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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season one, sixteen, Episode
one of Daily SI Guys production of I Heart Radio.
This is the podcast where we take a deep dive
into America's share consciousness and say, officially off the top, Hey,
fuck the Koch brother Man, fuck Fox New Hey, it's Monday,
January two thousand twenties. My name is Jack O'Brien AK

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Baby Yoga instructor courtesy as Daniels Carpenter and a K.
Gary Lowbrien both a kids require and I'm thrilled to
be joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles.
It's Miles Gray, the Gray Station Boo a K A
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shout out grisby Meme donut fattle fattle front fattle blunts.

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But yeah, I'm just out here twisting fattle blunts. Good. Uh. Well,
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the embodiment of chaos energy himself, Mr Blake Wexla,
Thank you guys so much for having me, And I
would like to start off where you guys do a
cool thing where you get to know the person that

(01:29):
you have. But I feel like and we go back.
Jack and I have known each other since the crack days. Yeah,
and um crack epidemic, the crack since the crack of
academic and um. I don't know if the audience knows
me as a comedian, So would it be weird if
I read my bio my website? Is that all right? Okay?
Blake Wexler has built an entertainment empire over years of

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NonStop touring and performance innovation. America's favorite ventrilo quist is
launching his new international tour. Blake Wexler seriously can look
forward to more of Blake's delightfully twisted cohorts Peanut Walter, Jose,
how Apano, Bubba j and Acmed. Oh my god, I'm
so sorry this is Jeff Donald someone really, I feel

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like someone replace my name, which his name and spinished.
I'm so sorry that's his bio. Yeah. Yeah, performance innovation
of course one of the great what you call it,
guess that's its racist with puppets. Sure, sure, that's another. Yeah,
there's different dances with wolves, racist with puppets. Well, his

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cohorts are delightfully twisted. Yeah, cohorts. Fuck yourself. Should we
add him to the things we We don't want to.
We don't want to put our careers at risk. I
would love nothing more for Daily Say guys to open
for Jeff Dunham. Yeah, for sure. And you have to

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list all these delightful characters. Oh my god, I know
every time you laugh at comedians you're like, man, that
it's bullshit. Nobody thinks that's funny. And then cut two
you looking on StubHub or something and like you're selling
out the forum. Yeah. Tim Allen gets like a million
dollars a show. God, Tim Allen, the MR. Yeah, there

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we go. That was that was thrown up in the
air and waiting for I was like being thrown a
big win for the Sixers and then the last week
they may have lost by now, but it was good

(03:40):
to see them beat the Celtics without Joe lm bead Uh.
Oh yeah, hey, it's been fixed. I know, but I
mean when I saw it from someone who watched a
lot of skate videos growing up. I was like, yeah, yep, yep,
that's a sloppy old thing that is familiar. Yeah, but
Blake and I are both sixers. We are we are,

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We're gonna we're gonna fan out a little bit. You
know that was one with that Alright, Blake, We're gonna
get to know you the reel you even better in
a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple
of things. We're talking about s Chaz uh. The IOC
has decided uh no wokeness at the Tokyo Olympics do

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not bring attention to any kind of injustice on Earth,
because this is the Olympics, this is itself injustice, are right.
It's just it's basically the World's fair converted into you
just a roving police state where you get to just
go around and try out your military equipment on poor
people in your country. We're gonna talk about what defines

(04:46):
an imminent threat, a lot of definitions. Yeah, We're gonna
talk about how much it costs to protect the president
and his family. We're gonna talk about Harvey Weinstein's walker,
whether we're I have a good forty five minutes, absolutely
because because our writer j mcnapp kind of did a
deep dive into the question of whether he needs it,

(05:08):
I assumed he did not. Uh, and it turns out
he does not. But we'll we'll just look at that.
What his strategy is. Yeah, as long as he has
a banister, you're by yes, and an hour and a
half to walk four steps. You gotta find This tweet
from somebody was like he should just have to flop
into the courtroom like a wal wristler. Uh, like a

(05:30):
seal like log roll. Yeah, uh, Hines is at it again.
Damn they're knocked out? Collab. What do they say to
damn Daniel? Back at it and back at it again. Yeah,
that's a cool reference. All of that and maybe more
yeah on today's episode. Yeah maybe. And for everyone who's
been asking about my mother's review of Cats, oh yeah,

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brace yourself for the most are gonna do it. I
mean it's you know what it is sentence. Okay. So
four we before we went on break, my mom saw
Cats and was like trying to describe to me how
bad it was. And I said at the time, I
was like, let the movie come out. I don't want to, like,
I don't want to fuck anybody's you know, perception up
of the terrible film before they go see it, and

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everyone's like, what's going on? Where's the review of Cats?
So I just want to say, it's not an entire thing.
It is one simple center and went back and forth
between my mother and I about what she thought of Cats.
It is three words. Yeah, okay, So it's a just
beautiful economy of language to express, uh what I think.
We all found out about Cats once uh more wordy

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reviews came out and I was like, so, I said, so, Mom,
what what's going on with Cats? It's bad? She goes a,
something went wrong that? And then I go, what do
you mean, like in the projector like theater? She goes, no,
they they wanted to do something, but I don't think
it's what they wanted. It was a perfect way, well

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in the in the filmmaker's mind, in the like effects
that with just the very basic idea. So there it
is the very short review. Also lookout for our live
show tickets too as well, for some of you who
don't stick around to the end where we do the
real juicy bits on the show. Live shows. We have

(07:24):
live shows. Yeah yeah. January San Francisco at the Gateway Theater. Yeah,
oh shine ups, line ups going to be fire wow,
thank you. January in Portland, Oregon at Mississippi Studios. Then
we're in I mean where else. Let me let me

(07:46):
just break it down on one Twitter? What is that
to twelve? Not one twelve but February twelve, Brooklyn. We're
gonna be at the Bellhouse, bring the Washington d C.
On the thirteen of February House at the White House.
I mean we got we got so many. Minneapolis on
the February, Chicago on the got my Twitter feed where

(08:08):
I retweeted Miles tweet anyway, get those tickets. We want
to see you. We want to meet you guys. We
hear from some of our guests that you guys are
great person uh huh. Maybe we'll get to that later.
Not jumping in there, Blake, Yeah that one. Yeah cool. Sorry,
that happens sometimes with me. We were talking about how
great you guys are before the show. I was at

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least you two were shaking your heads. I don't believe it.
I've only seen Zikegang and maybe the two cities we've performed,
so everything's abstract. L A. San Francisco, Chicago. They came
to seeing in Charleston, South Carolina, of all places. Yeah,
I made up a good chunk of the crowd. Hell yeah, Yeah,
shout out to Zigang were out there too. Yeah, everybody

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ever comes on, every comedian who comes on. It's like,
you guys have the best fans, which is wonderful. It's
a movement. Yes, that's right, you got have the best
society philosophers if that's what you called your fans philosophers, Philosophers,
the League of Distinguished Philosophers. No, we call our listeners sociologists. Yeah.

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Oh I call my fans the scribes, Oh my god, uh,
the apostles. All right, what is it? What is something
from your search history, Blake, that is revealing about who
you are? Hold Steady no tour where there's a great band. Yeah,
there's a great band called the hold Steady. And they
have this really interesting approach now to touring in that

(09:41):
they don't do a traditional go to every single city tour.
They'll do a residency in cities, like in parts of
the country where their fans can easily travel, So they'll
have like a West Coast city and they'll stay there
for like two weeks and like Midwest Chicago or something
for two weeks and do a bunch of shows, so
they're hands from each one of these regions will come

(10:01):
see them so they don't have to like grind it
out with the travel and all that. And I thought
it was really interesting or they don't have to pay
for all that travel. Yeah, they're thinking they sell out
big venues, right, Yeah, Yeah, I think it's more of
the lifestyle they didn't like, you know, I just get yeah,
like hotels where yeah, you can actually see the town

(10:23):
if you do, yeah, instead of just like the hotel
room and they're cool cities. It seems like too. Yeah,
it was interesting. Actually went and saw the japan Droids
because I a friend of mine wanted to see them.
I wasn't like that into them, but U and the
lead singer of the whole study was opening as a
solo act for them, and like nobody was there. Yeah,

(10:44):
so I got to like see him like up close
and personally he's fucking great. This is really good too. Yeah.
What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? I have
Fort Sumter, and not just as if visiting it, like
I just think as a concept. Um, we talked about
it too much. And yes it was the first where

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the first shots were fired in that war. But I
think that it was like one person died, you know,
and like the whole thing. It was barely a siege.
It was very cordial and the Union was allowed to
like shoot off their guns and celebration of holding the thing,
you know, at the end of the siege. And then
that's when the one guy died, like some Irish guy,

(11:27):
just like the cannon backfired and killed him. That was
the one. It was. It was not only friendly fire,
it was celebratory friendly fire where they were honoring themselves
for how well they held out. And then he died
during that. So it was like having a like a
hundred gun salute and dying during that. Yeah, so not impressed.

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Is this funk off Charleston? And then you go, yeah,
you know what for? Did you visit Fort Sumter's Yes,
you did. Yeah, they invited me. That's actually venue. I
had to take a ferry to come. Just people getting
off the ferry. There were more by show at Fort
Something than there were during the battle. That's not true,

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by the way, Okay, no, no, no, but it is overrated. Okay, Yeah,
what is something you think is underrated? Underrated? I was
gonna Starper's Ferry, What the funk I'm talking about Manassas
or bull Run Um for the idiots, for the lay people,

(12:33):
I was gonna say, um, underrated Killing Eve because I
think that's one of the best shows on television. But
a lot of people agree that that's a great show.
But um, it's one of those shows people don't know,
like you have to kind of. I had to. I
had to hear it multiple times for me to go,
what's this Killing Eve about? Yes? And then I'm like, biblical, right,
it's about the Book of Genesis. Yes, yes, yeah, my

(12:57):
antagonist as a snake. My wife is really into that
show right now, and so of the shows that I've
watched over her shoulder sporadically at like fifteen minute intervals.
That looks better than The Morning Show. Yeah, everyone. The
thing I hear about the Morning Show is it gets

(13:18):
so good at the end. Yeah, it's like, just get
through the first three and I'm like, that works so
much content, a literal eleventh hour of it. They really
pull it together. Man, Yeah, you should watch Killing Eve
if you're only getting it in drips and drabs you
should do yourself. Moments where there's just like people firing

(13:41):
off wild machine guns and ship and it's just like
more than that, just like even the whole reality that
the show's like operating in is Yeah, both of the characters,
like the main two characters are just so interesting and
it is cool to where it's like this action, you know,
drama y, and it's only the only interesting characters are

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women in it. Like it's I've never seen a show
like that where and even the dumbest misogynist wouldn't even notice,
you know what I mean, Like they're so fucking great.
There's no interesting men in it. Like these two incredible
actresses like carry the show so contaneously underwrite the men.
Yeah yeah, or yeah, well maybe I'm going to go
to a sports bars just dumb ship. They could be

(14:25):
the best written men and you wouldn't even notice because
that's how good uh Eve right, Yeah, I forget Sandramer,
I think are the two Yeah Bridge writes it right, yeah, yeah,
she's an executive producer and I think she's written a
bunch of them too. But yeah, so I mean that's
the woman the mind behind uh, which is definitely not

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underrated at this point. It was for a while but
won all the awards. So you know the writer and
star of Fleabag. If you enjoyed Fleabag, you know she's
making a excite action doing at all. D Uh cool,
that was What is a myth? What some of the

(15:08):
people think it is true? You know to be false,
but you know to be false. Oh I know this
is Yeah, I've fucking march for this. Hey it's your funeral, man,
you know what, cool, move it up, book it tomorrow.
If I'm wrong, all right, I'm ready to get for tonight. Yeah,
booking for it. I'll clear my dinner plans um because
I'm just at home. The myth is that it's illegal

(15:31):
to ride a bike on the sidewalk. Uh. And this
is in Los Angeles and you can do it. Like
the law actually just says you're allowed to ride a
bike on the sidewalk as long as you're not putting
anyone in harm's way. Okay. Yeah, that's where it gets
a little where people find maybe the right flexibility to
be like, oh man, you're you just put that that
person at risk, right, right? But also it would be yeah,

(15:53):
I don't even know what that would look like just
reckless bike riding. But you can if you feel unsafe
on the road, you are allowed to. You should because
this city is not built for people on bicycles. It's
like terrifying to ride a bike in certain parts of
l A's in some places where they actually making bike lane.
Half the times people drive their cars like they think

(16:17):
you're illegally riding a bike on the street. Yeah you
get the yeah, the street and you're like, well, hold on,
I'm gonna bike. I'm very much to the right. I
almost got took out by nine side view mirrors. Speaking
of that impression of a driver, you're back east for
the holidays. The driver's back east. Like you think the

(16:37):
drivers out here are bad, man, they are aggressive now
they are reliably aggressive. So like you can just like
count you always know what you're gonna get where it's
in l A. There's like a few agents flying around.
People realize they're people who don't have their driver's licensed. Sucking.
The Pittsburgh Left is making its way out here. Oh yeah,
people pulled. Isn't that what it's called? When you hit

(16:59):
the fucking left turn and as soon as it goes Yeah,
it's actually i've heard it referred to as the New
York Left. I've heard it from people from Pittsburgh that
left is three cars going after it turns. Yeah, exactly.
But like I see that more and more, I'm like,
oh wow, okay, I don't see that back east. It's terrifying.
I think the difference I've seen from East Coast drivers

(17:19):
to West Coast drivers in terms of how terrible they
are is out here it's unintentional, it's completely accidental. They're
not paying attention. When on the East Coast it's calculated,
like it's like I'm going to put my life and
your life in danger and don't around and get us
both hurt by being a hero right right right there.
Like there were multiple there are multiple times when I

(17:40):
was driving in a right lane and there was a
lane to the right that was coming to a to
an end, and the person behind me just it was
almost like they felt obligated to try and like go
around me on the right to like go like really fast,
like do this like daredevil Indiana Jones type ship, Like
uh yeah, I've been out turned here like twice in

(18:02):
the past month where I would be making a laft
and someone behind me goes around the term before you
goes around me, but to my laft so where I'm turning,
they won't even like jump me to my right, which
is I guess conceivably safer. They go past you as
you're making in the inside on the inside turn. Yeah,
it's happened twice in the past month. It's terrifying. Yeah,

(18:22):
so bad drivers out there just in general, right, funny. Yeah,
the sidewalk thing. I it's weird that you say that,
because I really for a while I was like, I
was like, I don't think you're allowed to do that.
That's what I thought too. See, that's how ignorantly are
out here. Thank you. Everyone's hied driving and liberals reading
their books driving. Yeah, reading dusk capital driving. My uncle

(18:48):
actually used to do that. He used to read while
driving on the highway and really, yeah, I swear to god.
He's an economics professor, like very smart guy who would
do cross country, who would do cross country drives like
or like, you know, go up the East coast reading

(19:09):
on the highway. He was like, no, it's fine. You
gotta just like look up and back like really quickly
and you get everything. He's like, no, I've I've trained
myself to have eye independence. Yeah, I use my right eye.
Further reading a Karelian, he this is also my uncle
who once filled an entire tennis ball can of beer
and downed it and wait a tennis but like one

(19:30):
of those plastic tubes and one of those plastic as
a beer Wait like that yeah, like that's how that's
how he drinks beer. Yeah, and he's actually avid tennis fan.
Word go. He would just filled tennis balls with liquor,
like with a little straw. He's like the cops never guess, man, Yeah,
they have no idea. They just think I'm weird, thinking
a creep sucking on tennis balls when I'm driving anxiety.

(19:53):
That is pretty eccentric. I like that, like when you're like, yo,
I drink up out of these tests books. I remember
as a kid, I would always think about that, like
what could you drink out of that? They smell so good? Yeah,
chemical though, like they don't smell like something you want
to ingest. No, no, no, no, it's like smelling money.

(20:13):
He just did. Yes. Yeah, he just got tired of
getting out of the pool to get another beer. So
he was like, I'll just put four in this tennis
ball container. Oh oh, I get it. So it was
I thought he was just an eccentric guy who's like,
you're sitting at dinner and he's like, and I'll have
a beer. It's just more like being in the pools

(20:34):
like I can't. Oh so it's okay, yeah, and then
up a bag of wine and he goes not that,
not that I didn't order that. He used the bowling
ball bag is like as a flask of wine. Leather boat. Uh. Yeah,
that's that's the that's the stuff. That's the wild side
of the I remember the first time I went on

(20:56):
a hike, like a hike, you know what I mean.
Like I thought I was like a fucking Diana Jones
outdoor venture. I was like, yo, mom, I need a canteen,
and I mean, you're doing this hike and ship. I
begged her to buy me a leather like boda, like
a wine skin cast skin wine thing, because I was
like that ship is funny to me to drink. I
was being like, yeall want that. She's like, absolutely not,

(21:16):
you idiot. It's like you get this old plastic thing. Yeah,
the one that makes the water taste like ships good stuff? Hey, my,
it's your friend Jack from work. You need to tell
Blake to Sorry, Blake, this isn't for you right now,
right right right, my bad? Sorry, Like that was rude

(21:38):
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And well, what is the definition of immin it threat?
I don't know. It doesn't matter because it's all it's
all a lie. Yes to the White House has been pressed.
They said they took out sole money because he was
an imminent threat. He was posing an imminent threat to
the safety of these United States, and everyone asked, okay,

(24:11):
what does that mean. Mike Pence was like, I can't
say anything because that would reveal sources and methods. And
then people are like okay, because they're always so buttoned up, right,
And then at one point Pompeo said, well, we don't
know when and we don't know where in terms of like,
but we know it's something. Then that turned into there

(24:34):
was going to be an attack on the embassy, and
then Trump at a rally and Toledo was like, he's
gonna attack both. He was going to attack multiple embassies.
And this is all news to people because before they
were like, no, it's a closely guarded secret. They wouldn't
even tell senators in a meeting that was meant for
to talk about classified information in a skiff, like in

(24:54):
a suck fucking soundproof room, like no no chance of leaks,
Like this is where we talked about out the super
private ship. They weren't even told anything remotely close to that.
And then suddenly the President saying this out loud, and
everyone's like, well, what the funk is classified? What isn't
first you use this this weird justification of like not
revealing sources and methods to not explain this, and it

(25:16):
just it, you know, every day becomes more and more
apparent that this had nothing to do with anything except
for you know, creating a different headline and helping the
president probably sidestep impeachment or like help get more senators
on his side. Right, So also just in this scenario
that they've concocted where he was going to attack multiple

(25:38):
embassies and they had to take him out, Like was
it that he like had the secret codes inside his
brain for the embassy attack and like by killing him
they got rid of the secret codes or something like
what what did they think was that was going to
accomplish and that's another level. We're not taking out a
gunman like Amy was going to do it by himself.

(25:59):
I think it's where you're getting. Yea, he was gonna, yeah,
with his fence, he was going to punch through all
the gates. This is where yeah. I mean again, when
there's a there's another article in the Wall Street Journal
that seems to imply or very very much so, saying
that Trump's whole reasoning with this is that he wanted
to help get like a few more GOP senators who

(26:19):
are like really had a fucking war boner for this
guy on his side to fully cement their support teachment. Yeah.
So it's like so you're like bribing was like witnessed
is like partially true. It seems like it's like in
terms of what you know, because there's clearly no clear

(26:41):
like reasoning here. And also like even if you go
back a step or zoom out a little bit further,
half the time, this administration is maligning the intel community
and saying what then do they know? And then this
time they do, there's just nothing, nothing, nothing tracks. And
that's why more and more, I think as the days
go on, you start seeing like this was just a

(27:01):
complete just the most reckless, fucking action the president could
have taken, um considering all the fall up, because he's
so shortsighted, he's like, it's gonna make sure we get
this impeachment. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell's already telling people, he's like, uh, yeah,
I'm signing onto a motion that would essentially be like,
let's throw the case out before the articles are even

(27:21):
transmitted to the Senate. So no justice, Yeah, no justice.
And you know, again of great example of how awful
this leadership is and how casually this president is willing
to put people in danger for his own benefit. And again,
I don't mean I don't know who I'm preaching to
at this point. One, when you have people saying like,

(27:43):
well he's our O J and ship like that, it's like, Okay,
I get it. I think let's let's end the games.
Let's not call the the Republican Party a party anymore.
It's like a mindset, like of group think, I mean,
one differentiator. We also talked about how, like the aggrieved
white people who are supporting Trump, actually you don't have
quite the legitimate grievances as like, you know, the black

(28:04):
community that was supporting o J. One other difference between
the two in that comparison is that o J couldn't
start a war, so yeah, well he could. He could
do it against opposing teams that defenses when yeah, he
could start twitter war with one of his yours truly videos.
I think I honestly feel like he just like o J,

(28:25):
like Trump, and when he's out of office, he's gonna
get caught up for some other dumb sh it, just
like with that. What if it's the exact same dumb
shit people for their memories certificate. That's my toast in
that video, you know, Like the New Yorker profile that
was done on him like ten years ago, they like

(28:46):
he spent a lot of the time showing the guy
cool memorabilia he had in his office. He's like, Tyson
side that, I think that's pretty cool. No, it's a
pretty cool life, isn't it. That's what he says. Yes,
another guy who's a rapist. Yeah yeah, uh. Speaking of
putting the lives in lives in danger, where it is
you know, when you read the news, unless you actually
put a face two things, you know, it can it

(29:08):
can be difficult to understand the human element of it
where I was flying back, um from the East coast.
I was connecting in Charlotte and it was a day
after I believe they took he took out celemony and
Fort Bragg is right near there and that's where all
the troops from Fort Bragg we're flying out of. So

(29:29):
just seeing and people always talk about how young soldiers
can be, and I'm like thirty years old. You know,
I I can play a nineteen year old on TV,
but um, I am thirty years old. Yeah, but uh,
And I made that joke because I just got sad
thinking about it, because like, um, just to take myself

(29:51):
out of this. But it was like just like kids,
just year olds in military uniforms getting on a commercial
flight or seas and there were so many of the
and in the airport. It is because we, uh, the
United States was sending thousands of troops over there because
of this petty, selfish fucking act. So there are just

(30:12):
really like it's hard to forget, you know, support the
troops has become you know, like this thing by the
that the right says all the time to give excuses
for you know, like war mongering, but it is you
forget that there are human American troops whose lives are
put at steak because of this. I mean, the real
way you support the troops is to not put them
in danger. Yes, yes, you know not, rather than being like, Okay,

(30:34):
let's play battleship and I'm merely moving a plastic peg
over here, and I'm so detached from like what the
human cost is. Right, But then when anybody questions his motives,
it's they're not uh let's talk about how much it
costs to protect this piece of ship. Yeah, uh yeah.

(30:55):
The Treasury Secretary, Steve Nuchin wants the Secret Service to
basically come back to the Treasury Department because where they started,
like by the Lincoln administration, to like protect America against
fraud or counterfeiting, counterfeiting. I went on a tour of
the Secret Service office when I was in DC, and

(31:16):
this guy on all you Oh my god, I'm a
huge loser. Museum the factory where they invented neco way first,
so interesting. No, I have been to Nibisco and it
smells immaculate. Um. But yeah, they had um. So during

(31:37):
that tour, they would show you the war room that
they would go to, like if there was a threat
But what was much cooler than that They had a
fucking enormous room of counterfeit baseballs, like sports memorabilia, and
they had like the real one versus the ones that
they've confiscated because they were counterfeit. And it was you know,
millions of dollars worth of speaking like sports merchandise that

(31:58):
and you forget You're like, oh, what where am I?
Right now? The Secret Service, that's their primary job, I believe,
is dealing with counterfeiting, which it used to, but now
their primary job is protaking the president. But now is
who who is Donald Trump? Okay? Thank you? Yes? Uh?
And so I gotta go all right that same guy.

(32:28):
Uh yeah, I'm gonna go to the principles of so
Democrats as this process is happening, Democrats want to know
how much it's costing currently Americans taxpayers, you and I
to pay for the protection of Donald Trump and his family. Yeah,
I mean, so Obama in eight years spent nine million

(32:52):
dollars on track. What Okay, what's that guy's problem? Yeah,
I mean it's all that golf. Although what is it
like one out of five days President Trump has been
golfing so far? Um? So what right? Now they don't
have many of the numbers, mostly because Steve Manuton says,
we'll give you those. Like the Democrats are like, if
we sign off on moving the Secret Service from the
Department of Homeland Security back to the Treasury, you need

(33:16):
to disclose to us within one twenty days what these
costs are. And they're like, I don't, I can't do
all that. And they're asking Steve, what the funk, Like,
we need to know this is part of the process.
He's saying, they'll let us know after the presidential election
what it costs. Okay, And they're not even trying if
you go but if you just go off of what

(33:36):
they know. I mean, so the Government Accountability Office, which
is like, you know, a watchdog on spending, they said
in Trump's first month in seen costs about thirteen point
six million to protect him based on all the traveling
he did. So if in one month, so you do
a little extrapolate that, uh, and he would have exceeded

(33:57):
the total of like Obama's eight years in the first
at the end of the first year in office. How
because you have to that schedule, right, what is he
not going to inflate it with everything else? And he's
you know, him and his family are all used to
being incredibly rich, so they don't pay a second thought
to wasting the resources foreign to them. It's like, I

(34:21):
don't know that you're president and their Secret Service that's
what you get rather than hold on now you're there's
flight costs. The other thing too, is he take they
take so many trips to They take so many trips
to Trump's properties. These are also like opportunities to profit
as well. So the whole thing is just And I
think that's why having numbers like this come out in

(34:41):
an election year, they're like, Okay, don't do that, because
it will reveal the extent as to how much of
a waste all this travel is. But again, it's almost
like I don't know who that's gonna move anymore, because
it's pretty much now down to who's gonna turn up
for the election versus like, okay, who else needs to
be convinced? Wait, does Donald try Junior get Secret Service protection? Yes,

(35:03):
So when he's flying to India to like do shady
business deals and like open fake condominiums and like just
fucking steal money from the people of India, he's getting
protected by the Secret Service. Yes, So for example, they
went to go look at a building that they were building,
Ina cost dollars for Eric and Don June Don June

(35:26):
Joe Jr. To go, So like just little bits like that,
like they have to have those the security details. And
the bummer is that they waste so much money. It's
going to be an incomprehensible amount of money. So when
that number comes out, people gonna be like, oh, so
it's okay, you know, because that's like no one can

(35:47):
wrap their mind around nineties six million or whatever the
number was for Obama, much less than thirteen times that
or whatever. It's just such a double standard, which I
guess the people who are Republicans and support Republicans are
used to living by standards, so that makes sense. By
the way, real quickly, I was wrong. Abraham Lincoln didn't

(36:08):
create the Secret Service. The legislation creating the agency was
on Abraham Lincoln's desk the night he was assassinated. Not
a coincidence, boom. But they were initially created to suppress
counterfeit currency because during the Civil War, which is a
theme of this episode, uh, the Confederacy, one of their

(36:30):
main ways of fucking with the Union was to circulate
counterfeit currency, to the point that one third of the
currency in circulation was counterfeit at the time that they
created the Secret Service. Well, I mean, it's not like
American dollars mean anything now. And it was actually pretty
easy to figure out because they would just like glue
up photo of Jefferson Davis over the photo of Abraham Lincoln,

(36:52):
which in this stroke doesn't make sense because he wouldn't
have a sitting president has a chase on money. Yet
it's still in play in the next couple of years.
I do think that what our counterfeit racism bucks whatever
the Confederate that's what it was. Yeah, racism bucks. I
think they did have Jefferson Davison's face on it. They
were called cool Bucks clan. Alright, gotta go, man, Miles

(37:16):
just has these walk offs, walk off line, walk off
to the bathroom. Um, back in, back out. Let's talk
about Harvey Weinstein. I've been suspicious of walker Gate, of
walker of how is how is gate spelled by the way?
G A I t in this, Yeah, because it's your

(37:36):
gate the way, Yeah, that was the joke one. Yeah,
when I went before Blake got here, I said a
single bomb drop for fucking don't let him have that.
You can, especially not on it. And then after the recording,
I go, damn, Blake, that was a hell of an episode.

(37:56):
Damn dude, Crush. He's like, I don't know, manthing, I
don't know. It sounded like you didn't get any bomb drops.
We do keep score. By the way, there's a big
glowing board scoreboard in the office and it's only above
the guest seat and it's zero all the time. Yeah. Yeah,
So our writer Jay McNabb looked into the question of

(38:19):
does Harvey went see actually need that walker? Uh? It
seems like sort of a cartoonishly transparent ploy Uh, the
sort of thing that Lionel Huts would suggest. Yeah, the
lawyer from The Simpsons. That's how Lionel Huts would show
up to like something where he was like a defendant in. Yeah. Yeah,
And I thought Robert Kardashian represented the Simpsons. I'm sorry,

(38:42):
go on, wow drop Wait you thought you thought he
represented O J. And Nicole Brown said the Simpsons. Oh yeah,
I forgot that. She took his name, but yes, yeah,
both of them. That's why there, well, that's why he

(39:02):
got moved to a back. Elito was an idiot. He
didn't even notice. Judge, No, I mean, what a mess. Anyways,
it is chaos energy, baby, that's what we keep him
around for. Uh So, it is actually more legit than

(39:27):
I would have thought. He did injure his back in
a car accident in August. He swerved out of the
way of a deer. Okay, that's fake. Swerved because look,
you can't verify there was a deer. I mean, I
don't I don't doubt that. Maybe he is car his
car was like his car hit a tree and flipped
and he had to like kick out the thing. That's

(39:48):
how dedicated. I do like the idea that though, because
this seems to be somewhat common in Hollywood. I won't
say anyone else's name, but of being very concerned about animals,
well being a complete mon star people. But he yeah,
so he swerved to avoid avoid a deer and his
car flipped. He had to kick out the door. However,

(40:10):
there's also a photograph of him shopping at Target where
he's just walking around. Looks totally normal, upright, no problem.
He did have a hood up trying to hide his identity.
Uh So, at the very least he does not need
it all the time. Well, all that proves your honor
is that my client does not need a walker at target. Yeah.

(40:32):
The energy at a target can lift you up. It's yes,
it's revitalizing when you see the you see your eyes
are on the prize. The target is in sight and
usually means stop, but here it means go rise. But
so experts think he might be suffering from something called
spinal stenosis. Uh so he very well might need the walker.

(40:55):
But the ridiculousness comes with the tense boss on the end. Yeah,
that's right, because I feel literally a millionaire, isn't that
Like that's the thing you do because you don't want
to actually like you want to save money. Right there,
there are things that you can put on the bottom
of your walker that are like gliders. That's what you
put on, Like when you're mcgivering some ship and you

(41:17):
don't pay any money and you have already opened this
camp because you're drinking and living in operating within the
American health insurance system, where they're going to basically be
like laugh at you and be like here's some sticks
to put together. Some other other indicators that he might
be milking this is he conducted his New York Post

(41:40):
interview in a hospital room. Uh, following surgery. Could have
could have probably rescheduled that, but he, you know, made
a point of conducting in a hospital respirator and he
didn't was not on a respirator. He did have tubes
in his arm while he was doing the interview and
while he was photo graphed, and uh, while he did it,

(42:02):
he said, I feel like the forgotten man. My contributions
have all gotten eviscerated because of what happened. My work
has been forgotten. Oh you you've been rightly remembered for
what you are. Yeah. So this is actually similar to
previous ME two case with Cosby. So Cosby I had

(42:23):
seen the photographs of him, like, you know, looking blind
and having having to be held up by his attorneys.
I hadn't realized that he had just finished a nationwide tour. Yeah,
he had just finished a national stand up tour. And
granted Bill Cosby stand up. He does sit down sometimes,
but he was totally fine. He was He did not

(42:45):
appear to be blind. He his material was not about
being behind the way he was walking around looked like
in sci fi films when someone comes out of like
a cryos. Yes, unshaven with yeah defense. I have seen
a photo of him with a tennis ball in his
right eye socket. Yeah. Man, when you when I'm out

(43:16):
of here, when you've got when you've got to replace that?
I you got to replace that. I Yeah, I'm dying
up here. Um. But yeah, he was never seen in
public unshaven, disheveled. But all of a sudden, same with
Harvey Weinstein. All of a sudden, they're showing up like
with five days of stubble and just like looking like

(43:39):
they just rolled out of bed and looking just like
powerless and like you know, a a stiff wind blow
moover uh and a bunch of crocodile tennis balls. Yeah. Uh.
And people are suggesting that in both cases, you know,
these are people who are being prosecuted for abusing the power,

(44:00):
and so they're showing themselves to be the ones who
are powerless to the jury. Um. And in the case
of Weinstein, his lawyers have suggested that he's innocent because
the sex was consensual and conducted in exchange for film work,
which is quote a problem but a systemic problem with Hollywood.

(44:21):
He's just doing his job. You guys. Um, alright, so
off to the trash you go. Is he part of
the problem? Yes? Is the problem going to go away
if the case against Harvey Weinstein ends in a conviction
or an acquittal. No, that's that's so disingenuous to be like, no,
we're not arguing. If that's we're not here to change

(44:42):
the film industry. This guy is a sexual predator and
serial assaulted. Like what, Yeah, he's being tried for sexual assault,
meaning physically restraining his victims. Uh, if they're going to
try and argue that the sex was consensual, as lawyers
will be trying to erase physical violence from a narrative.
So but in that case, it does make sense that

(45:04):
they would want to present him as feeble. And yeah,
I feel like there needs to be I mean, look,
I'm always coming up with ways to change our systems.
But like you know, when you get these like dirty
as defense lawyers who know they're like I'm about to
defend of like a sex crimp and act like this
dude is the victim, you should have to like put
your career on the line where it's like, you know,

(45:25):
the second you take an l on this, you're done, right,
like you shouldn't have taken it unless you're gonna be
I mean, granted, there are people who need actual defenses
against cases that maybe the optics look like they're going
against them, but like for ship like this to argue
so like transparently, like in this way, it's like, you know,
he's the victim, so it's like you get these slimy
motherfucker's that. Yeah, I mean, yeah, there should be some

(45:47):
sort of public reckoning, like what we can all see
that they made the argument. However, the only way it's
going to affect them is they probably you know, won't
get invited to certain parties. But also the next time
a guilty person is convicted or the next time a
guilty person is booked, they'll be like, oh you know what, yeah, yeah,

(46:09):
that person is good at lying. Uh anyways, off to
the trash. He might actually need the walker, clearly not
all the time. He's almost certainly using it as a
prop and fuck him. All right, that's it, that's meat. Alright, Hey,
I think that's nice and neat and tidy. All right,
we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back,

(46:40):
and we're back, and uh so are the Olympics pretty
soon goes by too quick. I mean I remember I
was just watching the euro Cup Portugal beating France in
the final on a cruise ship. Yeah. Now, I was
taking a cruise of my grandparents to Alaska. Oh I here,
that's it's a great year for cruises. And also it

(47:06):
was the same around the same time that I think
Trump announced Pence as his running mate that same but
it was right on the time, like cruise ships a
lot of older people, and like that's when I was
the same, like, oh, this is the year or something's
gonna happen. But yeah, Tokyo, baby, Yeah, the amount of
infrastructure that they're having to put in Tokyo for the

(47:27):
heat because like they're concerned about like people navigating like
the oppressive humidity and heat of Tokyo in the summer.
Uh makes me very interested. Like this feels like something
very different kind of Olympics because they're so concerned about
like the effect it's going to have on people who
are even just spectating, because like the marathon part isn't

(47:47):
even in Tokyo. They have to do it in the
northernmost island of Hokkaido to do it because the weather,
They'll be like, yo, man, we can't have people running
the streets. Can you imagine if they had like a
World Cup and like the desert, like the desert. Wait, wait,

(48:08):
that's just gonna I mean that whole thing too. Yeah, anyway,
and there's human rights issues there as well. But yeah, sorry, sorry,
every every massive sporting event is a human rights violentce.
So it's Tokyo a hotter summer city than like Rio
or places that I don't know comparatively, but it's the
humidity combined with the heat, Like it's fucked Like, whenever

(48:30):
I'm there in the summer, I have to bring not
no joke, Like I need another shirt on me because
I'll ride one. By the time I get off the
train or something, I'm like sweat. I can't meet somebody
looking like this. Yeah. Hey, but thanks to Uniqlo for
their dry whatever aerism or what are they call it? Yeah,
could had well, I think you're gonna get that sponsorship.

(48:53):
Come on, big Cloth. Well, while the city of Tokyo
is worrying about you know, things, they should be worrying
about people's health. Uh, and probably also constructing a police
state in private, like all local governments do. Whenever there's
an Olympics there, Uh, the IOC is worried about people
kneeling during national anthems. They basically put a whole notice

(49:17):
out that Essentier just said you better not the whole
thing that this is what they said about any kind
of demonstration on the podium. The unique nature of the
Olympic Games enables athletes from all over the world to
come together in peace and harmony. We believe that the
example we set by competing with the world's best while
living in harmony in the Olympic Village is a uniquely
positive message to send to an increasingly divided world. This

(49:39):
is why it is very important on both the personal
and global level that we keep the venues, the Olympic
Village and the podium neutral and free from any form
of political, religious, or ethnic demonstrations. How political, religious, or
ethnic demonstration. Specifically, the guidelines layout what the committee considers
a protest, which is displaying any political messaging including signs

(49:59):
or are bands, gestures of a political nature like a
hand gesture or kneeling, and refusal to follow the ceremonies protocol.
But it's actually okay because jay z is on the committee,
so we're actually going to be Yeah, it's just like
brought the nets to Brooklyn. What he can bring sensibility
to the world to the IOC from what turned out

(50:20):
from the r OC to the i o C. He
I think the whole thing. Well I'm on one tonight.
Oh my gosh. Uh yeah, this whole the idea that
it brings the world together. But to bring the world together,

(50:43):
like to suppress free speech. Yeah, it's like so fucking Ridicut.
It's just the contradictory nature of everything they're saying is
like just absolutely upstright. Meanwhile, they'll be like, and this
is what the IOC is doing to help people around
the world, you know, people trying to bring awareness to
certain issues is not hindering anyone except for the maybe
oppressive forces that are the ones committing the transgressions. I mean,

(51:07):
and this is gonna be our first Olympics without Bob Costas,
so like acting the radical political voice of Bob Costas
out here to just speak truth to power. I don't
know what we're gonna do. How else are we supposed
to protest Russia's exclusion from the Olympics now, Like, how
are we supposed to do now? Without the guide. Uh yeah.
Have you ever been doing Olympics ever? Have you? And

(51:30):
I won't? Good? Good, I haven't have you know, I
was thinking about going. I mean I went that one
time that I was on the rowing team. Branda, you've
been Salt Lake? Oh ship, I was super producer around
a hose name names went to the Winter Game. Was
it magical? Well as a shrug shrug, I mean I

(51:51):
like the Winter Olympics too, shout out to sports. Yeah,
that's fun because you feel like, I don't know, there's
something pointless about it that I it's silly. It's so
silly because I haven't done any of these things. Alright,
I've never like kind of cross country skiing and shot
a rifle right right, yeah, and that's never gonna happen.
So it's like watching a show. It's like this is

(52:12):
a made up thing. Yeah, there's something like hypnotic and
you are not involved in any way. You're not like thinking, oh,
like what it would be like to do that because
I have no never been on a snowboard, never curled,
speed curled. I mean no, no, not in the Jim
bro not getting yeah, not eyelashes. Yeah, alright, let's talk

(52:37):
let's talk hind Jack b Yeah, Hines baby. Okay. So
your headline that you wrote miles as Hines will not stop.
They will not. But this new saucy sauce as they
call it, is honey racha, which is honey and saracha.

(52:59):
Is that right? I mean? And based on that very
uh you know, intricate combination of words, I think that's
safe to I don't think it's catch up. I mean
this is already a combination that, like their whole thing is,
They're they're saying, why don't we just take the work
out of combining ship for people and put it in
one bottle? It was Mayo chup first, then it was

(53:20):
Mayo must with the mustard mail. Then it was Mayo
Q with mayonnaise and barbecue. Then there was cranch ye
crazy ranch. Yeah, and now we got honey racha. Um.
I don't know. I mean that's actually my pet name
for my wife. Honey rochas so sweet and yet spicy,
just like they're my little honey and my little cock roach,

(53:44):
little honey Racha honey racha. If that's not the ad,
they have fallen down, the fucking ad is it's gonna
be on the Super Bowl and is in collaboration with
Roman Coppola. Oh yeah, that's who I would have of
make that ad for honey. Rocher the dude who wrote
the fucking Darjeeling Limited in Moon Right's Kingdom, Like he wrote, Yeah,

(54:08):
the Darjeeling Limited is like you can just like feel
the bro vibes coming through it was. It was the
one Wes Anderson movie where I was like, oh, I
don't like any didn't people love that one? Or Graham
Budapest is the one ever around? Is I'm me up?
Like Isle of Dogs? Uh? That was also I think

(54:28):
he wrote that too. I can relymat what is it
going to look like? The most symmetrical commercial visually? I
mean that's obviously Wes Anderson's style, but like knowing what
kind of whimsical fucking idea? Roan the first directing project. No, No,
he's directed some movie called c Q before. It will
be his last though, this will be the last one

(54:50):
he did. Uh what a glimpse inside the mind of
Charles Swan. The third okay, you know American comedy. Yeah,
and then he's done like a lot, the second Unit
directing and TV so oh Mozart in the jungle directed that.
I mean, who could forget that seminal forgettable show? That's
silver Lake comedy? Yeah? Is that what it is? I

(55:14):
think it's based in calling something a silver Lake comedy. R. Yeah,
it's like the spaghetti Western of our time. Well I'm down,
I'm okay with us, you're okay with honey. But have
you any of all these combinations? Have you bought any
of them? Know? Somebody is clearly because they keep coming

(55:34):
out with new ones. So they're dumb trends sometimes that
we cover on this show like once, but then they
don't get picked up because nobody is like catching onto them.
They don't actually puncture the zeitgeist. But this clearly there's
a market for absolute, like pathological levels of laziness. Yeah,

(55:55):
just pre make everything. Yes, there is that like peanut
butter and jelly in it tube like or in a
jar yea yeah, which I feel like. Or it's a
squirt bottle I'm not using I'm like eight five percent
using the right words here. The tube is not right
and squirt bottle is not correct, but that's still gloss
j Yeah, what is it? It's not my else. I

(56:17):
don't think you understand I'm doing my best here. Panic,
I'm losing my mind. But maybe that's the model that
they're going after, where like, yeah they still have that
that still exists, would be more interested for decades. Yeah,
I'm jelly, And Hines was just like, maybe people may
are that lazy. So they tried it with wait wait

(56:39):
there first was yeah, yeah, yeah, and both or whatever.
Every country has their own way of calling something. Yeah. Wow,
so it's global to it's global, it's global sixty, it's
all over the world. Jungle, Yeah, everybody knows it's it's worldwide.
In the jungle, I think the Yeah, eventually, I don't know.

(57:00):
For me, I guess personally, I would rather see more
butter combinations because I used butter a lot. So start
hitting me with like street butter, rachi whatever you want
to do it, whatever you want to combine with butter, toast, jelly, well,
I don't. I don't like to make I don't do
jelly on toast. Just everything I don't do. It's fair.
I like I keep a sour dough with with butter.

(57:20):
Do you put jelly on anything? Nope? Scrambled eggs, what though? Right?
But what about scrambled hold on all right, let's real quick.
We wanna we want you guys to hear the new
patron saying of the daily zeitgeist. The confidence of this

(57:44):
answer is what we aspire to in. This is one
of those moments where you needed a hero. Yeah, and
they rose. The cycle has been lacking in one for
a while. Yeah, and just Eve du bois of I'm
assuming Canada, since this is Canadian family food, just take
us away, take us to the promised land. Eve. All right,

(58:07):
Bill Simbulk, There's one question, only one answer. Whoever gets it,
You're playing for ten dollars, that's it. Whoever guess is
this wins the game. Here we go. Name Popeye's favorite food,
show me chicken, spin it cherry? Oh no, you hate

(58:39):
to see it? Now, I wanna say a word on
behalf of Eve. Okay, well, first, let's let's say unpack
this for maybe maybe for viewers who are not familiar
with the Laura Popeye, Let's sailor man, he lives in
a garbage can and whatever you did after you had
a wife O wive oil? Yeah yeah, oh yeah, they

(59:00):
would have also been unacceptable. His favorite food is all
of them? Or justify Jack's answers all the Popeye said,
you know, because he's eating that quite actually oddly feminist
but incorrect. Right, yeah, uh so you're saying we when

(59:22):
we first watched the clip, I'm laughing because she she
says chicken, she starts dancing, like, where's that ten Graham
right there? Bang. I'm also laughing because no, it's spinach.
But Jack, you found your like, so you understand. I
laughed at first, but then I remembered Popeye's Chicken used

(59:42):
to be sponsored by Popeye, used to use Popeye iconography.
Are we sure about that? I'm almost positive. Okay, I
read that. Okay, I heard that on a podcast somewhere.
That makes it true obviously, and it was this one
you said it, Oh right, right. I'm not totally sure

(01:00:03):
about that. But the chain later acquired rights to use
Popeye the Sailor for marketing boom, so it once did
use Popeye the Sailor for marketing, So it is out
there in the zeitgeist. At one point, Popeye's Chicken wasn'mplying
that Popeye's favorite food was chicken. Presumably, so she's a

(01:00:28):
student of history, she should so family feud and the
whole nation of Canada, You're running out of sea. I've
also never heard a more insulting tone than that guy
who said spinach afterwards, like nobody has ever spoken in
a way such disdain. He said one thing, but what

(01:00:48):
he was really saying was you fucking idiot, Like he's not.
He was just disgusted. Spine when she uh was that
her are saying, oh my god, I think it was
her family because it was everything was on the line.
I like to believe that she was still confident even

(01:01:09):
at that point. God, your girl done done it again?
Count them racks up boom. I mean, yeah, I honestly,
I think because I think when you play family feud, right,
you're just go into immediate word association mode. And I
think that's where you had to like really let the

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like the question enter your brain and do it because
I think part of me I get what you're saying
as a reflex, as a reflex, but also I know
that I don't know about that. I guess because you're
purely using the word association. But hey, look maybe she's
a student. Maybe she was purely using word association. I

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didn't say Jones for Popeye Jones, the infamous basketball player
he was a looker. Though, What did any of you
when you were kids? Your parents equate spinach with Popeye? Always?
Always always? What? Where where have we gone as a
as a society? What do we tell our children now?
Who can they be? Who do they emulate by eating

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certain vegetables? Uh? We just make meat kale? And you're like,
who who are you? Like? You're like influencers. You're like, yeah, hey,
come on, I can't name one. I couldn't remember a
name of one, but one of them they're called genius? Yes, perhaps?
Uh no, you know what, you don't use that to

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my are don't give like healthier food these days? These days?
What do you mean My kids eat healthier food than
you're saying. They're more open to it. Yeah they were.
My parents were probably more willing to give me garbage
at an earlier age. Yeah, and so I knew that

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it existed. I mean our parents knew less. Right, Like
I said, whose grandmother hasn't smoked cigarettes in front of them? Yea, yeah,
yeah yeah, and asked if you wanted one, right, right right,
and you politely decline, And then when they come back
into room, you were smoking, weren't you. I'm like no, like,
where did you get that affect? Grandma? You're Japanese? Uh, well, Blake,

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It's been a pleasure as always having you pleasures on mine.
I love coming here. Where can people find you? They
can find me at Blake, Wexer and everything. And then
February you can find me. I'll be making a Pittsburgh
left right into the Arcade Comedy Theater in Pittsburgh. Yeah,
are you gonna people should get out of the way
before you do that. Yes, get out of the way,
but get in wine to go into it. Yeah, okay,

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but do get out of the way. Yeah, yeah, of course,
be safe out there Pittsburgh. But yeah, that's where all
be Oh awesome, you're gonna hit any malls when you're
out there? Of course? Capsia. Oh that's Phil. That's the
philadelps phil suburbs I'm talking about. Aren't there right next
to you? They're they're very very close. There's so and
there's not the same city. There's six hours they border

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each other. And I will go on a tour of
the Hines Factory and taste all these all these sucks
Burgians that Pittsburg, pitis Burgers, Pittsburger Kings, uh. Brobably Pittsburgh Kings. Okay, yeah,
the Pittsburgh Kings and the l A Penguins. Yeah, are

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you guys? Do do you get offended by somebody the
hockey team names, by somebody saying, no, I respect you
know what? I respect? The ship out of it is
that Pittsburgh has three professional sports teams that all have
the same color. They banded together like that. More cities
should do that. Well in New York kind of have that.
That's Nicks and Islanders, but they have eighties sports teams

(01:04:46):
yeah and Yankees yeah. Uh? And also black and yellow
is such a great color comment. But do do you
get offended by somebody saying that your city is a
Midwestern city? I'm carrious about that. How the fund could
I I live? I'm from the valley. No, no, I'm
not like looking at you for approval like I do

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for everything I say, Miles, I will not and I
won't give you the satisfaction of my eye contact. Cleveland
is is that Midwest? Yeah? Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Detroit,
Detroit's Midwest. Yeah, But so Pittsburgh. I think because it's
in Pennsylvania, people don't know geography of like how wide
Pennsylvania is. People assume it's east coast, and my wife,

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who grew up in Pittsburgh, like grew up believing she
lived on the East coast. But she interesting what I mean,
like her like just in the background. Once I was like, oh,
but you grew up in the Midwest, She's like I
did not. The argument that must have come, like you're
closer to Cleveland than Yard of New York. Yeah. The

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best nickname I've ever heard somebody give to Pittsburgh was
the Paris of Appalachia. Not like that either, but pitts
from the you know, the Midwest. Yeah, no, nothing, she
just I think she had it in her head. Is
it just by virtue of like where Pennsylvania is on
a map and then not thinking of like how I

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think it's based on the mistake of people for like
internalized shame, like I'm not from It's like six hours
am I am I revealing my wife to be anti Midwest?
Should I cut all of this? No? I think it's
like anything. It's like we grow up sort of thinking
certain things, own biases. Yeah, she was also born in Missouri,
so she can't be anti Midwest. Uh, the same lunatics Yeah, Yeah,

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Is there a tweet you've been enjoying Blake? Yes, This
is from a one comedian Hampton yunt, which is also
one of my favor an He's so funny and his
tweet was I actually only like the British version of
Ricky Gervais is true? Uh, Miles, where can people find you? Twitter? Instagram?

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Matt Miles of Gray also on four twenty Day Fiance
with Sophia Alexandra talking about Fiance that comes out Wednesdays,
so check that podcast. I was a Jamie loftus X
esque airhorn super producer Dan um Let's see in a
tweet I like from past guest Paul vi h It
says it's time to take back our power, ladies. After

(01:07:25):
a man goes down on you asked him if he
came hello, did you uh? A couple of tweets I've
been enjoying. Taylor Taga tweeted a picture of these very
specific like thick sold he'll kind of coach loafer things

(01:07:47):
that everybody wore back in the early two thousand's, and
she said these are going to change everything for me
me two thousand two, which I respect. Alyssa in Paris
tweet I'm one clothing purchase away from being happy. I
bet uh, and Solomon Georgio tweeted, I support Brandie Sanders,
but I don't want to talk to any white people

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about Uh. You can find me on Twitter at Jack
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as well as the song we ride out on miles
What's not Gonna Be Today? Uh? Since you said Gary
Low Brian as your a k a. I was playing
Gary Low this morning, who is an Italian born Spaniard
who like was making like Italian disco in the eighties
but was like recording in like English, so like his

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accent was like super European, but he was using his
stage name Gary Low. Anyway, The reason why people talk
about him is that his song I Want You is
like basically the foundation for the washedout track feel It
All Around, which is the Portlandia theme song. So if
you want an interesting look into a very interesting time
in music. Check out Gary Low, but this is Gary Low.
I want you all right? Also yeah, So that was

(01:09:14):
one AK. The other a K was from Daniel Carpenter
guessing what I'm going to leave this show to go do?
Be a baby yoga instructor. Because of this image that
Robert Evans retweeted of something that was put up on
a bar in San Francisco, it says has been a
bizarre you're already for the cozy bar. The owner has

(01:09:35):
walked away from the bar to become an exotic dancer.
I received this text today, and this is the text.
I wanted to be a male exotic dancer since I
was in diapers. I'm fifty years old and think that
the time is now. It may seem crazy to you,
but I believe that it's never too late to pursue
your dreams. I've taken years of pull dancing lessons. My
moves are incredible, my routine is magical. When I closed

(01:09:57):
my eyes, I see this thing a sign. I see
my name in right blue neon lights with a purple outline.
And this name is so bright and so sharp that
the sign it just blows up because the name is
so powerful. It says Sam Young Chippendale cancer. Uh. And
then the person oh my that goes yeah, this is
a real person goes I'm doing my best to convince
him to allow us to open the bar again. He

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wants the entire staff to fly to Vegas to see
him on stage before he even considers allowing us to
open the bar again. This is actually happening. We will
keep you posting cozy bars. So either that's real or
he closed the bar and in a dickta way and
they put that off the shame. Either way, I respect.

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The thing that makes me a little weary is when
the name yeah, yeah, Okay. Anyways, Today Zeitgeist is a
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