FaceTiming While Driving = LEGAL!? Working For Elon = DEADLY? 11.15.23

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season three one three,
Episode three of the Dailies Geistart production of iHeartRadio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
America's shared consciousness. It is Wednesday, November fifteenth, twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's November fifteenth? That's easy.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's National Education Support Professionals Day. Is National Raisin Brand Day,
National Spicy.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Hermit Cookie Day. I don't know what the fuck that is?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
National bunt cake Day. I know what that is? National
clean out Refrigerator Day, National Philanthropy Day in America, recycles Day,
or do they Because in La I see them putting
the recycling and the trash in the same truck and
it goes and I'm saying, well, I guess they separated
at some point. But that's where we are, Blake, Do
you did do any of those? Resonate with you?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah? Clean out your fridge Day, I think for me
is every single day.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I subscribe to forty six mule kit companies, so it's
a constant. It's a real mess.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
You always have a bag of rapidly spoiling spinach for
some reason in the back of here.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's a race against well, you already know what time
it is.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
My name is Miles Gray, aka the Blazer, Frenny Occasion,
the Lord of lankasham Yo boy Kusama, obviously, and you
heard me pull my guest host in. It's the Lord
of Chaos and so one of my favorite people, and
I believe one of your favorite people too. Please welcome
my guest host, Blake Wexler.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hey, thanks for having myles. This Islake Wexler aka I want.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
To blake free. I want to blake free. I want
to blake free from Jack's lies. He's so self said.
It's fine. I don't need him.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's great to be here. Thanks for letting co host.
Oh yeah, I'm like a lot of responsibility.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
No, no, not at all. No, no, not show. We
don't do anything. We're worthless. I just don't say that.
We're mere voicing job. We're mere voices. Were mere voices.
But yes, let's move on to our guest today. First
time guest, but someone I've definitely known about for some time.
I'm sure many people have as well. Not only is

(02:12):
this person a very talented author, they're also a comedian.
They've worked in tech. They gave us many memories throughout
twenty twenty on the social media's I think it's safe
to say that their debut memoir, Foolish is out now.
Because it is out now. That's why it is safe
to say, and they should pick it up. Please welcome,
And obviously I do want to give the sub head

(02:33):
to that title Foolish Tales of Assimilation, Determination and humiliation.
I think words many of us that listen to the
show can live by. Please welcome to the third chair,
Sarah Cooper.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Cooper, Oh my god, this is the best intro I've
ever got.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well make it easy.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
There is twenty five for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
We'll take that. There, we'll take that. We'll take that.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
The yelling, the jerseys in the background, it's really it's
a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, it's a lot going well, this is all the
rack of jerseys behind me is because I don't have
proper soundproofing. So this is kind of like baffling. And
it's also baffling to my partner. Why I have so
many jerseys as someone who's.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
On it is a cost efficient way of doing it,
is buying authentic jerseys instead of it's.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Just my padding. Yeah, there are my kids. I've had
these for so many years.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
You know what I mean showing off?

Speaker 1 (03:29):
No, I mean I do show off my new WU
Tang New York Knicks jersey, because yeah, I am proud.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Of that one that's in the front for a reason
you put that there.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Absolutely, absolutely I spent way too much money on it.
But anyway, Sarah, thank you so much for joining us.
I know you you've been you're traveling, You're all over
the place, so thank you for making the time for
stopping by. I really appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Oh, anytime, anytime for you.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Thank you. This is getting started so well. I feel
like we already know each other. And like, book, how's
that been putting out your first memore? Because this is
in your first book, right, this is this is something
you've done. This is just your first memoir.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, this is my first memoir. I had another book
called one Hundred Ticks to Appear Smart in Meetings, and
then I had another book called How to Be Successful
Without Hurting Men's Feelings, and then I had a few
other things I did. But this is the first one
with like words, lots of words, you know, and sentences
and like paragraphs and like chapters and stuff. So that

(04:24):
was like, yikes, you know.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
So you can't color in the images on this one
because that was no traditional like a traditional book.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, and they were going to have they were going
to have like a little section with like pictures and stuff,
and then I think we decided not to, so like
it doesn't even have that many pictures in it, to
be honest.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh wow, it's huge. Yeah, you are you on a
tour for it?

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Now? Is that why you're you're traveling?

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Or my tour kind of ended already? The book came
out in October, but I'm doing another event here in Boston,
so that's why I'm doing a little traveling. But you know,
I spent too much money on cloth this month, so
I was gonna I was going to take myself on
a trip to like London, and now I don't have
money for that. So now I just I'm in Boston

(05:08):
for two days. So instead of London, I'm in Boston
for two days in the middle of November.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
So that's it. Okay, at least you're in New England,
you know. Yeah, there's that. Boston is the London of
New England.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
What a good connection. Yeah, instead of England, I'm in
New England.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, do you do that? Thing like when you look
at all the clothes you bought that prevented you from
going London, and you look at them, You're like, that's London.
I'm looking at London right now. This like reminds you
when I would do shit like that by should I
didn't need And I'm like, oh, now I can't do
this other thing. I'm like this pair of soccer cleats
that I bought for I don't know why I haven't
played any year. Yeah, that's I think.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
The thing that kills me is when I spend a
lot of money on one outfit. Yeah, and I'm just
like I could have gotten eight outfits for this one outfit.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Yeah. The math is in mathing. I get it.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
For me.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's not travel, It's it's like medical expenses that I
forego because I'm like, oh, there's a pair of back
surgeries that I have on the ground that I went
on stock X and purchased something. So now I hear you,
yeah travel, Wait, you need back surgery, Blake, I am
currently you have.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Two You need a pair of back surgeries.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Yes, that's true to making the Beast with two backs.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yes, I'm getting a back production is what I'm getting.
Said too, and I'm told I only need one.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah. Yeah, Well it's good to know. Thank you for
being honest. I appreciate trance anytime your back. Yeah, like
we got back. We've got your bacs. Saya. We're gonna
get to know you even better. But first you got
to let people know what we're going to be talking
about today. Republicans got to talk about them. They're coping
with being wrong by being wronger. It sounds like they're

(06:43):
just doubling down on a bad hand. You hate to
see it, or maybe you love to see it, and
also find out our our laws aren't quite keeping up
with our driving habits, and we're gonna look at how
a law from about like twenty years old, laws are
about twenty years ago, haven't quite kept up with our
cell phone technologies, and how how people are not being
very good about being safe on the road. Truth Social

(07:04):
you hate to see it. They lost seventy three million
dollars since it launched, and just turns out as they
try and bring the company public, more information comes out
as part of the process of merging. So we benefit
from seeing just how with how the art of the
deal actually works, and maybe that Jeremy Renner has a
better app than even Donald Trump. Then we'll talk about SpaceX.

(07:26):
They're trying to launch a starship rocket again this week.
But there's a lot, a lot of safety violations that
have been going on SpaceX I had no idea about
that are very troubling. Even if you are an elon
stand they will probably not. But for those of us,
that aren't very troubling. And if we get time, we'll
talk about Andre three thousands, a new album that's coming

(07:48):
out Friday. Just drop out. We'll have time. Oh, we'll
make time. We'll make that's the lead story, even if
we scrap every other story we're going to talk about
before we do any of any of that. All of that, Sarah,
what is something from your search history that's revealing about
who you are?

Speaker 3 (08:04):
I was doing a deep dive on Suzanne Summers today, Okay, yeah, yeah,
And I don't know you all are probably too young
to remember Three's Company, but it was.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Hey about it.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
I agree. I agree with the sentiment.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Jack Tripper was my first first celebrity crush. Oh, John Ritterer. Yeah,
And anyway, Suzanne Summers she recently died. Yeah, I mean
she died I think a week ago, or no, a
month ago, a month ago October fifteenth, she died anyway,
So she wrote twenty five books. Did you know that?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Wow? I mean I think my knowledge of her went
from obviously there's an agam do they'll be waiting for you?
Like I was old enough to watch Three's Company reruns,
and then I was like, oh, and then you became
the thigh Master lady. Right, And those are kind of
the two like pinnacle or like big standout moments in
my elder millennial brain. Right, I didn't know she was

(08:59):
a prolific author.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
She wrote twenty five books. She Leftree's Company and didn't
talk to John Ridder for twenty years because she kind
of ruined the show because she wanted to be paid
as much as he was being paid on the show
for like the fourth season or fifth season. Yeah, and
then she had like a follow up sitcom that like
called She's the Sheriff that just was rated at forty
fourth of the fifty worst shows ever made. But then

(09:23):
she came back and she was the mom on step
by Step or one of those like you know, she'd
get their Friday whatever shows. And she was married to
her husband for fifty five years and he's still alive.
He's ten years older and he's still alive. And they
had this like really explosive sex life like into like
their seventies, Like they were having sex multiple times a day.

(09:47):
And I'm like, I just I found out a lot
about Suzanne Summers.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
That's yeah. I mean she always had a bit of,
you know, sex appeal to her, so I guess it
doesn't quite strike me as surprising, but yeah, it's good
to like goals to be like you can have sex
multiple times a day in your seventies.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Truly to your body break. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Man, what like were her books like sort of memoirs
or was she also like was she getting into like
kind of interesting niche stuff.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Her first book was a book of poetry, and the
first time she did Late Night was talking about her poetry,
her book of poetry, and in the book of poetry
is about touch and how important it is to touch people.
And she got like Johnny Carson and edwmc mant to
hug each other because they never She's like, you guys
never touch each other, and like they touched each other
for like the first time. It was like really funny.

(10:34):
And then she wrote a few memoirs, and she wrote
like self help books. She had some weird medical theories
that were like questionable.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh yeah, I'm just reading one right now that she
thinks fluoride may have caused mass shootings. Right he stuff
in household pans. Okay, you know we can't bathe, we
can't bath fear remed. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, but she did get breast cancer twenty two years ago,
and very aggressive breast cancer, and she survived for twenty
two years, so you know, work, maybe it works for her,
you know, yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, Wow, Suzanne, you know what a legend? What
a legend? Were you a family or something?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
No, go ahead, what were you gonna say? Do you
want to know what I was? You're gonna shame yourself
in front of everyone. Go ahead, I'm not shaming myself.
I'm telling you A real story is that I knew
that she was a prolific writer because in school and
like elementary school, used to do something called summer's reading,
where each summer we would read Suzanne summer books exclusively. Great,

(11:29):
So whatever you were going to say, now you can
say it.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Wow, are hysterical, And I hope that you will start
start a movement across elementary schools. I think summer reading
needs to be a thing now.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Summer. Yeah, absolutely. You have all these kids talking about
like is there a floor ride in our water? Teacher,
we need to talk about this. I read something very interesting.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm never going to brush my teeth again.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah, like, damn you summers. Yeah. I don't know what
I was going to say, Blake, you completely neuralized me
with that, with that amazing top tier joke. Sarah, what
is something you think is overrated?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
I have a few things if that's okay.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll allow it.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
The first. The first thing I would say is astrology.
I had this conversation last week where I was telling
a friend that I keep I can't figure out like
what I want. I keep going back and forth between
things like do I want to do this? Do you
I want to do that? And he was like are
you a Gemini? And I was like no, I'm a
Sagittarius And he was like I knew it. And I
was like, wait a second, you knew that I was

(12:39):
a Sagittarius even though a second ago you thought I
was a Gemini? Like leave me alone, Like why is
everybody like, I'm like sunrising like scorpio falling like whatever
it is, like what is it? Like? Why do people
why do people believe in this?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
I just don't understand it. It's it's a way to
I mean, for I always give this anecdote because I
was always interested by astrology, but it was usually at
my loneliest. I got into it because shout out Susan
Susan Miller's astrology zone. She would have like love forecasts
and be like, you're a virgo, you need to keep
your eye open. And that was a way for me

(13:16):
to give myself some kind of hope that I would
be like, this thing is telling me some shit that
I don't believe myself, but I need someone who I
believe is tapped into something larger than I can understand
to help me understand that. And then yeah, cut to
things where people will be like are you a scorpio.
I'm like no, I'm a verb, like exactly, and I'm like,

(13:37):
come on now, like you sound like one of those
like like those those psychics that get busted on TV
where they're like yeah, yeah, my brother, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
But also like when you were a kid, like when
I was like a boy crazy and used to do
those like you know, paper things yeah yeah, the fortune
teller thing or the mash thing like yeah, which also
made me remember this idea. This is what Facebook needs
to do. Okay, Yeah, have so much information and data
on every single person. They could figure out, like all
of my data, who I am today, and they could

(14:07):
match it up with someone who's very very similar demographically
and like mentally to someone who's five years older than me,
and they could literally tell me where I'm going to
be in five years probably right right, right, yeah, yes,
they could do that.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
That would be why could you imagine? Like that feels
like such a double edged sword because on one hand,
you could see, like all it would take a couple
to be accurate, and then people to completely give it all,
like all their agency away to like the meta fucking right.
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
But I just read that we don't have free will anyway,
so who cares?

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah exactly. Meta took it away, took it away. Yeah,
that's why I don't fuck with the matrix, you know,
That's why I don't. You're in the matrix, Nay.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I can't tell it's in water, dude.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I've been out. I've been out. There's a real bad mushroom,
but I'm pretty sure I was out for a little bit.
What else do you think is overrated? Sarah?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Personal growth? I think, I think knowing yourself, you know,
self awareness. I feel like the people who are most
successful aren't self aware at all, truly.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah they have some.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, So why are we getting to know ourselves?
Like I feel like I've I've really gotten to know
myself so much now that I'm basically who I was
like thirteen years ago. And like the sayings that my
mom used to say that I used to think, we're
so stupid, I now find myself saying I'm like, it
is what it is? Like, why am I saying that?

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's so scary when you start repeating what your parents do.
It's it's horrifying.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
But also also it's true. How do you argue with
it is what it is?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, you can't argue with it. It's this, this is present.
You're like, of course, that's an observation, right, right, pretty objective.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
I used to say don't step in the oil constantly
whenever we'd walk through a parking lot, like if a
car was leaking oil and I'd be like, God, why did.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
You always say that?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
And now I'm like, yeah, I guess I was stepping
in it and dragging it through the carpets of our house.
We had a carpet, We had carpets, and it ruined life.
So I'm like, yeah, it's been a good few years,
but yeah, I'm a lot of nepotism.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
In my life. Tell him about you grandfather, the carpet
King of South Carolina. Here was the carpet King of
South Carolina. Yeah, he laid them so. He was originally
labeled a carpet bagger, and then he turned lemons into
lemonade and called himself the Carpet King and opened up
a multi billion dollar business. I love he.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Turned lemons into lemonade and became a carpet king.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah, that's fascinating.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
He opened up a lemonade stand and sold carpets asn't happened.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Oh my god. And when he called himself the carpet King,
did he spelled carpet with a K too?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I think Calvin Klein logo, right, It was like a
c K. It was.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
It was exactly that. Yeah, yeah, it was a hundred present.
You know exactly what did you are you like scraping
my Facebook data? Because I've posted about this a lot.
I'm the oracle of directly.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I can't tell what's real on this show. I really can't.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
I'm sorry. That was a joke. Okay, but this is
not the matrix though we're in the real world. I
want to say, I want to argue on behalf of
the real world there. But you'd say you think, I mean,
you haven't had any personal growth. You said, like, I'm
the same person I was thirteen years ago.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Well, I had this, you know. I I the first
joke I ever wrote, ever told on stage, was a
year ago I was single, and today I'm no longer single.
I'm not desperate.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
That's really funny, and that's a great that's great, thank.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
You, And it's like true again. Oh, I've been married,
I've been divorced, and now I'm like right back where
I was right and it's just like and I've done
all this work on myself. I've had all these relationships
that I've had all this like introspection and I've looked
at everything and I've overturned everything, and I've digged in
and I've hunted, and I'm right back where I started?

(18:01):
So what was the point? What was the point?

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I think? I think it's you know, we're all paying
our tuition to the school of experience. I think you
and now that whatever this next j you know juncture,
the next venture is romantically Well, you're going to use
all of these learnings, you know what? Fuck that? Yeah?
What are some of your first dates? Like?

Speaker 3 (18:23):
There, I don't even have dates. That's the one thing
I did change that I got off all the dating apps.
Like thirteen years ago, I was on all the dating apps.
This time, I'm not, so I did change.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, And what do you what's what? What's your methodology? Now?
So you've learned something? There you are.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
I'm literally just waiting. I'm literally just like a spider
in a web, just like waiting for somebody to come along.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Perfect, perfect, it's coming when you meet that.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Person, I'm waiting to suck the fucking.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Than a carpet.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You get a dried up hust hus I'm done with you.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
What's the mean? Think is underrated?

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Sarah A fake plants. I really love my fake plants.
They make me feel like I'm taking care of things,
but then I don't actually have to take care of anything.
But it's like it adds all this greenery. I don't know.
I really love fake plants, and I really feel like
people look down on me for not having real plants,
and they keep trying to get me to like get
a cactus or get a succulate or something that, you like,

(19:26):
shut up, just I have fake plants, and it's.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, you know, shut out the plastic plant people. I
have more judgment seeing somebody with dead ass plants than
I would fake plants. So yeah, aside from the quality
being different, yeah, we're not.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
That's such so indicative of your friends knowing that, like
you're a busy performer, writer, comedian, that they're like, oh,
don't get something that you need to nourish and take
care of. Get something that doesn't require water or any
care whatsoever that you can just leave in your home. Now,
I think fake plants are amazing because now they look real,
like this isn't the forties back, you know, I'm like, oh,
that's a yeah, you know, it was.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Definitely not the forties. Yeah, back when they used to
look so fake.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
And like yeah, or you're like it's gotten better with
each decade decade.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
It's really improved. Yeah to my my grandfather was the
fake plant king.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Oh I'm gonna say, I'm like, go on, Sarah, let
us know. You know, did you come from Meeker upbringings
or did you? Were you the princess of the fake
flower industry? I like, now I find myself like when
I'm with my partner, her magicy will go out. I'll
like touch ship because I'm so convinced. I'm like, this

(20:39):
ship fake, still good, and then I'm like, or like
I'll end up breaking a leaf on a real thing,
and I'm like, oh ship, my bad, my bad. And
then other times when I find them, I'm like, I
knew it, but that ship looks real good, that looks fantastic.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Maybe maybe this speaks to our whole thing about like
what is real? Rightly, certain things that are fake looks
so real, and some things that are real look fake
because they look so real.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
And then at that point that's that's such an Aquarius
thing to say, yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Oh wait, are you an Aquarius? Oh Sagittarius. Yeah, yeah,
knew that, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah you're miles okay, yeah,
Aquarius was probably it's somewhere in your chart though.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
It's a moon it's a sun. It's a yeah, it's
a moon.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's a mood. You know, that's a real select.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's a vibe.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, it's all vibes. It's all vibes. All right, let's
take a quick break. We'll be right back to talk
some news. We'll be right back, and we're back. I
want to check in with the Republicans because last Tuesday

(21:47):
they got a bit of a shellacking. I think some
people would say in.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
The elections across the country, someone call it wake up
call number maybe seventy three, seventy five, that their full
frontal attack on abortion rights and protections for transgender people
is not a winner.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Somehow just doesn't. There's not a lot of data to
back that up. We saw losses for moms for liberty
candidates across the country, and in Ohio specifically, candidates that
ran under like no rights for anyone except SIS dudes
lost seventy three percent of their races. Okay, that's that's
not a good that's not a good success rate when

(22:23):
you when you control the entire state election maps and
things like that, and you're going you're getting around a
twenty five percent success rate. And so for a second,
I thought maybe they would realize that this is one
of the worst platforms to run on in the modern era,
but pretty much everyone except for like a handful of
Republicans basically doubled down on this. In Ohio specifically, again,

(22:44):
the response from Republicans that lost their fight to stop
abortion rights from being enshrined in the state's constitution figured
that the immediate response should be going after trans rights again,
even though that was a losing formula. Their candidates and like,
in this very sadly transparent active desperation and hatred, state

(23:05):
legislators put hearings on the books, like immediately after Tuesday
to discuss new bands on gender affirming care, bathroom laws,
and fucking drag shows. And these are all things that
we've seen, like drag show bands have been struck down
in courts across the country, and we're like, what is
for real? What is going on again? For the people
in the back? Seventy three percent of the candidates running

(23:28):
on this kind of shit lost, but again that hasn't
stopped the other losers to deny the reality that they
are very, very, in fact wrong. I mentioned on Monday
about the RNC chair RONI McDaniel. She insisted that they
are right and it is reality that is wrong about

(23:49):
why we should keep running on this terrible, terrible platform
and play this for you.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
This isn't true, Liz. I'm proud to be a pro
life party. But we can win on this message. The
American people are where we are and they want common
sense limitations. They want more access to to adoption. We
want to make sure that there's pregnancy crisis centers. These
are things we can win on. But we have to
talk about it. And you can't hide in a corner
and think abortion is not going to be an issue.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh okay, So for the record, we can win on
this message.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Did you hear her literally almost say people want more
access to abortion herself and say adoption? She literally almost
said it. She knows she's she's lying through let me.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Let me do that one more time. Yeah, I didn't
quite catch that.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
And they want common sense limitations. They want more access to.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
To adoption, adoption, adoption, adoption, Yeah, get one aboptions, That's
what I meant.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Everyone gets a free pop it. Yes, it's horrible. Let's
go further, right, you know, like people don't already want
this far as far right as these policies are, let's
keep going further. See if they're turning the dial.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, I mean they keep losing go ahead, and it makes.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
It very easy, makes it very easy that knock yourself
out as if you're running against the Republic, you needs
have to be again, like we've said, you just gestured
to them and be like, so there's this person just
so you know, okay, and I'm not gonna tell you
what I'm just I'm just telling you I'm not this person. Yeah,
and you know, sure, I get helping adoption outcomes is fine,

(25:23):
but you need a couple that with like actual care
for people and like kids that are in foster care. Like,
actually look at it holistically. If you're talking about adoption,
but that's not what it is. You just throw that
out because it's an alternative.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
And then I'm so bored with this shit, Like it's
so boring, Like it's so frustrating too. It's just like
it's all of these buzzwords just to get people like
riled up, and no one's riled up anymore. I think
people are just dead inside at this point because it's
just like the same shit over and over and over
and over.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
And over again, like and even with their own base,
Like you have to remember it's your own base that's
also voting to entrine fucking abortion rights in a state constitution.
That's not just because the Libs came out. That's because
your own your own bass Like, well, I don't that
shit sounds just fun and wild to me, Yet they insist, right,
and then they're like, oh, of course we want common

(26:11):
sense limitations. Again, those are still limitations on healthcare, So
miss us with that shit. And crisis pregnancy centers are
not someplace you go for compassionate care if you're having
trouble with pregnancy or you're conflicted you They are bait
and switch operations aimed at discouraging people from having abortions,
like and keeping the pregnancy no matter what through the

(26:32):
power of prayer or whatever they want to offer you there.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
So yeah, I've read I've read something about one of
those crisis centers that they show you like a fake
ultrasound where the baby, like God, actually looks bigger than
it actually would would actually be, and then it also
like has a little like thought bubble like hi, mom.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
No way, it's it's its first NBA contract like a
the womb where it's like, this baby's a cash cont.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, you don't want to abort this one. It's gonna
be it's gonna go places. This is gonna be your
central bullock vehicle right here, right.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
You go in there and you're like, I just came
here to fuck with you. I am not pregnant, So
what was that?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
They're like, fox, So I need surgery because I don't
know how did I swallow this thing?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
What happened? Get its side bit? And also this is
a wildly unprofessional sonogram machine. If it's giving me thought bubbles,
please please please don't leave, and only in English. Thought
bubbles in English, yeah, right right, right, of course, of course, yeah,
because those those fetuses better, they better, they better know
what time it is. No fetus, so we.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Produced American fetuses here that speak English.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
In America, okay, oh I'm sorry, I don't the thought
bubble can only do the official language of the United States.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
If the thought bubble is in Spanish, We're like, yes,
please abort it like that. They actually are okay with it.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, they're like they're like, we're gonna we're gonna have
to call Ice now because this is this is you
can't Jesus, Okay, I want to move on to talking
about our laws around distracted driving, because this is kind
of I didn't so I think all of us we
were there the era I was in high school and
college or in the aughts, where like we were filled

(28:19):
with stories, like we were just told constant stories about
distracted driving, Like don't people are getting the serious sometimes
fatal accidents, you know, because of this this thing called
the cell phone. People are texting and calling each other
while driving, and that was sort of the big threat
back then. But now like it's like, I'll just just

(28:39):
for the record, it turns out every state except Montana
enacted some kind of texting while driving band like, which
is very interesting. So hey, if you want your freedom
to fucking drive and crash into whatever the fuck you
want because you're distracted, go to Big Sky Country. But
technology has evolved, and nowadays I feel like we all
see it. I've been catching people watching full on movies

(29:03):
on their phones while driving, like holding it, watching like
a movie or a motherfucker's face timing and driving or
watching YouTube. And not only do we have like dashboard
mounts that can now just like fully put a cell
phone screen in our eyeline, but like a lot of
the newer cars also have big ass screens as part
of the dashboard, and some of them you can hack

(29:23):
to basically be a fucking TV or play games off
of it while you're operating a motor vehicle. A recent
survey showed that an embarrassing amount of people are casually
driving and watching. About twenty five percent of drivers reported
watching movies, TV shows, or video clips while driving at
some point in the last thirty days. About fifteen percent

(29:44):
of them said they do our fifteen percent of respondent
said they did it regularly, twenty percent said they made
video calls regularly in the previous month, and fifteen percent
recorded and posted video. And millennials twenty five to thirty four, Yeah,
I hates out of that group, what's wrong with all?
Get it together? They have the highest rates watching videos,
playing games, and scrolling social media while driving for the records, Sarah,

(30:07):
have you ever recorded and posted video while driving? I
just I don't want to put you on blast, but
are there?

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah? I mean driving is boring.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
You want to be doing something else.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
While you're doing it, like if you're not drunk, which
you shouldn't be drunk, you know you should right right,
posting a video obviously of you driving. I don't know,
I've never actually I never done that before. Yeah. I
just think that there's a lot of people that feel
like they can handle it, you know, they're like, I
can do this, yeah, because because they grew up with

(30:36):
screens and so I just like that. Then then they
get into an accident and so it's just an awful
situation of Darwin business.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, right, Like you were watching like great British bakeoff,
like while driving on Mulholland that's a windy road. You shouldn't. Yeah.
That sadly, like a lot of the laws on the
books across the country, they're so vague that watching and
drive are perfectly legal in some instances because some states
just like some states have laws in their book that

(31:05):
just explicitly banned watching TV broadcasts. So you can literally
you think ABC NBC not be watching local broadcast television.
Oh you on the CBS app. Yeah, yeah, that's good,
that's fine, that's that's.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh my gods have taken over everything.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
But and so like in only eighteen states have right
laws right now that actually ban it, while the rest
of the laws in the country are either so vague
that it could go either way, or just like not
banned at all.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
So banning means that like an officer can pull you
over if he sees you doing that, and so that's
a good different friend.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If it's banned, then they'd be like,
they're on your phone. You can't be like, well, I
wasn't watching broadcast TV. They're like, it doesn't matter what
the fucks you were doing. That's that's baharamount. Plus some states,
like in Texas, I think you could be like, this
is Netflix, fam, So.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
No, I was watching Texas Rangers. Oh okay, that's fine.
Okay in Texas, so it's okay. Certain shows are okay,
Like while you're I.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Was watching the World Series, Like hold on, was that
being broadcast on television? You're like, fuck, you got me?

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Man?

Speaker 1 (32:07):
He's like, but hey, he just won, so you're free
to go. Now.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Are people playing video games while driving? That would be interesting, Like.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's why I've seen some candy crush like swiping ass
activities from people driving. It did not look like they
were punching in an address. It's like you were playing
a fucking puzzle. Game while driving?

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Can I tell a story that might get me in trouble?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Go ahead?

Speaker 3 (32:29):
I think the statute of limitations is over on this.
But I actually did rear end somebody while I was
looking at my calendar on my phone. This was like,
you're busy, yeah, so to go through all the oh,
And I got and I got out of the ticket
by like leaning over enough into the into the cops
car that he could see most of my breasts.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Wait, you were leaning into the cops car? Wait, what
do you mean?

Speaker 3 (32:56):
So he was he was in he was in his
in his cruiser or whatever, writing the ticket. And I
got out of my car and I walked back there,
and I like he opened the door and I was
leaning over and I was like, this really wasn't my fault,
and I could he was looking like right down my
shirt and I was just like letting him and he

(33:16):
was like, well, maybe we could go out sometime. I
was like, yeah, I love that, And I got out
of the ticket.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
So wown God. Yeah that's a skill move, right.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Yeah, mister far right exactly. But I don't think that
would work now.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, I mean obviously, like laws won't change the problem
right away, but like to your point, Sarah, like knowing
something's illegal does usually help someone's risk assessment to I.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Put on a seatbelt all the time in the back
seat because I know it's illegal. Lot.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Also i've just seen like you know, just people now
wearing seatbelts, like I know, ifeople are trying to be cool,
got into like life accident. If had they been wearing
a seat boat, they wouldn't have just been like you know,
boggled in the backseat, like like a pair of cheap dice.
But I think I.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Think young people just don't think that anything's gonna happen.
You know. I just didn't think I was. I thought
I was gonna be fine, So I just don't think
there's gonna be any consequences.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
I'm definitely guilty at an occasional low key look as
something frivolous. But it's wild how because in my mind,
like you can't be on your phone, like I keep
that shit real low, which is actually worse because like
then my eyeline is completely down. That I've had to
definitely reassess now that like I'm a parent, but I'm blake.

(34:36):
I think you were. You were telling me earlier, like
you have no temptation. Ever, you're so so good about this.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
No, I will only like record videos to promote road dates,
but other than that, I won't. I won't do anything
like road dates. It's more yeah, my stand up dates.
It's the only time I'll use use the phone when
I'm driving. But I won't watch broadcast. I would never
watch something on broadcast, like I would never watch a
live event. Okay, good, Ever, ever, on my phone, Rory

(35:03):
Scovell had a really funny joke. I think this was
almost like eight or ten years ago. At this point,
we're on Cone and he was talking about how states
were starting to ban texting while driving, and Rory, for
some reason, was using a Southern accent for noting. Didn't
address it on the Cone. He just did it in
a Southern accent the whole time. He goes like, but
we we're just getting good at it. He goes like,
why are they banning it just when we're getting You'll

(35:25):
look at it the whole time. You just look down, up, up.
And it was just such a funny, such a funny joke.
So that's what I'm here to promote from ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
It is true, there is like that sense of confidence
of like you're like, not, well, there's other people that
need to get there, so.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Yeah, but I mean the worst is when we do
the lift and like the driver has like three phones
and they're looking at what directions on one and they're
texting on another and you're like, what am I supposed
to do about this?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah? You know what's interesting? They said for people who
are like especially gig workers, like in the gig economy,
were like four times likely to engage in distracted driving,
and like, you know, you hear anecdotally like they're like, yo, bro,
Like a fucking Uber driver had a full on iPad
on like watching TV while we were driving around, Like
but I was also watching that show, so I figured fucking.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
And it's how they're supposed to get Like for Uber
drivers lift drivers, it's how they also make additional money
where while they're driving you, they'll get a notification from
lift or Uber saying hey do you want to take
this right and yeah, and then it's like boom boom.
They have to do the math they can see on
the map where they're going, So it is just inherently
distracting to be able to do that while you're working,

(36:41):
Like that's the game of it. And yeah, I don't
know what they should do. Do you remember when they
would sometimes bring like a friend in the car with them.
Did that ever you were early uber? Yea, they would
just some of them would just have a buddy like
in the front seat.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
They're like yeah, they're like you, Yeah, it happened bunch
of At first, I was like, is this shady? But like,
I don't know. It was like a short ride, so
I was like whatever, Like I feel like, you know,
I could, I could handle myself. Well.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Justin is saying his sister just happened. That happened to
his sister.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, it's bad. It happens. It happens sometimes.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
And do you report it because that seems weird?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
No, I mean I don't know. I'm like, it's it's
hard enough, like yeah, trying to trying to fucking get
your like, you know, grinding it like that. I'm like, whatever, man,
Like if I get you again doing that, then maybe
I'll be like, do you like, does your does your
friend have to be drinking wine out the bottle? Straight up?
There is he praying to be in this car?

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Or if they bring a baby and they're like hold
this baby.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
While at that point I'm like something, yeah, like you
have terrible judgment me fine, I mean this baby looks cute.
Yeah fine, I'll rock the baby sleep. But yeah, please
stay safe out there and and don't try and and
wiggle your way through the lives. Distracted driving is bad. Okay,
that is that's the official that's my hot take today,
and that's why this.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Is only an audio podcast because we're saving lives.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Exactly exactly. I certainly don't want to distract you with
my grizzled visage. Certainly not. Okay, let's talk about someone
you know a bit about Sarah Donald Trump, and specifically
though Trump's social.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
If I didn't know anything about Sarah and I was like, oh,
I didn't think this Sara's politics at all?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Did you work for That's uncura.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
I would love to just like have it erase for
my brain so I could be like, who's Donald Trump?
Like who was that?

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Never heard of this person?

Speaker 3 (38:45):
But oh my god, I guess kids are having to
learn about him as a president. Huh. Yeah, they're just
learning about him. Some kids that are just for the
first time, like.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Wow, yeah, seriously, it's oh my god. Yeah, like it's
like when I was like, like Reagan was a president
when I was born, and I just remember, like my
dad all the time, like you you don't want to
know about Reagan's ass, And I'm like I'm four, but
like sure, he's like he's like, you know what he
did to people that need help, fucking left them out
to dry.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
And I'm like, oh, I'm so hungry, I have my
my I wrote like a journal when I was like
thirteen and Bush Bush was president and I put this
in the book, like and it was like the Iraq
War was starting and I wrote like, oh, Bush made
a speech and it was really good. Like I was
such a little Republican.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Right, yeah, like we have to support our troops, yeah,
and protect KUWAITI interests.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
You're like, wait, what the fuck? You don't know what
they're parenting your parenting State Department talking points now, but
like truth social specifically, right, we've like we've heard how
just like much of a disaster, it's been like that
they needed to merge with a company in order to survive,
and like they needed like a bunch of the shareholders
to vote to approve this merger. Well that happened, and

(39:59):
it bought them a bit of more time to survive.
But Kirkland signature Twitter as we know it is not
quite working out.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
As a business entity. So this deal that they've been
planning with Digital World Acquisition Corp. Which is a special
purpose acquisition company basically companies that are meant to take
private companies public like, has given us a few details
into what's happening. And what we found out is that quote.
Since early twenty twenty two, truth Social, which is owned

(40:28):
by Trump Media and Technology Group, made three point seven
million dollars in net sales and lost seventy three million dollars.
But they made the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
You're going negative, They made money. Yeah, focus on that.
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Yeah, that's a lot of money. So you've made almost
four million dollars. I'm like, well no, then don't talk
that mess about truth Social.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
You know, you can't make money without losing money.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
That's just that's true. True, you know it is true.
That's also how degenerate gamblers think at a at a
table when they're like, dude, you gotta lose six thousand
to win nine thousand, and you're like this is oh,
I sure, sure it is. Man, Can you let go
my wrist though, But yeah, they apparently they've just been
constantly hemorrhaging money, like from the like from the first

(41:17):
six months, they lost twenty three in the six months.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Trump's money.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
I think it's money that's been put in by Trump
and other investors. Yeah who want to who are like, yeah,
we'll back you because social media is too so woke
and they're censoring free speech. They're not that we got it.
We need a place for our own. And I don't
know if you remember when truth Social was announced, it
was part of like this like like six headed hydra

(41:42):
of like a media entity that Trump was like talking about,
like there was gonna be tm what is it, Trump
Media Something Group Plus? What do they call it? TMTG plus,
which is like their answer to everyone, putting out a
streaming service that said to offer programs including, but not
limited to, blue collar comedy, canceled shows, Trump's specific programming,

(42:05):
faith based shows, family entertainment shows that embraced the Second Amendment,
and news.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
You know who's cleaning up? You know who's really cleaning
up who? People who know htmlal just like you know what, Yeah,
let me build you a site. I can do that
for you, and these these idiots are just like, yeah, okay,
let's build a Look, anybody can build a social media
site now, rightbody.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Right, right right exactly. They're like, yeah, yeah, let's see
cause it probably like three million. Yeah, okay, yeah exactly, okay.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
For actually, you know what, the build this month is
eight and million?

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Sorry oh wait wait, hold on how many people did
you want? Did you want millions of people using it? Oh?
Yeah millions? Okay, so it's a dollar per user that
you think will use it. So what you said about forty, Yes,
let's do it for forty. It's yeah, it's fucking wild.
But apparently Trump Media and Technology Group Plus TMTG plus
also completely it gone. It's it's it's gone, it got gone.

(42:59):
It it what it's you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (43:02):
It gone dot com?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
It gone, yeah, go to it gone dot com where
you can watch canceled shows.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Canceled shows is the fun. And it's not like community,
you know, like yeah, yeah, yeah, like that follow them.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
That first season, yeah, the first season of the Roseanne reboots.
Basically they're like after that, no, no, basically not or
they'll have like we'll have outtakes from community. When Chevy
Chase was saying racist ship and that's it. We can
make that a show.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
But yeah, canceled shows is so it's funny because it's
so bage.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
I just want to be in the room. Like when
they were pitching this and I said, we're gonna call
it truth social, like the truth, but it's also social.
It's gonna be great.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Where did you find this person? He sells coke to
Don Junior.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Oh great, We're gonna find Hunter's laptop on this thing.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm telling you, bro, we'll find that dude.
Fucking find everything.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
But we're gonna call this TMT plus man. Yeah, shows
do fucking guns and shit, fucking god dude family. Yeah,
it's sick.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I'm gonna invest. I'm gonna invest that.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
These young guys, man, they have ideas. I mean, you've
you've spent some time in the tech world. I'm sure
you've seen some you see you've been in rooms when
people have been in it. Yeah, Like, I mean, what
how do you think it's actually working out? Like when
people come up with like what transparently bad ideas and like, yeah, okayol,
let's go, that's a go.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
That's a go.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
I just feel like Trump and all of these guys,
they're just so stupid, you know. And I don't mean
to use the word stupid and just some mean way,
but they're just and so I I that's when I say,
like with people who know how to build, these things
are cleaning up, Like I think that they are agnostic,
like they don't actually care about the the proctics. They're
just there to be like, hey, yeah, like we can

(44:49):
build you a site. Yeah, let's call it true social
no problem. You know, it's it's got no security, it's
got no privacy, it doesn't work at all. It doesn't
work at all. Okay, it is held together with like spit,
you know what I mean. But but truly Trump is like, okay,
let's keep funneling money into it. You know. It's like
they found the mark, they found the guy, they found

(45:11):
the guy who would pay for.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
It, you know, right.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah, And I think because then everybody is so hypnotized
by the I PO that that's why they're like, dude,
I'm holding on man, because hopefully we take this thing
public and I can cash out on this uncashable.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Check social io the day.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
I know that, but this is what I can't wait
what's interesting too, I just found out is the Special
like what it was it the Special Proposalquisition Company, the
SBAC that is meant to take truth social public. There's
also like there's a new agreement that was just brought
to light between the two parties that like they can
terminate this deal now at any moment starting from like

(45:49):
October thirty first, like November twenty something. So I don't
know if like these this this trickle of stuff right
now is meant to be like yeah, actually we're we
don't want it. We're now we did we had some
additional due diligence and it ain't diligence.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, it's it's the tech pros cleaning up, and now
it's the finance pros cleaning up. It's just just cleaning up.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Yeah, the different lovable bro just a different lovable cross
section of bros.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
But I mean, but you know, Elon has ruined Twitter too,
So I'm just like every site is just falling apart.
Every social media site to me is just completely falling apart.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Yeah. I mean we're talking about this like last week
about how like millennials especially are in a weird place
like for you know, being there for the beginnings of
using the Internet, whether it's like Aol and shit like
that or Tumbler, you know what I mean, Like we've
seen everything come and go MySpace and like now we're
watching it all fucking just go to shit, and like

(46:42):
it does, like at least for me. We were saying,
like personally, I was like, yeah, it completely, I'm not
really interested in using it, Like there's no magic to
it that there was initially. And I don't know that's
because there's a bunch of like weird ass you know,
hateful people and bots and shit that are ruining or
like because we're just seeing it evolve in the weird
like profit centric ways. You're like, oh man, just fucking shit.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
No, I was gonna say, it's like interesting too where
I think you see or from my point of view,
you hear about like acquisitions on the news, you read
about them, but like they don't really affect you on
a day like on a day to day level. And
then when Elon took over Twitter, I think that's the
first one that's been primarily like front and center in
my life where obviously you see the hate on there

(47:28):
and how you know, like that's been perpetuated, and even
from something as small as just because he fired so
many engineers. There just some stuff like you were saying there,
it just doesn't work where I'm like, oh, like let
me look up the analytics on this, and it's like,
oh ye, sorry, this doesn't work right now, and we're
like what is going on? Oh maybe it'll work tomorrow,
And it's just there's just things in the app that

(47:50):
technically don't work anymore because he made so many cuts
in so many brutal ways.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
The search, the search, the trending terms like the other
day trending, God, Hitler death, Like what is why are
these things trending? You click on you you don't even
know why they're trending anymore.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
It's just such a yeah right now, Will Smith and
ninety nine percent Hitler as.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
Hitler has been trending for a year and a half.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Oh Hitler's Hitler is so in especially with that last
Trump speech where he's calling his enemies vermin. But anyway, yeah, yeah,
we will see what happens. It turns out though, like
if the merger doesn't go through, truth Social and TMTG
may not survive.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
Oh my god, I have to delete my account.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, and Joe.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
My stuff over to somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Hey, downloader members, like download all your data, man, just
get it all off there before they get rid of it.
Get all your truth social data off there.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
I was thinking about delete. You know, I really do
want to get off social media at some point, Like
I really do have do have this vision of just
not being on anything. But like I love my handle
so much and I've had it for so long that
I wouldn't want someone to take it over, you know.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so like just yeah, just do
Like maybe we should have like the right to have
like Internet posthumously squatting on a handle kind of thing.
I like that we just need to We're going to
retire this handle and they will not be used for evil,
and we can use it as a you know, a
reserve for fantastic thoughts and musings. Okay, let's take a

(49:28):
quick break. We'll be right back to I guess talk
about Elon again, at least how bad of a boss
he is. Right after this and we're back SpaceX. Speaking
of Elon, they just announced that they may try launching

(49:50):
their Starship rocket for a second time this Friday if
they get approval from the FAA. And this comes fresh
off the heels of an extremely damning investigation from Reuters.
They uncovered quote over six hundred previously undisclosed workplace injuries
at SpaceX facilities since twenty fourteen. This is including everything

(50:13):
from like cuts, lacerations, fucking head injuries to amputations. People
have been in comas and tragically, even death. One employee
apparently died recently after sitting on some cargo that was
being hauled on a trailer with no straps, and the
guy said, oh, no straps, I'll just lay on top

(50:34):
of this insulation so we can get it from point
A to point B and hopefully my body weight will
keep this from blowing off the fucking truck. Tragically, a
gust of wind blew him and the insulation off and
he was unfortunately, he was killed, like he was pronounced
dead at the scene OSHA. Basically, like I think anyone

(50:54):
who just heard what happened found that SpaceX had quote
failed to protect the employe from what they say was
a clear hazard. But it turns out like that's just
kind of just a sample of how bad some people
are getting injured. There. One man was smacked in the
head with it while they were testing an engine in
twenty twenty two. Apparently like they were doing a pressure

(51:17):
test of a Raptor V two rocket engine that's a
tongue twister and like a piece of the rocket blew
off and fractured the skull of employee Francisco Cabada, and
it put him in a coma, and reportedly SpaceX has
quote ignored the family's attempts to find out why he
wasn't protected. And just I know, I said six hundred
injuries since twenty fourteen, but it's really important to note

(51:40):
that that is only a portion of the total case count,
because while OSHA requires companies to report injuries annually since
twenty sixteen, SpaceX facilities have quote failed to submit reports
for most of those years. So this is like when
things were just bad enough, and like the punishments are
as we say all the time, fines don't deter billionaires,

(52:03):
especially when the fines are a few hundred dollars to
seven thousand dollars, like the fine for the guy who
lost his life. They only had to pay a seven
thousand dollars fine for that, and it's not like you know,
I know, people were like, well, maybe working on rocket
ships is like a fucking hazardous gig. Not Like when

(52:25):
you compare this to the space industry average, they are
blowing records out. So in twenty twenty two, the injury
rate at their Brownsville facility in Texas was four point
eight injuries per or illnesses per one hundred workers. That's
six times higher than the space average industry of zero
point eight per one hundred workers. And the reason for this,

(52:47):
this is where Elon comes in is fucking Elon and
his hatred of like regulations, Like he believes that employees
should quote be responsible for protecting themselves. How I'm sorry,
how does that work? And also like when he would
go to do like safety visits to sights, he would
tell people please take he didn't want people wearing safety

(53:09):
yellow vests because he dislikes bright colors. And would also
be like walking around sometimes with one of his dumb
ass flame throwers during a fucking safety visit, Like what
are you talking about this?

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Think this guy's a genius by the way, I.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Know, I know. It just shows you what like hair
plugs and a few billion dollars can do. And suddenly
you're the new fucking what Tony Stark or whatever the
fuck it is.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
He also doesn't like airbags on cars because they're two round.
He said, to.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Seatbelts will wrinkle your shirt. Actually, so I don't like, Yeah,
do away with them. It's an aesthetic thing. What were
you gonna say, Sarah, Oh no.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
I was. I was gonna say. I have a my
chapter of my book. This is a joke I had
about how like when we were at Google, like we
had like an ergonomic chair to protect your body while
your soul was dying. And because they were so obsessed
with ergonomics, they were so obsessed with carpal tunnel syndrome.
They didn't want to stay at carpal tunnel. They didn't

(54:09):
want an aposture to be bad. They had standing nest
so we could stand and sit. You know. It was
so they were so obsessed with us protecting our bodies,
and so like, this is wild to me, the trajectory
of tech in general. I feel like, yeah, this is
bad for SpaceX and Elon, but I think a lot
of industries they really started to care less about worker

(54:30):
health in general.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Oh I'm sure. I mean I think yeah, because we
like Google and places like that. It seems a little
insidious too, because they're like, no, we need you healthy
so we can get every motherfucking ounce of life out right. Course.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Yeah, all the perks that were there were so that
you would stay. Yeah, so that you wouldn't leave the building.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Yeah. It's like when people talk about how they make
like wogu beef and they're like, they fatten them up,
they give them massages, they spit beer into their coats
and rub it in, so they get to the point
that their flesh is worth more than any other be
out there, right right, right right. It's for the slaughter.
It's for the slaughter. But so apparently he, like Elon Musk,

(55:07):
defends this attitude because like in tech it's always like
move fast and break skulls or I think that's break everything.
Oh break everything, Yeah, break every bone in your body,
he says, because SpaceX is quote on an urgent quest
to create a refuge in space from a dying.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Please can you go do that? You go first, like
put him there first, and him and Grimes can populate Mars.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Yeah, exactly right. And those other like weird billionaires who
are like just like they're like I need my sperm everywhere.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
All the billionaires. Yeah, or the or the guy who's
like using his kid's blood to like keep him young,
like him go there as well.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Yeah please fun there's no amount of therapy. Yeah, we
actually need refuge from billionaires. So yeah, please go there
because actually believe with all the private flights and stuff
like the top one percent are going on, I think
that would help tremendously, along with other things.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
But anyway, I guess I guess they don't have a union.
I guess SpaceX and any of Elon's companies none of
those workers are unionized.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Yeah, I wonder is there I.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Bet not, because I mean I don't think you would ever.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Allow that or yeah right, yeah, I feel like anyone would. Yeah,
they're like, I'm so proud to be hostile towards unions.

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Is usually like the take of these kinds of guys, Sarah,
I thought you were asking if there was a billionaires union,
where unionize this billionaires so we can have our rights
finally acknowledged by society.

Speaker 3 (56:31):
Dude, I think that's literally in our future that's gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
It is that feels like it. Oh yeah, it says
employees were fired for speaking up about Elon Musk or
talking about Okay, so it sounds like yeah, part of
the course, perfect course, perfect corse. But yeah, like also
because of this like rush to get us to fucking Mars,
also meant to like employees have been taking like adderall

(56:56):
without prescriptions to like be able to fucking pull like
wild hour and then falling asleep in bathrooms. Also to
speed up the work, the company has literally been getting
workers to weld rocket parts in a tent on the
beach and then like when the beach got too hot,
they just hooked the people up to an IV and
then sent them right back out there. And also in

(57:16):
this like tent welding shop, apparently when the wind was
blowing they had to they had to shut the flaps
and basically enclose everyone in a tent with like carcinogenic dust.
So it's all very it's all very it's all very Elon.
So we'll see what happens. This is me wild.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
This is a billion dollar company and they're treating employees
like this. This is I mean, I totally expected in
the Congo where they're trying to get diamonds out and
stuff like that or whatever.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
But it's at that model.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
It's it's uh yeah, there you are merely automatons.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
Meant to help us generate capital.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
What is the endgame? Okay? What's the endgame? Okay? So
we have all of these people addicted to social media
that's not working and they're all upset and their jobs
are killing them. Like, there's not gonna be anybody left
to buy the products that you're making. Okay, there's gonna
be no one around. Everybody's gonna be gone. We're all
gonna be dead. So what's the end game. You're gonna
you're gonna build robots to buy your products, Like you're

(58:14):
gonna build robots to make your products, and then you're
gonna build robots to buy your products, and it's just
gonna be all robots. I guess, I guess.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Or it's the other one where they're like, well, you know,
AI is gonna be doing a lot of work. So
that's why, like you know, you hear the very like
cynical version of like we need a UBI, we need
a universal basic income. And that's not because they believe
that people like we should just move to that and
give like we have a basic income to live off
of but because you're like, but then when the fucking
robots or ais take their livelihood, they'll still have a

(58:43):
little scratch to give back to us in the form
of consumerism or something like that. It's all it all
works out in a very dark way. Or they're just
they build their fucking bunkers in New Zealand and or
like I'll hide. We had a guest on a couple
of weeks ago, Douglas Rushkoff, who like would talk to
the billionaire who like build bunkers, and the way they
talk is all like, how do I get them to

(59:05):
not want like rebel against me, like and take all
the food. Can I like put like a like a
detonator on their throat or something to keep them in control?
And they're like, you actually haven't thought any of this through,
Like your're so.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
They're scared that their workers are going to rebel, so
they're figuring out a way to have their workers.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
So in the context of the apocalypse bunker like where
they said they have like some billionaires are like I
have a team of like ex paramilitary Like yeah, yeah,
the people who protect the people who will inevitably protect
and labor for the billionaires in an apocalypse bunker. They're like,
do I like make the code to the food something
only I know? So that way, if I die, they

(59:46):
also don't get anything. And it's also like it's I mean,
and to your point, Sarah, it's that way of thinking
that somehow helps you aggregate the kind of wealth to
be a billionaire and also makes you a not human.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
So oh my god. And that's why like Zuckerberg and
all the these guys are trying to build this like city,
this like city that no one else can get into,
this like commune because they know this shit.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Is going to hit the fan, yeah, or that or
precisely that, Like they know at the end of the day,
it's like this relentless pursuit of wealth and making the
lineup go infinitely is only destroying the earth, destroying the
fabric of our society. And they're like, I don't know,
we're responsible before, but at the same time, let's build
a thing to insulate ourselves from it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
The good thing is like every man for himself kind
of yeah, mentality.

Speaker 1 (01:00:30):
I mean, the good news is those plans will not work.
Like it feels like no matter what you do, because
even the people who are like I'll build this, and
I'll build that. Oh blah blah blah. It's like, okay, well,
what if a part goes out for your your your
HVAC you know what I mean, you have no ac.
Do you have someone on staff that can like manufacture
the part that you would need to fix it? Or
do you have someone with that capability? And like, I

(01:00:52):
don't know. And then and then what if that has
a knock on effect on your green your growhouse that
you say will provide your food, because if that isn't
temperature controlled, then would you do? And then if you
don't have the food growing or the water purification system
not just for you, but for your plants. And then
they start like this.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Is very helpful. But I do plan to be a billionaire,
so it's good to know all this stuff going in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Yeah, yeah, just that's why I just yeah, just be
one of those people that no one wants to, like, well,
the first person they think of when the shit goes down,
like you know who, you know who I'm going to
pay a visit to, right, Yeah, just be on be
on the good side.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Please, I'll be on the good side. Also, maybe just
like be a billionaire, but like don't tell anybody that
you're a billionaire. That's probably a better way to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Yeah, secret billionaire. I like the idea that in this
billionaire city there's still like a version of a poor
billionaire where oh, you only have one point five billion.
It's like you hear what Carl has A has an
above ground bunker.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's in Michigan. Oh my god, gets
to New Zealand. Oh poor guy, poor guy, because that's
the other spot everyone's looking at is Michigan, because all
that's fresh water. But anyway, let's move on to something
just to wrap this show up, something a little more pleasant.
Andre three stacks, Andre three thousand. He is releasing his

(01:02:08):
fucking debut solo album. True this like just just me
doing my thing. This is Andre Benjamin here I am.
The album is called New Blue Sun. And before, like myself,
I was like, oh my god, Andre's yes, yes, ye
right yeah, so long this man. This is again. This

(01:02:31):
album is quote entirely made up of instrumental woodwind music.
It's just him on the flute, which I'm like, that
makes sense. I've seen him, like he's always like I've
seen I feel like most of the videos I've seen
him recently are playing some kind of flute, which so
people wouldn't be totally shocked. I apparently I didn't realize
that the track she Lives in My Lap, he played

(01:02:51):
flute on that, Like he's playing woodwinds on that. Yeah,
And also where's the catch with James Blake? He played
woodwind So I was like, oh, I had no idea.
I was not familiar with your game, sir. And there
was like there a couple of viral clips of him
playing like a flute in the airport. But it's funny because, like,
I think he knows how much his fans like love

(01:03:13):
him as a rapper vocalist, and he's like a little apologetic.
Like the first track of the album is this is
the literal track of the first album. Quote this track one,
I swear I really wanted to make a rap album,
but this is literally the way. This is literally the
way the wind blew me this time is the first track.
And he said even on the cover, there's even a

(01:03:35):
label that says warning no bars, just to let you
know there will be no You will not hear his voice.
You will just hear maybe you'll hear a breath here
and there as he's playing, but I'll take you. I
love it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
I mean, yeah, I think it's sweet. I think it's yeah,
I think it's cute, like let him let him do
his thing. He's not bait and switching anyone, you know,
let him play his wood ones.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Yeah, I think. And also at this point too, like
it's been so long where I've like I stopped holding
my Like I caught them when they had like.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
A reunion tour like in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
I was like I was there for that. I saw that,
I got my fill. But also it's nice because I
feel like so much of that work is like it's perfect.
I'm like, yep, don't, I don't. We don't need to
augment this. If you want to, sure, go ahead, like
you know, like I like Big Boys other projects that
he does, but with like Andre, oh yeah, he's always
been so vibe that I'm like, I can't get mad.
And I feel like most people feel the same way,

(01:04:29):
Like I know some people, but.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Whatever, I just as an artist, it's so brave to
do something so completely different. I mean it really is.
It's very inspiring, and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
It's also also just like the con like that just
a little bit of consideration for his fans who have
known him as a rapper vocalist, or he's like, yeah,
like the first track, I swear I really wanted to
make a rap album, but this is literally the way
with the wind blew me this time.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
I'm like, that's fine and it's really funny. Yeah, but yeah,
I mean, I am a I don't know with the music.
I personally have never listened to an album of just
woodwind instruments, yeah, in my life. But maybe this will
start a whole new trend. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Yeah, I feel like people I want.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
To see him and Lizzo do like a little thing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Oh yeah, a lot of flutes, a lot of flutes
going down. Yeah, I think we'll see. I mean, I've
seen people say they've heard bits and pieces of it.
I'm not sure, like if maybe they're at a listening
party or something like that, but it's I don't know.
I mean, from the people who claim to have hear it,
they're like, it's it's pretty cool. It's like trippy, and
I'm like.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
Oh, I'm gonna get high and listen to it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Yeah, I couldn't imagine Andre, like you come down, He's
just playing like Hot Crossbuns, like with no backing track. Yeah,
motherfucker playing a recorder then I might feel like, bro,
you had a lot of time to fucking get that recorder, right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
But I mean, I think this will start a resurgence
of recorder interest.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Yeah, I had a recorder. Wasn't it? Like? Was recorder
not like like a part of the courired for a
certain part? Did you play recorder? Blake did? Yeah, that
was my primary instrument. Yeah, no, I'm not serious, I'm serious.
Did you have no play recorder? No bit? Yes I did.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
Like that was because we had music class, and I
think that was the only instrument because we had to
buy it ourselves, I remember, but it was in terms
of instruments, the most you know, affordable instrument that you
could possibly get. So yeah, no, we played like B
A G b ag like that was uh, Hot Cross Buns.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Of course, everybody, you fucking that's the first track you
learn on Cross Buns. That's right, you know what I mean?
But apparent I didn't realize that. Like it's like the
reason too, is that it helps like with creative thinking
skills like finger dexterity.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Yeah, I was like, what the fuck? I was like,
my teacher is just a weirdo making us play this
shitty plastic flute. But no, there's it turns out there
was a reason. There's more than just Mary had a
little lamb. I'll have to look into it, but anyway, Sarah,
thank you so much for joining us on the Daily Guys.
It's been a pleasure. It's been wonderful talking to you.
Where can people find you? Follow you, get your book,

(01:07:12):
all that stuff, and hear more from you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Yeah, I mean, my book's available wherever books are sold.
You can get it anywhere. It's on Kindle. There's an
audiobook that I recorded myself, so you know, if you
want to listen to it, you can do that while
you're driving. And you can go to sarahcpr dot com
for all my other info.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Great handle And is there a work of media, social
or otherwise music arts, anything, something that's inspired you that
you'd like to share with the class.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
Yeah. I love Timothy Shallomet's kind of white SoundCloud wrapper
impression on SNL this past weekend. It was I've watched
it like fifty times at this point. It is so funny.
It makes me crack up every single time. I don't
know if you guys have seen it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
No, no, no, I gotta watch. Yeah, now I'm gonna
watch it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
Watched to watch the way that he has just captured
like dead eyes but also just like just mumbling and
just I mean, and he says, yeah, I got this
new track. It's a it's a it's about capitalism. But
he doesn't say capitalism. He says capitalism, capitalism, and then
he's like, people be capping all the time, it's so funny,

(01:08:22):
so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Uh you stop the cap. Stop the cap, y'all, stop
the cap. Break. I said, break, Blake, where can people
find you? Who follow you? And all that good stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
I'm at Blake at Brake Wexler on all social media,
and then my hour special Daddy Long Legs is still
streaming on YouTube. December first, I'm gonna be in Ashville
at Catawbab Brewing, and then December sixteenth, someone from the
Zeit Gang, which is the fans of the show, helped
me set up I'm going to start doing a monthly

(01:08:56):
show in Brooklyn at Strong Rope Brewing in go on it.
So December sixteenth is the first show at eight am
and John helped set that up. And happy birthday to
Paul Garatmenta, who is a PG.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Yeah we know PG. Yeah yeah yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
Pg's down with all the shows we make. I always
appreciate all the support from Zeitgang. And guess what we notice.
We appreciate We know it, really do, We really do
because it allows me to continue to tell my family
that I am a podcaster and yes, that is how
I support myself. That was the goal.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
This was so much fun. You guys are so much fun.
I do have to I do have to say that
this was enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
Amazing, so for you our a legend. Thank you so
that it does mean a lot to us because you
are very talented and exceptional and like I said, your
reputation preceded you and it's really great to have you.
And it turns out you are a cool person and
not a ship back. We love that. We love that
you can. You can find me at Miles of Gray

(01:09:55):
wherever they're serving at Symbols. You can find our show,
The Daily Guys at the Daily Zeit Guys on Twitter
at Daily Zeit Guys on Instagram. We got a Facebook
page of website, Daily Zeit guys dot com or post
episodes in our footnotes, but no, thank you, Blake little late,
but I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
And oh, I just want to say, what do you
want from it? I know, I know, I know. The
tweet that I do like I do want to shout
out at Saji star BB.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Might be something to do with Sagittarians said.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
The quote you don't owe anyone anything. Generation is the
loneliest generation to date. Shocking, shocking, totally, totally, totally. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
And also, let's say, let's see a song that we're
gonna write out on.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Obviously that's gonna be the footnotes. U is this from
this artist Root Good? Are you g a w D?
I think they're a bassist, but they have like this.
This track is called almost and like the album art
for it is like a Hello Kitty but like a Gundam.
But the music is really kind of funky futuristic. So
if you like that kind of thing, check it out.
Rgot are you gawd? With Almost? All Right, that's gonna

(01:11:01):
do it for us today. We'll be back later to
tell you what's trending. Uh, And I guess we will
see you then. Bye. M h

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