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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season episode four of
Dallies Like Guys, the production of My Heart Radio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
America's shared consciousness. It is Thursday, April. My name is
Jack O'Brien, a k man. I've got starting off with
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a bubble here am ak Uh. That baby is disgusting. Uh.
That is courtesy of pick Class and sight Class and
my three year old. Uh. And I'm thrilled to be
joined by my co host, Mr Miles grab who thinks
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that Dave Fance slaps, who twists up some nice blunts,
wraps me? Do me do? Who smokes weeding games at night?
Who lives that more fungal life? Me? Do me do?
All Right? You know we're talking with stone Cutters and
the the discord went off. Shout out to Hay Skippy O.
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Shout out to Rory the scrivener for putting that one
together for me. Maybe, Lady beauty and up the rhythm, Miles.
We are fortunate, thrilled, overwhelmed to in our third seat,
completely unworthy by the brilliant the talented Roy Would Junior. Well, Hello, well, welcome, welcome,
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Who is dead with noisy child, who has child, won't
shut the funk up? How old your child before I'm
being a mean father. I love him and he's the
best thing that ever happened to me. Blah blah blah. Yeah.
Do you have those moments where you I'm Jack as well,
like where your comedy brain and your parent brain come
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at Audrey, like, I can't let this lyric go and
I'm gonna say something like this pay as kid won't
shut the like, but I love him, but also had
to do the bid. But you know why you have
to say that disclaim at the end of a kid
joke because some people, what do you mean? Is it
worth a disclaimer? Yeah? It is. Because also we're the
first generation where our kids will be able to like
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there's a whole digital law that everything I've ever said
about him? Yeah yeah, And I don't want him to
stumble across this episode and just here if he goes
won't shut the funk up your Yeah, I was. There's
that Michael Keaton movie in my life where he is
about to die and like his wife's pregnant, I think,
or like they have an infant, and so he like
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records a bunch of home video. I could die now,
like I could die and have eight more kids, and
like they'd be fine because they could just put together,
like they could black mirror a version of me with
all the ship that we've recorded on this they totally
program a robot that was to say, thought, Yeah, that's
a very good point, Miles. Well they could deep fake
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a robot with your face by the time your kid
is right, yeah, you just know me as a zoo
as dad on zoom. Yeah. And to your point about
this generation kids like we don't, we don't. There's very
few times we could present receipts to our parents about
how they sucked us up, like literally, like here's the
fucking audio tape of what you said you remember them.
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And now it's like, um, I was listening to episode
of your podcast that you used to do forty years ago.
We're saying our parents are literally a mystery. Yeahnyhing younger
than age six, You just I don't know. Your parents
all have like eight photos that confirm his moments before you.
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That's all they got right, right, right, And they're so
good at editing the like useful memories out of like
they're like, no, that never happened. Actually I don't. I
don't remember that, and you were a dumb kid, So
I'm gonna go with my memory over yours. Alright, Broy,
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a
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couple of the things we're talking about. We're gonna talk
about some of the children reactions yesterday, put that in
a little more context, and how they're criminalizing protest. We're
gonna talk about whether Quimby is back fingers crossed somehow.
We're gonna talk about some new frat sickles that are
hit in the market, the old ster fashion takeover that's happening,
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all of that plenty more. But first, Roy, we like
to ask our guest, what is something from your search
history that's revealing about who you are? You know, I'm
gonna give you something even better than that. I'm gonna
give you my YouTube, recently watched video perfect. I will
not give you pornhope, but I will give you recently
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watched videos. YouTube is where I go for tutorials just
to learn how to do stuff, how to stop Internet
Explorer from redirecting to Microsoft Edge Girl with that Internet
is Lionel Richie's girl a friend too young for him?
I don't know why I like that MLB twenty one
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Road to the Show. I just bought that so I
watched all of the gamers play the game that I'm
about to play, so I have a little bit more
familiarity about that. A gang of black women comedians. I'm
starting to get back out on the road, so I'm
trying to figure out who's funny out there, and you know,
you know, get to working with some new people. I
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like new new faces on the road with me. It's
how I stayed fresh. The BGS You should be Dancing
nineteen seventy six version, high quality audio. Damn, that's eclectic.
It's not like a single thread that you're following through there.
That's like that. I can screen grab this. I could
screen grab this. The YouTube video I listened to right
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after the BGS three six Mafia Popping my Collar instrumental.
Oh the instrumental? Yes? Oh yeah, Oh dude. I am
deep into hip hop instrumentals, especially South Ship from the
nineties because I'm from Alabama, so that's like the soundtrack
of my childhood. Bro. I mean, we're so were you
just you put the beat on, and you gave yourself
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your own never since I can't remember, I've been popping
my collar, popping, popping like so hip hop instrumentals. That's
when you really started appreciating the little nuances of production.
To me, many fresh, it's the master of random laser right,
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like just just weird pum pum ship happening underneath the
little Wayne verse from the ship is amazing. It is
a thousand percent amazing. But that's pretty much what it is.
Um a gang of comedians, a lot of gospel music
and rap instrumentals. That's pretty much how I roll. I
like it. I wish that it was something more weird. No,
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that's perfect now. I think that's a glimpse because sometimes
you'll just be like, I don't know, measure, drink tape,
I'm moving, and they're like, okay next. And then there's
also a run of slavery movie videos that I was watching.
I'm working on a bit about white people who played
slave masters in black struggle movies. Because I have what
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I'm workshopping a joke. I have to bait a test
the thread of it. The theory has to hold water
first before I can explore the funny. So I have
to be like digging a crate and find the most
iconic white actors being horrible and figure out which one
was the best, like the DJ premier of Looking for
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a White Savior and white demon portrayals and film just
dusty fingers going through the craze. The theory of the
bid is that no white person ever gets nominated for
awards for playing a slave master because the assumption is
that there wasn't much of a trance formation that had
to take place. Right, But I'm not gonna bore you
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with the nuts and bolts of a comedy joke that
I haven't even proven it's funny yet, but that's pretty
much within in my history and a Gang of Cubs highlights.
So yeah, no, grateful for the glimpse into your progress, though,
for sure wait for and with MLB the show. I
used to like to play a lot of baseball games,
but like over the years, I think there was about
a five year gap where I missed the game and
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I came back in and the batting was so complex
for me. I was like, Okay, You've got to go
back there. It's like, that's why I don't work with
two K. I don't play NBA two K for the
same reason. I don't have time to learn this analog
shooting ship. I'm sorry. And then if I try to
switch it to button mode, apparently that's like having the
bumpers up at a bowling alley and then people clowning you.
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I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm used to holding the button and
releasing at the height to get my shot off. That's
what I do. The show. The show makes it hard.
It's like Apple, when you ate your Mac or your iPhone.
You have to go through the settings to find the
way your ship used to be to put it back
like that. But no, the show. The show is great
man that. But then I also never took that five
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year gap that you're talking about when NBA Live. When
they started making NBA Lives, I think, oh, seven oh
eight ish, somewhere in there, I stopped playing basketball games
because two K came in with the stick and I
was like, fuck you, I'm not gonna no, I'll just
start playing Call of Duty now, And I just shifted
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to RPGs and stuff like that. Right. No, that's it.
That's why I just like NBA Street will just sort
of be at the height for me. I'm like, yeah,
we perfected NBA jam with Street and I can always
hop back into that and still feel literate. Ronnie Chang
showed me, like all of the slick ship that I've
learned in my life. Ronnie Chang showed me those emulators
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and how to put in an classic Nintendo and Sega
Genesis games on your matt book for free and playing
with a PlayStation control. I was like, dude, I may
not need a PS five. I'll go back and play
some old school m VP Baseball from O two with
Manny Ramirez on the cover. I'm happy you'll throw you
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off because you know, the rosters are a little weird,
but Dave Ortiz is still playing. But fun. It's fun
right right right? The Griffy Baseball is where my is
where my baseball game knowledge? And how how does that
stack up that? Yeah? Nintendo has always been terrible, well
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I always say terrible. They appealed to a different personality
of sports fan, where this is fun and more arcade style.
I want to control the price of the fun. Can
hot dogs do exactly? You're firing because I fired my
pitching coach in the middle of the season one year
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on the show because it's just because you can. Yeah. Yeah,
I'm definitely in that bucket of like I didn't get
on the basketball team when I thought I should have energy,
and now I'm using video games to explore that and
exercise those demons. So I do like the more simulator
type things. That's fair, Roy, What is something you think
is overrated? I'm hesitant to say it. I'm going back
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and forth about whether or not this is what I
was going to bring up. I believe that New York
City pizza is overrated. M it's floppy thing, Chris. Yeah, yeah,
it's floppy thing, Chris. Pizza. Um, the sauce cheese ratio
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is not as good as a traditional pan or a
deep dish. I say this as a full car carrying
member of Team Detroit Style and Team Chicago Style. Pizza. Um.
I know pizza is one of those serious things that
Americans tend to draw the line, you know, with each
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other wrong. But I'm sorry, I just maybe maybe I'm
just a basic bitch who was raised on pizza Hut
in the South and I don't know no better. So
maybe my palette isn't refined enough. But the way people
it's a slice of New York pizza and it's just
so nothing beta slicer. I can name five things right
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now what this slice of pizza. I do wonder if
you're like the specific chain that was like your go
to growing up, effects like what you are high end
taste in pizza and absolutely absolutely, Oh that's a great observation.
I grew up from Pizza Hut hand Toss, which is
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the closest you'll get to a Chicago style. And also
keep in mind, I came up in a time I'm
forty two for the listeners. I came up in a
time where Pizza Hut was upper crust. There was there
was no delivery. Literally, Pizza Hut did not deliver. Motherfu.
Could you have to come here and sit the funk
down right? And you want this pizza drink from those
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frosted glass red yeah. Yeah. And so the rise of Dominoes,
the rise of Little Caesars, and you know, Pizza Hud
had to eventually give in and start delivering. So they
have to make the pizzas faster to meet demand and
the quality than they got a little shaky. But yeah,
that's that's that's a fair observation, because that's what I
always ran with. Did you funk with Pizza Hut's thing crust? No? No,
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I was never to Hut. That's when I diverged from
Pizza Hut and went full Dominoes all the time. That's
probably the only thing that me and my girl kind
of You know, there's there's there's disagreements in any relationship,
and then there's the ones where you know, wow, this
is just a for real impasse. Right, she likes thin
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crust pizza. Okay, fine, but then she has such an
eclectic palette that she'll get all the ship on the
pizza and then these my frocks are rushing the pizza
out of the oven. So the crust on the bottom
isn't sturdy enough to hold a mushroom, onion, a green pepper,
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and child all this. It's too much ship on it,
and it's good, but this isn't for think you have
a hand tossed palette, and I can't get that through
to her, like you need a sturdier crust foundation to
uphold all of the different flavors that your palette demands.
But she just likes the flakiness of the thin crust
and it's all flimsy. It's like New York pizza with
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two more extra pounds and shot on the top, and
I don't know, it's just floppy. It's like a wet
paper towel. At the end of the day, Yeah, I
think Jack, your thing holds up because I remember the
March Madness basketball that will come from Pizza Hut in
the early nineties, and you demand all your pizza comes
with the basketball and the box to be so greasy
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that it can barely function as a box to hold
the pizza. Like, that's definitely because I will always I
always love a greasy as pan pizza from Pizza Hut.
But yeah, I don't think. I think over the years
of just hearing people argue so much over pizza, I'm
just like, man, fuck saying whatever is good. Man, If
you like what the fuck you like, like fine. But
also I'll say what I like and I'll say what
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I don't like. But to act like no, it's just
hard to rank at the end of the day, like
it's it's it's just one of those things. It's a
fool's Errand to try and really say one is better
than the other. I feel like because it's just no
one's going to agree. I don't know if it's still
open post COVID, but it was a Chicago style spot
in New York City, in the village or near the
village called Emmetts. It's the only place in New York
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where you can get a Chicago style deep dish proper,
Like you gotta wait forty five minutes for that thing.
And I went and got one, and I brought it
to the comedy seller to eat before the show, like
that was gonna be my thing. And I got heckled
out of there like my other comedians. How dare you
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eat Chicago style in a New York legendary established I'm
like you, Motherfucker's don't even have pizza on the menu.
You literally don't even sell it, right, what is gonna do? Yeah,
so you know it is what it is. But yeah,
I just I just think I think New York I
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just think it's overrated. I'm not saying I wouldn't eat
it in a drunken pinch, but stopped acting like this
is the measuring it by which to measure all pizza. Right,
I'll also eat a little Caesar's Hot and ready in
its entirety, and I have no palette, so I'm not
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going to reply right Oh. A listener said, have you
ever got a crazy seasoning on your pizza at Little Caesar's. No,
they will turn if you ask them. They will turn
up your Hot and Ready with the crazy bread season.
They're like, oh, you want us to dust it with it?
And now you've got a fucking high bread, hot and
ready crazy bread pizza. WHOA. I mean that sounds like
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what Dominoes did to turn up their pizza little but
they do it like the whole thing. So yeah, that's
why I like when the Z game comes to like
you ever get it with the crazy season, I'm like,
thank you so much for giving me the imagination to
envision of you. Let's talk about some underrated grab and
go pizza. Uh, it's hungry. Howe's there a Southern chain?
I think they're sprinkled around the Midwest song. But they
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have four flavored crusts that ship. So they do the pizza.
They hands ass that thing and then they brush it
with the butter cheese sauce and now you have a
butter cheese crusting your fingers. Tastes delicious on top of
it I could talk pizza all day, dude. I also
love a pizza chain that sounds like a pizza chain
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in a movie Hungry How it just sounds completely made up.
That's also Funck pretzel bagels from Fanuel Hall in Boston.
Too thick, too big. Well, now, Boston's usually even minded
about any criticism about any of their cultural institutions, so
you should be fun. It's not that it's nasty, it's
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just it's too it's too tall, but you have to
have a porn jaw to open wide, and like you
have to unhinge like a fucking boa constrictor to take
a so you can never get an even bite. That's
why when people have these fucking burgers that this is
the big, super duper turkey bake it beast burger and weight.
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You can't bite it, bro so you're never getting all
the flavors at once. But it's meat mountain, and you'll
prove to your stepfather you are tough man versus food.
I'm taking on food. And then after three seasons and like,
look that ship, I want to live. Let me get
somebody else to host this year. My doctor and family
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begged me to stop. I know, I know I got
his friends with him. He's like a really cool dude.
And I wondered that the first season of Man Versus Food,
how long can he do this? How long? And I
know that they would shoot the show and like, like,
I guess, like over the course of two months, shoot
the whole thing, and then the other ten months of
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the year. This guy eats picture of health. He's fucking exercising, right,
he knows two months a year, I might die. There
are moments when you'll see him mid challenge and he'll
give up, Like his eyes will meet the camera and
you're like, oh, this person is drowning. He's lost. Yeah,
and then they're like, but no, he found a way
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to get right back in it. But yeah, I mean, Adam,
please please stay safe. How disappointed would you be if
you were a fan of Man Versus Food and you
saw that guy out in the off season. Come on, man,
let's right, so I can sitting there with some kombucha
and some tempate bacon fake bacon ship is crush. You'd
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be like the time I saw Too Short in the
airport holding hands with his girlfriend. Really, I'm pro love,
I love, but when you know too Short brand right,
and then you just see him and he was like
carrying her bag like it was cool to see. But
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then there's a party that goes, wait a minute, Santa
is not real, right right? I thought you were. But
it's funny though too. And he's like, oh yeah, that's
all his performance. Sorry, and you're right, but Short, okay,
it's crazy. I could have taken a picture of two
short holding hands and that would have been like the
biggest scandal in black Twitter in three days. Dear Short,
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beholding hands. Man. Everything is a lot the fucking astronaut
meme where it's like two shorts respects the ladies, like
always has you know, always what's something you think is underrated?
Mm hmm do I do I want to say therapy?
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Or do I want to say bike riding? Oh? You
know it's underrated? Calling my fuckers you ain't talked to
in a long time, Like that's one fine every week,
fine fifteen minutes for someone you haven't talked to in
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a year. That's I've got a less I'm sorry to
get deep like that, seriously, Like that's that's where I am.
And it's probably been the coolest thing to just talk
and just reconnect with people and you know, just trying
to be some degree of human if you will. I
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know it's a hassle. I know it's a paint in
the ass. So do it while you do other things,
Like that's my thing. While I'm playing something brainless, you know,
doing PlayStation or whatever. Or if I'm at the park
watching my boy. He's out there with his friends, so
all I have to do is look at him and
make sure he's not snatched or hurt. So that's the
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perfect time to call an old classmate from somewhere. And
so you know, that's that's the type of stuff that
I like to do. And I'm finally realizing, oh wow,
this is meaningful in life is precious, especially like being
locked down and stuff and not really having the same
sort of social connections. It's funny too, because there are
times I would get a call from somebody who's doing
that to me. They're like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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hit miles up and I'll see a name coming like funk,
I don't talk this person a year, And I was
like sweating almost because you're like, funk, what am I
gonna say? Like what? We don't have this awkward conversation
and then you pick up and it's like we it's
like we left off exactly where we were, however long
ago it was, and we we spoke from forty minutes
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straight because it was so effortless and you and that's
that was one of those moments she was like, funk, man,
I'm out here creating stress about this when it's actually
such a like rejuvenating thing to even begin talking your
friends again or even people like you're saying that you
haven't spoken to in a while. Yeah, definitely want money.
So luckily this person had more money than me, so
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I was like, I'll ask them for money. Yeah, I
was gonna say, I'm gonna try and just listening to
you talk, I'm gonna the next time I'm thinking of
interacting with a bunch of people I don't know, like
on Twitter, like posting something on Twitter, reading a bunch
of tweets, I'm gonna call somebody I do know. Are
you used to know? It's it definitely gives you life,
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as opposed to slowly sapping your will to live Twitter
that sometimes Alright, let's take a quick break and we're
gonna be right back to talk some news and we're back. Uh,
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And we've had a day and a half of reactions
to the choven verdict. And also as the verdict was
coming in, the police in Columbus, Ohio killed another black child,
like within moments of the of the verdict being read
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out loud. So just a mix of horrible ship, white
supremacy all all over the place. But yeah, it was
a relief too, and also kind of upsetting that it
was such a relief that they got got it right.
But at the same time there's just like so much
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ship on display. Nancy Pelosi just not knowing what Oh god,
she basically said, I mean, for people who don't know,
she said, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life
life for this to happen. Floyd's girlfriend came out and
said something similar not too long after that. I can't
remember where she said it, but like, I'm hoping that
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they just poorly worded their statement that because George Floyd
didn't wake up that morning, I'm gonna die for the culture. No,
Josh Floyd woke up to go mind his fucking business,
and regardless of what he was under suspicion of, if
he didn't deserve to die period. To the Nancy Pelosi thing,
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I don't think it was poorly worded. I think that
really underlined just sort of how the Democrats move, which
is just sort of like you know, essentially, she was saying,
it's gonna take a lot more bodies for us to
give a fuck because she's sort of she's connecting the
fact that George Floyd had to die on video in
order for them to muster the semblance of courage to
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begin to address this like form of the shitty policing
that we have, and it's it's it's it's almost as
if like it absolves them of responsibility as legislators to
say thank you George Floyd, because like you helped push
things a little bit more than like we were willing
to a politicians too. Yay, we got one and all
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it took was video evidence, a whole fucking summer of
uprisings and movement and the fucking police chief himself testifying him.
Think you know what, he still might not only get
seven or eight years. Right. That's the other thing that's
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wild is that first you march for transparency, then you
march for cameras, and then you march for a rest
next year after March to try and get sentences. And
I think that's the thing that's really infuriating is that
when you look at when you look at what happened,
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you know, with the Chauvin verdict, and then to immediately
see what happened in Columbus, Ohio, it's a reminder that
there isn't a lot that you should be celebrating just shared, yeah,
because the system is still the same regardless, and the
way we are defining crime and safety is still the same,
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and police is still the same, and it just it
sucks to just think that like a lot of the sentiment,
especially from the meteor like Kristen Bell, who's like, finally
we can breathe this, I have relief something right happened today,
like this idea that like hooray we won. That's not
nobody fucking won, and the and I feel like again
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because the media, for people who are just tuning in
to CNN or MSNBC or anything like that, it should
that what they should be saying is it is now
so painfully clear that our system isn't just ill equipped
to solve this problem, it in fact itself is the problem.
And this is why it's so exhausting because it has
been so painfully clear for a really long time now,
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and like you're saying, roy it, the only reason this
happened is because the whole thing was on tape. The
whole thing was on tape. Otherwise we would have had
to put that on the pile of many other deaths
that have occurred that unfortunately we're not captured in h
D for the entirety of someone's life ending. And that's
what's really fucked up. The Minneapolis Police Department report on
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the murderer that went around, like a lot of people
were reposting this, but it is just wild. Look at it,
like it just describes it man dies after medical incident
during police interaction. Like really, so many things had to
go right like that. If that video didn't exist, that
none of none of this happens. That's that's that. Yeah,
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one down, three to go, So you know, that's kind
of how I look at it. I didn't watch any
of the coverage, Like I just like, I know, you
work at a daily shot and you're supposed to like
watch the news and all of that stuff, But I
was like, I think Trevor's got this one. Watching this
one trying to figure out any indignation or outrage or
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anything that I can put together. That's the That's the
one thing that I do love about being a correspondent
is that if I want to, I can just fucking
unplug from the horror of today and focus my attentions
on the solutions. What's happening to change this, What are
people doing? Because there's comedy in the solutions, because there's optimism.
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So if there's optimism, then there's an opportunity to find
a joker too. So for me, I'd rather swim in
those waters and do a ride along with Clipper about
police bias, or walk the streets of Chicago on the
South Side to show that black people actually do care
about black on black violence. Like, to me, that's more
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where my head starts to turn and looking at stuff,
you know. Like the one thing I have been clocking
is I think it's thirty four states now that are
starting to put anti protest laws on the books and
are attaching it to I mean, you all con fact
check this, but I think they're basically you won't be
eligible for student loans and federal grants and unemployment benefits,
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food stamps, public housing, like in Florida, they'll just say
they'll take all your ship away for trying to advocate
for yourself. Um, and yeah, no, it's true. And I
think even to your point, like the segment that you
did going to Chicago with that group of people who
were intervening in neighborhoods, that the point was clear that
it's not about the idea of that people want to
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be engaging in criminality. It's that there isn't support, there
are no options. And the way we are looking at
how we keep people safe isn't because we have more
armed goons on the street. Is because we're able to
provide people opportunities to live as they deserve to to
have opportunity and not to resort to these other kinds
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of things. And it's that simple. But we're still sort
of like locked in this mentality of like what what
are we gonna stop spending money on these like vests
and ship Like yeah, exactly, but we're I think just societally,
we're not able to see like, no, you see, we
have to turn this whole industry off to be able
to like take all that revenue or capital and move
it into something that's actually restorative um and we're just
(31:47):
unfortunately have the imagination for that still at least at
a critical mass level. Yeah. Yeah, that Columbus cop who
you know, murdered a fifteen year old girl shot or
four times in an altercation that like could with courage
and like willingness to put themselves like slightly in harm's way,
(32:08):
like could have been like that. That's that's the thing
that frustrates me is that the white supremacists like Tucker
Carlson and they always paint the police as like courageous
and putting their body and harm's way to do their job,
and like that's that's not what you see. What when
(32:28):
you actually see the details, you see them standing tempeed
away and firing four shots at a child too to
stop them and sort of you know, just jumping in there. Yeah,
I think that there's this weird collective grouping of cops
that other jobs don't get. You know. It's like, no
(32:53):
matter what, they're all heroes and good. Even though these
are there's there's clearly a systemic issue, but nope, we
cannot acknowledge that because the good outweighs the bad. Well,
how do you measure bad? Is that that's and I
think that's the question that you know, collectively people refuse
(33:14):
to ask, which is why the same day that a
cop is convicted of killing someone on tape, you also
have back the blue trending on Twitter. Everybody's picked a team,
and there in common decency is the thing that should
always being looked at first before you pick a side. Yeah,
(33:36):
so dug in And while you know it's if it's
not George Floyd and it's or Brianna Taylor who still
waiting to see any form of accountability there, and now
it's going to be mckayah Bryant. And that's why, you
know it. The idea that we can reform a system
like this is just so absurd, Like you don't reform
a malignant tumor, you remove it. You don't figure how
(34:00):
to do solutions like let's fund the tumor less. No,
you need to get rid of it. If we can
acknowledge what it's doing and how insidious it is, then
we're it's it's incumbent on us to be responsible enough
to look at it objectively, Like I think we actually
have to rethink that. But again, that's a huge shift,
and that's why now the white supremacy has to now
(34:20):
rally around itself in the forms as you're saying, thirty
four states have introduced eighty one anti protest bills in
one in this legislative session. That's more than twice as
many as any other year and we're only in April.
So that's the response now is to say, okay, because
the logic for them is, well, the reason, the reason
(34:42):
Derek Schouban went to jails, because the uprisings over the
summer created an angry mob which is now bullying the country,
inter sacrificing well intentioned police officers to the wolves, to
the outrage community, and therefore their strategies now say, well,
then we now we have to take away the ability
to protest in this way. That's literally what Tucker said. Yeah,
(35:03):
that that was Tucker's logic last night, and then Candice
Owens had to come on to yes and that in
a wonderful improv scene. Um, it was just really some
other ship. And like you know, you look at what's
happening like in Oklahoma and Iowa, they're passing bills to
grant immunity to drivers whose vehicles striking injured protesters in
public streets. You know, there's in Indiana there's a there's
a proposal saying if you're convicted of unlawful assembly, you
(35:25):
can't be employed by the state, you can't hold office.
There's a Minnesota bill that's on the books that they're
trying to get past that says, if you're convicted of
this kind of protesting, you won't get loans or unemployment
or housing. So it's it's clearly targeted at people of
color and working people and people who are more than
more most likely to want to get out and advocate
(35:45):
for themselves. Um. Then yeah, it's just watching this all
ebb and flow. It's why all of those down the
ballot collections matter. M that's why all of that on
presidential stuff really doesn't do it justice in terms of
exactly what's going on in the world in terms of
(36:05):
the things that affect you, you know, on the day
to day. Right. Yeah, and this is yeah, well we're
I think again looking at now, just always thinking of
having the federal things at the top of mind, not
realizing that that's it's all the state legislative and municipality
legislators that are the ones that are truly like shaping
(36:26):
what your day to day actual experiences, like the people
in the community you're in is by those people, and yeah,
it's just a shame now to see like how many
also police chiefs are saying like, yeah, well, you know
that it shows that the legal system works, like that's
been the sort of through line, and it's like, yeah,
Alex villen Auavea, the head of the l A sheriff Department,
(36:49):
came through with seeing we told you justice works, and yeah,
there's a gang problem in your department. In your department
there in there are sheriff's gangs and the reporter who
has been reporting on it has to wear a bulletproof
vest now because she's getting death threats because she bothered
to report on these gangs that exists in the Sheriff's
(37:11):
series Castle, who was on Daily Zykist a couple of
weeks ago. She also went to a press conference with
her credentials and was arrested for not having her credentials
by the Sheriff's department, uh and or detained and then
let go. But you know, the message was clear because
(37:33):
again I think and that I think it's indicative and
what what they mean, because a lot of statements do
from police units, like well, policing as we know it
is on the line. Yeah, good, what I mean, that's
but like I know, but let's be real, like is
it is there the wealth of the like leadership in
this country to change it like that? TBD. Alright, let's
(37:54):
take another quick break and we'll be right back to
talk about Quimby. Segue sege, and we're back and speaking
(38:17):
of things that bite. I don't know, quick bites, quick,
quick bites. Quimby is back. I'm just bringing this up
because it's really about what Quimby cost and then what
they just sold everything for because Roku, who makes like TV,
you know Roku and all those little adapters that ship,
they bought all of the Quimby content and they're like
(38:41):
sort of repurposing it as Roku originals and they're making
their own like streaming content or whatever. But the reason
I was like reading about it because this was this
is announced batch back in January that wrote who might
come through with it. Quimby cost one point seven five
billion dollars. That's how much they put into production. That's
what they spending, that's what that's how much they raised.
(39:01):
Quimby completed, launched, off the ground market and everything. One
point seven five billion dollars, okay, and only a couple
of months. The Wall Street Journal there's any things saying
they sold it to Roku quote for significantly less than
one hundred million dollars. So let's assume that's what sixty
(39:24):
million trying to flip that hundu, right, and now that's
a loss for Quippy. I just loved that. I just
love that ship. One point seven five man, will you
pay fifty fruit? I don't know, man, please uh. I
(39:46):
think that Quimby has an opportunity to come back because
it was an app that was for the commuter and
for people in the office sneaking and streaming at their desk.
Can mutant went away in office work went away, so
you're dead. Then they had that stupid tech thing where
(40:07):
you couldn't watch the ship on a laptop or TV
perfect and by the time they lifted that embargo, it
was too late. My fuckers was on life support, so
you know it was done. Deal vaccines flowing. What did
Joe Biden say this week? Two hundred million got the
shot or two dred million shots? I don't you know what.
(40:32):
Let me take that back, maybe they might be padding
the stats over there because two hundred shots, it's technically
a hundred back because you get two shots, are you're
gotting both shots? Joe Biden Anyway, my fucker's are going
back outside again. So if people are going back outside again,
then I think that there's a chance that quid Be
(40:58):
could come back. Also, the other thing that's happened at
the same time, pretty much every streamer has raised their
price or is planning to raise the price, and Quimby
has enough star power. I don't only watch The only
thing I watched on Quimby was Chrissy t Gets Courtroom Show,
because you know, I kind of like her, She's cool.
(41:22):
And then there was a movie they had, like a
movie that was split up into like seven minute parts,
and I was like, like I made it through thirty
minutes of that and like that was it. Like I
didn't really watch anything else over there. So I think
they come back cheap, and they come back with the names.
They have a chance. But I think that's the problem
(41:44):
is they wasted all that money and they've sold all
the I P so they I don't know what happens.
Katzenberg is gonna have to I don't know the US
do another round of fundraising to try and get all
that money going. But yeah, it was interesting cause I
think the one thing that they did have was like
the aspect ratio of going from vertical to horizontal and stuff,
and that would give you new things. I think that
(42:04):
was legitimately an interesting thing. But yet to your point,
like people also want to watch it on a computer
or a TV or whatever, and when you have stars,
you're used to seeing on that format. Alright, I rotate
my phone. I can see more of the room that
the actors are talking in. That to me was like, Okay,
that's cool, but it still boils down to what's the
story on the screen, but it rotates it good. Yeah,
(42:29):
I can see you around the corner. Now. Oh it's
a bigger conference room than I thought. That part was cool.
But I root for it to do well because the
board places there are for content stories to be told
about opportunities I have to get a check exactly. I've
always been rooting for there's so many talented people who
(42:51):
are getting paid. Who are you know, drinking up that
one point seven billion. I just it is also such
a perfect example of like executive overreach and just putting
one idea and executive had before any of the many
many things that you have to do to make something work.
(43:13):
They're like, well people people like short stuff. Uh, and
then you know, meanwhile, YouTube is trending longer and longer,
and Netflix like the thing people are addicted to is
like streaming shows that like keep you glued to your
TV until five in the morning. Like it was just
I remember that like when the web, like when putting
(43:35):
content online first started, people were like, it's got to
be thirty seconds or less or else nobody's gonna watch it,
and like they just stopped thinking about it at that point.
They're like, all right, we gotta we gotta make it
bite sized content for anybody to consume it in this
fast paced world. And people are like, no, we we
want relief from this fast paced world. About Quimby and
(44:01):
Netflix for that matter, a lot of the shows are
written to deliberately cliffhang, so it's never supposed. Even the
comedies like that are kind of serialized. They deliberately want
you to hit the next episode. So you just fucking
rat pushing the cocaine button in that cage. So it's
like that's that's what they want. But Quimby is gonna
(44:22):
need a flagship hit you know, you know and that,
and that's difficult, especially at a time now where a
lot of the sites are like they're just basically remixing
existing I p like pretty much every streaming side it
is like, what do we have that we already own?
Fucking a new one, build on that for cheap, and
(44:45):
then start doing new ideas. So you know, I don't know,
but if they're gonna come back, they're gonna need content.
So if you're listening from Quimby, get I would I
would love to see real cool like just take off
as like suddenly a really successful streaming plat form that
like is up there with Netflix and uh Quimby, like
(45:05):
all the big gas executives who put stake their career
on Quimby or just you know, yeah, somebody has to
get fined. Yes, you get roy a check call it
you know branded as roy coop. You know what. There
you go right there, Let's go from really bad ideas
(45:27):
to really bad ideas. Uh, this is called these are
some frat sickles that Natty Light is creating. I don't know.
I mean, you guys, tell me what you think so.
Natural Light has been like when I was in college,
that was the beer of choice because it was like
four dollars for a thirty pack, and they were just
(45:49):
like trying to give it away basically, and it tasted bad,
but like not so bad that it didn't get you drunk.
And since then they have apparently had some meetings where
they're like, what if we did like a fruity beer,
the like taste of culture culture at your uncle's beer.
(46:09):
It's your nanny, it's your nanny's beer. Now. I've also
been on some r fps from Light where they're like
trying to like brand themselves in an ironic way. It's right,
it's really weird, and they had some weird like pr
campaigns like internships and things like that, but they're this
all their Their first thing was like this natter Day's ship.
There's like their fruity beer strawberry lemonade or pineapple Lemonade's like, okay, fine,
(46:34):
whatever is. I guess it's popular enough. I've never had it.
It definitely sounds like a better idea than those like
sweet Tea truly Seltzers, which I've had one of and
immediately thought I was being poisoned um. And now they
have turned this into an eight percent a V V popsicle,
which sounds like, oh dangerous development. I mean, I guess yeah,
(46:56):
anytime you make alcohol easy to consume, and anytime make
alcohol fun to consume, like stupid bendy straws or those
long New Orleans hurricane cups that look like a fucking
long as water it's out traffic control tower, the long necks.
You're gonna get into some trouble, Like you're gonna you're
(47:18):
gonna get into some trouble yum, Like I mean like
there was for Local before, and for Local got everybody
off the crazy colors. But you know, like I came
up with like Mad Dog and all of that ship
and all of that like this, Yeah, it's just like,
(47:41):
oh it's just fruity or it's sane eyes the little
fruity cooler cocktail joints or whatever if naughty light like
PBRs more refined cousin that like finnished community college and
it's like, you know, well respected beer but also a
beer that exudes shot shot shot shot shots right, Yes, yeah, yeah,
(48:05):
I would, I would. I don't know that it finished
community college necessarily but definitely, yeah, it definitely told their
parents that they went. They were going and didn't tell
their parents. They were just sleeping in the car of
a grocery store near the campus during class and then
we'll drive back and say class was good. Yeah, yeah,
And PBR told him so and said you should have
(48:27):
never lied what these are made like that they might
have had a like excess packaging at the h at
the popsicle factory, Like these look exactly like things that
my three year old and four year old would be
so hyped to get their hands on. Oh yeah, this
(48:49):
is right. If the candy cigarettes exactly quick cigarettes still
gave you cancer? What's the over under on stories where
a bunch of kids have found their kids matter day,
their parents Saturday's popsicles and God just bent out of
shape off of them. Like, I don't I feel like
it's very quick because I when looking at it, I
had to look very closely to be like, where does
(49:09):
this say this is alcohol? Like when you look at
the red the packaging. But yeah, like you said, really
making it easier to consume. I think it's like this
because now we're going back to childhood where the popsicle
is like yes, I got a popsicle. Now we're adding
alcohol to that experience. I don't know if there's another
level that will inspire more childlike excitement than the popsicle.
(49:33):
They look like the squeezable yogurt tubes I give yeah right, yeah, yeah,
this ship looks like durt. I don't want him having
some natty light sending him out the door to four
year old pre K's Like, would we found some of
your child's lunch box? Uh? Just filled to the brim
(49:54):
when Naturday's Wait what those go girds? Yeah? Also, like
people aren't gonna actually freezy I mean, like responsible people
will freezies, but this just gives you a faster way
to to drink Saturday's I'm assuming, and get drunk off Saturday's. Yeah,
(50:17):
I mean, I don't really know how cool you look
pulling one of these out of the cooling meat on
their drill, yourilling meat. Who wants a popsicle? But Rap
brothers sucking on popsicles is a funny image to me.
(50:38):
Just replace all these party scenes, which is frapayses eating
these popsicles and ships doing the linking arms thing, but
just sucking on a popsicle for like sit on them
and put them up. There would be some sort of
ash shot remix with the pot like whatever the beer funnel,
(50:59):
what was that when people were dying a couple of
years ago from but chugging, Yeah, but chugging. This will
be the ugging, right, It's just make a frozen but
plug like by like melting together like fifty of them
things and like can you handle the mega plug of
natur Day? Like, oh my god, are freezing? That's the point, Bro,
(51:21):
Maybe this will being bring back Bro's ice and bros though,
which is you know, just giving someone You should add
a disclaimer right there because I feel like we just
gave someone an idea and they're gonna take that to
the front. Daily z Case is not responsible for any
mega plug, for the mega plug for any uh anal ingestion,
(51:45):
uh rec consumption of this. All right, let's talk about
old people fashion. There's an article in the Wall Street
Journal that that's my source for all fashion, right is
the Wall Street Journal. But this article is kind of fun.
There's it's like a fashion blogger talking about this trend
(52:07):
where like a lot of fashion photographers and like instagrams
are like they're they're these really popular feeds of just
old person fashion, but like the ship is like really
cool looking, like the stuff that old people are wearing
in these pictures, and you know, the theory is basically
(52:28):
that they are picking the coolest ship from their archive
of like decades old clothes and just authentically wearing whatever
you know brings them joy, and they're like ignoring whatever
you know young people are chasing and just creating these
(52:49):
wild as mixes of color. Yeah yeah, and like ignoring
that like makes them. It's like the Marge Simpson scene
where she's like, does I'm so not cool that maybe
I am cool? And the kids are like, nah, I
think that has finally come true for for the elderly.
Is this like, because I've also seen accounts where clearly
(53:10):
somebody just dressing up a grandparent in their own clothes
and like your heype beast grandpa with the supreme drip,
which is like, okay, like I see the novelty of that,
but like, are these so you're just saying these are
the most swagged out elderly people legitimately digging into their
own fashions. Sometimes when I claim right that these are
(53:33):
all old people who they just caught in the wild
wearing dope ship gives us hope. Isn't that the point?
Is that the point? Yeah, I'm not really a fashion guy,
Like I just kind of I don't really care about
clothes until it's time to be on television, which is
probably not the best time to be scrambling five seconds
before together. I literally, I literally emailed your producer twenty
(53:57):
minutes before this show began. And that's it. Hey man,
is this video? Or don't have to wear a shirt
for this ship? How do I need to brush my hair?
That's that's where I am. Now. The pictures are dope.
I mean, the people look great, and it also really
really shows like that. I think these old people know that,
(54:21):
Like they're just not like, oh you caught me in
my magenta an aquamarine blaze. Oh yeah, they're dressing. You
knew you was fly when you left the fun right,
you didn't know you were getting a picture taking, right.
But old people are the ones who will like dress
up for a flight. Well you know, Younger people are
(54:42):
the ones you're more likely to see with socks and
sweatpants on them. Yeah. I remember my grandfather, he wore
a suit. There was this burger place on crunshot called
it a burger and it was designed like a fifties
car hot place, and it was really cool and everybody
was like, oh, et a Burger's opening up. Motherfucker wore
a suit to go get a burger when when I
(55:03):
was a kid, and I remember me like, what the fun?
And I think there is just this generational thing where
I'm like you Roy, where I wear this more the
same version of that same outfit pretty much infinitely, where
I don't have it in me. I don't have the
mind to dress up for things as much as I
see you know, I guess other people who respect going
(55:24):
out or something. I don't know what it is. Yeah,
I just I don't know. I know a lot of that.
It's all habits from stand up comedy and places that
didn't demand that I dress up. So there's that, But
I don't know fat good fashion. I respected enough to
know that I don't have the attention span required to
do it well. You have to shot at a level
(55:46):
that I don't have the time for, and then you
have to put your outfit together and exited with this this.
I just don't have the time to think. Man, for you,
what's the highest point of fashion for you, perly that
you when you say, oh shit, I'm I'm dressing up today. Well,
we went to the Emmys. I got a custom tuxedough, Okay,
(56:09):
that's fair. I mean the Daily Show when The Daily
Show was nominated at that time, I got a really
nice tuxedo from the homie Rich Fresh. That's probably where
I was like, you know what, Yeah, I'm gonna get
right for this. Right my first hour special brawler about
all that ship and Macy's there, Like it wasn't like
like everybody else I know me because to me get
(56:31):
the trip and then I'm getting shoes from Italy and
then I get my socks from Vancouver. Vancouver has I
did it? Macy's on thirty four, I got all that
ship between two floors. There you go. So the best
outfits in this article are these this elderly couple who
(56:53):
own a laundromat and like put together these amazing outfits
using ship their clients leave behind. But that is definitely
one where you can tell that they've got a Either
they have like the most just cutting edge fashion sensibility,
or they have like a consultant but like the big
thing that they're doing is there. You know, most laundromats
(57:15):
are also tailoring locations, and they're tailoring all the fits
to like look really good on them. Which that's that's
the key. I think pretty dope though. All right, real quick,
speaking of awards shows, I do wanna talk about the
plan for this year's oscars. I hadn't really heard of this,
but so, um they're being helmed by Steven Sworderberg, the
(57:40):
guy who made Contagion. So the pandemic oscars are being
made by the guy made Contagion. Uh. They're saying it
won't feel like a TV awards show. It will feel
like you're watching movie. The presenters will be playing versions
of themselves working from scripts, which I don't. I mean
that it's true of all awards shows. I guess I
(58:02):
wish I would get nominated for a fucking award and
then the award show tells me I gotta do all
of this extra righting character who yeah, exactly. Uh, It's
it's just very strange like so it seems like this
idea was approved by somebody who knew that Soderberg had
(58:23):
made like Oceans eleven and Contagion, like all his successful
commercial movies and wasn't aware of like all the really
experimental ship that he's made that like audiences were like
no thing like full frontal. A lot of people haven't
seen that. That's like Julia Roberts and yeah, everybody missed
that one. But it's very strange, experimental, like fourteen different characters,
(58:48):
nothing really makes sense. And he yeah, it's a He's
just going very like in a in a very strange
direction with this that this is the first Oscars I'm
going to watch just because for the Yeah, for the
like this is going this could be totally fucking off
(59:11):
the rails. I think it's gonna be either all good
or all bad. Like it's either gonna work and you're like,
fuck man that I guess shooting it in twenty four
frames for a second really did give us some cinematic field.
Or it's going to be the first Anything is better
than seeing nine people in the zoom chat and eight
of them are saying the trophy. Yeah, that's what I
(59:36):
like that there's there's no so and this one hasn't
absolutely no zoom anything right, like nobody this one. He
when he agreed to do it, which is kind of
a weird move for the guy who made Contagion, like
researched all pandemics and ship He said, I will do
this if it's agreed that they're going to be absolutely
no people allowed on zoom uh. And they agreed to that,
(59:57):
and so yeah they did. They did create it hubs
for people in like Europe to go to so that
they wouldn't kill Anthony Hopkins. Yeah, there's like a UK
hub and other European UK uk oscar distribution hub. Yeah, exactly. Um,
I guess it seemed like a lot of trouble to
(01:00:19):
go through to not give black movies the awards they deserve,
all right, it will Yeah. Well the last time they
tried to go high concept and like gave the Oscars
over to like a visionary it was a real disaster.
Um no, ain't no, ain't no black movies going in
(01:00:41):
now because that's chovn trial the black people we gave
the moral likensing will continue. You get no trophies this month.
Sorry about that. I'm a pessimist. Yah. Yeah, then just
to see it, I mean again with the drama of
a presenter, I mean like I don't know about this
(01:01:01):
presentation and I'm gonna say what and the Oscar goes
to or how how do you? How do you many
deliver that? Right, Steven? Like what is that? How? Like
what is the character they're playing that is not just
them delivering an award speech? Like is there going to
be like a spy theme where or these peop were
just so you know, thirsty to perform again that there's like, Okay,
(01:01:24):
we're gonna form at it. So the whole thing is
a performance, baby, because we haven't been able to get
out there and just stretch our wings. Trust me, if
you come to this you will have you literally you
will have to perform. If you participate in these oscars.
I need you to. Like you just lost, like you
just won, yes, all right and you lost? So that
(01:01:47):
was just an exercise. Uh alright, Broy, It's been such
a pleasure having you. Man, Where can people find you?
Follow you? Here? You the podcast? Is Roy's job? Fair
to just start there and you can find me everywhere
else if you find me in that spot. Another lesser
(01:02:11):
daily show h than the daily za geist you're you're
involved with? I here? Oh yeah, and daily show at
eleven o'clock weeknights at eleven And is there a tweet
or some of the work of social media. You've been
enjoying you don't you know? Who are you know? Those Twitter?
(01:02:31):
I like? I like LaVar Burden because LaVar Burden is
coming through. They finally gonna give him a chance to
host Jeopardy so he can ascend to the job that
he's right for him. Did they give it to him? So? Well,
he's in the next batch of guest host I'll let
you cover that on tomorrow. Yeah, he didn't. We've done
(01:02:55):
a lot. We've done a lot here. Yeah, Miles, where
can people find you? With twee you've been Twitter, Instagram
at Miles of Gray. Also fo Fiance that podcast if
you want to talk ninety day that I'll be at.
Some tweets that I like. First one is from at
Reductress saying promise me you'll at least think about it.
Says mom about some bullshit, which really does feel like
(01:03:18):
it's like yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't thin about it.
Yeah yeah, more and that later. And then another one
is from this guy, Scott's Scott Seisss, comedian. He's been
doing like somebody retweeted these videos that he does on
TikTok where he's using the like the b G C
drama format where the song plays, but it's always it's like,
it's like this dude who works at Ikea. So I'm
(01:03:40):
just gonna play a couple for you because it captures
the rage of someone who has to work in retails,
so perfectly working hard or hardly working. I'm hardly laughing
already at don't have time for a second job, pretending
you're funny, don't hear every day? Thank you? You should
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open up more registers, and who's gonna work on? I
think I'm the only one ringing you up because I
called this. Wait you see, we're shorthanded. Where's your rising?
So they captured so well and I love the use
of that format because normally it's just for other ship.
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But yes, shout out to Yeah that was mine? Another
one I like because Mike and tweeted it's crazy car
insurance companies try to make you call the police after
any accident. Yeah, sorry about the fender bender. Mine sticking
around until two wheezing psychos with guns show up. You
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What song is your recommendation for it is? This is
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a nice little sample based hip hop, little futuristic, a
little bit of flavor. This is from Med and Blue
who are on the production and on the vocals you
have mad Lib and Anderson pack Uh. And it's called
the Strip and it's just got a nice, you know,
futuristic vibe to it, but still is maintaining like that
sort of old school sample style. So check this one out.
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It's really fantastic tracks called the Strip. Daily Zeit Gay
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