Hurricane > Nukes, Popeye’s Saved $23 Million 8.27.19

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet. I'm welcome to season seven, Episode two
of Dear Daily Ninth Guy, a production of I Heart Radio.
This is the podcast where we take a deep dive
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This is a taste of a verse. Could have gone
the whole way, but I did it because my heart
would have exploded because you can only you can only
dabble with Missy Elliot versus so much before the energy
can return to you and destroy. Yeah, your brain or
your face was like real red not a lot of
If you could have seen, if there was a way

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also for telling your friend to look out for us
at podcast movement. Uh and came up to Jack and I, oh,
yeah remember And I was like, oh, he's your friends

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not a fan of Jack? Oh right? Had had to
slide that encounter in there, didn't you mind? Well? I
think it made it more awkward for him. He was like,
oh no, there's a Jack on the show. She never
mentioned him. Never mind. Anyways, you're a throw of the the
join in our third Teeth by the hilarious and talented
kimme about Hornia. There you go about get it right,

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Kimmey at Horny Cornia. Totally there you go. Oh you
added some spice on the other. I did my best.
There you go every day, every day and every way
he's feeling stronger and stronger. How are you? I am good?
Thank you so much. That wasn't like it? Yeah I do,

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But guess what today? I had three SIPs? Oh wow,
that's it. Okay, is that what I should I don't know. Yes,
this energy balance, this energy you got, I'm you should
bottle that up? Yeah man, yeah, okay, well, thank you,
morning routine. I guess three SIPs? Toss the rest of
the pot out there, you go. Yeah, it's like, why
does she always make a full pots and toss it?

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It's the it's the act over the shoulder. Uh. Well, Kimmy,
We're going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. First, we are going to tell
our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today.
We are going to take a look at a brief
history of nuking hurricanes, that idea, where it comes from,
why it's probably not a good idea. We're gonna talk

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about the week of Popeye's last week was week. We're
gonna look at the president's take on climate change that
he revealed at the G seven uh summit. We're going
to talk about Amazon's quality control issues. Yeah. The Wall
Street Journal came out with an article over the weekend

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that was kind of timed exactly right for me personally.
I'll explain why We're gonna talk about Hasbro because in
addition to making a socialist monopoly, they are now the
proud owners of death row records. We're gonna talk about
Andrew Luck retiring all sorts of ship. But first, Kimmy,

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we like to ask our guests, what is something from
your search history that's revealing about who you are. One
of my last Google's was chicken hypnotizing. You guys know
about this, you and you know that the jack knows
about this. You can hypnotize a chicken. I truly don't
know what this is for. But you just lay the
chicken close to the ground and then you draw a line.

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It doesn't even have to be a real line. You
draw a line with your fingers in front of the
chicken's face and then you just like is in a trance? Yeah,
when you draw a line in front of drawing from
his face. Yeah, like just rubbook chicken's face. No, and
you move, yeah, merely just visually moving, moving your hand away,

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and you can hypnotize a chick. Yeah, and then it'll
just sit there, not move, just in a trance. Crazy. Okay,
how did you come in? I was watching this show
called dream Vet because I am one of the few
people that has CBS all access. Oh hell yeah, that
person that works on Corvet. Yeah yeah, yeah, weird flex

(05:10):
weird Corvett like a veteran area. No, yeah, I'm thinking
like a vet. Nolex Miles is always thinking about muscle cars. Yeah, dude, Stingray.
Every time we talk about our rock the he he
thinks it's about the car. What an Iraq? Yeah, the iracks, Dude,

(05:31):
It's all about the z dude boys in the building.
I'm sorry. Dream Do they analyze animals? Dreams? No? I
wish that'd be a We're all constantly it's just show. Okay.
Some guy had his chicken in there because his pet
is a chicken, and he was worried because the chicken

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had a lump. And then they were like, oh, we'll
take some X rays. And then the guy who owns
the chicken was like, oh, do you have to put
my chicken? And then the VET was like, no, we'll
just hypnotize him. I was like, whoa under a spell? Yeah,
And that's when I was like, is this a thing?
Because they just throw that line and then how long
is the chicken until you tip them over? We'll just

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like being It's like on Google it does anywhere from
thirty seconds to thirty minutes or something. Yeah, and how
fucked up the chicken is before? Yeah? Wow? Wait and Jack,
how did you know about it? Because you were like, yep, yeah,
I just saw how quickly you were on to do
for a living. Yeah, this is right up our alley

(06:36):
at cracked. You used to clip the wings off chickens
and selling by the roadside. That's right exactly. Wait, oh,
this is just purely out of like articles on like
cool stuff to do that farm animal hacks. I think
Robert Brockway wrote it. Actually an animal hacks. Animal hacks
was an animal hack that fucking taco bell dog. Yeah,

(06:58):
fucking hack that way, rest in peace? Yeah, yeah that that.
There's also one of the things we learned about chickens
is that they're nervous system is such that like not
a lot of it is in their head, so they
can live with their head chopped off for a long time.
Al Right, that's why they can still be running. But

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like they can live for like months without their heads.
I don't know. Wait what this dude was putting a
dropper of food in the hole in the neck hole
of a chicken. Oh I have heard that cool? That
is super tight? This is this sounds like a podcast
I would have loved when I was thirteen. Did you

(07:40):
wait till they go back to school? What is something
you think is overrated? I think The Getty is overrated?
Which one the well? The Bill is cool? I like
outdoors and you can enjoy the views The Getty Getty,
the one, the big one past Yeah, that's right, that
has gets own firefighting mechanisms built into Oh yeah, man,

(08:04):
I don't know. I just I grew up here in
l A. So I've been to The Getty like a
lot of times, and truly every time I go, I'm like,
this is gonna be cool. I'm going to have a
great time looking at the art and feel very cultured
and smart. And then I get there and it's and
I can only be there for ten minutes. I get
truly bored. Nothing is that? What's in the what's on
the show right now? I don't even know? This was like, No, Man,

(08:29):
the Getty. I've tried it too many times. It's one
of those things where it's like you have to take
everybody who's in town to like check it out, because
then sometimes because you can like drink wine up there.
I mean I think you can. It's like a restaurant. Yeah,
well I think you can, Like I might, I might
have done this with my family, but like walk around
with a flask, but like put a little picnic down,

(08:50):
you know, like you turn up on your own a
little bit, a little bit of wine. Um. But yeah,
I think there is something like I after it opened
in nine, I remember there was like such a huge
weight to get in, like it was it was built
up for years because the parking was so hard to
figure out. It's like in the middle of the pull
over the past you had to take a tram up

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and it was just like, oh my god, have you
seen this? Have you heard tell of this? Getty? And
then you go and you're like, oh dope, and then
it begins to wear awfu a little bit. But the Villa,
I really like. Villa is great. That is not over. Yeah.
Well also at the is like they have all of
the the hot stuff on the website, so with the exhibits,
you can just like look at a pick of it online,

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you know what you need to go up to the Yeah,
they say that about Picasso's Guernica just just check it out.
Just check it out online. You don't need to see
this massive piece overwhelming you. As a commentary in the
Spanish Civil War, which I have not seen, is probably
more impressive in person, but like the Mona Lisa, less impressive.

(09:55):
It's smaller than you think it's going to be. Yeah,
I mean they need to update sums for like litt
millennials exactly. Just make a window that people can just
like look through real quick filter. Got it, sort of
like you know, when I was in um Florence, Italy,
actually home of the David Statue, I did not have

(10:16):
time to actually wait for this and I thought about
paying for it. Where was I anyway? Um? Yeah, the
what I will say about museums in l A though,
the Huntington's Library gardens tremendously underrated. And I know I'm
not the guest right now, but I just want to
say that because it's expensive. Look, I'm thinking about getting

(10:36):
the past because what a fucking treat. Where eyes up
near Pasadena and they have so many different styles of garden,
the Asian gardens. Yes, they also have the stinkiest plant.
Oh they have I know about that from the Dennis
the Menace movie. My god, Wait, what there's this plant

(10:59):
that smells so bad? Plant? Yeah, it probably like you
use it to attract like flies maybe or something like. Yeah,
things evolutionary right right Where in the gardens is it?
I don't know which section of the gardens it's in.
Fun I feel like I'm I go there, not a lot,
but I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice by
not trying to embrace the stinkiest probably blends in all

(11:23):
times of the year that it's not in bloom, Like
a part of me just wants to mainline that ship.
How disgusting it is. I love terrible smells. Guys, you
don't know about me. The it's in the I just
looked at the trash Sniffy is with the stink gass
section museum. So that's by the desert section. Yeah, yeah,

(11:49):
but I didn't know. I didn't realize I scratch that.
We're going to cut that out and it's just gonna
sound like you just said, Miles stinks. You stink? Bro,
What is something you think is underrated besides Miles is
Huntington's check it out? Oh you know Papa is. Yeah, man, Guys,

(12:10):
people aren't hyping papooses or not. I mean outside for
music is not. That was just a track somebody putting on.
I didn't know there was songs about papoosa's. Yes, that's
a legit one. That's not me just going off the top. Yeah,
that's about I think that's from my Salvadorian group. Okay,

(12:30):
maybe I'm wrong and papooses are hype, but I feel
like everyone here talks like taco trucks. But we need
to go. You need to go papoosa. Yeah, filling, They're
delicious and you get to put stuff on top, you
get to customize. Yeah, I always get you know, I
always asked for extra. You should go to Beverly, I believe,

(12:53):
uh Dave, you know the lad to drink Do you
ever drink that? It's just a bunch of chopped up
fruit juice. It's like a bunch chopped up fruit like yes,
in a cup though, and it should as sweet as
fun and then by the end you're just chewing a
bunch of fruit and it's delicious. Uh yeah. Now, to
me an outsider, the papoosa looks like a what's the

(13:14):
soft taco bell flat bread thing? Gordita looks like with
on top. Tell me, tell me what it is. Okay,
It's like, um, you know, it's a tortilla and it's
filled inside. Its basically like maybe like a Mexican cal zone.
It's like, yeah, it's like massa. But then you put
you could put I can get you know, that's like

(13:36):
you get pork, cheese and bean in there. Or you
can get it with just cheese. Yeah, you can get
it with cactus. You can get it with rocco. You know.
There's many styles to the papoosa. But the thing that
I will say is the cortillo, which is the cabbage
slaw that you put on top. I a little ham
with that ship, so it feels like I'm actually getting

(13:56):
like a vegetable meal, even though I'm just mainlining a
bunch of starch. Front you go a hand with all
accompanying vegetables. What's the thing like anytime there's a sandwich
that comes with like, let me get that extra jard
on there. I was actually a nickname you had. I
noticed extra yard. What's up? You know what it is? Uh, kimmy,

(14:21):
what's a myth? What's something people think is true? You
know to be false? Oh? Well, I guess this this
isn't a true false, but I didn't want to tell
you guys about this. You see those shen Yune posters
all around town, so like, oh yeah, so you know, yeah, okay,
So Nyon it's like this big dance performance, like an
Asian cultural dance performance, and they have billboards literally everywhere,

(14:42):
and they have posters in every restaurant you can ever
go to. And I was like, God, this the budget
for Nyun is wild? What even is this dance performance? Guys?
It's it's secretly a Chinese cult that is like banned
from China. Wait a second, we were just talking about
how great the show is, you got God's see. I was.

(15:04):
I was realizing that the cult label is thrown around
a lot by the Chinese government, but because they're not
really they don't really have any documented instances of like
violence or coercion. It is, but I get it is
a very odd they're thinking it's very problematic. They're like
scientology of China. Yeah exactly. And it's weird because they're
just like harsh anti communists, which is why the Chinese

(15:28):
government's like get the funk out of here, um, but
also why they are big supporters of Donald Trump because
they're like God sent him to take down China and
then so it's interesting, you know, maybe we'll see Trump
at an Yun performance soon. Well. I also checked out
some yell reviews on Shen Yun and those are pretty
funny because they're like, Wow, the dancing was beautiful, and
then I think there was a lot of propagandas because

(15:52):
like the dance I think is sort of an illustration
of like their oppressionists. It is it's all about like
if you pray, then you will be cured of everything.
So there's this like dance or there's a blind guy
and then he prays enough in a dancerly way and
then his site returns, Yeah, true, does that happen? You

(16:12):
better pray? We got to pray just to make it today.
Oh yes, we pray pray? Uhm, y alright cool yo.
Side side note, my dad was a tour photographer on
the mc hammer Pepsi World Tour or ninety one. I

(16:33):
still have the backstage lamb in it. I wore that
to school. I was like, just what if there was
a show I could go backstage if I was My
dad was that the one that started started out with
Vanilla Ice opening for him and I don't know my
dad I was too young ago to see the show
because I went did I went to that tour when
it came through you d Arena. It's d Arena University

(16:56):
of Dayton Arena. It has a name that I'm forgetting,
Sayton's that gang. Let us know. But yeah, it was
a great show and and Vogue open for him, and
Vogue and uh Mr Vanilla I was supposed to open
for him but pulled out. Oh so they stopped being

(17:17):
cool and that must have hurt for you, Huh it did? Yeah? Yeah,
I mean representation, I know, that's right. Uh, Like, I
don't feel seen at the show. Were you wearing cross
colors and ship back then? No, it was pre cross colors.
It was like when I was wearing mc hammer pants
and like a silk shirt and uh hyper color shirt.

(17:42):
Nice yeah, and eracism hat. That's right, that's right. Those
are all things an I used to get all my
fashion cues from the end of in Living Color when
they know all the cash is at the back of like,
thanks so much better go and whatever Keen and every
wains was wearing. I'm like, okay, I need a leper
skins shirt in a racism had. Alright, let's talk about

(18:05):
nuking hurricanes. This is in the news because our president
is apparently suggesting it behind the scenes in meetings when
a hurricane is coming developing in the Atlantic, multiple sources,
it makes sense, Well, just fucking blow it up. You know,
it's a big thing coming at you. What the fun now?

(18:28):
I just, in all fairness, we should just say, you know,
as before you really get into this piece that Donald
Trump denies he ever said anything like this. Okay, So,
no matter how stupid it sounds, no matter how asinine
this idea seems to be, just know that is the
fake news media. I never said anything like this, even
though there are NSC notes document this. So the first

(18:51):
one a hurricane briefing, Trump said, oh god, this is
where it kills me. The way these quotes are, Trump said,
this is a physic vote. I got it, I got it.
Why don't we nuke them? They started forming off the
coast of Africa as they're moving across the Atlantic. We
drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and
it disrupts it. But now we do that, why why not? Indeed, well,

(19:15):
then the briefer who was even the one presenting this information.
The president, they say, quote was knocked back on his heels.
Quote you could hear and Nat fart in that meeting.
People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, what
the funk? What do we do with this now? I
think that is obviously a little bit of hyperbole, because
no one could actually hear that fart. I've tried to

(19:35):
hear that fart. This is from Axios. Yeah, who's who's
our source here? Speaks very vividly. Yeah, I think that's
someone who That sounds like the thing where you're like
sick of your job, so you're going to be real
spicy and you're I'll give you quote, dude, it was
so fucking quiet in there, fucking here and Nat fart. Yeah,

(19:56):
just spend a lot of time writing, all right, I
can get back to detailed emails. So yeah, again, this
was just one of those things where a lot if
there's like a balance in the room of people who
have to be like fuck no, dude to the president
and also be like the people who have like learned
to elegantly just like spin off these ideas and like
that is an interesting idea. Interesting. Thank you for the

(20:17):
creepiest kid in your like kindergarten class, who's like, oh,
if you guys have caught a butterfly and took it home,
what would you want to do? And he's like, squish it.
Like that's a great idea, so good. But what if
you you know, fed it and washed it and it
squish it, smash it, clapp it. Let's clap it. Where
I put it in my hands and I start clapping. Okay, Bill?

(20:39):
So not only is this a bad idea, yes, because
you you generally want those nuclear bombs when you're dropping
them to not blow completely off target. Just that's just
one of the reasons. But well, let's use a submarine
and you launch it from below. That's true, they're not
dealing with the wind. I guess. I guess I'm the

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one who's wrong that. That's why I'm the president, Jackie Boyd.
But this isn't even a original idea. Um, it's not
even an original bad The head of the U. S.
Weather Bureau said in nineteen sixty one he could imagine
the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a
hurricane far let's see, uh see, And that's that was

(21:22):
the beginning that was the beginning. So just creating that
idea for whatever reason, just putting that out there like
caught in people's minds because then there was a hurricane
coming for Texas and Texans. In an op ed, We're
wondering could Hurricane Carla have been broken up or greatly

(21:43):
modified or its course turned back to see by nuclear bombs,
asked an editorial on the long View Daily News. So
that was also in the fifties or sixties. And then
a meteorologist named Jack Reid pitched it at the Plowshare
Symposium in nineteen Now it's important to note that people
thought dropping like nuclear weapons was going to just be

(22:08):
a thing we did all the time. I mean, it
ended a world war, So why can't we just do this?
So they thought it was going to be the new dynamite. Uh.
And so he suggested that this was used as a
way to alter the course of hurricanes. Uh. In the
same symposium where people suggested, uh, nuking our way through

(22:30):
Panama for the canal, for the Panama Canal, uh blowing
up a chunk of land in Alaska to create an
instant harbor using nuclear weapons. That's great, that's great, you
know great. These are all great ideas for because it funny.
The whole plowshare thing was just sort of like, how
can we use our our nuclear arsenal for good? Right?
These are the fucking ideas like let's just try and

(22:52):
blow up have a continent, let's just carve out chunks
of land. The thing that you know, everyone points to
this is such a constant myth that um the n
o A, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, They on
their fucking government website have like a tropical cyclone Myths
page where they instantly like, don't even think you can
bomb one of these. That just doesn't work. Partially a

(23:16):
you don't want to just like throw a bunch of
radioactive fucking waste or material into a basically a gigantic
wind machine because you're just all that fallout. You think
that would get out? I don't know, maybe, I mean, yeah,
so that's an engine of wind and rain, yes, soca
towel and gasoline near a fire and then start whipping

(23:38):
that fucker around there, and you tell me if that
seems like a good idea. And then on top of that,
also there's a huge energy factor to consider also because
a hurricane isn't just some fucking it's not just all
wet and water. You know, there's fucking massive amounts of
energy being released. Quote, the heat released from a hurricane
is equivalent to a ten mega ton New Clear bomb

(24:00):
exploding every twenty minutes. So you will need a lot
of big nuclear bang bangs, just all of them, because
because just to displace all that air and heat, like,
it's just it's not so simple. At the same time, though,
that would be so satisfying. Get back at those fucking
hurricanes just to us making us look like idiots this

(24:22):
whole time. You know, I just that's right. I'm on
YouTube right now watching hurricanes getting pooned by bombs. Complations.
We should do a segment on the show where we
look for other stupid ideas that Trump is probably going
to pick up on them, because he's basically like a
radio antenna for dumb ideas. If it's convenient, yeah, if
it's convenient and it's just like out there and it's

(24:45):
like circulating. Think with the power of this show, we
could even see it an idea incept him from the
like create like if it's a thing where you get
the entire zeitgang and on to amplify like a fake
news story, get it to the should like, get conservative
media to be like, have you heard about this thing?
Because it happens, is susceptible to it. And then eventually,
wait a year or something, Trump gets this new idea

(25:06):
because look, this one makes sense because we have hurricanes,
rather than saying, well, are our unpredictable weather patterns part
and parcel of climate change? Or is it just that
we don't know how to bomb these fucking things? Right?
We have not tried bombing them yet. And so we've
just seen another big issue that's on Trump's you know,
menu of things he'll never solve and create something that's

(25:27):
convenient yet seemingly logical, just like look on at the
Yahoo answers, like example of how the very first first thought,
best thought of, like how to solve something. And that's
like if you go on Cora and say, how do
we stop Kim Jong oon? Right, and then take whatever

(25:48):
that first answer get get past the nuance stuff. It's like,
you know, he he he wants basketball. He wants to
see Scottie pippin Michael Jordan's Bill Cartwright B J Armstrong
very specific Bulls team to play Michael Jordan's assassin. Oh,
Michael Jordan's is an assassin. First of all, we know

(26:09):
that from his career. Well yeah, okay, like he has
the heart of an assassin. Okay. I thought we were
starting to speculating on somebody's past because we know we
have fearies on that too. But maybe no. But then
he see that's where it's too. We'll have to work
on that. We can't come up with it on the
We can't. Again, it doesn't need to be our idea.

(26:31):
Like none of Trump's bad ideas are original ideas. He's right.
What he did between when he ran for president and
it was like a blip and then actually won the
presidency was he spent eight years just listening, like ingesting
all the talk radio and just like took it all
in until all his instincts were just to tell people

(26:52):
who listen to talk conservative talk radio what they want
to hear. You get Wressel embodied fucking pickup. I just
feel it. We can save hurricanes, do you guys? See?
This was like season first few seasons of Shark Tank.
Some dude like pitched a machine that's like makes its
own hurricane because hurricanes leave behind gold. So he was like,
if you just bottle up a hurricane, all of the

(27:14):
wind and the energy and all of that will result
in like panfuls of gold in the end. So if
you just like bottle up that hurricane, gold will be
left over. No hurricanes are worth it because yeah, yeah,
he loves gold. So don't newcom the hurricane, dude, those
none of the sharks is how we're gonna pay for

(27:36):
the wall. Bottle the hurricanes up, get the gold. Oh
my god, Yeah, it doesn't sound that crazy. We gotta
find this guy, get him to do a radio tour. Yeah, alright,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back,

(28:03):
and we're back. Brief recap of last week's news. The
only story that I remember, uh, is that Popeye has
brought out a chicken sandwich. We tasted it. It was good.
It destroys Chick fil A. It's the Chick fil A killer.
And yeah, somebody is estimating that that just bringing that

(28:24):
sandwich out was worth about twenty three million dollars in advertising. Yeah,
just like the way that people responded. What they what
they call it, twenty three million dollars in equivalent ad
value across digital print social just for all those mentions
in those eleven days since August twelve when it launched.
It's such a cynical way of viewing it. It's like, man,

(28:46):
dude putting out an actually good product really gave them
great market equity. It's like, yeah, well it's one of
those things. Did a good one. They did a good one.
Yeah well, I think you know. They also said, like
they're also comparing. It's like this David and Goliath. It's
wuation because it started with Chick fil A putting a
post out and then like, uh, pop I was like
oh yo yo mad or like yo worried or something,

(29:08):
and then it created all these people to defend Popeye's
and the mentions and starting retweets and all these other things.
And it's funny like in this dry article, they're like,
you know, and and it was very a vibrant conversation
on black Twitter. Also, Yes, true, but I think there's
a lot of things about this sandwich that's being left
out of these articles a lot. There's a couple of
things that I think, aside from just obviously things happening

(29:30):
on Twitter, because other articles are like this is probably
gonna be a blueprint for other brands, because like they
they're taking it as like they stepped to Chick fil
A and then people were like ended up actually liking
Popeye is better, and that's why this is so genius.
There's a few things like I think a on the Internet,
there's already a very defined segment of consumers who have

(29:50):
issues with Chick fil A and the causes they give to.
Not obviously the company itself has ceased giving donations, but
they have the Chick fil A Foundation that give to
charities UM and certain groups that are just unequivocally against
anything LGBTQ and like very much into the idea that
like you know, any any like gay people are entire

(30:11):
abomination to Christ and everything like that. So yes, I
think there's a lot of people who were who desperately
wanted a solution to I like chicken sandwiches, and I
don't like thinking that I'm actually giving directly to causes
that I that I don't sit with you that don't
think I should exist, right, and but not that that
was the biggest thing, but I think that's one metric
that caused a lot of people, especially you see like

(30:33):
on comedy Twitter, that was sort of like a sigh
of relief for people like, oh, thank god, I can
have a chicken sandwich and it's not this other thing. Um,
and then the other part is too. On Black Twitter,
especially the jay Z NFL deal had just been the
biggest thing from the week prior to that, and there
was a lot of energy. I think a lot of people.
I was very much like, fuck, like these are the

(30:54):
this is the good guy bad guy things I'm dealing
with right now, and the Popeye's Chick fil A thing. Immediately,
it was like, no, no, no no, let let's talk about this.
Because trying to figure out whether or not Sean Carter
is doing the right thing by Colin Kaepernick or these
people who are actually in the streets trying to bring
awareness to police violence. Um, you know, we're still not
sure if that's what he was trying to do or

(31:15):
if he was getting a big gass check that made
people feel sick and we got a distraction. But that's
my two cents. One thing is for certain, everywhere across
this town, across New York City, San Francisco, there are
executives talking today about how how we are going to
launch your Popeye's Chicken sandwich experience right exactly, but like

(31:36):
taking all the wrong lessons, like you said, yeah, Like
there was already so much fuel for the sandwich because
it started when the sandwich came out the first thing
where people like, y'all, I think this is an alternative,
so we don't have to feel bad about buying Chick
fil A. Certainly, there are many people who don't give
a fuck, and that's their prerogative. And I mean, if
you look at anything you buy, there's a fucking eight

(31:58):
percent chance you're giving to the destroyers of this earth.
That's just the nature of the system. But like I think,
for I think the sandwich thing became so well defined
for people that it just immediately gave people aside to
fall on. And luckily, you know, chick the Popeyes came
out with a crunchy as sandwich. If it was just
a good chicken sandwich, I still don't think it would

(32:19):
have had this level of pop I think they like went,
but I don't know. I don't know if you get
the same buzz if it's not being used in the
context of, like you know, just contextualizing it as a
thing as an alternative to Chicken flo totally yeah, no, no, no,
I think I think it's like four different things had
to go exactly right for them to get and that's
why the brand should be talking to us, you know,

(32:41):
the trianvirate of three minds to get your new firew
in there and on that and everyone yeah, and everyone
got like just smashed. And I was like, well, like Zaxbus,
like y'all talking about chicken, like the funk Jangles, get out,
just get out right now, it's between these two giants

(33:03):
because already, and that's the other thing. Popeye's already has
like a very strong support system. Not maybe as big
on social media, but if if you know people who
like their fast fried chicken, you pop Eyes, you have
talked about it. Well, let's talk about the president again, okay, yea.
So conversations about climate change, conversations about the fact that

(33:25):
the Amazon is on fire, ended up being pretty prominent
in the G seven summit, and you know, Trump a
whopping twenty million dollars I think they've pledged to support
and Trump being the leader of the free world. Isn't
that funny that we used to refer to the President
of the United States as the leader of the free world? Um?

(33:49):
He he uh, you know, stepped in and had some
really interesting thoughts on what he fucking skipped a whole
session with the G seven leaders to talk specifically about
climate change. He's like, I'm doing by that, like well,
the officials from the White House, like he's doing bilateral
meetings with them separately, so he sent an official instead.

(34:10):
I just think he hates being in the room where
everyone knows he's fucking stupid and is going to corner
him and be like, hey, asshole, get your head out.
Because Merkele, he does not like her mcrown, he doesn't
like him. There's just there're too many people in that
room that just make him feel small. So of course
he wasn't gonna be there on a topic he has

(34:31):
no it's he's in an indefensible position on climate change.
Aside from him just being like, well, I don't know,
I think that's what Obama wanted. That's not like, that's
not a reason, that's not a reasonable excuse to deny this.
So at a press conference right before that, he was
asked whether or not he was still a skeptic on
climate change because he's talked about this and like just
never really came down on a real decision, and his

(34:53):
answer was, basically, we have so much wealth if you
look at natural guests, if you look at these other things,
and are nobody opened up Alaska. Reagan couldn't do it.
I did it, And it's like it just went on
this weird rant about wealth and essentially just boiled down.
He's like, so why are we gonna put money into
solar and electric? He's like, those are losers. So the
argument was basically, I don't want to upset existing industries.

(35:16):
Essentially it there's an existential threat from climate change, but
I'm not gonna do anything because I don't want to
have said these businesses because his brain isn't capable of
conceiving of it well. And also he's just so fixed
in the you know system that is this corporatocracy in
this country that it's like, yeah, you can't just sort
of unilaterally be like, I'm sorry, I actually don't think

(35:36):
this is actually good for the country at all. This
is what we're gonna do because there are way too
many stakeholders, um and just wealthy donors involved that can
derail this stuff. So then the same thing is kind
of happening with Bernie Sanders. He put out a very
very ambitious Green New Deal plan last week, and again
you saw the same kind of like real interesting centrist

(35:59):
op eds from the Washington Post, because you know, Amazon
and Bernie love each other, but this a lot of
these criticisms were essentially just sort of like, it's not realistic,
it's too much, too soon, Where is the money gonna
come from? And it's just sort of this thing where
they are not really looking at the problem itself because

(36:20):
they're looking at things like carbon capture. He's like saying
that is not gonna work. We gotta get rid of
gas powered vehicles. That's not gonna work. And if you
look at the positions these like op eds are taking,
it's essentially like we are the same thing. We don't
want to upset existing industries. And when you look at
these claims of like, oh well, just unrealistic. Yeah, there
are things. Of course, when you look at how Congress works,

(36:42):
you're not gonna get fucking seventeen trillion dollars out of
nowhere because they're too busy throwing that away on defense.
But the idea that it's unrealistic and therefore should not
just be considered I think is the exact reason why
we're here, um is because we need unfortunately, we need
unreal quote unquote unreal stick plans because the media and

(37:02):
the government was acting like this problem was nothing and
they refused to address a realistic problem in an unrealistic
way by just ignoring it cut to where we are now.
So it's just, uh, it's another one of those moments
where you see like, yeah, centrism and like, you know,
the gop and just said, there's there's a thick system
here that when you begin to upset it, you see

(37:23):
all these op eds come out about why it's lame,
rather than like no, hold on, like we are like
we need to fucking do something really drastic. Yeah, it
seems like I mean, uh, mamoth poll recently came out
that said that the Democratic field is Warren Sanders and
by nineteen percent. That's not the you know, overall consensus

(37:48):
on five thirty eight, but it does seem to be
the direction things are moving. And I just think it's
interesting that like the two people who are deemed like
too far left by the mainstream media are are getting
the lion's share of support, because yeah, I just think
people are done with the establishment at this point. Well, yeah,

(38:09):
the thing is there are people who are just sort
of like, yeah, business as usual, business as usual, and
then there are people who are starting to figure it
out that business as usual is the reason why things
are so bad as usual, and the and those candidates
who seem extreme are the only people who are saying, like, well,
the business as usual as how we got here, So
we need to upend this to in order to create

(38:30):
something new. This guy would have us doing communism as usual. Yeah,
there you go. Business. Let's talk about Amazon, guys U
on Bernie Sanders communism as usual. So in addition to

(38:52):
you know, owning the Washington Post, Amazon is a business.
Have you ever used this business? Amazon dot Com? Yeah? Yeah,
online retailer. Um. So I've noticed that like some things
are slipping, like sometimes there will be like something shows
up damaged. My family just ordered four wine glasses online

(39:14):
to our house because we're adults and Daddy needs something
fancy to drink his diet mountain dew out of. But
what arrived instead were two dirty wine glasses that weren't
even like wrapped in anything. They were just loose in
a box. I swear to love the problems. You're having

(39:34):
two of them. It's like the slaves at the warehouse
were not on their game. Two of them were dirty
and two of them were missing. Only two showed up.
Oh and they're both dirty. Well well, well well, but
this weekend the Wall Street Journal published an article that
fucking blew my mind about how many of Amazon's products

(39:59):
are are like unsafe. Basically they would not pass like
federal regulations, and they're from what they call third party retailers.
But they have like over two million third party retailers,
so they just can't possibly focus on quality control, and
so people are Like one story they tell in the

(40:21):
article is about somebody who died in a motorcycle accident
because they bought a motorcycle helmet off of Amazon, assuming that,
you know, because it is a retailer that is like
a famous, well respected brand name, uh, that it does
some manner of quality control and it just popped off

(40:42):
the second the accident happened. There's all sorts of children's
toys that are like way way above the levels of
allowable lead in children's products. Where are these third party
sellers from just all over? I mean there are these
lead old ones. Yeah, I mean they're made in lead. Um,

(41:06):
I mean it's anything from lead poisoning to like balloons
that don't have the required choking hazard warnings. But these
are things that you don't get with like Walmart or
you know, uh, you know virtuous companies like Walmart. Walmart.
You just wanted to point out how great Walmart is.

(41:27):
So it comes back to this thing that happens. So
in two thousand one, most of Amazon's sales were from
established brands that they had established relationships with. Third party
sellers made up six percent of physical merchandise sales. And
then Bezos came up with this idea for what he
called a virtuous cycle where more third party vendors who

(41:51):
want to sell an Amazon would add more products at
less expensive prices, attracting more customers, which would attract more sellers.
And basically it became this enormous thing where now most
of the products sold are from third party retailers that
don't have anything protecting you from being a lead filled

(42:12):
motorcycle helmet that doesn't work. It's like making your way
to a physical Walmart store, but in the parking lot
or a bunch of shady people trying to sell you
other ship. You're like, oh, I think I can get
it in there, Like, no, it's cheaper. It would be
like that if they were selling those products on the
same shelves as the other products, because right at least
it's lending, it's legitimate. It like one of the like

(42:34):
a xylophone we bought for our kid, like is one
of the lead things. We didn't buy it like from
So it's not like broke Gass Toy Store or something
like crime that Island of Misfit Toys. I think it
was an Amazon pick, like an Amazon choice. That's when
I know, whenever I see that, I'm always like not
saying it because most of them what they're doing, Yeah,

(42:56):
I can see why suddenly your guards down because like, oh,
of course, thank you. You're not gonna send my child
painted lead chips, right. You know. They said that they
will make it look like on the site that it
is from Amazon, that it like Amazon basically uh manufactured
the product when it actually came from a third party seller.
That's like you know down the screen, uh in really

(43:20):
small type. Man. So I mean I think, yeah, one
thing that they're Sanders Presidency, if you're a Jeff basis
one thing they could do too, you know. Improve this
is just make it very clear with the distinction between
the products that are like screened and from through like
official sellers, and the products that are you know more
like going to a flea market and just like kind

(43:42):
of taking you know, you you have to be careful
and do your own research to clear these things because
they just don't have the ability, Like they're trying to
do the thing that Facebook tried to do that all
these huge tech companies try to do where they're like, well,
we have software to like screen these things, and it's
like that does not do it because there's people whose
entire job it is to full your software. So software

(44:05):
never works. Like people will always find a way, especially
if you've got a hustle, Like, sure they are rules,
but if you're really about your money, fuck a rule, man,
You're gonna do whatever you have to do. So to
give you an idea of the numbers, the Washington State
Attorney General's Office examined school supplies this year and found
thirty five out of forty one Amazon products tested contained

(44:27):
amounts of cadmium lead or both above federal or state limits.
Damn school supplies that so only six were not fu six,
we're not out of forty one. Yeah, they're batting hundred
and forty six. No, yeah, well, don't buy your school
supplies from Amazon. It's fun to walk in the store.

(44:47):
That was my favorite part walking. But this is where
this whole system is all fucked up, right, because you'd
imagine that people who need like very cheap school supplies
are probably teachers because they're fucking classrooms aren't fun. They're
going on to Amazon to get the cheap and they're
spreading all that lit right, and then on top of it,
it's just such a vicious fucking cycle where it's like
maybe this wouldn't be that big of a deal also

(45:09):
if like you know, the classes were funded. But now
it's like, oh, we have to turn to like sketchy
goods for kids on Amazon because my go fund me
only allowed me to get this much money from kind
meaning strangers on the Yeah, there's no If it seems
too good to be true, it probably is. We thought
we've seen that with Amazon with regards to how they
treat workers in the warehouses that are shipping you packages.

(45:33):
We're now seeing it with the quality of the products
that you're actually getting so. Yeah. Their official statement on
the school product like reads like have you ever seen
that dan ackroid sketch on SNL where he is like
a CEO selling wildly dangerous toys for children like bag

(45:53):
of glass? What it's just building? Yeah. The Amazon spokesperson
says the company quote worked with our selling partners to
verify that the school supplies and children's jewelry in our
store are safe, and enhanced our processes to verify the
safety of these products. Moving forward, we welcome ongoing collaboration
with the Attorney general and other agencies to promote customer safety.

(46:17):
Uh So, basically, they're gonna wait to get caught by
the state's attorney general and then we'll work with them
to figure out what the heck happened there? Yeah yeah,
or my first radioactive teeth collection something happened. Yeah. And
it goes with electronic equipment, like there's no really good
governing body that's testing the electronic equipment that's on their

(46:38):
magnetic toys for children like that have been deemed unsafe
because kids will swallow them and then the magnets will
like connect. Yeah. Yeah, there's all sorts of Remember that
when I saw a news report. I think when I
was tenners like as a kid, that was about them,
like and the children swallowed magnets, and I was like,
the funk is that? And then my dad, very vividly,

(47:00):
was like, so he just took two magnets. I can
imagine this is one magnet and this is another one,
and they're both floating in your stomach, and then like
when they come together, He's like, that's your intestines ripping apart.
And I was like, okay, I will I guess I'll
take these magnets out of my mouth. Stop eating magnets. Yeah,
it just tastes so good and they maybe feelings feel cool.

(47:23):
I'm not gonna stop eating magnets, but were one at
a time. Make sure it passes. Make sure it passes exactly.
Always hold a magnet over your poo to know it passed.
I've found, you know, a rate of three at a
time usually works for me. Wow, gambler gamble alert so
fun hearing the snap. Instead you're hitting your stomach and

(47:48):
just praying there having to flex your small intestine to
make sure. Anyways, alright, that's probably we're probably joking about
a terrible like the worst way you could die like
and then you just die like sepsis. H. Well, look,
it's not our fault, it's Amazons, guys blame them. Well yeah,

(48:09):
so I guess just don't trust products just because they're
on Amazon. And the Amazon pick like designation, which I
have used to just be like, oh that looks good enough,
actually is based not on the quality of the product,
but on shipping time, cost and whether or not Amazon
makes it right exactly because half the time it's their

(48:30):
ship right, So yeah, it's it's basically the Facebook equivalent
of buying stuff. So I guess all this to say
we can count on you returning to uh sur La
Tabbs for your wine glasses, of course, of course. Uh,
I mean just these wine glasses, though we have an

(48:52):
extensive collection. Um, all right, I'll shut up. All right,
We're gonna take a quick break, will be right back,
and we're back. And Hasbro is back in the news.

(49:14):
I was saying today, Miles, this makes me feel like
the matrix is glitching because Hasbro. I hadn't said that
word in like five years. And then last week has
Rosen we were talking about Hasbro because they make monopoly
and they made this like really shitty knockoff like version

(49:35):
of monopoly, making fun of socialism. That was yesterday. Uh,
and so now that Hasbro is in our collective matrix unconscious.
Now they own death Row Records, the most important music
label of my child. I've never been tweeted at or

(49:55):
I g d M so much. Then when I don't know,
did you see this as bros death Row? What's going on? Um?
Yeah as a headline you're like, what then? Because most
of them, like Hasbro is now the like now owns
the entire death Row Records catalog. Um. Which is interesting.
But when you really look at you gotta zoom in
a little bit, folks, you gotta see or actually zoom out,

(50:18):
because right now you're just looking at the deal and say, yes,
now they own it. Really what happened is they Yes,
they've spent four billion dollars to buy Entertainment One is
a media company. But really the reason they did it
is because Entertainment One's biggest asset is Peppa Pig and
Hasbro is in the toy making business and it is
huge in China. So for them, this is just a

(50:40):
huge play to get into the Chinese markets with their
toys and their products because now they're the ones that
owned Pepper Pig. One thing I did not know is
that Peppa Pig has been endorsed by the People's Liberation
Army in China. So you know, you're like, yeah, this
is it's a wrap, dude, we gotta own pep person's
decision that makes that. Like suddenly Pepper Pig has a

(51:05):
theme park in Shanghai that opened in two thousand nineteen,
Like it's enormous. Yeah. And I and also, because like
they have their hands in film, TV, music, everything, they
also have a sizeable music division and that just became
part of the deal because they bought the whole thing,
and they purchased prior to Housbro the all the death

(51:25):
Row catalog in because they were fully out of money
back then. They also man the amount of acts that
are on entertainment one pretty it's not it's not just
like obscure stuff like they're they have their hands and everything.
I know, like p J Masks. Oh yeah, that's the
other weird thing that they were They were pointing out
there like it's all about Pepper Pig and p J Masks,

(51:47):
And I was like, you mean t J Max And
I don't know what the what is pete do? I
just looked it up. Kids like superheroes, so what could
be better for tykes than becoming superheroes themselves. That's what's
happening at night for young friends Connor Amaya and Greg.
So I have been exposed to p J Masks. I'm sorry,

(52:07):
how uh it's my hair has been falling out for
months now Masks exposures. Yeah, no, the lasting through my
nephews who are a little bit older. But it's basically
a comic book, but it seems like it's being written
by a five year old who's making it up as
they go, like to the point that I think they've

(52:29):
figured something out that like just like taps directs storytelling. Yeah,
but well it's all action that just I'll read a
passage from this book that I've found PJA Masks, Get
Go Saves Christmas. I was gonna say a book I
read PJ Masks Exposure and you. Alette pushes a button
on the ol glider and a gust of wind forces

(52:49):
Lunar Girl off her lunar board. Cat Boy jumps out
of the ol glider and chases lunar Girl. Alette runs
to grab the lunar board, but Lunar Girl summons their moths. Aulett,
look out shall Gecko, but it's too late. The month
catch Alette, quick get gos. She says, fly the lunar
board away from Lunar Girl, and then it just goes
on from there. What it's just that, No, yeah, that's

(53:13):
definitely kids story, Like I do story pirt, so we
read actual elementary school kids stores all time, and they
are just that where it's like this action happened, then
this action, then this person did a crazy thing, and
then there's a new action, and then make that a show.
The moss let go of Allette, and the heroes meet
up with one another. Geko, are you okaysks Catboy. Yes,
says Gecko. But I knew I wouldn't be able to

(53:33):
fly the lunar board. Sorry, it's okay, says Catboy. Let's
just go after Lunar Girl. I'll let you fly and
we'll follow you from the ground. Like it really seems
like something that a five year old like is writing,
Like it's just like stream of consciousness. It's really understand
because they used the full name of the superhero and
every sentence instead of using a pronoun it's a lot.

(53:58):
It's wow, it is um Yeah, it just has this
like you know, if I could just be a development
producer for a second, I'd be like, first of all,
I don't know what the stakes are for your characters here.
I mean, you've got a lot of names here, kid,
you've got a lot of names. I don't know if
the steaks are I don't know what's motivating these things
do Is there a protagonist in this? Yeah, it's the
three superheroes and where the moths come from? Lunar Girls. Also,

(54:22):
there was no exposition in this entire treatment. They didn't
see one expository scene. That's on me. But I will
tell you that the only inciting incident is there ice skating.
And they're like, ice skating is part of Christmas, just
like Christmas trees. Look at the Christmas tree with decorations.
The decorations are missing. Uh, now we've got some go

(54:45):
on now. And then they're just like, Lunar Girl must
have stolen it. Damn this. So I get it. It's
all about this Lunar Girl. Yeah, okay, all right, we'll
option that that's three million. I mean it's an IP factory, man,
I mean yeah, this thing man p J mask and
what who is there a person named p J Masks? No,
I think it's pj's because when they put on their
pajamas they turned into the superheroes, So they're pj's. Are

(55:08):
their masks p J masks? One Wicked Paradise And here
I am. And that's all you need because that's what
how simple this show. It's almost like referring to the
technology of the PJ mask. I don't know, like PJ masks,
it has nothing to do. They don't collectively identify as
PJA maskers, masking mascutory. It's like X Men there, you know, yeah,

(55:30):
but I know who the X Men are. Yeah, No,
there's like it's like PJ masks, but it's you know
what I mean, girl, they're called the PJ masks. Oh
together there, Okay, So I just thought it was a
technology like if if you call it Wolverines, just adamantium. No,
I mean helps his that helps his skeleton be lit.
But that's not who he is. No, No, you sound

(55:52):
like a fool, right yeah see, And this is why
I don't get it. Man shouldn't have passed on Pepper
Pig either, I like, is this a recipe. I love
pepper pig pepper pick. That's what you said. That's exactly
what I'm in podcasting. That's crazy that there are other
children's books that sound like that. Wow, but I guess that,

(56:15):
I guess that you have to do. But the ones
I'm talking about are written by kids. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what we do at Storybirds. We teach like kids
in elementary school how to write stories, and then we
take their stories and turn them into a show and
go back and perform them for them. And they all
sound like that which you told me was written by
an adult, but it sounds like all the kids by kids.

(56:36):
I think they have a room full of children changed
to typewriters. My guess of how pgmsks is written. And uh,
in no way can I be sued for saying that.
Oh allegedly, nice done, Boom, you're a lawyer. Legal, I
posted a disclaimer to my Instagram, so you cannot sue me. Yep,

(56:57):
I do not agree to have my photos is by Instagram, Boom,
legally binding. Let's talk briefly about Andrew Luck, you know,
one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL, who announced
two days ago just two weeks before the NFL season
was to start that he is retiring. He was twenty nine.

(57:18):
People were shocked, it was It wasn't shocking. It was
pretty surprising, because what what's the shelf life of a quarterback?
Like thirty five? Maybe you can get to yeah, and
you're not totally concussed out. He was seen as somebody
who hadn't even like hit his potential yet, like he
was going to be like a super Bowl winning quarterback.

(57:38):
Really yeah, see, I'm so disengaged from the NFL. But
like I know his name, I didn't. I didn't know
why people were is it is it for a controversial
reason or he's just like he's just like tired of
being hurt. He's been hurt and like rehabbing and but
he also said there's like a mental exhaustion to it.
And this is not that uncommon. There was a forty

(58:02):
Niners defensive player I think, who had like one of
the best rookie seasons at his position in years back
in two thousand and fourteen, like he was. People were like,
this guy's great, He's gonna make hundreds and millions of dollars.
And he retired after his rookie season because he was
just like, it's not worth it to me to like
deal with the head trauma and be treated like a

(58:25):
fucking piece of meat. Man. So, yeah, this is interesting,
Like it's it's a definite shift because I think what
the last super Bowl two Super bowls ago was sort
of this generational gap where you had the last era
of players who were told to ignore concussions playing some
of the earliest generations entering the league who have been
told from very early on to be careful with your head.

(58:47):
And it seems like now we're seeing people be like,
let's see, what's my bank account look like? Great? Do
I have constant headaches? And like, am I living with
the possibility of being completely medically disabled by continuing to play? Yeah,
And in some ways this is bringing attention to the
idea that NFL players bodies and lives are really like

(59:09):
they're sacrificing a lot by going out there and doing that.
But this is somebody who has dozens of millions of dollars,
probably a hundred million dollars in the bank already, and
there are plenty of people who aren't quarterbacks who are
you know, really struggling, And it was wild the day
that Luck retired. A fullback who used to play for

(59:32):
Baltimore and was a really good fullback, but you just like,
that's the guy who blocks for the running back. It's
not somebody whose name gets called a lot by the commentators.
Was on Twitter saying, need to tell my story how
my head is crazy and health football? Did it? Please?
Someone help me get this out. The at NFL puts
paperwork in our faces and that's it. I have to

(59:53):
get my head checked. Playing fullback since high school, it
takes to fucking much to do anything. My brain is
fucking tired. At NFL, I need some help with this
ship dark times and it's showing fucking help me please. Yeah,
And it's just like I think people are reaching out
to them, but I don't know if the NFL is.

(01:00:14):
They're kind of behind the curve on this. They just
acknowledged that there's a connection between CT and uh NFL
careers and their owners are pushing this year to take
the season from sixteen games to eight teen games. They
want a longer season, which if you've evil, if you've

(01:00:37):
ever paid attention to the NFL, like you know, the
season is way too long. It was like they built
the schedule when players were not you know, flying around
it miles per hour and like three hundred pounds of
defensive linemen were like crashing into each other on their heads.
So like the the owners are pushing for more games. Uh,

(01:01:00):
it really just does expose that they don't give a
ship about the players. It's an exploitative new plantation system
right where a majority of the players are people of color,
and they're putting subjecting their bodies to this kind of
fucking damage consistently. It's really a trip to because I
was watching this show on Netflix called Last Chance You,

(01:01:21):
which is about a juco where a lot of kids
who are trying to get into D one schools again
because it's literally their last shot to try and get
picked up by a Division one football team. Like they
got to play at these top junior colleges to get
the exposure. And so many of these people have the
same story where they are supporting a family off the
dream of being in the NFL and are constantly having

(01:01:42):
these moments where they're like this one kid, he's not
even on a he's at a junior college and he
had multiple concussions in this one season and he was
like he had to work glasses, he could barely focus
and shipped like that. But at the end of the day,
he's like, no, I have to get into the NFL,
like this is the only way I'm going to make
the kind of money that I need, or in his mind,
his only option was to subject himself constantly the sort

(01:02:05):
of physical damage because the carrot on the end of
the stick was like this mirrage to where such a
small percentage of these people with the same dream actually
you know, are able to fulfill it, and it's just
really it's it's heartbreaking to them. No, it's like even
at that level, man, they're just gonna fucking squeeze you
fucking every fucking thing you've got, even meant like in

(01:02:25):
your brain even and then be like thanks man, we
got this, we got that new Dominoes deal or whatever. Uh,
and we you know, very little support or consideration for
what these people's lives are like after the fact, Yeah, yeah,
would people not watch football if they switched it to
just like to hand touch or flag for NFL? I mean,
we all in it for people like bonking each other.

(01:02:47):
I mean like, if you're gonna do it, watch like
the UFC. If you want to watch people to fuck
like destroy each other, put it in that context. But again,
that's the thing. It's like one of those things where
before it was all fun in games when like people
weren't like, there's such advancements in performance technology for human
beings that it's like the people are like exponentially stronger

(01:03:09):
and faster and bigger than they were back then. It
was easy to be like, oh yeah, I got a
litt lump on the head here and there. But now
we're dealing with like, you know, destruction Derby's where the
cars go so fast they can actually vaporize on impact.
And that's the consistent you know, that's the level we're at.
And I don't think there's not been a way to
fully reconcile these things. Yeah, I mean they're doing things

(01:03:29):
with the helmet. There was a big controversy because the
best wide receiver in the league was like, I don't
like this new helmet. It's too big and too protective
of my head basically, and like he was used to
his old helmet, And that was a controversy where it
seemed like the NFL was doing the right thing. But
all you need to know is that the owners are
pushing to go from sixteen to eighteen games. One weird

(01:03:52):
wrinkle that I think people are kind of talking about
in the background of the Andrew Luck story is the
XFL is coming back. We were already going to talk
about the fact that the XFL is coming back. That's
the Football Alternative League by Vince McMahon from World Wrestling entertained.
Nce McMahon, Um, they had a brief run. When was
that two thousands? It was like in early two thousand's. Uh.

(01:04:15):
Back then they were like pitching it is like the
NFL is for sissy's. This is gonna be like the
real tough, tough version of football. It's not clear like
what their pitch is going to be. But really, coincidentally,
I guess Andrew lux dad is the CEO and commissioner
of the XFL. Could you imagine he suits up in

(01:04:40):
an XFL uniform in February. He's I gotta save my
body for February when the XFL comes back. I mean
that league was really like sort of the answer to
like being like, how do we make the NFL more
fucking brutal because they were sort of building it on,
like dude, no fair catch. Watch these people get their
fucking heads ripped off, and now they finally got their

(01:05:02):
ship together. I mean, I know we tease it like
in the first year of doing this show, where we're like, yeah,
that'll work, and now we're like, oh wait, February, it's
happening now. And even in this article, Reading Commissioner Oliver
Luck said, right, man, the names are pretty rough, like
they need to work on their names. Well, they're all
like meant to not give any They're supposed to be

(01:05:25):
as like masculine as possible, Like there's no there's nothing
you could you know, Dallas Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, the fucking
New York Guardians, the St. Louis now Hawks is a
bad asspert but not masculine enough. The St. Louis battle Hawks, Yeah,

(01:05:46):
Seattle Dragons, Tampa Bay Vipers, DC Defenders, the Seattle fuck Dragons,
and l A has a soft just want wildcats. Yeah,
but you know what we're we're more than just sort
of like our ideas on masculine idea. The city, you
know what I mean, come together and we create something
wilder than a cat. Uh well, kemmya. It has been

(01:06:06):
a pleasure having you. Thank you? So where can people
find you and follow you? Oh? You can follow me
on Instagram at child clown. That's right, And I'm also
on Twitter at child clown underscore because I gotta say it.
Another weirdo had to be child Clown. Yeah, man, I
hate that. Uh and is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh? Yeah,

(01:06:30):
this is just a tweet from one of my friends, Uh,
Monica s and Donnie. It's at Monica Vass. It says
I injured my right hand and have to write with
my left, so my grocery my grocery list looks like
the kill list of someone who absolutely fucking hates fruit
and three different kinds of cheese. You know, I stuttered,
but it's hilarious. And then there's like a pick underneath

(01:06:53):
of her just like left handed writing the word bread crumbs,
and it's terrifying. Bread crumbs. That's what my regular handwriting
looks like. But I am a lefty, so it sucks.
Miles Where can people find you? And is their tweet
you've been enjoying? You can find me and follow me
on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of gray. Tweet I

(01:07:13):
like is a quote tweet from Pablo Hidalgo. At Pablo Hidalgo. First,
the thing he's quote tweeting is from the Associated Press
is breaking g Seven countries have agreed to an immediate
twenty million dollar fund to help Amazon countries fight wildfires.
And then his comment was Netflix paid one hundred million
dollars to stream friends. There's been a lot of tweets

(01:07:38):
with that same construction. And also one thing I do
on point out's not I don't know what the tweet
is specifically, but Kimmia adopted a dog and the images
please pin this to your homepaid Well, I'm not gonna
take what to do, but check out, check out. Check out.
Kim you a Twitter page because you adopted a dog
who has one eye, and then when you were cleaning

(01:07:58):
up the dogs toys, you discovered that this dog was
biting the eye off of any eyed toy so far
as a squirrel with eye but just one eye right,
leaving all of the dogs toys to look like him.
I'll tweet the picks are up there, that is, and look,
if you're a veterinarian or something, a dog psychologist, tell
me what's going on. A dream veteranariana she's in Australia sheet.

(01:08:24):
I'll tell you it's from the bit of Envy. Yeah
uh yeah, And so check that one out too, because
it's I just can't get I get the biggest kick
out of seeing that because it's so clearly just biting
one eye off of these toys. What a narcissist you. Uh.
Eric Curtain tweeted, my favorite part of getting an oil

(01:08:45):
changes when they're done and all the employees come out
to give you a kiss before they give you your
car back. Uh. Dan Sheehan tweeted, Fellas this fall is
all about Lord of the Rings masculinity. That's right. We're
going on long journeys with the guy as we're swearing
oaths to our buddies, and if you say goodbye without
a soft forehead kiss, then buddy, you fucked up. Uh.

(01:09:10):
That's it. Uh. And then Travis tug Hellwig tweeted, I
will bet ten thousand dollars that a network will buy
a pitch this year called adult ting. I've never been
more sure of anything in my life, and unfortunately I
would not take that bet. By the way, as Michael Trevino,
who said, let Eddie Murphy be his own musical guest,

(01:09:30):
you coward. You can find me on Twitter at Jack
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talked about in today's episode, as well as a song
we ride out on miles. What's that gonna be today? Uh,

(01:09:52):
this is going to be a song from a Canadian songwriter,
Patrick Watson, great artist you already know. But this is
a track that I just like the title called fire Lead.
But the track is really good. I first saw it
in a skate video from like nine years ago of
this skater Killian Martin. Check out the YouTube videos called

(01:10:13):
Killian Martin a skate regeneration. Uh. And like you know,
he likes to do a little you know, flatland tricks
and ship like that. But it's it works very well.
You wouldn't think acoustic guitargoes well on the skate video.
It does. And also I do want to shout out
Patrick Watson co wrote one of my favorite albums. Of
all time called Muffleur by Cinematic Orchestra that came out

(01:10:34):
into thousand seven. I'll throw to that song too. I
can't get enough. He has a great voice. This song
is fired wed And if you aren't in front of
a screen, you can just close your eyes and imagine
me doing some sick the song. The Daily Zoyeeis is
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