YOU’VE BEEN DRAFTED LOL! QAnon But Star Wars 1.9.20

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I don't think I have an AKA. I thought of
an Aerosmith beamed AK and I got really ashamed and
I didn't follow through on it. Why are you saying
to Aerosmith because they're not good? They got their own
the only band that got their own roller coaster? Okay,

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wait where in Florida? They got the Rocket roller coaster?
That a video game too. I think is also absolutely
arb the licensor shipped to anybody. I respect that because
they're like Jason Derulo in that way, and they'll just
license their image to fucking anyone. Who else is Jason
Ruler license im? I've seen him as I've seen him
at the wax m. Yeah, him and his because you know,

(01:54):
it's like his thing that he like always wants his
dick to be visible, and that's like a compulsion that
he has from cats. It was covered in cats. But
he just has this weird media history of being like, oh, yeah,
you can take my picture, but like make sure you
get he's got a huge dick. It's his thing. Uh,

(02:15):
your personality to your big dicks, and like can't shut
up about it. That's actually not big dick energy. No, No,
I mean it's very different big dick. It's a little energy.
But he but he's got he's at the wax Museum.
He's got a huge dick at the wax Museum. Check
it out. Do you need to authorize them to make
waxes of yourself because they have so many, so a

(02:35):
lot of people, just everybody who's there. It's realized. Don't
think it's a mold of you. First to make sure
it's accurate, or they do like three D lasers, because
wax museums are kind of littered with some randas where
you're just like, oh, I wouldn't expect to see that
person here, and that's the person who was really trying
to be there. You're like, Wow, that's interesting. I didn't
think I would see tech from the Hawaii Real World

(02:57):
cast a wax pull. Even Jason, Like Jason Derulo got
his own special spot at the Wax Music You're like,
I'm sure, I'm sure that's what the label step in.
You know, it's Big Wax and Big, Big, Big Music.
They're anyway, who is that disembodied voice that we're hearing.
That is our guest today. Please welcome comedian, actor, writer,

(03:22):
and one of the stars of the Netflix sketch comedy
show Astronomy Club, Jonathan Braylaw. What's going on? Everybody? Thank
you for coming by, thank you, thank you for patient.
You know, it's a chaotic day today. It's okay, it happens,
it's yeah, thank you. Okay, now you start saying that

(03:42):
a different energy. Um, So before we get to know you, Jonathan,
let's tell people what we're gonna be talking about. We're
gonna be talking about Emma Chamberlain. I don't know who
that is, but apparently she's she's big time past we do,
I don't know, not verifiable. Well, I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know her, so it's not real to me. Also,

(04:03):
you know, Donald Trump seems to be easing up on
the attention for now. Uh. People were getting you've been
drafted text messages. Apparently over the last few days, Army
had to let people know that's not what's going on.
We'll have to check in with the impeachment of really
quick I'm talking about, and then talk a little bit

(04:25):
about what's going on in the you know, democratic race
for the nomination, because it seems like the centrist establishment
is very, very weary and scared that Bernie Sanders actually
has a very legitimate shot at this point, looking at
some numbers, So we'll go through the UH and then

(04:47):
UH a New York State assemblyman with an absolute humdinger
of an explanation for why he crashed his state issued
suv into a ditch drunkenly. What at The answer is
an alcohol, it's it's a little of that mixed with
a little bit of misogyny. Then you know thetail the

(05:10):
pizza a t M which is now on a Florida
University campus. If you want to drive the Oscar Mayer wienermobile,
we'll tell you how to do that. Uh. And also
there are there's some wacky as Star Wars conspiracies going
on that I'm here for. Are like but like it's
getting into this post truth phase that's very similar to

(05:30):
the thinking of Q and on, where it's almost like
hold on, but we're telling you the thing you even
like going off of is not true. And like Nana
was the character they're basing it on, it's not about it,
it's even it's even more. Next, it's high level. It's
high level. It's above me. Now did you sorry? Did
you Guys like Babu freak a freak? But I thought

(05:55):
the second time I was like Babu Freak hits even
the second time. Honestly, the real war right now, it's
between Babo Freak and Videota. Who's who's cuter? Babo Freak,
We'll hack Baby Yoda's brain? Are you a Babo f
r e a k okay? And and other stories to uh,

(06:16):
you know as the time goes on. But first, Jonathan,
what is something from your search history that's that reveals
a little bit about who you are? I mean, this
is kind of this is this is super boring actually,
but but I was. I was looking at my boy,
my boy Romi Usa because he just wanted Golden Glove, um,

(06:37):
And I was, I just wanted to know because I
feel like I know about his show obviously, even from
we've been friends since high school. Actually yeah, and but
but you know, he made a joke when he gave
the Golden Ghost speech like I know none of you
see my show, you know, And I kind of feel
like that's true, and that's why everybody laughed, right, And

(06:59):
so I was I wanted to see. I wanted to
look up who was talking about and what they were saying. Um.
And the internet is wild. Yeah, welcome, Yeah, you can
go on that website Twitter, didn't you No, no, no,
no no no. That website was canceled. Um there were

(07:19):
so there was like a lot obviously you have a
lot of support and stuff like that, but like the
trolls were out in full force, um talking about because
he said and you know, which just means like God
is great. Um. But like people were like, oh, he's
like a secret terrorist and like all these things that
you would think that people would say. But you're like,
are people really saying? Yeah? Absolutely, all out there and stuff.

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So that was crazy. I went down that rabbit hole.
He didn't of course he wouldn't. He wouldn't do that,
But I like to do it for It's like it's
so much easier when it's like somebody you know, and
you're like, I can read all these because it's not
personally affecting me. You get to see what the people,
what people say, and if he wants thet you can
you can give it exactly right. You're like, yeah, take
a liberty. This is a Google doc link. I just

(08:04):
did some excerpts if you want to check them out.
That's a really good friend to be, Like, I checked
out your internet abuse for you. I'll summarize it specific
I've never heard this term before, but I saw it
use Affirmative Action Award. Wow. Yeah, that's what they called it,
and I was like, I don't know, I think that's
how white people explain how when brown people do things. Yeah, affirmative,

(08:28):
that's affirmative he's he's got a car. It's affirmative action.
I got a job's firmative action, which is when someone
galaxy brains very simple achieved like an amazing achievement. Yeah. Well,
you know what's funny, Like a lot of the members
really liked it. I think because so many of the
members of the h f p A themselves are immigrants
to the United States that they're like, even if it's

(08:49):
a completely different culture or generation, they're like yeah, yeah,
Which is funny where people don't like because they you know,
they for some reason, I didn't think Watchman was a
good show. I don't know what happened there. Yeah, yeah,
well it got completely shut out. Apparently they they miscalculated
actual submission times for it and did not that would happen.

(09:09):
Apparently HBO did not promote to the like voting public,
and that they were more leading on a game of
Thrones because because I was just kind of assuming that
it came out too late. I don't know what the
cutoff is. Yeah, no, it came out sort of right
at the cutoff. But it's the weird thing also that
actually happened with us on Astronomy coming Yeah, I mean
that's why we didn't get nominated it. But you should

(09:29):
have been also sent like rom even like, yeah, that's
what they're saying about astronomy. I don't know, I know
if they're saying this stuff about you. Even these white
guys will wrap around sunglasses in their truck as their
avatar photo, like myself, what's something that's overrated? Um? Overrated?
Social media detox for your news resolutions? I think that's overrated.

(09:52):
That's the take, honestly, because everybody's doing it. I don't
want to be one. You know, I'm know I'm getting
off social media. First of all, if you're posting that
on so media, you already found I don't want to
hear it. Like, if you truly don't care about social media,
then don't tell me that you're getting off social media.
I don't need to know. You mean, like, yeah, don't
make it part of your don't make it a part
of your don't make it part of your platform. I

(10:14):
literally just scrolled past somebody who like posted a picture
of them and they're like, I've been like here, I
am meditating, and I'm just like, you're not meditating. You're
posting on SoC you're on Instagram. Like, you just took
a picture of yourself in a video. Also screenshot what
your drafts look like? Many versions exactly, and yeah, right,
there's no way you just took one like And so

(10:35):
I mean I think people, I think we just need
to accept the fact that it's here, that we're addicted
to it, you know what I mean, just embrace it. Yeah,
it's like a full writing style when someone says that
they're they're logging out for a while, and they never
are and they never really come bad. Like I'm just
like I'm just promoting things now. I'm like that you're

(10:56):
still on it. Right. The people I respect are like
the people who I'm like, I I go to tag
and I don't see them anymore. I'm like, oh my god,
they don't like offen. You got the funk off? Yeah,
you just got off. You didn't post about it, you
didn't like make an announcement for them. I'm like, now
that's a respect. So if you want to do that,
go ahead and do it. But like I don't know
just that part of your new year. If I'm seeing

(11:16):
it on on your story right now, this is a bit.
It's odd when you're like you're but you're you're announcing
it through it versus like I just don't use it.
That's frequently mostly good. Yeah, I try not to. I
don't make a thing out of it because I don't.
Before this, it wasn't part of like me always using it.
I guess if you were someone who's a hyper user

(11:36):
of social media, then you kind of be like, look, y'all,
I know you're used to some really blity means I
must go. There are some hubers do it too. It's
like if you have to that you think that what
you're saying is very important, like like we're all like
all your two hundred and twelve followers going to be right. No,
I know you have a hot quality. It's like I

(11:58):
know that you think that this is the coolest ship ever,
but unfortunately I must go. Anyone who legitimately needs to
detox from it, though, please do, because man, most people
I think don't realize how it actually is and get
into this loop where you like almost like but if
I don't, especially in comedy, I think it's too late.

(12:19):
It's like do you exist? But it's like do you
even exist if you're not on Twitter, you know what
I mean? Like, and it's very few comedians who aren't
on Twitter and are still able to like thrive, That's true.
I think that there's there is like an element of
I forget who I was talking to with about this,
but like there is like a certain level of like
privilege to be able to log out in that way,

(12:40):
especially if you're right, because how you're promoting right, it's like,
well then you must be a big enough deal that
you can afford to not be using free tools all
the time. Yea, yeah. I don't like when people make
you feel guilty about having to be on it and stuff,
you know what I mean. It's like, well, that's that's
what some people have to do. Also, it's fun sometimes,
and they're are healthy ways to consume it, you know.

(13:02):
If you just name five micro dosis, eat apples while
you be in the sun when the sun is down,
put that phone down. I think I'm online till I'm canceled.
I think that. Unfortunately, I don't know if I'm ever
going to be able to think, yeah, you're you're you've
been hardwired into the matrix. Yeah I've been hacked. Are

(13:22):
you scared of getting canceled? Is that like a legitimate fear?
I not not really. But but then sometimes when you
see like a misfire of a cancelation and you're like, oh,
that could be yeah, that's true. You're like somebody who
you're like that, I don't know if they deserve to
be canceled. It's an occasions fire, but a misfire is
scary to witnessess what something you think is underrated? Um,

(13:47):
but days I feel like I don't. I truly feel
like America is a backwards country that we don't have.
But days like just place we should be blown on.
Our shouldn't be something that like only a rich person gets.
But when they install a Japanese toilet, it's weird that

(14:09):
we haven't upgraded our butt cleaning for what centuries? We're
still using papers for millennia. That's true. I can't, for
my instance, microfiber towels. I can't get that rewash, right.
I can't get can't you get pass? The water is
just coming up. They literally just let that go by.

(14:29):
I said, I admit microfiber towels. You're gonna discussed dan
Is in the book on What the Funk? And just
thank you, thank you for not shaming me. For the record,
I steal a toilet paper from the office, like everyone
else that works here, don't say I like, I love
to steal toilet paper from wherever people leave it loose.

(14:51):
I'm like, that's on you, like a loose square of
it on the ground. I know. I'm just saying, like,
if you go to a restaurant and they've left a
couple of rolls loose, I'm like, I'm taking one over me.
So do you go to the bathroom with a purse
so you can or do you ever fucking just say
fucking I'm walking out with my chest out holding this
toilet picture. I always have a tote I've gone to

(15:12):
especially like when I could go and do an audition,
I'm like, that didn't go well. Pick up a lose role.
Make it worth my time. Interesting, that's their problem for
being lazy and not wanting to seeing my genius. Yeah,
I guess I'll take this one. When it cast me
in a mattress commercial, jokes on you, jokes on you.
I got two roles. Where was the first time you

(15:33):
use the B day? Um? It was very recently. That's
why I'm talking about it. It was at an Airbnb
that my uh wife and I were staying at UM
and I was like, I was a little scared. I
was because I want that's why I want to hear
about why you're why you can't get past it, because
I wasn't nervous. But but then it was like, no,

(15:55):
it was. It was perfect. It was it was perfect.
It was exactly right. Uh hit hit the right spot.
You know, doesn't feel doesn't didn't feel weird. Also didn't
feel too good either, because I feel like some people
like over sexualize it. I mean it does feel good.
I know, I'm just oh wait, some people like some people, yes,

(16:15):
I think that put that pressure on it. That it's
like when people recommend but days they recommend it so
hard that I feel like pleasure is implied and like
I don't know if I'm no for me, it's because like, look,
if you take a ship and you you've ever had
to wipe your ass like exactly that ship is a
wrap with the bidet. You know, you will fucking bidet

(16:38):
your butt hole and then you just do a quick
dad equip. It is cleaner than you're the day and
then and it's like it makes you feel good. You
don't feel bad about having to be in the bathroom
for so freaking long just because you're trying to wipe
your butt you know, I mean, especially any of us
who like who aren't like shaving down there, you know
what I mean. It's just saying I advocate for it.

(16:58):
Wax your butt hole. Yeah, my friend whose wife is
an esthetician, Uh, have not yet to have my butt
hole wax completely. I've tried it with candle wax. That's
why I say completely. Didn't Apparently this is not I
don't know that you could do cause terrible injury. They
man with the clean Butthole swear By, They're like, yo, bro,
everything's everything is a smoother operation, you know what I mean,

(17:22):
damn smooth. Operator. Had to think about my butt too
hard and then, like, I don't know what's your fe
You're gonna sit on a bid day and then it's
gonna tear you up. I'm afraid. No I'm afraid I'm
gonna sit. I think, just the way it's been described
to me, I'm like, I don't want to sit on
a bid day. And then like come like, you know,
like everyone just like it's you're worried about the very

(17:44):
puritanical fear. It's so weird. The bathroom isn't erotic desert
place for poop and pete. Yeah, that's because growing up
in Japan, a lot of the bid toilet attachments are
pretty standard. So for me, it was always like it
was like, you know, just get your butt clean. I've
never been like, yeah, my dad would look at that

(18:06):
and be like, if my dad's a day, he would
treat it like Starbucks. You'd be like, oh, you fucking French,
Oh you like this royal asshole like that kind of stuff, right,
Which is crazy because why would we not all want
to have clean, clean butts or some people dying. Well,
I'm sure there's probably a very like weird American male
homophobic idea. Dude, I'm not letting nothing stimulate my b hole,

(18:30):
not even for cleanliness. I have to grow up. Yeah. Problem.
And then also it makes you feel better about being
like if you're intimate with somebody. You know what I mean,
You're like, I know it's clean, Yeah, but I just
pressure wash that ship. Yeah he just got just got
the graffiti off the sidewalk. Yeah, man, come on now.
Uh And something that's a myth. There's this myth I

(18:52):
think that Netflix is about to like go down and
that and now I know I have a Netflix show,
so it sounds like sounds go on. But you know,
it's impossible for me to not sound unbiased. Uh um truly,
and it is, uh, you know, it's not um. But

(19:14):
I just this idea that like all these other streaming
services are going to take Netflix down is so ridiculous
to me. And we were talking about a little bit before.
But like, look, I love Disney Plus as much as
the next person, but that you're not sitting watching Disney
like freaking old school Disney and animated shows. Yeah. Child, Yeah,
if you're in your Disney, if you have that a

(19:38):
piece a child trapped in adults body weight, you got
Disney false sleep Simpson's put on the sleep timer. Correct.
I I always fall asleep to Disney Plus because I'll
put on some animated movie that's like calm and whatever,
and then but I watched five minutes of it. You
know what I mean, I guess what, you're still using it.

(19:59):
There's still crip Walk. Yeah, but it's like the amount
of content that Netflix has. Also, by the way, Disney
Plus not available in other countries. Netflix is available in
so many different countries. It has like crazy amount. I
think it's hard because also most people the first streaming
service they signed up for is Netflix, So you're not
I think you're gonna be less likely to get rid

(20:20):
of that just because other, if anything, right now, people
are just adding to that pile. Right, You're probably going
to hit a point where they're like, I all of
my income is going to streaming services, And how many
times are you like, I mean like Apple TV or
HV and like, look, I'm where I want to work
with all these people. But I just it's just the
idea that like Netflix is going I just I've seen

(20:42):
so many people talk about that recently and like canceling
subscriptions or whatever. I'm just like, get out of here.
Even if you cancel, you're coming right back when Stranger
Things season four drops, Like stop pretending Netflix in particular,
I feel like any conversation I've ever had of like, oh,
like if I had to unsubscribe, that's never. I feel
like it's very rarely on people's lips because it's their
first love, and it's very broad, you know, like everything

(21:04):
else is very specialized, so like kids like right, like
I get the HBO, Max has more like is slightly
a little more varied, but like Disney Plus is very
specific things in my mind, like and you know, Hulu
is like one that I get to. It's it's broad
enough because there's all these other things, but these new
spinoff ones, I'm like, bro, I'm not gonna everyone. Don't
don't sleep on Quimby Gang, don't. I'm kidding. Do you

(21:27):
want to announce your upcoming Quimby show. I've literally worked
on two Quimby shows. Couldn't tell you what it is.
It's not out yet though either I might be on Quimby.
We might be on Quimby right now. You never know. Oh,
those commercials for a Peacock were sad. There's commercials for
the that's the NBC streaming one. Yeah, they have them

(21:48):
on during the Golden Globes and like it was like
it was like it was like a chicken like laid
two eggs and then it was like something like it's
about to hatch and then peak, and I was like, wow, wait,
but what happened to the other egg? Just one egg hatched?
I don't know what You're right, that doesn't make any

(22:08):
sense even no, but oh, actually I think I didn't
even think about this until you just said it. There
was a white egg and a brown egg. No, there
was not, I swear to you. Maybe I'm making this up,
but I truly, but there was a white egg and
a brown egg. Well at first I hadn't. I didn't
think about it at all. But what you just said,
why were there two eggs? I'm like, well, what if
they only put a white egg? And then there was
some like conspiracy theory that they were being racist, but

(22:30):
they put a brown egg that you'd have the same
conspiracy theory confirmed. So they put both on Peacock tune
in Peacock Man. Well, um, somebody move on to other
pressing information Chamberlain Chamberlain that I'm googling. Well, so this

(22:55):
is all I saw is that she's on I think
the cover of Vogue or some ship and I don't
look so I'm like, okay, they're they're saying she's she's
that chick right now in terms of influence. Do you
guys really not know who she is? I mean, I
know the name, but I've not read, I've not read
in depth about her. Until everybody's gonna hate me. I
like know almost nothing about influencers. That's a positive personality, people.

(23:20):
So so I know she's got what eight point five
seven million youtubes, she's eighteen years eight and a half
million Instagram followers, two point eight Twitter followers exactly, She's
eighteen years old. So I have no why the hashtag random?
What does that mean? That part of her brand? Yeah?
She makes hashtag random YouTube videos and everyone hashtag loves it. Serious. Yeah,
Oh so in this, in this article, I think, in

(23:43):
this Vogue profile or in this I'm sorry, I misspoke.
It's Cosmo people, And the article was written by Danish Schwartz,
one of the hosts on our network cut Out. We
run the culture. Okay, Um, So they start off, she is,
without a doubt an influence her by every metric you
would say, like just sort of in terms of what
her identity is. And in the beginnings of this profile,

(24:07):
she says, quote, I think the word influencer is kind
of disgusting. Let's use me as an example. If someone
is calling me an influencer, they're saying that my job
is to influence, and I don't think that's true. I
prefer to entertain and be a friend. I don't want
to influence. I like, I get it, Well, you makes videos. Yeah,

(24:30):
she's saying to say that that's my intent and what
I do. It's like, Okay, what we're saying is influencer
means the newest, most popular kid. Right, Well, I feel yeah,
because she's like eighteen. I get that. She's like I
want to be taken more seriously than I am. Whether
she has earned random, she's pretty hashtag random? Is that
or is it? The almost feels like the opposite, Like

(24:50):
she's saying people are taking me to I don't want
to be an That sounds like more. But I feel
like she like she has a deal with Target. She's
an inference and yeah, like once you're a sponsor for
someone and like you're an influencer, like there because people
call actors influencers and like you know, there's like it

(25:11):
just makes its influencers, a term described to saying like
how people commodifier weaponize your your celebrity to market products.
She's like hit on, like she's she is interesting to
me because she's like she's like it was a cheerleader
making random YouTube videos um, and then was able to

(25:31):
like monetize it by like overlapping random internet culture and
just like hot team culture. And that's like, that's no,
I have no gripes to really. I mean, like I've
look at someone who many years ago thought YouTube was
the way out. I understand like the possibilities of like
this era. I know, man, should I just give this

(25:52):
podcast up and start my blogs? I guess it is
kind of inspiring step into the light. It's inspiring that
are people who are still doing like like new voices
that are coming out and getting hot on YouTube. Like
I'm surprised that it's still Yeah, kids love video because
they don't focal podcasts. I don't know why she's calling

(26:13):
it disgusting, though I can understand her being like it's weird,
like I'm an entertainer, but I get like, I think
it's like, don't reduce me to this word that already,
like to most people my age, has this weird connotation. Yeah,
because I'm sure that like kids and like teenagers don't
like the word influencer, Like, I'm sure there's certain would
you like, yeah, excuse me, a fellow kid, would you

(26:36):
like this? Is it fair to call all entertainers influencers?
I think to a certain extent. Yeah, I think if you're,
if you, if you are, if you are marketing anything, right,
you're It's I don't mean, I don't know, I don't know.
That's weird. If like, if you're on a streaming service right,
like Netflix, then you're not actually advertising anything, right, It's

(26:58):
just like the I don't know how net it makes money,
but they're making money. I'm swear. Yeah, that's not for
me to figure out. Be here forever, but like they
So is it different if you are entertaining people and
there are no ads being sold while you're doing it?
M m yeah, she's making videos and the real the

(27:19):
reality is she is an entertainer, but her main source
of income is to influence people to buy products, is
through ad deals, through ad deals and brand because I
don't think she signed like a four picture development deal
with Warner Brothers or something. No, I don't think that
she's like an actor. But she does have a really
popular podcast too, I don't know. I don't know. I'm like, well,

(27:40):
I'm saying it sounded really about good or bad. I'm
just saying, like, how do we define it right? Because
I think influencer, at least to my mind, that term
came up in the era of people somehow starting to
make money on Instagram from looking cute and so, and
wasn't it because like they had It's like they had
a bunch of they had all these followers, and then
people were like, wow, you have a followers, can you

(28:01):
put my product in one of your videos or like
do a video that had like kind of like sponsors
my thing? And they're like, sure, I will use my
influence to do that. Are there influencers that don't promote products?
Is that a thing to paradoxical? Yeah, I'm just trying
to think of like are those two things mutually? How
do they make money? Then? Then I don't know, maybe

(28:23):
they maybe they have their own thing. I think influence
maybe yeah, because I just feel like it's a marketing
term that comes out of like again, it's to influence
a behavior from the from the advertiser's perspective. That's why
they would describe that DJ to sell the uh whiteboard

(28:44):
that said Greta question mark Gretive ancestry. No, No, she's
an influencer, but I don't think she takes money from
outside places. Well yeah, well Greta Thunberg isn't suddenly going
like and please try the new Impossible Burger app. She
considered an influencer. I mean she would be, I guess

(29:05):
because right, because she does have an ethos and likes
a specific point of view and a behavior that she's
trying to instill people. It's more overt is she doing that?
Does she have like a social media following? Yea, so
maybe it is like just like to make it more vague,
like trying to influence a behavior in your followers, whether

(29:25):
that be buying something or something else down I mean, really,
we think about it. Jesus Christ was the originally people
cared how he voted, cared how he voted. People would
be mad if they found out you were like voting
for Pete Bud. You're an influencer, Yeah, people will get
mad over who you endorse for anything, right, that would

(29:49):
I don't know, but I think I think we nailed
it in that is Joe Pesci an influencer. I don't
think he is, because if I found out that Joe
Peschi was voting for someone funked up, I be like, yep,
it makes sense. I don't know. Joe Pesci influenced me.
Wanted to have a gold tooth. Joe Pesci sings. I'm
still making music. He released a song called baby Girl

(30:10):
last year. That's a different song. I mean, I believe
that that we'll take a quick break and we'll be
right back, and we're back and Trump bill Boy and

(30:35):
that's it. So he had a press conference on Wednesday
to you know, explain the whole Iran situation. Um, after
the missiles were launched upon some basis in Iraq. Um.
You know, no one was hurt uh luckily um, and
basically said, look, there's gonna be more sanctions. Uh. The

(30:58):
he said, the Iranians are stay ending down. Yeah, okay,
uh he said. Then was trying to imply that Obama
had funded the Iranian weapons program because he unfroze the
assets that were frozen during the when the embassy was
overtaken in. But he was just like, yeah, that's a
hullion dollars. It's like the unfroze assets as part of

(31:21):
the okay, whatever, motherfucker, and then now he wants NATO
to get involved more. I mean, the only thing that
I took away from this is I was just like, oh,
thank god he wasn't trying to double down on like
the fire and brimstone rhetoric. Like, but I think it's
foolish to think that this is the end of it, um,
even though they're you know, they're saying I think in

(31:43):
Iran that you know, that was their response to it,
But you know, it's it's this is, this is far
from over and this this is completely like changed the
footing of things and in terms of the balance of
power in the region. Absolutely, yeah, I think I think
I do think that neither of these countries like actually
want to go to war, but like it's one of

(32:04):
those things where it's it's to me, it's just like
you know, like two dudes like just like bloviating and
like trying. Like it's one of those things where you're like,
you you go to attack somebody, but you know your
boys are gonna hold you back, so you're not actually
you don't actually think about it. You're like, oh, I
wouldn't I want to actually swim, but you know what
I mean, like literally, please you know what I mean,
Like you know, and like I feel like that's what

(32:26):
both people are doing. But the thing is if somebody
accidentally slips and like a punch gets land, like, well
that's what that's what was dangerous has assassinating Celamani because
that's essentially what that was, Like, well, you just smacked
him in the nose. So what do you think is
going to happen right now? I just I don't know.
I mean, I think in the US there are people
who are absolutely want like have been you know, they've

(32:49):
been masturbating to Irania war posters in their bedroom since
they were children, like they have war fantasies. But yeah,
I think it's just it's nice to see that the
hawkish UH crew that's around Trump and the Oval did
not prevail in this incident. But you know, I think this,
this is this story is far from over, especially when

(33:10):
you consider like all the players involved and now he's
asking for you know, the countries that are involved in
the Iran deal to like be on his it's it's
it's it's a it's truly the ultimate losers too. Two
is Iraq and like and that was a thing too.
That was the thing that was completely missing from his
statement to was even talking about like Iraq being like, hey, yeah,

(33:31):
I know it completely like just violated your sovereignty but
like doing state sanctioned murder there. But but anyway, Uh
that's so, you know, I think that it was tense.
It's still very tense from what I can tell. I'm
still you know, I have no confidence in the ability

(33:51):
of this administration to handle a situation like this, considering
that like they have like B team national security people,
like it's not even like the people who have who
are at the tops of their fields, like they've had
to go so far down the list. The people that
are the experts there are like not the greatest people
to have anyway, and are not equipped to handle situations
like this. Um and so it seems like people were

(34:14):
really uh, some pranksters were really trying to capitalize on
a lot of the ignorance and anxiety around this, uh
conflict with Iran. Yeah, people were getting texts that read
like this, hello, Comma, but no space between the next
word that would be my first and this is fake.

(34:35):
I don't know, but like Trump's White House, you'd never know. Yeah,
that's true. It says, Hello, we are contacting you in
regards to the United States Official Army Draft. We tried
contacting you through your email several times that have had
no response. You've been marked eligible and must come to
the nearest branch Okay in the New Jersey area for
immediate departure to Iran. Please contact contact us at the

(34:56):
following number immediately, United States Army Referral. Pro Ram asked
for blah blah bla extension. Thank you. I think most
people who just saw like the lack of proper punctuation
and things would be like, this is fucked up joke.
But you did anyone show up? Some people would call
like try to figure out what it was, and like

(35:16):
the recruiting centers were like, we would never That's a
completely separate apartment that's run by the Selective Service. Uh,
like that department. Um, and now, yeah, I mean you
know it's there was a thing that I definitely thought about,
I think because around the Iraq War, I was just
getting out of high school. Uh, and I was like, Okay,

(35:37):
that puts you in like prime draft age. But I
mean again for that to happen, that would take Congress
and the president to authorize it, and then it would
be people between eighteen and first up nice amount. Yeah.
I was thinking, like, damn, I'm like old as fuck.
I was talking about my boyfriend. My boyfriend's like just eligible,
and I'm like we just we just gotta make a

(35:57):
six more months babe. Yeah, I mean, don't the way
of modern warfare works shout out to call of duty?
Uh you know, it's it would unlikely happen, like yeah, um,
but nonetheless, I mean it just shows you the kind
of overall anxiety people had about it, and again ignorance
to to think like, yes, that's what would happen, because

(36:18):
I'm used to seeing a pattern of like lack of
diplomacy in this country that would say like, yeah, now
it's war, right. I mean I think we are living
in uh common no space kind of era. So that's
true year of common common no space. Hey man, it's
common no space. Man, give me a break. Okay, let's
check in very quickly with the impeachment, because that so

(36:44):
Mitch McConnell. Uh, he so giddily announced that he is
ready to start his absolute joke sham of a Senate
trial by saying tongue was hanging out. Yes, uh, the
evil demonic scrotum with glasses told everybody he has all
fifty three GOP votes in the Senate to basically ensure
that there will be no witnesses and no documents presented

(37:07):
as part of the trial to determine whether or not
the President was fucking around in terms of withholding aid
to Ukraine. I know that sounds like nine years ago,
but I'm pretty sure the impeachment happened less than three
days ago. No ship just just for your just confirmed
that there will be no witnesses and no evidence. Well yeah, essentially,
like you know, they could force a vote if there

(37:27):
were enough votes, if there are fifty one votes, then
they would be like, yeah, no, there need to be
witnesses called. But because he has the votes, he can
completely dictate what the the style and substance or lack thereof,
would be of a Senate trial. And Nancy Pelosi, she's
been withholding the articles, you know, transmitting the articles because
it has to move from the House to the Senate,

(37:48):
because she's been trying to ensure that an actual like
I mean, I don't even know, I don't even it's
funny to even think that there could be an impartial
trial in the Senate, but that was she was trying
to do to get him to play fair. But this
dude has proven himself to be an evil nutsack. So
I don't know how uh that was ever going to happen.

(38:10):
So we'll see where you go from there. I mean,
she seems Pelosi seems pretty much like steadfast and saying like, well,
it seems like his allegiance is absolutely to the president
and not to the Constitution, and that's sad, and we'll
see what she has in store. There's been like also
articles saying that Nancy Pelosi has not really told many
of like even her closest confidence, like what her her

(38:30):
plan is here? What? What? What? What can she even do?
And yeah, at this point, I mean it's it's almost
like you allow the you would need the public pressure
to get to a certain point, but it almost happened, right.
So over the over the break, you had people like
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski who do a really good
job of being like, oh, the behavior is of the

(38:51):
president is disturbing, or like that is that is really
really awful? I do not like that, and then go
and just vote for whatever Trump needs. It happened all
over again. Yeah, and and it's just like kind of
shitty timing for her to get the public to be,
you know, really public pressuring, just because there's so much

(39:14):
other ship going on. Like a month ago, that was
what everyone was looking at and focusing on it. But
nine things go wrong in the meantime, where do you
put your attention exactly, So it's almost like it was
planned tobably. Hey, yeah, it's like, yeah, we'll do this
and then that'll give you cover and then you know,
throw your spines in the trash and then move your
invertebrate body. I mean yeah, yeah, I mean it's I

(39:39):
mean like, yeah, legal nihilism is fully sa and you
know it's there. Them defecting really would have been somewhat
of a game changer, considering that John Bolton was like, yeah,
i'll testify if you'll call me up. But again, I'm
not even convinced that what John Bolton would say would
be a slam dunk for impeachment because again, he wants

(40:00):
to bomb the earth forever. So I'm sure what he
was seeing going on in terms of our lack of
diplomacy with Iran was probably like, maybe I won't make
it hot for this administration right now, because that's kind
of something I'm into. Okay, let's check in with you know,
our candidates that maybe UH will battle Donald Trump in
the depths of hell to become the next fucking president

(40:24):
of the United States. So the top tier candidates were
all outraised by Donald Trump in the fourth quarter, which
makes sense. Well, yeah, because all the money is being
focused into one UH forty six million. Yeah, that is
forty million, yes, all the other candidates. That's much more

(40:46):
than Oh yeah, I mean if you added up Biden
in Buddha Jedge, you'd get to UM. But the biggest
earners in this last UH in this last quarter was
Bernie Sanders, more than Biden or Buddha j Edge or
Warren Um. I think. Yeah, Buddha Jade was in second
place with twenty two or twenty four point seven millions.
And that's with his wine caves. That's within that's the

(41:08):
wine caves and Seth McFarland's money. Oh yes, I loved
every time comes up, got to bring up the family
guy vote. I don't know, he loves Pete so much.
Cry maxed out for as much as he can for
a single person. He's waiting for what that his space
show to get picked up. He's like, I don't know,

(41:29):
maybe if oh is it up? Oh, it's it's honestly
my crushes falling to funk. Don't really know. Oh, man, well,
you hate to see it. Um So, again, when you
look at Bernie's fourth quarter fundraising and the the number
of different donors he had, and you couple that with
how he's basically really made himself a legit contender in Iowa,

(41:51):
New Hampshire. Um, we're starting to hear the establishment alarm
bells go off, and they're all using kind of the
same sort of scare tactic because obviously there there, their
whole thing is like, well we sort of, uh, we
protect the interests of Wall Street and most major for
profit industries, and to have someone like Bernie Sanders or

(42:14):
Elizabeth Warren uh just might not be a tenable situation
for those people. Um So, Rama Manual Obamas former chief
of staff came out basically saying like, Yo, we gotta
be careful that Medicare for All. It's gonna scare the
swing voters away. Uh. And that's that's that's and then
and then Trump will win. So medicare for a while
all equals Trump will win. It's sort of the dynamic.

(42:35):
And he says, you need a candidate with a message
that can help us win swing voters in battleground states,
to the degree of difficulty dramatically increases under Bernie Sanders candidacy.
It just gets a lot harder. Um, there wasn't there
was like a Daily Beast story that I mean, it's
not official, but there's been just like sources within UM,

(42:57):
like former Obama administration members where like he's gone on
record saying he's not going to endorse a specific Democratic candidate,
but if Bernie gets too far ahead, maybe he'll speak
up in like this, you know, like this isn't the way,
like incremental change centrism, centrism. Yeah, But then after that
it did seem that he kind of stepped back from
that a little bit and just say no matter what

(43:19):
he said, no matter what though whoever it is like
I'm will, I will ensure that I will do whatever
I have to do, but I doesn't mean dominate. But
before the nomination, do you think he would say something
before the nomination or do you think if like I
think if Bernie gets the nomination, he'll be like, all right,

(43:40):
I'm with this. I don't know if he's going to
say something, you'd probably want to do it now considering
what February third is, uh, coming, up coming, up coming up. Um,
but yeah, we'll see. I mean, I think when you
really look at sort of you know, like the numbers
around it, it's true that medicare for all, like the
support for it has declined since the mid terms, when
many people were using that as a way to like

(44:02):
get into office. Um, But a lot of that is
more connected to the voters fears around electability rather than like, oh,
I don't think everyone having healthcare is a good idea.
It's like, I think having a candidate who's pushing that
is going to freak out swing voters who want to
keep their evil fucking healthcare they have now. Um And

(44:24):
when they were all freaked out in yeah, oh wait,
that's right, Medicare for all wasn't on the platform for
when you look at just sort of like even when
you break down what the costs are for Americans, like right,
a single payer system would be much cheaper. And I
think the things that people typically pointed, like, well you

(44:45):
got to read the Texas, the Texas, and then my
tuxes go up. First of all, when you look at
already what people's incomes go to for healthcare, Like, you know,
the US has the most expensive healthcare system in the
United States in the world. Yeah it's near oh yeah,
the US and on Earth apparently. Uh it's a cost

(45:07):
of almost a trillion dollars more than the second most
expensive system, which is Switzerland a trillion dollars more. Granted,
the populations are much different, but that just means that
in the US, households are paying like an extra eight
thousand dollars per year and like in medical expenses. So
if you're thinking about that on your household, an incremental tax,

(45:29):
which would be a pale in comparison to the eight
thousand dollars that's already flying out of your paychecks and
your copays and all these other things. There needs to
be a little bit more of a nuanced discussion as
to like how these numbers level out for people, because
I think a lot of people just think people you
think Medicare for all is communism, and then they're going
to scare these other people. But when you look at
sort of how dire the living situation is from most

(45:52):
people in this country. We need we need medicare for
all because there's no way the disparities and incomes and
things like that is so fucked up, and we're doing
nothing to begin to alleviate those pressures. And these two economists,
um who have been talking, they have there there there's
like a new book coming out that they're writing. It's
like the Deaths of Despair in the Future of Capitalism.

(46:15):
They've been these economists who have been really focused on this,
this trend of deaths of despair that are is only
that is only unique to the United States, which is
born out of you know, people between the ages of
five and sixty four have been dying from suicide, overdosing
on opioids or other drugs and alcohol related problems like
from liver disease have just been just going off. Isn't

(46:39):
suicide like one of the top killers of like young
people now? Yeah, and I think uh, and of older
or middle aged white men also, um. Well, And it's
like because sometimes like you can't afford to live, I
can't and it becomes like the issue. I mean, there's
so many examples of people who are like I don't
want to continue to put this financial burden on my
family who can't afford to literally keep me alive. But

(47:02):
the way that the healthcare exactly and the areas where
are the sort of demographically where these deaths of despair
here very hard. Are white Americans without college degrees um
who are having dwindling job options too so, and even
think of things like what Sanders or or Warrant is

(47:22):
trying to have as their platform of being, like, we
also need to be able to educate people, like going
to university should not be a class barrier, but it
is as it stands, and you look at how all
these things feed into each other. I understand. Look, there's
people have this argument of like what do your lictability
think I'm worried about, But we also have these really
terrible systemic issues that need to be addressed. The electibility

(47:45):
thing is so funny because it's such a uh it
to me, it's a nonsensical argument, because my thing is like,
are you would you vote for them? Yes? Then don't
don't talk about electability. You have no idea how, how
or why other people are going to vote. You can
pretend like you do, but the reality is we chose
in a electable candidate in sixteen and that candidate didn't win,

(48:07):
and like, so that so you're you're like and Donald Trump,
by most metrics, would not be considered an electable candidate
and he won, so like, just throw this idea of
electability out. It's it's all theoretically consider Obama an electable
candidate either. At the time, it's a ridiculous argument, but
I think that's where, you know, people begin to need

(48:27):
to re educate themselves if you need to educate each
other on like when they start getting like I don't
I don't know about that, it's like no, no, no,
you know, because at the end of the day, people
are going to be selling, Like when it gets to
the general it's all about selling people your version of
reality that you want Americans experience going forward. And if
you have a message that people can actually believe and
they say, you know what that actually does, that would
tremendously help my quality of life with medica for all,

(48:50):
I feel like it is just like sitting someone who's
skeptical about it down and like taking the buzzwords and
like the scare words that are thrown out out of
the equation and be like no, here's examples and members
and like it would improve everyone's quality. And it's interesting though, too,
like when you think of how ferociously the medical the
health insurance industry has been fighting like this idea and

(49:11):
has introduced like that talking point of like choice is
a lobbyist creative talking point, and like you have candidates
like regurgitating, and you're like, as if we all have
we don't have choice. Nobody has choice. Right now, you
have the health insurance that you at your job provides you,
you don't have that. That's not a real choice. You
can live as well as your employer will let you
allow you to if you're lucky, but if money if

(49:33):
you're yeah, if you're lucky enough to have a job
in which they provide you health insurance, and if they do,
it's not like, I mean, how many times have you
heard people but well, yeah, I like, uh, I mean,
I have a plethora of job opportunity that at my foot,
and I decided to look at the health insurance that
each of them provides, and that's how I chose which
job I was going to have. That's a fantasy world,

(49:56):
I mean, unless you like work for like one of
those tech startups that actually has the kinds of if
it's you're like, oh my god, really, they're like, yeah,
nine months paid parental leave. I mean I haven't I
haven't had health insurance in two years. And it's just
like it is because of whatever the options that you're giving,
Like it's just it's well, I mean, it shouldn't be connected.
But again, even if you look at their insurance most

(50:17):
people have, many of them are not humane and are
completely like just unusable in terms of costs. So it's
not really it's not it's not high deductible, it's not
actually taking care of people only, it's only taking care
of their pockets paid well, you can like you can
even go further. And i mean, obviously it all goes
back to hashtag capitalism, but just like its like hashtag

(50:39):
random hastag capitalis um but but yeah, like we're there.
I've I've known people who stay at jobs that they're
not like happy to be. Yeah, they're like like yeah,
I know that. Like I've I've a friend who remained
working at Amazon, a place that is terrible, and that
like they disagreed all of the tenants of this place.

(50:59):
But they're like I've a kid. What am I supposed
to like? It's just it shouldn't be connected to your
job well exactly, and then that's taken away your freedom
to as human beings because it's like an illusion of choice.
You don't really have choice, Like, well, which matter you
bowing to Amazon because they have your insurance because you
need that to live? Right, I have that over your
head now anyway, So that's about that really quickly. I

(51:20):
just want to tell this story about New York State
Assemblyman Brian coleb Uh as I alluded to earlier, he
drove his state issued SUV drunkenly into a ditch. And
this is where it gets funny. When the tow truck
driver arrives, not the police. Tow truck driver arrives first.
He comes off top. According to Scoville, who is the

(51:41):
tow truck driver, Cold stood up, put his hands up
and said, my wife was driving. He then said, you
know how women drive. Scobell said, I did not see
anyone else around the vehicle. Cold allegedly told him no.
Cold allegedly told him that his wife was quote up

(52:02):
in the house. I don't know what that means. So anyway,
when the house when the police deputy got there. Yeah,
he blew up point one six breathalyser, so you know
that that. They were like, okay, it was your wife.
Then he resigned on Friday. It was just like, okay,
I kind of suck that up, the idea that you

(52:22):
could go. I don't know, man, that's that's interesting energy
where you're like, he'll get it. Hold up my hands.
My wife was driving, you know how women drive. Where
is your wife's sir up in that house? We're in
a field, we were in a ditch. My man, she
crashed the car and was like these you see her? Man,

(52:44):
She's like dr mans. She zapped herself to the house.
She's a coward. You know. She really tell your sponsibility
arrest her? Yeah yeah, yeah, you know, arrest the system. Uh.
He's still happily married. His wife's about to resign. Yeah right,
all right, Well let's take a quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back. Um, I'm pretty sure

(53:17):
we've spoke about this Pizza a t M before, but
the news popped up about it again, and I'm trying
to really figure out if I think the Pizza a
t M is a good idea I know, like there's
the Sprinkles cupcake a t M that you see like
at the grove and ship. I've seen that, Yeah, the
America or whatever. It doesn't make sex plan pizza pizza
a t M. It's been. It's been on college campuses,

(53:39):
most recently at the University of North Florida UM. But
basically for ten bucks, you put your money in, five
minutes later, a pizza comes out. Now. But however, the
ship is like the size of like a fucking room.
It's like a but or I don't know, it's actually
I mean, it's like, well, I don't know. It's a
big as machine, a machine attached to a brick up.

(54:00):
But the whole thing is like whoever like operates the machine.
You have to make your dough. You have to assemble
all the pieces in advance, put them like in the
different refrigeration compartments, and then when it's or like then
when it's actually punched in and ordered, then that like
uncooked pizza. Gohs, So it's heating thing and then it
pops out the hot pizza. There's better ways. I just
don't know. I mean, I guess it's fun, right apparently,

(54:22):
can I see a picture of this. Yeah, apparently, like
people on the word on campuses is campuses is that
they love it now. I don't know, because to me,
Little Caesar's is also a pizza a t M. They
got hot readies and they're basically five bucks. You don't
have to touch a button. I feel like, I don't know.
I mean like a lot of a lot of colleges.

(54:45):
I feel like I have a tendency of acquiring really
expensive ship to justify charging more people for college. And
then they're like I had a ton of stuffic college,
and I'm like, I don't want this ship, Like what
waste of money? They would really push. They would just
push random products on you, like they were pushing the
naked juices. They would push those at my college, and

(55:07):
they would like, yeah, quote unquote, but then you would
just spend through your meal plan faster and then and
then you would have to put more money on it.
I don't know everything related. I mean so much they have,
like colleges have like all these like entertainment shows that
nobody goes to. I know because I performed there. They

(55:28):
like spend so much money, like like all of like
the you know, ra A s get like a like
a little budget to like buy snacks and stuff for
their meetings that nobody comes up to, and they're just
like they have bowls and bowls pretzel bites and you know,
and the things all out of the bag. I don't know,
A look good. It looks good, like, yeah, there's so much.

(55:50):
I mean, I don't know. Man. I I feel like
if I was in college and this was a thing,
I would probably get it. But yeah, I'm just looking
at it. I'm like, that sounds I'm just twenty four hours.
Is it like the good thing that you would get
a pizza at like three in the morning until that
ship is sold out? Though? Is it like a microwave
heating in there? You think? So, it's actually pretty small

(56:13):
considering like it's making a bunch of pizzs. Probably some
kind of like how many pizzas can it can it make?
I don't know, yeah before some guy has to come
and refill his handmade pizzas. And is there like a
pepperoni option? You know what I mean? There's it just
stress options, I think. But again, this is where I'm like,
it sounds like it sounds like fun, but I don't
know if like if I put my mind myself in
the mindset of me being like nineteen and hungover as fuck.

(56:36):
I part of me would just eat a bunch of
ship from seven less. I was like, I would just
go to seven eleven where the pizzas also And what
if you're in your know? But the thing is that
you know you put this in, like you put this in,
like the residence in the dorms, like you just you
just stroll out of bed and like go get a
freaking pizza. Yeah, or just delivering you don't have to
like leave. And yes that there are I guess it

(56:57):
depends on some places that are open up late, but
not a lot of places. A lot of colleges there
in the middle of nowhere, so they're they're all there
s college town food though, like half like when I
when I'm called town, I'm like, where do they go?
Where do they go? Are you do insomnia cookies? No?
I would let myself do that once and something that's
like cookies they delivered to your dorm what they just

(57:19):
deliver hot cookies to your dorms called insomnia cookies. Where
was this in Boston? It was impossible? I think it's
like around though. Yeah, they have they have New York. Yeah,
I would just get I remember, like my friend went
to u Vo. We go to Doko. Just like these
nasty ass cow zones. I'll get the most meat bomb zone.
They call them zones, you know what I mean. There's

(57:41):
like apostrophe zone, most meat zone. Brack. Anyway, shout out
to college campus Foods. Also shout out to Oscar Meyer
who is hiring hot doggers and I don't know what
a hot dogger was. So you get to basically drive
the You drive a Oscar Meyer Weeniemobile shut around for

(58:01):
it's like a one year gig, full time. It's a
job longer than I wanted it. Full time job for
one year, okay, And basically what you do is your
part company spokesperson. So like if there's any kind of
the event, they'll be like, hey, Jamie, you gotta take
the Wienermobile down to the cow State Long Beach campus
real quick to do an event on. You do media appearance,

(58:22):
as you do charity events, you do brand promotions, uh quote,
meet m E E. T and greets, pending out Weener whistles.
And then and then also this is where it gets
a little bit involved pitching coverage ideas, pitching coverage ideas
to local news outlets content. I mean, I feel like

(58:43):
where the Weener mobile goes, the news follows. I worked
at a hot promotional hot dog truck for a while,
but it wasn't awesome. I got fired. But then in
college I worked for the StubHub. Had a hot dog
truck for a while, just park outside of like basketball
games and give away free hot dog. I'd be like,
I have a free hot dog? Have you heard a
stub up? And they'd be like no, like fuck you

(59:04):
and okay, and then one day I tweeted, funk this
hot dog stand? And then my damn, but the Wiener Mobile.
That's cloud. The Wiener Mobile has also you would respect. Okay,
So wait, you get this right. If I'm interviewing you,
I'd say, interesting, Um, Jamie, I've I've asked around because
you know, everyone in the free promotional hot dog industry

(59:24):
talks and talking to my friend Craig, it's StubHub. It
was seven years ago. Okay, so you know what, so
you know the incident. I'm sorry, no, continue, no, it
sounds like you do. You said, funk this hot dog?
It was seven years ago. Yeah, so and you know
how am I to trust you with the Oscar Myyron brand.
I wasn't. I didn't have any I didn't know what
my mental health issues were seven years ago. I was

(59:44):
a kid. I didn't really And and also I would
say that the stuff no disrespect to your colleague, but
lacks the prestige that the weenermobile brings, which I would
I would never in my life. You know, I'm a
I'm a brand, I'm a brand Galt. I see a weenomobile,
I follow, Well, you know what, hold on, let me
get on the phone Oscar. Ye, we Founder. But apparently

(01:00:08):
it's like twelve there's twelve open spots. Hi. Sorry, excuse
me when I say about you calling the Oscar. It's
Mr Meyer. I'm sorry, Mr Meyer. Also, I just do
want to touch on this. Um, did everybody see Star
Wars in here? Of course? Okay, if you have not
seen Star Wars, uh, just cover your ears or just

(01:00:30):
skip ahead. Also, this isn't really it. Also this isn't
really spoilery because it's just so bizarre. So there is
a there was a thread going on Reddit I'm a
babo free where my babu freaks that Uh, this anonymous
redditor posted uh like a fucking thesis length post of course,

(01:00:55):
talking about basically that there is another cut of this
most recent what is it the Rise of Skywalker that J.
J Abrams Abrams had originally shot, and it's three hours
long and way better than the what what Disney did
to it? They're just don't they always say? So this

(01:01:17):
whole thing according to this this post, this anonymous brave
redditor who can, who will not tell you any of
the sources, but just trust him when he says that
he basically somebody claiming to have worked, claiming to have
known someone very close to the productions. Um that basically

(01:01:37):
that in the original the ending, here we go spoilers
that there were. So there's a moment where Ray is
hearing all these Jedi voices that um, J. J. Abrams
had actually got people like you and McGregor and Samuel
Jackson to physically be there to appear as forced ghosts,
but it was cut out, possibly because of China, because okay,

(01:02:01):
so what they were saying it had somebody to do
with shades of blue that they were approved shades of
Actually that's a I think this is China has a
has a weird policy about like ghosts and things like that.
Sure they so they don't. There are certain movies that
they don't allow into their country because they're like spiritual

(01:02:22):
and so you sound like people that are replying to
that giving credence to this. Star Wars isn't even popular
in China, which is funny. It's yeah, it's well, that's
why I think. Is that partly? Why then? No, because
they say a lot of like even the beginning, like
the sword fighting stuff, it just doesn't it doesn't resonate culturally,
like just like the Transformer films are like, yes, giant
robots great, but for some reason like Samurai adjasent thing interesting. Yeah,

(01:02:45):
it was like number four. They don't care about Star Wars.
Another thing. Now this would upset you for the freaks
in the building. Babu Frick was nearly cut because some
of the executives at Disney feared of him being jar
jar beings two point oh now they wrong, they're idiots.
Yeah he wasn't. No, he was, even though he had
like look great great people have vague ethnic accents to

(01:03:08):
top and broken sentences. Fine, yeah he was. So he
was so adorable, but he's so little he's so small.
Yeah no, no, no, Little Bijar was a mess, hot mess,
and he also st a senator. He was also dumb,
like it wasn't it wasn't just how he spoke. It
was like he was like tripping all the time, like

(01:03:29):
bumbling things. It was like, motherfucking hacker. Yeah, hacker. He's
like extremely smart and just like English is not his
first language. So that phobia where we're like, man, can
we trust bob can we trust him? I don't know,
I don't know. He's not really speaking right, But that's

(01:03:50):
that's fine. That's like listening. They're like yo, yeah, he's
like yo freaking this Bobble gets it in. Also, j
J Abrams apparently wanted Finn and po Dameron to have
a gay romance, but that was also questioned by Disney.

(01:04:11):
Yeah yeah, I mean what so now happened with Finn?
We'll talk about this on my yea. But apparently that
started off a whole again. Hashtag released the JJ cut campaign,
but there was a there was a legit Star Wars
leak expert. There was a dude who like does start like,

(01:04:32):
who does this? Who was who like leaked a lot
of the major plot points before the film came out
and they were all accurate. He was like, dude, this
is bullshit from top to bottom. Was like his was
his take on this guy doing the leak stuff. But
now this is the thing where people are like in
this post truth fucking like era now where they were,
they're like not taking that as being like real because

(01:04:54):
J J. Abrams So. In an interview, he was asked
how he'd respond to Star Wars fans who were like
disappointed about like the the elements of the larger franchise
story that had they've been left out of the current
film and things like that, and he said, quote, they're right.
The people who love it more than anything are also right.
So that people are taking that to be like you see, dude,

(01:05:15):
he's letting us know. Man. That was like a subtle
signal that there is like he's just saying, however you
and however you like or interpret the film is correct
for you because we all get to have our own opinion, right,
And I mean I see where like I feel like
it's coming from a place of like it was the
same thing with like the Snyder cut ship, wherever it
couldn't have been this bad. There has to be some

(01:05:37):
Galaxy brand explanation of why it turned out, like why
we're this unhappy like that, it's just like too much
faith in the person. Yeah, well, that's funny in the
process of making a movie. Well right. And then the
other thing that people said was they said that Disney
wanted to make Rise of Skywalker bad on purpose because J. J.
Abrams had signed a deal with Warner Brothers. I love

(01:05:59):
the theory. I love the theory of start the new trilogy.
They wanted it to match the old trilogy, and they
wanted the first one to be like pretty good and
everybody loves it and it's excited, the second one to
be considered critically the best one, and then the last
one to be like kind of a disappointment, but like

(01:06:20):
some people love it because there's so much action in it,
but it's like not as good as the other two.
But I think, do you like but you think Disney
that it did turn out that way? I think I
liked the Force Awakens better than the last. Well, for sure,
I mean I loved the last. I personally like a
New Hope more than Empress. Sure, sure, I mean, and
look and those people they're also right there everyone's it's

(01:06:42):
just I don't know. There was a whole stripper scene.
I think with him that they cut out. Well now
that I believe, and I'm um, yeah, so I don't know,
I think. But also like the people's outrage over it,

(01:07:03):
reeks of people who have not been crushed by the
entertainment industry and know like that, yeah, a lot of
this is going to happen no matter what, Like, no
matter what this movie was, its always going to be
people who disappointed and people who completely Like in my
older age, I've learned to like just not get upset
by like movies so much like I used to like
somebody like but I used to leave theater and yeah,

(01:07:26):
like fucking hot, I was so angry. It would also
be at a time when like I was trying to
get my ship going to and I'm like, yeah, I'm
out here with these real ideas. Yeah, exactly. It's about
a fucking guy. It's about a Roster who starts a
poke restaurant called Pokemon. Anyway, so like the whole ship,

(01:07:46):
I'd say that all the time. People don't know Pokemon
coming out soon, but apparently there's licensing issues Roster, But yeah,
I don't know. I mean, I think I just also,
you know, I I every franchise. I guess it's hard
to accept that a movie could just be so bad
and that's that's just that is what it is. Did

(01:08:07):
you guys think you guys? I didn't listen to your
episode about did you? I don't think I was here
to speak on it whenever if they spoke uch not
like I didn't care. I don't care enough to say
it was bad or good. I'm like, I didn't care
for it. But then I also just started watching Star
Wars movies two seconds ago, and then like a few
days after, I was like, I didn't like that. I

(01:08:29):
forgot and moved on with my life like a grown up. Yeah. Yeah,
I think the things that upset me most were just
like the mechanics of screenwriting. And I was talking with
your Bechdel Cash co host Kalin Errante it was a
master's in screenwriting, I believe right, just how much of
like the basic elements of storytelling were completely abandoned. I mean,

(01:08:49):
it's like messy and it's I feel like it's trying
to have it every which way but totally ignores coming
after I laughed out loud when they kissed when I
know so many and I and I think people were
like hot in the theater I was in, the people
were met yeah, I mean yeah. I saw it opening
night and they were like so many people like my

(01:09:11):
friend and I love Star Wars and we were there
were so many different parts where we just burst that
laughing like pretty hard and like I was like, I
think you guys need to not laugh as hard. And
I was like, but how can we not? Like they
literally it's like they were now real spoilers like Chewy
dies and then like five seconds later it's back on screen.

(01:09:33):
We're just like what, like, like none of this matters,
Like that was bad writing to why did they tell
us he was a lot? Like we should have found
out at the same time Ray did. I don't know
why they were like, oh, you know, and and the
characters don't. I never saw she doesn't. She does not
feel bad, like she forgets that she killed a beloved

(01:09:54):
character two seconds. It's as when she healed him so
many stuff. I was just like what I was like,
truly nose like sucking parcel tongue. You're like, that's not
even this franchise. What are you doing there. It was
it was funny. There were railo stands at my at
the at the second screening, I saw there was like
a bunch of rails like ship, like who ships? And

(01:10:16):
then when they kissed, they go what they're like losing?
There was a pause in my theater. People laughed. I
was like, hell, yeah, just who gives why not? Yeah?
They got blood in their hands when they did the switch,
was like dead, he's dead. Nope, he's not. She's dead.
Now he's dead. I was just like, this is amazing. Yeah,

(01:10:37):
that's just too much anyway. I just the only thing
that I genuinely that stuck with me of like that
was bullshit, was just like, no Kelly Marie Tran whatsoever.
They just left her to do paperwork. Right with the
pilot tennis balls that's supposed to be Carrie Fisher. You're like,
that's not fair. Way to shoehorn in reeks of when

(01:10:58):
Olivia Soprano and I think season two has to show
up random episodes because the actress had passed away, and
it was like, let's use these out of context shots
to try and create some semblance of a narratives not
ghoulish to do. I mean I guess there's no right
way to do it, but it's just scary. They did
Kelly just oh yeah, I mean they did. They the
whole thing. They did everything to That's why, like I

(01:11:18):
had to go on, was like in a delirium just
being like I'm babo fu. Al Right, well, Jonathan, thank
you so much for stopping by. You know, we almost
didn't have a show today. You know, Jackpine an audible
honest Um, where can people find you and follow you,

(01:11:39):
support you, listen to you, watch you? Yeah? Please you
can um follow me at John Braylock j O N
B R A Y l O c K on Instagram
and Twitter. My podcast that I do with two of
my friends called Black Men Can't Jump in Hollywood, where
we talk about movies with black leads and discuss them
the context of the diversity race in Hollywood. It's very fun.
If you like movie these, uh and you aren't racist,

(01:12:02):
and yeah'll be like wait hold on man uh and
then yeah, Astronomy Club, the sketch show it's my sket
show that I'm a part of, is on Netflix and
you can stream that whenever if you have Netflix or
if you have somebody's Netflix password, which supposed to learn
about resting, creep Face, magical negroes. I mean it's got everything.

(01:12:23):
The show's got everything. Definitely check that out. Is there
a tweet that you like? Yeah? So this tweet is
by uh Joe Reid who U is a critic, and
he wrote me, everybody bitches about the Baptist every year
for some reason or another. I'm sure they're fine. And
then he has a picture of of an article that says,

(01:12:44):
joker leads back to film Awards. I mean it's about
a man who's cast out of society. Um, truly wild. Uh,
we'll definitely be talking about that on our podcast, damn it. Yeah,
go ahead, Jamie, what about you? What sayest thou about

(01:13:05):
your Where can they find you and follow you and
listen tweets you like? You can find me on Twitter
at Jamie Lofts help on Instagram at Jamie christ Superstar.
You can listen to My Year in Mensa, which just
came out last It's just four parts and then you
never have to think about it again. That's the pro
And it's I think the number one podcast in on
Earth right now, right on it's number one. No, it isn't. No,

(01:13:28):
It's like number a billion. But some people have listened
to it and they liked it. Not based on my
handwritten podcast charts. I just did. Oh you updated the charts.
Updated the charts. Oh you updated the chart number of billion.
Though you can listen to it pretty much everywhere except
Stitcher for some reason, I don't know why anyways, Stitcher
getting together together. Stitcher people are tweeting me like the truth,

(01:13:52):
That's what it is there. The thing is they don't
want Mensa has Stitcher in the palmar little hands. Uh.
And then I'm going to promote a tweet that is
self serving. So sorry, but it's my dad's tweet. Uh.
So the other day I got to ride the zamboni
at the Staples Center. Uh, and it changed my fucking
line I did during the game, during the game, during

(01:14:14):
between the second and third periods. At the King's game.
The other night, I finally like, I wanna I wanna
shout out. It's a show called Go Fact Yourself. It's
on the Maximum Fund. They hooked me up with them.
The guy who's in charge of he's the ice manager.
That's a job. His name's Francois. Francois hooked it up.
He got me and my boyfriend's seats. He got me

(01:14:36):
a zamboni ride, so I got to ride. Jake Kith
hooked it up. Yeah, Jaki Helen Hang, they're incredible. Uh
so they hooked it up. I got to do it
on Monday. And my dad is so proud. He's so
excited about the zamboni. So today he tweeted out the
video of me riding the zamboni and he said the
hashtag NHL Bruins aren't practicing today, So here's a little

(01:14:58):
bit of hockey related perform and start by my daughter,
just to show how deep hockey roots run in this
baby just say as a baby camby baby. Oh wow, damn,
that's dope. Though it was gonna let you drive that
thing though you got to get a license. But the

(01:15:19):
guy was The guy was so nice. I made like
a rhyin stone suit with his zambonie on it. I
was so excited. Yeah, you know what we should do?
I mean that'd be I would watch that miniseries like
you know, like MTV made, like how they used to
do that. You wanted to be made into his amboni driver.
It's a right, it would be simple. And the Stanley
Cup though they're Oh, that's that's the ultimate, that's prestigious. Um, okay,

(01:15:41):
what's a tweet? Tweet I like is from Reductor's very
very simple. Everyone can relate. It says, Wow, this woman
can't masturbate unless he's on a deadline. Procrasturbators unite. My goodness.
Remember then when the term come out or something that
heard that. Oh yeah, it was like a reson. It
hits so hard and I was like, oh no, rather

(01:16:03):
than like, look at my bleak financial prospects, I'd rather masturbate.
You masturbate to procrastinate. Yeah, exactly, got it. But at
least you know you get something out of it. Yeah,
I think I don't know why I was interpreting it
backwards for yeah, procrastinating masturbating. You can find me on

(01:16:25):
Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. Uh. You can
find me on my other podcast right here on my
hard network at for twenty Day Fiance with Sophie Alexandro,
where we get high and talk about our favorite trash
reality show, ninety Day Fiance. It's also very in depth discussion.
You know, we go on tangents, but we also talk
about like all kinds of socio economic things. It's very interesting.
I can't recommend it enough. What else? What else you

(01:16:49):
can also find us? Okay, we have some upcoming shows,
check the twitters, checked everything. January Gateway Theater, San Francisco,
eight pm or eight thirty pm, one of those two.
You can get those tickets at sketch Fest website. Also
on January thirty in Portland, Oregon at the miss at
Mississippi Studios. So I get your tickets there for that one,

(01:17:10):
and you might see some cool faces there or some
cute faces. We're performing at San Francis becouest Fecis as well.
Yeah there twice. When are you performing? Jamie go uh
doing Boston too late? Okay? Boston is Girl January twenty one,
Petel Cast twenty second, Oh Ship. Definitely check that out,
especially Boston was Girl. Because this is like the post
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(01:17:35):
I saw when I saw before Fringe. Haven't seen it
after Fringe. That was great. I have to check that out.
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