Dems To GOP “ANOTHER ONE”, Daylight Savings Kills 3.14.18

In episode 104, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Dani Fernandez to discuss the passing of Stephen Hawking, daylight savings, special elections, conservatives gas lighting themselves, UFO's, student walk outs, & more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season twenty two, Episode
three of Dark Daily, four March fourteenth, two thousand eighteen.
Happy pie Day. My name is Jack O'Brien a k.
Jack O'Brien's and Tigers and Bears. Oh my, that's courtesy
of no elper Lage, and I am thrilled to be
joined as I always buy my co host, Mr Miles.

(00:20):
That's right, it's Miles gray A three point one four
one five nine two six five three five eight nine
seven nine eight four six two six four three three
seven seven. You haven't memorized that far. That's great, man,

(00:41):
Why I never mind? Forget? I had another singing a
game leave it at And we are thrilled to be
joined by the hilarious comedian and podcast host of an
upcoming podcast about to drop on this year, How Stuff
Work Network. She is Danny Fernande. Is Danny for Nan

(01:02):
of your beeswax A? Never mind, I won't ask. Uh.
That's a hell of a thing to tell me before
I start asking you. What is something from your search
history that is revealing about who you are as a
human being? Oh god, well, last time it was kind
of intense. It was I think it was like my
Marvel It was that I, you know, am single and

(01:25):
looking at dudes mainly the Marvel Net single. Um so
my search history last night was the Big Baby from
Rugrats and if you if you're a nineties kid, you
will totally remember that Angelica was afraid of like this terrifying,
but just literally google big Baby from Rugrats. It's terrifying.

(01:47):
But it also things No, no me single seeing babies
like this. No, my nephew who I was showing you
a picture of five weeks old. But he's cute, but
he fits into his his three month clothes. Giant baby.
He's thick, He's thick as Hell's giant baby baby. There's

(02:10):
a big baby. Uh, Danny, what is something you think
is underrated? Underrated? Street cart hot dogs? I think people
shoot on them and it's like corotein on the go.
They're always good. You can normally get like grilled onions
and other vegetables with them. They're like two dollars, maybe
five dollars, top five dollars of like yeah or out

(02:32):
by the stable center. Um, but yeah. Street cart hot
dogs I think get a bad rap and they're so good.
You get them wrapped in bacon for an extra dollar
sometimes that are on the grill. Now, our New York
listeners might be thinking that we're talking about the New
York Street hot dogs, which are just soaking in water
all day. People don't do that. That's cooking on the

(02:54):
planta right there with the who's talking shit about the
danger I mean, but we embrace that name, the danger dogs.
We do. But I feel like some people are like, yeah,
they're greasy or you know, like like street, yeah, you
know you know what danger dog. The danger dog is

(03:17):
like what we call the bacon wrap hot dog the
street in l A. But I feel it's a lot
of people who move here and they're like, oh you
would eat that, And you're like, what mostly shipped off
the street, like you know, literally off the street, like
on the ground. Yeah. No, this is something anytime you
go to an event in Los Angeles, that doesn't matter
if it's a concert or a sporting event, there will
be protests a number of people standing outside with grills

(03:42):
just grilling up delicious hot dogs. But now they're all
like underneath one company. Have you noticed there's a lot
of them? Have like think it may have been and
I have to have my friend Mike Dennis quote me, who,
like I have a buddy of mine who used to
wear in politics. He was advocating that for street vendors
in l A. And I think I think they may
have had to sort of organize a bit more to
get like the proper licensing because a lot of people

(04:04):
were trying to not allow people to just watch that
video with the cop who took the guy's money, and yeah, no,
that ship happens every time I've seen them, is the
cops walk up and they like just run away and
then like start selling it like down the block, right
right right, because that's what's wrong with our country. Yet

(04:25):
dog sales have gone far and on. Plus they're delicious.
Get your nitrates and nitrates whatever. Yeah, it's good for you.
And there's a couple of places, like a couple of
markets pre wrap them for you. So if you're trying
to have like the authentic l A party, you can
make them, you know, by yourself. At Danny, what's something
that you think is overgraded trivia shows? Y'all need to

(04:46):
chill out with all these trivia apps and trivia Like,
oh my gosh, I can't tell you how many auditions
I've been on now that everyone wants to copy that
HQ trivia thing that took off to host. Yeah yeah,
like our good friend lay most Oh yeah, sorry not
to like. Also if he if he doesn't like, not
that it's not that, but it's the gate keeping that

(05:08):
comes from not necessarily those apps, but a lot of
the YouTube Like I'm in the movie review YouTube world,
and there's so in nerd world and there's so much
gate keeping with those like nerd trivia shows where it's like, oh,
she didn't know the third member of Star Trek and
then yeah, And I've literally watched my friends go on
it and they're like, this isn't fun. This is supposed
to be fun, and they their mentions will just be

(05:30):
torn apart because they missed one question about Guardians of
the Galaxy. So to me, those like the gate keeping
surrounded by being able to obsessively callback facts from from
nerdy TV shows and film is annoying to me. And
I think that's overrated people. Yeah, yeah, you know, I

(05:50):
share my mention sometimes, but especially being a woman in
the nerd world, like if he gets something wrong, because
you know, we do. We've done a lot of podcasts
together if he gets something wrong, it's like, oh, he
just messed up. If I get something wrong, it's like
I don't deserve to be there. I'm pretending. Yeah, yeah,
I've seen that just at conventions with you know Katie
Willer who was on the show recently. You know, she

(06:14):
was YouTube star of our series After Hours, and dudes
would like come up and quiz her and like, I've yeah,
I hear the same thing from like girls who are
internet famous or women women who are Internet famous and
are you know, get quizzed, get like called on ship
because I felt, didn't you twoot? The other day? So
I went about like how people are trying to be like,

(06:35):
oh who's she having sex with? To get on there?
Like too hot? Are you? Are you imposing a hypothetical? Right? Yeah, yeah,
I said to write, Yeah, to write the nerd guys
and tell them they're too pretty to be playing video games,
because that's what I hear. You're too pretty. You guys
are both too pretty. I am two pretty prey video
games and I'm proud to wear that batch you just

(06:57):
smile more. All right, let's get into format. We're trying
to take a sample of what people are thinking and
talking about right now. And the way we like to
open up is by asking our guess, what is a myth?
What is something people think it's true that you know
to be false. Um, that Keenan and Kel aren't friends,
they are well one, that Kel is dead. That was

(07:18):
a myth that was going around. No, no, that's not true. Um.
But they just had a reunion not that long ago.
They've had a couple of them, and they also had
a fan Dango thing. They had a reunion um a
couple of years ago with On Fallon and then they
had um a commercial more recently with fan Dango and
I that was also in my search history. Was just

(07:40):
looking up the current relationship of Keenan and Kell well,
because I think it's a good time with nostalgia that
they bring the show back. They are bringing all that back.
But I think that they could do like a good
Burger too or something like that. So for some of
our older listeners, can you explain to Keenan and Kell?
Oh God, okay, Well, Keenan and Kell were two actors
slash sketch comedy kids that started out on all that.

(08:03):
They became friends and they had such good chemistry that
they got their own TV show called Keenan and Kell
um and uh, I was reading through and and so
after that show was very successful, very funny, had an
opening theme by Coolio, as you do when you're yeah yeah,
when your peak nineties, and so um what happened was

(08:24):
is that after that show ended, Keenan they both auditioned
for SNL. But Keenan made it and Kell didn't. And
I guess Kell just had some not great choices. Like
I think he did an impersonation of Michael Jackson, but
like it didn't quite I don't know. After me, it
was like Michael Jackson in a treehouse. I don't know.
It was like something weird where it's like you're trying

(08:45):
to like impress SNL and like take risks, but I
didn't work. Yeah, but Keenan did, and so Keenan has
He was also the youngest cast member um so, and
he's been on there ever since. I don't know, you know,
he doesn't Kelly is thirty nine and he's a stand
up comedian, Like he's on tour, he is currently on Nickelodeon.

(09:08):
He's on a show, and uh, but I think a
lot of people think that they're not friends. Anymore and
they squashed that beef. Well that's not his fault that
he got on us and all you know that, like
the beef would just be sort of like. I think
they had beef, but I don't think they have anymore. Well,
I think that Kell probably wanted to. I can't speak

(09:29):
for him, but I think that he probably would have
been down to make something else, and I think Keenan
was like, no, I'm too good for that. I tweet
at least once a month that there needs to be
a good burger too, and nobody is listening to what
they made a good burger too. You guys think of me. Please,
I won't watch because a Vagoda camp be in it,
because he passed the way. He was the best part
of that movie. You said for our for our old listeners,

(09:51):
who are they? I think that might also be for
our young listeners too, because well no, because super producer
Nick Stuff aggressively held up a white boy and said,
who listen here? Um? Well this is important because they
were both on t RL, like so kel was on
trl um and like Keenan called in and so they

(10:12):
had this. You know, they were friends and they were
joking about their past and stuff together Michael Magic Johnson
and Isaiah Thomas moment. Yeah, I wanted to squash the
myth that Kel is dead um, which he has talked
openly about that people always like that will come back
around on on the internet and that they're they're friends.
Doesn't suck, right, Yeah, Yeah, there's certain recurring like uh

(10:38):
people urban legends. Yeah, because it was for I think
our parents generation was like Mikey the kid from a
life serial commercial, like yeah, people were like, yeah, he died,
and then for my generation it was the chitching guy.
Even though that was it ends up being Seth Green,
but he was in this oh his rallies actually, so

(11:01):
it might have been only like part of the country.
I Also you also heard about Bobby McFerrin that he
like died jumped out of an airplane. Like they're like
certain people that generations just want to believe are dead.
And then the other recurring rumor is Blank had to
have a pound of semen pumped from their stomach. Have
you heard that about? Little Kim started with Rod Stewart,

(11:29):
who is the guy who was they saying was having
gerbils up there, But that's Richard Gear and it's only
ever been Richard gear right, I'm not saying it's true.
It was like another thing where they're like as you're like,
what those are the great rumors that were like that
we're able to flourish, especially in our era of being
in school because no one has smartphones and like you

(11:50):
had to go to the computer lab to verify something.
So that was that. And also like how corn got
their name was a weird one that we used talked
about three eleven. Uh, all right, let's get into the
news of the day. First off, sadly we have to
talk about the passing of Dr Stephen Hawking passed away yesterday,

(12:11):
So he was born on Galileo's death day and he
liked to talk about that when he was still alive,
and then he actually ended up dying on Einstein's birthday,
which crazy. So he's linked to the yo. If your
child was born yesterday or raised them to be a genius, periously,

(12:32):
he may have just passed the tours to one of
your children. Right, Um, that's like millions of people were
born yesterday. I'm trying to think of, Man, do you
ever think of who died on your birthday? And then
think of, like, did anyone famous ever done on your birthday?
I don't think so, because that's like a cool I
don't know. I don't know's it's cool, like I might

(12:53):
be this person. I don't. But you know what, I
don't even think he believed in that right now, that
was his thing. He was like black holes and then
ran aftly. Yeah, uh no, but he wrote the book.
I'd be interested in seeing if a brief history of time,
like if when that book was released, like STEM scores

(13:14):
in the United States like started going up, or if
you know, because it definitely made anybody who I know
who was just like academically interested at all, like in
that period of their life, like as a young person
or a young adult, they all read that book and
had their fucking mind blown. So you know, and it's
one of the rare books that makes science accessible and

(13:38):
uh pretty pretty mind blowing. Uh so yeah, man, rest
rest in peace, Rest and rest in black hole. R
I b alright, rest in black holes. And then we
also wanted to talk about daylight savings. I'm personally uh
you know, sleep deprived and enough I did not need
to lose have pointed out on Twitter. Enough guys, enough,

(14:02):
I know I look like shit even a little mostly Parsley. Yeah,
just like, yeah, man, take some time off. Miles can
handle it. Like I took a whole week off anyways. Uh,
and then we lost a whole another hour of sleep
this past weekend with daylight savings time. And Danny, you
were actually saying you're you're also having a similar right, Yes,

(14:26):
but I didn't just have a baby like I also
look like ship and I'm so tired. I don't know
why I haven't been able to kick it since um,
since daylight saving time. Yeah, I've had the hardest time adjusting.
And I know that you and I were talking before
this that Um, there's actually been multiple studies where there's
an increase in heart attacks every time that there's daylight savings. Yeah,

(14:48):
it's really interesting. Yeah, why because people were like, it's
that time. Oh no, I'm late. Stress the amount of
stress that goes through your body when you lose even
one hour of sleep. Um. In fact, I just right
now is typing into Google. Um how important is and
an auto filled with sleep? Like that's like the top thing. Yeah,

(15:10):
our global consciousness is just like that's what everybody's thinking
about right now, is man, I'm fucking tired, and you know,
they've done studies where an hour of sleep has it's
like taking a couple of shots of vodka before you
get in the car. Like it's it's not good to
be sleep deprived when when driving or when doing a
lot of things. And you know, I mean there are

(15:33):
people who are on the brink of you know, heart
attacks or whatever, and having less like one legs, it
just like makes it that much worse, makes it five
percent worse. And Yeah, the the other thing to watch
out for other than being sleep deprived and you know,
driving worse because you're like slightly sleep drunk, is uh

(15:55):
the light difference you're driving home and driving to work.
I guess you're driving to work and it's brighter, but
you're driving and it's darker. No, no, we get it.
We gain it and like more daily game, so darker
in the morning. So just watch out for people on
your way to work because yeah, just the light difference,

(16:17):
Like having that drastic of a change in the light difference, uh,
like makes makes it so car accident, more car accidents happen,
more pedestrians. You have to adjust, like because I can,
I can kind of like just tell from the light
that's coming through like my blind sort of what time
it is, and then like yeah with this, I'm like,
oh yeah, I could sleep another I don't, and I'm
like waiting, That's why you need those blackout curtains. That's

(16:38):
what I have it. If I did, I would probably
go into like a cry o sleep. Um, but wasn't
I mean the whole thing is like, you know, Arizona
doesn't have daylight saving this this that's the only thing
is like if we if we have this evidence that
there's not really much benefit to having it and it's
not really like wasn't what we're saying in the last episode,
Like Ben Franklin was like kind of behind daylight savings. Yeah,

(17:00):
it was mostly like to save people money on candles,
I think because candles used to be a big expense.
That's something that I was reading about. Like the most
interesting part about this, uh, the most recent Stephen Pinker
Progress book is this chapter where he talks about all
the small ways that like we don't uh take progress

(17:22):
into account and like one of them is like how
much money people used to spend on candles just to
be able to read at night? And like how like
much better life is now that we just have electricity.
And also, like people used to spend fifty hours a
week on housework and now it's like ten hours a week. Um.
But yeah, I think I think the daylight savings was

(17:45):
tied up in an outdated world. Didn't Florida lawmakers just
vote to stay in daylight savings time all year round?
That there was something on the books where I know
they were considered, so they did vote to be Like, Okay,
it took the State Senate less than a minute Tuesday
to pass the Sunshine Protection Act. Someone tweeting's going to

(18:06):
vote against the earth, but let's protect this sunshine. But
I mean that's how capitalism works, right, Like, so this
is benefiting someone right the way the system currently is,
those people are making money off of it, and then
they have enough money to spend to you know, spend
money to get a bill passed or you know, to

(18:27):
influence the system. So you know, the system is going
to stay the same for the most part unless there's
something you know that's causing change, that's really motivating people
to make a change. Yeah. Well, look, I guess some
people credit uh some scientists in New Zealand and for
daylight savings. Yes, George Vernon Hudson and British builder William Willett.

(18:49):
They first presented a paper on it. But a lot
of people also talk about how Ben Franklin, which is
kind of be like, oh, we can make better use
of the sunlight and he kind of meant it as
a joke, but then people embraced it. Wait, so the
New Zealanders are are releasing books. They presented Hudson the
New Zealand Kiwi. He presented a paper to the Wellington
Philosophical Society proposing a two hour shift forward in October

(19:12):
and a two hour shift backward in March. There was
interesting idea, but it has never followed through two hours.
New Zealand is the first country that like the day hits.
I think so they feel like they're like ahead of
the game on time, so they have to need this time.
We have so much time. We don't even need it

(19:34):
right there, Like, first of all, what time are you in? Okay,
we'll catch up, brother, we are in the fact. Alright,
we're gonna take a quick break. We will be right
back and we're back. We're talking about babies having weird

(19:54):
little soft state. Uh, and how you have to give them.
You have to give them vitamin D drops because their
skin is so fair and thin that you can't let
them see the sunlight. So you have to, you know,
how long till the baby can, you know, start sun
tanning and ship until we can get him in the

(20:15):
in to get him a convertible whip, you know what
I mean? Yeah, I don't know. I think I think
it's supposed to be like you don't let them see
sun for vampire. Yeah. Yeah, but we started going out
and the tanning beds pretty early. I mean, you can't
have your baby looking all pale at that, not here

(20:37):
in l A at least. Yeah, exactly. Chold Protective Services
will take you your kid away because they're like, this
shot is not tanned enough. We gotta get ready for
spring break season. Oh yeah, spring break all right. So yesterday, uh,
there was a special election in a heavily dark red district.
Um at least it was the last presidential election. Right.

(21:00):
Trump won by twenty percentage points. Uh so read that
Democrats didn't even run a candidate for like two congressional cycles. Yeah,
they're like, bro, like we don't need to bother. But
this year they ran Connor lamb and he is a
former marine, and I guess he's somewhat conservative and his

(21:21):
stance on like guns and stuff, but it doesn't matter.
He's a Democrat in a district where you know, the
guy who was running against secone is like just straight
up he claimed, like one of his soundbites was I
was Trump before Trump was Trump? Like he was just
yeah he no, yeah, just like you know what, whatever

(21:42):
you guys like about Trump, that's me. So let's just
let's see how you feel about Trump now. Stuff crust
pizza before Trumps than two years after voted for him
in record numbers, How did how did that go? Yeah?
I mean, look, the demographics of that strict are really
what's crazy. It's white, working class. Uh And like you said,

(22:05):
I think Trump won by twenty points or something. Uh
So the fact that this Democrat eked out of victory
means a lot of Republicans were like, oh, I'm willing
to vote for this democrat. And that should alarm the
GOP uh and and most conservative like think tanks and
and and special interest groups because I think outside group
spent something like thirteen million dollars on this race because

(22:25):
they just you know, they knew this was such an
important race because it's a deep red district and Connor Lamb, Yeah,
like he obviously wasn't super progressive because you have to
kind of take an account what the district is like.
But either way, like he's still campaigned on like universal healthcare,
like expanded background checks for guns. He was, He's pro choice,
he supports medical marijuana, you know, all the things conservatives do.

(22:50):
Because you cut to today and after this like really
embarrassing defeat happened, everyone and their mother on the GOP
is like, well, you know he ran like as a conservatives,
why he won, right and tried? The mitigating has begun. Yeah,
so um, you know Fox News last night I switched
over to them. As you know, CNN still hasn't called

(23:11):
this as we're recording this. We're recording this on you know,
Wednesday morning, right, CNN still hasn't called it. New York
Town still hasn't called it. But the latest is that
Lamb leads by six seven votes after all the absentee
votes have been counted. So he leads by six d
twenty seven votes with all the votes counted, so barring

(23:32):
any sort of recount. Stephen Hawking but that means he
has more votes than one, right, But I don't know,
there could be some for some reason, nobody's calling it
even though everybody seems to be implying that he wants
I wonder if because they think it might be a
lawsuits situation or right, yeah, like with al Gore and Bush. Yeah,
so it could be, especially because this is so embarrassing

(23:53):
for Republicans that they and there were weird things with
like different counties holding back their votes last night, and
people were like, this is really irregular and the sort
of thing that would cause a lot of red flags
to go up if you know, you're basically holding the
votes back until you need those votes to see how
all the other votes are counted, which is kind of

(24:14):
a shady thing. And these were in heavily red districts,
so people were maybe thinking that something was going on there.
But as of right now, it looks like all of
the absentee votes have been counted and the Democrats are
still leading by six seven votes. So I flipped from
CNN over to Fox News and it was being downplayed
like a motherfucker. The best was Fox and Friends this morning.

(24:39):
What were they doing, because you know, that's daddy's favorite show.
And so they already the rumors were that like if
if Connor Lamb won, like heads were going to roll
because like again Trump picked a fucking loser. Uh. And
you know clearly that fucking carousing rally that he gave
over the weekend where he called Chuck Todd, yes, Chuck
talk on him a son of a bitch, and you know,

(25:00):
mocking Maxine Waters and all this other ship, mocking the
idea of him being presidential. Yeah, exactly where he was like, oh,
I love the troops, Like he said a line like that.
It's like, Yo, what the fun he's saying? That's that
is a sentiment you should hold sincerely as president. Anyway,
So that didn't work because this guy at Ico and
he ran on that like liberals hate God kind of

(25:21):
message and you know they hate our way of living.
Uh and yeah cut to today, So on Fox and Friends,
they were like they're like, yeah, he basically ran as
a Republican. You know, he supported the Republican tax plan.
He did not. He did not. That's I mean, that's
just a complete that's completely falsified. He said he supported
the presidents like immigration policies. He did not. He was like,

(25:43):
like supporting dreamers and undocumented ran on the tax cuts. Yeah, exactly,
and no one gave a ship because there's a lot
of polling to suggest a lot of people who are
not wealthy do not give a funk about the tax
because because it does not affect them. Telling you guys,
people aren't stupid like you can. You can pretend like
they are, but they know people starting and then the
last thing was like, oh, you know, he stood with

(26:03):
the Republicans on abortion, and because he's a Catholic, he's
basically a conservative. He said, yes, I am Catholic and
I'm opposed to abortion, but I believe that a woman
has a right to choose what they want to do.
So they sort of took that and as a candidate,
he's not going to impose his religious beliefs on the
people that he would a novel. Yeah. Also, he's thirty three,

(26:24):
so he's a former marine And now, wow, I need
I need to get my life together. Seriously, you gotta
stop hitting up those Marvel characters on Twitter and not
a regular man. Well, this dude might be as close
as they come. Because former marine who just knocked off
I know, is he's single. That's going to be my

(26:45):
next Google search history. Go ahead. I would guess that's
the favorite of Democrats right now to run in conservative
districts is get a veteran in there. Yeah, it's it's
much easier for people to kind of trust. They're like, okay,
you maybe like knows how to handle a gun, right,
And I'm mean, there's nothing wrong with and also you
know that I say that is something that's smart. I mean,
if that's what you need to do to bridge the

(27:05):
gap and make people understand that you can also have
this common this shared common ground or shared like core
values and also be like, yo, you might also. I
think the thing that we saw the most this past year,
at least that I saw the most was especially on
social media and like Twitter, was the assumption that all
veterans are Republican. That is that is a big thing.
I think him being a former marine is you don't
probably you don't have to be a Republican to love

(27:26):
your country, and I mean you to like that is
an incredible like sacrifice that people uh you know give
to fight for their country and to sacrifice themselves. And yeah, yeah,
they weaponized that during all the Iraq warship too, because
they want to be like, oh, you're like you're against

(27:47):
this like illegal war, but you you know, you don't
support the troops. It's like, no, come on, that's not
what we're talking about. But I guess the other thing
to talk about with this too is the district. The
reason it was vacated is because the former compress and
had it. He's like an anti you know, abortion guy
and was like leaning on his mistress to have an abortion,
and then that got out and so that's why that's why,

(28:10):
that's why the seed opened up. But the other thing
to talk about too is that this district is not
going to exist next year because of like that Carlson
was saying last night. He was like, and just so
we're clear, this isn't gonna exist pretty soon, right, Yeah.
But either way, the factor me even if Connor lamb,
they find that he loses the fact that he even
pushed it to the line. And I mean, the thing

(28:31):
Tucker Carlson was saying to try and undercut the seriousness
of this devastating loss for the Republicans was that, uh,
when this is a district that's not even gonna exist
here in like eleven months. So uh. But super producer
Nick Stump was pointing out that this is a district
that isn't going to exist because they are redrawing it
because it was so unfairly slanted to the Republicans. The

(28:54):
Republicans drew it up themselves to have an unfair advantage,
and so they weren't even able to win this district
that they drew up like to cheat. Essentially, they had
the Game Genie invincibility code on and they still died
in the game Keep Cut video game. Yes, just yeah,
I don't know. I'll post a picture of Tucker Carlson's

(29:14):
face on Twitter so you can see what like. You
can tell that he realizes deep down, like his insides
are digesting themselves because he knows, he knows what's really
going down. He's just he just isn't willing to say it.
And I will post a picture of the game Genie
by by Galube. Oh crap, This Connor Lamb kid is
not kid Mr thirty three. He's cute. You better. Okay,

(29:39):
I think I might see somebody sign the d m S.
But we talk about healthcare, but this district, it, you know,
they could it won't exist. Because of all the redistricting,
because the Pennsylvania Supreme coarp found that like the jerrymandering
heavily favored Republicans. So now they broke it up in
a new districts. So he's gonna if he wants to
stay in office, he's gonna have to run in a

(29:59):
different district November. Like both of these guys potentially could
be in Congress by uh if they run in different
districts again, but he will hold this seat at least
for this session of Congress. But yeah, to go along
with the whole like, oh, he won because he's a conservative.
So the people who are really scared obviously congressional Republicans.

(30:20):
So today Paul Ryan really tried to fucking do a
little spin job to try and frame Connor Lam as
a Republican. I don't know that there's a big surprise. Um.
I think the candidate that's going to win this race
is the candidate that ran as a pro life, pro gun,
anti Nancy Pelosi conservative. That's the Canada that's gonna win

(30:40):
this race. So this is something that you're not going
to see repeated. Because they didn't have a primary, they
were able to pick a candidate who could run as
a conservative, who ran against the minority leader who ran
on a conservative agenda. Yeah, a conservative agenda of universal healthcare,
background checks, medical marijuana. So I'm a Republican. Yeah, so,

(31:02):
I mean Paul Ryan is just it's hard for him
to get his mind around the fact that his main
you know, the way he defines being a conservative and
a Republican inside his mind is we give as much
money as we possibly can to rich people, Like we
we just give all the taxes and we get rid
of all the entitlements for uh people who need help,

(31:22):
and there are just no you know, safety nets in America. Uh,
that is what being a conservative means. And the fact
that people would be disagreeing with that, and I don't
I still understand where he thinks the numbers are coming from,
Like why he thinks anybody would think that's a good
idea other than him and the billionaires who he works for.

(31:43):
But yeah, he just he's never gonna get his mind around,
I mean around that idea. Sweet sweet justice would be
the house flipping in November and Paul Ryan losing his
gavel and we get to see him, man, if he
got even voted out of office. That would be amazing.
But I would love to see him lose his kership
well because I mean he went When you look at
like how different counties voted, his county wasn't like plus

(32:07):
twenty Trump. It wasn't that high. I think it was
plus eleven Trump. So uh, you know, when people are
seeing a plus twenty Trump county flip, then it seems
like anything can happen. Anybody can go down in this
next which is which is why I think they're panicking.
That's and even Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends. His
tweet was Democrat Connor Lamb's great showing in red district

(32:29):
shows Dems the way to November success. Support Republican issues, Right,
what the fuck are they there? What are they telling? Like?
I don't understand how a Republican would read this and
be like, oh, yeah, okay, so the Democrats are Republicans. Now, Yeah,
Panicking is uncomfortable. It causes your you know, heart rate
to shoot through the roof, and they have to justify

(32:51):
it in some way, right, And nobody likes to panic.
And you know, the Democrats were the victim of a
little bit of you know, gaslighting themselves and the last
two thousand and sixteen presidential election, and now the Republicans
turned to tell themselves that everything's all right, It's all
gonna be okay, all right, And we also wanted to

(33:14):
talk about so we're seeing a effect of the Trump
presidency that people are running for office that are either
celebrities or um you know, like Rob Ford's brother up
in Canada. So one of our writers, j M McNabb
is a Canadian, uh believe it or not. That gang

(33:39):
believe that, And he was talking about how Rob Ford,
who was Trump before Trump, funk what saccone says. He
he really was Trump before Trump and was like running
guy who railed against the elites, who constantly attacked the media,
who appealed to voters outside the city. Uh, seemingly immune
to a lawn list of scandals, including like smoking crack

(34:03):
on camera, and uh you know was right. So he uh,
he passed away. And his brother is sort of just
him on steroids type guy like just like crazy, uh
you know, over the top, has some crazy opinions, really
weird gaffs, CAUs like his political opponents monkeys at one point,

(34:27):
like just really a strange dude. He's he's running again
and appears to be in good shape maybe in the election.
Well he I really like that. He was apparently allegedly
a major hash dealer in the eighties, so you know,
these guys know how to hustle, right, But like, yeah,
I think he had a failed mayoral campaign and then

(34:47):
he kind of like came back because he just became
the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario. Uh,
which is pretty interesting because he sort of won in
the same way that Trump won the presidency, where he
was running against this other woman. Uh. She beat him
in the popular vote, but way the like the point
system works in those nominations, he edged her out with
those points basically. Uh. He also announced that he was

(35:10):
running for the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from
his mother's basement. Yeah. Uh, And the photo is really
that's very on brand. Yeah, I guess so. I mean,
I'm not I don't mean to shame anybody's mother's basement,
but it was a nice basement too, it wasn't They're
they're really rich. That's what's great about this guy's because
so the other guy, Rob Ford was just a guy

(35:30):
who grew up rich and did crack and cocaine, which
like that's that's a diamond dozen that lots of you know,
trust fund kids end up being cokeheads, but like this
guy dealt hash for likely eighties. That's like that's commitment
to just being a funk up, you know, like being
a trust fund kid who's a drug dealer. Like I

(35:50):
don't know, I admired. He was still struggling to get
his father's attention even in the eighties. He's like, Dad,
I'm still dealing ahead. I still haven't said anything. I
admire them. It meant to being a funk up. Um. Yeah,
so that's happening, and you know he hasn't won yet,
but we'll keep an eye on that. And uh, it
looks like Andrew Cuomo is being challenged in the upcoming

(36:13):
election by Miranda ni Nixon's out here. She's doing it,
they say, yeah. They say she was toying with the
idea of running for governor as like a very progressi
PI deemocrat, toying with a mouse. And at first, like
you know, Cuomo when he was really acting like he
was really calm about the idea or when he was

(36:34):
brought up to him, but he also kind of looked
a little bit shook because he's sort of like fame shamed.
He's like, uh, you know, it's like, well, I'm hoping
that Brad Pitt, Angelina, Jolie, and Billy Joel don't get
into the race. If it's just about name recognition, that
would really be a problem. I love so much that
he's such a New Yorker that his escalation of fame
was to Angeline and Jolie, to Billy top top of

(36:58):
the heap. Uh. I thought I had someone tweeted at
me when all the James Franco stuff came out. I
had like retweeted something. Someone was like, yeah, well, would
you be saying this about Jeremy Piven. I'm like, what, Like,
he's about the god Jeremy Piven. Yeah. Like it's funny
when they throw in random people that they think our
heart throbs to the rest. That's what they meant, was like, um,

(37:23):
where were you when this was happening to Jeremy Piven
or something? I don't know, the hair transplant god. Yeah. Yeah,
So you know, she hasn't really actually said that she
is running, but I guess like over the weekend, people
spotted her New York with a like a camera crew
and they're like, what are you filming? She's like, oh,
I don't know, but someone spotted that she was with
a very prominent like democratic media strategist. So she was

(37:46):
just taking pictures for dating app. Yeah, taking full video
walking through the streets of New York to paint herself
as a New Yorker. I don't know what for. Maybe yes,
she could be running and she probably will. But you know, Quomo, like,
you know, he pushed for things like legalizing gay marriage,
and you know, he'll argue that he's a progressive, but
he also like if going into this primary, there's a

(38:07):
lot of things they could hit him on because he
definitely failed to follow through on a lot of the
progressive ideals he pushed as a candidate. Uh. And you know,
people also really do blame him for the state of
the New York City subway also, like how that thing
is just in really bad shape. Yeah, it used to
be like very reliable, Like when I lived there probably

(38:29):
six seven years ago, it was very reliable. And now
talking to people, they're like, man, you can't even count
on that ship, Like there's a good chance that just
won't arrive. Yeah, they just don't have funding that's going
into it, and I think, uh, yeah, the the New
York Subway system is a hundred and thirteen years old
and has an annual writership of two point seven billion Jesus,
and they can't put any money because I know the

(38:50):
signaling systems in there are from Yeah, and there's a
video I think it's in the New York Times something
where they have guys who are being like, once apart blows,
this equipment is so dated that they have to self
fabricate replacement parts. Yeah, they're like, I've just learned how
to make the fuses for this or whatever. So como
he proposed a sixty five million funding cut to the

(39:12):
mt Yeah for this fiscal year. It's just one of
those things where it's been serviceable like two and a
half to three stars for enough years that people are
just like, it'll be there. We can like take a
little money out of the m t A, take a
little money out of the m t A, and pretty
soon it's sucking like literally underwater. Yeah. How bad was

(39:32):
it when you were living there? Jack? I know it
was good, it worked, it was perfect, Yeah, exactly. I
mean it was still like kind of dirty, and shitty
and like the will be like, well, we expect that.
I'm talking about the mechanics. Like I saw someone masturbating
like at least once every couple of days. But you
know a lot of the times that they they say, yeah,
you haven't really lived in New York till you've seen

(39:53):
someone master but they were being respectful about it. Oh yeah, yeah,
a lot of times it was my friend who was
with so anyway, so yeah. Also, I mean I think
him control should run just to be petty, pet I
am the real, the real show stop. But her response

(40:16):
to subways would be like, oh, Darling, I never the subway.
Just like if I want to get jerked off on,
I'll just go in a tender day. It's what the
updated sex like. I do love. I selfishly love the
fact that this is forcing people to like work from
home more like to not have to travel as much
that companies are. You know, so many things are online

(40:38):
that I feel like a lot of times they don't
even need to come into work. People don't know that
I'm recording this from my house. We're all skyping in here. Yeah,
you can be a remote employee from Brooklyn, from Brooklyn,
from a lot of jobs. Now I'm telling I am
in my underwear currently, right, all right, we are going

(40:58):
to take a quick break and then we'll be right back.
And we're back, and so we wanted to hit on
a couple of things. Uh, you know, UFOs still a thing.
But before we get to that, uh, there's a new

(41:19):
story sort of developing as we record this. Teens across
America are staging and walk out to protest the lack
of gun control in America. Yeah. I mean it was
crazy to see, like how sort of it's all over
the country. Which is great that there is just like
sweeping momentum, but the just the eternal synic in me

(41:41):
just clearly the White House doesn't give a fuck because
we we've seen Trump walk back so many different versions
of gun control he proposed. But I just really I
don't know if the Hill will do it. You know,
I'm not sure if we're going to get to a
point where we're really running people out of office because
of their gun control positions. But yes, I'm very proud
of these kids because sh I I don't think I
would have been doing this stuff. I don't think I

(42:02):
hear what you're saying about the White House not carrying,
and they're also trying to say that. It's like, oh,
they're being put up to it, Like there's no way
you know when I was younger that I could have
done that. I'm like, no, there were kids in my
debate class that were like ap level debaters. So um.
But I do think that it helps other teams realizing
that they're not alone. I think this is the future

(42:22):
of our country, so I think that's really important. These
are gonna be future lawmakers, so and and they are
actually reaching adults. They might not be reaching the ones
that were necessarily that they're trying to get to, but
I do know that they're reaching other people who are
going to be running and then them themselves hopefully also
future lawmakers. Yeah. I mean, I hope this is a

(42:43):
generation of voters who it becomes a part of the
discussion because the voting block a lot of these kids.
As they come of age, this will be an important
issue for them, especially when they figure out who they
want to vote for. The front page of CNN is
talking about this. I mean, first of all, we should
just say three thousand schools of US country right are
doing this. They were walking out for seventeen minutes to

(43:03):
represent the seventeen students who were killed. Uh, it seems
to be really well organized. There was a reporter who
posted a picture on Twitter this morning of a media
packet that she was handed by an eleven year old
student who was organizing her like sixth grade walkout. She
was like, here is some literature four years of press kit.

(43:25):
Press kit exactly. It's a digital one. D m us
become drivers. Uh she just air dropped it and she
was like, now do you have my press kitt um?
But yeah, I I don't know. The way it's being
covered is a little frustrating, like on on CNN right now. Uh.
So they have students walk out over guns, and then
the next story is these students didn't walk out to

(43:46):
protest tougher gun laws, and they went to some school
where there were like seven students who are like young
Republicans who chose not to walk out, and they were like,
see it, we're covering both sides. And well, one of
the students will is an actual gun with just a
hat on right, just a little yeah, one of those
spinny hands. And then there was a girl gun and

(44:08):
you knew it was a girl gun. Because she had
eyelashes on the barrel um. But Fox News isn't covering
this exactly. This morning, I actually took a screenshot of it.
I was watching TV on my phone as millennials do,
and on CNN it was coverage of the students walk
out to protest lack of gun control. Then I go
on Fox News literally like I just changed the channel

(44:30):
to Fox. It's fucking video of a home invasion robbery
of like, oh, like would clearly to be like, c
wouldn't you want to protect yourself from this kind of ship?
Like it's really really wild how the coverage is so
lopsided and just kind of weird, how they're just kind
of like doing the opposite thing of just you know,
creating more fear or something and people And clearly there's

(44:50):
many robberies you can report on, but there's real news
to report that. I grew up in Texas. I went
to Frisco High School, and to me, it's just so
terror find that this is a drill that they have
to have. We had tornado drills like that was what
we had, and here when I was in Orange County,
we had earthquake drills. But the fact that these students
that this is a real thing that they have to

(45:12):
deal with on a daily basis, and going to school
wondering if they're going to get shot is is terrifying.
And I can't believe that people think that they would
have to be motivated in some other way than the
fact that they just want to be able to live
and they want to be safe, right that they feel
they have a right to not worry about being shot
shot yeah, in their school. But this just goes back
to my thing about you know, people say, well, Fox

(45:35):
News is the counterbalance to the mainstream media, but no,
the mainstream media is you know, always trying to do
like the both sides thing, like even to the point
of absurdity, like covering seven students who didn't walk out
in a nationwide three thousand school walk out. But Fox
News is just its own unequaled uh, you know, right

(45:58):
wing talking point. It's like a apaganda factory. So I
do want to say if I could just put this
in perspective, like my alma mater, the University of Texas
is open carry now, but you can be banned for
having a dildo, like in class if you have like
a sex toy or something like if you had it
out or if it was in your backpacks. Yes, yes,

(46:20):
But that's why they had this whole movement called cox
N block cox kno block. No. That is a huge
movement that happened because you could be banned. Now again,
this isn't teenagers. But I'm just saying, you can have
a gun in class on my campus because who is
the gun threatening to? Not white men? Who is the
giant dildo threatening to white men? So the white men

(46:44):
are like, you know, they are very thin skinned, and
we we do not like to see those things out.
You know, that's that's going to bum them out. I
don't want to see a purple dildo, right, They would
just have a what happened? What not? To take it
off from this, but this was a big movement that
happened last year there. And obviously they are adults, they're
over eighteen. But what a lot of them did was

(47:05):
they were just like, you know, where your water bottle
can go in your backpack? They just put a deal
in there and with the classes like are you gonna
ban all of us? But yet you can have a
gun out in class? So so we just need something
to happen. I just really don't like these really fucking
watered down bills people are proposing, because like it's clearly
just a distraction to be like we did something and

(47:26):
without really fucking tackling the problem. And I think that's
what we all want to see. I think that's what
these kids want to see. It's something really meaningful, something
that really is like a market shift away from you know,
business as usual on the hill ye and state houses everywhere. Um.
And the cricket media people brought up the suicide thing
again on their most recent episode of Pots of America,

(47:51):
so they that from you. They didn't steal it from me,
because they keep forgetting No nobody brings up the British
cold gas studies, So as you hear about suicie and
gun control, just remember to look up the British cold
gas study and use that in your argument, because it's
always missing in these arguments. And I think it's the
most compelling case you can make for gun control. Uh.

(48:11):
All right, And we want to talk about UFOs because
you know, we talked a few months ago about the
fact that The New York Times was just like, oh, yeah,
UFOs are a thing. By the way, we haven't been
talking about this because we thought we'd sound crazy. But uh,
now we have this dude who used to work at
the Pentagon who just left his job and was like, yeah,
so my job was to monitor UFOs and they weren't

(48:34):
taking me seriously enough, so I've left my job. I'm
starting this thing with the dude from Blink one two,
which makes it sound weird, but who has always been
about this. And he's like, yeah, no, there are UFOs.
So uh, in case you thought that they had just
been explained away, Uh, the Washington Posts just had an

(48:56):
article that came out that was like, the military keeps
encountering UFOs, why doesn't the Pentagon care? And they pointed
out that you know, I think this was an op ed.
It was by a uh former deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for intelligence for the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Uh,

(49:16):
and they were like, you know, they have insight into
how the Pentagon operates. And the point they were making,
which I thought was really smart, is Okay, so let's
say they're not aliens. If this is Russia or China,
they have technology that is like decades ahead of ours,
but figure this out. Yeah, that's what's crazy. Because obviously

(49:39):
sput Nick was enough for us to be like, okay,
funk that we're gonna own space and that created something.
But now it's like it's it's weird toy. I think
that if this is actual technology that another nation is wielding,
like wow, we are really fucking behind Yeah, and this
is This was accompanied by another video of a tick

(50:00):
tax shaped thing like the New York Times article. It's
a tic tac shaped object that is moving and flying
in seemingly impossible ways, and you can hear the like
naval aviators like on the thing being like holy shit,
what the funk is that? Uh? And they, you know,
because nothing is supposed to be able to move. Yeah,

(50:23):
I know they were fucking psyched, which I would be too.
And another reason why this guy had came out with
these pieces because he was saying he meets with a
lot of people in the military who see this and
like they just get kind of like yeah, yeah, yeah,
we hear you, we hear you here, and nothing's really happening. Uh.
And that's that is a little concerning because they've goutted
like they apparently they've really have no budget dedicated to this,

(50:45):
unless it's so secret that they just don't want to
talk about it. But I mean, I feel like this
is something we need to to seriously discuss. Have you
seen the monsters are do on Maple Street episode of
the Twilight Zone? Not okay? Well, um, it was essentially
that aliens don't actually have to do anything that we
will just destroy ourselves. So that's what I would like

(51:06):
to think. Why doesn't the Pentagon care because there's so
much going on here that we're like already killing ourselves here,
so like the aliens don't even have to This is like, yeah,
they don't even have to come and funk us up. Um. Also,
did you see that somebody made the Golden Girls theme
song over the X Files opening? Did you see that? Oh? Man,

(51:26):
it's so good you have to post that way. So
they they took the Golden Girls theme song and put
it to the X Files opening and it actually works.
But that is my like, I don't know. Yeah, I
agree that obviously we should be focused on on this,
but what you're saying makes more sense as far as

(51:49):
it being another country here as opposed to actual aliens, right,
But what I'm saying is if it is actual aliens,
I would love the fact that they're just sitting back
and watching us destroy ourselves and they don't have to
do anything. Right, I think when was here when this
story first came out, we're saying, like, I think they
probably just come watch our planet like his reality TV. Yeah,

(52:13):
holy sh it, this guy is the leader of that
that mound of earth. Yeah. Uh. The other thing they're
saying is like there's just kind of like a real
stigma of being like the quote unquote alien guy in
the national security bureaucracy, Like no one really wants to
be caping for aliens, but like what the funk? Like,
if you're looking at this, like really this irrefutable advers

(52:35):
whatever it is, there has to be some kind of
legitimate interest put into this, and you can't just be
labeled like a heretic or something because you're concerned. Yeah,
but there's such a negative connotation with believing in aliens.
I mean when you look back in history of people
that said they got abducted, you know they're anal probing
and stuff like that, those people are normally seen as
being crazy. So what do you think of the bombings

(52:58):
in Austin? Are you you are any of your friends
from I think it's terrifying. It's something that I haven't
dwelled on too much because it's just such a sad
part of humanity, especially that it appears they're targeting people
of color. Um, I don't know. Austin is such a
precious place. Uh, it's you know, a very progressive town,

(53:19):
and it's it's terrifying that obviously anywhere this can happen
to you, but particularly in Austin, which I just feel
is like a city of love. You know, they embrace
being weird, they embrace being different, so it's really difficult
to see that keep Austin weird. Yeah, everybody should google
Fox News coverage of the first bombing because it is unbelievable.

(53:41):
They were like this guy probably did it to himself
and showed a picture of the first guy, uh was
killed by the trying to frame himself in a weird suicide.
I guess, I don't. I don't even know that. It
was just very uh yeah, very dismissive. All right, Danny,
it has been and a pleasure, as always always one

(54:02):
of our favorites to have on the show. Something should
give you your own podcast, yeah, which I actually have
that is dropping with Iffy yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's called
Nerdificent and you can catch it here on how Stuff Works.
So that's my homie Mike's birthday. Oh and what do

(54:22):
you guys talk about for people who don't know? So
it's a nerdy deep dive for everyone. Uh, it's we're
gonna be covering topics like VR and cosplay and Comic
Con and read it. We're gonna be covering the history
of a lot of these things where they're going and
also our personal experiences with them being in the nerd world.
So it's super interesting. It's stuff that I didn't know about,

(54:43):
these things that I thought I knew about, Like I
thought I knew everything I needed to know about conventions,
and you guys made the history of conventions so interesting
and but also the future of them, you know, like
Disney pulling out of Comic Con and making its own
convention and just yeah, the history of that where VR
is go in, which is fascinating that now schools are
using VR museums, um they're even have documentaries that use VR.

(55:07):
As far as it's going to change our television and
film how we view theater um as these three sixty
degree you know experiences, So and also medical students getting
to use VR so yeah, so and of course porn
which is driving it as well. So porn drives so much.
We also tackle on the podcast. So yeah, So that's

(55:27):
called Nerdificent and is dropping March twenty And yeah, when
you say it's for everyone, it really is. Even if
you don't consider yourself interested in anime or cosplay or
conventions or you know, nerd culture, it's a very easy
entry point for you, even if you're just trying to
get up to speed and not to be totally out
of loop. It's good. And listen to Danny's voice and
it's soothing if he's voice is soothing, and nerd culture

(55:50):
drives the rest of the culture, so you are finding
out about stuff like way before your friends know about it.
So it's it's really dope about the show. Use it
to one up your friends exactly. Uh, Danny, where can
people find you other than on the upcoming podcast near Different.
I'm at miss Danny Fernandez. It's m S d A
n I fd R N Andy Easy. Don't at the

(56:12):
other Danny Fernandez. He's a Spanish boy band singer who
has blocked me. Oh yeah, I asked him like years
ago if I could buy his handle, and he got
mad and blocked me, and then I asked my followers
to ask him and he blocked. Wait what does he do?
He's in a boy band. He's like a successful You
got more followers I did. I think I still do,
but he has me blocked so I can't see. And

(56:32):
the other Danny Fernandez is a magician and he actually
has well there's several of us, but he actually has
a decent following on YouTube. But you want the at
d n I fdr. Don't write him. I don't want
him to get mad. What's he gonna do. He's not
gonna give it to you anyway. We might as well.
Maybe one day I will fly to Spain and I

(56:54):
will figure this out when I do my tour of
Costcos Jessica Gat, Yeah it's coming coming. Uh Miles, where
can people find you? You can find me at Costco
al right, at Chicken Bake Uh Supreme Pizza is also
very good that I don't know about that, but yeah
what social media? Just at miles of prey on everything.
You find me at Jack Underscore O'Brian on Twitter. You
can find us at Daily Zy guys, on Twitter. We're

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at the Daily Zy Guys on Instagram. We have a
Facebook fan page, and we have a website Daily ze
Guys dot com where we post our episodes and arrow
we link off to the information that we used on
today's episode, and that is going to do it. Miles.
What are we going to write out on today? We're

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gonna write out on a little song by Donovan because
you know, the GLP kind of doesn't know where they're
at right now, and I think they need to sort
of figure out where they are in the world and
get their bearings. So this is a track from Donovan
called get thy Berrings. So please everyone in the GILP,
please listen deeply. Thiberries mean you won't get either way.

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So hey, either way, buddy, y'all, y'all gotta losing strategy,
you know what I mean? So just play that out,
all right, and we're gonna write out on that. We
will be back tomorrow because of this daily podcast for
Trump Free Thursdays. Talk to you guys and bye, get
your day, don't get time, don't you worry? Where us fine?

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All the world? What I say? All the world day
World by h m m h. It's a working out

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sent the city is what it's about. All the world
known what I say. All the world known what I say.
Word go f m m yeah,