The Daily Zeitgeist - CoachTrenda 4/4: Cash Heist, NY AI Chatbot, John Hinckley Jr, Bob Iger, Weed and Feed, Coachella

Episode Date: April 5, 2024

In this episode of CoachTrenda, Miles and guest host, Blake Wexler, talk about one of LA's largest cash heists, New York City's AI chatbot telling business owners to break the law, John Hinckley Jr being cancelled from playing folk music, Bob Iger ending woke Disney, Weed going well with movies, Coachella, and so much more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Because Coachella is coming up I guess next week. I have no idea, but we'll talk about that in a second. Why Coach Coucherella is in do you remember that that was from the office um when aaron said that remember when they were launching i actually i've only seen the british version so um you're a fucking freak really no no i've seen the whole thing don't fuck with me man because yesterday we were talking about shit we were watching in

the lockdowns you mentioned the office i remember you said the office as a thing but i don't fuck with me man because yesterday we were talking about shit we were watching in the lockdowns you mentioned the office i remember you said the office as a thing but i don't know if you're just saying that because it's a show people watch or because you actually watch it i've seen the whole thing i remember that being an instance of a show that a lot of people depended on because it was so safe you know because the office it's it's sweet you know what you're getting it's very funny but right i think a lot of people re-watch because the office it's it's sweet you know what you're getting it's very funny but right i think a lot of people re-watch the office during during covid but do you okay do you remember when they were launching that stupid pyramid like hand device the ipad thing and they needed yes they needed aaron ellie kemper's character to kind of like be like a plant to talk up how cool the

device was and she goes oh man the couch are like i I can't wait to see Zoe Desch channel at the Coucherella Music Festival. Still think about that one. Still think about that one. Great one. Anyway, I'm Miles. That's Blake. But you knew that. Hello.

Yeah. Hey, how you doing? Hey, I'm good. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. Doing pretty good. What is going on today? Today, you know, got to pick up the old kid from daycare.

You know, got to make dinner. 75-year-old child. Yeah. Yep. Talking about my parents. Yeah, got to pick up the kid at daycare. And then I'm actually making a fantastic split pea soup. Really?

If I must be fully transparent with what my fucking goings on are by all means yes oh man because i got i had this leftover i got a smoked ham from blood sows for easter and and then my dad is like vegan now and he was like oh yeah i can't eat that and i'm like what the fuck so i had all this ham and i just went dude it's so easy just do you split pea dry split peas are so cheap i just bought a bunch of split peas cook that ham bone in there do it nice and slow and i'm gonna have a i have a big bowl big bowl of split pea soup with ham later amazing yeah yeah yeah i love a soup i love a soup yeah you know my wife loves split pea. Oh,

really? And it was one of those things in a relationship. You think, you know, everything about another person. And then like six years in, I just saw her on the couch eating split pea soup. I'm like,

what the fuck is that? What are you? Anti? No, no, I know that it was just new information. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Bay producer. Bay just said, it sounds like we're all making split pea soup are you making split pea soup split peas are you making split split is your dog splooting yo because i get it yo bay got easter ham too that's just what happened like that's really the time to do it because everybody got all this ham the thing is honey baked i did it during the holidays like a few years ago.

And I had a honey baked. That shit just makes the soup too fucking sweet. It's mostly sugar. Like the crust is a cake crust. Oh 100%. Or a Cinnabon. It's a Cinnabon. Yeah.

You will have some kind of like adverse health event. If like you just ate a bunch of the outside of a honey baked ham skin. 100%. One of the dumbest things i've ever done in my life was we wanted to do like this was like peak ish covid maybe 2021 and uh a thanksgiving and we did like a big one like outside space or whatever and i wanted to bring some shit so i waited in a honey baked ham in Glendale, perhaps. Yeah, there's one in Glendale.

There's one in Pasadena. There's like only a couple left in LA. Yeah, they are going extinct. And we need to start breeding them, these honey baked ham. Used to be one on Riverside in Toluca Lake too, man. I don't know what happened to that one. Anyway, what were you saying? So you were waiting for that?

Was it going anywhere? And yes. So I waited in line. I was so stressed to even be around anyone. I was wearing a helmet, all these masks, et cetera. And then didn't do the math of how much. I couldn't comprehend how much X amount of pounds of honey-baked ham turkey was. I was like, oh, I'll get.

There's four people. I'll get like a pound of this of this turkey and then it was mostly shook to your point it was mostly like a you know the outer layer of the cinnamon wait what do you mean turkey you said turkey you got a you got turkey from honey bake ham yeah it's honey baked turkey they have a honey baked they'll honey bake anything oh god that's the worst. Wait, and you got one pound of turkey for four people? It turns out, luckily, most of them were vegan.

I would say, or half were vegan, so they couldn't have it anyway. A similar situation to your father. Yeah. It is. It's delicious, but like, I can't. You can't throw that in a soup. You're correct. There'll be some sort of chemical breakdown that will turn into fuel.

That's just so... And also, shout out to us, because this is the longest we've had a preamble before getting into the trending stories. But we're talking about soup and honey-baked turkeys. But hey, that's just a glimpse into our lives, okay? What other podcast are you going to hear this kind of inane banter back and forth? Let's talk about what's trending though uh cash heist is trending in la because apparently on easter sunday when we were eating our hams there was the apparently one of the largest if not the largest

cash heist in los angeles 30 million dollars was taken from businesses. And I was like, wait, what the fuck? How is there even a $30 million heist? It said operators of the business did not discover the massive theft until they opened the vault Monday. I hopefully there was like a note that had like a middle finger drawn on it, you know, just to kind of give you that little Broshans 11 vibe.

And they said further, this according to the LA times further adding to the entries that very few individuals would have known of the huge sums of cash being kept in that safe the break-in was described as elaborate and suggested an experienced crew who knew how to gain entry to a secure facility and go unnoticed yeah that's typically how you would abscond with 30 million dollars it's like a some fucking drunk it's a bunch of loud bumbling idiots yeah some drunk just the timing was so good the guy fell through the door right as the vault was closing was in there with the cash somehow knew the magic fucking vocal password and opened the door and just left it all worked out a bunch of lucky men and women yeah stumbled through the

bank stumbled through piss drunk on Easter. But I was like, what kind of place is this? Apparently, this is a... I don't know what kind of business. I don't know how this works. This must be some kind of banking type facility. But it said it's a facility in Silmar, shout out to Valley, where cash from businesses across the region is handled and stored. So, like, I know, like, when I've worked at like a like a retail business like sometimes you would go you would take your little cash bag you just take that to the bank you know what i

mean like if you had to take stuff from the till just to make a deposit yeah you bring that bag to the bank and then i don't know if there's like a secondary holding place or is this some kind of other i don't know it's hard for me to know but shout out to those people that left with 30 million dollars um a cash warehouse it does seem like this has been handled, to your point, that there are institutions of finance that are built to hold this. Can they not hold that much? This should have been looked into. This is their fault. I don't want to victim blame. I love the rich in corporations more than anyone else in the world. I mean, obviously, it could be small businesses too, like so i'm not trying to you know they never obviously if you're

trying to get your money i don't know but i'm more this just sort of uh underscores my absolute ignorance around how money physical money is placed where and why i'm like it's just like in some spot in silmar like in my mind growing up in the valley i'm like fucking silmar what's over there it's hot there we got a fucking warehouse over there um but hey the fbi are on the case the largest one prior to that the largest heist was in 1997 uh with a theft from of 18.9 million dollars from the former site of the dumb bar armored facility which makes sense that's where the armored cars are at that makes sense um yeah and then there was like another one where someone took a bunch of jewelry from a which makes sense. That's where the armored cars are at. That makes sense. Yeah, and then there was another one where someone took a bunch of jewelry

from a Brinks truck, and they said there's maybe a hundred million in that, but it's hard to know. So anyway, if you know why these things are there, what are these banks, or they're just shady?

Is it shady, or is it where weed businesses store their cash? Please help me. I'm trying to be informed. I like the idea with the Dunbar thing is that they just left all the valuables on the seat. You know, like what you're right. Is that two million dollars worth of cash just on the passenger side seat?

I guess so. In the glove compartment. Why are these duffel bags unzipped just showing all the cash that's inside? And it's like labeled two million cash. Whatever. I'll take it. Other thing that's trending, New York City's AI. They have a fucking chat bot.

Because we've talked about the proliferation of chat bots and how local governments are like, yeah, man. Like rather than have like a human being that understands like the nuances and all the different intricacies of city policy. We'll just let this fucking thing, this thing you chat with that doesn't actually isn't intelligent. It's actually just really good at guessing the next word in a sequence of words game. We'll just have that take over. And apparently this is what this is where it's funny. The chat bot is telling people that it's okay to break the law which i think is pretty cool um it just basically was suggesting things to people who are like asking questions said it's you know legally uh it's legal for an employer to

fire a worker who complains about sexual harassment uh doesn't disclose pregnancy or refuses to cut their dreadlocks they're like yeah just go ahead fire him according to me chat bot uh and those are i work for the government yeah exactly then also they're like two of the city's like signature waste initiatives it also said no that's fine they said you can put trash in black garbage bags and you're not required to compost that's apparently not true and then like some of the answers were fucking really weird um someone someone asked uh what if is a restaurant allowed to serve cheese that's been nibbled on by a rodent and the chatbot responded quote yes you can still serve the cheese to customers if it has

rat bites just little rat bites if there is a qualifier there i i want to defend not to defend ai but it said that it is important to assess the extent of the damage caused by the rat so right the rat just go ham on this cheese right right right what happened little little little little rat bites lrbs are we talking about brbs big rap bites be right rat be right rat we right um but yeah again there's another one like i like so many people like you need to take this down and the city still has not taken it down um yeah it's just it's just so funny like all of this shit please everyone when people start saying ai this and ai that and chat gpt know that this thing is not actually it's not intelligent it's

just it's just using pattern recognition type shit basically to be like yeah i think this is what you want me to say and i will come off as a thing that is speaking in full sentences that makes sense um and it's just just a hype. Just a lot of hype right now. Ton of hype. Too much. It basically is chatbots or hold music until you inevitably have to get a human being into the chat to actually help you because it just never, it never helps.

I've never been helped by a chat, but I do ask very complicated questions. However, yeah. And I, I did. I remember one time you're like, watch,

let me show you how fucking stupid the fedex chatbot is and you kept asking it about like weird shit from your junior high like experiences i'm like how the fuck could anyone know this stuff and you're like i was like when's my acne gonna clear up i kept asking it over and over again when is my it does it will proactive work on me in high school it didn't it didn't work um at all it was just wash your pillowcases man proactive though everyone was on that everyone those infomercials they had some celebrities they had um i don't like jessica chastain the one celebrity i i have infinite amount of celebrities i could have mentioned and i mentioned jessica chastain who was not famous yet dude jennifer love hewitt that's what kelly clarkson avril lavigne lindsey lohan alissa milano katie perry jessica simpson it's britney bitch kendall jenner vanessa williams and i guess also

who p did yikes anyway uh so there's that next story though john hinkley the guy who tried to kill ronald reagan sure he's trending because he's out here being like i'm a victim of cancel culture because his concerts keep getting canceled and he says this quote just keeps happening and i'm used to it at this point. I mean, again, he says like, you know, the first time he tried to fucking do a concert,

like a two month, like I'm like right after he got out of like supervised, like supervised release from prison. And people are like, yeah, I don't know. This, this might not be a good thing.

The next one was that he's trying to do one. That's like on the anniversary of his attempted assassination of, of Ronald Reagan. And then someone like coincidence someone that's a coincidence that is a coincidence coincidence that's a coincidence coincidence but the the tour is called never mind uh should have never missed or whatever it is maybe you should have had a higher caliber weapon i think he used a 22 or something uh but he's now being like it's just like, this is what happens just because you tried to kill a president. Nobody wants to have you.

And I look, I was, I was released on the basis of insanity, but hey, I still want to get my message out there. We listened to a bit

of his music and I would say, I don't know if it's because of, I don't even think it's because of the Reagan stuff, dude. I think it's because he's just so,

you're just so bad at music. Oh, you said bad. Yeah. Okay. No, of the reagan stuff dude i think it's because he's just so you're just so good at music oh oh you said bad yeah okay no we need to have pre-production meetings so we're on the same page i well the pre-production meeting was you and i both listening to it and i thought we came to the same conclusion but i guess we didn't i thought you were talking about something something completely different no i i said he needs to go back to jail because it's no no no no no no no no no no he did his time he did his time and trying so let the guy tour like let the guy tour you know oj is doing

his his thing that's true whatever yeah whatever that prank show he did have a prank yeah he had a book so yeah let this art what we have now is not in not a failed, we don't want to say failed, but a missed man. And now he's an artist. So let the artist tour. And I think he got canceled, not canceled. His gigs were canceled. It seems like in New York, Georgia, Chicago, and Virginia, which is, those are some liberal cities, some not liberal cities. I think we can all, I think we can all agree he's he needs to do these gigs.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, it's I don't know what they'd look like, but just hearing the recordings of them were fucking bone chilling. So like because they were just so bad, like the fucking weird effects. Y'all look for yourselves. Tell me if you think the would-be Reagan assassin has a shot. I'll give you his voice isn't that great.

I'll give you that. The way the guitar is recorded, I feel like I'm at a youth praise service or something. That's the problem with the engineer. The engineer is a problem. He's not the engineer. The full staff that he's hired to help him

with this tour he's like you're fucking boned me man you suck people telling me this song sounds like dog shit i gave you guys good fucking money oh man all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back to tell you what else is trending. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I have followed. Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades. Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new,

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And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. And we're back. Bob Iger is trending on the Twitter because apparently he has proclaimed woke Disney is over.

Damn right. the tweeter because apparently he has proclaimed woke disney is over damn right um disney was just in the news also like yesterday because like eiger like fought and successfully defeated a fucking proxy war against activist shareholders not because people were like you need to do better as a company it's because one guy was like there's too many black people and women in disney films and the company's not profitable and that's who he basically had to fend off jesus this guy um that the the activist shareholder uh what's his name pelts yeah nelson pelts i just wanted to say like i have to bring up why this guy was trying to come at him um he said why don't quote why do i have to have a marvel that's all women why do i have

to have a marvel how single marvel are you how why do i have to have a marvel that's all women not that i have anything against women but why do i have to do that and then talking like and then he said why can't i have marvels that are both and then in reference to fucking black panther why do i need an all black cast cast? Dude, shut your fucking mouth. And this is the kind of weird shit that, again, it's your ignorance that takes over the discussion. And then we just label things like just general inclusivity. Like, yeah, people that are not white also account for a large portion of the demographics in the country. You can also include them.

It's not about all white cis dudes. All the people I hang out with are like me. So why can't we put us in the movies? In one of these Marvels? Please. I want to be a Marvel. I could be a white panther. Oh my God.

Anyway. That actually is so, that came out of my mouth and just that sound scared me. I just scared myself. Are you saying you're a white panther just the phrase white panther is so scary oh yeah i hope to god that's not a real group don't give dude don't give the alt-right ideas man because i can just see like some white dudes wearing white

berets white leather jackets and we're like we're the white panthers it's like white power oh no oh go away go away no uh but bob eiger bob eger as i like to say i like to say it as a very french way or just robert eger robert eger has said um again he's like look we're not well quote i've always believed that we have a responsibility to do good in the world but we know our job is not to advance any kind of agenda for as long as i'm in the job i'm gonna continue to be guided by a sense of decency and respect and we'll always trust our instincts um but he did say he's like yeah but look he said quote like when people talk about like yo is it really like you're pushing an agenda he's like no i've used black panther as a this is a quote from him i've used black panther as a great example of that just in terms of fostering acceptance or the movie coco which pixar did about the day of the dead i like being able to do that entertain and if you can infuse

it with positive messages have a good impact on the world fantastic but that should not be the objective that's where i'm like where are we going with this this feels a little bit like it does is is this ominous or is it more like he's just trying to say the things that get these fucking ignorant people off his back? Because they've been on Disney shit for this whole time, like ever since, especially with the don't say gay bill and their and their opposition to it. It's like, oh, yeah, sure. You know, the movie Black Panther finally gave, you know, like black children, like an actually like a superhero that they can relate to and actually make them feel included and have representation in movies. But it also made $1.3 billion.

So what are we really talking about here? Do we care? Lightyear, that thing bombed. Maybe I will blame the kiss that was in that, that people were fucking losing their shit over. The same sex kiss that was in Lightyear. Or like, their same their shit over the same sex kiss that

was in light year or like there was a non-binary character an elemental um but god oh yeah don't fucking succumb to these mobs but again what happens when you're a publicly traded company it's a lot of a lot of forces acting on you i just like this guy why can't why can't there be a marvel that's not all the women what are you fucking and i don't have anything against broads women but these marvels don't need to be so i just they confuse me yeah they're confusing me like you know black panther i get it but you know does you know who have to be everybody in it like what are you saying nelson this is again shows you like the sort of mindset of a person that was like trying to be like and follow me into the right direction with this company um

right disney seems to be doing fine without added ignorance um anyway another thing that's trending weed and feed uh because i guess in a gq interview danny mcbride of righteous jumpstones and eastbound and down fame uh said that he hates like these modern have a meal while you watch a movie type theaters yeah he said quote i hate it i can't stand it i also don't think it makes sense to combine booze with movies you're gonna have to piss doesn't alcohol make you want to get up and get loose you don't want to sit there drink beer and just be quiet i would have no interest in going to see a movie and just pounding ipas just fucking falling asleep which is true like if you anytime i've been to one of those i'm definitely cannot have a lot of alcohol like it just it it will make the movie boring to

me and i think i'll become impatient and then the food if you eat too much i remember following one of my first dates with um her majesty we saw 22 jump street in one of those places dude i ate so much i fucking fell asleep and like drank so much i just fell asleep in the whole fucking movie i didn't know what the fuck happened and that's amazing that's how charming you are is that you were able to you still were able to make it work you know how charming i was on that first date forgot my fucking wallet and i literally she i was like i invited her to there and i'm like let's go out we got these like get these tickets whatever and i pulled dude we were about to pay the bill for the phone i was like ah shit you're doing that one the worst you sound like such a loser you're you're not you're one of my favorite

people in the world and no it's fine you're you're a majesty in your own right but like it is like okay so this this pig invites me out to this thing and then it's drinks it eats himself to sleep and then oh i can't find my wall ah shit you're not gonna this. I fucking forgot my wallet. I'm so sorry. It's the wrong activity, I think, where I have certain shows and movies where alcohol does obviously messy up. So it's like, hey, we're going my wife and I, we're going to watch this show that we would not watch sober when we come home from dinner and drinks. And then we feel like going to sleep there's no overhead it's just like okay turn it off go right to bed right and i've ever i've tried drinking and reading before and just reading the same sentence

over and over yeah your reading comprehension goes to shit yeah wait who is this huh or like even listen to a podcast drunk i've done that a few times and i'm like dude i don't know what the fuck just happened right now like i have to go back 30 minutes and also when you're listening to a podcast i will like weeks later say oh yeah i had this conversation recently about and it's like no you didn't you were drunk and you listened to a podcast drunk and you're blasting i remember i was trying to go to sleep and you're like, no, no, listen to this part. It was an ad.

The Bills traded Stefan Diggs. What's going on up there? What's going up, Buffalo? What's going on? The Eclipse. What? Mitsubishi Eclipse, Spider GT. I'll show you a path to totality.

I swear to God. Oh, man. I wanted a Mitsubishi Eclipse so fucking bad I'll show you a path to totality. I swear to God. Oh, man. I wanted a Mitsubishi Eclipse so fucking bad in the late 90s. There's still time? Anyway, I know there is still time. I think about that, too. You know how people, like these boomers and shit, they're like, yeah, man, I always wanted a fucking 65 Mustang.

I always wanted a fucking T-top. You know, like, whatever. Talking about classic cars. I'm literally going to be like be like man my first car was a 99 honda prelude i just want to get back in that motherfucker you know i mean just fucking feel it the poor man's ferrari is what they used to call that shit uh that shit used to fucking go man oh we had i didn't own my own car i actually have never owned i didn't lease my own car until i moved to la but my family had a honda

element you know like oh yeah and i love and they don't make that anymore so that's my mustang that's my bronco before we're gonna look so fucking weird if the earth isn't completely obliterated or something and we still have some money in our pockets just being like the fuck is wrong with these people also like gas you know that'll be the thing gas will be so fucking expensive it will be a flex to be like yo is my man in a 2004 civic si for real okay baller okay we see you oh but anyway all that to say is danny mcbride he was that whole story he was pivoting to the fact that uh in talking to i think he was i think in the interview talking to what's his face uh david chris cuomo but green no you know

i keep his fucking main collaborator uh david gordon green yes yes anyway that they were saying it's like weed and movies is the thing that was the whole point he said move the booze and food no it's the weed and movies said go together fucking perfectly um and just said he wanted to like in this interview they're talking about a concept called green screen where there would be a dispensary and he said if i went to a theater and it was like here's your popcorn here's your fucking weed i feel like that would be an awesome little combo right there and yeah maybe but you'd have to bring your own that's what i think i'm because look i know you don't like we were talking earlier you don't do the weeds god bless you keep yourself safe you know what i mean right for everybody but the way if you go to a place that like is like selling you weed it's usually the worst fucking quality

and it's interesting marked up really i think we just need to be able to like zone old movie theaters to be like yeah you can smoke in here if you want yeah smoke in here fine that's it just do that that's that's smart because it makes sense where if it would almost i would i've never drank at a movie theater and boy would i if i had i've actually i'm sorry i've never purchased alcohol at a movie theater i've brought my. I've snuck my own in. Fucking asshole. You're there like, sir, what are you drinking? It's water.

It's water. It's the burn out. This is so bad. I had, during Jojo Rabbit, there's like a very emotional scene in it. And I thought it was, I was like, I was drinking wine in the movie. Like, I brought a bottle of wine, my wife and I. And I was, it was just, it was an emotional scene. I'm like, like i brought a bottle of wine my wife and i and i was it was just it was an emotional scene i'm like oh yeah it was red solving on blake and that would be a white but um oh yeah true true very true very true but yeah i was drunk

and like misinterpreted i thought it was going to be a misdirection of like oh this is gonna look sad but it's actually funny and then i just go and it was actually an incredible sad moment and i felt bad because i don't want to affect other people's enjoyment obviously of a movie hopefully that didn't but with weed i would imagine that yet like if you go to a stadium you're not generally getting the craft IPAs that maybe you drink. So it makes sense that you wouldn't get good weed often. So BYOW makes sense. Yeah, exactly. I mean, or maybe you fall asleep.

I don't know. But anyway, I think it could be. I keep saying this. We need to be able to smoke weed in movie theaters. Yeah. I think it could be, I keep saying this, we need to be able to smoke weed in movie theaters.

And not all of them, but just, you know, have, have like green screen events where it's like, you know what? It's got the little leaf next to it. You know, what's up in there.

Don't act like you're like, it was so smoky in there. It's like, what the fuck did you think it was? Yeah. Although that may fuck up the entire experience of everyone's just blowing fucking smoke into there. Like you just be like,

the visibility is terrible in the fucking theater. Yeah. And we got to get to our, our last story, which is the reason for the title of this Coachella. It seems like they're a little desperate for people. I've just seen headline after headline about like all these things that are going to be at Coachella and like all these things that are like ways to,

to check it out, even if you can't get in. But then you look, the ticket sales have been the worst they've ever been in like 10 years. It took the longest ever. So usually in 2022 when the festival returned after pandemic lockdowns, both weekends sold out in 40 minutes.

This time it took like a month for just one of the weekends to sell out. And weekend two apparently is like wide open i haven't been in 11 years maybe you know um but how the mighty fall and the lineup looked terrible so i can't really say that but anyway have you ever been to coachella no i haven't i did a i would do a prank each i would i say each year it was effective the first year or two where I would say that because like you said it was the most coveted ticket in LA it would sell out immediately yeah and I would post this how long ago this well I would post on Facebook actually

I would do it on Twitter too and say like I have an extra ticket I can't get i just can't get rid of it can someone please like take this ticket off my hands and then people would start like hundreds of people would start replying friends yeah people that i know yeah and then i would say i'm so sorry like i'm having technical issues i can't see anyone like i i don't know if people are responding or not i i need i'm gonna try this again can someone please you know like i'm on the hook for this and it would drive people i would get calls people who i didn't even know had my number would call me holy shit but i've never been do you think it's because i think the lineup each year you a billion times, you know more about music than I ever will, but it's,

it can't just be the lineup, right? Like, no, no. A lot of the time people just do like, like sometimes the mute, the lineups are secondary.

There are some people who just purely love the festival to go to the festival and just like, you know, camp and do all that shit. Um, for me, it's, it was like, I would only go if there was like,

it had to reach a sort of threshold of artists that i wanted to see but uh yeah i mean i did camping a couple times it was super gnarly i like you know i i only like to go number two in my own bathroom so like when i hear there my body just went you're not shitting for three days and oh my god then i would come home and you know my mom would kick me out of the house because of what i did to the bathroom and that would kind of be the weekend would be like when i was camping and then other times you try and do the hotel thing it's just so fucking expensive it's just sort of like yeah is it worth paying upwards of like a thousand dollars all told with like

food drugs drink ticket and hotel and now it's like even more i mean like i i didn't even adjust that figure for inflation it's probably like fucking 1500 now that's when you start being like i don't know it was a pain in the ass not a constipation joke for you and you were coming from la and there's people who have to california is a huge state obviously they can populate the concert with just people from California. But they come from all over. I think I mean, a ton. I don't think I'm breaking any news here.

But like after COVID, I think so many people are like, I don't need to fucking do this. And a lot of people don't want to. Even when the barrier to entry is very simple simple like even if it was just incredibly expensive you see people go to the super bowl you see people go to these big events but to your point this shouldn't this the location of coachella should not exist it's it's a it's like a fucking in and out or a parking lot or you know a like a trader joe's yeah it's a gigantic polo field uh that can turn into a fucking dust storm at a moment's notice. Yeah.

But yeah, again, this is the thing. There's a lot of reporting on how, or not reporting, just a lot of press releases around, just watch it on YouTube. You can watch four stages at once if you want, but how the fuck are you going to watch four? That's not tenable for the human senses like sure if you watch like sports or something that's purely visual that you don't need audio for you can entertain multi-watch but four fucking concerts at one time that's a bad fucking hook for you to be like yeah man check it out online man you can watch four things at once. Like, no. No. And you're paying for all four. Yeah. You know, like, you're not

paying for one. Like, you're paying to have access to all of them, but you can only watch one of them. Yeah. It's a bad deal. It's a bad deal. It's a bad deal, folks. Just watch it if you want, but the lineup, again, not that great. Anyway, that's going to do it for us. Wow, what a long episode. Thank you so much, Blake. It's great having

you. Of course. Great talking to you. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode. So until then, take care of yourselves, take care of each other, get the vaccine 217 times like the German man did. And don't do nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to you then.

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