January 26, 2023 • 60 mins
In episode 1409, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of #GoodMuslimBadMuslim, Zahra Noorbakhsh, to discuss... Walgreens: WE CRIED WOLF ON SHOPLIFTING PROBLEM…Media Now Mad At Them, Germany and the U.S. Are Sending Tanks To Ukraine, People are bottling and selling god damn SPLASH MOUNTAIN WATER, GoldenEye Is Coming Back--Despite (Or Maybe Because Of) The War In Ukraine and more!
- Walgreens: WE CRIED WOLF ON SHOPLIFTING PROBLEM…Media Now Mad At Them
- ‘Maybe we cried too much’ over shoplifting, Walgreens executive says
- Germany and the U.S. Are Sending Tanks To Ukraine
- Why Germany delayed sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
- Biden says U.S. will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in major boost to firepower
- U.S., Germany to send dozens of battle tanks to Ukraine
- Why Tanks Are Tripping Up the West
- GoldenEye Is Coming Back--Despite (Or Maybe Because Of) The War In Ukraine
- Why the GoldenEye 007 Remaster Was Cancelled
- GoldenEye remaster seemingly cursed to never actually come out
- GoldenEye on N64: Miyamoto wanted to tone down the killing
- 24 Years After Release, GoldenEye N64 Is No Longer Banned In Germany
- Britain pledges just 14 tanks, but with the aim of prompting more transfers from Ukraine's allies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two seventy two,
Episode four of tur Daylies Like Guys Say, production of
I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness. I like to
do that one like you might be a red kneck
take a deep dive and do America's share content. It's Thursday.
(00:23):
I'm not worthy of the Fox Thursday January six, twenty six.
I would say, huh six, you said sick? I said six.
I skipped the twenty. I might be getting gated. I'm out.
I'm on a new mic right now. I'm in the studio.
(00:44):
Why trust you said it is Thursday, January twenty six,
twenty three. You know you don't just to tell the
people where shout and all partners out. There's National spouses Day,
it's in a National customs day. It's National Peanut brittle Day,
(01:04):
National green juice Day. Oh Man and Dolda as the
gang going get a big dog up your mit because
it's also Australia. Die dog up you ross. Does that
mean get sucked by a dog? I forget where. Yeah
it's that or I'm not here to fox spiders. But yeah,
go and get a dog up you Is it's like
(01:25):
song way to tell someone to fuck up? Yeah? Yeah,
I'm going to get a big fucking dog up. Yeah.
So you're telling me to get sucked by a dog?
Is that? It's like just banter? It's more banter, right,
like how just banter me? Just like such crude. Yeah.
Shout out all the parting as well. Yeah, my name's
(01:46):
Jack O'Brien. A k oh my old you got a
ks about weed. But I'm just hate toes O'Brien. Yeah,
I'm just hate tease o breen. Oh baby, that is
courtesy of Oh my god, I forgot to copy your name.
I believe it's Lex Lugie, the one, the one and
(02:08):
only Labria, the Mr Lugubrious and so sure, I'm not okay,
okay making sure. I just want to make I don't
want I don't want anyone's feelings hurt. We'd like to
do proper attribution. All right, Well, I'm thrilled to be
joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles. Oh wait,
I didn't I never said it is Mr. It is
(02:29):
at Lex Lugi, Mr Lugubrious, who gave me my a
k ship. Shout out to you, sir, and I'm thrilled
to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
Miles Gray. We're kind of done with November. We're done
within November. You'll tell the Night Gang. We're done win November, Jackuary, February, March,
April Gray, these are the new days that we will
(02:50):
obey Scouty Magoo because you said we're a buck, We're
off this Calindria. What was it clindrical cylindrical system Ben
Bowling told us about, But yeah, I shout out s
Scouting mcgo on the discord wide cleft back. I was
just listening to that album the Carnival where you have
to listen to that probably in twenty years I love.
(03:11):
I remember that was like back in the day when
I had to like pick up dogshit to get CD
money and because of that, like I was like, I
have to listen to every single album on this or
every single track on this album, and I just kind
of went back. He's like, damn, like I even know
the weird deep cuts on here, like some fizzy when
he's singing in Creo. Yeah, yeah, that was that was
(03:31):
a banger. Wait did you have to did dog Walkers
hire you to pick up their dog, like were the
dog walker and the poop and like my dog was
shipped in the yard and my parents were like, yeah, man,
get like a get a dime for every piece of ship. Yeah,
but they didn't know me. I was already on my
way to being a drug dealer, so I knew to
break these big pieces of ship down into small pieces
(03:53):
of s. Had to cut. Had to cut the dog
ship and set it back to him at inflated cause, Baby,
I've always had my mind on the money. Okay, well, Miles,
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by one of our favorite TVZ guests, a very funny
comedian and activists, the host of the great award winning
(04:16):
podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, the senior Fellow on Comedy
at the Pop Culture Collapse. She's written in The New
York Times. Performed a piece on NPRS Fresh Air for
some person named Terry grow Gross Gross, some some dude
named Terry Gross like Terry Bradshaw. It is the hilarious.
(04:38):
The towns are normal? What up now? A Snap judgment
producer coming your way? Snap Judgment producer, judge producer in
the building. What's new? All right? Oh you know, I
was at the Academy Museum and I just took a
picture with Bruce the original Jaws that was onto splait.
(05:00):
Shut up. Yeah, yeah, have you been to the Academy muzoom.
I'm dying to go. They got they got to hang
in there. You know. I had to go right after
you did that, mon Yeah, I went last weekend. Oh dope.
I was like kind of scouting it out to see
if my kids would be interested in it, and the
answer yes, it gets a hell you we're gonna plan
(05:22):
a trip the sharks and now they're really into Star
Wars and they got our two and C three po. Yeah,
the shark's body is a little as a little funky
though it's it's weird. Well I'm not as like, you know,
close to the franchise as the two of you, so
I'm probably the last person to be able to point
out the discrepancies and shortcomings of the right. But it's cool.
(05:45):
And yet neither of you invited me. Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah,
I just didn't how show you this picture though? Whoa had?
I had the text message, but I just didn't. I
didn't send it because I was like, gosh, she's gonna
she's gonna roast me. She's gonna show my kids. She
knows way more about, she goes way more about, you know,
(06:06):
all that hard hitting comedy from Czara Norbach Roastmaster General Ship. Also,
I didn't I had never really noticed that Bruce has penis.
You know, she doesn't have weird double penises that hang
down below. Oh yeah, those two little like I was like,
(06:27):
what are those baby fishes on the bottom, And I'm like, Dick,
that's shark penis, because don't they have like little fins
on it? Yeah, great white sharks. Dick, google Bruce. Gott
Let me see if I can. Oh yeah, here, I'll share.
I'll share the screen. Oh justin, let me get screenshare
really quick. We gotta. I gotta do the Lord's work
and show people this sharks penis. Yeah, I need to
(06:50):
see this. Here we go. These things, these things right here,
these they're called claspers. Well they look like yeah, class
bar a friendly ghost. Oh yeah, that's what mine looked like.
They're gray like that. You and a lot of people
talk about how the effects didn't work very well for Bruce,
(07:14):
and that's why they didn't show Bruce that much. The
real reason is it was just obscene. Bruce is hanging
door man, he's got a big old thing. Class man,
he had a whale. Class I thought. I called mine
to the classmers. Come here, baby, get the classers. Yeah,
get the classpers. They also it's the reason that they
(07:35):
had to invent the plot line of all the dinosaurs
on Draft Park being women, because they didn't want to
repeat the mistake and have just dinosaurs with big dicks?
Do they have class urs too? Who even knows? I mean,
is that even think you have searched? I don't think
we've figured it out. I don't. I don't know that
we've figured it out. It's not gonna let you out
(07:57):
of her classmers. Maybe I can. Maybe I should ask
Ai to be like, what what does a t rex
penis look like? Tell me? Now? I just ask Katie Golden.
She probably knows. Yeah, I think I have. Actually, so
don't because I think he was like, could you stop
as Jack forget what the matter? Jack forgot? Anyways, Zara,
(08:21):
it is wonderful to be here, thrilled to have you back.
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell the listeners. A
couple of the things we're talking about. One of the
things we're talking about is we were fucking right about
Walgreen's and their quote unquote shoplifting problem. I mean, we
(08:43):
knew we were right, but it's just it's kind of
gratifying that they have come out and been like, yeah,
the dailies ageist was right essentially in their earnings call,
and now the New York Times is coming back and
being like, how I just I can't believe it, but yeah,
basically and their earnings called, they were like, we spent
too much money trying to stop shoplifting. There were only
(09:05):
like five shoplifting cases. We caught them all on camera
and like sent them directly to the local news and
made it seem like we were constantly being bombarded by shoplifting.
Wasn't true. And yeah, so now now we're correcting for
that mistake, and the New York Times is like, well,
I never and now they're even quoting Alec Carrick Kitzantus. Yeah,
(09:26):
it's former guest Alec Carrick. It Santas. So we'll talk
about that. Just do a you know, a couple of
nice slow victory laps and we'll talk about how Germany
and the US are sending tanks to Ukraine, and you
know what, what the the stated logic of this is,
(09:47):
I'll do it if you do it. That's legitimately what
they're saying. They're like, well, we were doing it because
they're doing it, so yeah, but it's yeah, that's why. Anyways,
people are bottling and selling Splash mountain water. It's called gatorade. No,
it's a thing that they're doing on eBay, and you
can buy a bottle of the blue Splash mountain Water
(10:10):
for one dollars. So that's that's cool. Golden Eyes coming
back despite or maybe because of the war in Ukraine.
So we'll talk about that plenty more. But before we
get to any of that bullshits are we do like
to ask our guests what is something from your search history?
Search history was, Oh, well, some news. I'm I'm pregnant. Wow,
(10:42):
look at us, look at us parents to be the
three of us. Now, yeah, I know, we're a family. Family.
It's about your found family, but it's also about the
family that you birth from. Your wonderful news are schedulation.
Me and my class birds are hard at work and
(11:07):
I have been having so many nightmares. So my whole
search history is just like, is my baby dad? How
do I know my baby's dead? Did I kill my baby? Yeah?
We were just talking about that. Like there's like a
bit of advice that I was going viral on the internet,
was like, what's a piece of it? Like, what's something
you don't think about when you become a parent And
someone just goes that you'll have to worry about them
(11:28):
for the rest of your life. God, and it's never
gonna end. I will, Like I watched them sleep, and
I'm just like, what if they like forget to breathe though, Like, yeah,
it's it's very scary, but it's also like, you know,
as bad as that is, like the good stuff is
(11:49):
that good? So like yesterday I felt her moving and
I was so excited and I was telling everybody, and
I kept grabbing my husband's hand and holding it there.
And then I stopped feeling her moving and I was
like crying, three o'clock in the morning, She's dead. I
did something wrong. It's me. It's all me, even though
you know not to think that, and and then he goes, honey,
I felt too bad to tell you yesterday she wasn't moving.
(12:13):
It was just your poop. Yeah yeah, it's just your larging.
Yeah too early, go back to sleep. The part you're
just farting, Just keep farting enough. But my farrest were kicking.
They were something to write home about. What is something
(12:37):
you think is overrated? Condoms? Definitely just stop using him.
I can't believe you're pregnant. It is so hard to
get pregnant. It took use It took us three years. Wow. Yeah, okay.
We did a round of IVF that failed, and then
(12:58):
two weeks later we were one of those chin of
couples that it happened by accident. Wow. And then I
was mad because I wanted to like engineer fraternal twins
and just like be done, just get it all out.
I just wanted I'm I'm forty two years old, man,
I don't want to keep doing this. It's hard work.
(13:19):
Do you want so you want? You want two kids?
We wanted a big family. I wanted like maybe six
or seven. Some of them could be like a few interns,
you know what I mean? Yeah, or something yeah, yeah,
some osman's. You know, you need to kill the bees,
(13:40):
get a few of them on, you know, some season
of succession or something like put him to work. But
do you have you come from a big family? I do.
I have four kids in my family, and my mom's
family she has six, and in her grandma my grandma's family,
there's fourteen. Oh yeah, yeah, so you you get lazy exactly.
(14:01):
This is what my grandma says. Yeah, good advice for everyone.
You know, condoms overrated throughout everybody, everybody, our young listeners.
You know, no that's not true, but that that is great. Congratulations. Yeah,
I've ye, struggle is real. And then the yeah, that's amazing.
(14:26):
What is What's something you think is underrated? Okay, hear
me out? Ear washes? Yeah, I'm talking about this ear wash.
You need to go to the doctor's office. You get
it done by a nurse or a tech. You don't
need to see the doctor for it. You can get
it done at any time. All you have to do
(14:46):
is say I can't hear. I think it's stopped up.
Mm hmm. I think I've been using my Q tip
wrong and I need an ear wash. It costs like
fifteen bucks in copee. Wow, what it? What's the process? Like?
They like some candles, so they put this little bowl
next to your ear and then yeah, they play a
(15:08):
Spotify soundtrack and they they squirt water into your ear
at an angle m and it doesn't feel any different
than like being in a shower m and but it's
like a warm water. So then it melts the wax
in your ear and then it washes all of the
wax out of your ear, and you will not believe
(15:29):
you're hearing. It is so wild. Wait, so like you
you felt like you were now hearing in like four K.
This is what I'm saying, eight k e K because
like you come out of the shower, you're all steamy,
your sinuses are all opened up, and that's four K,
but I'm talking eight k wow, just like a targeted
(15:50):
little jet of water. Is that what's going on there? Yeah,
basil of targeted jet of warm water. Anyway, so you
get that's like, that's the thing you could just that's
add on. At the doctor it said, yes, an add on.
It's also a way you can get pregnant, so just
be careful. But yeah, you're you have some interesting theories.
Before we started recording, you were explaining some interesting theories
(16:10):
that you have, you know, get pregnant I'm pretty sure
I got pregnant because I swallowed. I think that's what happened.
But I told you the Lord. The Lord knows. The
Lord knows. This is advice. You have to listen to him. Yeah,
he did go to you know, a Catholic high school,
so all the facts. So I learned to split dogsh
(16:32):
it up into smaller pieces. This episode we should probably
just send directly to health teachers across America so that
they can just simply use use the science contained there.
You guys. It's why I'm an activist. The ear cleaning varietals. Yes,
we were talking about that before we started, because I
(16:53):
I'm just like a basic bitch, Q tip put it
in there, spin it around, get that nice little like
shimmy where I'm like basic b cute shimmy. Yeah, but
my wife likes to get in She has like this
hard tipped little like wax pick with a little camera
(17:16):
on it, and her favorite thing to do in the
world with our boys is just just like get in
there and clean, just do a like, you know, a
scientific like a precision cleaning of the inside of their ears.
You guys can't see it, but Jack's doing sort of
like a dome with his fingertanl Yeah, yeah, a little dome.
(17:38):
And I tried it once and I did not like
it was painful. I cried. I cried for yea. Yeah,
I don't think it's like our kids like it, so
I might just I'm just when I grew up with
a like a bamboo pick going in my ear too,
So it's a very different feeling than a cute because
it's cotton on it, and like this is like straight
(17:59):
up just scraping or like canal, but not like in
a bad way. It's just like it's just something you're
not used to if you're wrapped in cotton swabs all
the time. I like to be tickled. But Miles, yeah,
you had the pick, Yeah, the pick. Yeah. What's the
difference between the pick and the It's like I think, well,
because like Asian people's ear wax is a little bit
different than like other people, Like it's like a little
(18:21):
bit more delicate, like flaky than like waxy, So like
the pick works for that. Although my mom should always
be like, oh man, you got this like hybrid American
ear wax. One of my kids has my ear wax,
and one of my kids has my wife's like kind
of more Asian ear wax, and it's uh yeah, but
(18:42):
she she goes in on both of them and it
it works. But it was also interesting for me to
hear that your your mom was like looking like the
dumb way we clean our ears like wax. I don't know,
I mean, I don't is that a thing? I don't know?
Like that's just one thing I've heard. Being Japanese and
my mom looking at like all of her family's ear
(19:03):
wax and like my dad's and then mine's like, Okay,
something's going on over here. That's so intimate. Yeah, right,
truly get to know your partner's your wax. Very great hearing.
Mm hmm. You gotta go get the ear wash man,
I'm telling you. I'm telling you full other and it's warm,
it melted away. It's fantastic. That sounds really nice. It
(19:27):
sounds like something they should do at a spa instead
of a doctor's office. You know. Yeah, but you kind
of want somebody who's like, you know, at that right angle, Nah,
trust my spa with anything. You gotta just lie, you
gotta just say I need this. It's like vitamin B shots.
Everyone deserves them. Go get yours feel good? Yeah? Yeah,
(19:51):
I have a deviated septum, your honor. Could you clean
my ears? Could you clean up my ears? All right,
let's take a quick break, should we. Yeah? Yeah, let's
take a quick break, and then we'll be right back
to uh brag about a news story that we got
right and everyone else got wrong. Everyone Miles, alright, alright, everybody, everyone,
(20:26):
and we're back. And Okay, it wasn't everyone. There wasn't
New York Times. The New York Times got this wrong
as fuck. A lot of like the l A Times
all like these mainstream media sources that love the people
just immediately trust and they're seeing their Trump coverage. They're liberal. Okay, yes,
(20:46):
granted their liberal. It's like, no, they're not. They are
right of center. Anyways. So the shoplifting epidemic that was
sweeping the nation, one of the big people crying foul
and actually crying wolf was Walgreens, Like I remember this
being a big story, like before any of them kicked
(21:09):
it off. Was Walgreens was like I can barely keep
them Dann doors open in San Francisco because a shoplifting.
It's just it's just the wild West tearing this family apart.
It's yeah, and it's like what everybody thought. They were like, so,
what's it like in California? Like you just don't have
to pay for stuff, You just walk in and smash
(21:30):
and grab everything you want from a Walgreens. Is that
how California is new as a shoplifter? Yeah, I mean
that you can do that everywhere, though it's not just California,
Live free, sovereign consumer as I called him. But yeah,
there was this whole thing of like it's destroying the
economy in San Francisco and like they have to close
(21:52):
five stores because of the lack of law and order.
And this guy, the CFO, got on this call and
he basically said, they, quote, I had too much last
year about the supposed problem, and they've and as a result,
they've overspent on security to try and stop the non
existent bleed. And in fact, when you look at the numbers,
they said things got better this last year for the
company in terms of losses. They said that as they
(22:15):
call it, the charade of shrink, which is like lost
to the theft, fraud, damages, miss scanned items, etcetera. Fell
from three and a half percent to around two and
a half percent. Which is not good by industry standards
as I've read, But we knew this, and we were
saying this along with many others that don't rely on
the words of police and the c suite of companies
to shape their worldview. Like and the thing that pisces
(22:37):
me off is that the data was there. Like there
was a San Francisco Chronicle article that was like I mean,
and other earnings calls. They talked about how just the
cost of doing business in San Francisco is really fucking
difficult because of the real estate costs, and they expanded
too quickly and they're kind of like and that also
helped like make the decision that they were going to
close some locations down. So on top of it all,
(23:01):
like again, all of this was like there for most
people to see and just say, I don't I don't
know if it's quite rising to this, but we were
just fed this steady stream of like videos of like
people like shoplifting at pharmacies and you're like, oh no,
what's going on? And now like the places like CNN
in the New York Times are writing articles that are
critical of Walgreens and like, my god, crunching the numbers
(23:23):
in their reporting to show the US that they were
lying this whole time. Like stream, I've been to those Walgreens.
Do you know how hard it is to shoplift gum
from there? It's impossible. Yeah, they have like cameras, they
have like metal detectors, they've got security guards everywhere, and
then they have the mirrors all over the place. Right.
(23:46):
The also the shrinkage, like they they use this term
that's like lost from theft that like I feel like
as from George Castanza, Yeah, I thought it was cold water,
but I think the like they're always lumping it in
with something else that is less sexy, but it is
(24:06):
actually the thing that is causing them to lose more money.
Like I remember there was a Walmart story about this
where they were like blaming theft for a huge loss
of like inventory, but then people actually looked in and
it's like more more likely you're just bad at tracking
your inventory. And also you're trying to replace clerks with
(24:30):
all of these automated self checkouts, and people are inadvertently
not paying for things or just like conveniently forgetting to
scan something. Yes, for me, it's inadvertent inconvenient, and they're
not you know, they just don't want to admit that
because they just it's a it's a cost saving thing
(24:50):
that they knew was going to be a problem coming
into it. But because the media, because these mainstream media
outlets were so gullible and so just willing to, you know,
be credulous that like, yes, theft is out of control.
The pores are coming and they've they're breaking down the
doors and stealing all our stuff. The poor little billion
(25:14):
theres worry about the great big poores. It's the same
reason that they love that, like those doorbuster sales where
everyone's like you know, pushing each other out of the
way to get the flat screen TVs. It's like, look
at these like poor consumers, that's there, you know. They
love they love a zombie movie. The local news, the
(25:37):
mainstream media. They love to make it seem like the
poor people are out of control and hungry masses coming
in tsunami waves with our claspers ready to take your
detergent and tide pods and other things. But yeah, it's
it's just all self created. It's just it's the thing
(25:58):
that really fucking takes my like mind, like blows my mind,
is that like they actually quoted Alec Carrick a Sandis
in the New York Times, Like he's been going fucking
head to head on Twitter, like every time they post
one of these dumb crime way of pieces, and now
they want to fucking hit him up for a quote
about the media's lack of like attention on this or
(26:22):
just like kind of going you know, really casually along
with the narratives that were being put up by these
companies and the police. Like come on, he's surgically disassembled
every one of these articles that you have like published,
like in real time, you publish it an hour later
he has explained, like what, okay, so this quote is
(26:42):
from a this quote is from the Better Business Bureau
in your city, Like this quote is just pulled from
a Walgreens earnings call where it was like conveniently lumped
in with this other thing that you're losing money on.
And just like he told you in real time that
this is bullshit, And now all of a sudden, you're
(27:02):
I mean, I'm glad they're coming around to the reality
of their fucked up reporting, but I'm I'm sure that's
that's not how they're going to you know, portray it
or even like perceive it. Yeah, it's yeah again. I
mean this is all again, Like you're saying all of
the policy or political points that were scored with getting
(27:23):
the media lockstep with this narrative was basically to push
back against a lot of the progressive d a's, Like
Chase of Boudine in San Francisco was ran out on
a rail because of precisely this narrative of like and
there's no fucking nothing in San Francisco. Get them out.
But you look at the primaries and what happened in November,
(27:43):
A lot more progressive DA's got elected. So it's like this,
you know, you just you can kind of you it's always,
you know, it's it's when these these stories come out,
you're like, oh, of course, y'all everyone, you're all working
together because the same main this is like a real
and order episode now right, we need like the yeah,
(28:04):
like in the in Mark may have California Today New
York Times San Francisco shoplifting surge. They got a picture
of Walgreens. Walgreens has closed stores in San Francisco, San
Francisco because of shoplifting. Is your fucking sub headline on
like the front image, like and now you're like, wow,
(28:24):
what happened? Man, shut the shut the funk out of here.
And that's also your best picture if like hordes of
shoplifters are invading Walgreens, your best picture is just like
a closed store. Yeah, just the exterior of one. And
where where are all the poor zombies? Yeah? It's just
really anyway, so well done the New York Times and
(28:45):
CNN and others that breathlessly just paraded this on and
then now you're like, oh, that guy was just talking bullshit.
It turns out they only caught the like five times
I've done it. Yeah, I mean, nobody checks anymore. If
the if it was a bad strategy for them to,
I mean, I don't know what their other option was,
(29:06):
but their strategy really seemed to be, like, California is
a socialist failed state that has you know, the socialist
d as have lost the city, and so everybody elsewhere
in the country is like, man, California has really like
gone to ship and you know what, we're fine here,
it turns out, and oh, not not my progressive deal
(29:28):
like that, because everybody seems to be voting progressive when
it comes to he is they're not everybody, but at
least the people who vote. So they love doing that
with California period, right, Like we have wildfires and they're like,
it's because of all the gays rubbing class berst that's California.
They're terrible and it's God's hand. Yeah, I mean it's like, no, actually,
(29:50):
our money is all being funneled into the Midwest and
that's why we have no infrastructure. Look at work. I think,
what's like you're saying, it helps to have this like
boogeyman to point to it. Like, you know, I always
use the metaphor of the m Night Shamalan movie The
Village to be like, you don't want to go out there. Yeah,
it's all fucking weird and spooky, like you never you
(30:13):
couldn't even fucking fathom. But then, oh my god, tell
me the ending miles don't tell, didn't ending, I didn't ending, alright,
but a plane flies overhead and that all up anyway,
all that to say, you know where we we helped
fulfill that sort of myth for a lot of the
conservative myth makers who want to you know, do everything
they can to be like no progress is so fucked
(30:34):
up and bad, like it leads to walreens closing because
they actually aggressively expanded and relied on not paying like
proper wages and automation. Do I get that right? But
truly it is bad out here, So don't move that here.
Don't move to Los Angeles, especially where at traffics fucking horrible.
No front, that's that's real. They got one, I know.
That's why I'm telling them to funk off this. This
(30:55):
is the worst that's ever been traffic. I don't know
what got back from the HOLLI it's it's bad. I've
tried to go to that fucking Griffith Park Observatory like
three times, and every time it's like a fucking It's
like space Mountain. You might get a three hour line.
You have to like park by the studio in Hollywood. Yeah,
(31:15):
you get close to walking up the hill. That's why
you gotta come to Medesk though nobody goes anywhere. And
it's it's so dumb that to like keep going to
the same place that is that you know, just as
beautiful as like twenty other things. All I need to do.
I ended up just finding a bunch of other better
parks and take them up to the Mount Wilson Observatory. Man, Hey,
(31:36):
so anyways, fuck you Griffith Park Observatory. I don't need
you anyways. So the German, Germany and the US are
sending tanks to Ukraine. This was a big will they
won't they for a while and in Germany there was
a lot of the like send the tanks became a
(31:57):
talking point. But Germany from the jump was like, we
won't send it unless the US sends it, and the
US is like, we're not sending it. And then suddenly
you do it. They decided to both jump in the
pool at the same time holding hands. It's you know,
I'm not I'm not a security expert in this, but
(32:19):
coming out and saying our rationale is I'll do it
if you do it like that is fundamentally like we
we've all agreed that peer pressure and doing something because
someone else did something like is bad, that that's never
been an acceptable reason to do something, and yet for
the past, like in the past two months, it seems
(32:42):
like it's like that we talked about how tech companies
are just laying off hundreds of thousands of people, and
it seems to be completely contagion of idea like them
just being like, well, something we wanted to do because
we're you know, it's gonna look good a lot more money.
Actually everyone's going we can't. We can't also show a
(33:02):
little bump in the numbers by cutting our costs. Yeah. So,
and then with this that seems like, I don't know,
it's a pretty These are two of the world's most
powerful economies and they're openly sending arms into a battle
that is the possibility to devolve into World War three,
and they're like, yeah, I don't know, Like our our
(33:27):
decision is based on whether the other guy does it,
and like if he does it, then we're cool too,
which seems Yeah, there's suicide pac reasoning. I mean, there's
there's so many reasons why this is. This whole conflict
is like fucking a lot of things up while also
making a lot of people rich. Like the UK, the
UK in the US, they both want Ukraine to be
(33:49):
Russia's Afghanistan Part two. No way, yeah, exactly because they
want they want Russia there, They want him to drain.
They just ay let them bleed slow by having to
fight by a fucking infinite war, or maybe they end
up crippling their own economy from trying to win a
war that you know, we're you know, we're helping fight
(34:10):
by proxy. And I think that's what there's That's one
of the reason there's zero mentioned from the UK or
the US that's anything aside from military aid like no, no, no.
And then another factor, which is the obvious, the military
industrial complex and the gas industries, like they're booming right now.
Sending tanks and sending ship means we're spending money to
send it. That meaning we're putting money in the pockets
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of the defense manufacturers. They fucking loved this. They would
love nothing more for like the main, like the main
sort of take on this is like infinite weapons, infinite weapons,
infinite weapons. And then the gas part is because Russian
gas is sanctioned now fract American natural gas is out
of fucking Bremium. And now everybody, I've also been paying
(34:57):
attention to what's happening with Iran. All this is going
on because Russia has such a strong hold on Iran.
But notice, while Russia has been busy, so has Iran
been busy? Yeah, exactly, And we're finally seeing some reform
in Iran and who you know, reform in the Middle
East usually winds up turning into you know Libya. Hey,
(35:18):
speaking of Western intervention in Libya, you know what I mean?
And this is the thing, right, Like that's another I'll
get to that part. Western intervention has a terrible track record,
has a terrible track record pumping weapons into a place
where like I don't know, miss let them do something
with it, you know, like that all pretty much a
rescue for those weapons will enter the wrong hands or
(35:40):
get on the black market, and you're and you're going
to create another problem down the line because of the
short sightedness of this like policy and like the other
lead to more war, yeah exactly. And you look at
like the far right in Ukraine and how much of
an influence they even have on Zelinski. One of the
reasons he is having to take a hard mind about
being like, well, I'm not going to negotiate with the
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Russians is because that's like a hard line for a
lot of the like the far right in Ukraine, and
they're influential, so to to to negotiate with Russia could
could be a very bad look for him. So that's
why it's like this like no, we can't, we can't negotiate.
We're doing this, that and the other. But he's also
said too, it would help if like the more western
allies came to help negotiate some ship because we don't
(36:23):
certainly don't want to keep fighting forever. And the US
is like, all right, fine, here are some tanks. Fine,
here's some drones, here's some fucking more missiles or whatever.
But again not to say that the solution here is
to ignore the situation in Ukraine. But this like well
worn idea that we need to send our American bang
bangs to save the people, it just needs to end
(36:46):
that ship doesn't work, It ends disastrously, and it ends
up making ship worse for the people that are there
in the long run. And there were plenty of non
military options on the table, Like I understand that you
look at the situation and the smaller nation and is
being basically transgressed by a larger, more powerful one with
like you know, with an autocrat at the head of
it and things like that. But there are there were ways.
(37:08):
Many economists are like, yeah, man, if you fucking really
cut the Russian elite off from their money, they're probably
gonna end up turning on putin that will create a situation,
but everything we've seen has been so like like with
kid gloves, if they're not going all the way, because again,
I think a lot of Western countries are afraid of
the boomerang effect of like, well, if we start tightening
(37:29):
the screws on these people in their money like that,
that's that's some exposure for the elite in this country
because maybe we're so we're in this fucking weird situation
where it's like, what are what are we doing? Because
there are ways to address this, like in a way
that is we're we're looking at all of the all
of the levers that can be pulled to create pressure
(37:50):
to kind of create a more peaceful situation. But I
think at the end of the day, it's not simple,
and we we really are doing a disservice to ourselves
by not considering what the long term effects are of
just pushing more weapons there and escalating a situation that
what happens if she gets so bad right and then
a Republican ends up becoming president, They're like, yeah, fuck
(38:10):
your brols trying up on World War three, I don't
give a funk might help the economy, Not to mention
that like just fundamentally our planet can't handle the carbon
footprint of war. You know, let's just dismiss that one
of these Abrahams tanks that's us let uses sucking jet fuel,
or the German tanks Leopard two, which sounds like a
mac operating system. But oh yeah when they named him
(38:32):
there was Leopard D. Yeah. But those when they're all
cat based. Yeah, but yeah, save all your systems preferences
to the list instead of the icon. Everything just breaks
down the But the question that you pose, what are
we doing? The answer almost always is whatever is going
to make the most money like that that is seen
as the correct of course of action. Who for the
(38:57):
if the elite are able to extract moral wealth and
resources from this business, that ships not trickling down, like
healthcare costs are going up. My prescriptions have all gone
from a cope of fifty cope of a hundred, right,
and gas is still you know four fifty and above right,
yeah and a But the people that are in charge
(39:19):
of that, they're doing well. So they are doing and
it's why we need to swarm the Walgreens, thank you,
and steal all the gum. The only men to get
him but yeah, it's just it's just kind of a thing,
like I think it's it's interesting when you eat a
lot of like news around it too, there's always like
(39:40):
the solution is just like, well, they just need more weapons.
They need as many weapons as possible. And I get
I understand that that initial like urge. You're you're like, yeah,
let's help. They don't. Man, Yo, we got look at
all this ship. We we have all these weapons because
kids don't have healthcare, might as well do. Maybe we
can get some good out of it. But at the
end of a day, when you do, you're like, it's
(40:02):
at our own peril that we ignore all the history.
Is there there a history between Russia and Germany? Yeah. Yeah,
they're just coming up on the anniversary of the of
Stalingrad And that's a huge thing issue too, that a
lot of translation party or something, But that's a huge
thing that German people also mindful of, is like their
(40:23):
history of like looking at like aggressors, what that looks
like in the context of like Russian German relations, They
clearly also want to be able to find a way
to say, like what are you gonna do just like
turn Russia into a hermit nation, like there's still people
there that like our people, and like they're gonna suffer.
But is there a way to like try and make
this work without fully, you know, seeding to to Vladimir
(40:45):
Putin or whatever. Again, that's why this ship is so
so complex. But at the end of the day, it's
most lines lead back to someone's making money, and that's
why it helps to have this conflict continue. It really
seems like like it is the story the New York
Times have been waiting for, and every day like it's
the number one top headline, and it's always just breathlessly
(41:08):
reporting about like you like now, the Biden announced the
thirty one Abraham's tanks for Ukraine, but says the move
is not meant to escalate the war, and I don't
know that's just also like these specific tanks, the Pentagon
was specifically saying, like, oh, that's a terrible idea because yeah,
(41:28):
and I was, like you said, they they run on
jet fuel. And this is a war that is being
fought in a place with very tenuous supply lines, so
you need you need a place with like open supply lines.
If you're it would be very easy to just completely
cut cut these off from any fuel source, so we
(41:48):
won't be sending those. And now they're like, yeah, I
guess we will be because I don't know someone's gonna
pay for it. We're good. Yeah, I mean there's like
I apparently can run on all kinds of fuel sources. Hey,
mility tank operators, I get, let us know exactly what's
going on there. But again there like that's the other
thing a lot of Germans are saying too. It's like
they said yes, but like it could take a long
time for their ship to even reach the front. Yeah,
(42:11):
and then we're already putting it in there, so they're like,
are they really actually gonna be? Is the US really
sending their tanks? And it's just a very you know,
it's it's a very delicate situation. But the long term
effects are like we'd we never consider when when we
get into this mood in this country, Yeah, this on
(42:31):
this planet? Yeah, yeah for sure? What are those right? Yes?
And the things that he has said more these like
fucking carbon emitting war machines over there, what the hell? Man,
let's double up on the fund up part, like, well,
we're waiting for a coral to produce its own sunscreen
(42:51):
right within its d n A Like California just had
a tour. We had a literal tornado here, did you? Yeah, California? Yeah,
oh yeah. I live in the Central Valley now and
we had I had an actual I'll send it to you.
I had an actual tornado alert at four am? Oh
my god? How was that was it? I'm guessing it
(43:14):
was okay. Oh I'm a California so it was phenomenal.
I was so excited. I couldn't believe I got picked.
I just felt so flattered by the weather. That is
something that I've had to like promise my kids doesn't
happen here. So tornado, Yeah. Half half of my conversation
with my kids are like, okay, so, like how big
would a tsunamibe that was like coming down the street,
(43:36):
and what like a flat flood? Could a flat flood
happened here? Could a flat flood happened here? Could a
flat flood happened here? Just say no, you know, I
don't even bother explaining. I remember my mom was like, man,
you no fucking I remember like when I was a
kid there like there was really bad flooding one year
and like in Riverside, California. But I lived off a
street called Riverside. Is that there, like? And my mom
was like, no, that's like way somewhere else, and it
(43:58):
was like, can that happen? It's like, no, ship like
that will never happen. They always got me to be
like it happened. It happened there. All right, let's take
a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
(44:24):
and there is a hot market right now for a
very specific type of water. The people are no, it's
actually uh splash Mountain. Oh splsh Monton, Yeah, splash Montona
of aline. No, unfortunately, And that's a bit of a myth,
(44:46):
is what they say. At Disney World. They're real, particularly
like don't find that alkalized life crap. But we talked
about the Splash Mountain craze that reached like fever Pitch
on Sunday because Disney World is like they're running the
log Flume for like the last time before they revamp
it to like less racist, and this had many sick
people crying over this woke change. So they did everything
(45:09):
they could to see the shitty animatronics one last time.
But I guess the water is surprised. Now I believe
this is a scam. Now that like people who are
really clever saying, I bet these fucking people would buy
some ship if you told him it was Splash Mountain
Water because on the takeout they did a search for
Splash Mountain Water. There are a d eBay listings at
the time of that the article came out and they
(45:30):
said most auctions are around twenty bucks. Some are saying
you've got to buy it now for six what what
is this the night that makes sense because you might
need that Splash Mountain Water fast. So they're putting premium
on quick turnaround. And like all of the listing pictures
are identical to like, so it's like, okay, is this
(45:53):
like one seller or multiple people. Then there's a there's
another listing that the bottle comes with a certificate of
authentic city and the water looks like it's slightly more
blue colored and a thousand dollars, so maybe legit. I
have to get on eBay. I gotta get that ship.
I mean, but what's like the like to a person
who's like, I gotta have the water, It's gonna be
(46:14):
the same fucking water. It's not like the waters. We
got the racism in it. I've got the last bottle
of racist Splash Mountain water. Like, I don't understand the
value really because it seems like even if you were
that into it, how the fund you improve it? And
also anybody could finesse you if it's if they're really
(46:35):
just telling you a bottle of water, how free? Really?
Do do we think they're swishing that water out? Also
the Splash Mountain water, it's from what I've read, because
I started to I wanted to understand, like what is
going on with the water. Like at the rides, they
say like it's not purified or filtered, but they do
like put a bunch of chemicals in it, but you
(46:58):
can smell so yeah, yeah, it's like extra extra chlorinated
or something. Yeah, it's got to be so heavily chlorinated.
Isn't there a joke in the Simpsons where they go
on there it's a small world, and drink the water
start tripping. Yeah, exactly, it's so chlorinated. It's so like
(47:19):
chemically processed. I mean, I put all my fingers and
toes in there. Come on, yeah, we all do, right,
that's what we do. Yeah, you gotta touch it, Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
there's like a fun little game we play. There's been
another thing too where someone was like, oh, like they
snagged water from pirates of the Caribbean and then like
(47:42):
cooked with it, like took the bottle home and then
like made food with it, and then what did That's
probably how they got pregnant exactly. I didn't want to
say that, but you know, that's exactly what happened. Three
days later I gave birth. That was us, like Captain
Jack Sparrow, I mean, my ears, I don't think. Yeah,
(48:03):
I'd imagine that's probably a bit. But then other people like,
well it's boiled, so so it's fine, probably fine. Like
those are the same people that drink their peak. Yeah,
I know right, it's it's basically what what did they say?
It's sterile, so probably drink up your peak. I mean,
(48:25):
do whatever you want. Just I'm not just missed me
with your racist like relic water that you're so like
hopped up on. But yeah, I mean that poor that
poor woman. She named her daughter Brier and forever will
be an obscure name because Splash Mountains will ever use
the word again. Yeah, alright, Golden Eye coming back despite
(48:46):
maybe because of the warring Ukraine. Waitw so this is
it's a very complicated story. So the Nintendo sixty four
game Golden Eye, there's been rumors it was going to
come back. There's actually a YouTube video that was leaked
that was like supposedly a remastered edition, and people at
(49:08):
first were like, that's just like a fan account or
like a fan hack where they you know, re remade it.
But the more people looked into it, the more they
were like, actually, no, this looks like it was a
real remaster and it looks like it was really cool,
and which I don't even know what, like, what is
a really cool I think because it had like a
(49:30):
bunch of it was like upresed, so the graphics were
like way sharper, like it looked like a modern version
even though it was very much Golden I like all
the detail, like of the renderings and stuff for much
of the film, the details of the Polly Grandma heads,
the polygraph polygraph shaped or not polygraph polygon polygon shaped
(49:52):
heads as Jesus American super sharp. Yeah. But so the
new re releases gonna show up on Nintendo Switches, Nintendo
Switch Online, Expansion Pass, and Xbox game passed this week January,
so just tomorrow, okay, welcome Anyways, It's apparently been in
(50:17):
the work for more than a decade. Fans first call
wind that there was a remastered edition when a leaked
video of someone playing hit YouTube, but no one knew
like why it had been made but never released, and
the delay apparently had to do with lights and licensing problems.
The developers of the game were owned by Microsoft at
(50:37):
that time, they had to make a deal with Nintendo,
and even when they reached the deal, it's still had
to get the okay from MGM, who owns the rights
to James Bond and apparently the like I never really
thought about this, but the fit between Nintendo and Golden
Eye being like a bloody like shoot him up, It's
(50:58):
not that's not their style. That's not their style at all.
There's yeah, there's this an anecdote that I love where
they went to the like Nintendo with the final game,
and Nintendo complained to the development team there was too
much close up killing and suggested a scene be added
(51:20):
at the end where you got to shake hands with
all your enemies in the hospital. Thank you, She given
me Amoto for that wonderful suggestion. The the Mario Goat
was like, how about I mean, I get you, I
get that you exploded him with a proximity minding the
bathroom stall. What about the end he's all bands up
and you go friendship those proximity minds where the ship?
(51:43):
Did you really play the battle version with proximity mind Yeah,
you had to all proximity minds. It was so good.
That was the funniest way to like lure someone in
and then just like throw a bunch of proximity minds
in a doorway. But anyway, so this game wasn't was
too violent for some, It was too violent for a
lot of people, and it was too violent for the
(52:05):
entire nation of Germany, like it has only recently been
released in Germany for most of the history of the game,
they were like, fuck, no, this is like four kids
and you're using like realistic weapons to murder each other.
Like we never minded. I certainly didn't, but in retrospect
and like, look at us now, we're pushing the Germans
(52:27):
to send tanks maybe to play some Golden I you'd
be more on this ship. Like it was said to
be rereleased last summer two, being the games anniversary, but
then the game was placed in limbo because of the
war between Russia and Ukraine. Because the game is like
(52:48):
for anyone who hasn't played a long time, like, yeah,
you're the Russian the bad guys. You're killing like people
in like Russian soldiers, Like there they are the number
one murder victim of this game if you just take
every kill that's happened across Golden Eye games over the
course of history. I guess not in battle mode, but
or could you play German or Russian soldiers in battle mode?
(53:11):
Could you like be a Russian soldier? I think you
could pick your character, couldn't you? Oh yeah, I think
the right, right, the bad guy Boris right. And then
there was remember you could be odd Job. Job was
the best because you couldn't shoot him straight up, like
you couldn't duck down really where you had to duck down. Yeah,
(53:33):
oh yeah, there was Bond Natalia. You could be Zena
a room of Alan Cumming, who was Boris? Yeah, like
there were there were a few options. Yeah, there was
that could just be Russian soldier I guess, or something
I forgot that was Alan Cummings. That's amazing. I mean vincible.
(53:54):
I spiked them. That's my favorite line. You know what,
that game had math in it. There were timed minds.
You had to count that hit. Yeah, thank you, and
the hardest math of all, counting hunting down from a number.
But yeah, it was Germany labeled at media harmful to
young persons up until like that's how long it took there,
(54:16):
So they're just that is why their culture is so
far behind. I blame that for the popularity of David
Haselhoff's recording career is because they just were installed in
a pre Golden Eye world. Yeah, come on, be more
like us, where we've got it figured out. Yeah, but
it is weird that it's now being rereleased just one
week after Britain confirmed plans to send military equipment to Ukraine.
(54:40):
Like it makes it seem like the main reason it
was delayed was because James Bond, even in video game form,
needs to follow official foreign policy objectives and like the
UK military, opposing Russia and the real world is the
only way that the digital James Bond can be sent
into battled computerized Russian soldiers. So My six has deemed
(55:01):
the operation go. It's a go, It's a co operation
Golden Eye. Wow. Well anyway we took that up and
show my baby Proximity minds. Well, was our such a
pleasure having you as always, such a pleasure being here. Congratulations,
Thank you so much. Congratulations to you two miles, Thank you,
(55:24):
thank you. Are you ready? Are you ready coming up?
You know I had a few things on it to
do list that I have to do before Liken the
the car seat thing installation, it's a whole other thing.
I had to go get that inspecting and ship. But yeah,
it's what's fine? Did you get my homegirl gave me
(55:46):
her old one. It's a don't I got to look
at Maxie cozy or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, class, you
know you like that? You want that base to pop offs?
You can throw it on the stroller, you know what
I mean? That one's amazing And see this is this
is the new ship I'm talking about instead of Proximity Mind.
Thanks a lot, baby, thanks baby, Oh no baby, diaper explosions.
(56:10):
I could have been talking about a twenty six year
old game. Zara, Where can people find you and follow you?
You can find me follow me at Snap Judgment podcast.
Check us out. We have an amazing episode about a
Zalinsky impersonator. Yeah, that actually was put in danger because
(56:33):
he was a Zelinsky impersonator and he was living in Moscow.
He didn't want to get involved in the war propaganda,
and he found out he might not have a choice,
and so check it out. A Kim Jung impersonator rescued him.
WHOA Kim and a Putin impersonator got together because they
understood how much danger he was actually in and they
(56:54):
rescued him. That episode is up. It's phenomenal. You gotta
check it out. And you can also catch me at
Sam Francisco Sketch Fast. I'll be conforming that the Bravocabret
Theater February four. Okay, February And is there a tweet
or some other work of social media that you've been enjoying. Okay,
(57:14):
I'm really glad to bring this to you all. I
sent you the link. It's a tweet that that's like
a fifteen minute clip of a guy from the fifties
putting up drywall. Oh I may have seen this. Is it?
Is he doing a bathroom? Yes, and he's like doing
like an arch in it. Oh my god, that arch
that arch yo, the way he fucking cuts the drywall
(57:35):
with the back and he's like, spice it, Vaness. I
know the video. I know exactly what you're talking about
because I think it's one of those viral videos. But yeah,
it is, so you like realize you're like, damn man,
the fucking trades. Shout out the trades. This man is
an artisan, He's a craftsman. It's so soothing. There's like
(57:56):
such an art to the way this guy is doing
things like boom, all right, I cut out that for
the electric go box, boom, throw it in boom boom
boomail now nail. This is the part right here, Jack,
you're about the how are you gonna drywall that arch? Okay,
you just put those little perforations in, so then watch this. Okay,
what full my boy drywall installed? Anyway. Shout out to
(58:20):
all your crafts people, trades people out there. We love you.
That is Yeah. The videos fucking wild. I'm obsessed. Yeah,
holy shit, that's awesome. Miles. Where can people find you?
Follow you? And what is a tweet or some work
of media you've been enjoying? That's just so funny that
two just watch this guy work drywall, right, is better
(58:42):
than any fucking thing Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos could
do with their hands and their fucking life, and these
assholes think they're the fucking answer, like Allen Iverson. Okay, Anyway,
some tweets that I like really just one. It's from
at Jarvis Underscore best tweeted Jimmy Carter tearly confesses that
he has classified documents in his heart. There in my heart,
(59:08):
Jama Jima, all Right, you can find me on Twitter
at Jack Underscore O'Brien media. I've been enjoying paul Ty
Goldman completed that might have a guest tying into that
in the coming days, so highly recommend people go check
that show out ahead of a upcoming episode of this show.
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two seventy two,
Episode four of tur Daylies Like Guys Say, production of
I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
a deep dive into America's share consciousness. I like to
do that one like you might be a red kneck
take a deep dive and do America's share content. It's Thursday.
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I'm not worthy of the Fox Thursday January six, twenty six.
I would say, huh six, you said sick? I said six.
I skipped the twenty. I might be getting gated. I'm out.
I'm on a new mic right now. I'm in the studio.
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Why trust you said it is Thursday, January twenty six,
twenty three. You know you don't just to tell the
people where shout and all partners out. There's National spouses Day,
it's in a National customs day. It's National Peanut brittle Day,
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National green juice Day. Oh Man and Dolda as the
gang going get a big dog up your mit because
it's also Australia. Die dog up you ross. Does that
mean get sucked by a dog? I forget where. Yeah
it's that or I'm not here to fox spiders. But yeah,
go and get a dog up you Is it's like
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song way to tell someone to fuck up? Yeah? Yeah,
I'm going to get a big fucking dog up. Yeah.
So you're telling me to get sucked by a dog?
Is that? It's like just banter? It's more banter, right,
like how just banter me? Just like such crude. Yeah.
Shout out all the parting as well. Yeah, my name's
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Jack O'Brien. A k oh my old you got a
ks about weed. But I'm just hate toes O'Brien. Yeah,
I'm just hate tease o breen. Oh baby, that is
courtesy of Oh my god, I forgot to copy your name.
I believe it's Lex Lugie, the one, the one and
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only Labria, the Mr Lugubrious and so sure, I'm not okay,
okay making sure. I just want to make I don't
want I don't want anyone's feelings hurt. We'd like to
do proper attribution. All right, Well, I'm thrilled to be
joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles. Oh wait,
I didn't I never said it is Mr. It is
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at Lex Lugi, Mr Lugubrious, who gave me my a
k ship. Shout out to you, sir, and I'm thrilled
to be joined as always by my co host, Mr
Miles Gray. We're kind of done with November. We're done
within November. You'll tell the Night Gang. We're done win November, Jackuary, February, March,
April Gray, these are the new days that we will
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obey Scouty Magoo because you said we're a buck, We're
off this Calindria. What was it clindrical cylindrical system Ben
Bowling told us about, But yeah, I shout out s
Scouting mcgo on the discord wide cleft back. I was
just listening to that album the Carnival where you have
to listen to that probably in twenty years I love.
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I remember that was like back in the day when
I had to like pick up dogshit to get CD
money and because of that, like I was like, I
have to listen to every single album on this or
every single track on this album, and I just kind
of went back. He's like, damn, like I even know
the weird deep cuts on here, like some fizzy when
he's singing in Creo. Yeah, yeah, that was that was
(03:31):
a banger. Wait did you have to did dog Walkers
hire you to pick up their dog, like were the
dog walker and the poop and like my dog was
shipped in the yard and my parents were like, yeah, man,
get like a get a dime for every piece of ship. Yeah,
but they didn't know me. I was already on my
way to being a drug dealer, so I knew to
break these big pieces of ship down into small pieces
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of s. Had to cut. Had to cut the dog
ship and set it back to him at inflated cause, Baby,
I've always had my mind on the money. Okay, well, Miles,
we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by one of our favorite TVZ guests, a very funny
comedian and activists, the host of the great award winning
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podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, the senior Fellow on Comedy
at the Pop Culture Collapse. She's written in The New
York Times. Performed a piece on NPRS Fresh Air for
some person named Terry grow Gross Gross, some some dude
named Terry Gross like Terry Bradshaw. It is the hilarious.
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The towns are normal? What up now? A Snap judgment
producer coming your way? Snap Judgment producer, judge producer in
the building. What's new? All right? Oh you know, I
was at the Academy Museum and I just took a
picture with Bruce the original Jaws that was onto splait.
(05:00):
Shut up. Yeah, yeah, have you been to the Academy muzoom.
I'm dying to go. They got they got to hang
in there. You know. I had to go right after
you did that, mon Yeah, I went last weekend. Oh dope.
I was like kind of scouting it out to see
if my kids would be interested in it, and the
answer yes, it gets a hell you we're gonna plan
(05:22):
a trip the sharks and now they're really into Star
Wars and they got our two and C three po. Yeah,
the shark's body is a little as a little funky
though it's it's weird. Well I'm not as like, you know,
close to the franchise as the two of you, so
I'm probably the last person to be able to point
out the discrepancies and shortcomings of the right. But it's cool.
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And yet neither of you invited me. Yeah, yeah, I know. Yeah,
I just didn't how show you this picture though? Whoa had?
I had the text message, but I just didn't. I
didn't send it because I was like, gosh, she's gonna
she's gonna roast me. She's gonna show my kids. She
knows way more about, she goes way more about, you know,
(06:06):
all that hard hitting comedy from Czara Norbach Roastmaster General Ship. Also,
I didn't I had never really noticed that Bruce has penis.
You know, she doesn't have weird double penises that hang
down below. Oh yeah, those two little like I was like,
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what are those baby fishes on the bottom, And I'm like, Dick,
that's shark penis, because don't they have like little fins
on it? Yeah, great white sharks. Dick, google Bruce. Gott
Let me see if I can. Oh yeah, here, I'll share.
I'll share the screen. Oh justin, let me get screenshare
really quick. We gotta. I gotta do the Lord's work
and show people this sharks penis. Yeah, I need to
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see this. Here we go. These things, these things right here,
these they're called claspers. Well they look like yeah, class
bar a friendly ghost. Oh yeah, that's what mine looked like.
They're gray like that. You and a lot of people
talk about how the effects didn't work very well for Bruce,
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and that's why they didn't show Bruce that much. The
real reason is it was just obscene. Bruce is hanging
door man, he's got a big old thing. Class man,
he had a whale. Class I thought. I called mine
to the classmers. Come here, baby, get the classers. Yeah,
get the classpers. They also it's the reason that they
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had to invent the plot line of all the dinosaurs
on Draft Park being women, because they didn't want to
repeat the mistake and have just dinosaurs with big dicks?
Do they have class urs too? Who even knows? I mean,
is that even think you have searched? I don't think
we've figured it out. I don't. I don't know that
we've figured it out. It's not gonna let you out
(07:57):
of her classmers. Maybe I can. Maybe I should ask
Ai to be like, what what does a t rex
penis look like? Tell me? Now? I just ask Katie Golden.
She probably knows. Yeah, I think I have. Actually, so
don't because I think he was like, could you stop
as Jack forget what the matter? Jack forgot? Anyways, Zara,
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it is wonderful to be here, thrilled to have you back.
We're gonna get to know you a little bit better
in a moment. First, we're gonna tell the listeners. A
couple of the things we're talking about. One of the
things we're talking about is we were fucking right about
Walgreen's and their quote unquote shoplifting problem. I mean, we
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knew we were right, but it's just it's kind of
gratifying that they have come out and been like, yeah,
the dailies ageist was right essentially in their earnings call,
and now the New York Times is coming back and
being like, how I just I can't believe it, but yeah,
basically and their earnings called, they were like, we spent
too much money trying to stop shoplifting. There were only
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like five shoplifting cases. We caught them all on camera
and like sent them directly to the local news and
made it seem like we were constantly being bombarded by shoplifting.
Wasn't true. And yeah, so now now we're correcting for
that mistake, and the New York Times is like, well,
I never and now they're even quoting Alec Carrick Kitzantus. Yeah,
(09:26):
it's former guest Alec Carrick. It Santas. So we'll talk
about that. Just do a you know, a couple of
nice slow victory laps and we'll talk about how Germany
and the US are sending tanks to Ukraine, and you
know what, what the the stated logic of this is,
(09:47):
I'll do it if you do it. That's legitimately what
they're saying. They're like, well, we were doing it because
they're doing it, so yeah, but it's yeah, that's why. Anyways,
people are bottling and selling Splash mountain water. It's called gatorade. No,
it's a thing that they're doing on eBay, and you
can buy a bottle of the blue Splash mountain Water
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for one dollars. So that's that's cool. Golden Eyes coming
back despite or maybe because of the war in Ukraine.
So we'll talk about that plenty more. But before we
get to any of that bullshits are we do like
to ask our guests what is something from your search history?
Search history was, Oh, well, some news. I'm I'm pregnant. Wow,
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look at us, look at us parents to be the
three of us. Now, yeah, I know, we're a family. Family.
It's about your found family, but it's also about the
family that you birth from. Your wonderful news are schedulation.
Me and my class birds are hard at work and
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I have been having so many nightmares. So my whole
search history is just like, is my baby dad? How
do I know my baby's dead? Did I kill my baby? Yeah?
We were just talking about that. Like there's like a
bit of advice that I was going viral on the internet,
was like, what's a piece of it? Like, what's something
you don't think about when you become a parent And
someone just goes that you'll have to worry about them
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for the rest of your life. God, and it's never
gonna end. I will, Like I watched them sleep, and
I'm just like, what if they like forget to breathe though, Like, yeah,
it's it's very scary, but it's also like, you know,
as bad as that is, like the good stuff is
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that good? So like yesterday I felt her moving and
I was so excited and I was telling everybody, and
I kept grabbing my husband's hand and holding it there.
And then I stopped feeling her moving and I was
like crying, three o'clock in the morning, She's dead. I
did something wrong. It's me. It's all me, even though
you know not to think that, and and then he goes, honey,
I felt too bad to tell you yesterday she wasn't moving.
(12:13):
It was just your poop. Yeah yeah, it's just your larging.
Yeah too early, go back to sleep. The part you're
just farting, Just keep farting enough. But my farrest were kicking.
They were something to write home about. What is something
(12:37):
you think is overrated? Condoms? Definitely just stop using him.
I can't believe you're pregnant. It is so hard to
get pregnant. It took use It took us three years. Wow. Yeah, okay.
We did a round of IVF that failed, and then
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two weeks later we were one of those chin of
couples that it happened by accident. Wow. And then I
was mad because I wanted to like engineer fraternal twins
and just like be done, just get it all out.
I just wanted I'm I'm forty two years old, man,
I don't want to keep doing this. It's hard work.
(13:19):
Do you want so you want? You want two kids?
We wanted a big family. I wanted like maybe six
or seven. Some of them could be like a few interns,
you know what I mean? Yeah, or something yeah, yeah,
some osman's. You know, you need to kill the bees,
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get a few of them on, you know, some season
of succession or something like put him to work. But
do you have you come from a big family? I do.
I have four kids in my family, and my mom's
family she has six, and in her grandma my grandma's family,
there's fourteen. Oh yeah, yeah, so you you get lazy exactly.
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This is what my grandma says. Yeah, good advice for everyone.
You know, condoms overrated throughout everybody, everybody, our young listeners.
You know, no that's not true, but that that is great. Congratulations. Yeah,
I've ye, struggle is real. And then the yeah, that's amazing.
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What is What's something you think is underrated? Okay, hear
me out? Ear washes? Yeah, I'm talking about this ear wash.
You need to go to the doctor's office. You get
it done by a nurse or a tech. You don't
need to see the doctor for it. You can get
it done at any time. All you have to do
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is say I can't hear. I think it's stopped up.
Mm hmm. I think I've been using my Q tip
wrong and I need an ear wash. It costs like
fifteen bucks in copee. Wow, what it? What's the process? Like?
They like some candles, so they put this little bowl
next to your ear and then yeah, they play a
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Spotify soundtrack and they they squirt water into your ear
at an angle m and it doesn't feel any different
than like being in a shower m and but it's
like a warm water. So then it melts the wax
in your ear and then it washes all of the
wax out of your ear, and you will not believe
(15:29):
you're hearing. It is so wild. Wait, so like you
you felt like you were now hearing in like four K.
This is what I'm saying, eight k e K because
like you come out of the shower, you're all steamy,
your sinuses are all opened up, and that's four K,
but I'm talking eight k wow, just like a targeted
(15:50):
little jet of water. Is that what's going on there? Yeah,
basil of targeted jet of warm water. Anyway, so you
get that's like, that's the thing you could just that's
add on. At the doctor it said, yes, an add on.
It's also a way you can get pregnant, so just
be careful. But yeah, you're you have some interesting theories.
Before we started recording, you were explaining some interesting theories
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that you have, you know, get pregnant I'm pretty sure
I got pregnant because I swallowed. I think that's what happened.
But I told you the Lord. The Lord knows. The
Lord knows. This is advice. You have to listen to him. Yeah,
he did go to you know, a Catholic high school,
so all the facts. So I learned to split dogsh
(16:32):
it up into smaller pieces. This episode we should probably
just send directly to health teachers across America so that
they can just simply use use the science contained there.
You guys. It's why I'm an activist. The ear cleaning varietals. Yes,
we were talking about that before we started, because I
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I'm just like a basic bitch, Q tip put it
in there, spin it around, get that nice little like
shimmy where I'm like basic b cute shimmy. Yeah, but
my wife likes to get in She has like this
hard tipped little like wax pick with a little camera
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on it, and her favorite thing to do in the
world with our boys is just just like get in
there and clean, just do a like, you know, a
scientific like a precision cleaning of the inside of their ears.
You guys can't see it, but Jack's doing sort of
like a dome with his fingertanl Yeah, yeah, a little dome.
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And I tried it once and I did not like
it was painful. I cried. I cried for yea. Yeah,
I don't think it's like our kids like it, so
I might just I'm just when I grew up with
a like a bamboo pick going in my ear too,
So it's a very different feeling than a cute because
it's cotton on it, and like this is like straight
(17:59):
up just scraping or like canal, but not like in
a bad way. It's just like it's just something you're
not used to if you're wrapped in cotton swabs all
the time. I like to be tickled. But Miles, yeah,
you had the pick, Yeah, the pick. Yeah. What's the
difference between the pick and the It's like I think, well,
because like Asian people's ear wax is a little bit
different than like other people, Like it's like a little
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bit more delicate, like flaky than like waxy, So like
the pick works for that. Although my mom should always
be like, oh man, you got this like hybrid American
ear wax. One of my kids has my ear wax,
and one of my kids has my wife's like kind
of more Asian ear wax, and it's uh yeah, but
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she she goes in on both of them and it
it works. But it was also interesting for me to
hear that your your mom was like looking like the
dumb way we clean our ears like wax. I don't know,
I mean, I don't is that a thing? I don't know?
Like that's just one thing I've heard. Being Japanese and
my mom looking at like all of her family's ear
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wax and like my dad's and then mine's like, Okay,
something's going on over here. That's so intimate. Yeah, right,
truly get to know your partner's your wax. Very great hearing.
Mm hmm. You gotta go get the ear wash man,
I'm telling you. I'm telling you full other and it's warm,
it melted away. It's fantastic. That sounds really nice. It
(19:27):
sounds like something they should do at a spa instead
of a doctor's office. You know. Yeah, but you kind
of want somebody who's like, you know, at that right angle, Nah,
trust my spa with anything. You gotta just lie, you
gotta just say I need this. It's like vitamin B shots.
Everyone deserves them. Go get yours feel good? Yeah? Yeah,
(19:51):
I have a deviated septum, your honor. Could you clean
my ears? Could you clean up my ears? All right,
let's take a quick break, should we. Yeah? Yeah, let's
take a quick break, and then we'll be right back
to uh brag about a news story that we got
right and everyone else got wrong. Everyone Miles, alright, alright, everybody, everyone,
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and we're back. And Okay, it wasn't everyone. There wasn't
New York Times. The New York Times got this wrong
as fuck. A lot of like the l A Times
all like these mainstream media sources that love the people
just immediately trust and they're seeing their Trump coverage. They're liberal. Okay, yes,
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granted their liberal. It's like, no, they're not. They are
right of center. Anyways. So the shoplifting epidemic that was
sweeping the nation, one of the big people crying foul
and actually crying wolf was Walgreens, Like I remember this
being a big story, like before any of them kicked
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it off. Was Walgreens was like I can barely keep
them Dann doors open in San Francisco because a shoplifting.
It's just it's just the wild West tearing this family apart.
It's yeah, and it's like what everybody thought. They were like, so,
what's it like in California? Like you just don't have
to pay for stuff, You just walk in and smash
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and grab everything you want from a Walgreens. Is that
how California is new as a shoplifter? Yeah, I mean
that you can do that everywhere, though it's not just California,
Live free, sovereign consumer as I called him. But yeah,
there was this whole thing of like it's destroying the
economy in San Francisco and like they have to close
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five stores because of the lack of law and order.
And this guy, the CFO, got on this call and
he basically said, they, quote, I had too much last
year about the supposed problem, and they've and as a result,
they've overspent on security to try and stop the non
existent bleed. And in fact, when you look at the numbers,
they said things got better this last year for the
company in terms of losses. They said that as they
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call it, the charade of shrink, which is like lost
to the theft, fraud, damages, miss scanned items, etcetera. Fell
from three and a half percent to around two and
a half percent. Which is not good by industry standards
as I've read, But we knew this, and we were
saying this along with many others that don't rely on
the words of police and the c suite of companies
to shape their worldview. Like and the thing that pisces
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me off is that the data was there. Like there
was a San Francisco Chronicle article that was like I mean,
and other earnings calls. They talked about how just the
cost of doing business in San Francisco is really fucking
difficult because of the real estate costs, and they expanded
too quickly and they're kind of like and that also
helped like make the decision that they were going to
close some locations down. So on top of it all,
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like again, all of this was like there for most
people to see and just say, I don't I don't
know if it's quite rising to this, but we were
just fed this steady stream of like videos of like
people like shoplifting at pharmacies and you're like, oh no,
what's going on? And now like the places like CNN
in the New York Times are writing articles that are
critical of Walgreens and like, my god, crunching the numbers
(23:23):
in their reporting to show the US that they were
lying this whole time. Like stream, I've been to those Walgreens.
Do you know how hard it is to shoplift gum
from there? It's impossible. Yeah, they have like cameras, they
have like metal detectors, they've got security guards everywhere, and
then they have the mirrors all over the place. Right.
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The also the shrinkage, like they they use this term
that's like lost from theft that like I feel like
as from George Castanza, Yeah, I thought it was cold water,
but I think the like they're always lumping it in
with something else that is less sexy, but it is
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actually the thing that is causing them to lose more money.
Like I remember there was a Walmart story about this
where they were like blaming theft for a huge loss
of like inventory, but then people actually looked in and
it's like more more likely you're just bad at tracking
your inventory. And also you're trying to replace clerks with
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all of these automated self checkouts, and people are inadvertently
not paying for things or just like conveniently forgetting to
scan something. Yes, for me, it's inadvertent inconvenient, and they're
not you know, they just don't want to admit that
because they just it's a it's a cost saving thing
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that they knew was going to be a problem coming
into it. But because the media, because these mainstream media
outlets were so gullible and so just willing to, you know,
be credulous that like, yes, theft is out of control.
The pores are coming and they've they're breaking down the
doors and stealing all our stuff. The poor little billion
(25:14):
theres worry about the great big poores. It's the same
reason that they love that, like those doorbuster sales where
everyone's like you know, pushing each other out of the
way to get the flat screen TVs. It's like, look
at these like poor consumers, that's there, you know. They
love they love a zombie movie. The local news, the
(25:37):
mainstream media. They love to make it seem like the
poor people are out of control and hungry masses coming
in tsunami waves with our claspers ready to take your
detergent and tide pods and other things. But yeah, it's
it's just all self created. It's just it's the thing
(25:58):
that really fucking takes my like mind, like blows my mind,
is that like they actually quoted Alec Carrick a Sandis
in the New York Times, Like he's been going fucking
head to head on Twitter, like every time they post
one of these dumb crime way of pieces, and now
they want to fucking hit him up for a quote
about the media's lack of like attention on this or
(26:22):
just like kind of going you know, really casually along
with the narratives that were being put up by these
companies and the police. Like come on, he's surgically disassembled
every one of these articles that you have like published,
like in real time, you publish it an hour later
he has explained, like what, okay, so this quote is
(26:42):
from a this quote is from the Better Business Bureau
in your city, Like this quote is just pulled from
a Walgreens earnings call where it was like conveniently lumped
in with this other thing that you're losing money on.
And just like he told you in real time that
this is bullshit, And now all of a sudden, you're
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I mean, I'm glad they're coming around to the reality
of their fucked up reporting, but I'm I'm sure that's
that's not how they're going to you know, portray it
or even like perceive it. Yeah, it's yeah again. I
mean this is all again, Like you're saying all of
the policy or political points that were scored with getting
(27:23):
the media lockstep with this narrative was basically to push
back against a lot of the progressive d a's, Like
Chase of Boudine in San Francisco was ran out on
a rail because of precisely this narrative of like and
there's no fucking nothing in San Francisco. Get them out.
But you look at the primaries and what happened in November,
(27:43):
A lot more progressive DA's got elected. So it's like this,
you know, you just you can kind of you it's always,
you know, it's it's when these these stories come out,
you're like, oh, of course, y'all everyone, you're all working
together because the same main this is like a real
and order episode now right, we need like the yeah,
(28:04):
like in the in Mark may have California Today New
York Times San Francisco shoplifting surge. They got a picture
of Walgreens. Walgreens has closed stores in San Francisco, San
Francisco because of shoplifting. Is your fucking sub headline on
like the front image, like and now you're like, wow,
(28:24):
what happened? Man, shut the shut the funk out of here.
And that's also your best picture if like hordes of
shoplifters are invading Walgreens, your best picture is just like
a closed store. Yeah, just the exterior of one. And
where where are all the poor zombies? Yeah? It's just
really anyway, so well done the New York Times and
(28:45):
CNN and others that breathlessly just paraded this on and
then now you're like, oh, that guy was just talking bullshit.
It turns out they only caught the like five times
I've done it. Yeah, I mean, nobody checks anymore. If
the if it was a bad strategy for them to,
I mean, I don't know what their other option was,
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but their strategy really seemed to be, like, California is
a socialist failed state that has you know, the socialist
d as have lost the city, and so everybody elsewhere
in the country is like, man, California has really like
gone to ship and you know what, we're fine here,
it turns out, and oh, not not my progressive deal
(29:28):
like that, because everybody seems to be voting progressive when
it comes to he is they're not everybody, but at
least the people who vote. So they love doing that
with California period, right, Like we have wildfires and they're like,
it's because of all the gays rubbing class berst that's California.
They're terrible and it's God's hand. Yeah, I mean it's like, no, actually,
(29:50):
our money is all being funneled into the Midwest and
that's why we have no infrastructure. Look at work. I think,
what's like you're saying, it helps to have this like
boogeyman to point to it. Like, you know, I always
use the metaphor of the m Night Shamalan movie The
Village to be like, you don't want to go out there. Yeah,
it's all fucking weird and spooky, like you never you
(30:13):
couldn't even fucking fathom. But then, oh my god, tell
me the ending miles don't tell, didn't ending, I didn't ending, alright,
but a plane flies overhead and that all up anyway,
all that to say, you know where we we helped
fulfill that sort of myth for a lot of the
conservative myth makers who want to you know, do everything
they can to be like no progress is so fucked
(30:34):
up and bad, like it leads to walreens closing because
they actually aggressively expanded and relied on not paying like
proper wages and automation. Do I get that right? But
truly it is bad out here, So don't move that here.
Don't move to Los Angeles, especially where at traffics fucking horrible.
No front, that's that's real. They got one, I know.
That's why I'm telling them to funk off this. This
(30:55):
is the worst that's ever been traffic. I don't know
what got back from the HOLLI it's it's bad. I've
tried to go to that fucking Griffith Park Observatory like
three times, and every time it's like a fucking It's
like space Mountain. You might get a three hour line.
You have to like park by the studio in Hollywood. Yeah,
(31:15):
you get close to walking up the hill. That's why
you gotta come to Medesk though nobody goes anywhere. And
it's it's so dumb that to like keep going to
the same place that is that you know, just as
beautiful as like twenty other things. All I need to do.
I ended up just finding a bunch of other better
parks and take them up to the Mount Wilson Observatory. Man, Hey,
(31:36):
so anyways, fuck you Griffith Park Observatory. I don't need
you anyways. So the German, Germany and the US are
sending tanks to Ukraine. This was a big will they
won't they for a while and in Germany there was
a lot of the like send the tanks became a
(31:57):
talking point. But Germany from the jump was like, we
won't send it unless the US sends it, and the
US is like, we're not sending it. And then suddenly
you do it. They decided to both jump in the
pool at the same time holding hands. It's you know,
I'm not I'm not a security expert in this, but
(32:19):
coming out and saying our rationale is I'll do it
if you do it like that is fundamentally like we
we've all agreed that peer pressure and doing something because
someone else did something like is bad, that that's never
been an acceptable reason to do something, and yet for
the past, like in the past two months, it seems
(32:42):
like it's like that we talked about how tech companies
are just laying off hundreds of thousands of people, and
it seems to be completely contagion of idea like them
just being like, well, something we wanted to do because
we're you know, it's gonna look good a lot more money.
Actually everyone's going we can't. We can't also show a
(33:02):
little bump in the numbers by cutting our costs. Yeah. So,
and then with this that seems like, I don't know,
it's a pretty These are two of the world's most
powerful economies and they're openly sending arms into a battle
that is the possibility to devolve into World War three,
and they're like, yeah, I don't know, Like our our
(33:27):
decision is based on whether the other guy does it,
and like if he does it, then we're cool too,
which seems Yeah, there's suicide pac reasoning. I mean, there's
there's so many reasons why this is. This whole conflict
is like fucking a lot of things up while also
making a lot of people rich. Like the UK, the
UK in the US, they both want Ukraine to be
(33:49):
Russia's Afghanistan Part two. No way, yeah, exactly because they
want they want Russia there, They want him to drain.
They just ay let them bleed slow by having to
fight by a fucking infinite war, or maybe they end
up crippling their own economy from trying to win a
war that you know, we're you know, we're helping fight
(34:10):
by proxy. And I think that's what there's That's one
of the reason there's zero mentioned from the UK or
the US that's anything aside from military aid like no, no, no.
And then another factor, which is the obvious, the military
industrial complex and the gas industries, like they're booming right now.
Sending tanks and sending ship means we're spending money to
send it. That meaning we're putting money in the pockets
(34:32):
of the defense manufacturers. They fucking loved this. They would
love nothing more for like the main, like the main
sort of take on this is like infinite weapons, infinite weapons,
infinite weapons. And then the gas part is because Russian
gas is sanctioned now fract American natural gas is out
of fucking Bremium. And now everybody, I've also been paying
(34:57):
attention to what's happening with Iran. All this is going
on because Russia has such a strong hold on Iran.
But notice, while Russia has been busy, so has Iran
been busy? Yeah, exactly, And we're finally seeing some reform
in Iran and who you know, reform in the Middle
East usually winds up turning into you know Libya. Hey,
(35:18):
speaking of Western intervention in Libya, you know what I mean?
And this is the thing, right, Like that's another I'll
get to that part. Western intervention has a terrible track record,
has a terrible track record pumping weapons into a place
where like I don't know, miss let them do something
with it, you know, like that all pretty much a
rescue for those weapons will enter the wrong hands or
(35:40):
get on the black market, and you're and you're going
to create another problem down the line because of the
short sightedness of this like policy and like the other
lead to more war, yeah exactly. And you look at
like the far right in Ukraine and how much of
an influence they even have on Zelinski. One of the
reasons he is having to take a hard mind about
being like, well, I'm not going to negotiate with the
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Russians is because that's like a hard line for a
lot of the like the far right in Ukraine, and
they're influential, so to to to negotiate with Russia could
could be a very bad look for him. So that's
why it's like this like no, we can't, we can't negotiate.
We're doing this, that and the other. But he's also
said too, it would help if like the more western
allies came to help negotiate some ship because we don't
(36:23):
certainly don't want to keep fighting forever. And the US
is like, all right, fine, here are some tanks. Fine,
here's some drones, here's some fucking more missiles or whatever.
But again not to say that the solution here is
to ignore the situation in Ukraine. But this like well
worn idea that we need to send our American bang
bangs to save the people, it just needs to end
(36:46):
that ship doesn't work, It ends disastrously, and it ends
up making ship worse for the people that are there
in the long run. And there were plenty of non
military options on the table, Like I understand that you
look at the situation and the smaller nation and is
being basically transgressed by a larger, more powerful one with
like you know, with an autocrat at the head of
it and things like that. But there are there were ways.
(37:08):
Many economists are like, yeah, man, if you fucking really
cut the Russian elite off from their money, they're probably
gonna end up turning on putin that will create a situation,
but everything we've seen has been so like like with
kid gloves, if they're not going all the way, because again,
I think a lot of Western countries are afraid of
the boomerang effect of like, well, if we start tightening
(37:29):
the screws on these people in their money like that,
that's that's some exposure for the elite in this country
because maybe we're so we're in this fucking weird situation
where it's like, what are what are we doing? Because
there are ways to address this, like in a way
that is we're we're looking at all of the all
of the levers that can be pulled to create pressure
(37:50):
to kind of create a more peaceful situation. But I
think at the end of the day, it's not simple,
and we we really are doing a disservice to ourselves
by not considering what the long term effects are of
just pushing more weapons there and escalating a situation that
what happens if she gets so bad right and then
a Republican ends up becoming president, They're like, yeah, fuck
(38:10):
your brols trying up on World War three, I don't
give a funk might help the economy, Not to mention
that like just fundamentally our planet can't handle the carbon
footprint of war. You know, let's just dismiss that one
of these Abrahams tanks that's us let uses sucking jet fuel,
or the German tanks Leopard two, which sounds like a
mac operating system. But oh yeah when they named him
(38:32):
there was Leopard D. Yeah. But those when they're all
cat based. Yeah, but yeah, save all your systems preferences
to the list instead of the icon. Everything just breaks
down the But the question that you pose, what are
we doing? The answer almost always is whatever is going
to make the most money like that that is seen
as the correct of course of action. Who for the
(38:57):
if the elite are able to extract moral wealth and
resources from this business, that ships not trickling down, like
healthcare costs are going up. My prescriptions have all gone
from a cope of fifty cope of a hundred, right,
and gas is still you know four fifty and above right,
yeah and a But the people that are in charge
(39:19):
of that, they're doing well. So they are doing and
it's why we need to swarm the Walgreens, thank you,
and steal all the gum. The only men to get
him but yeah, it's just it's just kind of a thing,
like I think it's it's interesting when you eat a
lot of like news around it too, there's always like
(39:40):
the solution is just like, well, they just need more weapons.
They need as many weapons as possible. And I get
I understand that that initial like urge. You're you're like, yeah,
let's help. They don't. Man, Yo, we got look at
all this ship. We we have all these weapons because
kids don't have healthcare, might as well do. Maybe we
can get some good out of it. But at the
end of a day, when you do, you're like, it's
(40:02):
at our own peril that we ignore all the history.
Is there there a history between Russia and Germany? Yeah. Yeah,
they're just coming up on the anniversary of the of
Stalingrad And that's a huge thing issue too, that a
lot of translation party or something, But that's a huge
thing that German people also mindful of, is like their
(40:23):
history of like looking at like aggressors, what that looks
like in the context of like Russian German relations, They
clearly also want to be able to find a way
to say, like what are you gonna do just like
turn Russia into a hermit nation, like there's still people
there that like our people, and like they're gonna suffer.
But is there a way to like try and make
this work without fully, you know, seeding to to Vladimir
(40:45):
Putin or whatever. Again, that's why this ship is so
so complex. But at the end of the day, it's
most lines lead back to someone's making money, and that's
why it helps to have this conflict continue. It really
seems like like it is the story the New York
Times have been waiting for, and every day like it's
the number one top headline, and it's always just breathlessly
(41:08):
reporting about like you like now, the Biden announced the
thirty one Abraham's tanks for Ukraine, but says the move
is not meant to escalate the war, and I don't
know that's just also like these specific tanks, the Pentagon
was specifically saying, like, oh, that's a terrible idea because yeah,
(41:28):
and I was, like you said, they they run on
jet fuel. And this is a war that is being
fought in a place with very tenuous supply lines, so
you need you need a place with like open supply lines.
If you're it would be very easy to just completely
cut cut these off from any fuel source, so we
(41:48):
won't be sending those. And now they're like, yeah, I
guess we will be because I don't know someone's gonna
pay for it. We're good. Yeah, I mean there's like
I apparently can run on all kinds of fuel sources. Hey,
mility tank operators, I get, let us know exactly what's
going on there. But again there like that's the other
thing a lot of Germans are saying too. It's like
they said yes, but like it could take a long
time for their ship to even reach the front. Yeah,
(42:11):
and then we're already putting it in there, so they're like,
are they really actually gonna be? Is the US really
sending their tanks? And it's just a very you know,
it's it's a very delicate situation. But the long term
effects are like we'd we never consider when when we
get into this mood in this country, Yeah, this on
(42:31):
this planet? Yeah, yeah for sure? What are those right? Yes?
And the things that he has said more these like
fucking carbon emitting war machines over there, what the hell? Man,
let's double up on the fund up part, like, well,
we're waiting for a coral to produce its own sunscreen
(42:51):
right within its d n A Like California just had
a tour. We had a literal tornado here, did you? Yeah, California? Yeah,
oh yeah. I live in the Central Valley now and
we had I had an actual I'll send it to you.
I had an actual tornado alert at four am? Oh
my god? How was that was it? I'm guessing it
(43:14):
was okay. Oh I'm a California so it was phenomenal.
I was so excited. I couldn't believe I got picked.
I just felt so flattered by the weather. That is
something that I've had to like promise my kids doesn't
happen here. So tornado, Yeah. Half half of my conversation
with my kids are like, okay, so, like how big
would a tsunamibe that was like coming down the street,
(43:36):
and what like a flat flood? Could a flat flood
happened here? Could a flat flood happened here? Could a
flat flood happened here? Just say no, you know, I
don't even bother explaining. I remember my mom was like, man,
you no fucking I remember like when I was a
kid there like there was really bad flooding one year
and like in Riverside, California. But I lived off a
street called Riverside. Is that there, like? And my mom
was like, no, that's like way somewhere else, and it
(43:58):
was like, can that happen? It's like, no, ship like
that will never happen. They always got me to be
like it happened. It happened there. All right, let's take
a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back,
(44:24):
and there is a hot market right now for a
very specific type of water. The people are no, it's
actually uh splash Mountain. Oh splsh Monton, Yeah, splash Montona
of aline. No, unfortunately, And that's a bit of a myth,
(44:46):
is what they say. At Disney World. They're real, particularly
like don't find that alkalized life crap. But we talked
about the Splash Mountain craze that reached like fever Pitch
on Sunday because Disney World is like they're running the
log Flume for like the last time before they revamp
it to like less racist, and this had many sick
people crying over this woke change. So they did everything
(45:09):
they could to see the shitty animatronics one last time.
But I guess the water is surprised. Now I believe
this is a scam. Now that like people who are
really clever saying, I bet these fucking people would buy
some ship if you told him it was Splash Mountain
Water because on the takeout they did a search for
Splash Mountain Water. There are a d eBay listings at
the time of that the article came out and they
(45:30):
said most auctions are around twenty bucks. Some are saying
you've got to buy it now for six what what
is this the night that makes sense because you might
need that Splash Mountain Water fast. So they're putting premium
on quick turnaround. And like all of the listing pictures
are identical to like, so it's like, okay, is this
(45:53):
like one seller or multiple people. Then there's a there's
another listing that the bottle comes with a certificate of
authentic city and the water looks like it's slightly more
blue colored and a thousand dollars, so maybe legit. I
have to get on eBay. I gotta get that ship.
I mean, but what's like the like to a person
who's like, I gotta have the water, It's gonna be
(46:14):
the same fucking water. It's not like the waters. We
got the racism in it. I've got the last bottle
of racist Splash Mountain water. Like, I don't understand the
value really because it seems like even if you were
that into it, how the fund you improve it? And
also anybody could finesse you if it's if they're really
(46:35):
just telling you a bottle of water, how free? Really?
Do do we think they're swishing that water out? Also
the Splash Mountain water, it's from what I've read, because
I started to I wanted to understand, like what is
going on with the water. Like at the rides, they
say like it's not purified or filtered, but they do
like put a bunch of chemicals in it, but you
(46:58):
can smell so yeah, yeah, it's like extra extra chlorinated
or something. Yeah, it's got to be so heavily chlorinated.
Isn't there a joke in the Simpsons where they go
on there it's a small world, and drink the water
start tripping. Yeah, exactly, it's so chlorinated. It's so like
(47:19):
chemically processed. I mean, I put all my fingers and
toes in there. Come on, yeah, we all do, right,
that's what we do. Yeah, you gotta touch it, Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
there's like a fun little game we play. There's been
another thing too where someone was like, oh, like they
snagged water from pirates of the Caribbean and then like
(47:42):
cooked with it, like took the bottle home and then
like made food with it, and then what did That's
probably how they got pregnant exactly. I didn't want to
say that, but you know, that's exactly what happened. Three
days later I gave birth. That was us, like Captain
Jack Sparrow, I mean, my ears, I don't think. Yeah,
(48:03):
I'd imagine that's probably a bit. But then other people like,
well it's boiled, so so it's fine, probably fine. Like
those are the same people that drink their peak. Yeah,
I know right, it's it's basically what what did they say?
It's sterile, so probably drink up your peak. I mean,
(48:25):
do whatever you want. Just I'm not just missed me
with your racist like relic water that you're so like
hopped up on. But yeah, I mean that poor that
poor woman. She named her daughter Brier and forever will
be an obscure name because Splash Mountains will ever use
the word again. Yeah, alright, Golden Eye coming back despite
(48:46):
maybe because of the warring Ukraine. Waitw so this is
it's a very complicated story. So the Nintendo sixty four
game Golden Eye, there's been rumors it was going to
come back. There's actually a YouTube video that was leaked
that was like supposedly a remastered edition, and people at
(49:08):
first were like, that's just like a fan account or
like a fan hack where they you know, re remade it.
But the more people looked into it, the more they
were like, actually, no, this looks like it was a
real remaster and it looks like it was really cool,
and which I don't even know what, like, what is
a really cool I think because it had like a
(49:30):
bunch of it was like upresed, so the graphics were
like way sharper, like it looked like a modern version
even though it was very much Golden I like all
the detail, like of the renderings and stuff for much
of the film, the details of the Polly Grandma heads,
the polygraph polygraph shaped or not polygraph polygon polygon shaped
(49:52):
heads as Jesus American super sharp. Yeah. But so the
new re releases gonna show up on Nintendo Switches, Nintendo
Switch Online, Expansion Pass, and Xbox game passed this week January,
so just tomorrow, okay, welcome Anyways, It's apparently been in
(50:17):
the work for more than a decade. Fans first call
wind that there was a remastered edition when a leaked
video of someone playing hit YouTube, but no one knew
like why it had been made but never released, and
the delay apparently had to do with lights and licensing problems.
The developers of the game were owned by Microsoft at
(50:37):
that time, they had to make a deal with Nintendo,
and even when they reached the deal, it's still had
to get the okay from MGM, who owns the rights
to James Bond and apparently the like I never really
thought about this, but the fit between Nintendo and Golden
Eye being like a bloody like shoot him up, It's
(50:58):
not that's not their style. That's not their style at all.
There's yeah, there's this an anecdote that I love where
they went to the like Nintendo with the final game,
and Nintendo complained to the development team there was too
much close up killing and suggested a scene be added
(51:20):
at the end where you got to shake hands with
all your enemies in the hospital. Thank you, She given
me Amoto for that wonderful suggestion. The the Mario Goat
was like, how about I mean, I get you, I
get that you exploded him with a proximity minding the
bathroom stall. What about the end he's all bands up
and you go friendship those proximity minds where the ship?
(51:43):
Did you really play the battle version with proximity mind Yeah,
you had to all proximity minds. It was so good.
That was the funniest way to like lure someone in
and then just like throw a bunch of proximity minds
in a doorway. But anyway, so this game wasn't was
too violent for some, It was too violent for a
lot of people, and it was too violent for the
(52:05):
entire nation of Germany, like it has only recently been
released in Germany for most of the history of the game,
they were like, fuck, no, this is like four kids
and you're using like realistic weapons to murder each other.
Like we never minded. I certainly didn't, but in retrospect
and like, look at us now, we're pushing the Germans
(52:27):
to send tanks maybe to play some Golden I you'd
be more on this ship. Like it was said to
be rereleased last summer two, being the games anniversary, but
then the game was placed in limbo because of the
war between Russia and Ukraine. Because the game is like
(52:48):
for anyone who hasn't played a long time, like, yeah,
you're the Russian the bad guys. You're killing like people
in like Russian soldiers, Like there they are the number
one murder victim of this game if you just take
every kill that's happened across Golden Eye games over the
course of history. I guess not in battle mode, but
or could you play German or Russian soldiers in battle mode?
(53:11):
Could you like be a Russian soldier? I think you
could pick your character, couldn't you? Oh yeah, I think
the right, right, the bad guy Boris right. And then
there was remember you could be odd Job. Job was
the best because you couldn't shoot him straight up, like
you couldn't duck down really where you had to duck down. Yeah,
(53:33):
oh yeah, there was Bond Natalia. You could be Zena
a room of Alan Cumming, who was Boris? Yeah, like
there were there were a few options. Yeah, there was
that could just be Russian soldier I guess, or something
I forgot that was Alan Cummings. That's amazing. I mean vincible.
(53:54):
I spiked them. That's my favorite line. You know what,
that game had math in it. There were timed minds.
You had to count that hit. Yeah, thank you, and
the hardest math of all, counting hunting down from a number.
But yeah, it was Germany labeled at media harmful to
young persons up until like that's how long it took there,
(54:16):
So they're just that is why their culture is so
far behind. I blame that for the popularity of David
Haselhoff's recording career is because they just were installed in
a pre Golden Eye world. Yeah, come on, be more
like us, where we've got it figured out. Yeah, but
it is weird that it's now being rereleased just one
week after Britain confirmed plans to send military equipment to Ukraine.
(54:40):
Like it makes it seem like the main reason it
was delayed was because James Bond, even in video game form,
needs to follow official foreign policy objectives and like the
UK military, opposing Russia and the real world is the
only way that the digital James Bond can be sent
into battled computerized Russian soldiers. So My six has deemed
(55:01):
the operation go. It's a go, It's a co operation
Golden Eye. Wow. Well anyway we took that up and
show my baby Proximity minds. Well, was our such a
pleasure having you as always, such a pleasure being here. Congratulations,
Thank you so much. Congratulations to you two miles, Thank you,
(55:24):
thank you. Are you ready? Are you ready coming up?
You know I had a few things on it to
do list that I have to do before Liken the
the car seat thing installation, it's a whole other thing.
I had to go get that inspecting and ship. But yeah,
it's what's fine? Did you get my homegirl gave me
(55:46):
her old one. It's a don't I got to look
at Maxie cozy or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, class, you
know you like that? You want that base to pop offs?
You can throw it on the stroller, you know what
I mean? That one's amazing And see this is this
is the new ship I'm talking about instead of Proximity Mind.
Thanks a lot, baby, thanks baby, Oh no baby, diaper explosions.
(56:10):
I could have been talking about a twenty six year
old game. Zara, Where can people find you and follow you?
You can find me follow me at Snap Judgment podcast.
Check us out. We have an amazing episode about a
Zalinsky impersonator. Yeah, that actually was put in danger because
(56:33):
he was a Zelinsky impersonator and he was living in Moscow.
He didn't want to get involved in the war propaganda,
and he found out he might not have a choice,
and so check it out. A Kim Jung impersonator rescued him.
WHOA Kim and a Putin impersonator got together because they
understood how much danger he was actually in and they
(56:54):
rescued him. That episode is up. It's phenomenal. You gotta
check it out. And you can also catch me at
Sam Francisco Sketch Fast. I'll be conforming that the Bravocabret
Theater February four. Okay, February And is there a tweet
or some other work of social media that you've been enjoying. Okay,
(57:14):
I'm really glad to bring this to you all. I
sent you the link. It's a tweet that that's like
a fifteen minute clip of a guy from the fifties
putting up drywall. Oh I may have seen this. Is it?
Is he doing a bathroom? Yes, and he's like doing
like an arch in it. Oh my god, that arch
that arch yo, the way he fucking cuts the drywall
(57:35):
with the back and he's like, spice it, Vaness. I
know the video. I know exactly what you're talking about
because I think it's one of those viral videos. But yeah,
it is, so you like realize you're like, damn man,
the fucking trades. Shout out the trades. This man is
an artisan, He's a craftsman. It's so soothing. There's like
(57:56):
such an art to the way this guy is doing
things like boom, all right, I cut out that for
the electric go box, boom, throw it in boom boom
boomail now nail. This is the part right here, Jack,
you're about the how are you gonna drywall that arch? Okay,
you just put those little perforations in, so then watch this. Okay,
what full my boy drywall installed? Anyway. Shout out to
(58:20):
all your crafts people, trades people out there. We love you.
That is Yeah. The videos fucking wild. I'm obsessed. Yeah,
holy shit, that's awesome. Miles. Where can people find you?
Follow you? And what is a tweet or some work
of media you've been enjoying? That's just so funny that
two just watch this guy work drywall, right, is better
(58:42):
than any fucking thing Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos could
do with their hands and their fucking life, and these
assholes think they're the fucking answer, like Allen Iverson. Okay, Anyway,
some tweets that I like really just one. It's from
at Jarvis Underscore best tweeted Jimmy Carter tearly confesses that
he has classified documents in his heart. There in my heart,
(59:08):
Jama Jima, all Right, you can find me on Twitter
at Jack Underscore O'Brien media. I've been enjoying paul Ty
Goldman completed that might have a guest tying into that
in the coming days, so highly recommend people go check
that show out ahead of a upcoming episode of this show.
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well as a song that we think you might enjoy Miles.
This was a song that we think people might enjoy
let's go out on You know, I was just talking
about Whack Left, So I want to take it back
to you know, the nappy Heads era, you know, blunted
on reality era. So let's check out the nappy Heads
remix from the Fujis. We're here, Mona Lisa, Can I
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get a date on Friday? Okay? Anyway, put that in
your pipe and smoker because this track goes Saturday up.
Done enough the Mona Lisa, But oh yeah, exactly listen
to the alright, well we will link off to that
in the footnotes. The Daily Zai Guys is a production
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