Governor Matthew McConaughey? Squid Game Obsesh 10.4.21

In episode 1001, Jack and Miles are joined by host of Podcast But Outside Andrew Michaan to a COVID pill, Texans not really feelin Abbott? Alex Jones losing big in court, murders being up, someone paid over $90K for the performance rights to a famous jingle,  Squid Game-Mania is Taking Over the World and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Covid Pill Might Even Help Anti-Vaxxers
2. Texans not really feelin Abbott?
3. Speaking of Texas, Alex Jones LOST BIGLY in court
4. Are Murders Up For Same Reason They Were Down Before - Life Saving Healthcare?
5. Someone paid over $90K for the performance rights to a famous jingle
6. Squid Game-Mania is Taking Over the World
7. Juggaknots - Clear Blue Skies

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
episode one of Daily's. Like, guys, you know it's a
production of I Heart Radio. You also may know that
it's a podcast where you take a deep dive into
America's share consciousness. And of course, uh, if you if
you looked at a freaking if you look at your
freaking phone today, you know that it's Monday, October four,

(00:24):
National Taco Day for those who celebrate National Cinnamon Day
for those of us who, and also National Vodka Day.
What a combo? What a ben diagram? It's a party.
October fourth is is a party. My name is Jack O'Brien,
a k podcast. Come Home Hungry. I know she left

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me pizza by the stairs, the toppings. Let me know
she cares say it ain't so there's tomato picking it off,
not in my home, and its courtesy a CHRISTI a
Gucci slain because it is October, of course, very spooky,
and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my

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co host Mr Miles Ground Soaking time, my friends jump
on the bed. If we don't pop, it's all right,
soaking time. Turn all of the lights off over every

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more main boying girl we need Jopp being friends to
help us bone. We need Jopp being friends to help
us bone. Okay, shout out to Hank Skippy over that
closing time. You heard the soaking anecdote and you turned

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it into gold. So thank you Hank on the discord. Yeah, yeah,
what a song, um? And our our was it? In
reference to mine? Was a reference to the fact that
I don't like tomatoes on pizza much much less exciting
than yeah, soaking, the Mormon sex hack, Yeah, Mormon sex hack,
the tomato thing or yeah, the tomato thing. Okay, just check.

(02:16):
Yeah that was awesome. Uh. Well, that voice you here
is joining us on our third seat. He is a
hilarious comedian, actor, writer, podcast host. He's one of the
hosts of the Very Funny Show podcast but Outside. He
was named two thousand fifteen number one comedian on the

(02:37):
Top one thousand Comedians. Listen, please welcome the hilarious and
talented Andrew Mashawn. Thank you, thank you for having me
and my song about me is happy. But no, I
don't know. I did not know it was a musical podcast. Um,
so I don't have a song prepared, but just know that, Um,
if I had one prepared. It would have been awesome.

(02:58):
It's very clear to everyone listening that you have song
in her heart. Yeah. Last time you're on, you're like
you said the same thing, Like I didn't know it
was a song. I would have came with one. I
really don let us down this second go around. Wow,
I should have known. You know. Well, it's been a
normal couple of years. So yeah, problem November nine, what's

(03:20):
going on? Dude? Pick up left off? I well, I
haven't really been paying attention. Um, so I don't know.
Everything's been good for me, cool cool, um, Yeah, No,
it's good to be back. Thank you for having me.
I'm gonna I'm gonna come clean here and let you
know that I have forgotten that we met, forgot that
you were on the show, and then become a fan
of yours through podcasts but outside since thank you and

(03:44):
without realizing that you have been on this show. So
that's perfect. Podcast outside is very very funny. Yeah, before
you came on, he's like, you know, Andrew like, well, yeah, man,
it's very funny. I was like, father, you need hey.
I honestly, actually that makes you're a fan of my show,

(04:05):
Like that makes it more pure. You know, yeah, that
was just a pure enjoyment outside of the fact that
you and I are close friends. Yes, exactly. There it
is great. What's good with you, man, other than you're
back from Coast three, I'm doing well. Yeah, how was that?
It was great? You know, and it was really nice,
and honestly, like, looking back, I'm very glad that I

(04:28):
did go in November in tween nineteen because I tried
to go out of the country once a year and
it was a really great trip. And then, you know,
if I had known that I wouldn't be able to
leave the country for a long time after that, Like
it was, it was perfect timing to be able to go.
Great country, highly recommend it, easy place to travel, and
everyone's very nice, very beautiful. I love to see it.
And I'm actually going to leave the country again for
the first time since then in November, so timing there.

(04:52):
I'm going to Coast it and I'm just going I'm
going to I'm going to Iceland actually, which I've never
been to. WHOA, what's the weather like at that time
of year? Super? I think it's kind of cold year round.
Apparently it's just always cold, but that is definitely when
winter is in the swing of it's like in the
full swing of winter, so there might be a little
more snow, but I think it's just universally cold and

(05:13):
frigid there. But it is like you know, it'll get
dark like at like four or five pm when we
first got there, and then by the time we leave
it'll get dark at like three pm. Like it really
drastically over the course of November. Yeah, but there's like
boiling hot water just like shooting up out of the
earth there all that. Yeah. Yeah, man, I want to
go there so bad. I studied a lot of Viking

(05:34):
history in college and like Iceland's eyes, and I'm like,
I got it. I need to see it because a
lot of the people that like ended up habitating that
place where like fleeing the Vikings. They're like, let's get
over here. Did the Vikings ever go there? And like, yeah,
I'm sure they did. I mean I as far as

(05:54):
I can remember, what was that fourteen years ago? Yeah,
I mean that's like those are the remnants that you
hold on your like, I know they were fleeing the
other Vikangs and then they have a great soccer team
that overperforms. Well, I'll let you know how it is. Yeah,
it seems like a nice, easy place to travel. And
also it's like nineties six percent vaccinated kind of thing,

(06:16):
and you have to be vaccinated go in. So as
far as like, it feels like a safe first trip
after this whole thing. All right, Andrew, we're going to
get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
we're talking about. There is a COVID pill that might
even help some anti baxtors out there, because yeah, because
you actually, yeah, it's a it's a pill that gives

(06:39):
you COVID. It didn't take the mystery out of it,
you know, Yeah, just knock it, knock it out, you know. Yeah,
because whatever someone says, where'd you get it? Like you
don't know what to say, But now you're like, oh,
I got it from this pill. I got it from
the pill pill. Yeah, you gotta just roll the dice.
And it's because I mean, honestly, if you haven't had it,
you're you're always wondering like, how would I do if
I got it? So, um, No, this is a pill

(07:02):
that you can take after you get COVID though, which
you know, we we've heard a lot of cases of
people who are antivactors until they're like, you know, heading
into the hospital from COVID symptoms, and then they're like please,
and then it's too late, but we got a pill there,
Like will you take this FDA approved treatment? Right? How
about this one? Why don't you just tell me what

(07:25):
you want to do. We're gonna talk about Texas, a
couple of Texas stories. We are going to talk about
the murder rate. We're gonna talk about the folders jingle.
We're going to talk about squid Game. Andrew, you have
you watched squid Game? Yes? I have seen two episodes
of squid Game. Okay, we're I've seen episode seven and

(07:48):
episode nine. But the character development needs to work. Yeah,
it needs work. Yeah, I don't know what the hell
they're thinking. Uh. And well, we'll talk about a couple
other stories. All of that plenty more. The first, Andrew,

(08:09):
we do like task our guests, what is something from
your search history? This is gonna be boring because I
already addressed it. But the last thing I really searched
was about the active volcano in Iceland. Because I'm trying
to see that while I'm there. There's been a volcano.
It's been active for a few months and it's like
the first time in decades and it's been active, and
apparently you can just go and see lava pouring out
of it. So why are you referring to it in

(08:29):
such general terms? Why don't you just flawlessly pronounced the
name of very very good question. Well, if you must know,
I searched active volcano in Iceland right now, I did
not search the name. And it is a lot of
sas and k's and vs. Is it the same one
that like shut down air traffic in Europe a few
years I don't think so. I think it's all another one.

(08:51):
I mean the country, the country is full of them,
but this one in particular is like just been very
consistent all year, just like tons of lava and you
can hear written see it and it looks cool. Yeah,
that's what I'm gonna try to see that. It's interesting.
Like That's the one detail that is stuck with me
about any time I've read about Iceland is that like

(09:11):
there's just hot like just a natural supply of hot water.
That is, like they have all these like hot water baths,
public baths and then like hot spring. Yeah, I love it.
That's my favorite. But like that's how that where they
get electricity is also from just like the naturally heated water.
And yeah, so it's it's a very steampunk country. Well, yeah,

(09:36):
what is something you think is overrated? My thing that
I think is overrated right now is COVID nineteen. Hey,
everyone's talking about it, and everyone's freaking obsessed with the thing.
And it's been two years of COVID this and COVID that,
and it's such a small little guy, but everyone's talking
about it, even this labs. Yeah, even the slabs are

(09:59):
talking about it. Who isn't talking about it? No? But
that is truly like, at this point in this journey,
it's like, that's the thing that I'm just like. I mean,
obviously it's sad and people are dying in our society
is being torn apart on ideological grounds, but it's also
just I'm sick of it, right, It's yes, And I mean,
I know you have to talk about it, and you

(10:20):
other stuff to talk about, but it's like, for the
sake of our conversations, hopefully we'll get over this thing soon. Yeah,
It's funny because the art piece you're sitting in front
of kind of looks like a COVID. Yeah, and I
had this art piece before COVID. But no, I mean,
it is just like, it's so interesting to think of,
like when we first started hearing rumors of this thing,

(10:42):
and you know, early nineteen or sorry, to think that
like two years later or whatever, we would still be
talking about it and obsessed with it's pretty nuts. Yeah. Yeah,
there's not really anything to say. Also, but that is
also part of the conversation now. I feel like every
Zoom meeting I have starts with the somebody saying, how's

(11:07):
it going, and then people being like, you can't even
ask that anymore. I'm like, yes, this has all been prescripted.
I wonder if culturally there's ever been anything that has
been this like long lasting of a story, you know, right.
I don't mean to be a down it's not. I
mean it's interesting. This pills sounds interesting that, Yeah, I

(11:29):
guess so. But I was every conversation like war stuff,
I think it was. But yeah, I think it is
like that, Like that is the closest we've come to
having just a story that was affecting everybody around the globe,

(11:51):
just not on global warming. Yeah, that would be that
would be one if anybody talked about it. That's opposite,
right oh boy, Yeah yeah, I guess Hitler, Hitler and
COVID they kind of take the kick. Yeah, yeah, there's uh,
I guess uh. In America, nine eleven was a real uh,

(12:12):
it was a real doozy if you were eleven the
year later. I don't think so, you know what I mean,
Like this is like this is like one of those
things like to your point, every day there will have
to be an utterance of it. Yeah, but yeah that's
because yeah, I wonder at what point it will become
like when it does end, like what the time spend

(12:33):
is on like COVID nineteen discussion, you know, like is
it gonna be like no one's gonna talk about an
a year later? It's like actually kind of kitchy to
bring it up and like funny, like what's the what's
the timeline of exists on the social spectrum? Right? Well,
I'm more curious to if like if it affects things
like saying how are you you know, like to your point,
Jack of how like on a zoom called people like
I don't even what's the even the point of saying it? Like,

(12:55):
we all know she's very grim, so hey things are
grim side from that thing. And I don't know if
we come up with a new way of being like
yeah you all right, all right, like and it's just
not how are you just more of like an assumed
yeah you good? All right? Yeah? Will it ever be
okay again? For people with just like boundless positive energy,

(13:20):
like the CEOs of the world, to just be like
I am great, I'm amazing, thank you for asking. Like
I feel for them, you know, they's them out there. Yeah,
I worry about them. Uh, Andrew, what is something you
think is underrated? Um, taking a nice hot shower. You know.
I feel like there's been all this discussion recently about

(13:42):
these celebs who don't shower, and then during the pandemic,
I feel like people kind of use it as a
point of pride of like, I haven't taken a shower
in ten days quarantine much so I kind of think
that And I like to take a shower every day.
It's how I start my day. It kind of feels
like the moment that day I started, So for me,
I think that is underrated right now, And you're not

(14:04):
saying this because there are flies visible in my zoom box.
You don't know. I'm not referencing anything I can smell
over zoom problems. I don't know, Like, how did you
but Jack, I'm curious, how did you actually get stink
lines to appear? Yeah? That that is kind of the
experiment was could I get the stink lines to stink
lines scientifically possible? And the lines that actually show the

(14:27):
flies motion as it circles around. Yeah, it's like an
old Matt Graining comic strip. There's something like almost like
I I can't fully wake up unless I've had a shower.
I feel like I also feel like, as connected as
we are to our phones and the internet, like shower
is one of the only times you can get away. Man,

(14:50):
I gotta gotta got the wall. They're just text and
built in. Just how hot a shower do you all go?
Because I know people like I used to. I realized
when I was younger, I had no palette or skin
tolerance level for like a really like hot shower. Like
I remember the difference between when like my mom would

(15:11):
have like what that was, like, oh my god, are
you burning yourself? And then what I would get into
where people like this is cold and now like I'm
damn near burning my fucking skin off when I go. Yeah,
I like to push it to the limit. I think
you do. Okay, Yeah, I think I like to go
where it's uncomfortable and then go one notch down right right, Yeah,
like you gotta find right, you find that point and

(15:33):
then we we bit back. Yeah. Yeah, I'm baby at
like Lukewarm show, Luke I'm a baby okay, baby, I mean,
I just my my wife likes it way hotter than
I do, and so that's the only thing I really
have to compare it to. And but I've I've heard

(15:55):
other people say that their wives are like take their
showers hotter than they do, and maybe that's just because
I'm friends with just a bunch of babies. No, that's
an old Seinfeld joke. He's like, what's up with wives
and their showers? Hot? Hot shower? Yeah, it's totally it's

(16:21):
I I feel like that is one of those personal
like what my five year old like his bathwater super
duper hot and my three year old does not, and
that makes things very difficult, right. Yeah, we did put
like a dividing wall in the bathfower. Like here's the
hot zone and baby zone. He can't make the baby

(16:41):
like take the hot shower. So it's just it just
sucks for the five. You know what. I actually had
an invention as a kid that I still have never
seen it incorporated, because I used to take bath when
I was a kid, and the idea was, maybe you
guys have seen this before, a bath with a spigott
on both sides the bath and you're trying to warm
it up and you get on one side, yeah, and

(17:03):
you gotta like move it over. How come wish people
don't have two spig Just just an idea. I used
to use a like h like this toy hockey stick
that I had just like a cauldron. Yeah, it was
like like there's like this dumb fucking to I remember
the early nineties where it was like an electronic like

(17:23):
indoor hover puck. It was like basically a like a
hover craft, but in the shape of like a puck
with like that was all foam and you turned it
on and like the fan would sort of like lifted
off the ground. And to play with it, you had
these dumb plastic sticks that became my bathster or like
I was making bath booze and ship. Remember my mom
was like, what are you doing. I'm like, it's just

(17:45):
it's too hot on this side, trying to even the
ship up. Yeah, I thought the hockey thing, the like
hockey game you were describing, had something to do with
the bath that was so confused. Are you guys fans
with that? Are you as fans of showers that like
hit you from all the different angles? Have you ever
been in one of those where it's like the spot

(18:08):
in Vegas? I thought that's that's the best example I
can think of. Yeah, it's just hard. Yeah, like you
can't like lather up though with that on, you know
what I mean? Immediately like I need some soap to
stay on momentarily. Yeah, you gotta find safety in the corner.
But the for me, the like whenever there's something like
something like the rain fall ahead like directly over my skull,

(18:31):
whenever I've been in a thing, I'm like, this is it? Yeah,
being like you know six ft, you know six one,
you know a lot of them. They just kind of
blast you, like right on top of your forehead. So
I appreciate something. I'm right there with you, brother, I'm
six one to exactly. It's like, yeah, alright, well let's

(18:52):
take a quick break and we'll be right back. And
we're back, and there's a pill that just had a
great trial. Now they nailed the trial. Good job, merk.

(19:13):
We're always pulling for those guys. So basically, when taken
by people who already have COVID, it cut the number
of deaths in half, I believe, and hospitalizations and hospitalizations.
So it's kind of a new that's a game changer. Yeah,
get a new changer in the game. Was how I
was going to put it, precisely like that changer in

(19:37):
the game. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, that's that's great
news for all the people who refused to take there's
like a look, if I'm gonna put my little conspiracy
had on a little bit, right, there's this whole All
of the mainstream news coverage of this has been like,
it's a game changer. This is especially going to be

(19:57):
great for it's a changer of the game changer or
in the game, you know, developing nations that have very
low vaccination rates. This could help offset the damage there.
But part of me is just like we'll hold on though,
because the thing that we were talking about was how
we were going to get the vaccine as widely available

(20:20):
as possible. And the big thing was a lot of
pharmaceutical companies like, well, we don't you know, it's proprietor
we don't not sharing anything because or this like really
tired argument that is saying ship like, well, you know,
some of the countries lack the facilities to develop these
medications and things like that, when they're completely ignoring the
fact that there are many medications that people consume that

(20:41):
are manufactured in these other countries, And so I'm like,
why don't It almost feels like they can give up
on the vaccine thing to then just do the well,
if everybody has COVID, then everybody's gonna need this pill,
maybe multiple times because of whatever. And I'm like, I
wish we still had the same emphasis on the back
the nation part of it too, but that would just

(21:03):
me be a little salty at the pharmaceutical companies for
not doing the right thing, which is to make the
fucking vaccine is widely available. Right, It's basically we've we've
you know, luckily come up with this miracle. But then
they're kind of like, all right, we have that miracle.
But here's something that's kind of okay too, and it's like, no,
get the miracle out there as many people as possible. Yeah,
but imagine there's like you're probably at actually like maybe
once and if you need a booster, okay in another time.

(21:24):
But dude, if you get COVID a bunch of times,
you're gonna take this bunch of times. We gotta take
eight pills a day as well. Yeah, But I mean again,
at the same time, that's not to discount the fact
that it will absolutely save lives because of the nature
of vaccination rates that I think for the longest time,
people were like, I think thinking like when will there
actually be a treatment for COVID that isn't going to

(21:46):
the hospital and just sort of addressing your symptoms and
these other interventions. Right, That's what seems crazy about this
pill is that you can take it at home, which
is the first time that there's been anything available for that,
right exactly. Well, I mean, we're not gonna talk about
iver maac and put bleach inside your skin. The race
to develop these treatments is definitely speeding up. Has progress

(22:09):
stalled on, like getting these vaccines to other countries. Just
look at the state of Africa right now. You know,
in the Congo there's I think eighties six million people
and it's like a point o or oh oh four
percent vaccination rate. It's like the lowest in the world.
It's like almost like it's like as if three white

(22:31):
people like traveled there and they change the vaccination rates
or something. But there's a huge lack of vaccination in Africa,
and that's why a lot of people have said, let
us do this ship here, like we can, we can
create stuff on the continent, or you with a global
effort helped create like more robust facilities to do that

(22:51):
and speed this up very quickly. And you know when
you look at those kind of like when you look
at that situation, I'm like, well, I like at some
point where this vaccine has to be as widely available
as possible, because this is going to be something that,
as most epidemiologist say, like, we're gonna have to deal
with this for a while. So to just cut to
the treatment part, I feel like it's very lucrative for

(23:13):
pharmaceutical companies and is helpful, but it's but like there
was also a dire gap in vaccination rates in you know,
Africa and the rest of the developing world. Yeah, and
it feels very much like our sort of centrist mainstream
media too be be like, oh, they made a pill,
you can just they made a product that people can buy,

(23:36):
so we're good. You know, that'll do it. But it
does provide a relief because I think for the longest time,
it almost just felt like, well, if you get COVID,
you thug it out and hope that your body is
you know, your their constitution is robust enough to handle it,
or you end up in a hospital and to know
what they're interesting is like I feel like that mentality
also leads to low vaccination rates, like the fact that

(23:58):
the is like whatever your constitution is, Like there's a
certain number of Macha people who are like, I'm strong,
Actually I don't need the vaccine. So it's actually worked
in our detriment that mentality. Yeah, there was just a
story about how bad Like, I feel like we got
a lot of news when COVID ripped through cities, and

(24:20):
I I kind of had a sense that it had
been bad for rural communities just based on the like
politics of the people there. But there's a new report
that's just saying that it's really really because of the
fact that it is rural areas have poor health, unvaccinated
people more likely to live in poverty. Medical facilities are

(24:42):
often inadequate or overcrowded. It's just been the head of
the National Rural Health Association said, we turned rural communities
into kill boxes, which is yeah, but I mean that's
it makes sense when you kind of if you spent
time him in rural community. There's also like a vibe
like I visit my mom like earlier this year after

(25:04):
I got vaccinated and stuff, and they're even just talking
to her over the last couple of years. Like, there's
definitely a vibe in smaller places where they're kind of like, no,
we're we're out here, we're chill like you here was good,
No one looks sick like, and it's just like and
then they're they're all at their guard down and then
it all kind of spread into their communities. We die
politely in our own homes, yeah, quietly. Well, Uh, let's

(25:26):
talk Texas first. There's a there's a Quinnipiac pole that
is saying that Greg Abbott's currently not very popular, like
the majority of the voters in Texas don't think he
deserves another term, which would be great news if they
really liked one of the people who's running against him.

(25:48):
But we've got thirty three who think Beato would make
a good governor. And then the real news here think
Matthew McConaughey would make a good governor. Maybe are you
doing your warm up acting ship? Yeah, I mean twenty

(26:13):
five percent think McConaughey. Yes, because os it on the
pole or was it a right? Yeah, because there was
like murmurs and stuff and they said, look, what do
you think that's alarming? Not because I'm you know, like
the fact that I gets comparatively be like yeah, I

(26:34):
mean at this point, I'm like, yeah, probably Matthew McConaughey
probably would do a better job than than Greg Abbott.
But still to be like, I think Matthew McConaughey would
be good, that is a little worrying given the trajectory
of like or the evolution of the kinds of people
that are running for office, where you know, maybe that
does happen. But I think with as it relates to

(26:55):
Greg Abbott, it's just clear that all of his policies
are just wildly um popular, like even with Republicans, like
sevent of Texans were like, you know, this abbot like
abortion thing is like absurd, Like it's absolutely this is
unfathomable because most people, like you know, I think the
one the most humane thing that pro life people take

(27:17):
as it relates to an abortion is like in cases
of like rape or incest, they'll say, well, yeah, there
there are exceptions where it's fairs, sense and and and etcetera, etcetera.
And this has proven, I think, I guess, to be
unpopular with most people. Now what happens with that, I
don't know, because at the same time, they have very
aggressive voter suppression hitting the books in that state. So

(27:40):
he might not need much more than a barely fifty
percent to win or something the election next year, I believe.
So we don't actually know that. Okay, no, no, you
just it's a mid term. It's part of the mid terms.
And you had a good alert from Matthew McConaughey. He

(28:01):
saw the news story started whoa governor of Texas? That
guy's bad? Huh, maybe got a chance here. First thing
I look for is are there new picks that come
with this pick? With this news Break And I mean, look,
I'm looking at my linking in my driveway right now,
and I bought that thing because of his commercial. I'm
on board. He like, it's not just like murmurs. Behind

(28:24):
the scenes. Matthew McConaughey has said he's measuring a run
for governor. So he's openly speculating that he's he's going
to run. Just find someone. I mean, look, I I
have it. Betto tried to beat Ted Cruz. It didn't
work out for him. I'm curious. I don't know, given
the fact that only thirty three of these people pulled

(28:46):
were interested in him, what that actually means to mount
a serious challenge against Greg Abbott. So I'm curious if
they somehow find someone that actually threads that needle of
like being a Democrat, who you know, may have what
it takes to you know, get a plurality of votes.
But I know it's impossible in Texas. Maybe it is McConaughey. Yeah,

(29:13):
what what would that be? What the debate look like?
Probably be the most entertaining debate of all time? Yeah?
Like what ver like? And does he just use like
mcconaugheyisms up there? And he were like fuck yeah. He's like,
the budget is a flat circle, and you're like what okay,

(29:33):
and he does everything is a flat circle. That's all.
It's all campaign. It's about flat circles, Governor McConaughey, what
about climate, Well, the planet is actually a flat circle.
There was like, okay, I call it the firmament. No no, no, no, no, no,
never mind. The moon's a spotlight, all right, party at

(29:58):
the moon tower. That was actually a tower that the
moon was on. You know, Matthew McConaughey seems like a
nice guy though, right am I fallone for it? Yeah?
Probably this seems cool. I mean, I feel like there
was something that came out like recently where his politics
were clearly not in the right place, Like where I

(30:20):
was like, of course, you're just like a guy who
spent time in Hollywood, so you've collected a lot of
like like democratic opinions. But whether or not you're like
living that or believing that, I think it's a completely
other discussion because dude, it's Matthew McConney Like that's not
so I'm saying, come on, now, we don't need people
like that. We need like people who have like activist

(30:42):
backgrounds or like coming from the communities that actually need help.
Like that's how we're going to find things. But for
a laugh, fuck it? Why not? Sure? Fine? The Houston Chronicle,
by the way, has the headline from last week time
as a flat circle. Matthew mcconne, hey still measuring. They
didn't even like find a way to like cleverly put

(31:03):
it into the thing. They just said, he's measuring a
run times of flat circle. Remember that. Remember that. Like
sometimes I as as silly as it is, I am
surprised that more celebrities haven't had more success running for
politics just because of how much I mean, I guess

(31:26):
Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump about like among the most
powerful politicians of our lifetime, and like they were both
just people who kind of hacked the system and more
like I look like a president and I'm doing the
thing that makes you. Yeah, there's a question if you
could have any a list celebrity be the president, you

(31:48):
think they would actually do a good job. Who who
would be your pick? It's a great question. Yeah. I
haven't thought of it either, but I think they're fiery. Yeah, Okay, gang,
he knows, he knows, he knows. Food is important. So, like,

(32:09):
I feel like he would really address issues like hunger
and access to and he's got a great record as
it relates to lgbt Q rights and like doing like
mass weddings for same sex couples. I also feel like
being in a restaurant is inherently working with the lower
class and like people who have been to away jobs,
and I feel like to understand apply to the common

(32:30):
worker in a big way, right, although that he might
take their restaurant tours you and he's like, what's wrong
with tips? Guy? Come on, but she's done the most.
He's like raised so much money during the pandemic for restaurants. Yeah,
so I think I think that's the right answer. And
he he's he's like kind of every man enough to

(32:52):
appeal to the demographics of If it's someone like Tom Cruise,
people are just gonna be like, no, he's a rich celebrity,
like he's in Hollywood and guys a little more of
the people. Yeah that, but guys a little more of
the people. The guy could go to like the reddest
parts of the state. Exactly. That's exactly I mean he does.
He's wearing the uniform. Yeah, and as you know, the

(33:16):
assignment was an A list celebrity, And I mean you
picked an A plus list celebrity, right, Yeah, what are
you trying to say, Jack, You're being flipping here that
no okay good. I'm just saying, like when you were
at Conde Nast and like they did the Vanity Fair
post Oscars party, wasn't he like the first first name
on the list? We come on, Jack, I told you

(33:39):
that in secret we had to kick him out. We
kicked him out, We said, get out of here. We
don't know who you are. Make way for Vin Diesel,
who's drunk. Well, speaking of Texas, Alex Jones just lost
in court and the kind of a big, big lee. Yeah,
like what was this the so this is the the

(34:00):
case where he was harassing the families of Sandy Hook shooting,
the whole crisis actors, claiming that they were crisis actors
and they had their lives of ruined after they already
had their lives of ruined exactly with harassment campaigns and
people be like, you're just trying to get their guns
taken away because that's what Alex told me. And so

(34:21):
many families sued him for defamation in Connecticut and also Texas,
and you know, he's done a lot of things, like
in his depositions he came around's like no, like I
actually believe it, like that that's not true. And and
we've heard him also say things to the effect of
like I'm like more of a performance artist. And also
like in his own words, he said that he was
suffering like a form of psychosis, which led to him

(34:44):
saying that but that was amongst so many different excuses
that he gave out to try and be like just
leave me alone. Well, a judge just ruled against him
in full wars with like a pretty scathing ruling, which
is essentially saying like he won, he lost by defall,
which is like the worst kind of way you can lose,
like where they're just like not the judge like, I'm

(35:04):
over this. You're not cooperating, you've been abusing the discovery process,
You've not been following any of the rules. In fact,
you've gone back on so many things you said that
that's it. I'm like, this is you've as as they say, yeah,
it seems hard to it seems hard to make the
argument that you were like suffering from psychosis, that you
are no longer suffering from and that you temporary, It

(35:26):
was temporary, and I was going through a lot, and
I don't know what that actually the medical deft the
show in that same persona like, how how does he
just look look, look, my honor. That that's I don't
know why I'm on trial here, okay, And that's I
thought that would be enough to be given some form
of sympathy for what's going on. But yeah, so now

(35:48):
a jury is going to decide, like how much he's
going to owe the plaintiffs, And I can imagine it
would be significant, you'd think, But unless it's like a
lot of Info Wars fans in that jury, the you'd
imagine that they would be like, yeah, that's untold suffering
that has been compounded by this person's wise, it's kind
of the worst thing anyone's done. And pulp like it's

(36:11):
so it's just so bad perspective. It's it's a real
like hard one to justify. I'm I'm just even confused
as to how uh, and he's made sort of mounting
any defense while still doing the same show with the
same points of perspectives that are causing this massive harm. Well,
and it's so funny, like all these claims that these

(36:34):
you know, these SMAs school shootings are crisis actors and
it's all employees kind of like, well, there's been a
ton of them and zero gun control legislation, so it's
not like it's even effective if they are, if they
really are employs, it's like, well, they're not working, so
calm down. Yeah, And I think, but that's that's the
thing about these sort of like thought killing conspiratory cliches

(36:58):
that people like that throw out. It's just like, yeah,
faking it to go after the Second Amendment? Is it? Actually?
But I don't care because that's that's the thing that
activates my outrage. Of course it's not working, because we
pointed out there were crisis are I wanted to talk about.
So there there's a stat that I'm seeing a lot

(37:20):
of places recently about how murders were up in murders
seemed to be trending upwards. One the New York Times
just published an article about it last week, and they
spend multiple paragraphs like suggesting that the Black Lives Matter
protests are in somewhere or another like responsible. And so

(37:45):
I wanted to just put this theory out here that
they don't really mention in any other than to say that,
like healthcare was under stress. But there are a lot
of articles before the pandemic even about how the drop
in the murder rate has a lot to do with
the fact that these like emergency medical care systems got

(38:09):
way way better at like helping people helping shooting victims,
and so the drop in murders you're seeing is actually
just more people surviving the shootings essentially, And when you
when you look at that, it seems like it at

(38:29):
the very beginning of the pandemic, when the like you know,
hospitals were being stretched to the breaking point. That was
kind of one of the first thoughts I had, is like, wow,
so many people must be dying that weren't dying before.
But like that isn't really being raised as an explanation,
and I think it's so. Penn Medicine, which is like

(38:53):
one of the best hospitals for you know, helping shooting victims,
just released a study in Money about how like they
basically did a they tried to count the number of
shooting injuries, like including people who don't die, and they
were basically saying, like that number is not counted like,

(39:15):
which is bonkers to me, but it seems to kind
of be part of the whole thing we've seen where like,
you know, shootings by police officers are not counted. Gun
deaths were not counted for a long time, even though
the CDC was fighting for them to be counted, because
the gun lobby was more powerful. And so it's just,

(39:39):
you know, the things that are happening that I think
are most responsible for this is one, like, there's just
not the the health care system is being stretched to
the breaking point, and the health care system was a
big reason, a big thing keeping the murder rate from
being incredibly like much higher before. And then also there's

(39:59):
just you know, the media and the gun companies are like,
you know, conspiring to drive up gun sales, and so
there's way way more guns now on the street than
there ever has been. Those would seem to be like
the two main contributing factors. And yet this New York
Times article doesn't mention, uh, it mentions the fact that

(40:22):
they're more guns, but it doesn't like really connected to
the like, doesn't it doesn't really make a compelling case.
I guess they're just like that's one of the things Yeah,
I think it's really interesting too, and the stuff you
wrote here, Like it's interesting that it's difficult to get
statistics on how many gun injuries there are versus gun
deaths because the gun lobby just like doesn't want that
information to get out there of like how many people

(40:44):
are injured by guns annually. Yeah, I think that's really fascinating.
And yeah, speaking of like under reporting, is that new
sort of study that came out that saying police are
under reporting fatal shootings too that are being properly attributed
to the police, And that found that like, yeah, black
people were three and a half times more likely to

(41:06):
die by police gunfire than than any other demographic or
what actually than white people. And so yeah, there's like
a lot of there's so many different sort of explanations
for things, and it's there's been a few that was
connecting this study to say, like, what it looks like
we need more cops exactly. So what this looks like
If this is the case and Black Lives Matter protests

(41:28):
and uprisings made police feel bad, then god, I mean,
maybe we just need more cops to brutalize people who
are just out there in the streets and that would
solve it. But that doesn't seem like a coherent solutioned
the the populations where there are where they're seeing the
biggest spike in murder rates are in isolated, marginalized communities

(41:54):
where you know, and they're part of the American healthcare
system where you are deemed not worthy of life saving
medical care if you don't have a full time job.
And like the problem, they're going to say, the problem
is too few police. It's just fucking inexcusable, Like especially
during this last year, which is like proven more than

(42:14):
any other time, Like how interconnected everything is, Like the
fact that there are more shooting deaths because of COVID
because they can't get care because of the like it's
all so thoroughly connected that just to say there were
some protests a year ago and that's why more people
are dying, it's just like not accurate, rather than you know,
zooming out far enough to say, what's the root cause
of crying? How do we stop the criminals? More police,

(42:40):
rather than oh, we actually need to provide opportunity for
more people left your own devices, your recourse in trying
to survive maybe extra legal activity yea. And then to
feel safe, and then to feel safe doing that, you
have to have a gun, and and it just all
is compounded. Yeah, And I just just want to go
on the record of saying, like, for the past decades,

(43:02):
my murder rate has stayed at zero every year. Yeah,
for decades and decades. That's your guarantee. Yeah, guarantee. I'm
at zero and that's not changing any time soon. So
I just want to get that out there. Could you imagine,
like Andrew a bunch of people at what the fuck?
Our fact checker actually came back and said, that's not accurate?

(43:27):
Were you laughing? Self defense is different self defense with
with wearing a Michael Myers mask, seasonal self defense Halloween. Like,
so all the stuff that we just talked about gets
either less than a paragraph or no mention. And then

(43:49):
the This New York Times article has three paragraphs that
begin with a sentence. The protests that erupted after the
police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis were also an
important fact during although experts differ about why, and then
they basically say the two possible explanations are that the police,

(44:10):
being under scrutiny and demoralized, pulled back from some aspects
of crime prevention. And then there's also the explanation others
put the emphasis on the public, suggesting that diminished respect
for the police prompted more people to try and take
the law into their own hands. What do you a
fucking principle from an eighties You fucking believe that this

(44:32):
is in the New York Times, Like there, dude, there
are something's up over there. They're fucking up, like the
suck up worse and worse every day. I don't think
I think this has been the way it is, Like
I think this is just all part of that sort
of central like mainstream media narrative that like, you know,
with respect the police and fucking right. But I guess

(44:53):
it's because it's like even other places like well maybe
we actually can be a little more nuanced and like
talk to there are sources of information to give up
better understanding. Where it's like, I think they're just probably
just so entrenched in their way of doing things that
they're not even really willing to challenge like the perspective
of the paper itself to say like is there, like
is there something where we can have a less like

(45:15):
pro law enforcement bend to it that isn't in an
op ed, like that's actually the reporting of the paper
and I don't know what you know, Yeah, and this
isn't or not that this is the reporting on the
murder rate being up. And yeah, I mean so much
of the mainstream media is like that sort of relationship
between the media and the police, where like they go

(45:38):
to the police for the official account of what happened,
and that that includes like statistical explanation. Yeah, hey, chief,
what can you tell us? Well, if these BLM protests
didn't happen many, there probably wouldn't be as many murders. Great,
thank you, I'll print that exactly, Like, don't you're not
gonna ask many anything? Okay, suck it. Maybe if they

(46:00):
didn't hurt our feelings. Basically, our feelings are hurt and
we do not like the black lives. I'm sorry, Chief,
did you say feelings? Uh? No, one, no further questions
at this time. I'm gonna go into my Amazon booth.
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
right back and we're back. All right, let's talk folders

(46:32):
real quick, and then we're gonna talk about a quick game. Yeah. Well, look,
the folders thing, right, if if I asked, y'all, do
you know do you know a song called Real Snowy Morning?
You're probably like, what the funk are you talking about? Well,
that is the name of the Folgers theme song. That

(46:52):
pretty much I'm gonna say, what what do you think
the cut off is? People thirty enough probably like if
you yelled it at him, they would know the best
part awaken up this folders in morning. Yeah, it's like
or they just were like, I'm an artist because they
think just the first commercial there was snow in the

(47:15):
background or something. I think there was like, well there
used to be like like there were more lyrics, you know,
like that just that was like sort of describing like
a scene where it wasn't just like there were lyrics
that preceded the best part of waking up as folders
in your cup. But anyway, that's a track called real
Snowy Morning. And what's very interesting is the like the
performers rights to this jingle was up for auction last week,

(47:39):
where essentially like you could buy their cut of their
performance rights to the jingle, so whenever it's played, if
you own them now, you would get cut in on
those residual payments, and the bidding of this started off
for at sixty three thousan dollars. They said, you can
own a part portion of the rights to this jingle.
It ended up going for I was in five dollars.

(48:02):
And the way this works is every time this ship
ariz on television with that song playing, they're gonna get
a cut. So far, in the last year, this thing
has paid out eleven thousand, seven seven dollars in like royalties. Now,
was that all from folders, Yeah, because it's that that
song it's tied. Yeah. Yeah, and they still do like

(48:22):
come they you know, they modernize it, but that that
little ditty typically a sonic tag. It's still in a
lot of their marketing stuff. But um, a lot of
people are noticing that, like the in the last like
they said, it's made about twenty dollars in the last
maybe ten years, and this actually like they only the

(48:43):
only really started making money again in the last two years.
So it's like also if folgers win another way, and
you know Amigos starts doing the fucking you're fucked, bro,
because if they don't use that sh anymore, then you
just have a slim shred of this commercial. Have you
guys seen the uh folder's commercial with the brother and
sister coming home? Yeah, Like I really want to suck

(49:06):
each other like so bad. It's like you're the president. Yeah,
you're my president. There's a lot of you know, there
was a piece that was written like a few years
ago where they did a fucking deep dive into that
commercial to try and talk to everyone involved to be like, um,
what the funk was that? And everyone's like I don't understand.

(49:27):
Like a lot of them are like, you guys are
fucking perverted. Like there's nothing aside from maybe those looks
that was making you think that, uh it was that sexual,
But I don't know the there was the way their
eyes light up at each other. Oh my god. Yeah,
have you seen it? Andrew? I haven't seen it, but
I do want to suck my sister, So I definitely
get the vibe. I for sure get the vibe. Let

(49:51):
me then, allow me to just play a little bit
of this, yeah, so people can understand and and look,
we we'll give you a running comment. All right, let's see.
You must have the wrong house. Yeah, I mean that

(50:13):
as flirty as hell, like he did. He's like, am
I at the wrong house. What they're in bed together? No,
that's why I'm a dad. That's the parents something far away, Okay, yeah,
I mean yeah, just he's like, here's your present, and
then okay it's that look up. There's a lot of looks.

(50:37):
I mean, this is very flirty. You're the present, Okay, yeah,
I mean like there there's even a moment where they
there's like an awkward moment where there's like eye contact
and then he has to break eye contact because otherwise
they would start kissing. Like that is that is that moment?
I don't, I mean the bashful eye contacted then looking

(50:59):
down is like so you universally sexual tension, yeah, like
in a rom com. Yeah, yeah, it's it's funny, they said.
Timothy Simon's from Veep. He was operating the cameras during
the auditions and callback phase of this commercial too. Like
he also contributed to this article about like there's like

(51:20):
it's just funny how much people have been like just
obsessed with this commercial like over the years to be
like this is the weirdest one or like just one
that's been hotly contested to be like what is the
what are y'all saying here? But I don't know if
they maybe the director was just really horny or something,
or the actors performance it's right, but did the director

(51:43):
go no, man like more tension. Man, sister just said,
you're the president. Man, let that land. Man, let's see
in your eyes. I mean it's also the camera shots,
like the shots are like weirdly sexual, like they're super
close in on his eye like looking at her like,
that's that's sexual tension right there, when you have your
chin down looking up. He smiles. That's my brother, sister.

(52:05):
And look, I'm an only child, so what the fund
do I know? But this would definitely if I saw
the two people do that, I'm like, do I need
to leave? Also, I just want to say this fucking
guy who apparently came back, I just haven't want to
add one last thing. He's like, oh man, I just
got back from West Africa. He's like, finally, coffee, really

(52:26):
Ethiopian coffee, Kenyan coffee, Ivory Coast. These people make. They
have coffee there that is really good. So finally coffee
that smells like they're just like that colonizer element to it.
It's an incestuous colonizer narrative. And I'm not here for
it with no coffee now wow, I mean yeah, I

(52:51):
wonder if they're there. Explanation is colored by the fact
that they like maybe really had a relationship or something
on the on the filming, because that that is some
serious palpable sexual test there. I almost like I want
to be great to hire these actors again and just
be like I'm doing like a comedy thing. Are you
down to reprise these roles? Like I'll pay you like

(53:13):
a fair rate, but like we're gonna take this. We're
going to continue like this commercial, like just we have
to see what happened the two days after this. It'll
be like Cousins the movie, except with siblings. Said, wait,
what's Cousins? I think that's a Ted Dancey movie where
he is fucking his cousin. My god, I think from Interesting.

(53:40):
I just remember always seeing it at the video store.
I think the videos com but yeah about Cousins. Yeah,
and it's like, gosh, won't people just be okay with
us fucking each other? Yeah? Anyways, squid Game is taking over.
Miles and I have watched episode one both right before

(54:01):
we going to bed last night, and then I didn't
sleep great, but um, I said grade. Actually, her majesty
just it was a little it was intense for her,
and I was like, you gotta decouple the violence from like,
what the the what the what the message is here?
You know what I mean. There's not just people getting
blasted left and right. I mean, like, what's it saying.
It's like it's still really hardcore. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

(54:21):
maybe I'm a little bit desensitized. And then Andrew, you
have watched episode eight and nine. Yeah, no, I watched
the episode wanted to. I actually think it gets better
at episode two. I think it goes in some surprising
ways which I will now spoil for everyone. And then
it's in No, but no, I do think the first
episode it's kind of like a little predictable but cool.
But the second episode does some surprising things where it

(54:43):
makes me think, oh, I'm excited to watch the rest
of the show. For you guys. Yeah, it makes some
interesting choices that I that you don't see coming and
that um, I think add more depth to the story
and the characters. It's interesting because a lot of the
like kind of mimified things that are happening are also
thing from the first episode. So at first, I was like, wow,
I was it was that like people people are slapping

(55:06):
each other in the subway, which seems like a random meme,
but that happens in the first episode. And then I
was wondering, are they just being are these all people
who only watched the first episode that they they were like,
I gotta go out there and express my love for
this first episode, or are they being super respectful of
those of us who haven't seen the second episode and

(55:28):
haven't good But yeah, I mean, so there's a there's
a they use a real phone number in in the
first episode, and when he gives him that like PlayStation card,
he gives him a place what looks like a PlayStation
card with what looks like the PlayStation logo on it,
and then on the other side as a phone number,

(55:49):
and that was a real phone number. It is the
most like centrally framed phone number that uh I could
imagine in a in a popular film. And then it
was real. There's a person whose life has been turned
upside down because they're now getting four thousand calls a day.
They are also a just random dude and his mid forties.

(56:12):
So I just want to quickly say all four thousand
dollars from me. Yes, I call it four thousand. I
signed the thing with my body rights. I'm ready. I'm ready.
I'm ready. But maybe you know the person is a
like a forty year old forty something person and who

(56:33):
like seems to be have seemed to have been randomly selected.
So maybe it's the filmmakers actually like doing something meta,
and that person is going to get pulled into a
dark game, and there's a I think they're gonna end
up being okay with all those calls because now a
South Korean semi fringe political candidate who's running for president

(56:55):
wants to buy the number for eighty five thousand dollars,
So I think, so, what what's the goal with that?
People call it and then there's like a message it's
just like, hey, you should vote for this guy. Yeah,
like that's what he's He's like, I've got a solution
to our inequality call of this number. Yeah, like, well, wait,
hold on, what's your platform exactly to kill a lot
of your squid game? I'm the costumes that that was

(57:22):
an immediate thought I had. The next time that I
thought about Halloween costumes is there seems to be some
very dope, very easy to pull off Halloween costumes throughout
the first episode, and there they are being sold online.
The ones I'm looking at don't look I don't know,
they don't look super trustworthy. The one of them just

(57:44):
says squid squid Game cosplay jumpsuit, squid game cosplay costumes,
squid game mass costumes, squid game like it looks like
it was just written by a s e O bot, right,
but you know, and then the track suit that the
listeners or whatever contestants have, is that what it actually

(58:04):
looks like and they look similar to that? Okay, all right, yeah,
all right. I didn't actually watch the whole first episode, guys,
only five minutes in. Uh actually quick questions, you guys
watching dubbed during Korean? What are you doing? Oh in Korean? Hey?

(58:25):
It started as dubbed for me and I like five
minutes in, I was like, I don't like this, but
watching yeah, dubbed, just like it takes so much away,
Like you can't really see the right performances of because
even if I don't speak the language like you can,
there's like there's a you know, an intangible quality that
that comes across the performance. And yeah, and I've actually

(58:46):
decided I like the second episode so much that I'm
not going to watch anymore until I become fluent in Korean.
So right, that's exciting. Have you started taking lessons or no? No, no, no,
I mean I'm not gonna let it happen naturally. I'm
just gonna wait for it to kind to come to me.
Oh yeah, yeah, like me in college. Yeah, exactly what.

(59:07):
You're gonna meet people for a long time. It's gonna
just no energy invested at all. It'll work out. Koreans
also a cool language. It sounds cool to hear, you know,
it's cool. I now have My wife is Korean. I
live basically in Koreatown. I have no excuse not to

(59:29):
learn Korean. Does she speak kore influently? She speaks Korean? Yeah,
I fluently. Um, her mom, who grew up in Korea
and dead grew up in Korea, are like, would not
say she speaks it fluently, but as hell to me? Yeah,
did you watch it with her? No, she was asleep,
So I'm gonna have to rewatch episode one and then Yeah,

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you know, sounds cool? Is that they said? Is that?
What they really said, is that you check the translation.
Somebody did so, but what did I say? It's anything
like yeah, contextually, am I missing anything? Or somebody did
like tweet that they were like, you know, like this

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is super annoying. I apologize, but as a fluent Korean
speaker they fucked up the subtitles, Like you really have
to be a fluent create appreciate the show writing. Yeah,
the writing is like amazing, but you wouldn't get that
from the subject. I mean that's a typical issue with
anything that's getting translated, because sometimes it may be someone
who's like super proficient in a language, like without fully

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being able to like recreate in words like what that
equivalent should be. Yeah, I mean there's also something poetic,
you know, Like I think when when books are translated,
there's like so much thought that goes into it because
you have to capture the kind of the poetic construction
of the of the words. And maybe yeah, maybe it's
with with TV shows people put less heart into it
or something, yeah, or it's just rushed, but yeah, that's

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a that to its own art form, like to be
able to translate. Like I remember once I helped translate
a Japanese film, but they had me come into like
punch up the diet, like to punch up the translation.
So it actually to a younger American person was like
an equivalent rather than like, hey, did you hear you
fuck you bastard. You know nobody's saying that. It's like

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fun off. Yeah. So a couple other like tie insto
it you can buy the depressing lunch box set that
the prisoners eat. I think that is from a later episode.
I don't think that happens in the first episode. That too. Okay,
you'll see, you'll get there. But uh, in the Philippines
installed a life sized giant robot that is looks identical

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to the one are very similar to the one from
the Red Light Green Light game in the first episode,
which is interesting because that so it's like supposed to
stop jaywalkers. That that seems like a the hell of
a message to assend. I'll just say that for anybody
who hasn't seen it, right right right, Wow, that's in
just a jay walker's that fucking head spins around and

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the eyes like it's also weird to do that in
the country where like the president is like down to
kill people who use drugs like on the streets, like
not the great not the best country to be kind
of putting that out there as a promotional device. Yeah,
my guests would be that that happened because terror tas

(01:02:32):
saw the I like that. I like that it was
do that for Jay Walkers. It's taken over TikTok. Like
I mentioned, there's a people slapping each other in the
Subway Stations game that's getting recreated. And the show only
came out two weeks ago. It's so popular right now
around the world that Netflix is being sued for all

(01:02:55):
the bandwidth that is getting used up. It's getting sued
by Internet serve providers basically around in South Korea for one,
which is already an issue like that, basically the you
know I sps are being super heavily text in ways
that they weren't expecting before streaming became a thing. But

(01:03:15):
it's been a thing now for for a while. But
I love that. It's like, dude, the contents too lit.
That's basically what it is, infro being transmitted. Yeah, but anyways,
it's a it's a real phenomenon. I highly recommend the
first episode. I can tell you that I can say
the same and I'm I'm like kind of at that

(01:03:37):
crossroads where I'm like, do I leave her majesty behind
to keep watching it? Because like I it's a show
where I fucking want to just keep like I don't
want to stop, Like I think I could do it
all in one sitting on Sunday, Like I'm just like
clear off the calendar time for squid Game. But I
don't know if my partner is going to be happy

(01:03:57):
with that. Yeah, maybe let's watch it twice. Fuck it's
the first episode again. Yeah, Andrew, such a pleasure having you,
thank you for for having me is so much fun.
I love the show and happy to be part of it.
Thank you. Where can people find you and follow you? Yeah?
I'm online at Andrew mis Sean M I, C H
A A and and all this stuff. And then my

(01:04:17):
podcast is podcast but outside what you mentioned earlier. But
if you're not familiar, we set up a table on
the sidewalk and interview strangers as they happen to be
walking by. It's very unexpected and fun and interesting conversations
with different types of people every week on YouTube and
podcast apps. You guys are really good at like getting
finding interesting people and just like, yeah, you know, having

(01:04:38):
done it for a few years. It's almost self selecting,
and that usually the people that tend to sit down
to the people that tend to be interesting. Yeah, and
I think we've gotten really good at kind of teasing
out what makes them interesting as quick as possible. We're
also on tour right now. We're doing a live a
live version of the show, which I think is actually
better than like it's really our live show is really
special and fun. The premise is basically me and my

(01:05:00):
podcast co host col hirsch Er in the theater, and
then our intern who's like kind of become a third
member of the show. He's like a young charismatic guy.
He goes live on Instagram and that's projected behind us
on a projector at the venue, and he leaves the venue,
goes outside and finds random strangers who are like walking
home from work or on their way to dinner, and
convinces them to come be interviewed on the show. So

(01:05:22):
they're just like living their lives. And then all of
a sudden, they walk into a venue with like three
people in the audience, and like we've been watching, so
the audience knows their names, so we're all chanting for
their name. Like Mike, Mike, Mike, and then they walk
in and they're like, what is this at what is happening?
And so we've had some really fun Like in Oakland,
we had these these two young guys who came on

(01:05:43):
and then we're talking to them and we're like they
were like in their early twenties and we're like, so
you guys know each other a long time. They're like, yeah,
we've been friends since high school. And a woman in
the audience goes, you guys go to albody high and
they're like, yeah, who's that. She goes, it's miss Green.
You're English teacher. They're English teacher was a fan of
our show, and she came on stage and we all
talked about high school. It was really cool. So Yeah,
we got our East coast run d C, Philly, New York,

(01:06:05):
and Boston. Some of them are almost sold out, but um,
it's a very fun, exciting show. Even if you're not
familiar with our podcast, I would highly recommend coming to
that if you're any of those cities. That's awesome. Yeah. Thanks.
Is there a tweet or some of the work of
social media you've been enjoying. Yeah, I saw a friend
had a funny tweet yesterday. This girl Helena Fresh Hell
do you follow her on Twitter? She's very funny. She says,

(01:06:29):
I want nepotism to happen to me. That would be
more ethical than when it happens regular regular, more regular style,
when it happens regular. I love that Miles where people
find you. What's a tweet you've been in on Twitter

(01:06:50):
and Instagram? At Miles of Gray. Also the other show
four twenty Day Fiance. If you like ninety Day Fiance
and Stoned Funniness, it's Sophia, Alexander and I talking about
our favor at TV show, So check that out. First
tweet I like is from at low Land Louis or
oh no, it's l O L and Louis. Uh huh,
that's what it is. Uh. And Mr Mr Problems tweeted

(01:07:13):
it's officially hoodie stealing season, which is to say grand
theft Autumn and somebody who has had so many fucking
hooded sweatshirts stolen from me from romantic partners. It resonates
with me and I'm still I'm looking at you, Bianca.
I know you have my baby cause collabor hooded sweatshirt

(01:07:34):
that ship came from Japan. And I know it just
looks great to you, but that ship is very valuable
to me. Please give it back, Banca. Is that why
you like? Is that what you like living with your
partner because you don't have to worry about that? Nah?
Yeah exactly. And I'm like, my ship's way too big
for her. So it's just like it looks goofy or
asked her to move in after the first date, right, Yeah,

(01:07:56):
I can see the way she's looking at my hoodies. Yeah,
I've gotta be in the same roof all right, come on,
let's just do this. Let's make it aficient. Uh. And
then next one at Catholic Dad for twenty tweeted being
vaguely ethnic means no matter what type of corner store
I go to, the owner treats me like his nephew,
and I feel that ship very deep in my bones.
I will say this for the amount of like doughnuts

(01:08:19):
stores that were owned by Cambodian immigrants in like l
a Man. When I was a kid, I would go
in there and they would be like, oh, your Cambodian,
and I'm like nah, They're like, no, your Cambodi, and
I'm like okay, and then I got free donuts. I'm like, yeah,
I'm Cambodia, come out. What a beautiful way to grow
up Cambodian. Yeah, reinforcement through donuts. Let's see. You can

(01:08:42):
find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore. O'Brian a tweet
I've been enjoying uh. Paul Musgrave tweeted did humans really
build the New York City subway system? At one billion
dollars per mile? In today's costs? How could primitive twentieth
century humans have built eight hundred and fifty miles of act?
Did they have extra terrestrial assistants or did they have

(01:09:04):
some way of not spending a goddamn billion dollars a mile?
And then Sean O'Connor tweeted a Sopranos movie released during
spooky season. Yeah, I'm gonna call them gabba ghouls. Oh boy,
can't beat that beat that. You can find us on
Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at the Daily si Geist

(01:09:26):
on Instagram. We have Facebook fan page and a website
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we talked about in today's episode, as well as a
song that we think it might enjoy miles. What song
are we telling people to go check out? You want
to check out? Let's just you know, I'm feeling, you know,

(01:09:47):
after that Folders commercial, So I wanted to attract By
the Juggernauts j U G G A K and O
T S. This is a Bronx rap group from the
nineties that, like how like a vinyl that came out
and then but it was like on like Barbito's label,
where like it only came out on vinyl and never

(01:10:07):
hit mainstream. But this track is called clear Blue Skies,
which is very funny because when you listen to it,
for those of us who know the Meters, they're sampling
the tracks Stormy by the Meters for the instrumental and
it just has that like you know, golden era of
boom bath New York rap style that I love, so
you will love it too. To start your week, it's
clear Blue Skies by Juggonauts right, well, we are going

(01:10:32):
to send you to go listen to that. The Daily
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