Suboptimal = F***d, Colonel ZAMMders 9.12.19

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season ninety nine, episode
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like how you're offering to tell the world about Italy
because I feel like Italy needs somebody to tell the
world about it people. People aren't aware. I do feel
that some places do need an advocate. Some places, um,
you know, their beauty just can't be transmitted in conventional
ways to print or video or sculpture art, thousands of movies.

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Where am I You're back? You're back in the States?
Sorry your state side? Yeah, I know, Sorry anyway. Shout
out to Christie. I'm abucha main for that one. For
rapid response a gay I asked and I have received. Uh,
and keep keep them coming. Who needs virtual reality when
you can just be transported back to Italy with Nickelback.

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Nickelback is Friday. Kay Miles were almost goad season one hundred, dude,
somebody had my voice hold on, oh my god, this
might have this, Oh god, oh god, no yeah wow.
Hundred weeks. Huh yeah, hundred weeks, man, hundred seasons. Nobody
realized online to like, I just realized that. Each week

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this season, I was like, welcome, broke the code. Yeah yeah,
another my stone for us to basically ignore. Yeah. Well,
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the hilarious comedian Mr Eliles to be here burg

(03:15):
Old Man. I was just recently called yes recording, I
still haven't recovered, but otherwise I'm great. You're compensating very
well with that Goose Bumps t shirt. Thank you, and
also have to say I'm never gonna I don't need
to watch The Godfather of trilogy anymore after that and
back it was so good. Yeah, right, back to the
Old Country. Well, what's which country is that? For you? Uh?

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And I did not expect that one. I was like, oh,
which country is it? But let's see the old one? Yeah,
the Old Well did you guys ever see that Man
TV sketch where they did the Olive Garden commercial the
Italian family and they're like never ending breadsticks, just like
the Old Country. I highly recommending that on YouTube. I
actually think that is the best commercial parody of all time. Yeah,
the Olive Garden TV come with the truly a very

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young Ike Baron Holtz. Know he was a mad TV man. Yeah,
Madman the original. Isn't that what that show is about? Madman? Yeah?
It was. It was about the tast of the first
season before Artie Lange and then Jon Hamm is he's
hiding that he's actually Alfredy Newman, right, yeah, the whole time. Uh. Well, Eli,

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we're gonna get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners
a few of the things. We're talking about the big
reveal Apple uh dropped the bomb on the world with
some incremental improvements. We're gonna talk about Elizabeth Warren, how
she's poland how the president is dealing with that Poland. Uh.

(04:46):
We're gonna talk about John Bolton because he wanted to
he wants to make it messy. He did not want
to go out make a scene a scene. We're gonna
talk about another monopoly. Uh here yo has Bro Hasbro's
like it again. People don't think we have a personality,
and we want to let them know we do. And

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it's bad. Another one, another terrible, terrible. We're gonna talk
about the vape wave because it's about to crash. We're
gonna talk about that Caroline Callaway Essa KFC's new continued
marketing scheme of just being dumb as hell, uh sod
as king in advertising plannymore. But first, Eli, we like

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task our guests, what is something from your search history
that's revealing about who you are, but Caroline, I'm callaway article.
I went on a super rabbit hole on that. Yeah. Yeah,
I didn't know anything about it. I really, I just
saw the name kept coming up and I was like,
this will eventually find its way to me, as most
things do if you're on social media, and then I

(05:52):
was like, now I actually have to look this up
now at But when the article came out, and then
I was just looking up everything I could about it,
and it made very sad. It's uh, I mean, we'll
talk about it later, but I know for those of
you listening right now read that, Yes, it's really I mean,
we could just get into it now, I guess, and

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you want to save it for later, Let's save it
for later. The teaser first, We're gonna drag your belly
through broken Glass made me happy. So we'll talk about
where where these different responses came from. What is something
you think is overrated? Oh? I had I don't remember
if I talked about this last time. I think food

(06:35):
ordering apps. I'm I'm done. I did say that, Okay,
so you know what. I had a backup just in
case it hasn't even come out yet. Disney Plus Overrated
shots fired fired over not subscribing. You're not subscribing? Why
philosophically opposed the content? The content doesn't interesting? Yeah, I
know philosophically opposed, I really do. It's crazy to me,

(06:58):
what's Eventually, I'm probably gonna have to give in if
there's something I want to watch on there, because I
don't know what it really means for the Fox catalog yet.
I mean, I know that, like Disney also owns Hulu,
so and I have, so I subscribe. So it's a
weird thing to have, like this position where I'm like,
I'm anti Disney Plus, but I have a Hulu Plus right, right, right,

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So it's not like a high horse thing so much
as like, I don't know, I don't want to watch
the Lion King reboot? Do you like Star Wars enough?
But not enough? But not enough to be excited about
the Mandalorian exactly? Every be like I'm gonna miss the Mandalorian.
I don't even know what the Mandalorian is. I guess
that gives you it's anyway, Yeah, that's right. It's a

(07:38):
transformer that turns from Yeah, actually, exactly why I call
it the Mandalorian? Why not call it like you know
Bubba Fete Life for Yeah, that's Cannon now Life, but
just more is it because you just Disney's kind of
takeover of the entertainment industry. Yeah, and it's upsetting me

(08:02):
because I'm learning more stuff they're doing that, like you
can't show they're doing something where like if if it's
a Fox title, you can't show it as like a
repertory thing anymore. So let's say during Christmas, you want
to go watch die Hard in a movie theater with
a group of people who really like die Hard. Major
movie theaters can't show it. Really, Yeah, there's more to
the policy than that. So you're this It almost sounds

(08:25):
like your opposition is born out of this idea that
you can no longer go see die Hard. I wish
I should party. I should have picked Alien because I'm
more of an alien had the hard head. But like,
it's just the fact that they're like putting these restrictions
on things that they bought out that it's really weird. Yeah,
that sucks, notoriously cheap and anything. It's insane even if

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they could. Fortunately, they don't even have a legal department,
so you can just do it. Don't worry about getting
You guys have seen Escape from Tomorrow, right, I don't know.
It's a movie a guy made in around twelve where
he shot it entirely in Disney. No no, yeah, I
haven't seen that. And Netflix bought it and put it up.
But Disney didn't fight it because it was gonna make

(09:07):
them look worse than if they just let it happen,
because they knew it wasn't a huge movie. But it's
a funked up movie. He really manages to make like
a horror movie out of the inside of Disney, right,
because people like, what is the menacing? Like, where does
the menace come from? Financially stretched stressed parents fistfighting with
like these kids who are being like brats, and but

(09:28):
like as they're going through the ride, like he just
keeps seeing fucked up ship and eventually it starts to
consume the whole family. It's absolutely worth seeing. That's I
don't want to get anymore for anyone listening who wants
to see it. But it so so fun with the
jetti from What's what's that one? Already to choke up? Yeah?
Which one is that? That'sntin? It's uh yeah. It starts

(09:51):
with an M he's back back. Um. Yeah, so it
is mostly like just the way they're going about everything else.
And also the fact is they're going to fucking obliterate
like every other service. And if this is if this
is a sign of how they're going to use the

(10:11):
fact that they own everything that that's not great. Yeah,
it's not well I think eventually yeah, like they'll be
so selfish like me own everything that hopefully that will
create a whole sub movement of like we look at
all this ship operating outside of that. I hope that's
what it is. But it's going to become like people
who are either like yo, you're either team Disney Plus
or your team HBO Max meet at the park at
sundown for the rumble. It's going to be like the

(10:34):
Warriors defined by the platform. You like, I'm ps View,
so I'm kind of like Switzerland. And then the Criterion
heads are just gonna be hanging at home, right, They're
not coming out, but you'll wait, wait till bring the
Metal books out? Does Criterion of a streaming service? They do?
They just started on film Struck. Film Struck got killed
by the Time Warner thing, and so Criteria now has

(10:57):
their own channel one owns everything and I don't know
an he can't keep up with it anymore. Man. I
remember when it was happened to the good old days
when there was just TV, when it was United Artists Cable, Yeah,
Prime Star. It was when it was like my Asian
grandma could watch NHK from the satellite, when it was
Stars and Encore, Showtime, the Movie Channel and Flicks the

(11:23):
Stars Encore Movie is the thing that what was that
one thing? Remember the early DVD technology that was like
a rental DVD. Yeah, I remember that dumb ship too,
and I'm like, hold on this DVD like basically was
worthless after four d yeah, like and it like wipes
itself out, like has like a like a parachute on

(11:45):
its own, like you can only watch it within this
period of time and then the disc is no good.
That was insane, And I think it was this like
like the proto red box. You had to go rent
it from somewhere. I think so. But then it took
a diffell apart after two months. Shout out to my
friend Chris who's dad bought a Divis player when it
came out, and I was like, yo, this is flex
also a shout out to divis from making it for
two months, like how could anyone on paper be like, yeah,

(12:06):
I'll give that a shot. It tells me when to
watch it. Right, what is something you think is underrated?
The library? Okay, I'll tell you why, because no, I
don't want to know why. I had a friend of mine,
another comedian, Jake Wiseman, was like you, Like, I was
telling him I wanted to read more, and he's like, yeah,

(12:27):
just renew your library card. They actually literally everything and
if you have like a even like an iPad or something,
you can actually check out everything from there. But more
importantly they have if you have a library card, you
can use Canopy and Hoopla. I don't know if you've
ever heard of these services, but they basically have the
entire movie catalog that Prime has, but for free. Oh yeah,
so you can and Criterion and speaking of but like

(12:49):
they have all that kind of ship. So you go
to the library to watch it or how do you
how does that really? You can get it on like
Rovis or so yeah, you go to a you go
to a dance box and it gives you it gives
you an hour to watch a two hour movie and
then it melts. Yeah, you have to fast forward the
movie at three x. You have to decide what the
best parts into your head. Yeah, clockwork orange style that

(13:13):
strap you down. I'm sorry, how does it work. It's
they're both apps that are on like Roku and using
your library card. Yeah, so I think Canopy gives you
ten a month and hooplug gives you fifteen a month,
and uh yeah, but they have like literally everything almost
everything that's on like Prime and Hulu. You can get
off there. So like first reform your tax dollars subsidizing

(13:37):
the film and you don't have to go to the
library to do that either. You can literally just you
get information on the app. You can watch it on Prime.
It is I need to watch that. It's you need
to watch it at the library. Yeah, you could rent
it on Canopy miles. You don't have to go to
the library and to watch you're gonna have to read
books at I don't know. That's not how I grew
up doing it. What is crazy is they also have
every DVD that just came out, like even that red

(14:00):
Box doesn't right right. I was yeah, because I went
there because I wanted to rent something that I could
not find anywhere else, and that was where I had
to go, persiliquin of the desert. Yes, great reference. People
forget Hugo weaving Man. They think of him as Agent
Smith from the Major. So shout out anybody who wants
to rent, rent and consume media, get on that library. Yeah, exactly,

(14:22):
rent that. What is a myth? What's something people think
is true? You know? To be false? Bright screens? I
can fall asleep in front of them, not all the time,
but people are like, oh, be careful, don't you know,
make sure there's no light. Be careful, man, I feel
be careful. You want to sleep? Whoa what are you doing? Easy?
They're on the on the blue screen. I will say,
I don't have the phone next to me to fall asleep,

(14:43):
But like I can watch TV and pass out. I don't.
I've been doing that since I was kid, So I'm
sure like putting the screen right in front of your face,
but I don't know a few times off the blue
light thing you're talking about, like it turns on the
serotonin recept I'm sure it does, because I do realize too,
I'm on my computer and Her Majesty is asleep or
something that bright ass blue. It's disruptive to someone who's

(15:05):
trying to sleep versus Like, it's different than if you're like,
just let my brain fucking fizzle out while the TV
is on versus like, yo, do that blue light is
sucking me up? And then I got that what's that
app called flux or something? You can change the color
temp and then boom z instant. Dude, that's so I
didn't realize that you're absolutely right because I remember I
was staying at a hotel and um, and my girlfriend

(15:27):
at the time turned on the TV or turned on
her phone something and that woke me up, right, And
I was like, but if I was looking right at it, yeah,
find a new angle, that's right. Yeah, Discovery Channel out.
Yeah yeah. Alright, guys, let's talk about Apple's big moment yesterday,
the big unveiling of the iPhone. We gotta look at

(15:49):
like a bunch of new iPhones, right like yeah, and
and Apple TV announced their full thing I think too. Yeah,
new iPad fucking everything. Yeah, the phone has a camera
on the back. Now that just looks like a fidget spinner. Yeah,
it literally it really does. Yeh three. Um, Now you

(16:12):
can take a selfie of yourself in slow motion, which
is something I've been waiting for. The selfie camp. The
selfie camp now has sixty friends. Second, Oh that's okay,
And they're trying to coin a term for it, slofie. No, absolutely,
they are trying to make it a thing. It's very upsetting,
are they really? Yeah? They really are. They put it'sfie

(16:33):
slow fie and then like the only thing they could
come up with to do with that was they did.
They had a guy do that, like, yeah, yeah, wobble
for your cheek, meet around. He was like, look, how
crazy that the old Max commercial come back? Come back
in that little lounge chair. Yeah, you have a scarf
on um, something's blowing behind him. Yeah, oh yeah, you're right,

(16:55):
it was a scarf. Anyway, the phone can stay one
meter under water for like, I think up to thirty
minutes or something. I feel like that is also what
the last phone could do. I was having when I
was looking at a lot of these announcement things, I
was like, done that, already, do that already. It seems
slightly cockier about it. Then, right, Your ability to drop

(17:16):
your phone in the Yeah, the three camera iPhone eleven
pro Max Super Prison or whatever the funk That thing
is the like super low light image imagery. Ship actually
looked that was the one thing. I sounded like, oh
that's different, right, you cannot take photos in the dark
for ship on an iPhone? So can we also acknowledge

(17:37):
that this is the iPhone ten? Like they never came
out with an iPhone nine? And it infuriates Okay, you
know what I'm saying. I look, I have a hot take.
What was the XR then or the nine are? Yeah?
Well the ten s was. I don't know for sure.
They definitely did want to skip a few, but they're

(17:58):
just they're normalizing it. We have to. They're normalizing numbers
not existing anymore. What that is dangerous because now there'll
be a group of children who don't know about the
number nine. People are like, the Joker movie is gonna
be dangerous? No, the number nine. People really are talking
about the Joker movie a lot, like how dangerous it's
going to be? How the timing is weird? Well, I

(18:19):
think it's I think it's just because we are in
such a tense time right now. Anything that possibly begins
to drum up any kind of fear or thoughts around
you know, violent loner crime is yet gonna be a
little bit unsettling. Should they maybe start doing for the iPhone?
Like what hard pivot back to iPhone? Yeah? Sorry, yeah, yeah,

(18:44):
clown movie directed by the Joker, back to the thing.
I like, you know how Madden just started doing a
new edition every year that had the year next to it,
mad in thirty six. Like, I wonder if the iPhone
should just be like the iPhone? Yeah, well no, see,
and then that's how they're going to get you every
year now, right, But shout out to people who are

(19:08):
probably gonna line up for this what's the going price
on this one? Because I know they're like, we're going
to be more cost friendly, which just sounds like for
the eleven, Yeah, for the plain alt eleven, for that
holy broke boy phone that doesn't even have the three frame.
It's lenses. It's got two lenses on the back. What
am I on welfare? Just might as well just get

(19:30):
an iPhone four s right exactly? Look ahone x Yeah,
one of the additions is much cheaper, I think, um,
but then there's others that are I think the XR
is a little bit cheaper, but I think the one
thing that they are doing, is you can get like
a year of Apple TV Plus or whatever if you
buy oh included something like that. Yeah. So so it's

(19:52):
like the Prime, the Amazon Prime streaming thing where you
get this thing and it totally unrelated. Yeah, like please,
It's like, look, bro, I didn't I wasn't working with
the Utuo album you gave me for free, right, so
we're really going to do this with the TV. They're
never going to live that down. An entire channel of
Prestige TV is probably more attractive. That would be the

(20:13):
YouTube ladder. That if on the day that the Apple
TV premiered and they're just like, here's the YouTube. And
then I did see a trailer for the Jason Momoa show.
See I think it's called Where Everybody's Blind. I have
a lot of questions. I mean, it's cool, it looks

(20:35):
Jason sounds like a metaphor. Yeah, well boy, it sounds
like a very subtle metaphor. Yeah, everyone is blind, and
there if they fear these two children who can suddenly see.
My whole thing is there's like fight scenes come on
the sloppiest fights, slopes, night fights. Everybody is visually impaired,
just like people are taking swings at each other. The

(20:58):
whole time in the movie ends when one of them
connects and it's like their friend and actually becomes like
the rulers. Right, And also like, anyway, I have a
lot of questions. I'm sure there's probably more to defend itself,
but like when I think about the whole premises, like
these people who are blind or suspicious of these two
newborns who can see, how do the ones that cannot

(21:18):
see verify these ones can in fact see their babies? Yeah,
and I guess you do. Like we sit to their
face and be like, they wouldn't be crying if I
wasn't cocking my fast back. The babies are just like
you guys look awful, and they're like, oh my god,
what they can see and talk? What do I look like? Yeah,
if everybody isn't real ugly in that world, then everyone's beautiful.

(21:41):
Jason Momo is like, wait, even Jason Momo was beautiful.
You can't know when he grows that hair out. Oh
my goodness. Alright, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll
be right back, and we're back, and uh, let's listen

(22:07):
to this clip from I think it's CNBC is that
the financial one? Yeah, where Jim Kramer, who I hadn't
heard speaking like years. He doesn't seem to be able
to put a sentence together anymore. I'm not totally sure why.
But he's talking to a couple business guys. It's one
of those like financial shows where they're like three thousand

(22:29):
numbers in the frame like on boards in the backgrounds
and then racing by below. Uh and there. Yeah, let's
let's just hear what they what they have to say
about Elizabeth Warren. I don't know. In the end, I
know Elizabeth Warren, don't listen. I favor c eos. You
think it's positive to have a sea I think, you know,

(22:52):
maybe not and it is. I don't know if she
becomes the president, what do you think is gonna happen
at the band? Well, it's not a could be a
suboptimal situation. I think you think Elizabeth Warren pushes banks
into it. They're already down from the But yeah, I
just think they were. You know, there were these uh

(23:15):
curious in the thirties, were they what rich people in
front of Congress during the depression? Attraction effective About twenty
years later, we had the least discrepancy and incomes in
the fifties and sixties. I don't know what's gonna happen. Look,
I gotta tell you, when you get off the desk,
you talked to executives. They're more fearful of her winning.

(23:38):
I mean, I've never heard anybody say, look, she's got
to be stopped. She's got to be I don't know.
It's she's very uh, she keeps going up in the polls. Wow,
these motherfucker's found like the people that winter fell. When
the White Walkers are coming, They're like, um uh fuck
the Poles. He's also doing a parody of a panic person.

(24:01):
He's like, what in the middle. I don't know. I
mean they're either way Bernie or Elizabeth. They both have
Wall Streets number. And I think, yeah, maybe because Warren
is cutting through to maybe people they talked to more,
they're more afraid because either one of them, it's gonna
be suboptimal for Walters. And they always referenced these things

(24:23):
that when it was the other time that it was
the worst for the working class, like well, you know
the thirties, you know what was happening to rich people.
Then someone after goes But then that flowed up with
theirst amount of income inequality. Yeah, but you know, but
remember the thirties, they had like an existential moment too,
or they're trying to figure out if CEOs were necessary,
like the no one wanted to like handle that thought.

(24:44):
They're like, huh, well, I don't. They were talking about
a bank that hasn't had a CEO. They've just had
an acting CEO for the past like year, and they
were like, I mean, CEOs are a good thing, right,
just like oh man, well, I mean yeah, when you
look at what she's proposing, she's sort of like, I'm
gonna break up the big bank, similar to what Birdie's
talking about, and they want to basically separate like a

(25:04):
lot of the commercial banking ship that managed like everyday
people's money from the parts of the bank that do
the high risk investment ship. Because she's going from the
inside out, and that's because she's seen everything, and I
think like a lot of these people who are savvy
about what's actually wrong with our banking system and our
financial system, they're like, just so you know, this is
what's happening. They're like, our deposits are ensured by the government,

(25:27):
and then they use that like are basically we're gambling
money that's ensured and they're saying, let's let's knock that
ship off. And I think also to like a lot
of it is basically trying to bring back the Glass
Stiegel Act, which was repealed in nine and that's when
it became casino time, casebo time, and a lot of
people say, you know, that's the financial crisis was definitely

(25:47):
spurred along by the fact that that act was repealed.
And I mean, just like we've been saying with Trump
and the you know, since Trump was elected, the stock
market has been doing well, like it might not do
right under Elizabeth Warren, but like that is not the
economy right exactly. Well, her whole thing is like if
we want financial independence and freedom for working people and

(26:10):
to like just make everything more equitable, we have to
go right through the one percent fucking face. And that's why, Yeah,
you see these shows are hundled up, and like, I mean,
how do we stop the walkers there? Like a dragon?
Do we have a dragon? You know, it's curious that
they don't mention Bernie whatsoever. And that's like Elizabeth Warren,
that's what I think in their mind, they may have

(26:32):
already dismissed him, because I like, if they're thinking, like
most of these hacks do, it's like, well he's a socialist.
I'm like, no one's gonna buy that. Like when she's
got is like occupy Walla Street people, And I think
maybe they see because Elizabeth Warren isn't outright describing herself
as a socialist, but someone about you know, what is
it the thing like fair capital or something like like whatever.
The other code word for still capitalisabeth Um that maybe

(26:57):
that's why they see maybe her is more viable and liberal. Yeah,
but it's like but she likes what is it compassionate
capitalism or whatever? Yeah. Because also like what's really also
ridiculous about this is that none of them are going
to change anyone's minds in that conversation. There's no one
watching that that's like, yeah, should I go with Bernie instead?
You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, they're like, wait,

(27:17):
what she's coming for all of our money? Because you know,
a lot of the a lot of the stuff both
of them are proposing is about having to do a
lot with like CEO pay and like you know when
these people come in and like buy companies and you know,
just like loot them legally and then like not honor
the pensions that they've actually put forward for like their employees.
Like they're saying no, no, no, no, no, we're fucking

(27:37):
putting an into that. If we're elected. Yeah, hopefully neither
Sanders or Warren have any skeletons in their closet because
they would have been out well I mean, I don't know,
like maybe they didn't take them seriously and they were
just happy they were taking votes away from each other.
But rich people will you know, the corporate interests if

(28:00):
stayed However, how this long for a reason, considering where
we're at, what the fund could they have done that
We're looking at the situation. We're looking like, you know what,
maybe I'm gonna go for Biden or the mainstream media
is very persuasive or at least influential, And yeah, it's
like absolutely, yeah, I agree. I feel like the mainstream

(28:22):
media ignoring Sanders has hurt his standing in the polls. Well,
the bar is so low that like amount of the
centrist Democrat is like a meal ticket for some people.
They're just looking they're like, well, you know, it's not
going to be Trump that's not why not, And that's
what a lot of polls show recently too, Like there's
a I think close to sixty percent of Democrats and

(28:44):
like left leaning independence just want someone that is going
to beat Trump, not someone that they're excited to vote for.
So just that idea of the of a second term
is I guess making a lot of people circling their
wagons around, like just beat him first, to him him
fucking we'll clean up the mess after when most people

(29:05):
have perished from student dead or medical. But electability is
you know, we've talked about how in the media it's
a way for you know, people to sublimate their own biases, like, oh,
she's not electable, and it's like why, you know, because
she's a woman. It's like, yeah, Joe Biden's electable. Why, well,

(29:28):
you know, he just looks presidential. Well what how are
you defining presidential by the size of their veneers. It
took was a blood vessel to get his numbers down,
bursted blood vessel in his eye, and people are like,
you know what, maybe he's not the most best choice. Yeah,
well look, although that the media definitely ignored the ship
out of that, I know, right, and he was like,
looks like he was auditioning for twenty eight days later. Really,

(29:53):
he's like, I was exposed to some experimental chips, been
exposed to. The rage back to via was called. Yeah.
So there are some new polls out. There's one from
the economist Yugov that has Warren and Biden tied at
twenty six. Uh. And this is a pretty large and

(30:14):
fairly well trusted uh. Paul Sanders at sixteen, and then
everybody else is basically out of it. Harrison Buddha Judge
at six everyone else to less. Yeah. Well, and also
if you favorability, Yeah, that's an interesting new pole. Is
this a PBS Yeah, it's from PBS News, Our, MPR
and marist Um And basically they were asking about how

(30:38):
favorable all the candidates are. The candidate with the highest
favorability rating Elizabeth Warren favorable, unfavorable, never heard of her,
Biden and second s favorable, So twice is unfavorable, seven
percent know him. Bernie's at sixty six. It's interesting Biden

(30:58):
and Bernie are the they're both seven percent never heard
of them, yeah, or unsure, but y as they fought,
they have by far have the lowest in terms of
people who they are obscure to they are most known Buddha.
Judge actually has the same, like the second lowest unfavorable
rating at eleven percent, the same as Elizabeth Warren, but
thirty six percent are unsure and never heard of him.

(31:20):
So that's probably room his campaigns looking not to try
and squeak him over in terms of favorability. But I mean,
at this point, like they're gonna have to start being
some some big moments, big moments for people in like
the single digits to start creeping. Yeah, it seems like
it's Warren, Biden or Sanders unless somebody else has like

(31:41):
a huge moment in the next couple of weeks. That's
the thing. Though. It's like the primaries are still, you know,
just a little less than a year away, and it's like, amazing,
in January, what's going to be the who's the front
runner at the point? Yeah, exactly. Um. And also, you know,
poles also haunt the president. Also, Um, you know, he

(32:02):
on September eleven, prior to like going to you know,
a ceremony to commemorate the day, he was busy talking
about poles and bullshit. Um, and He's like, in a
hypothetical poll done by one of the worst posters of
them all, the Amazon Washington Post ABC, which I predicted,
which predicted I would lose to cricket Hillary by fifteen points.
How did that work? Had Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas and virtually

(32:24):
all others would beat me in the general election? Okay,
so first of all, yes, most polls about who you
would vote for are hypothetical. Actually I will wager all
of them. But thank you. Um, it's not that the
poll itself was hypothetical. Trying to take the bite out
of what like, It's not even they didn't actually even
do it. It was like hypothetically if they did, that's

(32:44):
what they would say. And I get that's sucking up
a little bit. But the thing that he's pointing at that, uh,
he was basically tied up with Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris
and Pete Buddha Judge and Bernie Sanders in this same
poll in July, and now all of them now are
beating him by at least four per se and Sanders
is beating him by nine. So he's uh, Poles, Poles

(33:05):
don't help Mr. I hate reality doesn't handle them well
at all, and like, I love that it's there's still
a Hillary reference thrown in there. And also it didn't
say they were going to beat him by at a
certain point. I'm not sure what number he was pointing at,
but like there were a few people were like, what
is he? What are you talking about? Maybe that was
like so early on or something, but I'm not even

(33:27):
sure when he again, it's Donald Trump, our president? Wait what? Oh? No? Um? Yeah,
do you think it was the whole time? Yeah? I
thought I was hoping it's a different guy. Is this
the one that had Biden beating him by twelve points?
I believe? So yeah, okay, so yeah. He tweeted that

(33:49):
on September eleventh, and over on Fox News they were
paying their tributes to September eleven by kind of being
nostalgic for it. Were so many weird nine eleven moments
on Fox. First, it was Maria Barba Romo's birthday and
she had like one of the guys who was running
the New York Stock Exchange I think on nine eleven
on is a guest like for everyone to sort of

(34:10):
have this discussion, and she was like, what would you say?
On this like it's the end of her show. What
would you say in this important day? Well, I would say,
you know, pray for the souls that were lost, thank
a cop, thank a fireman, and also to you, Maria,
happy birthday. And she's like, oh no, no, no please.
She was like mortified, this is not a fucking producer
comes out with a cake that's is a happy birthday

(34:32):
where she's like just like no, it's about nine of them,
and she's like, my husband calls it the International Day.
This great, great marriage going on. But on Fox and Friends, Yeah,
Ainsley Earhart, you know, what's it gonna take guys to
bring the country back together? Sort of what her mind?
You Carl Rove is the guest, Yes, of course he is.
You didn't maybe many people out there didn't vote for president,

(34:54):
but they were supportive of our country. They were supportive.
It didn't matter if you're Republican or a Democrat, it
didn't politics side. No one was kneeling when the national
anthem was played. How do we get back to that
without another nine eleven? Well, hard, hard to get back
to it. Our country is so divided. There will be
a moment where where we will come together. A moment
where this bitterness in our politics and the divisiveness will

(35:16):
will drop away. It doesn't need to have nine eleven,
but it does need leadership and it needs to it
needs people who in Washington who will help bring us
together that will happen. What do we need? What needs
to happen. We get the black people in check car
Roll another like that. Essentially, she's like, what is gonna

(35:36):
shut these people up? And also like the kneeling, The
kneeling is the thing that bothers her the most. That's
that was what she led with, Like, I mean, sadly,
we're already looking at multiple humanitarian crises that are at
the hands of this president, and I think it's it's
gathering a certain group of people together on one side.
But yeah, I mean, I guess in her mind, you know,

(35:59):
what's a nine and good for a couple of parades.
And there's almost no way that Trump isn't fantasizing about
there being a nine eleven or some sort of attack
on the country behind the scenes because of like what
it did to Bush's approval rate. Absolutely, Like somebody needs
to get a like get a recording of him doing that,

(36:19):
because he's doing it like I can tell you that
that for a fact, he is somewhere being like, I mean,
if if we had another what's crazy is there's also
just been an insane amount of mass shootings, right, but
even that is like, well, you know, like Las Vegas
was also like you have your opportunities to bring the
country together, right, you actually do if you didn't go

(36:42):
so far off the fucking deep end into this fucking
ninth circle of Hell or wherever right now. But like, yeah,
it's funny too because the bar is so low for
him to start picking up points, Like if he said, yo,
climate change is a fucking it's a fucking problem, y'all,
people will be like, you know what, some people might
fucking come around. And that's why there was recently a
Republican came out and he's like, I'm a conserved Republican

(37:04):
and climate chain is fucking really y'all. And you were like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
what's his name? The guy who's running against Trump? Now?
Why am I blanking on? And Mark Stanford know the
other guy that Joe uh fucking thank you. Yeah, he's coming.
He's like, look, man, I drank the I was into

(37:25):
it and now I'm not, and people are like, holy
and that guy like really that's the like Obama sane guy.
And he's like, look, I just don't like Trump anymore.
And other conservatives like, I'm glad finally someone said it,
that someone was opportunistic enough to actually risk a little
bit of their credibility in the party. Yeah. Meanwhile, the

(37:46):
the weather map scandal is continuing to percolate because it
has gone higher where uh, it wasn't just Wilbur Ross.
It was Trump's chief of staff, acting chief of Staff,
Nick Mulbeney, who old Wilber Ross to tell somebody they'd
be fired if they didn't correct a tweet that was
already correct but contradicted the president. So, like I've heard

(38:09):
people would be like, you know, there's real problems in
the world, and people are talking about a weather map
that Trump drew on with the sharpie. But I don't
think it's insignificant. That's someone who is unwilling to accept reality.
It underlines everything that is terrifying about him that even
his followers and fans need like have to acknowledge there

(38:32):
like just objectively, this is an obsessive behavior just to
get so fixed. And then the way his supporters, his
somehow people still support him or like, well, he's just
doing what he wants to do and that's the kind
of guy we need, right, you know. And they're just
like they're just like, yeah, you know what, he wants
to rewrite history. Give him, give him John three sixteen,
let him rewrite it. Like it's so insane that that's

(38:54):
their logic to God to love the world so much
he's giving you off. Aganka's new Do we think there's
like if Trump came out and started espousing some like
liberal ish views, like would there be room for him
to pick up points like that's the theory of the
case for from like Javanka right there, Like yeah, that

(39:18):
was also I think the theory early on. I think
when he got elected, whether they're like, well, yeah, he
used to he used to have democratic leaning. He's probably
just it's like gonna be an inside job. I mean,
Davidell told me to give him a chance. I'm still
waiting to see what's gonna it ain't happening, I mean,
I think when we've seen it though, too, right. We
just talked yesterday about how the numbers haven't changed since
he got dunked on in the mid terms of the

(39:39):
party got dunked onto and there's been no adjustment. Right,
So at this point, if he did, I'm sure there
are people who might be duped by that and be like, well,
I don't know. He might. He might. He might not
be all that bad. Even everything else he's done to
this point suggests he is including canceling of sucking the
Republican primaries, right, yeah, Like, has that ever been done before? Yeah,

(40:02):
people have done that before. Let's talk about canceled people.
John Bolton, John Bolton, he has decided he wants to
make a scene after being you're fired by Trump. Like
he was texting people while they were on the air,
on the air because he was so incensed that the

(40:22):
reports were coming out that Trump had fired him and
it was all over on MSNBC, Andrew Mitchell was saying, quote,
he was tweeting his objections. He was texting reporters, including
our own reporters at the White House immediately. I was
on the air when this all happened. It happened one
minute before we started the show. Blah blah. We went
wall to wall, uh, and people were texting in and
showing me their text from John Bolton because we were

(40:45):
rocking back and forth, and then he was even he
you know, he checks all his boxes. He also got
to Brian kill meat at Fox uh and even John
like as he said on the air, I think John
Bolton just texted me just now he's watching and he said,
let's be clear, I resigned, um so, and everyone is
basically saying like what he's been saying around to like reporters,

(41:08):
just like not just clarifying that he resigned. Is that, like,
I have a lot to say, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna let you know what I really think. You
mess with the petty bull, you get the petty horns. Man.
I just don't know, you know, is he scorned enough
that he will actually be someone who's going to give
a sober critique. But then and then again, he's coming

(41:29):
from a planet I've not even heard of, So I
have a feeling the most we can expect from him
is like Trump is bad and he wouldn't let me
do worse, and that's it. I just I do think
that's his main objection, is that he wouldn't let him
start that war with Iran like he want to do wars,
he would let me do wars. I want to wars
with Kim John Oon. He didn't win, let me do wars.
Then it's I don't I don't know if this guy

(41:50):
wants to do wors. But I think also he you know,
I don't know if he's gonna like attack Trump as
being too dovish or something too or if he's really
gonna be like, this guy is a actually a threat
to national security from a sober I think. I think
when when Trump's done, when the presidency is over, the
fingers crossed real hard on that, but like that, that's

(42:10):
when all the books and stuff that are going to
be really not holding back are going to come out,
Which is sad because you have a chance now to
alert people to how bad things could be in there,
and you're just being like, I'm just gonna give like
a real you know, middle of the road take. I mean,
all the books that are coming out now have just
absolutely terrifying statements coming up. They're just a manness right now,

(42:31):
right right, So we'll just like get attribution that it
was all Kelly and Conway, like exactly like the closest
I think we got was was it Bernstein or Woodward,
one of them broke the book. Yeah, that's I think
the closest we've got to like an unfettered thing. But
you almost kind of want, like maddest defense to come
out and be like this guy, I'm a fucking general.

(42:52):
I'm telling y'all like I'm out here. Actually I've I've
put put numbers on the board in the field. This
guy is fucking wacky. We need to do something, and
he's a threat. Meanwhile, it's like, you know, I don't
want to I'm not gonna say anything against the president.
It's like, dude, yeah, But meanwhile, all they can talk
about behind the scenes is like, you guys have no
idea how close you are to being fucked and we're

(43:13):
saving you from this mad man. Also, you think those
are people are like sort of it's actually not that bad,
and they're just lying because they know people believe it,
and then they get to feel like a hero at
dinner party. No, I think it's that bad, and that's
how I get away. That's how that's like the cowardly
way of dealing with it is just like you know,
doing damage control and stealing papers from his desk. It's

(43:35):
fucking fire Fest as a administration. Right, No one's telling
Billy McFarland, yo, knock this shift off? Right like? Well,
I mean some people did. They got your fired, which
is sort of what's happening now and so that, yes,
people keep working us into oblivion. Okay, I saw Firefest ended?
Where should we should be? Fine? Yeah? Yeah, I can't

(43:56):
wait for a firefight part two? Firefest Earth Right, All right,
we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be right back,
and we're back. Let's talk about has Bro's new Monopoly addition.

(44:22):
Because Monopoly socialism was so funny where they like shift
on laser focused sharing things, and now they have decided
to take a crack at feminism. It seems like with
Miss Monopoly. Oh watch out girl. Yeah, with a nice

(44:43):
young woman holding a cup of starbuck like what could
only be presumed to be like Starbucks coffee right with
her hand on her hip, and it says, first of all,
who is Miss Monopoly? She is Mr Monopoly's niece and
a self made investment guru here to update a few things.
It's about time, um now when you look into it, though,
this is obviously just a cynical cash grab for people

(45:06):
who are maybe dumb enough to think that this is
meant to be an empowering addition of Monopoly. Uh, they
made her a niece. They call it a celebration of
women entrepreneurs and inventors. In it, female players start the
game with more money than men and also collect more
when passing. What the front cover declares it, quote the
first game where women make more than men. Yes, queen,

(45:29):
I mean, look, it's true the pay pay gap is
very real, but like what a flipping way to deal
with it? Right? Also, like, isn't monopoly The idea behind
actual monopoly is like, this is how it is out there, guys,
Like this is supposed to mimic actual capitalism, and to
mimic actual capitalism, they're giving women like a leg up

(45:51):
like that. It just seems like it's I don't know,
I don't know that how that's supposed to feel empowering. Yeah,
especially because like miss monopolies from generational Well obviously, well
she's a niece. You don't know how Mr Monopoly's brother did.
He could be a dead beat, that's true, know what
I mean? Maybe she inherited from from him, could be
like that kid in succession who was like vomiting in
his like animal suit in that first season, and then

(46:13):
somehow got swept up in the company. But the way
they keep going on is dude a fun, a new
take on the game that cares a world where women
have an advantage often enjoyed by men. Okay, then it says,
although the company adds that quote, if men play their
cards right, they can make money too. Great um players
rather than purchasing properties, will quote invest in inventions created
by women, things like WiFi and chocolate chip cookies. Amazing.

(46:37):
That is incredible. This was invented by the has Bro
by fucking talks Bro. It's on the cup on the
front of the box. It says, without women, we wouldn't
have WiFi or chocolate chip cookies. Way to like send
just full you turn. I'm like, oh dope, WiFi and

(47:00):
chocolate chip cookies. Yeah. Do you want your your head
to fully fall off please? So they're one of the
new tokens you can play with, like you know, like
race car thing or whatever. This one has a watch Okay,
but has Bros Jen boz Winking boz Winkle told USA
Today this is because it's about time for some changes.

(47:22):
That's you know, what I mean, that's I think that
conveys that message. They should just be like, rather miss
monopoly should be like manless Earth monopoly. Yeah, or all
men have died because they're useless. How do y'all think
first reformed monopoly? Yeah, yeah, they understand again you know

(47:43):
cash grabs holler truly that is you're really at a
loss for words. Yeah, the chocolate chip thing really fucked up?
Chip cookie what like that? That's the thing that they
keep coming back to chocolate chip cookies as like, Yeah,
women can invent things like they can bake and neat.
It's one of the pieces should be a whisk. Well,
don't get crazy. Don't let people think that women are

(48:06):
actually capable of creating things like WiFi. Bring it back
a little bit, tamper the WiFi thing totally just obscure,
like the also that, by the way, the CEO of
WiFi do you know what I mean? Like like that
invest in I just hate it so much. It's like

(48:28):
so patronizing already that like I failed this. Hey, look
hasbro y'all fucking stop it is not Yeah, wait till
the black lives that matter? Monopoly, White people get less
money than black people and when they go to jail. Oh, like, yeah,
I guarantee you that has been at some point pitched.

(48:50):
You don't imagine what the discard pile is ideas in
those meetings. Oh my god, I can't. Actually it almost
pains me to think of what things I mean again
every day with the kind of ship that set out
out in these boardrooms or even advertising agencies. But like
if we got Miss Monopoly and they made Socialism Monopoly

(49:11):
that were such fucking bizarre off bad takes on things.
What what didn't make it through the filter? And who
did they test these two? Did they bring people in
that they're like, how would you feel about a Miss
Monopoly or a Mrs Monopoly or right? You know, yeah,
I'm surprised. Like and in this one you can play
with a new token, the biological clock, because it's ticking right,

(49:32):
and that you have to turn on an actual ticking
clock while you're going around the board, And it's like, oh,
you got too successful? Do we're shutting the timer off?
She can't be self made though she has to be
related to Mr Monopoly. I guess what in their like
in the expanded universe of Monopoly, This unbelievable tiny guy.
We like we needed to think that he had a niece,

(49:55):
and did they make it a niece so it didn't
seem like too much like there wasn't that much nepotism involved,
or maybe just so that they had the same last
name Monopoly, you know, right, because they didn't want to
make it like his younger wife is her name? I
wonder what if if it's like Jane Monopoly, you know
what I mean? Like some comments, I mean, I don't
know as far as what's on the box. All you
know is she is Mr. Monopoly's niece. First, somebody needs

(50:19):
to do the Black Lives Matter Monopoly, uh like sketch. Yeah,
exactly right. I mean, I'm sure SNL at this point. Look,
I know the entire SNL writer's rooms listening shout out
to you guys, uh please do this, yes, uh guys
the vape wave uh maybe crashing try his crosshairs and

(50:42):
uh you know it's only a matter of time. Yeah.
He was saying what he's gonna recommend, like very aggressive guidelines. Yeah,
basically they are going to try and outlaw any vape
flavors that aren't tobacco flavored. Between this and paper straws.
We're gonna be fine. Guys like, we're good, We're good.
They've odd. I'm wonder if this was the again for him.

(51:03):
He needs a victory. This seemed to be the lowest
hanging fruit where he could regulate something that people were
concerned about and not rock a boat too hard. There
there have been five deaths and hundreds of illnesses caused
by like acute pulmonary injuries from vaping, like vaping related injuries.
But how does that compare to tobacco smoke? Right? Like?

(51:26):
How like how many thousands of people have died in
that time from smoking tobacco? But that made by the
same companies is still legal, where guns, like other people
were pointing out on literally a million environmental laws. Uh, well,
you know, I mean the flavors I get. I get

(51:46):
it for their you know, we've met concerned parents very recently.
They their kids vape and they're like, god damn, then
can be joining for thirteen fourteen or whatever? I get, Like,
why you don't you want to knock that ship off?
I have no problem with making it a like taste worse.
I mean to get a nicotine buzz when I was
a kid, you had to put something awful tasting in

(52:07):
your mouth, and there's no reason these kids shouldn't just
back at like cigarette smoke was fucking taste terrible. Oh,
I thought you thought it tasted like I thought. I
thought it was taste like it smelled, you know, tobacco smoke.
And let's talk about that Caroline Callaway Essay, Uh, Caroline Callaway,

(52:28):
the real Mrs Monopoly Monopoly self made. Yeah. So there's
a viral piece of content that's going around that's basically
a long read about I don't know, I'm just happy
that there's a viral piece of like a thing that
a lot of people are reading that's like a really
great piece of writing. This person is like a really

(52:50):
good writer. Yeah, and it's just sort of chronicling, you know.
It brought people in because it's about this woman, Caroline Callaway,
who you know as an influencer who Instagram yeah exactly,
and like lives her impossible life gallivanting around the world,
and you know, going to Cambridge as an American was
kind of like her first hook point or whatever. And
then through this piece you find out just sort of
how this other woman was helped. Was essentially the brains

(53:13):
behind a lot of the writing, including her book deal
and things like that, and how their relationship was, you know,
completely fucked up and manipulative. But again, it's one of
those things that you read like where you feel bad
because when this woman is talking about all the ship
she went through, like, damn, that sucks. Look at some
desk job. And then as I read, I'm like, dude,
I hope you get a fucking book deal or some
kind of opportunity, because it really did read like this

(53:34):
piece of like millennial literature, fan ficure or not fan fiction,
but like just a tale that was had drama and
all these things very well. I think it. Yeah, I
think it's a good read. But I also think it's
like it's interesting what's being eye opening for people where
they're like, nothing's what it seems in the influencer world,
and it's like, yeah, a reality, there's not a surprise

(53:55):
at all. And it's crazy that people look at anyone
who's big from social media is not being another extension
of Hollywood, just not in Hollywood. Yeah right, it's just
myth making. And yeah, and there's a theory, by the way,
I don't if you guys know this floating around that
that the article is part of the narrative that both
of them are doing together. I don't buy it, but

(54:17):
oh wow, just drum up more interest in like their project,
right right or yeah or anything yeah, something where it's
like because she didn't shut off her comments on her
when she posted it, when Caroline Callaway was posting about it,
like she didn't do what most people do when these
things come out, which is they like step away. She's
like still in the middle of waiting in a lake
of ship and being like, yeah, this is what I

(54:38):
had think about it, and if anyone sound off in
the comments, this seems to be like the main thing
that even she even mentioned in the article that she
everything is part of her narrative and she can't stop
sharing like whatever she's going through at that moment um,
and she's trying to get it was like she's trying
to get ahead of it in a really like I

(55:01):
don't know, she's like in a way that she's like,
I have nothing to hide, and maybe that'll help me
defend myself when this damning news comes out, and it's
sort of like it's going to be a great piece
all of her tweets and ship and like I g
stories before, like it's going to be like a genius
writing already. Know. So that's what bugged me about it,
is that that her the way she's like talking about it,
and she's like, just make sure to check out the article. Yeah,

(55:22):
that's great because it's good for her. It's good publicity.
I didn't know who Caroline Callaway was prior to this. Yeah,
I mean, it's it's interesting, Like I was. I was
not surprised by how much of her posts was written
by this writer, I was the only things that surprised
me were that she was able to build up this

(55:44):
uh persona and this influence, like this following of people
by starting out by like buying followers. That was like
before we got more regulated, right, yeah, that DC stuff. Yeah,
but I mean she started completely synthetically and uh. And
then eventually and it was like after a meeting with
literary agents where they were like, we're not going to

(56:05):
buy a book from you. You don't have any like followers, okay,
and then went and like bought a bunch of very
cynical and straightforward. It really speaks to the industry and
everything surrounding this person Yeah, that what people should be
paying attention to, because the impetus was the her Her
obstacle to achieving what she wanted to as a writer

(56:27):
was that she they said, you're not famous enough, So
that completely changed her priorities. She had to then focus
on building a persona rather than like honing in her craft,
which you know romantics would be like, focus on your
art and funk what they say. But it's it's like
any really good piece of writing, like the the main
character of the piece, like the Caroline Calaway person who's

(56:51):
like the subject of the piece. Like you you don't
just feel one way about her. It's like she's completely
you have like complicated feelings about her and like what
she's doing. And you know, she seems to be somebody
who has who's struggling with different, uh you know issues
and uh yeah, I mean the addiction part of it.

(57:12):
She doesn't really touch on sobriety at any point, Like
even when she right wrote that thing about like this
was during my toughest time when I was addicted to pills,
and but she's not at any point indicating that she's recovery, right, Yeah,
she's just like and I know with some of that,
there's like anonymity is the point, and they don't want
to show that it's a failure. But she still isn't
doesn't say like I'm currently sober unless I missed it,

(57:33):
But she's really not pushing that point. They didn't talk
about it in the piece. I did get the sense
that maybe that was like she got the book deal
while she was using adderall, and then I had to
write it after she was able to use it because
of addiction, and maybe that's where things fell apart. Yeah. Really,
I mean I can't tell people enough to read this.

(57:56):
It's really it reads like some ship you would think,
like and we're in our fifties, like kids would read
It's like I read that that book at school about
like weird influencer liar people. And I think this might
be the first thing that Lifetime will take an influencer
story and make it like the Caroline Callaway story. It's
going to be so cringe to see. Some of the ship.

(58:16):
She said was like we went out and like Italy,
and she got like nine outfits you had to bring
because she had to cram in like a week's worth
of images in different outfits. You know, one day of
shooting just like how cringe, Like, oh god, I thought
the part where she like tore up the carpet, Yeah,
I mean, I like, I mean that's sam addiction. That's yeah,
when things are real dark and like you're just completely

(58:38):
obsessive on your feet. Yeah, listening to her be like
pulling splinters out of her feet, I was like, oh
my god, Yeah, that's a real powerful shot about Also
to like the woman Natalie who was her ghostwriter, she
was very I saw a lot of things that I
had experienced to where you're kind of intoxicated by someone's
fame or the proximity to totally and will like sort

(59:02):
of overlook many things because in a way, your ego
gets wrapped up in your association with the person and
you completely put your own well being out the window
for someone. Yeah, you know, and then eventually, like it
sort of plays out to this just really shitty end.
That's why when people are like, oh, be careful of
toxic relationships, also that that extends to friendships even more so,

(59:23):
because I think that will inform how you approach relationships. Yeah,
it had like gets be vibes to me, like, hoviously,
I don't want to compare any piece of writing, but
even the fat Like she described a lawn really well
one time, and that was like something I noticed and gets.
It's like Gatsby said, smash that like hashtag adventures. But

(59:44):
I mean there's like there's a moment right now where
you know, we're starting to see really great writers like
who write about the present moment. Like I'm reading Gia
Tolentino's book Trick Mirror. That's really cool and about like
living in a world where everybody on social media and
like having grown up in that world. I'm on the
waiting list for that at the library. It's yeah, it's great.

(01:00:06):
Like you can't get the e book yet, even the
book I think they only have like so I don't
know how that works, but they only have so many
copies of like people don't get to go hog wild
with the books exactly. So well, guys, KFC is uh yeah, yeah,
by the way, did you get that's it? All right? Yeah? Yeah,

(01:00:28):
that's what we just want to say. KFC was funny.
I don't know if you know this, but a few
months ago, the colonel on commercials was RoboCop, like the
actor who played RoboCop or exactly look look up the picture.
It is incredible. It was that a TV ad. Yeah,
they would like the parents were sitting there eating and
then suddenly fucking robo cop as the colonel just bursting.

(01:00:50):
I mean, their whole marketing thing right now is like,
but one of the things they're doing right now is
a dating game, a dating simulator game where you were
trying to fund Colonel Sanders. He's like a handsome animated dude,
uh who's young but still has gray hair. And it's

(01:01:15):
very Japanese dating sim aesthetic. You know, he's animated the
funk out with an impossible jawline. Yeah, uh so, and
the premises very odd and creepy. Yeah. What it's like
you are a promising culinary students and you're one of
your fellow students is the colonel, and then like you

(01:01:38):
guys have chemistry. Does he go by the colonel and
does he look like yeah in Colonel Sanders. I mean
it's called I Love You, Colonel Sanders. So it's also
very Japanese and that one of the professors is a dog. Yeah,
very animal. You know, like, let's just look, let's live
in a world where you want to fund Colonel Sanders. Okay,
I don't worry if the professors a doc gives the ship. Yeah,

(01:02:00):
that's the least. Have you seen his? Look at that hair?
So got One really strange thing I learned in this
story that was written by our writer Jam McNab is
that Mother's Day is KFC's best selling day of the year,
and they have been doing weird romance novel like romance

(01:02:22):
things with Colonel Sanders every Mother's Day. Like they had
a stripper video where Colonel Sanders was like a hot
dude who stripped for you. They wrote a full length
romance novel about Colonel Sanders just having a bunch of
sex with a fictional heroin. Uh. This is a quote
from one of those. Sometimes it seemed as though the

(01:02:42):
two of them had been made to love each other,
and they tried to do so at every given opportunity.
None of that has none of that has any like
plugs to KFC, Like just like, yeah, exactly if thus
begins chapter nine of Tender Wings of Desire. There that's
what I was looking for. So strange to me that

(01:03:03):
Mother's Day is KFCs makes me upset that that many
lay mass partners are like, all right, let's get KFC.
Then let's take take takes. Is it that? Is it
that that many moms because they have been slowly been
incepted by the KFC marketing people that they want to
have a deep desire to have sex with KFC. Yeah,

(01:03:24):
who's making the request here? Did suddenly like kids and husbands?
Were they suddenly like our partners? They were like, you
know what, you need a break, Let's take you to KFC?
Or was she like, I need a break. Let's get
the cakes around the table really quick? In your mind?
What do you think is the best what restaurants? Best
day of the Year's Mother's Day in your mind? If you?
If you if I was about to read that stat too,
because KFC's would be like, we're gonna go with Cadar.

(01:03:50):
I didn't know how fancy we were getting. But in general,
because it has to be chasal baby, Yeah, yeah, any
of those yeah, Olive Garden cheesecake, um, corrabas. I keep
going to Italian let me try to but any of
those like grill Chili's ever heard of it? You know,
like anything literally anything else where you can sit down
and talk and like yeah and have food brought to

(01:04:12):
you rather than just going to a counter. Yeah, I look,
za gang, if you understand why if you're a mother
who request KFC, almost please let me know what's because
you k I mean, it might not actually be food
for the mother, It might be food for the kids.
While the dead takes the mom out to eat, they

(01:04:32):
bring him to the daycare center known as KFC and
then the factory. Oh yeah, not all of their attemptsive
marketing have worked out so well that so they did
something super cynical, which was they kickstartered or Indie a
Go Go, Indie Go Go a couple of ideas, like

(01:04:54):
they wanted to design a Kentucky fried hot tub. It
was a hot tub that looked like a bucket of
chick can kernel on ice ice skating show. Uh. And
they asked for uh like three million users to raise
the funds for them. What they did, like, oh my god,
that is amazing that they're like, well, you know, we
have all this money, but we'd rather you guys. And

(01:05:16):
they got to uh six and sixty five dollars of
funding for the hot tub, even though they were trying
to get to like hundreds of thousands. So they got
basically like one percent of both of them. Uh so,
but hey, but it raises awareness. That's but that's their
whole plan. That's capitalism and it's truly most well yeah,
I mean it was never like they were gonna actually

(01:05:39):
but it's crazy that that was a bit. Yeah. Well,
their whole thing is like they're like, dude, stupidity is
our strength, quite literally, is what they're advertising. Create marketing
director said, yeah, that's incredible. That is truly and that's
where we're heading. That's a model that is going to
be taught in classes in thirty years. People are gonna
be like you just remember KFC was the rogue one. Yeah,
he didn't just say that like off the cuff. He

(01:06:01):
gave a presentation at the con Lions Festival, which is
like a film festival for advertising, and he was dressed
as Colonel Sanders and had a power point where the
main thing said stupidity is their strength. So I'm picturing
the meeting just being like, all right, guys, get done
with it. What do you got first? RoboCop can Fucky

(01:06:22):
Fried Chicken too smart rob I will say RoboCop being
in that ad did make me yearn for In the
early nineties when all the r rated movies had like
toy lines and ship the best. I think the RoboCop
one had like a popper thing you could snap on
the back of his thing to make it look trading. No,
you know, like no, not poppers and uh not that

(01:06:47):
fun kind be like okay, you know, like cat like
a cap gun. Yeah, and but sometimes you'll come in
paper strips and you could like beat the ship out
of him. They're like that. You would feed that into
the back of the RoboCop toy and you could snap
it on the back he held anyway, and the terminator's
chest would explode and fire out something. And we never
got to see the movie. I didn't know he shot
a guy's dick off. You didn't, but I didn't see.

(01:07:11):
At the time, I was like the toy. I saw
that movie way too young, was so into it. Part
the part where the dude gets liquefied really blew my
mom same same I remember that very fondly when my
question is good from that show is the stupidity as
strength tactic due to the fact that a lot of

(01:07:32):
the people they're marketing to who are around our age,
who are completely cynical when it comes to traditional madmen
type advertising thinking or strategic right that they're like the
only funk with memes and dumb shit, right, Like that's
the only way you're gonna get them to talk because
the slick ship that no one gives a totally yeah
if it if it's sending a message and you can

(01:07:54):
kind of understand why that message is being sent, like
kids are like somewhat allergic to it. I feel like,
is the general like idea and there, Yeah, so you
just have to it has to be nonsense. I think,
like if you go around, like if I was like
a hustler doing like brand awareness as a consultant, like, look,
here's the thing, guys, like like a via sneakers, here's

(01:08:14):
the deal man, you gotta make your brand like if
your brand was a person. These kids want to fucking
jewel and smoke weed with this brand, right, Okay, So
look what I did with KFC manuck dumb as fun.
Look they love it because why like Colonel's hot, he's
fucking weird, you know what I mean, setting a great precedent.
I love it man. Uh well, ship Eli, it's been

(01:08:37):
a pleasure of having you. Thank you guys for having me,
for having me back. Thank you so for thank you
so much for having me back there. And you know
what after that performance, where where can people find you?
And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, there's
a tweet I enjoyed from UM at Mighty Monica Monica
with a K, which was l O L. Everyone's arguing
online very seriously about that Lana del Rey album, like

(01:08:57):
it doesn't have a Sublime cover on it? Does it does?
And a choice of Sublime song to cover? But I
loved it. And people can find me at eli Olesburg
on all the socials and check out Closure, the podcast
that Never Ends on iTunes. Oh ship Daniel Johnston passed
away from the Devil and day that literally was just

(01:09:18):
now the nine eleven thing that happened where the birthday
cake came out. I was like, follow me at eli
Olesburg and you're like, r I P. Daniel Johnson, Yeah, exactly,
sorry to bring out a birthday cake during your all
good r I P. Daniel Johnston. Follow me on all
the socials Milesburg. Can people find you? Oh man, I'm
sorry about that, you know, took the wind out of

(01:09:39):
your sales. Where do we go from here? UM Social
Media at Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray um
and a tweet right yeah yeah tweet from Reductress report
everyone knows You're high and I just needed that. Also

(01:10:01):
another one report a couple of looks related. I can
never get over whenever people talk about couples looking related.
I think of three very distinct couples in my mind.
I can't say them out loud. I do think one
of them does listen to the show. And now I've
given up the ghost. Guess what y'all look the same?
Get ready to explain y'all look like brother and sister.
They're they're not. I I did a girl who kind
of looked like me once, and I was the lady

(01:10:23):
version of you know, not like the exact lady version,
but when someone was like, you got you guys kind
of look like I was like, yeah, I guess kinda. Anyways. Anyway,
that said r I P. Daniel Johnson. That's exactly some
tweets I've been enjoying. ELI, you didn't tweeted if assault
rifles used freaking jewel pods, then maybe Republicans would band

(01:10:46):
nicotine bullets for children. Kind Of lost the thread here,
but please RTI and just a fun anecdote from Peyton.
At Peyton, my roommate broke up with his girlfriend last
night at a fancy restaurant and she started bawling. Everyone
thought he proposed to her and started clapping uh and

(01:11:10):
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(01:11:32):
right out on. Second. Oh man, this is a band
I've just started listening to and I'm digging. I'm liking
the vibrations. Nickelback, yes exactly. This is an oldie but
a goody. No, this is from mild Life. Uh. They're
a band from Melbourne, Australia, and they do it. They're
very type band. Okay, they're proving the rhythm section is

(01:11:55):
in the fucking pocket. But they just have like you know,
psyche disco groove ship going on it's very dope. This
track is epic. It's like eight minutes long, so please
do yourself a favorite and listen to the track all
the way through. It starts off with a little bit
of our Peggi aided sent and you're like, man, this
is some our peggid what is this? Then the beat
comes in You're like, what's my shoulder doing? It's bobbing

(01:12:16):
up and down my toe. It's happened. Um, there's just slick.
Look every everyone's everyone's just killing it. So this is
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