Hooters: The Movie? Midterm Horse Race Update 09.01.26

In episode 2118, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian, host of How To Be A Better Human, and author of Humor Me, Chris Duffy, to discuss… Republicans See The Issue--Trump Not So Much…, ICE Deports ICE Fan Milo Yiannopoulos, Hooters: The Movie Gets Greenlight From… Hooters and more!

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2. Milo Yiannopoulos Wanted Millions Deported. He Didn't Mean Himself.
3. Milo Yiannopoulos, Right-Wing Agitator, Deported Home to U.K.
4. Milo Yiannopoulos in ICE Custody After Feud-Fueled Tip-Off
5. ICE’s recent detention data: What journalists need to understand
6. ‘Hooters: The Movie’ In The Works About Chicken-Wing Eatery’s Origins
7. Hooters history: 40 years ago in Clearwater, the breastaurant was born
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
My clickbait on my TikTok is always trying to say that, like,
some random celebrity died, but, like, 90% of the time
it's Bindi Irwin.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Like, the top searches of Bindi Irwin passed. Why? I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
She didn't, right?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
No, she's fine. Why would people be obsessed with Bindi
Irwin being dead? I don't know, but it was, like,
for months.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Because I think it was Steve Irwin's death just came
out of nowhere, and is that kind of just, like,
a teasing of that?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's just, like, shh. Stuck in people's brains.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm not saying it's not tragic, but it didn't come
out of nowhere, Justin. Okay, well, okay, you're right. It's
not like if I was killed by.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
An exotic animal, that would have come out of nowhere.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
That's fair. This is the craziest thing.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Chris Bell is just doing a podcast and a fucking stingray.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Got him in the heart. Stingray got me. That would
be a lot more out of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
That would be really... Surprising to, I think, a lot
of people. Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It is interesting, though.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I mean, I think that there is just something. I
was talking about this when we re-ran that Dolly Parton episode,
but the Bloids, the tabloids, when we first started doing
this show, we had a segment called Bloid Watch, and
the tabloids for every week were something about Dolly Parton's
failing health and how Dolly Parton was dying. I think

(01:24):
there's just this guess and check thing that happens where
they're just like, okay, and... weirdly this person's death would
be a huge deal to people. And so they've just
like landed on Bindi Irwin. I'm sure there's no art
to it. It's just like, they put a million different
celebrities names in there and see which ones get the
most clicks.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's a real compliment. Actually, if you keep getting served
your own name, you know, it's like people care about you.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Right. Yeah. Is that true?

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Cause I heard there was like a, every year is
like carrot top for a while. It was like died
or something. And like the two thousands, I think it.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Since I'm not saying it because like when I was
a kid, the thing that everybody talked about was a
kid from the Pop Rocks commercial.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh, yeah. It was a kid.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
It was the cha-ching guy who I think I what
was that ad?

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Do you remember that ad?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
It was like 90. You might have been too young
for this. But it's like maybe a kid at like
operating a drive-thru and they're like, would you like fries
with that? And they're like, yes. And he's like, Ching.
And then he's like, do you want a larger drink?
And they're like, yes, please. And he's like, Cha-ching. And
that was the person who everybody was always like, the

(02:35):
Cha-ching kid died horribly. Him and Bobby McFerrin.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
What an interesting combo. An incredibly talented musician and a
service worker in a commercial, you know?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh, and the Cha-Ching guy was? Seth Green. Really?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh, you know what? I do.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
Now I care.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I care again.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Hello, the Internet, and welcome to Season 454, Episode 2.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Of Dear Daily Zeitgeist!

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah! It's a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where
we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness through
the day's news. We also have a new non-news history
version of Daily Zeitgeist dropping each Monday morning called The Iconograph.
Where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through
the lens of a different icon. Past two have been
Madonna and, more importantly, Garfield. Ah. We also re-ran Dolly

(03:33):
Parton the other week. But Garfield, man.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I did not.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
We basically did the Garfield episode because we have one
of our fave guests, Joey Cliff, who's like a huge
Garfield fan. I was like, I mean, Joey's really smart. So, like,
there must be something to this Garfield thing.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
And there is.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
It's a fascinating episode.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
There's a lot.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Of interesting people who love Garfield. And it did reveal
to me my new favorite theory, which is that Indiana,
the state of Indiana, was the center of the world
during the 1980s.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Exactly. You can go check that out. You dropped a
Garfield episode on a Monday. I mean, that is a
story about doing that to him. Kind of fucked up.
That is really fucked up. No respect. No respect.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I tell you, Garfield's famous catchphrase. I didn't do good
research on this. And as we all know, Garfield's famous catchphrase,
no respect. I tell you, they give me no respect.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Odd that he was then did that show Rover Dangerfield.
But there he is, a cat of many talents.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
All right it is tuesday september 1st 2026 we made
it to september.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
Yeah god damn it it's already september i know in
my mind now summer's over yeah this is the summer's
over we're all back to school we all got our
trapper keepers.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yep yep we do uh it's also american chess day uh.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Is it a different kind of chest that's like stupider?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
It's where you lose that chest to a urine. It's
just a slang term for checkers.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's actually a picture of kids playing with rocks. Yeah,
it's American Chest Day. Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, Acne Positivity Day.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Shout out to Garfield.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah, look at that. And we
did that on purpose. Exactly. Pink Cadillac Day, National Tofu Day.
Shout out on my soy boys out there.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
That tofu towed through me.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'll tell you what. Oh, God. Oh, no. Did you
see that? What happened to the tofu? You okay? You
ate some very bad tofu. You sure that was tofu?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Early in the morning.
And just after lunchtime, farts might be a-roarin'. Class will
lose their minds. But here in my classroom, there's a
sacred place where you can just let one go and
no one makes a face. In the fart corner, kids

(06:04):
can let it rip. There's some Febreze in a can
so the stink won't make me sick. That one is
from No Clue on the Discord in reference to the
fart corner story that has... We talked about a second
grade teacher designated what she calls the gas station, the
fart corner where children can go to fart with impunity.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And was it because kids were just farting too much
that it necessitated?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
She was like she she's apparently not built for second
grade teaching because she's like, it will make me physically sick.
these kids farting around me.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
But inadvertently, I think she discovers something because she's like,
we've been doing it and people, because everyone was immediately like,
that's just gonna, like, I have a eight-year-old, like, he
would turn that into a state Instantaneously. How could you
not go to the fart corner and start farting? Start
farting and like doing it in the funniest way possible. And,

(07:05):
you know, like that's and that's she's like, no, everybody's
just going there quietly farting and then coming back. Because
like once you take the mystery away from it, it's
just a place to go. There's no stigma.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
The thing, though, is calling it the gas station, it's
like you don't understand how gas stations work. We put
things in at the gas station.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
We don't let things out. It's almost like you get
filled up with farts there.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
In this case, this is the, you are the big
tanker truck. Oh, you're the tank. You should fill it
up with gas.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I think it is the coolest thing to be.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
There's a manhole cover the kids have to lift up
and then squat down into it and fart down into
the tank.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
I do think that there should be like a little
confession booth thing. Where you can go fart. So it's
like behind closed doors. And also, you know, you're acknowledging
the sin that you're passing.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
No, no, no shame in farting. No shame in farting.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
This is where my Catholic brain takes me.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I am like your son. I was the boy who
farted as if that were an instrument. Yeah. And I
was pleasing God with my music. Oh, I've been thrown out.
I remember I was thrown out of class multiple times
for farting too much. I can't help it. Yeah. And
then I got sent to the principal because I then
started timing them for like the second a teacher would

(08:24):
end a point. And she's like, that's it. You have
to go to the principal now. And I'm like, I
can't help it. I can't help it. farted on the
way out of the door. Oh yeah. Did that thing
where you go to the principal and you have, they're like,
why are you here? And I'm like, I don't know.
They're like, why did it, why are you here? I'm like, well,
we're going to go ask the teacher. So why don't

(08:44):
you just tell us? I was farting.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I was farting too much, but it was hilarious, dude. Uh,
I've got a gift. How about that for my answer
of why I'm here?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let's just say my art is a little ahead of
its time. Dean of men. If that's how, if that's
what you want to call yourself at this school.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Is that what they called them? dean of men the dean.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Of men was like the male the male principal at
my catholic high school.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh there were separate principals for boys well they were
like they were they were the they were the bad
like there was the principal but then there was the
dean who was the like that's where you went we
were in trouble something tells me that the.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Dean of women was not getting a lot of uh
farts like deliberate fart punctuation sent to them yeah Our dean.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Of men, too, he had, like, a cue ball, like,
shaved head, and he sometimes would wear his earring. We
couldn't wear earrings, but sometimes he would wear his little
diamond stud to kind of look cool. He's like, look
at it. It's inspected from every angle. He's like, yeah,
the divorce is going fine. That's another question, though. Why
are you here? Because you're farting? Yeah. Amazing.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Miles Gray. Yes, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Why do they
all call me Mookie?

Speaker 3 (09:59):
The Mookie.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
My mom said it and it shook me. Now I
shave my head. Now I shave my head. Now I
shave my head. OK, shout out to Bird Turgler again,
because my mom, one of the first people to say,
you look like Mookie Betts. And now I've multiple people
have told me I look like Mookie Betts this summer. So, yes,
the summer of Mookie. Thank you, Bert Turgler, for that

(10:20):
and combining one of my favorite baseball players with one
of my favorite rappers, Fred Durst.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
One of the greats. Also, not the worst person to
look like. Very, very great athlete.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
No, I wish I was. I wish I was Mookie Betts.
I guess I'll have to settle for being the Mookie
Betts of a daily podcast.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Hey, even that's not too bad.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the author of the book, Humor Me. how laughing
more can make you present, creative, connected, and happy. He
also hosts the How to Be a Better Human podcast,
as well as the National Academy of Science's live traveling
game show, Wrong Answers Only. Welcome back to the show.
The hilarious, the talented is Chris Duffy! Hello!

Speaker 7 (11:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
The Duff Man. I can't breathe.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yes, it's good. I'm good. I'm glad to be here.
So I'm excited. I'm ready.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
This is the big, this is the highlight of my week,
of my month. Frankly, this is the highlight of September.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Oh, come on now. Come on now. How's the book doing?
How's it out there in book world, pushing books?

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh, you know, it's every day is a thrilling adventure
through the world of books, as I... you know, occasionally
someone says, hello, will you sign this? And then they say,
it's not for me.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I won't be reading this. I'm going to read it
to someone else. What's the point of doing that?

Speaker 5 (11:42):
I mean, it's sweet that they're going to give it
as a present, but it's funny to say like, just
so you know, this copy is not for me.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I would never read your book. I would never.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I don't need help in learning how I can be
just more you know, more alive.

Speaker 5 (11:55):
Actually, you know, another interesting thing about, this is my
first book I ever wrote. And there's like a really
robust and thriving scam ecosystem out there targeting authors. Where
like every single day I get an email from like
an obviously fake email address saying like, I represent different
celebrity book club and like for only $ 500, like we'd

(12:16):
love to put your book in front of all of
Dua Lipa's fans. And then you're like, I don't think
Dua Lipa emails from like dualipabookclub at hotmail.co.uk.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
3.dualipa.bookclub.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
That one's like a real one, but I'll get like
a lot of ones from slubs that don't even have
a book club where it'll just be like, Hey, like,
would you like to be in the, you know, Ryan
Felipe book club. And I'm like, I don't think that's
like a relevant thing in any way.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Definitely not real.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
That is so set because, because like when you, like I,
I worked on a book years ago, over, over a
decade ago. And I, I remember even then they were like, yeah,
so we don't really have like a marketing apparatus. So
you guys are going to mainly do that. So there

(13:06):
are enough, desperate authors out there that this cottage industry
has risen up.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
I'm sure they're being generated by AI because they also
all start with like the same kind of like vague
compliments where they're like, you wrote something.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
That is really good. important, and transformational.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
But it's not being seen by enough people. This could
help people. This could really help people.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
And I'm like, could it?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I kind of think it's just like a funny book.
I don't know that it's really going to save people's lives.
It's interesting because just from the description, I haven't read
the book yet. Okay, but you're going to give it
to a friend and you're like, you don't have to.
This is good for me. Laughing, not really for me, Chris.
I like philosophically where you're coming from about just sort
of being more open and being more open to our

(13:49):
abilities to have humor about ourselves, our risk taking and
things like that. So, which does feel like such an important, like, yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
I'm underselling it. I do think it's an important thing.
I mean, you guys get it.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Cause it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not a good message at all.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
No, I mean, the real message of my book is
like people, I think people are way too focused on, um,
the like performing part of comedy. Like people are like,
how do you tell a joke? How do you like
make people laugh? How do you tell a story? And
I think the most interesting part, which I wonder if
you guys agree with, but I think the most interesting
part is like, how do you see things and realize
that there's something funny there? Like, how do you walk
around the world? and see the thing that inspires the laughter,

(14:24):
that inspires the joke, which that's the thing that I
think everyone should do. I don't think we need like
everyone to be a comedian or a comedy writer or
host their own podcast. But I do think if everyone
could walk around the world and be like, that's a
little bit off.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's funny. I'm going to laugh to myself about it.
Or I'm going to notice the funny things in myself
and have a sense of humor about myself rather than
being so self-serious. Like that's the stuff that I'm most
interested in. And I feel like it doesn't get a
lot of attention. So that's really what the book is about.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
That sounds great, man. I personally... think the only thing
that's interesting about comedy is asking stand-up comedians who are
your guys and then also just asking them for their
general thoughts on uh politics and like how things have
changed and like nobody nobody's allowed to laugh anymore yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
I kind of personally think like one of the most
important things we can be doing is like giving you
know like far-right politicians a chance to kind of show
they're just like us, you know, kind of laugh with
them about stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
That is what comedy is for. Chris, we're thrilled to
have you here. We're going to get to know you
a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going
to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about.
We're going to continue to look toward the midterms. We're
now mere months away from the midterms, and people are
starting to see some issues for the Republicans. We're going
to ask, how are they doing? How are they adapting

(15:41):
to the changing landscape? How good are they at ignoring it?
We're going to talk about ice deporting ice fan Milo Yiannopoulos.
We will talk about the Hooters, the forthcoming Hooters movie.
All of that, plenty more. But first, Chris, we do
like to ask our guests, what is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know, probably the most revealing thing in my search
history is that right before the show, I had to
Google how to see Google search history. So I Googled that.
And then I looked and a lot of it was
just locations of places.

Speaker 5 (16:14):
But the two interesting things that came up were metaphysics definition,
because I feel like I hear that. I had no
clue what it actually was. And I had to finally
admit to myself. And then I got to tell you,
the definition, was still over my head. I still don't
understand what it is. And then how do people from
Maine talk?

Speaker 2 (16:29):
So those are my two. What's a Maine phrase? Is
there a Mainer accent?

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Well, I learned that one typical, like stereotypical main phrase
is they say down cellar. We're going down cellar when
they go downstairs to the basement. So that's like a
classic main phrase.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I'm going down cellar. Everything else exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Normal. Everything else is like every other New England accent.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Down cellar is amazing. But I'll have to go down
cellar to go get something in there. Okay. I'll be
right back.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Are you working on a bit, a main character? Are
you planning on running for office in Maine? Are you
trying to hop in there, carpetbagging?

Speaker 5 (17:06):
There was a really cool opening for me, so I
was like, I think I could get there, and I
could really seem like I'm from there just by spending
all my time in a basement.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
So that's what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
This economy's gone down-seller, if you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
This economy's down-seller. Like a lobster out of Rockport? Is
that a place?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
No? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Love Kenny Bunkport, man.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
I'm dressed in all L.L. Bean attire with a tag
still on, and I'm like, I'm just like you.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
I'm one of you.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
You got your Portland Seadogs hat on? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Okay.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
This guy knows Maine. Hey, I was carpetbagging. I was
trying to run for Senate in Maine.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah, I interviewed someone who is a writer from Maine,
and I was like, this could be the way to
connect is if i was like here's some phrases and
then i was like i don't think downseller is going
to come up in this and.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Also be like man we have so much in common
chris you didn't have to like go overboard with the
main stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Hey there fella you princes of maine you what was
it from uh cider house rules yeah yeah Anyways, Chris,
what's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 5 (18:13):
I got, you know, I think a lot of stuff
is underrated. One thing I think is underrated is all
you can eat restaurants. I feel like we do not,
people complain about the quality, but in this economy, in
all you can eat restaurant, I love it. I think
we need to be celebrating them more. And then also,
you know, from all you can eat food to poetry,
I think the poet Sarah Kay, incredibly underrated, love her writing.

(18:34):
I think she's an incredible writer, incredible poet.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
People should be.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Reading Sarah Kay's work. Okay. She has nonfiction. She's got poetry.
She's got all sorts of stuff. Is she from Maine?
She's not from Maine. She's from New York City, unfortunately. Okay.
And probably has never even been in a city.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
New York City.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
What does she write about a lot? Like what's her
prose about typically?

Speaker 5 (18:54):
She has, well, her prose, she's working on this book
that is about, she is half Japanese, half Jewish.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'm in.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
And she has a grandmother who, during the time of internment,
was able to get out of the camps to serve
as a teacher on a Native American reservation. And she's
writing a book about her grandmother's experience. It's like so
interesting and beautiful and really like a unique look at
that period in history, which I think is very relevant
right now.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
So, yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
How so?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I'm not familiar.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
You know, I think with Milo, we're going to, We're
going to get around that. Milo is the poet of time.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
Oh, no, he got the straight through. He got to
pass straight through. Luckily, he knows a couple of people. Yeah,
he knows a couple of people in the administration.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
All-you-can-eat buffet. I love a buffet. And it's funny when
people talk about quality. I'm like, you don't go– like,
when you go to a buffet, my expectations adjust immediately.
I'm like, this stuff just better be good enough. I
want seconds and thirds. And typically it is. I just
never eat pizza at a buffet. That's the one thing
I just never... Never have ever. That's like for kids.

(20:00):
Whenever I see pizza and people go for pizza, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
I also find the appeal of an all you can
eat buffet to me is that you can try like
wild combinations. You know, you can like build a, you
can build a little log cabin with ribs and then
put chicken fingers in the middle. And then there's jello
on the plate too. And like you would never in
a million years think to combine those things.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
If you weren't at an all you can eat.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
I remember when I lived in Kentucky for three years,
like one of my best friends there, Matt, shout out
to Matt. like had this legendary relationship to this all
you can eat restaurant called new Orleans house. And he
would like always talk about it and be like, dude,
you can like, they just have like so much frog legs,
but it's not even gross. Like the frog legs are

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fucking incredible. And like, we finally went there after like
two years of him talking it up and it was
all right.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
You know, but it was just so funny. Like the,
the concept of like this, like kind of fancy all
you can eat restaurant was like, so mind blowing to us,
you know, especially when you're like eighth and ninth grade,
you're just like so hungry all the time.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah. That's when they see you walking through the door
and they go, there's no profit margin on these kids.
These kids are growing. The frog's legs are going to,
we're going to.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Get cleaned out.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Fuck.

Speaker 9 (21:13):
Oh no look at these how hungry these guys are
i've been watching these um the these i mean everyone's
been watching these the tiktok videos of the guy with
the mullet reviewing all you can eat chinese buffets in
ohio have you seen that.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Oh no oh it's incredible this guy with a real
big mullet he goes to chinese buffet restaurants all you
can eat and he's going until he gets food poisoning
but he's on day like 75 now and he is
eating some wild stuff and it is uh it's a
real odyssey it's I think it's literally called mullet reviews.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
He's going because his intention is like, I'm going to
have to get food poisoning. Is he implying that you're
going to get food poisoning? Well, he's going to poorly
rated all you can eat buffets. And so he's like,
what's the jank?

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Let me go to the jankiest buffets and jackass of
food reviewing. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
But the thing is, it apparently it's very hard to
get food poisoning for this man. He has eaten some
things where I thought there's no way. And then you
really it gives me in a time where I'm worried
about lettuce and I'm worried about, you know, the blueberries
and the raspberries, everything. It's inspiring to just see a
man eating like a 20 day old egg that has
been sitting in, you know, a warm bath of its
own water. And he's like, this tastes bad. And then

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he's he's still back the next day. That sounds so good.
That sounds like such good content. Yeah, but he.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Eats the pizza every time. God, why? It's such a waste. Dude,
you know that's not like even... Even with mashed potatoes
at a buffet, I'm like, they could come out of
a bag. I don't know. I can still envision a
reality where someone made.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Oh, dang, it's your best case scenario.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, it's definitely your best case scenario. But with a pizza,
I know 100% with like, there's no.
Ambiguity there at all. I think that's the magic of
the buffet my brain chooses to engage in.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Yeah, there's no way they don't have like a brick
oven in the back of the buffet, where they're cooking
up a fresh pizza.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Bring out the pizza bag. They just like squirt the
pizza out of the bag somehow.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
It kind of forms in that sense.

Speaker 3 (23:08):
What is something that you think is overrated?

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm going to say, look, we're already on the dining zone.
I'm going to say fancy restaurants. Fine dining. No, thanks.
I think I know all these people.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Even New Orleans house. What do you say about New
Orleans house?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
New Orleans house gets a buy because it's all you
can eat.

Speaker 5 (23:27):
So it falls into a different category. But I just think,
you know, chefs, my opinion is chefs don't have to
be artists. It's okay if you just make food.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
You can be like a nice person who makes good food.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
I don't, I don't need you to be like a
genius where I spend a lot of money and then
I'm still hungry afterwards.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Not a fan. Always take the cheaper option. That's my.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
I want to feel like this food was made by
somebody who whose relationship to their staff could best be
described as psychopathic.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
You can taste it.

Speaker 9 (23:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
You can just taste how mean they were to everybody
who works for them.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
I definitely want tears i want to feel that there
were tears and suppressed rage and people who are.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Serving me this food to uh seem terrified yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Yeah yeah but also like they but feel like they're
also in an internship like they're building towards something but
they're being abused while.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
They're building right yeah yeah i saw a description of
an internship i saw a video on instagram i forget
who the creator was but just sort of like lamenting
what bourdain has done to the idea like for a
lot of people's idea of like what a chef is
like you have like being this tortured guy who's like
had like has to go to the most remote like
reaches of the world to come up with a new

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food concept we're also like reaping the benefits of not
being like looked at as like an elope or like
a usurper who's bringing foreign food like this is my
version of that i'm doing people like oh wow you
know what i mean uh but yeah the super high-end
dining is also just so expensive like Before things like

(24:57):
that was like a fancy meal was still like, I
can fathom a plate of food costing that because it's
a nice place. Now it's like, yeah, before you get
a fucking reservation, we're going to run your credit. Yeah.
And then you pay for it with Klarna. Yeah. I
think that actually is the thing.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Food just eats meals. Definitely. I'm in trouble with the
people of Klarna. Let's just put it that way.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
And you're not allowed to say that word on this
podcast live. I know the costs of food are super
high that causes things to be even more expensive, which
I think that's what makes even high-end dining even dumber.
Because you're like, dude, even McDonald's is overpriced now. So
I'm not going to pay for a dessert of witch
hair on a bed of macadamia nuts for $ 72 at

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the fine dining place.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Well, the food, the ingredients are expensive, and so are
the drugs, which the... The chef needs to be on
in order for him to have the credibility I require.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
They're doing the same.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
He needs to be fucked up.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'll tell you this, man. The drugs they're doing at Spago,
they're doing the same drugs out back at New Orleans House.
For sure.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
It's the one unifier. They're buying that from New Orleans House.
There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah. Stepped on bullshit. All right.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
R slash Louisville. Anyone else miss New Orleans house? Yeah. Wow.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
A popular restaurant that operated in Lexington, Kentucky in the
rear of the South Park Shopping Center on Nicholasville Road.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Oh, there's a commercial, dude. Oh, really? Oh, look at that.
That is incredible. Like already the quality.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I guess you could call it fancy.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Is the place where you can get all the shrimp
you can eat, all the king crab you can eat,
and all the oysters on the half shell, all the steamers, scallops,
barbecue ribs, a seafood feast. Yes, we guarantee you and
your friends a dining experience you won't forget. The New
Orleans House in downtown Louisville and on Shelbyville Road.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Shelbyville Road.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
God damn, that song was epic. That score. That was scored.
That's a fucking buffet right there. You go there to
change your life.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
The gladiator of all you can eat restaurants.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Instantaneous.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Oh my God. That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
That really brought me back.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Really. I like that they made it look like it
was like a fire lit.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's like candles. That, like,
soft focus on everything.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Just, like, soft filter on everything. But, like, clearly just
some guy just putting fucking eight pounds of shrimp on
a fucking tiny plate. And the logo is just a lobster.
Nothing to do with New Orleans. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
That might actually be a crawdad.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Oh, okay. That would make more sense. That might be
a crawdaddy.

Speaker 7 (27:50):
Uh-oh.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I always think of a crawdaddy as a curl. You know?
They had a curl. That was a straight up and
down one. But I guess it could be.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
They got a little scorpion going on.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Oh, yeah. If they're not curled up, don't eat those.
Those ones were dead before they cooked them. That's how
you know. Never eat a floppy, unrigid crawfish. That's how
you know they died before. Also, never vote for a
DSA candidate. Never do that. Never vote for a DSA candidate.
Never eat a floppy crawdad.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
James Carville's two rules of life.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
This is how I got to this age, looking as
beautiful as I am. All right. Let's take a quick break.
We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
And we're back.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
We're back.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
But both sides, both parties are both. Both sides are
having to make do with some uncomfortable things that they're
not comfortable with about, like, who are the candidates? Where
is the energy? Why is it not right here behind
the party leaders, the very specific people, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer?

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Why isn't everybody just excited about them?

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, man. I mean, a lot of the horse race
midterm coverage is getting an extra dose of uh-oh this
week because aggregate polling in battleground Senate races show Republicans trailing.
And you're like, but how? What's going on? Well, the
biggest issues are affordability. And off of that, gas prices.

(29:27):
Two things Trump is physically incapable, mentally incapable.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Not the second grade classroom kind of guess.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
I just had to specify because I think a lot
of people who heard us talk about that story are
confused now.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
The supply there is just booming.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
The supply charts.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
So, yeah, I mean, these are all things.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Very low demand. Just the demand is like a line
at the.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Very, very bottom.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
Demand has stayed flat. But supply has skyrocketed. For the
past 3,000 years. So, again, Trump only understands grifter politics.
So that's not a good sort of instinct to have
in a moment where all of the members of Congress
are telling the White House, Dude, we have to be

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able to do some of this. I'm getting my just
my ears ripped off with people screaming at me about
these things.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
And why? Why aren't we doing anything? And each region
that there's like a consequential Senate race that could decide
the balance of power. is dealing with specific headaches that
voters can connect directly to Trump. So like in farm country, right?

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I don't like to hear that they're feeling headaches.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
That sounds uncomfortable, Miles. Very specific headaches, I must say.
And by that, I mean existential dread about not being
able to provide for themselves or their families. In farm country,
it's all about the price of diesel fuel and fertilizer
prices going up. And Trump like recently importing a bunch
of like rancid argentinian beef um.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
The beef imports i can't serve that here needs to
bring it up here we're.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
We gotta bail them out meanwhile beef producers in the
u.s are like what the hell like can you help
uh make the market sort of open to our product
rather than just bailing out other countries while we we
continue to languish um in border states like michigan maine
alaska Residents are reeling over gas prices and the trade

(31:26):
war with Canada since they count our neighbors as significant
sources of business. So to have more attention be introduced
to these tariffs, you're now having all these local businesses
being like, what are you doing? Like, this is unnecessarily
interrupting my way of living, my source of income.

Speaker 5 (31:44):
And huge Canadian solidarity. I mean, Canadians are really like,
we are not going to buy American anymore.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
We're buying Canadian. We talked about that yesterday. There was
this poll recently that CTV did, and most people were like,
I don't give a fuck if they all die. It
was sort of like they've had it. Obviously not in
those words, but they were like, no. One guy they
interviewed said, I bought a garbage can at the hardware store.
When I was turning it over, I noticed there was
a made in USA. I took it right back to

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the store because I'm done with this.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Oh, you thought we were a polite motherfucker? Oh, you
thought we were a fucking polite hoser?

Speaker 2 (32:19):
These are people who can survive a Canadian winter, right?
They don't back down.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
No.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
And, you know, they've got their hearts in the right
places because I was mentioning on yesterday's episode. Some of
the people polled were like, well, I do feel bad
about some of the American people because they're not doing this.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
They're not so bad.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Don't worry. We are not the corporations.

Speaker 10 (32:39):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
And maybe they need the message just absolutely drilled into
their brain. So now what? If the GOP does nothing,
the only thing they can really rely on for somewhat
of a winning strategy is that more Republican voters vote.
have just become rigid and unwilling to ever vote for
a Democrat. So they're like, well, some of these people
are just nailed on no matter how bad their lives get.

(33:01):
And then the other thing was just sort of like,
and we can just sort of use these like red
scare tactics to be like, the Democrats are communists that
want gas prices to come down. Okay. And so I'm
not sure if that is going to be, those aren't
the best tactics to be relying on. And then now
they're also contending with polling that now shows there's like

(33:23):
a widely held belief with their voters that Trump does
not give a single fuck about American suffering with the
high cost of living.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Where did they get that? Do you think it was
the times he has said explicitly that he doesn't give
a fuck about affordability is a myth?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Well, he never said he doesn't give a fuck. So
it can't be that. So it can't be that. Cause
he never said that, but that's how they feel. I would,
I would bet he has said that he just necessarily
hasn't said it to camera. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (33:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (33:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
There's, there's always been like these quotes where he'd be like,
these people are fucking whining or whatever. Yeah. They're, you know,
they'll say behind closed doors, but yeah, as like, I
think last week we talked about how MAGA Inc, which
is the main pack that's sitting on a bunch of
campaign money that Trump controls, they're sitting on like $ 400
million and every campaign is, that's dealing with midterms problems

(34:17):
is like, can you start spending it on the candidates
and doing some ads here? But Trump does not care
about that. And everything he wants to do is now
just doing ads that are about what Trump has accomplished
as a way to fight off the potential blue wave.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
This is where having both generating an entire smokescreen of
bullshit and then like that getting into your air system.
So now you are encased in your smoke screen of bullshit.
That's where it becomes a problem is that he's just like,
what are you talking about? I'm doing great like that.

(34:55):
I'm hearing incredible things. So let's just keep putting that
message out there because clearly that's going to keep resonating
with people.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Do they know how many things I put my name on?

Speaker 5 (35:06):
OK, but here's the here's my question as a as
a person who is, you know, a liberal who like
loves to hear these stories and then has been burned
so many times in the past. I always am like, OK,
people are finally turning. They finally get that he doesn't
have their interests at heart. He it's actually happening. And then, bam,
nothing changes, if anything, like more people.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
I think I think the really the only likely outcome
probably is it's like the House goes to the Democrats
and the Republicans barely hang on to the Senate. And
that's kind of where you net it. I think the
reason why people are, again, because every midterm in a
Trump administration has led to massive losses for the GOP.
So like that part, you're like, okay. Yeah, to the

(35:45):
larger question of like, will this bring about some form
of class consciousness that will be able to break people
out of like the mental sort of chains of just
like all this infighting? No, no, no, we're not close
to that. But in the horse race of congressional math,
I think this is where people are kind of looking
at this year to maybe being like 2006 when the

(36:07):
backdrop of a self-dealing administration and a war in Iraq
led to a collapse in GOP power and the Democrats
took both chambers. I think that's kind of like the
only thing that people are potentially thinking about, because, again,
to your point, Jack, too, you're saying the beginning, the
Democrats also have problems of their own. with not having
a unified direction with more progressive candidates entering office and

(36:29):
the establishment trying to like fight them off.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, it feels like both sides at war with their voters,
like with their base. And so, you know, the Republicans
are a little bit more fucked because they're.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
They're denying there's a problem.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, they're denying there's a problem at all, whereas the
Democrats at least have some populist candidates who with like
populist economic policies that people really like. And then the
Democrats are just not quite taking advantage of that. And instead,
you know, devising purity tests about Hassan Piker for those
candidates to deal with.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
So I'm not super hopeful that like they're going to
sweep to power because I think they still have a
lot of the problems that people were responding to when
they decided not to vote for mainstream Democrats.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
But, but if you're just like a person who's not
paying that much attention and you're like pissed off, it's
pretty clear that you're like, well, this, these people are
the people in power right now. I'm pissed off something
else that has to favor Democrats that.

Speaker 6 (37:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yeah. And you have all those voters, like first time
voters who voted for Trump in 2024, who were like,
oh man, I honestly wasn't paying it. I just voted
for Trump because it just wasn't that it wasn't what
it was at the time. And that was a huge mistake. So, yeah,
you definitely have people who still vote for like, well,
who is it now? No. And the other guys. Right.

(37:54):
I don't like now.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Also, a lot of people. I feel like I heard
a lot of those like first time Trump voters saying
that they were voting because of anti-war stuff. They were saying, like,
if I don't vote for him, it's going to be
World War Three. And now they're like, turns out second.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Hold on.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
Seems awfully close to the thing that he said he
wasn't going to do, which is the third World War.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (38:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Uh, there's still time, you know, maybe he'll come out
with some kind of change of heart. But again, there's
even like people like in the, like they're having like
a mini convention in Dallas pretty soon, uh, where they're
going to talk about like some midterm messaging strategies and
things like that. But like one of the people that
spoke to Politico for this article was like, dude, it
doesn't even matter what's going to happen there. Cause all

(38:36):
it's going to take is Trump to be like, no,
I want to do this other wacky thing. And it
won't even, all that work will be for nothing. So
it's just like, they're all, Even the people that are
supposedly supposed to be helping shape this strategy are all
just sort of resigned to the fact that it doesn't
even matter. Because at the end of the day, a
senile old man will just give an edict that changes everything.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
I think this is the thing that's interesting for me
as like a person who has always been progressive my
whole life is I always thought like, well, the one
thing that the Republicans really have that they like consistently
have is incredible message discipline. And now they've totally given
that up because it's just like they have discipline in
that they say the same thing as Trump, but he's
so undisciplined that it changes wildly in that, you know,

(39:19):
they were able to say like drill over and over
and over.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Like we need to do the Iraq war. We need
to do this. We need to do this weapons of
mass destruction. Whereas, with Iran like every single day.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Yeah, I don't even know what their message was for
why they started. It was nuclear weapons briefly, but like,
that was also a thing they had said like weeks
before was not a problem and that they had like
taken over. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Then it was really straight. Then it was like, we
have to do this for, to free the people. Then
it was the economy. Then it was back to like,
you can't threaten us.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
We threaten you. Like it's just, they don't have that.
They don't have the gift of the message discipline anymore.

Speaker 10 (39:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
And I think also the fact that there's no middle
class that, Right.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
Right.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Diminishing at such a rate that you don't even have
people who can even delude themselves into being like no
things are great they're like no like this this iran
war is terrible because i see what it's doing to
gas that the prices have tripled for certain types of
fuel or whatever that i can see that and i
can't trick myself into thinking with american exceptionalism or you know,

(40:37):
whatever propaganda that this isn't a thing that's affecting me anymore. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
If you live in a border state, you used to
be like, we're on the cool side. And now you're like,
I'm going to go to Mexico for my health care.
And if only I could get into Canada.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
For the high quality goods, please take me the safe,
safe eggs that won't kill me. And also their hotels
are cost less. And so does the gas. Why can't
I get up there?

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah. For a long time, it was just like politics
was like a branding contest between like Coke and Pepsi.
And I was like, yeah, I mean, it's the same
shit basically. But like one of them makes this argument
and one of them lights Michael Jackson's hair on fire.
I guess we'll go with the other one.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
And that works when it's only like a smaller portion
of the population is suffering from inequality and has no
access to like upward mobility, like social mobility or, you know,
any kind of access to increasing their wealth or their wages.
So yeah, when you.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Don't have that actual consequences, people are paying attention and
what they're seeing, it seems like they don't really like
from the current administration.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
And the people who've been running the messaging, they aren't,
they still aren't getting that. That's the reality right now.
Like that playbook is cooked. That playbook worked when you
had enough of like a middle class or enough wealthy
people who could seemingly be you know, carry the brand's
positive message, you know, across the country. But now it's just,
everyone is so fucked up over the cost of everything

(42:05):
that that's now just sort of the default agreed upon
discussion in this country is like, Oh my God, everything's
so fucked up and expensive. And what the fuck is
going on?

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
That's the one thing we can all agree on. Everything
is so fucked up.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
It's expensive to run a country that, uh, Can't promise
to feed you mangoes that aren't covered in salmonella. That's right.
You know, this sort of thing takes money.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Right.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. And
we're back.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
We're back.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
And you hate to see stuff like this. Milo Yiannopoulos.
An immigrant, right? Yeah. You know, to this country.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Visa overstayer. Once proclaimed that he would like to publicly
jack off to ICE arrests. But, you know, overall, okay, actually.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Did he actually say that? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
So I'm going to read a quote.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
What is the etiquette if you're going about your business
and find yourself observing an ICE raid? I want to
show a little respect and decency. Are you allowed to
masturbate where you stand in the street? Or should you
find some kind of awning or motor vehicle?

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Edgelord! Awning?

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Awning or motor vehicle?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Awning. The privacy of an awning.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Now, if I saw someone jerking off under an awning,
I wouldn't say, I'm so glad they showed a little respect.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Or a car.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
That would not be my first reaction. Yeah. Car. Okay.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
At least, you know, there's some sort of glass between
you and me. Awning specifically is only respectful to Google Earth. Otherwise,
nobody's really being spared anything.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
I can't believe that a Nazi like Milo Yiannopoulos, who
is Kanye West's campaign manager, would say such a... Wow.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Really?

Speaker 2 (44:02):
I really expected more than that.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
He was Kanye's right hand from 2010 12 to 14.
Is that right? Or no, no, 2022 to 2024. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
More, more recently just like being his sort of like
main connection to right-wing politics.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
And Kanye had a show in new Orleans the day,
the night that Milo arrived in new Orleans and was
apprehended and quickly just, uh, excreted back to the UK. Ah,
with that, without, much time in, uh, being held in

(44:40):
an ice facility. So ice was like, guys, we're treating
him just like we would anyone else except, you know,
he got to skip the 52 days of being unlawfully
held and.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Not disappeared at all. No one had, there was no
mystery about where he was. He was given food and
water and then sent back to a totally safe place.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
It's, It's amazing too. It's like, look, we didn't want
to have to have him go through all that normal
stuff because look, when you're a neo-Nazi with ties to
the right-wing propaganda apparatus, we just kind of get, there
is a little bit of a different way to treat them.
But it's also funny too, where like Tom Homan was asked, like, hey,
did Laura Loomer tip you off because she she was

(45:23):
claiming that she tipped you guys off uh and he
basically said quote a lot of people tipped ice off
but laura loomer quote probably was one of those people
among them so a lot of people pointed out the
fact that this uh person who loves to get off
to ice raids um himself might be you know in
violation of our our you know humane immigration laws I mean,

(45:47):
this is like the most extreme example of that. Like,
whatever you let them do to someone else, they will
eventually do to you. Right.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
You don't like to ever root for ICE, but this
is the one case where I'm like, that's an immigrant
we don't need in our country. But it's also funny, too,
but like, even then, he still gets the white power treatment.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Totally. You know, like, Like where it's probably like just
being like, hey, man, you got to go. Are you
cool with that? Can we go to the airport now?
You're going to London. All right, buddy.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
All right.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
See you later.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Could you give us a grumpy looking picture just so
that it looks like we treated you like shit? Like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Oh, that's great. That's great.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
We actually called your parents. We called ahead and there
so they know you're coming and like they're, you know,
they're not going to be worried about you here. We
have your mom on the phone.

Speaker 7 (46:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Do you need to call someone?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
If you'd like to wait, we have an awning set
up for you. You can do that right over here.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
If you want to jack off to your own apprehension
by ice, to your own ice raid, we've actually made
that remarkably possible for you.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
We have a mirror and an awning and just a
whole lot of lotion for you. So please just step
over here. We're going to.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Put you in a small booth on your flight back,
and I'm going to give you the body cam footage
of this apprehension.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Whatever you want.

Speaker 6 (46:56):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Whatever you need.

Speaker 5 (46:57):
To me, one of the many horrible things about the
way ISIS is treating people in actual detention camps. I
have a friend who's a journalist working on immigration stories,
and he was telling me that one of the big
things that he's noticed now is that they're deliberately treating
people worse and worse so that they can get people
to willingly sign like self-deportation papers because that's the fastest

(47:19):
way to get so they're not giving them enough food
they're not giving them enough water they're you know deliberately
putting them in overcrowded places and so like milo has
none of that experience right he just like gets to
go home yeah it's almost like it serves them in
two ways where it shows like we can I'm a
very powerful, far-right provocateur, but you're not as powerful as

(47:40):
Laura Loomer. But then it also serves them being like,
it can't be that bad. Look at what happened to Milo.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Right.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
He's fine.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Well, and I think also, just again, to help underline
to everyone else, it's like, there's like three levels of
justice that you can experience. And most of you will not,
you're not going to get the Milo Yiannopoulos treatment. Because, yeah,
it's designed explicitly to harm the people that they want to.
And for those that you know get the privilege of

(48:07):
of sidestepping that yeah then you can just go and
tweet about uh kfc i think that's the last thing
he just tweeted since he's been back in the uk
uh he like retweeted an ad for a kfc sandwich
was like oh fuck off so things are going well.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Why is he mad at us he's not mad at
us must be must be what the fuck dude yeah Yeah, he's.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Mad at KFC is actually a really hilarious understanding of ice.
They control the.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Immigration enforcement in this country. I mean, like, yeah, I mean,
fuck off. Like to your point, Chris, about like the
the the conditions in ice centers every day, you're just
hearing more and more terrible things about abuse and the
violence and, you know, the lack of food and all
these other things.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
And the arrests have gone up.

Speaker 5 (48:56):
But the percentage who have ever committed a crime has
gone way, way, way down.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Oh, yeah, exactly. And Mark Wayne Mullen, who's head of DHS,
he just he did the tired ass sort of defense,
just being like, oh, these stories are hoaxes. But like
even this, like Tom Homan was on CNN where they
were kind of talking about Milo Yiannopoulos and he was
asked about like the abuse that detainees are experiencing and
he quit. changes the subject because God don't want to,

(49:23):
don't want to, you know, bring any kind of information
to this discussion.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
To a New York Times story out this morning, an
account of Ten deportees who said they experienced or witnessed
abusive or violent treatment by ICE officers. When some resisted
deboarding a plane in Liberia, a country they had no
ties to, they said they were, quote, forced onto the

(49:48):
tarmac by ICE officers who yanked and twisted their handcuffs,
pinned them to the ground and pressed their knees directly
onto their necks. Another said they treated us like we
were wild animals, like beasts. Are you comfortable with this treatment?

Speaker 10 (50:06):
No, I don't think that treatment occurred. It would be investigated,
but we get allegations a lot. Every law enforcement agency
in this country gets allegations of mistreatment. But look, we
know that threats against ICE officers are up over 9,000 percent.
Actual attacks are up.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
So, yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Also, like Tom Holman, right?

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Yeah, that's Tom Holman. How could you not.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Trust the guy who's been filmed accepting $ 50, 000 in cash
from undercover FBI agents?

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Yeah. And then facing no consequences.

Speaker 5 (50:34):
It seems impossible that that guy wouldn't be like the
most honest forthcoming man in the world.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Also, like, I don't know if saying, look, man, law enforcement,
they deal with allegations of misdream and all the time
is the defense.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
Everyone is accusing all of us of doing this thing.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
That is a widespread pattern in our community. Yeah. And
some of the stuff that was well documented and multiple
camera angles. It's just, you know, but the threats against
us and you have people keep sharing these videos of
us doing the things that you're upset about. I'm wondering,
I mean, like we for such a. Propaganda addicted administration.
This is I'm surprised they haven't cooked up some like

(51:10):
like ice officer like sob story about like, oh, my God.
I mean, you know, it must be terrible for this
person who died in custody and wasn't able to see
their families. But what about this person who died? can
no longer play pickleball at his local pickleball center because
he was doxxed as a kidnapper.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Because someone like shook him, like crossed him up. Those
are my favorite YouTube videos where ice agents are like
going at someone and they just like give them like
a slight juke. Or just like suddenly on fucking skates.
Just like.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Yep. Sending our best.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
He tore his ACL when that guy did that to him. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
And that was just a citizen who said, fuck you.
These hardworking American civil servants are no longer going to
be able to hear the sweet dink on the pickleball
court because of you. Because of you. Not because of
their actions.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
All right. And finally, it turns out that there is
one corporate origin story that we're aware of that major
studios won't bankroll on. That is the origin story of Hooters.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
But don't worry not, cinephiles. A Hooters-centric movie titled Hooters, colon,
the movie is reportedly being produced. You don't say. But
independently by the chain's original founding partners, one of whom
co-wrote the script.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Oh, this is going to be good.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
I can't wait to see this shit. This is going
to be so good.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
What kind of? fake history with a speed.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
It's gonna be directed by the filmmaker who previously helmed
bench warmers to breaking balls which i don't know is
that one of those like transphobic ones no i don't
think so.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
No probably not i think it's in the criterion collection though.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Right yeah unfortunately i don't have i i haven't had
my uh trip to the criterion closet yet.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
Yeah a lot of people are picking bench warmers too
yeah oh what a cast it's got yeah uh John Lovitz,
Chris Klein.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Chris Klein, yes. That guy Lachlan Monroe from Dead Man
on Campus.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Oh, yeah, that's where I recognize him from.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
I was looking at this story, and one part that
really threw me is that the screenplay is by Ed Droste,
and that is also the name of the lead singer
of Grizzly Bear. And I was like, that guy was
a co-founder of Hooters, but it turns out it's a
different Ed Droste.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Wow. Different Ed Droste. The story is about two lifelong
friends from a small town in Iowa who accidentally launch
a national restaurant empire.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Accidentally.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
This happens after one of them becomes infatuated with Diane,
whom he first sees from afar when featured in a
spring break commercial, which I'm assuming that's going to be
like one of those like perverted, problematic.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
Certainly.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
What's a girl's gone wild thing.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
Yeah I don't think it's gonna be like a female
empowerment ad right no definitely it's gonna be something about like.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Complete just revisionist history about how like this is actually
the most feminist shit you could ever do yeah for sure.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
It doesn't sound like it. I don't think these guys
are capable of that much.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
Remember, it is the original co-founders, the other ones making
this movie.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Not explicitly, but to them be like, no, what we
did was good. And like the ladies liked it. Oh,
they're definitely going to say this was good. Sorry, that
was my depiction, my description of how they would do it.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
In this story, so he sees a girl in a
commercial for spring break, goes on a road trip to Clearwater,
Florida for spring break, and is able to woo this
girl to be the very first Hooters girl because apparently
your creepiest uncle's favorite dining establishment owes its existence to

(55:01):
interstate stalking.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Do you think the founders were like, damn, man, if
Flock cameras were out when we were trying to do this,
we would have found her way sooner.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
Their plan is that the sequel is sponsored by Flock.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Flock, yeah, yeah. Hooters 2, the Flock story. Flock, yeah. Honestly, Flock, yeah,
is better than any line that has been written in
this movie, I guarantee you.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
So it sounds like the real story doesn't involve that
road trip, and instead it was six people found at
a restaurant. And one of them was ogling the winner
of a bikini contest. He happened to be walking past
on the beach one day and hired the winner to
work for Hooters. And then she, her name was Diane.

(55:44):
Her name was Diane.

Speaker 6 (55:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Her name was not Diane.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
No, no. Her name was Lynn Austin. Diane was... They
changed the name.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Of the person. They didn't even give her... That has
to be so that she did not get money or
royalties from this movie.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Oh, for sure.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
They're like, this is a fun story about how she
was in on it, but not the actual her, because
then she would have to get paid for this movie.

Speaker 10 (56:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
So.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
I'm sure this is going to be an incredible, I mean,
it was.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
A wild run because like at their height, like they
had a jet and stuff like they were, it.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Does feel like it could be a good movie. Unfortunately,
I do think that the truth behind the scenes of this,
like the last time they tried to do a food service,
like movie, there was like a inspiring origin story. It
got a lot of, attention for, like, not necessarily being true,

(56:32):
the Flaming Hot Cheetos story.

Speaker 10 (56:34):
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
And so I bet that scared the studios off, and
that's why they're like, okay, we actually have to fact-check
this one. And then they, like, looked under the rock
that is... hooters corporate history and they're like oh my
god even i a corporate film executive is grossed out
by this shit it's.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
Funny to me that your idea of what scared people
off about the hooters movie was that it might not
be factually accurate as opposed to the entire premise of
the movie i think the premise is actually golden.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
I think if they could do like a you know,
a social network version of what it was like, you know,
like Wolf of Wall Street kind of a thing. Maybe
you have a movie there, but like their own masturbatory
autobiography version is just, I think that's where they're like, dude,
no one's going to like, we can get more people
to watch like Sound of Freedom with people buying fake

(57:28):
tickets than we can for this Hooters thing. In the
social network version, instead of the guy coming and saying,
lose the... Facebook is cleaner. It's someone going, you're making
a restaurant, put a B in front. Restaurant. Because that's
what they call it, right? Don't they call it a restaurant? Yes.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
He's at a whiteboard restaurant, and then he just goes
and draws it, puts a B before it, and then
walks out.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Call it a restaurant. Drops the whiteboard marker. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
Turns the address in the restaurant into a dollar sign.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Boom.

Speaker 5 (57:57):
Okay, I have never eaten at a Hooters, but one
thing that always amazed me is that they offer delivery,
and that there are people ordering delivery from Hooters, because
I was.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Under the impression the whole thing... Yeah, there are people
who swear by their wings.

Speaker 2 (58:08):
People swear by it. I thought the whole thing was...
going there no yeah you yeah you go there with
a fake id when you're 18 like i was uh-huh
and you you can only afford one one beer and
because you have no money and you're like dude we're
fucking men huh this is sick uh and then the
second one of the servers comes up to approach you

(58:29):
you become a You don't have to squat down like
that to speak to us, please. You may stand up.
Have some dignity. I don't want to look down your shirt, madam.
That's not the point of why I'm at this establishment.
But I remember one of my friends worked at Hooters.

(58:49):
And she told me about, like, the menu hacks there.
And then I remember, like, the next day taking my
friends there, acting like I was, like, the fucking god
of Hooters.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
I said some shit off the menu.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Well, yeah, tell us what the menu hacks were. It was, like,
one of the things was getting the wings grilled and
then sauced. They're, like, get them. They're, like, you had
to say, like, Daytona style or something. There's, like, a way.
Someone with Daytona.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
With Daytona in it. The funniest, jankiest version of an
In-N-Out order. Get it Daytona style.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Yeah, exactly. They weren't breaded, but then they had like
a nice caramelization to it. So anyway, that was like
the thing that wasn't on them. It wasn't like that crazy,
but I would always be like, yeah, bro, we were
enough the menu today. As though the waitress is like, wow.
You really know a lot about weed. Oh, wow. I'm impressed, Miles.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Are you single?

Speaker 5 (59:41):
Are you 18 but have an ID that says you're 37?

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Hold on. Yeah. And your name here, it looks suspiciously
like Redman the rapper's real name. Reggie Noble? Interesting.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Did you really have a fake ID that.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Was Reggie Noble? My nickname was Reggie Noble after my
favorite weed rapper at the time, Redman.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
That's incredible. Shout out to New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Chris, such a pleasure having you, as always. Oh, such
a pleasure being here. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Where can people find you, follow you, hear you, all
that good stuff?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
ChrisStuffyComedy.com. It has links to all the stuff right on there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
There you go. Is there a work of media that
you've been enjoying?

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
You know, I think we already talked about it, but
the mullet reviews. Mullet reviews.

Speaker 5 (01:00:24):
A man with a mullet in central Ohio, eating at
all-you-can-eat buffets until he gets food poisoning.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
That is.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
That's really something special, and I think we should all
be appreciating that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
Okay. Hell yeah, man. Miles, where can people find you?
Is there a work of media you've been enjoying?

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Find me everywhere at Miles of Grey. Find me talking
about 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance. And check
out Ain't It Footy, where we're talking about the current
season of European football, mostly focused on the Premier League.
with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. That happens every week.
So check that out, please. Work of media I like. Okay,

(01:01:02):
so this is just sort of in line with what
I thought my experience going to Hooters would be like.
This is just a funny video from, it's at dego.boop.
It says, how dudes with no close friends, no jobs,
no social skills or effort and no social media expect
to meet their soulmates. And it's just like this dude

(01:01:22):
just like walking through his apartment, rubbing his mitts, like
being so passive and just like in a dirty apartment.
And then he goes to his computer and like, he's playing,
like he's playing a game on the computer and a
woman from outside the buildings looks up at him through
a window and knocks on the door and is like,
I saw you playing video games. Can I watch? It

(01:01:44):
just keeps escalating. It reminds me of peak dumb guy thoughts.
And then usually it boomerangs back around to be like, dude,
women are just like, they don't fucking get it, dog.
You know what I mean? I'm in here alone, not
talking to anybody, doing anything. So check that video. It's
really funny.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
Damn, man. That's actually... How I met my wife.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I saw you playing Rocket League.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Rubbing my hands together. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Type shit. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Type shit. Type shit. Let's see. Trap Dad at Dude
Understore Gang said, white people be like, let's go get
drunk at a brewery with all our small children and
let them run around everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
We do be like that. Someone's been to go to
Golden Road Brewery in LA. It's the epicenter of let
those fuckers run wild while we get shit-faced.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Ricky Hollywood tweeted Canada renaming each lake after one of
the 9-11 hijackers, which is just a soft pitch that
he's putting out there. And then there's a video of
like a Wu-Tang reunion posse cut with Inspector Deck and...
Method Man and Tom Hardy for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Yeah. Rapping. With his mask on.

Speaker 3 (01:03:07):
It's like pretty good. Yeah. It's like he's pretty good.
So I was enjoying that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
It's wild how much of an actor he is because
he's rapping like he's from New York.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Like you wouldn't believe that's Englishman Tom Hardy rapping. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Anyways, his name is Face Puller or Frankie Pullet, a.k.a.
Frankie Pulitzer.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Face Puller. Which sounds stupid as hell, but so do
most Wu-Tang names the first time you hear them. And
then you're like, oh, yeah, no. You mean Ghostface Killer?

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
You mean my favorite rapper? Yeah. What were you going
to say? Did I what?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Oh, did you see that? There was that clip of
Raekwon going to Palantir headquarters. Oh, what? Yeah, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Oh, no.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I know. I'm sorry. Don't tell me that. It was
one of those things. Everybody was like, God damn, Wu-Tang
is for the surveillance state?

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah. See? Strictly for the Cuban invasion. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Yeah. 16 years later, he returns. He's been before. First
visited in 2010. I'm like, Ray, how long have you
been on this shit for?

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Fuck.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Yeah. So, yeah, Ray Klompos just got to Palantir Technologies headquarters.
If you don't know about them, Google them. Yeah, we have, right?
Leave that shit alone. Yeah. Oh, my God. I didn't
realize how, like, look at this. That's Raekwon wearing a
Palantir branded jacket like 16 years ago with Nas.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
With Nas.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Jesus.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
They were ahead of, they were fucking ahead of it.
God damn.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
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Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
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at the bottom, you will find the footnotes, which is
where we link off to the information that we talked
about in today's episode. We also link off to a
song that we think you might enjoy miles. Is there
a song that you think the people might enjoy?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Yeah, there was this, again, found another vibey person just
making music on their own on Instagram. This guy just
plays under the moniker Bay Ledges, B-A-Y-L-E-D-G-E-S. And it's just
him with his acoustic guitar. He's got some interesting sort
of like pedals on there, like some chorus and things

(01:05:26):
like that, just to kind of give it like a
kind of a vibey, spooky sound. This track is called
Loving Arms. And it's just him rumping and tumping on guitar,
but it's got a good feeling. So this is Bay
Ledges with Loving Arms.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
All right. We will link off to that in the footnotes.
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