that interview feels
like an SNL sketch. This is like better than yeah,
I've seen this was.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Yeah, this is just how to check your child's room
for contraband. And he's doing it in a room that
looks like you're recently passed away his uncle's house. But anyway,
but that's your let's just say this is your.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
His body's still on the floor. Uncle is decomposing slowly.

Speaker 10 (54:22):
You can look at a jewelry box, a jewelry box
of this nature, maybe a simple jewelry box, but if
you look through it closely, you don't know what your
child may be hiding.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
For instance, a good know this isn't so good. A gun.
Such a cop perspective on young people. It's like your
child has a gun and is amer has gone all right,
your child is an enemy combatant, yeah, who must be
dealt with. But yeah, this is like a super cut.

(54:52):
This music beat on it is really funny.

Speaker 10 (54:55):
Determine what's what's taking place behind a picture frame.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
You can find boom.

Speaker 10 (55:00):
You should always when your child bring in his popular knapsack,
but many.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
His popular knapsack popular knapsack sport now.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Being a popular brand different locations.

Speaker 10 (55:13):
Look through it to see what exactly is your child
carrying in addition to a book, something simple as a
crack pipe, something simple as a as a baby doll.
Could be just a baby doll, but also it could
be a place where you could secrete or hide drugs.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
He says, secrete police police adams.

Speaker 10 (55:36):
Run your hands over the pillows and see if you
feel anything.

Speaker 6 (55:39):
That's unusual, like a pull like this with a button,
the perfect.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Don't do it.

Speaker 6 (55:45):
I've felt something bumpy.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
It's a gun. What it is? Just look a gun?

Speaker 1 (55:50):
It was another gun?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
An gun to side your bookcases.

Speaker 6 (55:57):
It could be more than just books. Perfect place to
high a cocaine.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Okay, I'm sorry your child doesn't take off your child's hat.
What's underneath it?

Speaker 2 (56:06):
A gun?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Why don't you open up your kid's shoebox? What's inside
the shoe box? Three guns? Yeah, now.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Open up your child, open up your child's gun. What's
inside of their a gun and a crack pipe.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Tell your child on airplanes coming in his mouth open wide,
what's in there? Fourteen guns are in your child's mouth?

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Ah? This is that wayeah? I mean again, how to
treat your child like this is obviously someone who has
no trust even within his own family. Like, it's so
revealing that if you're like this is now, like I
keep a safe home, I'd like I treat my children
like inmates and I'm flipping their cell doing a bunk
check real quick. Yeah. Great, great, great parenting advice and

(56:48):
so relatable because something as simple as a crack pipe, yeah,
you know. And also this must be for the people
who are like wealthy, because I don't know kids who
have cocaine money. But again, sure they might have a
fucking half o of blow in their baby doll where
it's secreting.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Yeah, they're of an age that they're playing with a
baby doll. And they also have three handguns and three
ounces of cocaine.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Okay, I do like that.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
They're responsible enough not to keep the gun loaded. The
ammunition is kept behind bullet by bullet. Yeah, just loose.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Lucy's everywhere lose.

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Yeah, it's like a bullet Easter egg hunt in their bedroom.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Find the Lucy's, Find the Lucy's. It's also my other
favorite one though, too, is when the when he basically
unveiled the trash can on New York. He's like, now
we have trash cans, and like people are like, wow,
holy shit, And everyone was making fun of New York.
They're like, oh my god, they just discovered the trash
can in New York. God bless you. But there's like

(57:47):
this moment where he's like dapping up this like white
woman who's like the sanitation commissioner, and she didn't know
what time it was. You didn't have to dap her up.
She didn't know what to do. But again, just a
very very funny moment of him being him. Yeah, he is.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
Him more than anyone else that I've ever seen. He
is himself.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
He's been playing in New York. He's putting a garbage
bag in there to demonstrate how the garbage can works, now.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Filled with guns.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
That looked like when Donald Trump shook that dog snout
or was that Mike Bloomberg who shook hands with a
dog snout during an event? Anyway, That's what the very
uncoordinated was yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it was fine
to meet you. Yeah, he like was it, didn't He
like grabbed a dog's snout at an event and just
like shook the dog's mouth like it was.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
A human thing to do. Oh man, that dog's mouth
a gun.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Yeah, if you want to be mayor of New York,
you cannot know how to shake anything's hand at all. Well, yeah,
you don't remember this. I'm so excited for this, Like, oh,
here's this dog. Hey, nice to meet you. Oh that sucks.

(59:12):
Just grab the dog's open mouth and shake demandable. All right,
there you go, you tube pal, meet you. Welcome to
you two asshole. You can find anything to get too.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Yeah, it's one of the great things about New York,
got it?

Speaker 4 (59:25):
And that is one of the top three things first
nine to eleven can happen any second, Shake any dog's head.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
A dog's head is basically a human hand, as I've
read many books I've read.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Also, just I mean, even though we talked about that
the ship that he's on the hook for alleged to
have done just like so many fucking bribes, like it'll
make your head, so many bribes from like from foreign
country Turkey. It was Bekistan, China, fucking everybody like, why
are you doing this? Why are you even talking to
these people?

Speaker 4 (59:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:58):
Because they because like you know, he getting like free
trips to Turkey, like I think it was Israel, cutters,
South Korea. There's the list, like what goes on and
on and on, and then not to mention like the
revolving door of like resignations that had happened recently only
for people like the replacements for those people who who
had resigned to also get into legal trouble. Yeah, really

(01:00:19):
wonderful thing they have going on.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
Yeah, well, Blake, it's been quite the pleasure having you,
quite the pleasure. Indeed, where can people find you?

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Follow you all that good stuff?

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
People can find me at Blake Westler on alsocial media.
When this comes out tomorrow is the one year anniversary
of my stand up special being out, So thank you
to everybody who watched it. I know a lot of
Zeigang people supported that, so thank you. It's called Daddy
Long Legs. It's on YouTube. And then this Sunday, I'm
in Wayne, Pennsylvania. These are my stand up dates. Then

(01:00:50):
I'm going to be in Minneapolis October twelfth, Brooklyn October
twenty sixth Boston, November first. That Minneapolis gig is me
and my friend Siamons and it's a show called both Sides,
and it should be called No Sides because nothing's going
to be accomplished during the show. We're tackling the big
issues of the day. So yeah, come check that that out.

(01:01:12):
That's a part of the ten Thousand Laughs Festival. So yeah,
October twelfth in Minneapolis.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
And that show is presented by Prince right.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
That saw, Yeah, Prince p r I NTS. So we
are doing a event, a Prince themed event that you're
all welcome to. It's a you gotta wear purple and
there's going to be a buffet and we will have
I will be the stripper actually this type. So if
you want to see that, yeah, you want to see
these plumpers grind.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Pole welcome in a one piece bathing suit designed like
the artist logo that he was using it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
I'm going to tell you it's not nearly enough pieces
that one piece, so I need multiple. It should be
an eighteen piece to cover up these legs.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Is there a work in media Blake you've been enjoying.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
No, yeah there is, But so there's a tweet from
Anthony Moore, who's a very funny comedian at All That
and More moo Art, And he was responding to a
tweet someone wrote, this might be a dumb question, but
why the fuck are zoo's the thing? And then he wrote, no,

(01:02:22):
this is real because an elephant should not live right
off Gerard Avenue. So Gerard is kind of a weird
rough street at parts of Philly where the zoo is located,
there's penguins in there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
It's ridiculous, amazing miles Where can people find you as
their workimedia you've been enjoying?

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
of Gray. You can find Jack and I on the
basketball podcast Moles and Jack Got Mad boost Bees. You
can also find me talking ninety day fans on four
twenty Day fiance Is. I mean that there's so many
Eric Adams tweets to look at everyone like New Yorkers are.

(01:03:07):
Really it's always great when you have an entire Twitter
population that is just ready to fucking unload the shit
posts on someone. So I just do yourself. Hey man,
that's too soon, bro. And also you're in Jersey City. Okay,
let's not get it twisted.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
There's no corruption in Jersey, right, never heard of it.
What's happening in New York?

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that one
senator in New Jersey, but I never heard of a
corruption scan the du Yeah. But anyway, I would implore
you just just do a cursory search of Eric Adams
because there is a lot of fantastic tweets and also
learning more about his fuckery, because let's not forget like
he was totally perpetuating this like narrative about a migrant
crisis too while behind the scenes perpetuating it himself to

(01:03:50):
make exacerbating it himself rather for his own political goals.
Oh that's right, I forgot man, that there are people
are also posting. Remember the NYPD dance team. Do you
remember that when they went on the news? Ye, and
like they were like like the brokest like dance team. Okay, anyway,
check out those Eric Adams sweets. That's it for me.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
Yeah, that was a bummer that was in the running
for Eric Adams clips to show. But I didn't want
to have to talk people down from I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Didn't want to be depressed. Yeah, all after yeah, dancing
cuts all right.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
A tweet I've been enjoying on the Eric Adams thing
as sella Express good New York Reference Biz Underscore Socks
tweeted Meanwhile, across town Samantha was dealing with an indictment
of her own. You can find me on Twitter at
Jack Underscore O Brian. You can find us on Twitter

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Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Miles My, I'm sorry I should have interrupted you, because
I did find just one of the good Eric Adams
to eat videos that you should watch. This is this
just this is him just every time. Just listen to this.
This is Eric Adams and how likable of a guy
he is.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Everyone knows that New York City is the Actors of America.
Is the Istanbul of America, is the Keys of America,
the soul of America. We are to tell athe of America.
New York City is the islama Bad of America, the
Zab of America. We are the Lema of America. New
York City is Mexico City of America. This is the

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doubling of America.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yo, with the beautiful appropriate Irish sweater that that poets sweater.
God bless him, bless him. You and p Didy will
like fine set least. I know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
That's another great image that people are sharing. Yeah, the
Key to the Sam on September fifteenth, twenty twenty three, Yeah,
my birthday where he's giving did he the key to
the city?

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
He did he run the city? Yes. This song that
we're gonna go out on as someone who just saw
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, there's just there's this one track in it
where everyone starts lip syncing it that's just kind of like,
it's just I had never heard this song before, at
least this version by Richard Harris before, and it's just
like one of those cheesy tracks that you listen to
and suddenly you're you're you're transported to a time where

(01:06:34):
you know, the hair was long and there was you know,
drugs flying everywhere. And I don't know if that's really
something that appeals to you, but I like that image.
And this is called MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. So
check this one.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
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Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Talk to you all then Bye bye