January 10, 2025 • 62 mins
In this episode, Jack and special guest co-host Andrew Ti are joined by writer/actor/comedian Blake Wexler to discuss… the L.A. wildfires, that one press conference that perfectly illustrated the juxtaposition between the LAPD and the LAFD (and who should get a bigger budget), New York introduces congestion pricing in Manhattan, Girl Scout cookies getting cancelled?!, and much more!
- The Future Of Fire Cannot Look Like Its Present | Defector
- Congestion pricing in New York City starts after years of turmoil and legal challenges - CBS New York
- New York Post on X: "Man stabbed in NYC subway station as congestion pricing kicks in, forcing more commuters into dangerous system https://t.co/cLj3aBLrXO https://t.co/VkMxdHFGXF" / X
- Democracy Dies As Awful Man No Longer Able To Freely Drive 18 Blocks In Manhattan | Defector
- The Girl Scouts are retiring two cookie flavors after this season | CNN Business
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What else? What else?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How about what other lizards do your freaks? I don't know, wait,
you know what could I handle? The what a komodo dragon?
What is what like constitutes a good reptile to eat?
Like is it muscle or is it fat? Like Romoto
dragons are venomous, so poisonous.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
In like a nasty way, Like there's a venomous animal
where it's like yeah, where like it's like built into
their DNA over many years, like just evolution, like built
a fucking perfect weapon. And that's the sort of poison
that I respect. The komodo dragon's mouth is just like dirty,
It's just it's just nast ship They're just like h
(00:50):
which is also kind of true humans, Like when you
talk to emergency physicians, they're like the last thing you
want to be bit by is a human being. Are
fucking nasty.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
This is me in middle school on my hand, you're
still not right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
It's hello the Internet and welcome to season three seventy,
episode five of Dirt Eily's Guys stayed production by Heart Radio.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
This yes, yeah, this.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
American share consciousness. We now have a YouTube channel YouTube
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check out what we look like as we're saying words
like this. It is Friday, January tenth, twenty twenty four.
My name is Jack O'Brien. AKA. If I could fill
(01:56):
this bag with beans, do you think guy could take
a seat, because you know, I feel so darn comfy
if I could just sit on some beans. That is
courtesy of Manish. It was supposed to be A thousand
(02:17):
Miles by Vanessa Carlton. Uh, doing my best. You know,
I am no Vanessa Carlton. I am, though, thrilled to
be joined in our second seat by one of our
favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer
you know him from yos This racist podcast.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's Andrew two.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'm gonna tell you I didn't have one, and now
I'm gonna wing one. I'm looking up for Larrys right now. Okay,
it's raining.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ash, it's raining Ash.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I don't actually know how the rest of this ting goes.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Anyway, I walked outside this morning at Echo Park and
I was like, things are bet no, and wait a second, yeah,
legitimately snowing Ash right now.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Is it continuously coming down on you.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I didn't think so, but it does sort of a
you know, like a like for anyone who's from where
snow falls, it's like the first snow.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, like a lot of nice little.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Little yeah, smaller than a flurry, but it's it's I mean,
it's definitely coming down.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There's this in terms Blake would understand in his sheltered
little world out there that's not on fire. Andrew, We're
thrilled to be joined in air third seat by a
brilliant comediuan writer and actor who's new specialist Daddy lung Legs.
He is the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to
(03:46):
describe his size, Please welcome Blake wackfle.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Or this is Blake Wexler, and I am going to
do an aka, but uh, I just need to say
heart thinking about everyone in the fires, so much love
to them. It's horrific. And now this is Blake Wexler AKA.
These shorts are too tight on me because I'm one
step closer to the trend and I'm about to Blake.
Plumpers need a little room to breathe because I'm one
(04:13):
step closer to the trend and I'm about to blake.
That was from Blankie heck hell yeah, he which sounds
like like a fake. The name I give it hotels
when checking so I don't get bothered.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
When you're extremely drunk and.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
When I'm trash. Yeah, they're like, you want another room.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I'm like, yes, go join, Yeah, I want the room
of the one I went to by accident.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I forgot my first room.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, the hollering dude, I did that once where I
lived when I was living in LA This was back
in my drinking days, and got off on the wrong
floor and could not get into my room what I
thought was my room, and I kept like knocking and
then like trying to pull the torn up as if
that would make it unlock. And I just heard someone
from the other sid I just go, please stop.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That'll that'll either really wake you up or really not
wake you up. Yeah yeah, no, yeah that coming to that.
That moment when the light switch switched back on was humbling,
and I apologize.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Still, yeah, great, well, it's all great, it's all great.
Everything is super great.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Right, do you want to get to know me in
a few minutes?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, what I would really like to get to
know you a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Hold off for a couple of your time. There's no rush.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Andrew and I are gonna tell our listeners a couple
of things we're talking about. You can kind of jump
in if you'd like later in the episode. It's called
a tease in the business. And then we're gonna come back.
We get to know you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We like to.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's called the weave. You've ever heard of it?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, I'm sure I'll see what's going on, is as
it as the show goes? Yeah, get the head of it.
It happened to you, yes, exactly. This show breathes you,
you know what I mean? All Right, some of the
things we're talking about. LA wildfires are.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Still raging out of control right now. We we're recording
this yesterday on Thursday. But it's uh yeah, we're continuing
to just see unimaginable tragedy around us. We'll just you know,
talk about firefighters, talk about press conferences with firefighters and
(06:37):
the police, a real nice like compared contrast there, uh
and the local news coverage which is fucking I don't know,
have you Andrew watched any local news.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The local news. I just had a real I am
in a.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Group that moves too quickly for human comprehension. But that's
been all I can kind of handle.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, so, you know, you're like on top of the
latest happening.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I can't tell. It's sort of the opposite.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's sort of just like a lot of reactions from
fucking you know anywhere, from progressives to hardcore communists about
what's happening. And it's a little hard to figure out
what's happening sometimes, But that's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Just experiencing unimaginable tragedy through the fog of memes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, so I just wait for the evening edition of
the La Times to come out, having a newspaper in
my Yeah, tangible we're going to.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Talk about this was just like a story I kind
of needed right now. New York putting congestion pricing in
place at the beginning of this week just like a
thing that they did with like a long, long term
benefits that they'd like to achieve, and just I don't know,
(07:59):
it feels like miraculous when a government intervenes in a
way that is designed to like make people's lives better,
So we'll talk about that and why it's incredibly unpopular.
We'll talk about which Girl Scout cookies are being canceled
not not in the card, why and why? Yeah, but
(08:23):
they're actually a couple that I like, one that I like,
and one that I've spent probably an episode's worth of
time on this podcast, just like uh railing about the
name of uh.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Here's here's a tease.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Which Girl Scout cookie, which everyone agrees is the fucking worst,
is Andrew T's favorite find out?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah? Anyways, all of that, plenty more. We might even
talk about Sean Hannity. But before that, Blake, we do
like to ask our guests, what is something from your
search history.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I wrote this down before I looked at the show
run run of show whatever the industry term is that
you guys use, and it was congestion pricing. We don't
have to get too far into it. But I live
right out So I live in North Jersey, in Jersey City,
So the Holland Tunnel is to Lower Manhattan, where a
(09:22):
lot of the congestion pricing is is like three minutes away.
And I had a show in Brooklyn last night, and
I'm like, oh, maybe I'll drive. And I've heard a
lot about congestion pricing, but I've just never researched any
of it. I'm like, well, whatever this is is going
to happen to me at some point. And then I'm like, oh,
I should look into it, into this and yeah, I
(09:42):
would get charged, you know, and we'll go more into it.
But I'm like, at first, I was pissed, So I'm like, well,
I want to fucking pay nine dollars to go do
this shitty show in Brooklyn in addition to the tolls
that I'm already paying. But then I'm like, oh, wait.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Should pay me to do this shitty show in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Everyone should pay me. I shou I didn't have to
pay rent. I should be treated like an ambassador. Basically,
where have my lodging provided for me? Like a diplomat?
But I then realized, oh this, we should just be
taking public transit. They should put fucking bike lanes that
where you don't get murdered by a car, like if
(10:19):
you just get on a bicycle. They should have that
infrastructure in cities. So yeah, when I was pissed off
about it selfishly am I go, this is a good thing.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's my opinion, and I'm
not going to during the segment.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You'll just be curious.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's so curious about the details of it because you
are right at the interface of I guess I just
assume congested pricing meant it was within when the city
was likely to be congested.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's a big Yeah, it's a big range where I
believe on weekdays it goes until nine pm. I think,
so it's not Yeah, no, it won't sleep here. I
am exhausted. I cannot sleep in this fucking city. But yeah, no,
you're right. I mean, it's obviously a controversial issue for
a reason where I think the big issue people had
(11:09):
with it was like, oh, like a teacher, for instance,
who has to drive into the city. Now they're paying
more money coming in from North Jersey to the city.
But yeah, in a perfect world, this would make the
public transit, you know, better, and make.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Better you take public transit, or you could take public transit.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, from Jersey into Lower Manhattan. Is the is
the point where like, oh right, yeah, I guess that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, And if I was in New York, I wouldn't
want people from Jersey in there either, So like I
do understand there the design.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, keep people from New Jersey out of here, please.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Sorry, we got yeah, we're selling the previous. We're selling
the previous.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So you see how they reacted to drones.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Way, why don't we fly them in on drones.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
See now we're two birds with one drone.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You can do that, you fit, you fix congestion, all
the congestion just by covering. This is the island of
Manhattan and drones and the people in Jersey.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, sort of a dome of drama. Drune dome, drum dome.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Blake, what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Underrated non alcoholic beers? And uh, I'm a beer drinker.
Love that ship, but you don't. You can't get enough
of that that ship, that hot ship.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And this is a word for word recreation of what
Blake says every time he enters a bar.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's fucking crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Three hot ships, please pull the rocks.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I'm a beer drinker, just f y I I'm a
beer drinker by trade, love that ship.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
By trade, by birth, my lineage. It goes way back
of beer drinkers. And but sometimes you don't want to
drink and Uh, it's good too. By the way, everybody's different.
Some people don't drink it all, some people, you know,
like have a problem. But I like the idea of
having a prop first of all, in that like when
(13:11):
you're hanging out, it is almost just a motion that
you're doing, like you want something carbonated, and the taste
is like unbelievable in these things now where it does
just taste like a beer and then you don't have
to deal with the alcohol of all of it. I
think Brian put hop water in here, which is like
very good as well. So yeah, shocking how good hopwater is.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, yeah for a thing that sounds genuinely disgusting nasty.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, yes, you think it's gonna be like cloudy and
I don't know, just be like ipa but like mixed
with water. But yeah, hop water is just like if
Lacroix made a really good ipa flavor.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, what's so weird? Yeah, it's really Do you do
you have a favorite? I do have.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I recently had a new favorite of teeing you Up
to te myself Up.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, no, no, I want to hear what yours is?
T Myself Up? Is your new podcast coming out the spring.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Where I just asked.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Leading self serving questions.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The most miserable person in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So You've had a really interesting the thing that I'm
interested in.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What do I think about you talking about that?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You see like someone with opinions on nos Faratu because
I've not seen it because so.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Much I have And yeah, I didn't get it at all?
What was that movie about? I really like Sam Adams
has this like hazy. I P a thing that I
tried the other night that was really good, But what
is if I made comfortable?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I don't know if you could tell?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right, Sam Adams has probably got his answer is
going to be a dunkin Donuts flavored I P a water.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I think when I'm doing knuckle boxing, what's the mustache
wax is off your little fingers?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I was in fucking Atlanta for Christmas and I went
to this ooh pub called I think the Porter or
something like that was fucking great and they had crazy
food there. They did shrimp toast and it was like
a real weird lost in translation, but it was just
these huge shrimps on pieces of toast.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah yeah, well yeah it must have been.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But they were like whole like Georgia shrimp, which I
guess is a thing, but oh my god, it was
so good. Anyway, their non alcoholic beer was by this
company called Untitled Art. Huh, and their ipa was the
closest to an ipa. I think of the non alcoholic beers,
I tend to be like on the watery side is
more accurate. Like I think like a na Corona tastes
(15:53):
exactly like a corona, but for like the obvious reasons.
But I think some of the happier ones, I'm like,
that's not that close. Anyway, Fucking Untitled Art so so good.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I'm gonna give a like poptimist like mainstream answer. I
actually think the Heineken zero point zero tastes it's a
lot like a Heineken. It's zero, like a lot of
non alcoholic beer like has some at like it's like
point five alcohol or whatever. Like the Heineken has no
alcohol tastes like a Heineken. I feel like that one's actually.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah and is readily available.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, and that's also the most available one.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
So the Guinness, it tastes just like a Guinness because
guests apparently just tastes like everything else besides alcohol anyway, Right.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
But how much? How much guinness can you really drink?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Right, fellas? Before you move on, I like my I
pas with viscosity though, I like you to, you know,
blop out a little bit, you know, just like like
I'm crazy. I like it to be like somewhat watery,
not not as much a paste.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
My face gets red when I drink Guinness, where like
I get like a guineas only yeah's interesting and.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah you're you're like like the like the just the
rosy cheeks knock back a guinness.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, pale, Yeah, some sort of immunocompromise situation, like the
look of it. Yeah, no, that's me.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It's where all your proteining or diet comes from. Guinness.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It's just what is if you have enough? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
What is something blake that you think is overrated?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So I think overrated as a practice is street cleaning,
like residential street cleaning in cities where I've never First
of all, I've never seen street cleaning happen. And I
go outside and look and like, wow, look how clean
this fucking street is? Like they don't nothing gets cleaned,
And if you don't know what it is like basically
(18:01):
it's alternate street cleaning. So if you're in a city,
they like, you're not allowed to park on a side
of the street from X time to X time because
allegedly a fucking sweeper truck comes by and cleans the
street and you get ticketed if you leave your car there.
So I don't have a like a garage or a
parking spot, so like I move my car. And this
also happened when I lived in La too, But it
(18:24):
just seems to me like a shitty way for the
city to get revenue with no benefit to people whatsoever
street cleaning. So there is an interesting where I saw
in Brooklyn, there's this weird community thing that like neighborhoods
will do where they'll double stack their cars on one
side of the street, so say, like the right side
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is being cleaned street cleaning, cars from the right side
will just park next to the cars and trap them
in on the left side of the street. But like,
I guess people know each other and have each other's
numbers where if they have to leave. Ye, Yeah, it's
a pretty elaborate system that I would imagine doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, that just stressed me out so much too. My
heart rate shot through the roof just hearing about that arrangement.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I do kind of genuinely believe that it's a little
bit like velociraptor rules for the non ticketable side of
the street on on alternate side parking, like yeah, fucking
double park the entire street. Like I feel like, and
I know this can't be true, but I genuinely feel
like the fucking like traffic cops, the whatever, the people
(19:32):
giving tickets, it's like they can only see the side
of the street where people were like, you're not supposed
to be parked, and it's lawless on the other side
on here.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, all right, this is this is crazy. Brian the
editor has come through and described a situation that doesn't
make any sense to me. Brand the editor lives in
Mexico City.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
If you sit where to America City.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Thank you? Yeah whatever. But they employ people who need money, okay,
weird and give them a high viz vest and broom
and then they just actually clean the.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Streets every day.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So like, where do you get the big machine that
comes through and uh blows ship in your face if
you have to be yeah, because I have seen the streets.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It just turns it out of the way into a
different direction.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Because it makes it makes It's like what if you
only had a broom and no dust pan.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, it's exactly what's.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Great if we created a three hundred thousand dollars machine
that was like a broom with no dust pan and uh,
there's some water I think mixed in a little bit
where likes it down.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, it's a change. The leaves are moved, but they
are there.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So many things could be fixed with. Just like we're
going to invent four hundred jobs based on like talking
to people in the city, like jobs that they think
should exist, and yeah, the task we're going to pay them.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Well yeah, yeah, one utility for those street cleaning things.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I don't know if this is actually as.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
True anymore in the era of three D printing, but
if you're looking to create DIY lock picks, the bristles
from a street cleaning thing are some of the best
in the biz as far as lock picking tools.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How the fuck do you know that.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
This mustache as well? I want to add that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But only at certain times of the month. You have
to get it at a certain times after they molt, yes,
right before they molt. So you can't at it unless
you can make friends with the walrus right before they
mold off.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The lock pick thing.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Editor Brian has in Chat started on a path of
proclamations that I'm worried are going to become legally actionable.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So I'll just say he agrees it works.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So well, I know that that's amazing, all right, you
guys are much cooler than me. Also, the street cleaning
thing I wasn't talking about you, Blake. The street cleaning
thing does tie in with I think what we're going
to talk about with regards to the police, because it's like,
(22:37):
how do we have just every What if the only
tool you had was a hammer and you had to
make it do every job with the blunt end of
a hammer.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
A bunch of hammers that actually shoot really little hammers
via concussive force, and that's all you can do with them.
They're not really designed for hammering anything.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
By the way, we.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Don't have people who go out in the street clean
the street. We have one really fast, heavy machine that
goes around and if you get in it the fucking way,
you have to deal with the cops. Asshole. Okay, A
weird way to street clean clean up the streets. We're
taking out the trash. Were No, we just like literally
mean we want the streets to be.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Not literally trash. Yes, asshole.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
As Biden said, we count on police to be our teachers,
are psychiatrists, our librarians are our custodians, our wives. We
don't need to defund the police. We need to fund more.
That was his argument, giving them more fun. Anyway, let's
(23:45):
take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll talk about
the wildfires. And we're back. And as mentioned up top,
Miles is not here because of the wildfires. I'm gonna,
you know, give him space to you know, talk about
(24:09):
it when he gets back. But you know, sending a
lot of love and good energy to him and his family.
But you know, we're our producer. Justin is out because
you know, his area has been without power for forty
eight hours. Just a lot of people dealing with a
lot of shit. I've got somebody who's a good friend
(24:31):
of mine who was evacuated who's staying with us right now. Andrew,
it sounds like you've got some of that.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, turning your way.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And yeah, it just it's it's not one of those
like I know a guy who has a friend who
like this impacted. It's like every everybody's like one degree
of separation away from people who are losing.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And you know, to the extent that there is any
kind of silver lining to the well, I don't know.
And I'm also going to say something that I'm not
even totally sure.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is true, but I think this is the first like
climate major climate disaster that has affected large numbers of
middle and upper middle class white people.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, I think that's true.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I mean maybe assumption in the UK that is, but
you know, in this far Australia, you know, this is
certainly like I don't know what sort of like change
in political will this could possibly bring, but it is
sort of that where it's like, you know, you can't
hide from this, like, you know, as much as it's
(25:41):
a result of us, like you know, exploiting the global
South and people of color and poor people everywhere, it's like, yeah,
but it's it's we're changing shit, and it's it's there's
no protection from this really.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, I mean I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's not that that seems good, but that's the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Right. It feels like we're in a you know, the
scale seems biblical, Like I feel like it needs to
be biblical for like people to get their heads around
what is happening and like the amount of change that
needs to happen. But yeah, hopefully this is cutting across
enough borders that there's political will to do something beyond
(26:26):
the guy being like, hey, is anybody know any private firefighters? Yeah,
that could come through and save my house.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Uh, andrew rained on that parade for me because I
thought there were cool like you know, yeah fighters.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
During that And look, I'm not saying I know for
sure that there are not, but it's just a thing
where it's like it's not from what I read about
like the private fire services that exist.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's not like a uber for firefighters.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's more like a service that you have worked with
for years.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, or it's not a last second you can't cram
it as the fire is closing in on your home.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You can't price firefighters. Oh yeah, I guess there's right.
There are planes that you can hire, but the general
firefighting I think is like part of like, you know,
a service that you've had. I've I heard it described
as like a lot of it was honestly landscaping advice
like it's just like, you know, you're you're you're maintaining
a house that can be saved in the event of
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a fire rather than just like Blackwater but for firefighters.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Right, Yeah, that is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg that
is going to be made because of this tragedy. That
that is one outcome that I can foresee is like
a person facing down wildfire season and they're like, we
got to call in the fizz or what just.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Shit face drunk in like Quincy, Massachusetts, turns on the
who cease fire and then yah's that Logan airport on
a Jet Blue flight to La Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, I don't know where Mark Wahlberg was this week,
but Victor suproducer Victor points out that if he was here,
it wouldn't have gone down the way it was.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Sure would have punched that fire right out.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But yeah, which is not to say that there's not
like resources to be marshaled, but like the best way
to spend you know, this money is on things like
taxes and an appropriate city budget that funds the Los
Angeles Fire Department or whatever fire department you're in.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Like it or not, we're all on some level in
this together. Yes, I do just want to like firefighters.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I think they come into the national spotlight every once
in a while, and when they do, it's not like
the cup where we're just like, wait, why the fuck
do we have these guys anything, like these guys are
fucking terrible, Like it's a you kind of get reminded
why everybody wants to fuck them and uh and why,
Like if you have to give a movie character a
(29:05):
heroic job, you go with firefighter, Like to.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Give this guy a calendar.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, I don't care what he looks like, Uh,
turn him into Jack Off material. But there was I
don't know, like I'm probably in the midst of you know,
of just this story, but like there was the equivalent
of an NBA like highlight where a fire helicopter just
dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire that
(29:31):
was like spreading out of the Hollywood Hills. It was
literally like everybody, it's you know, fairly close to where
we live, and like all our neighbors were like, holy shit,
like here comes the one that's gonna and this. Yeah,
I don't think this single handedly stopped it, but like
a helicopter dropped a swimming pool of water on a
fire and it just fucking went out like the It
(29:55):
was like swish from way downtown. I was like, holy shit.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Without getting too dark, I saw I don't know, blue sky.
I guess the comment threat underneath it was like you know,
various things that you could yell when you when you
make a great shot in basketball, and someone was like,
you know that pilot was yelling Kobe. And then people
pointing out, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm zooming in on the photo of the helicopter. Oh
my god, that's Mark Wahlberg flying that bird.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Hey, you know he wouldn't tell anybody if he did.
He's just like a humble.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
By.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
The helicopter is just a fancy drone. So I just
want to say that as a Jersey person, I saw
a copter and I wanted to shoot it down. Then
is that thing doing up there? I started spinning it.
I was spinning at the sky.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
New Jersey people would be freaked out by l a
man lord.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Aliens.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So I've been kind of like glued to this coverage.
You know, our kids are out of school, so we're
just you know.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
I had a friend who had school yesterday, which is
also insane.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Really god, but you know, glued to the fire map.
I see fire maps when I close my eyes now,
like the varying colors, which Andrew you were pointing out before.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I do have a note for the listen. I understand
fire watch app wonderful service. People have been really enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Watch duty.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
We'll say there you I bright red fire makes sense,
dark magentaish or dark pink. Let's say fire warning, yellow
fire whatever, the equivalent of tornado watches.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It's like you'll be ready to be evacuated, but.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Then they just have a you're in a dry fire
prone area and that's like a different shade of pink,
which is very alarming, and get the map.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, because you're like, yeah, I guess the other one's orange.
The point is the gradations of danger go from red
dark pink, yellow, and then least dangerous is light pink,
which I think is bad ui.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
On a personal level, we.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
All agree that it should be like yellow orange, red,
and some like grading it in there right, like.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That that's my pitch. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Great inherent Yeah, they are doing a great job. Also,
Like my eight year old is like addicted to that
app now, like he just we were like he's like
scrolling it and like obsessed.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, one of the It's different where in La
we had like an earthquake kit in our place because
I love for the listeners. I live in LA for
ten years and it's one of the only it's the
only place I've ever lived where I had an emergency
kit basicly go bag.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, I could.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Go bag, which isn't necessarily you know, there are obviously
situations in other places where you could need that. But
I remember having like earthquake water, Like we would always
have like a case of water somewhere and then we
would get thirsty on our way out and grab the water,
so we just wouldn't have any water. Yeah, is this
something that you like? Do you guys have earthquake kits? Like,
(33:17):
I know, like some of you have packed up I
was talking to yeah before.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, mine's not freshened up since the last time. I
probably put in the big work to do it in
twenty twenty. Like I think my cube of water cannot
possibly be good. I will say before that I did
have an earthquake kit that was based on gallons of
water and being hungover in my late twenties early thirties.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
The fact that I like.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Drank my earthquake water really says something about America.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I think because I was too hot.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But yeah, I got the cube that's allegedly non toxic.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
But there's just no way the cube's been there for
like four years. It can't be good.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Quake diet coke.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, I got a twelve pack of coke for what
lukewarm diet coke from the early nineties. What the cube
is like a separate It's not just like a two
gallon thing of arrow.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Oh, I mean it's it's it's like a water container
that someone recommended.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's like, okay, a square thick, Yeah, the square. You
can see a square. Everyone can see a square.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Can't can't Now you've lost to tell.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
You about spears afterwards, and you're gonna flip that.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Wait, so you're talking about like a third dimension. That's
I'm not you.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Know what doesn't make sense to people would say that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So I was watching this press conference yesterday and it
just really drove home the thing we were talking about
about the police, Like, the police are coming into this
in a couple of ways. One, because people noticed that
the firefighting budget was cut a small amount last year.
You know, like people who are defensive or you know,
(35:05):
hate the Republicans are Like the Republicans are making this
seem like they slashed the entire budget. It was, you know,
a two percent budget cut. Fine, they also like massively
increased the police budget as crime is going down and
the fire the danger of fire is going up. And
it's not specific politicians fault. It's the entire American apparatus
(35:30):
that does this. But I was actually this press conference yesterday.
It was like the Pasadena fire chief and then police chief,
and just the rhythm of this press conference was so wild,
Like they first half it's the fire chief. He's just
this weird little guy, just answering difficult questions, like here's
why it's spread, here are the challenges we faced here
where like we could have done better. Here, here's what's
(35:53):
still going on, like ending his answers with like, did
that answer your question? And like it seemed genuinely curious
about whether it had like not a genius, nothing particularly noteworthy,
just a person doing the job that they have at
a difficult time. When people like not a job speaker,
(36:14):
not a public speaker in any way, then they give
the next part of the press conference to the police chief,
and he like opens up like bragging about individual people
that they had evacuated from their homes, like just having
to like just flex on everybody, and then started talking
(36:35):
about and he's like, and now we're moving into the
problem solving situation where we're gonna deal with anybody who's looting,
and like starts seating this like looting story. By the way,
could a better funded fire department have done the evacuations? Yeah,
who's to.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Say there's a thing with like we're watching the argument
for defund the police.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Like literally, even if you're the most like.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Conservative non maniac possible who thinks we need some kind
of police, Like, most of the money that goes to
the police is the least efficient way to do those
job descriptions like the non fucking law enforcement allegedly side
of things.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
You you got in like the cops having five times
more budget or more than the than the fire department.
But talking on a retail level about helping individuals versus
people try to help communities several orders of magnitude in
both the wrong direction. Yes, So this is just a
bad investment, you fucking business dickheads, Like, yeah, explain that exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Well, the police, there are, there are teachers, there are doctors,
and there are firemen.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Police are our firemen.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yes, exactly, there are doctors, there are wives, there are firemen.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
It's just a more expensive, least effective version of all
those things.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, why would you want that?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
And then the second half of the police part was
just the most essentially the verbal equivalent of firing is
gun in the air with the like inscrutable police speak
about the possibility of looters where they're just like, uh,
and we just got one message for you, don't even
(38:23):
try it. We're now shifting into the safety operation where
we will be on the lookout for looters. Make no mistake,
we will act decisively and with definitive kinetic means in
the eventuality that we you know, just like throwing all
those fucking bullshit police worth any individual perpetrating such criminal
activity for.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
The fullest extent of the law. Yeah, exactly, shiit not
to invoke you know, previous week's biggest story, but the
biggest theft that will be occurring in southern California will
be on behalf of insurance companies have already stolen tons
of money and will not be paying out on things
that they owe.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That is oh yeah, my prediction.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
My prediction is that that they are going to be
going bankrupt and it's going to be up to the
government to yeah there is all people's yeah, which I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
People will simply not be made whole on the things
that are absolutely owed, which I feel like is likely anyway.
And if you're thinking about theft Californians and the globe,
just remember the theft already happened, and it's a bunch
of guys in boardrooms.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Two nights into many homes across the city being evacuated,
and the police are reporting they've encountered three instances of looting,
I think. And by the way, they give themselves a
very wide latitude when determined something is looting.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
So someone picked a quarter up off the ground, and yeah,
so they were looting the ground.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yes, yeah, we saw they're looting our city. The very
foundation of our city is our grounds.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
It's our ground. That's true.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, And that is true, and you can't you can't
deny that. And we're not taking questions and we will
take no further answers at Las time. Let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
(40:23):
and we're back, and we'll be doing this whole episode
with this New York accent.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Smart voice.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Hey fucking smart over here. I went to Sunny Yonkers
for one and a half years.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Great people out of the seaming system.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Man, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I'm just jealous. Okay. New York has introduced a policy
that seems to be aimed at overall improving their infrastructure
and quality of life while making business interests angry and uh,
making people less likely to drive cars. Like that, anything
(41:04):
that has anything to do with people's right to drive
a car seems to be such a fucking like, uh
just hot button issue. So the fact that this is
happening seems like a minor miracle. The fact that it
seems like a minor miracle is devastating. That that means
that we're in a very bad place.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I keep my guns in my car, so these are
this is a hot But you take away my car,
you take away my Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Mean you could, I mean you could.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
You could get your like if you replace the water
bottle rack on your bike, you could fit at least one.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Gut in there.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, and then.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Maybe maybe turn the top bar into a shotgun. Yeah,
shotguns about it, just tink it about it.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I keep a grenade in my tail, which I know
it's not a gun, but it's still fun.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
And if it backs up, you know, if your car
is backed up, that's it becomes rolled out.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
All right, I'm not secured in there.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I'm sorry, pens in It's fine.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, So people taking cars into Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods will
now have to pay a toll up to nine dollars.
Up to nine dollars, so that's that's where we're maxing out.
This is the new Congestion Relief Zone plan. It went
into effect because of federal judge ruled against New Jersey's
lawsuit to stop it. And this makes New York the
(42:30):
first city in the US to implement a congestion relief
plan like this. There have been other plans in like
London that we've talked about before with admiration and like
couldn't happen here, especially like during the pandemic when the
cities like were nicer because they weren't just like choked
(42:50):
with traffic, and people were like, yeah, we're going to
like actually close this street and just let it be
like a pedestrian walkway where people can like walk around
and you know, have their blood pressure lower a little
bit because they don't feel like they're about to get
run down by a taxi. And yeah, they've gone back
(43:13):
to that not being a thing. And yeah, we've talked
about like parking spots, like getting rid of parking spots
can be a good thing, but yeah, people will freak
the fuck out and seem to be freaking the fuck
out when it comes to this. There's the New York
Post has just been keeping up a steady stream, just
like the pressure is unrelenting on this law. And like
(43:36):
they they blamed somebody like doing something violent on the
subway on this. I think they're they're just like this
guy snapped, probably because of congestion pricing.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
It's probably yeah, ship blake again.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Oh, by the way, I love Brian just wrote I
love how people pay for a car, insurance, gas, parking,
maintenance and not nine dollars. It's my approach to that
is like, oh, like I order like a Burger fries
wings and then like a diet coke with dinner. You know,
I can't have I've already pushed myself to such a limit.
(44:17):
I can't have this extra one hundred and fifty calories
or whatever my one. So I agree this is a
good thing. The you know how, I'm mister both sides. Yeah,
I love and it's a term that I've really fell
in love with in the past couple of years. But
my Jersey complaint, my Jersey complaint is that public transit.
(44:37):
And by the way, the goal of this is to
make public transit better, obviously and more like make that
the default way of getting around obviously. And the issue
currently I think why why people are complaining there's some
legitimacy to it, is that the Holland Tunnel is like
one of the main tunnels that go from North Jersey
into New York and it shuts down at a then
(45:00):
pm during the week because of damage that it sustained
during like a hurricane from god knows how many years,
like maybe like six years ago or something. Maybe it
was Sandy, I don't know which one it was. But
so that shuts down and then the uh it's called
the path, which is the port like authority transit whatever
is the Jersey Subway that takes you into New York,
(45:22):
and then that runs I believe every forty minutes, I
think like after eleven So the problem is that or
a problem? So this is a good thing. And then
also separately, a additional problem here is that the Jersey
public transit system is such a disaster that it's kind
(45:44):
of fucked people, where like this good thing that's happened
has like started to get negative feedback because of how
bad the transit system is here. So I don't have
a solution to that. And Hoboken's train station is also
shutting down, so.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
I was going to ask, what is it.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
It's like the ferry the path trains, and that's it, right, yes,
And then you could so when the Holland Tunnel shuts
down at eleven sharp, you would have to drive up
from Lower Manhattan to what is called the Lincoln Tunnel,
which the whole rest of the world is doing simultaneously.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
So that I think is a complaint. It's not an
argument against congestion pricing. I'm just adding like, whatever the
hell else is going on?
Speaker 4 (46:29):
Yeah, but can't I mean, surely they can just up
the frequency of the path trains also they should do that. Yeah, yeah,
it has been night. Public transit just takes an hour. Yeah,
that's life in New York, baby, it's life anywhere. Yeah,
like like Boston anywhere. So I think that's the problem
is that Jersey, I think has fucked itself, and then
that's the problem. They're getting mad at congestion pricing. I
(46:51):
think the issue is actually that New Jersey completely screwed
itself over right now icing public transfer?
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Jersey fucked itself is kind of the state modle it.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Is on my Jersey. We fucked ourselves.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Hey, go fuck ourselves. Do we fuck ourselves on this one?
Speaker 1 (47:09):
I think it got damaged in such a way that
it's okay to operate during daylight hours.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
They're repairing it at night.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Oh, they're repairing at night. Yeah, yes, okay, that makes.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Still it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
The question is still there or how bad, how badly
does it need to be repaired that you're shutting down
one of the two major arteries into New York and
again the city doesn't sleep.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
I feel like the most American answer to this is just,
you know, we've all seen the Sylvester Salom movie. Where
the tunnel gets damaged daylight, just you know the man up.
There's gonna be some heroes on when that thing eventually
goes down, and uh, we'll all be fine.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
My pitch.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
We have city bikes, why not have a city motorcycle
have a whole line at d y evil over. Yes,
we need a ramp and several ramps. We can't just
have one ram because then that whole bottlenecks. So yeah,
I think evil canieveling over the Hudson is the solution
here into a harp.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
They get do they get parachutes on the way back.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
You don't get charged going back into Jersey.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, all right, it is Girl Scout Cookie season. Do
you guys partake?
Speaker 4 (48:32):
I haven't in a minute, but I did tease my
favorite because I guess I've just been an old man
since forever and I think they're no longer available. But
my favorite Girl Scout cookie is the fucking nearly flavorless
short bread one apparently oils trefoils.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
The name is you dip it in anything, or you
just like so much milk.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
It's basically what I do, because I take any number
of oils and turn it into sort of like a
paste with milk. I don't know why it's it's objectively gross.
I understand that, but they are my actual, factual favorite
girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
I like, like every time I have them, Like in concept,
I'm like, nah, I don't funk with those, Like why
would I get that instead of something with like chocolate
on it? Tea, yeah, some something thermal I think my favorite.
But the trifoils really do hit like I I only
(49:33):
eat there too, and yeah, I always enjoy the hell
out of them.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I think it is.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
Because we fought a war against those fucking tea drinking
breads to not have short in.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
Our in our life. They're fucking they're my favorite.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Thin mints in the freezer is going off on trifoils,
but just yeah, the producer.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Producer Victor is second third hour trifoil has completely lost it,
uh and is saying Trefoil's got that savory butteriness which
is so funny, that's right, but also really surprisingly sweet,
(50:17):
like just a fun a big, a big sugar punch,
which is something that I'm always looking for. I don't
want any sort of sweet treat that is not going
to make my teeth hurt. A little bit.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Sorry, I just saw that they were they were retiring
their smore cookies that were so good.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
Yeah, so that's exactly where where I want to go
with this. They're retiring the I'm so bummed about this.
The s'mores are of all the cookies. They don't seem
like like they seem you know, they're just sandwich cookies.
They don't seem like they would be that sweet, but
they are so packed with sweetness and sugar like they're ah,
(51:03):
I love I love those s'mores so much cookies, and
they're on their way out as well as the toast ya.
Speaker 3 (51:11):
That is crazy A toast yea.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
I think it was introduced fairly recently, or maybe I
just found out about it. Like, while this show is
the thing, the name of the toast ya has baffled me.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (51:28):
Like?
Speaker 1 (51:28):
It seems to be made by somebody who thinks that
there is like a like, is it supposed to be
toasty but like the it's.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Toast, Yeah, it's squat toast.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It does look like a squeak.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Is it supposed to be a call in response like toast?
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yeah yea, but it's got a dash in between so
almost like it's single.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Word that's ah.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
So it's a French toast inspired cookie dipped in delicious.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
Icing that looks good.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
It's fluid, it's not bad like I actually think the
most overrated cookies like the ones that I wouldn't have
been sad to see. The peanut butter patties I don't
fuck with. They're like the chocolate covered peanut butter on
the inside. I just think there's something off with the balance.
I don't I don't think it works.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
I think they were trying to dodge the Reese's pieces
or the Reese's peanut butter cup allegations, and they just,
you know, Reesa's is just holding down like a market
ratio segment that is going to fuck anyone else that's
trying for chocolate peanut buttery.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
I think like the caramel delights, the thin mints, the trefoils,
I think are all like goaded should have just not
touched as well as the s'mores and the toasty is good.
I just can't get my mind. I think they just
need to take it away and then reintroduce it with
a name that.
Speaker 3 (52:53):
Doesn't like suck that's on some.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Unconscious level make me furious, like other people might be
that way too, Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (53:03):
No, I'm not getting whatever that. What are lemon ups?
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Lemonade?
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Lemonades and lemon No, no, it's two lemon cookies. There's
two lemons.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
All right, this is what this is.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
I don't want to start this. I don't want to
do that. I don't want to do this today. Go ahead,
go ahead, get it out.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
There are two regional Girl Scout cookie makers that make
different cookies. So in some places you'll get them and
they are definitely like have a thick coating of chocolate
around them. Others they're just very thin like chocolate wafers
with like that. I think they have like some Yeah,
(53:44):
there there is like a definitely a superior senment.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Fuck so East Coast, West Coast beef.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Over West Coast, beef over Girl Scouts.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Jesus, I'm scrolling down on this article that we're looking again,
and it does say the Girl Scouts of America said
they were quote disappointed about the quote unauthorized resales out
a statement about cookies. There's fucking Girl Scout cookie scalpers,
which is the fucking lowest possible thing. You could be
crazy going to stocks people.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
Do you go?
Speaker 1 (54:15):
Do they trail the girl scouts and like be like
a a you know, I know you just like made it,
but just cancel your order. I got I got that
for like a better better price.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
You know they're they're higher. I think I think it's
more stock X. It's like, oh ship, they're sold out of,
sold out of. Oh damn yo.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
You know what what she just come through with. She
just came through with trefoils. That's all she's got left.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
That's crazy, hey, for you to have.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
To miss out on these caramel delights? Oh many? All
these looks so good.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
It's thin mints for sure, in the freezer and it
has to be for some reason. It has to be
in the freezer. And because it doesn't like get hard
to eat, it's just nice and chilled. It's great. We'll
get them from my niece, but she takes a while
to get them, Like I'll order them from her so
she gets like the bump, you know, the financial bump.
(55:16):
Walk outside a store down around the corner and just
get them so I can have.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
The one that you can actually have when you want them.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, when I want them, which is right now, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
You should like send a send a note to her
girl Scout leader about how she's.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
I'm showing in person. There's gonna be no note. I'm
gonna kick the door.
Speaker 4 (55:35):
It's gotta be sort of like a Glengarry glen Ross
situation where you're just fucking like school and these girls
about actual sales, about being closed, you know, about closing
deals because it's sucking unacceptable exactly, you should fire them.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Just got a cop badge, give away sergeant badges? They
might actually is that a thing boy Scouts? I mean
I way too far in the Boy Scouts for someone
with that. That is who I am, and I will
just tell you that it is.
Speaker 4 (56:09):
I mean, it is for nerds obviously even when I
was coming up. But it is shockingly paramilitary and like
if it's really god, yeah, you're like.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
It's yeah, yeah, you know my kids are in boy
Scouts and I am the leader of my six year
old's troop.
Speaker 2 (56:30):
Ours was like a fucking cop and then this like
super religious guy and then it's like a horrible Yeah,
I was just was my Scout leader. You know, at
that age of the age, gap doesn't work amazing.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
Well, thank you guys for joining Blake. Wonderful having you
as always. Thank you, thank you for being so vulnerable
about your girl scout cookie taste not a problem. Where
can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (56:57):
People can find me a like Wexler on all social
media like Westory dot com. I have some stand up
dates coming out March thirteenth for Collins uh the comedy
for it, and also I mean March fifteenth, I'm in Pasadena.
Who gives a ship at this point, you know? And
then April fourth to fifth, uh, Sissyphis in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (57:18):
Amazing, That's where I'm going to be. Yeah, it sounds
like you're going to be a busy boy.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
Now I'm going to be a busy boy.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
Oh no, I said it like I was.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
San is such a great name for I assume a
comedy club.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
Busy boy, comedy Oh Sisyphis, busney boy, busy boy.
Speaker 3 (57:33):
It's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yeah, I mean all the lineips are like mail anyway,
but uh yeah, Sissyphis. It's this cool brewery and that
has a comedy club attached to it. It's a really
cool spot in.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
To roll up the Hill.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
They named it after our careers.
Speaker 1 (57:51):
Uh, Blake, is there a workip media that you've been enjoying? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Do you mind if I share it?
Speaker 3 (57:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (57:56):
I would love I would love for that. Actually, well,
here it is. It's crazy about to ask you that.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
Let's see, we've finally synced up. At we finally after
all these years? Understand hold another? All right social post
at smiling nodding on blue sky. Every new restaurant in
a major city is either called thistle and Thorn and things.
Adding turmeric to Brussels sprats makes them worth thirty dollars,
or it's called burger bitch and as a neon sign
(58:24):
in the window that says I'm gonna fuck a Hamberger's
smiling nodding.
Speaker 1 (58:33):
Yeah, that's a good one. That really got me. Andrew,
where can people find you as their working media you've
been enjoying?
Speaker 3 (58:41):
I mean, you know, is this racist? Is my podcast?
Speaker 4 (58:44):
I will just say the only media I've consumed is
this unbelievably hectic signal group called La Fire's Mutual Aid.
I guess what I will say is please send resources
to California. However, Yeah, like many times of Naturals, I
think a lot of people's first instinct is like the
big name brand things, the places like Red Cross or
(59:07):
you know, Planned Parenthood, and almost always those.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Are the least helpful places.
Speaker 4 (59:13):
They're already well funded, they are often politically compromised, and
you know sense it's possible to do your own research truly,
do like look around, figure out what you actually believe in,
and you can send money directly to people easier than
ever before.
Speaker 3 (59:31):
Do I have a specific one?
Speaker 4 (59:32):
I know K Town for All's been doing a ton,
but you know that's my own personal bias. Because this
is only going to be happening more and more. The
name brand in national and international aid organizations tend to
not be the best place to send your money.
Speaker 1 (59:47):
Yeah, so do your research. You can find me on
Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and on Blue Sky at
Jack ob The number one tweet I've been enjoying mister
Mitch at one eight hundred. Ghost Man tweeted Bill Sar's
guard as a Noospatu voice, what is your wife's Instagram?
(01:00:13):
And uh Zach Dunn tweeted water isn't for putting out wildfires.
It's for powering a machine that lets me hear what
it would sound like if Cartman read my Grandpa's will.
Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Oh my god, gotta cool.
Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Those AI engines? Baby? What does every time I see
them draw a helicopter drop a bunch of water on this?
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
So much server?
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Yeah, so much server cooling. That could have been done
with that water.
Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Rip to the real victims.
Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
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we link off to the information that we talked about
in today's episode. We also link off to a song
we think you might enjoy. Brian the Editor, is there
a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Yeah, I think I got something. Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
So this is a track from slosson Malone One called
King Sisyphus of the Atlantic from his album A Quiet Farewell,
and it's got this sort of psychedelic low fi almost
like a poet what I would call like a post
hip hop kind of sound that flips a classic soul
(01:01:43):
sample in the song called Nothing I Can Do About It.
I can't remember the band's name, but he flips, he
flips this soul sample in a really interesting way in
six or four time and yeah, Saws the Malone is
just like a really exciting artist that makes very interesting music.
(01:02:04):
He just released his first album on What Records last
year called Excelsior, and yeah, check it out. King Sissyfus
of the Atlantic by Slosson Malone one.
Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Damn King Sisyphus of the Atlantic by Slossa Malone one.
We will link off to that in the footnotes footnotes.
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tell you what was trending over the weekend. I hope
everybody's been safe out there, and we will talk to
you all soon.
Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
Fight
What else? What else?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
How about what other lizards do your freaks? I don't know, wait,
you know what could I handle? The what a komodo dragon?
What is what like constitutes a good reptile to eat?
Like is it muscle or is it fat? Like Romoto
dragons are venomous, so poisonous.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
In like a nasty way, Like there's a venomous animal
where it's like yeah, where like it's like built into
their DNA over many years, like just evolution, like built
a fucking perfect weapon. And that's the sort of poison
that I respect. The komodo dragon's mouth is just like dirty,
It's just it's just nast ship They're just like h
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which is also kind of true humans, Like when you
talk to emergency physicians, they're like the last thing you
want to be bit by is a human being. Are
fucking nasty.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
This is me in middle school on my hand, you're
still not right.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
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This yes, yeah, this.
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this bag with beans, do you think guy could take
a seat, because you know, I feel so darn comfy
if I could just sit on some beans. That is
courtesy of Manish. It was supposed to be A thousand
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Miles by Vanessa Carlton. Uh, doing my best. You know,
I am no Vanessa Carlton. I am, though, thrilled to
be joined in our second seat by one of our
favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer
you know him from yos This racist podcast.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
It's Andrew two.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'm gonna tell you I didn't have one, and now
I'm gonna wing one. I'm looking up for Larrys right now. Okay,
it's raining.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Ash, it's raining Ash.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I don't actually know how the rest of this ting goes.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Anyway, I walked outside this morning at Echo Park and
I was like, things are bet no, and wait a second, yeah,
legitimately snowing Ash right now.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Is it continuously coming down on you.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I didn't think so, but it does sort of a
you know, like a like for anyone who's from where
snow falls, it's like the first snow.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Of the year.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, like a lot of nice little.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Little yeah, smaller than a flurry, but it's it's I mean,
it's definitely coming down.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
There's this in terms Blake would understand in his sheltered
little world out there that's not on fire. Andrew, We're
thrilled to be joined in air third seat by a
brilliant comediuan writer and actor who's new specialist Daddy lung Legs.
He is the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to
(03:46):
describe his size, Please welcome Blake wackfle.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Or this is Blake Wexler, and I am going to
do an aka, but uh, I just need to say
heart thinking about everyone in the fires, so much love
to them. It's horrific. And now this is Blake Wexler AKA.
These shorts are too tight on me because I'm one
step closer to the trend and I'm about to Blake.
Plumpers need a little room to breathe because I'm one
(04:13):
step closer to the trend and I'm about to blake.
That was from Blankie heck hell yeah, he which sounds
like like a fake. The name I give it hotels
when checking so I don't get bothered.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
When you're extremely drunk and.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
When I'm trash. Yeah, they're like, you want another room.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I'm like, yes, go join, Yeah, I want the room
of the one I went to by accident.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I forgot my first room.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, the hollering dude, I did that once where I
lived when I was living in LA This was back
in my drinking days, and got off on the wrong
floor and could not get into my room what I
thought was my room, and I kept like knocking and
then like trying to pull the torn up as if
that would make it unlock. And I just heard someone
from the other sid I just go, please stop.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
That'll that'll either really wake you up or really not
wake you up. Yeah yeah, no, yeah that coming to that.
That moment when the light switch switched back on was humbling,
and I apologize.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Still, yeah, great, well, it's all great, it's all great.
Everything is super great.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Right, do you want to get to know me in
a few minutes?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You know, what I would really like to get to
know you a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I'm gonna I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Hold off for a couple of your time. There's no rush.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Andrew and I are gonna tell our listeners a couple
of things we're talking about. You can kind of jump
in if you'd like later in the episode. It's called
a tease in the business. And then we're gonna come back.
We get to know you.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
We like to.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
It's called the weave. You've ever heard of it?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay, I'm sure I'll see what's going on, is as
it as the show goes? Yeah, get the head of it.
It happened to you, yes, exactly. This show breathes you,
you know what I mean? All Right, some of the
things we're talking about. LA wildfires are.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Still raging out of control right now. We we're recording
this yesterday on Thursday. But it's uh yeah, we're continuing
to just see unimaginable tragedy around us. We'll just you know,
talk about firefighters, talk about press conferences with firefighters and
(06:37):
the police, a real nice like compared contrast there, uh
and the local news coverage which is fucking I don't know,
have you Andrew watched any local news.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The local news. I just had a real I am
in a.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Group that moves too quickly for human comprehension. But that's
been all I can kind of handle.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, so, you know, you're like on top of the
latest happening.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I can't tell. It's sort of the opposite.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's sort of just like a lot of reactions from
fucking you know anywhere, from progressives to hardcore communists about
what's happening. And it's a little hard to figure out
what's happening sometimes, But that's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Just experiencing unimaginable tragedy through the fog of memes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, so I just wait for the evening edition of
the La Times to come out, having a newspaper in
my Yeah, tangible we're going to.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Talk about this was just like a story I kind
of needed right now. New York putting congestion pricing in
place at the beginning of this week just like a
thing that they did with like a long, long term
benefits that they'd like to achieve, and just I don't know,
(07:59):
it feels like miraculous when a government intervenes in a
way that is designed to like make people's lives better,
So we'll talk about that and why it's incredibly unpopular.
We'll talk about which Girl Scout cookies are being canceled
not not in the card, why and why? Yeah, but
(08:23):
they're actually a couple that I like, one that I like,
and one that I've spent probably an episode's worth of
time on this podcast, just like uh railing about the
name of uh.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Here's here's a tease.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Which Girl Scout cookie, which everyone agrees is the fucking worst,
is Andrew T's favorite find out?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah? Anyways, all of that, plenty more. We might even
talk about Sean Hannity. But before that, Blake, we do
like to ask our guests, what is something from your
search history.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I wrote this down before I looked at the show
run run of show whatever the industry term is that
you guys use, and it was congestion pricing. We don't
have to get too far into it. But I live
right out So I live in North Jersey, in Jersey City,
So the Holland Tunnel is to Lower Manhattan, where a
(09:22):
lot of the congestion pricing is is like three minutes away.
And I had a show in Brooklyn last night, and
I'm like, oh, maybe I'll drive. And I've heard a
lot about congestion pricing, but I've just never researched any
of it. I'm like, well, whatever this is is going
to happen to me at some point. And then I'm like, oh,
I should look into it, into this and yeah, I
(09:42):
would get charged, you know, and we'll go more into it.
But I'm like, at first, I was pissed, So I'm like, well,
I want to fucking pay nine dollars to go do
this shitty show in Brooklyn in addition to the tolls
that I'm already paying. But then I'm like, oh, wait.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Should pay me to do this shitty show in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Everyone should pay me. I shou I didn't have to
pay rent. I should be treated like an ambassador. Basically,
where have my lodging provided for me? Like a diplomat?
But I then realized, oh this, we should just be
taking public transit. They should put fucking bike lanes that
where you don't get murdered by a car, like if
(10:19):
you just get on a bicycle. They should have that
infrastructure in cities. So yeah, when I was pissed off
about it selfishly am I go, this is a good thing.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's my opinion, and I'm
not going to during the segment.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
You'll just be curious.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's so curious about the details of it because you
are right at the interface of I guess I just
assume congested pricing meant it was within when the city
was likely to be congested.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's a big Yeah, it's a big range where I
believe on weekdays it goes until nine pm. I think,
so it's not Yeah, no, it won't sleep here. I
am exhausted. I cannot sleep in this fucking city. But yeah, no,
you're right. I mean, it's obviously a controversial issue for
a reason where I think the big issue people had
(11:09):
with it was like, oh, like a teacher, for instance,
who has to drive into the city. Now they're paying
more money coming in from North Jersey to the city.
But yeah, in a perfect world, this would make the
public transit, you know, better, and make.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Better you take public transit, or you could take public transit.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, yeah, from Jersey into Lower Manhattan. Is the is
the point where like, oh right, yeah, I guess that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, And if I was in New York, I wouldn't
want people from Jersey in there either, So like I
do understand there the design.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah yeah, yeah, keep people from New Jersey out of here, please.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Sorry, we got yeah, we're selling the previous. We're selling
the previous.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
So you see how they reacted to drones.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Way, why don't we fly them in on drones.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
See now we're two birds with one drone.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
You can do that, you fit, you fix congestion, all
the congestion just by covering. This is the island of
Manhattan and drones and the people in Jersey.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, sort of a dome of drama. Drune dome, drum dome.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Blake, what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Underrated non alcoholic beers? And uh, I'm a beer drinker.
Love that ship, but you don't. You can't get enough
of that that ship, that hot ship.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And this is a word for word recreation of what
Blake says every time he enters a bar.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
It's fucking crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Three hot ships, please pull the rocks.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I'm a beer drinker, just f y I I'm a
beer drinker by trade, love that ship.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
By trade, by birth, my lineage. It goes way back
of beer drinkers. And but sometimes you don't want to
drink and Uh, it's good too. By the way, everybody's different.
Some people don't drink it all, some people, you know,
like have a problem. But I like the idea of
having a prop first of all, in that like when
(13:11):
you're hanging out, it is almost just a motion that
you're doing, like you want something carbonated, and the taste
is like unbelievable in these things now where it does
just taste like a beer and then you don't have
to deal with the alcohol of all of it. I
think Brian put hop water in here, which is like
very good as well. So yeah, shocking how good hopwater is.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Yeah, yeah for a thing that sounds genuinely disgusting nasty.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Yeah, yes, you think it's gonna be like cloudy and
I don't know, just be like ipa but like mixed
with water. But yeah, hop water is just like if
Lacroix made a really good ipa flavor.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Yeah, what's so weird? Yeah, it's really Do you do
you have a favorite? I do have.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I recently had a new favorite of teeing you Up
to te myself Up.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
No, no, no, I want to hear what yours is?
T Myself Up? Is your new podcast coming out the spring.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Where I just asked.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Leading self serving questions.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
The most miserable person in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So You've had a really interesting the thing that I'm
interested in.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
What do I think about you talking about that?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You see like someone with opinions on nos Faratu because
I've not seen it because so.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Much I have And yeah, I didn't get it at all?
What was that movie about? I really like Sam Adams
has this like hazy. I P a thing that I
tried the other night that was really good, But what
is if I made comfortable?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I don't know if you could tell?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
All right, Sam Adams has probably got his answer is
going to be a dunkin Donuts flavored I P a water.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I think when I'm doing knuckle boxing, what's the mustache
wax is off your little fingers?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I know.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I was in fucking Atlanta for Christmas and I went
to this ooh pub called I think the Porter or
something like that was fucking great and they had crazy
food there. They did shrimp toast and it was like
a real weird lost in translation, but it was just
these huge shrimps on pieces of toast.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah yeah, well yeah it must have been.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
But they were like whole like Georgia shrimp, which I
guess is a thing, but oh my god, it was
so good. Anyway, their non alcoholic beer was by this
company called Untitled Art. Huh, and their ipa was the
closest to an ipa. I think of the non alcoholic beers,
I tend to be like on the watery side is
more accurate. Like I think like a na Corona tastes
(15:53):
exactly like a corona, but for like the obvious reasons.
But I think some of the happier ones, I'm like,
that's not that close. Anyway, Fucking Untitled Art so so good.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I'm gonna give a like poptimist like mainstream answer. I
actually think the Heineken zero point zero tastes it's a
lot like a Heineken. It's zero, like a lot of
non alcoholic beer like has some at like it's like
point five alcohol or whatever. Like the Heineken has no
alcohol tastes like a Heineken. I feel like that one's actually.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah and is readily available.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, and that's also the most available one.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
So the Guinness, it tastes just like a Guinness because
guests apparently just tastes like everything else besides alcohol anyway, Right.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
But how much? How much guinness can you really drink?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Right, fellas? Before you move on, I like my I
pas with viscosity though, I like you to, you know,
blop out a little bit, you know, just like like
I'm crazy. I like it to be like somewhat watery,
not not as much a paste.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
My face gets red when I drink Guinness, where like
I get like a guineas only yeah's interesting and.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah you're you're like like the like the just the
rosy cheeks knock back a guinness.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, pale, Yeah, some sort of immunocompromise situation, like the
look of it. Yeah, no, that's me.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
It's where all your proteining or diet comes from. Guinness.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It's just what is if you have enough? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
What is something blake that you think is overrated?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
So I think overrated as a practice is street cleaning,
like residential street cleaning in cities where I've never First
of all, I've never seen street cleaning happen. And I
go outside and look and like, wow, look how clean
this fucking street is? Like they don't nothing gets cleaned,
And if you don't know what it is like basically
(18:01):
it's alternate street cleaning. So if you're in a city,
they like, you're not allowed to park on a side
of the street from X time to X time because
allegedly a fucking sweeper truck comes by and cleans the
street and you get ticketed if you leave your car there.
So I don't have a like a garage or a
parking spot, so like I move my car. And this
also happened when I lived in La too, But it
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just seems to me like a shitty way for the
city to get revenue with no benefit to people whatsoever
street cleaning. So there is an interesting where I saw
in Brooklyn, there's this weird community thing that like neighborhoods
will do where they'll double stack their cars on one
side of the street, so say, like the right side
(18:46):
is being cleaned street cleaning, cars from the right side
will just park next to the cars and trap them
in on the left side of the street. But like,
I guess people know each other and have each other's
numbers where if they have to leave. Ye, Yeah, it's
a pretty elaborate system that I would imagine doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, that just stressed me out so much too. My
heart rate shot through the roof just hearing about that arrangement.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I do kind of genuinely believe that it's a little
bit like velociraptor rules for the non ticketable side of
the street on on alternate side parking, like yeah, fucking
double park the entire street. Like I feel like, and
I know this can't be true, but I genuinely feel
like the fucking like traffic cops, the whatever, the people
(19:32):
giving tickets, it's like they can only see the side
of the street where people were like, you're not supposed
to be parked, and it's lawless on the other side
on here.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, all right, this is this is crazy. Brian the
editor has come through and described a situation that doesn't
make any sense to me. Brand the editor lives in
Mexico City.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
If you sit where to America City.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Thank you? Yeah whatever. But they employ people who need money, okay,
weird and give them a high viz vest and broom
and then they just actually clean the.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Streets every day.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
So like, where do you get the big machine that
comes through and uh blows ship in your face if
you have to be yeah, because I have seen the streets.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It just turns it out of the way into a
different direction.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Because it makes it makes It's like what if you
only had a broom and no dust pan.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeah, it's exactly what's.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Great if we created a three hundred thousand dollars machine
that was like a broom with no dust pan and uh,
there's some water I think mixed in a little bit
where likes it down.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, it's a change. The leaves are moved, but they
are there.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So many things could be fixed with. Just like we're
going to invent four hundred jobs based on like talking
to people in the city, like jobs that they think
should exist, and yeah, the task we're going to pay them.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Well yeah, yeah, one utility for those street cleaning things.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
I don't know if this is actually as.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
True anymore in the era of three D printing, but
if you're looking to create DIY lock picks, the bristles
from a street cleaning thing are some of the best
in the biz as far as lock picking tools.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
How the fuck do you know that.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
This mustache as well? I want to add that.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
But only at certain times of the month. You have
to get it at a certain times after they molt, yes,
right before they molt. So you can't at it unless
you can make friends with the walrus right before they
mold off.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
The lock pick thing.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Editor Brian has in Chat started on a path of
proclamations that I'm worried are going to become legally actionable.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So I'll just say he agrees it works.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
So well, I know that that's amazing, all right, you
guys are much cooler than me. Also, the street cleaning
thing I wasn't talking about you, Blake. The street cleaning
thing does tie in with I think what we're going
to talk about with regards to the police, because it's like,
(22:37):
how do we have just every What if the only
tool you had was a hammer and you had to
make it do every job with the blunt end of
a hammer.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
A bunch of hammers that actually shoot really little hammers
via concussive force, and that's all you can do with them.
They're not really designed for hammering anything.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
By the way, we.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Don't have people who go out in the street clean
the street. We have one really fast, heavy machine that
goes around and if you get in it the fucking way,
you have to deal with the cops. Asshole. Okay, A
weird way to street clean clean up the streets. We're
taking out the trash. Were No, we just like literally
mean we want the streets to be.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Not literally trash. Yes, asshole.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
As Biden said, we count on police to be our teachers,
are psychiatrists, our librarians are our custodians, our wives. We
don't need to defund the police. We need to fund more.
That was his argument, giving them more fun. Anyway, let's
(23:45):
take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll talk about
the wildfires. And we're back. And as mentioned up top,
Miles is not here because of the wildfires. I'm gonna,
you know, give him space to you know, talk about
(24:09):
it when he gets back. But you know, sending a
lot of love and good energy to him and his family.
But you know, we're our producer. Justin is out because
you know, his area has been without power for forty
eight hours. Just a lot of people dealing with a
lot of shit. I've got somebody who's a good friend
(24:31):
of mine who was evacuated who's staying with us right now. Andrew,
it sounds like you've got some of that.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, turning your way.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
And yeah, it just it's it's not one of those
like I know a guy who has a friend who
like this impacted. It's like every everybody's like one degree
of separation away from people who are losing.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
And you know, to the extent that there is any
kind of silver lining to the well, I don't know.
And I'm also going to say something that I'm not
even totally sure.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Is true, but I think this is the first like
climate major climate disaster that has affected large numbers of
middle and upper middle class white people.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, I think that's true.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I mean maybe assumption in the UK that is, but
you know, in this far Australia, you know, this is
certainly like I don't know what sort of like change
in political will this could possibly bring, but it is
sort of that where it's like, you know, you can't
hide from this, like, you know, as much as it's
(25:41):
a result of us, like you know, exploiting the global
South and people of color and poor people everywhere, it's like, yeah,
but it's it's we're changing shit, and it's it's there's
no protection from this really.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, I mean I think that's right.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
It's not that that seems good, but that's the truth.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Right. It feels like we're in a you know, the
scale seems biblical, Like I feel like it needs to
be biblical for like people to get their heads around
what is happening and like the amount of change that
needs to happen. But yeah, hopefully this is cutting across
enough borders that there's political will to do something beyond
(26:26):
the guy being like, hey, is anybody know any private firefighters? Yeah,
that could come through and save my house.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Uh, andrew rained on that parade for me because I
thought there were cool like you know, yeah fighters.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
During that And look, I'm not saying I know for
sure that there are not, but it's just a thing
where it's like it's not from what I read about
like the private fire services that exist.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
It's not like a uber for firefighters.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
It's more like a service that you have worked with
for years.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, or it's not a last second you can't cram
it as the fire is closing in on your home.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
You can't price firefighters. Oh yeah, I guess there's right.
There are planes that you can hire, but the general
firefighting I think is like part of like, you know,
a service that you've had. I've I heard it described
as like a lot of it was honestly landscaping advice
like it's just like, you know, you're you're you're maintaining
a house that can be saved in the event of
(27:28):
a fire rather than just like Blackwater but for firefighters.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Right, Yeah, that is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg that
is going to be made because of this tragedy. That
that is one outcome that I can foresee is like
a person facing down wildfire season and they're like, we
got to call in the fizz or what just.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Shit face drunk in like Quincy, Massachusetts, turns on the
who cease fire and then yah's that Logan airport on
a Jet Blue flight to La Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, I don't know where Mark Wahlberg was this week,
but Victor suproducer Victor points out that if he was here,
it wouldn't have gone down the way it was.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Sure would have punched that fire right out.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
But yeah, which is not to say that there's not
like resources to be marshaled, but like the best way
to spend you know, this money is on things like
taxes and an appropriate city budget that funds the Los
Angeles Fire Department or whatever fire department you're in.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Like it or not, we're all on some level in
this together. Yes, I do just want to like firefighters.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I think they come into the national spotlight every once
in a while, and when they do, it's not like
the cup where we're just like, wait, why the fuck
do we have these guys anything, like these guys are
fucking terrible, Like it's a you kind of get reminded
why everybody wants to fuck them and uh and why,
Like if you have to give a movie character a
(29:05):
heroic job, you go with firefighter, Like to.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Give this guy a calendar.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, I don't care what he looks like, Uh,
turn him into Jack Off material. But there was I
don't know, like I'm probably in the midst of you know,
of just this story, but like there was the equivalent
of an NBA like highlight where a fire helicopter just
dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire that
(29:31):
was like spreading out of the Hollywood Hills. It was
literally like everybody, it's you know, fairly close to where
we live, and like all our neighbors were like, holy shit,
like here comes the one that's gonna and this. Yeah,
I don't think this single handedly stopped it, but like
a helicopter dropped a swimming pool of water on a
fire and it just fucking went out like the It
(29:55):
was like swish from way downtown. I was like, holy shit.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Without getting too dark, I saw I don't know, blue sky.
I guess the comment threat underneath it was like you know,
various things that you could yell when you when you
make a great shot in basketball, and someone was like,
you know that pilot was yelling Kobe. And then people
pointing out, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm zooming in on the photo of the helicopter. Oh
my god, that's Mark Wahlberg flying that bird.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Hey, you know he wouldn't tell anybody if he did.
He's just like a humble.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
By.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
The helicopter is just a fancy drone. So I just
want to say that as a Jersey person, I saw
a copter and I wanted to shoot it down. Then
is that thing doing up there? I started spinning it.
I was spinning at the sky.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
New Jersey people would be freaked out by l a
man lord.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Aliens.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
So I've been kind of like glued to this coverage.
You know, our kids are out of school, so we're
just you know.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
I had a friend who had school yesterday, which is
also insane.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Really god, but you know, glued to the fire map.
I see fire maps when I close my eyes now,
like the varying colors, which Andrew you were pointing out before.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
I do have a note for the listen. I understand
fire watch app wonderful service. People have been really enjoying it.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Watch duty.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
We'll say there you I bright red fire makes sense,
dark magentaish or dark pink. Let's say fire warning, yellow
fire whatever, the equivalent of tornado watches.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
It's like you'll be ready to be evacuated, but.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Then they just have a you're in a dry fire
prone area and that's like a different shade of pink,
which is very alarming, and get the map.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, because you're like, yeah, I guess the other one's orange.
The point is the gradations of danger go from red
dark pink, yellow, and then least dangerous is light pink,
which I think is bad ui.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
On a personal level, we.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
All agree that it should be like yellow orange, red,
and some like grading it in there right, like.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
That that's my pitch. That's what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Great inherent Yeah, they are doing a great job. Also,
Like my eight year old is like addicted to that
app now, like he just we were like he's like
scrolling it and like obsessed.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, one of the It's different where in La
we had like an earthquake kit in our place because
I love for the listeners. I live in LA for
ten years and it's one of the only it's the
only place I've ever lived where I had an emergency
kit basicly go bag.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, I could.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Go bag, which isn't necessarily you know, there are obviously
situations in other places where you could need that. But
I remember having like earthquake water, Like we would always
have like a case of water somewhere and then we
would get thirsty on our way out and grab the water,
so we just wouldn't have any water. Yeah, is this
something that you like? Do you guys have earthquake kits? Like,
(33:17):
I know, like some of you have packed up I
was talking to yeah before.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, mine's not freshened up since the last time. I
probably put in the big work to do it in
twenty twenty. Like I think my cube of water cannot
possibly be good. I will say before that I did
have an earthquake kit that was based on gallons of
water and being hungover in my late twenties early thirties.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
The fact that I like.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Drank my earthquake water really says something about America.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I think because I was too hot.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
But yeah, I got the cube that's allegedly non toxic.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
But there's just no way the cube's been there for
like four years. It can't be good.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Quake diet coke.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, I got a twelve pack of coke for what
lukewarm diet coke from the early nineties. What the cube
is like a separate It's not just like a two
gallon thing of arrow.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
Oh, I mean it's it's it's like a water container
that someone recommended.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's like, okay, a square thick, Yeah, the square. You
can see a square. Everyone can see a square.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Can't can't Now you've lost to tell.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
You about spears afterwards, and you're gonna flip that.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Wait, so you're talking about like a third dimension. That's
I'm not you.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Know what doesn't make sense to people would say that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So I was watching this press conference yesterday and it
just really drove home the thing we were talking about
about the police, Like, the police are coming into this
in a couple of ways. One, because people noticed that
the firefighting budget was cut a small amount last year.
You know, like people who are defensive or you know,
(35:05):
hate the Republicans are Like the Republicans are making this
seem like they slashed the entire budget. It was, you know,
a two percent budget cut. Fine, they also like massively
increased the police budget as crime is going down and
the fire the danger of fire is going up. And
it's not specific politicians fault. It's the entire American apparatus
(35:30):
that does this. But I was actually this press conference yesterday.
It was like the Pasadena fire chief and then police chief,
and just the rhythm of this press conference was so wild,
Like they first half it's the fire chief. He's just
this weird little guy, just answering difficult questions, like here's
why it's spread, here are the challenges we faced here
where like we could have done better. Here, here's what's
(35:53):
still going on, like ending his answers with like, did
that answer your question? And like it seemed genuinely curious
about whether it had like not a genius, nothing particularly noteworthy,
just a person doing the job that they have at
a difficult time. When people like not a job speaker,
(36:14):
not a public speaker in any way, then they give
the next part of the press conference to the police chief,
and he like opens up like bragging about individual people
that they had evacuated from their homes, like just having
to like just flex on everybody, and then started talking
(36:35):
about and he's like, and now we're moving into the
problem solving situation where we're gonna deal with anybody who's looting,
and like starts seating this like looting story. By the way,
could a better funded fire department have done the evacuations? Yeah,
who's to.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Say there's a thing with like we're watching the argument
for defund the police.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Like literally, even if you're the most like.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Conservative non maniac possible who thinks we need some kind
of police, Like, most of the money that goes to
the police is the least efficient way to do those
job descriptions like the non fucking law enforcement allegedly side
of things.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (37:20):
You you got in like the cops having five times
more budget or more than the than the fire department.
But talking on a retail level about helping individuals versus
people try to help communities several orders of magnitude in
both the wrong direction. Yes, So this is just a
bad investment, you fucking business dickheads, Like, yeah, explain that exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Well, the police, there are, there are teachers, there are doctors,
and there are firemen.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Police are our firemen.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Yes, exactly, there are doctors, there are wives, there are firemen.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
It's just a more expensive, least effective version of all
those things.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, why would you want that?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
And then the second half of the police part was
just the most essentially the verbal equivalent of firing is
gun in the air with the like inscrutable police speak
about the possibility of looters where they're just like, uh,
and we just got one message for you, don't even
(38:23):
try it. We're now shifting into the safety operation where
we will be on the lookout for looters. Make no mistake,
we will act decisively and with definitive kinetic means in
the eventuality that we you know, just like throwing all
those fucking bullshit police worth any individual perpetrating such criminal
activity for.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
The fullest extent of the law. Yeah, exactly, shiit not
to invoke you know, previous week's biggest story, but the
biggest theft that will be occurring in southern California will
be on behalf of insurance companies have already stolen tons
of money and will not be paying out on things
that they owe.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That is oh yeah, my prediction.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
My prediction is that that they are going to be
going bankrupt and it's going to be up to the
government to yeah there is all people's yeah, which I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
People will simply not be made whole on the things
that are absolutely owed, which I feel like is likely anyway.
And if you're thinking about theft Californians and the globe,
just remember the theft already happened, and it's a bunch
of guys in boardrooms.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Two nights into many homes across the city being evacuated,
and the police are reporting they've encountered three instances of looting,
I think. And by the way, they give themselves a
very wide latitude when determined something is looting.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
So someone picked a quarter up off the ground, and yeah,
so they were looting the ground.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yes, yeah, we saw they're looting our city. The very
foundation of our city is our grounds.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
It's our ground. That's true.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, And that is true, and you can't you can't
deny that. And we're not taking questions and we will
take no further answers at Las time. Let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
(40:23):
and we're back, and we'll be doing this whole episode
with this New York accent.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Smart voice.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Hey fucking smart over here. I went to Sunny Yonkers
for one and a half years.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
A lot of.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Great people out of the seaming system.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Man, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
I'm just jealous. Okay. New York has introduced a policy
that seems to be aimed at overall improving their infrastructure
and quality of life while making business interests angry and uh,
making people less likely to drive cars. Like that, anything
(41:04):
that has anything to do with people's right to drive
a car seems to be such a fucking like, uh
just hot button issue. So the fact that this is
happening seems like a minor miracle. The fact that it
seems like a minor miracle is devastating. That that means
that we're in a very bad place.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
I keep my guns in my car, so these are
this is a hot But you take away my car,
you take away my Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
Mean you could, I mean you could.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
You could get your like if you replace the water
bottle rack on your bike, you could fit at least one.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Gut in there.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, and then.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Maybe maybe turn the top bar into a shotgun. Yeah,
shotguns about it, just tink it about it.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
I keep a grenade in my tail, which I know
it's not a gun, but it's still fun.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
And if it backs up, you know, if your car
is backed up, that's it becomes rolled out.
Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
All right, I'm not secured in there.
Speaker 4 (42:01):
I'm sorry, pens in It's fine.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Yeah, So people taking cars into Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods will
now have to pay a toll up to nine dollars.
Up to nine dollars, so that's that's where we're maxing out.
This is the new Congestion Relief Zone plan. It went
into effect because of federal judge ruled against New Jersey's
lawsuit to stop it. And this makes New York the
(42:30):
first city in the US to implement a congestion relief
plan like this. There have been other plans in like
London that we've talked about before with admiration and like
couldn't happen here, especially like during the pandemic when the
cities like were nicer because they weren't just like choked
(42:50):
with traffic, and people were like, yeah, we're going to
like actually close this street and just let it be
like a pedestrian walkway where people can like walk around
and you know, have their blood pressure lower a little
bit because they don't feel like they're about to get
run down by a taxi. And yeah, they've gone back
(43:13):
to that not being a thing. And yeah, we've talked
about like parking spots, like getting rid of parking spots
can be a good thing, but yeah, people will freak
the fuck out and seem to be freaking the fuck
out when it comes to this. There's the New York
Post has just been keeping up a steady stream, just
like the pressure is unrelenting on this law. And like
(43:36):
they they blamed somebody like doing something violent on the
subway on this. I think they're they're just like this
guy snapped, probably because of congestion pricing.
Speaker 4 (43:48):
It's probably yeah, ship blake again.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Oh, by the way, I love Brian just wrote I
love how people pay for a car, insurance, gas, parking,
maintenance and not nine dollars. It's my approach to that
is like, oh, like I order like a Burger fries
wings and then like a diet coke with dinner. You know,
I can't have I've already pushed myself to such a limit.
(44:17):
I can't have this extra one hundred and fifty calories
or whatever my one. So I agree this is a
good thing. The you know how, I'm mister both sides. Yeah,
I love and it's a term that I've really fell
in love with in the past couple of years. But
my Jersey complaint, my Jersey complaint is that public transit.
(44:37):
And by the way, the goal of this is to
make public transit better, obviously and more like make that
the default way of getting around obviously. And the issue
currently I think why why people are complaining there's some
legitimacy to it, is that the Holland Tunnel is like
one of the main tunnels that go from North Jersey
into New York and it shuts down at a then
(45:00):
pm during the week because of damage that it sustained
during like a hurricane from god knows how many years,
like maybe like six years ago or something. Maybe it
was Sandy, I don't know which one it was. But
so that shuts down and then the uh it's called
the path, which is the port like authority transit whatever
is the Jersey Subway that takes you into New York,
(45:22):
and then that runs I believe every forty minutes, I
think like after eleven So the problem is that or
a problem? So this is a good thing. And then
also separately, a additional problem here is that the Jersey
public transit system is such a disaster that it's kind
(45:44):
of fucked people, where like this good thing that's happened
has like started to get negative feedback because of how
bad the transit system is here. So I don't have
a solution to that. And Hoboken's train station is also
shutting down, so.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
I was going to ask, what is it.
Speaker 4 (46:00):
It's like the ferry the path trains, and that's it, right, yes,
And then you could so when the Holland Tunnel shuts
down at eleven sharp, you would have to drive up
from Lower Manhattan to what is called the Lincoln Tunnel,
which the whole rest of the world is doing simultaneously.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
So that I think is a complaint. It's not an
argument against congestion pricing. I'm just adding like, whatever the
hell else is going on?
Speaker 4 (46:29):
Yeah, but can't I mean, surely they can just up
the frequency of the path trains also they should do that. Yeah, yeah,
it has been night. Public transit just takes an hour. Yeah,
that's life in New York, baby, it's life anywhere. Yeah,
like like Boston anywhere. So I think that's the problem
is that Jersey, I think has fucked itself, and then
that's the problem. They're getting mad at congestion pricing. I
(46:51):
think the issue is actually that New Jersey completely screwed
itself over right now icing public transfer?
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Jersey fucked itself is kind of the state modle it.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Is on my Jersey. We fucked ourselves.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Hey, go fuck ourselves. Do we fuck ourselves on this one?
Speaker 1 (47:09):
I think it got damaged in such a way that
it's okay to operate during daylight hours.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
They're repairing it at night.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Oh, they're repairing at night. Yeah, yes, okay, that makes.
Speaker 3 (47:21):
Still it's a good question.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
The question is still there or how bad, how badly
does it need to be repaired that you're shutting down
one of the two major arteries into New York and
again the city doesn't sleep.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
I feel like the most American answer to this is just,
you know, we've all seen the Sylvester Salom movie. Where
the tunnel gets damaged daylight, just you know the man up.
There's gonna be some heroes on when that thing eventually
goes down, and uh, we'll all be fine.
Speaker 3 (47:55):
My pitch.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
We have city bikes, why not have a city motorcycle
have a whole line at d y evil over. Yes,
we need a ramp and several ramps. We can't just
have one ram because then that whole bottlenecks. So yeah,
I think evil canieveling over the Hudson is the solution
here into a harp.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
They get do they get parachutes on the way back.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
You don't get charged going back into Jersey.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Yeah, all right, it is Girl Scout Cookie season. Do
you guys partake?
Speaker 4 (48:32):
I haven't in a minute, but I did tease my
favorite because I guess I've just been an old man
since forever and I think they're no longer available. But
my favorite Girl Scout cookie is the fucking nearly flavorless
short bread one apparently oils trefoils.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
The name is you dip it in anything, or you
just like so much milk.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
It's basically what I do, because I take any number
of oils and turn it into sort of like a
paste with milk. I don't know why it's it's objectively gross.
I understand that, but they are my actual, factual favorite
girl Scout cookies.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
I like, like every time I have them, Like in concept,
I'm like, nah, I don't funk with those, Like why
would I get that instead of something with like chocolate
on it? Tea, yeah, some something thermal I think my favorite.
But the trifoils really do hit like I I only
(49:33):
eat there too, and yeah, I always enjoy the hell
out of them.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
I think it is.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
Because we fought a war against those fucking tea drinking
breads to not have short in.
Speaker 3 (49:45):
Our in our life. They're fucking they're my favorite.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Thin mints in the freezer is going off on trifoils,
but just yeah, the producer.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
Producer Victor is second third hour trifoil has completely lost it,
uh and is saying Trefoil's got that savory butteriness which
is so funny, that's right, but also really surprisingly sweet,
(50:17):
like just a fun a big, a big sugar punch,
which is something that I'm always looking for. I don't
want any sort of sweet treat that is not going
to make my teeth hurt. A little bit.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
Sorry, I just saw that they were they were retiring
their smore cookies that were so good.
Speaker 1 (50:39):
Yeah, so that's exactly where where I want to go
with this. They're retiring the I'm so bummed about this.
The s'mores are of all the cookies. They don't seem
like like they seem you know, they're just sandwich cookies.
They don't seem like they would be that sweet, but
they are so packed with sweetness and sugar like they're ah,
(51:03):
I love I love those s'mores so much cookies, and
they're on their way out as well as the toast ya.
Speaker 3 (51:11):
That is crazy A toast yea.
Speaker 1 (51:14):
I think it was introduced fairly recently, or maybe I
just found out about it. Like, while this show is
the thing, the name of the toast ya has baffled me.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (51:28):
Like?
Speaker 1 (51:28):
It seems to be made by somebody who thinks that
there is like a like, is it supposed to be
toasty but like the it's.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Toast, Yeah, it's squat toast.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
It does look like a squeak.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
Is it supposed to be a call in response like toast?
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yeah yea, but it's got a dash in between so
almost like it's single.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Word that's ah.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
So it's a French toast inspired cookie dipped in delicious.
Speaker 3 (51:59):
Icing that looks good.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
It's fluid, it's not bad like I actually think the
most overrated cookies like the ones that I wouldn't have
been sad to see. The peanut butter patties I don't
fuck with. They're like the chocolate covered peanut butter on
the inside. I just think there's something off with the balance.
I don't I don't think it works.
Speaker 4 (52:19):
I think they were trying to dodge the Reese's pieces
or the Reese's peanut butter cup allegations, and they just,
you know, Reesa's is just holding down like a market
ratio segment that is going to fuck anyone else that's
trying for chocolate peanut buttery.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
I think like the caramel delights, the thin mints, the trefoils,
I think are all like goaded should have just not
touched as well as the s'mores and the toasty is good.
I just can't get my mind. I think they just
need to take it away and then reintroduce it with
a name that.
Speaker 3 (52:53):
Doesn't like suck that's on some.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
Unconscious level make me furious, like other people might be
that way too, Like, what the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (53:03):
No, I'm not getting whatever that. What are lemon ups?
Speaker 1 (53:06):
Lemonade?
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Lemonades and lemon No, no, it's two lemon cookies. There's
two lemons.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
All right, this is what this is.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
I don't want to start this. I don't want to
do that. I don't want to do this today. Go ahead,
go ahead, get it out.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
There are two regional Girl Scout cookie makers that make
different cookies. So in some places you'll get them and
they are definitely like have a thick coating of chocolate
around them. Others they're just very thin like chocolate wafers
with like that. I think they have like some Yeah,
(53:44):
there there is like a definitely a superior senment.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
Fuck so East Coast, West Coast beef.
Speaker 1 (53:50):
Over West Coast, beef over Girl Scouts.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Jesus, I'm scrolling down on this article that we're looking again,
and it does say the Girl Scouts of America said
they were quote disappointed about the quote unauthorized resales out
a statement about cookies. There's fucking Girl Scout cookie scalpers,
which is the fucking lowest possible thing. You could be
crazy going to stocks people.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
Do you go?
Speaker 1 (54:15):
Do they trail the girl scouts and like be like
a a you know, I know you just like made it,
but just cancel your order. I got I got that
for like a better better price.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
You know they're they're higher. I think I think it's
more stock X. It's like, oh ship, they're sold out of,
sold out of. Oh damn yo.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
You know what what she just come through with. She
just came through with trefoils. That's all she's got left.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
That's crazy, hey, for you to have.
Speaker 1 (54:45):
To miss out on these caramel delights? Oh many? All
these looks so good.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 2 (54:52):
It's thin mints for sure, in the freezer and it
has to be for some reason. It has to be
in the freezer. And because it doesn't like get hard
to eat, it's just nice and chilled. It's great. We'll
get them from my niece, but she takes a while
to get them, Like I'll order them from her so
she gets like the bump, you know, the financial bump.
(55:16):
Walk outside a store down around the corner and just
get them so I can have.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
The one that you can actually have when you want them.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yeah, when I want them, which is right now, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
You should like send a send a note to her
girl Scout leader about how she's.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
I'm showing in person. There's gonna be no note. I'm
gonna kick the door.
Speaker 4 (55:35):
It's gotta be sort of like a Glengarry glen Ross
situation where you're just fucking like school and these girls
about actual sales, about being closed, you know, about closing
deals because it's sucking unacceptable exactly, you should fire them.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Just got a cop badge, give away sergeant badges? They
might actually is that a thing boy Scouts? I mean
I way too far in the Boy Scouts for someone
with that. That is who I am, and I will
just tell you that it is.
Speaker 4 (56:09):
I mean, it is for nerds obviously even when I
was coming up. But it is shockingly paramilitary and like
if it's really god, yeah, you're like.
Speaker 1 (56:19):
It's yeah, yeah, you know my kids are in boy
Scouts and I am the leader of my six year
old's troop.
Speaker 2 (56:30):
Ours was like a fucking cop and then this like
super religious guy and then it's like a horrible Yeah,
I was just was my Scout leader. You know, at
that age of the age, gap doesn't work amazing.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
Well, thank you guys for joining Blake. Wonderful having you
as always. Thank you, thank you for being so vulnerable
about your girl scout cookie taste not a problem. Where
can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (56:57):
People can find me a like Wexler on all social
media like Westory dot com. I have some stand up
dates coming out March thirteenth for Collins uh the comedy
for it, and also I mean March fifteenth, I'm in Pasadena.
Who gives a ship at this point, you know? And
then April fourth to fifth, uh, Sissyphis in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (57:18):
Amazing, That's where I'm going to be. Yeah, it sounds
like you're going to be a busy boy.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
Now I'm going to be a busy boy.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
Oh no, I said it like I was.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
San is such a great name for I assume a
comedy club.
Speaker 2 (57:28):
Busy boy, comedy Oh Sisyphis, busney boy, busy boy.
Speaker 3 (57:33):
It's not that bad.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yeah, I mean all the lineips are like mail anyway,
but uh yeah, Sissyphis. It's this cool brewery and that
has a comedy club attached to it. It's a really
cool spot in.
Speaker 3 (57:47):
To roll up the Hill.
Speaker 2 (57:49):
They named it after our careers.
Speaker 1 (57:51):
Uh, Blake, is there a workip media that you've been enjoying? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (57:55):
Do you mind if I share it?
Speaker 3 (57:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (57:56):
I would love I would love for that. Actually, well,
here it is. It's crazy about to ask you that.
Speaker 2 (58:01):
Let's see, we've finally synced up. At we finally after
all these years? Understand hold another? All right social post
at smiling nodding on blue sky. Every new restaurant in
a major city is either called thistle and Thorn and things.
Adding turmeric to Brussels sprats makes them worth thirty dollars,
or it's called burger bitch and as a neon sign
(58:24):
in the window that says I'm gonna fuck a Hamberger's
smiling nodding.
Speaker 1 (58:33):
Yeah, that's a good one. That really got me. Andrew,
where can people find you as their working media you've
been enjoying?
Speaker 3 (58:41):
I mean, you know, is this racist? Is my podcast?
Speaker 4 (58:44):
I will just say the only media I've consumed is
this unbelievably hectic signal group called La Fire's Mutual Aid.
I guess what I will say is please send resources
to California. However, Yeah, like many times of Naturals, I
think a lot of people's first instinct is like the
big name brand things, the places like Red Cross or
(59:07):
you know, Planned Parenthood, and almost always those.
Speaker 3 (59:11):
Are the least helpful places.
Speaker 4 (59:13):
They're already well funded, they are often politically compromised, and
you know sense it's possible to do your own research truly,
do like look around, figure out what you actually believe in,
and you can send money directly to people easier than
ever before.
Speaker 3 (59:31):
Do I have a specific one?
Speaker 4 (59:32):
I know K Town for All's been doing a ton,
but you know that's my own personal bias. Because this
is only going to be happening more and more. The
name brand in national and international aid organizations tend to
not be the best place to send your money.
Speaker 1 (59:47):
Yeah, so do your research. You can find me on
Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and on Blue Sky at
Jack ob The number one tweet I've been enjoying mister
Mitch at one eight hundred. Ghost Man tweeted Bill Sar's
guard as a Noospatu voice, what is your wife's Instagram?
(01:00:13):
And uh Zach Dunn tweeted water isn't for putting out wildfires.
It's for powering a machine that lets me hear what
it would sound like if Cartman read my Grandpa's will.
Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Oh my god, gotta cool.
Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Those AI engines? Baby? What does every time I see
them draw a helicopter drop a bunch of water on this?
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
So much server?
Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
Yeah, so much server cooling. That could have been done
with that water.
Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Rip to the real victims.
Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Uh. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist.
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there you will find the footnotes footnote, which is where
(01:01:05):
we link off to the information that we talked about
in today's episode. We also link off to a song
we think you might enjoy. Brian the Editor, is there
a song that you think people might enjoy?
Speaker 5 (01:01:19):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Yeah, I think I got something. Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
So this is a track from slosson Malone One called
King Sisyphus of the Atlantic from his album A Quiet Farewell,
and it's got this sort of psychedelic low fi almost
like a poet what I would call like a post
hip hop kind of sound that flips a classic soul
(01:01:43):
sample in the song called Nothing I Can Do About It.
I can't remember the band's name, but he flips, he
flips this soul sample in a really interesting way in
six or four time and yeah, Saws the Malone is
just like a really exciting artist that makes very interesting music.
(01:02:04):
He just released his first album on What Records last
year called Excelsior, and yeah, check it out. King Sissyfus
of the Atlantic by Slosson Malone one.
Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Damn King Sisyphus of the Atlantic by Slossa Malone one.
We will link off to that in the footnotes footnotes.
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