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Speaker 1: I think the death of like that they presented in Toy Story three, like that some toys go to the dump and are just there for eternity, just consciously staring at like a rotting banana peel for all of eternity is like too dark and like so they have to I genuinely just don't remember what happens.
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Speaker 2: Brief little toaster Vibes, which I think is a movie that is a reason I have a hard time throwing things away because I will those things very quickly when I blame that movie.
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Speaker 1: It's like by orders for orders to create new orders exactly kind of right.
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Speaker 3: And the Pixar proposition is by the fucked up version of the new one that we had in the movie the Fourking thing or yes it is wild that I mean, I assume the Fork thing. The whole message was anything could be a toy. You got to spend money on this.
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Speaker 1: There's an interesting theory because Steve jobs with them involved in the development of the first Toy Story movie, and there's a way that you because his whole philosophy on the world is like objects are beautiful, they have an inner life that like you have to like design them to more and so there's a way to like view toy story and like the whole Pixar universe where like inanimate objects have inner lives as like part of a Steve Jobs philosophical unit, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just as capitalism as Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Your stuff is a person. Your stuff is a person. You should feel bad for not loving your stuff person. Oh yeah, one more thing. If your stuff is person, stuff is person, are you out your stuff?
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Speaker 4: Nobody?
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Speaker 2: No, nobody, nobody.
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Speaker 1: Keep that in mind. Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four fifty two, Episode three of Dead Ailey Zgeist. Yeah yeah, there's a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where you take a deep dive into American shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning called The Iconograph, where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon Today, we have a guest co host and a guest who are all stars of the Iconograph.
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Speaker 4: They've been on.
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Speaker 1: For Sherlock, Yes, for the Easter Bunny. Two of our most popular episodes, The Yeah Sure Lock and the Easter Bunny. The Easter Money was really fun. It was fascinating. Yeah, that was interesting. Our soft pitch on the Easter Bunny episode is bring the Easter Bunny femininity back to the Easter Bunny is our may Queen, and like, oh sure we keep casting the Easter Bunny as Russell Brandt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be like a little little rich kid.
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Speaker 2: It might heal us all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but like they've robbed her of her femininity. It's kind of like Da Vinci Code coded. Yeah, you know that Da Vinci code has like returned the femininity to Christianity. Have you No, I not read the Da Vinci I've missed out.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, you divorce that really? I just remember Paul is all bald and shipped in the movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's given himself the Yeah, I think I might have stopped. Oh at that point I was like, you know what, I'm good some really interesting thoughts in there. Man. Yeah, it's actually got some interesting things to say about the Catholic Church. And it's horribly written, fair enough, one of the most poorly written books I've ever I haven't seen the movie. I could not get past Tom hank his hair. That was too much for me.
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Speaker 2: You know, the Americana has Da Vinci code level clues built into it, really really yeah yeah, like sonic or what do we Masonic? Yeah, like the on the dome there's like a weird like acorn or something up there that like represents like whatever, and it's all what's his name the billionaire? Yeah, Caruso like is a.
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Speaker 1: Big fan of all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: So he has good stuff built into the America.
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Speaker 1: I love I love that, but also don't find him in unnerving enough yet.
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Speaker 2: But that's what's his first name?
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Speaker 3: Richard, right Brusso he's yeah, I was just saying David, but that's the other guy. Rick Crussos seems like the kind of dude that would like like all the coat, all the like clues line up to just like a QR code for like forty part.
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Speaker 2: Totally. The chrolleys are named after his daughter.
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Speaker 1: What are they named?
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't pay.
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Speaker 1: It's actually not allowed to know that, but they are.
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Speaker 2: At one point, you figured three trolley operators. That's why I have what yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I love the.
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Speaker 3: Trolley because his whole design aesthetic really this is this is Live podcast. The Wold designesthetic was he went to Caesar's Palace and was like, every building right, that's right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what if everywhere was Vegas? Right here, it's Thursday, August twentieth, twenty twenty six. We're still at that part of the show. My name is Jack O'Brien aka, and this is courtesy of Blinkie Heck. In reference to Paulave wanting to fake punch me, they call me David Flincher, Hew, the Flinch stole Christmas. Give a flinch, take a mile. I don't know, is that give a pinch, an inch, give an inch, take a mile. That makes much more sense than a pinch, and also my favorite thing to say about anyone's dream. It's very Flinchian. Yes, yes, those all courtesy of Blinky Heck. Yeah, I was flinch Yeah, I was recording here last Tuesday emerged and Molly Lambert and Paul v Ganalen were hanging out in our waiting room because you know, our studios are just a place that cool people hang out. And I saw the Hollywood Handbook Guys and Great and Alis liked this all the time, exactly, La studios, la stooge, and I had a great conversation with pol and then At one point she was like, all right, I'm gonna go into the studio and she walked by me and she was like, God, I just had the urge to like do that and try and make me. She's like, you just give an energy that I will really fake punch you and make you flinch. I was like, goddamn you.
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Speaker 3: If I may respectfully disagree, I don't give.
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Speaker 2: A no, you're not. I think she's a bully.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a fully.
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Speaker 1: It was so cool though. It made me laugh though.
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Speaker 3: My thought also bullying you is that you strike me as a kind of guy that's like ready for any Like you're you're the kind of guy that like gets into a room, is like, okay, now where all my exits are.
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Speaker 1: Keep a head on a swivel.
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Speaker 2: In a restaurant, are you in the corner?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, actually you study and I have a meal. We raced for the seat that has the back to the door because you got to keep your head on a swivel. You got to see what's coming in.
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Speaker 2: We'll not get tony sopranos.
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Speaker 1: Will not although I feel like he looked up, he was ready for it. Yeah. They also say that that experience of the end of that show is what death like that what you would die before you actually realized it, Like that's how death would happen, Like you mean getting shot getting shot right, You wouldn't You wouldn't even feel it. It would just be lights out right.
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Speaker 3: My last thought would be like, oh, I missed it.
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Speaker 2: Mama me.
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Speaker 1: You're doing yeah. Yeah. Spy Death joined in a second seat. Many to say it is the spaciest people in her second seat. One of our very favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer TV writer. You know I'm from the Joss Racist podcast, the New Starter Trek podcast. It's Andrew too. I didn't think of an Aka, even though I had plenty of time to do it.
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Speaker 3: I spent all that mental energy remembering how to park at the studio, remembering to come.
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Speaker 1: In to the studio, which I did not remember. I was twenty minutes later. That's okay, I got. I drove here screaming the whole time, just going that's a good warm up. Yeah, that's my locals.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: I was going to check the discord, but then I realized I was on camera, so I couldn't like discreetly check my phone now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just fucking sucks, man. I hate me a lot, a lot. I hate being on it. Like we have these Instagram clips where I'm where we're doing the podcast in person, and I'm just like looking at my computer the alt time. I'm like, what the fuck is this? I brought my security blanket. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not even reading anything. I'm just preferring not to make eye contact.
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Speaker 2: In the background.
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Speaker 1: Wonderful to have you here. We are thrilled, blessed to be joined in our third seat by a stand up comedian's got a hilarious special called Milk Job that you should go check out. You know. Are from Lady to Lady the Warped Tour, the founder of the comedy record label Burn this record. It's Brandy Posey. Good to be here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, has warped for recent recent Yeah, it's back, fun but difficult. I just yeah, I just stand up and warped tour last year and this year, and it's it's like really fun, but it is it's an exercise and ego death because you'll be doing a joke and fifty people will be having a great time and then Sublime will start. Yeah, and then fifty people will go sorry, just leave, and you're like, that's fine, that's scare. Also, i'd go with you too, Yeah, you.
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Speaker 1: Should just go see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well the wireless Mike, I would heckle sublime from the back.
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Speaker 1: But it's been really fun.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's so nice and it's really cool seeing like millennials are stuff to come out, but also their kid they have alternative kids now too, and like that's giving me a lot of hope. Seeing seeing a subculture thriving feels really good. Although unfortunately I do have to report Papa Roach is huge again. Oh the kids love? Is that Papa Roach in the year twenty twenty six? I fine, it's probably fine. It was surprising, Yeah I say this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm the age where I'm just glad I recognize a name of a band period.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fair.
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Speaker 3: I looked at I did see the Warp Tour when it was long, because one of my friends was like, we're.
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Speaker 1: Going to a Warp tour. Do you want to come?
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Speaker 3: And I looked at the lineup and I literally was like, I know less than one percent of what the words here?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you would have known Brandy post top five papas. Can we get to five papas? We got John Smurf roach.
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Speaker 3: That's all I got, ye, Papa the Japanese cream puff store.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's go with that. I was thinking, Papa Pia, don't creach Danny i Ello, of course, Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's plenty. I think we got to.
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Speaker 3: Just like a little Italian boy saying, Papa, Papa.
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Speaker 1: Those still at the bicycle. All right, we're going to get to know you, Brandy a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.
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Speaker 4: We're talking about.
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Speaker 1: The crumbles, the not not delicious crumbles, cookies. The part of living in modern America where it seems like everything's kind of falling apart is very cute. It's cute, right. That's that's from That is from cools On Media, which, by the way, just celebrated their fifth anniversary. It seemed like just yesterday I was pretending to know what cool zone meant. When they were like, we're gonna call it cool I was like, yeah, definitely, Google Google, what is cool Zoe mean? Is I just think that? Oh man? But anyways, they call it the crumbles, And I think it's good because it reminds me of cookies and not poop, whereas in shitification, yeah, kind of just makes me think about poop. Yeah, And it's also more broad and allows you to picture the entire nationitification.
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Speaker 3: Is like, oh, it's like uniformly bad. Yeah, it's actually crumbles is more accurate too, because it's like it's mostly bad.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the problem is some of it's not bad. Sure, Actually, if it was all bad, we're just like, okay, I'm aware of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah. So we're going to talk about that, and it's many splendid forms, one of them being a new Google spam filter that you can like get a VIP pass from. So no, really no longer a spam filter. We'll talk about that. We will talk about the GOP going after DSA candidates and whether the Democrats are going to fight back. I don't know, And.
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Speaker 3: Well, they're going to fight back against someone which direction?
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Speaker 1: That got his point? It is not even that unclear. Yeah, And NASA was recently forced to address a viral rumor that the Earth was going to lose gravity for seven seconds on August twelfth, So hell yeah, twelve seconds, right, seven seconds on August.
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Speaker 2: Twelfth, Okay, seven seconds.
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Speaker 1: That would be fun as hell. Yeah, yeah, Like, just give us a little taste.
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Speaker 2: Just let us know I'm not as.
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Speaker 1: A little taste in zero gravity. Yeah, all of that plenty more. But first, Brandy, we do like to ask eric guests, what is something from yoursearch history that's revealing about who you are.
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Speaker 2: I was reading earth at Kits Wikipedia the other day, okay, because I'd heard it on a pig cast. I didn't realize that she had had her career kind of derailed because she confronted Lady Bird Johnson in on luncheon about Vietnam. She was like a massive anti war advocate and she the CIA basically blacklisted her and made her like they made her an an infomaniac and like the eye of the public, and it kind of destroyed her career. And I didn't know that, and I was like going and reading all about it, and I was like, damn earthkit Rules. I always liked her, and I was like, I wonder what happened. And it also makes her casting and earner scared stupid even cooler. Earnest, Comrade, Comrade, Earnest.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was a very interesting rabbit hole to go down that I had no idea about.
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Speaker 1: The basically weren't cool in the twentieth century unless the FBI was like actively trying to like career. Now they're just.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, micro fucking up everyone's life, that's right, Yeah, yeah, or scale.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know who's cool anymore. FBI hates everyone. What is something you think is underrated?
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Speaker 2: Okay, so I like doing my underrated overrated together, and I think parallel parking is underrated. I think pull through parking is overrated.
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Speaker 1: Parallel parking is underrated. Okay, so you like a little difficulty.
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Speaker 2: I think the high of getting into a spot that you didn't know that you could get in far surpasses the high of a pull through spot.
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Speaker 1: There's no high like coming up to a spot, having the person in the shotgun riding shotgun be like nope, do that, yeah yeah, or yeah you're in there, yeah, watching where in my cases make an Austin Powers reference around here, and then keep it.
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Speaker 2: But you got in that spot, spot on that spot.
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Speaker 1: We're thirty minutes late for wherever we're going. But I told you, I think my general ability to parallel park well has been torched.
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Speaker 3: It's the same way like AI crushed crutches or whatever, like the backup camera like that. I tried parking my friend's car without a backup camera recently, and I was like, I think I don't know how to do that.
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Speaker 1: It turns out I don't know. I think, I think I don't know. Do you have a system? Do you have like the mirror system?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I use I use the mirrors for the most part.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean I use a lot of round cars on the road. So also I still am used to just doing it in all sorts. I also learned to drive in Philly, so that was a real got it dogg eat dog.
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Speaker 1: Throwing a deep battery at your car. That's all I know about Philly.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, that's not all you need.
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Speaker 1: But do you have the thing where you like, once the front of your car gets to the mirror of the car you're backing up next to, then you get the wheel. Is that the I don't know if that's universal.
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Speaker 2: It's not even that it's interesting. It's not even that conscious to me. It feels like you can just tell you, yeah, you must be here, like I'm really.
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Speaker 1: Parallel.
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Speaker 2: I take a lot of pride in it. If I can get a big car into a tiny spot and there's like no room between me and the car front and behind me, I'm just I'll get out and I'll just I'll double beep it. So I want everyone to look damn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Mac truck and that little garage.
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Speaker 2: It feels good.
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Speaker 1: Reference, right, guys, everybody still listen to that song.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still in the rotation. I just remember, like the first time I saw one of those commercials for a car that parallel parked itself, I was so mad. I was like, just anti human. Yeah, disgusting. Right, how dare you take my wins from me?
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Speaker 3: Can I ask a question that maybe you should just qualify me from driving a car when it is a pull through spot just the spot you pull in, or is it one that you pull or is that like out the side of the road.
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Speaker 1: But there's no cars on either show. Let's get into that, because I also don't really.
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Speaker 2: Know what I'm the only dad on the show right now. Apparently it's do you pull into a parking lot and then you pull into a spot, and then the spot in front of you is open, So you pull through to the second one. Oh, so that you're facing out, you're facing out, yeah, yeah, so it's like you got to back in, but you didn't do the back once again, cheating, it's cheating. It's a stolen valor situation. Also, it's like your trunk. Now you maybe have a car too close behind you if you get the stuff in your trunk. I don't like people love a pull through, and I'm always like.
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Speaker 1: Why right, it's stolen balant, stolen back like an easy pat you.
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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, absolutely, what about finding a polter spot but still going around and then back and.
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Speaker 1: Backing in, It's just.
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Speaker 5: Move.
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Speaker 2: When I start wearing my phone on my hip.
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Speaker 3: Take photos exclusively with I pad, yeah yeah, exactly, it's the evolution.
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Speaker 1: You don't need a phone carrying like a twelve by twelve. All right, amazing. So now I know what pull through parking is. I know not to do it when you're around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can do what you want. Just don't be proud.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, I just right everyone, Yeah yeah, walk out like Charlie better than that. We all know it. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news. We'll be right back and we're back right all right, we're beat great, great to have you. We're talking the crumbles again. A shout out to cool Zone. Five years went by in a flash. But I feel like I'm just seeing this in a lot of the news stories we had for today's show. I'm seeing it in my personal life. Like I had a friend who's apartment hunting right now and was like, I am going to this apartment that I'm like fifty to fifty is a scam? Yeah, And that seems like it's a realer threat these days. Like yeah, then in like my twenties when I was apartment hunting, that wasn't that, Like the rent was a scam? Yeah, but it was not. I was not worried that it was like a financial thing where the person was going to disappear, Like sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're not playing a part apartment like application fees to a scam. Yes, but you know you're probably not going to hear back from yeah. Yeah, Yeah, there's a health quick blessness and like a like a resignation. Now, that wasn't there the same way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that all about? Seems bad? Yeah? Is it? Okay?
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Speaker 3: Here's my question because I feel like I've always been distrustful of shit, So I'm largely like, I don't know, but I guess I'm like, when am I I assume because everyone does, like I'm going to tip over into not being able to see what the scam is?
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Speaker 1: Sure eventually, yeah that's what life. Yeah, yeah, So is there more of it?
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Speaker 3: I guess I'm just like, there has to be more, But I'm like, so this is my Yeah, that is a good question.
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Speaker 1: That is sort of a question underlying all this. Am I just like getting old? And I'm like, God, damn, the scams are getting good? But it does feel like so other examples that I have and then we can talk it. So, yeah, food recalls seem to be going off the charts now. Is that the media hating on my boy RFK or is it that he's done a shitty job and gutted all of the regulatory departments that Yeah, like diarrhea, there's been a spike in the amount of times we've gotten to say explosive diarrhea on this show and the number of times that mainstream media outlets they still put it in quotes, which guys just own it. You're saying explosive diarrhea. You're getting a little pop off of saying explosive diarrhea. But the Yeah, so there's that. There's also the fact that they like, once I guess we had food recalls, we didn't have this situation where like the food is recalled and everybody knows about it and it just like kind of keeps getting worse. Yeah, which like there's like a new report that it's like cyclosport Iace's cases are more than fifteen thousand according to the CDC. They're kind of keeping it quiet. They won't talk about it too much.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like it used to be like once every once in a while they'd be like, oh shit, this is happening, and then it'd be a couple of years before you really heard something else, and.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably has to be right, CDC is different. Yes, it used to be. It is and they can't anymore.
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Speaker 1: They like proudly gutted it like yeah when they yeah, or when whatever they took power, they were like, it's yeah, fuck this, there's all these regulations are. Yeah, there was a twelve person team who was worried about screw worms. Yeah, look at us, and we fired it. Yeah, exactly that. There's a list of things that have been recalled frozen blueberries, iceberg, ledus shell eggs, make Berry's, pistachio nut butter, some green powder supplements, jelapango, soup kits sound Jurassic like. It's like all the all the things, like I can no longer keep track. I I mean, it's got to be right, like a direct result of deregulations. Yes, I think that's right.
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Speaker 3: I last time I went to the doctor, I remember specifically asking I can't remember what it was about. It was like a I think it was like a do I need this vaccine or whatever? And I had to ask my doctor like is that the CDC recommendation or is that the California like public health recommendation, because I suspect they differ, And she was like, we're going by California.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So it's like that's I think.
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Speaker 3: That's like reasonable to just be like, yeah, the federal government is bad, worse than it was.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, It's just like.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of the definition of the crumbles is like things that we used to take for granted as like invisibly working, Yeah, yeah, are just like not you have to pay attention they're no longer visible. You have to pay attention and like kind of navigate things.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like things that you thought, Okay, that is the thing I don't need.
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Speaker 4: To worry about.
00:24:07
Speaker 2: Oh I have to worry about that. I had to worry about all this before. I didn't worry about that. Oh I had to worry about this now.
00:24:13
Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I.
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Speaker 3: Mean Republicans are have basically switched like civics into a lab course rather than a lecture course.
00:24:22
Speaker 1: Right, you could just learn about it. I feel it. Yeah, exactly, you got to be on that shit.
00:24:29
Speaker 2: Can I get in the control group?
00:24:30
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I feel like phones no longer really working, like phone calls being mostly spam and texts being like yeah, twenty five percent spam text.
00:24:42
Speaker 2: Maybe at this point me is so smug that I can get spam calls forever. Because my parents, like their phone would get spam. They had up constant landlines still, and I was like, no one's got this.
00:24:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, you must be doing something wrong. Oh they probably were. They were probably clicking on links they shouldn't have been, milling parents, or their numbers got stolen. So just a matter of time.
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Speaker 3: I think it is sort of like, but I will say, phones and texts from numbers you don't know have gone so far to the other side that it is like now functionally a zero percent chance they will be useful. Yeah, so kind of, it's it's a little less at least when I was interpreting this Crumbles thing of it's just fully shit, fully and unambiguously shit, like you don't have to worry about never answering a phone call, right, whereas like, to me, Crumbles is a little bit like, well, you still have to answer everyone because one in five whatever your pharmacy or your boss or whatever the fuck.
00:25:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not a full collapse yet it's a crumble.
00:25:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one is like a full collapse, and it's clear.
00:25:48
Speaker 3: Even if your boss calls, you can just be like I assumed it was spam and they have no choice to be like that's reasonable.
00:25:55
Speaker 1: Sure.
00:25:55
Speaker 2: Well the crumbles is hard too, because it's like still when you're in the crumbles, you still have to pay your bill and your rent and stuff. When you get to collapse, then you're like, okay, yeah, I think so we're good here. Yeah, now I think that's gone.
00:26:06
Speaker 1: But you're the machete budget's the only one that read at.
00:26:09
Speaker 2: That point exactly. So it's hard being in an in between space and being like I still gotta like pay for gas. I can't just like threaten.
00:26:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, which society might rebound.
00:26:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So a couple other examples. So Google has just announced a VIP spam filter. They didn't really announce it. They put it on their like terms of service or like, you know, a page that you could find if you went digging for it. But basically, heading into the twenty twenty six elections, Gmail users are going to be flooded with unwanted political spam because Google decided to create a VIP lane for campaigns where that like official campaigns basically can pay a certain amount of money to hell yeah, not be on the spam.
00:26:51
Speaker 2: List, which it'll be the ones that I agree with, yes, which.
00:26:55
Speaker 1: I had assumed was already happening on text message because of the out of text messages that were getting through like leading up to election day and then just like cut off after. But I mean vaccine exemptions obviously, like we just got we just hit four point two percent vaccine exemptions for US kindergarteners, which is up from three point six the previous year.
00:27:23
Speaker 2: That's bad.
00:27:24
Speaker 3: What is the what is the the tipping point is like much low? Is it the tipping points like ten on vaccinated or something like that, where it's.
00:27:32
Speaker 1: Just like you might as well not vaccinee. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm always saying, you might as well know that's right, that's right man. So yeah, I don't know. There's part of me that's like, also, this isn't like something that I encounter on a day to day basis. But the the story's coming out of the like Navy right now, like the USS Lincoln where they like food. We talked about that earlier, and like just as the Pentagon is like being like this is overblown and a media panic, a story comes out of like a US Naval destroyer that they went four days without power, leaving sailors without toilets, air conditioning, galley service, and potable water for four days, which seems it seems like too many days to go.
00:28:20
Speaker 3: Famously, the Emperor does well when they antagonize the military, I feel like that's going to be fine. Well, I mean I think that that is also the other side of this is like the crumbles and shitification et cetera of it, like like the propaganda or whatever doesn't allow them to just acknowledge that it's happening, right, because like this is happening to your shit too, like it's actually impeding the shit you want to get done.
00:28:51
Speaker 1: Like you actually can't invader in right, dog. Yeah, actually that's not an option for you.
00:28:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have it.
00:28:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't afford it.
00:29:00
Speaker 2: Well, then we have their own propaganda in their head of like we can do anything. Yeah, yeah, we support the troops and we can do anything. That's not it's a child brain, guys.
00:29:10
Speaker 1: That seems like a system we're dealing with now where they like are confused by their own lives yea, and so they're just constantly like bullshit.
00:29:18
Speaker 3: But yeah, no one, no one's like there. They've winked so much that they actually forgot what the truth is. And now it's like, yeah, well like missiles, Yeah, like we can just count the missiles, guys, they're not there, Like.
00:29:32
Speaker 1: Do we that? That is a question I have Like sometimes I'm just like, oh, this could be like I could see a future where this is like the time like when in under Gorbachev when everything just like collapsed and like for a long time, it was just like them believing their own lives and just being like yeah, but like we've gotten by on this for so long, and then all at once it's just like everything falls apart.
00:29:57
Speaker 3: What's the first domino falls?
00:29:59
Speaker 5: Right?
00:30:00
Speaker 1: Also, it feels like it's raining dominoes, you know. Yeah, but that's the thing.
00:30:04
Speaker 3: One of them still has to fall, right, Like none of them really have fallen, but they I mean, we're also at the stage of mad king, where, like so many, so much of the power structures built on lies because you can only get promoted if you're buying the lie. So now it's like, oh yes, it will just snap.
00:30:25
Speaker 4: They that, which.
00:30:28
Speaker 2: Makes it hard as an American too, because on like a micro level, we all have some version of that going on our head, right, because if we truly believe that and I feel this way, I'm just every day I'm like, should I be buying seeds?
00:30:40
Speaker 1: Should be?
00:30:41
Speaker 5: Like?
00:30:42
Speaker 2: How how much should if? If it is like that's it, Yeah, I mean.
00:30:49
Speaker 1: I do.
00:30:50
Speaker 2: I got a machete already.
00:30:51
Speaker 1: I have a small knife. Yeah, yeah, I need to get my think.
00:30:56
Speaker 2: But it is like there is some part of my American brain that's like it'll be all right. I'm like, I gotta terrogate that, you know, like I.
00:31:07
Speaker 1: For what it's worth.
00:31:08
Speaker 3: I feel like, regardless, the thing that's more valuable seat than seeds is being really good friends with the hundred people that live around you. Well yeah, of course, because they got to protect your seats. Well yeah, definitely. I mean I'm home.
00:31:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if I'm not going on, which one of them is?
00:31:26
Speaker 1: You know?
00:31:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just yeah, I feel like, yeah, I don't know all the survivalist stuff.
00:31:32
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I know I ain't got it in me. So I hope people like jokes. Constantly having to apologize to my neighbors for keeping them up while burying gasoline in my back yard. Yeah, gotta stop doing.
00:31:46
Speaker 2: You're poisoning the earth.
00:31:50
Speaker 1: I bury gasoline loose. It's where it came from, and it's where it's going back. It's gasoline is natural.
00:31:59
Speaker 2: That's you know, I'm trying to make a dinosaur.
00:32:04
Speaker 1: Reverse. Enough time, all right, let's take a quick break.
00:32:12
Speaker 4: We'll come back.
00:32:13
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some other bullshit.
00:32:14
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we're back.
00:32:27
Speaker 1: And a couple of stories about Michigan candidate Abdul l Say ed who whooped the ass of Chuck Schumer's chosen candidate in the in the Democratic primary. Now there's a lot of stories about, well, maybe the Democrats could win without Michigan, maybe they could win back control of the Senate without Michigan. At a lot of vote blue no matter who, unless it's left wing candidate energy going around in the mainstream media. I do feel like they're trying to make it seem like the parties even more divided than it already is. But one story that the right is pushing are these islamophobic attacks on Elsie Edge about how he oversaw an animal slaughter house and was responsible for the deaths of four thousand puppies and kittens, which the National Republican Senatorial Committee even started selling dogs against abdual Merch, seemingly just for AI generated dogs based on the ad the dogs are just completely AI.
00:33:35
Speaker 2: It's reminiscent of that Spencer Pratt billboard we had on that like dogs love Spencer.
00:33:39
Speaker 1: They have one move, yeah, like what are people like dogs? Which is that to lie?
00:33:45
Speaker 2: Which is funny because how many our candidates had dogs on the roofs of their cars. Meant Romney like Christy no, murdered a puppy out that's like the.
00:33:54
Speaker 1: Thing they chosen, a thing that they're so bad on. Yeah, exactly, they do. I mean, obviously there was a lot of racism around dogs in the twenty twenty four election. Yeah, this is just more mask off racism. And also, so these headlines, they'll like link to a story that has this incendiary headline about how you oversaw the death of four thousand puppies and then like you read the text of the article and he actually took over at like immediately after that crisis was happening. He took over animal control like before it was overseen by And you're not gonna believe this. The police, you're not gonna believe they weren't great with.
00:34:39
Speaker 6: Dogs historically, great shocking, Yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of German shepherds did really well, that's right, that's right.
00:34:50
Speaker 1: Everything else though, they love shooting them. And when they were in charge of Detroit's animal control, there were apparently thousands of dog being put down. El said a government took over and things improved, And it says that in the text of the article with the headline that's like this guy's a dog killer. Yeh, watch out for Abdul the dog killer.
00:35:14
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say, for what it's worth, and this might be cold comfort, I actually don't think this shit sways that many people.
00:35:23
Speaker 1: Sure, however, I.
00:35:24
Speaker 3: Do think a lot of especially white Michigan Democrats, were secretly never going to vote for a brown guy anyway. So I am saying it's you know, those those things are institutionally tough, but they're just wrong. And you know, he's he's still you know, it's still just about the enthusiasm of actual voters who are not awful.
00:35:48
Speaker 1: I don't know if that helps.
00:35:49
Speaker 3: I'm just like, yeah, this racist shit is just like finds its ceiling really quickly.
00:35:53
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:35:54
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:35:55
Speaker 1: It does also highlight though, the fact that the Democrats are so bad at just doing like the very because the reason they've made this story up is because it's like a populist thing that you can do. People love dogs, and like the Republicans are like really bad, ye, really bad on them. Like you could just use the truth of the situation and be like point out the Christy Nome thing, to point out that with Trump's like mass deportations, that they were leaving a bunch of animals homeless, then had to be put down. Like there's so many examples, and also like, you know, the thing that really ails the country in a lot of cases is the Supreme Court ruling on things to you know, make it so the corporations can do whatever the fuck they want. The twenty twenty four Supreme Court ruling that shielded hedge fund manager and right wing talk show host George jar Cassi from sec fines he received for allegedly defrauding investors, the Supreme Court was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that guy's very rich. You guys need to lay roll. And that ruling makes it impossible to prosecute puppy mills essentially, and so like these are just like it's just like if the Republicans had something like that, yeah, to exploit, they would exploit it. But the Democratic Party sucks so bad, I will say, I mean, for what it's worth, it's like who knows what's going to happen. But it does seem like Alsayad at least has the political chops. Oh you say, like okay, let's talk about puppy mills and then like go into Supreme Court. Whereas like your generic you know, capital D Democrat centrist would be like actually and then just like yeah, fuck it up in somewhere, fuck it up.
00:37:49
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:37:49
Speaker 2: So I don't think he's actually anything.
00:37:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, the extent that we have a chance with these people, Yeah, have a chance, Yes, we as a man Chuck Schumer. Yeah, it's just it hopefully lies in that which is like, you know, it does seem like what I said is a better campaigner than yeah, the generic Democrat has been for decades now.
00:38:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, he like understands like, oh, that's the attack. Like if I a lot of this stuff always gets breaks down too. If you can just speak like a person to directly and go no, that's what this is actually like if you do.
00:38:25
Speaker 1: That, yeah, you can just like hear it immediately. Yeah, you're like, oh, you're a person who's like saying things that happen. You're not like doing a weird like math in your brain about the things that are coming out of your mouth.
00:38:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not like a bunch of focus groups that you're like running through in your brain. Like he knows what he wants to say, and he's you know good, I mean very good at it. So I believe in his ability to combat it and maybe even turn it on them in some way.
00:38:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. I do feel like we're starting to see who the math in the brain it is going to be for the mainstream Democratic Party for president. I feel like Awesome is like their guy. He's like rising in polls. Wild Newsome and Hairs are like kind of going down, I guess ultimately, thank God.
00:39:16
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I'm just like of the If it's Awesome versus AOC for the Right for the nomination, it's probably better than better than their alternatives, any alternative we have.
00:39:29
Speaker 2: I just personally can't let Gavin. I just need him to be humble and disappointed at every turn in a personal way.
00:39:36
Speaker 1: I know, I really suspect that his support is going to completely evaporate the second that, like the primary start and people have to vote for him.
00:39:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Clovicular is not going to stump for him.
00:39:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he's giving claviculars. Yeah yeah, yeah.
00:39:53
Speaker 3: Maybe don't have so many Nazis on your podcast if you want to be a Democrat.
00:39:58
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to don't change your life to make it completely differently.
00:40:04
Speaker 2: I have scrolled that guest feed at people so many times in public that have tried to make a case. Yeah, I'm just like, yeah, Charlie Kirk just going through the list the worst.
00:40:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Rogan Man, Well can I say he love Rogan and you? Yeah? So are we that different? After all? Turns out we are. I have gotten ship on our show for talking about Joe Rogan. People are like, dude, he does good research. I mean this is a long time. Yeah.
00:40:35
Speaker 2: It's really wild how pervasive he is, because I'll have people come up to me at for a comedy show that are lady Lady fans and they'll be like, yeah, what else do you listen to, Like, oh, you know Rogan, And I'm like, howl, how feel those two things?
00:40:49
Speaker 3: I feel like if you don't think about it or understand, Rogan represents the generic idea of stand up comedy to you, sure, I think is clearly what's happening players because he's a horrible comic.
00:41:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to differ with you on that one. I mean I I used.
00:41:08
Speaker 3: To really really enjoy m m A and like, yeah.
00:41:12
Speaker 1: I was just like if it was just an mm A podcast, Like he knows what he's talking about.
00:41:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, just in terms of who's better at fighting. Yeah, but it's just like and it. As long as he doesn't have to talk about whether it's based on the shape of their skulls or like whatever, he's fine enough.
00:41:29
Speaker 1: I genuinely think there's always that bleed though I know always that God.
00:41:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, happens quickly. I just try to picture a universe where Johnny Knoxville was the host of Fear Factor the whole time.
00:41:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, better world, yeah see, or Johnny Knoxville turns into a right wing coon that's the thing.
00:41:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying fear Maybe it's the fear factor that did it. Yeah, you think you think fear factor.
00:41:55
Speaker 2: We're gonna see.
00:41:56
Speaker 1: We're gonna see what that's the thing that's one way or the other. All right, let's talk about what we've all been thinking. That's the start of this, which is is gravity going to turn off for seven seconds? The rumor spread online that intersecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes would cause gravity to shut off at exactly four thirty three UTC or ten thirty three am Eastern time, which so mark your calendar except it already passionate. Didn't happen, but they claimed that people could be thrown into the air, which, yeah, I guess it's a fun thought experiment. Like just that is I think what a lot of conspiracy theories are is like our version of fiction, what would happen? Yeah, Like that would be fucking fun. Like that's a good movie premise. Like we just found out gravity is going to turn off for seven seconds on this date in August, right, what do we do as a similar Like how do we prepare for that? That's like fun, like and then go through the science, like really take it seriously, like that's and it's great.
00:43:03
Speaker 2: It's an amount of time. It's like doomsday Cult's not going to kill themselves over it. Yeah, you can maybe get a couple of like foiled heists of some kind. I got, I got a seven second window to launch myself and grab a diamond or something like. That's fun.
00:43:18
Speaker 1: That is fun. Yeah.
00:43:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna say this, and not just because I started doing a Star Trek podcast where I'm learning about Star Trek.
00:43:25
Speaker 1: This feels like the kind of shit that would be at start. Oh oh, totally a planet where I mean yes, yeah, like a planet where gravity turns off for seven seconds. That's kind of like an and or spot. Right, wasn't there something about that planet they were on and season one of van or some shit happened. I don't remember.
00:43:41
Speaker 3: There's a window for something to go down.
00:43:45
Speaker 1: The latest Alien movie has a gravity generating thing where like it suddenly will turn off. Yeah, and they like that by far. The best part of that movie was like when gravity would turn off and like it would just be like what we threw a little like because it.
00:44:00
Speaker 3: Was the soup in the first scene. Favor remember this gross soup? Oh yeah, I don't really remember.
00:44:08
Speaker 2: I think eating a ball of liquid is what I would do for the seven seconds. I always look at the coolest part on every astronaut in space movie. I'd be like, I want to chomp.
00:44:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will just say not to be a physics pete ant.
00:44:23
Speaker 3: But they mean that will be a free fall, not gravity will shut Gravity shuts off. Obviously all your cells just you know, all your molecules just float randomly.
00:44:33
Speaker 1: Wait, what is holding us together?
00:44:36
Speaker 4: Okay?
00:44:37
Speaker 3: I say, like, you know, gravity, kids, that's holding us together, because like that there's fundamental forces. But like gravity shutting off means lots of other ship but they do they just mean, you know, local gravity is lesson.
00:44:52
Speaker 1: Just the version in my brain that you know, is that the nuclear force?
00:44:57
Speaker 4: I don't know.
00:44:58
Speaker 1: Don't at me.
00:44:59
Speaker 2: I think if seven seconds my body just went honestly feels so good.
00:45:04
Speaker 6: So just like a taller like, yeah, density is just a little down.
00:45:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking about the version of physics from sci fi movies. I was raised on where like your floating, you're when you're on a spaceship, you're going up. The sky's blue, the sky's blue. You hit a point, there's like a line, a clearly defined line where it turns into like night sky like and then yeah, all of a sudden, everything just like the pen in front of you sets floating, like in two thousand and one.
00:45:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, look that for seven seconds.
00:45:37
Speaker 1: I think I would want to be near a bird for the seven seconds because first of all, look at fuck you look at me now? Yeah, yeah, look who can fly? But also have you ever seen the footage they have like this is just something that NASA did one time as they took birds into zero gravity, and they looked so stupid, like just over, that's amazing. They just keep putting animals in zero gravity and the same thing happens every single time, which is they're just like look stupid as hell, they just like don't know what to do.
00:46:12
Speaker 2: That's the very specific kind of edge. Lord, I want my tax absolutely.
00:46:18
Speaker 3: Birds, yeah, all birds, even without even with this version, right, life.
00:46:24
Speaker 1: On Earth ends. So seven seconds of zero gravity right.
00:46:28
Speaker 3: Like the ocean, whatever happens to the ocean is enough inertia keeping it.
00:46:34
Speaker 1: There for I don't know. I don't know.
00:46:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the question I think if I think it's the spit of the earth continues the inertia.
00:46:45
Speaker 1: Into in the face. I believe.
00:46:50
Speaker 3: I'm just saying for stuff like this is that sype of thing you should build a bet against on Calshi because there's no downside. You either win your bet or life on Earth ends.
00:46:59
Speaker 1: That's true. So who cares? Yeah, you're working those markets. Yeah. So the alleged leaked NASA documents, see if you guys can poke any holes in this, called Project Anchor is a supposed plan costing eighty nine billion dollars that involved secret bunkers for essential people and a diverse group to repopulate the Earth in case of disaster. That's where they love. Yeah. Also NASA would not be in charge of it, like NASA would present this to the wrong person, you know, and the billionaires have such class solidarity if they just immediately euthanize everyone in NASA take over the planning, and it would be like, I think people would be shocked by the number of extremely wealthy people who are eagerly planning a Doctor Strangelove like repopulation right in it.
00:47:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're already like preparing.
00:47:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:47:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I love because it's also just like I don't know, man, I just feel like one hand over the oxygenvent in your little bunker, I know, I just can't wait for like, well, that's.
00:48:05
Speaker 1: What I'll killing. Yeah. Yeah, that's why they talk about killing the pilot who flies you there. That's like the number one fun party debate. Yeah, Jilicon Valley is like, okay, so we all have our suicide butter our survivalist bunkers. When the pilot flies you there, Obviously you've told the pilot they can go back and fly and pick up their family. Yep, yeah, you're not gonna do that. Do you keep them there and keep them alive as like a pet? Yeah?
00:48:34
Speaker 3: Or do you just I thing that's so funny about these people is they've convinced themselves they're so much smarter than everyone else that they think no one else can have the same fucking like D minus level mind game. Right yeah, like, yeah, man, you are going to get killed by your head of security in the first ten minutes.
00:48:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is what's gonna happen.
00:48:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna kill promise a person with a skill is going to take you out.
00:49:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, and right if that doesn't happen, you will die of starvation in one month.
00:49:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are the two choices.
00:49:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to do anything.
00:49:10
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah, the like contraption will get jammed and you'll be like, oh, I shouldn't have killed that.
00:49:18
Speaker 3: Oh you don't have access to the servers that say the number that your net worth is.
00:49:22
Speaker 1: Right, it looks like you're pretty fucked. Yeah right.
00:49:26
Speaker 2: There's a great book called Survival of the Richest Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff.
00:49:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a Oh yeah that's where I got all. That's the one who told me, because he is just, you know, a really smart tech writer who you know, at a certain point started getting invited to these tech billionaire conferences. Yeah, and he said. Invariably, the conversation would just turn to them being like all right, so but seriously, like, how do we game this out so that we like kill the right people? Yeah?
00:50:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like dog collars in my security And I'm like try, yeah, are you gonna be the one that puts the dog collar on your head of security?
00:50:10
Speaker 3: For it is just like all the way down and it's like, oh, okay, I'll just I'll just hold this person hostage. Well, then the person that holds that person hostage, I need to hold them hostage, Like what the fuck are you talking about? Think about it for one second. I will also say, though, because this is in Atlas Shrugged, like the little shutting off Yeah no, sorry, the like little billionaire society.
00:50:34
Speaker 1: But isn't it like the opposite? No?
00:50:37
Speaker 3: They well the outside world that they have their little like Galt gulch whatever the fuck where all the like like you know, like the refer what they called makers or whatever the fuck you live, and they gloss over like oh.
00:50:49
Speaker 1: And everyone just cleans their toilets.
00:50:50
Speaker 3: And like whatever so quickly that it's like sure, dog, sure for all you fucking libertarian assholes are happy doing like com munism like everyone takes a shot at every job. Get the fuck out of here.
00:51:04
Speaker 1: The premise of Atlas Shrugged is that the billionaires are underappreciated.
00:51:09
Speaker 5: They leave, and societies like, no, like how much better could we just try that?
00:51:20
Speaker 1: Could we just like convince them to do like seed the billionaires with like one class trader who's just like we should do an Atlas Shrugged. Guys, everybody's being so mean to us, like look at this, let's go like, I mean, even the small version.
00:51:38
Speaker 3: It's like they could all move to like wherever the fucking Texas, like star based Texas.
00:51:43
Speaker 1: Please, they don't, I know, that's what. Yeah, they all left Manhattan to the billionaire ghost town. Now Dommi's there.
00:51:52
Speaker 3: It's just like guess what they were already not paying taxes there. Yeah, fucking yeah, I don't know. They're like at the truck is like the cop strike threat fiction. Oh you shure really fell apart. It's like, you know what, let's see what let's go, let's go, let's see what happens.
00:52:12
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, my main takeaway from this story is Michael Bay get to work. Yeah, gravity eclipse and you think it's just people being like wow and the clips made the light go away? What if clips made.
00:52:28
Speaker 2: Actually I want to give it to Roland Emeric.
00:52:30
Speaker 1: Because moon Fall.
00:52:33
Speaker 2: Is already kind of like dabbling in this territory and.
00:52:37
Speaker 1: What happens to gravity and moonfall?
00:52:40
Speaker 2: Like the moon right like that, the Moon is a celestial structure that was It's actually a spaceship that was built by humans to escape a single millennial will go and we're actually all aliens. We're aliens. Yeah, we came from a steel structure called the Moon. We're the only one to have existed. And Elon Musk is mentioned several times.
00:53:07
Speaker 6: Really yeah yeahs in like yeah he's smart.
00:53:12
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean in those expanse books that are mostly right, there's like a like, oh, Elon Musk figured this thing out back like the USS Elon Musk is out there. Yeah, which, by the way, that probably will exist, but it will be plain to Epstein Island too.
00:53:29
Speaker 2: Yeah yep ye watch moon Fall. The rules it's so stupid.
00:53:35
Speaker 1: What do we think grand theft Like, do you think grand Theft auto is going to have any Like I was talking about this on yesterday's Trending episode, like rich billionaire like take out Elon Musk type things that you think they'll like play to the populace a little bit or like have like a cabal of pedophile billionaires that like, you know, pe threaded throughout.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: I think that the reason that stuff I think works is like no billionaire has the self awareness to be like that's me. Yeah, They'll be like totally get that. Those are clearly And the other problem is that you know, the attendees to like an Epstein Island are across the board yea, So it's like you can just do that and they'll be like that's Sorows and Clinton or like that's Trump, and it's like no one has any problem like putting what they want onto it.
00:54:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's coming. It's coming. Brandy. Such a pleasure, haven't you. Thanks for the podcast here here in person? Yeah, yeah, this' rules. Where can people find you? Follow you so you hear you all that good stuff?
00:54:49
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00:56:10
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00:56:15
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00:56:17
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00:56:24
Speaker 2: I am the tailor Swift for comedy is what I have been called by no one.
00:56:28
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00:56:31
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, do that for me. Also, if you are in Orlando for tour and or if you're in Orlando you want to come, I probably have passes. Hit me up.
00:56:40
Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, what do you think of ORLANDA? We were just talking about that, like four quadrant liveability, affordability. Did you see that over the weekends there was like a big thing that was like the most livable and affordable cities in the world and bottom right, like no, not livable, not affordable. We're like York, La, Chicago, like oh ar yeah yeah, London. Diversity was not one of the good things. Yea to Orlando was higher than many of the great cities and as it should be, as it should be.
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Speaker 2: I would not want to live there full time. But they do have more building shape like oranges than we do, and that is pretty fun.
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Speaker 1: That is that was actually one of the first things that they accounted for in the.
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Speaker 2: Yeah index, like a building shape, like a thing.
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Speaker 1: Amazing. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Actually, I'm reading a book right now called Chesapeake by James Mitchener. It's really old, it's been around since the seventies. But James Mitchener is this guy that kind of does these like historical like take an area and then follow it from like its inception up until well until he writes the book basically, And this one follows like the area of like Chesapeake, Maryland, which is on the Bay, which is where I'm from, and it kind of starts to like the Chopp Tank Indians all through nineteen seven the eight basically, which is like when you publish the book, and he follows like four or five different families and like the way they intersect and like the just like it it shows like how that part of the country was colonized basically, and like how families like interacted and like it's it's really it's really interesting, I think to look at like a specific area, because I think sometimes we can get so caught in like the not making it personal, like how all that stuff happens and watching the way like four or five families like completely like changed the landscape of everything forever is.
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Speaker 1: Like really interesting.
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Speaker 2: And he's a really good writer, so you know, big recommend for that. And he's got a ton of a ton of books about all sorts of different parts of the country in world.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. That sounds great. It's a very smart media recommendation. Andrew, where can people find you their work media you've been enjoying?
00:58:51
Speaker 3: Oh man, Uh, Starter Trek Starter Trek is the main podcast now it's on YouTube.
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Speaker 1: It's on It's.
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Speaker 3: Where the old goos. This racist feed was so us go there. Keeps keep looking at it.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I just finished a book called The Trees by Personal Everett. It's pretty old.
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Speaker 3: Uh, it's really I did not realize it was going to be. So it's like I think I genuinely start to finish Reddit in like four or five hours. It reads like very cinematically, it's it's sort of like a supernatural not murder mystery exactly, but it's very it's it's very good. I'm trying to figure out it's basically like it seems like the potentially ghosts or something like that of victims of lynching, have are coming back to kill people, And I guess I won't really spoil it. I'll be honest. I don't told I finished it. I don't totally know exactly what happened at the end. It's very it's very should you pretty weird? Yeah, you know it's it's genuinely a very, very very great book. But yeah, I was one of them glad it reads like TV. So if you're one of those people like whose brain has been fried, I was like, oh, so breezy to read.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it's not the happening where it's like the trees are killing no, no, something like that. Yeah, yeah, amazing, it's good.
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Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a genuinely good book that reads Yeah, I think that's what it is. It's like literary fiction that reads like a.
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Speaker 1: Page turner in a way that it's like really great, sounds good. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore, Brian Blue Skyjack o b the number one Instagram Jack Underscore, Oh Underscore, Brian workI Media. I've been enjoying. Uh you guys, we recommended books, so I'm gonna recommend a tweet. Black Ocean tweeted you're born, you watch pants go from baggy to skinny, back to baggy every ten years you die. I think that's a novel and of itself.
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Speaker 2: No, that's absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I think the death of like that they presented in Toy Story three, like that some toys go to the dump and are just there for eternity, just consciously staring at like a rotting banana peel for all of eternity is like too dark and like so they have to I genuinely just don't remember what happens.
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Speaker 2: Brief little toaster Vibes, which I think is a movie that is a reason I have a hard time throwing things away because I will those things very quickly when I blame that movie.
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Speaker 1: It's like by orders for orders to create new orders exactly kind of right.
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Speaker 3: And the Pixar proposition is by the fucked up version of the new one that we had in the movie the Fourking thing or yes it is wild that I mean, I assume the Fork thing. The whole message was anything could be a toy. You got to spend money on this.
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Speaker 1: There's an interesting theory because Steve jobs with them involved in the development of the first Toy Story movie, and there's a way that you because his whole philosophy on the world is like objects are beautiful, they have an inner life that like you have to like design them to more and so there's a way to like view toy story and like the whole Pixar universe where like inanimate objects have inner lives as like part of a Steve Jobs philosophical unit, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just as capitalism as Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Your stuff is a person. Your stuff is a person. You should feel bad for not loving your stuff person. Oh yeah, one more thing. If your stuff is person, stuff is person, are you out your stuff?
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Speaker 4: Nobody?
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Speaker 2: No, nobody, nobody.
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Speaker 1: Keep that in mind. Hello the Internet, and welcome to season four fifty two, Episode three of Dead Ailey Zgeist. Yeah yeah, there's a production of iHeartRadio. It's a podcast where you take a deep dive into American shared consciousness through the day's news. We also have a new non news history version of TDZ dropping each Monday morning called The Iconograph, where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon Today, we have a guest co host and a guest who are all stars of the Iconograph.
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Speaker 4: They've been on.
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Speaker 1: For Sherlock, Yes, for the Easter Bunny. Two of our most popular episodes, The Yeah Sure Lock and the Easter Bunny. The Easter Money was really fun. It was fascinating. Yeah, that was interesting. Our soft pitch on the Easter Bunny episode is bring the Easter Bunny femininity back to the Easter Bunny is our may Queen, and like, oh sure we keep casting the Easter Bunny as Russell Brandt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be like a little little rich kid.
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Speaker 2: It might heal us all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but like they've robbed her of her femininity. It's kind of like Da Vinci Code coded. Yeah, you know that Da Vinci code has like returned the femininity to Christianity. Have you No, I not read the Da Vinci I've missed out.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, you divorce that really? I just remember Paul is all bald and shipped in the movie.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's that's given himself the Yeah, I think I might have stopped. Oh at that point I was like, you know what, I'm good some really interesting thoughts in there. Man. Yeah, it's actually got some interesting things to say about the Catholic Church. And it's horribly written, fair enough, one of the most poorly written books I've ever I haven't seen the movie. I could not get past Tom hank his hair. That was too much for me.
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Speaker 2: You know, the Americana has Da Vinci code level clues built into it, really really yeah yeah, like sonic or what do we Masonic? Yeah, like the on the dome there's like a weird like acorn or something up there that like represents like whatever, and it's all what's his name the billionaire? Yeah, Caruso like is a.
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Speaker 1: Big fan of all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: So he has good stuff built into the America.
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Speaker 1: I love I love that, but also don't find him in unnerving enough yet.
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Speaker 2: But that's what's his first name?
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Speaker 3: Richard, right Brusso he's yeah, I was just saying David, but that's the other guy. Rick Crussos seems like the kind of dude that would like like all the coat, all the like clues line up to just like a QR code for like forty part.
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Speaker 2: Totally. The chrolleys are named after his daughter.
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Speaker 1: What are they named?
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't pay.
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Speaker 1: It's actually not allowed to know that, but they are.
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Speaker 2: At one point, you figured three trolley operators. That's why I have what yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I love the.
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Speaker 3: Trolley because his whole design aesthetic really this is this is Live podcast. The Wold designesthetic was he went to Caesar's Palace and was like, every building right, that's right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what if everywhere was Vegas? Right here, it's Thursday, August twentieth, twenty twenty six. We're still at that part of the show. My name is Jack O'Brien aka, and this is courtesy of Blinkie Heck. In reference to Paulave wanting to fake punch me, they call me David Flincher, Hew, the Flinch stole Christmas. Give a flinch, take a mile. I don't know, is that give a pinch, an inch, give an inch, take a mile. That makes much more sense than a pinch, and also my favorite thing to say about anyone's dream. It's very Flinchian. Yes, yes, those all courtesy of Blinky Heck. Yeah, I was flinch Yeah, I was recording here last Tuesday emerged and Molly Lambert and Paul v Ganalen were hanging out in our waiting room because you know, our studios are just a place that cool people hang out. And I saw the Hollywood Handbook Guys and Great and Alis liked this all the time, exactly, La studios, la stooge, and I had a great conversation with pol and then At one point she was like, all right, I'm gonna go into the studio and she walked by me and she was like, God, I just had the urge to like do that and try and make me. She's like, you just give an energy that I will really fake punch you and make you flinch. I was like, goddamn you.
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Speaker 3: If I may respectfully disagree, I don't give.
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Speaker 2: A no, you're not. I think she's a bully.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think that.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a fully.
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Speaker 1: It was so cool though. It made me laugh though.
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Speaker 3: My thought also bullying you is that you strike me as a kind of guy that's like ready for any Like you're you're the kind of guy that like gets into a room, is like, okay, now where all my exits are.
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Speaker 1: Keep a head on a swivel.
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Speaker 2: In a restaurant, are you in the corner?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, actually you study and I have a meal. We raced for the seat that has the back to the door because you got to keep your head on a swivel. You got to see what's coming in.
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Speaker 2: We'll not get tony sopranos.
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Speaker 1: Will not although I feel like he looked up, he was ready for it. Yeah. They also say that that experience of the end of that show is what death like that what you would die before you actually realized it, Like that's how death would happen, Like you mean getting shot getting shot right, You wouldn't You wouldn't even feel it. It would just be lights out right.
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Speaker 3: My last thought would be like, oh, I missed it.
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Speaker 2: Mama me.
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Speaker 1: You're doing yeah. Yeah. Spy Death joined in a second seat. Many to say it is the spaciest people in her second seat. One of our very favorite guests, the hilarious and brilliant producer TV writer. You know I'm from the Joss Racist podcast, the New Starter Trek podcast. It's Andrew too. I didn't think of an Aka, even though I had plenty of time to do it.
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Speaker 3: I spent all that mental energy remembering how to park at the studio, remembering to come.
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Speaker 1: In to the studio, which I did not remember. I was twenty minutes later. That's okay, I got. I drove here screaming the whole time, just going that's a good warm up. Yeah, that's my locals.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: I was going to check the discord, but then I realized I was on camera, so I couldn't like discreetly check my phone now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just fucking sucks, man. I hate me a lot, a lot. I hate being on it. Like we have these Instagram clips where I'm where we're doing the podcast in person, and I'm just like looking at my computer the alt time. I'm like, what the fuck is this? I brought my security blanket. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm not even reading anything. I'm just preferring not to make eye contact.
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Speaker 2: In the background.
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Speaker 1: Wonderful to have you here. We are thrilled, blessed to be joined in our third seat by a stand up comedian's got a hilarious special called Milk Job that you should go check out. You know. Are from Lady to Lady the Warped Tour, the founder of the comedy record label Burn this record. It's Brandy Posey. Good to be here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, has warped for recent recent Yeah, it's back, fun but difficult. I just yeah, I just stand up and warped tour last year and this year, and it's it's like really fun, but it is it's an exercise and ego death because you'll be doing a joke and fifty people will be having a great time and then Sublime will start. Yeah, and then fifty people will go sorry, just leave, and you're like, that's fine, that's scare. Also, i'd go with you too, Yeah, you.
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Speaker 1: Should just go see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well the wireless Mike, I would heckle sublime from the back.
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Speaker 1: But it's been really fun.
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Speaker 2: Everyone's so nice and it's really cool seeing like millennials are stuff to come out, but also their kid they have alternative kids now too, and like that's giving me a lot of hope. Seeing seeing a subculture thriving feels really good. Although unfortunately I do have to report Papa Roach is huge again. Oh the kids love? Is that Papa Roach in the year twenty twenty six? I fine, it's probably fine. It was surprising, Yeah I say this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm the age where I'm just glad I recognize a name of a band period.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fair.
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Speaker 3: I looked at I did see the Warp Tour when it was long, because one of my friends was like, we're.
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Speaker 1: Going to a Warp tour. Do you want to come?
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Speaker 3: And I looked at the lineup and I literally was like, I know less than one percent of what the words here?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you would have known Brandy post top five papas. Can we get to five papas? We got John Smurf roach.
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Speaker 3: That's all I got, ye, Papa the Japanese cream puff store.
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Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's go with that. I was thinking, Papa Pia, don't creach Danny i Ello, of course, Yeah, yeah, I think that's I think that's plenty. I think we got to.
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Speaker 3: Just like a little Italian boy saying, Papa, Papa.
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Speaker 1: Those still at the bicycle. All right, we're going to get to know you, Brandy a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things we're talking about.
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Speaker 4: We're talking about.
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Speaker 1: The crumbles, the not not delicious crumbles, cookies. The part of living in modern America where it seems like everything's kind of falling apart is very cute. It's cute, right. That's that's from That is from cools On Media, which, by the way, just celebrated their fifth anniversary. It seemed like just yesterday I was pretending to know what cool zone meant. When they were like, we're gonna call it cool I was like, yeah, definitely, Google Google, what is cool Zoe mean? Is I just think that? Oh man? But anyways, they call it the crumbles, And I think it's good because it reminds me of cookies and not poop, whereas in shitification, yeah, kind of just makes me think about poop. Yeah, And it's also more broad and allows you to picture the entire nationitification.
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Speaker 3: Is like, oh, it's like uniformly bad. Yeah, it's actually crumbles is more accurate too, because it's like it's mostly bad.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the problem is some of it's not bad. Sure, Actually, if it was all bad, we're just like, okay, I'm aware of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah. So we're going to talk about that, and it's many splendid forms, one of them being a new Google spam filter that you can like get a VIP pass from. So no, really no longer a spam filter. We'll talk about that. We will talk about the GOP going after DSA candidates and whether the Democrats are going to fight back. I don't know, And.
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Speaker 3: Well, they're going to fight back against someone which direction?
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Speaker 1: That got his point? It is not even that unclear. Yeah, And NASA was recently forced to address a viral rumor that the Earth was going to lose gravity for seven seconds on August twelfth, So hell yeah, twelve seconds, right, seven seconds on August.
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Speaker 2: Twelfth, Okay, seven seconds.
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Speaker 1: That would be fun as hell. Yeah, yeah, Like, just give us a little taste.
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Speaker 2: Just let us know I'm not as.
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Speaker 1: A little taste in zero gravity. Yeah, all of that plenty more. But first, Brandy, we do like to ask eric guests, what is something from yoursearch history that's revealing about who you are.
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Speaker 2: I was reading earth at Kits Wikipedia the other day, okay, because I'd heard it on a pig cast. I didn't realize that she had had her career kind of derailed because she confronted Lady Bird Johnson in on luncheon about Vietnam. She was like a massive anti war advocate and she the CIA basically blacklisted her and made her like they made her an an infomaniac and like the eye of the public, and it kind of destroyed her career. And I didn't know that, and I was like going and reading all about it, and I was like, damn earthkit Rules. I always liked her, and I was like, I wonder what happened. And it also makes her casting and earner scared stupid even cooler. Earnest, Comrade, Comrade, Earnest.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was a very interesting rabbit hole to go down that I had no idea about.
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Speaker 1: The basically weren't cool in the twentieth century unless the FBI was like actively trying to like career. Now they're just.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, micro fucking up everyone's life, that's right, Yeah, yeah, or scale.
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Speaker 1: I don't even know who's cool anymore. FBI hates everyone. What is something you think is underrated?
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Speaker 2: Okay, so I like doing my underrated overrated together, and I think parallel parking is underrated. I think pull through parking is overrated.
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Speaker 1: Parallel parking is underrated. Okay, so you like a little difficulty.
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Speaker 2: I think the high of getting into a spot that you didn't know that you could get in far surpasses the high of a pull through spot.
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Speaker 1: There's no high like coming up to a spot, having the person in the shotgun riding shotgun be like nope, do that, yeah yeah, or yeah you're in there, yeah, watching where in my cases make an Austin Powers reference around here, and then keep it.
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Speaker 2: But you got in that spot, spot on that spot.
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Speaker 1: We're thirty minutes late for wherever we're going. But I told you, I think my general ability to parallel park well has been torched.
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Speaker 3: It's the same way like AI crushed crutches or whatever, like the backup camera like that. I tried parking my friend's car without a backup camera recently, and I was like, I think I don't know how to do that.
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Speaker 1: It turns out I don't know. I think, I think I don't know. Do you have a system? Do you have like the mirror system?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I use I use the mirrors for the most part.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean I use a lot of round cars on the road. So also I still am used to just doing it in all sorts. I also learned to drive in Philly, so that was a real got it dogg eat dog.
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Speaker 1: Throwing a deep battery at your car. That's all I know about Philly.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, that's not all you need.
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Speaker 1: But do you have the thing where you like, once the front of your car gets to the mirror of the car you're backing up next to, then you get the wheel. Is that the I don't know if that's universal.
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Speaker 2: It's not even that it's interesting. It's not even that conscious to me. It feels like you can just tell you, yeah, you must be here, like I'm really.
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Speaker 1: Parallel.
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Speaker 2: I take a lot of pride in it. If I can get a big car into a tiny spot and there's like no room between me and the car front and behind me, I'm just I'll get out and I'll just I'll double beep it. So I want everyone to look damn.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Mac truck and that little garage.
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Speaker 2: It feels good.
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Speaker 1: Reference, right, guys, everybody still listen to that song.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still in the rotation. I just remember, like the first time I saw one of those commercials for a car that parallel parked itself, I was so mad. I was like, just anti human. Yeah, disgusting. Right, how dare you take my wins from me?
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Speaker 3: Can I ask a question that maybe you should just qualify me from driving a car when it is a pull through spot just the spot you pull in, or is it one that you pull or is that like out the side of the road.
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Speaker 1: But there's no cars on either show. Let's get into that, because I also don't really.
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Speaker 2: Know what I'm the only dad on the show right now. Apparently it's do you pull into a parking lot and then you pull into a spot, and then the spot in front of you is open, So you pull through to the second one. Oh, so that you're facing out, you're facing out, yeah, yeah, so it's like you got to back in, but you didn't do the back once again, cheating, it's cheating. It's a stolen valor situation. Also, it's like your trunk. Now you maybe have a car too close behind you if you get the stuff in your trunk. I don't like people love a pull through, and I'm always like.
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Speaker 1: Why right, it's stolen balant, stolen back like an easy pat you.
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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, absolutely, what about finding a polter spot but still going around and then back and.
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Speaker 1: Backing in, It's just.
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Speaker 5: Move.
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Speaker 2: When I start wearing my phone on my hip.
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Speaker 3: Take photos exclusively with I pad, yeah yeah, exactly, it's the evolution.
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Speaker 1: You don't need a phone carrying like a twelve by twelve. All right, amazing. So now I know what pull through parking is. I know not to do it when you're around.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can do what you want. Just don't be proud.
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, I just right everyone, Yeah yeah, walk out like Charlie better than that. We all know it. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news. We'll be right back and we're back right all right, we're beat great, great to have you. We're talking the crumbles again. A shout out to cool Zone. Five years went by in a flash. But I feel like I'm just seeing this in a lot of the news stories we had for today's show. I'm seeing it in my personal life. Like I had a friend who's apartment hunting right now and was like, I am going to this apartment that I'm like fifty to fifty is a scam? Yeah, And that seems like it's a realer threat these days. Like yeah, then in like my twenties when I was apartment hunting, that wasn't that, Like the rent was a scam? Yeah, but it was not. I was not worried that it was like a financial thing where the person was going to disappear, Like sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're not playing a part apartment like application fees to a scam. Yes, but you know you're probably not going to hear back from yeah. Yeah, Yeah, there's a health quick blessness and like a like a resignation. Now, that wasn't there the same way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that all about? Seems bad? Yeah? Is it? Okay?
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Speaker 3: Here's my question because I feel like I've always been distrustful of shit, So I'm largely like, I don't know, but I guess I'm like, when am I I assume because everyone does, like I'm going to tip over into not being able to see what the scam is?
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Speaker 1: Sure eventually, yeah that's what life. Yeah, yeah, So is there more of it?
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Speaker 3: I guess I'm just like, there has to be more, But I'm like, so this is my Yeah, that is a good question.
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Speaker 1: That is sort of a question underlying all this. Am I just like getting old? And I'm like, God, damn, the scams are getting good? But it does feel like so other examples that I have and then we can talk it. So, yeah, food recalls seem to be going off the charts now. Is that the media hating on my boy RFK or is it that he's done a shitty job and gutted all of the regulatory departments that Yeah, like diarrhea, there's been a spike in the amount of times we've gotten to say explosive diarrhea on this show and the number of times that mainstream media outlets they still put it in quotes, which guys just own it. You're saying explosive diarrhea. You're getting a little pop off of saying explosive diarrhea. But the Yeah, so there's that. There's also the fact that they like, once I guess we had food recalls, we didn't have this situation where like the food is recalled and everybody knows about it and it just like kind of keeps getting worse. Yeah, which like there's like a new report that it's like cyclosport Iace's cases are more than fifteen thousand according to the CDC. They're kind of keeping it quiet. They won't talk about it too much.
00:22:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like it used to be like once every once in a while they'd be like, oh shit, this is happening, and then it'd be a couple of years before you really heard something else, and.
00:22:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably has to be right, CDC is different. Yes, it used to be. It is and they can't anymore.
00:22:39
Speaker 1: They like proudly gutted it like yeah when they yeah, or when whatever they took power, they were like, it's yeah, fuck this, there's all these regulations are. Yeah, there was a twelve person team who was worried about screw worms. Yeah, look at us, and we fired it. Yeah, exactly that. There's a list of things that have been recalled frozen blueberries, iceberg, ledus shell eggs, make Berry's, pistachio nut butter, some green powder supplements, jelapango, soup kits sound Jurassic like. It's like all the all the things, like I can no longer keep track. I I mean, it's got to be right, like a direct result of deregulations. Yes, I think that's right.
00:23:19
Speaker 3: I last time I went to the doctor, I remember specifically asking I can't remember what it was about. It was like a I think it was like a do I need this vaccine or whatever? And I had to ask my doctor like is that the CDC recommendation or is that the California like public health recommendation, because I suspect they differ, And she was like, we're going by California.
00:23:40
Speaker 1: Okay. So it's like that's I think.
00:23:42
Speaker 3: That's like reasonable to just be like, yeah, the federal government is bad, worse than it was.
00:23:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's just like.
00:23:49
Speaker 1: That's kind of the definition of the crumbles is like things that we used to take for granted as like invisibly working, Yeah, yeah, are just like not you have to pay attention they're no longer visible. You have to pay attention and like kind of navigate things.
00:24:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, like things that you thought, Okay, that is the thing I don't need.
00:24:06
Speaker 4: To worry about.
00:24:07
Speaker 2: Oh I have to worry about that. I had to worry about all this before. I didn't worry about that. Oh I had to worry about this now.
00:24:13
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:24:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I.
00:24:14
Speaker 3: Mean Republicans are have basically switched like civics into a lab course rather than a lecture course.
00:24:22
Speaker 1: Right, you could just learn about it. I feel it. Yeah, exactly, you got to be on that shit.
00:24:29
Speaker 2: Can I get in the control group?
00:24:30
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I feel like phones no longer really working, like phone calls being mostly spam and texts being like yeah, twenty five percent spam text.
00:24:42
Speaker 2: Maybe at this point me is so smug that I can get spam calls forever. Because my parents, like their phone would get spam. They had up constant landlines still, and I was like, no one's got this.
00:24:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, you must be doing something wrong. Oh they probably were. They were probably clicking on links they shouldn't have been, milling parents, or their numbers got stolen. So just a matter of time.
00:25:06
Speaker 3: I think it is sort of like, but I will say, phones and texts from numbers you don't know have gone so far to the other side that it is like now functionally a zero percent chance they will be useful. Yeah, so kind of, it's it's a little less at least when I was interpreting this Crumbles thing of it's just fully shit, fully and unambiguously shit, like you don't have to worry about never answering a phone call, right, whereas like, to me, Crumbles is a little bit like, well, you still have to answer everyone because one in five whatever your pharmacy or your boss or whatever the fuck.
00:25:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's not a full collapse yet it's a crumble.
00:25:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one is like a full collapse, and it's clear.
00:25:48
Speaker 3: Even if your boss calls, you can just be like I assumed it was spam and they have no choice to be like that's reasonable.
00:25:55
Speaker 1: Sure.
00:25:55
Speaker 2: Well the crumbles is hard too, because it's like still when you're in the crumbles, you still have to pay your bill and your rent and stuff. When you get to collapse, then you're like, okay, yeah, I think so we're good here. Yeah, now I think that's gone.
00:26:06
Speaker 1: But you're the machete budget's the only one that read at.
00:26:09
Speaker 2: That point exactly. So it's hard being in an in between space and being like I still gotta like pay for gas. I can't just like threaten.
00:26:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, which society might rebound.
00:26:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So a couple other examples. So Google has just announced a VIP spam filter. They didn't really announce it. They put it on their like terms of service or like, you know, a page that you could find if you went digging for it. But basically, heading into the twenty twenty six elections, Gmail users are going to be flooded with unwanted political spam because Google decided to create a VIP lane for campaigns where that like official campaigns basically can pay a certain amount of money to hell yeah, not be on the spam.
00:26:51
Speaker 2: List, which it'll be the ones that I agree with, yes, which.
00:26:55
Speaker 1: I had assumed was already happening on text message because of the out of text messages that were getting through like leading up to election day and then just like cut off after. But I mean vaccine exemptions obviously, like we just got we just hit four point two percent vaccine exemptions for US kindergarteners, which is up from three point six the previous year.
00:27:23
Speaker 2: That's bad.
00:27:24
Speaker 3: What is the what is the the tipping point is like much low? Is it the tipping points like ten on vaccinated or something like that, where it's.
00:27:32
Speaker 1: Just like you might as well not vaccinee. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm always saying, you might as well know that's right, that's right man. So yeah, I don't know. There's part of me that's like, also, this isn't like something that I encounter on a day to day basis. But the the story's coming out of the like Navy right now, like the USS Lincoln where they like food. We talked about that earlier, and like just as the Pentagon is like being like this is overblown and a media panic, a story comes out of like a US Naval destroyer that they went four days without power, leaving sailors without toilets, air conditioning, galley service, and potable water for four days, which seems it seems like too many days to go.
00:28:20
Speaker 3: Famously, the Emperor does well when they antagonize the military, I feel like that's going to be fine. Well, I mean I think that that is also the other side of this is like the crumbles and shitification et cetera of it, like like the propaganda or whatever doesn't allow them to just acknowledge that it's happening, right, because like this is happening to your shit too, like it's actually impeding the shit you want to get done.
00:28:51
Speaker 1: Like you actually can't invader in right, dog. Yeah, actually that's not an option for you.
00:28:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't have it.
00:28:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't afford it.
00:29:00
Speaker 2: Well, then we have their own propaganda in their head of like we can do anything. Yeah, yeah, we support the troops and we can do anything. That's not it's a child brain, guys.
00:29:10
Speaker 1: That seems like a system we're dealing with now where they like are confused by their own lives yea, and so they're just constantly like bullshit.
00:29:18
Speaker 3: But yeah, no one, no one's like there. They've winked so much that they actually forgot what the truth is. And now it's like, yeah, well like missiles, Yeah, like we can just count the missiles, guys, they're not there, Like.
00:29:32
Speaker 1: Do we that? That is a question I have Like sometimes I'm just like, oh, this could be like I could see a future where this is like the time like when in under Gorbachev when everything just like collapsed and like for a long time, it was just like them believing their own lives and just being like yeah, but like we've gotten by on this for so long, and then all at once it's just like everything falls apart.
00:29:57
Speaker 3: What's the first domino falls?
00:29:59
Speaker 5: Right?
00:30:00
Speaker 1: Also, it feels like it's raining dominoes, you know. Yeah, but that's the thing.
00:30:04
Speaker 3: One of them still has to fall, right, Like none of them really have fallen, but they I mean, we're also at the stage of mad king, where, like so many, so much of the power structures built on lies because you can only get promoted if you're buying the lie. So now it's like, oh yes, it will just snap.
00:30:25
Speaker 4: They that, which.
00:30:28
Speaker 2: Makes it hard as an American too, because on like a micro level, we all have some version of that going on our head, right, because if we truly believe that and I feel this way, I'm just every day I'm like, should I be buying seeds?
00:30:40
Speaker 1: Should be?
00:30:41
Speaker 5: Like?
00:30:42
Speaker 2: How how much should if? If it is like that's it, Yeah, I mean.
00:30:49
Speaker 1: I do.
00:30:50
Speaker 2: I got a machete already.
00:30:51
Speaker 1: I have a small knife. Yeah, yeah, I need to get my think.
00:30:56
Speaker 2: But it is like there is some part of my American brain that's like it'll be all right. I'm like, I gotta terrogate that, you know, like I.
00:31:07
Speaker 1: For what it's worth.
00:31:08
Speaker 3: I feel like, regardless, the thing that's more valuable seat than seeds is being really good friends with the hundred people that live around you. Well yeah, of course, because they got to protect your seats. Well yeah, definitely. I mean I'm home.
00:31:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if I'm not going on, which one of them is?
00:31:26
Speaker 1: You know?
00:31:27
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just yeah, I feel like, yeah, I don't know all the survivalist stuff.
00:31:32
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I know I ain't got it in me. So I hope people like jokes. Constantly having to apologize to my neighbors for keeping them up while burying gasoline in my back yard. Yeah, gotta stop doing.
00:31:46
Speaker 2: You're poisoning the earth.
00:31:50
Speaker 1: I bury gasoline loose. It's where it came from, and it's where it's going back. It's gasoline is natural.
00:31:59
Speaker 2: That's you know, I'm trying to make a dinosaur.
00:32:04
Speaker 1: Reverse. Enough time, all right, let's take a quick break.
00:32:12
Speaker 4: We'll come back.
00:32:13
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some other bullshit.
00:32:14
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we're back.
00:32:27
Speaker 1: And a couple of stories about Michigan candidate Abdul l Say ed who whooped the ass of Chuck Schumer's chosen candidate in the in the Democratic primary. Now there's a lot of stories about, well, maybe the Democrats could win without Michigan, maybe they could win back control of the Senate without Michigan. At a lot of vote blue no matter who, unless it's left wing candidate energy going around in the mainstream media. I do feel like they're trying to make it seem like the parties even more divided than it already is. But one story that the right is pushing are these islamophobic attacks on Elsie Edge about how he oversaw an animal slaughter house and was responsible for the deaths of four thousand puppies and kittens, which the National Republican Senatorial Committee even started selling dogs against abdual Merch, seemingly just for AI generated dogs based on the ad the dogs are just completely AI.
00:33:35
Speaker 2: It's reminiscent of that Spencer Pratt billboard we had on that like dogs love Spencer.
00:33:39
Speaker 1: They have one move, yeah, like what are people like dogs? Which is that to lie?
00:33:45
Speaker 2: Which is funny because how many our candidates had dogs on the roofs of their cars. Meant Romney like Christy no, murdered a puppy out that's like the.
00:33:54
Speaker 1: Thing they chosen, a thing that they're so bad on. Yeah, exactly, they do. I mean, obviously there was a lot of racism around dogs in the twenty twenty four election. Yeah, this is just more mask off racism. And also, so these headlines, they'll like link to a story that has this incendiary headline about how you oversaw the death of four thousand puppies and then like you read the text of the article and he actually took over at like immediately after that crisis was happening. He took over animal control like before it was overseen by And you're not gonna believe this. The police, you're not gonna believe they weren't great with.
00:34:39
Speaker 6: Dogs historically, great shocking, Yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of German shepherds did really well, that's right, that's right.
00:34:50
Speaker 1: Everything else though, they love shooting them. And when they were in charge of Detroit's animal control, there were apparently thousands of dog being put down. El said a government took over and things improved, And it says that in the text of the article with the headline that's like this guy's a dog killer. Yeh, watch out for Abdul the dog killer.
00:35:14
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say, for what it's worth, and this might be cold comfort, I actually don't think this shit sways that many people.
00:35:23
Speaker 1: Sure, however, I.
00:35:24
Speaker 3: Do think a lot of especially white Michigan Democrats, were secretly never going to vote for a brown guy anyway. So I am saying it's you know, those those things are institutionally tough, but they're just wrong. And you know, he's he's still you know, it's still just about the enthusiasm of actual voters who are not awful.
00:35:48
Speaker 1: I don't know if that helps.
00:35:49
Speaker 3: I'm just like, yeah, this racist shit is just like finds its ceiling really quickly.
00:35:53
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:35:54
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:35:55
Speaker 1: It does also highlight though, the fact that the Democrats are so bad at just doing like the very because the reason they've made this story up is because it's like a populist thing that you can do. People love dogs, and like the Republicans are like really bad, ye, really bad on them. Like you could just use the truth of the situation and be like point out the Christy Nome thing, to point out that with Trump's like mass deportations, that they were leaving a bunch of animals homeless, then had to be put down. Like there's so many examples, and also like, you know, the thing that really ails the country in a lot of cases is the Supreme Court ruling on things to you know, make it so the corporations can do whatever the fuck they want. The twenty twenty four Supreme Court ruling that shielded hedge fund manager and right wing talk show host George jar Cassi from sec fines he received for allegedly defrauding investors, the Supreme Court was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, that guy's very rich. You guys need to lay roll. And that ruling makes it impossible to prosecute puppy mills essentially, and so like these are just like it's just like if the Republicans had something like that, yeah, to exploit, they would exploit it. But the Democratic Party sucks so bad, I will say, I mean, for what it's worth, it's like who knows what's going to happen. But it does seem like Alsayad at least has the political chops. Oh you say, like okay, let's talk about puppy mills and then like go into Supreme Court. Whereas like your generic you know, capital D Democrat centrist would be like actually and then just like yeah, fuck it up in somewhere, fuck it up.
00:37:49
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:37:49
Speaker 2: So I don't think he's actually anything.
00:37:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, the extent that we have a chance with these people, Yeah, have a chance, Yes, we as a man Chuck Schumer. Yeah, it's just it hopefully lies in that which is like, you know, it does seem like what I said is a better campaigner than yeah, the generic Democrat has been for decades now.
00:38:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, he like understands like, oh, that's the attack. Like if I a lot of this stuff always gets breaks down too. If you can just speak like a person to directly and go no, that's what this is actually like if you do.
00:38:25
Speaker 1: That, yeah, you can just like hear it immediately. Yeah, you're like, oh, you're a person who's like saying things that happen. You're not like doing a weird like math in your brain about the things that are coming out of your mouth.
00:38:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not like a bunch of focus groups that you're like running through in your brain. Like he knows what he wants to say, and he's you know good, I mean very good at it. So I believe in his ability to combat it and maybe even turn it on them in some way.
00:38:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. I do feel like we're starting to see who the math in the brain it is going to be for the mainstream Democratic Party for president. I feel like Awesome is like their guy. He's like rising in polls. Wild Newsome and Hairs are like kind of going down, I guess ultimately, thank God.
00:39:16
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I'm just like of the If it's Awesome versus AOC for the Right for the nomination, it's probably better than better than their alternatives, any alternative we have.
00:39:29
Speaker 2: I just personally can't let Gavin. I just need him to be humble and disappointed at every turn in a personal way.
00:39:36
Speaker 1: I know, I really suspect that his support is going to completely evaporate the second that, like the primary start and people have to vote for him.
00:39:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Clovicular is not going to stump for him.
00:39:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he's giving claviculars. Yeah yeah, yeah.
00:39:53
Speaker 3: Maybe don't have so many Nazis on your podcast if you want to be a Democrat.
00:39:58
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to don't change your life to make it completely differently.
00:40:04
Speaker 2: I have scrolled that guest feed at people so many times in public that have tried to make a case. Yeah, I'm just like, yeah, Charlie Kirk just going through the list the worst.
00:40:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Rogan Man, Well can I say he love Rogan and you? Yeah? So are we that different? After all? Turns out we are. I have gotten ship on our show for talking about Joe Rogan. People are like, dude, he does good research. I mean this is a long time. Yeah.
00:40:35
Speaker 2: It's really wild how pervasive he is, because I'll have people come up to me at for a comedy show that are lady Lady fans and they'll be like, yeah, what else do you listen to, Like, oh, you know Rogan, And I'm like, howl, how feel those two things?
00:40:49
Speaker 3: I feel like if you don't think about it or understand, Rogan represents the generic idea of stand up comedy to you, sure, I think is clearly what's happening players because he's a horrible comic.
00:41:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to differ with you on that one. I mean I I used.
00:41:08
Speaker 3: To really really enjoy m m A and like, yeah.
00:41:12
Speaker 1: I was just like if it was just an mm A podcast, Like he knows what he's talking about.
00:41:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, just in terms of who's better at fighting. Yeah, but it's just like and it. As long as he doesn't have to talk about whether it's based on the shape of their skulls or like whatever, he's fine enough.
00:41:29
Speaker 1: I genuinely think there's always that bleed though I know always that God.
00:41:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, happens quickly. I just try to picture a universe where Johnny Knoxville was the host of Fear Factor the whole time.
00:41:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, better world, yeah see, or Johnny Knoxville turns into a right wing coon that's the thing.
00:41:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying fear Maybe it's the fear factor that did it. Yeah, you think you think fear factor.
00:41:55
Speaker 2: We're gonna see.
00:41:56
Speaker 1: We're gonna see what that's the thing that's one way or the other. All right, let's talk about what we've all been thinking. That's the start of this, which is is gravity going to turn off for seven seconds? The rumor spread online that intersecting gravitational waves from colliding black holes would cause gravity to shut off at exactly four thirty three UTC or ten thirty three am Eastern time, which so mark your calendar except it already passionate. Didn't happen, but they claimed that people could be thrown into the air, which, yeah, I guess it's a fun thought experiment. Like just that is I think what a lot of conspiracy theories are is like our version of fiction, what would happen? Yeah, Like that would be fucking fun. Like that's a good movie premise. Like we just found out gravity is going to turn off for seven seconds on this date in August, right, what do we do as a similar Like how do we prepare for that? That's like fun, like and then go through the science, like really take it seriously, like that's and it's great.
00:43:03
Speaker 2: It's an amount of time. It's like doomsday Cult's not going to kill themselves over it. Yeah, you can maybe get a couple of like foiled heists of some kind. I got, I got a seven second window to launch myself and grab a diamond or something like. That's fun.
00:43:18
Speaker 1: That is fun. Yeah.
00:43:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna say this, and not just because I started doing a Star Trek podcast where I'm learning about Star Trek.
00:43:25
Speaker 1: This feels like the kind of shit that would be at start. Oh oh, totally a planet where I mean yes, yeah, like a planet where gravity turns off for seven seconds. That's kind of like an and or spot. Right, wasn't there something about that planet they were on and season one of van or some shit happened. I don't remember.
00:43:41
Speaker 3: There's a window for something to go down.
00:43:45
Speaker 1: The latest Alien movie has a gravity generating thing where like it suddenly will turn off. Yeah, and they like that by far. The best part of that movie was like when gravity would turn off and like it would just be like what we threw a little like because it.
00:44:00
Speaker 3: Was the soup in the first scene. Favor remember this gross soup? Oh yeah, I don't really remember.
00:44:08
Speaker 2: I think eating a ball of liquid is what I would do for the seven seconds. I always look at the coolest part on every astronaut in space movie. I'd be like, I want to chomp.
00:44:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will just say not to be a physics pete ant.
00:44:23
Speaker 3: But they mean that will be a free fall, not gravity will shut Gravity shuts off. Obviously all your cells just you know, all your molecules just float randomly.
00:44:33
Speaker 1: Wait, what is holding us together?
00:44:36
Speaker 4: Okay?
00:44:37
Speaker 3: I say, like, you know, gravity, kids, that's holding us together, because like that there's fundamental forces. But like gravity shutting off means lots of other ship but they do they just mean, you know, local gravity is lesson.
00:44:52
Speaker 1: Just the version in my brain that you know, is that the nuclear force?
00:44:57
Speaker 4: I don't know.
00:44:58
Speaker 1: Don't at me.
00:44:59
Speaker 2: I think if seven seconds my body just went honestly feels so good.
00:45:04
Speaker 6: So just like a taller like, yeah, density is just a little down.
00:45:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm talking about the version of physics from sci fi movies. I was raised on where like your floating, you're when you're on a spaceship, you're going up. The sky's blue, the sky's blue. You hit a point, there's like a line, a clearly defined line where it turns into like night sky like and then yeah, all of a sudden, everything just like the pen in front of you sets floating, like in two thousand and one.
00:45:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, look that for seven seconds.
00:45:37
Speaker 1: I think I would want to be near a bird for the seven seconds because first of all, look at fuck you look at me now? Yeah, yeah, look who can fly? But also have you ever seen the footage they have like this is just something that NASA did one time as they took birds into zero gravity, and they looked so stupid, like just over, that's amazing. They just keep putting animals in zero gravity and the same thing happens every single time, which is they're just like look stupid as hell, they just like don't know what to do.
00:46:12
Speaker 2: That's the very specific kind of edge. Lord, I want my tax absolutely.
00:46:18
Speaker 3: Birds, yeah, all birds, even without even with this version, right, life.
00:46:24
Speaker 1: On Earth ends. So seven seconds of zero gravity right.
00:46:28
Speaker 3: Like the ocean, whatever happens to the ocean is enough inertia keeping it.
00:46:34
Speaker 1: There for I don't know. I don't know.
00:46:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the question I think if I think it's the spit of the earth continues the inertia.
00:46:45
Speaker 1: Into in the face. I believe.
00:46:50
Speaker 3: I'm just saying for stuff like this is that sype of thing you should build a bet against on Calshi because there's no downside. You either win your bet or life on Earth ends.
00:46:59
Speaker 1: That's true. So who cares? Yeah, you're working those markets. Yeah. So the alleged leaked NASA documents, see if you guys can poke any holes in this, called Project Anchor is a supposed plan costing eighty nine billion dollars that involved secret bunkers for essential people and a diverse group to repopulate the Earth in case of disaster. That's where they love. Yeah. Also NASA would not be in charge of it, like NASA would present this to the wrong person, you know, and the billionaires have such class solidarity if they just immediately euthanize everyone in NASA take over the planning, and it would be like, I think people would be shocked by the number of extremely wealthy people who are eagerly planning a Doctor Strangelove like repopulation right in it.
00:47:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're already like preparing.
00:47:52
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:47:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I love because it's also just like I don't know, man, I just feel like one hand over the oxygenvent in your little bunker, I know, I just can't wait for like, well, that's.
00:48:05
Speaker 1: What I'll killing. Yeah. Yeah, that's why they talk about killing the pilot who flies you there. That's like the number one fun party debate. Yeah, Jilicon Valley is like, okay, so we all have our suicide butter our survivalist bunkers. When the pilot flies you there, Obviously you've told the pilot they can go back and fly and pick up their family. Yep, yeah, you're not gonna do that. Do you keep them there and keep them alive as like a pet? Yeah?
00:48:34
Speaker 3: Or do you just I thing that's so funny about these people is they've convinced themselves they're so much smarter than everyone else that they think no one else can have the same fucking like D minus level mind game. Right yeah, like, yeah, man, you are going to get killed by your head of security in the first ten minutes.
00:48:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is what's gonna happen.
00:48:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna kill promise a person with a skill is going to take you out.
00:49:00
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yes, and right if that doesn't happen, you will die of starvation in one month.
00:49:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are the two choices.
00:49:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to do anything.
00:49:10
Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah, the like contraption will get jammed and you'll be like, oh, I shouldn't have killed that.
00:49:18
Speaker 3: Oh you don't have access to the servers that say the number that your net worth is.
00:49:22
Speaker 1: Right, it looks like you're pretty fucked. Yeah right.
00:49:26
Speaker 2: There's a great book called Survival of the Richest Escape Fantasies of Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff.
00:49:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a Oh yeah that's where I got all. That's the one who told me, because he is just, you know, a really smart tech writer who you know, at a certain point started getting invited to these tech billionaire conferences. Yeah, and he said. Invariably, the conversation would just turn to them being like all right, so but seriously, like, how do we game this out so that we like kill the right people? Yeah?
00:50:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like dog collars in my security And I'm like try, yeah, are you gonna be the one that puts the dog collar on your head of security?
00:50:10
Speaker 3: For it is just like all the way down and it's like, oh, okay, I'll just I'll just hold this person hostage. Well, then the person that holds that person hostage, I need to hold them hostage, Like what the fuck are you talking about? Think about it for one second. I will also say, though, because this is in Atlas Shrugged, like the little shutting off Yeah no, sorry, the like little billionaire society.
00:50:34
Speaker 1: But isn't it like the opposite? No?
00:50:37
Speaker 3: They well the outside world that they have their little like Galt gulch whatever the fuck where all the like like you know, like the refer what they called makers or whatever the fuck you live, and they gloss over like oh.
00:50:49
Speaker 1: And everyone just cleans their toilets.
00:50:50
Speaker 3: And like whatever so quickly that it's like sure, dog, sure for all you fucking libertarian assholes are happy doing like com munism like everyone takes a shot at every job. Get the fuck out of here.
00:51:04
Speaker 1: The premise of Atlas Shrugged is that the billionaires are underappreciated.
00:51:09
Speaker 5: They leave, and societies like, no, like how much better could we just try that?
00:51:20
Speaker 1: Could we just like convince them to do like seed the billionaires with like one class trader who's just like we should do an Atlas Shrugged. Guys, everybody's being so mean to us, like look at this, let's go like, I mean, even the small version.
00:51:38
Speaker 3: It's like they could all move to like wherever the fucking Texas, like star based Texas.
00:51:43
Speaker 1: Please, they don't, I know, that's what. Yeah, they all left Manhattan to the billionaire ghost town. Now Dommi's there.
00:51:52
Speaker 3: It's just like guess what they were already not paying taxes there. Yeah, fucking yeah, I don't know. They're like at the truck is like the cop strike threat fiction. Oh you shure really fell apart. It's like, you know what, let's see what let's go, let's go, let's see what happens.
00:52:12
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, my main takeaway from this story is Michael Bay get to work. Yeah, gravity eclipse and you think it's just people being like wow and the clips made the light go away? What if clips made.
00:52:28
Speaker 2: Actually I want to give it to Roland Emeric.
00:52:30
Speaker 1: Because moon Fall.
00:52:33
Speaker 2: Is already kind of like dabbling in this territory and.
00:52:37
Speaker 1: What happens to gravity and moonfall?
00:52:40
Speaker 2: Like the moon right like that, the Moon is a celestial structure that was It's actually a spaceship that was built by humans to escape a single millennial will go and we're actually all aliens. We're aliens. Yeah, we came from a steel structure called the Moon. We're the only one to have existed. And Elon Musk is mentioned several times.
00:53:07
Speaker 6: Really yeah yeahs in like yeah he's smart.
00:53:12
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean in those expanse books that are mostly right, there's like a like, oh, Elon Musk figured this thing out back like the USS Elon Musk is out there. Yeah, which, by the way, that probably will exist, but it will be plain to Epstein Island too.
00:53:29
Speaker 2: Yeah yep ye watch moon Fall. The rules it's so stupid.
00:53:35
Speaker 1: What do we think grand theft Like, do you think grand Theft auto is going to have any Like I was talking about this on yesterday's Trending episode, like rich billionaire like take out Elon Musk type things that you think they'll like play to the populace a little bit or like have like a cabal of pedophile billionaires that like, you know, pe threaded throughout.
00:54:02
Speaker 3: I think that the reason that stuff I think works is like no billionaire has the self awareness to be like that's me. Yeah, They'll be like totally get that. Those are clearly And the other problem is that you know, the attendees to like an Epstein Island are across the board yea, So it's like you can just do that and they'll be like that's Sorows and Clinton or like that's Trump, and it's like no one has any problem like putting what they want onto it.
00:54:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's coming. It's coming. Brandy. Such a pleasure, haven't you. Thanks for the podcast here here in person? Yeah, yeah, this' rules. Where can people find you? Follow you so you hear you all that good stuff?
00:54:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm at Brandazzel on Instagram. Brandazzel is here on TikTok. My podcast is called Lady to Lady every Wednesday for the last fourteen years, our seven one hundred episode we have French toort on every hundred episode, so we do a very silly thing with him. This time we all painted each other and then showed them to each other at the end. Some office better talent than others. Big great watch. I run a record label called burn This Record. It's a comedy record label. It's uh working with leftist, middle class comedians all over the country, just trying to put all of us that aren't pieces of shit under some kind of a banner together. I have a special called milk Job that you can find on YouTube. You guys have been such a huge help in monetizing the burn This Records YouTube channel. We're almost there. Here's here's an ask for you. If you watched it already, appreciate you. If you haven't watch it now, but maybe also watch it on mute a couple of times. I'm like, I am like six hundred hours, I'm so close. Please send it to people from the Yeah, like that would mean a ton, Like I'm very proud of it, and you are supporting like trying to create an independent space and comedy where it's been shrinking more and more and getting more and more corportized. So like it would be a huge help. If you guys did that, you.
00:56:10
Speaker 1: Go check it out or you know, recheck it out with check it.
00:56:15
Speaker 2: Out, watch some people. I'm really proud of it.
00:56:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know who whose fans do that? Taylor Swift. Yes, and she really needs all the help she can. Yeah.
00:56:24
Speaker 2: I am the tailor Swift for comedy is what I have been called by no one.
00:56:28
Speaker 1: Many people say that. Yeah, many are saying it.
00:56:31
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, do that for me. Also, if you are in Orlando for tour and or if you're in Orlando you want to come, I probably have passes. Hit me up.
00:56:40
Speaker 1: Interesting. Yeah, what do you think of ORLANDA? We were just talking about that, like four quadrant liveability, affordability. Did you see that over the weekends there was like a big thing that was like the most livable and affordable cities in the world and bottom right, like no, not livable, not affordable. We're like York, La, Chicago, like oh ar yeah yeah, London. Diversity was not one of the good things. Yea to Orlando was higher than many of the great cities and as it should be, as it should be.
00:57:16
Speaker 2: I would not want to live there full time. But they do have more building shape like oranges than we do, and that is pretty fun.
00:57:23
Speaker 1: That is that was actually one of the first things that they accounted for in the.
00:57:26
Speaker 2: Yeah index, like a building shape, like a thing.
00:57:30
Speaker 1: Amazing. Is there a work of media you've been enjoying. Yeah.
00:57:35
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm reading a book right now called Chesapeake by James Mitchener. It's really old, it's been around since the seventies. But James Mitchener is this guy that kind of does these like historical like take an area and then follow it from like its inception up until well until he writes the book basically, And this one follows like the area of like Chesapeake, Maryland, which is on the Bay, which is where I'm from, and it kind of starts to like the Chopp Tank Indians all through nineteen seven the eight basically, which is like when you publish the book, and he follows like four or five different families and like the way they intersect and like the just like it it shows like how that part of the country was colonized basically, and like how families like interacted and like it's it's really it's really interesting, I think to look at like a specific area, because I think sometimes we can get so caught in like the not making it personal, like how all that stuff happens and watching the way like four or five families like completely like changed the landscape of everything forever is.
00:58:33
Speaker 1: Like really interesting.
00:58:34
Speaker 2: And he's a really good writer, so you know, big recommend for that. And he's got a ton of a ton of books about all sorts of different parts of the country in world.
00:58:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. That sounds great. It's a very smart media recommendation. Andrew, where can people find you their work media you've been enjoying?
00:58:51
Speaker 3: Oh man, Uh, Starter Trek Starter Trek is the main podcast now it's on YouTube.
00:58:56
Speaker 1: It's on It's.
00:58:57
Speaker 3: Where the old goos. This racist feed was so us go there. Keeps keep looking at it.
00:59:03
Speaker 5: Uh.
00:59:03
Speaker 1: I just finished a book called The Trees by Personal Everett. It's pretty old.
00:59:09
Speaker 3: Uh, it's really I did not realize it was going to be. So it's like I think I genuinely start to finish Reddit in like four or five hours. It reads like very cinematically, it's it's sort of like a supernatural not murder mystery exactly, but it's very it's it's very good. I'm trying to figure out it's basically like it seems like the potentially ghosts or something like that of victims of lynching, have are coming back to kill people, And I guess I won't really spoil it. I'll be honest. I don't told I finished it. I don't totally know exactly what happened at the end. It's very it's very should you pretty weird? Yeah, you know it's it's genuinely a very, very very great book. But yeah, I was one of them glad it reads like TV. So if you're one of those people like whose brain has been fried, I was like, oh, so breezy to read.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it's not the happening where it's like the trees are killing no, no, something like that. Yeah, yeah, amazing, it's good.
01:00:14
Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a genuinely good book that reads Yeah, I think that's what it is. It's like literary fiction that reads like a.
01:00:22
Speaker 1: Page turner in a way that it's like really great, sounds good. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore, Brian Blue Skyjack o b the number one Instagram Jack Underscore, Oh Underscore, Brian workI Media. I've been enjoying. Uh you guys, we recommended books, so I'm gonna recommend a tweet. Black Ocean tweeted you're born, you watch pants go from baggy to skinny, back to baggy every ten years you die. I think that's a novel and of itself.
01:00:52
Speaker 2: No, that's absolutely.
01:00:56
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, uh yeah.
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Speaker 7: So I've been listening to some Italian trap recently, so I'm gonna recommend a song called Mala by Tokyo and featuring Wren and Tiara.
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Speaker 1: It's really bass heavy.
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Speaker 7: I have no idea what they're saying, but these three women are just tearing up this track with incredible flows and I love it. So again, that's Mala by Tokyo, Ren and Tiara, and you can find that in the.
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