Tomorrow - 176: Sand Man at the Arcade

Episode Date: September 21, 2019

Just to make it clear at the top, there's a shocking amount of Adam Sandler discussion in episode 176 of Tomorrow. After which, Josh and Ryan discuss Amazon's greenwashing, Blink-182's extra-terrestrial connection, NBC's new Peacock service, as well as Apple, Sega, and Nintendo's latest releases. But mostly they talk about Adam Sandler. Just know that going in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey and welcome to Tomorrow, I'm your host Josh with Topolski. Today on the podcast we discuss Waterboy, Little Nikki, and you don't mess with the Zohan. I don't want to waste one minute. Let's get right into it. Alright Ryan, we're back. We're back. It's another podcast.

We did it. We're doing it. I mean it's not done yet. We could die. We could die during this podcast. We did it. We're doing it. I mean, it's not done yet. We could die. We could die during this podcast that we would never have done the podcast. If I die, I want to be surrounded by my loved ones, which is just podcast listeners at this point.

I want to be alone. I want to be a load where he had phones. I said, that's how I want to die. Laying in my bed surrounded by thousands of millions of audio equipment. I want to be a load in front of a bike with my headphones on? Is that too much to ask of the universe? I don't want the last words my cat ever hears from me

to be get out of here. I have to record stop. Yeah. You know, it's cool. I like, I'm like terrorized by my dog, because we can have animals. I like went to lay down. The other day, I was like, I got to layize by my dog, it's a beacon of animals. I like went to lay down. The other day I was like, I'm gonna lay down,

I can take a nap. And the dog was completely silent, and napping in the other room. But when she saw me go back to the bedroom and lay down, she got up, started walking towards the door, and started, you know, she has this like, cough that she can't supposedly control. She was dead silent, laying down.

I went to my bed, started the dose off. She came hacking in the room, like came into the room hacking. Then I put her out of the room and she went to Zelda's room where there is a camera setup, you know, in an audio thing, you know, because it's a bit, it's a, I mean, we left her monitor in there. And I think she knows that I can hear the monitor in our bedroom.

I think she was coughing so that I would be annoyed. Just to bother you. I mean, do you think it's possible to dog knows how like wireless technology works? No, but they definitely can hear if you're bothered by them doing something. So they can realize that it's working. Anyhow, whatever, she's great.

You should be happy. My family dog just died last week. I don't want to be rude, but if Penny were to go, I would say it'd be like a net positive in terms of my quality of life. Awful. I'm sorry.

I love her, but she's very sick. She requires a lot of care. She wakes us up in the middle of the night hacking. I don't think she's that in that great of, I mean, she seems fine actually. Well, yeah, that's my parents dog had to be put down. I mean, I would put her down if she actually seemed like she was unhealthy,

but he just couldn't walk anymore. That's an annoying day where he couldn't get up. Yeah, this is a case where she just has an annoying cough. You just want to kill her because she makes a sound. It's bad. It's bad. Anyhow. All right, let's get to the good business.

Oh, so much this week. So I mean, big, it's big week, big week, huge week. Let's talk about the iPhone. You're waiting for your phone right now. They said it's like two seconds away, right? I'm staring at a map of my iPhone delivery and the truck is one building down and it has been one building down for 20 minutes and I know it's about to arrive and I was supposed to be here at three o'clock sharp and I know that this is a real first world problem. This is total capitalism has

my brain. But I also want to be fucking phone. This is like the Domino's pizza tracker. We shouldn't have that kind of power. No, I should have that kind of information. You just have to just arrive. You should be pleasantly surprised. You know how stressed it is when I'm like when I get a fucking email, they're like, your package was delivered. I'm like, Oh God, what did I order? So I feel like part like maybe 15% of my brain is currently running through what I've ordered and when it arrives to wear. I made you carry a package from one office to the other the other day.

Because I'm constantly trying to stand up a package. Yes, shocking. And I'm sad. Anyway, did you get this phone? I ordered the phone, yeah. Did you have it yet? I don't have it yet. John got his, does he, oh, he got his?

John got his, I like how John the way less nerdy of all of us has the phone. He was there like nine in the morning at the Apple store. He just walked in. So my thing was like, you know what I did last time? I didn't even order it and then I just went the day of and got the phone. Yeah, they're not like sold out. I don't know if they are, they aren't. I don't have the energy to find out today.

You know what I mean? Let's take a look. I'm going right now. I'm going on my browser. What's the best way to figure out today. You know what I mean? Let's take a look. I'm going right now. I'm going on my browser. What's the best way to figure out if I can get a phone? Try to buy one and do Instra Pickup. I'm gonna buy one right now. What color?

I don't think they're gonna have green. Let's go with an unpopular color. Let's go with silver. I bet it's very unpopular. 64 gig, nobody's getting those models. As of 4.24 PM on Friday afternoon. Okay. Uh.

On my phone, here. Oh my god. This is great. Let's do it. Let's do it live. Okay. Okay. This is exciting. Hello. I'm back. Back. I got it. Yeah. I have it in my hand. You got the green, right? Oh, yeah. And I went to buy the the 250 six because I was like, well, let me just see. I know I want the 512. I just want the biggest one. But let me just see what the price difference is. And it was John had just gotten the 256 and it sold out in that second.

And I was like, well, my hands are tied. I have to get the huge one. Oh, you got the 512, you sick bastard. I'll get to tell you something. I don't know. I mean, I'm looking here at stores near me. I'm not seeing any availability of anything in any color or any storage capacity. Wow, really? Nothing. This is different than last year. Let me do it.

Hold on. Let me check out. People saw that bump. They're like, oh my god. I got to get it. Hear that? I think the tool is broken. I'll be honest with you. Audio unboxing. Are you doing it right now? I think this tool is not working because they literally says no availability. I'm going to look at Pittsburgh. Let's see in Pittsburgh, shall we? Here it is, baby. I can't wait to put a screen protector on this. That's such an hour.

Let's say right. This can't be right. They can't be sold out of every phone. This is absolutely not right. They're saying I can't get this phone, even in Pittsburgh, I can't get it. Could you do it at a best buy? Well, that's interesting.

By the way, I don't care. I'm not going to get, I'm just interested to see, I'm interested, it's interesting to see where, they're claiming what, how, what are you doing? I just took it out of the box. Well, it doesn't, it's a fucking dream. Oh my God. You said we said this, you got green, right?

Yeah, every gay person got green. No, every person got green. Not just gay people. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no got green, you said we said this, you got green, right? Yeah, every gay person got green. No, every person got green. Not just. No, no, no. Don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be, don't be. Don't be discriminatory. All people got green. I'm actually shocked that they came out with green before they count with like a dark blue.

I think these colors are largely boring, but people are so desperate for anything that even seems remotely new. It seems interesting. Yeah. All right. Let me see here. Here we go. Ooh, the little fast charger. I mean, the size is exactly what I want.

Yeah, I love that it's thicker. It's very pretty device. I'll give them that. They have me more excited about capitalism than I have been in a while. I think this is bullshit. This is bullshit. I'm gonna go off well for them.

Thursday, September 26, let me see your hold on. I'm just looking at well for them. Thursday, September 26th, let me see here, hold on. I'm just looking at where I can get this stuff the best buy. Three left at my store right now, iPhone 11 Pro Max. They got midnight green, unavailable in my storage capacity. Let's see, they got it in 64. Nope, hold on, how about 512? Nope. But if you want space gray, no problem. You want to write in and get it. I used to only get space gray. Actually, hold on. Wait, what's the order they put me out here? I can definitely get a space gray 256 right now

if I wanted to at a best buy. That's the move. That's the move, baby. Here we go. It's turned on. Oh, this screen. It's a fucking iPhone. I got bad news, baby. Here we go. It's turned on. Oh, this screen. It's a fucking iPhone. I got bad news for you. You're gonna be really disappointed when you realize it's just an I, exactly like your other iPhone. Look at this screen. Please don't get sucked into this bullshit.

Anyhow, listen, speaking of iPhones, I upgraded to this iOS 13 and let me tell you, very little has changed. They have a swipe keyboard now, which, it's not good. It's not very good. Yeah, you don't like it. You know what the G-board for the iPhone is terrible, but it's way better than the Apple

swipe keyboard. Maybe I just need to train in a little bit more. I'm going to give it a whirl, but I don't really have the energy to train multiple keyboards, you know what I mean? I'm one man. I'm but one man. Anyhow, so it's exciting. Apple's got a new phone. There's like articles

today. It's like Tim Cook arrives at Fifth Avenue store to kick off. He can't believe we're still doing like iPhone day stuff. It's sort of nuts. I mean, I was excited to get my new phone, but of course it's fun. It's always fun for one moment to be, you know, to have the nightmare of our world alleviated by a shining new toy that you can take out of a box. Don't get me wrong, I live for that. I'm like, that's my whole existence is waiting for that moment. Oh shit, is on title goose game out?

Sorry, this is just a separate thing. Anyhow, hold on, let's wrap up our iPhone conversation really quickly. So anyhow, so everybody's getting their iPhones. I'm excited about the cameras. I just, I don't do much photography. The only thing I really take pictures of is like Zelda, which is largely for my personal use.

I don't really like do a lot of public posting of pictures of her because we live in a creep world. But there are the occasional photo out there. If we are just with kids, you kind of have to balance that. I have a cousin who won't allow any pictures at all to be like posted at all of her kids, but she takes a ton of pictures. But it is sort of annoying because the grandma

and family friends will take a family shot, like a group shot at Christmas and then she'll be like, please don't post that. And it's like, wait, what? That's a bit much. It's a bit much, but at the same time, I also get it because every time I read something about someone attacking children, it's always like the fucking scariest shit.

Well, yeah, but you know what, okay, but you know, it's a lot to like, I get it. And you don't know who's posting what, yeah, but you know what, okay, but you know, it's a lot to like, I get it. And you don't know who's posting what, where? But like, I don't know, if it's like, if it's a grandparent, I'm sort of like, I get it, you're gonna put it on Facebook. But I'm not really worried about like my parents Facebook, well, my parents aren't on Facebook. But it's hard for me to be worried about, I don't know, that just seems like a distant concern. So, what does it say? It's nothing to say.

People are very excited. The camera's supposed to be great. Yeah, I wanted a larger phone, and now I have one. That's not, I mean, it's not rocket science. Have you been using Apple Arcade? I have a lot to say about Apple Arcade, in fact. Yeah. Apple Arcade does not have, there is no untitled goose game. No, Apple Arcade does not. But we will talk about the Switch also in a minute.

There's a lot of hardware stuff that I've got this week that we need to talk about. But I'm all ears. I actually think the phone is nice. I want a new phone. That's great. I kind of feel like the more exciting thing from Apple this week is Apple Arcade. That feels like the real announcement to me because...

They've had a huge advertising blitz on the internet. I can't go on any website without seeing the Apple Arcade ad. I thought that Apple Arcade was going to be one of those things that like it would be like, oh, it's a subscription service. I got it like great. Like, I understand what this is. I kind of care. I kind of don't.

I thought like, okay, the incentives for this, like the incentive structure to create a game for this is kind of broken because the reason we got micro transactions was that people didn't want to pay premium prices for games on a phone. And so if you could just roll it out as many people as possible, it was better to try to make your money on the back end. And then there were some games that launched at premium prices, but they weren't super popular and they're not well supported because they don't sell really well because people don't want to pay for them. So Apple kind of seeing this makes a subscription model that's like, okay, you just pay $5 a month and then you get a bunch of really high quality games that we've commissioned. And so it's the best of both worlds. You don't feel like you're being nickel and dined for like casino style. And you also get some quality games, but you don't

have to pay out the nose for them. But the incentive structure for the developers now is games, but you don't have to pay out the nose for them. But the incentive structure for the developers now is it's time spent playing a game. So there's no reason for someone to make an hour long emotional like game that like tells a story about life and rebirth. And it's really artful. Like the main thing you want to make is a game that people want to play obsessively over and over and over again. Why can't that game be like that? I'm sure it can, but there are experiences on the apples on like the iOS that are really beautiful, like moving moments that like they're they said all they have to say in a half

an hour and a half. I like it. I literally cannot play a game on my phone. Really? I just it just is yeah, I do not enjoy. Oh, I mean, like things like what is the one with the two dots or whatever? I can't remember the last time I played a game on my phone I played Fortnite a little bit on my on my note, which actually wasn't that bad to be honest with you

There are games like that dragon cancer or old man's journey or gone home Yeah, yeah, we're gonna home gone home gone home. I played for like hours Sure, but I mean like there are smaller It's gone home available on iOS to be it night. It seems like it yeah, I played for hours. Sure, but I mean, there are smaller. It's gone home available on iOS. Yeah, it seems to be a good app, should be fine. It's fine on the iPad, but there are games like that that are sort of little visual novel, interactive novel things that are really

beautiful or like even monument valley is a great game but it's not super long, but it was worth the price and it's a really pure experience. I don't have to do any like weird DLC stuff or type in my password or you just open it and you play like through this story with beautiful music and it's nice and I have always really enjoyed those little experiences but I knew they were few

and far between so I was worried about Apple Arcade going into it because I was like, oh, is this just gonna be like Farmville without micro transactions? Like it's like unlimited, it's free, but they are gonna time rate you and make you come back and you click, click, click, click, click, whatever. Actually, they've been treating this kind of like a console launch

and the titles are really good. And if this was a proper console launch, it might be like one of the best launch lineups I've ever seen. You gotta ask, I mean, do any of the games like, can you play them with a controller? Yes. Do they, why does an Apple just make a really good controller? I don't know why Apple hasn't made their own controller.

I genuinely thought that they were going to be doing that at their last, at the last event. And I thought, like, oh, that'll put the Nintendo Switch on notice. And Apple or Nintendo will have to step up their Switch Online services. And it'll be like, this all you can eat subscription, mobile thing will be like competitive. And it's sort of this because you can get controllers and Xbox and PS4 controllers work with iOS,

but it's sort of not because Apple it's not built into the experience. So it's not like when you go buy an iPhone, they're like, do you want the shell controller? That's Apple approved for an extra $20. Like, that's not like, they're not pushing that as part of the like cohesive package. So I can't see like my brother picking one up, but I can see my brother buying an Nintendo Switch. But there are, I played of the games on offer,

which is about like 70. I have 36 of them still installed. I played all of them for like 10 minutes each. And there's a good fact like amount of games that I thought these, this is really great. Like, um, Sionara wild hearts, absolutely fantastic. What the golf made me laugh out loud. And I don't really care about golfing. It's just sort of like a humor based golf themed game. They've got a full shante game, Ocean Horn 2, Cat Quest 2. There's a lot of innovative and cool games on here, and I think treating it like a console launch was the really the smart thing to do.

And I'm more excited about Appalachate at the moment than I thought that I ever could be. Hmm. Interesting. I mean, listen, I got to admit you're getting me somewhat interested in it. A little bit tiny bit interested. I mean, it's like some of the games lend themselves better to having a controller setup. Some of the games are better on the iPad, but I have an iPad and an iPhone and a controller. And so, but even if I didn't, there's still 12 to 15 games for each of those setups. That's really good. And I was just, I don't know, like I'm excited about it also just because

to have a company that large fund money into indie developers is cool. Because even though there's tons of indie games on the Switch, it's not like Nintendo's funding them or like trying to reach out to people who have a cool idea and getting their thing made. Like it's sort of like you, it's operating on like a sort of new model,

more closer to like Google Stadia's model, even though I don't think Google Stadia, I'm still not excited about Google Stadia, but I think Apple has a good middle ground, which is like you actually have the game, it's actually you can play it offline, there's no lag, but it isn't all you can eat subscription,

and you can take it with you, or you can play it on your Apple TV. I think it's a good idea. They just have to follow through with it on Apple TV and other places, but I think it's good. I think just one of the things I really like, I mean, one of the things that has that, well, it's interesting. I mean, I might have a specific kind of opinion of this that's different from some people,

but like one of the things about the switch that I really appreciate is, it's designed for playing games. And it's really, the graphics are not, although I've said the graphics in Astral Chain are really good, but it's designed for playing games. And someone thought, what should the controller be like for playing these games? They're like, how you can interact with these things

in these games? And I'm not saying they're campy and they're aren't great games for mobile devices. They're certainly are. It's just that they're not really design for playing games and I like playing games. And I also like not using a touch screen to play games. I like using a controller.

Yeah, I like having some heft in my hand. Even when I use the switch, I put it in a grip because I need to feel like I'm fully doing this experience. I'm not like lightly tapping and like shifting its weight in my hands. Yeah, I just feel like I'm feeling sucks. But I just feel like if Apple were really committed

to this, they would like, I understand they're like, well, it's for the casual gamers, whatever it was like, you know what the switch is for casual gamers too. Yeah. People who don't want to play like casual and real gamers is not that far anymore. Well, it's also just like, don't draw the line like that. Why not just be like, it's good to play games with a controller and some games are fun to play without a controller, but we're going to give you like a great option that's like super compatible and easy like a an air pod level

compatibility sort of control option. Like, you know, it's like, you made a stylist for the iPad. It was, you basically were saying like, hey, we admit, you made a keyboard for the iPad. You were like, we admit that this device can do some things that are actually better with a pencil, with the Apple pencil and a keyboard, you know, and like, they're right.

They're right. It's not, it's better to type on an iPad with an iPad keyboard than with just using the virtual keyboard And I think everybody now admits that basically like I don't know that there's anybody who's not like yeah Like I have a keyboard accessory if I'm doing serious writing with my iPad or like hey if I want to draw my iPad I can use my finger, but it actually is Much better to use the pencil or whatever. And so I'm just saying why not acknowledge the same thing about the gaming.

You have this huge, they're doing this huge push. And I'm like, I'm into it, but like I'm looking at the trailer for this game sign R or Wild Hearts. Did you play that? Yeah, I love it. It's good. It looks really good, but like, are you playing with the controller? I played it with the controller and without. I kind of I love it. It's good. It looks really good, but like, are you playing with a controller?

I played it with a controller and without. I kind of put it for it without. You do. There are certain games that I do. What the golf is a game you could only play without a controller, but it's delightful. It's maybe the funnest game I've played until today when Link's Awakening came out on Switch

and we'll talk about that later. But it's really fun. I was genuinely like, I was plowing through a lot of those games just to have an opinion on them. There are a handful that got me like when I was on the subway to be like, I kind of just want to pull that out and play that for a while. You play this, uh, the shing, say, sikai into the depths. Oh, yes. That one wasn't as much for me. I've heard people like it. It wasn't for me. Yeah. Yeah. But I don't want to intermingle this. I think we're, you know, listen, the important thing

is that I can play this Goose game, right? Is it that's out and available and I can play? I'm just like, I'm looking and I'm going like, yeah, these games all look fun, but like, man, I already got a lot of games that I am not playing. Do I need another subscription? I literally just signed up for the fucking comics, all of you unlimited last night. You definitely don't need it, but for $5 a month, it's not like it's breaking the bank. And between that and Apple TV Plus, for $5 a month, it's a better deal than like Hulu with commercials.

Sorry, fine, I'll get it. I think it's good. I'm genuinely like, and people got mad at me last week because I was down on how Apple did its announcement. But I genuinely really liked that, and I'm willing to week because I was down on how Apple did its announcement, but I genuinely really liked that. And I'm willing to say if I was completely wrong. And I think it was, I think it's their best announcement or their best launch of this whole cycle.

It's the coolest thing that they've dropped besides getting Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon in a room together to hang out. Oh, please, please don't. I don't even know where you, where do you find it on your phone? I'm looking right now. It's in the App Store.

Oh my God, I've got it at the App Store. Mm-hmm. Surprise that's not at the top. Oh, there it is. Where is it? Not there. Game of the day. App of the day.

I don't look at the App Store very much. I'm like, wow, look at all these apps. I can be doubtful. I use like three apps. I'm sorry. Let's get real. No one's, everybody's using it. I'm gonna try it for free. Here I go. Download it right now. I hope you're happy. Give it a go and let me know. I mean, they've got the enter the the gungeon sequel. Yeah, well, I have entered the gungeon for my, for my Switch and I have, and I barely played it Well, that's also the thing about having it on your phone is that as much as I do prefer playing games on the switch

I have my phone with me right. Yes, but still All right, whatever ooh assemble with Carol assemble with Carol's fun. Oh, yeah, oh this looks really good Yeah, that one's good. Yeah. Oh my God, look, I'm getting sucked in already. I know, let me think of the other ones that are really good. What's hyper brawl tournament? Nah, it doesn't look good to me. Hyper brawl tournament I didn't like. I like toned hard of the outer tree.

So I'm talking about. Aton was good. Aton is good. Sonic racing is great. It's better than what I've seen of the Mario Kart racing that's coming to iOS and Android. All right, where cards fall? I've heard good the Mario Kart racing that's coming to iOS and Android. All right. Where cards fall, I've heard good things about that.

Yes, that one was great. Okay, I'm getting a story about change. I like that. Pinball wizard is good. Speed and speed. Play space land. That looks cool. Space land.

I don't know. Is this strategy? Oh, I didn't like space land. No. A turn based. No, thank you. Fuck off. I hate turn based.

No. I see turn based and I go ballistic. All right, anyhow, whatever. Let's get No, thank you. Fuck off. I hate turn-based. No. I see turn-based and I go ballistic. All right, anyhow, whatever. Let's get on to some other stuff. Okay, let's talk about the switch now. Yes. So I just got the switch light today. Yeah. I absolutely love it. I don't think it's to switch for everybody because if you don't have another switch and I don't think most people should have two, but if you don't have another one and you want one to that can plug into your TV and you can use the Joy-Cons, like obviously this isn't the one one and you want one to that can plug into your TV and you can use the joycons like obviously this isn't the one for you, but For someone that really just wanted a new PS Vita in his life. It's so nice

And I'm not why is your why is your current switch not that I don't understand It's just too large and come on. It is it's too large and I don't use It's too large to play on handheld, like, for a really long time. I end up having to do the thing where I like lean and like, I like prop it up kind of, or I don't feel like I can throw it in a bag. It's just a few inches too big to throw in a bag.

And I also feel like the Joy-Con, if it's not in a grip that like, keeps it like, all together, like it's not in like a mold. If the Joy-Con do feel like they could pop off at any time and I've had to open up my Joy-Con and replace the part that like the hinge that keeps it on because I accidentally popped it off

while in two enthusiastically playing Mario Kart or something. And it doesn't feel as like solid. The Switch Lite feels really solid. It's beautiful. I know the battery lasts longer, which is great for portability. And it also feels like something I could put in a coat pocket. But I doesn't have the TV stuff. It doesn't have the Joy-Con stuff.

It is smaller. So I mean, you do lose stuff in that equation. But if you have kids, or if you don't play games on the TV or If you want this to use on the subway, I do think it's like the superior Model in that respect. All right. We'll call it I like it in the like turquoise teal green Blue green bold very bold. I don't know I like I don't see myself on another switch until there's a higher powered version. Yeah.

My request for Nintendo. Here's my request for the next switch. Are you ready? Controllers that break less easily. A screen that basically fills the entire space of the front. Yeah. I will say the bezels on the switch light are, you're like, why are these still here? Like a bezel, a bezel of screen.

And obviously upgraded graphics performance and all that. But what I want them to do is sell an additional like GPU that you can plug it into to get like triple a like fucking ray, ray trace 4k fucking absolutely blown out graphics with every game when you put it in the dock. Like they do that shit and I'm all in. I don't understand why they can't do something that like if it's already doing scaling, why can't they introduce like, you know, Nintendo switch

enhanced and like if those games when they come out will have the option of when it's in the dock to go to 4K. But no, I'm saying all of that. It's up to 4K. I should be, the dock should be a massive fucking sick GPU. There's no reason why they can't do it. Like, it can be done, they're a huge easy. Or what?

I mean, like PCs, you can step up and down the graphics. I don't understand the difference when they, like maybe I'm completely ignorant here, but is there a difference that they, the current architecture that they're using that it can't be stepped up? Like I know through USC, they absolutely can. So, like what's holding them back

from doing like a switch enhanced version? Is that gonna be their next console launch and then it'll be backwards compatible like a game with color situation? Sun clear, sun clear. But the point is, the point is we have to, we have to push them in the direction of it that I've described. It's very important. I need that in my life.

Yeah, I'm planning to do it at this point. Well, they're not going to do that. I don't think that's the next thing. Is it? The position it doesn't want to do portable anymore. It makes me so sick. I got a PSP go and I put like a microSD card in it with a ton of storage. And I put a bunch of backup PSP games on there. And it's like such a nice little device. I don't know why they have abandoned portable

because they've needed it and go like perfectly. Like it seems like them and Microsoft has never cared about portability. Yeah. I don't want there to be like no competitor in that market because then Nintendo won't like keep stepping forward. Anyway, by Goose game, it looks great. Okay, so you've downloaded that, you're played it.

It's so fun. Okay, I gotta check it out. I'm watching, I'm looking at gifts of it right now. It's great stuff. It's so great. It's so great. It's so great. It's so great.

Very relaxing. Okay, so how much is the new switch? 200 bucks? 200 bucks. Yeah, that's good. It's nice, it's fine. I guess if you want to, if you want to, she would be saved $100, right? Yeah, and I mean, I bought the Genesis mini a few days before that, and that was like

$100 or like $90, and I'm like, I don't know why do you keep buying these things? I just do this. I love that. It's really nice. Why? I don't know, it just really excited me. I spent a night just with pure childhood delight. Doing what?

Playing Genesis games. Yeah, you've been in the whole evening doing that. Yeah, it was great. But it is really cheap. Like for what you get in the Nintendo Switch Lite for 200 bucks, it's pretty much, it's a great deal, especially with the holidays coming up. It's exactly.

Exactly. It's why it exists. I'm trying to think of what color I would get. Now I'm looking at this, you're the worst. You're the bad influence. I know, I'm really bad. I'm trying to think of what color I would get. Now I'm looking at this. You're the worst. You're bad influence. I know. I'm really bad. I'm getting you to talk to you. I'm like, ooh, baby, I should buy that.

I'm subscribing for shit, subs, to shit. No, this is, I have no need. Like if I, if I was gonna get Zelda video game system, I'd probably get her this. Yeah. I'm not going to, I'm not going to because she doesn't need one. I'm afraid from like an iPad like that when they're like super into video games.

Maybe I should get her one actually. Maybe I should get her one of these. Do you think it's smaller, right? Yeah. Could a five year old play this? The whole of these controllers? She'd probably drop it in her lap, but yes, she could play with the controller.

I had to get her a smaller PlayStation controller. It's so cute. Yeah, they make a small one. They don't make it. I mean, yeah, third party makes it like like Ho, Ho, G or. Well, the thing is, like, hook out the Genesis controllers from the Genesis mini package. And I was like, I did not realize that these were like dinner plates. This is like a large controller for having three buttons on it. All right, anyhow, what else is on the list here? Other news besides purchase table consumer product. I don't

like it. No, thank you, sir. Well, we got a whole bunch of shit from this. Yeah. I want to talk about first off. This is very off-topic, not off-topic, but you know that Adam Sandler is in this new movie directed by the Safdie brothers. The Safdie brothers. Do you know the Safdie brothers are? No. Okay, they directed a movie called Good Time with Robert Pattinson. Take a crime kind of like a dirty crime movie. They'd done a bunch of things, but they did a new movie,

they've done a new movie with starring Adam Sandler and like Lake Stanfield and Adina Menzel, apparently Eric Bagotians in it, but it's a serious movie. It's about a guy who works in the Diamond District, but it stars Adam Sandler in a, where he looks like, it looks like a Martin Scorsese film. Okay. There's a trailer for teaser trailer for it today. And I'm just excited about it.

I'm excited. I like Adam Sandler. I've decided he's cool. That's my thing. Adam Sandler's cool. He's like, he's like, back somehow. Yeah, you've decided just arbitrarily to disregard everything he's done for the last 50 years.

Yeah, did you see his stand up thing that he did on Netflix? No, I don't take a lot of time to watch Adam Sandler. It's actually pretty good. It's actually pretty good. It's actually pretty funny. He doesn't do any like, you can't say anything these days, jokes, because that's what his whole set is up to these days. Is that what he's doing now? No, I'm asking if that's what he has.

I don't think so. I don't feel like he's. Everyone, every big comic from the 90s is now a person who's like, I know that. I know that. I know that. No, I know that.

Like Rob Schneider was like defending this fucking idiot, this racist idiot who got fired for the last time. I'll carry a sign felt they all try to like, they're all like, you can't say anything. You can't walk around and say racial slurs anymore. Why? How comedy is over? Oh, he can see faggot. They're like, comedy's over.

I, if I can't say an Asian slur, uh, I should like, I seriously, it's like, let also, it'sur. I should like, seriously. It's like, also, it's funny. It's like sign felled. Is he defending? You've never even said a swear in your act. He's like, an audience shouldn't be subjected to the word fuck.

But if I'm not allowed to make fun of trans people, my civil rights have been destroyed. Or no, not even not allowed. If I'm not paid billions of dollars to make fun free. Yeah. Did I say, did I, I said these guys should I'll go on a thing called the white collar comedy tour. Have I?

No, yeah, you said it was the last week. Yeah, I don't think we said it on the show. I think this was in the office. We said that. Yeah, it's like, it's like a bunch of rich guys complaining. Anyhow, any like the view, but every conversation ends with with you can't say anything and then they go to the next topic But but but I might in and listen, maybe I'm wrong Okay, I

believe I believe that Adam Sandler is not doing that. Okay. I could be wrong I'm just gonna look right now Adam Sandler. He's in the news. Is he doing something bad? I'm just gonna type in Adam Sandler defense and see what comes up. See what comes up here. No. Adam Sandler defense racist movie. Okay, this is this one's this from. This is from when hold on. This could be an old defense of an old racist movie that he did. This is a very bad message. In 2015, 2015. Adam Taylor insisted that the ridiculous six does not mock Native Americans.

This is old stuff. I remember that. How old though? How old is 2015 or early? We watched, okay, speaking of Adam Sandler, do you remember me, you don't mess with the Zohan? Oh, please, of course I am. Okay, okay.

I was like, oh, this is on Netflix, I've never seen this. Like, let's put it on for a minute. I'm like, this movie is so, it's racist. It's like basically like anti-Semitic. Although I know he's Jewish, so it's okay. It's extremely anti-Muslim and anti-Arab. Like, it's done in a way that is like, we are winking, this is racist,

but it's also like, we know that they're pretending to be like these ideas of what the racist think, like Muslims are, but it is just very racist. I was like, this is insane. Yeah, it's tough when you try to play that. That there's no rob Schneider plays. Rob Schneider plays a terrorist in the movie. Like I am like an Arab Muslim terrorist.

Oh my God. No, it's insane. It's insane. It's like, he's literally in brown face. I mean, he's literally in brown face. He's not been true knowing. No, he's true, he's full true though. But like, here's the thing.

And I'm like, this wasn't even that long ago. I mean, it's a while ago, but it's like, but if you wait one frame of this film would be, it would be instant cancellation. Like, would never make it past like any critic. And you know, some critics were like, it's a great, it's hilarious. It's a fun rom.

It's like, like David Edelstein is like, I enjoyed it. It's like, did you not notice the part where everybody's like, I mean, I know it's a fun rom. It's like David Edelstein is like, I enjoyed it. It's like, did you not notice the part where everybody's like, I know it's a comedy. Fucking John Tatturo plays a Palestinian. John Tatturo is a Palestinian terrorist in the movie. Okay, John Tatturo from Queens, from an Italian family.

No, but it's like, like it's also about like the Israel Palestine conflict. And it's like it's not it's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not man, Samler. My recollection, my recollection is the stand up. I was, yeah, my recollection is, and you tell me if I'm wrong, you should go back and watch it. I remember his this thing he did for Netflix. I was like, Laura was like, I've heard it's funny. And I'm like, get the fuck out of here. Like, I don't, I'm not an Adam Sandler fan to begin with. Like, I don't like his, I don't like that, you know,

the Hanukkah song and all that shit. I'm not an Adam Sandler fan to begin with like I don't like his I don't like that you know the Hanukkah song and all that shit I'm not into it. I was like I was like finally let's watch it and my and my and in my memory this is like two years ago or a year and a half ago or something. I was like holy shit this is fucking hilarious like it was really good and like not at all what I expected huh so yes so so um but Adam Sandler's been in the few movies where he plays it straight and he's really good. Like have you ever seen Punch Drunk Love? Oh yeah. That's, he's great.

He's a good actor. He's a great actor. Really, he picks projects based on like where he can go on vacation while filming. Yes, exactly. He's in a lot of really dumb comedies, like insanely dumb comedies, which is why I miss shooting. But they shoot in like Antarctica and then you get

all the pictures of him just on vacation. And that was the point of him taking that job. But like, Chris likes. No, no, these movies are ridiculous. You know, it's like, it's bad. And any rate, like, grownups. But this movie on Cut Gems, I'm excited about because it's like supposed to be a serious,

I like when any comedic actor does like a serious turn. I'm into that. I find that comedians doing serious acting end up being so much better than people who do their life. Yeah, because they're dark, they're in a very dark place to doing just serious acting. All comedians are haunted. You don't have to tell me. You can't.

I won't have to tell me. That's why they can't stop saying racist stuff. All right. Yeah, we're haunted by the need to. That I can't stop saying racist stuff. All right. Yeah, well haunted by the need to- That I can't relate to, but- They're haunted by the need to do as many slurs as possible. Every morning, comedians like myself wake up and spend three hours fighting the urge to say slurs.

I mean, there's some movies that this guy made. There's a movie he may call Sandy Waxler. I'm looking at it now. I'm like, what is this? He plays like a guy who's like a manager. American field director by Stephen Brill and written by Dan Bula, Paul Sado and Adam Sandler. He's Jennifer.

We're gonna talk about the news. We gotta create. There's so much stuff that happened this week. All right, whatever, whatever. We can't keep diving into Sandy Waxler. Sandy Waxler, I gotta check this out. I gotta go through all, we should do a, oh wait a second, this is op, you take this out.

We should do a podcast where we watch every Adam Sandler movie. What? What? Called the Sandcast. The Sandlot, the Sandlot. What? I'm serious, I'm serious.

What are, what? What? What? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You ready? Let's see what the heavy movies is, the fucking guys made. Every movie with Adam Sandler in it, are you ready? Are you high right now?

No. Okay, hold on. This is really funny idea. The podcast that only watched grownups too every day for a year. All right, hold on. Oh, well, that's unfortunate, but here we go. Yeah, they went insane. Here's what you, you ready?

You ready to have your fucking mind blown? Okay. Are you ready to have your mind blown? Ready. He was on several episodes of the Cosby Show. Several. Played a character name. Ready character name, Smitty.

Okay. God, I can't even remember. Then he's in a show called, he was in something called going overboard. He played a character name, Shecky Moskowitz, okay? Typecasting, maybe. Shakes the clown, coneheads, the Larry Sanders show, airheads, airheads, mixed nuts, Billy Madison.

Happy Gilmore. Yup. Bulletproof, he plays Moses. Oh yeah, bulletproof, that's like an action movie. They try to make him into an action series. I think Damon Wayans is in that. Yes, it bullet proof. That's like an action movie. They try to make him into an action series. I think Damon Wayans is in that. Yes, it's fucking Adam Sandler and Damon Wayans. Okay. The wedding singer, dirty work. He

plus Satan uncredited. The water boy, big daddy, the peeper, doose big a little male jiggle, oh, voice uncredited, little Nikki, the animal punch drunk love love that's in 2002. Mr. Deeds a crazy nights a day with the meatball. It's a short the hot check anger management. What is this? Oh, there's a punch drunk love 12 scope at tones. That's a short. Oh, dude, because like I'm like, I actually don't know that much about Adam Sandler. Like I believe I have a cursory awareness of his career. I know he's Jewish.

No, I was super into Adam Sandler. When my dad was super into Adam Sandler, and I was super into Jim Carrey, and we kinda like, that was the two, like comedy people we followed all for all the 90s. He played Theo Hustleball's friends smiddy in the Cosby Show. Here we go.

He was also on remote control. He was on remote control on MTV. Okay, since Adam Sandler isn't technically a news story and a lot happened, I don't know how to make him do this. Sorry, I don't know. I guess't think I'm going to get this shit. I guess I just saw my mind because you don't mess with this oh hand.

I saw the single most racist movie of all time. Anyhow, it's like, what's the, who's the Nazi filmmaker? She did like all the Lenny Reefenstahl? Reefenstahl. Lenny Reefenstall. Reefenstall. Lenny Reefenstall. Yeah. Reefenstall. Yeah. Sorry.

In other news from people from the 90s who are up to some unexpected stuff, do you want to talk about Tom DeLong and his UFO discovery? Yeah. I mean, Tom DeLong, you know, we laughed. You know, what is this thing? It's like, first they laugh laughing you, then they beat you, then they've joined your cause or something. It's like first day laughing you.

I don't even know all the small things. Yeah, there's the layers. What is it? It's like a gondi. It's like a misattributed gondi. It's not a gondi quote, but it's like first day laughing you, then they fight you, then you win. Yeah.

That's Tom DeLong and Aliens. Tom DeLoggan, you have folks, people are really mad because we're like, Tom DeLong finally proved Aliens existedLogged. UFOs, people are really mad because we're like, Tom DeLong finally proved aliens existed. We're obviously having a little bit of fun in the headline. People are like, this is wife fake news, it's destroyed. I'm like, yeah, have you read the outline? It's not really, it's not really.

We're not like breaking news, like breaking news. Tom DeLong solves racism or something, you know? It's like, Tom DeLong has been like, UFOs are real, I can prove it. He has like this crew he put together, which is also like a marketing team that shows for discovery. So you take that with a great of salt. And you know, I don't know.

He got the government to admit that they had this like video they have of like these unidentified flying objects, which the New York Times ran a story about are indeed unidentified flying objects. They have another name for them, I think. We did a card story. story about are indeed unidentified flying objects. They have another name for them, I think. We did a card story, Drew did a card story because he's just a sick man. Well, the interesting thing is that the military came out with the statement that that like UFOs,

that he was right, he found something he shouldn't have and we wasn't supposed to publish that. And this weekend is also the Area 51 meme party or whatever. Yeah, there's storm. I just did a great tweet about, yeah. They're like, people are like, we're gonna like, storm Area 51, which is funny because I don't think people realize that like, there's actual military there

that'll like shoot you. But here's the thing, this is all, from the government's perspective, all of this is a good idea because they don't want you to actually know what is happening at military bases. They would rather we spend a lot of time and energy talking about aliens because that's not what's happening. Do you know what I mean?

Like, they don't want us to analyze or like, it's way better if the public is not asking questions about what the military is actually up to in these bases. It's way better if we're like, you know, selling merch with little green men on it nearby. Like that's better for them. They pushed that alien story for a long time, purposely for that reason. So like, if there was secret cover up, but it wasn't, it was,

it wasn't of like, it was of like spy stuff and military equipment. It wasn't of like, you know, fucking, crang came down and like, fucking littered the, the, the country side and artifacts. And, you know, only top level CIA people on their deathbeds will admit that they have some magic silver metal. Like, they're, they're happy about this. So I don't think the timing is an accident. I think that they're purposefully doing like a, and my conspiracy theory is that they like drop

this Blink 182 story just so that people focus on aliens and this means. Well, also there's a new Blink 182 record out this week. So it's a little weird that like, it's great, great. It's on the long, big breakthrough is happening, right? When like Blink 182 has a new fucking album. But he's not in the band anymore, by the way.

Hmm, right? He's not in the band, I don't think. Here's, here's hilarious about that. He's, so he runs a thing called To the Stars, To the Stars Academy. And it's like the team. It's like, he's the first guy. Tom DeLong, co-founder, chairman of the board and interim CEO. Here's his credentials, starting with, okay? Co-founder, Blink 182, and Angels in Airwaves, selling over 25 billion records worldwide. It's like, okay, great. The next guy is 25 years as operations officer for Central Intelligence,

agencies, directorative operations. The future is so stupid. The second guy is retired with 39 career with Lockheed Barton. The third guy, CEO of Earth Tech International, whatever that is. I thought that when we got to 2020, their food would be in pills and we'd have flying cars. And instead, we just have like the band members that I had on posters are like chasing aliens. That's the coolest thing that's happened.

The future sucks. It's just like, yeah, I mean, it's like a reality star from when I was in high school as the president and he's gonna kill all of us. Like that's, everything is so stupid. It's very bad out here. Good for him. It's very bad out there. But you know, good for Tom DeLong.

So now we know, now I guess we know that there are UFOs. It's unclear what it means. You know, it could be anything. The stars foundation just makes me think of to the moon, Alice, and like the white eating association is not. I mean, let me be clear. Let me be clear. This to the white eating association is not. I mean, let me be clear. Let me be clear. This to the stars academy, what does it do?

Is it like Prager U? It's definitely a scam of some type. Okay, I need to be really clear here. As much as I am a scamp, as much as I applaud Tom the Long's discovery or whatever it is, I do believe, and I don't know for sure, but I do believe fairly firmly that to the Star's Academy is some kind of like complex Ponzi scheme, and you shouldn't trust it. That's my deep feeling.

But I hope it's an MLM. I hope. Even a stop clock tells the right time twice a day. Okay. So it's possible they accidentally found the UFOs You understand what I'm saying I want you to add up Sandler dot com if you're seated apparently it's a website just goes to Facebook not actually a website Can't believe this guy's got Adam Sandler dot com is redirecting to Facebook by the way 40 million 48 million people like it. 48 million people are fans of Adam Sandler on Facebook. In case you're wondering. I truly feel trapped in a house. You're making it. All right. What's next on our list of delicious topics?

Amazon is going quote unquote green. Oh, yeah. The big news here is that they're going to fucking buy some of these, these, what are they called, Rivian cars? Yeah, the electric trucks. Yeah, electric trucks. I would happily buy the Rivian if I could right now. Well, so today's global climate strike is going on and I'm like, I'll buy this thing that doesn't even exist yet. I'm just like, I'll forget it, I'll take it.

This podcast is just you spending money. It is really, I mean, this is the problem with this world, okay? We're obsessed with consumerism, okay? We need to be obsessed with human humanity. You know, humanism. Humanism. That men's rights people push instead of feminists. We need to be obsessed with men's rights.

We need to get to the bottom of this. We need to solve it. Stop fooling around. Men already have so many rights. Let's just get them a couple more and we'll finish that and then we can get to women. to the bottom of this, we need to solve it, stop fooling around. Men already have so many rights, let's just get them a couple more and we'll finish that. And then we can get to them. Sorry, our men's rights are being stripped away. I have you not seen what's going on out there.

Okay, everyday women are saying they want to vote, they want to be in control of their bodies, they don't want, they don't want to be assaulted, they don't want to be assaulted. What are we doing here anymore? We're doing right now the sexism version of the racism that is portrayed in the film Don't Mess with the Zohan. I'm like a pal I'm like playing a Palestinian but my palestinian my palestinian is a is a abuser of women. Well, all right Amazon. There's a global climate trade cap. It's all good stuff. Keep it. Keep it in this podcast.

I get it. God, keep going. I'm actually going to leave it in just a little sooner knows when I go find it. It's fine. It's no problem. They should hear what you're going through. You suffer for your art. Both of our brains work so good.

It's good that we have a podcast. That's good, actually. 15,500 Amazon employees walked out to protest the fact that Amazon said in 2014 that it would try to get to zero emissions. It obviously hasn't done that. Jeff Bezos has some new announcements. He's buying that suite of trucks. He wants to get Amazon completely on renewable energy and he's stating all these goals,

which is great, but the goals go up to 2040, which is definitely too late. And the way that they're reporting it doesn't match what nonprofit groups have asked out of corporations, because there's a very specific way to report carbon emission numbers that is really transparent and digestible and easily accountable.

And the way that they're reporting their numbers is kind of obfuscating what they're actually doing. So while these things are noble and great, and definitely the employees of Amazon should feel empowered because they got Jeff Bezos to blank first. For like the first time. In other news, he just took away most of Whole Foods employees' health insurance. But that's the topic. Why? Yeah. Everyone part-time at Whole Foods just lost their health coverage. Uh, that's not great. That's not true. But the employees of Amazon should feel like good that they got something done. But also, we cannot take this PR greenwashing stuff as

like the answer. Like the Amazon has to be accountable in the way that last week I was asking Apple to be accountable. Like they definitely have the money to commission a report that's transparent. I'm like, I don't know why, I don't know why, listen, I don't know why Apple and Amazon aren't like out here being the number one promoters of like Medicare for for all and fully socialized healthcare in this country.

It's crazy to me that Walmart is anti social safety and stuff because Walmart actually has hacked the system so that their part-time employees are also on food stamps and have like Medicare in the states where they can so that they can shift the burden of that to the taxpayer rather than as an employer be responsible to pay a living wage. So like, why are they anti social safety nets? It's every Boston America, every Boston America should be like, let's push for socialize health, good socialize health care in this country because then it like people's like that's like so much so much a part of like people stress about their careers is like people have jobs they probably don't even fucking want or like just for the just for the sake of I mean not probably for sure for the sake of having shit like insurance you know I mean honestly I got a an investment in my small business Ryan small business aka dealing weed go ahead, aka Dealing Weed. Go ahead. No, consuming it. I would love to be a weed reviewer.

That would be my ideal job. So I was able to purchase a ton of equipment for my production company that is now returning once I've over the next year for one project I'm working on using that equipment. I'm making like $45,000 net my small company that I'll be able to then like reinvest in like and actually like build this business and that small amount of money, even if it was half of that, it would have been

given me a foothold. And so the idea that like those companies are anti workers getting healthcare or anti anything that sort of shifts that burden off of their employees and consumers. It would enhance employee productivity. It would also enhance the economy so thoroughly and not to make everything political, but if you work at Amazon, what you do every day is political because you're such a large company that's having such large effects on retail and consumerism and just the basic structure of our society. So I'm really excited about the idea that the workers at Amazon were able to be heard

on like one topic partially. But I do think that like if you work at Amazon and you're a full-time employee, like, and there's a lot of you who agree that healthcare should be socialized or that, we have to get carbon neutral. Amazon has a lot of political capital to spend. If you guys can get Jeff Bezos to spend the money on politicians, not doing the thing where you're maxing out donations

to every single politician equally. If you can get Amazon or Apple to actually take one strong stance, like that could be something that shifts, like there's so much money in Amazon and Apple, so much money in Google and Facebook, like that actually could make a huge shift difference. Like Trump actually had to meet with a ton of tech CEOs and because it was inevitable,

they're that powerful in our modern world, like Facebook tipped the election last round. So if those employees actually said like we value privacy because we don't want your data to be exploited by another country, like that action that like concerted effort by employees might substantively be more useful to the world at the moment than fucking voting. Because at the moment, like because the voter's right,

the voter rights act has been struck down. Like voters have power, but not a ton. The actual power in this country is corporations for better or worse, that's the system we currently live in. Well, it's always been, to some extent, it's always been the case, but now it's very pronounced that, yeah. I mean, it's extreme.

And so to see that these workers be actually able to get something substantively done that is a long-term good rather than what most corporations want, which is short-term good, yes, they're one of the richest companies in the world and those workers are highly privileged. But there are highly privileged workers, intelligent people who understand that these are pressing issues for not just the world, but also for the survival of those companies. And I'm like, fuck, yes.

I'm actually so stoked that this happened, even though it's not perfect. And I think that kind of like walk out or that kind of like urgency out or that kind of like urgency needs to sweep through most industries. And it needs to be the people who have the privilege to actually do it because you can't expect people who work at Walmart to go on strike for the like environment because they have to feed their kids. Right. Yeah, I agree. I'm it's like a catchpoint to though because those people who are comfy and at the top

are less likely to be mad because they're not, they don't feel the effects of like climate change just yet. Right. Well, I mean, they're very rich people and they're never gonna feel the effects of climate change. I mean, they're gonna be. It's gonna be like a space bubble that they live in.

Yeah, it's gonna be, you know, I mean, it's going to be, I mean, yeah, the, well, it doesn't, they're basically just going to live, they're going to live in a different world basically from other human beings. They're going to, the gated community will be taken to a completely, I mean, that's basically what Manhattan is at the moment, which is a gated community for which people and the people that serve them. Well, to say, nice people that work in media or a couple other industries, we're the outliers and we get to be here by some trick of the system.

But for the most part Manhattan is super rich people and super poor people, and that's it. There's no like middle class neighborhood. I would say that's true. I'm not defending any of this and that defending Manhattan. I'm just saying that it is definitely the case where you've got a massive wealth disparity, but it's not like,

it's not like, it's not like you have super rich and then absolutely impoverished. Like there is some middle ground there. It's just like, yeah, I mean, people who are, people who are, there are a lot of people come into Manhattan

who are like, could never afford to live there. So many people, you know what I mean? Like, like, like, I mean, you have three kids. I guess what I'm saying is, I guess what I'm saying is like, you have three kids and in both of you make $100,000 a year, you can't live in Manhattan.

And that's firmly middle class. I guess like what I'm saying is, you are like, there's an expectation, I mean, there's an, there's, there's to live like a, what would be considered like a decent quality of life? Like most people can't do that in Manhattan. No, but it's, I wouldn't, all of a sudden,

I'd call it like, I mean mean Manhattan is like a bad example. This is just like, I think it's gonna be more widespread. I just think what the current situation is in some places like San Francisco, New York is just going to nationwide. Be like, if you're a climate, if you've been, if you're like a climate refugee, you're gonna be relocated based on the wealth

that you have and if you have the money, you can move to a nice place. And if not, the government's gonna stick you in a FEMA camp in the middle of, like Iowa. And not that Iowa doesn't have nice parts, I'm sure it does, but they would, they're going to shove you in some place that is in a center of power. And then places with the center of power are going to, it's going to concentrate.

So if you are currently a middle ground person at a very powerful place, this kind of like action and organizing is good for both the company and you, but you are the people that are able to do anything. Right. Well, at some point, this is an untenable tension. The things that we're seeing now, if the wealth disparity continues, and if, if the government continues to be run the way it's run, and there's, we continue to cow-tow to the NRA and insurance companies over citizens, like, and if we continue to play like partisan or even reverse partisan

politics, and not realize that we do have one common enemy, and if we continue to play like partisan or even reverse partisan politics and not realize that we do have one common enemy and that is something that always unites people. Universally, having one common enemy has, that is... Are you sticking about al-Qaeda? But that kind of, yes, that kind of mindset actually did unite this country for one moment. Yeah, and you only need to realize it united us in racism. I mean, it wasn't like a sure we weren't united. But if we could take that and do climateism where we all hate the same climate that's

fucking us all over, nobody has that. There's no enemy. There's no clear enemy. People want a person. I know you can't put a face on it. They want a person who's like, we just make it one of the coaks, the surviving coke. We need to turn like, we need to turn like the melting polar ice, we need to do like a watchman situation where the were like underneath like the polar ice cap is like a ice monster

that like is that like threatens white Christians somehow. Like, and then we can maybe get people riled up. Maybe it could be like a, we could do that the ice monster could do brown face. Someone tweeted the other day, HP Lovecraft, the world is as as cataclysmically doomed and racist as HP Lovecraft had wanted it today. Like all the stream that came true. Yeah, I mean whatever all I'm saying is like you know people were like yeah like you know look I don't know I mean people were like Got caught up in this moment of like we were attacked now. We must like defend ourselves You know But it wasn't real and it was wrong and a lot of people didn't feel that way like a lot of people did not feel the way and a lot of people

We're like against the war and against retaliatory action. I don't know, I'm just saying, we need to do a better job of educating people, but we also need to make it, I think we need to, we just need to change the power, people in power. That's it, that's it. The reality is people need to vote.

I know we say this all the time in this podcast. All of these problems stem from who we elect. It really is true. And we need to find ways to break through in places where we're continuing to elect people that don't serve the interests of their constituents. Like Mitch McConnell is definitely fucking over the people he's most represent.

Well, he obviously doesn't give a shit. You know, for sure. And the people who vote for him are, I don't know why they're voting for him. I don't. I, some are probably racist. Some don't, just don't want to change the way things are. Some don't realize what's happening,

but a lot of people who should vote don't. And that makes it easy for people like Mitch McConnell to keep getting elected. I mean, a lot of people is thinking is, I decided I like Mitch McConnell. I decided I'm a Republican. I'm not taking any new information at this time because it's boring. Thank you so much. And I'm not going to second guess myself because I know I was right the first time. And I think that that's a lot of people voting.

A lot of old people, but yeah, yeah. I mean, definitely, but I'm just saying, you know, I'm just saying that the way to change it, and this is where I get to have been out of shape is because everybody is like, if it's not the most radical change right now, we're screwed. And it's like, no, listen, we need to like, we got to walk a lot of shit back right now. It's not just about like getting, and by the way, we do need socialized health care in this country. It's nuts.

But like, the only thing I have exclaimed is like, we have to do something now or we're fucked and like I don't care to hear, I don't care to hear about how we can do incremental change. The only topic that really gets me like that because I do feel very strongly that we need like revolutions in several areas and that they're all very important and blah blah blah blah. Like I am fully on board,

but the only thing that I am not willing to compromise or that really strikes fear in my heart over Biden, winning, et cetera, is climate change. Like we have to do stuff right now and we can't be like compromising and doing half, like we just have to do everything. And we have to do it all at once, really hard and really fast.

And we need someone to take decisive action and piss everybody off, but it just has to happen. And I'm terrified that it won't because of stuff like electability or because of like, well, we think Joe Biden probably has a better chance of winning. And then Joe Biden will do like a, you know, a carbon tap. You know what I mean? Like, we're going to be, I'm like actually really scared on that. Well, I'm less scared of like Joe Biden and more scared of the people who hate Elizabeth Warren who want to talk about that.

So the Working Families Party endorsed Elizabeth Warren to the great chagrin of a lot of Bernie voters because they endorsed Bernie in 2015 and now they've endorsed Elizabeth Warren. And they did not release the poll that they took of their voting base that would outshow like exactly where the support actually lies within the party and that really bothered people. But a lot of people aren't really engaged

with the party except to vote on a poll that they got in their email. So it's kind of like it's hard to say, and I really like Elizabeth Warren. So I'm not as pissed off about this, but I do understand like when the DSA, I'm a dues paying member to the DSA where I was, I guess I paid through the year,

but I stopped my automatic renewal because the DSA came out and said that they were gonna endorse Bernie And if he didn't win, they wouldn't endorse anybody and that is psychotic like that is a apocalypse worship stubborn bullshit That I can't give my money towards anymore And I like a lot of members of the DSA I think the local chapters here are doing great work and I'll definitely get involved at that front But the fact that the national DSA party wouldn't endorse a lot of the Warren is insane.

Like, it's insane. If Bernie loses, you have to endorse a lot of the Warren. But just to be clear, the entertainment of the Democratic Socialists of America, I mean, these are socialists. I understand. I do understand. The working family's party is, is not, they are aligned with socialism. Socialism aligns with, like workers parties

are inherently socialist. They can be more pragmatic in things. Socialism is a word. Socialism is a word that defines policies and ways of thinking. Okay, you can either be ideological about the word or about the policies. And, you know, I think that what the point of the endorsement

is to say, not only do we think this person aligns with the policies, but we also think that they are electable. And we need someone to champion us with the policies, but we also think that they are electable. And we need someone to champion us who can get into the highest office in the land. But I would just say all of this is, it's fine that we can, I think it's really healthy. There has to be some infighting amongst Democrats. The part that is troubling is like the part of where the people, where the people who like voted for a third party candidate

last time, you know, the number of people who voted for a third party candidate is the number of people that would have pushed Hillary over the line in the electoral college. Basically. It wasn't historically that different than other third party candidates, but I do think like, yeah, this race was different.

This race was different than historic. But this is like, do think like, yeah, this race was different. This race was different than his work. This is like, yeah, this is like, this is like, you know, the difference between the two candidates isn't the difference between John McCain and Barack Obama, which was a huge difference. It's the difference between like an insane toddler who shits his pants and wants to launch new. Well, and like a lady we don't like. No, this is what I'm saying.

Nope. I mean, listen, they were pretty huge differences then, but we're talking about like, I mean, Trump is really bad for America and really bad for the world. And I think we've, that's been well demonstrated. So it is a little bit about like, let's deal with this first problem because like, they have control of everything. Like, they own the Supreme Court right now and Ruth Bader Ginsburg is fucking old. You know, like we could end up with a court that is like aligned to Republican needs for like another 50 fucking years. So, so we need to like, we need to like, look a little bit harder at at at the bigger picture and think less about like, you know, did we get the perfect candidate this time? Like if we don't get Bernie, but we do get any other fucking Democrat, or actually, sorry,

if we don't get Bernie, but we get Elizabeth Warren, we're in, I agree. Pretty good shape, honestly, by comparison to where we're at. If, if look to Joe Biden, he's definitely not my first choice, but he is better than Trump. He is. And we need better than Trump to start with, okay? That's what I want to start with. You know, I know. And we can work out from there anyhow.

I'm like a broken record on this. Yeah, but I endorse their endorsement. And I think she's great. I actually am fine with it. Like the differences between Warren and Sanders are substantive. And I certainly could have, we could have a nuanced hour long talk about it,

but they're not in comparison to what we are looking at. I don't care. I do not care that her Medicare endorsements are worded in a way that gives her an out-shed six months from now she wants to put in this policy instead of the one that Bernie is explicitly saying he wants. We would prefer the Bernie, like I don't, the differences are so menace school. I thought the differences between Hillary and Bernie were fairly menace school and comparison to what we were looking at.

And these are even further microscopic. So I just don't, I understand I'm getting a blowback for saying that, but I don't, either of those choices is fine. And the Working Families Party is free to decide. Like I, and I don't wanna get into like the racial discussion of it because there is like, there is a through line of people

in the Working Families Party saying, hey, could you stop telling us who to vote for? Because you like a lot of the Sanders supporters are white and a lot of Warren and Biden supporters are people of color. And they don't want to be told who to vote for. And I can certainly see that perspective. And, um, I mean, I, we're probably not the best two people to have that discussion, but it is more nuance than just being like these people are sell outs. And like, how are some of them going to sell out for voting for a list before? Like, that's... No, no one knows.

It's very confusing. Anyhow, all right, what else on our list? Because we got to, I think we got to wrap up here. We do. Pretty soon. So, K to be that guy. Well, probably our last topic today, NBC is launching it yet another streaming service.

This one is called Peacock, which is just such a terrible name. And it's going to have all the hit NBC shows you love, which means that friends and the office and everything else will be like shifting and moving onto that service. Mostly the shows that are produced by NBC proper. So like Will and Grace is an NBCU production, whereas friends is a Warner Bros. production, but they're working out some deals so that it will be most of those NBC shows from like musty TV days are moving over there and they want to do like reboots of the office.

All of that is great, but we are really getting to the point where there are so many streaming services. I read somewhere that Tinder is launching its streaming service with like, so I feel like the bubble is, it's like the dot-com bubble or like the influencer bubble that's about to burst, which is like, this is a new thing, and the gold, but the gold rush is over. And I think streaming service is like, I'm more excited for the Apple TV Plus thing than I was originally.

But it's not gonna, like NBC has to at some point be sensitive by another company, like Apple has to produce NBC or something, right? Like, I just, yeah, I just like, I just think that this whole thing has led to a situation where we're essentially paying cable prices, but now it's even harder to find like, it's even harder to find what you're looking for and to consistently get like the content that you want. Like people were like, oh, the cable, I mean, I used to be like, oh, I hate cable.

It's so annoying. It's so confusing. It's like, but now it's like, I'm like, oh, the cable, I mean, I used to be like, oh, I hate cable, it's so annoying, it's so confusing. It's like, but now it's like, I'm like, oh, I want to watch the show. Wait, it's on CBS all access. Okay, I have to sign up for like a $10 a month service. And like, oh, wait, there's this new thing on peacock. Well, I have to sign up for their $10 service. And then it's like, okay, I can manage these. So I just watch that show and then I cancel it. And it's like, that's a whole other thing.

Like no one wants to do that. I see it's just going to get back. You know, it's great. You know, it's great, that's a whole other thing. No one wants to do that. I mean, the piracy is just gonna get that. You know it's great. You know it's great. You know it's great. You fucking pay for cable. You have all the channels and you then you have on demand stuff and then you're done.

You have Netflix. That's it. I'm also like, at what point I regret? We made a mistake. We have to go back. It's just like a lost. We have to go back to the island. I mean, I still have, I still have cable.

We have to go back to, on that island. Journey to cable island. Have you heard of it have, I still have a cable. We have to go back to the island. Journey to cable island. Have you heard of it? It's a trip. But also like we're in a place where like there's so many streaming services. And I'm definitely willing to pay for some of them. I get hulu through Sprint.

So I have that Amazon Prime has already rolled up. I'm definitely paying for HBO and Netflix. There's no question there. I'm obviously going to do that. Disney Plus, I already bought three years in advance for $70 and it's going to be a must buy. But anything past that, I feel like an insane person. Like to pay for YouTube premium at this point

or to pay for CBS all access, like that is getting to a place where I'm not gonna remember to cancel it and it's gonna piss me off and I watch one show. So I'm just gonna torrent it. And I know that that's bad and I feel bad. But at some point, if there's no option to easily and reliably bundle all of these together into one reasonably priced purchase

that I understand is coming out of my bank account and when, I don't want all these little micro charges of $12, so I'm just gonna torrent the one show I watch and feel guilty, but what am I gonna do? And at some point, I feel like that piracy is just gonna be come cool again. And we'll just be passing shows and logins around to each other, right?

Cause there's no difference between passing someone a lot, I mean, who doesn't live with you. Yeah, I don't know, maybe, I mean, maybe. But like, I'm just saying that, I think it's been over- and poorly managed and nobody solved it Like people were like apples gonna solve it. You used to be one interface to watch a sorry to interrupt you But there was one interface What I was saying, no, this one is on a million different set pop octas. No, no, dude

This is this is what I'm saying is that nobody came along was like Okay, listen, we're gonna here's what we're gonna do because it's really bad for consumers to have these like six different apps That all function differently and like you're getting the same content basically, but like it's you've we made harder. I mean apples try to do this with the TV app. It doesn't really work. And also the conflict of interest to create their own streaming service means that you're gonna of course now there of course why should right why should why should CBS CBS help Apple out at making their app easier to use when they have to compete with Apple content now. But somebody should have come along and said, okay, guys, we're going to get some consortium of content producers should have come along. I've been like, we need to get on the same page about this because it's really bad for

consumers. We can all make money, but we need to make it easier for people to actually get to the place where they spend on it. Yeah, really nostalgic for a United North. You know, like, do you know how many, I've literally downloaded episodes of The Hills, the new season, which sucks, by the way, and is unwatchable, and I've basically stopped watching it. But like, to watch it, it was easier to just pay $3 for an episode than to like go through

whatever weird hoops. Like I have Direct TV, which is now this AT&T thing, which I'm definitely going to fucking cancel soon, that it's like totally janky and an impossible to use app and a horrible experience. Like, and if you watch it, you've got to sit through like these insane commercials that glitch out and give you like three sets of 150 minute commercial,

sorry, 150 second commercial blocks, you get three of those in a row. And it's like, it's totally, it's like totally broken. It's like so fucking broken. And it's like, that's because no one figured this out. And now it's just the Wild West and it sucks. Also, frankly, there's too much content and most of it's not that great.

Okay, there I said it. That goes for everything, by the way, everything. All right, now we should really wrap up. Yeah, let's get a nice thing. All right, let's do nice things. You ready? Are you doing it first? Or am I doing it? I'll do wrap up. Yeah, let's get a nice things. All right, let's do nice things. You ready? Are you doing it first? Or am I doing it?

I'll do it first. Okay, go ahead. So as I stated on last week's show, I've been watching, or maybe the week before, I've been watching Designing Women on Hulu, which is, oh my gosh. It is just so much more relevant. And we didn't already talk about this.

Yes. Why are we talking about designing women again? Specifically, I have a specific thing. This week, another Brett Kavanaugh accuser came out horrible, not a nice thing. How does this in your nice things? Let me get to it. OK.

They did an episode of designing women about Clarence Thomas, where they watched a bunch of footage from the hearings, and then the confirmation vote live and had the characters basically comment on it. And it was really weird and out there for a show to do and definitely would have been harder to pull off today than it was then, but you got different women's perspectives written as those characters.

And you could basically like take out Coke can references and put in like Tobin and take out like some references to the radio and put in Twitter and change the Brit Kavanaugh or change the Clarence Thomas name to Brit Kavanaugh and shoot it today. And it's very depressing to me that that... Yeah, this is again, this is a nice thing. It's still the case, but the nice thing is that

at least I don't feel, sometimes I feel really, I feel like I'm going crazy in the current era. I feel like maybe I've gone so off the deep end that I think everyone's unreasonable about things that I think are pretty cut and dry. And climate change, sometimes I think, am I fully tricked by some conspiracy theory of scientists that want me to believe this?

And am I not seeing the truth? And the truth is that it's a Chinese hoax. And I know that that's not the case, but those fleeting thoughts come through my head a lot. And a good reminder that like, no, this has always been wrong. And like the moral right here has always been obvious and that I'm not a, and I'm not crazy. Lots of other people are just bad people.

And that it's been that way for a while that's kind of reassuring. Remember that the ground is still there and that gravity still functions and stuff. So enjoying designing women. Great show. Shane Gillis being fired. Excellent. Great work. Very good. Very good. One of the best. Untitled goose game and links Awakening both out for Switch, both the light full. Link's Awakening was the first Legends of Zelda game I ever played, and this new version is so polished and pretty and great,

and I definitely recommend it. And then my final nice thing is Trick Mirror, which is a book about self-delusion and like our life in the modern age, social media, feminism and identity stuff. But mostly it's just about self-delusion, but it's a book of essays by Gia Tolentino, and I read it twice now, and it's revelatory,

and I can't, I don't know how to recommend it enough, like just go out and buy it and read it. You will learn things by yourself in the world, and I've heard very good things. I've heard very good things. I just want to throw a copy of it at people who I interact with regularly. Like I'll be talking talking to someone and I'm like God you are you could learn a lot from this book. I just want to throw a copy at their face and run away. Hmm okay good I I don't

have nearly as many things. I'm just gonna I'm gonna have I'm gonna say one thing okay which is I started reading this book called The Gone World by Hold on. I have to look up the author's name because it's kind of hard to pronounce. His name is Tom Sweeterlish, or Sweet or Lish, not sure how you pronounce it. The Gone World is a novel about an investigator for NCIS who is traveling through time to try to stop humanity from like ending and also trying to solve a murder of a family

and find a kidnap teenage girl before it's too late. And it's like a weird combination of true detective and dead space and like 2001 space Odyssey. And it's good. It's really good. At first I was kind of like, ah, this is a little cheesy. The first chapter, too, is kind of like, ah, it's a little hard boiled for my taste because it's kind of like a detective story. But then it gets like pretty fucking crazy and weird and it like that you kind of like cools off on the hard boiled stuff and is much more like just like crazy, weird, travel log. Anyhow, it's, I'm not finished with it, but it's really good. And the author also, secondarily,

the author's from Pittsburgh and it's like, he takes place in places that I know really well. So it's really interesting because it's a very other worldly story, but it's really interesting to hear about places that I know from my childhood and stuff. So I recommend it, it's very good. And apparently, I think it's being made into a movie, maybe. But yeah, check it out.

It was great. It was released last year. That's my suggestion. Cool. For you. Well, that's everything. That's it. That's it.

We should go now. Get on with our lives. Bye. Bye. Well, that is our show for this week. We'll be back next week with more tomorrow, and as always, I wish you and your family the very best, though I've just been informed that your family did mess with the Zohan. you