The Daily Zeitgeist - 9/11 Pics vs Boobs, Biden Don’t Care About Polls 05.15.24
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I think I saw a video of a couple getting in a big argument in front of a
Wawa that was going on around on Reddit.
And I thought of the Philadelphians.
It was my wife and I,
that's who it was every night,
Tuesday night screamers at the Wawa.
She didn't like that.
I was treating her to a Wawa dinner.
And I said,
I said,
let's take it to the Wawa. Yeah don't disrespect the wawa let's let's let's solve this outside i don't want to
you know mess up other people i'm sorry i'm i'm sorry you're apologizing to the wawa embarrassing
me in front of my friends dude you humiliated me in front of rick man i know we have two arguments
going on right now.
One is the me taking you here thing,
but the other is you can't talk to me that way in this Wawa.
This is one of the nice ones.
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we take a deep dive into American
shared consciousness. You see how my voice
got deep on that part?
You strained a little bit there. It's a little trick
I'm trying out. Yeah. It's a little trick.
It's a little thing I'm trying out for the kids.
A little thing I'm trying out for the kids. It's Wednesday,
May 15th, 2024.
We're halfway there.
Exactly. Living on a prayer.
We're halfway. It's
Bring Flowers to Someone Day,
which is so nonspecific.
This one is Bring Flowers to Someone. It's Bring Flowers to Someone Day, which is so nonspecific. I like that this one is Bring Flowers to Someone.
You know, it's also National Juice Slush Day, National Nylon Stocking Day, National Chocolate Chip Day.
I was taking a walk this morning and somebody was walking by me the other direction.
And they had just pulled a handful of flowers out of someone's garden.
Oh.
And we're like, he was like doing like a magic pixie dream girl thing.
Like he was like dancing with the flowers and like kind of doing a thing.
So I didn't have the context until now for what was going on.
He was hashtag national bringing flowers to someone dead.
What do you think?
What's the, is there like a acceptable, here's my question.
Is it okay to rip flowers out of people's lawns?
No.
I don't think so.
Yeah.
I was just raised as a child of color to never set foot on someone's property that was not
yours.
Don't even cross your fucking arm over a fence.
But then, Her Majesty, whiteness is a hell of a drug.
She'll be like, oh, I can take this.
And I'm like, maybe you can.
I want nothing to do with that.
My son is a four-year-old, did that.
And I was pretty sure that he wasn't going to get beat
up. But not because I was
going to protect his ass.
He had to learn a hard lesson there, maybe.
Anyways,
Happy National
Bring Flowers to Someone Day.
Somebody Day.
The flower industry can't get enough.
First Mother's Day day and now this one
that nobody's heard of come on my name is jack o'brien aka remember remember my water ice member
i should have said wood or ice uh that is courtesy of lacaronia on the discord continuing
continuing to bring up the time i got off a ride with my nephews. My pants were wet and I blamed it on wood or ice
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every time. People need context. People need context if I did not piss the pants. Honestly,
La Caroni, it's rude at this point, man. It's bullying. It feels like bullying now. Thank you for keeping the legend alive.
I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host,
Mr.
Miles Gray.
Yes,
it's Miles Gray gallivanting around the nation's capital on his way to see
Jay Dilla's MPC at the African American history museum.
I'm going to do that later.
And I'm very excited.
Anyway,
I'm here and i'm eating a lot
of food shout out to people who've been sending me places to go to i've been to one of them other
than that i'm just i'm just eating whatever's in front of me unfortunately when you have a baby
you don't have time to really be going out like that have you said to her majesty i'm glad we
were here together in our nation's capital exactly i'm Wait, was that from? From Forrest Gump.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Holy shit.
I never thought about that.
They have a thing, a cool thing you can do is, they have a cool thing that you can do here where they dress you up like Forrest Gump and you can do all the cool stuff he did.
Like how people in Japan wear kimonos.
And here in D.C. you can dress up in a, like a military uniform.
A military uniform and get pushed around from line
to line and it is one of the most offensive scenes just like subtly offensive scenes did he did he
speak during the i have a dream speech i don't think it was i have a dream it was like a hippie
protest oh yeah it was a protest i know he was at the mall doing something that would have been
hilarious they even got him in there but anyway but it was like all the hippies were just there going from line to line aimlessly just like
following orders and then they went to a black panther rally and like the black panthers are
like yelling at him and he gets like pushed in another direction and the black panther keeps
yelling at the empty spot where he used to had
been like a anger automaton it's really like a like weird little detail that like once i caught
it i was like wait what the fuck does this guy think is like exactly man the war in viet fucking
nam yeah it's just that lying bastard Johnson.
Yeah.
Wow.
Anyways, a lot of Forrest Gump quotes.
For the kids.
Again, doing a little something.
For the kids.
Exactly.
94.
Miles.
30 years ago.
Y'all remember.
Y'all remember.
We're exposing them to history.
Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian, writer, actor.
Just one of our favorite guests in general.
He's hilarious.
He's chaotic.
He's riding a recumbent bike in short shorts.
He's Blake Wexler!
Hey!
This is Blake Wexler, a.k.a. Blumper Legs.
Blumper Legs.
Blake it up
before you podcast. Miles
and Jack can come and kiss my
ass. Blake it up before
you podcast. Listen to that
zeitgeist. Right. I know you
want to hit my thighs.
Yeah.
With the head turn. How
about it? I didn't want to blow out my
levels. I're my discipline.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Well done.
Thank you.
How are you feeling?
That was just you?
That was a Blake Wexler original?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unlike my legs.
That is all natural.
Your legs are all implants, right?
It's not natty.
It ain't natty.
It's metal.
It's silicon.
It's shellfish.
It's really old clamshells just crushed up and put in there.
How are you feeling?
Are you feeling free now that the Sixers are out of contention?
I haven't seen you since then.
Yeah, I feel great.
I feel great about it.
I feel correct.
My Knicks are, you know, not my Knicks.
Yeah, my Knicks.
My Thunder, you know, like they're in a big series.
My Wolves.
My Wolves beat my Suns.
I pretty much like every team, but my favorite team, I think.
Liverpool's locked in third.
So, yeah, there's really, you know, Phillies are playing great.
Eagles had a great draft.
And that's really all my life revolves around is there are things that i have no control over whatsoever um
and letting them people younger than i am yeah and having letting them have uh just an absurd
effect on your on your well-being somehow to the things we are not in control of and finances
i'm there right now let's not forget finances and my marriage let's not forget my marriage
as well yeah yeah well it's important we promote things yet can i promote my marriage. Let's not forget my marriage as well. Yeah. Well, that's important. Can we promote things yet?
Can I promote my marriage?
Yeah, yeah, please.
Almost two years in July.
Someone sent a video of me.
It looked like you guys
were at a Wawa recently.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you for bringing that up.
Yeah, no.
So I, in her defense,
I brought her to,
we meaning myself,
I'm royalty at a Wawa.
So I'm just a royal we.
That's why I said we.
But yeah, brought her to a nice one. I was even going to order on the touchscreen for her because it was one of the nice ones with Wawa. Yeah, that's why I said we. But yeah, brought her to a nice one.
I was even going to order on the touchscreen for her
because it was one of the nice ones with a touchscreen.
Yeah, yeah.
And I like to order for the aisle
because we were going to eat in the aisle
and whoever else was in there,
I was going to order for them.
But yeah, no, she started hollering.
High roller.
Hollering.
She was hollering at me
and I had a Gatorade
Propel fitness water that I
spilled all over my shirt.
Dude, do they still make that shit?
Oh, yeah.
I've been drinking
a lot of that lately and that's not a bit
too long. Yeah, I'm flipping in my
old days. It's clear, so it's
healthy.
That's why I drank lemon ice when that one first came out for Gatorade.
I was like, this is the Sprite of Gatorades that my mom will let me have.
I was like, I think it's worse if it's clear.
I shower in Crystal Pepsi.
You do.
Yeah.
You do.
It smells good.
It doesn't even stick.
It does.
It's sticky.
That's your skin.
You got that great O'Brien skin.
You know what his secret is, right? It's just all Crystal Pepsi. That's your skin. You got that great skin. O'Brien's skin. You know what his secret is, right?
It's just all crystal Pepsi he just showers in.
It's all crystal.
It's always been that.
It's always been that.
Well, Blake, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment.
I'll wait here.
First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things that we're talking about.
I'm sorry.
I was telling Blake to wait right there.
I'm waiting.
I'm waiting.'m waiting i'm waiting
but first we're gonna tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about go go go no fucking
wait blake just wait there why did i wait just wait okay jack go are you good i'm good like are
you he's he's wandering off again i don't have anything to do i have like very little i know
you don't but wait right there oh he fucking left please help me uh all right left. Please help me out. All right, we're going to talk about polls.
Maybe we're going to talk about the video portal set up between New York City and Dublin,
which I thought the whole point was that people would be flashing boobs and mooning each other.
But apparently it got shut down for somebody just taking off their shirt, which is very weird.
We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Vegas restaurant that promised a bluey day and under-delivered.
And, of course, we'll talk about OpenAI giving you a personal assistant that you can jack off to.
All of that.
Plenty more.
But first, Blake Wexler.
Yes.
Blake, come back to the microphone.
Oh, am I?
Are you ready now? You're getting
warmer. Warmer? Yeah, I was on.
All right, let's go.
Before we get to any
of that, Blake, we do like to ask our guest
no, you're off mic again, bud.
So you're going to have to take two steps to the left.
What does it look like?
It looks off.
It's got a fuzzy green thing
on top. That's what this... Oh, I thought that, yeah, okay.
You're back.
No, we're back.
I have a Kermit the Frog in here that looks exactly like this, just so you know.
And you can keep talking into it.
Oh, really?
For most of it, yeah.
Into it.
That's why I had to boost your vocals last time.
Okay, that makes sense.
Into a workbook.
But this is right.
Yes, you got it.
You're right.
You're nailing it right now.
Okay, perfect.
What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are or something you've recently screen grabbed
that is revealing about who you are? Well, thank God you added in that second one just to really
expand the options. Yeah, that's what we're here for. No, it's good. It's good. It's Blake. We've
been doing this for seven years. You know, it's sometimes we got to add a little wrinkle. Like,
did you hear what I did with my voice at the beginning the like deep thing like when i said deep i have my i made my voice deep
it was kind of it's interesting you're like bett middler and how she kept just adding things to her
repertoire throughout her long career yeah so she people say she was a triple threat i think it's
when tupple far more than that but but that is not what I'm here to talk about today.
We're doing a Bette Midler special.
Is that still on the books?
We can talk about that.
Yeah, that's why this episode is called For the Boys
in reference to the Bette Midler film.
For the kids and for the boys.
I'll choose Google search, I guess, for this one.
Just because I'm a bit of a traditionalist.
But I googled Steve Bonnet.
And he was a pirate.
And I thought he was a made-up pirate from that show, Our Flag Means Death.
Which was on HBO for a while.
Which was a very, very, very funny show.
I think it just got cancelled.
But it was very funny.
That's how you know it's a good show on HBO.
Because it got cancelled after one fucking fucking season or at most streaming platforms.
And it's great.
I highly recommend it if you want to watch it.
But he was known as the Gentleman Pirate.
And then my sister's boyfriend does like tours in Charleston, South Carolina.
It was nice enough to give my wife and I and my mom a tour. And we went by this
public square and it said,
here was where Steed Bonnet,
the gentleman pirate, was
hanged by the neck.
And it turns out that Steed Bonnet was
a real pirate. This is what
I googled. And he was
a gentleman's pirate.
He was a sea pilot
in ways too, but i meant pirate
and just keep justifying the mistake you made make it longer and pirates in many ways the
pilots of the sea in many ways c s e a of course but he was called the gentleman
pirate because often pirates they just stole their ships or got them in a devious way.
But he was a very rich man who wanted to become a pirate.
So he bought a ship.
Just cosplaying as a pirate.
Yeah, but he then became one where he bought a ship and he paid his crew wages,
which had never happened before,
where the pay for pirates was just if you stole stuff
off another boat, you know? Yeah. That's your pay. Whatever you can fit in your arms, man,
that's your salary. Exactly. Exactly. And yeah, he was a real interesting guy. And I think it is
funny when you look at history where it's like, oh, this person probably died at 50 or something.
It's like, oh, no, this man is is famous and he was like 27 or something when he
just blackbeard was a real
pirate. I went on a real pirate.
Yeah. Yeah. It was very
2005. Yes.
Correct. When everyone was like, are you a
pirate or are you a ninja?
And that was a fucking thing people said seriously
to each other. And I was like, get the fuck away
from me. Neither. It's so binary.
Like that was when the internet was
five years old and it had the same interests
as a five-year-old
sorry this is where we're at
guys are you pirate or ninja
next we're gonna be into
race cars and bacon
yeah it is true
and now it's starting to get like terminal
ailments as it gets older you know
it's very sick get like terminal ailments as it gets older. You know, it's very sick.
Yeah. Yeah. Now, truly self-despise.
We're teenagers right now.
Paranoia.
Into our early 20s, I guess.
Exactly.
What is. Well, that's a very fascinating story.
Oh, thank you.
Much more interesting than I was expecting for it.
Like, Steve, I thought you were going to be like, he's normally brought to the table.
Thank you.
Just based on what I expect
from you, Blake.
Yeah.
No, just the name Steve Bonnet
sounds like a,
like stuffed pirate,
you know,
like a toy,
like a child's toy.
But he was stuffed with cash.
Go get your Steve Bonnet, honey.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A little bonnet.
Yeah.
Okay.
Interesting.
He sounds too cute
to be a real pirate.
Well, he was.
I agree.
Oh, did he, Matt, now I agree. He was the cutest one.
Matt, now I want to know if other pirates are just looking at him like, you know how
there's like comedians who are like those trust fund comedians who are like, you know,
like, yeah, I'm grinding too, man, in the city.
You're like, no, you're fucking not, dude.
You have a Wikipedia page.
I don't think you know it says who your grandfather is.
You don't, but your grandfather does.
And then you're like an unhighlighted link on his page.
Yeah, yeah.
You're not even blue on the Wikipedia page.
It says, and they're drinking.
Buddy, I know how much you make.
Right.
I know how much you make.
You can't afford to live in that place.
Right, exactly.
Yeah, I know that for a fact.
I know, man.
The strike's killing me.
You live in Brentwood.
How?
Is that a new watch?
Yeah.
Super producer Justin is pointing out, first
of all, Blake's right. Okay,
Justin, fine. Choose
Blake's side again.
Justin gets it. He said, watch
this show. And they actually talk about the
trust fund pirate thing.
Oh, amazing.
I'm here for that trust fund.
So I'm actually going to watch it
now. There it is. I think you'd like it.
Okay.
Victor also coming in saying it's a good show.
So now I'm out again.
But if I get an even number of recommendations, I'll be back.
All right, Producer Bay needs to hop in.
Producer Bay, hop in.
What is something, Blake, that you think is underrated?
Underrated fried cheese curds.
underrated underrated uh fried cheese curds and i've been on the road a little bit which means i'm slowly killing myself with food and i've been i compare them to like mozzarella sticks
where mozzarella sticks amazing but only one dip you can generally use with a mozzarella stick like
marinara primarily but with like fried cheese curds. Marinara, Primera?
Primemera.
Amazon Primemera.
This is not good content.
I know, dude. I'm in a Porsche Primemera right now pulling up, dude.
Was Primemera...
I think it's going to age really well.
I think it's going to age really well.
It's one of those things that's ahead of its time. I couldn't agree more. I can't believe Primonera... I think it's going to age really well. I think it's going to age really well. It's one of those things that's ahead of its time, yeah.
I couldn't agree more.
I can't believe Primonera got rid of their charged lemonades.
Anyway, so they're limited to one dipping sauce for mozzarella sticks.
One dipping sauce for mozzarella sticks.
But for fried cheese curds, you can use marinara.
You can also use ranch.
I've been served with them.
A barbecue sauce, I've been served with them. And then once when I was in Minneapolis, I got like a cherry ketchup, which sounds crazy, but was like a little bit of sweetness in there. It was so good. So fried cheese curds, I think, as an alternative to the prime de mera.
the prime and mera difference.
Yeah, curds don't make it out to the coasts, I don't think.
I feel like every time I've had it, it's been in the Midwest.
I don't know. Maybe because
my dumb take is
like, are they closer to the dairy farm?
We got too many curds selling to the bar.
We got plenty
of dairy farms out here.
That one stretch that you drive when you're driving
to St. Miles. You struck a cord
with Jack.
Up to five. Yeah drive when you're driving to San Francisco. Miles, you struck a chord with Jack. Up the five? Yeah.
When you reach just that terrible
Just hell? Yeah, when you have to
roll your windows up and then put the air conditioning
on, like circulate interior
air. And turn the music up so you can't hear
the screams of the cows.
You can't hear the cows over my screams
of yelling, Congress started the Dust Bowl.
Because I read every sign on that road.
On the five?
Yeah.
You're going to get a lot of propaganda on that one.
Trump Pence!
Still up for some reason.
Hell yeah, bro.
Can someone take this down?
Yeah.
So, wait, you're saying that cheese curds,
they will give them to you with different sauces?
Like, do you get four at once? Or you're just saying that they're more willing to explore the studio space on what
sauces are appropriate. Right. Well, four at once, I'm not made of money, but whatever they give me
without having to pay a surcharge for additional sauces, generally two to three, I would say is
what you would get. But that is my point, is that there's more variety in the sauce
where no one's going to stop you from putting a mozzarella stick into a ranch.
I will throw my body in between a mozzarella stick and some ranch.
Like a Secret Service officer.
No!
Holy shit.
Yeah. holy shit yeah i ranches that i i thank dominoes for this that ranch uh they exposed me to like
ranch as dipping sauce for everything now it's just god i love ranch it's so good you gotta
make it yourself making it the dude when you make it yourself it's there's like a little green onion
zest to it that really comes out whenever you make a fresh i mean when you make it yourself, there's like a little green onion zest to it that really comes out whenever you make a fresh one.
I mean, when you make it yourself, maybe.
When I make it myself, it probably sucks.
No, no, it's actually pretty easy.
I would even say an oaf like you could even put together.
Not me.
Even a redundant piece of shit so there's this restaurant near there's a chain of restaurants i guess out
here called great white that has a lot of food that i like and they have their own homemade ranch
and it sucks oh really yeah it's really bad and it's like put me off of anything that isn't hidden
valley because i'm just like they i'm gonna fuck up up the dill. They just put way too much dill in that bitch.
Yeah, what's the dill, bro?
What's the dill?
Jay Dilla over here.
What's the dilly?
I just touched grounds down in Philly.
What is something?
Thank you, Blake, for following along.
Thanks for that dilly.
Dilly.
Dilly.
Indeed.
Dilly dally.
Dilly dong.
Let me even interrupt you. Oh, dilly dilly. Remember. Dilly dally. Dilly dong. Let me even interrupt you.
Oh, dilly dilly.
Remember that?
That was good.
I have a tattoo on my lower back.
Yo, this guy's a cop, man.
This guy's a fucking cop.
I got it tattooed on my lower back.
I forgot it was there, and then I got it tattooed again on my left wrist.
And now I have, no, it's dilly dilly dilly dilly.
Dilly dilly dilly dilly dilly dilly uh what is something you think
is overrated overrated down uh not the direction oh fuck i had so much material on how down as a
direction was overrated we can so close it's so negative It's so negative.
It's so negative.
I just take it off my Nintendo controller when I get it.
I just can't make a mistake.
From a goose.
From a goose.
I think it's too warm.
I think it traps heat too well.
And you know what?
Let me be more specific
because I would imagine there's a corner of the world where it's quite cold and down you would want that but you would imagine
that there's no way to confirm but you do have to imagine that there are for sure parts of the
world that are cold i'm talking out of my ass here but i've heard that there are some places
through the the grapevine but i would say for a bed for like a comforter, I think down comforters are suffocating.
And you never need something that traps heat that well when you're sleeping.
Yeah.
We'll be right back.
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Big players spreading money all about.
Big super spreader players with the money.
That's a fair point.
Thank you. They're flying very money. That's a fair point.
Geese really, you know, they're flying very high.
It's got to be cold up there.
But I do wonder if that's why they're such assholes down on land. Like down amongst us is too much heat being trapped in there.
Too hot.
Hot tempered, you know?
I think that's worth exploring.
That makes me, yeah, more empathetic actually now that you say it that way.
Because if I was that hot...
Because usually you will beat the shit out of a goose.
A mother goose?
Don't tell me about it.
Yes.
His alter ego.
Yes, I will take one out.
I'll take one out.
I actually got a...
I put a huge plow on my bicycle, so now I can drive around and take out these
hot birds. But now I'm
rethinking that and I might take it off.
Yeah, have a heart.
Think about the geese. Think about the geese
inside there, won't you? Yes.
I bet they look real fucked up without the feathers.
Oh, God. Can you imagine terrible
skin? They'd probably die, right?
I'd imagine a bird without its feathers
is its countdown to death. They'd probably die, right? I'd imagine a bird without its feathers is its countdown to death.
Yeah, probably.
Their skin would look like Jack's if he
didn't bathe in Crystal Light Pepsi.
I don't even know if we talked about that
on air or in that ice cold.
What did you call it? That clear thing?
Crystal Pepsi.
Yeah. Oh, no, but I'm saying you got the
diet version.
Crystal Light Pepsi. Give me a Pepsi free. Pepsi free. I'm saying you got the diet version. Light. Crystal light Pepsi.
Give me a Pepsi free.
Pepsi free, please.
I'm from Back to the Future.
That doesn't really make sense anymore.
I won't watch that.
Nice try, Zemeckis.
And this brings me back to my point.
Zemeckis is a fucking idiot.
Fucking Bobby Z.
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk polls, polls, polls.
We'll be right back.
I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series,
Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult.
And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church.
And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.
Together, we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films and LA-based Shekinah Church, an alleged cult that has impacted members for over two decades.
Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths between high-control groups and interview dancers, church members, and others whose lives and careers have been impacted, just like mine. Through powerful, in-depth interviews with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts,
the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives.
Forgive Me For I Have Followed will be more than an exploration.
It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these types of abuses never happen again.
Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente.
And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.
We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline,
a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.
When you're just starting out in your career,
you have a lot of questions,
like how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed?
Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job?
Girl, yes.
Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions.
Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice.
And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do.
Like resume specialist Morgan Saner.
The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets the job is
usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of
the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself.
Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career
without sacrificing your sanity or sleep.
Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the
intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark
versus Angel Reese.
I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because
of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that?
Just come here and play basketball every single day, and that's what I focus on.
From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Angel Reese is a joy to watch.
She is unapologetically black.
I love her.
What exactly ignited this fire?
Why has it been so good for the game?
And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?
This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.
This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network,
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke.
And we're back.
They think they're so smart, don't they?
And we're back.
These poles. These poles think they're so smart. They think they're so smart, don't they? And we're back. These polls.
These polls think they're so smart.
They think they're so smart.
Like those frogs.
The Bud Light frogs.
I remember them all.
And then they take Dilly Dilly at the end.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dilly Dilly.
Anyway, polling.
Yes.
The thing that we're sweating over, not sweating over.
I don't know. I think it's just worth touching on some recent polling that has come out on the presidential are much closer than the headlines reveal.
He leads by like Trump leads in three states by a slim margin and the other three states are
basically a tie. And what some polling experts say is misleading is that these polls have a very
small sample size and are focusing on registered voters. And they say, look, you got to look at
the people who are likely to vote. Registered voters are people who are merely registered to vote. They can say whatever, but likely gives you
a little bit more of an accurate picture because these are people who are saying, no, I'm intent
on voting and this is how I'm going to vote. So when you look at likely voters, Biden has about
a four point edge. What does that mean? I don't know. You know, at this point, it's still early
and the polls are basically telling us that it is very, very close. And I think, you know at this point it's still early and the polls are basically telling us that it is very
very close and i think you know if you're if you're saying oh i don't want another trump presidency
another decent sign is that in senate races democrats seem to be leading in races in arizona
wisconsin and pennsylvania but what about the youngs you know a lot of the headlines i've also pointed out just give me a fucking excuse to blame the young smiles jesus christ come on give me a reason they don't want to work
they're not working so are they voting just want to vote like a youngin they just they just want
to camp outside and yell and make signs and listened at whatever they listen in their hamas
tents i've seen it.
How come all those tents are the same on those campuses?
Yeah, exactly.
Where do you think those came from?
I've overheard.
But yeah.
So again, the New York Times has the most negative results.
When you look at other national polls, it says it's like 30, 30 percent to 31 percent.
Trump is up by one percent of like, you know, younger voters that they that they were polling, quote unquote.
Wait, he's winning outright?
31% to 30% is what the New York Times results seem to be.
That would be staggering.
A Harvard poll.
Yeah, Harvard poll has it 56 to 37.
That's Biden up 19 points.
Pew Research has 59 to 38.
Biden's up 21 points. But I think it's clear that the new york times
at least from what i've seen in the last couple years maybe i'll be fair maybe the last couple
months maybe you know the new york they like to take liberties with their editorialized headlines
so saying that trump the actual headline is trump leads in five key states as young and non-white
voters express discontent with biden and now i
know who to be mad at exactly uh it reveals an erosion of support for the president among young
and non-white voters upset about the economy and gaza so again it's written in a way oh you can't afford a home
i bought my house for twenty thousand dollars and now it's worth three million
but yeah i can't afford health care i broke my leg and now i'm bankrupt
my college education was a false promise fucking babies jesus yeah right
yeah but yeah again like we're saying it's definitely giving their readers a reason to
reflexively just blame progressives and younger voters if trump wins but again most of the polling
it at like at worst it's it's very very fucking close and there's no way to fucking make sense
of these polls right now um the other the one the other thing that is worrying though uh in axios it was being reported
that biden is first of all just to lay the table here biden is not performing as well as he was in
2020 at this point and it's been reported that he actually doesn't really believe in any of the bad
polls where he's oh good good and either do his advisors like
they're kind of like nah it's just like hater shit no need to no need to you mean people who
aren't willing to vote for you haters we call them fucking haters we don't want exactly yeah
that's what they're saying that's what all they're saying to each other in the white house right now
agreeing with each other and it's just these young exactly they're gonna exactly exactly but yeah all this to say polling is always changing and again we'll
see neither candidate is really dominating but the underlying data suggests biden may have the
slimmest of advantages and look plenty of time for either of them to have a huge fuck up or their bodies to expire.
Or maybe that disaster Republicans are waiting for to pounce on is on the way.
I do knows all we do know is November.
Please take your time.
I feel like the disaster is here.
Biden is fucking it up.
And like this is a weird one.
Like Republicans, they couldn't be like, yeah, man biden is all in on just the killing of
innocence like this is what our foreign policy is becoming like that would be the attack from
the left as compared meanwhile they're like he's fucking letting people use bathrooms and
wind energy but i don't know i feel like i saw somebody writing about like their stance on this is like i don't need to like claim i'm going to
say i'm going to vote for biden right now when there's an opportunity he needs my support in the
like in the coming months and he's completely fucking outside of like what it seems like a reasonable humanitarian like job a president
would do so like i don't know it's like i feel like this headline is aimed at people
like trying to get everybody to just panic and go back to just being like yeah but it's better
than trump and so we got to go back to supporting him and obviously like we you know yeah it just feels like they don't want you to
have the right to threaten any kind of leverage over a presidential candidate all we have god
that's like the only power we have in this world run by like corporations and like more corporations
than him right that's how yeah that's how backwards the state of things are.
People are definitely in the streets and protesting
and then the other part is being like, well, I might
not vote for them. Like, no, just don't fucking do that.
Are you fucking out of your mind?
Right. Well, then fucking
come to the table or fucking wake the
fuck up. Yeah, exactly.
The polls are all just haters.
So big yikes,
if true. And i believe based on
how he's the glacial pace at which this president moved i believe true man his face looks more and
more like it hurts you know like he's he's like doing a thing with his face that's like really
like oh it looks like it's on fire i don't Oh, like you got out of a pool and you didn't wipe your face off and like the chlorine is just drying your skin out or something.
Yeah, you know, it just like looks real stretched and like, whoa.
Oh, whoa.
That's good.
You kind of look like him when you do.
Whoa.
Yeah.
That's really good.
I can do kind of a Biden impression.
Yeah.
Like, maybe I'll take a picture and you can go to Instagram to see my Biden.
I'm just going to put, I'm just going to do my little Photoshopery
and put Biden's face on yours
and I don't think anyone's going to realize the difference.
There you go.
All right, this is a fun little...
So there's been a couple of fun little art projects
in New York lately.
We had the enormous hot dog
that grew erect and ejaculated confetti
into the sky over Times Square.
Confetti.
Confettied.
It confettied everywhere.
And there was a wrestling ring by the base of it.
And just a fun way to celebrate slash make fun of America.
And there's also now a video portal set up between New York City and Dublin.
And basically it's a live feed that they designed to look like a sci-fi portal.
The aspect ratio is pretty cool.
It does kind of look like you're just like looking like you could walk into it and come out on the other side.
If I was if I was like on mushrooms, I'm there's like a 15 percent chance'd believe that that's just on the other side, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
I think I could hop through there.
Things started off nicely.
People waving to each other, dancing, siblings having reunions.
There was a proposal.
Yeah.
All very nice.
Her Biden impression was featured for a day and a half.
My Biden impression was heavily featured.
Oh, my face fucking hurts.
Ow.
Ow.
My fellow Irishman.
Ow.
But if there's a camera that's live streaming, you have
to do dumb shit in front of it.
People found out. I don't know what they
were doing for that first day, but
eventually the law,
people are like, you know what we have to do.
There's a social contract that says if there is a camera live streaming, you better do some dumb shit.
Basically, the bars opened in Dublin.
Right.
Probably mere moments after the portal opened because the bars are never not open in dublin i was once walking home from school at two in the afternoon and a woman in like a
school marm dress came out of a bar and threw up on my shoes and then went back in to the bar like
it's just oh just they go reset yeah they go hard yeah they go hard like from jump street it's it's
all like a massive state college campus over there. Just that level of drinking.
That didn't bode well for the people who wanted this to be a fun little art project for people around 3,000 or so miles away.
I think it does. I think it rules.
This is who we are.
But I guess the thing that I'm mad about is that they're not embracing the chaos.
Because like we said inevitably people
started doing dumb shit okay this is from a article about a quote a number of drunken Dubliners were
seen standing in front of the portal pretending to take cocaine you know this is from the pretending
to Europe when they say take cocaine take it yeah yeah to commit cocaine holding up their phones to show pornographic videos and showing photos of the twin towers on
this is you did you see that the guy literally just marches up and he's like pointing he's like
huh huh remember this 9-11 that's your town right i was in dublin months after 9-11 and a girl i
went on a date with was like yeah but you guys you guys kind of deserved it. I was like, damn!
And you married her.
And you married her.
It's me, right?
People do get so weird on camera
and you see it in local news
stuff and then on the
big jumbo screen at
sporting events and stuff where
I think that's maybe the
best representation of how we could have predicted that this was going to happen and yeah i remember
when i was in high school i went to like a phillies game with five of my best friends
and then we got on the big jumbotron and instinctually they all just started beating
the shit out of me like on the camera like they just started like i don't know what it was
yeah i was gonna say they were all at my wedding like they were all my best friends that doesn't make it
matter the week those are all my best friends dude then on my wedding they pantsed me when i
was giving my vows yeah they totally took the underwear down too yeah you know how best friends
are then they threw red paint on me uh but yeah yeah i was wearing a fur coat well another
man was seen exposing his quote bare bottom in front of the portal in dublin as a crowd around
him cheer i can't believe you could find a single picture of the portal without at least one person
mooning it like that feels like it is what it is for, right? Right. What did you think was going to happen?
It's for us to do our stupid human tricks across the sea,
and they're going to be like, hey, you want to see my butt?
Yeah.
Yeah, fine, great, let's do it.
But then an OnlyFans creator said,
she said she got the portal shut down.
As of right now, it is shut down,
as they try and figure out some technical solutions
to keep within the spirit of what the art piece is.
So I don't know what that means.
It's like permanent.
I thought it was like shut down for a second.
Like as of an article three hours ago in the BBC, it just said the council said the overwhelming majority of interactions are positive, but a small minority of people had engaged in inappropriate behavior and it's been amplified so we will continue to monitor the situation with our partners in new york to ensure that portals continue to deliver positive
experience for both cities i i would again argue that showing your ass flashing the camera doing
9-11 memes across the sea that's just what that's what this is for and i don't think we should be
trying to do anything else i'm actually genuinely shocked to us that like not one dude started doing helicopters in front of it because i feel
like i see that all the time and you're like that we know it's let out right like yeah in
like england or like just in europe like people get the people get the wangs out and they start
helicoptering and you know so i guess that was maybe a copter too far get your wang copters out because that's when i brainstorm i truly assumed this was an art piece designed as a transcontinental like mooning and sunning device
like what else could you have possibly thought was going to happen? Yeah, right.
No, we had some serious conversations about mental health
and how to solve the housing crisis.
Like, no, it's...
Yeah, right.
A portal that's supposed to show an unfiltered glimpse of reality
and, like, they shut it down for content
that would have been rated PG in the early 80s.
Like, boobs
and mooning is not even
like a PG-13.
Yeah. And who would have known
a bunch of depraved fucks would be in
Times Square, the worst
place in the entire world.
Which used to all be like...
Think of the children.
It used to be just all pornography there.
All pornography.
You can't even show your breasts to the screen no but which is what i call them i call
them breasts i know i know i was i was almost accidentally kicked by someone filming a tiktok
dance video when i was in new york a few months ago and that was like i was what the fuck is going
on like everyone uses that area to make tiktok videos now wait you went to times square yeah
because when I...
For dinner.
No, there's some work thing.
I was there.
I had to go out there.
And like the place that I was going to,
I had to traverse,
like I had to cross through Times Square to get to it.
And I was just like, wow, cool, man.
I'm in Times Square.
And then some kid was getting sturdy
and almost kicked me in my kneecap.
Yeah.
All right. Let's take another quick break and kicked me in my kneecap. Yeah. All right.
Let's take another quick break and we'll come back.
Okay.
Okay.
Hey, is that cool, you guys?
Can we take a quick break?
That works for me.
All right, cool.
Don't leave, though, Blake.
Stay right there.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm used to staying here.
Keeping here the whole time.
Yeah.
whole time. Yeah. I'm Jess Casavetto, executive producer of the hit Netflix documentary series Dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and
Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Together,
we'll be diving even deeper into the unbelievable stories behind 7M Films
and LA-based Shekinah Church,
an alleged cult that has impacted members
for over two decades.
Jessica and I will delve into the hidden truths
between high-control groups and interview dancers,
church members, and others whose lives and careers
have been impacted, just like mine.
Through powerful, in-depth interviews
with former members and new, chilling firsthand accounts, the series will illuminate untold and extremely necessary perspectives. Forgive Me For
I Have Followed will be more than an exploration. It's a vital revelation aimed at ensuring these
types of abuses never happen again. Listen to Forgive Me For I Have Followed on the iHeartRadio
app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Hey, I'm Gianna Pradente.
And I'm Jemay Jackson-Gadsden.
We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts.
When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions.
Like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed?
Or, can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your
work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do
like resume specialist Morgan Saner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get
the job and the person who gets the job is usually who applies.
Yeah, I think a lot about that quote.
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I'm
Keri Champion, and this is season
four of Naked Sports, where we live at the
intersection of sports and culture.
Up first, I explore
the making of a rivalry.
Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese.
I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about
women's basketball just because of one single game.
Every great player needs a foil.
I ain't really near them boys.
I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on.
From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports.
Angel Reese is a joy to watch.
She is unapologetically black.
I love her.
What exactly ignited this fire?
Why has it been so good for the game?
And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained?
This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better.
This new season will cover all things sports and culture.
Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network,
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Black Effect Podcast Network
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Is the green microphone for Eagles?
It is my favorite color
and also my favorite team's color.
My favorite color too.
Yeah, I like green everything.
Is it?
Yeah.
Are y'all green boys?
Love green.
Y'all greenies over here?
I'm a greenie.
Huge green party. What's your favorite color?
I don't think I've ever asked you that.
What's your favorite color, bro?
Don't start like you care now.
You know what I mean?
Is it gray?
No, you fucking dick.
It's orange.
You idiot.
Orange?
You stupid idiot. I love orange. You idiot. Orange?
You stupid idiot.
I love orange.
Orange is near the top for me, too.
I love orange.
Don't just say that now, Jack.
You can't be safe.
I got a little orange flower right here.
Oh.
Yeah.
Orange sun flower.
Orange star flowers is what they're called.
All right.
Is that why you have Netherlands jerseys, Miles? I do.
That is one reason
Aside from the fact that there are a lot of
Like, you know, some legendary players
That have played for the Netherlands
But yeah, I like, yeah, that's one reason
I like to wear that jersey
Not everybody can pull orange off
And you know what I think it was?
It took one ex-girlfriend to say I looked good in orange
To be like, now I'm taking risks, baby
You used to only wear blue I'm taking risks baby you used to wear
blue i used to i'm not joking i used to only wear fucking blue like only blue not even because i
thought i was like some kind of like a crip or whatever i was just so such a boy that i was like
blue is my favorite and then like if i'm feeling boys are allowed to wear blue yeah i'll wear
carolina or i called it carolina blue uh oh yeah no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no, no, no, no, okay orange shirt i like that on you and i was like i'm i'm the orange boy my god there it is
you can control my behavior so completely with one compliment yeah on something i'm wearing i
will wear nothing else for a year i stopped shaving my shitty beard because someone in college was
like i was like oh it looks like terrible she's like no i kind of remember thinking like oh what's
up with him because he had like the interesting facial hair and i was like, no, I kind of remember thinking like, oh, what's up with him? Because he had like the interesting facial hair. And I was like, you mean because it looks so shitty?
She's like, well, you know, but it was interesting.
And for a while, I thought that was the move.
It's not.
I wonder if they know.
They must know, right?
They're like, watch.
Yeah, they're probably like, yo, I convinced this idiot to wear orange and not shave his stupid ass beard.
Someone said it was funny when I was six and I'm still doing stand up.
Like, what are we even doing?
Exactly, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look at us now.
All right.
I don't know.
Are we, were we always back is the question.
It doesn't matter.
We've been back.
We've been back.
Never been away.
All right.
We're back.
But back to the news.
We have important news.
A restaurant in Las Vegas promised a bluey day, and it ended up being not so great.
It was kind of wonka experience-ish.
But not, I don't know.
This feels a little different to me.
That's why I wanted to bring it to this triumvirate of great minds.
Because ever since that wonka experience in Glasgow,
I've always just been dubious of any event that's
geared towards kids. It's like, and we've got characters
that you can check out.
This hot dog place, they said, hey,
it's called Dirt Dog. They're like, yo,
Bluey Day. Watch Bluey all afternoon.
Face painting, games, Bluey giveaways.
Meet Bluey and friends.
Guess what? The parents showed
up.
And now you can already guess how this ends because why the fuck would we talk about
a successful Bluey event?
No, no, no.
It was so good.
It was amazing.
The kids had such a good time.
The voice work by the people in the suits
was incredible.
I'll just play this clip from the local news.
It starts off with a little girl saying how
upset she was
about the bullshit she was seeing in front of her.
When I saw him, I just ignored him.
I was mad.
She said, I saw him and I just
ignored him. I was so mad.
Did he look like the cartoon?
Did he look like on TV?
No.
He looked
unexpected. We could see his beard. Sophia and other kids look like what like on TV no he he looked like unexpected we could like
here's beer Sophia and other kids had the same reaction the bluey they
expected was not who greeted them on the left this is a photo a parent took at an
event with the popular cartoon character bluey on the right it's a staff member
of dirt dog in a makeshift bluey costume the kids were distraught some kids were
crying some kids were upset cryingught. Some kids were crying.
Some kids were upset, crying in their parents' shoulders. 3,000 people RSVP'd on the Facebook
event. Crowds poured in for hours. There were lines outside in the heat. Inside, concerns about
capacity. From the face painting to baked goods, many parents say they were underwhelmed and the
free stuff got snatched up quickly how could you do
that to to little kids how could you do that to look so when i look at it i'm like it's not it's
it definitely does not rise to the egregiousness of the wanka experience that was like the wanka
thing was like existentially troubling on the inside right right right yeah this looks like a restaurant like
it looks like a blaze pizza on the inside right that just happens to like have be overcrowded and
have some like like have a bluey children's birthday party happening right like that yeah
exactly i mean you know like the restaurant like this the restaurant's apology made it feel less
because i was like is this a scam or i think this feels more like the restaurant, the restaurant's apology made it feel less scam.
Because I was like, is this a scam?
Or I think this feels more like.
I love this restaurant.
First of all.
It's called Dirt Dog.
It's a hip hop themed hot dog restaurant.
That's great.
I was hoping that there would be like more of an old dirty bastard vibe.
But I don't know how you pull off an old dirty bastard vibe like in a
place that serves food but to kids and they won't do trademark infringement that is one thing they'll
have a bad event but they won't they won't steal possessions i mean exactly that that was a question
that occurred to me is like where how the fuck are they they reached out to the creators of bluey
and we're like hey we're gonna throw an event with they'd probably get dinged for that at a match right so like this has to be bad news for them
one way or another drawing attention to this event but yeah it looks like a blaze pizza with
an eminem poster on the wall that's the only poster that i could see just the one you're like
really like that's great that's the one hip-hop thing they have yeah yeah and it's from the it's
from the encore album not the Encore album.
Not even one of his good ones.
Yeah.
The fuck Encore.
Nobody was fucking with that one.
The staff just seemed like real cool, though.
Yeah.
They were like, wow, Bluey's really popular.
Good to know.
We won't fuck this up next time.
Good to know.
We're like we're high as shit at our hot dog restaurant.
It's on a whim thought.
Maybe this would be something for the kids.
They posted on their social media quote,
we are truly sorry this event wasn't to standard.
We will work on improving all of the events going forward so we can bring you
the highest quality as you all deserve.
We appreciate everyone taking the time to send us your feedback.
And some of the feedback was, fuck you.
My kids are so upset because you had some guy in a jank ass bandit pajamas.
That shit wasn't even bluey because that
was a thing that
like the people the complaints from
parents they feel like very American
you know what I mean like we're
shit isn't that bad
you know what I mean but you want to act like
they were like and they served us broken
glass they're like okay dude it was
some dude it was sure the
costume was janky and it was banded.
Okay, that's true.
But they were, you know, they were given
free treats and shit. There was a
good college effort. They weren't telling you any
like AI supernatural effects and shit
were going to happen. This is exactly what I
would have expected from a
free bluey event
put on by a hot dog restaurant.
Except I think it's a bar. Also, I was looking dog restaurant. I think it's a bar also.
I was looking it up.
I think it's almost more a bar with hot dogs at it
than it is just a hot dog.
So you brought your kids to a bar.
You know what I mean?
Not to victim blame.
Yeah.
But I do like the part where the news report is like,
and many parents were underwhelmed.
That is the story.
That's the essence of the story.
It was underwhelming.
Right.
Right.
Right.
The costume was a big miss.
I think they fucked up the costume really badly,
but that is not the level that requires a local news story.
It feels like this is kind of coasting off of the
power of that willie wonka story exactly i think that's what i think everybody that's why i was
even like another wonka story and then i'm like this feels like it look we get it we we want
everybody to we want another sad oompa loompa at a bar, you know? The costume is truly fucked. Like, they really did a bad job with the costume.
Yeah, the way that thing is cut,
I would not have kids around an adult man in that costume.
No.
Yeah, the body part is like a big muumuu,
but then the face part is like a flat paper mask
that's like rising up over his head
because he doesn't want to like actually
wear it but look you can entertain a three-year-old with a cardboard box and cranes like that right
that's an afternoon for a three hundred percent like you so if there's this much anguish over
an event it's probably coming from like you know them reading your shit you know yeah yeah so i don't know anyway just just
get a fucking cardboard guys is it that fucking hard you don't have to take a blue fest just yeah
i'm like always amazed at what like what the baby is playing with like he's got all these toys and
shit now he just likes to play with the fucking weird stopper behind the door that's like those
are great yeah that's like his favorite fucking toy.
I was like, what about this thing?
This is educational. No, he's fucking
playing that shit like a fucking banjo
or whatever, like mouth harp.
The bassist.
You don't realize how important
those door stoppers are, by the way, until you break
one, because we have not had one in our
door for like, I think maybe eight
months, because I just haven't replaced it our neighbors i think are like this is we have to go property values plummeted
in the entire it's just the doorknob hitting the wall is so loud and jarring the wall looks like
the dream palace at the end of inception where it's just like crumbling. Right. All right.
And finally,
big news in the world of AI,
kind of,
I don't know,
they changed the voice
basically.
I saw like a headline
a couple of days back
that was like,
open AI releases
a new like flirtier
chat GPT.
And I was like,
all right.
Like,
I don't necessarily want it.
Wait,
the way you said that,
you're like,
all right. Yeah, yeah. No, that was me being, the way you said that, you're like, all right.
Yeah, yeah.
No, that was me being corny.
I thought this one was pretty good.
This one's better.
This one already.
All right, Scar, yo.
Yeah.
All right.
So they're releasing basically a new AI voice assistant that sounds exactly like Scarlett Johansson from the movie Her.
Possibly because they realize that people getting horny for their smartphones is good business.
Possibly because Sam Altman is...
So Sam Altman, I meant to talk about him more on our tech episode because he's like a real...
He's a lot...
Kind of exactly what Ed talks about when he's talking about like manager class people who pose as like i'm an
engineer i understand the ins and outs of all this right but then like doesn't like all all he's ever
really done is like get wall street excited about an idea that he doesn't truly understand or that
he does understand but is trying to get people to misunderstand. Very similar to Elon Musk.
So Sam Altman freed,
Sam Altman freed.
Exactly.
Right back.
And we're done here.
Actually,
that's we,
we got to go out on that,
but all right,
Blake,
what's the song miles?
Yeah.
Just give us the song following the presentation,
though.
He tweeted simply the word her, which he has said before is his favorite movie.
He's also the person who like talks about how he keeps a gun-fi his technology is, even though experts in the field suggest it's basically just like a glorified autocomplete.
But like he's borrowing from the cultural capital that sci-fi films have given us to make billions and billions of dollars like it's the there's this massive
market on on wall street that is like based on all this hype around these things that i think
he's like miss i can't tell if he's like willfully misunderstanding it or like some of the reporting
on him suggests he like doesn't really understand the code so maybe he really believes his own bullshit and is like finally we've created my girlfriend that has been
wanting to fuck forever i love her so much please tell me what i'm looking at these are ducks
gliding on the water i mean there's all like i feel like on twitter so many people are just
dubious like out the fucking gate in terms of like what they like
what it said it was doing and they're like they're probably just training it on the like just these
very narrow these very narrow examples um but yeah either way like like you were saying on tuesday
we're not past the point of fun party toy you know like that's like what it does it's like oh man get
it to write a song about jack's plumpers. And it's like, even then,
Zeitgang is even fucking better than AI.
So I'm like, look, no.
You're not usurping anybody.
Except for maybe being a bad
visual artist or something.
They're usurping me. My ability
to write plumpers is pretty limited.
But definitely not Zeitgang.
I don't like hearing you say that.
I don't like you.
Don't say that about my friend. Yeah, I don't like hearing you say that. I don't like you. Don't say that about my friend.
Yeah, I don't like hearing that.
But one thing, OpenAI had to walk back the claims that the AI was designed to sound like Scarlett Johansson because obviously they'd get sued if they didn't.
So they're like, we've had these voices forever.
But yeah, this is not just open AI.
Like, Cybertruck, Elon Musk was like, this is the truck from Blade Runner.
Right.
Which is, like, set in a depressing hellscape run on slavery.
Right.
You know, he's like, yeah, but that's pretty tight, right?
Can robots consent?
Whoa, whoa, what the fuck did you get from this? Here we go.
Yeah.
Oh, whoa. What the fuck did you get from this? Here we go. Yeah. Oh, shit.
Metaverse is from all sorts of different sci-fi universes.
Snow Crash being the most dystopian and upsetting.
And now Her, which like the movie Her ends with the protagonist realizing that he actually has to deal with the messiness of human relationships.
And the ai is like
abandoning humanity right so i mean if they should they need to focus on like the cool
shit i get like the overarching themes from sci-fi but like one part was that i wish they
could bring back are like the drugs from sci-fi movies yeah i dropped my droid report remember
he's like oh he wants some clarity and i'm like
what the fuck is that and this dude was like fucking like watching his dead family and old
home videos and like yeah like yo let me see that i don't need metaverse but yeah you know i'll take
i feel like the drug and pre-crime minority report looked like a reverse kazoo? Wasn't it like a little inhaler thing?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like it kind of shot it into your mouth.
I kind of like that.
I want more eyedropper drugs.
AI butyrol.
That's kind of what it...
I also carry a gun and poison
on me.
I just hate my life.
Yeah, that's just in case I need to...
Yeah, look at that.
Oh, man.
My teenage bedroom would have been filled
to the pack to the gills
with spent clarity inhalers.
Man.
Yeah.
Kazoo mixed with a little...
With a vape.
I guess we have those.
They're called vapes.
Oh, I guess they are just vapes. Yeah.
Anyways.
Blake. Vape for clarity, folks.
Like Tucker Carlson says.
Vape Wexler.
What a pleasure having you on the show.
The vape is all mine.
Where can people find
you, follow you, all
that good stuff? At Blake Wexler on all social media.
I'm going to be in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania for live standup May 22nd,
which is a Wednesday.
Those tickets are available now,
May 23rd.
The next day I'll be in Pittsburgh.
And also I am doing,
I'm bringing my plumpers to charitable projects now where each year I bike in this.
The Philadelphia Eagles do this charity bike ride.
So I'm raising money for autism awareness.
And that link is also in my social media bios.
If you can spare some money, if you can't, I get it.
You're probably young, Gen Z.
You don't want to work.
You don't care.
You don't care. Wow yeah you don't care wow
y'all are just so poor so poor just want to camp out and get trump elected that's right sorry
inflation's only hitting you i think everything is priced fairly now finally that's my we do have
to say that's i was raised in an airport, so I don't know.
Don't worry.
I don't think anyone thought that was your real take.
No.
Why do they keep having him on?
He's a scumbag.
He's a scumbag.
Everyone hate listens when he's on.
Yeah.
It's true.
Also, Daddy Long Legs.
People should go check out.
Daddy Long Legs, my hour special.
Thank you for
um so good reminding me of of the biggest thing in my career to this point which i continue to
forget because it already happened but yeah no it's still available it's called daddy long legs
my hour special but um yeah lancaster pa may 22nd pittsburgh may 23rd and daddy long legs
what if i just keep trying to get the final turn? Are you getting a piece of it?
Yeah.
Did I give you a pretty nice side chunk?
Yeah, dude, you gave him 20 points on the back end of that.
Yeah, that's fine.
Remember, we were getting all fucked up on clarity, man,
watching old home movies.
That's the most clear I've ever been.
That's right.
All right.
Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying?
Yes.
Besides Daddy Long Legs.
Other than Blake Wexler, Daddy Long Legs, available on YouTube now for free.
There is a tweet from Shane O'Connor.
He's a comedian, at Plain underscore Shane.
And his tweet was, happy birthday, Bono, from at you too.
I know I do this every year and you guys never respond,
but I just tore my rotator cuff in cornhole.
It's a cornhole league semifinals,
so it would mean a lot.
So that is the saddest tweet I've ever read.
And that is from at plane
underscore Shane.
Plane Shane.
Amazing miles.
Your new nickname.
Where can people find you?
Is there a work of media you've been enjoying?
I can be found at
Miles of Grey on Twitter and Threads
And Instagram and all that other stuff
You can also find Jack and I
On the Basketball Podcast
Miles and Jack, I'm at Boosties
And you can also find me on 420 Day Fiance
Talking about 90 Day Fiance
Some tweets I like
at Jasmine L Watkins who if you like
NBA Twitter and you're not following Jasmine
Watkins you need to be
because LeBron James was at
the Cleveland Cavs Celtics
game for the other night sitting front row
and someone pointed out like
underneath him he had a bottle of red
wine that said LeBron James
has coffee a bottle of wine and water Uh, it said LeBron James has coffee,
a bottle of wine and water under his seat at Cavs Celtics game four.
And then Jasmine did quote to it.
It said breaking LeBron James is in his late thirties.
Um,
and yeah,
that,
that felt about right.
Uh,
and then another one is from Ellie Cremendale,
Ellie Cremendale,
uh,
at Ellie Cremendale tweeted every ex smoker spends one minute a day
fantasizing about an
alternate reality where smoking is
good for you. Yeah.
Yeah. We all I think we all have that.
It's like maybe that's the secret to
life. Yeah. That's clarity.
I do do that. All right.
You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore
O'Brien
tweet. I've been enjoying
I just enjoyed this,
uh,
history,
historic vids tweet,
which is like 50% of my feet at this point.
Yeah.
That's everyone's fucking feet.
It's crazy.
This is what basketball looked like 1939.
It's just a video of basketball in 1939.
And there's these people just like draining the two handed set shots from like way deep.
It's kind of impressive, but also everybody just looks completely unathletic and shitty.
We always talk about how how basketball is progressive.
It gets better year to year.
And if you disagree, watch.
You're saying you want to take these jokers on the on the 76ers, man?
I mean, this does make me fantasize about how good at basketball I would have been in 1939.
I know.
Oh, my God.
I know.
Like, you could block the shot with your elbow.
Like, the way they're shooting it.
They're shooting it from the waist.
Yeah, exactly.
I shoot from the hip, which is not good for basketball.
No, no, no, no.
Real bad.
You should shoot from above your head.
Nah, nah. Gotta shoot from the belt
which our uniforms have
for some reason.
Every basketball uniform has a big belt.
Yeah, I guess they didn't have elastic.
Also, Stone Cold
Jane Austen tweeted
one day for mom, one day
for dad, a week for sharks
as it should be. is correct we we do
have the correct balance on that one you can find me on twitter at jack underscore o'brien you can
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link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode
as well as the song that we think you might
enjoy
enjoy
who could it possibly be
I need you up here
what song do you think
they might enjoy
I think this is an interesting one it's called
Slow Burn and it's a
collaboration between the vocalist Baby Rose and one of my favorite sort of new jazz, funky soul bands.
Just bad, bad, not good.
And it's called Slow Burn.
And it's just cool.
It's like a dreamy soul R&B kind of album.
Her voice is fucking just really dope.
Really great timbre to that voice.
And then Bad, Bad, Not Good.
If you know Bad, Bad, Not Good and their musical stylings, great timbre to that voice. And then Bad Bad Not Good, if you know Bad Bad Not Good
and their musical stylings,
you're going to like this.
If you like Krungbin
and just sort of like more laid back
instrumentally kind of stuff,
this is right up your alley.
Take this into the weekend.
Slow Burn, Baby Rose, Bad Bad Not Good.
All right, slobbering.
We'll link off to that in the footnotes.
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