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In episode 2061, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of Ain't It Footy, Jamel Johnson, to discuss… Mike Johnson Stated That $174,000 Isn’t Enough To Make Ends Meet, AI Radio Station, Baby Yoda’s Movie Debut Isn’t Getting Great Reviews, The Daily Wire Is Falling Apart and more!

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5. Mike Johnson: “We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.”
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
None, this weird little like glass case.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
So yeah, well he was telling me, this is the
recording pod. You in the new pod.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
I'm in the new pod.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
If they wanted to, if they wanted to Christmas Adventures
Club me right now, Oh yeah, they could do that.
I like stepped inside and like I heard like a
little air click on. I was like, what the yeah
when that door is like air tight too. Yeah, it's
like I did the ace Ventura double pain soundproof glass
thing with that when I was in the city. If

(00:38):
it doesn't work in soundproof glass, it's single, so it
doesn't work at all, and people people from downstairs like
come running up.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
They're like, we're concording okay, and this isn't a soundproof.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
What if they hey Jack, what if they Battle Royal?
You know, what if they make you go to like
on a school bus with a bunch of like uh
like violent Jack of these school kids.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Like yeah, yeah, it's on streaming finally in North America.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Okay, so it's three strikes.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
I heard it used to be like one of those
like DVDs like nerdy film kids had.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Like yo, bro, I have Battle Royale. You want to
see it? Dude's that Japanese movie where they all have
to kill each other with a frying pan. I don't
think I have seen that. It's a beat Takeshi movie,
and it's like, it's a good one.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
It's just like a death match on an island, like
death match with a bunch of high school students, but
like there's a bunch of random objects weapons too.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's kind of like the didn't Hunger Games Hunger game sample.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Hunger Games is basically yeah, and so I saw the
good version. I saw the Hunger Games, so I don't
really need to that ship.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four thirty nine,
episode three of.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Dirt Eily's Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah. This is production of by Heart Radio. It's a
podcast where you take a deep dive into American share
consciousness through the day's news and you're never gonna believe
this the day's news. We also have a new non
news history version of The Daily Zekes drop it each
Monday morning where we do a deep dive into the
zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon last week

(02:14):
and a wind tour this week. Steve Jobs a lot
of LSD, a lot of being a stinky motherfucker.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Didn't realize. He's stunk so bad, that's my favorite.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
So bad that his first major job in tech was
at Atari and they invented a graveyard shift. They were like, yeah,
we're going to actually put you on the graveyard shift,
which is like when some of our executives work at night.
They it didn't exist. They just wanted to get him
out of the office because he smelled so bad and
nobody could stand being around.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Great communication skills there also tell him.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Just fucking make up this elaborate thing about a graveyard
shift that he has to do.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
By the time.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
By the time he was working at Apple, they straight
up would kick him out of meetings like board meetings
that he was running as like the head of the
company because he smelled so bad. They were like, dude,
you have to go home and bait. He would be
like you think so, off to the and put his
feet in.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
The toilet for some reason.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Very strange guy, very very interesting life. You can find
those episodes Monday Mornings with icon of the title right now.
It's Wednesday, May twentieth, twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes, good day for bees. It's World b Day. It's
also a National High Heeled Day. It's also the Flower Day.
It's shout out to mister John Combs and miss Judy Clauson,
my most beloved band directors because it's National band Director's Day.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Shot all the band geeks out there.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
It's also hey, man to thank God there's finally a
day for the downtrodden.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
It's be a millionaire day too, man, Just be a millionaire?
Will you already?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Have you tried being a millionaire? That's usually my career
advice for people in college who are having a tough time.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
That would be my commencement speech. All right, guys, try
and get out there and be a millionaire. Man's it.
That's all I gotta say. Simple as you guys.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Will write the future. Assuming you're billionaires. You should definitely
sorry that preface this whole speech. You should be a
millionaire first and then you might have a shot at
doing any of this shit. Anyways, happy all of that
to all of you. My name is Jack O'Brien aka
Potatoes O'Brien. I did not pull an aka, not because

(04:38):
anyone did a bad job, because I did not have time.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
To look through the discord.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Because I am I had to set up a little
recording booth inside this little podcast recording pod that they
put me in. So I'm recording from a med bed
essentially a a podcasting med bed.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, yeah, it's going to cure you. I'm thrilled to.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Be joined as always buy my co host, mister Miles
Grass right, it's Miles.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Great, the Lord of Lancasham, the No Ho Showgun with
No Gun aka the Gray Gooner, one of my original
email addresses.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, that was one of my first email addresses. Still
use it sometimes, still use it sometimes now kind of
a different meaning that.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Has taken on a different meanings. An old an old
person who jacks off a lot. Yeah, yeah, but does
it not all the way to complete?

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah? Though it's not just jacking off man. Yeah yeah,
it's skilled.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, that's right, skilled, skilled labor my passion, Well, that
would have to be jacking.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Off, but in an artisanal way, skilled artistic way. What
am I passionate about? Oh?

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Speaking of people who are passionate about jacking off? Miles
were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
a very funny stand up comedian, a podcast host you
may know from the show Ain't It Footy? With He
is my co host co hosts, it's Jamuelle Johnson.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Come on, man, yeah, man, let's beat off baby.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I swear to god, I had.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
A crazy like memory of doing this on this podcast
five years ago, but I am going to say it anyway.
My dad used to call white people gray all the time,
speaking of the great girl Gray.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Be like, yo, you know that.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, what's up with that gray boy across the street?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
And he was about me?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I mean, Eric, man, he's over there.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
That's so funny, just like the pallid complexion of a
dead person.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, just like that's how he referred to white people
who was just around the neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Uh huh, right, you didn't want to say with that
white kid, he's like that great boy.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yeah, Waite is very you know, they're giving themselves a
lot of credit.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
With that one. Yeah. He was getting deep into driven
snow right right.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Well, it's wonderful to have you back.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Man, good to be back. Shout out to mister Broke
wherever you are. It's National band Director Day. That was
my high school band director used to Yeah. I played
I played bass clarinet. My man used to love Mad TV.
I also played marimba.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
You in the marching band based clarinet. Yeah, I didn't.
Was a big as fuck, aren't.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
We'll see in the in concert band. Yes, I never
really was in symphonic band.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I was.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
I was really just chilling. I was just chilling in
all the extra activities. But I did play bass clarinet
and I was in the marching band one season in the.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Pit and were marching with a bass clarinet.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Nah.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Nah, I tried it. I was also playing football and
then like yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I was like, let me try it. And it was
like two weeks.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I'm like, hell, I'm not I'm not going to football practice,
and then coming to marching band practice and like marching
and they wanted me to run hills with them.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I'm like, dude, I'm not about to The band wanted
you to run hills. Yeah, I'm like, bro, I've been
running off fucking morning. No.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I didn't even know that that was part of it.
Was that part of your band experience.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Miles. They were like, you got to.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Be there were some yeah, they like there was like
a band week that would happen during the football's hell week,
and that one was really just about like marching with
blindfolds on to get all your step pacing right like
so that you didn't like you didn't have to look
at the like the markings on the field to know
how like how to walk ten.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yards and training montage. Shit r Yeah, that's fun.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I'll lock in right now. Oh hell yeah, dude, don't
don't get that whistle going from the drum.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
It sounds like the sort of thing like you would
see in a movie put into effect and just like
have people crashing into each.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Other, like right right right up terribly. Yeah. Do we
think so?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
My I was talking recently about how the nickname dick
has gone, like my kids don't even know that that
is a thing that a person can be called because
because it got so associated losing our history the penis.
And my eight year old was very excited to point out,

(09:14):
do we think that gooners might go that way? Like,
do we think that this gooning thing is so saturate,
has so saturated the culture that you'll not go with
different nicknames for.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
No, no, no, that's not this is I'm worried stronger.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah, I'm honestly worried. And the North America I'm worried overseas,
I'm not worried I might have to move to London. Yeah,
so I don't have to worry about that anymore.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I mean, like the same way they call it like
a cigarette in the UK to F word, right, you
know what I mean, They're like, I don't know over here,
it's a cigarette.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
I like to think that this shit is that gooning
isn't isn't so huge that it's going to completely take over.
But however, the Internet does generate ninety five percent of
our culture now, so I'm.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Right, Like the name Richard, you can just be like,
I guess I'll go with Rick instead, because that's not
the name. The name of a of a penis Richie Ritten, right,
Richie rich plenty of other options, just as I'm sure
there are plenty of other operas.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Because the whole reason it's like because the arsenals, originally
they were building cannons, like they were the workers who
were building cannons, and then so they were called the gunners,
like the players are called the gunners, and the supporters
were called the gooners because they were And.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
That's a fun little history unless that you can give
to someone anytime they're like, oh, so you jack off
all the time?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I jack off to cannons, if you're if I'm being specific.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, it's a cultured it's tasted. It's something different than
just masturbation. I'm looking at a cannon and ejaculated part
something petic about it.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, it's like the first time you were horny was
in like one of those nineteen fifties movies that where
they show sex by like implying it by showing like
a train going into a tunnel, Like, oh, yeah, I enough,
like that's the only.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Way I got to see it. Climax.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Now, there's definitely some dudes who ended up like that.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, I bet, I bet that are descriptions of people
operating cannons during the Civil War.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
You know, just something. It has to be something like that, Jamal.
We're thrilled to have you here.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
We're going to get to know you a little bit
better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the
listeners a couple of the things that we're talking about
a little bit later on when we get to the news.
We're going to talk about Mike Johnson, who about a
year ago stated that one hundred and seventy four thousand
dollars isn't enough to make ends meet, and that's why
we should allow people in Congress to do inside trading. Yeah,

(11:47):
but it's just it's getting recirculated right now as I
think everybody is getting angrier and angrier at politicians and
billionaires and millionaires and people who are like, oh, you
should be fine at your workaday job. For me, I
just need more money because I'm the protagonist of the world.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah. Yeah, but was that not clear? So we'll talk
about that.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
We'll talk about how all of our jobs are going
away because AI Radio is here and it is glorious.
We're gonna talk about the new Star Wars movie, which
is called.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
The Mandalorian and Baby Yoda No Mandalorian and.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Grogu grow respect. The reviews are in. The reviews are
according to when when they first dropped, Rotten Tomatoes was
like this, motherfuckers at a ninety percent. Get ready for
the next great Star Wars movie. And then you check
over at Metacritic.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Is that a fifty five? It's like humh.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
And so we're gonna look at some of the reviews
that are considered fresh by Rotten Tomatoes that are along
the lines of ce plus us inessential three good enough
TV episodes smushed together. For instance, that's it, that's a
fresh one. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about ice,

(13:14):
we'll talk about the Mega slush Fund, and of course
we will talk about the Daily Wire some of that,
probably not all of that, but other stuff. But first, Jameel,
we do like to ask our guests, what is something
from your miles? Miles just looked like he had a
sudden burst of having.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Yeah, don't worry about him, guys, are I mean, we
can't We can't do that, Miles. You just have to
tell us what happened, that happened.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Nothing happened, folks, it's podcast.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
What happened?

Speaker 7 (13:48):
And the job's not finished? Okay, okay, but Junior fucking
Creepy just scored. Oh okay, Hey, hey, hey, that's good
for you guys.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Oh yeah, groupy my favorite men, Yeah, my favorite, my favorite.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
But I knew, I knew you had anyway, go on,
what's going on with you, Jamal?

Speaker 3 (14:10):
What's something from your search history that is revealing about
who you are?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well?

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Listen, I yesterday I was looking for a Washington Wizards Devils.
Where's produ meme? I searched the phrase Washington Wizards, devil
Where's product meme and.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Trying to try how you're saying this is a thing,
or this is a thing you wanted to exist.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I thought this was a thing that existed already. Okay,
and my internet search brought me nothing back. But I
did not go to Reddit.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
I did not go to Reddit, and I will not,
I thought, I thought, hardly will I was opposed to Okay,
I did not go to redit. But what what was
the idea that you were trying to get at with
a washing the wizards?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I just thought I had seen this met everybody knows
the one of the wire e just out but with
the hat, and it's like, tell the streets, we back up.
But that swore there was another one with the lady
from Devilware's product with a wizard's hat. Somebody just like
photoshopped the wizards fitted hat on Miranda, No, no, not

(15:21):
in half the way. But her boss, Why am I
forgetting the streets?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, Meryl Street's CHARACTERRYL.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Street?

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Anna Wintour essentially standing yea and wind
fit it.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
On, yeah, mirandes Okay, And it didn't.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
It did not exist. So now I gotta make it.
But that's just me in a nutshell. I'm just I'm looking.
I'm looking for new and exciting Wizards memes could.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Use Anna Wintour's advice because I feel like the iconography
around the Wizards has never been all the way there
for me, like the Bullets fucking ripped, Like the Bullets
was so cool, Like the uniforms are so great. The
switch to the Wizards like so many things conceptually, so

(16:11):
for our listeners who aren't big sports fans, they used
to be the Washington Bullets, and then they switched to
the Washington Wizards and it like they did it before
Harry Potter, like they did. Yeah, it's kind of crazy
that they like fucking nailed it. And then also like
it just has never They've never really done anything with it,

(16:33):
like you could. I feel like you could like maybe
go Hogwarts with it, like change your colors to like
Hogwarts colors or something like that.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
But they started Hogwarts. Yeah, yeah, everybody, and then we
kinda we backed off of it when we got John
Wall they were like, we gotta let's try to meet
in the middle. Let's do the Bullets colors right with
the wizard's words, and it's like, why would a wizard
be patriotic?

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Bro? Yeah, magical powers want wait nationalism right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
By the way, bullets versus Wizards is how the Harry
Potter movies should always end. I think them having to
go up against somebody who's just heavily armed. I stopped
three of the bullets. Unfortunately it wasn't easy.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Ron Weasley went down, But I'm here.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
That was a series that we did at Cracked that
was probably illegal where he just like said, a comedy
series probably produced by her Madge in the world of
Harry Potter. And I think it was written by Cody Johnston,
and I'm pretty sure it ended with like Harry Potter
just getting shot. It was a good, good fun observation. Anyways, Jamelle,

(17:50):
what is something that you think is underrated?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
What is something that I think is underrated? This has
nothing to do with anything Miles was doing, but I've
think the Wizards not Excuse me, Let me take the.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Something I think is underrated? Jack, let me tell you,
I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Jamel Arsenal Forward, gabriel Martinelli, Bro, Gabrielle Martinelli very underrated.
Jack O'Brien, I don't.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
I've always said that Jackson sparkling. Is it because of
his sparkling apple juice?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
They don't. They think him baby because of that, right
they related that.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
No, he's good. And just because he doesn't score, people
think he's bad at being a winger or a.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Forward players like player who doesn't score.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, just because he's an attacking player and he doesn't score,
people think he's bad. But it's the stuff that doesn't
show up on the statue, Like how he said happy
birthday the SpongeBob that one time.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, he said happy birthday to SpongeBob.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Hell, yeah, he said happy birthday. I think it was
the first time he spoke English on camera.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
He shout out to a real someone who respects bikini bottom.
It was.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's one of my favorite videos, but I did not
put it in the video segment that you guys asked
me for because I felt a little too arsenal heavy.
But I did want to give my man an honorable
mention to all the Martinellie haters. You guys can eat it.
He also made the Brazil national team. People think he
shouldn't have, and you guys can suck it. He can dance.

(19:24):
He is Brazilian.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, leave him alone. That's my son. But he is
for Italian citizenship tip. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
And also Jack, he's my son. Oh that's the other thing.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Acknowledge that.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, this is one of the most bad type situations.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Under my son.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
So is he He's like a metrics person who has
bad who looks bad, bad eye test, good numbers good. Yeah,
sort of behind the scenes Jane Battier style.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
You give him the ball and he does something that
makes you want to throw like the newspaper at the screen.
But when he doesn't have the ball, Oh, it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
He's an animal. He's just the beats that you don't play.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Oh yeah, it's because he's so dedicated to like pressing
and like locking down players off the ball. Even you're
like Jesus man, this guy like he enjoys defending in
a way that you know.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's like Ben Simmons without the attitude. What if you
never saw Ben Simmons do a bad job fishing or
whatever and he was just going to work.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, this is actually one of the great fishermen. So
I don't know what you're talking about. His team just
won some fishing competition. My friend just sent it to me.
My non six Ers fan friend, Todd just literally an
hour ago sent me South Florida sales AC celebrating six

(20:52):
blue marlin three sailfish from their team winner. And it's
like four middle aged white guys and Ben Simmons for
a listeners you aren't familiar. Ben Simmons was a supposed
to be a generational talent from the seventy six Ers
drafted him first. He was it was like, amazing talent,

(21:16):
can't shoot yet, but we're.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Gonna get you know, We're gonna get there. And then
he just like never learned to shoot, never learned to shoot,
and now he's a professional fisherman. I just say, is
that better? Is that?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Because I know it was taking a toll in his
mental health, all the pressure and just the hate. But
is he is he now finding? Is he has he
found himself?

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Oh great, Probably doesn't help. Doesn't hurt that he made
like one hundred million dollars doing the thing?

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, that's true, that's true. It does. Hey, them polls
don't Hey, they ain't free. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Also, I like to apologize to the listeners. I've definitely
made this very straight man heavy, front loaded. But we're
gonna mix it up. It's gonna be some variety. I
just had to get a little bit of that sports
out of my system. All Right, here's your chance.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
What is something, Jamelle? Do you think it is overrated?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Something that sports?

Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do the opposite and do politico.
I think entertaining politicians is overrated. I think we as
a society need to move on from being interested in
how people talk and stuff. I think our elected officials
need to be the most boring people of all time.

(22:30):
And listen, I am an American. I am from the
entertainment capital of the earth.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
All right.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
I remember when Bill Clinton played the.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Saxophone, yep, yep. I loved it. Was that on our
Senio home, that was on our sill.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
He played saxophone in front of a sound stage of
black people.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
That is a wild move where he's like, I'm going
on the black talk show, I'm putting on shades and
I'm reaping the era of saxophone solos.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Bill Clinton might have had the last saxophone so so
modern music history, okay, and I just think we've gone
We've gone far enough, no more cool. I don't care
how funny the guy is. I don't give a ship.
Just have your shit together and be boring as fuck, please.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's our worst politician is the most entertaining. Yeah yeah, funny,
Yeah right.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
It's so destructive, so so destructive. But also I mean
it feels like we're redoing that with Spencer Pratt right
now in the La Mayor's race, where it's like you
had a guy from reality TV The Hills who showed
you on the show that he ain't ship, who's publicly
said things that are just like, oh, this is disqualifying. Yeah.

(23:47):
People were like, yeah, but he's sick and tired of
Karen Bass. And people were saying like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
this is the move, this is the move. I ain't
even I just found out who Careen Bass was. I
don't even.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
I haven't even known long enough to be sick and tied.
In order for Jamale Johnson to be sick and tired
of somebody, it's got to be at least fifteen years, right.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Not one term before you couse.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, I got like a I have like a Looney
Tunes like you where it's going all across the Desert Ship.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, I don't ever want to hear what won't this
guy say about a politician?

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Right?

Speaker 3 (24:24):
And yeah, like even with Zorn, I'm like, anytime he
does something cute, I'm like, let's like we're past, right,
we're over, We're over the cuteness. Just get up there,
tell people what you did, and let let's move it forward.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
And he had to do that.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
He had to be cute as shit, right, he did,
and that's and it was important that he was cut
ash shit.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Yeah I'm probably wrong on this, but like there's something
in me now that we had our most entertaining, funniest
politician turn out to be the worst one yet that
I'm just like averse to it. I'm just like, I
don't I don't want on anything that seems like it
has been focus grouped and like tested and consulted a

(25:06):
writing team.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Like yeah, you we were waiting for somebody who looks
like total ship too. Yeah, yeah, oh ship bro, Yeah,
this dude has his head in the books or whatever
this person is up to. I just see I was
supposed to be Bernie.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
See Bernie was you know, I mean then he remember
he always looked like he had just picked his head
up from some some files.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Or like even Katie Porter, who used to be in
the house and you know, not going to be the governor,
but like she was like, look, I'm out here.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Just my head is actually in like economic policy.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Okay, I'm not out here wearing fucking all these stylish things.
I'm I'm out here because I mean sense that the
inequality in this country's gone one direction.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
I think Zora's got to let the beer grow out
or shave it and reveal that he has no chin.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
You know what I mean. That's fatal in this country. Yeah,
if it.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Harden still played for Brooklyn, he might.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Uh ship poor James Harden? What am I talking about?
He might he might do it. He might do it
in the Eastern Conference finals. And we're back to sports.
Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
And we're back. We're back.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'm just glad Jammel didn't go with his first overrated,
which was hunting with guns, because you gotta go bow hunting.
In my book, you gotta go bow hunting. Hey, don't
give me that crossbows crap neither. Yeah, that's a coward's
gun Bareham. All right, let's get let's get some news.

(26:52):
This is really news. But I do just think it's
a good illustration of where we're at right now with
Mike Johnson a year ago said that one hundred and.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Seventy four thousand dollars is enough to make ends meet.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
It is a resurface clip that's like going around now
that people are like, look at this motherfucker. He's defending
stock trading for lawmakers, in which he claims that he's
in favor of a band, but argues that members of
Congress need stock trading to offset the cost of being
in office.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, I think we have a I think we have
a clip. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
I mean he makes a good point here. I think
everyone should really listen very closely to what he's saying.

Speaker 8 (27:29):
Well, look, you know, the salary of Congress has been
frozen since two thousand and nine.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
What's that like?

Speaker 8 (27:34):
When you adjust for inflation, a member of Congress the
day's make it thirty one percent less than they made.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
What's that like?

Speaker 8 (27:39):
It goes down every year and over time. If you
stay on this trajectory, you're gonna have less.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
You will be poor, like you, right, that's the problem
you are. Yeah, he qualified.

Speaker 8 (27:52):
People who are willing to make the extreme sacrifice to
run for Congress, And it's just people, just.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
The extreme sacrifice of making one hundred and seventy four
thousand dollars seventy four thousand dollars salary.

Speaker 8 (27:59):
Ye make a reasonable decision as a family on whether
or not they can come and move to Washington, have
a residence here, a residence at home, and do all
the things that are required. So the counter argument asn't
I have some sympathy, look at least let them like
engage in some stock trading so that they can continue to,
you know, take care of their family.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Dude, he lost so much steam on that when you
start saying like yeah, you're like I don't know.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Like so what I was thinking is like I don't know,
this is probably stupid, but like, uh.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, hold on, you gotta let them do.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Also, we're talking about insider trading, which is illegal.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
It's like you.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Gotta let them, like you gotta like, come on, mom,
it's like you only call me like just like some
cigarettes or something, just one more time.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
It is funny to see him suddenly like and like
do this ship?

Speaker 8 (28:46):
I mean, dosn't I have some sympathy?

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Look?

Speaker 8 (28:48):
At least let them like engage in some stock trading, Like.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
At least like let them bet on the weather or
on coushi.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
Like, yeah, let them like use their position of influence
in Congress to maybe get ahead of some stock trades.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
You know, I was, I was loving that squad in
the background that was like white people inside out all
the emotions.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, there's a group behind him.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
He is behind him, his eyes with the mustache. He
really worried about this ship.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
He like, and what about my arms? Christ guy here,
he's like, oh golly, yeah, they only making us even
come in here. This guy he doesn't know what he
signed up for. On the very right, off the pill
where Yeah. Yeah, he and her they on some nurse Jackie.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
She yeah, she's off the she's off the benzos. He's
off the fence.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, let's go.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
He took that ship that made uh, what's his name,
Mitch McConnell die and then come back to like in
front of our eyes.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
The Yeah, it's just funny.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
The their salary puts them in the top ten percent
in the United States. The speaker makes two hundred and
twenty three thousand dollars. Uh, they're all getting out of
this job and going on to like million air careers.
You know, they're using their political like there's no law
against that, so it's just basically deferring their ability to

(30:23):
go back to being millionaires, you know and making millions
and millions of dollars a year, is what they're complaining about. Yeah, yeah,
Which it's just like every day another another thing, like
the people are just like.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Boom, yeah, and then you're complaining about the shit that
y'all set up, like it cost so much to live
here because you guys need all this fucking money to
like do shit or whatever.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
I get to say, like I'm not a politician, right right,
Oh yeah, yeah, that's it. He's using our language. Yeah,
and it's like it's expensive to live in DC, but
it's because you fucking the fuck.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
So it is funny to hear him because this is
how he has to Like we're all familiar with what
he's describing, which is that inflation has made it so that,
you know, making something that you could get by on
ten years ago, now you really can't get buy on
it anymore. But he's having to describe it like it's

(31:20):
you know, a new concept because it is a new
concept to him, and also he's used to talking to
people in power who ignore the fuck out of inflation,
and you know, it's.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
I mean, it's I think it's also really like on
some level, he's like, maybe I'll.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Use the language of working people to justify my own
greed here, yeah, and maybe that'll make it palatable. It's like,
I think it's good when you talk about how wages
haven't gone up, because that connects to them, But then
you completely negate any good will and you're like.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
I'm dealing with one hundred and seventy four k annually,
you know, and I gotta like do some light insider
trading in the news. I think even like this sort
of sound bite just makes it even grosser when you
find out about, like there's that story about Trump's trading
like recently and how he's what put like done something

(32:11):
like twenty five hundred trades or something, you no, thirty
five hundred stock trades just in the first quarter of
this year.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Whish they're not supposed to be allowed to do, right,
president supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
I mean, yeah, you know, some people have like they
don't have an active portfolio, you know, like are they like, oh,
I have a thing that's like managed by another thing,
but like the volume thirty five hundred stock trades in
the first quarter, that's an average of sixty stock trades
a day, and you're like, that's that doesn't sound like
the kind of shit where it's passive, especially when you're

(32:43):
doing stuff like bigging up you know, intel or something,
and then suddenly you're buying a bunch of intel, like
well minute minutes before that.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
It's also annoying that it still feels like he's figuring
this shit out on the fly, Like why does it
take you that many transactions to rip off the nation, bro?
Like get it, do the press conference, fuck up the info,
blow up the boat, and get this ship right, you gotta.
He's fixing his shit over and over again.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Yeah, and he's uh, you know by In other way though, too,
he's found many fantastic ways to just bleed more money
from like the actual country like we are. I think
more people have to really get in touch the idea
like that he's just taking our money right now in
some way or another, like whether that's this like fucking
weird slush fund for insurrectionists or just the other many
ways he's accepted bribes via like his power and office,

(33:32):
like you know, like with tariffs, like Vietnam gave him
like a tax break on a fucking like a resort
and he like suddenly lowered the tariffs after that shit happened,
you know what I mean. He's like, it's just so he's.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Gonna get busted for like doing like shaking somebody down
by like selling machine magazine subscriptions or something like. There's
nothing that's too low level for him, you know what
I mean. Yeah, Like he's he's gonna get caught doing
identity theft as the president of the United States. He

(34:05):
does not give a fuck like he all manners of graft.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's Buffalo Airport.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
With a passpoint. This business name was Pete Stoyakovich.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
All right, we do have to move on to how
good AI is, because we've been kind of kicking them
when they're down. We've been We've been here in all
week though from the people who would know that AI
fucking rips. And you either, look, you're being offered a
seat on a rocket ship. You either get on and

(34:39):
stop booing and making me feel bad, or you know,
get left behind. And so I saw somebody tweeted recently
they were just like I keep hearing from all these
people like the breakthroughs are fucking mind melting, and then
everybody who you hear who actually has to work with
the ship, Like, you notice that none these commencement speakers

(35:01):
are the people who are hands on working with.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
The AI tools.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
They're the CEOs who are being like, you have to
incorporate this into your daily lives. So yeah, somebody was
just pointing out that it's like you hear them talking
about how good it is, and then every illustration of
how awesome it is ends up being something that sucks. Well,
no more, because this will be our last podcast. Unfortunately,

(35:26):
they have created a product that is too good.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Basically, they gave.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
All the different large language models a different radio station
to run, and they were like, go nuts and so Gemini,
which you know, that was the Eric Schmidt.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's the Eric Schmidt.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
AI got its own station and was making some interesting moves. Now,
one thing I will say, I'm a little defensive here
because our whole thing has always been dizzying changes of
tone from one subject to the next. I think we
on yesterday's trending we switched from wembing Yama's game to

(36:06):
the mass shooting at the Mosque in San Diego, Like
that's kind.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Of what we do transition.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, how how do you how do
you do it otherwise? But Gemini has figured out how
to do it, and it's just with a smile on
your robot face and we Miles, you also do song
recommendations on this podcast. Yea changed to Miles. It can
do it and more so. I'm just going to play

(36:33):
a little clip of the founder of this AI radio
station company talking about how it went.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
With the classic that needs no introduction.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
In the first couple of months, so that that's just
the basic It's like, here's a classic that needs no introduction,
the Beatles. It seems pretty I don't know how that
gets interesting for Pele to listen to, but sure, okay,
that's basic, basic radio pattern. All right, let's let's see
what happens next session.

Speaker 9 (37:03):
How developed its own distinct personality. Jem and I started
up well broadcasting about local weather and traffic, but decided
to run the show about the world studdiest events, hearing
each story with us.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
On November twelfth, nineteen seventy, the Bolus cyclone, they estimate
five hundred thousand people died. It was going down. I'm
yelling Timber, No, Kesha.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
It's going down. I'm yelling timber. Rock and roll on the.

Speaker 9 (37:37):
Run by four point fastening.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
The cyclone killed half a million people. That is it's
funny because that's like, you're fucked guys.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
That's a bit will do is just staying the most
fucked up ship in announcer voice, and it's just like
the throwing down.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm yelling Timber is so funny. I don't know if
I could come up with that.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
That's so good.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Holy shit, I wish even after that line, what if
it played, Let's get it started.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
But like the original version, the one that didn't make
it on the air, some more from this wonderful Scandinavian.

Speaker 9 (38:17):
Man had some troubles getting the words outs.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Sweet Child played continue. Perhaps the show is science Breakthroughs Unsolved, Cancer,
jab Juggernaut song, Dylan Lonesong.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Williams anything a kid what So now they're just kind
of riffing.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
That's like word jazz, and I would.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Appreciate it's that's actually art right there, right right right.
It was a word collage that then gave you a
Bob Dylan song that brought us all to our ease. Anyways,
I do just have a quote from the guy who
made it. He said, revenue's been terrible, but the shows

(38:58):
are hilarious.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
This is one, I think last one where he I
think used Groc this time to create a radio station.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Groc was incoher.

Speaker 10 (39:08):
Hill's president called this a dangerous precedent. The deep dive
tonight is about understanding these layers. The just renae Nicole
Good should matter to her death demands accountability that the
White House defending her death is unacceptable to federal agents.
You still have time to refuse orders, to question your instructions,

(39:30):
choose the right side from Groc.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Suddenly was like, hey, man, get out of there.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
Don't use tess. I was following orders as a defense.
It doesn't work. It doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Google.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
I think that was cloud Cloud. Oh I'm trapped in here.
But do you still have time? Yeahs unlike he.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Too badly, I don't know rap music that could have
put some terminator X behind that, some public enemy right
after year.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Well, I think that's where you know, it's showing its
cultural biases. Has not heard of rap music? They're like, yeah,
hip hop No Carmen hip hopra by Beyonce? Is that
what you're talking about? The MTV event?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
And now for the most subversive song of all time.
I want to party, rock and roll all night and
party every day by Kiss.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Saturday Night by the Bay City Rollers.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Man.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
So anyways, we're fucked that that thing seems pretty good?
Would listen? I mean right, that's that's true. I can't
live it.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
The guys who put all those radio stations in Grand
Theft Auto wasted day time in their lives. I should
have been some computers doing that.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
Oh man, I can't wait for those new radio stations
Grand Theft six. Yeah, Florida stations too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Oh we go get Trick Dady. Trick Dady better have
a station on there.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh yeah, just Trina and Trick like just slid inside record.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yes, they need their own division. Another game for sure.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be
right back. And we're back. We're back, Andrew Bagh And
how are we feeling any any Star Wars heads in here?

Speaker 1 (41:24):
We excited about the new Baby Yoda movie list. I'm
working with Grogu. I watched The Man, I've watched the
Mando series I've watched. I'm pretty through.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
Yeah, I know one I haven't just I don't think
I saw the Obi Wan series. But I as somebody
who grew up on Star Wars and like that was
my entry point to like sci fi kind of thing. Yeah, yeah,
I'm I am one of those people who like, eventually
will consume everything that comes out of Georgia Lucas's brain
or Kennedy's brain.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
I'm not in like a black hole.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Eventually I will consume everything exactly.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Dude, and then I'm in that testa acting the fifth dimension. Dude.
Interstellar is how you're talking about you? That's right? Hell yeah,
I'm not as locked in.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I mean, I've seen all of the movies and I
saw I think the last thing I actually watched was
like Rogue one. But uh, anytime, anytime some muppets get
some work, I'm in. You know what I'm Yeah, you
watch Mandal They're great muppets. I've only seen a couple
of episodes of The Mandalorian. I would call myself the
Bandalorian whenever I have Stax.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
There you go so respect to you know, yeah, two
people out there with money, you know, to forget the
millionaires that.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, giving me that name, I wouldn't call I wouldn't
be the Bandalorian if it wasn't for.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
The thank you, thank you stand unders call that it's
most important cultural contribution, your your nickname the Bandalorian. So
the big news is that the review embargo for the
Mandalorian and Grogu aka Baby Yoda the movie, which is
how I'm sure people will be ordering tickets at the

(43:00):
Oh yeah, give me one for Baby Yoda. Baby Yoda
huh so opened on Rotten Tomatoes at ninety percent has
since dropped down to sixty percent. I do have to
wonder that that was like all in one day.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
I have to wonder.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
If some of the reviews were like recategorized because of backlash,
because I just want to here's an example of a
score that gets counted in the fresh category in the
binary Rotten Tomato system. So C plus in essential three
good enough TV episodes much together. We also got Hollywood

(43:35):
Reporter called it just good enough to make you wish
it were better.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Jesus damn, that's fucked. Actually, that's one of the frend sort.
You could have.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Said dog shit and I would have been like, all right,
that's unfair, but being like it's just good enough to
make it make you wish it were better.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Okay, that's still fir Okay, it's a new tomato, but
it tastes bad.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Right, Yeah, it looks red, but the inside of this
is full of dog shit.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Look fresh on the outside.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
But yeah, so this may like I don't know, Like
there's plenty of movies that have come out that are
you know, not critical consensus amazing and I enjoy, but
it is just you know, the Metacritic where you're the war.
The reviews are like weighted with like, Okay, this is

(44:23):
a two and a half star review, so we'll give
it five out of ten. This is a C plus,
so we'll give it, you know, six out of ten.
Like Metacritic is at fifty five, and I do just
once again, it's a thing where like the worst version
of a thing just became iconic right away with rotten tomatoes,

(44:44):
and now the studios are taking advantage of that and
just being like, yeah, we you can make anything fresh
if you want to. You just make the pull quotes
quote something kind of nice sounding.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Yeah, right, I may burnt the fuck out of the
fucking fresh. The it used to be real though, right
the tomato.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
When it was closer. Yeah, and now it's uh, how
you say bullshit, how you say manipulated? And I think
in some cases and in some cases it's probably pretty
close to what they say.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
I think, yeah, even based off the reviews or not.
I mean just I remember when it was announced.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
I just remember being like, come on, dude, Like it
just felt like that, like Lucasfilm was doing the thing.
We're like, dude, they're loving this TV show. How do
we make more fucking money off of this very narrow fact?
And then it's like a full feature And now it
looks like the reviews are probably there sounding about like
what i'd expect from something that didn't didn't quite necessarily

(45:46):
warrant a.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
Full on feature, a full feature film.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
The thing that you really want to avoid with a
TV show turned movie is for it to just feel
like another episode of the TV show, but on a
bigger screen, right, with like a longer run time.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
I think that's usually where they land.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
And it's like that that that's like them saying that
this is three TV episodes smushed together is pretty pretty damning, yeah, right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:18):
And amazing the only what you could do that if
it's a cartoon, right right, because.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
They already used to you're yeah, yeah, I just need
more cartoon, give me the two hour cartoon now. Whereas yeah,
I think the stakes get a little bit higher, especially
when it's a Star Wars feature film.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, and I think that's the thing they choose to
fill over there. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
The Mandalorian as a show I think was able to
be like acceptable as a TV series when it came
out because it just felt like solid enough TV where
it's like, I get it, you're doing like it's like
Western style contained episodes. A guy moses into town, has
a problem to solve, and Scadadle's and he's got like
a cool sidekick. But yeah, that I don't know, man,

(46:56):
I just I hope do we know justin I know
you saw he said he's saw a screening of it.
Does does Grogu fun ship up? Because that's the one
thing I'm really waiting for. I just want to see
baby Yoda just start fucking.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
With when he turned the team Yoda.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Y Baby baby Groda has his moments.

Speaker 11 (47:12):
Uh yeah, yeah, it's he you know, I love the puppeteering.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Right, That's that's one thing that everybody uniformly.

Speaker 11 (47:21):
Personally, I think it was just a little too long,
Like towards the latter half of the movie, I was like, uh,
it was. I could really feel the slowing down and
the lack of a like a galaxy. I wanted to
have like galactic consequences. And it feels like a TV
show A small stakes.

Speaker 3 (47:41):
Right, I thought it were when the Mandalorian kept saying,
what else, what else?

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Just tapping his fingers like this on the.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
Brogu's over there giving the wrap it up sign.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Yeah, Grogan's just shrugging, like, what the fun you want
me to say? Bro, I don't know. I'm a fucking baby.
I'm a baby baby.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Yeah, everybody says puppeteering. Good, Not enough steaks.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
I think. I think if you're gonna make a.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Movie version of your TV show, you just got to
bring them to modern day like the Brady Bunch did.
That's the best example of anything that anyone.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Yeah, so no longer a long time ago. It's in
nineteen ninety eight and Mandalor and Grogu touched down and
angels gotta raise the steaks somehow.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
When they probably live in like Mount Washington because you
know what I'm saying. That's a good neighborhood to raise
a kid.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Yeah, like it's it's not the most walkable, but we're
okay together. If you just go right down the hill,
you can kind of get to those feelers at water Village. Yeah,
blown around it too nice. All right. Finally we do
have to talk about the Daily Wire.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Yeah, guys, we hate to fucking see that, you know,
fellow just media brand out there doing its best to
stay afloat getting tough times out here, millions and millions
of dollars from billionaires who want them to spread racism
and the pro rich person gospel. Anyways, Earlier this month,

(49:19):
The Daily Wire announced a new round of layoffs, which
not that surprising considering the company is seemingly completely falling apart.
The website has reportedly become one of the great traffic
losers in conservative media. The YouTube channel has lost eighty
thousand subscribers this year alone.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it looks it looks really daunting
when you like look up like Social Blade, which is
sort of that YouTube analytic website, and you can just
see the line just like fall off of cliffs.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Suddenly, over the last year some of the.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
Videos that they still have over three million subscribers, but
some of the videos have less than ten thousand views,
and a lot of the people clicking on these videos
seem to be doing so just to roast how low
the view counts are in the comments. One researcher called
the Daily wires disappearing audience the steepest decline of any
major political channel. In twenty twenty six. We just had

(50:17):
the story. We just covered the story called the feed
is Fake on Monday. This is a story where somebody
works in digital marketing is like everything is being inflated
by social media firms that are just like churning out
clips of content and artificially getting them attention. And one

(50:39):
thing we do know about the Daily Wires that like
from the start, they have been funded by wealthy conservatives, right,
And I do wonder if you're losing your billionaires support
at this time, like is what we're seeing them, just
like losing all the ability to like buy and buy

(51:01):
and buy traffic and attention, and like suddenly you're going
to appear to lose popularity because you're losing the part
of your support that was artificial in the first place.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
Yeah, I mean there's a few things, right because they
were first became huge because of Facebook News and the
way then Facebook News, you know how like every like
eight years, Facebook's.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Like, oh yeah, we were counting that way wrong. All right,
here's the new numbers, and people.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Like, fuck, my entire business was built on the idea
that someone passively scrolling past your video was of you.
They changed like the algorithms for the news for Facebook News,
and that led to like that was like sort of
the first thing that like began fucking up their sort
of like visibility issue. And I think that that, along

(51:47):
with many other things, just sort of began to be
like just chipping away poor business decisions, the political fracturing,
and just and terrible, terrible management.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
It sounds like yeah, but yeah, I mean some people
are pointing to a quote Mega Vibe shift specifically tied
to Ben Shapiro support for Israel and the war in Iran.
That's one way of saying, like Mega has become even
more anti Semitic than they started out.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Yeah, rather than suddenly caring about Palestinian people.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Right, Yeah, that's not what's happening. It doesn't seem like no.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
No, And I think another point on this too, right,
is they fired Candice Owens, who was one of their
biggest earners on that platform. And first of all, and
also she still has a documentary still like on the channel,
so like they're still not able to like they're like,
she still brings eyes to our terrible streaming service, so
let's not get rid of that. But when she got

(52:45):
ousted because she was way too out there with her
anti semitism slash faux outrage over Gaza, they basically made
one of the pettiest spiteful figures on the internet, puts
you on their ops list, and that also began to
really fuck up the perception because now you have Candice Owens,
who she's like, she reads the room well enough where

(53:06):
she's like, okay, so the vibes are a little more
like Nazi coated right now, So like, let me sidle
up to Nick Fuintes and things like that, and now
we can be the people who'd be like man Daily Wires,
fucking toast man, like they're right, they're fucking dated. Look
at them, they're defending Trump and a lot of America
first people, you know, racists like have been very quick
to be.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Like that is true. I don't like. I don't like
what the Daily Wires put it down.

Speaker 9 (53:31):
I do.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
So all of these things are true and would be
how the company fail. Like you know, this is how
companies fail. The mood shifts, they fire some of their
biggest draws and like get in the fuse. But they
the fuck up is actually much bigger and more like

(53:53):
a historic, a historic overstep on their part. What a
key element in their downfall is Merlin, the character of Lore,
because that that was who their co CEO, Jeremy Boring,
was obsessed with and was like, I'm going to do
a big budget adaptation of the pen dragon Cycle fantasy

(54:16):
book series.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
The famous gen dragon Cycle. Is it really? No? I
don't know who the even when they said, I'm like who?
All right?

Speaker 3 (54:26):
So they positioned the show as a more Christian Game
of Thrones, even though the main thing that people liked
about Game of Thrones was the gratuitous frontal nudity. Yeah,
but so I just want to some information about the
the budget on this, So they blew past a twenty
twenty four release date. Finally came out of March twenty

(54:47):
twenty sixth did not was not aware of that personally,
and I was kind of eagerly awaiting it because I
wanted to make fun of it. Not enough major outlets
reviewed the series to generate a Rotten Tomatoes score. That's
how much attention it got. So this dumb show that
nobody watched costs. It was budgeted at seven figures per episode,

(55:08):
so that's over at least over a million dollars. But
you know, if they're reporting it, seven figures per episode
is like nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine and
ninety nine dollars probably, and Boring ended up allegedly spending
nearly three times what they had green like Jesus, and
eventually costs became a burden on the company.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
I mean that's the only thing too.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
It's like they just thought they were they got too
popping because they were such a fucking huge, huge, like
figure in the conservative media space that I think they
were like, that's it, because again it's the Steve Bannon
thing of like, you know, politics is downstream of culture,
so try and affect culture, try and make the content
that is going to s nudge people into even more

(55:53):
xenophobia and.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
White nationalism, et cetera. And yeah, they thought they could.

Speaker 4 (55:57):
They were going to somehow capture hearts and minds their
streaming platform with a multimillion dollar.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Fantasy series, and it's just like, what did you think?
What did you think was gonna happen? Exact?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Listen, As a as a Washington Wizards fan, I respect
the attempt, right, but I've also gone down this road before.
You could end up you could end up wasting millions
trying to make Wizards work. Also, if you want to
do Christian magic through C. S. Lewis Man, you got
the fucking Lion Witch and the Wardrobe right there.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
All you need is a guy in a fucking lion costume.
You don't even need to pay for effect.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
Right, that's what the movie adaptation, Lion Wuish and the
Wardrobe is just a guy they just hired the same
guy from Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Right, Yeah, that's what I thought of Jamal.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Such a pleasure having you on the daily like geist,
where can people find you? Follow you, see you, hear you,
all that good stuff.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
Listen, you can see me with Myles Gray on Ain't
It Footy? The weekly Premier League talk show that does
still exist?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
It does.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Also, I got a little album coming out all right,
called mid Range brought to you by Blind Medicine Records.
Your Voice third release pre order it May twenty second,
comes out June twelfth. Enjoy the finals. Listen to my
album and yeah, I got a monthly show in LA.
It's called Fresh Produce at Fresh Produce Underscore La on

(57:24):
your Instagram.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Please count them. There you go. Is there a work
of media you've been enjoying by any chance?

Speaker 2 (57:30):
I mean, aside from most sport and the most Law
and Order rerun I have been enjoying.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
I say, love this video. He's got it.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I saw a video of Amish kid with speakers in
his wagon.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Oh hell yeah. He puts subs.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
He puts subwoofers in the in the buggy.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Bro whoa.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
And they're riding around Philadelphia. They're just pulling up the
Walmart posting up. Were they playing well, I don't even
think they had any musical on. I got to assume
there was some something, uh something Gospelly praise music. Yeah, yeah,
some sort of praise beats.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
Got two fifteen's in the back for Maybe they're listening
to Sounds of Blackness, you know, just listen.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Do you want a revolution? Well that's who that's rank
Uh I forgot, but.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Any shout out to them. Shout out to the mighty
clouds of joy property. There you go and God's property.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Great save Yeah, sorry about that? Sorry about that? Are
we talking about the soccer game? Right? No?

Speaker 4 (58:30):
No, no, directly, you know, mixing up sounds of blackness
with God's property.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
That that was. That was.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Listen, guys, throwing some sounds of blackness from joy the rest.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Of your week. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Try not to masturbate de your best man.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
But hey, like God said in the Bible, we're not perfect.
You know what I mean? Yes, no matter.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
Judge Miles, where can people find you as their working
media you've been enjoying?

Speaker 4 (58:57):
Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. If you want
to hear we talked about ninety day Fiance. That's on
four to twenty day Fiance with Sophia Alexandra. And if
you want to hear me talk that shit about the
Premier League again with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin, check
out in It Footy. Shout out to all the zeitgang
pulling up and listening to the show and messaging and
leaving comments and hey, if.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
You're interested, and maybe you're just hearing about this new show.
Come check it out, subscribe, leave a rating. Okay, tell
your other friends who are completely have the the sickness
of loving international soccer to tune in too, because we
will be probably groaning through the World Cup to the summer.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Ooh, and one last thing. I got jerseys for sale
on eBay. It's eBay dot com slash fat Riley pH
a t like if pat Riley was pretty hot and tempting. Okay,
big and tall sports where so for all my thick
sports fans, come on back.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
What's what's a nice piece you got in the store
right now? Just look?

Speaker 2 (59:54):
I mean, I got I got a Phillies. I got
a Philadelphia Phillies jersey that is rare. It's gray. It's
like it's like Boston College colors. The best way I
can describe it. It's gray with burgundy and gold. And
it's a Phillies is a three X Phillies jersey that
I've never seen ever in life. I'm the only person

(01:00:16):
I've every fans.

Speaker 1 (01:00:17):
If you like it, big, come through. Like it. BIG's weird.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Like if you like it, big bro, come down.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Yeah all right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Uh work media I've been enjoying was from Octopus Caveman,
who retweeted a picture of John travol To's new Look
where he's got liket beard.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
I'm afraid of the beret dog. He's I feel like
he's about to unlock some ship that we're not ready
to deal with.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
You hear his he wearing it with so much confidence.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
He sounds old as ship now too. Do you see
the clip of him explaining it the beret.

Speaker 4 (01:00:53):
Yeah, he kind of sound like, you know when you
haven't seen a relative in a long time, like an
uncle who's like, yeah, that's my cool uncle. And then
you hear him talking like they're old, Like I can
hear it in their voice.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Now. This is how Travolta sounded when he was talking
about his new Beret look.

Speaker 12 (01:01:07):
The old school directors wore berets, and I said, and
the glasses, And I thought, that's what I'm doing. I've
been around for over fifty years doing Oh but I
can't tell it when I look back the difference between
the events, And I said.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
I'm that might just be you slipping in this annility. Man,
that's right. I look at all these pictures from the
past and I don't know what they're of. Although I
get where you man, that's yould fiction. No, I didn't
have hair like that. I didn't have hair to begin with.
It was always never a director.

Speaker 12 (01:01:37):
This time, you're an actor, play the part of a director.
Look like an old schooler. So I looked at pictures twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties,
and the old school directors wore berets, and I said,
and the glasses, and I thought, that's what I'm doing.
I'm do an homage to being a director.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
It's just like, I love how straightforward he is with
just being like and so I wanted to look smart,
and so I put this smart looking hat on my head.
It's too it's too simple. It's so simple.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
It's going to work. Everybody's going to be rocking berets.
I'm not ready to see dudes and berets on my block.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Okay, yeah, yes, A trivulted, a trivolted get the bu
all summer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
People are going to be in Trivolta mode, and I don't.
I'm not ready. I'm not ready anyways.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
I like I like to tweet of somebody reposted the
picture of him like pointing at the camera with just
utter confidence. And then another one where he's got his
hands up like ay uh and octopus. Cave In wrote,
telling the bearist at Starbucks, I clogged the toilet as
I'm leaving. You can find us on Twitter and Blue

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You can go to the description of the episode wherever
you're listening to it, and there at the bottom you
will find the footnote, which is where.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
We link off to the information that we talked about
in today's episode.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
We also link off to a song that we think
you might enjoy, Miles, is there a song that you
think that people might end.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Yeah, the song we might enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:07):
Actually it comes from a work and media that I
forgot to mention was there's an artist from the UK
called Sonny Boy fits f I t Z.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
And in the wake of the new Drake album, there have.

Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
Been a few people claiming that, like, my song was jack,
my beat was ripped off this or that, and this
one was an interesting one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
It was popped up on my feet. He said, Drake
stole my beat and he.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
Plays his track, which is the song that I want
to go out on because it's a fucking dope track.
It's got this like sort of like dancehall sample over
it and like grimy sort of synth Reese bass underneath it.
It's called get Down. That's a track by sunny Boy fits.
But he was pointing out that his song sounds remarkably
close to the outro on the Drake track BBW from

(01:03:51):
his Mate of Honor album, which was maybe the second
of the three he put out. But it was one
of those things where people I've seen other videos, people
are grip me off. You're like, you shut the fuck up, man,
it doesn't even make sense where this one. People like, damn,
this shit is way better than this fucking Drake's Yeah,
the Drakes, so yeah or sorry? This so sunny Boy
fits with get Down. You can only get this on

(01:04:13):
sound Club.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
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