Vaxx Hesitancy Down? Ted Lasso Is An iPhone 9.1.21

In episode 981, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Like Mother star Alison Stevenson to discuss the South Dakota attorney general who killed a man, vaccine mandates, fake vaccine cards, movie theaters needing vaccine mandates, Mike Richards finally being fired, Ted Lasso and product placement, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. South Dakota Attorney General Who Killed Man in Crash Gets Speeding Ticket
2. “I DID NOT KNOW IT WAS A MAN”: THE SURREAL STORY OF HOW A DEADLY CRASH UPENDED SOUTH DAKOTA POLITICS
3. Axios-Ipsos poll: Vaccine hesitancy may be crumbling
4. Can the US crack down on fake vaccination cards?
5. Sony Surprises At CinemaCon With ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Screening
6. For Movie Theaters, A Pivotal Fall Season Begins at CinemaCon
7. Venom: Let There Be Carnage May Be Delayed Until 2022. Will More Fall Movies Follow?
8. Delta Variant Disrupts Moviegoing Comfort Levels as Studios Worry
9. Movie Theaters in Some Cities Now Check for Vaccine Proof, Raising Fears About Release Delays
10. Vaccine Mandates Are ‘Mixed Bag’ for Movie Theaters, NATO CEO John Fithian Says (Video)
11. The Way Forward for Movie Theaters Is Clear
12. Mike Richards Out As EP On ‘Jeopardy!’ & ‘Wheel Of Fortune’
13. The Ted Lasso backlash was inevitable
14. A Notchless Next-Gen iPhone Inexplicably Pops Up in Ted Lasso
15. Apple’s Gadgets Co-Star in Its New TV Drama
16. ‘Servant’ Review: Season 2 Is the Creepiest Ad for Apple Products Yet
17. Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director
18. Ted Lasso Ushers In A Powerful New Era In Product Placement
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two hundred, episode
three Day Guys, the production of My Heart Radio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
America's share consciousness. And it's Wednesday, September one, twenty twenty one.
Happy September everyone. My name is Jack O'Brien, a k A.

(00:24):
I'm peeled to do and I'm your host. I shout
the names of the showing folks. Introduce. My thighs are pale.
I'm not jen X but millennial. It's a pud called
t d Z. The Daily Zi Guys with Miles and Jack.
Listen to the pod with Miles and Jack and their
guests that is courtesy of at Radio Georgio with the

(00:48):
Little Aliyah Try Again, and I'm thrilled to be joined
as always by my co host, Mr Miles Grag. I
wanna bike where the people I want to see. I
want to see my neighbors and if I see a friend,
we might smoke. What's the word we shout out to

(01:11):
one dollar Will on the discord, because yeah, you know,
I'm biking around to get with the people. Having had
a random cipher yet with another person on the street.
But you know, that William half half present two buck
Chuck is one dollar William exactly. Well, Miles, We are
thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a

(01:32):
comedian and writer who's appeared in live venues across this
great Land, whose comedy has appeared everywhere from grant Land, Vulture, Jezebel,
Pace listed her as one of the seventy best Twitter follows.
She's written several viral articles for Vice and has appeared
in the Ariana Grande video every Day, which has been

(01:52):
watched more than most Super Bowls. You can hear her
on the audible podcast Like Mother and on her very
funny stand up album Eat Me and Mommy Issues. Please
welcome back to the show. The Hilarious and Talented Alliston's Alliston. Hi, Alliston,
Allison steven says, sorry, Alistair Cook. I mean I was like, wait,

(02:22):
oh shit, that's not my bio. Uh Hi No, yeah,
what's up? How's it going? Really? Not much to report
on my in TB. Yeah yeah, I loved you truth Towns.
Loved you in Truth Towns. Oh thanks. I think I
make a two minute second appearance where I say, like

(02:44):
big titty goth anime girls animate girls in the zoom anyway,
is that a real tactic used to make zoom calls
weird or was that a little bit of improv It
was accidental, but like it was it was real because like,
oh my god, this is okay. So in my old
apartment when I would do zoom calls, I have like

(03:05):
a bunch of like vintage like the only wall in
my room where I could realistically do a zoom call.
In the back of me were all these like vintage
porno like photos of like naked women. And because you know,
I'm a collector, it's like it's just you know, it's beautiful.
So all these with Jeffrey Tubin, you should be all

(03:27):
right exactly. But then I was like, damn, well, okay,
some of these zoom calls are like professional. So I'm like,
how do I cover up the nudity? And so the
only thing I had other than that, we're stickers that
I could put over the things. But the stickers were

(03:47):
like a big titty anime girls, but at least they
were clothed, So I put those over the over the
frame photos. Like, realistically, I probably should just taken everything down,
but for a minute, that for me was like a solution, Like,
they're not going to see straight up naked vintage naked women.

(04:10):
They're gonna see like naked half naked cartoon women. Perfect
and you know who uses the blur background feature anyway,
screw that? Also something I could have thought about a solution.
Oh man, Miles, you are currently blurred in the background.
So that just you know, puts the question in our mind,

(04:33):
what what kind of wild ship does Miles have gone
on back there? Bunch of loose laundry and ship that
I had to pull out of the dryer. And I
just don't want to, like hear my mother's voice in
the background, like why did you fold it before? A
zome called you didn't fold your seas up? Okay, And
We've got a head a lot to do and I'm
now my allergies are kicking in again. Yeah man, you're

(04:56):
looking like the before and an allergy comm so a
little bit. Yeah, well, it's just you know, I gotta
stop itching my eyes. Yeah, I guess you know, what
do they know the doctors? Is there like something new
in Bloom or something. It's just my seasonal. Every episode
has become with talks and my alegies. But it's a
seasonal allergies. Is that is that early fall ship into

(05:19):
summer ship, and now we have a fire season layered
on top. I'm sure there's some bad ship kicking up there.
Got the easterly winds coming from the Saltan Sea, the
northern winds come from the salt and Sea with all
sorts of nineteen fifties agricultural chemicals and poisons that have
now like turned into a desert dust. So we're good.

(05:43):
It's a lot of good breathable ship out here. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, Allison, We're gonna get to know you a
little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell
our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We
have an update on the story about Jason Roundsberg, who
is a South Dakota's Attorney general, and we we mentioned

(06:05):
before that he had killed somebody with his car in
a hit and run. Came back the next day after
like getting a story straight and was like, oh, I
thought I hit a deer. So we're gonna we're gonna
get a very unsatisfying update on that story. We're gonna
get some good news about how people are adapting to
vaccine mandates, and then some bad news about how people

(06:27):
are adapting to vaccine mandates. We'll check in with Mike
Richards see how his plot for world domination is going.
We'll check in with the ted Lasso debate, and also
just general Apple product placement on their streaming platform, and
we will talk about whether the movies are coming back

(06:48):
and whether they should be using vaccine mandates at the cinema,
all of that plenty more. But first, Alison, we like
to ask our guests, what is something from your search
his tree? Okay, so this is actually something I was
thinking about last night and I did search for images
of it. It was literally I just put the words

(07:09):
Jennifer Lopez Fedora, h and Okay. I feel like nobody
is discussing this, and like I'm like, do I want
to be the person to do this? But like she
had such an insane Fedora collection. I feel like, I
don't know, is that in my head or she wears
a lot of Fedoras. Wow, I didn't think of it

(07:31):
like as her having a collection, but I do think
of her rocking of Fedora, like it's very easy to
picture j Low with a Fedora, almost as easy as
her in that like green Versaci dress from the vm A,
Like I could be like that, there's there's two j
Lo's for Sazi dress Jo and Fedora wearing Jo. But
does she have a do we know? Like did you

(07:52):
find you have a collection? What's what's behind that? I
actually couldn't find that many, but I'm like, why is
it in my head that Jen for Lopez is like
a Fedora person? And I think it's just like two
photos I saw on Instagram but like that photo that
everybody was sharing of, you know, her and Ben being
back together. She had some birthday Fedora on very snazzy

(08:16):
little number and I'm real video that she's wearing like
a straw like Fedor. I remember, I think that's what
my biggest thing is. And from that video she's rocking
the Fedor. Maybe I just can't. I just made that
her whole existence. No, yeah, exactly, That's the thing. It's like,
for some reason, I couldn't find that many photos of

(08:37):
her wearing a Fedora, But I'm like, something's up because
she does wear Fedora's yeah, and she loves a hat
though yeah yeah, and I'm for her with the like
page boy cap. For some reason, like that two thousand's
kind of puffy page boy cap and but I think
that's just because I originally got to know her back

(08:58):
in the of in Color days when I feel like
as a flag girl. As a flag girl, yeah, there
just needs to be suffing said, like we need to
I want to be like, we need to talk about
j Lo's hats. That's like, come on. Oh and she's
got the very flat brims, which is bigger, closer to

(09:22):
God or something. I don't know. So the big brim
is Fedora, right, because like I always get that confused
with whatever like Bruno mars War for the first half
of his career, the little like Fedora is like the
most annoying the annoying guy had come on, you remember
Tim Rock. But then these are stands O brand Fedoras man, right,

(09:45):
But those are different than the annoying guy hats. The well,
they're the same style. I mean, it's a shorter brim overall.
The shorter brim hat is the is the one that
I'm picturing when I say Fedora. But I feel like, yeah,
I think what I'm guilty of is just a tribute
every hat that to me looks like an obnoxious hat.
I could just call it a fedora. Yeah right right, right,

(10:07):
there you go. And I'm like, why is Jla wearing this?
Why is she into fedoras? Like, I feel like she
needs to be stopped. Personally, she's perfect. Otherwise, the only
thing you need to be a fedora, it's got to
be low soft felt hat or not always soft felt,
because you'll see a made out of our materials, but
a curled brim and the crown creased lengthwise. Oh that's

(10:28):
what makes it a fedora. Okay makes it? Yeah? Yeah,
genealogy of fedoras in front of me, and that that
is correct. There's many different species of fedora, right, yeah, Okay,
they've all had to evolve in different climates and adapt
a different environments, so they have different and they all

(10:49):
breast feed their offspring. What what is something you think
is overrated? Yeah? I don't know, honestly. I like somebody
must have said this at some point, but I'm just
gonna throw out almonds. When he talked about almonds, yeah,
I mean they take up way too much water. Yeah yeah,

(11:12):
and they just kind of taste like shit. Yeah, it's
like what if what if peanuts were like made of wood?
You know, we're made of the vibe though that is Yeah,
they're like they're like splintery in your mouth. I'm with you,

(11:33):
like they're like and then yeah, they're raw, like a
raw almond is just like I have the same thing
with carrots. It's just something about the texture bad and
they're they're like bad for you know all that water
they use up? Yeah? No, funck almonds for real? Like
does this extent to almond milk for you? Yes, yes

(11:55):
it does. It does because we have oat milk now,
so we don't need almond milk anymore. And coconut milk
if you're if you're trying to replace like whole fatty milk,
coconut milk is really good. Yeah. And you know what,
people don't funk with coconut milk, which I think is wrong.
I feel like coconut milk is underrated. Yeah maybe that

(12:16):
should be my underrated. What do you wait? So you're
saying you're the two of you, like you just look
at almonds and you're like, good, get them away from
me because I like a I mean, look, I like
a roasted almond. I'm not. It's the thing. It's got
to be roasted, right, not in its natural form. Well,

(12:37):
what most of the nuts we eat are roasted right
on some level, Like I don't eat rack cash shoes.
I don't eat raw peanuts. I don't eat raw nuts.
You know what I mean. But you know it is
I'm saying if it's like raw cash is delicious, Oh,
rack cashes are delicious, Yeah, naturally delicious, obviously better with

(12:57):
extra you know, roasting flavoring. But I think, oh, natural cash,
who'se are fucking dope? I just I feel like almonds
became the default nut at some point in the past,
like ten years, over peanuts. Yeah, because they take a

(13:20):
fucking it's I think it's something like a gallon per nut.
You're like, what, no, knock it off, fucking knock it off.
We don't we don't need all. That's where I'm like,
we don't need almost that bad, not even that good, right,
I don't think they're that good. And yeah, like like
when you look at the water usage, like the little

(13:42):
like curbs that they put on consumer like water consumption
like regular gen pop water consumption like makes the smallest
dent in the world when you compared to just like
doing anything to agriculture, like because they just like use
all the water, right, Yeah, yeah, because yeah, when you

(14:02):
go down it's like, yeah, this is how much water
and almond takes. It's like, yeah, but what about all
the live stock that's where that's where the real water
is going. Yeah. Ship, what's something you think is underrated? Also,
I can't remember if I said this last time I
was on the show, but it's something I'm passionate about,
which is hamsters. M hmm, did I don't know? Maybe

(14:24):
I didn't. I can't remember that. I have a pet hamster.
His name is Skip, and I just gotta I'm trying
to just preach to adults. It's not a bad idea
to have a pet hamster. In fact, I think they
should just be for adults and not for kids personally.
Oh wait, wait, so why is that? Let me know,

(14:46):
why is it a good adult companions? Well, it's not
a toy. It's a human. It's not human, it's human being. Yeah,
it's a human being trapped in the soul of a rodent. No,
that's the thing. They're very finicky, Like I bought my
hamster on an impulse, not realizing how much work it

(15:08):
really takes to have. And I mean, once you get
the hang of it. It's not a lot of work.
But initially I was like, oh damn, these things are
like very precious and like they're so fragile, and they
need circumstances like the cages to be certain sized, like
they need to have this amount of food, like this stuff.
And it's like, what kid is gonna know how to
do this? You know, like that you found yourself being

(15:31):
like kids, if I can't have a kid can handle this,
yeah exactly that kids like just throw them around and
abuse them and just like you know, they're like, oh,
let's see what how far we can throw them or whatever,
and it's just like, hey, we've all been there, Like
kids funk up their hamster. I think that's how parents

(15:52):
like test if their kids a sociopath or something, is
to see like how they treat a hamster. As a kid.
I was always like not interested in like those kinds
of pets like that would have a cage. I was like,
that's just weird. I'm not like what happened, Like what
happens if you fucking it gets loose. I remember we
had a class mouse in middle school, and you know,

(16:14):
I'm not gonna say her name because I know she
still feels bad about it. One of my classmates short
straight stepped on the fucking mouse because it got out
the cage and we didn't know, and like it was
like comedic. It was. It was like one of these
things where we were we were sort of spared the
gruesomeness of it because it merely just looked like it
had flattened like pancakes. Like no gore about it. But

(16:38):
we were just like, oh my god, and like people
the kids were like crying and ship. It was like
a whole thing. And I was like, see, I don't
funk with these weird things because when they get out,
people freak out. Somebody sea walked on one and sent
it to an early grave. It's just a bad situation.
Damn she walks with a heavy foot, that young lady.
Because I feel it was the second I felt something
under foot, but yeah, that's where wearing like those thick

(17:04):
sold like rocket dog type motherfucker, Like you can't, I mean, yeah,
I'm sorry. R I p to the clashes like what
is that flippery? And then like people wouldn't let it go,
you know what I mean, They're like, whoa, she fucking
killed it, you know, and we're like, oh, let it go,
Like it was traumatic for everybody. It's like plus we

(17:24):
didn't we hated that stinking motherfucker anyway, So let's just
let's just move on. But they genuinely are very nice
cute pets to have, especially if you live in an
apartment that doesn't allow like cats for dogs. Like that's
how it was for me for a while, and I
was like, Okay, let's get a hamster. And I was
pleasantly surprised by like how nice it is to have

(17:45):
a cute little critter. You like it's out the cage
and you just kind of free vibe with it. No
he I mean he has like a little ball. He
goes in the ball and can like roll around the room.
But not Yeah no, I wouldn't let him out, would
you ever. Like it's like you could take a nap
with the hamster, Like they're not chill like that, Like
they'll let you hold them and they'll like crawl around you,

(18:06):
but like they don't. They don't nap on you. I
mean maybe somebody mine does not, just very hyper, always
trying to run away. They can't love you emotional connection,
damn it. You can love them, but you can love them.
And that's how most of my relationships are anyways. I mean,
that's that's parenthood right there. You know, the kids say

(18:29):
they love you and they act like they love you,
but like, you know, the giving tree was right. Ultimately,
it's just like, you know, the kids grew up and
they're like, God, you're so fucking lame. Yeah, alright, well
let's take a quick break and we will be right back.

(19:00):
And we're back and yeah, so this is an update.
Jason Ravensburg is how it's spelled, but it's apparently pronounced Roundsburg.
He killed a man named Joseph Bover in September. He
was driving home from a Republican party event. No word on,

(19:23):
you know, if he had had something to drink. Well,
he took a blood test fifteen hours later, so fine blood.
I didn't find alcohol. He was on his phone and
rammed his car into Bover, who was walking on the shoulder,
and told the cops, Hey, I thought I hit an animal.
So I just went home. But I wasn't entirely sure.

(19:44):
I was like, huh, might be. I don't know, man.
You know, you know how it is, and you're like
driving and you hit something and you don't know what
it was at all, but even though it could have
been a large animal. Yeah, yeah. So he then came
back and claims, to his surprise, there was a dead

(20:06):
human there. And an investigator pointed out, and I think
this is the last time that we checked in with
this story, was that the deceased man's glasses were inside
the South Dakota Attorney General's car. So yeah, that the
this investigator said, yeah, the glasses are in your car,

(20:27):
meaning the face came through your windshield and you So
he's like, his face is in your windshield, think about it.
And I was like, yeah, I don't know was it
I could have been a deer. And then this this
is like in this guy's notes, This investigator like not
he said, I was in a meeting with a group
of investigators, and I said, how many of you hit
a deer? Every single one in that room like raised

(20:51):
their hands. So then he said, how many of you
did not know you hit a deer? Every single one
of them knew they hit a deer. There wasn't like
a big thing where it's you know some mona ok
like Miyazaki, whimsical fucking creature you hit and you don't
know what right, And he still played dumb, was still

(21:12):
really playing dumb. And the guy even in the investigation
said his face is in your windshield. Think about it, yea,
And yeah, I think we should all think about it
when we find out that he's just charged with three
misdemeanors used of an elect electronic device while driving, illegal
lane change, and careless driving. Jesus. Yeah, M do you

(21:36):
think that's anything like political at work here? This is
the thing, like it's it's split the like the whole,
like South Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota political machine. Because
like Christine Nome, who is their governor, was like, yo,
you know, you should resign. She was even like this
is fucking weird, dude, you should resign. He did not.

(21:58):
He was like, no, I'm not doing that. I'm not
doing that at all. And this guy, he's kind of
got he's got that sort of Trump pedigree, like he
was one of those attorneys general who signed on to
like that lawsuit to try and overturn the election at
the end of last year. Part of the relationship to
the truth, Yes, and he sees himself as a powerful man.
And you know a lot of people say, like in

(22:18):
South Dakota, because it's like a very spread out place
with a very small government, it allows for unique political
scandals of corruption and things like that. There have been
times or like people were like funneling money out of
like a visa program, and then the person who was
at the center of it like just died mysteriously. And
then there was another thing where another like scandal is

(22:41):
going on with money that was supposed to go to
reservations and like that was being funneled somewhere else, and
then that person ended up doing like like a murder suicide,
but the safe of their house was gone after the
house burned down. There's a lot of people are like,
this doesn't really have much to do with like Roundsberg
or whatever his thing is, but it's more just sort

(23:01):
of saying like there's all you know, this is kind
of this sort of things happened like this in South Dakota.
And on top of it, they said there was like
a sheriff who basically wasn't really a sheriff kind of guy.
He's more like if you got caught drunk driving, like
he'd give you a ride home if like he knew you.
He's like the Michael Clayton for Republicans. He just goes
through him fixes some problems for people, but mostly just

(23:24):
by like being bad at his job. You know. It's
just more like I don't know, because even that guy
he said he even back to sort of like yeah,
I don't know. We we went out there and looked there.
We didn't see a deer until like a couple of
days later there was a body. So either like the
only way his story makes sense is if he was
like shockingly drunk and didn't know like the the only

(23:48):
it's either he was shockingly drunk and just was like, oh,
should I hit something, but then like found the person's
glasses inside his car like when he got right, because
he was just completely out of his mind, and or
he knew exactly what he did, and an intentional murder. Yeah,
I mean, well you don't know, yeah, because now his

(24:12):
like the biggest things he's looking at our speeding ticket
and like finds that don't even amount to two thousand dollars.
I mean, there's got to be a civil case coming
for his right. Yeah, I don't know. I mean he
called the police on himself, was like I think I
hit a deer. He did. Yeah, he was in the
car and the nine one one call he called like

(24:32):
right after the impact was made, and he was like, hey,
I think I I may have hit something. And then
like the nine one one operators like, Okay, what do
you mean something like a like an object to an animal?
Was it a deer? That's what the nine one one
operator says, And he's like, oh yeah, yeah, maybe a
deer could have been a deer. Can tell that's him

(24:54):
trying to be smart, trying to is the one who
first game him in the hour? Yeah, because they were
just trying to be like what are you saying, bro,
Like what you fucking Oh yeah, dear, Yeah, I hit
a dear. So I'm gonna go. But it's just kind
of like, you know, we always just look at the
kinds of people who occupy these higher officers, right, and

(25:15):
you're the top cop of this state, and you're some
guy who's like refusing to resign even though you admit
you freaking At the very least at the most optimistic
version of this is that he was distracted and tragically
killed a pedestrian and still drove off, you know, and

(25:35):
yet you still can't have the wherewithal to be like, yeah,
that's not I should I actually I'm gonna resign. This
is this is a bad situation for everyone. I don't
mean to be a distraction, but they also think that, like,
you know, there's a little bit of infighting too, and
like the Republican Party within there, and that's why, like
no one was throwing this guy under the bus. But
it also feels like just very straightforward case of like you, yeah,

(25:55):
you should resign more than any kind of gaming, right,
But he feels like he needs to represent the Megan
Nation in South Dakota, so he's, uh, he cut a
deal with the prosecutors. He hasn't commented yet since this
time what he'll do. He can still run for re election,
no word yet as to whether or not he'll do that,

(26:18):
but he definitely hasn't said he's not going to and
he's you know, as of now, he said he has
no plan to resign. Are you guys gonna make this election?
About that time when I hit a guy with my
car and his head came through my windshield and I
drove off. Because that's head South Dakota. People don't want

(26:39):
to talk about that. They want to talk about the issues.
They want to talk about the immigrants that are coming
to South Dakota. That's when we talked about we should
replace Abraham Lincoln's face on Mount Rushmore with Donald Trump's
thank you. That's a real thing, is it. Well, I
don't know, he's a Trump supporter and Dakota I could

(27:01):
see it. Yeah. Yeah. And also for the talk of
him like Trump's like, you know, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican,
so and I'm kind of the greatest Republican now, so
maybe swap it out just saying Trump Reagan best not
even Trump wouldn't even allow anyone else, right, and then

(27:22):
at the end expressions like this foreheaded hydro mountain. Right,
all right, let's talk about vac's mandates because this is
kind of positive news. A new poll has found that
vaccine hesitancy is on a downward trend. Yeah. Yeah, adults

(27:43):
now say they've already taken the vaccine. Another eight percent
say they're likely to take it. Who said they're either
not very likely or not at all likely are a
new low in the service. So normally it was about
in March, they said it was thirty percent of people
pulled we're making up this group saying they were either

(28:04):
not very likely or not at all likely. Was that
and that was in March two weeks ago, it was
at and this this go around, it's at so it's
kind of it's it's contracting. And yeah, then even like
there's even parents now who are saying that, you know,
they're they're gonna have they're gonna be vaccinated, but they're

(28:26):
also going to make sure their kids are vaccinated or
are likely to as soon as it's permitted for that
age group. And that's the highest share ever in the survey,
and a twelve point spike from fifty six percent just
two weeks ago. So fifty six percent two weeks ago
parents were like, yeah, man, I'm not I don't only
fifty were saying they were gonna ge vaccinated. Now we're

(28:46):
at so you know, that's that's huge. I know people
who got vaccinated themselves, but are like I know some
people who have like let it take over there, like
entire lives, like the idea that they're going to make
us vaccinate our kids and like that, you know, just
abject terror at that idea. Another's come around. No, not

(29:11):
so I'm really happy to see this because I I
do think the you know wants it's a proved for children.
The getting children vaccinated is going to be a real fight. Yeah,
I mean, right now they make up for the largest
group of unvaccinated people in the country are kids. Because
and looking at all the anecdotal evidence you know around,

(29:34):
I'm sure people like you know, there's so a lot
of people are asking what's driving the trend. Clearly, I
did imagine the delta variant is giving people new data
to work with, which is like, holy sh it, dude,
I know a lot of people who have either got
it or I know someone who passed away or gotten
serious health trouble with it. And and also it's not
like their favorite radio personalities that keep going down dying

(29:56):
of COVID who start off being on anti vacs. They're
not pulling some Tupac mac of Velly fake death stunts,
says you, Miles, all right, you don't know. They're not
pulling a stunt. They're not pulling a maca Velly stunt.
The FBI might be taking them out though, dude, FBI
begin with the same letter, thank you too much? Right,

(30:22):
so they know too much. They know covid' is real.
The whole thing though, is that more than all of
those things combined. It's just the fact that the vaccine
mandates have created a different environment where now people are
kind of getting over their ship because they're like, all right,
like must be this tall to ride, well, I want
to ride. So before it was easy to just kind

(30:42):
of sneak on with my thick old shoes to make
the height requirement. But now I think because more and
more you're seeing employers and like school districts and things
like that mandating it, that it's becoming, you know, just
more commonplace. They say one in three unvaccine Americans and
the surveys that FDA approval would make them likely to
take the vaccine, but forty said their boss requiring vaccinations

(31:05):
would make them likely to do so, which is up
from thirty only you know, a month ago, only a
third we're saying, well, if it's required, maybe I'll do it.
So it's you know, it's it's something yeah, all right,
that's like a bonus of pro to capitalism. I guess, right, Yeah,
that's what I'm saying. That's how I know it works.

(31:26):
You know, again, there's been there's been a lot of
tweets like that, and just in generally, even if for
the people who are vaccine hesitant and try and bring
up all these like sort of theories about like well,
you know the pharmaceutical companies and blooded, yes, that's true,
there's a lot of funkery going on with big farmat
there's that's undeniable. But when you know that there's the

(31:47):
whole like foundation of consumer capitalism, like it requires healthy consumers,
you damn right, the fucking vaccine is gonna work. They're
not gonna pivot to some new form of an economy
just to be like we don't need to do with
this vaccine. It's yeah, it works, And even in your
most cynical read, you're like, that's it. It's probably working.

(32:08):
That's why they want it. So yeah, And I mean
it's a trick. It's the social pressure that I think
everybody's used to when it comes to vaccines, which is now,
that's fine, you don't need to get a vaccine. You've
got you've got your kid all day. They can't come
to our school like that's that's coming into effect more
and more, which you know, is why I think we're

(32:28):
seeing these wild ass scenes at school board meetings because
that is like this is hopefully their last like you know, desperation,
like death throws of the movement because they're not going
to successfully be able to get them to be like now,
you're right, we were too trusting of the vaccine and

(32:49):
we also were planning on harvesting your kid's adrene of
chrome like the it's it's just not gonna happen hopefully,
you know, are just gonna do the vaccine man did
as soon as it's FD approved for kids, which I
guess is going to be a while, but right, I
mean at best, right, like they'll be like all right,

(33:09):
it's like everything they get into it's like, oh funk,
all right, Well we're off the new culture war thing
of like the masks and like our christian like right too,
you know, free our faces because Jesus, once that melts away,
it'll just go right back to like rigged elections, because
that's always what it's. That's the thing powering a lot

(33:29):
of it now is just this idea that it's like, dude,
we're losing control. Yeah. But one thing that is interesting
in this bowl they said just at the very last
sort of finding, which was quote the share of Americans
who say they feel hopeful right now has plummeted to
thirty that's from percent in March. But those saying they
feel motivated, energized, inspired, or resilient has risen by at

(33:54):
least as much like that for us, which we're not interesting. Yeah,
we're not like optimistic because yeah, we've lived there the
past two years, we've lived through the past six years.
But we're energized and feeling resilient. I like that for
America right now. That's what I think. I feel like
that's where we need to be. Yeah, but we'll see.

(34:15):
I mean that could be like, yeah, I'm feeling resilient
against the tyranny. But they said that that, like the
hope has gone down and the resiliency has gone Motivation, inspiration,
and energy have they seem to be related based on
this analysis. So yeah, that's an interesting little peering there. Yeah,

(34:37):
put on my little pandemic bootstraps, America. Here we go. Also,
I feel like hope has a bad name after the
Obama administration, Like people are like, I don't feel just hope.
What's called optimism? I mean? And that's been the general
trend because in March it was like hot vas everything
you know, and we're like it's fine, and they're like, no,

(34:58):
it's not actually what the funk are So yeah, but
I guess along with that, just as much as people
want to do the right thing, there's just a grown
number of people who also want to sidestep the whole
vaccine mandate thing. And this is where you see capitalism
really going to work. So yeah, like if you go

(35:18):
on Instagram, you'll see there there these accounts and all
over social media that promised vaccine cards from anywhere from
like fifty bucks to like five hundred bucks, and they'll
say like, Yo, we got the real we got some
nice vaccine cards. We've got the CDC one if you're
in the UK, we got the NHS fucking joints. What
the fun you needn't got it? Uh? No questions asked.

(35:40):
Pay us through Apple pay or bitcoin. Shipping is quick
and you will be deceiving your employers in no time.
And yeah, there's just been over the last couple of
weeks we've seen an increase of like stories that are
just around like the use of these cards, or like
the FEDS busting shipments last week in like Tennessee and
in allow Aska. The Fez got over like six thousand

(36:03):
vaccination cards, like in different shipments that were from China
that were like basically destined for people across the US
who are trying to get in on that you know,
that replica that rep vaccine card, and they were all
printed with the CBC logo and like looked super super close.
They said. However, when the when officials looked closer, they

(36:24):
noticed spelling mistakes and poor printing quality, so they weren't
quite one to one, as we say in the replica world.
But yeah, it's it's, it's it's this is gonna be
a thing because we have the dumbest looking vaccination cards
to just like evaluate it because it really looks like

(36:44):
ship It is just a piece of paper like someone's
handwriting on it. Yeah, do you mind has like white
out on it for some reason, So it's like mine,
I think gets more scrutiny than like a fake one
would because people are white it out. Yeah, the very
first No, it's like typed over. The white out is

(37:07):
like fiser and the date that I got it, I
mean the first dose. I'm I used to dabble in
the extra legal entrepreneurial arts and when I was at
Dodger Stadium getting my vaccine. There was just a pile
of them ships, like the cards, just out in the open.
I was like, Bro, you could just wipe this ship

(37:28):
right now and so this ship and get it going.
But I'm a I'm a better person now, I'm an
adult who feels more responsible to the people around me.
And I was just like it was sort of blowing
my mind that I'm like, well, if I'm thinking this,
you know, people could work there, take a couple, sell
them off on the side, and make good money because
we don't have anything that's even remotely close to having

(37:49):
any kind of like security features built into like our money,
you know what I mean, Like try it with that.
Put her a black light and there's like a saying
that's like only the CDC paper has or whatever, Like
there's nothing like that. It's literally just a piece of paper. Yeah,
And I don't get why you're like all these branches
are so bad at Like even the unemployment website was

(38:12):
like twenty years behind, Like how do these people not
know how to get with the times because they all
like for the past forty years in our entire lifetime,
like there's been this idea like from the Center out
that like small government is the answer. Defund government programs

(38:34):
because they just make people lazy. And then like the
people who want to use government programs are the onus
is on them to basically be the bureaucrats. So you
have a full time job trying to like figure out
how to use anything and it's a complete fucking mess.
Well yeah, and I think a lot of people who
work in any kind of bureaucracy, federally, municipally, whatever, there's

(38:58):
also just like a lack of fresh people in there.
It's like life first work there, and then like they
just can't adapt. Even if like a city passes a
budget to do something different, it'll get to them and
like they're like, I don't know how to think about
this differently than the way we've just been doing it
because I just kind of don't. I'm not really inspired
by my work sometimes, and you know that's why it's

(39:21):
frustrating for the people that do work at these places,
and like it's so easy if we just did this,
it would be so much easier for people to get
access to things, but it just takes a super long time.
And like again, I posted a picture like in the
dock of just like this like one version of an
Instagram ad where the fucking account name it's been taken down,
but it's called it was COVID nineteen underscore vaccination cards

(39:43):
in USA zero and they're saying, like we got them.
Hit us up at this like WhatsApp number, and Instagram
says they're taking them down, but a lot of the people,
like in this BBC article, they were saying that there
was even though they take them down, there were plenty
of other ones they could find very quick. So they're
playing like this fuck up whack a mole game with
these counterfeit accounts coming up and buying Instagram ads for this. Well, no,

(40:09):
not buying Instagram ads, but like if you use like
the it's like, you know, it's all hashtag based too,
because like if you start getting into the hashtags, you
can find things and I'm sure just aggressively if you're
just like, I don't know, maybe there's a user name
called like vaccination cards for COVID US, you know what
I mean, And there's one, but you know the UK
and like Denmark, they're either using or are developing like

(40:31):
digital sort of mechanisms to make it fucking harder, because
what use is it to have vaccine mandates if you
can't actually have like determine who has been vaccinated or not.
You go by like, well, who's who's clever enough to
just get a card? But well, there are like digital records,
at least I know here in l A, Like if

(40:53):
you brought vaccinated, there is a digital record, and I
think you can even make it like put it on
your passport, like on your iPhone. Yeah, yeah for that.
But then there's ones that like it's harder, right, like
depending on who, like if you went to a different
county or like a difference you got it from a
doctor or something, it could be different, And so that
card just makes it the thing that like most people

(41:15):
can rely on to verify. But if you go any
any place I've been that said like gif to show
proof of vaccination, it's like you can bring your little
rinky dink card and show it to somebody who's like, yeah, okay,
they showed me a square that's at CDC on it,
so fine, come on in. Or it's like or you know,
just like bring a picture of it. Yeah, and you're like, well,
that's even easier than faking a fucking hard copy photoshop

(41:39):
that mug and you got a fake vaccine card. Yeah,
there definitely needs to be a standardized like app thatever.
That's what Israel was doing, like from Jump, Like they
had an app that, like you brought up. It had
like a moving picture that like people could scan and
that would tell you for sure. So like it's not
a thing that could be photo shops. It's not still image.

(42:01):
It's not a like they had a very like detailed
system for it. Like I don't don't have an idea.
I have an idea. What if when we got the
shot itself, they could put like a chip that would
know like in our body track and then that wouldn't

(42:24):
know you would just have to like yeah yeah, yeah,
it would just like glow or something, or they could
just scan you real quick so you have that chip.
Yeah yeah, yeah. I think that'd be really cool and
it could run on like Windows or something. I wanted
to like whatever you want it. But yeah, I think

(42:45):
the reason, you know, maybe things could change in the US,
although there's no like real I think like articulated plan
to have these like digital passes is that a lot
of the business owning community is like what about like,
how could don't we be liable if someone comes in
with a fake card and like anything bad were to

(43:05):
happen because we let people in with fake cards or
like we didn't know, and like the whole thing is
gonna boil down to whether or not we could determine
if a card was fake or not. That could be
a concern. So I don't know, I'm sure there's there's
there's there's probably a little bit of sweating on that
side because a lot of like like people who work
at bars kind of say the same thing. It's like
it's kind of hard to tell if you know, you're

(43:27):
not really trained to like identify a fraudulent card versus
a real one. Yeah, but the main thing is they
need to be doing the vaccine mandate, Like that's first
order of business. Yeah, because it works. And after this break,
we're going to talk about a group that is dragging
their heels movie theaters and why they need to just

(43:49):
fucking make make it a mandate. Already. We will be
right back and we're back. Cinema Con was in Vegas
last week. This was like I don't know they really

(44:13):
I think I feel like it just benefited from like
a lot of built up like releases and stuff, because
like they they had a Spiderman trailer, the fourth Matrix
movie trailer, they screened the upcoming Ghostbusters movie. They showed
the first thirteen minutes of Top Gun. I was like, damn,
I would I would have gone to that if I

(44:34):
had heard all the ship they were doing and if
there wasn't a global pandemic kind of Caesar's Palace for
minutes the Top Gun. But the overall message of the
convention was it's time to come back to the movie cinemas.
As the head of NATO said this dude, John fifty

(44:59):
and literally said, people are dying to get back to
the theaters. Probably not the best way to phrase that, right,
People are dying in service of the industry restarting. And
so we are in like another slowdown at the box
office because everything, you know, people are justifiably freaked out

(45:22):
by the the what's it called, do you know? The
thing that's killing all the people. But so they're starting
to delay releases again, and that's like freaking all the
studios out Cliff for the Big Red Dog movie. I mean,
that's when that's when I said enough is enough with
US had to get involved. Yeah, I'm assuming NATO is

(45:44):
like National Associated Theater Theater. Okay, no, I like the
North Atlantic Tree Organization. It's like, yeah, I did go
through this entire story thinking that it was the head
of NATO, NATO, like the the big one. Because I'm
just for fun, just for funzies, let's assume it is. Yeah,

(46:05):
Venom two has been delayed by a month, and they're blaming.
They're blaming like the vaccine. But they're just trying to
like basically comfort people into coming back to the theaters
without actually doing the thing that is going to make
people comfortable, which is a vaccine mandate. Like they just
for some fucking reason. I mean, I know the reason

(46:28):
they're They're worried that it's gonna you know, their theaters
are going to be the sites of like a bunch
of protests and angry you know, right wingers, and like
there has to be something more at work there, like
perhaps just among theater owners they are also antivactors or something,
because it just doesn't it doesn't make sense that they
would not put the vaccine mandate in place. Wait, so

(46:52):
it is like they all got together and agreed, like
unanimously not to do a vaccine mandates, like nobody's doing it. Yeah,
nobody's doing it. Like what's stopping like a random owner
of a movie theater from you on that themselves? Yeah,
I mean, well yeah, I mean it probably depends on
the you know, of the thousands of theaters, who knows,

(47:12):
it's like only a handful of probably even taking those steps.
But because you think of right, the reason people aren't
going is because they don't feel comfortable given the pandemic.
And even though like there was a little bit of
I mean even I had optimism, like right after I
got my second dose and I was fully vacid, I'm like,
should I can go to a fucking movie? And then
I was like, wait, hold on with we we haven't

(47:32):
actually handled this, and now there's a delta variant. Then
I found myself being like, funk that I'm going to
fucking movie ever again. Yeah. Yeah, So, and I think
it's so it's odd they're not. You know, when you
think of what's the easiest solution is like make the
people want to think that this place isn't a vector
for illness or at least a high risk activity. Yet
it's still dragon So New York instituted like basically vaccine

(47:57):
mandates for most activities, including into the movies, and rather
than being like, all right, like maybe this is what
everybody should be doing, the head of the National Association
of Theater Theater Owners of New York is like, a damn,
that's gonna trigger another round of release delays, so that
it's just like that hyper near focus, like short term

(48:20):
thinking is what's going on where they're like, but like
some of the people won't be vaccinated and it'll like
be a little bump in attendance and that will scare
the studios off essentially. But I don't know. Every time
I've been to where vaccines are mandated, including like some
organized by a small school, some organized by a group

(48:41):
of friends, like it's been very easy to implement. Granted
it's because like you know, we're just looking at each
other's vaccine cards and assuming that nobody's like faking them.
But like some of the theater owners are like, it's
going to be very difficult. We don't have the infrastructure
in place. It's just like, what are you talking infrastructure

(49:02):
to check someone's vaccination stead Yeah, Like I got kicked
out of lethal weapon three when I was like thirteen
for not being seventeen, right, and my dad bought the ticket.
So like they're they've they've got eg theater people. Yeah,
I mean, although I don't know, there's a couple of
theaters I used to go to fucking lawless so in

(49:25):
some instances, but at the end of the day, like
it's these just sound like really weird excuses or they
just they completely don't have any imagination on how to
do anything safely because they've just taken for granted that
like they had like a recession proof business or something
that was like, yeah, people always like going to the movies,

(49:46):
and it's like, wait, now I gotta like think of
how to make sure people aren't. I don't know, but
it's gonna be a lot longer until you do. NATO. Yeah,
is it just that you think most of your ticket
fires are the kind who would protest this. It's like
I was not like that the super right wing hated

(50:08):
movies and liberal media and all that stuff have to
make their own crap films, right because really going to
the theater anyway probably not. Yeah, it's just weird. It's
like one of those things. It's like they're like, well,
I don't want to be the person to stand up
to say what's right because there's an element of friction
that comes along with that. But it's like you're but

(50:29):
you have to at a certain point, you have to
do what's right. So fuck whatever you think people's response
to that is going to be. You have to do
what is going to be right. But I don't know
why I think NATO or NATONI in the in the
version of the New York subsect, is going to do
the right thing. It would be Tony, wouldn't it Nato.

(50:52):
H And why we see you? All right, let's check
in with Mike Richards. He gone, who yeah, So, I
mean it was quick. You know, it was like a
week and a half ago that he announced himself as
a replacement for Alex Trebek self coordination. Uh yeah, put

(51:13):
it put the crown on a new detail in this report.
Like in addition to them just being like yeah, it
became clear that like it was gonna be too much
of a distraction to keep him at Jeopardy where they're
like no internal or external support for him. Everyone hated

(51:33):
him in details that they He was pulled as host
after a day of production so I don't know if they,
like people have assumed it was the timing of that
Ringer thing, but I also like a detail in the
Ringer thing that they talked about is that like when
he tried to make himself the host of The Price
Is right when he took over his VP or as

(51:54):
a producer there, the people were like, man, he's like
really just not talented, like he just he like knows
he has a lot of enthusiasm, but like that, there's
just like not much there. I'm like when I watched
his introduction where he's like, Hi, I'm stepping in for
Ken Jennings because he couldn't make it work, which was
a lie he was. He's just like not a not

(52:18):
a talented like person who you want to watch on TV.
He just seems like a very very excited, energetic but like, yeah,
nothing basically replacement level TV show host, like the TV
show host in like an eighties movie What a Long
White Man managed to get to the highest again? Yeah,

(52:41):
what is happening here? I just don't know, but yeah,
I mean he's just you know, he's done. He's I
think he's also off wheel of fortune too, Like he's
completely that Sony like he's not he has nothing to
do with the shows at all, So audios sir. Yeah,
And I think this was all well well done by

(53:01):
the Ranger and by public outrage and all that, because
like people are like, why does everybody give a ship
about Jeopardy, Like you know, nobody really watched the Jeopardy
or like, I feel like all these people who are
mad about this don't watch Jeopardy. But I think it's
like just a case of you know, like a mediocre
white guy giving himself all the advantages and like become

(53:24):
giving himself a job that like the consumers would much
rather see like literally almost anyone else there, right, And
I mean, like think of just the audience though too.
These people like information. They like this isn't like frivoloust
game show where it's like name the fart or something like.
They're these are people who like getting really into details

(53:47):
and information and researching you ship that it seems like
a group would be like this guy doesn't have the
fucking goods, you know. And I think also a lot
of people just were so hoping for like something life affirming,
like Alex Trebeck, Like even if you didn't like Jeopardy
a lot. Like you probably had seen it and you're like, oh,
there's like this energy about him. That's great that you'd

(54:09):
want that. There were many people who came along. Ag Oh,
this could be good. This could be good only for
Michael Richards, right up. I probably shouldn't say Michael Richards. Yeah,
you know they're all they're all the same. Yeah. Now
he's going to go off to the island where Michael
Richards is just hanging out after post career. Yeah, wait,

(54:32):
is he on an island? No? I was just saying
that would be funny if like he and start hanging
out together. Now they're just like and like, can you
Believe this ship? They should have a podcast called can
you Believe This Ship? That's a great idea. All right,
And finally, I don't know, do you guys have have

(54:54):
you guys seen Ted Lasso? Do you guys have first feelings?
I have not seen any of it in the first season.
I don't have strong feelings in either direction. I mean,
it's it was cool, it was it's it's easy to watch. Yeah,
go a dude, ted Lasso brows down easy and he
goes down easy. It's very you know it feels fun

(55:16):
and positive. I liked it just for a little bit
of you know, footy humor, but it wasn't like I
definitely wasn't part of the group who like lost their
minds about it. But I also see why people enjoyed it,
because like, if you really like are aware of your
media diet, something that feels like, you know, sprinkles on

(55:37):
your tummy and and fun and positive like ted Lasso
would probably get you be like, oh, thank god, because
I can't keep watching things about how we fucked up
the pandemic or murderous teachers or whatever the funk else
is on TV. Right, So there is a online backlash
happening because I mean, it was like really a lot
of positive energy coming out for it. It won a

(55:58):
bunch of awards, and so I think a lot of
people were like catching up on it first of all
and being like, oh, this is like fine, but like
it's always harder for a show to like live up
to the hype after it's won awards and after people
have like told you it's the greatest thing in the world,
and then they at the around that time, they dropped
a second season that even like fans of the first

(56:20):
season don't seem to particularly think is that great? Apparently
nothing much happens, and the Christmas episode suggests Santa Claus
literally exists. Oh yes, thanks, Uh, this is an interesting
look for like a a prestige TV comedy, And yeah,

(56:42):
I don't I don't really have a have a dog
in the fight. I've seen the first few episodes and
thought it was solid, but not enough to like keep
to seek it out. Well, what's it's like, it's like
this other kind of thing. It's like it's just so good,
you know, like it's yeah, yeah that Yeah. I think
maybe for me, like as much as I like nicey nicey,

(57:05):
you know, I need a little grit too. It can't
just be all sugar. Why need a little fucking anthrax
mixed up in there, just a little bit of ploision
just to make you feel that life is a little
bit darker. But yeah, but I guess it's like an
adult Mr Rogers that soccer theme has iPhones. Yeah, that's interesting.
I did not know any of this about the show,
like I've seen people tweeting about it, but I thought

(57:27):
it was the complete Like the vibe I got was
like that it was like about a depressed guy who's
like an alcoholic or something. I just reading the tweets wrong.
That was I think those are the people who are
sending the tweets. But yeah, so one thing that Jam

(57:48):
who I get the sense a writer Jam McNabb was
pointing out in this piece. I get the sense he's
like sort of in between. He's watched everything and it's like, yes,
season two is just basically the same season one. He
doesn't understand what the big backlashes, but he says that
one thing that like a lot of the discourse is

(58:08):
missing is that it's like a massive just Apple commercial,
which seems like that would be like true on the
nose for an Apple streaming like media platform to like
actually do. But apparently all of their shows have been
just massive Apple product placement campaigns. Uh. Their flagship series,

(58:31):
The Morning Show featured an average of thirty two camera
shots of Apple products per episode. The second season of
m Night, Shamalan's Servant was apparently tarnished, according to critics,
by excessive product placement that often showed scenes through iPhone
and iPad screen. Oh my god, do you imagine there

(58:55):
is that a retina display? Yeah, it's the amounts they
crammed in here is crazy anyway, So watched this guy
get killed one same pound of character making too FaceTime
calls at the same time through an iPad and the
Apple TV. So it's like showing you functionality you didn't
even know it had. Wait two, do an iPad and
the Apple TV. Oh, like you got a FaceTime on

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your iPad, and then you can make the TV also
do another iPad called FaceTime call. That's right, Miles, Apple
TV can do. I thought we were going to get
some good product placement. Man, this is actually interesting. So
I've heard just around town from people who have worked
on Apple shows that they are hard to deal with.

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And Ryan Johnson, the director of Knives Out when like,
so he was asking, you know, kind of use iPhones
in the show in the movie, he was told that
bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera ever, so like
the good guys can use it, but bad guys can't,
which totally is like a you can now figure out

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who done it, because that's got to be there, like
across the board, like the president, the president, Oh he
did it, You're like, but he's the president. I'm like,
just trust me. He's the only motherfucker green in the chat.
Yeah exactly, Like that's kind of playing on that same trope,
you know what I mean, Like where there's already like

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a kind of Apple users, like a dude sucking up
the group chat just get a fucking apple or whatever.
Most of the time that sends the person with an
Android deeper into an Android like world where they're like,
because I don't want to who cares what color my
bubble is. I'm just contexting you. If you're gonna be

(01:00:48):
at Jimmy John soon stop, I hate it, says dude,
I just it, says Miles liked. I'm gonna be a
Jimmy on soon on my tool. Just have be a
thumbs up fucking reaction on their fuck. Jam was pointing
out that, like the ted Lasso is the ultimate extension

(01:01:11):
of that ethos, Like not only is Apple prohibiting villains
from using iPhones, but the next series that greenlit was
the most impractically nice person in the world, just constantly
using iPhones, iPads, Apple, I Puff like everything. So it's
like the nicer you are, the more Apple products you have. Yeah, exactly,

(01:01:31):
cutting a passion of the Christ for Jesus, and he's
on the cross. Yeah, he facetimes with God when he's
up on the cross. He's like, forgive them Father, they
know not what they've done. About to be there in
a second, Dad, see you soon. You know this isn't
a side. Sorry, this is but like I miss, I

(01:01:53):
think all phones need to fucking bring back real buttons.
I'm sick of touchscreen. Yeah, why can't we have that.
I will whatever it is, Android, raizor I don't care
what it is, I will buy that phone. If you
want a bigger Like do you need a screen that's
as big? Because this this is like the thing that
I felt like BlackBerry was trying to like thread the

(01:02:14):
needle until the end of their business, just like okay,
like how many what's your key to screen ratio? That's
you'll need because we want to give you all physical keyboard,
but the screens I have to be huge. For numbers.
I would love to text, honestly, Like with the numbers
it wrong because my fat thumb it's always like touch

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on the other letter. You know. Right before we had
the live stream show, I kept texting producer and hose
Nie and I was like I kept coming out love
stream because just the fucking keyboard is too crammed together,
and I was like, they forget it. Yeah, I just
saw a kid the other day. He was like holding
his laptop like a phone and was like typing on

(01:02:58):
the keyboard with this bums. Just that's that's kind of
gigantic thumb person George Morrison, and so he James also
pointing out that like the most emotional like scenes in
the show are all conducted over Apple products because he's

(01:03:21):
separated from his son who was in the US, but
they're still able to talk through FaceTime. There's a heartwarming
scene where his son like sends him a drawing and
then the ted Lasso at ted Lasso on Twitter tweeted
out the like scene and it got like a hundred
thousand like so it's like all just part of a

(01:03:41):
brilliant He signs his divorce papers using Apple Gear, but
it's like just frictionless. He's just like signs it, takes picture,
sends it. You hear the like whoosh and then it's
like behind him. So divorce complete, Divorce complete. So that's

(01:04:01):
like what's troubling as a creative today because like all
these new all these companies now are like we're gonna
make content and it's like Apple and all these things.
It's like great because as somebody who wants to like
sell a show or like write on something, You're like cool,
I get all these new opportunities. There's so many options now.
But then it's also like, oh, but also you have

(01:04:22):
to be this person who like shills for this company basically,
and all the rules are just like make sure that
you put I voted the pivotal seat, like they even
give up you know there, like we love your Alison,
We loved your pilot script for this coming of age
story in the East Side of Los Angeles, and like

(01:04:43):
navigating complex like you know, emotional relationships and you know,
navigating society. Um I just unfortunately because you you've you
vividly wrote um the words Samsung Galaxy, and it like
we're gonna have to pass, unless, of course, willing to
change the name of the show to you know, I

(01:05:04):
I Pad. Would you consider would you consider changing the
best friend character to be Sirie. You're talking about her
best friend, the Mexican girl, so she is Serie because
we were trying to communicate that Siri can you can

(01:05:24):
have emotionally depend on her relationships with Siri, you can
if we did that, couldn't we just do that with
the white character. I feel it's a little problematic to
completely erase this character and then make it a robot
in service of this white character. Could we do Oh no,
no no. So the Apple sort of has a thing

(01:05:45):
with like who uses the product? All right, you guy, guys,
you guys, don't you know what? You don't even have
to say anymore. I'm in yeah, great, great, But it's
just funny because Apple gets away with ship though, like
Amazon Prime couldn't get away with like having a bunch
of like people be like getting awesome products from Amazon

(01:06:08):
like ever seen. Someone has to have a like I
feel like and like in the background Jeff Bezos like
as flying into space as like yeah yeah, that's like
part of a cold open, as a characters looking on
there like Amazon Phone. It's like Bazos first his face like, well,
I'll be this guy. This guy can really do it all,

(01:06:32):
you can do it? Hey, Echo finalized divorce Jesus Alison,
It's been such a pleasure having you on the daily
zite Geist as always. Where can people find you and
follow you? M I'm on the internet at just about

(01:06:53):
glad on all the socials. There you go, there you go.
And is there tweet or some of the work of
social media you've been enjoying. Yeah, I really like this
tweet and I saw yesterday by Zach Bornstein at Zac Bornstein.
Here he said, to be clear, the people calling us

(01:07:14):
people are the ones taking livestock medications. Right, turns out
miles Where can people find you? And what's a tweet
you've been enjoying? You can find me on Twitter and
Instagram at Miles of Gray. Also, if you like ninety
day Fiance, check out the other show I do with
Sophia Alexander called four twenty Day Fiance. That's a twitch

(01:07:37):
dot tv slash four. Some tweets I like. The first
one is just says cows No. This is from at
keep Potato k Et Potato says cows are very calm,
considering the whole floor is food. Yeah, and another one
from Zach Silberberg. It's like a it's like a cover

(01:07:58):
of an Anamorphous you know that Animorphous book series where
it's like it's always like a kid, and then it's
like the metamorphosis into some kind of animal at the
end stage and so it's like this blonde woman who's
like slowly turning into like a rat. And his tweet
is when you moved to New York, this happens to you.
It's true, this this image is so stupid, but shout

(01:08:23):
out to the rats and online tweeted the worst part
of the day is when you finish your coffee because
it's like, Okay, I guess I'll wait for tomorrow. Then
you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien.
You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're
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(01:08:44):
post our episodes and our foot nope where we link
off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Miles,
what song are you linking off? So we're gonna write
out on a track called Sugar by the band Men
I Trust, And it's a you don't really dope like
kind of psych pop sound if you like that sort

(01:09:06):
of shimmery guitar and like very like you know, eighties
kind of energy to it feels like a like a
commercial for like a candy like a psychedelic eighties candy store.
That's how I would kind of imagine this track going down.
So this is Sugar from Man I trust I'm assuming
it's not a remake of Sugar Sugar at Dense DN Damn.

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The number one song in America during the Vietnam War
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