The Daily Zeitgeist - Big Boy Trend On The Roof 8/6: Mr. Ed, 'War Of The Worlds, Microplastics/Glass Bottles, B.C. Singing Camper, The Sphere, 'The Wizard Of Oz'

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

In this edition of Big Boy Trend On The Roof, Jack and special guest co-host Blake Wexler discuss the 63 year old TV show Mr. Ed, the new 0% rated Amazon adaptation of 'War of the Worlds', microplastics in GLASS bottles?!?!, the singing camper that sparked a rescue mission, 'The Wizard Of Oz' coming to the Vegas Sphere (featuring yet another useless implementation of AI) and much moreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A four-time grand slam tennis champion, Naomi Osaka. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of Big Boy, Trend on the Roof. Big Boy, Trend on the Roof. they never seen a big boy trend on the roof uh that one courtesy of that clip uh that classic clip of uh somebody singing like making up a song called big boy get on the roof they've never seen a big boy get on the roof as their friend a big boy uh dances his way onto the roof um and then it becomes big boy grill on the roof because they're grilling on the roof it's just

beautiful beautiful clip just pure the vibes the vibes the vibes immaculate um and then it was trending again because trump was on the roof of the white house yesterday as we talked about but uh and now that shit is just in my head irrevocably that song big boy trend on the roof big boy trend on the roof uh my name is jack o'brien that of course over there of course that voice that you hear uh of course of course is blake wexler Have you ever heard of a talking horse? The Mr. Ed, because you know the song, right? A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

Unless, isn't that what it says? Unless, of course, the day, mercers. Have you ever heard of a talking horse? Of course. Oh, Mr. That's the thing that I think might be more popular, exponentially more popular than the show itself. That song. That song has outlived that show in the zeitgeist, if I may.

I think it's time for them to. reboot that and like make him how hasn't it happened? How has it happened? Oh wait, they did that with BoJack Horseman, never mind. The, the, it is, so there's this thing that some people think is real, uh, some people don't, but it's this phenomenon where it's Santa Claus. Look, we all, we all have our questions. The truth is out there. It's out there somewhere called the Flynn effect where somebody noticed that on IQ

tests, people, like, they had to keep upping the difficulty of IQ tests because people kept getting better and better at it. And like, you're supposed to be a test of like, you know, what is average intelligence? And so if you give somebody who gets a 100 today on an IQ test, a test from 1953, they would get like a 120. They would be above average for 1950. And people are like, well, that can't be true. This is how dumb I am, Jack? I'm like, how can you get higher than 100? It's impossible.

It's never happened. I'm like, 120. Why are you making, couldn't you have done a better example than 100? So IQ 100 is average, like, uh, what you have to understand. And I told me it was, they told me it was a hundred percent. It's an a plus, buddy. You did great. Now go back to plan with your, your paint chips.

the you know everybody's like the kids are getting stupider every year right and the truth is that for a long time according to IQ tests highly fallible everybody has been getting smarter and smarter on a like three IQ test points per decade average since like the 1920s big mystery

some of the theories are that it was like everybody was being exposed to lead for so long and then they stopped but it's been more gradual and it's been everywhere basically it's been like everywhere on the planet

my loose theory is that it's just like thing like culture has gotten more complex and you know the theory the example I use is movie movie trailers used to have to be like

this is your protagonist his name is Dave I'm going to tell you about his life and then explain the plot to you And then, like, not a good movie, but, like, Die Hard 4 has a no, no voiceover. And the trailer has, like, a very subtle reference to the first one where, like, doors open. And you hear the song that they played from the first one when the bank vault opens. And it's like, that's how you, that's where they reveal that it's a guy hard thing.

And it's just, yeah, yeah, it's like all these things that we've been like told make us dumber, like MTV, like this fast cutting and all that stuff is like, actually, more difficult for our brains to keep up with and we're having to like imbibe like more difficult texts and all this but a lot of people are like well IQ tests are bullshit and none of it matters and like you're only getting smarter in this very specific way the one thing that I always go back to being like I think we're smarter in a pretty significant way is like go watch Mr. Ed

what they thought was entertaining in the 1950s they had to tell you that And it was a horse. Exactly. And explained to you that it was a talking horse before showing you a show about a talking horse, where from scene one, it's pretty evident that this is a show about a talking horse. It does feel like a show that was made by and for people who had been kicked in the head

by a horse. Yes. It was traumatic brain injuries in an agricultural space audience. No, that is for every single episode. okay so I know we all know horses don't talk however this one does so a horse is Mr. Ed let's start there with that horse equals horse we know he's a horse of course obviously we all know that now here's here's where we might lose some of you this horse is mr. Ed okay it's Mr. Ed okay horses have names probably lost a little but we're still on the same board now

now you're gonna fucking blow your brains down on this next one this this mayor It's talking. This thing. This thing is going to fuck you up. And again, I don't think that that makes us smarter than them in ways that are that important. I just think in the same way that, like,

IQ tests are testing your ability to, like, detect patterns and, like, you know, pry apart, like the meaning of, like,

a specific sentence. Like, that is also, like, the sort of thing you can get from watching more and more complicated and subtle messaging through your media. And like where we started was a fucking talking horse. Are you fucking kidding?

Shut it off. Shut it off. Turn off that garbage. You're bringing Satan into this household. All right. Anyways. Hello. Hello. The internet. Speaking of entertainment that was made by him for people who were kicked in the head by a horse, there is a new War of the World's

starring Ice Cube. it is getting a lot of attention for having a zero percent on rotten tomato it's and so we watched the trailer and then we watched a scene that is also getting a lot of attention in the scene

it's in the scene it's ice cube his daughter and her friend an Amazon delivery driver trying to solve a problem it's all happening over Zoom I assumed this was like okay, what if we're of the world

happened during pandemic? It's not. They're just like, Dad, you work so much, you're always on Zoom. And he's like, yeah, I guess so. Dad, what was the last time you left your apartment? That's confidential, says Ice Cube. And then an Amazon drone delivery device like saves the day at the end of the famous scene.

It's kind of mind-boggling. You kind of need to see it to believe it. that this is an actual movie that's being released by Amazon. We'll link off to the Reddit post where people are like, the scene fucking rules. People are going to deconstruct this trailer

the way we just deconstructed Mr. Ed, but like 50 years from now, where they're going to be like, okay, so they needed to be told that the data is their food. These people are so stupid in the year 2025. What if I didn't know what year it was? in the year

24. Oh, God. Not one of the ways we got smarter is knowing what year it does. No, no, that was a miss. But the data is their food. So these aliens, I guess, are coming in to eat our data

because it's their food. And we're their harvest. It's like they started with one thing. They started being like, what if we remade that Will Smith movie enemy of the state? But like it was through, you know how like there are those horror movies

that are like unchatted this time? the chat is haunted or whatever where it's like the whole movie takes place through like Zoom but like because like this tends to work best for horror movies where it's like you have a

you know window you have like a view of the action through someone's computer screen and like the limiting factor of that makes it like extra suspenseful or whatever for like a big budget action movie like War of the Worlds to

remake that by being like We're just going to, like, show you shitty footage of this. It doesn't seem like it was that good of an idea. Sorry, you were saying. No, no, no, no. I wasn't. And but now I will. And it's that, meanwhile, the only reason why this big budget film, to your point, is exclusively, is a Zoom film, is because when Ice Cube signed the contract, that morning, he had sat in the worst traffic of his life in LA and was like, I'm not leaving my.

house for this movie so you can do whatever you want with the other scenes you can have aliens blowing things up in the city i'm sitting at my desk and you're going to bring the camera to me and i'm not leaving i'm not leaving this room no and they were like we can work with that yeah that sounds great that's how we wrote it actually that's right coincidentally um but yeah so they're doing a zoom windows eye view on war of the world's, it is hovering at a stunning 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Cool. And Super Producer, Victor, points out that I asked several times as we were watching the trailer and then watching the scene if this was real.

Like, it does feel like it can't possibly be real. Specifically, the Amazon trailer, because this is like an Amazon Prime original. Oh, yeah. And to have a scene inside where the guy's like, no, it's cool. I can get you this by sending it out on a drone is pretty, pretty amazing. So Ziking, let's get this tomato meter up to a 9% by the end of the day. I think we can do it if we all vote. How does that work?

Is it like a Nielsen rating where you need to have a tomato in your TV in order to vote? Yes, that's how it works. That is how it works. Okay. They just have a, they have a rotting. Little thing in your, in your TV. And if you throw a tomato at it, it senses that. It can, yeah, feel the pressure.

This tomato is fucking rotten as hell, dog. They hate this one. This is a fresh tomato. They love this one. That's the, that's how we communicate that we love it. In this household, we, uh, we communicate that we love a movie by throwing fresh tomatoes at the television. Um, all right.

Uh, we got one in the category. of, oh, you thought this was helping? You thought what you were doing was helping? It's actually hurting, you fucking idiot. Fuck 4th of July. There's a new report out of Anciss which is a French outlet

that microplastics are present in all beverages but those packaged in glass bottles contain more microplastic particles than those in plastic bottles, cartons, or cans which is, I think, it's part of a genre of

story. I'll group it with the genre of story of, uh, oh, you thought recycling was good? You thought recycling actually helped? It actually fucking hurts, you idiot. Um, which I think in both cases, these stories, I don't think they're designed. It's designed to happen this way. I think it just unintentionally works out this way, which like tends to be how like things work with like power and money. But like the powerful people with money are, control of both like creating the crisis and then the response to the crisis right and so they created the fact that like microplastics are everywhere and then uh and they created like just the massive amounts of pollution and shit and uh and then they created recycling and they created uh glass water

bottles will save you from having microplastic you know that narrative and unfortunately because they do, they do a, like, a whole-assed job of destroying the environment because that's what's profitable and, like, the easiest thing to do. But they do an incredibly half-assed job of, like, the problem mitigation, you know? And so they don't bother, for instance, the, like, story that recycling is not that helpful, actually, is true, as far as I've been able to research, but it's true because nobody has bothered to put any funding behind, like, the sorting of garbage, which is, like, the thing that would help, you know? It would just be like, if you could somehow make it profitable for people to, like, bring the environment back into order through recycling, we would have had this solved two decades ago. But instead, I feel like the way that the story comes to us is, we can't fucking do anything, right? right, you know? And you just like, it comes to you in a way that you're just like, oh, I fucking give up. Like, I'm not going to try anything. And that's unfortunate that it's

just the byproduct of the people in power, uh, having like having a monopoly on both the problem creation and problem mitigation, uh, you know, things that we try. And they don't actually put any thought or money or energy into solving the problems. They just create a PR campaign to be like, and we solved that one. Don't worry about it. Don't look over here anymore. Leave us alone. It's kind of like when, you know, the Bush administration is like, okay, take off your shoes when you go through airport security because they did 9-11. And right, right? That's basically what it is. They caused the problem.

They did that. And it's like, oh, it's taking off your shoes really going to prevent you getting a bomb on a plane. No, because it's not done correctly. Is that, is that basically what you're saying that they could actually look in your shoes because George Bush did 9-11? I'm just, I'm confused with your, with your analogy. actually that is that what it is with my analogy yes your analogy was opaque and i'm trying to clean it up a little bit with the audience i do i do think that's a good yeah a good example of problem mitigation that uh didn't really save us for much because the shoe bombs do you remember did you ever see what the shoe bomb looked like that the guy was so embarrassing it was so

it was wily coyote if he was like drunk like it was it had like lit Like, you had to light the back of the shoes to get them to blow up. But anyways. It was very silly. No, I agree with you. Like, on an emotional standpoint, I think that's, it's not the biggest tragedy of it, but it's such a like a sad byproduct where we are trying, where it's like, I am, you know, not that you're, you know, working in a coal mine, but it's like, oh, I'm separating my trash.

I'm trying so, like, I'm trying, you know, and then you blame yourself when in reality, these corporations have just stacked everything against you. in such a way. And not only have they fucked the environment up, they're blaming it on you as well. You know, they're making you blame yourself. It's just such a bummer.

So just making it all seem like nothing can be done. Right. Nothing is being done. And the reason nothing is being done is because they're not doing it. And they both solve the problem and they've also, you know, concentrated wealth to such a degree that they're the only ones who have the ability to address the problem and they're just not going to.

So become a CEO. Become a CEO. CEO and then you can and then you can help. I do think like when you look at the stories of how people become CEOs and how that whole world operates, like one of the most important things to do is like do something awful and like not tell anyone. That's like, you know what I mean? It's like, and that's how we know we can trust you. It's like how the mafia would operate too. It's like, yeah, well, this person needs to kill someone so we know that they're like with us and they're not going turn on us or like turn you know like i i think that's where i think that's a lot of the half the battle

of becoming rich and powerful is like i'm always in my reading uh mostly picture books and comic yeah of course that's reading you know historical research uh historical picture books i'm always unsurprised like all of the like nakedly evil shit that's being done by the wealthy and powerful it's always like, oh, man, that's even worse than I thought. And then all the stuff that we actually hear about, it's like, oh, that was overblown and sensationalized. But like the stuff that the evil people are, they tried to overthrow FBR and like have him killed by a military general because they wanted to do fascism, like during the rise of Hitler.

Like that's fucking crazy. Oh, my God. I thought I was making a hyperbolic joke, but in reality, it's so much worse. It's like, okay, go to war. have an evil father poison a village you have to poison a village at some point we do we do unfortunately like those are the ways that you're going to become successful and try to overthrow them in yeah that's right uh let's take a quick break we'll be right back the stuff you should know guys have made their own summer playlist of their must listen

podcasts on movies it's me josh and i'd like to welcome you to the stuff you should know summer movie playlist. What Screams Summer? More than a nice, darkened, air-conditioned theater, and a great movie playing right in front of you. Episodes on James Bond, special effects, stunt men and women, disaster films, even movies that change filmmaking, and many more. Listen to the stuff you should know summer movie playlist on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Have you ever looked at a piece of abstract art or music or poetry and thought, that's just a bunch of pretentious nonsense? Well, that's exactly what too bored, Australia. soldiers set out to prove during World War II, when they pulled off what was either a bold

literary hoax or a grand poetic experiment, publishing over a dozen intentionally bad but highly acclaimed works of expressionist poetry under the name Earn Malley in an incident that caused a media firestorm and even a criminal trial. The Earn Malley episode made fools of believers and critics alike and still fascinates poetry lovers to this day. We break down the truth, the lies in the poetry in between on hoax, a new podcast hosted by me, Lizzie Logan, and me, Dana Schwartz. Every episode, hoax explores an audacious fraud or ruse from history from forged artworks to the original fake news to try and answer why we believe. Listen to hoax on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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has to offer. Hamilton pauses, and then he says, the greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar. And Jefferson writes in his diary, this proves that Hamilton is for a dictator based on corruption. My favorite line was what Neil Armstrong said. It would have been harder to fake it than to do it. Listen to American History Hotline on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. back hi hi hi oh my god hi good morning good morning good morrow to you uh blake and i just slept eight hours in between yeah i first act in this act terrible oh my god what were we talking about last

night oh fragile rock did we create a concert do we play fragile rock smoked a couple fragile rocks you know what i'm saying that's that's that's right brother i don't even know what i'm saying let's talk let's talk about something stupid I think the last act if I can remember eight hours ago we were talking about

how wealthy people are destroying the world and not doing shit about it let's talk about a camper in British Columbia who was all right so

I'll tell this like a mystery two hikers hiking near something called the Atlantic Ocean You don't know that That can't be right

No, that's not right The Atlantic near the Boulder fields In Vancouver, British Columbia Heard what they thought was a distressed call for help Heard someone like bellowing, screeching And they were like, wait, listen, there it is again They couldn't quite like figure out where it was coming from It couldn't quite hear what it was

they reached out to the authorities who sent out Mounties they sent out other whatever Unmounties Yeah unmounties

strollies strollies and flyees A.k.a drones to like sweep this whole park this whole natural park

to see like where this person was who was badly wounded and I'm just going to read from this post from Central Okanagan's search and rescue said we found him a lone camper singing his heart out to the trees

blissfully unaware that the acoustics of the Boulder Fields had turned his tent side concert into an accidental distress signal why they just like turned so like turned into TMZ in the middle of his statement he wasn't in trouble unless you count

is singing. That's literally from the quote. They literally like took a moment to just burn this motherfucker who also must be I mean I don't know if somebody's like out of nature they're probably like giving the double rainbow guy you know like do you remember that guy

who's like oh my God a double rainbow it sounds like the happiest person in the entire world. Possibly or it could just be somebody who is like I love singing but I'm so humiliated by my singing voice might be beautiful, might not.

I just don't have the courage to sing in front of people. I'm going to go to the most remote location that I could possibly imagine to sing alone where nobody can hear me. Nobody will hear me. Nobody will be affected by my singing. And then there's like an entire squadron of like drones, people on horseback,

search and rescue people rolling up and then just like fucking. roasting him to the national media. It's so devastating because it's like, okay, so my voice is so bad that people, you have, you got to be pretty sure that a horrific occurrence is happening to bring in all these like cops and like call the authorities. And his voice is so bad that people are like, that is 100% someone dying or someone in very big trouble.

So we're going to call them in. I like the idea of him singing like Papa Roach or something. It actually was really scary. What the fuck? Oh no. Wait, that's disturbed. That's disturbed, Jack. Get your,

get your bad music straight. That is definitely Papa Roach. I regret to inform you. Down with the sickness? Isn't that disturbed? No, Poparoch. That's for sure.

Is Papa Roche? Also is puddle of mud. You might not have realized that. And also disturbed. And Lynn Biscuit. Yeah, they're all part of the same, bam. Yeah. Puddle of mud.

now there's a band A band just called sack of shit Why could this be good A loose description of the after effects of diarrhea Do you listen to the empty bank account It's just All right

We have an AI update You know we've been We talk a lot of trash about AI on this Not We're not talking trash necessarily. We're just reporting on what is happening. And we're looking for the good stuff, you know? And we have talked about like their AI appears to be fun to play with. Like when incorporated into video games, uh, people seem to enjoy talking to chat GPT. I don't know if that's good.

Sometimes it makes them want to kill their spouse and like start a cult. Um, but it, you know, fun to play with seems to be one of the things I'd put in AI's pros in common section. I think there's a Thomas Middle Ditch that improvise a guy from Silicon Valley. He has a podcast where he like improvises and like does funny stuff with AI that I saw

a clip of and I was like, that's weird. Again, appears to be fun. He appears to be having fun playing with that thing. Now, now this on the other hand is where where it seems less successful, which is a everything else. Literally everything else. Like when the product of your playing with it is important and needs to be good, it's not, it hasn't been going so well.

Like when, like it'll give you the experience of doing research and making that research easy, like in that Super Bowl commercial where the guys like, I can't read or read right for shit. I'm a dairy farmer. But this helped me do marketing and like do the cheese research that I needed to do. He seemed happy. He seemed like a very satisfied customer. It just so happened that the research that AI did, that they quoted in the Super Bowl commercial, said that Gouda cheese is the most popular cheese on the planet and

responsible for 60% of cheese consumption worldwide, which is both not. true and like obviously not true yeah that's wrong that i know is wrong that's wrong i know that's impossible fun fun and fun to play with and especially like seems promising when you're playing with it and like therefore fun uh the results are bad uh so far as what we could tell anyways uh the sphere you may know uh from we we've talked about it before when we were in los vegas that rectangular thing that's right you got it yeah uh big circle in on the vegas skyline very weird to look at because is so many LED lights that it is delivered to you in high resolution, no matter where you are. And so, like, when we were there for NBA Summer League, there was just, like, a hazy Las Vegas skyline on the horizon.

And then a, like, bright, full definition basketball, just, like, floating in the middle distance. Crazy. Yeah, the sphere is very weird. I took my kids to see a nature documentary there. I was like, this is cool. Like, this screen is big and, like, there's, uh, it's a, it's a weird, fun experience. Uh, it is a, a movie ticket that costs what a, uh, concert ticket would cost. So for, I cannot recommend it on that basis.

Um, it also like has a weird thing, like AI display in the, in the lobby where there's like these robots that are clearly just being controlled. by someone, but like people are interacting with the robot, and they're like, robot, am I going to make, what, what should my lottery numbers be? It's like a Zoltar thing, but with an AI skin on it. With more money behind it.

Right. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, but it's still a trick. Still like the same old mechanical trick shit. Anyways. So they are trying to find other ways to you know, sell people tickets and like the cheapest, best, most cost effective way

to do that is show them a movie. uh that you know again you charge concert venue tickets for a movie and so they have announced that they are going to be showing uh wizard of Oz which uh is a movie that was not originally made for the Las Vegas sphere you may uh remember it was made in 1939 which uh predates pre-sphere yeah pre-sphere i believe like definitively sphere. And so you might be wondering, well, how they, how they do that? And the answer, of course, is AI. Yes. Yes. This is the promise. They are finally delivering on their promise. This is what it's for. So, yeah, they've, they've upscaled it to fit the massive screen. That is what the sphere is,

just a very, very, very big and high definition screen. AI upscaling has been used, has been done quite a bit. There's a famous image that you can find on the internet from I Love Lucy, where they sharpened the face of background actors and how would you describe what the fuck is going on? Why? Why? What this person's face looks like? Why? It looks like the background characters go from being blurry, out of focus background characters, which, you know, that what's, they were meant to be by the filmmaker to portray depth and to keep the focus on the

foreground actor to something that looks like it would be right at home in the VHS tape from the ring like just a very strange like blurry but then like kind of a a face emerging from inside the blurriness thing Google use generative AI models like this from it's Gemini family to, so they, among other things, they had to like sharpen the resolution so that,

you know, they could blow the image up. But then they also had to expand the, oh, frame and like add characters to the side. So like all those decisions that a filmmaker makes of like, what goes inside the shot? They're just like,

let the AI handle that. leave it to the experts artificial intelligence there's no need for a director anymore right um so the aspect ratio of the movie had to be radically altered uh the film grain uh has been totally eliminated

uh and the backgrounds that they've showed are like they just look like AI generated garbage like there's this one shot of Dorothy's face that they've released with a background that just looks like a fucking sidewalk with grass next to it, like a photograph that they've taken. Like it just looks

like someone copy and pasted a Wizard of Oz character in the concept art from Willie's chocolate experience. It's nothing. It's absolutely nothing. Yeah, that like AI bullshit thing that they did last year

that that's kind of what it looks like. It's gonna look weird as hell. The Isle of Lucy thing. is so upsetting where I just looked up like one of the like a photo it's you can almost predict it's like all these people were dead like it's like they're dead people in the background like people who it's that AI thing where it's it's not real it's like I don't know I've never seen something fucked up in this particular way before it finds new ways to fuck things up right it makes your

brain like start asking questions that your brain is never supposed to ask such as what the fuck am I looking at. Yeah. Yeah. Or generally it's like, okay, I know maybe the camera's out of focused here or someone walked by the camera and that's why it looks weird. But it's like, this didn't need to look weird. This was fine, not looking weird.

And then you made it look weird. Yeah. The other thing that they're doing is expanding the frame. So like there's this one shot that original film, sphere experience. that, like, they showed this off. By the way, this cost $80 million. This cost the price of, like, a very expensive, like, feature film to do this, to expand it. And they showed it off on, like, CBS Good Morning or some other news product from CBS.

And it rarely is a good morning, by the way. I just want to say that, yeah. It, like, shows the original film, which has, like, three characters in the middle, like, right after Toto, like, I don't know why I pronounced it that, Toto. Toto. I think I was thinking, Totoro,

like almost bites the woman who is like the Waked Witch in Never Never Land. That's not. In Oz, I don't know what. In no world, but I've corrected you.

I never would have corrected you. They expand it out so that you can see the whole room and there's just like a shelf in the corner and like the uncle character is just like standing next to a door looking at his dick. like just like looking that that's the one thing that uh i've noticed a i has real trouble with

because there is also this really depressing new york times are just like yeah he's just over there dick gazing just looking down at his dick um there's this new york times article about a woman who is using ai to help with her like manifesting uh she's like you know i my mom like read me the secret about how like you just like think about what you want to become and like AI helps me do that. Like, I've created these images of myself, like, on a private jet. And I've created this image of myself, like, uh, as the feature as like a TED talk speaker. Um, and the TED talk image that she's created, she's like standing looking at the camera, smiling smugly. And like the audience is packed, but literally nobody is looking at her. Like, people are just like staring. Yeah. In, like,

the wrong direction and like that they really have trouble with like eye line matches they're like we can create a whole crowd of people who appear to have no idea that what what they're doing there because that would require like artistry and it it just isn't necessary where like that that image that you showed um where of from where dorothy's like in her grandmother's home like no one's ever been like how does her grandmother decorate her home because that's really all there's nothing like moving the story along other than other than the perverted uncle in the corner staring but he's a pervert towards himself you know he's his own victim hangal hat i don't know how he's cool yeah well he's cool i'm sorry he's a cool he's a cool uncle he's a fun uncle because he wears the backwards

kangal hat but it really just looks like shit doesn't add it's weird it's just weird i know that's like not a complicated term but it's really the best term to describe what this is is bizarre Weird is the right term. I bet it would be fun, like, to do, like, in a photo, like, in a forum on Reddit, be like, use AI to expand the, like, corners of this shot and, like, put, like, hide funny stuff in there. That would be fun to do. It is not a result that people are going to want to spend a lot of money to then see. And it is not something that you should be doing to a classic work of cinema that,

where every square inch of the frame has been treated like a painting and like carefully constructed and then you're just like I don't know maybe like a shelf over here or something I don't fucking know man like there's just like a big like white wall wall with like a fucking IKEA shelf next to it it's like uh what why is that there would be funny as a bit we're right now on this zoom I see you a microphone when you're back in your square background two doors, kind of a generic background. And it's like, all right, let's see what else is in Jack's space. And it zooms out.

And it's just your whole extended family watching us do this podcast in silence. Just, yeah, staring at their dicks. Yeah. Staring at their collective O'Brien Dick. So that was, wouldn't that be funny? But I don't need to see it. It would be like, oh, would that be funny? Wouldn't that be funny?

And that would be fun. All right. That's all we've got time for, folks. Blake, such a pleasure having you as always such a pleasure where can people find you, follow you

all that good stuff? People can and will find me at Blake Wexler and shall on app like Wexler on all social media on August 23rd I'm going to be in Philly

doing my show called The Reviews Are In which is a variety of show where me and other comics read reviews that we've actually left for products and places and they're always insane audience members can come on stage

and read their reviews So if you saw me in Philly last... When they're invited. When they're invited. When you receive a good stock card that I will mail you months. I guess months. It's too late. But if you saw me in Philly last Friday, first of all, thank you.

And then second of all, this show will be completely different. So that's a part of the Philly Comedy Festival on August 23rd, Appleick, Lexler, on social media. Yeah. All right. We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then. And it's a very fun one. I must say that.

Until then, be kind to each other. Be kind to yourselves. Get the vaccine while you still can. Not very much longer as we'll talk about our tomorrow's episode. Scoop that up. Gay, flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.

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