The Daily Zeitgeist - Pokemoneurology, Sharing Is Winning 5.8.19

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

In episode 387, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Billy Wayne Davis to discuss the "Pokemon" region of the brain, how sharing food leads to successful negotiations, Trump asking for a late check out, the birth of the Royal baby, the Met Gala, Woodstock 50, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Brain scans reveal a ‘pokémon region’ in adults who played as kids2. Sharing a plate of food leads to more successful negotiations3. READ: White House Tells McGahn Not To Comply With Congressional Subpoena4. McConnell suggests Obama 'emboldened' Russia's election interference5. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Gives Birth to a Boy6. Met Gala 2019 Photos: Lady Gaga, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Cardi B, More7. Woodstock 50 Promoter Claims Former Funders Drained $17 Million From Festival8. WATCH: Jamila Woods - GIOVANNI Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. Every great player needs a foil. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.

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officially off the top, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Wednesday, May 8th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Take That, Rewind It, Jack. It's like, gang, got the taste to make the 8th, 2019. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Take That Rewind It Jack. It's like, gang, got the taste to make the booty go Brian. That was courtesy of Hannah Soltis, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Ground control, degrade your tongue. Get my light to fill the bong.

And I just added that second line. But anyway, that was from AtSoltisHannah for that space oddity. Take two. Yeah. It's a double play for Hannah Soltis. Oh, turn two on that one? Yeah. Has she ever done a hat trick given our guest?

Ooh, that would be next level. But that would require them knowing who the guest was or the person it was a real the universe conspired against us or for her to provide the person the inspiration something to aspire to Hannah something for TDZ

aka is to aspire to one day a hat trick I guess maybe one day what we can do is announce who the third person is and then try and see if someone can do the trifecta. That would be impressive. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious comedian, one of the

very faces on Mount Zeitung, Mr. Billy Wayne Davis! Hey, guys. I like that intro, like you guys going back and forth. It felt like human air horns. Yeah. Like-hmm. Yeah.

Like a club or a... That's what it felt like. I think it actually sounds like this. Yes. Yes. Yes. But that's how it felt. Oh, my God. I'm changing my Twitter bio.

The human air horn? Human dance hall air horn. How you been, man? Good. You hanging in there? Yeah. With your baby? Yeah.

Nice. No, it's been fun. I've been traveling and going back to, now he's three months old. Right. And a nine-year-old. Yeah. Yeah, it's just nonstop. Yeah, yeah.

It's fun. Well, we're going to get to know you a little bit better, catch up with you in a moment. But first, we're going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about. Guys, there is a Pokemon region of the brain, apparently. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the best way to work with somebody, to get somebody to work with you, and it involves eating chips on salsa. We're going to talk about how it's beginning to look a lot like Russia.'re gonna talk about Zillow China Security State beginning to we're gonna talk about the Kraft Foods how they're helping mothers out with free childcare and just really

you know making the world a better place gilded uh-huh we're gonna talk about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's baby. And, you know, just how the world is responding to that. We're going to talk about the Met Gala. Yes, I would like to do that. Oh, I thought you were going to say pass. That's a pass for me. No, come on, you guys. Can you imagine just like dragging your buddy in there who's passed out and then him waking up in that room with all those famous people dressed like that?

Well, when you put it that way that it is one of the weirdest yeah just places just to to take an alien and be like yeah look at us i would be like i'm gonna do acid for the first time tonight yeah yeah yeah like this is why is billy laughing this is the best night he hasn't left the table he's been wide-eyed the whole time. Walk over and touch famous people's faces. Yeah. Real shit. Woodstock 50? Could still? Yeah.

Hey, you never know. You never know. And we might even check in with the latest edition, the latest attempt by conservative comedy to make a daily show. And it will make your eyes water. Not in the way they intended. But first, Billy, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Plumbers. Yeah. Yeah. What's happening, man? Having some girthy ones? No, I wish it was. God, I wish it was that easy. Choking it?

I feel like I've just been pooping a lot. Right, right. It has, we redid our back little place, and we did it on the cheap. Okay. And now we're learning first homeowner lessons about it. Your back little place is the outhouse. Well, no. Oh, okay.

It could have been real quick if we didn't it was going that way right the guy we saved money on wasn't good at plumbing bad return on investment there so we had to yeah we've had to been like well if we had uh yeah so the world of contractors and like people like that you it it really does like make you value some of the old school shit of like knowing people in your neighborhood who are like have done this before because they've just like walked into the fucking bricks and like stepped on the rakes that you would step on if you're like oh i'm thinking about going with this guy and they're like yeah right we had a very bad experience with one of my really good friends, her dad is an electrician.

Yeah. Like firefighter, but a lot of firefighters have dual jobs, so he's also an electrician. Yeah. And we've been down forever, so he helps me regularly with my electrician needs. That's so huge. Initially, what I did was just teach me how to do the basic shit so I don't have to keep bothering you.

That's a good thing to be. I can put outlets in, switches, light fixtures, do all that shit, but like- Amateur electrician, totally worth it. Yeah. Just fuck around, try some different things out. He was just like, you need these gloves- Show me the bare minimum of being electrician. Right, exactly.

What can go wrong? And then he was always like, he's like, dude, it's so easy. It's so easy. But he's also one of those dudes who's been around so many construction projects, it's great to see him walk through a home because he'll look at little shit and just be like, ha, ha, ha. Wow, okay. I see what they did here with this line.

Right, right. Wow, you see the conduit over here? And I'm like, yo, I don't know what the fuck this is, but I love that. You realize, just to your point, Billy, that there are such levels to things of building things that if you're very literate in the construction of something, you could look at something and it would just make you laugh. Yeah. This is going to fall down.

Right. Right. I thought it would. He's like, are you trying to catch fire while you sleep? Yeah. I'm like, no.

In the winter. Yeah. Um, what is something you think is overrated? I think, uh, airplanes are overrated. Okay.

Yeah. Well, you, you prefer buses, train travel just full stop move on just that i just think they're overrated okay um why because i think i know you don't have an alternative i don't yet you tried an alternative the train is train is nice if everything slowed down. But we were the youngest people on the train by 20 years. Okay. You took a train from, what, L.A. to Colorado? Mm-hmm. Trinidad, Colorado.

It looked like... It was beautiful. It looks really cool, yeah. It was beautiful. I could imagine there might be stretches of time that would feel a little boring. It's fine because you can get up and move but it's just so time consuming like if you're in a like if you're trying to do stuff it's terrible right it's also kind of expensive how many days journey is it 24 hours we do wow which is about six hours where i was like all right i'm ready to right it's just were you traveling with your three-month-old? No, God, no. Babe's on a train.

My friend did get offered cocaine on the train. Dude, train cane? And I just looked at him and was like, do not do that. This ain't the place you want to start blowing up. Nope, we're in a small cabin together. You are drinking, I am not.

Right. You do not need to be amped up. Hey, man, can I workshop some material with you real quick? I'm not. Right. Right. And you do not need to be amped up. Hey, man, can I workshop some material with you real quick? I'm going to go jump. Hey, hey, hey, hey. You think I can jump? I'm going to jump train to train. I'm going to jump.

I'm going to get on the top. You should do that. You have that podcast recording stuff? I'm going to just do a podcast right now with somebody. There's not many people we ran into. That's what also I keep thinking about. I was like, we probably saw six people. And one of those dudes offered my friend cocaine.

Wow. You got one in six chance on Amtrak for a little train cane. What's also funny is he looked right at me first and then walked by me and then went to my buddy. He's like, nope. I was proud of that. Yeah, good for him. Because you have like a stoic warrior's look to you. I also kind of look like a cop. So it was a hell of a gamble to be like, that. I'm proud of that. Yeah, good for him. Because you have like a stoic warrior's look to it. I also kind of look like a cop.

So it was a hell of a gamble to be like, that guy's a cop. But hey, you, you want coke? Hey, you crazy hair. Hey, cop, out of the way. I got to offer this guy coke. Yeah, this guy looks like he needs some coke. This guy with the bootleg Bart Simpson tank top on looks like he knows what's up. Oh, man.

I was like, what is anything ever? So we're basically advocating for teleportation or some other jetpack, something besides plane travel. Bullet train. Bullet train. It all seems like that. Yeah, man. Or like, you know, living in Western Europe,

they have better train systems than we have over here, and you just, like, can go anywhere, and it's not terrible, and it's beautiful. So I don't know, man. Yeah, I wish trains were better here in these United States. It makes me lean toward the driverless car. If you had the time, though, to do a long-winded train thing, I can see how that would be enjoyable. But it's more that you're doing it for the experience rather than using it as a mode of transportation.

Without a doubt. You know what I mean? It was, I knew going in, and I wasn't, like, freaking out. I was just, I noticed about, you know, five hours until the destination, until we got there, that that's when I was like, I'm tired of this. Yeah, right. But I didn't, like, freak out or anything. Because I knew, because I was like, this is one time I'm I'm tired of this. Yeah. But I didn't like freak out or anything, because I knew because I was like,

this is one time I'm ever going to do this. Right. That's how the Coke dealers get you. They're like, all right, five hours to go. Hey, man, you know how this works. You better make my rounds. You want to make five hours fly, my man? It was like nighttime, too, where you're like,

we can go sleep. We have a bed. This is great. Also, don't come in here all blowed up, man. Farting up our sleeping box. So funny. Bar car and the Coke car. Well, and also breakfast was from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., and then they were done.

Yeah. Oh, like. Like, no more breakfast. You had to go get, like, donuts or whatever from the cafe. And I was like, what? And they were like, it's packed. I was like, oh, because old people just wake up. Yeah.

It's somewhere between like on a plane or like in an airport, they know they have you captive and so they fuck with you. But like on a train, it's like somewhere in between. They're like, we try to make this somewhat amenable, but it's not like you're out there. We will tell you to fuck off if you try and get some breakfast at 801. We live on a train. This is ours.

There was one lady, yes, there was one server lady, and she had this voice. Yeah. The whole time I was like, where are you smoking at? How, how? How and where on this train are you smoking?

In between the cars. Her dining car, and she owned that shit. Right, fuck yeah. And I respected her. Or blips. on this train or you smoke it, but it was her dining car, and she owned that shit. And I respected her. Or blimps. We really gave up on blimps after the Hindenburg. Let's give that shit a try again.

What is something you think is underrated? Helicopters. Quick. Quick and dirty. Are you going for a license of some sort? No. I mean, I'll get a pilot's license for like a Cessna or something before I get. Okay. Because the margin for error in an airplane is greater.

Right. Than a helicopter. Still coast. Yeah, you just followed the fuck out of the sky. Yeah. But I just think about it all the time in traffic. Oh, yeah. Where you see, and I'm not a Kobe Bryant fan at all,

but when people were giving him shit about taking his helicopter from Newport Beach to the state, I was like, you guys, no. If any of you could do that, you would do that. That's the coolest thing about him. You drive from Newport to the Staples Center, you tell me that's a thing you want to do a lot. And if you had the option to not do that that that you would still choose the option to do it yeah I mean granted that carbon footprint is your line to your face and mine yeah yes so I think

about that all the time we all secretly aspire for the chapter just a yeah I do feel like uh the pilot's license of one sort or another is probably if i thought about it long enough i would probably start investing in that like studying that because like i've read so many books where people are or or just like heard uh bill burr talk about getting his helicopter license where it's just like oh this like totally changes everything about like how you look at the world you can just be like okay i'm gonna fly across the country from like city to city and not have to land in like those major airports i can just like land in like a small airport somewhere and like see parts of the country you didn't know existed you just

follow the interstate yeah that's all you have to do yeah great i took us yeah i took one cessna lesson when i lived in washington state and we flew around, and I was like, oh, this is very doable. Yeah. Yeah, it's just you always hear about people dying in this. Yeah, but who cares? That's way better than like a semi hit me. Like, what happened? Like, I crashed into a bay.

Right. And there's a statue of me. Yeah. And people are like, hey. Yeah. Not the guy who overdosed on coke on a train. Right. Yes, exactly.

There's a little wooden cross next to the highway for me. It's just a buoy. Oh, man. That's... Not a buoy. It's a buoy. Made of empty Pepsi bottles. The Billy Wayne Davis Memorial buoy.

Memorial buoy made of Pepsi bottles. It's just a bong. It's just a bong. It's like the trash island Yeah In the Pacific They're like Someone clean up that gyre

No no That's a memorial buoy Yeah He was bad at flying What is a myth? What's something people think is true You know to be false That there's two parties

Yeah How many do you think there are? There's the party The pre pre-party, and the after-party three that you know about. That you know of. Right, and then there's the after-after party. Then some guy in a tuxedo pulls you aside and goes, this is the real party, and takes you through a secret door where all the wealthy people are at.

Yes. Where all the trained Coke dealers are. Let's also look at the Met, too. When you think about the Met, Gal, that's what they do in public. Right. Right, right, right. Yeah.

Can you imagine? What are they doing in private? Yeah. Kim Kardashian saved her better outfit for the after party. Yeah. These are the things that I know about because we do this show. Because you know about it, right. And also because just I know about it. What a weird world. Yeah. And these are the things that I know about because we do this show. Because you know about it, right. And also because just I know about it.

What a weird world. Yeah. But were you talking about political parties? Yeah. Oh. What do you mean? You're talking about like party parties. There's so many parties.

Yeah, man. A bunch of parties. I don't think right now, I think both the Democratic and the Republican Party have been hijacked by something. So I don't think they're. I mean, it's been I think it's sort of been like that, right? Yeah. But I think more than never, it's like open and kind of evil. Whereas before it was just like there was some kind of.

You could pretend it's like, yeah, progress. Yeah. For profits. Yes. Yes. Where now it's just like very clear. Like I was in a meeting and I was like, where do you stand politically? And I'm like, well, usually somewhere in the middle because I've read a bunch of books and stuff.

But right now it's very clear. It's like good versus evil. And I'm on good. Right. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, let's get into something that I think ties right into the battle of good versus evil in these realms of reality that we live in, and that is that there's a Pokemon region of the brain. Oh, thank God. We have Detective Pikachu coming out in the next couple weeks, this weekend maybe?

Yeah. And, you know, Pokemon is going mainstream as if it already wasn't. It's been mainstream, bro. Yeah, I think it's pretty mainstream. People are talking about this Pokemon thing. Yeah. Have you heard about this? Have you seen this?

Well, I'm a little bit mad because I did have an idea for a Rasta-inspired Poke restaurant with the main character of it, the face of the company, Pokemon, who would sell all of his, the face of the company, Pokemon. Yeah. Who would sell all of his, you know, right treats, no? But Pokemon. So there was an analysis done. You know, there's a lot of research done on just sort of how we organize

images and memories in our brain. And, you know, there's never a consistent part of the brain where they're like, oh yeah, all your visual memories are here, here, here. So in this study, what they did was they recruited 11 adults who were experienced Pokemon players. So these are people who play between the ages of five and eight or started then and continued because that's when your brain, you can really build these sort of pathways in your brain. Very elastic at that point. Yeah, and then 11 novice players who weren't as into it.

And first they had to make sure these people were legit experts. They'll be like, okay, what character is this? What does this Janna look like? Is this Clefairy or is this fucking Chansey? And then once they did that, they're like, okay, we can break them up. So then they scanned their brains as they showed them different images. So first they showed them all 150, gotta catch them all, original Pokemon, alongside other images like regular ones like cars and faces and words and things like that. And they showed that for people who had been like really experienced and really had the uh pokemon information stored it was responding or it was activating this part of the brain that was

different than the novice players right meaning that you know for i think for the novices the region is called the oxy fuck it i'm not i don't even can i can't do it but anyway where's occipital? Occipital. Occipitotum. Occipito temporal sulcus. Boom. Boom. Nailed it. Yeah.

Miles Gray, neurologist. Thank you for dropping that bomb. And that's a place where often there are animal images, but it didn't show a preference for Pokemon. So, you know, this isn't new to researchers because they've done different research on, like, certain cell clusters that respond to very specific images. Like, a few years ago, they found that there was even a part for recognizing Jennifer Aniston. Hmm.

So, yeah, I think this is all to say that we're still learning about the brain and how we... The brain is such a fucking... Like, every time you read a little deeper in these studies about the brain you're like wow we don't know shit oh yeah yeah or even when i watch like gifs of like neurons firing i'm like oh my god what if it's just also it's just changing every time we learn about it it's like yeah oh you think you know nah yeah sure it is i mean like

when people's brains get like a entire part of their brain gets destroyed, like they just, the brain just reroutes around that part a lot of the time. Or sometimes you're like my uncle who can only talk in rhyme. Right. Yeah, that's also a possibility. Yeah, no, I'm not suggesting you try that at home. That's kind of cool. But it is pretty cool that they are able to, yeah,

just like the brain circuits are able to reorient themselves in a lot of cases. It's my grandfather's brother who it happened to. Is that true? Yeah. When they were kids, some idiot threw a bullet in the fireplace and it went off and it struck him in the head. Didn't kill him. But from that injury, like his speech was affected and he really tried to emphasize rhyming a lot. Wow.

So shout out to the Great Depression. Shout out to Great Depression injuries. There's also a woman who got a brain injury and spoke with a French accent, even though she was from Indiana or something. Some people would argue me talking in an Australian accent is also some form of a brain injury. Yeah. Sorry, mate, I can't help it. I i mean that explains a lot of this town is a brain injury la the brain injury you just walk around you're like oh everyone has a head injury and briefly uh there's an economistist article. The Economist. Economist, as Miles calls it. That's how it's pronounced.

They talk about a study where they basically had big groups of people do negotiations based on, I guess it was like 100 pairs of participants in return for a $3 gift card to win $50 based on their performance during a negotiation game, had to sit across from somebody and basically play this negotiation game. And they found that people were way better at it when they were sharing a bowl of chips and salsa. 40 grams of chips and 50 grams of salsa. I like that they were very specific about that. Yeah, don't get cheap on me with the salsa. I do like the idea of going to the Rose Bowl flea market with my own chips and salsa. Hey, do you want some?

Hey, friend. I'll give you $200 for that chip. For all of your records. And he's like, $400. I'm like, you want some chips? Okay, $200. No, but yeah, the whole point was that sort of this this communal sharing or family style eating would actually help in business negotiations. So like the way the experiment worked was first they had one group where people had their own chips and salsa.

And they're like, before you even begin negotiating, eat your chips and salsa. So first you might just be eating your own bowl or other groups might be sharing a plate of chips and salsa. Other groups might be sharing a plate of chips and salsa. And then the game would begin where it was sort of like role playing where it was like one was like an employer having to deal with like renegotiating an hourly wage or something. And they found that the group that had shared the food prior to the negotiation beginning resolved the negotiations like much quicker, like in terms of rounds of going back and forth and negotiating. So hey, next time you got to go fucking, you know,

maybe buy a car or some shit, pull up with some food. Just a bag of Tostitos, just pull it out. Or if you're a true person who's in sales, right? It might help. This is a great app

for a buca di beppo, where everything's family style. You can eat a big ass thing of calamari out of a giant martini glass. But I mean, this is the old, this is, I guess, another example of that old style wisdom that like actually probably has some wisdom to share with us. Of breaking bread. Yeah, breaking bread with your fellow. But like, I think that there's also that old ad adage like there's no such thing as a free lunch but did did they talk about like whether the person i guess this just suggests

that it gets it's more efficient negotiating as opposed to one side getting the better of the deal right yeah i mean it i guess yeah there's i don't think it's about winning i think it's about actually about finding a common ground like common ground you can where everyone is winning right instead of being like a fucking right well because i think at first people were sort of the researchers theorized that possibly it could uh create an atmosphere of competition if they were sharing food right and then make people less uh likely because yeah they're looking at like a scarcity problem right in front of them well i always do a power move where i sit down across from somebody and just take something off their plate and eat it while I'm negotiating with them.

Or I, like, the other thing you do. I stand on the table and I'm like, mine! This is mine! Whenever we go to eat at Mexican restaurants, Jack just puts his hand in the chip bowl and crushes all the chips and then looks you in the eye. That is a shitty move. He does do that.

And then he'll cross his arms. We weren't even negotiating. We were just eating. Cross his arms and be like, oh, oh, you don't like your chips? And I'm like, what? I'm like, they're just going to bring us more, dude. And then before they come, he's just crushing them up. Anyway.

Stop crushing the chips. They found that basically when they were sharing, it actually just inspired more cooperation because it made the people, the parties more aware of the other's needs in the sharing of the food. Right. You don't have to like feed them or anything. It's just straightforward. Just both of you eating from the same bowl.

I think that would be a funny power move too, is you dip some sauce in there and you're like, open it, open up. No, you got to try it. No, we need to. All right. Well, also like if you think about it. I want 45%.

There was in that, what was it? The office, right? Doesn't he go to, he goes with Tim Meadows to Chili's. Right. And he closes the deal because they're, like, getting all those appetizers. Yeah, man. You know what I mean? Yeah, the school board.

Yeah. Yeah, so. So, there's that. So, well, there's the proof. So, fuck you, science. That office answers all questions. That documentary. There's a reason that agents are always doing lunch or whatever.

But they always are eating their own shit. Yeah. Eating their own shit? Yeah. I've never had one of those meetings. Hey, Billy. I want you to eat this handful of my own shit. No, I mean, I feel like-

This is impressive. I'm impressed by this guy. When I've gone to industry generals, like a general meeting with a studio or whatever, I've not encountered a family-style meal. Right. You know what I mean? It's always like, what are you getting? I always get the fucking al vongole pasta.

It is a competitive meal. Right. Yes. Yeah, that's true. Which would be interesting. What are you getting? Next meal, you go, nah, my man. What are we getting?

Holy shit. Right. And then you call back, hey mom, I sold it in the room. Right. In the dining room. I'll text you if that ever happens. Just go next time,

what are we getting? Yeah. I want a salad for the table. I would like a little bit more done in this study to see how important it is family style and also if the boss in the situation makes out better when they're doing the sharing as opposed to, know like if there's any advantage on either side of it yeah but i guess there but

most negotiating happens where they're like the power dynamic favors one side over the other right typically i mean there are like even like there are eye-to-eye sort of level negotiations but typically i feel like it's one person asking another party for more of something. Right. So I think in that sense, it probably makes the person who has to do like the giving rather than the receiving a little more.

That's why when I go to a car sale, a used car lot, I always make the car salesman drink coffee while I watch. I'm just like, no, another one. Have another one. Another one.

Please, sir. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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just bring just put a gun on the table and i'm like spin it around don't even have to say anything what is the price what's your price now i'm gonna tell you. I'm a straight shooter. Are you? Let's talk about what is going on in our government. Yeah, there's so much going on. And look, rather than just sort of – It's a smooth sailing ship over there. Jesus Christ. I mean, we can just scream about it all day like most shows. Right.

Or we can just move on to other things, you know, like talking about how to share chips and negotiating taxes. That i mean just in the last few days right like the whole since the muller report came out and the showdown has been happening between the department of justice the white house congress of like being like who's checking who uh the crises are just building more and more so for example uh like Trump fucking out here saying like, oh, I think I should get an extended term because of all the bullshit that happened the last two years with the Russia nonsense.

He's funny. He's funny. Is he saying like longer than four years? Yeah. Right. Or like a third term. He wants a late checkout. Late checkout.

Wow. But again, wow. I mean, that's a slow. That's what he wants. Wow. But again, wow, I mean, that's a very authoritarian. Yeah, coming into like, what y'all think about that? No? We good? Okay, maybe I'll fly this balloon a little bit higher. I think we've misused that word,

authoritarian and dictator, throughout time. Whereas some of them, yes, and then some of them are just like, they're just idiots. Right. Just idiots with a And then some of them are just like, they're just idiots. Right. Yeah. Just idiots with a lot of power where people are just like, I don't know what's happening.

Yeah. Yeah. But some of them are by design and it's impressive. Right. You know. Well, I think this is by design in his subconscious. You know what i mean like i think if i think his ideal administration would be to be godhead of america like xi jinping right and be like i'm forever king forever president yeah i

think i mean yeah i do think that there's a mental illness to that too where you're just like well i mean if i got to be president why wouldn't you just make yourself king right yeah it seems like what do you mean a genie ask i get to ask a genie for three wishes? Unlimited wishes. Dude, boom, done. Because he does have that way of thinking where, like, I just lied to them because I'm smart. Right. Or just like, oh. Because that's what I do.

Yeah. So anyway. But I mean, a lot of authoritarians, we, in retrospect, give them a lot of credit for being very smart like Hitler. And it turns out he was kind of a dummy who just had very efficient people around him. Smoking a lot of train cane, too. Yeah, a lot of train cane. A lot of train cane. A lot of amphetamines.

And then, so, that's one aspect, right? Then Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor was, like, trying to put a button on the whole Mueller report nonsense in the Senate, saying, like, case closed. This is all case. There's no more do-overs for the Democrats. His neck got in the way. Everyone go home. Yeah. In a sense, he's like, case closed. This is all cases. There's no more do-overs for the Democrats. His neck got in the way. Everyone go home.

Yeah. Essentially, it's a case closed. Nothing to see here, basically. Go to your homes. There's no collusion. And then was trying to suggest that Obama emboldened the Russians. So, like, not only do we have the typical, like, no collusion line, now we're going back to the days of, like, yeah, and actually,

if you think about it, it's probably Obama who really was behind it anyway because he was emboldening the Russians. So, there's that. He was emboldening the russians so there's that he's emboldening the russians yeah but i think by not doing anything or he's like well he could have said something it's like the whole country's in a terrible relationship right yeah or like you're arguing all facts and then they're like but obama and you're like wait what right yeah can you what does that even have to do with anything and then then they just run and jump out a window. Right. You're like, what happened?

It's like, I don't know. I said I was going to hang this picture on Saturday and I did it Sunday and then it turned into something about Obama and then they jumped out the window. Yes. But also we owe them more money. Right, somehow.

So also Trump went from William Barr should decide if Mueller is going to testify in front of Congress to now. I don't want to talk to anyone, not even his mom. Bad idea. They just want to do over. We've gone fully like I'm fully exonerated. It's all good.

Yeah. Go talk to Mueller, too, now, because I think what it is, it's easy to bluff until people start being like, oh then let's do that and then now you have to actually show your give the game up and be like actually no i can't you can't actually talk to anybody or look at anything because that will expose the truth which i'm very afraid of people learning which goes hand in hand with uh steven mnuchin uh yeah he blocked that shit yeah they were like jerry now there's like um i'm asking for the president's tax returns. And he basically said, eat a bunch of shit. No. So there's no, there's no, we're in a place now where no one is complying with the, with Congress who has the, you know, their powers are very well defined in the constitution.

Right. And now we're just going to do this thing where it's like, let's just keep saying no until like it gets to a real crisis point. And we're going to, what, I guess, handle this in court. Supreme Court? Will it get to the Supreme Court? But like maybe not before 2020? Is that their strategy?

Well, I don't know if it's not that it would have to be argued to the Supreme Court, but they're going to use like just very laborious legal procedures to draw it out as long as possible. Which was his strategy always in the private sector, too. Right. He would just sue, sue, sue. He had like more outstanding lawsuits. Right. it out as long as possible which was his strategy always in the private sector too right he would just sue sue sue he had like more outstanding lawsuits than right he was like kind of this person was he just paying a retainer anyway for their time so they were just gonna draw it out yeah and he also doesn't pay anybody right and he also has don mcgann who you know a lot of the things that he told robert muller made up a good bulk of the obstruction evidence in the Mueller report. And, you know, again, Congress subpoenaed his records and said,

we want to see the documents from this time as it relates to what we're investigating. He was like, oh, OK. And then the White House is like telling him, do not comply with the congressional subpoena because we may exert executive privilege here, but we're not going to say yet, but don't do that. And we're going to tell Jerry Nadler that they actually subpoenaed the wrong person because if you want information that was happening from his time in the White House, you actually need to go through us, not the Dom again. It's just like a presidency based on the Gish Gallop. We've talked a lot about the Gish Gallop where it's like they make you use a lot of words to explain why what they're doing is wrong.

And then they just like use very few words to lie. And then you have to like say a lot and it gets complicated for you. Like the Mueller report is 400 pages. So like it takes a long time for people to read that. So when Barr says Trump never said to fire him, he never said those words. And then you look in the Mueller report and you have Trump saying, get rid of him. Call me when it's done. He should not be the special prosecutor anymore. Like those are those three terms necessarily mean. But Barr is completely lying, and his whole game is nobody's going to actually read this,

so nobody's going to know that I'm lying, and it's fucking working. Trump's approval is as high as it's been on the 538 thing that brings together all the different polls. It's as high as it's been in a long time. It's going up. Like prove there was no collusion they said he disapprove they said i mean he's still at historically low points uh but like he's lower than anybody except carter of the past disturbing because i was like hey what the fuck somewhere just carter's like come on really i put solar panels on the way right building a house over here just leave me alone yeah but net approval he's lower than everybody

except carter and carter was presiding over a historically bad economy so it is shocking that he's as low as he is but he's still moving in a direction that like you it seems like it should be the opposite like when historians look back and they're like, okay, this Mueller report came out and said all these crimes and described them in very specific detail. And then his approval started going up. Like, I just don't know how that's going to be explained other than just like they just bombarded people with bullshit. Yeah.

People don't care, I guess. Yeah. But I guess also when you look at too, we're also in an era where people like because of the nature of politics, we're not even willing to discuss impeachment or at least leadership in the House is not willing to take it seriously. And I think that's a luxury, right? Because this presidency has already presented a number of existential threats for many groups of people in this country, except for the people who are really in charge of trying to impeach this president. When you look at the sort of the rights that are being restricted of people who are trying to immigrate into this country, or if you are a transgender person, if you are seeking an abortion, there are many things that are happening that, on one hand, if you are just some cisgendered person who is very wealthy and a person of means, there's a lot of these issues that don't really touch you.

So it's easy to be like, well, let's see. But there are a lot of people who also look at this administration and go, this is the worst thing that is ever happening to me. And we're having to balance these two things at the same time. If you're a person of means, what they're doing doesn't truly affect you. And if you don't have means it affects you across the board yeah because they're affecting the education system they're affecting people of color transgender people it's it's affecting just poor people yeah and I don't know how we flip that look at everyone to understand that's the issue. They're taking everyone's money.

Everyone's money. Yeah. But the strategy of still saying like, hey, you know why you don't have the stuff you want? It's these brown people or these trans people. It's still working. That shit's still working. That's what I'm saying. We've got to break through that divide and conquer strategy that they've always used and get past that and they did a really good job of shutting

down the occupy movement yeah like that was that's when i was like oh we're on to something here and then they systematically shut that down beautifully because they're like right fuck yeah right these people know about the one percent i think the occupy movement went down in my memory as like a weird thing of like hippies pooping in the street but then like it turns out that that like laid the foundation for like a lot of the Bernie movement and a lot of the socialism that we're actually seeing pick up some traction these days but you also have the mainstream media that first of all is you know being rejected by a lot of people who are, don't have as much money in the country who like go to Fox News because they feel like they're being condescended to by the mainstream media.

And then the mainstream media also has a bias towards your Joseph Spiden. They're, you know, giving him the benefit of the doubt. Giving him the benefit because he will keep giant corporations in power. I just need it to be said more than anything. The neolib corporatocracy is running at full steam. It is insane how open he is about it. Oh, yeah. And then you have Joy Behar, I think, on The View today.

She's like, why can't we just skip all the primaries and make Joe Biden the nominee? It's like, get the fuck out of here. Baby boomers, just shut the fuck up. It's like, you don't give a fuck because you why can't they just give them some money i heard a 20 something person say the same thing though because it's just like if you read the usa today or like something like some mainstream thing and you're just seeing all these polls all this polling that's coming out that's like biden has. Like it's basically he has like a 30-point lead over Bernie.

That's something that came out today was that a poll issued said that Biden has a 30-point lead over Bernie. But then when you look at the poll, they didn't give people the opportunity to say, I don't know who I'd vote for or I wouldn't vote in the primary. Would you vote for Joe Biden if he's the nominee? It's just you have you vote for Joe Biden if he's the nominee? Right. It's just, you have to pick a name. Right. And so a big portion of the people who don't know shit about this, who aren't paying any

attention. I know that name. They're like, that's the name I know. Brand recognition. So that's, there's just all these very subtle ways that they're presenting this polling data to make it seem like it's a foregone conclusion because yeah, they don't want the socialist values to be taken seriously. And yeah, I do think there's like a lot of powerful forces that are kind of behind this

whole idea of like Biden should just be made the nominee. Let's get this Trump fella out of there. I also want to just note, too, with the whole Trump nonsense that's happening and just sort of the lack of oversight that people want to exercise, especially on the right. I mean, fuck me. There was a letter that nearly 700 former federal prosecutors signed on to that said unequivocally, were it not for this memo that said a sitting president cannot be indicted, the president full blown committed obstruction of justice and would be prosecuted. Were this in any other dimension or were they any other person? So like this idea or to assert that there was no obstruction is absurd.

But again, I think it seems like the only things are the only weapons that there are in this this battle are just sort of saying like, oh, this is bullshit. Right. And clearly they're like legally the way our system's set up it's allowing people these bad actors like the trump administration to just maneuver through these like the cracks uh because we used to run on a system i guess i mean people thought that people would maintain the problem with people that are truly immoral is right there's no point where they're being like fuck you got me there's like it is they will slither like you said even through the court system there's no honor in what they're doing at all so there's no like okay people are going to respect me is like i don't as long as i don't get in trouble who cares about anything right and that's who we're dealing with and we've never dealt with anybody like that As long as I don't get in trouble, who cares about anything?

Right. And that's who we're dealing with. And we've never dealt with anybody like that before. Yeah, and now we're finding ourselves realizing we don't have the tools to deal with something like this. It's nice because we have to fix our shit. Right. But we also need Republicans to do that because shit is not going to get through the Senate. There are also a bunch of snakes there, too.

They slithered to that side. No offense to snakes. Right. Love love snakes a lot of snakes are great but yeah these are especially shout out to snake moms and dads out there who take their snakes out in public right and also allow people to take a picture with you for free and not like oh hey man can you give me like two bucks man fucking mice are expensive yeah no it's snakes snake in austin on sixth street at two of the morning i was like you guys it's just like on its own chillin no I did well it was just in the street it was a big boa constrictor and I was like okay well like just being like hey man good after-hours spot for me yeah it's just like barking lights in here with your with your nine-year-old have you been around any snakes i don't think so because

like my two-year-old is like just no fear of snakes and i thought that was like an inherently like in our brain thing but so i'm just wondering if like snake people are just people who never had a part of their like childhood crushed or they're people who didn't read the bible right or didn't watch indiana jones or something no that's not true either my friend that's a secret service his dad was a wild like a game warden and i remember us me and him me and him and his brother walking through the woods and i we looked at it looked like a car part and we went reached down it was like in black snake and it just like had us and then slithered off. And I ran the opposite way

and both of them ran after the snake and caught it. What? And I was like, oh, people are different. That's so crazy. It's so crazy that you guys were like, get it.

And I was like, I'm out of here. Yeah. Yeah, I wonder what it is. I'm sure there's a brain study that you got snake brain or no snake brain. I have no snake brain. Snake brain doing train cane. Yeah. Yeah, I don't wonder what it is. I'm sure there's a brain study that you got snake brain or no snake brain. I have no snake brain. Snake brain doing train cane.

Yeah. I hate them, but I do love the reptile house at the zoo. Oh, I love looking at lizards and shit. Yeah, man, I remember we had a snake person come to school in seventh grade or sixth, you know, elementary school, just some dude with a van with a bunch of snakes and reptiles and shit and the

teacher's like why don't you come talk to the kids yeah and i was like no i could kind of get down with the snake when it was coiled around my arm yeah until it started kind of constricting and it wasn't like a big snake but when i felt that i was like nah you know what you know what on that you guys are it's just it's like they're weird. What? Snakes. They're weird. They're very weird.

There's like an uncanny thing that I feel like goes back to like my lizard brain that I'm just like, fuck. Fuck you, snake. You're in control of me and I don't like it. There's a study that was done that women who are ovulating are better at spotting snakes in a picture. Is this true? No, I swear to God, this is a study. Fucking Dwight from The Office shit. A woman who's ovulating. Right, I know.

But I went on a hike through rattlesnake country and I for some reason was really good. You took an ovulating woman? No, I didn't know about that study yet. I was like, why am I so good at pot spotting these snakes? I need an ovulating woman for my hack today. Doing Runyon, looking for an ovulator.

I must have been whatever the male equivalent of ovulating is because I was just fucking spotting all the snakes all around me. Yeah, dude, you're a snowflake, dude. Yeah, that's exactly right. Fucking snowflake. What a kindake, dude. Yeah, that's exactly right. Fucking snowflake. What a kind of weird superpower. I know. Yeah, it was very weird.

Anyways, those are my cuck superpowers. And that's snake talk. That's snake talk. Let's take another quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them.

Why is that? Just come here to play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these

two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to The Making of a Rivalry, Caitlin Clark vs. Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We learned a lot about each other in the break. Yes, we did. Trading animal stories. Okay. What's a lot about each other in the break. Yes, we did. Trading animal stories. Okay.

What's next? Let's talk about Meghan Markle. Prince Harry had a baby. Don't care. Harry found out how babies are born. Why is it a big deal? I don't know, but- It's big because it's an American who is now in line for the throne and a person of color.

So I get that part. She is way in the back of the line for the throne. No, no, but the child is seventh in line. Oh, seventh? Yeah. Really? Okay, well, then that could happen. Plane crash?

Not gonna happen. Well, don't say that out loud. Okay. Sorry. Train crash. Doing that train cane. Shout out to my birthday twin, Prince Harry, born on the exact same day, because that has already invited family members to be like, well, Harry had a baby. Same day you were born on.

Exact same day, September 15, 1984. Wow. Yeah, man. Look at him. And I don't like, I don't, you know, great. I'm glad to see you doing it. Oh, constantly. And I'm like, I'm better than him.

Yeah. For sure. I compare myself to him a lot? Oh, constantly. And I'm like, I'm better than him. Yeah, for sure. I compare myself to him and feel better about myself. So it's not a toxic comparison. Remember when that video came out of him in a suite in Vegas, like running around naked? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That made me like him a lot.

I was like, that's what you should be doing. He's definitely normal. Yeah, and he's like the one that he's in the army and shit. Was he flying a helicopter, I think? He was on a helicopter crew. He seems fun. He seems like the prince you're like, I don't know if that's just the way they're making it.

You're hanging out with Prince Harry practically right now. Just a Malaysian person who grew up in L.A. in a less stable home. That is a good... Then that. That's a good, than that. I don't, that's pretty unstable to begin with. Yeah.

So, yeah, but I mean, I, I still am just always amazed when I see like pictures of dudes. Like we, we were looking at a picture of a guy who was like shaking champagne and spraying it in the air and like a union Jack blazer because,

Oh, celebrating. Yeah. Celebrating. Like we just look at pictures of guys. We just look at pictures. I just like those pictures. the air and like a union jack blazer because oh celebrating yeah celebrating the way you started that like we just look at pictures of guys we just look at pictures i just like those pictures yeah but he was he was celebrating the arrival of a new member of the royal family like a magnum of champagne yeah like it was and on the street so people are like getting sprayed by champagne like what the fuck uh prince harry's did seem to like in his statement he seemed

to be finding out how babies are born sort of like what do you mean he was like on the border between being you know i think we're all in awe of women after witnessing the act of childbirth uh but he was like i don't know how women do it oh right, right. But he was saying it in a way that was like, I had no clue that that's what happened. I don't physically or mentally understand how that process worked. I do not know what I just saw. I'm kind of pissed that Megan didn't tell me that was going to happen. Right. But you know, all good.

The baby's here. Baby's here. Right, right. Still don't know the name, right? No name. We'll see. Okay. Well, you know, shout out to them. I hope it's like

Ashley. They said it was something like that was going to unite the, it was like a name that would like reference the UK and US. Benedict Arnold. Someone on Twitter made a joke and said, oh, Iraq war? Jesus Christ. I heard a better one. Josh Gondelman said on Twitter, it was like, oh, Iraq war? Jesus Christ.

I heard a better one. Josh Gondelman said on Twitter, it was like, oh, they're going to name it, fuck you, Piers Morgan? Yeah. I like it. Let everybody get your jokes in now. That was a good one. Other British royalty, Harry Styles was one of the hosts of the Met Gala. Was he?

I don't know. I think he was like one of the main dudes. What does any. Was he? I don't know. I think he was like one of the main dudes. What does any of that mean? I don't know, man. I don't even know what it is. You said it like you're like, he's the host. I don't know. I read that.

Oh, it's Lady Gaga and Harry Styles. Yeah, they were like the heads of the thing. And like when people were first arriving, people were making a big deal about Harry Styles, but I saw him, guys, get this, on some of the worst dressed lists. Whoa. Yeah. Good boy.

No, he was wearing something that was like sort of gender fluid, like a see-through sheer thing with like a ruffle. And people were like, that's brave. But then I think in retrospect, looking back, so the theme was camp and no, not summer camp. I just wish one person showed up like Jason.

That's what I was saying. Just one person got it completely wrong. Just like, hey, motherfuckers. Yeah. Crystal Lake. Or it just says Ernest. Ernest goes to camp. No domain, Vern. But they...

Rest in peace, Jim Varney. Billy's not invited to the Met Gala anymore. It's Ernest. It's Ernest. Come on, Vern. You pull up to the check-in. Hey, come on, Vern. I'm sorry, sir.

You're not on the list. I think Lady Gaga kind of won it with her. She came in in five outfits that were layered on top of each other and kind of did the equivalent, the red carpet equivalent of, like, tearaway pants. I don't think anyone won. No, we have to gamify this, Billy. That's how media works.

Winners and losers. Put on your most expensive outfits while parents struggle to afford childcare. Get ready to eat shit, Harry Styles, because you lost the Met Gal. Bitch. One thing is funny, you can see past guest Katie Willard in the back of many photos

because she works a lot of those. I'm literally looking at an article from last year. There's Rihanna, and look over her shoulder is Katie Willard. That is Katie Willard. Anyway, that last year there's rihanna and look over her shoulder is katie willard that is katie willard anyway that that last year was uh pontiflex yeah pontiflex uh this year was like i said camp so it just gave people an excuse to uh make fun of poor people yes basically just go over the top go over the top but it is for charity you Is it? The gathering is for charity, yeah. I think the... I don't know enough. I used to work for Conde Nast, and I would have to do a lesson about this, and I'm still

like, I just think they dress up, and then Anna Wintour invites you or doesn't. Right? I'll do it. That's what I'm saying. Hey, Anna Wintour, hit me up. I'm ready to come back. Just for the Met Gala, though. So, Jared Leto was my favorite outfit because he showed up with a replica of his own head in his arms, which I thought was like, if it had been like 10% more realistic,

it would have been uncanny enough to like really be weird. But as it is, it was just like. Oh, I saw it. I love it. Oh, oh wow it made me like jared leto for about five minutes for the first time ever this is funny cardi b continues to just be great at everything she tries because her outfit was fucking dope yeah it was just an excuse for people like to overdo it what is sort of the idea is. It's celebrity prom, right? Yeah.

Yeah, but I guess sometimes the themes in the past, people have been like, oh, isn't that great for the theme? But, you know, this was just sheer spectacle. Yeah, it's like them doing what the strength of a Met Gala is, is like, you know, letting people get weird with it. Yep, and just show out. Well, yeah, like the weirdos really do the weird. Yeah. That's why Gaga won

because that's her jam. Right. Yeah, yeah. It's just her in a room with some fabrics and shapes and a pound of cocaine. Train cane. Right.

Yeah, train. She did come in with a train. Yeah. Made of cocaine. Yes. Katy Perry also was on brand in that she was like very literal.

She was dressed as a chandelier. It looked like a Halloween costume, more so than a thing designed. Usually I'm against people surrounding themselves with people that always say yes. Right. But in Katy Perry's case, it always results in something insane, but I'm like, I kinda like it. Yeah, yeah. Like, someone should have been like, Katie, no. Right. You look like you are part of

the stage cast of Beauty and the Beast right now. Yeah. I wish someone took it to the more punny levels, you know, like with their outfits. Like, she could have been a chandelier or a chandelier inspired by the works of Shonda Rhimes in the chandelier form. So like one of those clever

wordplay Halloween costumes? Yeah. Like just go all the way Halloween costume. One year for Halloween I was Pharrell Williams Wallace. Wait, who's that? Pharrell William Wallace, but I wore the big ass hat. Nice. Yeah. I went as Brad Pitt

one year to a college halloween party just dress my normal clothes and be like what are you i was like brad pitt and it made them so mad you look like brad pitt i'm like i know that we just have blonde hair that is the only god is so great. You didn't even wear clothes that even mimicked... Nothing. It was something I would wear to a party. You just showed up. I was like, I don't want to dress up.

Brad Pitt. Fuck you. Yeah, people are so mad. You don't look like him. Oh, fuck you. Yeah, I'm aware of that. Right. Any other outfits we want to comment on?

Nah. I like the... I'm ill-equipped to comment on? Nah. I like the I'm ill-equipped to comment on anyone's fashion. Ryan Murphy went with a very Liberace thing that was kind of dope. Who's Ryan Murphy? The guy who made fucking People vs. O.J. Simpson. Oh. Ryan Murphy. Yeah, wait.

He's a Met Gala? Oh, gotcha. He's like one of the biggest. Celine Dion. O.J. Simpson. Oh, oh. Brian Murphy. Yeah, wait. He's a Met Gala? Oh, gotcha. He's like one of the biggest. Celine Dion. American Horror Story. I know Celine Dion. Yeah. Celine Dion.

The greatest singer in the world. I feel like that's where she was made at, was at a Met Gala. Janelle Monae looked like a Picasso, weird cubist piece of art. She's so pretty. She looks like art. I know. Just like being. Cara Delevingne, same.

Cara. Cara Delevingne. I call her Cara because it's an inside joke. Because you don't care about how to say her name properly. I thought Travis Scott looked cool. He looked like a video game character. Yeah, he did look like a video game character. It's like something in Fortnite or something.

I saw Marlon Wayans just tweet a photo of him and his brother from White Girls and like doing a side-by-side to Kendall and Kylie Jenner. They're like, this shit writes itself. Because they had kind of similar color palettes. Oh, man, that's funny. Do what you got to do. And then Woodstock 50 is still going on,

so buy your tickets now, guys. Well, that's... I mean... Not quite. Yeah, a lot of the promoters pulled out like uh densu ages they pulled out um and then a few other people so that left michael lang who was the guy was like no it can still go on right it's the organizer who probably has so good in 99 that right yeah they should do it again it has not gone well yet right like including the 1960s i was gonna say that was not like a good thing no it was a lot of people like people died got run over

in the mud by cars like uh nobody could bathe or eat but they were on so much acid and drugs that it didn't they didn't notice But we made babies in the mud. Hell yeah. I'm going to fucking punch you. Well, the one thing is, there is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel because all they have to do,

if they really want this to happen, is just, by Friday, raise $30 million. Oh. Well, shit, guys. All they need to do. What are we sitting here doing? They need to set the Notre Dame Cathedral on fire again right you raise money quick yeah I mean this does seem like the perfect event like the perfect grouping of people to

raise a bunch of money quickly because if sitcoms have taught me anything you just need a musical actor a dance-off or something to just raise money to save the big festival, right? Right, and get the car washed. Performing is, I don't know, Bon Iver. Yeah, and basically this is all... That's what they could do. They could throw a festival to raise money for the festival.

That's how, yes. Do it. Which would just begin this never-ending domino effect of always trying to fund the next thing, but was really just funding the thing before. Well, you know Woodstock 50 is actually a charity event for- Woodstock 60. Right, Woodstock 60.

I'm playing the Ponzi Festival. Right. I played it every year. They keep saying they're going to pay me. Well, Billy Wayne, it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? At Billy Wayne Davis on Instagram and Twitter. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying?

Yes, I enjoyed the, if you go to Tim Dillon, he's a very funny comedian from New York City. He plays Meghan McCain. If you just go to his tweets, it's some of the funniest things I've ever seen. Nice. So just at Tim Dillon. They had a good run on

about Meghan McCain on Las Culturistas this week where they were talking about whether John McCain actually loved her. It's pretty funny. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. A tweet I like is from Reductress.

A couple of them. One says, try not to cry. This deployed soldier surprised his girlfriend by getting bangs. And one more, because we've been talking a lot, you know, super producer Anna Hosnate, you know, she has an aggressive skin care routine. Oh, yeah. We've been hearing a lot of all kinds of talk

of different things, products that I've heard of, I've heard tell of, but haven't interacted with them. Yes. And this Reductress headline is, this serum works on all skin types, except whatever you have going on. Dumb. Which I feel like is a, I don't know.

I mean, I know enough where I hear people talk about serums and like, that one didn't work for me. But not all people can be blessed with this skin. One tweet that I loved is Adam Sachs, good friend, former CEO of Earwolf, pointed out a tweet of his from three years ago. I was talking shit about Reggie Miller being the worst commentator in the world, and he pointed out that he had tweeted, Reggie Miller once made eight points in nine seconds.

Would it kill him to make one this quarter? Boom. Yeah, so you've been owned, Reggie Miller, and also very, very clever, Adam. I like the balls it takes to retweet something you tweeted three years ago and be like, Hey, what do you think about this one? I said this before.

Stand by this. Hey, I feel this way again. And then someone in the Zeit gang tweeted, no pun intended, Steph Curry, because at one point back at cracked, I did a video just tearing Reggie Miller's analysis apart.

And it was just this one minute clip where he was like, and Anthony Davis says, you know, he's out here saying, I'm the best player in the league. No pun intended, Steph Curry. And so he doesn't know what a pun is. Apparently, he was just there was no pun. I'm the best in the league. No pun intended. No pun intended. Making UCLA graduates look dumb as fuck. I'm the best in the league, no pun intended. No pun intended, Steph Curry. Making UCLA graduates look dumb as fuck.

I hate that dude so much. Reggie Miller has the rare problem of being... I think we know why. Fuck that game in front of my dad. But I think Reggie Miller has the rare problem of an NBA player. He's one of the best NBA players of all time. With a sun tattoo around his nape. But also, his sister's still a better basketball player. Better, yeah. problem that of an NBA player he's like one of the best NBA players of all time but also a tattoo around his name but also his sister's still a better basketballer yeah way better and that's

like that's this weird chip he has right he may have gone out of body in a few of those games in the 90s but at the end of the day people all know Cheryl Miller is probably one of the greatest women's players of all time well and that's how he talks trash. It's always like he says stuff, and it's like he wants to go, like, right, Cheryl? Right? Right. Like he has that. I mean, I'm saying they could both destroy me in a game of basketball.

But I just think from that standpoint. Cheryl Miller you could not take. I think you could take Reggie Miller. His sister is maybe the best woman's basketball player of all time. Definitely one of the – just even men or women. He dropped 40 and she dropped 100. She's in the pantheon of the greatest people to play basketball. Yeah.

Reggie Miller has, again, what the fuck is that sun tattoo around his belly button? Yeah. Don't want to, you know, if that's how, that's his aesthetic, fine. But that felt like a misguided boy band mistake from 1997. He was like, I think I'd be cute. Has he ever explained what that is? No, he just thought it was dope.

Do you think Rodman inspired him? Does Rodman have one like that? I'm sure he's got all of them. He's got all of them. Oh, that's right. Rodman has a very similar one. He has an ankh with a bit of a sun flare around it but that works for him well that works for obviously dennis rodman but reggie

miller who's like you know light-skinned nosferatu i don't know wow you know his he's ugly no i'm i'm loving i'm loving all of this shit. Can I let you out on a date? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This week, Thursday, I will be at the Secret Group in Houston. Friday, the Paramount Room in Oklahoma City. And then June 6th, that's a Thursday, I'll be at Zany's in Nashville. I'm coming home. I haven't been there in a long time.

Wow, crashing the shores for D-Day, huh? Get your shit. June 6th, the shores for D-Day. huh? Get your shit. Crashing the shores for D-Day. I'm not going to promote it that way. Houston. Yeah. Don't need to connect you with D-Day. D-Day of comedy.

Billy Wayne D-Day. Yeah. You'll be Houston. So Houston's I-Gang pull up. Yes. And Oklahoma. Yes. OKC.

And Oklahoma City? Always comes out. Yeah. Everywhere I've been on the road, there's like three, and they're always very polite and very smart, so just keep coming out. Keep being polite and smart. It's like the greatest audience. Yeah. Everywhere I've been on the road, there's like three, and they're always very polite and very smart, so just keep coming out. Keep being polite and smart. It's like doctors and shit

coming out and seeing out. Well, you're always great on the show, so they have a good reason to come out, man. Thank you. Oh, one other thing somebody pointed out. Jeremiah Sensenig

pointed out that we missed the best example of Tom Hanks peeing. So Tom Hanks pees in all his movies we were talking about right and the best example is that's how his character is introduced in a league of their own is he just rolls in they're all like sitting in the locker room he rolls in and takes like an hour-long kiss yeah damn that's yeah he loves to pee his career is a pee morality play.

Anyway, somebody pointed out that we covered that on After Hours. I wrote that episode, so that's why it's not. I'm plagiarizing my film. Got you. And you worked at Cracks.com? You retweeted yourself. Yeah, I retweeted myself. And we did cover A League of Their Own back then. Great movie.

Great. My favorite line is from John Lovitz. See, the way it works is the train moves, not the station. So bad. He's such a motherfucker. Dumb fucking sarcasm. So funny. A League of Their Own is one of my favorite sports movies.

Great. Great movie. Our love. So good. Man, what a hitter. All right. Is that a Penny Marshall? You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore

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as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be? We are going to do some music from Chicago native Jamila Woods. This track is called Giovanni. Really dope R&B singer, songwriter. Production is dope. So prepare for this. All right, we're going to ride out on that.

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