March 17, 2023 • 62 mins
In episode 1443, Jack and guest co-host Ben Bowlin are joined by host of There Are No Girls on the Internet, Bridget Todd, to discuss… Shockingly, The Taco Bell Metaverse Wedding Sucked, The Tiger King is Running For President From Jail, Hate Sesame Street NFTs? Blame The GOP and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two, seventy nine,
Episode five of Daly's Guys Stay production of iHeartRadio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
America's share consciousness. And it is Friday in March seventeenth,
twenty twenty three. My name's Jack O'Brien aka Pop Pop, Pop, Potatoes,
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Potatoes o'brium. That is courtesy of at least with the
hot takes and the O'Reilly's auto parts jingle, which I
was just listening to a version this morning where it's
clear that like one of the one of the musicians,
one of the vocalists really like got like either got
high for the recording session or they just really like
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through their entire body and spirit into adding the O'Reilly
that last O'Riley before the autopart. So congratulations to that artist.
We are thrilled to be joined by a co host
you know from guesting on this show. Of course you
know I'm from stuff they don't want you to know,
ridiculous history, the new limited series. Let's start a cool
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Please welcome the brilliant and talented Ben Bow. Yeah a
kaas asked Twitter, and they said aka Casa Della Killa
ak bb cool J aka Doctor Awkward aka mister bring
the Bags, which I don't get, but I support mister
bring the bags. You always bring those bags of knowledge
(01:32):
to people. My A I am screen name in college
and high school was ob cool Ja, So shout out
my friend you. Yeah, that was a creation of my
friend Chris, the legendary Chris, who I talked about a
lot on this show. Well, Ben, wonderful to have you
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co hosting. You already dropped some knowledge on us that
I want to talk about a moment. But first let's
introduce our guests, shall we? Another Consummate podcast professional, one
of the best in the business digital activists. You can
hear her on her brilliant podcasts. There are no girls
on the internet Internet hate machine. With cool Zone Media,
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it's bridget time. Oh my god, I love every time
I come here, you all give me the best introductions.
It was my heart, I mean. And we do offer
that because we're as we're going to get into with
Sesame Street, we are running into money difficulties. I will
offer to do an intro for you that you can
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bring around with you. That is an NFT for the
low low price of five thousand dollars, so just let
me know after the recording. But Bridget so wonderful having you.
The intro is always more than well deserved. How are
you doing? You have new glasses that look fantastic. First,
I just got new glasses, So I'm in that phase
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of getting a new item where you're just expecting compliments
and when you get that and they're like thank you,
I know, and that is correct and that is appropriate. Yeah, yeah,
they're great. Yeah. I was saying, I need I have
five pieces of clothing that I wear on a regular
basis because I need so many compliments to just have
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the confidence to wear anything. Otherwise it's just a white
T shirt. Ben, you were saying before, because we were
talking about the naming of dogs, and you were saying
that studies have been conducted that suggests that dogs respond
better to names that end in S or why yeah
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or I E. Yeah, it's right. Yeah, it's a weird thing,
and it's you know, we talk about names pretty often, right,
because names do have power. If it apparently, I don't
look up the study and send you all, but apparently
side shows that dogs will tend to be more more
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receptive to their their human roommates, parents, whatever however you
want to answer primorifies. Uh, they'll be more receptive when
their name ends in that I e. Or y sound
or like a plural, which which is nuts to me
because it explains so much. Right, It's like, why does
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every dog person we know, why do they inevitably have
all these nicknames? Right? Yeah, you gotta find Finny boy. Yeah. Yeah,
he did not respond to Finn. He ignored this shit
on me. I was like, he can't hear very clearly. Yeah,
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there's nothing cuter than asking a pet owner like, what
is your pet's name? And then give me the laundry
list of other names doctor, like doctor Finnancy like yeah
for sure, yeah, and then yeah and then like what
I was thinking about common dog names. It's like Max,
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which has an ass on the end spot does not
pass the test. Lassie though, you know these standard names
and throwing a y on the end always a good idea.
So I had a kid growing up with me had
a wonderful, wonderful guy living with him named Buster. And
Buster was a Golden Retriever who always seemed like very
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good energy, very affable, but didn't quite like didn't quite
get what was going on, ye or Buster, And I
think it's because I think it's this poor guy spent
you know, over a decade not fucking knowing when people
were talking to him. Yeah, that would be difficult. I
think in my experience that's hard. All right, well, Bridget,
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we're going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
about the plate of just hot garbage news that we
have for them today. Today's news cycle seems to have
been it seems like all all the news outlets were
just like turn it over to chat GPT. We're just
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gonna and tell them about like all the all the
buzzwords from the last year. So we have we have
the Taco Bell metaverse wedding what too? We have a
review of the Taco Bell Metaverse wedding, officiated by Cal Penn.
Of course it really can get mixed up in that.
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How did he get looped in? Definitely guy, it's you
know that sweet sweet marketing money. The Tiger King is
running for president from jail. There is a Sesame Street
NFT that just got dropped. They're a little little behind
the curve on that one. Admire that they're sticking to it.
They're still just like, no, we think people are gonna
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want an NFT of cookie Monster leaning kind of seductively
on an oven. He like seems like he's it seems
like a dating profile pick of Monster, which is interesting choice.
He owns the means of production. Man, He's showing people
that he can make his own. That's power, right. Yeah,
(07:28):
So we'll talk about that and also the history of
why Sesame Street needs to resort to selling NFTs and
tickle Me's Elmo and all that shit. Before we get
to any of that stuff, Bridget, we do like to
ask our guests, what is something from your search history
that is revealing about who you are? Something from my
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search history that is revealing about who I am is
the phrase sexy boy. I'm recording a podcast about the
rivalry between Brett Harry Art and Shawn Michaels, and in
the script they were like, oh, Shaun Michaels, his walk
on song at the time was a song called sexy Boy.
It's all like, oh, I have to hear this song.
(08:09):
So that was one of the last things I googled
was to hear Sean Michaels is walk on song sexy Boy, which,
by the way, if you, if you, I recommend googling
it and listening to it because it's pretty good. But yeah,
so that was what he walked out onto the stage too,
is it bo I? They? No, this was the nineties,
this was boy. We didn't know. Only Big Boy from
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Outcasts knew that you could spell your name spell the
word boy that way. Yeah, that's right. Wow, so sexy boy.
The first Google result when you just put the words
sexy boy into Google is the Shawn Michaels intro music.
But it's not the first image result. I'll tell you
that much, folks. Is it a sexy boy? It's a
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lot of sexy boys, a lot of ripped six pack abs,
one in which yeah, I don't even want to describe
what's happening, and that one. Since we're an audio show,
I think it's I think it's necessary to tell the
Zeit gang that Bridget and I can see Jack's furrowed brow.
(09:16):
What do you do it? Are you like trying to
count apps? What's going on? How many apps are supposed
to be on a Sexy Boy? Yeah? A lot. It's
a lot to take in this this search history, but
that thank you so much for sharing with it. I
actually don't know that song. I never got into the
whole ww FW. Like I was super into it for
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a couple months when I was like five, when like
whole Coogan Andre the Giant, and then just like fell
out of love with it. I think I discovered like
playing guns instead of playing wrestling, and like just moved
on to some other toxic little boy bullshit. I think ramp.
My dad saw Rambo and described it to me, and
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I was like, well, this is my new personality. Yeah.
I was so influenced by Sylvester Stallone and like his
whole thing is like haunted, scarred, damaged, like you know,
can barely communicate because he's like holding in so much
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pain and just like so thoroughly toxic with his inability
to talk about his pain, to access his own pain.
As identified with this as a child. Was a child
because Rocky and Rambo, Like, for whatever reason, I was like, yes,
take me more. Yeah, Like I fantasized about getting beat
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up instead of beating people up because Rocky. That was
like the majority of what Rocky was was him just
getting the shit beat out of him. I was like, man,
that guy can take a punch. I wish I could
take a punch like that. I thought, look like Bridget.
When you said sexy boy, I immediately thought of the
song by the French Air Air. Yeah. I was like,
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that's it. I'm still relevant. I got my finger on
a pulse or whatever. How weird would it be if
a wrestler in the nineties his walk on song was
air going by air like. He's a real, like high brow.
He's cultivating a vibe here. Okay, okay, playing Moon Safari.
It's a great idea. Somebody should just have be avant
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garde wrestler just the most hate it. They really wanted
to create a villain that America would hate. Super metrosexual. Yeah,
just just Artie, just Artie. You know what is something
Bridget that you think is overrated? Something that I think
is overrated is it's very specific and perhaps a little
(11:52):
bit niche. I was in Vegas. I just came back
from Vegas for podcast Movement Evolutions, and while I was there,
I learned that I didn't know that. I don't know
how I didn't know this, But did you know that
Elon Musk's boring company has hollowed out part of the
ground under Las Vegas to make what it's called the
Vegas Loops like hyperloop. So this is this is where
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the confusion came from. On my part. I was thinking
hyper loop, like that super fast underground thing, which like
you know, like I'm no expert, but it sounded I
was interested to see it. So we've been sold on
hyper loop, which does sound kind of cool. This what
actually exists is Vegas Loop, which is so much fucking worse.
It is whatever you're thinking. It is so much less cool,
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and it's underground and it's just this underground road under
part of Las Vegas where Tesla's drives and so it's
essentially just like a fleet of a fleet of Tesla's
driven by humans that drives underground goes about thirty to
forty miles an hour. It doesn't go it doesn't go
wildly fast. And that's the whole thing. When you go down,
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you think it's gonna be cool, because it's kind of
like when do you to board those Version America flights
where they'd have the lights, they have the lights, they
have the lights, they've got some lights, they've got some music,
and you think like, oh, I'm back to be whisked
away on this like futuristic loop. It's just a dude
driving a Tesla. Like that's the whole thing. Subway system
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with tesla's instead of trains. Uh yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
And the whole time I was just like, this was
this is the whole thing. It's essentially the same thing
that happens above ground, but underground for some reason, Like
I can't understand why it's supposed to be better to
be underground. I can't. I can't get it. Anyway, very
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overrated it was. It just was really whacked, Like it
just wasn't cool because they talked about this a lot.
I remember him talking a big game and then I
had lumped this into yet another one of the things
that he talked a lot about, and it sucked and
it turns out that he did or actually didn't happen,
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And it turns out it did happen, and it sucked,
So that that is actually news to me. Wait, do
a lot of people use it? I don't think so.
Everybody who I saw was like interested in the novelty
as I was. I don't think it's something that people
are using for their general transportation means in Vegas. I
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could be wrong, so don't trust it, Like I don't
yea that he is doing the work to make sure
it is safe and not going to collapse in on itself. Personally, Yeah,
I did have a couple of questions because like if
you were if you had a disability and you had
a wheelchair or a mobility device, it's not clear to me,
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like like you can't really stop, but the people are
really the people driving are very invested in like keeping
keeping it going. So if you had a luggage or something,
it wasn't clear to me what would happen. So certainly
it's the kind I'm to say it worked about as
well as an underground driving sits stem designed by Elon Musk,
exactly what you think it would be. It is, like, yeah,
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it's designed as about as well as Elon Musk as
you would imagine Elon must have four to thirty pm
on a Friday energy, right, yes, exactly? What is something
you think is underrated? Something I think it's underrated? Is
this is going to be controversial? Checking your luggage when
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you're flying, I usually carry on. I checked had a
bunch of bags, so I checked them all and I
don't know what, I've been avoiding this whole time. Like
it it went fine. It was nice to not have
to I had a connection, so it was nice to
not have to schlept bags from here to there. This
whole time, I've been crapping on people who aren't able
to get their stuff into a carry on. I think
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I'm I think I'm check bags for life. Now. It's
it's really hit or miss. It's when when it doesn't
go well, that's like they lose the bag, the bag
takes an hour to arrive, as it did on my
last flight that I took where we checked a bag.
(16:08):
It's it's a bummer. It's real. It's really tough to
just be like kind of waiting there with everybody that
you were just on the plane with and never wanted
to see again. One yeah, right, right right, You're like,
I'm standing next to this this guy who is a
way too open with his feet as well, take my
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shoes off again? Yeah, let me learn more about you, bro.
What kind of bag do you store your socks in?
Because I think you just have the one pair. But also,
like I gotta say I'm with bridget on this some
team bridget On on the checking bags when it works out,
because I'm I'm a sucker, and I love that moment.
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For me, it always feels like the climactic moment of
a rom com, you know, when I see my bag
again and I'm like, oh, we've been you know, we've
been hundreds of miles away and here you are coming
towards me, and I know it's you. I knew from
the first, you know what I mean, Like, you know,
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I'm like hugging the bag and yeah, yeah, I don't
know anthropomorphizing. Maybe I don't think my bag cares about
me the way I care about Don't be so hard
on yourself. Don't say that then you do you do
you guys? Tie a little ribbon? Do you have? What's
your How do you know it at first sight? Because
bags are I do feel like bags have evolved, like
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the way that nature keeps evolving into crabs, like animals
keep evolving into crabs. I feel like all bags have
evolved into the same, like black, gray, hard bodied, rectangular
suitcase that looks like it could have been made by
you know, one of the three internet bag companies. Do
you guys have a little little piece of spirit, little
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piece of as on there I do. I have very
distinctive stickers, So I usually travel with two bags. One
is like very distinctive, no one whatever mistake it for theirs.
It's like bright orange, definitely mine. The other is the
classic black Oway bag, which I think I did get
for free from for like making a podcast. Add like
everybody has, well, everybody who had a podcast got that bag.
(18:21):
We all had podcasts, So everybody has that bag now.
And it's a good bag. It's durable. I've had it
for years and like, like truly it is like the
day you start a podcast that shows up at your
house with your microphone. But so I have to have
all kinds of distinctive stickers on it, right because there
are so many of those bags. And I also to
that question, I I like to have, like I have
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no stickers on a car because I feel like that's
uh presumptuous. Somehow people are already driving. They don't want
to have to learn more about me. I'll just use
my turn signals and be quiet. But but like, like
with the bag, especially because they're relatively ubiquitous and I'm
partially colored blind, I have a bunch of like just
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travel stickers, the ones they do from when you check
a bag and I just haven't haven't cleaned it, So
I'm always thinking, oh, yeah, there's the one, the beat up,
shitty one. I knew you from the first Welcome back.
But you know, but I think it is smart when
people have you know, sometimes people make a statement. Everybody
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makes a statement right at different times. And I kind
of love seeing weird bags in the baggage claim. You know,
I'm like, oh, this guy either is super into snowboarding
or maybe it's a cello right. One thing I do
know is he has very specific views on you know,
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to bet back in the nineties. Sure from is like
free to bet thing. I think that's cool. I think
that's cool. And if you check a bag, like to
your point, Bridget, you can especially if you have a
connecting flight. It's like the logistics is just sort of magical.
I can never do that. I could never figure out
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how to follow every you know, watch every falling sparrow
from like one airplane to the next. But it's oppressive. Yeah, Ben,
to your point about that you don't put stickers on
your cars, do you ever see one of those cars
that just has way too many stickers on it? Where
it's like you are trying to tell out way too
many things, even if there are things that I like
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or agree with. At a certain point, it's like it
makes you're advertising too much to the world, even if
it's things that I'm aligned with us too much. Yeah, yeah,
it's too much. And they're always like usually include get
off my ass, And it's like, will you clearly want
me somewhere close to you so that I can read
the dissertation that you've put together. Those stickers, the bumper
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stickers are like, so, I don't know. They do not
have affect industry wide fact checker, I will say, because
there are quotes attributed to Einstein that I'm pretty sure
are like van Halen lyrics or something. You know, what,
what do you guys think about vanity plates? Oh? I
used to have one. What you're saying said love This
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is so cheesy. It said love to teach, because I
was a teacher at the time and I really did
love to teach. I think, yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good I like the ones where you know,
I'm I'm never going to condone being high in traffic.
So for the purposes of this story, I was writing shotgun,
and I got to the point where I thought regular
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license plates were vanity plates that I just smart enough
to understand. Yeah, I was like, H four, no, no, no,
keep following that guy. I gotta write this down. Follow
that man. Decode. Also, there was a stunt that I
don't know if it's been replicated widely, but it's an
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interesting thought, is that there was a study that the
people who were most likely to engage in road rage
incidents were It had nothing to do with like, you know,
so some of the things that you might have liked
with whether they were in a pickup truck or like
a different kind of truck, which would have been my
first guess. It was actually people who had bumper stickers
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were like that was the only statistically significant differentiator between
like how likely they were to get into a road
rage incident, and like, I think the theory was that
if you have bumper stickers, you view your car as
like an extension of your personhood more than anything else,
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and so like you view it as a personal insult
if you're cut off, as opposed to just a thing
that happens to everyone. You know, Wow, this is like
one of the reasons why I don't drive is because
I feel like I would be a road rage person.
Like I drive a little bit, but I really don't
drive a lot. Uh when I'm behind the wheel, Like
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if somebody is trying to murder, like kind of box
me out to merge, I will kill us both, Like
I don't care, like we will die in this car. Yeah,
I get. I believe that I believe the bumper sticker
to road rage correlation. Yeah, it's like you probably feel
much more like this is my this car is my
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property and an extension of me, and I will protect it,
which I hate to say. It's like an instinct that
I get. And I wonder if they I've never had
a bumper sticker, but I do wonder if when you
have a bumper sticker, you start assuming people are driving
a certain way around you based on You're defensive. You're like, oh,
you don't like Einstein. You don't believe that I ran
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a half marathon, like I'm gonna take this to the death.
You're you're you're like laying on your horn and to yourself,
you're just muttering, Well, this guy doesn't fucking coexist. That's right,
you know. I h I see it and this is
just further cementing my no bumper stickers on my car situation.
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You know, it's it's great, You're right, though, it's it's
a lot. I think people always want to sort of
tell a story, right, because we are the stories we
tell ourselves. But to you guys, point how many should
there be a limit? Should somebody like right right to
our local representatives and say, hey, I know there's a
lot of stuff going on, but like three bumper stickers, max,
(24:38):
you know, like let's bring people together. I don't know,
I don't know. I believe there should be a limit
on bumper stickers. And also signs in your yard. Like again,
even even if it signs of things that I agree with,
it's like, we get it. Three is plenty three. You
don't need you need, you don't need to like, let's
just keep it reasonable. Three. It's a diminishing return exactly.
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And some people like try to build, Like there's houses
that are like we do this this week and we're
gonna like, I don't know, it's it reminds me of
like those like mini library things that I think are cool.
But I think a lot of people are like this
is how we build community. And it's like, well, you're
not really interacting with anyone. Feels like yeah, yeah, I
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don't know. I'm glad those exist. I just don't know
that they're the answer. This just a Jack o'bride library hater.
I told you that was an offline thought. I'm still workshopping,
so I mean, Jack, it's not like you ever see
like crowds of people hanging around a free little library,
you know, talking about the buck We have one like
(25:44):
right next like in between our neighbor's house and our house,
and it's yeah, you don't you don't see people like
hang out there, but you see people like walk up
by themselves. It gets a lot more traffic than I
would have expected. It's pretty, it's definitely useful. It's just, yeah,
people don't hang together at the at the free yard library.
(26:05):
It's a free yard library we got. I do want
to give a quick shout out not to Durellis here
in Atlanta and activists. Artist friend of mine named Aileen
Lloyd has created on the heels of the book banning
stuff that's happening around the country, has created a what
what she's calling a little contentious free library, which is
(26:27):
all banned books like that. Yeah, yeah, she's way cooler
than me. But but yeah, it's like, you know, it's
it's a real problem. If you're preventing people from being
able to encounter knowledge, you know, at a at a
formative age, then that, I don't know, Yeah, different might
(26:47):
different in the future. That might be the like we'll
all have to have little libraries where we give out
books that are banned elsewhere because yeah, their schools aren't
doing it in some states. So all right, let's take
a quick break and we'll come back and get into
the Taco Bell metaverse wedding. And we're back, and Taco
(27:19):
Bell is in the metaverse. I don't know this. So
Taco Bell held a contest where the winner, yes, the winner,
got to have their wedding in a digital Taco Bell
in the metaverse. That was what you want. That feels
like a punishment to me. But the ceremony happened at
(27:41):
the end of last March. But people who attended, just
I don't know, broke their media embargo. I don't know.
And it's just truly, I don't know that this story
made me feel as empty as any story we've covered
in a long time. But I did have to talk
about it. So the bride and grooms avatars faced each
(28:05):
other across a sacred fire. It was so the wedding
was a traditional Indian ceremony other than the fact that
it was in a taco bell In the metaverse, it
was hosted by Calpen. The bride and grooms avatars faced
each other across a sacred fire made of taco bells
signature fire sauce. See, okay, okay, all right, you're on board. No,
(28:30):
I look, I get it. Wait a second, I feel like, yeah,
I'm like, oh, okay, now I'm back in. I didn't
know it was Signature fire sauce. But I gotta be honest.
This um is gross, and I wish everybody like marriage
is tough, you know what I mean, Like, I wish
everybody the best of success finding your person. You know,
(28:53):
it's like even better than that roten Com moment with
your bag at baggage Claim, right, It's like that forever
and that's really noble and cool, and that is, for
most people, the height of romantic luck. So you're saying
this is even more than seeing your bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, okay,
we're we're very statement. But okay, Bridget and I are
(29:15):
being paid by big checked bag, I guess right. But okay,
there's like again, you know, a good friend of mine,
actually my best friend, uh is, he's getting married pretty soon,
and he was telling me all all like how stressful
(29:36):
it is and how messed up in crazy planning this
thing gets. And so he and his partner they have
decided to elope, which I think is cool, you know,
cut past the nonsense and then make it their own.
So maybe for this couple it's their dreaming thing. Maybe
they were like, hey, we met it a Taco bell
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or like you know the metaverse. Yeah, yeah, Gordon front
wraps are really the glue of our partnership. My problem
here is not the Taco bell theming I will say
that they but the official Taco bell, theming, the fact
that it is. I don't know, I just feel bad
for like, if you want to diminish the amount of
(30:22):
stress associated with an event, adding a corporate sponsor who
has notes on everything, like, it just seems like not
the not the way to go. I mean, I think
like the idea idealized version that like they pitched when
Taco Bell, you know, signed onto this idea and contest
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is probably that it's like, Yeah, they just start expressing
their love and they're two couple weirdos who just love
Taco Bell. But in practice, for anyone who has been
involved with sponsored content and trying to get any amount
of art through past past corporate sponsors who have notes,
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I just like, I don't know, it seems seems difficult.
I also like the fact that they keep saying that
they want a contest to become the first people married
at a Taco Bell in the metaverse, as though this
is going to be an ongoing thing that we'll be
looking back on them as the fucking George Washington's of
(31:28):
this thing that we all then went on to do
as a people. Yeah, I mean people do have like
really strong feelings about Taco Bell. Like I have no
trouble believing that this couple maybe met in a Taco
Bell and Taco Bell was a big part of their relationship.
And I didn't have Taco Bell for the first time
until like five years ago, so I am not in
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that particular group. But yeah, we weren't allowed to eat
it when I was growing up like a weird a
weird role my mom had no Taco Bell, no mountain dew,
but all the other stuff was fine. Yeah, all fine.
I don't know why she just like had a thing
well for mountain dew. She said it was because this
is this is her words, not mine. It was quote
for white trash. We weren't allowed to drink. I think
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Taco Bell might have been in the mix as well.
My family didn't encourage it. I will say that I
never went out to dinner with my family to Taco
Bell necessarily, but you know, I got it like after
you know, a game or something like if I you know,
we we just it was the thing that was open
that we could like scarf down in the fifteen minutes
(32:34):
we had and yeah, it's such perfect point, just like
so delicious. I don't know. They lit up something in
my brain that I have been unable to increase from there.
And the same is true of mountain dew. When I
lived in Kentucky, I became addicted to mountain dew and
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have never been able to fully like I don't I
don't go frequently because of or like drink mountain dew
frequently because for self care reasons, because like if I
have a twelfth pack of mountain dew at my house.
I'm not going to be able to not drink at all,
But what if you could do it in the metaverse?
Brow Now we're talking be thank you. No, that's mountain
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dew was originally slang for moonshine. That's the etymology of it. Yeah,
I haven't tried it, but I do agree with your
mom Bridget. Oh my god, actually onto something but that like, wow,
you've never tried I've never tried it. I've tried the
red kind, but I've never had regular mountain deergular, you
(33:42):
get the you get the overall. Yeah, wait, Ben, have
you did you say you've never tried it? M I've
never tried mountain dew. I probably this is like asking
someone if they've always been vegan. There was probably something
in the drinks. But anytime there was a mountain dew
situation Asian available, there was some other soda or something
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to drink. So I would end up I would end
up going with that. And also growing up, some of
my relatives I didn't care for we're into mountain dew.
There was super into mountain dew, and I would look
at them and I would be like, better you than
me my friends. You know, so like, okay, but Taco
Bell though the appeal, the late night appeal back in
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the day, you know, you got like twelve eighteen bucks.
You're high in a car following another car because you
think it's a vanity license flight. They grow into a
Taco Bell. Yeah, and then you're like, I'm living like
I am the fucking emperor of bad decisions. You know
what two case ideas grow into euros yo, you know yeah,
(34:50):
oh man, cheesy Gordia crunch I just discussed like Miles,
I think turned me onto it. Like I loved Taco
Bell and I wasn't even getting the best stuff growing up.
What's the good order? I mean, cheesy gord ud casady
I've always had. And then I like to get a
grilled stuffed chicken burrito with That's the healthy part of
(35:10):
my order. Grilled stuff chicken burrito extra grill, like put
it on the grill for a little extra time if
we don't mind. But something you could ask for that, yeah,
well done, Yeah you brito, well done. But then I'll
freelance and then of course with the biggest Baja blast
that they will allow me to carry out. You're in
(35:30):
deep water my friends, Like, like, I had no idea
this was a thing. So wait though, I get like
once a year at this point. But and I don't
tell my kids or my wife. Yeah, it's just like
a dark trip to under start of the night. I
turn my headlights off, dark night of the soul. Oh,
(35:53):
I got bridgie. He's got like a fake mustache on.
So wait though, wait though a wedding in the metaverse,
you gotta tell us these uh, these folks get married.
They were in person, right, This wasn't like a remote
like they were together. They kissed, They kissed each other's
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faces like real people in love and all that stuff,
which is all like that almost makes it because then
you're like, oh, so they are really like married now,
like this was really their wedding, because like the picture
that you see of it is like two people deeply
in love kissing one another and then they're like weird
(36:37):
avatars and a purple like on a purple throne, like
kissing each other above. But so the vows were written
by chat GPT, so like the story seems like it's
being written by chat GPT because just like all the
stupidest buzzwords coming together here the vows were written by
chat GPT. It was within a video game, so it
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wasn't even really the metaverse. But like, I don't know
how to feel about that, Like I'm not I'm no
metaverse snobs. So if they want to do it in
de CenTra Land the video game, it just seems like
it was a poorly orchestrated publicity stunt by Taco Bell,
which has to hurt a little bit when like the
big viral marketing campaign that is sponsoring your wedding, like
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doesn't even put it in the real metaverse. But I don't,
I don't give a shit. But if they pay for
the wedding though, I mean, at that point, it's just
like yeah, absolutely, like that's that's great. However, but like
also the wedding in the metaverse, so like not really
sure did they I guess this is like I'm sort
of sort of breaking my brain. Did they pay for
a ceremony? I RL? Or only within the metaverse? Also
(37:44):
does a Taco Bell within the metaverse have employees? Like
I have a lot of questions, Yeah, yeah, I think
they have employees. One thing that we do know for
sure is that and this is my favorite point because
it's like you suspect, Okay, the core brand is going
to have some notes and ideas that they're gonna want
to implemented. The one place we got to see this
(38:05):
is that in addition to having cal Penn host their wedding,
they also had a twitch streamer like he who was
narrating the whole thing to the point that the guests
of the wedding couldn't hear what was happening. He a
play by play, yes, like a play by play, but
not even like he was just a twitch streamer. They
(38:28):
were like, here, do your thing, like had no relation
to the couple. So he's just like over the top,
keeps singing. No one so this is no one could
hear what was going on because the twitch streamer Taco
Bell hired kept singing about Taco Bell throughout the ceremony.
Legion except the O in legion is a que for
(38:51):
probably Q and on reasons but I have no idea
spoke through every minute of the ceremony. He shouted out
his followers and made up little songs proclaim his love
for Taco Bell as he showed off his avatar's various
outfits during the wedding. Wow he sounds like a rowdy wedding.
Guess that you have to throw out of your wedding
(39:11):
because they've had one too many. But like during the ceremony,
it's like, how at the ceremony? How can I make
this wedding about me? He said, you know which that
happens that he heard war stories. I you know what,
I don't want to I've never met these folks. Wish
them the best again. Yeah, at the top them, it's
(39:35):
just we live in Hell, all of us, and this
is amazing. And Hell is a combination Taco Bell, the
metaverse wedding chapel. Yeah, oh my gosh, what other things
you're going to happen in the metaverse? What other is
Taco Bell gonna have a funeral contest next? Like? Are
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they gonna have a kincinera? Like, what's what's going on?
Who would? Who would think this is a good idea?
I want to meet the couple that steps up and
has their divorce in the metaverse. Yeah, like if you're
to be about that life, Yeah, Like they didn't look
at the by laws in the entirety of their wedding,
including like the consummation. Everything has to happen in the metaverse,
(40:18):
Oh my god, what if they kill Bell present narrating
all of the whole thing. Wait wait, wait though, wait
less less less question. What if what if there is
something I think you're onto someone with the fine print?
What if there is something where they cannot get divorced?
And less Taco Bell signs off right, Taco Bell like,
(40:40):
we don't love this for our Yeah, I wouldn't be
surprised if it was in the contract. I'd be surprised
if they upheld it if, like, I'm sure they put
it in the contract, being like, because now this is
gonna be America's sweethearts. Everyone's going to be paying attention
to the the first couple to get married in a
metaverse Taco Bell. And then now that it has happened,
(41:02):
and everyone's just like, oh my god, we live in hell,
they're probably like, never mind, you guys, do your thing.
But yeah, I'm sure the contract gives gives them rights
to the first two offspring from the children, you know,
or front from the wet from the marriage. All right,
so let's take a quick break and then we'll talk
(41:23):
about more insane news. All right, Big news, Uh, we're back,
Big News. Tiger King Joe exotic guy is running for
president from jail to remind you if you didn't watch
(41:47):
the whole thing or manage to like strategically forget that
you watched it, that part of the pandemic. Currently serving
twenty one year federal sentence for taking out a hit
on his rival and also for unlawfully killing at least
five tigers because he's a bad person. Yeah, I don't know.
(42:10):
The story is just that we talked about fractals yesterday
with our guest Baritunde Thurston, and like the idea of
like small patterns that like explode and like turn your
whole society into the thing that is happening at the
smaller level. And like this way in which I and
I don't know which came first, but like toxic narcissism,
(42:34):
like debilitating narcissism, like people just have their mind and
life taken over by a narcissistic personality disorder being the
cheat code to get famous. This just seems to be
like another example of that replicating itself. And I don't
(42:55):
know if it's just the overall conditions of social media
and the attention economy and all of that just leading
to that but it does seem like this overall sickness
we have as a civilization. It's like results in a
world where Joe Exotic is still a celebrity. Hey, George
(43:16):
Santos is running too, You know what I mean, they
look at me. Casino of social media is in full effect.
I imagine, I imagine Jack, that you are very divided.
Which of these two candidates most deserves your vote? Wait,
George Santos is running for president? Well, I mean unless
he's lying about it. Yeah, I mean that's such a
(43:41):
non sequitor. But the weirdest lie that he told is
that he was one of the producers on the Broadway
adaptation of Spider Man Turn Out the Dark. Yeah, so
it also was like what like, yeah, that production was
like a disaster. People got hurt. I think somebody got,
like one of the actors got very hurt. Why wout
you want to Why would you want to be like, Oh, yeah,
(44:01):
I was part of that production. I produced that Actually,
Like what, like, what a weird thing to lie about? Yeah? Oh,
I'm sorry. That's his genius. Yeah, he picks very specific
things that nobody else would lie about. Like he didn't
say he was on he said he was on Burut
College's volleyball team, which they don't have a volleyball team,
(44:23):
and like New York is not known for its volleyball.
So he like gets in these like little like you know,
corners where nobody would even think to look, and lies
about that. I apologize. Accuracy is important he has he's
running for reelection. I don't know if he's quite president,
(44:45):
just get elections. Well, you know, he knows how to
say in the new campaign. Yeah, but I I mean,
but he's no, he's no tiger king. I saw tiger
kings like most of us during the pandemic, right, and uh,
And I don't understand a lot of quote unquote reality television,
(45:06):
but I fucking love tigers, you know, I love animals
like that. So I'm like, oh, let's see what's happening.
I was thoroughly unprepared. It was like a later season
of Walking Dead where zombies occasionally show up and it's
mostly just regular people who are bad at communicating. And
I'm like, why don't you change the title of this
(45:27):
to like a guy? There are also, hey, Ben, there
are also some tigers in here occasionally, right, Like, yeah,
tiger content severely lacking and he's still locked up for
how long this guy Joe twenty something years, twenty one years,
so like well passed to the end of his first term.
(45:47):
I will say, yeah, he's playing to ask Liz Cheney
to be his running mate. He's also like running on
the like he's saying that, like one of his big
platforms is corruption in the Partment of Justice, which is real,
like and Trump is hitting on that too. The Department
of Justice is a complete shit show and like one
(46:09):
of the most toxic, like just all the FBI, like
all these things that Trump gets to be the person
who like points out it's very frustrating, but he at
least knows how to imitate the parts of I think
he kind of got forced into focusing on Department of
Justice because he is in jail and convicted of attempted murder.
(46:31):
But can you do that? Can you? Can you become
when you're yeah, yeah, I believe it's constitutionally permitted. I'm
going to write that down in my nose. Wasn't he
angling to get a pardon from Trump? Like he was
like yeah, he was like waiting waiting on the call
before Trump left office. I think that was like a
(46:53):
big part of season two or for some reason, I
have like some memory of him like waiting on a
pardon from Trump. I don't think I watched season two.
If I did, I'm very disappointed in myself. But yeah,
I remember there being like a big thing where he
was like putting all his chips on Trump was going
to pardon him, and then it didn't happen. Yeah, the
(47:14):
Tiger King part of the pandemic was really weird when
we were all just like glued to it. Yeah, our
collective fever dream, you know, when when everybody was incredibly
afraid with good reason. But then also, yeah, you're right,
because you're right. I remember these conversations I would have
(47:35):
was strangers, you know, we're all like, we're all like
massed up, so everything has like this tension because they're
looking at each other's eyes, you know. Yeah, and uh,
and then you would have these covers and Tiger King
got mentioned, yeah in in these just very short right. Well,
I mean I'm from Atlanta. We all talking to each
(47:56):
other constantly, you know, in any line or elevator. But
yet Tiger King and you would pointed out off air
Jack he's running as a libertarian. Yeah, libertarian with a
campaign of shutting down the IRS, assassinating Putin, and making
undocumented migrants pay fifty dollars of months to avoid deportation,
(48:17):
which is an idea he says he got from Billy's.
But real winner, this guy assassinating Putin. It's funny. They're like, so,
but you're you're saying you're gonna kill He's like, yep,
you quote that wherever you want. Well, does he think
this CIA is going to read that and go, oh shit,
lightbulb moment will all right, let's talk about Sesame Street
(48:42):
NFT is because the NFT market is exploding right now,
and we this is another edition of stock Corner Jack
stock Corner. So the NFT market is. I'm shocked that
there are still NFTs, but uh, you know, I guess
these things take a while to develop. And there is
(49:03):
a new sixty dollars cookie Monster NFT, the first of
a series of official Sesame Street team to NFTs, brought
to you by the letters W, T and F. These
are just hitty JPEGs, like they are just Yeah, I
don't know, I don't even know what to say about this.
(49:27):
Did they just announced this? Yeah, they just announced this.
I feel like, if they'd announced this last year, I
might be like, perfect sense, we wouldn't have had to
talk about it at all. I would say that, but
I would be at least like, Okay, it's kind of
in the zeguy. Sure, yeah. But so people are disappointed
in this and they're they're like, but Sesame Street is
(49:50):
the educational show for everyone. Why would you be charging
money for a jpeg? Like, why would you be making
a product that is the equivalent of like seventy dollars
bottled water? You know, it's just like dumb. Nobody needs
it and what what are you doing? So our writer
(50:10):
Jam did kind of a deep dive into the history
of funding Sesame Street, because when it was created, it
was that this idea that like we will publicly fund PBS,
Sesame Street will air on PBS and be like get
half of its budget from public funding. And then Nixon
(50:31):
came into the White House and was immediately he was like,
I love Sesame Street, but I can't stomach the government
funding a single dollar of this, and you know, just
attacked public PBS essentially, and they've just been having to
(50:52):
like struggle and grind to just get fund enough money
to keep the show afloat all of the years, you know,
they've had to like lobby, they've had to like do
DoorDash commercials. There was a Sesame Street door Dash commercial
in the Super Bowl a couple years ago that people
were like, guys, door Dash is not a good company
(51:16):
for you to be hanging out with, watching watching your
kids hang out with like bad I don't know, like
smoke cigarettes or something. It's like, why is Big Bird
doing hanging out with DoorDash executives. But it's been Yeah,
it's just been violating its ethical ideals for since the start,
(51:37):
because the Republican Party, like starting with Nixon, just has
had its crosshairs on Sesame Street because not just because
like it's not you know, the when it started, the
show's budget was eight million dollars, so it's not like
this massive government expenditure. But I think what it represents
to the Republican Party is like something and great that
(52:01):
was openly created from public funding and like a great
work of art that was like openly you know, it's
just like too much of a success. And so ever
since an extent, like Nuke Game, Rich also like got
in on it, and like in the nineties, was like,
we shouldn't be giving them any money because they sold
tickle me elmos so they can fund their budget as
(52:23):
much as they want, which just yeah, it's completely misguided.
And but but I think they're afraid of what Sesame
Street represents. And in this country, like just any beacon
of socialism is, you know, the country is allergic too
coming for libraries. Yeahs have been. Yeah, libraries and Sesame
(52:47):
Street the number one evils that are the threat America. Yeah. Sure,
somebody called the Tiger Gang. Let them know the real enemy, right, Uh,
But I like, Okay, so this is the thing. Sesame
Street is a wholesome kind of connecting point for a
lot of people. It's difficult to look at something like
(53:10):
that and vilify it. And I will say, this is
an opportunity for me to reference a weird Nixon fact
bridget Jack Psyching. I recently learned that Richard Nixon genuinely said,
I woten thought that if they're a bit of a
(53:32):
good rap group around in those days, I might have
chosen a career in music instead of politics. What. Yes,
he was a rap fan. He said that, you know,
he almost he heavily implies that he would have gone
into music instead of politics. I don't know what he
(53:53):
was listening to, but this was found in a nineteen
ninety seven tour through the Nixon Presidential Library. So was
it like something he said at the end when like
just random neurons were firing off in his dying brain.
Because it feels like he lasted long like that, we
(54:13):
just kind of decided that he wasn't going to be
an ex president that people paid attention to. But like
there's a photograph that always blows my mind of Nixon
and RoboCop like at the same event. Yeah, because they
were at like some boys and girls club event together,
Like it just somebody dressed as RoboCop, not the real
(54:34):
RoboCop everyone from the documentary. But like it seems like,
well that can't be because those like RoboCop is from
a different time period than Nixon. But he was still
around and out there and just being like I didn't
do anything wrong. I got screwed, Like yeah, yeah, it
was definitely in a big former president energy, you say,
(54:57):
you know I, oh, yeah, well I could have also
in awesome music. But you know, just you know, it's
not my fault. It's the world's fault. So I am
not a fan of Nixon. To be absolutely transparent about it,
it does not surprise me that he and his ilk
object to free education an inequitable, wholesome way. But also
(55:19):
NFTs are stupid. Can I say that one show? Okay,
absolutely not, because zeke cooin is still coming. We're still
developing it. It will be released. We're targeting a Spring
twenty twenty six launch for ze coin. It just takes
a lot. We just have a lot of notes on
the design of the JPEG, the pixel placements. Yeah, no,
(55:41):
of course, I mean Bridge, you know more about this
than I do. So, like, what's our NFTs? Are they
a GRIFFT? Is this something? Total scam? Yeah, total complete scam.
It's funny. I was at south By Southwest this time
last year and everything was an FT, this crypto that
that was the thing. And I'm not at south By
(56:03):
right now, but I've lots of friends who are and
I'm hearing that that this is like NFTs who we
don't know her, Like the quickly everybody was like maybe
not and how like it was people had like gone
all in on it just a year ago and today
it's like not a thing. Anymore a total scam. It
breaks my heart that Sesame Street has to resort to
(56:25):
and also resort to it and get there kind of late.
Like again, like if this has been announced last year,
I might have been like, all right, but yeah, been
to your point about the way that public television, particularly
for children, has been like scrutinized and attacked. You know,
you were like, oh, it's very wholesome. You know, they
really what could they find to be upset about the
(56:47):
way that folks on the right are trying to politicize
Sesame Street, to target it, to be like this is
why we need to defund it. I remember when Big
Bird got quote unquote got the COVID shot and they
were like, oh, like this is so political, and I
have to say I respected sesame Streets a stance of
being like, nope, we're just you know, amplifying what the
(57:07):
American Association of Pediatrics has said. It's good for kids,
and so that's what we're gonna do. The way that
Republicans continue to try to target and scrutinize and weaponize
Sesame Street precisely because it is a source of kind
of wholesome often like identity based education, for children. I
think it's really disgusting and it's sad then that they
have to resort to what is just a scam Like
(57:30):
NFTs are not a good investment, It is not a
good use of anyone's money. It just makes me, it
breaks my heart, and I think it really is a
testament to the fact that we do live in this
like new tech hell I guess, like like a tech
hellscape where even Sesame Street has to go the NFT route,
you know. Yeah, but Cookie Monster does look like he
(57:51):
wants to fuck me, right, Like that's what's happening, and
that's like, that's yeah, clearly they're like, maybe you're interested
in NFTs now. Button isn't like an NFT of Cookie
Monsters hinge profile exactly either way, Jack, you're not gonna
(58:11):
get all the way through, Like you're not even gonna
get through the first thirty minutes. So whatever, you guys
watch on Netflix because Cookie Monsters got a vibe there,
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, have Flix and it's not
gonna be very chill. That's a cool timely reference, right, yeah,
Bridget very figure on the pulse, Yeah, Bridget, such a
pleasure having you as always Where can people find you,
(58:33):
follow you all that good stuff. Oh well, it's always
a pleasure to join the Viking. People can find me
on Instagram at bridget Marine DC, on Twitter at bridget Marine,
on TikTok at bridget pod makes pods. I think that's
what it is. Hey, I just started it, so forgive
me for how bad it is. You can listen to
my podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, or
(58:54):
you can listen to my brand new podcast with next
chapter podcast called Beef, where we are getting into the
juiciest rivalries you've never heard of. Bret Hart or Bret
Hart and Shawn Michaels, Sylvester Stallone and John John Claude
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in historical rivalries, check us out put on John Club
Van Damon who Stephen Sagal? Wait, No, I'm sorry, Wait
(59:16):
is it Stevens? Yeah? I think that's right. Step makes sense. Yeah,
they hated each other. Oh, that's right. And is there
a work of media that you've been enjoying? There is
a work of I guess I'll call it a work
of media. It's a little niche, but I had never
seen this video of Azalea Banks doing an impression of Ti.
(59:36):
It's so mean, but it's also the funniest thing I've
ever seen. Please look it up. Like I was dying
laughing at Azzalia Banks doing an impression of Tea Ben.
Where can people find you? Is there a work of
media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me at
Ben Bulling Bowl I in on Instagram. You can find
me at Ben Bolling hsw on Twitter. Work of media
(01:00:01):
unrelated that I've been really enjoying. I got I got
super into just very low fi pov walking chilled music
tours on YouTube. So my my YouTube history is probably
quite boring right now because it's just the perfect eye
bleach of someone walking with very chilled music late at
(01:00:25):
night through very nice cities. It's delightful. I'll send it,
I'll send it. I'll send it to you guys. Yeah. Yeah,
you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
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watching Nathan for you with my mom and she keeps
asking me what's wrong with this guy? It just feels
(01:00:48):
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might enjoy? Yeah? The only way I can describe this
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(01:01:30):
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I think you'll agree with me. So this song is
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Episode five of Daly's Guys Stay production of iHeartRadio. This
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America's share consciousness. And it is Friday in March seventeenth,
twenty twenty three. My name's Jack O'Brien aka Pop Pop, Pop, Potatoes,
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Potatoes o'brium. That is courtesy of at least with the
hot takes and the O'Reilly's auto parts jingle, which I
was just listening to a version this morning where it's
clear that like one of the one of the musicians,
one of the vocalists really like got like either got
high for the recording session or they just really like
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through their entire body and spirit into adding the O'Reilly
that last O'Riley before the autopart. So congratulations to that artist.
We are thrilled to be joined by a co host
you know from guesting on this show. Of course you
know I'm from stuff they don't want you to know,
ridiculous history, the new limited series. Let's start a cool
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Please welcome the brilliant and talented Ben Bow. Yeah a
kaas asked Twitter, and they said aka Casa Della Killa
ak bb cool J aka Doctor Awkward aka mister bring
the Bags, which I don't get, but I support mister
bring the bags. You always bring those bags of knowledge
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to people. My A I am screen name in college
and high school was ob cool Ja, So shout out
my friend you. Yeah, that was a creation of my
friend Chris, the legendary Chris, who I talked about a
lot on this show. Well, Ben, wonderful to have you
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co hosting. You already dropped some knowledge on us that
I want to talk about a moment. But first let's
introduce our guests, shall we? Another Consummate podcast professional, one
of the best in the business digital activists. You can
hear her on her brilliant podcasts. There are no girls
on the internet Internet hate machine. With cool Zone Media,
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it's bridget time. Oh my god, I love every time
I come here, you all give me the best introductions.
It was my heart, I mean. And we do offer
that because we're as we're going to get into with
Sesame Street, we are running into money difficulties. I will
offer to do an intro for you that you can
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bring around with you. That is an NFT for the
low low price of five thousand dollars, so just let
me know after the recording. But Bridget so wonderful having you.
The intro is always more than well deserved. How are
you doing? You have new glasses that look fantastic. First,
I just got new glasses, So I'm in that phase
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of getting a new item where you're just expecting compliments
and when you get that and they're like thank you,
I know, and that is correct and that is appropriate. Yeah, yeah,
they're great. Yeah. I was saying, I need I have
five pieces of clothing that I wear on a regular
basis because I need so many compliments to just have
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the confidence to wear anything. Otherwise it's just a white
T shirt. Ben, you were saying before, because we were
talking about the naming of dogs, and you were saying
that studies have been conducted that suggests that dogs respond
better to names that end in S or why yeah
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or I E. Yeah, it's right. Yeah, it's a weird thing,
and it's you know, we talk about names pretty often, right,
because names do have power. If it apparently, I don't
look up the study and send you all, but apparently
side shows that dogs will tend to be more more
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receptive to their their human roommates, parents, whatever however you
want to answer primorifies. Uh, they'll be more receptive when
their name ends in that I e. Or y sound
or like a plural, which which is nuts to me
because it explains so much. Right, It's like, why does
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every dog person we know, why do they inevitably have
all these nicknames? Right? Yeah, you gotta find Finny boy. Yeah. Yeah,
he did not respond to Finn. He ignored this shit
on me. I was like, he can't hear very clearly. Yeah,
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there's nothing cuter than asking a pet owner like, what
is your pet's name? And then give me the laundry
list of other names doctor, like doctor Finnancy like yeah
for sure, yeah, and then yeah and then like what
I was thinking about common dog names. It's like Max,
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which has an ass on the end spot does not
pass the test. Lassie though, you know these standard names
and throwing a y on the end always a good idea.
So I had a kid growing up with me had
a wonderful, wonderful guy living with him named Buster. And
Buster was a Golden Retriever who always seemed like very
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good energy, very affable, but didn't quite like didn't quite
get what was going on, ye or Buster, And I
think it's because I think it's this poor guy spent
you know, over a decade not fucking knowing when people
were talking to him. Yeah, that would be difficult. I
think in my experience that's hard. All right, well, Bridget,
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we're going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners
about the plate of just hot garbage news that we
have for them today. Today's news cycle seems to have
been it seems like all all the news outlets were
just like turn it over to chat GPT. We're just
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gonna and tell them about like all the all the
buzzwords from the last year. So we have we have
the Taco Bell metaverse wedding what too? We have a
review of the Taco Bell Metaverse wedding, officiated by Cal Penn.
Of course it really can get mixed up in that.
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How did he get looped in? Definitely guy, it's you
know that sweet sweet marketing money. The Tiger King is
running for president from jail. There is a Sesame Street
NFT that just got dropped. They're a little little behind
the curve on that one. Admire that they're sticking to it.
They're still just like, no, we think people are gonna
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want an NFT of cookie Monster leaning kind of seductively
on an oven. He like seems like he's it seems
like a dating profile pick of Monster, which is interesting choice.
He owns the means of production. Man, He's showing people
that he can make his own. That's power, right. Yeah,
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So we'll talk about that and also the history of
why Sesame Street needs to resort to selling NFTs and
tickle Me's Elmo and all that shit. Before we get
to any of that stuff, Bridget, we do like to
ask our guests, what is something from your search history
that is revealing about who you are? Something from my
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search history that is revealing about who I am is
the phrase sexy boy. I'm recording a podcast about the
rivalry between Brett Harry Art and Shawn Michaels, and in
the script they were like, oh, Shaun Michaels, his walk
on song at the time was a song called sexy Boy.
It's all like, oh, I have to hear this song.
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So that was one of the last things I googled
was to hear Sean Michaels is walk on song sexy Boy, which,
by the way, if you, if you, I recommend googling
it and listening to it because it's pretty good. But yeah,
so that was what he walked out onto the stage too,
is it bo I? They? No, this was the nineties,
this was boy. We didn't know. Only Big Boy from
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Outcasts knew that you could spell your name spell the
word boy that way. Yeah, that's right. Wow, so sexy boy.
The first Google result when you just put the words
sexy boy into Google is the Shawn Michaels intro music.
But it's not the first image result. I'll tell you
that much, folks. Is it a sexy boy? It's a
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lot of sexy boys, a lot of ripped six pack abs,
one in which yeah, I don't even want to describe
what's happening, and that one. Since we're an audio show,
I think it's I think it's necessary to tell the
Zeit gang that Bridget and I can see Jack's furrowed brow.
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What do you do it? Are you like trying to
count apps? What's going on? How many apps are supposed
to be on a Sexy Boy? Yeah? A lot. It's
a lot to take in this this search history, but
that thank you so much for sharing with it. I
actually don't know that song. I never got into the
whole ww FW. Like I was super into it for
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a couple months when I was like five, when like
whole Coogan Andre the Giant, and then just like fell
out of love with it. I think I discovered like
playing guns instead of playing wrestling, and like just moved
on to some other toxic little boy bullshit. I think ramp.
My dad saw Rambo and described it to me, and
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I was like, well, this is my new personality. Yeah.
I was so influenced by Sylvester Stallone and like his
whole thing is like haunted, scarred, damaged, like you know,
can barely communicate because he's like holding in so much
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pain and just like so thoroughly toxic with his inability
to talk about his pain, to access his own pain.
As identified with this as a child. Was a child
because Rocky and Rambo, Like, for whatever reason, I was like, yes,
take me more. Yeah, Like I fantasized about getting beat
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up instead of beating people up because Rocky. That was
like the majority of what Rocky was was him just
getting the shit beat out of him. I was like, man,
that guy can take a punch. I wish I could
take a punch like that. I thought, look like Bridget.
When you said sexy boy, I immediately thought of the
song by the French Air Air. Yeah. I was like,
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that's it. I'm still relevant. I got my finger on
a pulse or whatever. How weird would it be if
a wrestler in the nineties his walk on song was
air going by air like. He's a real, like high brow.
He's cultivating a vibe here. Okay, okay, playing Moon Safari.
It's a great idea. Somebody should just have be avant
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garde wrestler just the most hate it. They really wanted
to create a villain that America would hate. Super metrosexual. Yeah,
just just Artie, just Artie. You know what is something
Bridget that you think is overrated? Something that I think
is overrated is it's very specific and perhaps a little
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bit niche. I was in Vegas. I just came back
from Vegas for podcast Movement Evolutions, and while I was there,
I learned that I didn't know that. I don't know
how I didn't know this, But did you know that
Elon Musk's boring company has hollowed out part of the
ground under Las Vegas to make what it's called the
Vegas Loops like hyperloop. So this is this is where
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the confusion came from. On my part. I was thinking
hyper loop, like that super fast underground thing, which like
you know, like I'm no expert, but it sounded I
was interested to see it. So we've been sold on
hyper loop, which does sound kind of cool. This what
actually exists is Vegas Loop, which is so much fucking worse.
It is whatever you're thinking. It is so much less cool,
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and it's underground and it's just this underground road under
part of Las Vegas where Tesla's drives and so it's
essentially just like a fleet of a fleet of Tesla's
driven by humans that drives underground goes about thirty to
forty miles an hour. It doesn't go it doesn't go
wildly fast. And that's the whole thing. When you go down,
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you think it's gonna be cool, because it's kind of
like when do you to board those Version America flights
where they'd have the lights, they have the lights, they
have the lights, they've got some lights, they've got some music,
and you think like, oh, I'm back to be whisked
away on this like futuristic loop. It's just a dude
driving a Tesla. Like that's the whole thing. Subway system
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with tesla's instead of trains. Uh yeah, pretty much, pretty much.
And the whole time I was just like, this was
this is the whole thing. It's essentially the same thing
that happens above ground, but underground for some reason, Like
I can't understand why it's supposed to be better to
be underground. I can't. I can't get it. Anyway, very
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overrated it was. It just was really whacked, Like it
just wasn't cool because they talked about this a lot.
I remember him talking a big game and then I
had lumped this into yet another one of the things
that he talked a lot about, and it sucked and
it turns out that he did or actually didn't happen,
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And it turns out it did happen, and it sucked,
So that that is actually news to me. Wait, do
a lot of people use it? I don't think so.
Everybody who I saw was like interested in the novelty
as I was. I don't think it's something that people
are using for their general transportation means in Vegas. I
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could be wrong, so don't trust it, Like I don't
yea that he is doing the work to make sure
it is safe and not going to collapse in on itself. Personally, Yeah,
I did have a couple of questions because like if
you were if you had a disability and you had
a wheelchair or a mobility device, it's not clear to me,
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like like you can't really stop, but the people are
really the people driving are very invested in like keeping
keeping it going. So if you had a luggage or something,
it wasn't clear to me what would happen. So certainly
it's the kind I'm to say it worked about as
well as an underground driving sits stem designed by Elon Musk,
exactly what you think it would be. It is, like, yeah,
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it's designed as about as well as Elon Musk as
you would imagine Elon must have four to thirty pm
on a Friday energy, right, yes, exactly? What is something
you think is underrated? Something I think it's underrated? Is
this is going to be controversial? Checking your luggage when
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you're flying, I usually carry on. I checked had a
bunch of bags, so I checked them all and I
don't know what, I've been avoiding this whole time. Like
it it went fine. It was nice to not have
to I had a connection, so it was nice to
not have to schlept bags from here to there. This
whole time, I've been crapping on people who aren't able
to get their stuff into a carry on. I think
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I'm I think I'm check bags for life. Now. It's
it's really hit or miss. It's when when it doesn't
go well, that's like they lose the bag, the bag
takes an hour to arrive, as it did on my
last flight that I took where we checked a bag.
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It's it's a bummer. It's real. It's really tough to
just be like kind of waiting there with everybody that
you were just on the plane with and never wanted
to see again. One yeah, right, right right, You're like,
I'm standing next to this this guy who is a
way too open with his feet as well, take my
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shoes off again? Yeah, let me learn more about you, bro.
What kind of bag do you store your socks in?
Because I think you just have the one pair. But also,
like I gotta say I'm with bridget on this some
team bridget On on the checking bags when it works out,
because I'm I'm a sucker, and I love that moment.
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For me, it always feels like the climactic moment of
a rom com, you know, when I see my bag
again and I'm like, oh, we've been you know, we've
been hundreds of miles away and here you are coming
towards me, and I know it's you. I knew from
the first, you know what I mean, Like, you know,
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I'm like hugging the bag and yeah, yeah, I don't
know anthropomorphizing. Maybe I don't think my bag cares about
me the way I care about Don't be so hard
on yourself. Don't say that then you do you do
you guys? Tie a little ribbon? Do you have? What's
your How do you know it at first sight? Because
bags are I do feel like bags have evolved, like
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the way that nature keeps evolving into crabs, like animals
keep evolving into crabs. I feel like all bags have
evolved into the same, like black, gray, hard bodied, rectangular
suitcase that looks like it could have been made by
you know, one of the three internet bag companies. Do
you guys have a little little piece of spirit, little
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piece of as on there I do. I have very
distinctive stickers, So I usually travel with two bags. One
is like very distinctive, no one whatever mistake it for theirs.
It's like bright orange, definitely mine. The other is the
classic black Oway bag, which I think I did get
for free from for like making a podcast. Add like
everybody has, well, everybody who had a podcast got that bag.
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We all had podcasts, So everybody has that bag now.
And it's a good bag. It's durable. I've had it
for years and like, like truly it is like the
day you start a podcast that shows up at your
house with your microphone. But so I have to have
all kinds of distinctive stickers on it, right because there
are so many of those bags. And I also to
that question, I I like to have, like I have
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no stickers on a car because I feel like that's
uh presumptuous. Somehow people are already driving. They don't want
to have to learn more about me. I'll just use
my turn signals and be quiet. But but like, like
with the bag, especially because they're relatively ubiquitous and I'm
partially colored blind, I have a bunch of like just
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travel stickers, the ones they do from when you check
a bag and I just haven't haven't cleaned it, So
I'm always thinking, oh, yeah, there's the one, the beat up,
shitty one. I knew you from the first Welcome back.
But you know, but I think it is smart when
people have you know, sometimes people make a statement. Everybody
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makes a statement right at different times. And I kind
of love seeing weird bags in the baggage claim. You know,
I'm like, oh, this guy either is super into snowboarding
or maybe it's a cello right. One thing I do
know is he has very specific views on you know,
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to bet back in the nineties. Sure from is like
free to bet thing. I think that's cool. I think
that's cool. And if you check a bag, like to
your point, Bridget, you can especially if you have a
connecting flight. It's like the logistics is just sort of magical.
I can never do that. I could never figure out
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how to follow every you know, watch every falling sparrow
from like one airplane to the next. But it's oppressive. Yeah, Ben,
to your point about that you don't put stickers on
your cars, do you ever see one of those cars
that just has way too many stickers on it? Where
it's like you are trying to tell out way too
many things, even if there are things that I like
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or agree with. At a certain point, it's like it
makes you're advertising too much to the world, even if
it's things that I'm aligned with us too much. Yeah, yeah,
it's too much. And they're always like usually include get
off my ass, And it's like, will you clearly want
me somewhere close to you so that I can read
the dissertation that you've put together. Those stickers, the bumper
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stickers are like, so, I don't know. They do not
have affect industry wide fact checker, I will say, because
there are quotes attributed to Einstein that I'm pretty sure
are like van Halen lyrics or something. You know, what,
what do you guys think about vanity plates? Oh? I
used to have one. What you're saying said love This
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is so cheesy. It said love to teach, because I
was a teacher at the time and I really did
love to teach. I think, yeah, that's a good one.
That's a good I like the ones where you know,
I'm I'm never going to condone being high in traffic.
So for the purposes of this story, I was writing shotgun,
and I got to the point where I thought regular
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license plates were vanity plates that I just smart enough
to understand. Yeah, I was like, H four, no, no, no,
keep following that guy. I gotta write this down. Follow
that man. Decode. Also, there was a stunt that I
don't know if it's been replicated widely, but it's an
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interesting thought, is that there was a study that the
people who were most likely to engage in road rage
incidents were It had nothing to do with like, you know,
so some of the things that you might have liked
with whether they were in a pickup truck or like
a different kind of truck, which would have been my
first guess. It was actually people who had bumper stickers
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were like that was the only statistically significant differentiator between
like how likely they were to get into a road
rage incident, and like, I think the theory was that
if you have bumper stickers, you view your car as
like an extension of your personhood more than anything else,
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and so like you view it as a personal insult
if you're cut off, as opposed to just a thing
that happens to everyone. You know, Wow, this is like
one of the reasons why I don't drive is because
I feel like I would be a road rage person.
Like I drive a little bit, but I really don't
drive a lot. Uh when I'm behind the wheel, Like
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if somebody is trying to murder, like kind of box
me out to merge, I will kill us both, Like
I don't care, like we will die in this car. Yeah,
I get. I believe that I believe the bumper sticker
to road rage correlation. Yeah, it's like you probably feel
much more like this is my this car is my
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property and an extension of me, and I will protect it,
which I hate to say. It's like an instinct that
I get. And I wonder if they I've never had
a bumper sticker, but I do wonder if when you
have a bumper sticker, you start assuming people are driving
a certain way around you based on You're defensive. You're like, oh,
you don't like Einstein. You don't believe that I ran
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a half marathon, like I'm gonna take this to the death.
You're you're you're like laying on your horn and to yourself,
you're just muttering, Well, this guy doesn't fucking coexist. That's right,
you know. I h I see it and this is
just further cementing my no bumper stickers on my car situation.
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You know, it's it's great, You're right, though, it's it's
a lot. I think people always want to sort of
tell a story, right, because we are the stories we
tell ourselves. But to you guys, point how many should
there be a limit? Should somebody like right right to
our local representatives and say, hey, I know there's a
lot of stuff going on, but like three bumper stickers, max,
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you know, like let's bring people together. I don't know,
I don't know. I believe there should be a limit
on bumper stickers. And also signs in your yard. Like again,
even even if it signs of things that I agree with,
it's like, we get it. Three is plenty three. You
don't need you need, you don't need to like, let's
just keep it reasonable. Three. It's a diminishing return exactly.
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And some people like try to build, Like there's houses
that are like we do this this week and we're
gonna like, I don't know, it's it reminds me of
like those like mini library things that I think are cool.
But I think a lot of people are like this
is how we build community. And it's like, well, you're
not really interacting with anyone. Feels like yeah, yeah, I
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don't know. I'm glad those exist. I just don't know
that they're the answer. This just a Jack o'bride library hater.
I told you that was an offline thought. I'm still workshopping,
so I mean, Jack, it's not like you ever see
like crowds of people hanging around a free little library,
you know, talking about the buck We have one like
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right next like in between our neighbor's house and our house,
and it's yeah, you don't you don't see people like
hang out there, but you see people like walk up
by themselves. It gets a lot more traffic than I
would have expected. It's pretty, it's definitely useful. It's just, yeah,
people don't hang together at the at the free yard library.
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It's a free yard library we got. I do want
to give a quick shout out not to Durellis here
in Atlanta and activists. Artist friend of mine named Aileen
Lloyd has created on the heels of the book banning
stuff that's happening around the country, has created a what
what she's calling a little contentious free library, which is
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all banned books like that. Yeah, yeah, she's way cooler
than me. But but yeah, it's like, you know, it's
it's a real problem. If you're preventing people from being
able to encounter knowledge, you know, at a at a
formative age, then that, I don't know, Yeah, different might
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different in the future. That might be the like we'll
all have to have little libraries where we give out
books that are banned elsewhere because yeah, their schools aren't
doing it in some states. So all right, let's take
a quick break and we'll come back and get into
the Taco Bell metaverse wedding. And we're back, and Taco
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Bell is in the metaverse. I don't know this. So
Taco Bell held a contest where the winner, yes, the winner,
got to have their wedding in a digital Taco Bell
in the metaverse. That was what you want. That feels
like a punishment to me. But the ceremony happened at
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the end of last March. But people who attended, just
I don't know, broke their media embargo. I don't know.
And it's just truly, I don't know that this story
made me feel as empty as any story we've covered
in a long time. But I did have to talk
about it. So the bride and grooms avatars faced each
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other across a sacred fire. It was so the wedding
was a traditional Indian ceremony other than the fact that
it was in a taco bell In the metaverse, it
was hosted by Calpen. The bride and grooms avatars faced
each other across a sacred fire made of taco bells
signature fire sauce. See, okay, okay, all right, you're on board. No,
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I look, I get it. Wait a second, I feel like, yeah,
I'm like, oh, okay, now I'm back in. I didn't
know it was Signature fire sauce. But I gotta be honest.
This um is gross, and I wish everybody like marriage
is tough, you know what I mean, Like, I wish
everybody the best of success finding your person. You know,
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it's like even better than that roten Com moment with
your bag at baggage Claim, right, It's like that forever
and that's really noble and cool, and that is, for
most people, the height of romantic luck. So you're saying
this is even more than seeing your bag. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, okay, okay,
we're we're very statement. But okay, Bridget and I are
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being paid by big checked bag, I guess right. But okay,
there's like again, you know, a good friend of mine,
actually my best friend, uh is, he's getting married pretty soon,
and he was telling me all all like how stressful
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it is and how messed up in crazy planning this
thing gets. And so he and his partner they have
decided to elope, which I think is cool, you know,
cut past the nonsense and then make it their own.
So maybe for this couple it's their dreaming thing. Maybe
they were like, hey, we met it a Taco bell
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or like you know the metaverse. Yeah, yeah, Gordon front
wraps are really the glue of our partnership. My problem
here is not the Taco bell theming I will say
that they but the official Taco bell, theming, the fact
that it is. I don't know, I just feel bad
for like, if you want to diminish the amount of
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stress associated with an event, adding a corporate sponsor who
has notes on everything, like, it just seems like not
the not the way to go. I mean, I think
like the idea idealized version that like they pitched when
Taco Bell, you know, signed onto this idea and contest
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is probably that it's like, Yeah, they just start expressing
their love and they're two couple weirdos who just love
Taco Bell. But in practice, for anyone who has been
involved with sponsored content and trying to get any amount
of art through past past corporate sponsors who have notes,
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I just like, I don't know, it seems seems difficult.
I also like the fact that they keep saying that
they want a contest to become the first people married
at a Taco Bell in the metaverse, as though this
is going to be an ongoing thing that we'll be
looking back on them as the fucking George Washington's of
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this thing that we all then went on to do
as a people. Yeah, I mean people do have like
really strong feelings about Taco Bell. Like I have no
trouble believing that this couple maybe met in a Taco
Bell and Taco Bell was a big part of their relationship.
And I didn't have Taco Bell for the first time
until like five years ago, so I am not in
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that particular group. But yeah, we weren't allowed to eat
it when I was growing up like a weird a
weird role my mom had no Taco Bell, no mountain dew,
but all the other stuff was fine. Yeah, all fine.
I don't know why she just like had a thing
well for mountain dew. She said it was because this
is this is her words, not mine. It was quote
for white trash. We weren't allowed to drink. I think
(32:11):
Taco Bell might have been in the mix as well.
My family didn't encourage it. I will say that I
never went out to dinner with my family to Taco
Bell necessarily, but you know, I got it like after
you know, a game or something like if I you know,
we we just it was the thing that was open
that we could like scarf down in the fifteen minutes
(32:34):
we had and yeah, it's such perfect point, just like
so delicious. I don't know. They lit up something in
my brain that I have been unable to increase from there.
And the same is true of mountain dew. When I
lived in Kentucky, I became addicted to mountain dew and
(32:55):
have never been able to fully like I don't I
don't go frequently because of or like drink mountain dew
frequently because for self care reasons, because like if I
have a twelfth pack of mountain dew at my house.
I'm not going to be able to not drink at all,
But what if you could do it in the metaverse?
Brow Now we're talking be thank you. No, that's mountain
(33:19):
dew was originally slang for moonshine. That's the etymology of it. Yeah,
I haven't tried it, but I do agree with your
mom Bridget. Oh my god, actually onto something but that like, wow,
you've never tried I've never tried it. I've tried the
red kind, but I've never had regular mountain deergular, you
(33:42):
get the you get the overall. Yeah, wait, Ben, have
you did you say you've never tried it? M I've
never tried mountain dew. I probably this is like asking
someone if they've always been vegan. There was probably something
in the drinks. But anytime there was a mountain dew
situation Asian available, there was some other soda or something
(34:04):
to drink. So I would end up I would end
up going with that. And also growing up, some of
my relatives I didn't care for we're into mountain dew.
There was super into mountain dew, and I would look
at them and I would be like, better you than
me my friends. You know, so like, okay, but Taco
Bell though the appeal, the late night appeal back in
(34:26):
the day, you know, you got like twelve eighteen bucks.
You're high in a car following another car because you
think it's a vanity license flight. They grow into a
Taco Bell. Yeah, and then you're like, I'm living like
I am the fucking emperor of bad decisions. You know
what two case ideas grow into euros yo, you know yeah,
(34:50):
oh man, cheesy Gordia crunch I just discussed like Miles,
I think turned me onto it. Like I loved Taco
Bell and I wasn't even getting the best stuff growing up.
What's the good order? I mean, cheesy gord ud casady
I've always had. And then I like to get a
grilled stuffed chicken burrito with That's the healthy part of
(35:10):
my order. Grilled stuff chicken burrito extra grill, like put
it on the grill for a little extra time if
we don't mind. But something you could ask for that, yeah,
well done, Yeah you brito, well done. But then I'll
freelance and then of course with the biggest Baja blast
that they will allow me to carry out. You're in
(35:30):
deep water my friends, Like, like, I had no idea
this was a thing. So wait though, I get like
once a year at this point. But and I don't
tell my kids or my wife. Yeah, it's just like
a dark trip to under start of the night. I
turn my headlights off, dark night of the soul. Oh,
(35:53):
I got bridgie. He's got like a fake mustache on.
So wait though, wait though a wedding in the metaverse,
you gotta tell us these uh, these folks get married.
They were in person, right, This wasn't like a remote
like they were together. They kissed, They kissed each other's
(36:16):
faces like real people in love and all that stuff,
which is all like that almost makes it because then
you're like, oh, so they are really like married now,
like this was really their wedding, because like the picture
that you see of it is like two people deeply
in love kissing one another and then they're like weird
(36:37):
avatars and a purple like on a purple throne, like
kissing each other above. But so the vows were written
by chat GPT, so like the story seems like it's
being written by chat GPT because just like all the
stupidest buzzwords coming together here the vows were written by
chat GPT. It was within a video game, so it
(36:58):
wasn't even really the metaverse. But like, I don't know
how to feel about that, Like I'm not I'm no
metaverse snobs. So if they want to do it in
de CenTra Land the video game, it just seems like
it was a poorly orchestrated publicity stunt by Taco Bell,
which has to hurt a little bit when like the
big viral marketing campaign that is sponsoring your wedding, like
(37:21):
doesn't even put it in the real metaverse. But I don't,
I don't give a shit. But if they pay for
the wedding though, I mean, at that point, it's just
like yeah, absolutely, like that's that's great. However, but like
also the wedding in the metaverse, so like not really
sure did they I guess this is like I'm sort
of sort of breaking my brain. Did they pay for
a ceremony? I RL? Or only within the metaverse? Also
(37:44):
does a Taco Bell within the metaverse have employees? Like
I have a lot of questions, Yeah, yeah, I think
they have employees. One thing that we do know for
sure is that and this is my favorite point because
it's like you suspect, Okay, the core brand is going
to have some notes and ideas that they're gonna want
to implemented. The one place we got to see this
(38:05):
is that in addition to having cal Penn host their wedding,
they also had a twitch streamer like he who was
narrating the whole thing to the point that the guests
of the wedding couldn't hear what was happening. He a
play by play, yes, like a play by play, but
not even like he was just a twitch streamer. They
(38:28):
were like, here, do your thing, like had no relation
to the couple. So he's just like over the top,
keeps singing. No one so this is no one could
hear what was going on because the twitch streamer Taco
Bell hired kept singing about Taco Bell throughout the ceremony.
Legion except the O in legion is a que for
(38:51):
probably Q and on reasons but I have no idea
spoke through every minute of the ceremony. He shouted out
his followers and made up little songs proclaim his love
for Taco Bell as he showed off his avatar's various
outfits during the wedding. Wow he sounds like a rowdy wedding.
Guess that you have to throw out of your wedding
(39:11):
because they've had one too many. But like during the ceremony,
it's like, how at the ceremony? How can I make
this wedding about me? He said, you know which that
happens that he heard war stories. I you know what,
I don't want to I've never met these folks. Wish
them the best again. Yeah, at the top them, it's
(39:35):
just we live in Hell, all of us, and this
is amazing. And Hell is a combination Taco Bell, the
metaverse wedding chapel. Yeah, oh my gosh, what other things
you're going to happen in the metaverse? What other is
Taco Bell gonna have a funeral contest next? Like? Are
(39:56):
they gonna have a kincinera? Like, what's what's going on?
Who would? Who would think this is a good idea?
I want to meet the couple that steps up and
has their divorce in the metaverse. Yeah, like if you're
to be about that life, Yeah, Like they didn't look
at the by laws in the entirety of their wedding,
including like the consummation. Everything has to happen in the metaverse,
(40:18):
Oh my god, what if they kill Bell present narrating
all of the whole thing. Wait wait, wait though, wait
less less less question. What if what if there is
something I think you're onto someone with the fine print?
What if there is something where they cannot get divorced?
And less Taco Bell signs off right, Taco Bell like,
(40:40):
we don't love this for our Yeah, I wouldn't be
surprised if it was in the contract. I'd be surprised
if they upheld it if, like, I'm sure they put
it in the contract, being like, because now this is
gonna be America's sweethearts. Everyone's going to be paying attention
to the the first couple to get married in a
metaverse Taco Bell. And then now that it has happened,
(41:02):
and everyone's just like, oh my god, we live in hell,
they're probably like, never mind, you guys, do your thing.
But yeah, I'm sure the contract gives gives them rights
to the first two offspring from the children, you know,
or front from the wet from the marriage. All right,
so let's take a quick break and then we'll talk
(41:23):
about more insane news. All right, Big news, Uh, we're back,
Big News. Tiger King Joe exotic guy is running for
president from jail to remind you if you didn't watch
(41:47):
the whole thing or manage to like strategically forget that
you watched it, that part of the pandemic. Currently serving
twenty one year federal sentence for taking out a hit
on his rival and also for unlawfully killing at least
five tigers because he's a bad person. Yeah, I don't know.
(42:10):
The story is just that we talked about fractals yesterday
with our guest Baritunde Thurston, and like the idea of
like small patterns that like explode and like turn your
whole society into the thing that is happening at the
smaller level. And like this way in which I and
I don't know which came first, but like toxic narcissism,
(42:34):
like debilitating narcissism, like people just have their mind and
life taken over by a narcissistic personality disorder being the
cheat code to get famous. This just seems to be
like another example of that replicating itself. And I don't
(42:55):
know if it's just the overall conditions of social media
and the attention economy and all of that just leading
to that but it does seem like this overall sickness
we have as a civilization. It's like results in a
world where Joe Exotic is still a celebrity. Hey, George
(43:16):
Santos is running too, You know what I mean, they
look at me. Casino of social media is in full effect.
I imagine, I imagine Jack, that you are very divided.
Which of these two candidates most deserves your vote? Wait,
George Santos is running for president? Well, I mean unless
he's lying about it. Yeah, I mean that's such a
(43:41):
non sequitor. But the weirdest lie that he told is
that he was one of the producers on the Broadway
adaptation of Spider Man Turn Out the Dark. Yeah, so
it also was like what like, yeah, that production was
like a disaster. People got hurt. I think somebody got,
like one of the actors got very hurt. Why wout
you want to Why would you want to be like, Oh, yeah,
(44:01):
I was part of that production. I produced that Actually,
Like what, like, what a weird thing to lie about? Yeah? Oh,
I'm sorry. That's his genius. Yeah, he picks very specific
things that nobody else would lie about. Like he didn't
say he was on he said he was on Burut
College's volleyball team, which they don't have a volleyball team,
(44:23):
and like New York is not known for its volleyball.
So he like gets in these like little like you know,
corners where nobody would even think to look, and lies
about that. I apologize. Accuracy is important he has he's
running for reelection. I don't know if he's quite president,
(44:45):
just get elections. Well, you know, he knows how to
say in the new campaign. Yeah, but I I mean,
but he's no, he's no tiger king. I saw tiger
kings like most of us during the pandemic, right, and uh,
And I don't understand a lot of quote unquote reality television,
(45:06):
but I fucking love tigers, you know, I love animals
like that. So I'm like, oh, let's see what's happening.
I was thoroughly unprepared. It was like a later season
of Walking Dead where zombies occasionally show up and it's
mostly just regular people who are bad at communicating. And
I'm like, why don't you change the title of this
(45:27):
to like a guy? There are also, hey, Ben, there
are also some tigers in here occasionally, right, Like, yeah,
tiger content severely lacking and he's still locked up for
how long this guy Joe twenty something years, twenty one years,
so like well passed to the end of his first term.
(45:47):
I will say, yeah, he's playing to ask Liz Cheney
to be his running mate. He's also like running on
the like he's saying that, like one of his big
platforms is corruption in the Partment of Justice, which is real,
like and Trump is hitting on that too. The Department
of Justice is a complete shit show and like one
(46:09):
of the most toxic, like just all the FBI, like
all these things that Trump gets to be the person
who like points out it's very frustrating, but he at
least knows how to imitate the parts of I think
he kind of got forced into focusing on Department of
Justice because he is in jail and convicted of attempted murder.
(46:31):
But can you do that? Can you? Can you become
when you're yeah, yeah, I believe it's constitutionally permitted. I'm
going to write that down in my nose. Wasn't he
angling to get a pardon from Trump? Like he was
like yeah, he was like waiting waiting on the call
before Trump left office. I think that was like a
(46:53):
big part of season two or for some reason, I
have like some memory of him like waiting on a
pardon from Trump. I don't think I watched season two.
If I did, I'm very disappointed in myself. But yeah,
I remember there being like a big thing where he
was like putting all his chips on Trump was going
to pardon him, and then it didn't happen. Yeah, the
(47:14):
Tiger King part of the pandemic was really weird when
we were all just like glued to it. Yeah, our
collective fever dream, you know, when when everybody was incredibly
afraid with good reason. But then also, yeah, you're right,
because you're right. I remember these conversations I would have
(47:35):
was strangers, you know, we're all like, we're all like
massed up, so everything has like this tension because they're
looking at each other's eyes, you know. Yeah, and uh,
and then you would have these covers and Tiger King
got mentioned, yeah in in these just very short right. Well,
I mean I'm from Atlanta. We all talking to each
(47:56):
other constantly, you know, in any line or elevator. But
yet Tiger King and you would pointed out off air
Jack he's running as a libertarian. Yeah, libertarian with a
campaign of shutting down the IRS, assassinating Putin, and making
undocumented migrants pay fifty dollars of months to avoid deportation,
(48:17):
which is an idea he says he got from Billy's.
But real winner, this guy assassinating Putin. It's funny. They're like, so,
but you're you're saying you're gonna kill He's like, yep,
you quote that wherever you want. Well, does he think
this CIA is going to read that and go, oh shit,
lightbulb moment will all right, let's talk about Sesame Street
(48:42):
NFT is because the NFT market is exploding right now,
and we this is another edition of stock Corner Jack
stock Corner. So the NFT market is. I'm shocked that
there are still NFTs, but uh, you know, I guess
these things take a while to develop. And there is
(49:03):
a new sixty dollars cookie Monster NFT, the first of
a series of official Sesame Street team to NFTs, brought
to you by the letters W, T and F. These
are just hitty JPEGs, like they are just Yeah, I
don't know, I don't even know what to say about this.
(49:27):
Did they just announced this? Yeah, they just announced this.
I feel like, if they'd announced this last year, I
might be like, perfect sense, we wouldn't have had to
talk about it at all. I would say that, but
I would be at least like, Okay, it's kind of
in the zeguy. Sure, yeah. But so people are disappointed
in this and they're they're like, but Sesame Street is
(49:50):
the educational show for everyone. Why would you be charging
money for a jpeg? Like, why would you be making
a product that is the equivalent of like seventy dollars
bottled water? You know, it's just like dumb. Nobody needs
it and what what are you doing? So our writer
(50:10):
Jam did kind of a deep dive into the history
of funding Sesame Street, because when it was created, it
was that this idea that like we will publicly fund PBS,
Sesame Street will air on PBS and be like get
half of its budget from public funding. And then Nixon
(50:31):
came into the White House and was immediately he was like,
I love Sesame Street, but I can't stomach the government
funding a single dollar of this, and you know, just
attacked public PBS essentially, and they've just been having to
(50:52):
like struggle and grind to just get fund enough money
to keep the show afloat all of the years, you know,
they've had to like lobby, they've had to like do
DoorDash commercials. There was a Sesame Street door Dash commercial
in the Super Bowl a couple years ago that people
were like, guys, door Dash is not a good company
(51:16):
for you to be hanging out with, watching watching your
kids hang out with like bad I don't know, like
smoke cigarettes or something. It's like, why is Big Bird
doing hanging out with DoorDash executives. But it's been Yeah,
it's just been violating its ethical ideals for since the start,
(51:37):
because the Republican Party, like starting with Nixon, just has
had its crosshairs on Sesame Street because not just because
like it's not you know, the when it started, the
show's budget was eight million dollars, so it's not like
this massive government expenditure. But I think what it represents
to the Republican Party is like something and great that
(52:01):
was openly created from public funding and like a great
work of art that was like openly you know, it's
just like too much of a success. And so ever
since an extent, like Nuke Game, Rich also like got
in on it, and like in the nineties, was like,
we shouldn't be giving them any money because they sold
tickle me elmos so they can fund their budget as
(52:23):
much as they want, which just yeah, it's completely misguided.
And but but I think they're afraid of what Sesame
Street represents. And in this country, like just any beacon
of socialism is, you know, the country is allergic too
coming for libraries. Yeahs have been. Yeah, libraries and Sesame
(52:47):
Street the number one evils that are the threat America. Yeah. Sure,
somebody called the Tiger Gang. Let them know the real enemy, right, Uh,
But I like, Okay, so this is the thing. Sesame
Street is a wholesome kind of connecting point for a
lot of people. It's difficult to look at something like
(53:10):
that and vilify it. And I will say, this is
an opportunity for me to reference a weird Nixon fact
bridget Jack Psyching. I recently learned that Richard Nixon genuinely said,
I woten thought that if they're a bit of a
(53:32):
good rap group around in those days, I might have
chosen a career in music instead of politics. What. Yes,
he was a rap fan. He said that, you know,
he almost he heavily implies that he would have gone
into music instead of politics. I don't know what he
(53:53):
was listening to, but this was found in a nineteen
ninety seven tour through the Nixon Presidential Library. So was
it like something he said at the end when like
just random neurons were firing off in his dying brain.
Because it feels like he lasted long like that, we
(54:13):
just kind of decided that he wasn't going to be
an ex president that people paid attention to. But like
there's a photograph that always blows my mind of Nixon
and RoboCop like at the same event. Yeah, because they
were at like some boys and girls club event together,
Like it just somebody dressed as RoboCop, not the real
(54:34):
RoboCop everyone from the documentary. But like it seems like,
well that can't be because those like RoboCop is from
a different time period than Nixon. But he was still
around and out there and just being like I didn't
do anything wrong. I got screwed, Like yeah, yeah, it
was definitely in a big former president energy, you say,
(54:57):
you know I, oh, yeah, well I could have also
in awesome music. But you know, just you know, it's
not my fault. It's the world's fault. So I am
not a fan of Nixon. To be absolutely transparent about it,
it does not surprise me that he and his ilk
object to free education an inequitable, wholesome way. But also
(55:19):
NFTs are stupid. Can I say that one show? Okay,
absolutely not, because zeke cooin is still coming. We're still
developing it. It will be released. We're targeting a Spring
twenty twenty six launch for ze coin. It just takes
a lot. We just have a lot of notes on
the design of the JPEG, the pixel placements. Yeah, no,
(55:41):
of course, I mean Bridge, you know more about this
than I do. So, like, what's our NFTs? Are they
a GRIFFT? Is this something? Total scam? Yeah, total complete scam.
It's funny. I was at south By Southwest this time
last year and everything was an FT, this crypto that
that was the thing. And I'm not at south By
(56:03):
right now, but I've lots of friends who are and
I'm hearing that that this is like NFTs who we
don't know her, Like the quickly everybody was like maybe
not and how like it was people had like gone
all in on it just a year ago and today
it's like not a thing. Anymore a total scam. It
breaks my heart that Sesame Street has to resort to
(56:25):
and also resort to it and get there kind of late.
Like again, like if this has been announced last year,
I might have been like, all right, but yeah, been
to your point about the way that public television, particularly
for children, has been like scrutinized and attacked. You know,
you were like, oh, it's very wholesome. You know, they
really what could they find to be upset about the
(56:47):
way that folks on the right are trying to politicize
Sesame Street, to target it, to be like this is
why we need to defund it. I remember when Big
Bird got quote unquote got the COVID shot and they
were like, oh, like this is so political, and I
have to say I respected sesame Streets a stance of
being like, nope, we're just you know, amplifying what the
(57:07):
American Association of Pediatrics has said. It's good for kids,
and so that's what we're gonna do. The way that
Republicans continue to try to target and scrutinize and weaponize
Sesame Street precisely because it is a source of kind
of wholesome often like identity based education, for children. I
think it's really disgusting and it's sad then that they
have to resort to what is just a scam Like
(57:30):
NFTs are not a good investment, It is not a
good use of anyone's money. It just makes me, it
breaks my heart, and I think it really is a
testament to the fact that we do live in this
like new tech hell I guess, like like a tech
hellscape where even Sesame Street has to go the NFT route,
you know. Yeah, but Cookie Monster does look like he
(57:51):
wants to fuck me, right, Like that's what's happening, and
that's like, that's yeah, clearly they're like, maybe you're interested
in NFTs now. Button isn't like an NFT of Cookie
Monsters hinge profile exactly either way, Jack, you're not gonna
(58:11):
get all the way through, Like you're not even gonna
get through the first thirty minutes. So whatever, you guys
watch on Netflix because Cookie Monsters got a vibe there,
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, have Flix and it's not
gonna be very chill. That's a cool timely reference, right, yeah,
Bridget very figure on the pulse, Yeah, Bridget, such a
pleasure having you as always Where can people find you,
(58:33):
follow you all that good stuff. Oh well, it's always
a pleasure to join the Viking. People can find me
on Instagram at bridget Marine DC, on Twitter at bridget Marine,
on TikTok at bridget pod makes pods. I think that's
what it is. Hey, I just started it, so forgive
me for how bad it is. You can listen to
my podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet, or
(58:54):
you can listen to my brand new podcast with next
chapter podcast called Beef, where we are getting into the
juiciest rivalries you've never heard of. Bret Hart or Bret
Hart and Shawn Michaels, Sylvester Stallone and John John Claude
van dam had a very interesting rivalry. If you're interested
in historical rivalries, check us out put on John Club
Van Damon who Stephen Sagal? Wait, No, I'm sorry, Wait
(59:16):
is it Stevens? Yeah? I think that's right. Step makes sense. Yeah,
they hated each other. Oh, that's right. And is there
a work of media that you've been enjoying? There is
a work of I guess I'll call it a work
of media. It's a little niche, but I had never
seen this video of Azalea Banks doing an impression of Ti.
(59:36):
It's so mean, but it's also the funniest thing I've
ever seen. Please look it up. Like I was dying
laughing at Azzalia Banks doing an impression of Tea Ben.
Where can people find you? Is there a work of
media you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me at
Ben Bulling Bowl I in on Instagram. You can find
me at Ben Bolling hsw on Twitter. Work of media
(01:00:01):
unrelated that I've been really enjoying. I got I got
super into just very low fi pov walking chilled music
tours on YouTube. So my my YouTube history is probably
quite boring right now because it's just the perfect eye
bleach of someone walking with very chilled music late at
(01:00:25):
night through very nice cities. It's delightful. I'll send it,
I'll send it. I'll send it to you guys. Yeah. Yeah,
you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien
tweet I've been enjoying Sana at Fruit Lover tweeted I'm
watching Nathan for you with my mom and she keeps
asking me what's wrong with this guy? It just feels
(01:00:48):
like exactly right parent response to Nathan. You can find
us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily
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Daily zey Guys dot com where we post our episode's done,
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that we talked about in today's episode as well. It's
(01:01:08):
a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, super
producer Justin is there a song that you think people
might enjoy? Yeah? The only way I can describe this
song is that it sounds like if someone smoked angel
dust and then freestyled over the Rugrats or Sesame Street.
(01:01:30):
I guess theme song in a traphouse basement. Okay, you
get in situations. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's very specific. But
I'm just calling it how I see it, full sits.
I think you'll agree with me. So this song is
called Jig a Dame by Maxe Cream and you can
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.