The Daily Zeitgeist - Wahlberger King, Free Pizza for Karens? 8.3.20

Episode Date: August 3, 2020

In episode 685, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and Fight Island podcast co-host Sam Wiles to discuss the USPS needing monetary help, different companies hoping on the Karen train, how the baseball season is going, Spenser Confidential, Last Chance U, and more!FOOTNOTES: USPS Gift Shop USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save A Buck Treasury agrees to lend Postal Service $10 billion in trade for rivals’ shipping contracts Calgary brewery pulls Karen Cherry Sour beer recognizing entitled, privileged white women Calgary company pulls Black Lives Matter gelato in face of criticism CALLING ALL (MASK WEARING, LAW ABIDING) KARENS! Dominos Will No Longer Reward 'Nice Karens' With Free Pizza Play ball? Experts mixed on 60-game MLB season The weirdest MLB season ever is about to start. Here's how baseball in 2020 could play out 3 MLB games postponed as Marlins deal with coronavirus outbreak MLB fake crowd noise will not include booing, per report The Dodgers Put A Cutout Of The Late Brody Stevens At Dodgers Stadium The Koreatown Oddity - Weed In L.A. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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J.K. Rowling. Rowling, Rowling, Rowling. It's Monday, August 3rd, 2020. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Potatoes O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Yep, it's Miles Gray, a.k.a. Kush Limbaugh. You know, and I'm still in utter disbelief. The amount of race-trader white women in the millennial generation, it's blowing my mind.

I took the entire weekend to walk around, and you know, they weren't lying. There are Black Lives Matter signs around places. So I'm dealing with that. Well, thank you so much for having me. The disbelief in his voice. Straight into my veins. The way he greeted that was so amazing. He stopped this.

He shut the studio down. Hold on, everyone. Hold on a second. Let me call my mom. You there. You've seen one down. Hold on, everyone. Hold on a second. Let me call my mom. You there. You've seen one too? Oh, God. Well, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat

by the hilarious and talented Sam Wiles. What's up, guys? I'm over here. I listen to Rush. I'm good. I'm all caught up. That's what this is about, right? We listen to Rush and give our Rush thanks. There you go. That was cool. Yeah, good. I'm all caught up. That's what this is about, right? We listen to Rush and give our Rush thanks. Team Rush.

There you go. That was cool. Yeah, yeah. How are you doing? How is quarantine treating you? I'm good, man. We're at my girlfriend's grandma's place in San Diego kind of hiding out. It's a little – people are a little more freewheeling down here.

I'm a little more scared. Yeah. Yeah. I get some sideways looks for yeah fewer fewer masks and i don't know everyone's like hot and dumb more american flag yeah bandanas yeah yeah you get it san diego is weirdly conservative it's like a lot of a lot of like military types and stuff absolutely hot and dumb i like that hot and dumb i've always aspired to uh live around hot and dumb people speaking of hot and dumb, Miles Googled my name earlier today.

There is a very hot version of me where it's the first, like, 10 Google search results. If you Google Sam Wiles, I'm not that Sam Wiles. He's a very hot man in his underwear. Yeah. Yeah. His body shape is almost not correct. Proportionally, it's a little strange.

Hey, lifting Zeitgang, let us know if he's missing some areas because, I mean, that torso is so V-shaped. It looks like a Y. Yeah, it doesn't seem like it should be possible. But this is also three, you know, like sit-down sedentary men in their 30s, or in Jack's case, maybe not. But, you know, looking at a photo. Wow, call me out, man.

Happy birthday, man. Belated B-Day. Oh, thanks. I don't know anything about that. The big 4-0, the big 40. Yeah. In case you don't know math. 40 OZs of old age.

There you go. Yeah. OZs of old age. There you go. Yeah. And my body is a cylinder shape. So nice, solid cylinder. But you do have the sacred geometry chest tattoo that he has.

Yeah. It doesn't look as good on me. So who's that? MFC Erickson, who always hooks up your pro-pop Get Jack. Now he has the uh sam wiles sacred geometry chess piece if you lifted intentionally to get the cylinder shape i think that counts i think if you were like oh yeah this is what i'm doing i just want to be solid man i just want to be perfectly round everywhere you're like oh really i don't know the human body because i got my whole body to be a fucking perfect mathematical cylinder yeah i have a picture of a lego figurine

on my uh mirror and i just work out to achieve that every day gotta get these right angles man i look like an oil drum uh all right sam we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about uh we're gonna take a look at the post office, the state of the post office as it relates to the Trump administration and the upcoming election. We're going to talk about the fun ways that brands are

interacting with the name Karen. It's just fun, you know? This white supremacist pop culture figure. Lol, lol, lol. Lol, lol, lol. We're going to talk about baseball. We're going to talk about Spencer Confidential, of course, and Last Chance U.

All of that, plenty more. But first, Sam, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? It's not just one. It was the cluster that really caught my eye. Look at my own search history. Because in one hour span, I Googled,

why did Maggie Gyllenhaal replace Katie Holmes in the Batman movies? And then the next one was, Biden Epstein question mark? And then the next one was, Chattanooga Lookouts hat. Because they have a cool logo. I love it. The C with the two I's on it? The C with the two I's is awesome. And then the next one was Chattanooga Lookouts hat because they have a cool logo. I love it. The C with the two I's on it? The C with the two I's is awesome. But it's just like a perfect summation of quarantine, which is like watch an old movie,

freak out about the, you know, overseeing pedophile ring that runs the country, and then look up like a cool hat I want. Yeah, right, right, right. Man, minor league baseball hats used to be the fucking wave i remember in the 90s because it was like the logos that you just didn't see at all the regular places you're like wait hold on what's that old conquistador i'm like oh you don't know about the dukes like i had the albuquerque dukes hat uh shout out to my boy chris he him or his brother had the chattanooga lookouts hat which is why I remember that logo and then I had a Portland Seadogs fitted uh from Maine uh when my hockey

exploits took me out there I was always like a big fan of minor league logo say that is a very hockey thing a Maine uh going to Maine yeah well just also that like the Portland Seadogs I feel like some of the hockey players went to high school. I've lived 7,000 lives, man. You used to have hockey hair too, right? Like down to your shoulders. Yeah, with my wavy, blazing hockey hair. And most of the time, people thought I was like the halftime trick.

And I'm like, no, man. I'm a defenseman. They're like, oh. Wow, okay. This is an interesting team. I saw one guy with the back of his jersey said Rodriguez. I'm like, yeah, we're from California, bro. And we an interesting team. I saw one guy with the back of his jersey said Rodriguez. I'm like, yeah, we're from California, bro, and we play also, so get ready. That's actually what a Nordique is. No one knows.

It's a black Asian guy that comes to play hockey, and you're surprised by him. And that's how the story team started. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? I was going to say fans at games. During that Clippers-Lakers game, I didn't notice once. Like the tip-off happened and I was like, oh, I'll never think about whether or not they're fans again.

And they aren't cutting to the stands. I don't care when they cut to the stands. I don't care that there are people enjoying it. Fine. Just let me watch the basketball part. I'm in my house. I don't care. Right. It's interesting because it seems like the being there it's really noticeable like for the players and the people who are doing the game at the game they're like this feels so weird it feels

like you're at basketball camp or like you know just in a gym but watching it yeah you can't really tell they have the the fan noise piped in a little bit. Well, that was also kind of incongruous with baseball is the fan noise, but I also, two innings in, I stopped noticing that there's no one in the stadium. Right. It's just, again, like we were saying, I think, on the last episode about how so many professional sports that are being played now, they just have the vibe of like community college sporting events. Cause there's no,

there's no audience. You just hear coaches scream, sneakers squeaking. I do like though that it seems like the audio feed they'd have to dump just so they weren't violating any like sort of a FCC, like profanity laws, because there are times like a ball would go out of bounds and you hear someone go like,

Oh, and then the sound was just dumb for like five seconds and then come back up and you're like, oh, what were they saying? Yeah, not many people know that in the bubble they have voice actors who come in and do, oh, shampoo me! Just come in for those curses. Come on, ref. You're meeting a stranger in the Alps.

Yeah, that was the NBA end of last week. A lot of fun. It was good to have it back. I feel like the players, they're professionals. They're not losing anything. Maybe lackluster teams who have, let's say, a historically big difference

between how they play at home versus how they play on the road will not be quite as good in this atmosphere. Sixers. But I'm worried. As we record this, I haven't seen the result of the Sixers game over the weekend, but that was something that I was thinking of. 538 actually raised the Sixers' chances of winning the title the most when the quarantine happened. And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm like,

well, if they played the worst on the road when nobody's cheering for them, like for people who don't know, the Sixers were 10-22 on the road and then almost undefeated at home. I'm just wondering how that's going to break out. It's the most on the road you could possibly be. Exactly. It's on the road extrapolated 100 times. Right.

So we'll see how that works out for them. J.J. Redick looking good, though. All the beer shotgunning do you think they're gonna be any players who like they're they're completely fine their zone because there are no fans i mean it would like you know it's like what is surprisingly you know jj reddick's just like a shooting specialist but he had a couple moves that like blew up on twitter people were like what yeah that like he like f, but he had a couple moves that like blew up on Twitter. People were like, what was that? Like he like faked one way, threw a no look past the other,

like Magic Johnson. People were like, how did- Well, I wonder if like going to Duke for so long, you get so used to verbal abuse that the second it's not there, it's like you can like now use another part of your brain to play. You're like, I was using about 20%

to just block out people to focus him and shame baddie were like officially the most hated basketball players in the world for entire decades so i'm sure christian latiner it didn't work out so well for but uh those guys do you think any like past choke artists are like watching this like i could have done this this would have been like nick is like turning over a table like he's so mad he doesn't get to just go in there yeah anyways it'll be interesting and i will continue to watch all the clever ways uh they find shotgun beers um in the in the bubble uh what is something you think is underrated uh this is a new one i think is underrated is i'd always underrated clearly marked vans i thought now that now that uh unmarked vans are so bad i thought man i really miss having a van

and then having a clear demarcation of what it's for and that it's not coming for me or anyone i know yeah yeah what goon squad are you with, sir, before you manhandle me and screw me away? Yeah, I wish this said geek squad and contained a couple high schoolers instead of some weird portly proto-military. Yeah. Did you see the one in New York

where the van pulled up and grabbed the woman and the cops were around holding their bikes like weapons? Oh my god. They were in a three-point athletic stance, and grabbed the woman, and the cops were around holding their bikes like weapons. They were in a three-point athletic stance, but you knew they were pulling every muscle in their leg as they were doing that because they just looked so barrel-shaped. Speaking of barrels,

they're going to get to the bottom of the barrel with the candidates for this goon squad. You're going to gonna get there aren't that many apt like willing able bodies like you're gonna like you're starting to see it now you're getting like the like weird fat guys or like the just like clear like red-faced dudes in their 50s with fantasies like the the more they the more they show of this like secret police the more you're like these guys are not even good security guards you know yeah well it's like well because now it's

like hey look we're handing out free tack gear to racists so who wants it come on by and you can hop out of it you can at some point you have to run out of people who are willing to do that shit i just can't imagine there's like that many well because i know there was like the ice thing that there was a like citizens academy course that people were trying like they were trying to offer people to be like how you can sort of like understand like how to spot shit like that and there were a lot of like myths going out but there the program wasn't like what a lot of people thought like they were going to train people to carry out arrests and like that is absolutely not the case according to ice but it was funny because a bunch of like leftist trolls just like flooded the applications would be like yes i'm interested in the course on just eating your

whole fucking boot and then licking it after like so uh we have the best trolls on the left it is nice like we run we run online that's like don't try to do something online don't try and do anything in real life though please don't try anything in real life slowly getting in real life slowly getting to realize slowly yeah uh and finally what is a myth sam what is something people think is true you know to be false or vice versa oh that you need any decorum with your elected officials like the only good part of my day anymore is like waking up and writing the meanest email to my city council person and the mayor and because it's just it's the only release and they aren't gonna do anything to help you so you might as well be as mean to

them as humanly possible and it's like you try like all convention has been tried and they're still gonna do i mean we're seeing in L.A. like they're immediately going to do evil stuff after 100 people ask them not to. And then they'll go, I don't understand what everyone is talking about. I'm going to keep doing something that will harm you. So just make their life bad. That's the only recourse we have is to scream at them until they're gone because it should be hard to do that job and then not do good things like it seems very easy to do that job and then do evil stuff that's like the shift i think that's happening for people who are getting more and more politically engaged is realizing like right i know how bad it is the

federal level not many people know what's happening at their own like the municipal level where they yeah and who's in charge and what those policies are and what's going on there and who the equivalent actors are that we'd look at in the federal government. Yeah. But yeah, I think what's really powerful to your point is writing emails to these people, because a lot of the times they just get blasted with form emails. And the thing that, and this is just to any, you know, zeitgang who are trying to like organize their communities or to write to elected officials don't use form emails if when you can try and use your own written words because a they'll they'll filter out form stuff when they see it's basically like a copy and paste thing but also even when something's written like eat shit you fucking turd burger i hope you fucking

lose whatever blah blah i hope you fucking eat shit that is like better than like on behalf of the blah blah blah because then sometimes you're like oh people are angry um because a lot of the times it's very easy for politicians to look at of you know the inboxes being swarmed with form letters like uh they just got an astro turf campaign that a bunch of activists got people to copy and paste but if it's like each subject's like eat shit you know hey turd fuck like all that stuff then you know you might get a little more attention in when i was in college i worked for a pretty uh evil senator and i when i would like look at his inbox all he cared about was uh the rage emails turd fucks yeah it's like but it would be people it'd be people mad about corn subsidies or whatever, but it was like

he cared that people were mad. That affected him. What was that experience like working for an evil senator? I was in college and too dumb to know it was bad. I was like, he's a senator. So stupid. Yeah, I had no idea.

How is Chuck Grassley these days? That's him. Is it really yeah yeah yeah you're from iowa right yeah you say corn subsidies you're from iowa i was like yeah you can figure it out there wasn't another evil senator at the time he's like he's like if the you know crypt, Crypt Keeper talked like Brett Favre. Like, it's bad. Drives an old car, constantly critical of poor people. Yeah, everything you expect.

Very cool, very cool. Yeah, the showing up at their houses also seems to really bother and get results, bother the local officials. Well, what's so frustrating also about Garcetti is, like, people are going to his house and emailing him constantly, and then he keeps going, I wish someone would do something about all the bad stuff. And it's like, buddy, you're the mayor.

Who do you think is in charge of any of that? Put some pressure on everybody. I've never seen someone, like, just clearly act differently than what is happening it really it makes you feel crazy yeah yeah well i think is running this city it's just more like you get to just sort of make sure the like real estate machine doesn't go off the wheels during your time as mayor like you're not really doing anything aside from like yeah see the power structures are already pretty inbuilt here. So, like, unless I just want to completely rock the boat and be ousted, I'm just going to be like, yeah, I don't know, man.

Like, I guess there will never be affordable housing. And I'm not too interested because I come from a dynastic L.A. governmental family. So, yeah. Just like, you know, I think that's the next thing is, like, get more people who just go into office and be like, I don't give a fuck if they don't vote. You know, I'll rock the fucking boat and we'll keep rocking the boat until people realize and nepotism should be an immediate disqualification i think yeah like if you it's just go do something else man if you're if your dad was the mayor it's like go i don't know go do take improv classes shut up like get out of our stuff i already did and I already did. And Neil Campbell keeps making me take level four and I can't get into onto a

Herald team. So now I'm mayor. So now he failed out of UCB and had to become mayor. What do you mean? You don't know any of the four dad. You don't know one of them. Then how am I going to get on a, just even a writer on a mod team,

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and a little bit of the spice of conspiracy theories that we liked. Voila! You got straight away. I felt like I was living in North korea but worse if that's possible listen to spiraled on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and we're back so mail-in voting is becoming more and more of uh the way people vote first of all even before the pandemic but uh now it's going to be crucial to uh the upcoming november presidential election and all elections uh and in the past it didn't wasn't there like a belief that it was better for republicans or that there were more republican people voting voting by mail because old

because old people vote or use mail. Yeah, rural and they don't they don't want to leave their house. But now that this is a way that you're getting a broader swath of the population voting, it seems like the Republicans and Trump are doing everything they can not just to discourage voting by mail but just mail in general they're just trying to break the post office i mean yeah the next thing they're gonna do is be like fucking stamps and like like adhesives for envelopes we're also outlawing that right if we can't because it seems like okay fine maybe we can suppress voting by fucking up the polling places and then it's like well you can vote by mail they're like fuck all right then now we gotta fuck up vote by mail but it's like but there's no evidence that says it

that it's bad or that there's there could be massive potential for fraud oh fuck get rid of the postal it's just so fucking just burn it all down mentality but you know the postmaster general that's in there now he's basically like a 1920s caricature of like a fat cat who like eats like union mice like it's like this same fucking like it's just so overtly like fuck you fuck working people anything like i'm here to fuck this whole thing up because it you know initially we were talking about how trump hated like he thought amazon was getting like oh like a good deal on the postal rates and it was like all this beef wrapped up in nonsense but um now with all the things that are going on in the vote by mail stuff there are more and more like reports from like postal carriers to people who use the businesses that it's just becoming like an absolute clusterfuck.

Because what they're doing is trying to, you know, there's like they're like, we got to think about how we're going to raise funds. And a lot of the times, you know, super producer Anna Hosni always floods our text threads with USPS merch you can buy, which, you know, shout out to that. She's definitely getting a cut of it. which, you know, shout out to that. She's definitely getting a cut of it. The amount of times she has reminded us to buy post office gear, like she has figured out a way to get a percentage or there's like some recommendation thing. Or to the point where I don't know if Anna's real

and she's some kind of algorithm created by the Postal Service to just like send us like updates on what's available. Because look, they do have beautiful costumes for your kids and your toddlers and your pets. Yeah have i mean she is good at it i would hire her if you were a marketing agency or a brand who needs somebody uh who's good at marketing because uh the pictures she's taken of ace her dog in the post office outfit are the cutest fucking things i've ever seen yeah i'm like how do i get a dog like that fuck the the costume i just want a dog that carries the mail of your dog uh so you know they found all kinds of way like they obviously are trying to raise funds because the government you know the administration

is systematically trying to cut funding to make things as inefficient as possible so people you know we go down the well it's so fucked up maybe we should privatize it route which is a time-honored tradition in this country. The Bush administration, the George W. Bush administration tried to do that by making their, so the one government agency that has to pay their pensions like 50 years into the future. Right. It's like, you know, if the Republicans are doing something to increase pensions, it's

bad. That's evil. Like if they're making sure working people have more secure funding, it's like they're doing it for bad reasons. It's like, well, why is he doing that? It's like, oh, well, they're going to have to pay for it. And that's what we're telling them now. You figure that out. And so because of that, these cost-saving measures that are being taken, it's basically they're just cutting hours. They're cutting overtime. The mail's just piling up in certain distribution centers. They were telling certain postal workers at the end of the day, hey, look, man, if there's mail that still needs to be

sorted, we know it's going to be difficult to look at that, but just go home. There's no need to just clock out and we're going to deal with it the next day. But they're like, normally I would clock in for overtime to make sure the mail is moving properly. And that's how we move things very fluidly. So between that and people who are like eBay sellers and e-commerce users who rely on the postal service to like send their goods and things out, they're also like, it's getting clogged up at every single place.

And I don't know what the end game is because as a public service, it's like the approval ratings of the postal service are like unlike anything else like the one thing everyone loves about like the federal government and now you know i don't know if this is going to actually have the effect where people go fuck the postal service because i don't know what it's going to take for for people to sort of get to that point but i think people need to realize what's actually happening. So before they start going like, the mail's real slow.

No, there is an ongoing effort from this administration to skull fuck this public service. And that's sort of like the destabilization process that's going on right now. Should the Postal Service just lean into just creating chaos

and be like, we're the Donald Trump Postal Service now. And we like, we have Trump stamps and we have like little weird QAnon decals you can buy. And then just like conservatives, like it breaks their brain. And then they support the post office like as much as possible.

It's like, I gotta go to this Q stamps. Right. They're like, I mean, it's true where we go one, we go all the United States Postal Service. I gotta get that stamp that's JFK Jr. back from the dead. If we don't get that now, that's a collector's item. Once everyone finds out who he is. Do we have the Obama and Hillary Clinton executions memorial stand with their body doubles who

are then taking the reins of doing their public appearances? And it'd be fun for your mail carrier to lie. That would be great. Yeah. their public experience and it'd be fun for your mail carrier to lie that would be great yeah it's but the thing that one benefit right is because of the pandemic it's created such a surge and uptick in people using the postal service that from a revenue standpoint they actually are look it's it's not bad in that sense despite all the budgetary games that are being played but it again it has to be mentioned over and over for anybody. Because I know it's a story that people talk about or whatever,

and it's not quite making the top of every news hour, but the administration is doing every single thing they can to the point where they tried to illegally close down post office locations. And people were like, when they sort of mentioned that that could be violating federal law, they're like, okay, maybe we won't do that. So there's nothing this administration is not willing to do in the name of slowing up the mail

and create these optics they need to sort of discredit vote by mail. Yeah. As podcasters, we're not allowed to say that we're fond of the post office, right? Because the post office is incredibly difficult. Isn't that what the mail.com or... Stamps.com can hear you.

Stamps.com. Yeah, Stamps.com is listening. They listen to every podcast. Or MailChimp. Yeah, exactly. And I think just the idea of delaying... I really think what's going to happen if it's remotely close is that they will try and declare,

uh, you know, states for Trump before the mail-in ballots are, are counted essentially. So just that putting that little crimp in the system, I think is going to fuck some things up. all right, let's talk about karen the uh the name the myth the legend yeah brands are treating it like racism energizer bunny there's a canadian brewery in calgary uh that announced a karen cherry sour it's their

first sour beer and it promoted with a can I speak to your manager tagline on social media. So that's fun. Oh boy. It really sort of completely misses the point of what is going on, like what a Karen

is, what this is in response to versus like a thing you want to consume like as a what is going on, like, what a Karen is, what this is in response to, versus, like, a thing you want to consume, like, as a beer. It feels very, like, humanizing Sean Spicer kind of energy. Exactly. Where it's just like, oh, you're, like, a detestable thing, but what if we, like, kind of winked at it, because we don't actually care that it's bad.

Right, right, right. Right. It's like Gollum, Gollum memes. It's like, oh, it's fun. Did we always have to deal with like, are we just more aware of it, of like every brand looking at like a cultural trend and then immediately capitalizing it as much as possible?

Like in the 90s, did that happen as much or is that like a social media creation? Like in the 90s, were they like, yeah, Pizza Hut's doing like a ted kaczynski thing like that's what we're up to now yeah i feel like uh it it seems like they're i don't know i feel like this has always been a thing of any marketing company agency they're always going to take they're always going to make mistakes and i'm sure there's there's got to be like a list of like their cringiest like or were they or were they better at it was like we're like

that agency's like better at taking counterculture and then making it their thing it's like actually coke is punk rock now or whatever i didn't even think about it but the timothy mcveigh happy meal was kind of weird in retrospect they really nailed building and then high times right after the rodney king thing said can't we all just get a bong yeah and it was just like that was pretty funny yeah but that was like a tagline the the like it was like a hanging chad thing can't we all just get along like a funny thing yeah that's the that's the thing i think of is kind of well and i don't know if it was like marketing but like it became a joke in every cartoon, comedy. Someone would get beat up, and then they'd be like, can't we all just get along?

And you're like, ah, oh my God. We completely, but that shows you how quickly. Right. Similar to this. The beer has a fair skinned, pretty woman with the crown of the Common Crown Brewing logo resting on her head. So they are like making her look appealing. She's appealing. And this is a figure of racism. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's cool. yeah yeah so that's cool uh somehow though they dodged the bullet of being the most tone-deaf 2020 promotion by a calgary-based company uh because calgary's going off calgary's going off go off kings uh they go off flames exactly uh i've been to calgary kind of a lovely town to be honest uh but they uh your rome i don't know what that is is it your rome did i i remember hockey news be like your rome again i'm like i don't know dude i play this shit i don't watch it i love hockey sports center because like clearly everyone except uh barry melrose like knows what's going on they'll be like uh i don't know, Barry, you say his name. I'll get it later. There's a brand of gelato that's called Righteous Gelato.

It used to be known as Fiasco Gelato back in the 90s when it was cool to be fucking red. But now they're like, no, people aren't extreme anymore. They're woke. So we're going to do Righteous Gelato. No, people aren't extreme anymore. They're woke. So we're going to do Righteous Gelato. They created a flavor of ice cream called Righteous Black Lives Matter. It was a chocolate mint chip, a small batch gelato with pictures of Black Lives Matter

protesters. And it's cool, though, because $5 from each $12 jar sold would, quote, support efforts to combat systematic racism and advocate for racialized and marginalized communities and people not affiliated. They were not affiliated. Those groups that they were donating to not affiliated with Black Lives Matter. So cool. So that got pulled quickly i mean this definitely it's it's funny

because there's like the canadian version of this shit which is like somewhat well-intentioned or kind of like i don't know like i feel like the the real cynical american like version would be like i can't breathe ice cream you know rather than like black lives matter and it's like what are y'all doing like i guess i can't breathe because there's so much caramel yeah right seriously it's like what the fuck um yeah it's it's it seems well intentioned but yeah then it falls apart when it's like five of twelve dollars like what are your are those your profit margin yeah seriously they're donating loonies is that even would that be good yeah and then there's a bunch of companies trying to capitalize on the idea that like a hundred different marketing teams met at the on the same day and we're like wait what about Karen's. So we've got Domino's

who we Stan, we like a good Domino's pizza. However, in New Zealand and Australia, Domino's launched a promotion in which they would give 100 pizzas to women named Karen

because, quote, it's a tough time to be a Karen. Which I know it's a tough time to be a Karen, which is a tough time to be an aboriginal. Right. Won't you? Won't you please think of the Karens? Get me the fuck out of here. What the fuck?

It's a tough time to be. Why is that? Why is it moving in that direction? Yeah. Oh, man. That's what I'd be thinking about. Oh, yeah. That's who I'm going to be thinking about. Yeah. I mean, reach out to a Karen today. Because what she wants is a pizza right now.

Not to uphold white supremacy. Yes. A pizza with a really specific order that's really hard to make and a giant burden and then comes with no tip. Can you imagine, though? In the fine print, it's like, like well this woman of color named karen asked for a pizza we're like well we're mostly talking about white karens because that's who we kind of think is hot like because obviously we wouldn't look at you because you're not right as a karen so we're gonna unfortunately can't offer you this pizza it's just for whites

only calling all the the ad is domino's newsroom calling all parentheses mask wearing law-abiding karens with a picture of a white woman wearing a mask so uh no karen has to be looked at like a fucking nazi right i mean like it's just like no we're talking about a very specific mentality of uh women who are using to deploy their privilege and men would whatever they Kyle Kyle or whatever the equivalent name is. But either way, in this instance, because of the sort of massive buildup of Karen content in the lead up to George Floyd's death. Also, I think it's about having a real critical eye on it versus but then this is the marketing thing where it's just like SEO shit, where it's like i don't know man karen's like hot so let's just fucking throw a name on

there like like this is our new karen zinfandel uh maybe that's what they'll fucking be into and it it but it also that's how cynical a lot of marketing is so i don't know what yeah that is that is so like weirdly bankrupt like morally bankrupt to just be like is literally anything you look at a list of what's trending and then you do not care what is. And it has to do with. They didn't even look to see why Karen is trending. They're like, oh, Blackout Tuesday would be a great time to market our new beer. Right. It's like, no, no, not blackout like that.

OK. I could see. I could see i could see uh like speaking of 90s i could see like 90s marketers being like if your name is hitler you get like a free like extra value yeah yeah hitler had that big resurgence in the 90s right hey adolf gets a golf, the new Volkswagen Golf. It's like, what? Why? All right, let's talk about baseball. It's fitting that America's pastime is mimicking America in the sense that opening too soon

and then just having everybody get sick. Yeah, it sucks. Because I think when we were first looking at how baseball was going to, like, we're like, the bubble seems to be the only logical way in a country like ours where it's, you know, it's a runaway train, that that's the one way you could, you know, conceivably have that many people interacting and still be able to maintain safety is a bubble.

The NBA is doing it you know uh but now we're seeing like from the beginning there were always issues like whether the marlins were one of the first teams or there was like a bunch of infections now the cardinals have several uh people on that roster or on that that organization i think the marlins had like 15 of the yeah it was bad it's like like that's almost the whole team they like partied in atlanta the night before and we're like this should be fine like this should be good we're good fuck the mask let's just do our thing and you know it's just tough because on top of that there's like all this it's affecting other team schedules because

like well we can't play the team that's on covid timeout now. So like, I guess we're just, okay, what does that do for the season? But then like beyond that, it's just a lot of interesting things that like back to the point we were talking about, even with like basketball of like what the games look like. It's very like sort of similar. You know, they're trying to figure out how do we do this? How do we have a gigantic ballpark and still kind of feel like it's alive? They're now like they're piping in sounds just of fan noise where even like fans themselves can like upload their own fan noise to the Major League Baseball website. And then maybe like it'll be, you know, broadcast over the like the speakers in the game are like

in the actual uh real life game where they're playing i was actually wondering that on that when i was watching the nba like does when you go to nba.com you can like cheer for a team but like does clicking on the thing actually make sound in the stadium or is it just like i can't imagine they they probably have to vet those sounds because then you could be there and just be like turd fuck turd fuck and then you know you've completely ruined the broadcast um so they probably do that to just have a collection of like authorized sound bites yeah i think i think they've they've acknowledged as much as like we can't the pitcher swears every time like we can't we can't have him just doing that into my open mic yeah yeah right

oh joe kelly the fucking troll in chief but so now they're using like sounds from like of like video games like mlb the show uh to have those kind of come into the stadiums i know they did that in like england too using like you know because these games already were doing like collecting sort of stadium atmospherics for the video game that sort of translates over to the real thing but it's it's kind of nice to not have crowd noise like in certain aspects there is something very interesting about watching professional sports completely absent of that crowd noise but i get it with baseball it's a little bit there's a lot of shit talking going on um but the other thing that's interesting is like on fox

they're trying to do like virtual fans where it's like legit ps2 renderings of people in the stands like in real time and it's it's fucking weird and also really weird looking yeah it's very uncanny valley yeah 100 and because they're all looking like slightly in the wrong direction. Yeah, and everyone looks like they're about to be killed. Like the energy of it is just sort of like... You'll also catch two people move in unison, and that's like, oh, I hate this. That's like two guys in a painting following you.

Right, it's like, don't you have enough processing speed to have all these people move independently and not to the same animations? Or just time it. Just time it. Anyway, so because of that, like they also have other issues where the camera angles, only certain angles will fill the shot with the virtual fan. So sometimes you'll see the PAX stadiums and then another angle will be like completely empty. So it's a little inconsistent. And so I think because of that, people are just finding, you know, whether it's a little inconsistent um and so i think because of that people are just finding you know whether it's cutouts i know the a's have a cutout of like uh tom hanks uh selling

hot dogs because he actually did that as a young man uh and like other stadiums like have full-on cardboard cutouts that they're just putting in the seats is it a recording of hanks's voice like doing the i thought i thought it was like him being like hot dogs get your hot dogs yeah i think there is actually a recording of him too yeah so and then presumably pisses in the middle of the recording yeah that's his kink there's not one piece of tom hanks content that doesn't involve him pissing okay so yeah i think it's actually david has pumpkins real closely oh yeah it's coming at the bottom of his pant leg yeah just streaming it's why they have that black suit it's all just very yeah it's it's it's tough all that to say it's tough and i think

even just with all this sports restarting it what's odd is like the bubble that idea of like yeah that's how we get that's how we're able to have our NBA. It's like, can we extend that logic to the whole country, to the non-basketball playing people? The mentality of, we got to contain this thing for the sake of sports profits. Do you think that's part of it? With baseball, they've got that kind of weird conservative streak. Like you think like Trevor Bauer and like Aubrey Huff and all like they I wonder if like culturally like also like culturally the NBA. It's like they're more collective, more socially aware.

And that's got to help a thousand times. I think 100 percent. I think as much as anything. Yeah. Well, yeah, obviously there's less people and they're doing a bubble and all that stuff. And then also everyone kind of feels in on it. Except for Lou Williams, who I can't blame. I think he's trying his best.

Yeah. You got to get those wings. Lou's doing his best. I feel like we'll allow Lou one fuck up. But like with baseball, it's like there's so many of them. And it's like it's such a lot to keep individuals. It's like individualist sport, too. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. It's America a lot to keep track of. It's such an individualist sport, too. Yeah.

I mean, that's the thing. It's America's pastime, so I think it's only right that everything is sort of echoing. Yeah. And it's also like, too, a number of black participants in baseball has gone down. It's not increasing because it is a very conservative sport. People were getting mad at Ken Griffey Jr. because he wore his fucking hat backwards in batting practice. That isn't the vibes of a sport where there's going to be like,

yeah, we're going to have Black Lives Matter on the field, like on the diamond. Because I don't think they have that. It is what it is. Shout out to all the baseball players, though, doing their best. I know it's got to suck to want to be one of the few people who's like, this is so fucking risky, fuck, but I still want to play, god damn it. Yeah.

Well, theoretically, you touch so little, it should be fine. You know what I mean? Like, if everyone's... Right. Like, the little physical contact of the game is so much... Yeah, it should be much easier. Yeah, right. Than the NBA.

The NBA, even watching those games, I was like, man, if, like, even one of these people has it, like, everyone's going to have it. It's so risky. Yeah. Because nobody's wearing masks. Like, the coaches, actually, one of the four head coaches wore a mask the whole game, Alvin Gentry for New Orleans

in the first games back. back anyways shout out to lou williams by the way he's six one 174 pounds he's he's like you wouldn't notice him if you walked by him on the street like yeah he's gonna he's gonna do what he wants like i i walked by tyus edney once and he i thought i thought he was like a 13 year old boy. Like he is, he was a tiny, like very young looking person that like, that is a whole nother level of like,

they basically have superpowers because that like being able to compete at that level with the body of a, like Allen Iverson, I guess is the best example of somebody who's just like unbelievable yeah i lived in st louis as a kid and i saw mark bulger out in the world like former rams quarterback mark bulger that dude that dude is the most accountant i've ever seen like i i was like with my aunt and i was like that's the rams quarterback and she's like absolutely not there's no way humanly possible he had like a tan polo shirt on yeah i remember at the when

ucla won the championship in 95 it was big big fun for us in la and i remember seeing there was like a thing where you could see some of like the victory stuff uh the ucla like victory kind of celebrations and yeah i thought i was so disappointed to see tyus edney in person because i was like this motherfucker my size and he went up and he went the whole length of the court for that all right yeah but i mean it's more impressive then i also saw charles obannon in japan years later when he he started playing basketball in japan and like i saw him out like out at a bar and my and one of my homegirls who lived out there she's like chuck and i'm like is is that charles obannon and she's like yeah yeah yeah and i was like oh my okay we're here i'd love to see it what a great that's like one of those iconic i don't know if it was the age i was but like that is such an iconic team

the o'bannon's entire setting and it was like the hoop dreams year too yeah like there was like a lot of basketball content like i feel like like if kids weren't fully in it Or culture wasn't on it It helped get people really into it Obviously Michael Jordan played a big part I think it was Ty Ascendi Who's that? Oh you mean Toby Bailey?

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I was on tour, and I got back into town. And the first night, I was like, well, we're going to have to watch a bunch of movies if we can't leave the apartment. And Spencer Confidential was the first thing we put on. We're like, all right, this is going to. Side note, I was just looking at this 95 UCLA team. J.R. Henderson, who played on that team as well, who also was drafted by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the second round, he left to Japan and became a naturalized Japanese citizen.

His name is now J.R. Sakuragi. What? Whoa. Yeah. All right, so welcome, sir. Welcome. I welcome you, my Blas my blasian brother okay i'm done with that uh all right spencer confidential has nothing to do with the 95 ucla uh championship

or the anime slam dunk um that name's from but uh yeah so i mean it's directed by Peter Berg. He and Mark Wahlberg are life partners. They work exclusively together, it seems like. He seems like he has a sense of what people like about Mark Wahlberg and is just like everything is oriented around that. What is this about? Who is Spencer and what's confidential exactly so spencer spencer is uh both a no-nonsense cop all right an ex-con and a boxing trainer all the boston all the different boston like movie character tropes that you can have wait i'm sorry. Ex-cop, boxing trainer? What was the other one? Ex-con.

He's just getting out of prison. Oh, ex-con and boxing trainer. And ex-cop. Cop, con, and boxing trainer. Renegade cop. Beat the shit out of his chief. Got put away for some time because he had it coming

and he admitted to it. That's right, bro. That's right. And loves dogs. Loves dogs. Just to soften the physical violence portions of his personality, but loves dogs. Just pick random stuff you can't disagree with.

Yeah, exactly. It's like it's easy to forget all those brutal John Wick headshots if you remember it was all because of a dog. That's right. But Boston cops cops it turns out are bad they're bad guys and also bad at being bad guys they're they're not good at corruption uh they they there's just like a lot of sloppy stuff going on from the bad guys they're they're just leaving like crime scenes uncleaned up with like blood splatter everywhere and they're just leaving crime scenes uncleaned up with blood splatter everywhere.

And they're just like, yeah, we did that, but we already pinned it on this other guy, so we should be good. One of the weirdest sex scenes I think I've seen. Wait, what? We watched 365, didn't we? And you're saying there's a weird in what sense? I'd say it's more realistic because of the physical awkwardness of it. Oh, like when Taryn Manning and Eminem fuck in 8 Mile?

Yeah, it's a little like that. It's got that thing that makes you feel bad. Yeah, when I was like, yo, the way she licked her hand, I was like, ah! But it's not that hot. Right, right, right. It's dumber. Yeah, it's not that hot like it's right right right it's dumber yeah it's very dumb uh it makes you like it's like oh yeah sex is stupid like we we shouldn't well and it reminds you stupid people enjoy it more right it's like well they're like better at it oh yeah you look good too it's him and uh it's him and eliza is It's Mark Wahlberg and Eliza Schlesinger throwing each other around a bathroom violently.

And that makes me think it was almost written by someone who was a virgin. Because it's very like, yeah. And then he throws her against the sink like we all love. But he physically looks uncomfortable with it. I don't know if that's his Catholicism coming through. But when he's about to do it, he's like,

I don't know. It's just very weird. He's also small. He ain't been right since Boogie Nights. Right. This movie does not hide the fact that, by the way, he claims he should have never made Boogie Nights. His best movie? His best movie.

Although I think his best performance is I Heart Huckabees. That's my favorite. Mark Wahlberg comedic performance. Even though I don't like that movie all that much, he's so fucking funny. He's like, you're the fucking destroyer, man. That's my favorite line.

Mark Maron shows up as a reporter. It's interesting that it has comed comedians because it's not like a there are kind of a lot of comedians in it yeah really who else uh mark maron and eliza schlesinger and i know there there are a couple more that they're like very minor they're like boston comedians maron is like really minor. Yeah. Yeah. He like shows up three quarters through and is just like, they keep checking in with him, but he doesn't really do anything. What?

Okay. Now, who is Post Malone? Why the fuck is he on the thing? He's a white supremacist gang member who knows uh different stuff and he has probably a total of two minutes of screen time maybe maybe a little bit more this is what they do with those fucking stupid images they serve you like trying to get you to think that like that movie is about there are some really interesting thumbnails that pop up that are completely misrepresent what movies are about just to be like i don't know maybe you'll click on it because of this face so he's only in it for two minutes yeah he's barely in it what's

also crazy about this movie is it's like one of it's like it really stretching the idea of using a previous ip like used like it just if something existed before we can remake it because like spencer is like a 60s tv show and then like a series of novels but no one knows about it oh I had no idea so if you're making something because it was something else before it's like who is that for it feels like like are there

old people who are like I loved the Spencer show from the 60s and now finally they've made a Netflix movie I was hoping Post Malone would be the white supremacist jailhouse snitch. Waiting 40 years for this. All the original Spencer fans. They were just waiting for the right guy to play.

It used to be Don Knotts and now it's... Finally, our generation's Don Knotts. Post Malone. Post Malone. I guess I see why it was successful because mark walberg i think mark walberg is legitimately a movie star in the sense that like he can he's a big fucking shining star bro yeah he's a big fucking shiny star uh he just like people will watch stuff with him because he's in it. Uh, right.

And, and I'm one of those people. Yeah. Yeah. No, I like a good Mark Wahlberg action movie. This did not disappoint me. Uh,

didn't blow me away either. It was just, just right. It was Goldilocks. Mark Wahlberg. Perfectly down the middle. Yeah, exactly.

So it seems like his thing is going to be because they have a final scene where he sees a news report and it's like apparently his next case. And it seems like his thing, which seems very specific is finding Boston cops who are framed for committing crimes and like exonerating them. Cause like that's the plot of this and you're like okay that must be just like must be just

this plot but then like as they're having a beer like cheersing the great you know corrupt scheme that they just fucked up he sees one of his friends getting hauled out of like a firehouse like he's a fireman they're like he's being accused of uh you know a crime and the guy's like i didn't do it

someone help me and it's and he's like all right they're like spencer don't do it don't do it it's just it's he's like i don't know i think you got a bum rap chief if you look at the video after i mean after you flipped that kid's wheelchair, I don't think he fully curb stomped him. Spencer, what'd I tell you? Quit helping people. Yeah, like legit. He's in trouble a lot for that. He goes to jail for helping people.

By beating people up. He's always helping people. He just can't help it. And this also exists in a universe where everyone's secretly really good at fighting or has ambitions to be really good at fighting. There's no nonviolent character. Every person you see is just like, yeah, and that little girl selling Girl Scout cookies,

yeah, she's a monster in the ring. She's going to destroy you. She killed her scout leader with a capoeira kick. You wouldn't believe. Up kicked her. Up kicked her right in the nose. The co-star who plays Hawk, is he an actual MMA fighter? I didn't know.

It seemed like they were teasing that. I didn't bother. I think so. This is the thing about my rewatch reviews. I don't do any research, and then our audience yells at me for not knowing stuff. I got the sense. I was going to bring that up up when i'm from black panther he's uh and us oh shit he just duke yeah he gets like he's like cut in this like yeah like a different person yeah he's he's they make him look giant i don't think i knew that's who that was that's how different he looks.

Damn, you're getting big, bro. You in the cryo tank for six hours, bro? That's how you throw a punch, bro. Anyways, five stars. That's how you flip a wheelchair, bro. When a fan's like, hey, you Mark Wahlberg, bro? You grab it by the wheel at the bottom, bro. Get more leverage. The chair will flip, bro.

I was never at one point during this movie convinced that he would have been able to do any of these things like i he doesn't have such a particular set of skills that you're like oh i feel confident that spencer's got this it's just like he's kind of like aggressive violently and has a good heart like i don't do would you agree sam like what what is his what is his skill here's why he is good at this he takes a beating the entire movie he gets the absolute shit kicked out of him in every scene like they beat him up in a bathroom i remember that that scene is like very yeah he gets the shit like brutal like he gets like and he just keeps that is his, that's his superpower this whole

movie. It's about getting up front. Everyone whoops his ass in a very obvious way and he'll go, he'll just charge into a group of six guys with batons and just be like, this is what I do. I help people. There are multiple times that he would be dead if it weren't for the fact that they arbitrarily chose

for this drug ring he's bringing up to be filled with henchmen who only use machetes instead of guns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah, it's, I don't know. I enjoyed it.

It's not a great movie, but also it's not a reenactment of an actual real-world tragedy by Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg. Oh, it's a, it's a great zone out. Yeah.

It's airplane, airplane movie basically. Yeah, exactly. But the fact that it's been viewed by, uh, more people than like ET, uh,

is pretty, you know, people, I was going to ask you guys, I was gonna ask you guys something or like, so this goes counter to like, very – you don't want to play into like too much copaganda. But there's like something really satisfying about a detective story right now because you're watching someone want to solve a problem. Right, yeah.

Like no one – Rather than on control. Yeah, no one who can in real life has wanted to solve a problem that has the ability. So to watch a detective be like, murder is a problem and I'm going to solve this murder is really soothing. But he's not a detective, bro.

Right, he's like an idiot. He's too real. He's too real for the cops. You're the detective. The cops are too pussy, bro, to fucking beat the fuck out of a fucking perpetrator, bro. It's i'll punch the clues what yeah took that fucking clue out bro uh anyways uh yeah like i said five stars out of five stars great film what's uh what what's last chance you so last chance you bro you know the whole series is what the first few seasons were based on like these top juco football programs that were essentially like the whole idea

of last chance you were for like guys who got d1 scholarships in college football but then for due to academics or disciplinary stuff they lost it but they have the talent and they need very desperately to get back into d1 so like everyone this like really fucked up rat race of underprivileged people hopefully trying to cash in on their athletic ability for a better life it's really the whole undertone of a lot of it it's like a lot it's like a very humanizing story of really understanding how much student athletes look at getting into professional sports as truly the solution of their problems. And the first seasons were on these huge schools that everyone knew. It's like, pretty much, if you're playing on here, you're probably going to get a D1 scholarship out the gate. Like, you're going to go to Alabama or something.

So now, in this latest season season it's focusing on laney college in east oakland and the situations are very different previously in these other programs like there were dorms and like it was more mimicked like a university setting this is truly a community college where these student athletes have to pay for their own tuition they have to pay for their own classes their housing their food um and so there's just another added layer of like sacrifice that you see on top of like the past seasons where some guys are like damn like i don't honestly know if this guy is even the size for professional football or d1 football but you see how much they sacrifice and commit to it that, you know, every person has an interesting story. And that's what's

cool about the show is like, you know, one lineman isn't just like this lineman guy. Like there's this whole story about him being a father and like bringing his children to practice because he can't get childcare. But he also was so tired of being just like a, you know, loss prevention guy at Walmart. He was like, I know I can do better for myself and maybe I can use football to get a college education, not necessarily get to the NFL, but get an education so I can get some kind of upward mobility and provide for my family.

Then you have guys who are probably like, yes, looking at potential D1 scholarships. They fit the same build. They have the athletic set. And sometimes they take their own talent for granted and And like, it's a struggle for them to keep their head in the game because it's like, bro, like if you really want to get there, you need to buckle down and execute in these games so you can get your footage, get your tape, so you can start getting scouted. I mean, you tell me that every day.

Yeah, I know. I'm like, you got to knuckle down, man. I'm like, I can't, I can't keep telling you, man. If the ball is coming up above, you got to have your thumbs in. Right? It's coming below your waist. Your thumbs are out. Catch with your eyes. Yeah. It sounds to me like cheer a little bit.

It's the same exact. No, I mean, it is the same production company. Oh, really? Yeah. If you liked the vibe of cheer, because that's what they did. They mapped Last Chance U onto a community college cheer like a hyper competitive cheering program this is the exact same aesthetic very like verite um it's super cool and the thing that i love about it is that like you see how invested all these people are who aren't the athletes either Like from the teachers at the school who are really, really committed

to getting some of these guys to take their education seriously and not just phone it in because they're like on the football team and like staying with them after class and trying to like the dedication of like the professors is fantastic, the trainers, the coach himself.

He's been doing it for like 40 years he's like this half korean guy and he's like a local and he's had offers to go to like d1 schools um and coach there like position coach but he just can't do it he's like i'm from oakland and lane like i want to service my city and the people of my city. If this is how I can get folks who have a dream of playing college football, maybe I can do that and take kids under my wing. It pulls on your heartstrings. It's got some really cool football moments. It's got some things that just break your heart,

but it's got it all. It's got it all. That sounds amazing. Yeah. I'm going to watch it. It sounds like hard knocks heart but it's all you know it's got it all it's got it all that sounds amazing yeah i'm going to watch it sounds like hard knocks but with like real stakes yeah it's like that's like that's like what's hard about hard knocks is you're like oh even if this guy gets cut it's like then he's on a practice squad and he'll make like six figures on a practice right you're like yeah that sounds rad you should do that but this it's like it really i think that's what really it fucks you up too. Like when you realize too, we have a society and especially when it comes to like young black men, because of the opportunities that are so limited, athletics is seen as a very

viable way there. But just because of the sheer numbers of people that try to get into the, you know, the show, the professional leagues and how many don't like it's it also just it breaks your heart that you want people to feel that there are more opportunities for them than to say like i am going to put everything on the line to try and get into this sport and if i don't i don't know what i'm going to do because there are a lot of young men who are like you know of the entire team who are all of this mentality of like if i don't get into a d1 college i don't know what i'm going to do yeah um and that's when you're kind of like the whole social commentary shit starts getting in your mind of like damn

like this is like the society like emphasizes success in like these very narrow ways that like it's going to create an entire it just it constantly does i think we all know people we grew up with who probably had a lot of gifted athletic ability who saw that as like a way to be like that's going to be my life is to be an athlete and then when that doesn't happen it's very disruptive uh psychologically and it's just like yeah but it's at the same time like people get small victories and it feels good so yeah, yeah, it's got it all. I can't recommend it enough. But, yeah, you can start from the beginning because you see like it's a whole, you know, there's many seasons.

All right. I'm going to watch that shit probably this weekend. Sam, it has been a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? Thank you guys so much for having me. Of course. On Twitter, at VoteSamWiles. Just follow me on there for updates and stuff.

I have an album that comes out today. Dope. A stand-up album that I recorded March 14th, which was the night before everything shut down. Wow. which was the holy shit night yeah before everything shut down that wow so it's so the album sounds different because of that obviously like it's so i was gonna record it in in this music studio in iowa we had like 30 seats and because of the pandemic it was uh we there's 12 people there including the two guys i was on tour with so like it sounds it sounds like there's 12 people there, including the two guys I was on tour with. So, like, it sounds like there's 12 people there. Like, it's still, like, a fun album. Like, I like the jokes and stuff.

But it doesn't sound like a modern comedy album. It more sounds like something from the 70s. Like, it sounds more like, you know, like Robert Klein would do an album in front of, like, six tables or something. You know what I mean? So that's kind of the vibe. And I like it. I'm, like, proud of it.

It's called Regular Guy Out of Hell. And the cover is, like, Meatloaf's Bad Out of Right, right, right. So that's kind of the vibe, and I like it. I'm proud of it. It's called Regular Guy Out of Hell, and the cover is like Meatloaf's Bad Out of Hell, but just me. And it's a reference for – I like to keep things for people over 50. That's kind of what I'm aiming my stand-up. And then I have a podcast called Fight Island, where we just talk about who would win in a fight. It's a very, like, Mark Wahlberg, dumb guy type of podcast. Okay, who's some of the latest episodes?

Yeah, give us some match-ups. We just recorded a fun one with Matt Bronger. We talk about that meme that was like, you pick two groups of animals to fight, or to defend you, and the other eight come after you. Did you see that meme going around? Yeah, I did. We go through that with Matt Bronger and um we just had uh cody heller who's she made that shit that quibi show dummy she was

on she's really fun um yeah we've some of our best our best episodes are just like our friends like steph tolov has a great one and well who i'm but i'm sorry i said because i got who matched up who are the match-ups though who are the verses who? Who's in each corner? So we've got a... We go by category. So if we fought Seinfeld, we have a lightweight fight that's like, who wins between Peterman and the soup Nazi? And then we have a middleweight category that's like, who wins between Newman and Putty?

And then the heavyweight, it's like, who wins between... If Elaine teams up with kramer and george teams up with jerry right like what happens and we just we just the guest and where does poppy figure in is poppy a middleweight poppy's a lightweight poppy's light but poppy's got some intensity though well in a pandemic poppy's deadly yeah yeah my man's not washing his hands that's his superpower i mean jerry i just checked on your duck it's a more succulent than even i could have hoped one of my favorite poppy lines. And then he does that in a fight and you can feel the duck in your stomach start to melt your insides.

So, yeah, it's very goofy. Jordan Dahl and I host it and we just talk about hypothetical fights, almost as if people in real life were in Street Fighter. Right. That sounds great uh is there a tweet or some other work of social media you've been enjoying if any of your listeners know the sketch group but it's just two guys in la that make like amazing sketches but i was on tour with them when i recorded this album and uh one of the guys from bud is a guy named joe mcadams super funny comedian. He started mailing out his tweets in the mail. And you can sign up for his Patreon. It's like a dollar. And he'll mail you 30 tweets.

Because he's like, Twitter's bad. I don't want to use it. But I still can't stop thinking of these short jokes. So he'll mail you like a letter and then a bunch of tweets. And it's really fun to get something in the mail and supports. And I can hear this, the US Postal Service. Wow. So sign up for his Patreon.

It's super fun. But the tweets are very, he highlights the ones he wrote drunk, and he'll put those in bold. And I just have to read one of Joe McAdams' drunk tweets from a letter that he sent to my house. Babe Ruth calling his shot by pointing to the toilet before he uses it.

Drunk tweets. Anyway, Joe McAdams' Twitter Patreon that you get in the mail is really fun. Miles, where can people find you? What's a tweet you've been enjoying? Twitter, Instagram, Miles of Grey, Mother Podcast, 420 Day Fiance. He's talking about 90 Day Fiance off that 420. You know what I mean? Let's see.

Some jokes, some tweets that I like. Blair Saki. I've been thinking of Blair. Missed her. Wanted to come back. She just tweeted, when my therapist said I'm attracted to emotionally unavailable men because I am emotionally unavailable, I was like, okay, Sherry, you don't need to be a bitch. And just one because it's another one from Blair,

just because it speaks to my tuna-riddled heart. She says, ran out of regular mayo. Should I mix chipotle mayo with tuna like a fucking outlaw? Yes, you should. Wow. That sounds gross. You can find me on Twitter, Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets.

You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. A couple tweets. I've been enjoying Malik tweeted a conversation, just one back and forth. He texted someone, hey, and they texted good evening. He tweeted, this motherfucker thinks she's Dracula or something? Good evening. And then Onoshi tweeted, I put my pants on just like everybody else

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