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In episode 55, Jack & Miles are joined by our favorite Jamie Loftus to discuss Menghazi crims of Vice, Dave Chappelle's Netflix specials, the Times Up Initiative, New Year's eve broadcasts & producer Anna comes on to discuss Iran protests, & more.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season twelve. Episode One
of Dust Daily's like guys for January second album eighteen
was Jack O'Brien ak love Jacksually and I'm joined by
my co host, Mr Miles Gray. Okay much sale man
cools us. That means happy New Year in Japanese and
also yes, I have returned. It is your boy, Miley

(00:22):
Gray Cyrus. Shout out to cub one fan three for
that a K that was beautiful. Also to the many
people who you know send so many kind words over
the holidays. Richard Florence, I see you with that zoom,
my man that you're living God. Mike d thank you
for listening every day. Groschue and Gwen, thank you for
listening to Danny and Alicia shouts to you like Gang
Gang Gang. Thank you to loud for my love jack

(00:46):
Stual love ja. Actually we need that right now. We do,
we do, and we're thrilled to be joined in our
third teat today by the great Jamie Loftus Hi a
tour behind Santa Uni Versity. I just wanted to give
a shout to everyone who listened to Sandy University and
truly a life changed Hollywood four Impress also caught win

(01:07):
of it, and uh, we'll have some exciting news to
reveal this week. Yeah, we were already tighted. There might
be a little bit of upset for some, but it's
just people who haven't heard thing. But guys, I would
keep my eyes on the golden globes, would eyes on
the gloves, Jamie. What's something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are as a human? Search history?

(01:28):
Here's four recent ones hate speech definition because is off
to a rousing start. Uh, Guillermo del Toro house, and
he's got two houses in the l a area full
of cool stuff. He just has little museums all around.

(01:49):
So I was trying to get some hot picks of
his house, check them out. I think it's just like
hordes that he's like he has like a house for
the hoard or like he lives in them. And he's
also just he doesn't he doesn't live in the house.
He treats them like these like oddity libraries, but no
one goes there. I think he just goes there to
it's just his museum. It's like his man cave. It's
like full of all these old like universal monster movie stuff.

(02:13):
It like looks really cool. It sounds weird and a
little bit perverted, and maybe it is, but I think
as of right now, it seems pretty dope. Look up
the picks. It's on the level of water. And you
liked it a lot. I did. It reminded me of
my which brings me to my third history lifespan of
a leech domesticated. So, so I recently got leeches. I

(02:39):
got leeched for the show I do on Super Delection,
and everyone was so people were asking, like, yo, why
her like lip is a mess? Like still bleeding? It was?
I think it just that way. I was, Oh, you
bleed for so another fun fact, when we recorded Santi University,
I was still losing a lot of blood. I had
a diaper strap to the front of me while we
were recording versity. So you are a true warrior because

(03:03):
you didn't mention this blood diaper one bit and power
through that reading like it was any other day. I
was also bleeding. Well, I wrote say university, which I
think really shows content. I was losing a lot of blood,
bleeding because you did a leech thing for Super Deluxe,
What like what was the leech thing? So the leech
thing is that like it's like this old kind of

(03:26):
ancient practice where leeches can in theory, they suck out
like toxins out of your blood and like remove blood clots.
It works like blood thetter and then they spit in
leech stuff. I think it's it's it's a little bit
of a of a black mirror, if you will. But
the leeches. So no one told me that after you

(03:49):
are leached, because I was leached in my I had
two leeches in my belly button, three leeches on my face,
one leech on my tongue. And no one tells you
that you bleed for eighteen hours just freely. Afterwards, my
face had clotted by the time we recorded Santi University, thankfully,
but yeah, I still had a diaper strap to my

(04:10):
front because my my belly button was really I was
losing a lot of blood that day. And when you
say this, I'm just speaking you because you were sure
how to address this blood thing. So you just said
about a day when like duct tape the ship to
your stomach. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got like any like
a proper gaze or anything. You just like, fuck it,
I'm gonna put a diaper on the front. The leech

(04:30):
lady was like, I was like, what should I She's like,
You're gonna need a diaper. Yeah, she was like, you
got to get a pack of diaper. Diapers are actually
super useful and just everyday stuff. They everything. Do you
use them as like paper towels? Yeah, I've used them
as paper towels. I've I've just put them on my
back so I don't sweat through my shirt. Yeah, yeah,

(04:51):
because I had because I had my son's like a
diaper in my car, and I was just like, yeah,
I'm sweating through my shirt. And grandfather was a basketball
coach and he was like a real sweaty dude, and
he was tired of ruining his suits, so he would
like put diapers under his arms. And one time he
was freaking out on the refs and like foam just

(05:13):
started coming out of his out of the sleeves of
his suit because he he sweats so much that the
diaper dissolved. That is how sweaty my bloodline. Oh, there's
so many diapers secrets. Oh yeah, hit us on Twitter
with some more diaper hacks, because I'm sure aside from

(05:34):
the obvious things of absorbed, being so absorbing, many other
uses for diapers. Yeah, so so uh and so the
lifespan of a domestic because okay, so the reason now
the leeches are my pets because the leech lady was
I was like, well, what are you going to do
with the leeches, and she's like, well, they can only
survive on your blood. So if you don't take them
with you, I'm going to throw them in a vat

(05:55):
and they'll dissolve. Oh my god. I was like, well,
the steaks rose very and so I was like, well,
I'll take the leeches, and so now I need to go.
They can live up to ten years, but they can
only feed on my blood. They can't feed on anyone
else's blood, like you blood them. I don't know. I
think that's when she said. She was like, you have to,
like it's someone else's blood, it won't work. So leeches

(06:17):
can live off of a single feeding for like a year,
and then usually they'll just die. But I can keep
them alive with my diaper blood if I want. He's
going to ring out that I really And then well,
then I saw the shape of water and it was
you know, women falling in love with the sea urchin,

(06:40):
and it was like, it's basically me and my leeches. Also,
all adult leeches are women, and so I just feel like, yeah, sisterhood, Yeah,
I gotta feed there your dragons there, we're already in.
Thank you guys. All right, what's something you think is overrated? Overrated? Okay?

(07:03):
I have two of her. So first HQ Trivia, which
you know, what the funk is going on with this thing?
I've been like you were saying the same thing. It
was like we were observing people play. I don't don't
want to download it because I feel like I would
get into it. I would fucking lose my mind because
I love trivia. I was, I was saying off Mike,
my friend. We were at Disneyland, trying to enjoy the
happiest place on Earth. Suddenly she whips out her Phone's like,

(07:25):
oh my god, HQ is live. And that was my
first interaction with a human being who just somehow like
their phone summoned all of their attention like that. So
it's it's like a it's just a live trivia game,
like it goes live and you play with like everyone
who has there's like a certain number of people who
are playing it all across the country and like New
Year's Eve, because I was at a New Year's Eve
party and it just at one point it just stopped

(07:48):
because HQ went live, just went silent, it just went
no someone went and it just started. And it's crazy
because everyone who has HQ gets in a very tight group,
but they don't talk to each other because there's not
enough time to talk to each other because you only
have ten seconds to answer question. But they all get
close to you and I'm like, I know, no, and
there was the party happening. I think it's crazy visually,

(08:11):
like it looks like some Hunger Game ship. Yeah, it's dystopia. Yeah,
there's a guy who comes on. He's like, hey, it's whatever.
And I recognize that guy too. He used to have
a stand up show in New York that he would run. Yeah,
and he and he tells you, like you know when
it starts like ten questions and you have to answer
them and like if if you get all of them right,

(08:33):
you split the pot with like however, many other people
got five dollars. That was like real money. So while
Jamie was going to New Year's parties, I was watching
all the New Year's coverage on my TV quietly at
home because you're dedicated exactly third diaper of the afternoon,

(08:57):
and they had the HQ host come on and he
was like, yeah, we've given away like I had heard
of this, you know, months ago from the Jensen Car
podcast Get up on this. He was saying, it's like
the next big thing, and it feels very black mirror
to me. But he was like, and we've given away
upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was like,

(09:17):
that's not a lot, like for a thing. It's like
dominating national like attention. Given away a couple of hundred
thousand dollars at this point, doesn't like a revenue scheme,
Like I don't know, like like the fact that they
have an entire like horde of humans on a leash
that they can just like yank on anytime. I don't

(09:38):
it's probably a data collection. There's no advertising yet. I
think there might be like sponsored questions. That's part of
my theory, is there, like like what was JD Power
and Associates pick for best a percentage of money on
your car insurance? But I don't know. It's it made

(10:00):
by the guys who made Vine who failed at monetizing
something once and then it's like, we'll see if they
do it this time. But it's just very disturbing how
people like both how it looks is crazy and how
people act about it is also crazy. Right, that's a
crazy visual of just like everybody at the party stopping like, yeah,

(10:20):
I guess I'll download it just to know what Okay,
now I'm gonna do it. Well, I just want to
be able to thoroughly talk shit, you know what I mean, Like,
the only way to really talk shi is to live
through something. So that's true. You know, it's investigative journalism,
it's it's muck raking. Is up Claire used to call it?
And maybe you'll get five dollars in christ coining or
some other crypto Jamie, what's something that's underrated? Uh? Santi University? Yeah,

(10:46):
if you haven't listen to Sandy University. For people who
are listening for the first time to the Daily zey Geist,
what is Santa University? Santa University is my now partially completed,
five hour long screenplay that follows college that consists of
forty thousand Santa's Whereto nine Santas have to die before

(11:07):
the end of the year. We did we did a
hot preview of it and uh, it's no matter how
rated it is, it's still underrated. Yeah. Yeah, people should
just go back. Uh and they will see our reading
of Santa University. And also the work who came through
with fan art. They were songs Zoya Drew is. They

(11:31):
did some fan art of goths Santa and arms where
his eyes should be should be Santa was one of
my favorite parts of your screenplay. Your master work. Also,
Zoya Drew totally nailed exactly as I envisioned arms where
he should have eyes Santa. And then who was the

(11:52):
dude who made the track we should Stevan? Yes, Yeah,
Galvez did a Will Smith's I'll like rap songs and
you actually kind of sound like Will Smith shout us
to you. I was like when I first heard, I
was like, what does this mean? And then I heard
him like, oh yeah, it's like that lazy Smith the
way the way that like Will Smith made a song
for men in Black. And my favorite part was like, wow, Wow,

(12:16):
it's time to go to Santa College. He shout out
to shout Santa University. All right, we're gonna try to
get into the format right now. The show. It's gonna
be a bunch of quick things. But strap on your diaper,
strap your diapers to your sweaty backs, because we're trying
to take a sample of the ideas that are out

(12:36):
there changed in the world. We talked about pop culture,
the news. Uh, We're just trying to take a temperature
the global shared consciousness of the human species. Miles. As
you know, I run a little hot. What what does
our global shared consciousness is? Temperature? Oh god, it's it's

(12:57):
a new year. We are starting off. I think we're
starting normal. You know, let's start points six degrees, Jamie.
We also like to start out by asking our guest
for a myth, something that the global shary consciousness believes
to be true that is not true. Okay, So I
have a myth. So I did a science experiment yesterday, Okay, okay,

(13:23):
in a lab. In the lab called the WWW. Okay,
I set my first thirst trap of all time. And
my myth is that thirst traps are a effective and
be not the most stressful thing to ever happen. Where
you like, put an enticing photograph of yourself to try

(13:44):
and attract the thirst the people with the desert thirst
that cannot be quenched. I did it. I did research.
I did not include that in my search history, but
I looked up there is a wiki how on how
to set a thirst trap. The people who respond to
thirst apps, first of all, just really just you know bosses, uh,

(14:05):
former like people from high school. Uh, you know, just
and and so I might were like, yeah, yeah, like
a former boss, but no one mysteriously. I mean, they
have a very high standard for thirst traps. I don't
think I can set a Playboy grade thirst trap, but

(14:27):
I followed the wiki how exactly um to make it
a controlled experiment? Uh? And you know, I think that.
And then I had like a full blown panic attack
for like three hours because I was just like, who
are these people? This is horrifying. Uh. And I don't
you know, if you have said a thirst trap and
feel that it was the right thing to do, I

(14:48):
would love to hear why. I think that thirst traps
are a goofy myth uh intended for you know? And
this is just an experiment in horny science. And this
thirst trap is posted on Instagram or Twitter, Instagram dot
com is it a dot com? The The application Instagram
is where the thirst trap was set. Let's see what

(15:10):
the metrics on it are. Okay, so this this thirst
trap for people don't realize, Ah, this is you in
a mirror? Is that in a mirror? I did what
the thirst trap thing said, which is like, make a
fun caption. I was like, okay, I can make a
fun caption. There's a theme. There's a lot of mirrors involved.
It's a bit of a black mirror. You will have

(15:31):
a diaper strapped on. It looks like to your stomach,
I'm basically covered in diaper. Also, how the third trap
works very attractive. You're not just wearing a diaper, You're
also covered in diapers. I'm barely visible. But I said
the third trap just to see what would happen, and um,
kind of expectedly. My hypothesis was it would be very

(15:54):
stressful and nothing good would come of it, and so
far that has been the exact result. The traps as
a fun way to spend your time myth. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I've always heard of them as like things people do
a moments of weakness and then are not thrilled with
in the end. So, uh, just trying to move forward
the what Dr Kinsey called horny science. Horny science science,

(16:17):
you did call it that? Um, all right, we are
going to get into, uh, just the stuff people are
talking about right now. Um. Black Mirror seems to be
on everybody's mind because they just dropped season four. Miles
has watched a single episode. I have a first any
of the new ones. It's interesting, it's got a good cast.
Jesse Plemman's in it, Jimmy Simpson West World. This season

(16:39):
I'll say like it's uh, at least based off the
first episode. It wasn't like one of those ones where
you're like, wow, that's a really clever concept. This one
was just more like terrifying. So here's my thing with
Black Mirror. I it's very hit and miss. Like some
episodes are incredible. Some episodes are credible now are just
not not as good as as other. And it's a

(17:00):
it's an anthology series, so like you don't have to
watch them in any order. So I always watch it
by just like looking at what other people think are
the best episodes and you know, working my way down
that way. So that's a that's a hack if you're
if you're not caught up on Black Mirror. UM, I
would just say from personal experience, do not watch episode one,

(17:24):
season one, well like on a date night with a
significant good call. But that's a great episode, great episode
that uh it takes a very specific uh type of
person to like or a very specific type of person dislikes.
Because my wife was not into it. Um it was like,

(17:44):
why would you make me watch this? And uh, like,
I don't know the Netflix. I think that that episode
has aged like scary well though, oh yeah yeah. People
are also talking about a gentleman named Logan Paul who
I I wasn't totally familiar with him. He's apparently Jake

(18:05):
Paul's younger older brother. Children freaking love him him gang.
He posts a fifteen minute episode of television as he
called it and his uh in his apology. Every day
he posts fifteen minutes of him doing I guess what

(18:27):
you think that white though, Babe? There that has since
bro and uh he was one of his recent episodes,
he was traveling to Japan with his friends and he
went to what he described as like a haunted forest,
which is actually just like a really tragic place where
people tend to commit suicide in Japan, and happened to

(18:54):
you know, come across the body of somebody who had
recently committed suicide and showed it and like was like,
it's a matter, bro, you've never seen dead body all
like standing, also wearing like a toy story hat. Yeah,
what are those things? They're like, yeah, the ones that

(19:15):
the minions are ripping off. So very respectful and and
he's whacked as fuck, like he's that whole crew is
just like lame to me. But yeah, I think a
in the beginning he was acting like, Yo, this is
some real shit I'm about to show you guys. So
like it's not like he was like live streaming and
like was like, oh god, this thing happened. He like
edited this video, posted it, and now like everyone is like, no,

(19:37):
what are you doing, bro? Like this is so disrespectful.
This is so fucked up, which makes the apology so disingenuous.
Like he knew exactly what he was doing. It was like, yeah,
video edited it and uploaded it, and we're like, yo,
this really probably get banned, but fuck it, here we go. Yeah,
So he's a he's a YouTube celebrity who uploaded a

(19:59):
video of a dead person YouTube and is now a
very disrespectful video and now people are like calling for
YouTube to like demonetize his videos beauty Pie style and uh,
who knows. But it's dark shit, man, it is every
everything's like feeling like black mirror. Well, people are talking
about black mirror, like that seems like a black mirror.

(20:21):
That could be a black mirror. That is a black mirror.
Let's write that down. Let's write that down there. Shout
out to the Chapo trap House guys talk about They're like,
what if your mom was a mobile that could be
a black men Yeah and iPhone. Yeah, it was like
your doctor or something que you as well because a

(20:45):
lot of radio waves but give you brain cancers. It's
a it's a really good thing. I think it's Felix
from Chopo Trap House. All Right, we are running out
of time for this segment, so we're gonna go to
a quick break and we'll be right back and we're back.

(21:11):
Uh so we have quite a bit of mangazi to
catch up. It's kind of a low profile, a couple
of weeks of mangazi since we last talked to the
vice president takes leave. Yeah that's what so I I
typed like somebody said that the president of Vice Media
was like being replaced or taking lead. Uh. And I

(21:36):
googled Vice President like expecting to fill in who the
president of Vice Media was. But now I told you
told me about Mike Patts, not that one he is not,
although I'm sure he's he's into real feel free to
take lea would enjoy that. Yeah, but yeah, apparently Vice

(21:58):
was a shitty Freddie like brow down, which is disappointing
when I found that out. There's media on on Vice
that I like a lot, but where you're like millennials
are like the like the coolest generation. Yeah, and I've
been Advice like the millennial haven it's like a red Meanwhile,

(22:22):
Advice Hamilton Morris, Errol Morris's son makes one of the
most obnoxious television shows ever to be made. Who is
Hamilton's Morris Hamilton, Yeah, he's He's I am kind of
obsessed with him, uh in that he his voiceover narration
could not be slower. And also he's always like Marijana

(22:45):
and you're just like, okay, calm down. Um. By the way,
when I said millennial generation, I was not saying but
I know, yes, but yeah, I was like, this is
somebody many people will take you literally and somebody somebody

(23:06):
was like, you don't come after baby boomers, bro, Like
ask ask crooked media what happened to them, because apparently
John Lovett, the one of the hosts of Pots of America,
like talked about baby boomers being a shitty generation and
like got just obliterated and his mentions. But we have

(23:28):
that size audience, feel free to talk as spicy as you.
I've only gotten like three three comments from people. Uh
Ferrell Audio, which purveyors of many fine podcast uh they're
under Uh dude named Dustin was apparently problematic. He a

(23:51):
dude named Dustin problematic. I cannot believe he's dissolved with
the network and stepped down and uh yeah, so uh yeah,
it is because a lot of gys is there and
he was like always in the background of Doughe Boys.
Dough Boys is one of my favorite podcasts, and he
was always in the background, and it just like puts

(24:14):
a taint on what is otherwise just like a complete
joy of a show to listen to. Chappelle Uh isn't
directly men Ghazid, but uh he had a special that
dropped I think on New Year's Eve. Uh, and he
said some ship that was just kind of it was

(24:36):
awful out of context. I haven't watched the whole special,
so we'll we'll watch it and get back to you
on that. So some people in the office have seen
it in context and say it made even less sensing context.
So we'll keep an eye on that. Uh. And Jan Winner,
founder of Rolling Stone, was accused of offering a freelance

(24:57):
writer a job in exchange for sex in two thousand
five five, and now BuzzFeed is reporting that another person
is coming out and saying similar things about him in So, wow,
that's not good. My dad's shop a Rolling Stone, like
when he's in high school. Yeah, back in the day. Yeah,
weird placed incredible photographer. Thank you, And I didn't just

(25:21):
induce that comment, but thank you so much. But where
can we find his work? No, I'm not gonna give
him any free times unless he starts scratching the show. Uh.
In better news, there is a movement times Up where
a bunch of the most powerful women in Hollywood have
come together and are putting together like a legal defense
fund to help less privileged women protect themselves from sexual misconduct.

(25:44):
Very exciting. Yeah, it's really cool, and like, yeah, try
and discourage people from using n d as to like
stifle victims and silence them, depriving companies that sort of
ignore sexual misconduct of talent essentially. Um, so hopefully read
the whole story. Very exciting. Yeah, it's the Times just

(26:06):
wrote about it. And another development, As of Monday yesterday,
weed is now legal in California. Hell yeah, sex, I'm
glad to become a weed cop. Now this is my
black mirror, so I have not partaken in many a

(26:30):
year officer, right, So, but I am curious like how
this will affect Like will this change how you acquire
and consume marijuana? I mean I think already, like right,
like in California, we've already been operating in this like

(26:51):
gray area of like really easy to obtain medical marijuana
licenses that essentially, if you really wanted to go to dispensary,
you could just get the you can sky p doctor
on your cell phone to them. You can't sleep, Yeah,
and like the guys, like dude, some of the guys
are like in their own beds. I don't know if
you've seen everyone everyone ever skype call a weed doctor
to get their card. Like some of these guys are

(27:12):
so fucking lazy. It's amazing. But yeah, that you can
just go and you can still get like the top
shelf medical weed at the place with just a card.
But like I guess now, you know, some places like
with all the state and local tax to play, like
you could be paying like forty five percent tax on
like this legal weed. So a lot of people are like, yo,
just get the card. You're not gonna pay the taxes.
To avoid the taxes. I think also if you just knows,

(27:36):
like most people know, somebody to get weed, I don't
know how I don't know how much it's gonna change,
but I think it'll as they figure out all the
regulations and make it easier for people to just pop in.
I think then yeah, I think people will probably maybe
to go to the store to get their legal weed.
But you're saying that my experience with weed in college,
where it was just like whoever could get you a

(27:57):
bag of like really shitty like see and stems, was
not indicative of what it's like to buy weed now.
And because I mean, like even like weeds is so
cheap right now too in California, because like it's because
of like the medical marijuana industry and things like that
it's not as crazy as it used to be in
terms of like what the most expensive weed is now,

(28:20):
And I think, yeah, for this, I think it's this
is good for people who are like have a lot
of money and not any cool friends that that now
they can just go to the weed store and pay
like a markup on weed. But I think the biggest
thing too, is like the amount of tax revenue that
it will bring in. I think that's the most exciting thing,
because you know, we are that we are now the
largest legal weed market in the country. I'm excited to

(28:42):
see the stupid, cheesy like weed advertising I've already been enjoying,
like the very like pouty model weed billboards of like
there's like one outside of seven eleven I frequent obviously
where it's like these pouty hot kids not like kids,
but like you know, cool teens and it says like
it's legal now, relax, And I was like, why are

(29:06):
these teenagers? So I love it? Um, yeah, is it
going to be like is it going to replace alcohol
in terms of like advertising and like uh, lame old
people like the way they treat wine. Is it going
to be? God, I'd love to see those print ads.

(29:26):
It's like everyone's just like on their face on a couch.
Check out the new o G cush. I'm not good
at weed. You're not good at weed. Not good at weed.
I try. I I can smoke, but with like every
time I do edibles, I fully I'm just like I'm
going to run into traffic. This is it. I had
weed nachos not too long ago, and I'm I peed myself.

(29:52):
That name that was like, this is actually I'm I
needed a diaper. Shift. Just shift your stomach. I've got
I had enough diapers there you're strapped in my back. Um. Alright, So,
as we mentioned, uh I had a very cool New

(30:13):
Year's where I watched a lot of New Year's Eve coverage.
Was frustrated, Like on the West Coast, you can't see
the ball drop live except for like us really a
feed on wine. It was the only place I found
it because they really want to keep you. Yeah, so
they have like a feed that it says live on
it and it's actually like three hours earlier East Coast.

(30:36):
It's really there's nothing that can we get. Let's get
our own, yeah, exactly. Uh So this was my frustration.
But apparently, so CNN apparently had the like hottest New
Year's party going down. Uh, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen
were chilling and it was apparently like really edgy. Offended

(31:01):
a lot of conservatives and like parents who are watching
with their kids because of the two of them are
just other ship. Well so the two of them, there
was a lot of drug ship going on. So uh.
There was a segment that is getting the bulk of
the attention where they like through to a reporter who
was live in Colorado celebrating New Year's Eve at a

(31:24):
puff and paint party where people like smoke weed and paint. God,
there's nothing worse than a paint nights. Nothing. I don't
even know what a paint night is, but I'll scream
about it later. Um. But uh, and she like had
marijuana earrings on and like lit somebody's gas mask bomb

(31:47):
and was seen holding a marijuana cigarette Jazz Jazzy sake.
Because of that, my child, My child has now turned
into a marijuana right um um, which I think people
are overreacting to. There was a weird moment though, where
Andy Kohen here, let's let's listen to to it. I

(32:09):
think we have a clip. Well, it's about eleven degrees
your time square, but it feels like ten or nine. Yeah,
what's this heat? Is? This part of me feels very hot,
the rest of me feels very cold. So I feel
it very unbalanced south like you're on heroin or something.
What does it? How does that even sound like? Isn't

(32:29):
it like waves of heat or something like? Oh, that's
what you're I don't know what anything about it? Um
what I'm saying anything about I don't know. I just
speak knowledgeably about what it's like to be on Heroin
and then putting you on the spot like right, and
you're like, dude, what, I don't know anything about that?

(32:49):
And Andy Kohen who's the E former E executive who
uh then became like an on air personality, and yeah
he was. He was apparently super rough, like the whole time.
He's just like and I noticed that actually in a
couple of the broadcasts that I watched that people were

(33:10):
it was so cold, people like couldn't think straight, Like
we're just like having trouble. Like the Fox production was
a disaster. Like obviously Steve Harvey is always the best,
but um, but everything else, it was just a mess.
Uh yeah, but but I don't. I don't know that
I can kind of see where some conservatives are coming from.

(33:32):
Uh if if they focused on the Heroin comment the
weed things, I don't know. I mean, sure you don't,
I guess because we've never they've been really like strict
about showing people straight up smoking weed on TV. So
like doing like a hard cut to someone doing a
gas mask ball on the CNN thing I think would
be jarring for some people. I can see how if

(33:53):
you were like a very like strict parent who wanted
to yeah, and then you're like suddenly they're like, what's
that and you're like, I actually, I think that if
you were like watching with your kids like that would
be what would stand out more than Antique Cohen's weird
Heroin com Yeah that was just like a random thing
that someone like pointed out on Reddit and wow, what funny.

(34:14):
So funny because it's like, yeah, of course Anti Kallin's
tried hair. But also it's like you could feel like,
I'm sure the two of them like have party together
and they're probably just sort of like, look, bro, when
we do this, Like you can't just be saying crazy
ship like you do when we're not being broadcast on
talking about me being like people on Heroin. Um yeah,
so uh speaking of New Year's guys, Killer transition. Uh,

(34:37):
we wanted to talk a little bit about New Year's resolutions,
or at least I did, because I've been sort of
surprised by how many of my friends and also like
people I follow on Twitter are talking about resolutions and
like making a clean break with the past. And some
people have mentioned like having success with the past year's resolution,

(34:58):
and it's just like never been a significant milestone in
my life, Like I don't know anyone who has made
significant life changes because the calendar changed. Um, but like,
how are you guys with New Year's revolutions? I don't
go to really do them. I'm doing. New Year's is
like a reflection time, like maybe some reevaluating, but I

(35:22):
it just it doesn't feel like there's much of a
point for me anyways. I know I won't stick to
it anymore. I was like chilling on my back for
most of the break, just trying to reset my brain
for the new year. That like the last thing I
was gonna do from my peak laziness to be like,
you know, I'm gonna do tomorrow. I will fucking lift
all these weights and run for like nine miles straight.
It's like it just I don't know, I just have

(35:43):
trouble like using a day to do it. And I
was saying before, I was like, I need to hit
some kind of bottom before I can really start changing
my personal Like yeah, where you like wake up in
a gut or somewhere. Yeah, with a bunch of leeches
on you listen, I'm yeah. My New year his resolution
was diaper leagues, and it worked up great. I don't know.

(36:04):
I mean I think that like we were talking about
this off mic earlier, where like some people's new resolutions
are actually really inconvenient and annoying and frustrating to everyone
around them. Where try stand up For the first time
I host I hosted an open mic on New Year's Day,
which I cannot recommend to anyone. There was a lot

(36:25):
of guys where I you know, they didn't say as
much because I would not speak to them, but uh,
there was a lot of people who were, you know,
trying stand up out There are a lot of people
I didn't recognize, um, and there's more people trying to
do the mic than normal way more. Yeah, he had
like I think forty ish people. They're all dudes except
for two, um and five of which who were very

(36:49):
very aggressive doing like just like every manner of bad
any phobia an phobia was represented in their material. Can
you imagine that these people did not like women? There
was a lot of transphob but it was just really
really bad. Um. So I would try to light them.
What you do at the open mic to get someone

(37:10):
to get light is so you just like flash your
phone at them to let them know they have one
minute left. And if you're lighting them a lot, it's like,
hey off, now you're upsetting people. Um. So we were
doing that, and uh, there was a small tribe of
men who got upset that that that I was doing this,

(37:31):
even though it's you know, it's me and my co host.
We can do whatever we want. Uh, And they started
yelling at us while we were trying to host right
because based on they're not the problem, we were censoring
that rich censoring. You can't it hate. It's hate speech,
which is hence the Google definition of speech. And the

(37:53):
amazing thing is, thankfully no one's god given right to
do stand up comedy like fucking God, but there was
like they and and these New Year's resolution ars as
I will call them, uh like, tried to talk to
us afterwards. They're like, we want to you know, they
wanted to confront us. They waited outside of the forty
five minutes and you know, just like there there are

(38:14):
so few safe spaces in the world that any man
who wants to try a stand up comedy right now,
I would say, really, just don't, like, I'm not gonna
win with your fucking problematic material right now. And then
one of my friends, like in our private text change, dude, seriously,
like when I fucking make fun of like every woman

(38:36):
I've ever met is fucking hysterical, but they did. They
got so mad that like when me and my co
host wouldn't just didn't want to talk to them afterwards. Uh.
One I screwed up a ladder to get away from
one of them, and then after I had left in
in uber, one of them knocked over a traffic sign.
So incensed were they that they were ripped off of

(38:57):
thirty seconds of screaming about um their thoughts on me
so uh news resolution, I'm not not good for New
Year's resolution or so far and I feel like people
are bed at knowing themselves enough to be like, all right,
this is what I need to work on. Like there's

(39:18):
a there was a study uh by Cornell University in
the University of Chicago that like looked at what people's
new Year's resolutions were and uh, you know, there was
like thirty one percent were exercise, ten percent, we're eat healthy, uh,
but learned something was zero percent. Help others was zero percent.

(39:39):
And there's there's actually like a psychological study that found
that one of the biggest misconceptions we have about ourselves
is that we're not as nice to other people as
we think we are. And I feel like that's when
when you're putting yourself in charge of what your new
Year's resolution is, you're gonna end up with some ship
like God, I've always wanted to try stand up and

(40:00):
like that's that's what's going to change. That's not what
you That's not gonna make your ear better, right, No,
it's not gonna make anyone's ear better. Uh. We actually
have our project managers. Sophie Lichterman gives her family members
resolutions for them to work on. It sounds super aggressive
on the surface, because like this is how you need
to change. But I think that's actually a way better

(40:24):
process for figuring out like what to what to actually
work on, at least when it's coming from family, because
it's not like you just calling up like a friend
that you haven't talked to, Like, hey, bro, I got
some resolutions for you do not look like this year,
Thank you so much. Yeah. And they were like very
specific resolutions, like be more present during conversations. They weren't

(40:48):
things like and miles. We were talking about how a
lot of the resolutions we set for ourselves are like
just enormous things. Get more exercise, right, they're big and
like people don't realize that your habits, like therapy psychologists
and scientists who have been studying our behavior, like how
we have these cues that trigger certain habits that we
have and it's not as easy as going you know what,

(41:09):
it's January one, So therefore I'm going to do this,
like I'm gonna exercise more, Like there are real steps
you have to take. There's a great book called The
Power of Habit that really goes into like how you
can actually scientifically begin altering your your like your behavior
in ways that your brain will actually respond to, so
like the very top line stuff just to help you
guys out, Like this is how you're really gonna follow

(41:30):
through to change your habits. Is first you have to
pick a small action, right, like getting ex more exercise
is not small, eating healthier is not small. Like those
are very like wide sweeping things like and they'll be
hard to change, like sort of immediately because it's January one.
So try and just make it a little bit more doable.
So if it's like, you know, if I want to
get more exercise, like maybe add twenty minutes to my

(41:51):
walk when I walk my dog, or or if I
maybe I'll walk to work or something like that, something
that's like doable or uh, you know that you can
or just take the stay you know, that's what I do.
That's all like that's the only way I get my
exercise to get up the building. A second one is
then you have to attach like a new action to
a previous habit. So like we have cues, right, like
you might come home and that triggers your habit of

(42:11):
sit on the couch, tro on the TV, or like
sit on the couch and get really high and watch
Netflix and then and then complain about something on Twitter
whatever that is. So you got to replace those cues like, oh,
when I come home, what's my new habits? So if
you have a new queue, if it's like you already
go for a walk with your dog, now you can
just you can already just tack that onto an existing habit. Okay,
let me just extend that walk twenty minutes. That's easier

(42:33):
to do, and like you have to think kind of
really small and then finally you have to do it
like easy enough that you can do it for the
first week. Because they say that if you practice a
new habit from like your existing queues or stimula stimuli
from like three to seven times, it will begin to
actually sit on its own. So yeah, like it's very
actually easy, but you like don't be so ambitious, Like

(42:53):
you can actually probably be healthier, but if you take
it on in small steps. Um, So check out The
Power of Habit because it is actually a really great book.
And if you're if you're really serious about like really
understanding like why you can't sort of fulfill some of
these resolutions, try the scientific approach. Yeah, and ask someone
who loves you what what you what they think you
should work on the workshopping your resolution. Yeah, because but

(43:19):
like one of the most popular episodes we ever did
on the Crack podcast was about like how little we
know ourselves and like that that's why therapy exists. But
like we have less of an idea of what we
look like than a stranger walking down the street for
the most part, because everybody like has all their hangups

(43:40):
in their minds, like they've been thinking about this and like,
you know, focusing on different things that they see as
flaws way more than like a stranger who's seeing them
for the first time. So like, and I think that's
true of just generally, like people existing and how how
we think of ourselves. Like I don't I don't think
anybody is going to ask their wife, like what should
I work on this here? And she's gonna be like,

(44:00):
you need to trust stand up. You're so funny, right
unless you're watching that that Miss Masel show. It's actually
pretty good too. Uh Yeah, you gotta chase a young
woman up a ladder day one number one because you
get their attention this town because you've activated yourself victimization
mechanism so effectively. My small action will be wake up

(44:24):
strap on my diaper before. It's a small thing, but
it will make a difference. Yeah, all right, we're gonna
take quick break so I can change my back diaper
and we're back and super producer Anna Josnier has just

(44:46):
entered the recording booth after spending the morning recording a
batch pod Bachelor podcast. You are a Bachelor expert, and
that is correct. That is not what we're going to
talking about, mentioning mentioning. Just to set this segment up,
I wanted to sort of get a primer from you

(45:09):
on the Iranian protests and just like, how do you
feel about them? Uh, what what's going on over there? Okay,
So currently what's happening in Iran? There's um protests that
are coming up mostly from poorer communities within Iran, and
a lot of it it's based of domestic issues. So

(45:31):
right now, there's a very high unemployment rate, the cost
of living has like skyrocketed, like the cost of eggs
has risen like in the last year. So people are
just like, what is going on um? And people truly
believe that the government is way too focus on what's
going on in Syria and Palestine and not what's actually
going on in the country and people are dealing with
like every day there at this point, taking away money

(45:54):
from welfare programs and then giving this money to like
religious groups, where like the mood laws and the religious
eric's who you know, are kind of the people that
run the country on the back end. You know a
lot of you know, Rouhani is the president, but the
Supreme Leader is the person who makes the ultimate decisions.
So there's a lot of sun snow Supreme Leader snow.

(46:16):
Is that Andy Serkus? Yes, So the current Supreme Leader
is Ali Homani. Not to be confused with the original
Supreme Leader Jolam. We weren't going to confute, but so
he's he's currently the person who if Ruhani wants to
pass a lot, it technically has to go through the
Supreme Leader. The Supreme Leader is going to be like, hey,
is it up to my religious standards? And they're calling

(46:38):
for their calling for both of them, right. Yeah. But
that's the thing is the weird thing is like Iranians
when they start to overreact, they automatically jumped to death.
It's like peach death to our president, like slowdown, slow down,
because the same thing like when it happened they'd be
like death to America whenever we Yeah, basically when Trump

(47:03):
came into power, there was a lot of death to America,
which is like, that's that's a lot of work. You know,
you don't have time. You gotta really got to worry
about how much the price of the exile. Yeah, and
so and you know, when the sanctions were lifted because
of this nuclear deal, the Uranian public we're like, oh, perfect,
this is gonna make it easier. Sanctions are lifted, more
things can come into our country. We can things will
get to interact with the outside world, right, you know,

(47:26):
like textbooks are coming into the universities and the students
are actually like able to like do the research they
want and and and learn things and discover things and
like basically brain drain into the US in the end.
But that's that's mostly Uranians. They're just trying to like
to turn all the stuff and then come to America.
And so that didn't really do anything. And and Rohani's like, oh, well,

(47:47):
you know the problem is that like everyone's corrupt, so
there is a chance for this to go down. But
all the money is basically being taken by like just
people that work in the government, and there's all this
mismanagement and there's there's blatant option. But I have to
say alleged corruption because my family does live in Iran,
and if I ever go to Iran, I'm not trying
to get arrested and used as like a political bargaining tool,

(48:08):
which this is not a great idea for me to
be talking on this podcast, but anyway, Um, yeah, So
that is because the basis of what a lot of
it is and that a lot of women rights issues,
like these women are out here fighting like it's kind
of it's actually really amazing because these women can be
put in solitary confinance and the rest of their lives

(48:30):
and never see their family. They could get public lashings,
like literally hung up on the streets and lash for
the public to come see. That's the level of intensity
of trouble you can get into. So I think it's
very important like what they're doing and how they're like
putting themselves out there and fighting for what they believe
in because technically they live under a regime. So I mean,

(48:51):
because it was rehinding, like seen a sort of like
a reformer to like to kind of like bring in
like the usher in a slightly new era in hes
like the liberal as liberal as right right right in
the Islamic Republic president Like they were like he's on Twitter,
Like it's like they were like this dude can tweet.
And a lot of the top officials were educated in

(49:12):
America and then went back to Iran. So like um
javal Zady the Foreign Minister educated America. That's why he's
always out here on Twitter. Like this clap game is real. Yes, yes,
if you say, if anyone like Nicky Haley or anyone
says anything about Iran, this guy is literally sitting there.
He's got drafts on traps, on traps, and like, all right,

(49:35):
that's that. So yeah, that's a bit of an you know,
that's what's going on. Well, yeah, it's interesting because he's,
like you said, it started with all these sort of
grievances about the economy and like the like what the
day to day life was, and then slowly like it
started in like these very conservative parts of Iran, which
are like I think I think it was the Atolla
who was trying to say that these were like fake
protests or people trying to divide the people. But then

(49:56):
it's spread so quickly and then like the messages really
start to change to be about so much more, and
you're starting to see like the people there are really
they're not really waiting for this very small, slow, incremental change.
It seems like there are any people really want to
like be participate in the world more freely and just
have like a more modern country. It's interesting because they

(50:16):
don't want the shot to come back because they don't
want that world of like we're basically run by America.
But at the same time, they don't want this aggressive
like religious cleric looking over them and being like, no,
you can't have that, and no, I won't answer your
questions because I'm literally a supreme leader, which is like okay, yeah,

(50:36):
like I said, I don't know if this will actually
lead to change because it is a regime and they
can silence people. And in my experience when I've been
in Iran and watch the news there, oh, it is
just delusional. The ship they're putting out like you are
literally watching like just propaganda and just fake news like
you are. They are the kings of fake news over there,
because they are just putting they all say there's a

(50:58):
protest going on, and then they'll play the same clip
over and over again, and then they'll tell you the
protest is like it's a march for like happiness, and
they're just like these people are screaming good. Yeah. And
then you're like okay, because I've had actually like I've
watched and I've been like what what what? This is confusing?
Then my cousins literally go, oh no, this is all fake.

(51:21):
This is the Iranian news station. You're not going to
see the truth. And then I was like where am I?
So Trump is openly advocating for the protesters, which seems
like a surprisingly cool thing for Trump to do. Yeah,
but I also think he's just trying to rile up
the situation because it goes against the Iranyan gun. I
don't know. I don't think he's on anyone's side. I

(51:43):
think he's just trying to fuel a fine him before
it's like yeah, yeah, I love it. But I mean
like last week they were like death to Drump, you know,
because I think, what two people were killed already right
like we're shot. It's because yeah, they're saying that they
are attacking. The thing is they won't explain how they die.

(52:04):
They just say they're dead. That's the weird thing whatever
death a minute ago, somebody tweeted twelve News tweeted six
days of Iran protests, twenty dead, four fifty arrested. Wow. Yeah, well,
and also it can't be very helpful for someone that
the country openly hates to be like love what you're

(52:26):
doing over there, Like that's just not deflating. Yeah, and hey,
you weren't here earlier. We were talking about weed and uh,
I know, I know you like that, No you, and
I couldn't help, but notice your high right now, but
her fingers super high being to holding a peakup taking

(52:53):
the bathroom and come right back with the surprised if
you just took about Scott and you're the supreme leader,
And I'm like, Jack just snapped and said test her difer,
bring it out. But you have a steak in a
weed farm, right, So I wanted to I want to

(53:15):
hear from somebody on the D side, like what are
your hopes and dreams for for the new law? And
h how are you thinking about the sort of complicated one. Okay, well,
really quickly it goes county by county and they come
out with all these permits and you have to meet
all these permits and it gets very restrictive, so like

(53:36):
the amount you can grow and you have to literally
port back all this stuff. And I'm not deep into
the actual business side of it, Like I just have
friends who are doing and I was like, hey, here's
the money. But it's very complicated, and it's it's you
have to get every permit under the sun that they
want you to get, Like they're gonna make it very
difficult for you to grow weed legally and then distribute

(53:57):
it legally, so you gotta want it. I've talked before
about my history teacher who is constantly dipping during class
and probably also drunk. Uh what, who said that the
reason alcohol is legal and weed isn't is because the
government can text alcohol and you can't make any like

(54:18):
drinkable alcohol at home, but you can grow weed at home.
So they don't want other people like privately making money
off of it. But if they put all these regulations
in place, then that sort of boxes out the little
guy and makes it so that like big corporations, and
it's gonna become big weed because you have to get
all these it's gonna it's gonna cost money, and you

(54:41):
literally have to have like officials from the city come
and look at your farm and and go around like
test your water and do this and test that, test
your like they're gonna make it like a whole thing.
So you're gonna have to have a lot of money
in order to maintain your farms and your systems because
they see like to be compliant. Like all those compliance
fees end up totaling up to so much money that, yeah,

(55:02):
it will be very discouraging for like sort of smaller operations.
It's like damn like to jump and fees to pay.
Like it's going to be like a startup. You gotta
go find your investor. You gotta go find someone who's
gonna back Like it's gonna be literally that system of
a business and it's it's I'm exhausted. What a day
Bachelor iron Weed, Well, well we'll get into the Bachelor later,

(55:24):
but we want we want some time to sort of
decompress and do a lot of research into that. You
can't just dive. All right, that's gonna do it for today. Uh,
this is a fun episode, you guys. It's good. It's
good to be it's so good to be back. So
much diaper talk. Uh, Jamie. Yeah, it's been a goddamn
pleasure as always having you. Where can people find you?

(55:47):
You can find me on Twitter dot com at Hamburger Phone.
Can find me on the application Instagram. Jane Christ superstar.
Uh and and I'm on the Super delect show upgraded
every week. Nice. Yeah, you're right. For the micro blogging
site Twitter as well. I do sometimes, you know, and
I try to keep it to a low character, but
you know, sometimes I have things to say, composing a

(56:11):
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(56:31):
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