466 - The Spectacle

yeah get it daddy preach yourself hello hello and welcome to the inglorious pastors podcast where we talk about spirituality news and how everything is a psyop my name is michael basemore with me are the grim reaper joshua casey that's me the budgerigar lucas allen how you going and together we are the inglorious pastors we're here we're here we're not the pastors anymore we're not the pastors we're the big came after us with a cease and desist they're like you think you own this lucas cough incoming my name is lucas and i'm just trying to i'm just trying to be the secretary of health oh i'm going to take a mitch mcconnell's over there just giving a tepid thumbs up he's not even moving he's just ah just a little face i think he's i think he's i think he's taxidermied he's got this permagrin on his face yeah taxidermy mcconnell all right let's go into this segment yeah yeah all right josh is fucking us up tonight what is this blackberry smash oh blackberry smash all right josh is fucking us up tonight what is this blackberry smash a hot september moon um yeah so i had never had oliver's blackberry wine and we bottled that last week oh it's great it's fucking amazing i brought like i'm glad you finally admitted that something from oliver is amazing i brought a bucket home took you filled up all of my little bottles that i have so i've got a bunch of bottles in there of blackberry wine but i took one of them and i turned into a simple syrup so i reduced it down and added sugar and so then i this is is whiskey lemon um and black blackberry syrup hell yeah bro so the blackberry syrup from blackberry wine yeah hell yeah so normally like when i've because i we have a drink that we make every year for our christmas cocktail party that has a blackberry we actually use like a whole clamshell blackberries and like simple air and make that but i heard matt's coasting it this year you're right matt's hosting the casey cocktail party matt's hosting i was gonna i was gonna maybe i'll offer it in the thread but he can host the oscars i didn't want to tell him only if he has his own special ceremony called the maddie's well that would give him something to go if he gives us if he gives all of us a trophy i haven't gotten enough trophies in my life because despite being part of the the that generation i didn't get very many i've got a trophy that's how bad undefeated how bad i was my undefeated season i played with in in uh little league i got a trophy for i mean i got some but just you know second place in a preaching competition hell yeah hell yeah i got third place in a preaching competition i got a scholarship out of it nice nice nice no i was i was i didn't want to you know just get into a dick measuring contest but i went since he wanted to specify the size of the tv i was like mine is literally 10 inches bigger yeah i think mine which i know because we got that size on accident what size is it 65 65 all right i'm minus 65 too i i've got three 65 inch tvs in my house i don't know it's because you can buy them so fucking cheap now because because well we'll get into we'll get into foofy and i had i had a 75 but it lasted like two weeks before my kid just ran into it because it was literally too big extra 10 out in the doorway 10 inches is no joke difference seriously i could use an extra 10 inches i know get me up to a solid eight you're you're a negative i'm an any he's in chud territory oh yummy um all right i met showed the kid my sons keep calling everyone chuds and so that word is now in the top of the oh the yeah what's a chud well cannibalistic human right but it was originally like something you would say specifically to like right-wing people okay and now it's just like for anyone that's it's like online insult category basically just whatever just anyone yeah you can call anyone a chud okay so yeah we're having that and um i hope i think maybe that the october fest is less crazy i think i've fixed it so we'll see i'll give it a try we'll give it a try later but this each of these have like three to four ounces of whiskey in them so yeah i was like i'm already so yeah tread carefully between that and the coughing fit like feeling pretty good for the beginning of the podcast i missed the coughing fit that was last week right no i didn't have one this time extra air in with tomorrow's gonna break through with a brand new life just a regular hoover every cloud has a silver lining don't you fight cherish the moments they're all we've got tonight all right bright side it was a week i got nothing fucking tired man i'm just yeah yeah yeah work sucks i know thank you does it suck or is your work actually sucking right now we don't have to talk about it if you don't yeah well i just try not to bitch about it too much oh you're doing a good job leave that to someone yeah i mean you did get a free bucket of wine corner the corner on the market it does yeah it has its benefits um i am still just like not i'm just kind of thrown into shit we all i mean we all are and i mean it's it's when the corporate is just so fucking big yeah like the the group of people that are in charge that the people who make the decisions on like this is the stuff that we're gonna have available that we can sell to all these people have no idea what that puts on the actual people who make that and like we're so like we're feeling it now and we're feeling stressed and we're behind the eight ball and everything fucks up all the time and a couple of us aren't even really well trained because we were just thrown in and like didn't have actual real training and so we've kind of just it's been baptism by fire and which is what i hear red door does um but like just run your hand over a bit yeah it's it's symbolic it's like sprinkling yeah it's but i mean again i this job is going to radicalize me is really what's going to happen not because it's bad but because of the ways they try to make it not feel as bad that's actually what it's going to be get a pizza party we got a whole yeah exactly we'll get into that so the villa revolution yeah all right i can't remember i feel like something happened in this past week yeah but i don't really remember anything standing out september 11th was before so yeah i mean it's already had that party there's a clip from uh kumail's movie um sick the big sick yeah have you guys seen that oh yeah there's the scene where he's like meeting her parents and they ask him it's on mike dango don't worry they ask him about being muslim or something and he's like oh don't you know they're like well what are your thoughts on 9-11 and i i'll summarize it poorly but then he's basically like well he joked that it was great and then he's like no no it was it was a horrible day he's like we lost 11 of our greatest men on that day oh christ uh so the only thing i can think of i think i think i did something but i wasn't yeah i couldn't tell you but uh sunday i've gotten high since then yeah yeah sunday oh uh wolf went to canada with his friends uh like met his online friends in canada so kind of like a turd meet up did he get milk in a bag i didn't ask about that um i had that through middle school but uh but that was cool because that's the first time these people have met they're all in yeah i saw the picture i saw the pic yeah some pictures yeah so um i was just glad he got to do that and it went well i am always like when my kids are doing something that i'm not like part of i'm always very like is this a scam is he gonna get murdered in canada or is he gonna get there and find out he owes twenty thousand dollars or whatever and uh no it all went well but then he did send a message to our family chat yesterday after he got he was back already i need help getting back to this to the country he sent a message and was like trip was great but um i the airbnb is charging us a thousand dollars each for blah blah blah that happened while we were there and he's like i spent all my savings on on travel health insurance. I'm like, what the hell? And so he's sending screenshots of one of his friends. - Also, that's a lot for travel health insurance. - Yeah, he's like, screenshots from his friends that are conversations with the owner of the Airbnb saying like, this was wrong, this was like, you scratched the floor, you did this, you did this, and it was like, you know, $7,000 or something. So they had to split it, and then. - Did they really, did they actually do that stuff? - Well, so he sent it to our family chat, which if, and he was like, I'm gonna need $1,000, or the Mounties are gonna break my knees. And I was like, well that's not something I would, I wouldn't really be making jokes right now. So I'm, and I don't know why this is going to the entire family chat. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Instead of just like, me and Eva. - Yeah. - And so I'm like, hey, I'm over at Menards right now, this looks scammy, can I come over and talk? And he's like. He's like, oh no, it's just a joke, my friend in the group does all these fake screenshots of conversations and sends them, and I'm like. Okay, okay, funny. - Funny, now let's talk about that health insurance. - Yeah, well, so then, he's like saying like, I was like, well, you know, I thought the health insurance seemed like an unwise decision, since you're going to Canada, where they famously have free insurance. And he's like, yeah, you didn't notice like all the, like, there was something about like, the toilet usage. I don't know, I was like, 'cause I didn't read all these screenshots, I was like, what is going on? - What the fuck, yeah. - So, it was, it was, ended up being funny, but I was like. - So the insurance thing was a joke, too? - It was all a joke. - All right, thank God. - We do, we always get the insurance on rental cars now. - Oh, really? - We took a, we rented a couple vans for our last campus house trip. - Yeah. - In Missouri, we took our students out to YMCA the Rockies, and then got dinged on a bunch of stuff, like, as in like, dinged from the company, because like, the tops. - Because of dings. - The top of it was scratched, supposedly. And we couldn't do anything about it. And then I was still having to deal with this, Mikayla and I both were still having to deal with this, after they fired us. Like, literally six months after they fired us, they were still trying to figure it out with us. So like, ever since then, we just obviously take pictures and videos, and then we just always get the insurance. But, jeez. - I never get the insurance. - Yeah, we didn't before. - Unless someone else is paying. Goddammit, oh, this is, we're gonna call this the bright side. One thing I've been getting into on, actually, I think I got into it on Facebook Reels first, but it's videos of people who, like, scamsters, scammers, like, they'll call people that are in fucking Bangladesh. Like, it's all phishing emails that they send out, and then they call the numbers, and basically get their IP address, find out where their building is, and basically hack them in reverse, and like, have video of using their webcam, and shows video of them responding in this. Yeah, it's crazy. - That's fun. - But it's like, and then they also, like, get on their computer and delete files, and then block them. - It's also terrifying that that can be done. - I mean, it's already being done, and they're doing it, so it's like, you're just, you're doing it to the people who are doing it to people who are elderly. Like, people who have scammed people out of 75,000. - The thing that sucks-- - 54,000. - Is the people in Bangladesh doing the calling and stuff. A lot of those situations, the situations are really bad. - Yeah, right. - So they're like, if they do a bad job, like, they get fucked, too, so it's like-- - Yeah, yeah. So they're, they've-- - Yeah, it's all terrible. - Yeah, but there's groups of people that are actively going after these people that are scamming our grandparents and our parents. Like, it's-- - And me. - And-- - And your son. - And Lucas, yeah. - UVA your son. - So, but yeah, I've really enjoyed this. I've enjoyed those videos. I don't know if that's my bright side, but-- - What are you gonna do? - Oh, bright side. ♪ Hey, babe, tell me true ♪ ♪ What you got on cue ♪ ♪ One more episode ♪ ♪ Or a whole new mood ♪ ♪ Seen a good twist ♪ ♪ Got a secret list ♪ ♪ I'm all ears tonight ♪ ♪ So spill it quick ♪ ♪ What have you been watching lately ♪ ♪ Tell me, tell me ♪ ♪ What have you been watching lately ♪ ♪ What have you been watching lately ♪ ♪ I need the tea ♪ ♪ What have you been watching lately ♪ ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ What have you been watching ♪ ♪ What have you been watching lately ♪ - Whoa. Josh, what have you been watching lately, broski? - We are excited that our political comedy is back on, so have I got news for you in Last Week Tonight. - Oh, hell yeah. - And then we're caught up on Ted Lasso. We're a couple episodes behind on Stuart Fails, but, yep. - Yep, yep. - And I've been reading the first silo book called Wool. - I need to get started on that. Dan's on that, too. - It's very different. - Yeah. - Like, in a really good way. Like, it is a different, so it's, to me, like, the coolest thing is, like, they basically, they took the premise, they took all the ideas, and they were just like, okay, so we tweak this, and then what are the logical things that happen? Like, to me, that's how I think the show went, where they're like, okay, the AI is, or the thing is gonna be an AI. - Yeah. - Instead of a person talking on their headset, so what does that change? So it's really interesting. Like, it's still very much a recognizable, like, story, but it is different enough that it's fun to read, so. And then I'm also listening to a book called The Dawn of Everything. It's kind of nerdy pop anthropology shit. It's fun. - Cool. Nice, nice. So I'm watching, I finished Silo. - Yeah. - Or Caught Up. - Caught Up. - Nice. - I guess it's not done. - Da, da, da, da, da, da. - That was really great. - It's an Usher song. - The two timelines converging the way they did was so weird. - Yeah. - I was like, wait, what, how did, what? - How long has it been? - Yeah. - What, huh? - Yeah, so that's really cool. Finally started Tires. - Nice. - Season three. - It's on my list. - And then a new show called Youth, which is Sharon Horgan, who did Bad Sisters, Catastrophe. - I heard-- - I thought that and Adults were the same show for a longer time. - Yeah, I did too. I've heard both of those are really good. - They're both really good, I'm watching 'em both. - Watching 'em both. - Watching 'em both, jerking off. - Had a Mountain Dew. - So which one though, Adults or the Youth? - Youth is Sharon Horgan, oh, jeez, Jesus Christ. - I mean, I'm at the shows, to be clear. - Wait, what? - Watching and jerking. - Well, Youth, I'm like, you guys are young. You're in your 40s. - Holy shit, do a backflip for me. Oh my God. Yeah, so that's, I'm watching a bunch of stuff, but those are, come to mind. - Watching a bunch of stuff. - And then a book, Audio Inform, and it's called Recommended If You Like. Have you guys heard about this? - No. - No. - Okay, so it's a guy named Adam Voith. - Voith. - Who was a music promoter. He started out in kind of the tooth and nail-ish world, and then moved on to greener pastures of secular music. - I don't know, tooth and nail's pretty secular. - Well, anyway, so his book is called Recommended If You Like, 'cause it's about Christian music in the 90s, and the conceit of the book is each chapter is a cassette, and it's the idea that he's a teenager in the 90s, and he just starts-- - This is a cool conceit, am I right? - Yeah, and so anyway, it's him being into Christian music. He lives in Noblesville, Indiana. He goes to Cornerstone. He works at Omalia's Grocery. - Oh, wow. - Like, it's so-- - What's his name? - Adam Voith, V-O-I-T-H, and here's the cool thing. You can listen to the book on, I mean, not just audiobook, but it's just on podcast platforms. - Oh, it's a novel, okay. I was thinking memoir, as you were talking about it. - No. It's a fictional sorta, based on his-- - Fun, okay. - On his coming up journey, but it's also-- - How do you spell his name? - I think it's V-O-I-T-H. - 'Cause I put recommended if you like book, and it's just like, book recommendation. It's like, that's not what I'm asking for. - Yeah, it's not great SEO, but you know, whatever. Like, he's currently touring with, it's either Dennis and Whitmer, or. 'Cause I've seen a couple names of guys who are out, and he's like, kind of doing a book tour with like an early aughts singer-songwriter person from that era. Anyway, so it's really good, but it's especially cool that it's like, it takes place in Indiana, and he's like, talking about Deer Creek, and the Grateful Dead show, and the people broke the fence, and like, all this stuff, but it's really cool. And I heard him on a podcast. That's how I learned about it. He was on a podcast, and he was like, "You can listen to me, but you can't listen to me." "You can listen to it, like online, "just wherever you get your podcasts." He's like, "Or you can go to the website, And sign up and I'll send you the book for free. I'll pay shipping. Oh, damn. Like he's, I mean, it sounded like he made good money doing booking and all this stuff. And he's like, I just want to do this book and get it out there. Yeah, that's cool. So pretty cool. But I'm listening to it on whatever my podcast is. I got it on my list here. This is, I'm excited. So it's pretty good. Recommend if you like. Very cool. What did I watch? That's a good question. Thanks for asking. What did you watch? I have watched. RIP TV time. I'm going to start. That should be what this is called. I am going to start Brothers. I haven't watched that yet. I want to start that. Wait, what's Brothers? Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Yeah, on Apple. Didn't they already do a show together? Yeah, but this one feels a little more comedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was True Detective. True Detective, yeah. The, which I need to watch that sometime. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Challenge, obviously. Seth Meyers is back, finally. Jesus Christ, that's my show. Lanterns continues to be just stupid good. God, we keep talking about it. We just keep not watching as we're not on time. Stupid good. Like, every time I watch them, I'm like, why is this as good as it is? There's no earthly fucking reason for it to be this good. I was going to start it, and then I was like, I have Apple TV for a month. Yep. So I'm going to watch whatever. Yeah, lock in. Whatever I'm watching on there. Well, I would say you can log in. I feel like Apple probably polices that harder than the other ones do. Yeah. Well, because, and especially because I watch it on my iPad. Yeah. They're like, oh, we've got the. Like, I could not sign in on my iPad with a different. That's true. I have tried that before. It fucks everything up when you do. They're like, you now cannot sign back into your own account for six months. Yeah. New season of The Trader started. It went from Peacock to, it's now on NBC. The Trader. Trader. Trader. Trader. It's a tour. Oh, that's with what's his. Alan Cumming. Yeah. Yeah, he's the host. You can still get pregnant on Alan Cumming. What was the, have I got news for you? I watched that. It's so much fun. Who's the comedian I love that was on Traders last year? Ron Funchess. Yes. Yes. He's so great. He did not do well. I had lunch with him once. Did you really? Ron Funchess? Yeah. He was in town for the Comedy Attic, and my friend Brandon ran into him on the street. I feel like you've told this story, but I still. He was like, hey, what's going on, man? Great show last night. He was like, I'm going down to get some barbecue. And he was like, yeah, I'll be down there. He came down, and of course, he had on like a WWF shirt, and like some. You didn't tell him that Bloomington is not the place to get barbecue? It was like a fundraiser for the Salvation Army. That's where me and Brandon were meeting. So Ron just came down and like hung out. That's fun. He's awesome. I love him. You're fine. The challenge was. And this is my real true bright side. I had the opportunity to watch The Sixth Sense with Diggory. And so I've been trying to get him to watch it for weeks. Did you spoil? No. He went into it blind. He knew that Bruce Willis was wearing a toupee in that or something? No. He did not know. See, it's funny. That's the big reveal. I've actually never seen it because it got spoiled for me so early. I was like, I don't fucking care anymore. I don't want to watch it. Yeah. So I really had to get him to watch it. I was like, dude, you're going to love this. You have to pay attention. You're going to love this. You're going to watch it. So I'm talking to him. I was like, hey, pay attention to this. And then he didn't pay attention. I was like. No second screens in this movie. Yep, yep, yep. So I was like, you have to really lock in. And so he did and was asking questions and kept trying to guess what was going to happen. Because I told him there was a plot twist unlike any other plot twist. So we get to the end. And it's the one that kind of. We lost like five to ten minutes. And he's like, man, there's no room for a plot twist. He's like, was the plot twist that the kid sees dead people? I was like, that's the first one in the middle of the movie. And then you start seeing his perspective of things like that's not it. And so we get to the end where it happens. He's like, wait, what? I was like, all right, we're going to rewind it. And he's like, what? So is this still worth watching if you know? Watch it with your kids because they don't know. Yeah, watch it with your kids because they have no idea. Then you'll get to experience it through them. All right. Yeah. But it went from like, what? Like, you're going to make me watch this old. Crusty-ass. Crusty-ass show. Yeah. Yeah. And then at the end, he was like, thank you for showing that to me. I'm like, oh, damn. It's fun. Like, he really, really enjoyed it. He's like, yeah, that was great. It'll have to go on the queue, though, because Cadence and Leland really want to watch Zoolander with me. So, you know, I've got priorities. Yeah. So it was. It was just a cool moment of like. That's awesome, man. That's really cool. I was able to show it to Sarah, too. So I was like, I've never seen this movie. Like, no, you did. And I talked about it, I think, on the podcast because you had no idea what was coming either. Like, I don't remember seeing that. I was like, I remember watching it with you. It happened. That's what happens when you grow up in Tierra del Fuego or wherever. Ecuador. That's what it was. Tierra del Fuego. The tip of South America. Is that what that is? Practically Antarctica at that point. Yeah. Penguins are swimming by. So that was really cool. That was a big, that was a bright side, you know, watch this week. Nice. So, yeah. I love that. All right. Let's go to the next segment. Do you know what it is? What the next segment's called? It's called. Music time. Yeah. I couldn't remember. I was asking. I was like, do we have Fat Pastures? That's after music time. Sorry, we don't. I've got some animal crackers and Nutella. My favorite fat snack. Last week, I had an artisan oatmeal cream pie Eva had gotten at a bakery. And I was like, I could bring this to the podcast. But no. But I didn't. I was next to a Krispy Kreme this afternoon. I was very close. Oh, man. Dude, I got one of their chocolate with the sour cream icing, like when it was fresh, and it tasted like a fried Oreo. Oh, no. It's just unreal. They're ridiculous when they're fresh. It's stupid. All right. Music time. Music time. Music time. Music time. Here we go. Hey, this is music time. We're going to play some songs with words and the musical notes and maybe a rhythm. I think rhythm. Matt's not here, so there will be rhythm. A discernible rhythm. I say there is rhythm in his stuff. It's just- Just off rhythm. Hard to count. I got rhythm. No, you don't. I got music. All right. Josh, what do you got? Yeah. I sent you a message about this. Yellow card. I haven't even listened to it yet. um and uh so you know elder emos will remember ocean avenue really great album and they dropped a new album and um you liked it i i liked it so we're gonna play it so this is daddy likey this is called better days i thought you're gonna play carly rj jefferson's new album if it gets good it freaks you out you like the darkness so you ran from better days got so good at being down you're kind of heartless so you run from better days are you happy now now now it's not too late to change everything you want to change you don't want to run from better days yeah it's good shit man i like it and it sounds like they really haven't missed a beat nope i guess matt's musical taste i guess they um they like came together two three years ago to like do a tour for ocean avenue like a you know like 20th or whatever it is anniversary nice and then they were like well i guess we could just keep making music they were like we made money doing this we did this there's so many my brother's band that's doing that too obviously they're doing a 30-year reunion tour but like there's so many bands right now that are just like hey yeah we could just like tour right now all those kids that used to come to our shows are grown up and have jobs now and they have money yeah they have more money than they had before um i saw all right yeah barely uh i saw pfr has a new album out like what oh yeah like what the hell yeah wow just wild well speaking of uh pfr pf yeah it's a track off their new album speaking of artists from a long time ago doing new stuff uh it is tom petty and the heartbreakers 50th anniversary and he dead he's dead but new songs are coming out somehow oh tupac petty yep now they're doing a big box set like in a month or so and it's from 71 to 78 so that's cool heartbreakers formed in 76 but most of those guys were in a band from the early 70s and then they broke up and then reformed um so anyway they released a new song i'm not sure when this is from i would guess this is closer to 78 but it's called parade of moons it's got a little rolling up all these like got my first real sick stream bought it at the five and dime so it's like as far as petty songs it's like mid but i'm like even a mid petty song to me yeah to my taste is great yeah like it just sounds like tom petty yeah and it's he has one album like i cannot stand it's right like uh full moon fever was the big kind of resurgence album it's the one before that where it was like they've run out of ideas they're like and other than that album i'm like put on anything i'll love it yeah which one was it uh it's called let me up i've had enough no i literally don't know if i it the only song off of it was not a big hit um but it was called oh shit what was it called i don't know um not one of his it's not even on greatest hits but that was like their biggest single from that album and it was kind of like they needed whatever happened for full moon fever to like yeah they needed a flop yeah well and full moon fever was the first time he did a solo album even though like i the band all played on it yeah um and that was probably actually the necessary like something new something had to change so yeah anyway i'm excited about glenn hansard's stuff that is dropping after his death man we found out that um he's got like him and marquetta did a musical together um yeah called twice no i think it's i think it's uh waking ned divine i think i think that's what it is i think it's uh waking ned divine i think i think that's what it is what it is oh so it did a musical of like an existing uh yeah ip yes um story that hasn't released yet also he has an album that's coming out but it's like he dude dude was like churning shit out like prolific yeah god damn um all right i'm gonna play a song from a new band i have found i don't know how new they are oh you see i don't know they've been around for a little bit i guess um they're on tour now um god damn it i want to see their albums and when they were released hold on uh 2026 is the most recent i guess they've been around since 2016 um band's called like roses it's uh two uh women in a band uh pop punk and i just found them on tiktok and i'm like this shit is good like roses so good i'll try again to get you out of here make something more of us to loosen up and pretend like someone's listening these walls keep closing in i'll try again to make something more of us to loosen up and pretend like someone's listening these walls keep closing in in a lie on the living room floor watch blades on the ceiling fan rotate just like we did those weeks when we stayed up for days a runaway picture so god damn tired of being afraid of everything i'll never let go so fucking good yeah check them out so they're pretty good downloaded the album yep like roses uh that song is called holidays so just if anybody's looking for it because it took me a while to find out because like the lyrics that i heard on tiktok didn't mention the word holiday at all oh yeah but uh yeah all right josh what do you got nice um i'm gonna just play another song from this album because it features avril lavigne oh like really throwback they also have a song that features good charlotte wait which avril lavigne the the one that didn't die or disappear whatever was supposed to have happened to her i forget what her name is but not avril lavigne the artist playing avril lavigne yes yes it's the chris gaines avril lavigne yeah uh you don't remember that conspiracy avril lavigne died in the early aughts and she got replaced by a super fan oh so it was just another paul is dead yes yeah yeah but like lavigne there we go i feel like it'd be easier but the rabbit hole is the whole rabbit hole is pretty fucking deep dude i wish the internet had existed during the paul is dead thing oh it'd be crazy they didn't have the internet and it still like went around but it's like okay if you're gonna replace a person you're gonna replace a person like the paul mccartney has a pretty distinct voice uh face musical ability face like you don't just plug someone into the fucking beatles yeah yeah here's the new guy do you know who announced the death of john lennon like publicly oh it was like on a sports yeah during a football game i just found this out this week oh damn uh howard cosell yeah yeah wow on a on a monday night football uh uh like so what had what had happened was uh i guess yoko had asked them not to tell anybody but there was a guy from abc news at the hospital at the hospital getting treated himself for something else he found out did not know yoko's wishes called the news desk let them know they called howard and then that's how it got leaked wow i was all using landlines too folks yeah back in the day uh yeah so i'm gonna go and play another song from them it's called uh you broke me too and it's featuring a lot of people it's a song called complicated part two complicated part two yes i dropped mine just a bit so it comes in the middle of the night and i'm running back what you said you're not even here but you still won't let me rest i'm just so tired all these years lost in love lost in love you're not even here but you still won't let me rest i'm just so tired all these years lost in love lost in love you're not even here but you still won't let me rest i'm just so tired all these years lost in love And I'm hanging on to every word when you're gone Follow where you lead me, but you just lead me on Say that you want me, I know you don't, no you don't Cause you don't know what I've been through But you led me to you You found me, I was broken You let a little bit of hope in But you, you broke me too This is all my own fault as you get in my head I just feel like I dropped back into high school Get the best of my heart Then you leave me for dead Tell me you love me I know you won't, no you won't She's a good impersonator. Yeah, Melissa's great. But I've been through Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Vandella Yeah, it's fun. You found me, I was broken You let a little bit of hope in You guys ever hear of Bruce Coburn? I have not. Canadian? It sounds familiar. It's spelled like cockburn. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it's Coburn. Anyway, he's like, I've known of him and known like, oh, he's good and like have maybe heard a few songs in passing. He's got one song called Wandering Where the Lions Are, which like I love that song, but that's like all I knew. And I went on a, I wouldn't say a deep dive, but a dive. You got your cock burnt? Yup. And so I found this song from the, I'm going to play the, the 1982 version, just a little clip of it so you can get a taste. This is like what Rich Mullins was going for in 1989. It sounds like Phil Collins too. But it was very like gated, gated drums. Yup. But it's a great song called If I Had You. had a rocket launcher uh this is a version with him and his guitar that i really like here comes the helicopter second time today everybody scatters and hopes it goes away how many kids they've murdered only god can say hey if i had a rocket launcher hey if i had a rocket launcher if i had a rocket launcher i'd make somebody pay damn so i'm gonna i'm gonna take it up to this one part that's really cool so this is him one guitar set your own helping to keep yeah which i just i can never do that like play anything nearing wow i've never heard of this guy and now i want to listen to all of this so well it'll take you you should do the the chronological listen through because his first album came out in 1969 oh my god okay and he's pretty prolific so but he's yeah everything i was just kind of hopping through his catalog and i was just like even like his 80s so we're like i hate that sound of that 80s song with the gated drums and the synth and but i was just like man they're good he's got a lot of good lefty songs too like yeah so he's a real one one of my favorite uh singer-songwriters um has a side project called mock trial um with an artist called ariza um the uh cousin ariza i don't know it's a lesser a lesser member of the wu-tang clan um the artist i love is isabel plus uh but the their their duo is called mock trial uh and i heard this song and i'm like god damn this is great uh it's called round trip check it out you quite when you're at peace meditation seems like a great skill but fuck sitting for 20 minutes while some guy tells me how to breathe i hold on to grief i'm not sure what the reason is but i'm just another void echoing all this noise holding all this existential dread one two three just another round trip that was nice take it coming around to bite me just another round trip circle around the sun and i still feel sick yeah so what's the the gist yeah mock trial mock trial mock trial is the the duo isabel's great um i've followed her for i don't know god damn five ten years i don't know what's going on with my mic oh fuck this shit all right i got a cover for you what the fuck it's just no way no it's back well all right i got a cover for you michael all right let's see you you've made your thoughts clear on a specific group of bands that share a name is it a slipknot no it's a cover of it though my friend the communists yeah he's made his thoughts on crow oh i like cheryl crow he's just like the black crows he's just like the black crows he's just like the black crows he's just like the black crows i'm okay with cheryl crow is better than all of the crow bands cheryl crow that's such a bad take is peak uh i would say counting crow is counting crows are pretty good what are the other crows black crows fuck them you don't like the blacks okay i see it is they're not black none of them are it's stolen valor but this is aj lee and blue sun it's they've got a couple covers on there i've got one for uh uh fishing in the dark fishing in the dark which is fun i like it i like it i've switched over to matt's channel i think the sound's gone so we can blame matt then yeah we can blame well blame my channel for going bad but here we are actually i don't even know yeah that's right okay yeah all right well this has been music time yep there you go um we'll see you on the flippity flop bye bye bye Lock up your fears, dry out your tears, refill your beers. We're headed into the newsfeed. Allie just freaked you the fuck out. Uh-uh. Don't be licking my leg, you weirdo. Weirdo worm. Got a couple product updates here. All right, product update. First, Kraft Dinner's wildest collab yet. Kraft Dinner and Soly's launch a cream soda that tastes like mac and cheese. Nope. Yep, hard pass. No thanks. Limited time collaboration features Soly's classic cream soda infused with Kraft Dinner's signature cheesy notes. There's no fucking reason for this. Yeah. Nobody wants this. The tease was drink outside the box. No thanks. Joan's soda was doing this bullshit 30 years ago. And we hated it then. Yeah. It was like a novelty. Yeah, I'm going to buy the Thanksgiving Day soda. Uh-huh. Everybody's going to have a little teaspoon of it. I had one of my photographs. It was on the Joan's website. Remember how all their labels were different? Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. And someone emailed me and was like, hey, I just saw you. Because this was. I saw your ugly mug on it. No. Well, no, it was a photograph I'd taken. One of my black and whites. Did you submit it? Yeah. And somebody was like, hey, I just saw a picture from you on the Joan's soda website. That's funny. Oh, that's cool. A fan submitted a picture of my brother's band and it made it on the bottle. That's fun. That's awesome. I forget what flavor it was. It was a green flavor. The other one is that Wendy's releases a new emo album with metalcore pop punk vocalists. Wendy's? Yeah, Wendy's. Sounds like AI. Well, I can read the AI overview for you if my computer will load. Wendy's fast food chain launched. Come on, stop. Do this. Come on. The happy-go-lucky pigtailed Wendy has gone emo now donning asymmetrical sideswept bangs, black eyeliner, and black hair. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? There it goes. Where are you? Where's the beef? On September 23rd, Wendy's released a six-song emo album called Songs to Listen To in the Wendy's Parking Lot. The album is available for streaming on major music platforms and features vocalists from the emo music industry. So it has worked. Let's see here. And we didn't play this during music time? I know. I didn't. I should have. You know, I make a point to not read the article. I just go for the headline. The cover? The cover's pretty good, actually. I'm not angry about the cover. That's pretty great. Go ahead. Yeah. Car in a Wendy's parking lot. They even have the Wendy's, like, sign. Better way to sleep. The Wendy's sign is, like, partially out. Oh, yeah. Nice. I like it. So does it say what artists are on the album? I'm trying to get to this. Dude, my computer. This computer. This is a 2014 MacBook. Like, I'm working. I think mine's 2012. That's why I don't do anything on it. Yeah. It's a stream yard on my hashtag list. That's all I can handle. She said she didn't want fries is one song. Salt in the wound is another. I miss the sun room. Go for it. Maddie Mullins. Yeah. Chloe Kennan. Shane Told. Bless the fall. State champs. State champs. Jeez. Holy Wars. It's not a phase. I said she didn't want fries. It's a 10 piece. Salt in the wound. I miss the sun room. That's a good one. - Dude, I miss the sunroom, it's true. - The best combo or meal on the worst dot dot dot. - The worst night of my life. - It's not a phase, it's a 10 piece. My Frosty's funeral. - I'm here for it. - That's great. - Wendy's has always done social media better than everyone else has. I don't know why everyone else sucks so much. - I'm gonna add that to next week's. - Yeah, I'm definitely gonna listen to that. - Bastards. - All right. - And I will say, not only their social media's good, great. As far as food quality, I feel like of the fast food restaurants, they've stayed. Everybody else has taken a nosedive, and they're pretty stable. - When you've lost the high schoolers, Cadence is like, I fucking hate McDonald's. He's like, I had it the other day, it was awful, I never wanna eat there again. - Wendy's has definitely gone down a little bit. The bread is not good. - It's not as good. - But it is better than the bad ones. - Yeah. - All right. New Hampshire Libertarian Party endorses, quote, "Assassination of elected Democrats." The New Hampshire Libertarian Party has again issued a call for political violence. In a post Tuesday on X, the party's account wrote, "We openly support the assassination "of basically every elected Democrat in New Hampshire." In the latest in a series of calls for violence in the party's social media accounts, including again-- - Live free and die. - Right. - Again, against then-- Wait, is live free or die, is that New Hampshire? - Yeah. - I was thinking it was Delaware. Okay, you're right. You are right, yeah. - I always, I'm like, it's one of the two, and then I'm like, oh no, Vermont is Fish and Bernie Sanders. It's New Hampshire. - Yes, yeah. Well, and Vermont is shaped like a V. That was always told the difference on the map. - Oh, 'cause they're like mirror image of each other, sort of, yeah. - In a statement Wednesday, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office told NHPR, "We can confirm that the New Hampshire Department of Justice "is aware of the social media posts. "We would not be in a position "to comment further at this time." - Somebody's going to jail. - Yeah, yeah. - And then Trump will. - But they've done it before. Like, it talks about how they said stuff against Kamala Harris, which was the vice president, and like, nothing has happened. So, yeah. - Well, that's 'cause she's a woman. - That's true, yeah. She has a comment. - Dude, that's a, I mean. - Oh, wow. - Like, that doesn't seem very libertarian. - Yeah. - That's very not chill, bro. - Well, I mean, the New Hampshire libertarians are like the libertarians of libertarians. - Yeah. - But there was a whole movement of people to move to New Hampshire to like take over the state with libertarian-- - Well, it's 'cause there's only like 20 people in the state. - Right. - The rest is forest. - And all these people did move out there to like start filling offices and stuff, but, huh. - It's in a statement, the Libertarian Party, like, the big one, wrote that the LPNH believes that New Hampshire is healthier and freer when anyone who would enact an income tax fears for their life. Sure. The state libertarian-- - That's what the national-- - That's what the national one said, yeah. - So, they weren't saying we disagree with this? They were just saying-- - Yeah, they just said, like, this is what they believe. The state libertarian party lost its national affiliation in May for violating the party's rules and ideals. - Okay. - So, yeah. - Yeah. And I remember being a big Gary Johnson stan. - Yeah. - And Ron Paul. - Was Gary Johnson the one that didn't know where Aleppo was? - Yeah. - Yeah, that was him. - I don't even know what Aleppo is. - All right, one more. Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges. I think our fridge is a Samsung, by the way, but it didn't break 'cause we don't have it, like-- - Connected. - Connected. - Is it a smart? Is it a smartphone? - Yes, it is, but we don't use it that way. - Our smart fridge. What do you mean you don't, why did you buy a smart fridge? - It's a smart fridge if you're not gonna use it as a smart fridge. - It's part of the package. - Yeah, we didn't care about that. We wanted like the size and like the option, like the other options. - You can get another fridge that's not smart, bro. That was a choice. - Right. When we were shopping for the refrigerators, the one that had the actual like space and like drawer options and shit that we wanted, that was actually the best deal. - That's wild. - So, I use, like I do have it connected. - They're watching, they're probably. - I mean, I'm sure they are. - You don't have to connect it, they're connected. - Oh yeah, for sure. - But I have it connected. Originally had it connected so it could tell me like when I needed to change the filter. - Oh, it never disconnected. - But it doesn't work, it like, it stopped working and I was like, all right, I don't care. - Yeah. - Some Samsung smart fridges, Samsung smart, some Samsung smart fridges. - Some Samsung smart fridges. - That's what I order at the Chinese. - What's the deal with all these Samsung smart fridges? - Korean outlets were the first to report the problems. - Korean outlets? - Yeah, 'cause they realized. - Where they plugged them in, they're like, these outlets are current. - Korean. - Mm-hmm. - Gotta get these-- - Shit, this is the exact line that we have too, is the Samsung's bespoke line of fridges. - Eat shit. - I know, right? - Eat, how bored do you have to be to get a fucking-- - A bespoke fridge. - Bespoke, eat shit, man. - And it's by definition not bespoke. - Bespoke, yeah, the fact that the massive-- - All your food has radiation in it 'cause it's a smart fridge. - The affected fridges suddenly lost power and stopped functioning immediately after trying to issue a firmware update through SmartThings, which is their platform. The app then showed the devices as offline. Some users said their fridge internal display was stuck, showing the message, checking the app during update. There are numerous reports-- - Showing the message, it's my food now, bitch. - Right, well, this is the Korean one, so I don't know if it's like, if it just was focused there. - Oh. - The refrigeration functions themselves did not work normally, so all the food in the refrigerator had to be disposed of. - Oh, man. - Samsung didn't respond to questions. - AI, man. - About what it will do to prevent this from happening in the future, or how many units are affected, and in which countries. - I watched a documentary this week about, I should've put this in my thing, about the, there's a place, I don't even remember where it's at, but there's a place in the US that there are no, there's no cell service and there's no, intentionally, and no internet at all. Like, they don't have-- - They're like, it's the happiest county in the country. - Right. - Yeah. - It's all very, everything's remote. - Bespoke. - Yeah, it's all very bespoke. Except for not a bespoke refrigerator. But it's like, there's a big telescope there that, and people who are like, apparently people have bad reactions to frequencies, radio frequencies, so a lot of people will move there because it's one of the few spots. - They're like, I'm an empath. - Where is this again? - I can't remember where the fuck it's at. There's a big telescope, satellite telescope in the area, and that's part of the reason why is so, they cut back the signal for that. - Interesting. - Anyway, so, it's just weird that they have, there's a town general store where people will-- - Talk? - Go and meet up if something's going on, if there's a bad storm. - Oh, yeah. - You know, because-- - Post things on a bulletin board. - Yeah. - They're all very much interconnected. They play live music together, they're just, but it's not like a cult. It's just people that are disconnected from the internet. - I've been thinking about-- - 'Cause you can still have phone lines. It's not like you're cut off. - Yep, they can have land lines, that's it. - Coffee shops or bars or stuff, any place that wants to pretend to be what they used to call a third place and really be that, they should have a way to check in your phone when you show up. If you know you're gonna be there for a bit, you're just like, I can give you my phone, I know it's gonna be safe, and it's just out of my way. - Little locker, phone locker. - Little phone locker. - Dude, it's funny, 'cause it's always like, oh, the kids are always on their phones. Whenever, so are the adults. - Adults are worse, if not-- - So much worse. Whenever, like, so I've got the after school club doing tech for theater. Like, those kids are hardly ever on their phones. They're hanging out, they're talking, they're, you know, whatever, I'm sure when they go home, they're like, sitting on their phone. But like, and then at family dinners, like, when we have everybody around, my mom is the first one with her phone now. - Yep. - Like, I was, I walked behind her-- - Our kids have noticed both of their sets of grandparents are that way. - Yeah, I walked behind her, she came up to church for the 15th anniversary, and Giff was up there talking, and I was like, walking through, and she like, pulled out her phone, and just opened Facebook. Like, and then I watched her-- Stop kicking the dog, Josh, stop kicking the dog, Josh. It's on tape. I watched her, like, to see, oh, is she doing something specific, no, she just started scrolling Facebook, and I was like, I get it, man, like, church is boring, but, you know. - My kids have noticed that with their grandparents. - Yeah. - Like, my parents are just as bad, they've noticed it more with the way that Mikayla's parents do it, like, when they do it. But it's just as bad. - Are they just much grander, like, my mom taps from about a foot away, and the font is, like, an inch. - Yeah, and, man, it's just so, it's funny, because I think that, like, the younger generations, they are, they're definitely on their phones as much, but they're on them in a slightly different way, because they're so native to it, that they do all the stuff of, like, I'm at a stop sign, I'm gonna pull out my phone for a second. Like, they do that, but it's different than, it's less noticeable, almost, I don't know, it feels different. I don't know why, but it does feel different. yeah fucking weird maybe it's because i remember years of my parents like just not doing that kind of shit and now they always do it and i feel it myself whereas like my kids i'm trying to figure out how to help them in my yeah i don't know it's it's a weird thing yeah who's got news feed now who's was that your that was my last one okay now it's me pinch it off we were jumping into pinch it off josh uh so a man is accused i got more of these but i'm gonna eat more you're fine man accused of stealing tinder dates guitar and multiple electric bicycles in pinellas county electric e-bikes are not cheap in florida that's where in florida what the fuck wait for florida man florida man does whatever a florida man does florida man does stuff in math up his ass no drug screen would he ever pass all right a 36 year old clear water man that was that was by us before we were on the pod that's true wait did i play on that one you did you were the guitar oh okay uh 36 year old clear water man is facing multiple felony charges in connection with theft of a guitar and several electric bicycles in pinellas county e-bikes are expensive yeah they're so expensive gavin james klaus was arrested it was an alvarez guitar on september 10th you're not far off 2026 uh it's a fender acoustic everyone comes it's a rogue he was arrested on charges of burglary come on come on get to the story uh one of the cases dates back to march when a woman invited klaus to her palm harbor home after meeting him on timber i wonder what they did on timber or tinder is that where your lumber that's how out of it he's lumber sexual on timber are you on timber bro the woman noticed the following day that her yamaha r no i would have the eye t-i-m-b-r yeah oh my god what's wrong with your dog are you quick kicking that dog okay uh god damn the woman noticed the following day that her yamaha dreadnought guitar valued at approximately two hundred dollars yeah i say yeah i mean the yamaha fg is like a she's a solid guitar um and it's 200 bucks uh investigator said surveillance video from inside the home what a dumb bitch you dumb bitch uh walked in there and couldn't figure out how to walk out um don't go under the stairs callie uh so somehow there was surveillance video inside the home which i feel like if you're a woman bringing home tinder dates good idea good call yeah um it showed wait coffee fit is it coming unrelated uh showed klaus putting on his coat picking up the guitar from a couch and leaving the residence well see you later 47 a.m so i'll just take did not stay for breakfast damn he's like i gotta she offered i got an early meeting i gotta go busk in the streets um and in a separate case he's accused of stealing an electric bicycle valued at eleven hundred dollars much more than a yamaha dreadnought uh surveillance video reportedly showed him passing the business on another bicycle blah blah blah the guy's been stealing shit but here's what i love they post a video of him stealing a bicycle and he's like oh my god i'm gonna steal a bicycle and his mugshot and i'm like yeah he can get it yeah he can get some tinder dates he's like smoldering the mugshot yeah he can get the one date that's all you need right yeah if you're if you're just trying to steal yamahas sure or e-bikes or get laid that's her that's not not a world any of us came up understanding but it is like wow yeah that's right people do that i had to get married to get laid what are you talking about i know these guys are like hey i've got a date i'm gonna get you've got a vagina you've got a vagina i've got a vagina let's rub them together yeah whatever whatever they do god we don't want to talk about it together think about the rubbings too many rubbings i could rub right now surprise we're not rubbing one out right now a man was arrested on not man was arrested on saturday in connection with a shooting that took place during child custody exchange in a residential neighborhood according to the clay county sheriff's department that's clay county florida for those keeping track florida don't play the song the sheriff florida man florida man does whatever a florida man can see that's perfect that's the right amount uh the sheriff's office said that 32 year old darius elijah winard kirkland accompanied his girlfriend regularly scheduled child custody no that's wilson king of prussia my bad that's for the fish fans um are you talking about the fresh prince of bel-air the the fish prince of bel-air the fresh prince fish prince well what kind of what are kind of fish prints there is what's what what what what fish is the king of fishes freshwater anastasio is the oh that fish yeah i spell the ph to be clear okay and i spelled prince p-r-i-n-t-s for some reason just thought it'd be good fish prince the fish prince that's my new fish themed uh greeting card company because i literally listened to an and it's actually christian fish yeah hell yeah i literally listened to a podcast today where they did a whole like extended thing about prince and prince and oh it sounds like i got a bog oh man i bet it was a real rager it was it was hilarious uh sheriff's office reported that you listened to it it wasn't an article god damn i know right uh pussy it wasn't a whole it wasn't i watched a documentary aka tiktok so kirkland is a convicted felon and unable to own firearms legally the r&b singer yeah but he armed himself with an ar franklin yeah kirkland no it's the costco house brand say uh he's unable to own firearms but he armed himself with an ar style rifle and a semi-automatic pistol before the exchange so like they say you can make all the laws you want the bad guys are gonna get guns they're gonna get guns so we need to have the good guys it's a good guy get guns no uh so after the father's arrival to a gun so i've been thinking about that all week that's my right side treat myself to a gun on in my mouth same um after so kirkland is the boyfriend of the mom after the father's sample yeah after the father's he's probably from charlie kirkland charlie kirkland had a gun it's like jenny's got a gun but it's less fun less fun i've been meaning to ask you guys sexually abused killing her dad oh my god it wasn't done by aerosmith will you be my kirkentine next year of course of course so anyway oh my neck the boyfriend has the ar-15 and the semi-automatic pistol after the father arrives remind you to hand off the child for a custody agreement yep uh the kid exited kirkland's girl this is wow hey i wrote it the young child actually kirkland's girlfriend exited the vehicle and began walking toward her father's car now is this counting or not counting gang violence but is it counting the crows or not so okay so i'm trying to keep track here the guy with the guns is the boyfriend of the mom who has the kid who's sharing joint custody i'm already lost the spider wiggled and jiggled and giggled inside her so kirkland sorry that took too long i finally got kirkland kirkland is armed he and his girlfriend are dropping off the girlfriend's daughter to meet her dad for a custody exchange this guy named after the charlie kirk theme park yeah the the dog is that the new that's what they're going to turn the ark adventure into or whatever welcome to kirkland my name's ken ham uh we're still gonna get uh so anyway insurance that the daughter is walking we got jesus on the cross and kirk in the neck way to go kelly took my socks off earlier even kelly like picks on you fucking hell so the girl is walking from the car with the guns toward the other car kirkland also gets out of the car when the girl is walking there pulls out the rifle and points it at the father's car as he was getting out. He then fired the rifle numerous times at the father who turned fire with his own pistol. Remind you. They had a firefight. The daughter is walking from car to car. It was a firefight! And then he retreated into neighboring yards. The sheriff's office said the father's vehicle was struck by bullets numerous times while another young child was inside. Goddamn. Several houses in the area were also hit by stray bullets. Were these stormtroopers firing? Right? Only stormtroopers can be so precise. During the exchange of gunfire, that's a polite way to put it, the mother, Kirkland's girlfriend, for those keeping track. It's just an exchange. It's a polite exchange. was able to retrieve both children and get them to safety. No one was injured, which I feel like those two guys should have just killed each other and done us all a favor. But. The father returned. The father returned to the scene following the incident and surrendered to deputies. Kirkland fled the scene in his girlfriend's vehicle. Did this guy. He's never. He doesn't have a job. I can tell you that right now. How did he get the AR-15? Wow. Just because he's black? Goddamn it. Who said he was black? Wow. Does he have four names and they were spelled weird? There are no pictures, but he does have four names and they are spelled weird. So he could be Spanish. Yes. He could be fucking white trash Indiana where Briley somehow is a 20-syllable or 20-letter name. So he left the scene in his girlfriend's vehicle but crashed into a tree before attempting to hide in the yard of a nearby residence. The vehicle and tree both caught fire like it's in The Simpsons. The tree got caught on fire? That's like hard to catch a tree on fire. There's a rule in The Simpsons. People used to do it all the time. Oh my gosh. Anytime in The Simpsons a car crashes, it has to catch on fire. That's like a rule. And that's what I picture here. He's like, he's driving off. He's like, it's a tree. This almost feels illegal to know if you're a side sleeper. What I've discovered. That's not me. I thought that was a clip from you. It was an accident. Oh, jeez. Can you isolate that, please? They caught that on fire and it caught an unoccupied car. It caught an unoccupied car. It caught an unoccupied vehicle nearby on fire. Jesus Christ. A vehicle. They tried to kill him with fire. Two vehicles and a tree. From now on, I'm only reading the first 30% of a story because this is primo shit. It just gets crazier every day. At first, I'm aghast because it's like, oh, there's your daughter's walking between the cars and you're shooting. And now I'm like, dude drove into a tree and it caught on fire. He got the car, the tree, and another car. Did he catch any houses? Did he catch any houses on fire, too? I don't think so, but he was treated for his injuries and then arrested and charged with attempted murder. Oh, is that all? Possession of a firearm by convicted felon and child abuse. Oof. Oh, God damn. Well, that sounds much fun. Not to mention catching a tree on fire. All right, Michael. Is that Arborside? Is that what that's called? Attempted Arborside? Yeah. Nationwide is Arborside. Wow. All right. The House greenlights a bill to require AM radios in all new cars. What? This is what's important. Wait, did you say outlaw AM? The House requiring AM radios in new cars. That's because all the conservative talk radio is on AM. They all must have. No, I think there's probably actually something good there. Because I feel like AM radio for rural, rural communities and like stuff is really important. Yeah. But knowing that the House is run by Republicans, I can't assume. You just assume it's for nefarious purposes. And it probably is. Speaking of being run by Democrats, New York City deploys robo-toilets. What? The bathrooms have a strict 10-minute limit. Nice. So do you know what happens? That's your dick off. You know what happens after 10 minutes? A lid shuts over the toilet. It's just like, stop. Stop. Stop. It opens the door. Oh. The door cracks open. It's perfect if I'm like a homeless guy in New York because I can have some privacy and take a shit. But then when the door opens, I can be sitting there jerking off for all the bystanders. Yeah, I can get both. When an occupant approaches the limit, the speaker inside the room My culture is on your costume, okay? Emits an automated message telling them they're running out of time. Once the 10 minutes are up, the speaker states, attention, your time has expired. The door is opening now. In English and English. In English and in Spanish. I just blew myself. And then the door slides open exposing the user to the public. Well, you know. Wait, so these actually like move around? Yeah, they're like mobile, look like little mobile homes with like, they have a ramp as well. You can go inside of it. Oh, so it's like the kind that's in a trailer? Yeah. It's got solar panels and a little ramp. Those are a lot better than port-a-potties. Yes, they are. I mean, it's basically multiple port-a-potties together, but still. Yeah, but it feels like a bathroom. Yeah. Like it's a real toilet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's a real toilet. There's a real urinal. There's a sink inside. It looks nice inside, but I can't remember the last time it took me under 10 minutes to take a shit. Well. I'm not a real quick shitter. I'm not either, but if I. I'd have to really try. Because I'm a morning BM kind of guy. Yeah. It's like my whole routine is there. There's the wordle. There's the scroll. Check this out. Like, if I actually, any other time of day have to take a shit, I'm like, it's. It's going to be a minute. Yeah, it's pushing cotton and I'm like, 10 minutes is good. Pushing cotton. Okay, so. That's not a phrase I've been accustomed to. So this is, this came out during an interview with Woody Harrelson. It was a conversation with Woody Harrelson and Jimmy Kimmel. They still, they still let him talk. Barely. Barely, barely, barely. You're like, oh yeah, he's on our snowy. Harrelson, Harrelson is promoting the Apple TV series Brothers with good pal Matthew McConaughey and possible half brother. Gifted Kimmel a gigantic joint from his West Hollywood cannabis lounge and dispensary. Anyway, the comedian proceeded to share an outrageous story involving Matthew McConaughey. So Kimmel got choked up during the in memoriam. Did I hear you say that? Montage after it paid tribute to Cleto, his childhood best friend and longtime band leader on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He went to the bathroom to collect himself and then here's what Kimmel says. He says, my friend Cleto passed away and it was, it was in the montage and I started getting choked up and I went to the bathroom. I'm washing my hands and I noticed next to me, I mean, right next to me is Matthew McConaughey at the urinal. He says, he sees that I'm upset and he's like, hey, are you okay? And I told him what had happened and he is again at the urinal and he turns to me and gives me a very nice big hug. He hugs me warmly and I'm hugging him for a little bit and then I said, is your penis out? And he said, yes, yes it is. He says, and he says, in fact, I'm going to go I'm going to rub it against you a little bit. So, yeah. It's nice to know that these people are exactly like you think they are. Apparently, at that very moment, Harrelson emerged from one of the stalls to see the moment, the intimate moment. So, and he says, I never try to grade or critique what other people are doing. I just figured you guys, whatever your thing is, I didn't want to be the guy who would say, no, not in the restroom at the Emmys. But I did hear you say that you were upset and that's why afterwards we were all out in the hall and we had a group hug. I'm sorry to hear about that. So, yep. The old penis out hug, Matthew McConaughey. Wow. Something that was shared in the pub, I don't remember by whom, but I found it in my normal methods. But 25 minutes and 5,000 year old teeth revealed that ancient humans were addicted to nut sucking. To what? Nut sucking. Oh, you know. So they would suck nuts. Yeah. Like testes? No. Oh, that sucks. No, they were like, yeah. It does suck, actually. The foragers, like the forager groups, like they spent a lot of time sucking on nuts. Sucking on nuts, like acorns. Outside the tasty freeze. Acorns. Apparently, they were and hazelnuts. Seeking out a substance that brings out psychoactive high. So there's certain It never changes, man. Dude, we were like, humans were literally licking frogs to get high when they couldn't find anything else. Like that's, we just want to get out of our minds. Just ask Joe Rogan. Yeah. All those guys lick frogs. Yeah. It's because the frogs make them gay. William Shatner, 95. I didn't touch her. I saw him through a window once. uh He's taking the stage this weekend with his metal band. Yep. So he'll be live at Riot Fest if you want to go check him out. Upper 80s? 95. I literally just said it. That's what I was asking. That was real. Okay. 95? I would not have guessed 95. Yeah. He's old. Guys, we're old. Dude. Damn. So he was 35 when Star Trek aired. That's 60 years. It was like 66. It's really kind of amazing how old actors are when they finally get their break, a lot of them. It's really kind of amazing how old we are. Yes, that too. I saw Helen Hunt on a TikTok, and she is aged, but she's aged naturally, which is nice to see. Nice, yeah. Very nice to see. That's really Hollywood. I mean, she can still get it. Yeah. That's what I mean. It's weird that she likes it twice, right? No, but it's like, no. Probably a lot of dermatology appointments, a lot of expensive lotion. Honestly, I'd say. I'd say no. I'd say, based on her, the video I saw, she's wrinkly and old. She looks like she's aged, which is- Yeah. It doesn't look like- Which is odd. She doesn't look like she's made of wax. She doesn't look like Sarah. She doesn't look like, who did I mention last week? I talked about- Selma Hayek is who I mentioned. You talked about Selma Hayek. I talked about, what's her name? Snoop Dogg's friend. Oh, Martha Stewart. Martha Stewart. Yeah. Yeah. She's had work done. Selma Hayek has definitely had work done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Helen Hunt has not, and she looks great. I mean, outside of just the normal wrinkling- She just looks like an old lady. She looks like an old lady. Which is great. But, you know. Yeah. Good for her. Yep. She's a gilf. I don't even know what my point was. I don't even remember what the point of Helen, but other than she can still get- Helen Hunt's a gilf. Yeah. Devastated father says his nine-year-old son- You hear it here. Said his nine-year-old son spent $118,000 on a year. $118,000 on a year. YouTube ad campaign. Oh, my God. For his Minecraft channel. Using a company credit card. Company credit card. Bill racked up more than three, in just more than three weeks. It was supposed to be a one-time $20 promotion. The kid misunderstood that it was like how many times it could recur. Oh. Yeah. That's a lot of times. I was reading something recently. It was like AI- It was like over 5,000 times. Like, if AI gets a hold of like a credit card number, it can like- Just process and process and process like over and over again. But then your credit card company can- Yeah. I'm sure they'll find it. They'll fix it. Yep. They're on your side. They can use AI to deny all those charges. Yeah, right? $118,000. Thousand. Yep. That's a lot of digits. Yep. That's a lot. Is that six digits? That's six digits, guys. That is six digits. A lot of money. I'll never see six digits. All right. Oh, man. All right. Well, I think that's all I have. Eat a buffet of dicks. All right. Let's get into Josh's fun hour. Here we go. I'm going to get a beer for that. Motherfucker thinks he can just get up whenever. We're doing a fucking podcast. People are online. They're commenting left and right. Yeah. People are everywhere. I see this large crowd here today. Everyone's here. I see that hand. I see that hand. I see that hand. I see that hand. Very bigly. This is a very- Y'all, bow your heads and close your eyes. I just hear it when I see that hand. Yeah. Josh, that is all head, bud. That is not beer. All I want is all head. That's all head, y'all. Not mo head. That's all head. That's all head. All right. What are you going to do with that? That's not even a beer. I'm going to wait. He's going to let it settle. And then refill it. Oh, my God. All right. It's going to take a minute. This is Josh's pick. All right. So, hit me. Hit me. Hit me. Hit me with your best shot. You've been living rent-free in my head today. Have I? You have. What did I say? I said, I have thoughts, and I would share them on the podcast. I'm saving them for the podcast. There you go. All right. What you sent me, first of all, you sent me a paragraph, and then you're like, should we do- So, wait. The email didn't send you the whole thing? The email just sent me the paragraph. Oh. So, I was like- See, I tried to send you the whole thing. No, you sent me just the paragraph. Oh. So, you're like, so there's that. But- We're talking outside of the chat. Well, I tried to send him the email. Because Josh still uses email like he's 90. Jesus Christ. I get this as an email, guys. So, let me see if I can pull up the email you sent me. And it's good. Like, let me find Josh Casey. Was it yesterday? I think so. That you sent me the email? And here's what it is. This is what you sent. Spectacle governs the reality of the worker outside of work hours, and its goal to keep the worker entranced and active. Interceptive to imperatives of perpetual production and consumption. Here is my gripe. Not with the content. My gripe is that if I presented you with this article, or I presented you with that paragraph- Okay. So, here we go. Okay. Then it would be eye roll city from both of you motherfuckers. Oh, absolutely. If I was like, everything's a fucking sham. Everything's a fucking psyop. Because you would have presented it as, everything is a psyop. But everything is a fucking psyop, and your article talks about it. Like, it doesn't say it in the way that I say it, but absolutely. And so, I need to spend, I need to, I've been unfair to you then. Yeah, you have. I need to. So, this is my grievance. I stand by my- Is this Festivus? This is marrying my grievance. We each have our own Festivus poll here with my phone on it. So, I, threading the needle here- You think we're both crazy. Yes. Okay. I'm a moderate here in the middle. But I'm not on the opposite side. I actually agree with the article as a whole. But here's the thing. With this kind of stuff, and a lot of things that are like, this is how the system fucks us. Yeah. Whether it's church, how, like, the church made this doctrine and this. I think most of these things are not an intentional operation. Right. Which is what he talks about. End goal. But it is, oh, this works. And people go, we can take advantage of that. Right. Yeah. Or this works to our advantage. I think a lot of shit- But all it takes is one guy, like, even in the church, all it takes is one guy to do this one thing. And then it's like, oh, it works. So, then another guy does the same thing. Yes. Gets the same result. Yeah. And does the same thing. But like- I mean, when it comes to like, people are like, oh, they made up, I mean, I'm just making things up. But like, they made up sin causes you to go to hell. To hell, so that they could control, which I would agree, like, there was a point in time when the church, but it wasn't like, from the outset, they were like, oh, let's write this story about this guy that lived, and this is what we're gonna, you know, where it all, that's where it feels conspiracy theory. But when it's like, oh, this is the thing, and this is how this works, and this is how this fucks us. I'm like, yeah. So, the thing- We haven't even gotten into it. We haven't even gotten into the article. But the thing that like, would make me typically take pause when, oftentimes the things- Because it's me, Josh. It's because of you. Because it's already a mother fucker. Is that like, you tend, like, a lot of times what I hear, whether, and this may be because it's what I'm hearing, and I may be uncharitable to you, which is why- Yeah, because you're an asshole. Because I'm an asshole. Because I'm a motherfucking dick. But like, I hear the, this is run by a shadowy cabal. So, like, the thing, like, he has a story where he says, he's not the de-board, or de-board, whatever his name is, the philosopher, isn't saying the spectacle is run by a shadowy cabal of ultra-evil capitalists, but that it's the structural- But it could be! No, he's saying, but it is the structural, inevitable, emergent outcome of a world driven by capital accumulation. Yeah. So, which is worse, that we fell backwards into it, or that, or, or that, like, it was designed that way. But see, I think that, I think- There's still people that are complicit in all of this. We're still, we're still fucked either way, but the thing is, is I think, more often than not, things are the way they are, because humans are just like, like, they're just doing their thing. Not because there is some sort of group of people, or, or small, whatever- Pentavrit. Yeah, that, like, there's no Illuminati. Yeah, there's no Epstein Island. It's not real, right? But, like, what I'm trying to say is that, like, those people- That, that is different than those people actually running the world. There are people who do meet together in private, like, this has been exposed. Like, there are people who, wealthy, well-off people, and Jordan, not Jordan, Joseph Leavitt Gordon- Joseph Gordon Leavitt. Yeah, that guy, was recently exposed to be on a list of people who got together, a very wealthy and influential people that, their intent is to shape our society. Why was he there? Well, I mean, his last show was actually pretty good. What show was his? I don't remember, I'll have to look it up. I'd have to look up the, the, the- And see, like, I think that- But he had to come out, he had to come out and, like, defend himself as to why he would take part in that, and, and what that- Well, I mean, and Ezra Klein had to do that recently with, like, where he was in, he was at a conference out, you know, that- Yeah. Fucking Peter Thiel, like, five years ago, but- Mr. Corman. Mr. Corman? It was- Joseph Gordon Leavitt. I saw, yeah, he was like- It was really good. He was like- We saw like two episodes of it. - It was like a t-shirt. - Yeah. - It was really good. - It was like a music t-shirt. that was in the era of Netflix just trying one thing and then spaghetti at the wall sorry keep going this is the ADHD right it is it's not that there aren't I guess I'm trying to say he was part of the Peter Thiel dialogue group conversation Joseph Gordon-Levitt and that was the same thing that Ezra Klein was in and he like did a whole thing where he was like this is fucking stupid why are you but at the same time yeah don't pay attention to the information that got released so that's the thing is I think most of the most of the time it's just things are happening and there are powerful people that are doing the thing but they are looking out for number one and they are not I don't think that there is I am very very suspect of you're absolutely fucking insane if you don't think of conspiracies there are people pulling the strings on some of this stuff but see that's the thing what people what strings because billionaires right but to actually control everything like the things that we are experiencing in life in this life to me it's too there's just too much there are too many things it's pulling the strings do you he's a fucking idiot chaos and we would he has he has a he has a definitely has a part in all of this he has a part but he is not there are no we know that Russia influenced her our election to it's like those are what do you mean by influence yes through Facebook yes they did what do you mean by influence to get us to vote for Donald Trump yes but also yes and we are susceptible to that but we as a society are susceptible to all kinds of propaganda like we're like Jesus Christ I you know I had a fucking package show up on my door yesterday of Sarah had ordered some fucking dog bowl that you put yogurt on and the dog licks the yogurt off the ball and it oh yeah like it's like oh it's got to be good it's supposed to make your dog smart dogs dumb as shit what the fuck are we talking about like we're influenced into buying shit yeah all the fucking time yeah and we can get into to the article but like the I don't think you're getting the idea yeah and I believe when you first brought it up I I had the day before I had said something into in our group with with Brad Brad Matt where I Matt said something he was complaining about the fucking Doritos oh yeah yeah and he was like the new Doritos are bad like the the hot honey which I mean who among us and I was in there and my response was like yeah it just doesn't quite it doesn't quite numb the senses or it doesn't quite throw the edge off it doesn't take that yeah it doesn't quite curb the the thrum of existential dread and it really is that shit like yeah that it was I mean to be clear for every for the three people listening that was a fantastic line yeah it was well done and it's just like those are things that we that we are fed constantly you know to buy oh that's what this is about yes Panem at Circus yes we have to have like we're going to have to talk about Taco Bell we're going to have to talk about the new flavors of Mountain Dew who the fuck care right who cares about the new flavor like we can talk about new there 2016 now it's the of everything it's the 2016 yeah flavors yeah yeah oh it's like that on the throwback the decade yeah so this is after when I was Olivia Olivia Rodriguez coming out with a Baja blast a purple Baja boss I am gonna fucking buy it yeah you I went and fucking I went and bought to Olivia Rodrigo shirts that's like you're like and you know what it made me feel fucking good that's like your perfect that the Venn diagram diagram is Bob Olivia hell yeah it is so okay so I give me some give me some old white guy Dr. Pepper okay so now several several you feel better now that you know that it's about me feeling yeah I did buy you it's that I assumed it was something like that I feel like I know you well enough to know if you have a real problem with me you'll talk with me about it like you're not gonna wait wait and like you know gotcha journalism on me okay so but he has like 70 percent in the back of his mind yeah since that text two days I'm like fucking hell man what's gonna happen say so I cross the line so I get an email or like a newsletter yeah of course because who the fuck reads only fucking email only 27,000 people subscribe to this I don't know we know 27,000 people did subscribe to it yeah three of them read it yes a which mean three of them and most of them it goes directly to their junk I was getting there so anyway he he talks about he will take like a particular philosopher and like one particular concept from their stuff and do a newsletter on it and it's just it's a nice way to to work through a particular concept sometimes I read the whole thing sometimes I'm like all right I got it and move on and I always end it you were joking about the how it's got like Bible study questions the I always he's always got questions at the end I'm like I do not fucking care I've any book I've ever ever read that has questions at the end if I'm not actually being graded to answer them I just skip them and move to when Brandon your book have questions at the end no no it did not because did for sure to Brandon Hillary's did and I skipped him Brandon's did and I skipped him Steve Austin my favorite during interviews is is asking them those questions I fucking love it and uh you're gonna make me read this shit then guess what you're gonna have to when I was doing editing like ghostwriting type shit with a guy and he would have those questions at the end of one of his I I would like try to read those I would try to make them as as less the least patronizing as possible and then just be like I fucking hate this shit so you do what you want anyway so that the title is Guy Debord we are Debord probably we have been reduced to spectators in a society of endless spectacle um and he basically takes this this guy from mid-century this mid-century French philosopher takes his idea about like how the like the end goal of capitalism is essentially to keep you constantly in the machine whether you are actively producing capital or not um and he says in the modern industrialized world life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles all that once was directly lived has become mere representation and so I think that like the big the big concept here is that we essentially get to the point now in our lives where we we don't actually live life we I mean I mean there are there is a whole genre of of TikToks and reels where it's like the when you've experienced XYZ and you see like somebody reacting to this thing happening and you're like that's or you could just you could just have the the experience and that like our whole lives are mediated to us from someone else we don't have any sort of experience that is not mediated by usually our phone but in general some other sort of outside source I mean a job in our world right now is influence influencer yeah it's somebody who influences other people to buy shit or to go to places or do certain things or yeah or purchase this or you know check out this new flavor of Dorito I was working at switcher the first time I heard of the idea of a of an influencer and I was like yeah fuck is that yeah and it's a it's a real people make a fuck ton of money being influencers whatever they're influencing is whether it be about Lego or restaurants yep you know you know Keith being Australians who are here in Bloomington because the boyfriend is a kicker no are you on that yeah that's a real thing I mean I don't know that they're making a living off of it but even Billy I know exactly who the fuck you I know because you commented on it it was like oh they were trying to learn how to say Hoosiers yeah she was saying it wrong and her weeks then she posted about La Bonita and I was like it's the best and she was like yeah yeah so what we've both influencer yeah what is on our screen screens can at times feel more urgent and real in reality itself yeah the world around us devolves into an irrelevant kind of staging area useful only for the construction of more spectacle yeah I got home from work yesterday and this is a little insight into me I'm like I don't have anything to do I don't know what am I supposed to do like I didn't have any chore like I was caught up on my chores I was like oh I could just get high and watch tick tock and that's what I fucking did yeah it's like I it wasn't like I was bored I was just like oh I could just relax well it's like and that's what I did and that's what relaxing is and that's he talks about like I know he uses the phrase opium war at one point but it's like we've gone beyond religion being the opiate of the masses no it's it's capitalism is the opiate of the masses it absolutely is like spectacle the the circus is there is a hit there is a real get from buying yeah this is not I am not trying to like be high and mighty this is fucking shit it's all of us in different ways and like a big thing with like the high for addicts up the thing you hear is the peak of the high is like let's say you're like a junkie on harold yeah is when you're like wrapping up your arm yeah it's actually four of them yeah it's not it's not when the drugs are your system you know how many like action figures i bought that felt good to buy and then they show up they sit in a box in my bedroom like it's it's crazy i um i'm just looking at i decided i'm gonna get on my amazon and look at shit that i bought that is stupid um i got some dog balls needed a dog bowl that's right sarah got a lemon squeezer we don't need a fucking lemon squeezer but you know we we needed one i've got two lemon squeezers i'm not even talking about anything and you know it's not a euphemism i literally have two lemon squeezers yeah um got this kind do you have an apple slicer i do to have an apple slicer yep um chef one that turns as well there's some shirts there's a water bottle arab is desperately needed and then used it once and then now it's sarah's water bottle but hey she sent you two messages on the way here right she sent me a list uh she wants a dresser and what was the other thing i said she wanted i can pull up the text message here um a dresser and a keyboard wireless keyboard wow for what a dresser how are we gonna fit a dresser in this house with 365 inch tvs exactly that's your dresser now yeah exactly you can we're gonna get a picture of a dresser put it on i'm like where are these tvs in this house yeah don't worry about it they're mounted to the ceiling and all the bedrooms it's better than mirrors you know hey double it can do both but but and i say all this knowing that i'm part of the the whole fucking problem like we're all fucking we're all in it lock and even like like i can think about times where i was like into like living simple like that part like i was still buying like non-electric nose hair trimmers right i was still like i was still buying still buying i was still buying books about how to build a a clay mound outside to you know start a fire to bake my bread like what the fuck i have books on breaking on baking bread i've never even fucking cracked how to do biodiesel in my chevy corsica there's a great line here he says when we get so we get so caught up by the spectacle of commodity society yeah and we forget that growth for growth's sake is a human choice yeah though we we've reduced we've reduced existence from being to living and experiencing reality and finally we're just we're just watching other people yeah who are also themselves watching other people so no one he said it went no one is experiencing it went from being to having yeah and then it went from having to appearing appearing you appear to have two things in the movie um six cents that i watched with diggory there was a scene where it's like they're at a uh a play and it's like a children's play and it's like this gag that when the the play starts all the parents lift up their their old vhs recorders and it happens now as iphones right but it was just like everyone's got a fucking iphone everybody had a fucking camcorder everyone is always getting the latest item that does that the other thing i was thinking of was um hilariously enough the influencer you were just talking about with ava and billy and she was like so she's from australia um and she's like there's a video of her like just doing things throughout bloomington yeah and she's getting gas and she's like one thing i've learned about america is that whatever you want there's a drive-thru for it like you can just drive up here and just get gas like apparently that's not something that happens in australia but like new jersey or new jersey um is it oregon there's like three states that don't do yeah you can't pump your own gas there's like every siblings were very confused when they no matter what you want there's a fucking drive-thru or a delivery service or something that can just be delivered to you at any given time yeah um and that's where we're at as a society yeah yeah i mean the question he says what is the most valuable thing i can exchange for my time that's the question that we have now like what is the thing that i can exchange so like i thought this i was thinking this morning um i joked with um one of my co-workers that i need to like make myself a pump-up playlist in the morning because of meditation we just won't work i'm like i need something because i spent the first first 45 minutes of this morning's work just being fucking pissed because everything was wrong everything on this goddamn line like from the moment the bottles like were trying trying to drop into the boxes to the moment they were taped and entering the like the people man did you and matt really are alike dude for real did people put gloves on top of the bottles like laverne and shirley and wave at them as they go down the line they should and you're like you fucked a whole day up and so like the thing was was i recognized i got about i got about 20 minutes into this i'm like i'm so fucking pissed and i don't know what to do about this yeah and i'm like i don't know what to do about this and i'm like trying to breathe i'm like because it's fucking existential and i'm like lord right but and so then at some point i'm like what i need is i actually need to prepare myself ahead of time so that i'm like ready for being fucked like basically like mentally need to like you know loosen the loosen my anus basically what's crazy is it doesn't matter it doesn't matter that shit matters it won't matter but i'm thinking like because because the the the paradigm is what can my time and right now i am exchanging my time for dollars yeah and what i'm doing i am like the dollars that i'm getting are not worth yeah the frustration and the anger and probably the minutes off of my life literally and metaphorically that i'm losing by by being a human taper because this fucking machine won't work so i'm having to rip the tape off and retape a box better than better than dollars for pesos though man it's true and so like but dollars for donuts i would take donuts you know so like but then you just be like fatter than i am i mean well no i mean like you get like a couple donuts and you're like i don't have to work anymore that's true yeah and so like i think that when you talk about the the we forget that growth for growth's sake is a human choice like we have chosen to live in this world we haven't chosen us we have not chosen this is the world we find ourselves in but as a society as a culture we have chosen to live in yeah i don't know that we have though i don't like yes ongoing choice it's an ongoing choice that we can choose to be we can choose to go and live in a in a remote part of the country right there's no cell signal unplugged from the matrix yeah exactly that's the thing like what what alternative is there how do you you can't because he's like what about revolution like what the fuck yeah what revolution i talked about this uh before the podcast even started i was talking venting you guys about how i had to waste some time at work that was stupid like i should is just like i still got paid for that time yeah but even though it was stupid but but for me it was it was about respect in that moment yeah uh that was that was frustrating to me is like it like you can you can say it's fine yeah it's on and so like for me it's just like fucking show me some humanity to realize that like like yes you are paying me to do this dumb shit that you fucked up um but like i'm sorry would it be helpful yeah i i talked with i was today was talking with one of my been there for five years and and he had that he first he said i was really hoping we could actually like actually train you instead of what i got and i'm like well you've been here for five years and this is what you got so this is what i'm gonna get but he said you know he's like so and so told me why x y and z happened and he's like it's so nice to finally just hear a why and i was like yeah you don't have to tell a machine why yeah you do have to tell a human being yeah why this thing needs to happen like we the underclasses basically the the working class will be willing to work for you if you will just fucking talk to us yeah that was one of my big like i'm not in any systems right now where i actually have someone in authority over me i mean other than must be goddamn nice must be fucking nice like whether it was in church working for a pastor or in work having bosses and corporations like the big thing i was like if i don't agree with the why like fuck like i'll do the dumbest stuff if i agree or you at least show me some humanity or if you could fucking give me a why give me some why but it's like just like stupid things that come down from on high and are like this is what you need to do now i'm like fucking brandon anderson survivor spoilers like a dick bag oh no i i agree and i said to mikaela tonight at dinner because she was at a hell of a time just i mean the school district here is in disarray but well you're only paying 87 for subs for a fucking day's worth of work so fuck off yeah I know there have been times where I'm like I could sub nope no you sure can't 87 if you have a teaching license I'd use 30 of that on lunch right but I said to her I said that I am it's amazing how much more willing we are to do difficult work when we choose it yeah I mean I think back to ministry like ministry made me fucking cry like every other night like it was hard and I was I never felt like I was good enough and I always felt like I was failing in one way or another and like whether I was an associate ministry buddy right well that's true but like whether I was gonna take that to the source yeah like whether I was the associate pastor or I was in charge of the whole thing and I was trying to hold it together and trying to like do all this stuff knowing that or at the time knowing I was called like knowing that this was a thing I chose to do this was a thing I wanted to be part of I was willing to put up with all sorts of bullshit I worked fucking 70 hours my first year out of a week my first year out of college because I was like I love this thing I want to do this thing I will work myself to the bone but here I'm like I will fucking like clock in before I leave the house and clock out when I get home like I'm not say that on the internet I don't fucking care like fine they'll just they'll what are they gonna do fire me probably that's never happened to me before I had I was a I was the only person in my store who had the like website and the managers login info for my clock when I was urban outfitters and I would the main reason I had it was because I would show up at 7 and I would wait 15 minutes for the manager to get there yeah so they would go in and then eventually they were like I'll just give you the password you can yeah and I would because I would have to go shop for work but then I'd be like I took my lunch break and they eventually were like here's here's the password to log in as a manager change your punches and I mean the fact that I didn't take advantage of it take advantage of it more than I did well I had one until somebody else who was more than I did well I mean I did I was like basically doing things but I was like yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna clock in when I'm driving back from lunch like things like that where it's like a few minutes but if it was me now yeah I'd be like guys it's it's weird it's Wednesday but I've already hit over 60 hours the HR rep recently was like yeah if you if you don't take at least a 22 hour break for lunch we will have to go back in a minute or 22 minute break for lunch a long ass lunch we will go like a whole day we will go in and fix it and I was like okay so I'm I'm setting a timer I will clock out at lunch I will set a 22 minute timer 22 minutes I'm clocking back in I like I don't care yeah they don't care I am replaceable yeah and I'm in this weird space I've been like reading and listening to a lot of stuff about like labor history in America and it's amazing like the difference between skilled and unskilled labor and like the way that they organize and I define that right and I'm in a weird space where it's like it takes months to learn the shit that I'm trying to learn that I'm still like I still have a lot I just talked about like not being trained yeah still have a lot of shit to learn but you can't just stick someone and tell them to do my job yeah it's the same for I mean you have years of labor you have an actual like trade right like we we have these like things like traditional like the traditional yeah contraction contract contractor trade like we can't just be slotted into our jobs yeah but at the same time if somebody decided to fire us they'd figure it out yeah oh yeah those because they're all replaceable yeah we're all fucking replaceable I was watching a tick-tock of this woman who had been in a job for over 20 years like 20 25 years and she put in several months notice of like her job for a job and she like she's like I they waited till the last month I'll train my replacement yeah do all the right things yeah thanks gave them over over a year 50 days before she's supposed to be done and she's They get a replacement and then they're asking her to train AI to do like part of her, of her job. And like, she's like, no, I am morally against AI. I am done. I'm ready to go work at a garden center and teach kids how to like grow a garden. Like I won't do this. Like it's not my fault. You wouldn't spend the time getting somebody else in here to do this. I'm not going to do this. And then they're like, so you're fired. Fuck your pension or whatever. Well, and she was like, uh, in the comments were like, this sounds like you need to quit effective as soon as possible and then do like a contractor's fee. And then if they want to pay you $500 an hour to do this shit, then that's fine. Like it's a whole different thing. But it's like, I have institutional knowledge that no one else here knows. Like I, like when I leave, it's not just that. So that was one, I saw another one last week that was like, I'm, I'm leaving my job and they have to hire three people to do my job now because no one will do the amount of work that I've done because I can do it as efficiently as I can because I've been here for so long and know what to do. They literally have to hire three people to do my job. Yep. It's like, that's, I don't know. I don't know what the point of that story was, but. I mean, it's so frustrating. It's so frustrating that we feel like that we are in a place where it just seems inescapable that we are non-important and that the next person above you is slightly more important than you, but they're not important either. And it goes up and up and up until you get to, I mean, like we were watching the recent John Oliver where, and he talks about the Luigi, you know, killing the United Health worker or CEO. And it's like, that guy was, he was the CEO of United Health. He wasn't even the CEO of, of like the whole thing. Yeah. And like the, the class above us is just so out of touch and, and, and can stick, can afford to stay that way. They can literally let people below them who are still fucking millionaires be murdered and not worry. Yeah. Yeah. They're like somebody was waiting for that promotion. Yeah. And so we, we, when he says what this guy says in his articles that, you know, like when we're not actively working, we're passively consuming the spectacle that sustains the work that we do. So like the whole economy that we are fucking complaining about, we are passively sustaining it when we're not actively working to make it happen. Yeah. We have to, we have to pay to exist. Yeah. Like just existing. Yeah. You can't just exist. Yeah. Like you have to take part in this, this economy. In this society, in order to exist in the United States and most other countries, you have to contribute. Yeah. Like you have, like, there's not a choice. You can't just fuck off into the woods because you have to pay taxes on that, on those woods. You have someone that show up, someone will show up and evict you from the woods or whatever, you know, like we, we can't just like, we can't just fucking like opt out. Like there's not, there's very few options for us. We can't just opt out. So we do have to play the fucking game and because we have to play the game, like I have to, you know, in order to do my job, I have to like give up my time and give up my mental health. You're trading yourself. You're, you're literally trading myself to somebody else for something else that I only get a partial benefit off of. Like I don't get the full benefit of my work. Nobody does. And it fucks with you. Yeah. Like it. I know for a fact, if I quit my job today, my boss would have to fire somebody else. Yeah. Like there's not enough work to sustain the P the people who aren't contributing as much as I am. Yeah. There's a, they can, and they can't do it. I've got 10 years of experience on machines that nobody else has experience on. And it's like, if, if I quit, somebody else has to go with me. Do you have a non-compete cause? Uh, I did. I did sign one, but those are, those are void until. Are they actually void now? Cause I'm like, I don't know if it was, I know it was a little, a little bit of, a little bit of, you know, working here. You could just be like, I quit and then make your rounds and be like, here's my business card. I'm the guy who's been fixing all your shit. Now you don't have to pay three other people for me to come fix your shit. Yeah. I do have a, I did, I did sign a non-compete, uh, when I first started. Cause like, why would I want to start a fucking company? Right. Yeah. I was the same way when I started there. Yeah. Yeah. No big deal. So yeah. There's nothing to see here. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. It, it, well, it's just, yeah. So yeah. So I, yeah, it is what it is. Like if we all take part in this giant fucking thing that is a fucking corporation of existence, it's, it's just connected corporations. Like instead of turtles all the way down, it's corporations all the way down and like you can't get out of it. it there there is no there is no revolution that actually ends up with us on top on like figuring this out and the the more that i like learn about and read about revolutions and stuff like i the more i realize oh so like even if you it just puts different people in it just puts different i mean as i've said for for years now it's like it's animal farming the pigs end up playing poker like that's all it is it during covid i still had to work yeah i did too like we worked through covid we had a we had a a decent you mean you didn't just stay in your home and start a podcast no we had like that's what all the celebrities did we still got a reasonable amount of pay for compared to some people who didn't get anything but like but but i still worked throughout the majority of covid yeah like i did too yeah we might have missed a week we we wore masks i missed a week yeah yeah right i did miss time because of covid thanks brandon andrews i didn't miss any time for covid i had it during the summer it was great and that by that i mean it sucked because i was teaching by then and i was i was sick when i could have been not working yeah i don't know fuck i gotta pee god damn it josh this is your why don't why don't you just get your shit together during the podcast let's just end this shit we can we can revisit the circus later yeah it's all it's all fucking bullshit did we talk about the bread or the circus we'll talk about the other one next week i don't know we had some bread earlier a lot of bread a lot of circus a little bit of this a little bit of that are you not gonna go pee no wait no we can we can just get to i refilled my beer because i thought i mean i'll refill my beer later but i gotta pee now my hashtags here hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag which avril lavigne hashtag got your cock burnt hashtag i got my cock burnt that was i don't think that was on the podcast was it not no it was cock cock burn oh yeah lesser member of wu-tang uh taxidermy mcconnell uh matt's hosting this year oh my god hashtag watching and jerking hashtag it's all very bespoke hashtag are you on timber bro hashtag fish prince of bel-air my favorite hashtag treat yourself to a gun hashtag charlie charlie kirkland got a gun and hashtag nationwide is arborside uh hashtag lesser wu-tang member um hashtag black crow stolen valor hashtag it's not a phase it's a 10 piece that's good hashtag samsung bespoke hashtag timber with no e hashtag the fish prince of bel-air hashtag charlie kirkland and hashtag nationwide is arborside i've got hashtag tupac petty um hashtag charlie kirkland and hashtag nationwide is arborside i've got hashtag tupac petty um hashtag the fish prince of bel-air hashtag charlie kirkland and hashtag nationwide is arborside hashtag timber fish king treat yourself to a gun uh treat yourself jesus on the cross kirk on the neck in kirkland either a fish prince of bel-air or charlie kirkland i really like nationwide is arborside that's true that's a good one it's so sweet nationwide is arborside all right what are we doing nationwide is arborside all right sure you don't want to jesus on the cross kirk on the neck all right nation side is arborside nationwide is arborside they're gonna rename the hickey the kirky you just end up with a red oh shit oh my god tell your kids that they could start they could make the change oh i i had a good time i had a good time i just wanted to uh cyclists to my curmudgeon list by the way oh bicyclist yeah yeah living in the country yeah it's the worst hours to pass you know i've like had conversations with cadence about that while we've been practicing driving oh there's a line growing we're going we're getting up there we're doing it guys we're doing it so is this 466 yep yep spectacle the testicle spectacle there it is we got it yeah of course we've got it in one bye everybody goodbye bye mark hamill is darkwing duck was he really he is now yeah they fired the other guy oh yeah i haven't seen are there new episodes coming out coming out yeah was darkwing duck part of ducktales it was a spin-off of ducktales and the current like the new version of ducktales also spins off into a new version of darkwing duck yes