October 1, 2021 • 69 mins
In episode 1000, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Seán Devlin to discuss workers striking, school boards begging Biden to protect them, Free Edibles: The Scourge of Halloween, According to Cops, The Insane Case That Made Dog the Bounty Hunter Famous and more!
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- Instacart workers striking…
- School Boards are begging Biden to protect them
- Free Edibles: The Scourge of Halloween, According to Cops
- The Insane Case That Made Dog the Bounty Hunter Famous
- Comedy album: “Airports, Animals.” available via arts & crafts records
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
Episode five of the Daily Like Guys production of My
Heart Radio. This is the podcast or we take a
deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Friday, October one,
so you know what that means. It's National Black Dog
(00:22):
Day up. Get ready for your aunt to text you
about that. If you have a black dog my name
it's the help, they say, because black and darker shade
dogs don't get adopted at the same rate, so it's
like to bring awareness. Yeah, it's like, hey, man, get
that out to my my black dog, you know around
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beautiful dog. Thank you. It was rimby a adoptee. Oh yeah,
straight up, straight up out of a supermarket parking lot.
Riby is like a beautiful dog. I'm assuming that was
one you had to snap up real quick. Yeah yeah,
I mean the woman had was for turning her card
and wasn't looking at him, so I just pull I
just snatched him up, crabbing the car take off with him.
(01:06):
Is my dog? No? No, it was just like a
pet adoption and we I don't know, he's a beautiful mutton,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, we got that
going for each show anyway, Shout out to all the
black dogs out there. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
I did cast five hundred pots and I did cast
five hundred more just to be the man who talks
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the news with miles of thousand times or more. That
is courtesy of Rug Cunningham. Da da da da day
at least, I uh, that is courtesy of Rob Cunningham,
who uh informed us with this ak that we have.
(01:51):
This is our thousandth episode. I believe that God a
mill that's a millennium. That's a step into millennium. That's
one large, as you know, I like to say in
gambling circles, I got five large on the assholes. But yeah,
shout out to us for doing a thousand podcasts. Shout
(02:12):
out to Rob for bringing the appropriate amount of enthusiasm
for this milestone by just retweeting the one he already
did for our episode, which is exactly right because when
I told Miles it was our thousandth episode about two
minutes before starting recording, what was your answer, Moss? It
(02:35):
is real time flies when you're having fun. It does.
Uh Well, I am thrilled to be joined by my
cold head it snake seven. Behold I'm again when I can't,
I have to do that whole method man part step
into Millennium. You do, Yeah, sorry, Hey, Well, I'm thrilled
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to be joined by you, my co host, Mr Miles Grass.
It is an emergency. This is not fine. Please someone
seeing him sounds it tooth his mind. God, just the
dude for this. I think he's known. Oh no, no,
known as the music Man. Music man putting out the
(03:19):
fuse in Donald's dome and shout out to Christie Amagucci
made for that Elton John's priory a k. Yes, the
music man who we found out from the Stephanie Grisham Leeks,
the person who plays Donald Trump's show tunes to avert
and Trump thank you very stute observation, just stroking his
forehead playing playing show tunes to calm him down. Well, Miles,
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we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
for the for this momentous thousandth episode by a hilarious
comedian and filmmaker whose debut comedy album Airports Comma Animals
Period just so you have the punctuation punctually right, was
named one of the best stand up albums of one
(04:04):
by Pace Magazine. They called it a thought provoking, hilarious triumph.
The Comedy Bureau called it a damn good debut comedy album.
Very agro from the Comedy Bureau, but I've listened to it.
They are right. It will make you extremely happy. Please
welcome the brilliant and talented Sean devl Wi. Hello. Hello,
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you your thousandth episode and probably should have booked a
more famous guest. Oh you're not. Hey, we don't this
is it. I mean you got an album. I don't.
This is here, baby, you have one of the best
stand up albums of the year. Yeah. Uh, it's very good.
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And also your energy level is appropriate to this being
our thousandth episode, which we barely acknowledge. Yeah, so we're
thrilled to have you have millennial energy. Exactly where are
you coming to us from? Vancouver, British Columbia. A favorite place,
(05:11):
my favorite place on earth. He'll talk a lot about
the time he went to Italy, but the real heads
know that Vancouver is miles his favorite place. They know
I got a collection of Vancouver Christmas Market mugs in
my pantry, you know I collect them. I'm coming through
for the Christmas Market downtown. Wait, so you came in
the winter. Yeah, because look, I'm born, I'm I'm of
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the valley. The San Fernando Valley just local scum, and
it's just so hot all the time that I have
like a very like I fantasize about wearing jackets because
I've always been like barefoot on blacktop and shorts and
ship my whole life. So bundling up is like it's
like fucking costplay for me. And going to Vancouver at
that time of years, it's it's like not so cold
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that I can't handle it, but just enough from like
respecting it. That makes sense, That makes sense. Lot of
rain though, yeah, I mean it's funny. The last couple
of times I went, I would like my trip will
coincide with the first snowfall of the winter, so like,
you know, a way, I was like, look at look
at look at us Vancouver were made for each other. Yeah, yeah,
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rain and snow another thing. The San Fernando Valley doesn't
get a lot of net really dust fire, ash, fire,
ash and dust. Sehn, You've you've been a filmmaker most
of the time, and then this is your debut album.
What like it it took. It was what was the
road to having your debut album come out? Now? Yeah,
I guess it had a bit to do with the pandemic.
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Uh so, yeah, things were slower with film, and it
felt like I was ready to put an album out
and and a record label off for me money to
do it. That's that's the realizer. Okay, right there you go.
I was gonna trying to come up with something artistic.
But yeah, it's really it's really fun good man, it's
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so fucking funny. Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. Well,
we are going to get to know you a little
bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
list is a couple of things we're talking about today.
INSTACRT workers are striking school boards are begging Joe Biden
to protect them. We will talk about the scourge that
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is facing all parents this Halloween according to cops, which
is that people who have weed gummies are just dying
to give them away two children they don't know and
just make make children way more annoying. We are going
to talk about Dog, the bounty hunter. I think we're
gonna I believe in I believe in today's show. I
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believe we're gonna get to it all of that plenty more.
But first, Sean, we do like to ask our guests,
what is something from your search history. I googled this morning,
can a weed plant get rained on too much? Mm hmm, yeah,
because yeah, we had a lot of rain here last
night and it's my wife and I was first time
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growing weed outdoors and we got spooked. Yeah. I just
gotta you know, if you're going to outdoors there, if
they're they're meant for, you know, typically plants grow. So
I think it's just like the mold, right that you
gotta watch out for. Yeah, mold. I googled it, and
I love the like weed growing advice is there's a
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fine line. Sometimes you're like, yeah, this is science, and
sometimes it's just sowner advice and sometimes um So the
first tip was like just shake all the water off off,
punch it off. So yeah, we shook it off a bit.
And then it's said to give it potassium, which I
guess means like you feed it my weed plant a
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banana or something. I don't know how to give it potassium. Yeah,
I don't know how to feed plants at all. Yeah,
I don't I don't how to feed in any food. Yeah,
or it's like or like I feel like a lot
of like weed growing things will also just be like weird,
hostile like sarcasm too. It's like, oh, I don't know,
Like it's a plant, right, so you know, God forbid water,
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God on a thing that grows outside. You're gonna be fine. Bro,
Really are very interesting. Yeah, we boards are interesting place
for information. It's just like you're an idiot for asking
questions about growing weed, but then but then like wrapping
it up with it's all good, bro it don't worry
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about it. Yeah. How do you dry a planet? Like?
Do you dry a plant by just waiting for the
sun to come out? Or is it like we were
just like putting a little towel on it and wagging
it back and forth. What were we doing? Yeah, I
don't know what I did, because we're not gonna have
sun here for several days, so we were thinking about
maybe just cutting the plant early, you know, cutting our
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losses and and bringing it in to dry it inside.
But I don't know. It's it's tense times over here. Yeah. Yeah,
well you know we're we're here with you, so if
if we can help you know, let us know is
that gang also if you have any tips for obvious treatment,
because we know we have many diverse skill set within
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the listening community. And BC is like naturally a place
that weed is very comfortable, correct, Like that's a that's
even before everything was legal, and like you could have
massive growing operations like that was the place that people
grew a lot of weed, right, yeah, even before it
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was legal. My my recollection is that it was a
seven billion dollar shadow industry pre legalization just in BC. Wow. Yeah,
because I remember like even when the first like medical
dispensaries are opening up here in like the late nineties
and early two thousands, like BC buds would come down
and I'd be like, yo, they got some BC buds
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in and that you know that the community for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
So the best stories that you can find about like
people being innovative is like how people get drugs across
the border. And I feel like there were some good
ones about people like floating it across in balloons from
British Columbia and maybe a catapult here and there. I
think the catapult was the US Mexico border, but I
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remember the catapult there. They're My favorite one at the
at the BC US border was these folks built a tunnel,
and so they dug out a whole tunnel. They put
in like a little trolley tracks and everything, and they
put fluorescent lighting in. But then the Feds knew about it,
I guess from the beginning and just watched them do it.
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And then the first guy that rolled that first cart
down with like fluorescent lighting like a grocery store and everything,
they were just waiting for him on the other end.
They busted them and then fucking no need any more worse?
Do you think, like the Yeah, they a busted him,
and they're like they're trying to figure out like the
best bit to shock the guy with like a nick
(12:03):
What do we do like clowns. Yeah, we throw a
surprise party. We do like surprise and under arrest our
trafficking a team from practical jokers. Yeah, like agent, Yeah,
put your ear wig in so we can feed you
some lines from the control room. Okay, yeah. The trolley,
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the indoor trolley. A few people know that that was
what Mr Rogers was doing, is smuggling weed on his
little indoor trilley. What was that little town called Imagination Land?
Or something. Yeah, yeah, whatever, he was tracking Friday's realm.
Oh yeah, man, you see that ship. You see those people,
They're right fucking peaked. Man. What is something? What is
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something that you think is overrated? Sean? The banjo, which
is a banjo and a ukulele. It's a musical instrument,
should not exist. And my downstairs neighbor is dating a
a white man with an asymmetrical haircut who's been teaching
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himself how to play banjul Ailey in my yard for
five months. I'm painting a very specific picture of my
home life. Here we plant problems and this dang banjul
ale and he's not getting better. It's like I want
to say, give up. You're not progressing at a rate
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that would make you feel good about this. Yeah, that's
the key part. He's learning. He's learning, not like the
instrument sounds terrible regardless even if I think you had
mastered it, I would still hate it. But he's been
teaching himself instrument by playing and singing like Weezer covers.
Oh no, yeah. I'm baffled by his confidence because I
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have so much anxiety, Like I feel like I can't
buy milk without thinking that I've somehow offended the grocery
clerk for him to just um into my heart and
think that you know, he could do this and no
one would have issue with this terrible banjo a music. Yeah,
I don't understand his confidence. In fact, I want to
learn from it or something right, right, I mean, I
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think a lot of people there's always like that tweet.
It's like I wish I had the confidence of blah
blah blah. It's like we should all aspire to the
confidence of a white man with an asymmetrical haircut learning
banjo lal at the outdoors. I used to be like
when I was when I was a kid, I played
trumpet for most of my life and when I would
when I would practice, I I'm just like, I just
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like I don't want to sound bad. I would like
go to like the most remote remote place of like
my house to try and like practice in silence. I
would even use a mute sometimes. So for someone who
to be like, yeah, I was doing in my driveway
just blasting this ship, I'm like, Wow, that's there's something
to be learned there. Though. Yeah, they sound though like
what do you what? Like? It feels like what are
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you gonna do like a tropical you know, ukulele obviously
evokes Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, you know, things like that.
But then the banjo is very much feels like Southern American.
And then together like what the fund is that? Like
does it sound any like when you hear it, you're like, oh,
that's an interesting sound, or just sounds like any other
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stringed instrument. It sounds racist that makes sense than ukulele.
And I feel like the banjo has definitely appropriated the ukulele,
like it's more banjo than ukulele. It's just I think
the banjo just wanted the lateley for the cred or something,
(15:39):
the cultural cred yeah, or the you know place too
for other people to vacation. And and also yeah, kidnapped
the ukuleles queen in order to anna banjo structure. Yeah,
and then intermarried, full forced intermarriage. Yeah. They Yeah, they
have the racism covered from both the like cultural a
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creation angle and the just straight up deliverance style like
uncut proud racism of the banjo. Yeah. And if yeah,
I would love to hear a sick banjo l solo,
but in my mind, like I don't I don't. And
also when I hear wheezer, I'm like, what are they?
What song is it? Like? Say it ain't so or something? Yeah?
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Just pretty yeah, several. My name is jonas on Banjo Laile.
That's a lot of picking. I'm picturing the year downstairs
neighbor as the apartment from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
For some reason like that, I can't not like Kim Careless. Yeah, yeah,
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like that that the vibes. Vibe, yeah, the vibes. What
is something you think is underrated? Sure? Boiled eggs, guys,
fu Yeah, boy, I had too for breakfast. You don't
need to fry them. You don't need to to devil them.
You just need some hot water and it maybe a
bit of salt, some chili sauce or something. Wow. Just
(17:09):
I got nothing else, just boiled eggs. How are you?
How are you applying it? Just on the on the
smooth outside the chili sauce. I mean you take a bite,
you feel the hole? What do you do? I'll slice
it right down the middle, dissect it, and then I'll
put some yeah, some chili in there, maybe a thin
slice of onion. Oh ship wow, And then you a
(17:33):
little bit of going into that. Yeah there. You never
go soft boiled. Yeah, only if I'm in a rush,
so it's more out of okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
like a lot of soft boiled eggs, and I kind
of on the similar diet as you. I usually eat
like two boiled eggs too, soft boiled eggs in the morning,
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a little bit of CuPy mayonnaise, Japanese mayonnaise in a
little little bit of a tear or drop of soy sauce. Wow. Okay, okay, yeah,
that's how I get down. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try
this tomorrow. Yeah. How are you guys transport? Do you
transport in in shell or do you transport like you
crack it? And then here's the thing. I think we're people.
(18:17):
I I feel like I agree that the boiled egg
is thinking. So I don't want to force that on
other people necessarily. So I just tried to eat it
almost like a vitamin Like. I like that I can
boil it and I can eat it so quickly, and
that's my breakfast, right Yeah, yeah, that's and I that's
what I do. I take a small bite off the
top and create a chasm, and then I give my
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little mannise and soy sauce in there, then I eat
the rest of the rest egg and one bite. Yeah, yeah,
they're so good. All right, Well, let's take a quick
break and we will be right back to talk about
some news and we're back. Strikes are in the air.
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We got an instat cart workers strike starting on October six.
They're specifically the shoppers who go on strike because yeah,
it's it's bullshit. They've been treated just horribly. They they
have added billions and billions of dollars of evaluation to
the company's bottom line, and the company has rewarded them
(19:33):
by treating them like ship. Yeah, this the old gig
worker recipe, which is make them independent contractors so you
owe them nothing. And in this situation, you know, conditions
have been pretty the pretty. Conditions are awful across the
board for people and that are doing gig work because
of the fact that no one is treated as an employee.
(19:54):
It's all this independent contract or nonsense. And you know
there is for instat cart shoppers. They we're dealing with
low tips, like where they started to bring down like
the minimum that like would first sort of default too
in the app, as well as like a rating system
that's super fucked up in severe where like if you came,
if you dropped off in order, and someone gave you
a one star review mostly because for things like out
(20:18):
of their control, like supply chains are fucked up. So yeah,
maybe the thing the customer asked for wasn't in their
order and they hit a one star review like sort
of in a retaliatory way that would prevent shoppers from
like losing out a more lucrative trips less work in general.
So they have just some simple demands to try and
make this just resemble some kind of humane work. They
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have five demands, which are that they just want base
pay for each order instead of the system they have
now which pays workers as well as seven dollars for
like they'll batch up to three orders and once and
then you're making seven dollars. That's nonsense. They want to
return to commission a commission based pain model where previously
pay shoppers forty cents per item shopped. They also want
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the ten percent default tip to be reinstated right now
it's at five percent. They also sadly are asking for
occupational death benefits for workers who die on the job
because that is something that has happened as well as
you know, to alter the rating system that doesn't punish
them for things like the supply chain being fucked up
because of a fucking pandemic and customers taking it out
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on the rating system. And yeah, there was just like
there have been more attacks on gig workers during the pandemic,
and then there was Sadly, an instacrt shopper was murdered
in March in Colorado while a fucking working for insta cart.
And that's why they're like, this is this isn't just
like like I think a lot of people, especially the
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way people tip or way workers describe it, they just
think people are just fucking around getting their groceries and
dropping off and like, well they don't need a tip,
like that's an easy job. But honestly that this is
Sadly they rely very heavily on tips because instacart doesn't
do the minimum. So for listeners, they should go to
their phone right now and delete instacart as an app.
(22:09):
Is that basically the way that we can kind of
stand in solidarity with or just don't use it. I mean,
I think customers are just boycotting as well. In solidarity
beginning the sixteenth when they strike where because you know,
like like you're saying Instacart's value, I think nearly doubled
in the pandemic to thirty nine billion dollars is what
they're worth. And as you know, as the pandemic like
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went on and we prematurely began to reopen things, the
demand for grocery delivery has also shrunk. So they're, like,
I think, in a position where they're trying to cut
corners to to kind of keep their revenues looking pretty.
But it's just a you know, another predictable tale of
gig worker apps treating people like independent contractors to the
point where the only the only choice is to like
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have to take collective action like this, any job that
comes with the cabin if you're working and you die,
we don't know you anything. That's a job that needs
a union. That's like, h that's very very clear. That
part is is really shocking. Like I would rather I
would rather go to a job interview and ask them, like, hey,
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what happens if I die? I rather here that they're
unprepared for that, Like I'd rather they be like, oh,
I don't know, we've never considered that as opposed to
them being like, yeah, that happens a lot. Just yeah,
we have a policy and it doesn't include you. So
that's that's insane at a at a bare minimum that
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like that seems like that should be illegal. M Yeah,
well I think and this is why companies like this,
they're constantly lobbying legislators to you know, write guidelines that
are favorable to this kind of oppressive work. And you
know they're right now. There was even talks of like
instat cart and door dash and Uber will potentially merge
(23:58):
into one just three headed hydra of terrible, terrible subsubsistence
wage work. Yeah. I feel like they're too much like
little mom and pop companies that we need them to
be more like just giant autonomy automatons that and through
human lives. Yeah. And by the way, the thirty nine
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billion dollar valuation is it should be clear like based
on the fact that they're able to at least like
to a large degree, that they're able to treat employees
like ship like that is the unfortunate truth of the
current version of you know, late capitalism is like, well,
if you can, you can you know, lower the amount
(24:43):
that the overhead on these dang employees like your ubers.
You can really crush it out there, right, because like, yeah,
you think like the benevolent version of an app like
this is like yeah, man, like you keep like we
just need a small feed for us to connect you
with someone for you to do the job, and then
like whatever that costs, like you take all that. We
merely just set this up, like for the infrastructure for
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people to make money by offering people rides or doing
shopping for them, when now it's like, yeah, you're not
getting a fucking not even getting close to what's your
own on on the actual labor that you're putting into
this thing. So it's don't see that formula changing anytimes.
The rating system too, I'm glad they're keen on that
because that's brutal and it also you know, makes us
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as consumers see our complicit complicity in it too, because
it's like I think the problem with those rating systems
is that it's letting everyone be a boss. And like,
because of the hierarchy of capitalism, we're all, you know,
we've all been piste off at our bosses. But it's
letting everyone be like you know, I I recently hired
(25:48):
a new employee to bring me a sandwich in the
next twenty minutes, and I'm gonna treat that person like shit,
I'm gonna scream at them for you know, having they
were late. Yeah. Yeah, And because there it's a vast
web of people mistreating each other, like the if this
is the one chance you get to have an employee
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who works for you and you've just been shipped on
by your boss like for five years, like you know,
I feel like some people will use that as an
opportunity to treat those people like ship And I don't
think it's it's like a coincidence to me, It's it's
designed right. It's like there's so much hostility and frustration
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building up with some of these systems of power, and
I think things like this facilitate that hostility being directed
in the wrong direction, you know, like let's have people
send it at each other instead of in the direction
it should be going, Yeah, upward. And uh, Like I'm
not a historian. This is this is just based on
(26:49):
me watching the Ridley Scott film The Gladiator. But I
think that the whole thumbs up thumbs down thing came
from walking Phoenix, like the guy that Roman emperor, and
it was like, you know, that's where he's like, should
this gladiator be murdered publicly or not? Yes or no?
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Thumbs down. And I think it was clear to everyone
who saw that Oscar you know worthy film, that uh,
that's a sort of kind of unaccountable form of power
that should be checked, not kind of scaled up through
innovative app technology and like distributed to everybody. That's so
(27:33):
so I had a I had a theory because Gladiator
was a two thousand film and we did a live
show about the year two thousand, and I had a
theory worked out about Gladiator and why it like hits
so hard with the two thousand with the audience in
the year two thousand that we I didn't have time
to get to. But just like this idea, I I
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feel like the audience was caught like identified with Hajwaki
and Phoenix, like they didn't want to, but that's who
they realized they were. And then like Gladiator was the
you know the people who are off like fighting wars
that like they don't want to be a part of.
But like there's never been like a more cowardly character
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like in movies, and like when you look at the
structure of that movie, it really feels like it's like
offering that character up as like someone we can project
our anxieties of being. You know, like America is way
more nepotistic than it wants to admit. Americans like will
(28:38):
be at war without realizing it, you know that all
that sort of ship and then like you're able to
be like, no, funk that guy, he's bad. But yeah,
the allowing us like an app that allows us all
to be individual little commedist is common commed des I is, Yeah,
it's gonna be a billion dollar industry because we're all
(28:59):
like fuck yeah, thumbs down off with the head, my
my eggs were late or whatever, the blue and brown
shells mixed together. Ye Also, uh, you know it is
the I said strikes are in the air because Hollywood
is facing its largest strike since World War Two, Like
(29:24):
the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees IOTZI, who represent
you know, they build the sets, they do all the
behind the scenes work. They are going to probably strike
in the next couple of days. And you know, if
you like I, I don't know what Hollywood is gonna
(29:46):
do like, is the next season of Stranger Things just
gonna be like a Lars von Trier movie and like
a black a black box type thing, like because that's
basically what what you're dealing with. Everybody's just wearing bur
laps acts and in a in a black void because
these are the people who build the fucking sets and
make everything like make you able to suspend your disbelief. Yeah,
(30:11):
and I think you know, and it's the same. The
theme is the same anywhere, right, which is just like
with Ayazi, They're they're saying like we're not trying to
blow the fucking industry up, but when we keep banging
our heads against the wall saying we would like, you know,
a living wage for certain positions, like at the lowest
rung of our union, that that is a living wage.
Or you know, like because new media and streaming stuff
(30:33):
has also like created like all new kind of business
quagmires for like contracts and things like that, there's just
a lot of stuff too. Or they're like, what about
like rest periods because if I'm doing consecutive like you know,
eighteen hour days, I I there has to be a
point where we can have a break, not just because
they have to make a schedule for production like in
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time to not go over budget. And yeah, I I'm really,
I honestly hope that the Hollywood actually takes a second, ever,
like a moment to reckon with itself because these are
truly the fucking people who make everything fucking possible. It's
not just that it's not the people who we see
on the fucking screen. To get to that point is
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so that effort in labor of countless fucking people, And
and hopefully I think it just makes people more aware
of like what what it takes to make these things,
because they don't just like pop up and it's a
great time, Like there are really hard jobs in production
that go unnoticed and are not being compensated fairly. Yeah,
I think the living wage is a great point because
(31:38):
I think between this and the instacrat workers, it's probably
a similar thing of the designation of being told you're
an essential worker rubbing up against the realization that you're
not being paid a living wage, Like how can I
be essential to everyone and not be getting paid a
wage that lets me live? And I think that, you know,
(32:01):
I saw that during the pandemic because a lot of
up here in NBC, right, we have a pretty big
film industry, and a lot of COVID stuff got brought
up here because you couldn't shoot down in l A.
It was getting brought up to Canada. And so there
was a period where like teachers literally weren't at school
teaching and you know, shaping the minds of the future generation.
(32:24):
But like I have friends who are still working on
like sugar free gum commercials, like yeah, I mean, and
so they're being told like, no, no, you're essential. We
need this sugar free gum commercial. And if that's true, sure,
tell me that's that's essential. But like treat me right, yeah, right,
anything new in like the error version of you know,
(32:49):
market capitalism, Like so new media, these delivery apps with
that are like you know, building an industry from scratch
kind of like those will all always by default just
abuse the ship out of people until like somebody does
this and like fights for the rights of people. That's
(33:09):
just like how it seems like it has always worked
in America, and it would be awesome if we could
break out of that cycle where it's like you know,
because I mean it's the same thing, right you look
at like how instacart values, the value goes up and
workers are still being like a dude, we still have
so many fucking problems, and you guys are spending more money.
The same thing with all these new shows that are
(33:30):
coming out, like yeah, exactly, Prestige TV is like it's
fucking on the same level as film and granted out
he's working on film and television, but like they're just
seeing like these budgets are getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
but you're able to kind of keep costs low by
keeping the crew at this very like lower level without
an ability to renegotiate things. While we're watching things like
(33:51):
how much money is being spent on this production. They're
trying to treat like a Netflix series like it's a
fucking funnier die short, you know, like it's just, yeah,
it's bullshit. But they that seems to be the default
shape that all you know, industries take when they're when
they first take form in America. And then like then
(34:13):
you have to like break through the media like cone
of silence and be like no, this is really bad
for a lot of people, because otherwise it'll just be
like insta carts. Valuation is fucking skyrocketing, like that'll be
the headline instead of yeah, you know what's actually happening
to people. I mean people are naturally withholding their labor
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because no matter what many people are realizing it, it
shouldn't working multiple jobs shouldn't be the norm. Like, if
we're in a system where we have to put our
labor forward to survive, then one job should be enough.
And the fact that it isn't is I think, you know,
it's just creating a very organic version of people kind
(34:56):
of advocating for themselves, and it's popping up more more
and in long may that last. I hope that leads
to a point where more people can really fully be
on the same page to understand like oh yeah, like
whether it's Instacart or aatsi or uber or fucking writing
for an online publication or whatever, like, there are minimums
that we deserve as human beings, especially when we're in
(35:18):
a system where our labor is being converted into massive
wealth for people who aren't putting even a close to
the shred of work that the workers do. Yeah, it
would be cool if somehow is this there became some
stronger solidarity or even like alliances between all these essential
workers because they've fallowen across so many different sectors and industries.
(35:41):
And yeah, it's been such a difficult period. But these
are all the folks who are told, no, you have
to keep working. So if when push comes to shove,
I mean worse than that plague comes to death, that
that these folks have to keep working, they they should
be able to like collectively organize. All right, let's talk
(36:01):
briefly about another group of fat cats who have had
it too good for too long. And I'm talking, of course,
about the people who volunteered to be on school boards.
Come on like that. You know, they dedicate their time
to help educate our children, and now they're going to
complain that they've been subjected to being you know, abused
(36:23):
and treated like absolute ship by right wing political activists.
Come on, I've had enough where I mean next, you know,
we've seen the scenes at these board meetings. They look
they're just you can't even like if you were if
you had it on mute there, you're like, oh my god,
like was their network of sexual predators like just like
(36:45):
running them up in this like school system. But no,
they're like they're teaching our kids critical race theory, which
again is for graduate students and law students. It's so
complex you couldn't even begin to fucking teach a child
critical race theory even with like the most a rudimentary
graphs and pictures. But again we've seen this, whether it
(37:08):
was critical race theory or masks. You know, there were
medical professionals who have had their tires slashed from nearly
like restating the obvious facts at a school board meeting
around masks or vaccines. Teachers have been subjected to coordinated
harassment campaigns for believing in teaching history. And and we're
also when we talked about earlier, extremists are trying to
infiltrate the school boards themselves to try and alter the
(37:31):
curriculum like to whatever they see fit. So things are chaotic.
And this group that the National school Boards Association, who
like representing like thousands of school board members, they're like
asking the president to like, we need protection here, like
this is they're they're actually effectively intimidating people into not
doing what's right for children purely because of intimidation. And
(37:54):
they really are asking that things that are including quote,
the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent
to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes, and
they're saying, we just we need help all across the board,
whether that's having the FBI, Secret Service and like National
Threat Assessment Center, like give them resources to understand like
(38:17):
how to like do proper threat assessment or examine what
they say, quote examine appropriate enforceable actions against these crimes
and acts of violence. It just seems like they're that
there's so many avenues for these people to harass them
that they're just like this work. We're not equipped for this,
Like we need someone intervened. I think the most absurd
(38:39):
part of it is that a lot of the people
who are harassing these teachers from the right seem to
be the same people that proposed as a solution to
mass shootings at schools that these teachers be given guns. Yeah,
and so like just for their own safety, I mean
the safety of these idiotic monsters, they should probably we
(39:00):
choose one of those things, like either I'm going to
keep harassing and antagonizing these teachers or I want to
arm them, but for your own safety, maybe not both, right, yeah, yeah,
like that if they were just like, okay, we are
going to go with your suggestion to arm the teachers,
but only at PTA meetings. Yeah right right, yeah yeah
(39:24):
that energy, yeah, temporary gun license, yeah right. Or they're
just like or they're like, yeah, well we can do like, uh,
you know, trial by combat, but we'll just get like
the mountain to represent the school boards and yeah, throw
whoever you want at them. Parents. How about you rick
with the flannel shirt tucked into your jeans. You want
to fight the mountain over cretinor theory? Now, okay, next up, masks?
(39:47):
Anybody else? No good, don't get dry ripped off by
the mountain. But I think you know, this is just
kind of that thing where it's it's hard to know,
like how can you solve this problem because it just
feels like this is just part of like the continuing
convoy oceans of this like amorphous culture war that is
existing that if it's not critical race theory, it's gonna
be masks, and if it's not that, it's gonna be
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trains kids, And if it's not that, it's going to
be this other thing that there's just there's always going
to find they're always going to find a way to
keep doing this. So I don't know. I mean, I
think maybe that's why they're asking like some kind of
law enforcement part of this, because maybe jail might dissuade
some of these parents that are just like so hopped
up on their privilege that maybe it's not you know,
(40:30):
maybe it's not a thing that you can just slash
someone's tires. I mean, I think it's a bit of
a snake eating its own tail thing, because I think
that the solution is how you educate kids, Like, if
you want adults that aren't idiotic and violent and hostile
in these ignorant ways, it's gonna start in school. And yeah,
(40:51):
that's I guess part of why this uh battle is
so important. But it also I guess it would require
patients for some of those results to be seen. Like
maybe we can hope that in in thirty years, if
things go well, there won't be teachers trying to parents
trying to fight teachers. Right. Yeah, it's yeah, I think
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And that's why I think conservatives see just as they
see the same path there. Right, It's like it's through
the schools. It's like Steve Bannon said, it's through the
school boards, and they know that just there's been this
like baseline of what American education is, and they realize
it's turning out more people who would probably not vote
for Republicans, and they're just like, fun, Okay, then like
(41:34):
we need to like we need to start deprogramming people
as swiftly as possible to try and get them on
board with our more autocratic, you know, fascist way of
looking at governance. Yeah. Yeah, all right, let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back, and we're back,
(42:01):
all right. So Halloween is coming up, one of our
favorite seasons here on Daily Zeitgeist, besides National Black Dog Day.
You know, it's up there with National Black Dog Day
Halloween for us. But you know, every time Halloween comes around,
there's usually going to be a dumb police warning about
(42:23):
this year it's pot laced Halloween candy that these you know,
these dang potheads are gonna be handing out tricky th
HC laced Halloween candy to your kids. And then just like,
I don't know, well, I don't know what they think
the purpose of that is, but this is so the
(42:45):
way this story is being manufactured is they raid somebody's
house and find candy laced with THHC. Because people love
that ship because it's a lot of fun. They look
at the similarities between the candy and the like can
Halloween candy and they're like, ah, they must be trying
(43:09):
to They don't actually believe this. This is just like
they This is how they get people to be scared.
On the local news, they're like this, this is a
great way to whip up a quick moral panic about
the dangers of weed. And it's the reason they made
these candies in the size and shape and flavor of
actual candies. Is is not just because it tastes good
(43:31):
and is fun, but it is because they want to
sneak one pest children and poison them for some reason.
That's that's all, you know, Stoner's all they do is
watch YouTube videos of kids who are accidentally high and
laugh their asses off because they're so sadistic, and they're
also so rich that they can afford to give a
(43:53):
fucking thirty dollar candy bar just at a time, just
tossing them out to the local kids that your local youth.
Of course, of course, I'm in my late thirties and
in my day, you know, people freaked out about their
being razor blades in the house of candy and so
I'm sorry, but this seems like genuine progress to me.
(44:15):
It's like trying to get me high, Like that's better
than trying to slip my throat internally to slice up
my asosh I guess with an arrant razor blade. There
are and this is a quote from a Washington Post article,
there are no documented cases of kids being poisoned by
(44:36):
marijuana laced halloween candy. Zero And the one case where
they have, like a parent claiming that they ate some
of their kids Halloween candy and it was laced was
too people who went to the emergency room and where like,
(44:59):
we're we ate some candy with meth on it, and
we like, we don't want to explain to you where
we got it, so we're just gonna say that it
was in our kids halloween candy. Hall Um basically seems
to be the It seems to be the story there.
That sounds like an incident where people just ate math
(45:20):
and then made up a lie. Yeah exactly, Yeah, some
meth probably got in that candy. I you're like, we're
just eating loose meth just because you didn't have a
stem and you're just trying to beam up real quick.
I don't know, I don't look, I'm not here to judge,
but sir, this is bad. I love the I love
the fact that you're like, there's no documented case of
(45:40):
this ever fucking happening, which in a way makes Q
and On more realistic than this ship from Jeffrey. Yeah,
like at least, like I'm like, yeah, well, you know,
like they're they are they're trying to tie these loose
threads either, like there's not even a fucking thread out
there to even clasp on two for this stupid fucking
story that they loved to rinse and reus every year.
(46:01):
That's that's a great comparison though, because it sounds like
it's you know, news editors trying to you know, capitalize
on the conspiracy theory side of the algorithm by creating,
you know, some new hot of the moment conspiracy theory,
or they're just looking for an excuse to be able
to pick through their kids candy first and eat all
(46:23):
the best stuff, right, despite this being like an annual
news story that I grew up, you know, in the
eighties and nineties thinking was like one of the main
dangers to my livelihood was to my life was you know,
get eating poisoned Halloween candy. There have been since nineteen
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two cases of tampered Halloween treats in the US and Canada,
which there's about forty one point one million trigger treaters
in just the US every year, So that's two hundred
total right since right so recorded incidents and then forty
(47:09):
one million people of year And of those two under cases,
experts couldn't find a single report of a child killed
or seriously injured from a contaminated treat received during trick
or treating. But meanwhile, like you know, just just maybe
keep your eyes on the road the like during Halloween
instead of worrying about this ship, Like there's way more
(47:30):
pedestrian accidents and ship because people are out on the street.
Oh you're yeah, you're saying of like a car, a
car hitting somebody is the big the actual threat on Holliday,
not fucking you know, wavy candies and the only thing, Like,
I do think it's fair for people like to be
wary that they like get not give it out, like
(47:54):
because there there is now more weed candy than we've
ever had like our houses them before. But like I
think that's pretty standard. But yeah, just keep make sure
you keep it separate from any other candy, and I'm
sure you're gonna be fine. Like, whoa, I don't know
what's the problem. I keep it separate. I don't bump
(48:17):
me out. Man, Well you know, I I I'm sure
by next year they'll find a new thing, or maybe
it'll just be this all over. It'll be this every
year we're dead or weed is illegal. Well yeah, but
you know, like you know why, I'm like, I'm kind
of proud of US, US and Canada that there's only
been two hundred incidents since nineteen fifty eight. Like you
(48:40):
you'd think with like how things have espposedly deterior in
the United States as it relates to like like these
like large scale violent events that like at the end
of the people like the Halloween. Man, don't funk, come
on now, don't like let's I don't have the energy
for that. And that's just that's no one wants that burden.
And even in the language that was used to describe
those two hundred incidents, he said contaminated and there's no deaths,
(49:03):
And so part of me thinks a bunch of that
might just be like seed Snickers, Yeah, got the runs
or something like that was contaminated because I'm sure, yeah,
like how do you I mean the energy that would
go into contaminating a candy and like being the front
for like the face that like, you know, people, there's
(49:25):
a way to figure out where the candy came from
on some level. You know, it's not a totally like
anonymous act because people are knocking on your door and
so like, do I remember anyone weird? Yeah, there was
that person just laughing, just sadistically the whole time and
had no costume on, and right before they gave us again,
he said, hold on one second. They had closed the
(49:46):
door for a couple of minutes, then open and be
like now it's ready. That person, we may want to
look into that. It's it's also such a weird level
of distrust of just people because my understanding of you know,
strangers who like to kill other strangers is they like
to they like to see it like they like to,
(50:07):
you know, get their hands dirty, and that is something
that satisfies them. But to to put all that work
in and then just know that somewhere out there in
the distance someone is suffering, that doesn't really seem like
if that's if that's really happening, then we should be
just as scared as the candy you buy at the
grocery store, because would be just as easy to go
(50:28):
and put a bunch of contaminent candy at the grocery
store and have people eat that. If that's what's getting
your rocks off, come on, don't give these freaks any ideas. Yeah,
it's I I can't think of a worth or less
satisfying prank. No, And even like as a kid, you're like,
(50:51):
you're not trying to funk with someone's I don't know,
maybe because you grow up like like Halloween candy sanctified,
so even and like as you get older you're like, no, no, no,
come on, don't suck her with that. That's not what
you're gonna do. Anything like throw shit at someone's house,
Like you know, light a bag of ship on fire,
t P eggs, that stuff. That's a prank, not not
violating the sacred trust hollow Halloween candy distribution. Yeah it's
(51:17):
sacred TP, but the TPS ship on it. But the
eggs a bitting your ass, Like how do you keep
them from crack and jack? That's pretty impressive, a lot
of control, man, a lot of control, a lot of meditating. Yeah,
it's it's very dumb that there have been, Like I
(51:39):
do think it's there are valid things to like with
tons of candy around the house, if you have we
gummies around the house like that. That's something that actually
happened at a barbecue that we covered on this show
because it's kind of funny to imagine, but like I
think a bunch of five year olds got their hands
on their parents sur patch kids THHD gummies and like
(52:04):
had to go to the emergency room. So I guess
not funny, but just kids are already so weird, so
I was just curious what that would look like. But
it's all happening by accident, it's not nobody is doing
this on purpose. So yes, beware, don't leave your fucking
weed gummies out and like next to your kids fucking
(52:25):
Halloween candy. That's that's. Oh you should see me like
whenever I have like younger, like a family over like
I had, like the d e A is about to
pull up. Yeah, like yo, they're gonna have to do
work to find this ship because yeah, like you absolutely
like you have to understand you know that you you
have to respect the power in that In the wrong hands,
(52:46):
it can do a lot of damage. Not even just kids,
like people in their twenties. My my wife when she
was younger, showed up at a house party hungry and
proceeded to eat a bunch of pastries off the table
that weren't able, and it was like so she downed
like a whole dinner's worth of of edible weed pastries
(53:07):
and then had such a severe panic attack that she
had to go home and just sleep in a snowsuit
to like sweat it out. I love that method of like,
all right, I'm gotta put the full body snowsuit on
and just sweat this thing out. Oh did it work though?
Is that that she said? It worked? Like by the
next day she felt like better. But but I agree
(53:32):
with what you're saying. It's like there is a risk,
but it's more like at home and be careful. It's
not like be scared of people premeditated trying to do right. Yeah,
well that's yeah. I think that's the that's the thing
that everyone wants to just sort of foster and everyone
at the moment. It's like be afraid of fucking every
single person out there, because you don't know who the
fun they are. Yes, there's no way they could just
(53:55):
be like you, another human being who's trying their best
to just survive in the world day to day. They
want the cops look at these sick funs out here
with nerve ropes full of drugs to get your kids
fucked up. Man. I am like I I will say this,
I will never act on it. I'm very curious what
my kids would be like stoned because they're already so
(54:19):
like prone to uh like pod head thinking. I'm just
if anybody who was at that barbecue who saw those
five year olds high, if anyone who was at that
barbecue with those kids and saw how they were behaving,
I'm just curious, like what that what that looks like? Well,
(54:41):
I think it's funny because like the first time I
smoked weed as a kid, I was like, this is great.
I feel like more like a kid right now. Everything.
Oh yeah, it's just slippery slopers. Yeah, not trying to
grow up. I'm just trying to be me to Yeah exactly.
I'm just I'm just trying to laugh harder at this ship.
(55:01):
They bring them to the r They're like our kids
got really cool all this we don't know what to do,
and they're like listening to safe Searge. I don't even know.
It's like they're real hip and ship. Yeah, but my
five year old asked me how his bones move him once,
(55:22):
and I means and that you're like that fucked you up.
You're like, man, that was definitely a thought I have
had while I was high. Yeah, and then immediately forgotten.
Let's talk really quickly about Dog the Bounty Hunters everywhere. Yeah,
(55:44):
so he, you know, as the Gabby Petito case continues
to just spin around in the headlines because of missing
white woman's syndrome, Dog the Bounty Hunter was like, I'm
I'm on this ship. He so he started smelling some
money and so he has decided to enter the search
(56:06):
for Gabby Potito's ex boyfriend who was like with her
when she died and like he disappeared into like a
national park and you know, for to his credit, his
investigation has already yielded a call from the boyfriend's family
(56:26):
when Dogs the Bounty Hunter showed up at their house.
Your emergency, um, Dog the Bounty Hunter and like, fucking
won't leave me alone, right, now he's going full dark Night,
like he's lived long enough to become the villain. Yeah, well, yeah,
he was also doing that. She was doubling down back
(56:47):
when he said he could use the N word, like,
He's like, yo, I gotta invite to the cookout permanently,
so you know I could say the N word, because
in two thousand seven, that phone call lead to him
dropping the M bomb multiple times, and not like in
a I'm singing gold Digger like lyrics out loud type shit.
He was like he was hitting that hard are and
he his you know this at the time when I remember,
(57:09):
I think it was Larry King. He was like, yeah,
I'm friends was Snoop and you know he's like they
say like, hey, what's up my end? And you know,
I feel like because of that, you know I can
I can say it too, and he kept he came
back around to talk about those fucking topics again in
one I was like, why are you still talking about this?
For like, you're lucky you got canceled before before people
(57:32):
didn't like knew how to cancel people. Because he's like
back in like, hey, remember that, I'm here to say
again M And I'm just like Eminem and you're like what,
I'm like, Okay, he's like I have more black friends
and Eminem. Okay, there you go, sir. Name dropping Snoop
doesn't count because not just because having a black friend
(57:52):
doesn't let you do that, but because that's the only
other guy who has dog in his name. Like him
being like, no, I know Snoop Dog. It's like, well, no,
that's not your black friend. That's your other friend whose
name has dog. Like, yeah, y'all have dog solidarity. You
know that's about it. Um. Yeah. The New York Times
(58:15):
did like a lengthy profile on him, I think this
year about like how he's coping after the death of
his wife. He had a pulmonary embolism thanks to testosterone
supplements and refused to stay in the hospital. He literally
pushed in orderly up against a wall to escape and
was only convinced to get medical help after an intervention
(58:37):
from doctor Oz. So, like the the head professions on TV,
like the TV Doctor and the TV Bounty Hunter are
apparently like friends somewhere with like Judge Judy probably and
when you reinforcing like my childish idea of like how
(58:59):
TV works, one, I bet I bet dog the bounty hunter.
I think Dr Oz is all the celebrities doctors, right,
but it seems like this is just him coming back
and be like I feel like I wasn't fully canceled before,
and like it now would be a great time for
me to just like formally formally get canceled. Because he's
(59:19):
also like I thought I had the past, he said quote,
I thought I had to pass in the Black tribe
to use it, kind of like Eminem. Eminem doesn't use it.
Eminem doesn't use the N word, And I know he has,
like years ago there was like a track and a
lot of people like, we know what the fun was that,
But in his like professional career, that's not what. So
(59:40):
I don't know if again his idea is like, well,
the white guy who raps I say it right, No not,
I don't. I don't think so. Dog. And if you
think you have the past because black tribe anything, you don't, Yeah, yeah,
in the black I'm like, what he needs to chill out,
someone needs to sneak come some some dirty Halloween candies.
(01:00:03):
Yeah right. And if he doesn't, I feel like maybe
the feds are gonna go like suicide squad style, and
you know, let the Tiger King out of jail to
go catch Dog Hunter. Yeah right, it's a trap. They
released the Tiger King to get Dog to draw in
the bounty hunter apparently, so I didn't realize that like
(01:00:27):
his origin story. But back in two thousand three, this guy,
Andrew Luster, who is the heir to the Max Factor
cosmetic fortune, was arrested for drugging and raping three women
and skipped out on his one million dollar bail. Was
convicted in absentia and sentenced to a d twenty four
years in prison. And Dog was like, this is this
(01:00:49):
is this is how I make my career went and
like just like spent his whole like like all the
time he had hunting this guy down. But like the
way he like brought the guy in was wildly illegal,
Like bounty hunters are illegal in Mexico. And he went
down to Mexico and just like grabbed him and like
through like kidnapped him essentially, and then immediately got arrested
(01:01:13):
for that. Like it went like threw him in the
back of an suv, pulled out, and then the police
pulled him over from where like what the funk are
you doing? Man? But he still knows all sorts of
fucking money for for that, So that that seems to
be why he's trying to get elbows way back into
the national spotlight at this key moment when we're all
(01:01:35):
super you know, appreciative of cops who are racist and
do things the you know, via violence and toxicity. Like
that's he's his moment is here. I guess that is
what he's thinking. Yeah, I don't know. Again, he's still
almost a million dollars in unpaid legal fees because of that. Yeah,
(01:01:57):
that's a fucking from that. First, the first thing from
his illegal jaunt down to Puerto Vata to be an
illegal bounty hunter. But then when he did it, he
was like, hey, it was if I got this guy
in custody, was worth me going to jail for a
few days. And I mean just in general, he is,
(01:02:18):
you know, he profits from a predatory prism funnel system
that disproportionately affects the poor and people of color. Again,
like you said, uses the N word freely and has
repeatedly lobbied against bail reform, even recording a robot call
warning people in California about proposed bail reform bill to
(01:02:40):
so I can give a less compelling robot call you
get and starts off like, hey, it's dog Dwayne Chapman,
the bounty hunter, and like, get shut the okay if
you're not something dog food, I don't think I honestly
will listen to you because I don't even get I
mean perspect you as a bail bondsman, bounty hunter. Mh.
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He definitely learned from that first incident because he was like, well,
I may not have succeeded in being like an actual
bounty hunter, but if this was just for the cameras,
it looked good like and then that's the route he
went down. Yeah, and I'll just I'll just keep that
million dollar tab just hanging on the hook bear and
I'll get to it eventually. Yeah. Yeah, more on that later, Sean,
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such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you?
Follow you all that good stuff? So you can get
my comedy album at my website Sean Devlin dot website,
and you can follow me on Instagram at Shannie with
a Y S E A N Y dot Devlin d
V L A M. And is there a tweet or
(01:03:48):
some other work of social media you've been enjoying there?
I don't have Twitter, so I don't have a handle
to share. But the comedian Eddie Peppertone is basically the
only reason i'veent You're into Twitter because he's so funny
and he tweeted something last week that I loved, which
was this was his tweet, and he has lots of
(01:04:08):
stuff like this. We are surrounded by death from a play,
but we are also surrounded by great bargains Home Depot.
Home Depot has floorboards and tile machines with sound buttons,
all on sale this week, so come on out and
buy before you die. Home Depot, get your affairs in order.
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Great Eddie pump tone is like NonStop tweeting out this
amazing voiceover for the current moment, just dystopian nightmare. Miles
Where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?
You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
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of Gray and also the other podcast for twenty Day
Fiance with Sophia Alexandro where we talk about the fance.
A tweet I like is from Mark Snedecker at Mark Snedecker.
He did a quote tweet from CNN where the CNN
tweet says us government will run out of money by
October eighteenth, Treasury Secretary says, and Mark replies, unless we
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can put on the best talent show this town has
ever seen. That's great. I love when that was a
solution to every problem. It's always works for me. Yeah,
you know, let's see. Uh. Sam Salisbury tweeted, shakespeare Ship
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is so timeless because everybody's got that friend named Polonius
that hides behind your tapestries. Um uh Push Push tweeted,
every single night, I slip into the alley behind my
block and released two gunshots into the sky to keep
the rent in my neighborhood stable. And this is one
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that will probably it's somebody. I just want somebody to
answer this for me. Kie flaer At Kei fler Elf tweeted,
Gonna be honest with you guys, I don't understand how
the gas nozzle knows when to stop? How then does
it know? Just like here that thing being like like
but also I never trusted because I'm a compulsive topper.
(01:06:23):
Offer Oh you really? Oh yeah, I'm like no, I'm like,
I'm like fucking Giles Corey and the Crucible is stacking
more fucking stones on his chest. Like more weight. I'm like,
you'll get more gas in that tank if you don't
see the gas spilling out? Was there ever any gas there?
You go? I do it till it gets on my shoes.
(01:06:46):
Have you have you ever seen the gas like do
the thing where it like kind of all comes out
at once, Like it's like like a leaks out all
at once, like when when you overfill the tank. I can't.
I can't tell if I imagine this I was a kid,
or if that's how cars used to like expel gas
when they got over you have like a vivid memory
(01:07:07):
of like an over filled tank just like like a
orcoes blowholes just like all over the place. I mean,
who knows the way cars were built back and I
mean like every year we're like adding safety measures. Were
like that wasn't there already? Yeah? Uh, it was like
it seemed like the car's water broke and gas just
(01:07:29):
like you can't not from under it. That might have
just been the shitty car we had. And then I
went to live with my new family. Uh. You can
find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can
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we post our episode then our foot Nope, we link
off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Miles what song where we said the people to go
check out. So We're gonna go out on really like
a guitarist that I'm really fucking digging. His name is
Mansur Brown. He's from Brixton, you know, London, and he
(01:08:11):
plays a lot with like use of days and you
know that that whole sort of new jazz scene out
there from England that I'm just love and love it.
And this track is called Mushta m A s h
I t A because it seems like all of his
albums have Japanese themes. He has an album called like
this is actually from the album called s Oi, which
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means white in Japanese. And yeah, his guitar playings just
like so groovy, and his like the way he just
picks those chords. You just love to hear it, and
he's so effortless. If you like the music, I really
suggest you check out him playing live because he's just
such a like expressive guitar player. Uh and just a
great way to go into your in your weekend because
(01:08:53):
it's nice and easy track of just some nice, soothing guitar.
So this is Mansur Brown with Mushta Awesome. Well. Daily
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two oh four,
Episode five of the Daily Like Guys production of My
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deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Friday, October one,
so you know what that means. It's National Black Dog
(00:22):
Day up. Get ready for your aunt to text you
about that. If you have a black dog my name
it's the help, they say, because black and darker shade
dogs don't get adopted at the same rate, so it's
like to bring awareness. Yeah, it's like, hey, man, get
that out to my my black dog, you know around
(00:44):
beautiful dog. Thank you. It was rimby a adoptee. Oh yeah,
straight up, straight up out of a supermarket parking lot.
Riby is like a beautiful dog. I'm assuming that was
one you had to snap up real quick. Yeah yeah,
I mean the woman had was for turning her card
and wasn't looking at him, so I just pull I
just snatched him up, crabbing the car take off with him.
(01:06):
Is my dog? No? No, it was just like a
pet adoption and we I don't know, he's a beautiful mutton,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, we got that
going for each show anyway, Shout out to all the
black dogs out there. My name is Jack O'Brien a K.
I did cast five hundred pots and I did cast
five hundred more just to be the man who talks
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the news with miles of thousand times or more. That
is courtesy of Rug Cunningham. Da da da da day
at least, I uh, that is courtesy of Rob Cunningham,
who uh informed us with this ak that we have.
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This is our thousandth episode. I believe that God a
mill that's a millennium. That's a step into millennium. That's
one large, as you know, I like to say in
gambling circles, I got five large on the assholes. But yeah,
shout out to us for doing a thousand podcasts. Shout
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out to Rob for bringing the appropriate amount of enthusiasm
for this milestone by just retweeting the one he already
did for our episode, which is exactly right because when
I told Miles it was our thousandth episode about two
minutes before starting recording, what was your answer, Moss? It
(02:35):
is real time flies when you're having fun. It does.
Uh Well, I am thrilled to be joined by my
cold head it snake seven. Behold I'm again when I can't,
I have to do that whole method man part step
into Millennium. You do, Yeah, sorry, Hey, Well, I'm thrilled
(02:57):
to be joined by you, my co host, Mr Miles Grass.
It is an emergency. This is not fine. Please someone
seeing him sounds it tooth his mind. God, just the
dude for this. I think he's known. Oh no, no,
known as the music Man. Music man putting out the
(03:19):
fuse in Donald's dome and shout out to Christie Amagucci
made for that Elton John's priory a k. Yes, the
music man who we found out from the Stephanie Grisham Leeks,
the person who plays Donald Trump's show tunes to avert
and Trump thank you very stute observation, just stroking his
forehead playing playing show tunes to calm him down. Well, Miles,
(03:43):
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
for the for this momentous thousandth episode by a hilarious
comedian and filmmaker whose debut comedy album Airports Comma Animals
Period just so you have the punctuation punctually right, was
named one of the best stand up albums of one
(04:04):
by Pace Magazine. They called it a thought provoking, hilarious triumph.
The Comedy Bureau called it a damn good debut comedy album.
Very agro from the Comedy Bureau, but I've listened to it.
They are right. It will make you extremely happy. Please
welcome the brilliant and talented Sean devl Wi. Hello. Hello,
(04:29):
you your thousandth episode and probably should have booked a
more famous guest. Oh you're not. Hey, we don't this
is it. I mean you got an album. I don't.
This is here, baby, you have one of the best
stand up albums of the year. Yeah. Uh, it's very good.
(04:49):
And also your energy level is appropriate to this being
our thousandth episode, which we barely acknowledge. Yeah, so we're
thrilled to have you have millennial energy. Exactly where are
you coming to us from? Vancouver, British Columbia. A favorite place,
(05:11):
my favorite place on earth. He'll talk a lot about
the time he went to Italy, but the real heads
know that Vancouver is miles his favorite place. They know
I got a collection of Vancouver Christmas Market mugs in
my pantry, you know I collect them. I'm coming through
for the Christmas Market downtown. Wait, so you came in
the winter. Yeah, because look, I'm born, I'm I'm of
(05:34):
the valley. The San Fernando Valley just local scum, and
it's just so hot all the time that I have
like a very like I fantasize about wearing jackets because
I've always been like barefoot on blacktop and shorts and
ship my whole life. So bundling up is like it's
like fucking costplay for me. And going to Vancouver at
that time of years, it's it's like not so cold
(05:55):
that I can't handle it, but just enough from like
respecting it. That makes sense, That makes sense. Lot of
rain though, yeah, I mean it's funny. The last couple
of times I went, I would like my trip will
coincide with the first snowfall of the winter, so like,
you know, a way, I was like, look at look
at look at us Vancouver were made for each other. Yeah, yeah,
(06:16):
rain and snow another thing. The San Fernando Valley doesn't
get a lot of net really dust fire, ash, fire,
ash and dust. Sehn, You've you've been a filmmaker most
of the time, and then this is your debut album.
What like it it took. It was what was the
road to having your debut album come out? Now? Yeah,
I guess it had a bit to do with the pandemic.
(06:38):
Uh so, yeah, things were slower with film, and it
felt like I was ready to put an album out
and and a record label off for me money to
do it. That's that's the realizer. Okay, right there you go.
I was gonna trying to come up with something artistic.
But yeah, it's really it's really fun good man, it's
(06:59):
so fucking funny. Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. Well,
we are going to get to know you a little
bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
list is a couple of things we're talking about today.
INSTACRT workers are striking school boards are begging Joe Biden
to protect them. We will talk about the scourge that
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is facing all parents this Halloween according to cops, which
is that people who have weed gummies are just dying
to give them away two children they don't know and
just make make children way more annoying. We are going
to talk about Dog, the bounty hunter. I think we're
gonna I believe in I believe in today's show. I
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believe we're gonna get to it all of that plenty more.
But first, Sean, we do like to ask our guests,
what is something from your search history. I googled this morning,
can a weed plant get rained on too much? Mm hmm, yeah,
because yeah, we had a lot of rain here last
night and it's my wife and I was first time
(08:03):
growing weed outdoors and we got spooked. Yeah. I just
gotta you know, if you're going to outdoors there, if
they're they're meant for, you know, typically plants grow. So
I think it's just like the mold, right that you
gotta watch out for. Yeah, mold. I googled it, and
I love the like weed growing advice is there's a
(08:24):
fine line. Sometimes you're like, yeah, this is science, and
sometimes it's just sowner advice and sometimes um So the
first tip was like just shake all the water off off,
punch it off. So yeah, we shook it off a bit.
And then it's said to give it potassium, which I
guess means like you feed it my weed plant a
(08:45):
banana or something. I don't know how to give it potassium. Yeah,
I don't know how to feed plants at all. Yeah,
I don't I don't how to feed in any food. Yeah,
or it's like or like I feel like a lot
of like weed growing things will also just be like weird,
hostile like sarcasm too. It's like, oh, I don't know,
Like it's a plant, right, so you know, God forbid water,
(09:09):
God on a thing that grows outside. You're gonna be fine. Bro,
Really are very interesting. Yeah, we boards are interesting place
for information. It's just like you're an idiot for asking
questions about growing weed, but then but then like wrapping
it up with it's all good, bro it don't worry
(09:31):
about it. Yeah. How do you dry a planet? Like?
Do you dry a plant by just waiting for the
sun to come out? Or is it like we were
just like putting a little towel on it and wagging
it back and forth. What were we doing? Yeah, I
don't know what I did, because we're not gonna have
sun here for several days, so we were thinking about
maybe just cutting the plant early, you know, cutting our
(09:54):
losses and and bringing it in to dry it inside.
But I don't know. It's it's tense times over here. Yeah. Yeah,
well you know we're we're here with you, so if
if we can help you know, let us know is
that gang also if you have any tips for obvious treatment,
because we know we have many diverse skill set within
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the listening community. And BC is like naturally a place
that weed is very comfortable, correct, Like that's a that's
even before everything was legal, and like you could have
massive growing operations like that was the place that people
grew a lot of weed, right, yeah, even before it
(10:35):
was legal. My my recollection is that it was a
seven billion dollar shadow industry pre legalization just in BC. Wow. Yeah,
because I remember like even when the first like medical
dispensaries are opening up here in like the late nineties
and early two thousands, like BC buds would come down
and I'd be like, yo, they got some BC buds
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in and that you know that the community for sure. Yeah. Yeah.
So the best stories that you can find about like
people being innovative is like how people get drugs across
the border. And I feel like there were some good
ones about people like floating it across in balloons from
British Columbia and maybe a catapult here and there. I
think the catapult was the US Mexico border, but I
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remember the catapult there. They're My favorite one at the
at the BC US border was these folks built a tunnel,
and so they dug out a whole tunnel. They put
in like a little trolley tracks and everything, and they
put fluorescent lighting in. But then the Feds knew about it,
I guess from the beginning and just watched them do it.
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And then the first guy that rolled that first cart
down with like fluorescent lighting like a grocery store and everything,
they were just waiting for him on the other end.
They busted them and then fucking no need any more worse?
Do you think, like the Yeah, they a busted him,
and they're like they're trying to figure out like the
best bit to shock the guy with like a nick
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What do we do like clowns. Yeah, we throw a
surprise party. We do like surprise and under arrest our
trafficking a team from practical jokers. Yeah, like agent, Yeah,
put your ear wig in so we can feed you
some lines from the control room. Okay, yeah. The trolley,
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the indoor trolley. A few people know that that was
what Mr Rogers was doing, is smuggling weed on his
little indoor trilley. What was that little town called Imagination Land?
Or something. Yeah, yeah, whatever, he was tracking Friday's realm.
Oh yeah, man, you see that ship. You see those people,
They're right fucking peaked. Man. What is something? What is
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something that you think is overrated? Sean? The banjo, which
is a banjo and a ukulele. It's a musical instrument,
should not exist. And my downstairs neighbor is dating a
a white man with an asymmetrical haircut who's been teaching
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himself how to play banjul Ailey in my yard for
five months. I'm painting a very specific picture of my
home life. Here we plant problems and this dang banjul
ale and he's not getting better. It's like I want
to say, give up. You're not progressing at a rate
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that would make you feel good about this. Yeah, that's
the key part. He's learning. He's learning, not like the
instrument sounds terrible regardless even if I think you had
mastered it, I would still hate it. But he's been
teaching himself instrument by playing and singing like Weezer covers.
Oh no, yeah. I'm baffled by his confidence because I
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have so much anxiety, Like I feel like I can't
buy milk without thinking that I've somehow offended the grocery
clerk for him to just um into my heart and
think that you know, he could do this and no
one would have issue with this terrible banjo a music. Yeah,
I don't understand his confidence. In fact, I want to
learn from it or something right, right, I mean, I
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think a lot of people there's always like that tweet.
It's like I wish I had the confidence of blah
blah blah. It's like we should all aspire to the
confidence of a white man with an asymmetrical haircut learning
banjo lal at the outdoors. I used to be like
when I was when I was a kid, I played
trumpet for most of my life and when I would
when I would practice, I I'm just like, I just
(14:35):
like I don't want to sound bad. I would like
go to like the most remote remote place of like
my house to try and like practice in silence. I
would even use a mute sometimes. So for someone who
to be like, yeah, I was doing in my driveway
just blasting this ship, I'm like, Wow, that's there's something
to be learned there. Though. Yeah, they sound though like
what do you what? Like? It feels like what are
(14:57):
you gonna do like a tropical you know, ukulele obviously
evokes Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, you know, things like that.
But then the banjo is very much feels like Southern American.
And then together like what the fund is that? Like
does it sound any like when you hear it, you're like, oh,
that's an interesting sound, or just sounds like any other
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stringed instrument. It sounds racist that makes sense than ukulele.
And I feel like the banjo has definitely appropriated the ukulele,
like it's more banjo than ukulele. It's just I think
the banjo just wanted the lateley for the cred or something,
(15:39):
the cultural cred yeah, or the you know place too
for other people to vacation. And and also yeah, kidnapped
the ukuleles queen in order to anna banjo structure. Yeah,
and then intermarried, full forced intermarriage. Yeah. They Yeah, they
have the racism covered from both the like cultural a
(16:00):
creation angle and the just straight up deliverance style like
uncut proud racism of the banjo. Yeah. And if yeah,
I would love to hear a sick banjo l solo,
but in my mind, like I don't I don't. And
also when I hear wheezer, I'm like, what are they?
What song is it? Like? Say it ain't so or something? Yeah?
(16:21):
Just pretty yeah, several. My name is jonas on Banjo Laile.
That's a lot of picking. I'm picturing the year downstairs
neighbor as the apartment from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
For some reason like that, I can't not like Kim Careless. Yeah, yeah,
(16:44):
like that that the vibes. Vibe, yeah, the vibes. What
is something you think is underrated? Sure? Boiled eggs, guys,
fu Yeah, boy, I had too for breakfast. You don't
need to fry them. You don't need to to devil them.
You just need some hot water and it maybe a
bit of salt, some chili sauce or something. Wow. Just
(17:09):
I got nothing else, just boiled eggs. How are you?
How are you applying it? Just on the on the
smooth outside the chili sauce. I mean you take a bite,
you feel the hole? What do you do? I'll slice
it right down the middle, dissect it, and then I'll
put some yeah, some chili in there, maybe a thin
slice of onion. Oh ship wow, And then you a
(17:33):
little bit of going into that. Yeah there. You never
go soft boiled. Yeah, only if I'm in a rush,
so it's more out of okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
like a lot of soft boiled eggs, and I kind
of on the similar diet as you. I usually eat
like two boiled eggs too, soft boiled eggs in the morning,
(17:54):
a little bit of CuPy mayonnaise, Japanese mayonnaise in a
little little bit of a tear or drop of soy sauce. Wow. Okay, okay, yeah,
that's how I get down. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try
this tomorrow. Yeah. How are you guys transport? Do you
transport in in shell or do you transport like you
crack it? And then here's the thing. I think we're people.
(18:17):
I I feel like I agree that the boiled egg
is thinking. So I don't want to force that on
other people necessarily. So I just tried to eat it
almost like a vitamin Like. I like that I can
boil it and I can eat it so quickly, and
that's my breakfast, right Yeah, yeah, that's and I that's
what I do. I take a small bite off the
top and create a chasm, and then I give my
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little mannise and soy sauce in there, then I eat
the rest of the rest egg and one bite. Yeah, yeah,
they're so good. All right, Well, let's take a quick
break and we will be right back to talk about
some news and we're back. Strikes are in the air.
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We got an instat cart workers strike starting on October six.
They're specifically the shoppers who go on strike because yeah,
it's it's bullshit. They've been treated just horribly. They they
have added billions and billions of dollars of evaluation to
the company's bottom line, and the company has rewarded them
(19:33):
by treating them like ship. Yeah, this the old gig
worker recipe, which is make them independent contractors so you
owe them nothing. And in this situation, you know, conditions
have been pretty the pretty. Conditions are awful across the
board for people and that are doing gig work because
of the fact that no one is treated as an employee.
(19:54):
It's all this independent contract or nonsense. And you know
there is for instat cart shoppers. They we're dealing with
low tips, like where they started to bring down like
the minimum that like would first sort of default too
in the app, as well as like a rating system
that's super fucked up in severe where like if you came,
if you dropped off in order, and someone gave you
a one star review mostly because for things like out
(20:18):
of their control, like supply chains are fucked up. So yeah,
maybe the thing the customer asked for wasn't in their
order and they hit a one star review like sort
of in a retaliatory way that would prevent shoppers from
like losing out a more lucrative trips less work in general.
So they have just some simple demands to try and
make this just resemble some kind of humane work. They
(20:40):
have five demands, which are that they just want base
pay for each order instead of the system they have
now which pays workers as well as seven dollars for
like they'll batch up to three orders and once and
then you're making seven dollars. That's nonsense. They want to
return to commission a commission based pain model where previously
pay shoppers forty cents per item shopped. They also want
(21:03):
the ten percent default tip to be reinstated right now
it's at five percent. They also sadly are asking for
occupational death benefits for workers who die on the job
because that is something that has happened as well as
you know, to alter the rating system that doesn't punish
them for things like the supply chain being fucked up
because of a fucking pandemic and customers taking it out
(21:25):
on the rating system. And yeah, there was just like
there have been more attacks on gig workers during the pandemic,
and then there was Sadly, an instacrt shopper was murdered
in March in Colorado while a fucking working for insta cart.
And that's why they're like, this is this isn't just
like like I think a lot of people, especially the
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way people tip or way workers describe it, they just
think people are just fucking around getting their groceries and
dropping off and like, well they don't need a tip,
like that's an easy job. But honestly that this is
Sadly they rely very heavily on tips because instacart doesn't
do the minimum. So for listeners, they should go to
their phone right now and delete instacart as an app.
(22:09):
Is that basically the way that we can kind of
stand in solidarity with or just don't use it. I mean,
I think customers are just boycotting as well. In solidarity
beginning the sixteenth when they strike where because you know,
like like you're saying Instacart's value, I think nearly doubled
in the pandemic to thirty nine billion dollars is what
they're worth. And as you know, as the pandemic like
(22:32):
went on and we prematurely began to reopen things, the
demand for grocery delivery has also shrunk. So they're, like,
I think, in a position where they're trying to cut
corners to to kind of keep their revenues looking pretty.
But it's just a you know, another predictable tale of
gig worker apps treating people like independent contractors to the
point where the only the only choice is to like
(22:55):
have to take collective action like this, any job that
comes with the cabin if you're working and you die,
we don't know you anything. That's a job that needs
a union. That's like, h that's very very clear. That
part is is really shocking. Like I would rather I
would rather go to a job interview and ask them, like, hey,
(23:16):
what happens if I die? I rather here that they're
unprepared for that, Like I'd rather they be like, oh,
I don't know, we've never considered that as opposed to
them being like, yeah, that happens a lot. Just yeah,
we have a policy and it doesn't include you. So
that's that's insane at a at a bare minimum that
(23:37):
like that seems like that should be illegal. M Yeah,
well I think and this is why companies like this,
they're constantly lobbying legislators to you know, write guidelines that
are favorable to this kind of oppressive work. And you
know they're right now. There was even talks of like
instat cart and door dash and Uber will potentially merge
(23:58):
into one just three headed hydra of terrible, terrible subsubsistence
wage work. Yeah. I feel like they're too much like
little mom and pop companies that we need them to
be more like just giant autonomy automatons that and through
human lives. Yeah. And by the way, the thirty nine
(24:19):
billion dollar valuation is it should be clear like based
on the fact that they're able to at least like
to a large degree, that they're able to treat employees
like ship like that is the unfortunate truth of the
current version of you know, late capitalism is like, well,
if you can, you can you know, lower the amount
(24:43):
that the overhead on these dang employees like your ubers.
You can really crush it out there, right, because like, yeah,
you think like the benevolent version of an app like
this is like yeah, man, like you keep like we
just need a small feed for us to connect you
with someone for you to do the job, and then
like whatever that costs, like you take all that. We
merely just set this up, like for the infrastructure for
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people to make money by offering people rides or doing
shopping for them, when now it's like, yeah, you're not
getting a fucking not even getting close to what's your
own on on the actual labor that you're putting into
this thing. So it's don't see that formula changing anytimes.
The rating system too, I'm glad they're keen on that
because that's brutal and it also you know, makes us
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as consumers see our complicit complicity in it too, because
it's like I think the problem with those rating systems
is that it's letting everyone be a boss. And like,
because of the hierarchy of capitalism, we're all, you know,
we've all been piste off at our bosses. But it's
letting everyone be like you know, I I recently hired
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a new employee to bring me a sandwich in the
next twenty minutes, and I'm gonna treat that person like shit,
I'm gonna scream at them for you know, having they
were late. Yeah. Yeah, And because there it's a vast
web of people mistreating each other, like the if this
is the one chance you get to have an employee
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who works for you and you've just been shipped on
by your boss like for five years, like you know,
I feel like some people will use that as an
opportunity to treat those people like ship And I don't
think it's it's like a coincidence to me, It's it's
designed right. It's like there's so much hostility and frustration
(26:29):
building up with some of these systems of power, and
I think things like this facilitate that hostility being directed
in the wrong direction, you know, like let's have people
send it at each other instead of in the direction
it should be going, Yeah, upward. And uh, Like I'm
not a historian. This is this is just based on
(26:49):
me watching the Ridley Scott film The Gladiator. But I
think that the whole thumbs up thumbs down thing came
from walking Phoenix, like the guy that Roman emperor, and
it was like, you know, that's where he's like, should
this gladiator be murdered publicly or not? Yes or no?
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Thumbs down. And I think it was clear to everyone
who saw that Oscar you know worthy film, that uh,
that's a sort of kind of unaccountable form of power
that should be checked, not kind of scaled up through
innovative app technology and like distributed to everybody. That's so
(27:33):
so I had a I had a theory because Gladiator
was a two thousand film and we did a live
show about the year two thousand, and I had a
theory worked out about Gladiator and why it like hits
so hard with the two thousand with the audience in
the year two thousand that we I didn't have time
to get to. But just like this idea, I I
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feel like the audience was caught like identified with Hajwaki
and Phoenix, like they didn't want to, but that's who
they realized they were. And then like Gladiator was the
you know the people who are off like fighting wars
that like they don't want to be a part of.
But like there's never been like a more cowardly character
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like in movies, and like when you look at the
structure of that movie, it really feels like it's like
offering that character up as like someone we can project
our anxieties of being. You know, like America is way
more nepotistic than it wants to admit. Americans like will
(28:38):
be at war without realizing it, you know that all
that sort of ship and then like you're able to
be like, no, funk that guy, he's bad. But yeah,
the allowing us like an app that allows us all
to be individual little commedist is common commed des I is, Yeah,
it's gonna be a billion dollar industry because we're all
(28:59):
like fuck yeah, thumbs down off with the head, my
my eggs were late or whatever, the blue and brown
shells mixed together. Ye Also, uh, you know it is
the I said strikes are in the air because Hollywood
is facing its largest strike since World War Two, Like
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the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees IOTZI, who represent
you know, they build the sets, they do all the
behind the scenes work. They are going to probably strike
in the next couple of days. And you know, if
you like I, I don't know what Hollywood is gonna
(29:46):
do like, is the next season of Stranger Things just
gonna be like a Lars von Trier movie and like
a black a black box type thing, like because that's
basically what what you're dealing with. Everybody's just wearing bur
laps acts and in a in a black void because
these are the people who build the fucking sets and
make everything like make you able to suspend your disbelief. Yeah,
(30:11):
and I think you know, and it's the same. The
theme is the same anywhere, right, which is just like
with Ayazi, They're they're saying like we're not trying to
blow the fucking industry up, but when we keep banging
our heads against the wall saying we would like, you know,
a living wage for certain positions, like at the lowest
rung of our union, that that is a living wage.
Or you know, like because new media and streaming stuff
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has also like created like all new kind of business
quagmires for like contracts and things like that, there's just
a lot of stuff too. Or they're like, what about
like rest periods because if I'm doing consecutive like you know,
eighteen hour days, I I there has to be a
point where we can have a break, not just because
they have to make a schedule for production like in
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time to not go over budget. And yeah, I I'm really,
I honestly hope that the Hollywood actually takes a second, ever,
like a moment to reckon with itself because these are
truly the fucking people who make everything fucking possible. It's
not just that it's not the people who we see
on the fucking screen. To get to that point is
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so that effort in labor of countless fucking people, And
and hopefully I think it just makes people more aware
of like what what it takes to make these things,
because they don't just like pop up and it's a
great time, Like there are really hard jobs in production
that go unnoticed and are not being compensated fairly. Yeah,
I think the living wage is a great point because
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I think between this and the instacrat workers, it's probably
a similar thing of the designation of being told you're
an essential worker rubbing up against the realization that you're
not being paid a living wage, Like how can I
be essential to everyone and not be getting paid a
wage that lets me live? And I think that, you know,
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I saw that during the pandemic because a lot of
up here in NBC, right, we have a pretty big
film industry, and a lot of COVID stuff got brought
up here because you couldn't shoot down in l A.
It was getting brought up to Canada. And so there
was a period where like teachers literally weren't at school
teaching and you know, shaping the minds of the future generation.
(32:24):
But like I have friends who are still working on
like sugar free gum commercials, like yeah, I mean, and
so they're being told like, no, no, you're essential. We
need this sugar free gum commercial. And if that's true, sure,
tell me that's that's essential. But like treat me right, yeah, right,
anything new in like the error version of you know,
(32:49):
market capitalism, Like so new media, these delivery apps with
that are like you know, building an industry from scratch
kind of like those will all always by default just
abuse the ship out of people until like somebody does
this and like fights for the rights of people. That's
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just like how it seems like it has always worked
in America, and it would be awesome if we could
break out of that cycle where it's like you know,
because I mean it's the same thing, right you look
at like how instacart values, the value goes up and
workers are still being like a dude, we still have
so many fucking problems, and you guys are spending more money.
The same thing with all these new shows that are
(33:30):
coming out, like yeah, exactly, Prestige TV is like it's
fucking on the same level as film and granted out
he's working on film and television, but like they're just
seeing like these budgets are getting bigger and bigger and bigger,
but you're able to kind of keep costs low by
keeping the crew at this very like lower level without
an ability to renegotiate things. While we're watching things like
(33:51):
how much money is being spent on this production. They're
trying to treat like a Netflix series like it's a
fucking funnier die short, you know, like it's just, yeah,
it's bullshit. But they that seems to be the default
shape that all you know, industries take when they're when
they first take form in America. And then like then
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you have to like break through the media like cone
of silence and be like no, this is really bad
for a lot of people, because otherwise it'll just be
like insta carts. Valuation is fucking skyrocketing, like that'll be
the headline instead of yeah, you know what's actually happening
to people. I mean people are naturally withholding their labor
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because no matter what many people are realizing it, it
shouldn't working multiple jobs shouldn't be the norm. Like, if
we're in a system where we have to put our
labor forward to survive, then one job should be enough.
And the fact that it isn't is I think, you know,
it's just creating a very organic version of people kind
(34:56):
of advocating for themselves, and it's popping up more more
and in long may that last. I hope that leads
to a point where more people can really fully be
on the same page to understand like oh yeah, like
whether it's Instacart or aatsi or uber or fucking writing
for an online publication or whatever, like, there are minimums
that we deserve as human beings, especially when we're in
(35:18):
a system where our labor is being converted into massive
wealth for people who aren't putting even a close to
the shred of work that the workers do. Yeah, it
would be cool if somehow is this there became some
stronger solidarity or even like alliances between all these essential
workers because they've fallowen across so many different sectors and industries.
(35:41):
And yeah, it's been such a difficult period. But these
are all the folks who are told, no, you have
to keep working. So if when push comes to shove,
I mean worse than that plague comes to death, that
that these folks have to keep working, they they should
be able to like collectively organize. All right, let's talk
(36:01):
briefly about another group of fat cats who have had
it too good for too long. And I'm talking, of course,
about the people who volunteered to be on school boards.
Come on like that. You know, they dedicate their time
to help educate our children, and now they're going to
complain that they've been subjected to being you know, abused
(36:23):
and treated like absolute ship by right wing political activists.
Come on, I've had enough where I mean next, you know,
we've seen the scenes at these board meetings. They look
they're just you can't even like if you were if
you had it on mute there, you're like, oh my god,
like was their network of sexual predators like just like
(36:45):
running them up in this like school system. But no,
they're like they're teaching our kids critical race theory, which
again is for graduate students and law students. It's so
complex you couldn't even begin to fucking teach a child
critical race theory even with like the most a rudimentary
graphs and pictures. But again we've seen this, whether it
(37:08):
was critical race theory or masks. You know, there were
medical professionals who have had their tires slashed from nearly
like restating the obvious facts at a school board meeting
around masks or vaccines. Teachers have been subjected to coordinated
harassment campaigns for believing in teaching history. And and we're
also when we talked about earlier, extremists are trying to
infiltrate the school boards themselves to try and alter the
(37:31):
curriculum like to whatever they see fit. So things are chaotic.
And this group that the National school Boards Association, who
like representing like thousands of school board members, they're like
asking the president to like, we need protection here, like
this is they're they're actually effectively intimidating people into not
doing what's right for children purely because of intimidation. And
(37:54):
they really are asking that things that are including quote,
the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent
to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes, and
they're saying, we just we need help all across the board,
whether that's having the FBI, Secret Service and like National
Threat Assessment Center, like give them resources to understand like
(38:17):
how to like do proper threat assessment or examine what
they say, quote examine appropriate enforceable actions against these crimes
and acts of violence. It just seems like they're that
there's so many avenues for these people to harass them
that they're just like this work. We're not equipped for this,
Like we need someone intervened. I think the most absurd
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part of it is that a lot of the people
who are harassing these teachers from the right seem to
be the same people that proposed as a solution to
mass shootings at schools that these teachers be given guns. Yeah,
and so like just for their own safety, I mean
the safety of these idiotic monsters, they should probably we
(39:00):
choose one of those things, like either I'm going to
keep harassing and antagonizing these teachers or I want to
arm them, but for your own safety, maybe not both, right, yeah, yeah,
like that if they were just like, okay, we are
going to go with your suggestion to arm the teachers,
but only at PTA meetings. Yeah right right, yeah yeah
(39:24):
that energy, yeah, temporary gun license, yeah right. Or they're
just like or they're like, yeah, well we can do like, uh,
you know, trial by combat, but we'll just get like
the mountain to represent the school boards and yeah, throw
whoever you want at them. Parents. How about you rick
with the flannel shirt tucked into your jeans. You want
to fight the mountain over cretinor theory? Now, okay, next up, masks?
(39:47):
Anybody else? No good, don't get dry ripped off by
the mountain. But I think you know, this is just
kind of that thing where it's it's hard to know,
like how can you solve this problem because it just
feels like this is just part of like the continuing
convoy oceans of this like amorphous culture war that is
existing that if it's not critical race theory, it's gonna
be masks, and if it's not that, it's gonna be
(40:07):
trains kids, And if it's not that, it's going to
be this other thing that there's just there's always going
to find they're always going to find a way to
keep doing this. So I don't know. I mean, I
think maybe that's why they're asking like some kind of
law enforcement part of this, because maybe jail might dissuade
some of these parents that are just like so hopped
up on their privilege that maybe it's not you know,
(40:30):
maybe it's not a thing that you can just slash
someone's tires. I mean, I think it's a bit of
a snake eating its own tail thing, because I think
that the solution is how you educate kids, Like, if
you want adults that aren't idiotic and violent and hostile
in these ignorant ways, it's gonna start in school. And yeah,
(40:51):
that's I guess part of why this uh battle is
so important. But it also I guess it would require
patients for some of those results to be seen. Like
maybe we can hope that in in thirty years, if
things go well, there won't be teachers trying to parents
trying to fight teachers. Right. Yeah, it's yeah, I think
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And that's why I think conservatives see just as they
see the same path there. Right, It's like it's through
the schools. It's like Steve Bannon said, it's through the
school boards, and they know that just there's been this
like baseline of what American education is, and they realize
it's turning out more people who would probably not vote
for Republicans, and they're just like, fun, Okay, then like
(41:34):
we need to like we need to start deprogramming people
as swiftly as possible to try and get them on
board with our more autocratic, you know, fascist way of
looking at governance. Yeah. Yeah, all right, let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back, and we're back,
(42:01):
all right. So Halloween is coming up, one of our
favorite seasons here on Daily Zeitgeist, besides National Black Dog Day.
You know, it's up there with National Black Dog Day
Halloween for us. But you know, every time Halloween comes around,
there's usually going to be a dumb police warning about
(42:23):
this year it's pot laced Halloween candy that these you know,
these dang potheads are gonna be handing out tricky th
HC laced Halloween candy to your kids. And then just like,
I don't know, well, I don't know what they think
the purpose of that is, but this is so the
(42:45):
way this story is being manufactured is they raid somebody's
house and find candy laced with THHC. Because people love
that ship because it's a lot of fun. They look
at the similarities between the candy and the like can
Halloween candy and they're like, ah, they must be trying
(43:09):
to They don't actually believe this. This is just like
they This is how they get people to be scared.
On the local news, they're like this, this is a
great way to whip up a quick moral panic about
the dangers of weed. And it's the reason they made
these candies in the size and shape and flavor of
actual candies. Is is not just because it tastes good
(43:31):
and is fun, but it is because they want to
sneak one pest children and poison them for some reason.
That's that's all, you know, Stoner's all they do is
watch YouTube videos of kids who are accidentally high and
laugh their asses off because they're so sadistic, and they're
also so rich that they can afford to give a
(43:53):
fucking thirty dollar candy bar just at a time, just
tossing them out to the local kids that your local youth.
Of course, of course, I'm in my late thirties and
in my day, you know, people freaked out about their
being razor blades in the house of candy and so
I'm sorry, but this seems like genuine progress to me.
(44:15):
It's like trying to get me high, Like that's better
than trying to slip my throat internally to slice up
my asosh I guess with an arrant razor blade. There
are and this is a quote from a Washington Post article,
there are no documented cases of kids being poisoned by
(44:36):
marijuana laced halloween candy. Zero And the one case where
they have, like a parent claiming that they ate some
of their kids Halloween candy and it was laced was
too people who went to the emergency room and where like,
(44:59):
we're we ate some candy with meth on it, and
we like, we don't want to explain to you where
we got it, so we're just gonna say that it
was in our kids halloween candy. Hall Um basically seems
to be the It seems to be the story there.
That sounds like an incident where people just ate math
(45:20):
and then made up a lie. Yeah exactly, Yeah, some
meth probably got in that candy. I you're like, we're
just eating loose meth just because you didn't have a
stem and you're just trying to beam up real quick.
I don't know, I don't look, I'm not here to judge,
but sir, this is bad. I love the I love
the fact that you're like, there's no documented case of
(45:40):
this ever fucking happening, which in a way makes Q
and On more realistic than this ship from Jeffrey. Yeah,
like at least, like I'm like, yeah, well, you know,
like they're they are they're trying to tie these loose
threads either, like there's not even a fucking thread out
there to even clasp on two for this stupid fucking
story that they loved to rinse and reus every year.
(46:01):
That's that's a great comparison though, because it sounds like
it's you know, news editors trying to you know, capitalize
on the conspiracy theory side of the algorithm by creating,
you know, some new hot of the moment conspiracy theory,
or they're just looking for an excuse to be able
to pick through their kids candy first and eat all
(46:23):
the best stuff, right, despite this being like an annual
news story that I grew up, you know, in the
eighties and nineties thinking was like one of the main
dangers to my livelihood was to my life was you know,
get eating poisoned Halloween candy. There have been since nineteen
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two cases of tampered Halloween treats in the US and Canada,
which there's about forty one point one million trigger treaters
in just the US every year, So that's two hundred
total right since right so recorded incidents and then forty
(47:09):
one million people of year And of those two under cases,
experts couldn't find a single report of a child killed
or seriously injured from a contaminated treat received during trick
or treating. But meanwhile, like you know, just just maybe
keep your eyes on the road the like during Halloween
instead of worrying about this ship, Like there's way more
(47:30):
pedestrian accidents and ship because people are out on the street.
Oh you're yeah, you're saying of like a car, a
car hitting somebody is the big the actual threat on Holliday,
not fucking you know, wavy candies and the only thing, Like,
I do think it's fair for people like to be
wary that they like get not give it out, like
(47:54):
because there there is now more weed candy than we've
ever had like our houses them before. But like I
think that's pretty standard. But yeah, just keep make sure
you keep it separate from any other candy, and I'm
sure you're gonna be fine. Like, whoa, I don't know
what's the problem. I keep it separate. I don't bump
(48:17):
me out. Man, Well you know, I I I'm sure
by next year they'll find a new thing, or maybe
it'll just be this all over. It'll be this every
year we're dead or weed is illegal. Well yeah, but
you know, like you know why, I'm like, I'm kind
of proud of US, US and Canada that there's only
been two hundred incidents since nineteen fifty eight. Like you
(48:40):
you'd think with like how things have espposedly deterior in
the United States as it relates to like like these
like large scale violent events that like at the end
of the people like the Halloween. Man, don't funk, come
on now, don't like let's I don't have the energy
for that. And that's just that's no one wants that burden.
And even in the language that was used to describe
those two hundred incidents, he said contaminated and there's no deaths,
(49:03):
And so part of me thinks a bunch of that
might just be like seed Snickers, Yeah, got the runs
or something like that was contaminated because I'm sure, yeah,
like how do you I mean the energy that would
go into contaminating a candy and like being the front
for like the face that like, you know, people, there's
(49:25):
a way to figure out where the candy came from
on some level. You know, it's not a totally like
anonymous act because people are knocking on your door and
so like, do I remember anyone weird? Yeah, there was
that person just laughing, just sadistically the whole time and
had no costume on, and right before they gave us again,
he said, hold on one second. They had closed the
(49:46):
door for a couple of minutes, then open and be
like now it's ready. That person, we may want to
look into that. It's it's also such a weird level
of distrust of just people because my understanding of you know,
strangers who like to kill other strangers is they like
to they like to see it like they like to,
(50:07):
you know, get their hands dirty, and that is something
that satisfies them. But to to put all that work
in and then just know that somewhere out there in
the distance someone is suffering, that doesn't really seem like
if that's if that's really happening, then we should be
just as scared as the candy you buy at the
grocery store, because would be just as easy to go
(50:28):
and put a bunch of contaminent candy at the grocery
store and have people eat that. If that's what's getting
your rocks off, come on, don't give these freaks any ideas. Yeah,
it's I I can't think of a worth or less
satisfying prank. No, And even like as a kid, you're like,
(50:51):
you're not trying to funk with someone's I don't know,
maybe because you grow up like like Halloween candy sanctified,
so even and like as you get older you're like, no, no, no,
come on, don't suck her with that. That's not what
you're gonna do. Anything like throw shit at someone's house,
Like you know, light a bag of ship on fire,
t P eggs, that stuff. That's a prank, not not
violating the sacred trust hollow Halloween candy distribution. Yeah it's
(51:17):
sacred TP, but the TPS ship on it. But the
eggs a bitting your ass, Like how do you keep
them from crack and jack? That's pretty impressive, a lot
of control, man, a lot of control, a lot of meditating. Yeah,
it's it's very dumb that there have been, Like I
(51:39):
do think it's there are valid things to like with
tons of candy around the house, if you have we
gummies around the house like that. That's something that actually
happened at a barbecue that we covered on this show
because it's kind of funny to imagine, but like I
think a bunch of five year olds got their hands
on their parents sur patch kids THHD gummies and like
(52:04):
had to go to the emergency room. So I guess
not funny, but just kids are already so weird, so
I was just curious what that would look like. But
it's all happening by accident, it's not nobody is doing
this on purpose. So yes, beware, don't leave your fucking
weed gummies out and like next to your kids fucking
(52:25):
Halloween candy. That's that's. Oh you should see me like
whenever I have like younger, like a family over like
I had, like the d e A is about to
pull up. Yeah, like yo, they're gonna have to do
work to find this ship because yeah, like you absolutely
like you have to understand you know that you you
have to respect the power in that In the wrong hands,
(52:46):
it can do a lot of damage. Not even just kids,
like people in their twenties. My my wife when she
was younger, showed up at a house party hungry and
proceeded to eat a bunch of pastries off the table
that weren't able, and it was like so she downed
like a whole dinner's worth of of edible weed pastries
(53:07):
and then had such a severe panic attack that she
had to go home and just sleep in a snowsuit
to like sweat it out. I love that method of like,
all right, I'm gotta put the full body snowsuit on
and just sweat this thing out. Oh did it work though?
Is that that she said? It worked? Like by the
next day she felt like better. But but I agree
(53:32):
with what you're saying. It's like there is a risk,
but it's more like at home and be careful. It's
not like be scared of people premeditated trying to do right. Yeah,
well that's yeah. I think that's the that's the thing
that everyone wants to just sort of foster and everyone
at the moment. It's like be afraid of fucking every
single person out there, because you don't know who the
fun they are. Yes, there's no way they could just
(53:55):
be like you, another human being who's trying their best
to just survive in the world day to day. They
want the cops look at these sick funs out here
with nerve ropes full of drugs to get your kids
fucked up. Man. I am like I I will say this,
I will never act on it. I'm very curious what
my kids would be like stoned because they're already so
(54:19):
like prone to uh like pod head thinking. I'm just
if anybody who was at that barbecue who saw those
five year olds high, if anyone who was at that
barbecue with those kids and saw how they were behaving,
I'm just curious, like what that what that looks like? Well,
(54:41):
I think it's funny because like the first time I
smoked weed as a kid, I was like, this is great.
I feel like more like a kid right now. Everything.
Oh yeah, it's just slippery slopers. Yeah, not trying to
grow up. I'm just trying to be me to Yeah exactly.
I'm just I'm just trying to laugh harder at this ship.
(55:01):
They bring them to the r They're like our kids
got really cool all this we don't know what to do,
and they're like listening to safe Searge. I don't even know.
It's like they're real hip and ship. Yeah, but my
five year old asked me how his bones move him once,
(55:22):
and I means and that you're like that fucked you up.
You're like, man, that was definitely a thought I have
had while I was high. Yeah, and then immediately forgotten.
Let's talk really quickly about Dog the Bounty Hunters everywhere. Yeah,
(55:44):
so he, you know, as the Gabby Petito case continues
to just spin around in the headlines because of missing
white woman's syndrome, Dog the Bounty Hunter was like, I'm
I'm on this ship. He so he started smelling some
money and so he has decided to enter the search
(56:06):
for Gabby Potito's ex boyfriend who was like with her
when she died and like he disappeared into like a
national park and you know, for to his credit, his
investigation has already yielded a call from the boyfriend's family
(56:26):
when Dogs the Bounty Hunter showed up at their house.
Your emergency, um, Dog the Bounty Hunter and like, fucking
won't leave me alone, right, now he's going full dark Night,
like he's lived long enough to become the villain. Yeah, well, yeah,
he was also doing that. She was doubling down back
(56:47):
when he said he could use the N word, like,
He's like, yo, I gotta invite to the cookout permanently,
so you know I could say the N word, because
in two thousand seven, that phone call lead to him
dropping the M bomb multiple times, and not like in
a I'm singing gold Digger like lyrics out loud type shit.
He was like he was hitting that hard are and
he his you know this at the time when I remember,
(57:09):
I think it was Larry King. He was like, yeah,
I'm friends was Snoop and you know he's like they
say like, hey, what's up my end? And you know,
I feel like because of that, you know I can
I can say it too, and he kept he came
back around to talk about those fucking topics again in
one I was like, why are you still talking about this?
For like, you're lucky you got canceled before before people
(57:32):
didn't like knew how to cancel people. Because he's like
back in like, hey, remember that, I'm here to say
again M And I'm just like Eminem and you're like what,
I'm like, Okay, he's like I have more black friends
and Eminem. Okay, there you go, sir. Name dropping Snoop
doesn't count because not just because having a black friend
(57:52):
doesn't let you do that, but because that's the only
other guy who has dog in his name. Like him
being like, no, I know Snoop Dog. It's like, well, no,
that's not your black friend. That's your other friend whose
name has dog. Like, yeah, y'all have dog solidarity. You
know that's about it. Um. Yeah. The New York Times
(58:15):
did like a lengthy profile on him, I think this
year about like how he's coping after the death of
his wife. He had a pulmonary embolism thanks to testosterone
supplements and refused to stay in the hospital. He literally
pushed in orderly up against a wall to escape and
was only convinced to get medical help after an intervention
(58:37):
from doctor Oz. So, like the the head professions on TV,
like the TV Doctor and the TV Bounty Hunter are
apparently like friends somewhere with like Judge Judy probably and
when you reinforcing like my childish idea of like how
(58:59):
TV works, one, I bet I bet dog the bounty hunter.
I think Dr Oz is all the celebrities doctors, right,
but it seems like this is just him coming back
and be like I feel like I wasn't fully canceled before,
and like it now would be a great time for
me to just like formally formally get canceled. Because he's
(59:19):
also like I thought I had the past, he said quote,
I thought I had to pass in the Black tribe
to use it, kind of like Eminem. Eminem doesn't use it.
Eminem doesn't use the N word, And I know he has,
like years ago there was like a track and a
lot of people like, we know what the fun was that,
But in his like professional career, that's not what. So
(59:40):
I don't know if again his idea is like, well,
the white guy who raps I say it right, No not,
I don't. I don't think so. Dog. And if you
think you have the past because black tribe anything, you don't, Yeah, yeah,
in the black I'm like, what he needs to chill out,
someone needs to sneak come some some dirty Halloween candies.
(01:00:03):
Yeah right. And if he doesn't, I feel like maybe
the feds are gonna go like suicide squad style, and
you know, let the Tiger King out of jail to
go catch Dog Hunter. Yeah right, it's a trap. They
released the Tiger King to get Dog to draw in
the bounty hunter apparently, so I didn't realize that like
(01:00:27):
his origin story. But back in two thousand three, this guy,
Andrew Luster, who is the heir to the Max Factor
cosmetic fortune, was arrested for drugging and raping three women
and skipped out on his one million dollar bail. Was
convicted in absentia and sentenced to a d twenty four
years in prison. And Dog was like, this is this
(01:00:49):
is this is how I make my career went and
like just like spent his whole like like all the
time he had hunting this guy down. But like the
way he like brought the guy in was wildly illegal,
Like bounty hunters are illegal in Mexico. And he went
down to Mexico and just like grabbed him and like
through like kidnapped him essentially, and then immediately got arrested
(01:01:13):
for that. Like it went like threw him in the
back of an suv, pulled out, and then the police
pulled him over from where like what the funk are
you doing? Man? But he still knows all sorts of
fucking money for for that, So that that seems to
be why he's trying to get elbows way back into
the national spotlight at this key moment when we're all
(01:01:35):
super you know, appreciative of cops who are racist and
do things the you know, via violence and toxicity. Like
that's he's his moment is here. I guess that is
what he's thinking. Yeah, I don't know. Again, he's still
almost a million dollars in unpaid legal fees because of that. Yeah,
(01:01:57):
that's a fucking from that. First, the first thing from
his illegal jaunt down to Puerto Vata to be an
illegal bounty hunter. But then when he did it, he
was like, hey, it was if I got this guy
in custody, was worth me going to jail for a
few days. And I mean just in general, he is,
(01:02:18):
you know, he profits from a predatory prism funnel system
that disproportionately affects the poor and people of color. Again,
like you said, uses the N word freely and has
repeatedly lobbied against bail reform, even recording a robot call
warning people in California about proposed bail reform bill to
(01:02:40):
so I can give a less compelling robot call you
get and starts off like, hey, it's dog Dwayne Chapman,
the bounty hunter, and like, get shut the okay if
you're not something dog food, I don't think I honestly
will listen to you because I don't even get I
mean perspect you as a bail bondsman, bounty hunter. Mh.
(01:03:00):
He definitely learned from that first incident because he was like, well,
I may not have succeeded in being like an actual
bounty hunter, but if this was just for the cameras,
it looked good like and then that's the route he
went down. Yeah, and I'll just I'll just keep that
million dollar tab just hanging on the hook bear and
I'll get to it eventually. Yeah. Yeah, more on that later, Sean,
(01:03:25):
such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you?
Follow you all that good stuff? So you can get
my comedy album at my website Sean Devlin dot website,
and you can follow me on Instagram at Shannie with
a Y S E A N Y dot Devlin d
V L A M. And is there a tweet or
(01:03:48):
some other work of social media you've been enjoying there?
I don't have Twitter, so I don't have a handle
to share. But the comedian Eddie Peppertone is basically the
only reason i'veent You're into Twitter because he's so funny
and he tweeted something last week that I loved, which
was this was his tweet, and he has lots of
(01:04:08):
stuff like this. We are surrounded by death from a play,
but we are also surrounded by great bargains Home Depot.
Home Depot has floorboards and tile machines with sound buttons,
all on sale this week, so come on out and
buy before you die. Home Depot, get your affairs in order.
(01:04:32):
Great Eddie pump tone is like NonStop tweeting out this
amazing voiceover for the current moment, just dystopian nightmare. Miles
Where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying?
You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
(01:04:53):
of Gray and also the other podcast for twenty Day
Fiance with Sophia Alexandro where we talk about the fance.
A tweet I like is from Mark Snedecker at Mark Snedecker.
He did a quote tweet from CNN where the CNN
tweet says us government will run out of money by
October eighteenth, Treasury Secretary says, and Mark replies, unless we
(01:05:17):
can put on the best talent show this town has
ever seen. That's great. I love when that was a
solution to every problem. It's always works for me. Yeah,
you know, let's see. Uh. Sam Salisbury tweeted, shakespeare Ship
(01:05:38):
is so timeless because everybody's got that friend named Polonius
that hides behind your tapestries. Um uh Push Push tweeted,
every single night, I slip into the alley behind my
block and released two gunshots into the sky to keep
the rent in my neighborhood stable. And this is one
(01:06:00):
that will probably it's somebody. I just want somebody to
answer this for me. Kie flaer At Kei fler Elf tweeted,
Gonna be honest with you guys, I don't understand how
the gas nozzle knows when to stop? How then does
it know? Just like here that thing being like like
but also I never trusted because I'm a compulsive topper.
(01:06:23):
Offer Oh you really? Oh yeah, I'm like no, I'm like,
I'm like fucking Giles Corey and the Crucible is stacking
more fucking stones on his chest. Like more weight. I'm like,
you'll get more gas in that tank if you don't
see the gas spilling out? Was there ever any gas there?
You go? I do it till it gets on my shoes.
(01:06:46):
Have you have you ever seen the gas like do
the thing where it like kind of all comes out
at once, Like it's like like a leaks out all
at once, like when when you overfill the tank. I can't.
I can't tell if I imagine this I was a kid,
or if that's how cars used to like expel gas
when they got over you have like a vivid memory
(01:07:07):
of like an over filled tank just like like a
orcoes blowholes just like all over the place. I mean,
who knows the way cars were built back and I
mean like every year we're like adding safety measures. Were
like that wasn't there already? Yeah? Uh, it was like
it seemed like the car's water broke and gas just
(01:07:29):
like you can't not from under it. That might have
just been the shitty car we had. And then I
went to live with my new family. Uh. You can
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(01:07:49):
we post our episode then our foot Nope, we link
off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
as well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Miles what song where we said the people to go
check out. So We're gonna go out on really like
a guitarist that I'm really fucking digging. His name is
Mansur Brown. He's from Brixton, you know, London, and he
(01:08:11):
plays a lot with like use of days and you
know that that whole sort of new jazz scene out
there from England that I'm just love and love it.
And this track is called Mushta m A s h
I t A because it seems like all of his
albums have Japanese themes. He has an album called like
this is actually from the album called s Oi, which
(01:08:32):
means white in Japanese. And yeah, his guitar playings just
like so groovy, and his like the way he just
picks those chords. You just love to hear it, and
he's so effortless. If you like the music, I really
suggest you check out him playing live because he's just
such a like expressive guitar player. Uh and just a
great way to go into your in your weekend because
(01:08:53):
it's nice and easy track of just some nice, soothing guitar.
So this is Mansur Brown with Mushta Awesome. Well. Daily
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