Wakanda Not REAL?!? Skating To Smooth Sounds Of 9/11 2.13.18

In episode 84, Jack & Miles are joined by comedian Michael Swaim to discuss the Olympics, Trump's new 'Blue Apron' style food stamps, the CFPB's downfall, new immigration bill & Mitch McConnell's deceit, google trends, Uganda Knuckles meme, & more.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season eighteen so two
of jars dailies eyed Geist for February thirteen, the day
before Valentine's Day, two thousand eighteen. My name is Jack O'Brien,
a k sister Jack to Jack in the habit that
is courtesy of Jared RBIs, and I am thrilled to
be joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Gray.

(00:21):
Don't Miles grays and water falls. Please stick to the
rivers and the grays that you used to. I know
that you're gonna mouse it. You're gray on nothing at all.
But thank you. Emma Horner. See that's a multi layer

(00:43):
dak and I get down with that. Any TLC references
are welcome, So thank you very good. Uh, And we
are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by
my former co host on the Cracked podcast, The Hilarious
Michael Sway. I don't know what Salnett includes my name?

(01:05):
What about that? John Tarles BULTA, move my gol. You
guys are practiced at this. We have to come on.
Michael Swan got no friend, I don't know. Well, alright,
great episode, Michael. What is something from your search history

(01:28):
that is revealing about who you are. Oh boy, I
searched small egg covered in ash, what does taste like?
Because also I do the Google caveman frady Um. I
saw that chef's table on Netflix about Favrican. Do you
guys know Favrican. It's a three Michelin star restaurant in Sweden. Uh.

(01:49):
You can't get there anyway other than by like traveling
over land for at least a day. And it's this
super famous restaurant where the head chef, Man Snielsen, only
makes stuff that I cannot imagine being good at all,
So like it just fascinates me. Like a tiny egg
covered in ash is one of the dishes. They just

(02:11):
launched a new dish that's a sheep's tongue, not sliced
like not a nice tongue Deli sandwich, the whole tongue
looking like a tongue on top of like sprigs of
wood with pickled dandelions on it. And he'll, yeah, he
makes like clams cooked with wood. He uses wood a lot.
Here's like a bark soup. And I just love getting

(02:34):
into the learning about like chefs creations that are totally
up their own asses, Like in searching that in preparation
for this, I found out there's a restaurant called Quinson,
San Francisco that I just found out about today that
serves a meal called a Dog in search of Gold
That is a truffle a hazelnut crisp dusted with mushroom powder,

(02:57):
served on an iPad, served on an iPad. Yeah, and
something being displayed on the iPad is that the reason
I couldn't get to that level of detail, because of
course they're like, you gotta come, you gotta experience it, man, Yeah,
and then you'll see what. I'm sure there's some proprietary
app on iPad playing Otherwise I'm like, did you just
slap some ship together? Um? Did you see the video

(03:21):
by that journalist who made his basement the number one
restaurant on trip Advisor. Yeah, it was really great and
basically he just all he did was reject people and
be like, oh, sorry, we're fully booked that that night,
and people just kept getting like more hype about it,
and like he, you know, described it. He's a good writer,

(03:44):
and he described it in a really interesting way. And
but then on the final night he actually like put
together the thing and like people had to be blindfolded
to come in and like, uh, he just like had
like a guy like eating on his root on the
roof of his house. So it seemed like all weird
and stuff. And there was a guy who was like, uh,

(04:05):
there was like a chicken coop there where they were like, yeah,
we're gonna kill that and like feed it to you,
and then they just fed people like frozen dinners. But uh,
and people are like, oh, it's delicious. Do you know
if the rating dropped after the event after people tried it,
But it's a great video of people. Yeah, there's the
guy is brilliant. Uh. My girlfriend and I have been
getting super into high end food, but it's just hard

(04:28):
to I like cooking, and I like the science of
food and the art of cooking, but there's so much
classes bullshit with it. It's crazy. Yeah, you're not very accessible.
There's we're trying to get into this restaurant event in
hell A where they interview you like a job interview
to be allowed to come, and it's like this, which

(04:49):
it's called Wolves. Then I think, oh, wolfs mouth, wolfs mouth. Yeah,
it's like yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard about that where
it's like they only feed like what fifteen people at
a time, right like once a month or something. But
after a few interviews were just like what are we doing.
We're like interviewing to be able to eat food? What
are the questions like? And how much can you eat
right now? Just literally yeah, like your palate, your food

(05:13):
experience and like experience with decorum at a table and
stuff like that. Yeah, they like quiz you on the
dessert and salad forks and which one no, because that's
there's this whole movement of they They're like, it's super weird.
They're trying to be punk and like subversive and break

(05:33):
food rules, but you still have to do everything they
say exactly right they want it. It's like that's not
in the wolf mouth voice. Can you wear something else there?
Because they consider like obnoxious the people that you're going
to be chatting with. Is part of the atmosphere that
they are obliged to control, is the theory, But it

(05:53):
ends up just being like a fascist eating experience, right,
Like you're just hoping that you don't break some uns
can rule. I mean yeah, when you look at their website,
it's not a restaurant, it's a dinner party It's the
intersection between food, music, and art. It's an exploration and
social dynamics. It's friends old and new. It's fleeting and
always changing, no menus, no dress code, no pretense, really

(06:17):
no pretense. Every word proceeding that was pretenious, pretentious thing. Ever.
I desperately want to get into that just so that
I can have the most pure experience of hatred. Like ever,
just like looking around at the you know, we dope
to go record it and we just get kicked the
funk out, Yeah, just to break all the wolves mouth

(06:38):
was like you're blacklisted from Wolves down forever, Like I
don't give a fuck. Yeah, And it is there that
it's the kind of place where if you go and
see a one star review where someone's like the food
was all right. It took us six months to get in,
and the chef was a dick and just talked about
himself the whole time dominated the conversation, and the chef
will right back like a five page like why that

(06:59):
person is around? That'd be amazing little group to troll. Yeah,
we need to get into this, I know. Yeah, we
are not a couple of people who might be able
to get us in We're not a zeitgeist show if
we do not get into this control the fun out
of it and we're hitting microphones and all that. Show Michael,
what is something that is underrated? Underrated? Okay? Well, as
a comedian, of course, favorite comedies are dear to me

(07:20):
and even in our circles knowing mostly other comedians, My
favorite comedy show, in my favorite comedy movie no one
else likes. So I have to plug them for show.
Freak a Zoid from the from the period where we
were blessed to have Stephen fucking Spielberg like creating and
producing an exactly ed Asner Ricardo montele Bond and like

(07:46):
some of the sharpest you know, the writing that it's
literally the jokes are so adult that that's why I
got canceled, and not only in edgy, but I mean, like,
no kid is gonna get that Joe right. And I
loved it though, and I feel like, I guess I
haven't looked at it with adult but I remember at
the time I was all about freak Zoid, yeah, because
I felt it was kind of like in similar to Animaniacs,
where there were jokes that were seemingly out of my

(08:08):
like you know sort of mental capability to Yeah, they
all played the both plagues, and like Pixar is good
at that now. But I feel like that Spielberg w
b Era was the beginning of like we're gonna have
a kids show that the adults will also find funny.
And I think Freak a Zoid is the one that
show that pushed it too much towards the adult end
of the spectrum. It's way better as an adult, Like

(08:29):
definitely where I mean, I steal it from this guy
down my black as a bag of DVD. I got
a hard drive. It's only two seasons. Yeah, and it's
it's just dynamite. And if you're like now that you're
an adult who has a brain that analyzes how jokes work,
some of the stuff is just so impressive. Yeah, what's
the movie? The movie even more obscure on theme. It's

(08:51):
called Freaked, not Todd Browning's Freaks, which I also find hilarious,
but Freaked. It's the only non villain head movie that
features Alex Winter and Kianna Reeves. Kiana Reeves is uncredited
because he's in complete werewolf prosthetics the entire time. By
far Keianna Reves best performance you got Randy Quaid, Mr.

(09:13):
T Bobcat gold Weight, and it is the funniest script
I've ever come across. Yeah, what, oh man, I don't know.
It's got to be nineties because it's like the entire
soundtrack is the Butthole Surfers and there's claymation effects, so
you're like, okay, the nineties, but it is an amazing
film that needs to be seen by a much wider audience.

(09:37):
Vane actor, his best friend and activists end up at
a mutant freak farm room by a weirdo scientist all right, yep,
where they get mutated with fertilizer and it's just it's
just delightful. It's a bit like Airplane crossed with Simpsons. Yeah, okay,
So what is something that's overrated? Recycling? Recycling? We trying

(10:00):
to take a sample of what do you care to explain? What? Well?
I did? I started looking into it after that their
Penn and Teller had a show called Bullshit where they
called bullshit on things, and one was recycling. And since
that brought that to my attention, I have been following
news articles studies on the value of recycling, and if

(10:20):
you remember back to your school days. There's reduced reuse
and recycle. Recycling is the least effective way to help
our climate and environment situation. It hurts the economy the most.
There's the least evidence that it's doing anything useful. Because
even though we don't like the idea of filling giant

(10:41):
landfills with garbage, the Earth is really large and there
is a lot of space I filled with garbage. What
we need to do to prevent more carbon emissions and
all the attendant catastrophes is reduced and reuse. Like the
main thing you can do as an American is waste
less food. Like across the board, everyone says, if you
just eat all the groceries in your fridge, that is

(11:02):
like the better than buying a prius. It's better than
anything else you can do. Um, then reuse. You know,
I'm wearing underwear I've had on for five days, and
I think that helps the environment terrible, But I admire
you they are made from recycled underwear. So it's the
double war. So the difference between reusing and recycling is
that you're just like getting taking a reusable bag to

(11:23):
the grocery store and stuff like that. Yeah, uh, not
buying disposable items, uh, wearing clothes and shoes and driving
your car and keeping your phone until those things don't
work anymore. And just like every I have a really
old slow phone and every time it runs slow, I
just tell myself, you know, you're helping. That's like the
environment tax, because getting a new iPhone every year is

(11:45):
one of the worst things you can do. Uh. And yeah,
so what do do you? Just throw your cans in
the garbage? Like with everything? Yeah, I don't recycle at all.
You smash them down first. And my understanding from looking
into it is that the most effective is glass and aluminum.
So I'm not gonna like hate on people who do
recycle those things. But another thing that's been found is
when people have that blue ben in their house and

(12:07):
they fill it up with trash, which they is not
going to help as much as they think it is.
They think to themselves, that's my bit for the environment,
like they at least put in there right. Homes that
recycle are way more likely to waste way more and
actually have a larger carbon footprint because they just tell themselves,
I recycle themselves, reduced reuse, close the loop. Yeah, and

(12:33):
you just throw your garbage everywhere. I've noticed, just out
on the streets. I just think, yeah, I take the
six pack ring, I just go to the ocean, I
go out of here. It's actually a unique intersection of
dining and performance art Jack, And once you're on the list,
I think you'll understand. All right, we're trying to take
a sample of what people are thinking and talking about
right now, at this very moment. And the way we

(12:56):
like to open up is by asking our guests what
is a myth? What's something people believed to be true
that is not. I just like how we eventually found
out the word organic means nothing and it's not enforced
on our food. Uh. I'm coming to suspect that Netflix
original doesn't mean anything, and I think people still think
it does. Like when HBO produces something, it comes with

(13:20):
a certain standard you expect. Not everything HBO makes is great,
but you get the vibe. And it's because when they
say that it actually means they produced it, their executive
is fucked with it that it was molded to their
break right. And Netflix originals you get like, yes, House
of Cards and Beasts of No Nations were like that,
But there's this huge influx of like foreign movies that

(13:42):
just weren't distributed in the US, and they just stand
Netflix Original on it. And I keep getting fooled by
this ship, like because up till now, other than like
Real Rob and the Adam Sandlers slate, every Netflix original
is really impressed me, or at least been solid. And
I think we're starting to fall off. They're the beginning
of the end. For me, is when I started seeing
that they were kind of like messing with the formula.

(14:04):
But yeah, now it seems like a lot of even
American production companies, they'll do dump shit on Netflix, like
you want to license this, and he was just we'll
call it a Netflix original. And now I've been reading
like yeah in Entertainment News, such and such movie got
dropped because they don't want to promote it. And then
five months later I see it as a Netflix original, right.
Oh no, Yeah, I used to count on that, like

(14:25):
I could count on you know, if Jake Jillen Halls
in something the script is strong right right at the
same time, and then I question everything. The Jillen Hall
brand is strong. Uh. I do worry about like they're
not being a place for people to see like indie
movies and stuff like that, because I guess Amazon is

(14:48):
now going in the opposite direction and they're basically like,
we're taking everything in house and we're going to produce
these huge blockbuster things, whereas before they were producing things
like Manchester by the Sea and stuff like That's so um,
I do like that there's a place that is still
like funding movies that aren't getting widely released or whatever. Um,

(15:09):
but they're not. They're getting the rights though to just
but it's not like they're behind actually the generation of
these films. They're just like, hey, yeah, well, I guess
we'll pay you to license it to put it on ourself.
That's what I'm getting is I wonder if some because
you know, everything is just the computer tells them what
to do basically over there, and I wonder if some

(15:29):
algorithm just told them like that little logo that says
Netflix Original is really working for us, and now they're
overusing it. Because also when I log on now it's
almost all Netflex originals, it's starting to lose its impact.
All right, Well, we are going to move on to
the stories. We will get back to Netflix originals because

(15:49):
looking at Google trends, there are a couple on there
that really popped up. Uh. So let's get into a
quick review of the Olympics before our first break. Chloe
am uh first generation Korean or second generation Korean, depending
on So this is the main thing I want to
talk about, is the fact that there's no agreed on

(16:12):
definition of first generation Korean. I thought I assumed first
generation meant that you were the first generation that was
born in the United States. Uh. My wife is first
generation Korean, like Chloe Kim. Uh. And apparently that's not
an agreed on thing because I saw somebody referring to
Chloe Kim as second generation and her parents who immigrated

(16:34):
here as first generation American. Let's just make up our minds, guys.
Come on, Yeah, wait, so there's no like dictionary definition
of what counts. No, when you go to a Wikipedia,
they say first generation means one of two completely conflicting things.
Because in Japanese, I'm considered nissa, which is a person
born in the US whose parents are from Japan. Yeah,

(16:57):
and that's considered second generation. But I'm like, but our
I the first You feel like it's about your birth.
So I don't know what there's such a robust racist
lexicon in every culture. Um. But anyways, she crushed it.
She was basically already had the gold medal locked away,

(17:18):
and then she was like, you know, I really didn't
want to come here and just win gold without doing
my best, and so she put up a final run
that like scored a ninety eight or something like that.
She blacked out because I think the one. I think
it's a Chinese snowboarder who was the only the closest
person to put press on her, and when she fucked
up her last trick, it was in the bag. And

(17:38):
then she went and she was like, alright, fuck it,
let me show you how Chloe Kim does. And yeah,
it was. She affected back ten eighty degree spins, which
again I'm not good enough at math to figure three
three spins, which that that's too many spins for somebody
to be able to do in the air and not

(17:59):
throw up on themselves. You can see why they came
up with euphemisms. So and she's doing one to three spins.
Three she did back to back three air spins, and
that's like six spins. That would be me if I
was an Olympics commentator. Sometimes they get too thick with

(18:20):
the lingo though, yeah, where I'm just like, what then,
does that mean you're like mel into nosebone. I mean
that ship looked dope. I don't want a rodeo flippers.
But both her and Sean White, yeah, the flying Tomato
both looked like we we talked yesterday about the Russian

(18:44):
figure skater who's like fifteen years old and who when
you watch her skate, you can just like it's your
eyes can tell the difference that she's like a level
above even if you don't know shit about figure skating.
And like, I had the same experience with Chloe Kim
and uh Sean White. We're both just they looked like
their bodies worked differently with gravity than the rest of them.

(19:06):
They spun much more. You could really see like people
torking their bodies to get the spin where you just
see them kind of cows. Just I'm spinning out of it.
And that is my expert commentary on Star. But yeah,
shout out to Chloe can. I can't imagine that it
was an easy thing for her to be like, No,
I don't want to play violin and piano, mom and dad,
I wanna do snowboarding. Yeah, I felt bad as a

(19:31):
as an Asian kid. I felt like even the gold
medal might not be good enough for her. Did my mom?
She was like, what school did you go to? Like
what she's school? Well, we'll see, Uh, well should be Harvard.
I'm like, I don't look, Mom, I didn't go there.
And she's like, that's why we don't talk. Get her
into her Yeah, She's like, I love the Zeit guy still,

(19:52):
and then really quickly I wanted to talk about this
other Russian figure skater, not the fifteen year old we
were talking about before. She isn't eighteen year old. Her
name is Evgenia med Vedeva. Uh, I don't I hope
nailed it. Who you're doing? If Jania my wife, she was, uh,

(20:17):
if you're watching NBC's enhanced coverage of events. So she won,
Golder came in first and qualifying. I'm not sure which
it was, but uh. She explained on NBC's Enhanced coverage
of the events that her short program is about quote
the flight of the soul as it leaves someone's body
at the point of clinical death. Um, which I was

(20:41):
amazed by and loved, and apparently the judges did too,
because she got the highest score ever for a Lady
Short program. But apparently she also had a previous routine
set to the soundtrack from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Uh,
and I think we have some of the audio from that.

(21:09):
It's a very nice piano piece. What is sad at
George Bush? Yeah, that was George Bush saying yes, those

(21:33):
are the sounds of nine eleven. That she figure skated
two and choreographed her routine too in the past. So
she is like the dark soul of figure skating. But
she's pretty badass. It's worth watching her. She it's a
wild and watch to see someone figure skate with nine
eleven like, because she's really elegant and graceful. And then
an important note, that routine like killed for her, right,

(21:55):
it crashed. It's not like she did that and she's
the weird outcast. No, this is her thing. Yeah, uh
and fields, but when you see her, like when, h
who is it yesterday or the day before she was
watching her teammates skate, she just looks like the like
the most brightest, bubbliest person. And then to that no,

(22:18):
like deep down she's like I only skate to the
sounds of Yeah. No, she that she is pure Russia,
like on the surface, just completely calm, cool, collected, looks
like a happy teenager. And then she is just but
nothing matters because life is death and we will all
die alone in darkness is sort of the vibe. I

(22:39):
am just learning this now. I'm so sorry. Yes, we
do all die alone. All right, that's gonna do it
for our first section. I hope you learned something too,
and we'll be right back after this. And we're back,

(23:05):
and we wanted to talk about just ways that the
government is finding too. Uh funk the little guy. And
there's a handful of stories coming together neatly for our theme.
We're always hoping that we'll get a nice cohesive theme. Uh.
And the government cooperated by just fucking over consumers start

(23:26):
up the outraised machine. Yeah, thank you, thank you Trump administration.
Uh So, Miles, I came in this morning. I said,
did you hear about the change to snap And I
was like, yo, people are heated. Uh the layout of
the new Snapchat is pretty whack and people are really
fucked up over it. And I said, I don't really
focus Snapchat, but I guess I guess the kids are upset, right,

(23:46):
which is apparently a thing that is happening. Uh Anna
yesterday was you know, super producer Anna hosny A being
one of the kids herself, was like mad about it
and uh said it wasn't lit, which is the worst
thing somebody of that generation can say. Um, but that

(24:07):
is a proper normanquation, so uh snap. Being also the
food stamp program, you meant supplemental nutrition assistance program, so
uh yeah, that's fucked up to yea. So the Trump
administration announced that they would like to change the food
stamp allowances, which nobody has had a complaint with other

(24:30):
than you know, extreme extreme right wing people who still
believe that welfare queens are a thing, which they're not.
That was just a false story during the Reagan administration.
So they think that people are getting by too easily
on food stamps, and what they're proposing is to basically
replace food stamps, or at least a big portion of

(24:53):
food stamps, with a program where they ship canned food
to people who would previously be able to go to
the store and use food stamps to buy food for themselves.
As mcmulviny says, a blue Apron type. That's okay. How
in one way is that Blue Apron that food is
being shipped to that any and there's enough box fresh nothing.

(25:18):
It's it's a predetermined diet that the government will send
to you with things like peanut butter and pasta, shelf
stable milk, oh yum, canned meats and fruits and cereal. Yeah,
no fresh vegetables or meat, which that's usually what's in
a regular Blue Apron. I'm sure they'd be super receptive
to people who have like peanut allergies or whatever. I'm

(25:41):
sure the government would be great at I don't under
what's even The proposed upside is that cheaper than the
food stamps program. So what they're saying is that that
would allow them to buy food at like in mass quantities,
and that that would like give them a price break,
like at half the cost exactly. But they're not counting

(26:02):
all of the difficulties of like shipping. Like people pointed
out that Blue Apron had a really rough financial year
last year because it's just incredibly expensive to do what
they do, like send food to people and you know,
give people any choice or like a good user experience
and deliver that food on time. Um, So this goes

(26:24):
against all research in uh sort of charity and how
we give charity to other countries, how we give charity
inside our own country has been leading in the opposite
direction of this. It's basically been saying we would much
prefer that you give people money or give the charity
money so that we can redistribute that money to people,
because the best form of charity and the most effective

(26:48):
way to help people is by giving them money because
they know what they need, like whereas canned food drives
like people might not need canned food, or they might
not need like beef stoop be stu might not be
good for them they have an infant. I don't need
peaches in light syrup because I have glaucoma. Exactly what
I need. I think it's important to highlight this is

(27:10):
not the people who are members of the program saying
like we need money instead of food, all just send
us cash. These are people whose interest is what would
make the best outcome for all of society, including economically.
These are studies. So it's like, how do you not
foresee the downstream costs if you're shipping all of your
poorest citizens boxes and boxes of peanut butter and cling peaches.

(27:33):
There's huge downstream costs there, you know, with the deserts
and health care costs. That's insane. And even with the
proposed idea, they expect the states to shoulder all the
cost of distributing and putting the thing together. So it's like,
it's just this fucking idea. It's not even a real thing.
It's just like, let's just see what people think so
we can, you know, further help people who are poor
feel ashamed of their situation, right, and the disparity is

(27:56):
so bizarrely heightened in our country that it's like, Whyatt
Coke could probably just pay for this program out of
his pocket. For some reason, this program made me think
of Whyatt Coke too, Because the central ethos of this
is rich white Republicans who think they know what's best

(28:17):
for other people, and that the problem poor people have
is that they have too much control over their own
decision making and that they just aren't like smart enough
or capable enough to make smart decisions for themselves, and
so that the real problem is that you know, they
need to make those decisions for them uh, Whereas it's just,

(28:40):
you know, every study will tell you the real problem
is that they have been you know, institutionally discriminated against
both you know, poor white people, poor black people have
been institutionally discriminated against. Uh. And America is not a
particularly socially mobile society. Like Americans think that it's all
based on, you know, how hard you work and how

(29:00):
much you're willing to pull yourself up, but says it
is on the box, the box of America. Right there,
there was a Paul Ryan quote from earlier in the
year where he was saying, like, where you are born
has nothing to do with where you end up in America.

(29:21):
So the economist came back and was like, you know,
compared to America, to other countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark,
other Western countries, countries relatively egalitarian. Uh And basically what
your father makes allows people to tell within twenty percent
what you'll end up making in those countries, whereas in

(29:44):
America it's fifty. So it's like way more deterministic in
the United States, UM than in other Western countries that
have more like socialist policies what we would consider to
be socialist. Now it's conflicted with capitalism because you know,
the huge opponents of this shitty blue apron for pores
program is the Food Marketing Institute, which is the largest

(30:07):
like the lobbying group for supermarkets, right, food trying to
unload their cans like you are when you go to
the canned food drive and give all the bullshit. They're like,
you're gonna send people boxes. They will not buy at
the fucking stores, So what the are you gonna do?
So this is a place where Walmart is actually on
the people's side, right, Like we like EBT because that
means we get the money. Right. So it's utterly just

(30:29):
a fight of who's gonna get the money? Is it
the canned food people or the food retail It's big
box you guys, and box factories all over the country
just trying to get everything box in box. Dude. I
bet box business is booming. Yeah, there's yeah, you see
boxes on the rise lately. All right, let's talk about
another policy that the Trump administration released yesterday. So the

(30:51):
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau UH has spent the past you know,
it was created by Elizabeth Warren back when she was
a professor at Harvard, socialist cook, rightist cock Elizabeth Warren,
and it was basically after the financial crisis. You know,
they saw all of this rampant corruption within the financial industry,

(31:15):
and they decided to create an independent agency that was
able to look at financial services and you know, fine
companies if they did shady ship. And so far since
they were instituted in two thousand and ten, they've given
back eleven point eight billion dollars to twenty nine million

(31:36):
consumers since two thousand eleven, So that's an average of
four dred and seven dollars returned to roughly nine percent
of the US population. So they're like helping people out,
like that's giving their hurting the banks. So that's that
is the fargo jack. The very extremely wealthy UH financial

(31:58):
companies that are like making wreck heard profits in the
past ten years have claimed that this agency is making
it impossible for them to do business. And so when
Trump came into power, he put mc muldhaney UH in
charge of the CFPB, and he fucking hates the CFPB.

(32:20):
Has come out and specifically said in the past that
like he thinks it shouldn't exist, and so he and
that's all Trump does. Though It's like I expected, as
Secretary Interior to just be someone who's like I only
go outside, I never enter a building, Like everything is
just bizarro opposite world, as if you're a kid with

(32:41):
blocks and holes and you're matching them to the opposite shape.
It's just so insane. Yeah. Yeah. The new head of
CFPB a Daddy Warbucks, right, yeah. Uh so their policies
surprisingly Uh he recently requested a zero dollar budget for
the January of March one, saying the bureau would draw

(33:03):
on their reserves instead because they're apparently just crushing it financially.
And then, uh, they are trying to change it so
that they are overseen by Congress. The whole idea is
that they're overseen by the Federal Reserve and so they
have independent funding, so like Republican democratic squabbling cannot get

(33:25):
in the way of them doing their job, and they're
basically trying to change that so that they are funded
by Congress. Yeah yeah, yeah, So it'll effectively be the
death of this agency that was in place for a
very brief time and actually giving money back to consumers.
That could be a slippery slope because if they lose

(33:45):
the house, uh, you know, she could change, but we'll see. Yeah,
it's weird how many organizations that get insanely profitable use
those profits to craft allowed narrative that they're poor, like
that they catch or break or make any money. And
it's like, yeah, but you're crafting that narrative with a

(34:05):
team of highly paid obviyoists. It's a self defeating argument.
It's a difficult argument because you know, people in the
financial industry will just tell you know, but you have
to understand, like this bureau is like the worst. And
you know, I know a lot of these people and
they argue it with conviction, and like I can't argue
with them because it's like they're saying, you don't speak Chinese.

(34:28):
This person saying a crazy thing in Chinese, So you
just have to trust me, and like I I don't.
I'm like, okay, fine, Yeah, the banks are hurting. Man.
You know, I was trying to explain to my kids. Man,
they gotta ge an iPhone six, right, I mean success,
but you know your kids that it's true. Uh, the
iPhone six sucks. My kid has to drive a used

(34:49):
range rover. Okay, it is embarrassing. So uh, finally for
a bit of inspirational truth to power the West Virginia
house floor, a young woman who is running to be
a state delegate in that state. Uh, Lissa Lucas l
I S. S. A. Lucas is a Democrat. She's trying

(35:13):
to run for the House of Delegates. She got up
to speak on a bill that was about to be
voted on, and she was pointing out that, you know,
the people who were voting on this bill to a
large degree, had been funded by the energy industry. And
uh so here, let's let's listen to how how her

(35:34):
testimony went. Um. I'd also like to point out that
the people who are going to be speaking in favor
of this bill are all going to be paid by
the industry, and we're going to be voting on this
bill are also often paid by the industry. For example,
on the Judiciary Committee, Charlotte Lane about ten thousand dollars
from gas and oil interests, including a EP Marathon, First

(35:58):
Energy Dominion e QT and I could go on. Next,
let's talk about John Shot from Mercer. These are all
people who are in two thousand dollars, Appalachian Power two
thousand dollars, step Tuning Johnson, that energy one thousand, EQUT
one thousand, and I could go on. Now, let's talk

(36:20):
about Jason Harsh bark. Let's talk about James this, Lucas,
we asked no personal comments. Personal comments is a personal comment,
and I'm going to call you out of order. If
you're talking about a committee, do not question big brother,
address the bill. If not, I asked you to please
step down. It's now they're turning off her min Yeah,
she's still talking about the about his money. Not only

(36:46):
is politics all fake, it's so antithetical to reality. When
someone's just like, look, we all know what the fuss
going on, let me just lay it out. Everyone's like,
get them out of the show. The illusion his dropic. Yeah,
it's like turning the lights on at the club. You
know you don't want to see that, But sometimes that's
that's the truth, ruth Right. And at the end, they're

(37:07):
two big fat, old white dudes came up and like
basically carted her off by her arm, kind of like
strong arm in her, which was always been like, yo,
don't put your hands on her like that. Just cut
her mike off and then you can have a police
officer do something, but don't send your goons up there,
who are probably the same guys she probably called out,
like all right, come on, we've heard enough, we've heard
enough reality. By the way, Jason Harshberger, the person who

(37:29):
she was about to talk about is who she is
running against. He's a Republican who she's running against in
the upcoming election, so they did not want her speaking
on his name. But see, that's good. You know that
it's good to see people, you know, at least especially
in a state like that in West Virginia that is
very dependent on the coal and things like that, where
there are people who are trying to run who see

(37:52):
the imbalance of power in that state. Uh. And just
in general, you know, good to see people going out
and just trying to talk that ship because we need
more speaking that truth to power. Uh. And finally, just
some sort of legislative stuff. This was something I was
wondering about earlier. I know that this was the week
that we were supposed to hear about immigration, and uh,

(38:15):
Congress was the Senate was supposed to actually talk about immigration.
Put up for debate. What's going on with that Moss?
So Monday they Chuck Grassley and Republicans they put a
bill for that definitely follows the framework that Trump was
saying that he wanted, which is essentially, like you know,
if you want citizenship for some of these doc eligible people,

(38:35):
then I want border money and I want to cut
down legal immigration. So this thing creates like a twenty
billion dollar like trust fund sort of thing to create
the wall in border security. Then it also limits legal
immigration like uh, you know, just family reunification and the
visa diversity of lottery, uh, as well as tightening like
immigration enforcement within our country within the borders. And so

(38:58):
it's a bill that is probably not going to get
the sixty votes they need because it's just pure factory
and it's just like, all right, we'll fine, we'll give
you this thing, but we also want all the ship
that you're against also, so it's not much of a deal.
And again, they need sixty votes, and that means they're
gonna need it probably nine Democrats at least to get
this thing over the line, which seems pretty unlikely because
Mitch McConnell said, when we tried to avert the last shutdown,

(39:21):
was like, look, okay, we'll have an open discussion on
the floor, we can submit amendments, and we can do
this the right way. But suddenly now this morning he's
telling people that he wants the entire debate with like
all the other competing proposals that like Democrats and Republicans
are putting forward. He wants it to be done by
the end of this week or it's off. And the

(39:41):
Senate usually wraps up their business by end of day Thursday.
So that's less than three full days to solve a
decades old issue. Uh So it's very I don't know, man. Again,
we were saying this, Mitch McConnell is a piece of ship,
and I don't care what he says. Even he's like, well,
I'll promise to not fuck you, dude, Like we knew
you're gonna do a dirty You always lie, You lie
straight to people's faces. I feel like Dick Durbin was

(40:04):
like telling him. He's like, yo, I defended you to
people who are really skeptical. Don't do this now. You
promised this, like to have this open discussion and we
can actually deliberate properly like a bipartisan the greatest deliberative
body in the land can do. And it's just when
you really couple that with the like you know, the
GOP was blocking out months for debate and discussion over

(40:27):
gutting Obamacare and trying to do that many times and
trying to pass that god awful tax scam that's suddenly
with this, it's like, Okay, we gotta get done three days.
So it's clearly on their terms. Uh, and we'll see
what happens. I mean, they got a couple of days.
But look after March five, when the DOCTA thing expires,
there could be roughly what like a thousand recipients per

(40:47):
day begin to lose their work permits and at the
risk of deportations. So I mean it seems like what
they may likely want to try and do is just
extend it for a year and just kick the can
down the road. But I think we were all trying
to have an actual solution to this, So I don't know.
We'll see what Chuck Schumer and the rest of the
game can pull together. Because the House Democrats were really

(41:08):
hoping that they could actually get a bill done in
the Senate that would put a little bit of pressure
on the House. And we'll I don't know if that's
gonna happen. And is it just shorter or is it
it was going to be public announced private also, no,
it's gonna be public. It's but it was just like
he's like, well, I said it would be a week,
and this is the week, so it's gonna be done
in this Oh yeah, in according to my you know, Nick,

(41:30):
We'll see what happens. But he again he has something there.
Uh yeah. Again, it's just another example of Democrats being
a little naive, uh and not counting on Republicans to
pull as many stunts and tricks as they can to
sort of hamstring this whole reform push. Right, So they're
putting out a thing they know Democrats are gonna hate,

(41:52):
and they're saying, all right, now we have to agree
on something in the next two days. Yeah, okay, if
you want to amend it, like here we go, let's
have debate now. But two days come on, and then
at the end they'll presumably be like, sorry, you guys
didn't so is this it? We're vote on this, you
guys like this, and if not, then us we'll see
how this shakes up. Because this news just came out
that he was like, we have to finish this week,
which is insane, but again, let's see what happens. Do

(42:15):
you think that like he can when he inhales like
blow the like his neck like bull frog out there
feel like they're ornamental. Just but I mean, when he's
trying to, like, you know, attract his wife to him,
do you think he can maybe do? He looks like
a capitalist robot is unmoved by anything. So I don't

(42:38):
know she should stand behind Trump when he said that
the white supremacist were good people. You am I up here? Um,
there's sort of breaking news four hours ago, but uh
Net and Yahoo the boy, the Israeli Prime Minister uh
was embroiled in a bribery scandal and the Israeli police

(43:00):
have just come out and recommended that he be indicted
in a pair of corruption cases. So that's because corruption
is the worst crime, that's embarrassing. Do what you gotta do. Um,
let's see if they can follow through. Right, all right,
we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right
back with some Google trends and we're back. And I

(43:29):
should have said uh. For more on the Net and
Yahoo's story, you should check out our sister podcast, Culture
Kings UH Now Ethnically Ambiguous, hosted by superproducer Anna Hosnier.
As we went to break, she looked at me and said,
if you ever step on ethnically ambiguous again and then

(43:50):
made a slashing gesture at the throat and I was like, Yo,
where did you get that box cuted from? Right? Um? Like,
I keep the blade on my tongue. Yeah. But they
do a really good job of, you know, making you
understand all these stories from that region of the world
that I had sort of tuned out in the past
because I'm a bad person. But you know, if you

(44:12):
find yourself tuning some of those stories out, or you know,
stories about Syria and Israel and Palestine and uh, you know,
the Middle Eastern general, you should definitely check their show out.
They make it make sense and they make you care
about it. Alright, guys, So first up, we wanted to
take a look at a Twitter trend, miles that you

(44:33):
have been noticing just the last two days. Look, white
people don't want black people. They don't want us have anything. Okay,
So first fucking yesterday with the Obama portraits, like there
was a coordinated smear campaign from the likes of the right.
Uh you know because Cahinde Wiley, who did the Obama portrait,
also did versions of like classical art of like beheadings

(44:55):
or whatever, and he does it in a style, like anyway,
they basically were just there was a lot of fortune
in and you know, are the Donald subreddit type freaks
out there trying to be like, oh this is racist,
this is bullshit, blah blah blah, and just it was
like just a coordinated smear and a lot of people
suddenly became art critics yesterday when the ports came out
and like, oh this, so this looks terrible. This is
not art. Michelle Obama looks like the pencil drawing or whatever.

(45:16):
It's like, motherfucker, do you know art? Okay? Your avatar?
Is you wearing a camouflage under armorhood? Okay. Also, so
that was one thing, and I was like, okay, whatever,
this is to be expected because this is sort of
the state of America. But then also, as someone pointed out,
how much there are people who really need to point
out to black people that Wakonda, uh the imaginary Kingdom

(45:38):
from the Black Panther film that has many people excited,
especially people of color, because look, look we got we
got our whole movie now that is seemingly unoffensive. Uh.
So many people are tweeting stuff like what Konda is
not real? What Konda do? They do? They realize what
Konda is not a real place. Dear black people, repeat
after me, what Konda is not real? These are all

(46:00):
different tweets. I'm not just saying this over L. L.
Wakonda's fiction. Ancient Egypt wasn't black. Wakonda is not a
real place. So look, but Gotham City is, and Crypton
is real and Dungeon and it was exactly a r
I p rest in power to Crypton. But yeah, again,

(46:21):
we don't star Wars. A tattooing is not real, and
Door is not real. Look, we know Alderon is not real.
Warts though very real. Okay, don't funk around Hogwarts whatever.
I mean again, it's just I guess because of the
idea of that this is a place where Africans still had,
like you know, had the agency over their own kingdom,
without colonialism or whatever to do as they saw fit.

(46:43):
It's like, oh my god, people getting excited about the
Black Panther movie coming out and white people responding by
pointing out that the movie is fictional. Yeah, because you know,
some people and they're even on their Twitter names, are
putting stuff about Wakonda yeah or whatever, And then that's
got people so fucking angry. It's worse than a straw

(47:04):
man argument. It's condescending to someone who doesn't exist. It's
like inventing someone dumber than you. So you could go, um, actually,
and you're just in our room alone, like what the
are you doing? I mean, yeah, you just got back like, oh,
it's not Can you show me any literature that bogunder
is not real? Right? And just send them on a
I guess a very easy Google Google search. But yeah,

(47:26):
that's so, that's that's new in white people don't want
us have anything news. So yeah, Wakanda is not real.
Update wa Kanda is not real. And also, uh, you know,
everything to do with the Yeah, everything is racist. I
has a two of the Obamas. So that's that's it
for me in the field. Back to you. So, we
just wanted to look at some Google trends from the

(47:47):
past fourteen days and that I had kind of missed.
So clover Field Paradox I knew that that was released
after the Super Bowl, and you know, apparently that worked
because does the top search trend, like the top term
that leapt out of nowhere from the third through the
third team. So they nailed it with the release of

(48:10):
that but Michael, you watch clover Field Paradox and you're
saying they didn't quite nail it with the execution as well.
More than that, I booed over your introduction of it.
We were talking earlier about Netflix originals, and this is
the movie that made me realize, oh, this scene is
over the Netflix original scene because uh, and there's a

(48:31):
great podcast our ex compatriots David Christopher Ballent Tom Ryman
do called we just watched and they covered and pointed
out that like it's painfully transparent, that is Diehard syndrome
where it's an unrelated script. The script was originally called
God Particle, and they've done the minimal amount to make
it clover Field. It's like slapping a clover Field bumper

(48:51):
sticker on it. There's one effects shot that shows a
clover Field like creature, and they re shot some scenes
where they the word clover Field. And they shot this
ridiculous insert of Donal log on TV, just giving a
bunch of exposition about clover Field that the astronauts watch
from the space station for no reason while crises are

(49:14):
going on. They're like, hey, let's tune on the TV
to watch Donal logs. Say hey, everyone, this movie you're
about to watch that will never mention clover Field again
is about clover Field, and it's lazy to the point
that all of their outfits and many of the props
say Helios on them because that is the name of
the ship. And yet in all the reshoots they referred

(49:36):
to it as the clover Field And literally this was
supposed to be the key to the franchise that explained
like how clover Field and tent Cloverfield Lane are in
the same universe at all, and it just does not.
It doesn't even try. It was a direct DVD movie
that they slapped some paint on and released as a
Netflix original, and I like that kills the Netflix original

(49:59):
juice that was going I hate it. Did you watch
ten Cloverfield Ding? Yeah, much much, much stronger, so that
that was like a really fun movie. But I also
felt like it was a great movie that at the
end again just like pasted on the clover Field thing,
and I don't know it, it felt very like uh
mashed together, like they had a great movie. And then J. J.

(50:20):
Abrams was like, Okay, I want that to be a
clover Field movie, so let's add some monsters at the
very end that have nothing to do with the thing
that you just watched. I think the only thing connecting
them is it's kind of like Exquisite Corpse because it
was like monster movie that ends with the Apocalypse. The
next movie is Apocalypse that ends with Aliens. Spoiler alert.

(50:41):
The clover Field paradoxes Aliens at the beginning ends with
time travel. And they've already announced clover Field four is
going to be the clover Field Monster appears in World
War two times and and again. It's a script that
was not designed to be a clover Field movie. So
they're taking some midshelf world Wars, like let's do the
mission and kill Nazis movie, and they're gonna add some

(51:04):
Cloverfield scenes and release it. What are they doing? Yeah,
I'd be great if it was just like a straightforward,
like saving Private Ryan type of movie, Like and they're
just like yeah, but then at the end, I got
a girl waiting for me. Yeah, instead of the air
fleet coming in and like saving them, it's a clover

(51:25):
Field monster. Um yeah, it's the It's the interconnectedness of
like an arrested development, but with nothing behind it, like
there's a there's a shot in Cloverfield Paradox where they're
just in the cockpit and suddenly it cuts to a
close up on the corner of the console of a
slush show bobblehead doll, and I saw online everyone freaking out, like,

(51:47):
what does it mean? What does it mean? What does
it mean that the art director put that there for
a cheap insert shot to make it seem like a
clover Field movie. It doesn't mean shit. Yeah, I think
that's overrated to like when like Black Mirror has an
episode apparently in this last season where it suggests that
everything is like in a connected universe possibly and it's like,

(52:08):
I don't like that necessarily ties direct connections where it's
like someone says a line and you're like, oh, I
guess during the events of this across the country that
other episodes happening because the reference that it was on
the news, You like, what does that add really? Right?
Like Twilight Zone wouldn't have been better if at the
end they were like all part of a shared universe, right, Um?

(52:31):
So yeah, I don't know. And I also worry about
this because this is the second movie that they've released
Netflix that the release has been extremely successful both Bright
and this head can't believe Bright and but they were
both bad movies, and it's just like that is always
a problem when a media company is having a lot

(52:53):
of success but it's completely disconnected from quality, then they
start to lose their way a little bit. I was
really thinking about this with Bright, because they've already announced
right too, and I have to assume that it's because Netflix.
I mean, you know, the classic story is House of
Cards is because they had a poll and people like
our favorite directors David Fincher, our favorite actors, Kevin Spacey,
so they put them together. So if that's their model,

(53:16):
if that's where they take their cues, people, we gotta
help Netflix out. We can't keep watching ship like Bright
to see how bad it is, because then they see
a computer read out that says, oh, kids love Bright.
And what they don't realize is no one's gonna watch
Bright too. We all watch Bright one because those allegations
came out and because we heard it was so crazy bad.

(53:38):
But I don't need to see another movie that awful.
So I feel like they're going to take these big
swings based on popular flops, and I just, yeah, it's
incentivizing the absolutely the wrong thing. We're encouraging mediocrity, guys. Yeah,
I don't know how much people realize how like Netflix,
the the huge advantage they have is all driven by
the fact that they can see what we watch, and

(54:00):
so they have the ability to be like, wow, people
would actually watch the Ranch because they like Two and
a Half Men with fucking Ashton Kutcher and Westerns or whatever.
So they just like mashed two things together. And that's
apparently people like Will Smith movies and uh, fucking The
Lord of the Rings. The preevious is when they'll tweet
those break down the like at Miles of Gray, Hey,

(54:23):
we saw that you watched the eighteen minutes of this
Altered Carbon is also up there. That's their new show.
None of us have seen it. We watched the first
two minutes, uh, and it seems to open with like
a pretty graphic shower graphics like they're someone's bloody either
taking a shower and having sex, and then ye do Travis.

(54:45):
I don't know if it's as problematic as it seems,
but the trailer just made me brace for it being
really troubling because and I'm not I haven't seen it
so I don't know if this is the plot, but
from what I could piece together, it seemed like it's
about an Asian guy who dies and becomes reformulated as

(55:06):
a white guy who knows martial arts because he has
an Asian inside of him. That is, like, I don't know,
that's what the trailer seems to sugget. Yeah, years in
the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading
to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent.
Takeshi Kovacs okay very interesting now, Like a Croatian Japanese

(55:30):
person is the only surviving soldier of a group of
elite interstellar warriors who were defeated and uprising against the
New World Order. His mind was in prison for centuries
until and impossibly wealthy businessman Laurence Bancroft offers him the
chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something
for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. I
don't Again, I don't know, but there's just like, if
it is true that that's what it is, it's just

(55:51):
the peak whitewashing is like literally, in the plot, the
guy dies so he can be reincarnated as white guy.
But that's also why I know Kate and I saw
problematic because I was Asian before. If only we could
make karate movies with white people. You put so an
Asian guy dies and then you put his soul in

(56:13):
a white man's body. And then finally, we have been
quoting apparently a meme. Uh. We're calling it the Uganda
knuckles meme around the office. In particular, super producer Anahosny
has been has been just yelling it out, Yeah, yelling
it out in the office. Uh, it's gotten into all

(56:35):
of our heads, and we haven't quite figured out what.
I guess there was an episode of reply All where
they explained it, and I listened to that episode. I
still don't totally have it figured out. But Michael, so
you kind of chased this down a little bit. Well,
this is hilarious because I'm regurgitating information to you that
I heard on Culture Kings, which is from your network.

(56:58):
But they were quoting the reply All episode. Um, and
then I went online and research uh, because the Culture
Kings were just saying, how like it's wildly offensive, yet
they couldn't stop laughing, Like, well, if you can't stop laughing.
I gotta see it, and I will admit it had
me cackling and feeling guilty at the same time. But
it's there's this, and this was a meme a long
time ago. There's a Ugandan action movie like war movie,

(57:20):
and the trailer went around because it is a bad movie.
It's one of those funny bad movie trailers. Apparently it's
like a white dude from America who like failed at
his job and then was just like, I'm gonna go
to Uganda and make action movies on a zero dollar budget.
Like literally for each movie has a thirty dollar budget,
and like they're actually more uh modern than you think.

(57:41):
They look like they're from like the sixties, but they're
actually from a few years ago. And forgive me for this,
but basically there's a lot of pull outlines that are
like do you know the way the Way of the Devil?
These amounties of the devil? So fast forward to now.
I don't know how people come up with combined like
what they combined and the means it's some kind of
weird genius. Fast warder. Now someone goes into I forget

(58:04):
what video game just like VR hang or something where
you can just be an avatar, and it's just the
chat room makes a really shitty looking version of Knuckles
from Sonic the Hedgehog Universe, just like a really dirty
one that's tiny, so it's only like half the size.
They're like pork sized if you're Star Wars, and they'll
go anywhere, like if people are trying to have a

(58:25):
virtual wedding, which has its own problems doing that, but
and it you'll just have full sized humans with suddenly
a flash mob of tiny little Sonic and Knuckles porks
coming into the like excuse us, do you know de way?
It'd be like he does not know the way to
chase him, why are you running? And they'll just like

(58:46):
it's the classic thing people do on video games, like
funk up their game, follow them incessantly. But it's just
it is really funny when you get someone who like me,
does not know what the hell is going on, is
trying to ask them questions that like can I help you?
It's pretty funny and wildly offensive. Yes, uh, all right,

(59:09):
well that explains a lot about super producers. Uganda is
not real, Uganda is not wake up people. That's surrounding
joke of it. Yeah, memes are so fascinating because it's
like the entire youngion consciousness just doing free association as
a mass like zeitgeist brain, and you can ask anyone

(59:32):
why did you do that, and they'll just be like
other people did it and then yeah, you'll never track
down the original person who can explain why the funk
this came into existence. Yeah, but it's like group hive
mind joke writing that has a weird like dream logic. Yeah,
it's interesting how those kinds of jokes always end up
being the only thing that can be universal, which is

(59:53):
just like weird non sequitors. Yeah. Well, Michael, it has
been wonderful having such a pleasure to be here. Thanks
for having me. Guys, where can people find you and
follow you? Oh boy? Well, since the Cracks diaspora, uh,
myself and a lot of our mutual buddies have been
trying to start up our own new things, and our

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new thing is called small Beans. You can find us
on Patreon at patreon dot com, slash small Beans, or
just go to iTunes or Stitcher and look for the
small Beans feed. We're mainly releasing podcasts now because we're
just getting rolling. But if you're a fan of our
previous work. We plan to be rolling out the kinds
of sketches you would have seen it Cracked, and just
continuing to fight the good fight with no corporate overlords,

(01:00:35):
which we're excited about personally. Not a fan. Yeah, it's well,
it's wonderful. It's everything I've loved about you guys. At
Cracked yesterday we just dropped Yeah, it's fun, it's fun.
We just dropped a really good interview with Sore and
Booie yesterday. Yeah. But you can hear about what he's
doing over at American Dad and what a horrible burden

(01:00:57):
it is for him to have had children. Oh no, uh, Miles,
where can people find you and follow? You can find
me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles
of Gray. And you know, a shout out to all
the SALTEP Canadian listeners who are like, don't be slagging
off the Canadian Olympic team. Look, I love y'all up there.

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So we're sorry, Yeah but I'm sorry. And I talked
about how people I skate to work in one of
your towns so and how magical that is. So you know,
we're you're you're coming out ahead in my book yeah.
When the first time my friends told me who grew
up somewhere cold, they were like, oh yeah, in the
winter we would ice skate to school because the river
went from our house to scare you grew up in

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a goddamn fantasy world. It's like a Dickens postcard or something.
Um and uh, we'd love for you guys to rate
and review us on Apple Podcasts, and Miles, I think
we have a review to share with us. We do
the title intelligent and fun from I ras Samurai with
the five star bless you family. Enjoy getting a daily

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update on the world from Jack and Miles humorous perspective,
and their guests are great. And I get to hear
music I would never hear, which is sometimes good, just sometimes.
Thanks boys. So all right, all right, right, I rate Samurai.
I can tell you're not totally supportive Samurai. You're little
I rate. I get that, but we appreciate the review.
I don't even the spot you know that's actually Peter

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Travors and the rolling stuff. Samurai. Yeah, I rate, Yeah,
I get it. Yeah, go back to rating Samurai. Yeah. Man.
Uh so, Miles, speaking of our spotty music taste, Uh,
do you have a song. Oh yes, I have a
song because uh, you know a lot of people were
a fan of the Spotify add where I was wrapping

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like this hipp and then hopping. Well, you know, a
real legend of m seeing and the hip hop world
in general. Love Buck Star Ski, he passed away last week. Uh,
and you might have heard the name if you remember
Juicy of a notorious b I J. Says Pieter ron
Gi Brusy beat Kicker, prefunk Masterflex love Star Ski. I
want to play people one of his great tracks. You've

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got to believe, uh, you know, and it's worth this
guy was one of the forefathers of hip hop. He
was emtying in the late seventies and kind of didn't
get his shine like how Grandmaster Flash in The Furious
Five did. But again it's important to learn your history.
Rest in peace to the Buck Start. And also, like
a lot a lot of the music from that era,
like the rapping kind of gets in the way of

(01:03:24):
my enjoyment. It's like two nursery rhyme and like the
focus is too much on that. But like this actually
sounds yeah, it's kind of funky, and if you watch
the video, I realized I was born in the wrong era,
like I wish I was em seeing in the early eighties,
like while everybody was like just flying off their face
on cocaine, like wearing crazy outfits. But anyway, if anyone
has a time trawld machine, hit me up because I
will go there. And that's gonna do it for today.

(01:03:46):
We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast.
We'll talk to you guys us Well. The few times

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that's so high, I didn't defend with what I've got.
I didn't let those things balld to me. We'll leave
to my own fee. I believe when things got bad,
very slow, I didn't think that I could win about
the dry by trump in the seats. When the work
of window came to res. Yeah, don't let the one

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see you can't make it your cat. When things don't go,
just don't take it. You got leave just telling yourself.
I've got to make it. Yeah, gotle So come on, everybody,
let us ship it a I bring him in theory

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from paint today. I chept my face and I don't
if you want to read, so let those things understood.
Thing you's gonna back can change the good and if
you want things better enough to be open, if you
want to stay, talk because when it is getting the
bottom shell, So judgamember, believe it yourself. Yeah, please, don't
let the one see again, make it leave. When things

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I've got you make it yea please, So come on,
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I just hope that you'll change your face. The man upstand,
he had his plays. He won't give you ball and
you can't stand. So when it's looks like it, go
all the way, don't remember these words. I see yeah happy,
don't let the one see it can make it you, coppony.

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When things go con just over take it. Yeah, Just
tell yourself I got you make it yeah, coppay. So
come on, everybody like ship