Brands Are Our New Movie Heroes, Elon's No Good Very Bad News Cycle 02.21.23

see what you've done? Guests who I haven't introduced yet called your legs plumpers on one episode three months ago, and it's just completely taken over the show because I also have some Philly above the knees steaks come with So you got those thick thick thighs, got those thick thicky's down. I'm throwed to be joined by today's guest co host. You know from Pad Yourself a gun and now pod Yourself a wire. It's Matt Hey k leaving on a jet plane. Hold on someone, someone did it

for me this time. Well that's good, but hold on, uh so pressed or cord and pod with me, What's what's telling about my search history? Listen to my hot dog takes and jokes because I'm Matt Leave on the zeit guys been here lots more than once or twice. Oh man, I love this pod. I don't know that's Blake Rogers. Thank you Blake Rogers killing it? Yeah, yeah, beautiful. I know it was. It was because I complained about it yesterday where I was like, man, you got you

got fans writing you parody songs. And this guy was like, I got you, bro, Yeah, I got you man. Thank you Blake. Well, Matt leaving on a jet plane. It's great to have you here. You have one of my favorite so so penn a k is of all time that goes through my head every time you're on. Is it to Matt Center one? Matt Lee, Matt Lee. That's right. That's a classic. Ever gets old for me? Uh Well, We're thrilled to be joined in our third seat byf

of this show's destruction. A brilliant comedian, writer, actor, many a successful stand up album, the Blake album Stuffed Boy Live from the Pandemic, some successful voicemail albums, Todd Glass to Blake's voicemails from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler always started on Billboard. Please welcome, the hilarious, the chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bike in short shorts and his plumpers are on full display. It's black wax. This is Blake Wexler.

A k A. Birthday Bay, a k A born Bjord, a k A A flat berth or a k A. Age against the Machine a k A. The C Section Star. It's hard to be here. I turned yesterday, three days ago. Whatever. I'm riding it out. Yeah, on the recumbent like a C section baby. Yeah, the C section star baby. If that's me, that'll be trademark by Monday. And Mama Mama said, cut it out right, get this thing, get it out of my body, the belly of the beast, as it's colloquially referred to. Ye for having me, you, guys, Hey,

thanks for being here. Blake. How are you holding up after the Philadelphia Eagles you probably heard about this did lose in the Super Bowl. It came across my radar and I am journaling and handling this in a very mature her away. Just because they lost one game doesn't mean all the nice memories from along the webs are invalidated. Yeah, the real super Bowl ring is the friends we made along the way, agree, and it's it's a ring of friendship.

And we're all holding hands around one one holding call just because Yeah, it doesn't mean you can't eat the poopoo anyway. Yeah, I I couldn't agree more. It's there there. What did horses go away just because we lost the super Bowl? They're still around, They're still exactly on our streets, and someone has to do something about this. It's true, losing the super Bowl does not make the horse poopoo

any less delicious. So I yeah, back more. Alright, Blake, Matt, we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. We're gonna check in with what's going on over at Twitter, Twitter dot com. If you've even been to that website, gentleman by the

name of it, ell On Musk recently purchased it. Epic Bacon Sir appears to be Epic Bacon ng sir, the whole, the whole damn thing, demanding that people juice his tweets or risk being fired is the word around the Twitter camp fire. He's like the Twilight Zone episode with a little kid who's eating the chocolate sandwiches, and he's sending people back out in the cordfield like he's just he really gets to do what he wants. Yeah, whatever he wants.

And then additionally he's using that status as owner of Twitter dot com to shadow band the union that's trying to unionize in Buffalo, the Test League union. And then there's also just even more information, just more a real it's raining ship on Elon Musk portion of the news cycle that we're going to glory in. Yeah, so we're

gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about There's there's another movie coming out that's about like a the birth of a popular brand, were like a successful business thing. Because we talked last week or the week before about Air, the new movie, not about Michael Jordan's, but about the invention of the air Jordan's where like the protagonist, the heroes are like the people who are like this guy

is good at basketball. We should we should, we should find a way to capitalize on that and make ourselves rich. Directed by Ben Affleck, Yeah, yeah, directed by Ben Affleck, starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. And I was excited about that movie when if but when the trailer came out, I was like, hell yeah, dude, love Air Jordan's And maybe there's a critique there too, because I feel like those guys are like on the low kind of not pieces of ship in a way, like yeah, yeah, totally,

maybe there will be a there's gotta be. There's gotta be there's a new one though about the not even the invention of Tetris, but like somebody going to Russia to buy the rights to Tetris seems to be the story, and like it sounds like a radio lab. Yeah it really, it does seem like a radio I'm sure it was

a radio lab at some point. And so we're just gonna talk about this new trend where you know, our greatest, most respected, most beloved Americans A K Brands corporations are like the protagonists of our films, except like I mean, like Shakespeare wrote about the royals, and these are our royalists. The logical conclusion of the system of capitalism we've set up here from the Nibisco movie, the invention of the Pillsbury dope boy exactly. Yeah, just like some sweaty ad exacts.

He was bred. Actually he was being b r easy to be hard. Oh no, I can't wait for the future biopic of the brand executive who privatized the Sun. Yeah, you know exactly. And then there's the new Winnie the Pooh horror movie that is out and apparently it's not good. It's not good. Why would they do that. This is a new trend that seems to be happening because people need I P and they need to also make a Yeah.

I P is coming off the books. Baby Mickey Mouse, if you've ever heard of that character, is coming off the books next year. Lobeful full name is Michelobe Mouse, and that is what we're all going to learn in the biopic mk Ultra Mouse. Michaelob Ultra is long for m k Ultra. Yeah, so all of that that and that is mk ultra. Uh, mikhaelo Ultra does brainwash you. And it is five calories, so it's not the calories are so low yea, yeah, you'll be thin. Well, you are jumping out of a k being thrown out of

a New York hotel window. Hey, it happens a little Wormwood reference for everybody who cut that docu series before we get to any of that ship Blake. Yeah, like that stuff all sounds fun, But before we get to any of that bullshit. If we get to it, let's take a chance on this segment. Let's let's give it that's right and ask you what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are. I'm happy to test the format of this show with you right

now and right now. So I was searching brown boots, black outfit because I was trying to match a pair of boots to an outfit. And I've heard that there's rules about you can't wear black with blue or brown with black, and I was reading some fashion websites and essentially, you can wear whatever the funk you want. It really doesn't matter. Yeah, it turns out, Yeah, it turns out that if you have any self esteem whatsoever, you can

put on clothes and not Google. What about those of us who don't, who just need our shoes to exactly match our outfits, because we I wear Gene shoes with my jean pants. Smart, that's smart. Any denim coverage there are like denim Jordan's aren't there? Yeah? Do you there is a Jordan's. As we call them the Lennos collap. I like to pretend they're a collab with Jay Lens, but they're actually a collap between Levies and the Air Jordan's. And they are I like the way they look. They

are heavy shoes. They are the heaviest. Yeah, they're like a cream denim. Are they extra hocked? They sound hocked. They don't know that. I don't know that I've noticed the temperature so much as the fact that they feel like they if you've ever warned, like stepped in a puddle and your shoe is wet and just you know, leaden feels very heavy. Like that's how heavy they are, because denim is not a light thing. And they all layered that ship on. It's weird. They make up basketball

shoe Yeah, yeah, you can't. You can't stand on a basketball court with these shoes on there. There will just be footprints in the in the hardwood. So strange. I love it though, they well we have to have brand synergy. Yeah, they sound cool. I like that their cream color. That's that sounds like they would go with a lot as well. I couldn't runt this problem that I have right now with my brown ass boots boots. Yeah, brown boots, black outfit. So you're there was a time bomb. I thought that's

what we were singing at first. I don't know what that was. But is that like your brain was misfiring? That was the song time bond? In another Huh, that's a great song. So are you Are you going with the impression of somebody who has a self esteem and just doing brown boots, black outfit? No, no, no, no, no no, I'm bailing on the whole fucking thing. Actually, So I'm just gonna go to the event. Yeah I'm not. I'm not going. I'm gonna stay leaving my house exactly. I'm

coming with options. But yeah, no, it's gonna be Uh. So, I'm getting ready to shoot my first special this week, so I've been trying to pick out now thank you and in Cincinnati, Ohio from February twenty six. But I'm like, I think I'm gonna wear a brown boot, maroon pant, and a royal blue jacket is what I'll be wearing. So and that's why you should tune in for my outfit. See how my fucking neglige bole body, can you do a spin when you're while you're on stage, just so

people can see the full thing exactly? So when I perform, I make every venue in the round by I just I stand on a lazy Susan And and I don't even like that term that Susan puts in a whole bunch of locriminatory against Susan. Yeah, I could not agree, and Sue really put So I do spin in place throughout the entire thing. And it's a six minute set, and I closed vomiting on my boots. It's my big closer. Now they're cream color now there because I drink milk,

straight milk. You've gotten you're on the Mussolini diet, right, just nothing? Yeah? Yeah, was he a milkhead? I think he was a super milk head, and like wouldn't wouldn't imbibe anything that wasn't the color white. If I if I'm not mistaken, you're telling me this guy was a fascist. Weird, Yeah, this mama's boy fascist and my have been confusing him with a different fascists. But I think that's a shame.

Mustlan did not indulge in his country's revered cuisine. He rarely ate pasta and meat and called French food useless. His favorite food was a salad made of raw garlic and olive oil that is actually super Italian. And I feel like, at first I was gonna be like, is he even Italian? But he's just straight eating straight garlic. His wife thought it made him smell unbearable. Is how this little like google paragraph ends. They're like it really

ruined his great personality. They the stench of his garlic. People would have given him more of a shot if and he just didn't eat raw garlic all day. It's just sickos, just in every aspect of their life, are just a total fucking lunatic. This guy where yeah, it's not like he ate a balanced breakfast that would that you could relate over. Of course, this man ate raw garlic. It's insane too, because you're like thinking, like, you know, I'm not gonna eat some fun pasta and some pizza

just because I'm an Italian. I'm just gonna eat these cloths straight cloves of garlic. It's like, come on, man, this feels racist against yourself. Yeah, Blake, but it's something that you think is under or overrated I don't give a ship which one you start with. You don't care deal of choice, man, I'm all right, let me find my bready nice flip for situations such as this, I'll

go and it's heads, which means overrated windbreakers. I think an overrated article of clothing and sounds powerful as hell. The name that they went with windbreaker. It was a windbreaker. If you catch like, thank you, sorry, I appreciate that I have here. No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that I'm not there with you to laugh in person. What you just did. What you just did, that's bread. I love that ship of wind breakers. The jacket because it's a piece of clothing that kind of has not evolved with

the times where there's no shape to it. It's you're it's an amorphous shape, and they look like their water proof, which a rain jacket is off. Can often break the wind as well, but it actually has a function. Lots of things can break the wind, thank you exactly, So you could just wear a nice warm coat. Just the breaking of wind doesn't seem like it is important enough of a function to have that be The soul can't

be a singular function. I completely completely agree. There's no, because if here's the thing, if the wind isn't cold, not a not a problem, don't need a wind breaker. You're just dealing with wind. That's wind. But if you are, if you are in need of breaking the wind from your body, you're usually also in need of some you know, layering,

a little bit of a little bit of more. Yes, so you're just just an extra layer where you could just consolidate into one layer of a yeah, but you also do you're so mad right now, I'm so angry. You can also make the little switch he noises though. That's what that's my favorite thing about a wind breaker is like doing the the arms. You know, no, the no friction. But it's like, yeah, it's nice to be

the loudest walker possible and the wind breaker. In the nineties when it was popular windbreakers, you actually crime plummeted because you could just hear half away. Now you hear that sound, you're like, oh, ship simbats coming, He's the only guy still windbreaking, that's right. What is something you

think is underrated? Blake an early dinner six pm gives you options for the rest of the evening if you would like to go to grab drinks afterwards, you'll still be home in time to hydrate and mitigate, you know, any hangover that could be possible the following day. And I've sweat the bed. If I eat too late and you wet the bed with it, let's let's let's throw a s w E A T there whatever. I wet the bed with sweat. That's what it is. It's a different type of bed wedding, but it counts. It does

count it. It falls under the same stigma, unfortunately. But yeah, if I eat too late, and now it gets it gets earlier and earlier as I get older and older. After eight pm, it's it's a hold on you swell the floor. Do you yield your time to do okay? Heels your time? Okay? You sweat the bed if you eat too late. M hm. You know for certain that

that's the reason you're sweating the bed. Yeah. So I have luckily have had some time on my hands and have experimented with or kept track mentally of okay, I ate at this time tonight and kept everything else the same, in the same covers, the same pajama situation. And every single time I eat early, no whatsoever, and you're going to bed at the same time. Excuse me, you controlled for a lot of things, but not for like what time you went to bed, not for the not for

the main thing. Uh No, I did not control for that. But that's interesting. I'm wondering, and I'm not being combative here, I assure you, but I'm wondering, would that make a difference.

I don't know. I don't know. I've just figured since you were controlling for all those other things, No, I bet it, since I put all the work it I that's a good question because if I went to bed later, that would give me theoretically a earlier dinner, right right exactly, So that like if if that to me, that would be the final factor where you're like, you know, if I eat two hours before bed, I will sweat. If I eat four hours before bed, I will not sweat.

That's interesting. So it sounds like a meat left on that experiment. Bone. Yeah, come back to uh yeah, come back to us on this is fascinating. I've also been wearing a lab coat to bed. I think that might also be why. But yeah, you're you're also wearing the rubber suit to bed on certain occasions. You also controlled for the temperature in your in your bedroom. Of course that is correct that I'm sorry, yeah, I'm sorry. The temperature struggling. Yes, I mixed up celsius and fahrenheit on

an alternative basis. Oh Man, all right, let's hear your quick break. We'll be right back and we're back. Yeah yeah, oh Man walked away for for a moment. It was recording and all hell broke loose. We're fighting back with each other. We're doing slurs against mostly Italians. Yeah, yeah, it's specifically the people who work at Italy Italians, the Italians. Alright, Twitter dot com, let's talk about it. It's a website,

pretty big and Elon must bought it. And earlier last week there was a report claiming the Musk ordered Twitter engineers to ring the platform to quote juice his tweets or risk being fired. There was some good texture in the story where he like brought these people to a meeting and was like, why is this? Why am I not seeing the same engagement that I used to? And they were essentially like, I think people are fucking bored of you dominated the conversation and aren't that interesting? And

he was like, you're fired. You like substance and you were just taking advantage of them and making their lives worse. His test run of this new super boosting tech was his tweet quote supporting the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. And that's fine, that's not Blake. This must have been huge for you. This was really big for you. And you know, I was on I loved Emon Musk before this, and then the fact that he was, you know, pandering to me and me alone with this tweet. I I

engaged with it. I liked it, I retweeted it, I shared it, I texted it around. It was a fine tweet. I printed it out, I made I got a tattoo of it. Yeah, I got its hat on my on my left plumper and yeah, I'm still looking for a retail space on the right one. It's he really he

deleted it. He deleted that tweet after they lost, right, isn't that he doesn't He just like doesn't know who's there's an artist who like had face blindness, and like, I think Chuck Close is his name, and like, but so he used the fact that he was face blind to them like paint people's faces like because he like understood it from a weird he didn't understand faces so much that he like had to like break them down

like their component parts. And I feel like Elon Musk purchasing Twitter is like something like that where he seems to be like remarkably incapable of understanding like why people come to twee it or people like about tweets, which is it's it's so funny because it's like, bro, no, that is part of it. It's like he just doesn't understand why, Like he needs to learn, he needs to go inside the gears to see why. Biden voice, I got all up in that bussy Jack got a million

fucking reed tweets, Like he doesn't understand. He's like, I don't understand this. Why why sitting there puzzling over just staring at that tweet as it like gains likes and hearts just getting more and more, just baffled and irritated. Jack was Chuck Close? Was that the name of the artist? I think that was that? The one who is the gender neutral version of Chuck Closterman Or Am I thinking of something else? No? Yeah, I think you might be

thinking of something else And I'm sorry I think it. Yeah, it is it's Chuck Close. He was an artist. Yeah, he was a portrait artist who is FACEBOYD didn't like driven to faces by not because he didn't understand them and was like fascinated by that interesting. He was great. He like worked at it as a craft his whole life, and like his portraits are super interesting. The Elon Musk does not like he just decided to buy a thing

and kill it. Like his version of painting the portrait is to like yeah and like dissect it until it's dead. So anyways, he came through said the quote source of the bogus platform or article is a disc gruntled employee who had been on paid time off for months, had already accepted a job at Google and felt the need to poison the well on the way out. Twitter will be taking legal action against him, and the journalists said

this is completely false reporting. So every Twitter employee is disgruntled, every former or current, they're all disgruntled because they work for this fucking idiot. There's not a single grunt old employee in the entire like Twitter office. And it's like even the people like came in and like, yes, thank you serve for liberating us from the transagenda, Like all those people are now just like this guy fucking sucks.

It's it's kind of great to see. And I also the more Twitter goes down and crashes, the more I'm just like this is this is just fantastic. I I actually I'm enjoying watching it burn because because it's like Twitter is like an inherently bad place, and it should

it should go down in flames, you know. And I nothing makes me more like fills me with more Scheidenfreuda than someone who is actively trying to understand it, like ending up breaking the whole thing and he's going to pretend like it was this plan all along, but we all know it wasn't. Yeah. I wish he didn't break Twitter like I like to fail. I wish I do this thing. Yeah, you bought it, you break it? Is he thought that that was the just or the directions.

He's going to tweet that when he sets this final servers on fire, you under well, someone will tweet that and then he will steal that, and that's right, it's his own and perfect just glory and the fact that his his followers are doing the crying, laughing the worst thing that he did, in my opinion with regards to buying Twitter was create this the four you tab. The four you tab is probably one of the most insane ideas that he has had on here, because I did

he invented. I thought I've had a four you tab for since before he No, no, no, he he had. There was used to just be one timeline and then it was just one feed and it was a mixture of people you follow and people who resweet and and comment that, you know, the stuff that's trending has had a for you versus trending exactly. Yeah, there was there was one that was for you, and there was one that was following, so uh or sorry, there's now one

that's for you and one that's following. And basically the entire purpose of the for you tab that he was that he created was so that he could just push a bunch of like libertarian podcast or voices that fucking suck and just to just to like get people to see both sides, you know, the the you know, intellectual diversity of opinions. You know, like sometimes you want to hear both sides of the argument of like should trans people live or like our Jews people, or do black

lives matter? Like I need to know what everyone the other side exactly. So anyways, he's also using this in ways that are actually presumably fairly powerful, such as Tesla workers in Buffalo, who are launching a unionization effort have accused Twitter of shadow banning the union Twitter account, of course, because he has like given uh platform to so many right wing libertarian voices, being like, I've been shadow band.

Nobody like the shadow ban me, and I only get two hundred thousand likes instead of the two million that I deserve, So like that, it's frustrating that they've ruined that. But he appears to have legitimately shadow band the union Twitter account in the in the sense that it doesn't appear in Twitter search function if you type out either the accounts handle or display name. So like you just that that is what a shadow I mean, that's not a shadow band so much as a just that that

should have been. That's a band. Yeah, that's a band

that doesn't the dy the official notification. There's no bigger bitch baby than a social media you know, right wing conservative person, because bro, you're already like that's already the engagement cheap code is your whack ass opinions, Like, like you will see just any number of like the first time you've ever seen some person with a million followers, and all all they do is like having an angry face and an American flag fucking you know emoji, and

they're just saying the same knee jerk opinions that you'll find on any fucking like conservative website, and they're fucking it's huge. They're all huge, and you're like, this is already the cheap code. You can't complain about engagement when you're already making the fucking easiest career decision you've ever made in your fucking life. I just said, I can't stand it. I wish I had no shame. Guys, Yeah, oh I would go. I would go for that fucking magat tits so hard, suck all the milk out of it.

You can muzzle need a funk out of that magot tit. And it's the most of setting sentence I've ever said. I think I just took six years off my God, damn, I'm gonna die at fifty six now saying you're definitely gonna be sweating tonight. You have three in the crosshairs. Before I was really shooting for sixty three and until I used muzzlin need as a verb for a tit belonging to maga and sucking it out of it. Specific it's like a fun you to Paul McCartney specifically, I'll

never be sixty four. Also, he fired like a bunch of the workers once they publicized that they were going to unionize. Barely twenty four hours after declaring their intention to unionize, a bunch of them were fired, which is illegal, and then by Thursday that number grown to thirty seven. They're just yeah, doing illegal ship. These are the sorts of things that the government needs to be able to step in on. But we've spent the last our entire

lifetimes just thinking deregulation was a cool thing. So all regulations are out the window when it comes to billionaires. And I'm sure he's gonna find a way to for this to just be a nominal slap on the wrist that he doesn't have to worry about when it comes to how he conducts his business, which puts us in a very bad position as a civilization. I'm I'm literally I will vote for any president who's like, if you're a dick and you're a billionaire, I'm just gonna take

your money. Yeah, I will vote for any president who just goes. I will nationalize your bank account. Yeah, nationalized the and and like so. The other thing. The other way that the news cycle was reigning ship on Ela Musk was, of course, Tesla's thousand Tesla car is being recalled because the self driving software was like causing speed limits or travel through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner, which I'm sorry, you have to take your car back, Jack.

That sucks. Hey, they're actually really like cool, they have good design. Now they have the trunks in the front. I don't understand. I don't understand why everyone's talking ship on these cars. The trunk is in the front. Sorry, do you understand how revolutionary that is? Trunk is in the fucking front. You go in the back, you'll find nothing.

So they traveling through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner is pretty Yeah, that's a red when it comes to when it comes to if that was one of the negative comments on an Uber driver that I was about to get in the car with like really cool, Like it looks cool. Unfortunately, he has been known to travel through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner. I'd be like, that's a deal breaker. Lad. If I had a note for Gary as a driver, I prefer more

predictability from him when in intersections. Yeah, I like through intersections, uh, and more lawfulness, Like I like that he's cool and kind of a bad boy, but I do, I do appreciate lawfulness when it comes to the approach and transit through an intersection. It's the tax fraud he's committing when he's going through these intersections that I tried to be so disconcerting. Yeah, I know the driving is fine, but he's torrenting movies and that is, if I'm not mistaken, unlawful.

That's stealing money from the mouths of movie producers an artists, probably metallic in some way. Goddamn, right, Jack, sound occurring to me? That did just happen? Yeah, when you talk about nationalizing their wealth, like nationalize these fucking companies that nobody like, we cannot have things that are as complicated as self driving cars be in the hands of billionaires who already are telling you, like, we don't follow the rules.

There's a little bit of a bad boy when it comes to how we operate around here, and we are going to be programming your car to travel through intersections in creative ways. It's it's just it's not gonna work. Like I I really think the time has come for a presidential candidate to be like, we gotta nationalize this ship. We gotta nationalize the like Facebook, we gotta nationalized like self driving cars, Like it's that's ever going to be a thing. Like you need to work with the government,

not against it to try and like hide your ship. Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm from a practical standpoint, Yeah, for sure, But I also will vote for a president who's just like out of spite, I am going to steal your money. Elon Musk specifically, I'm ready for this. But yeah, I think I think the popular sentiment is there for that. Yeah, all right, it is now there. It is now, thank you.

Let's take another break and we'll talk about something else that The public sentiment is here for the upcoming Tetris movie. Hell yeah, and we're back. And the trailer for Tetris just came out. I had heard that they were making a Tetris movie. I could not fathom what that was going to be. The w If I had to like guess that someone was like pitching a Tetris movie, my guess would be it's set in Russia and nineteen and you know the obviously the fucking you know they're dealing with,

like the fall of Communism is about to have. They know the Soviet Union is going to go down. But then from the sky blocks slowly start coming down and they're like first, yeah, at first, and then they're like, oh, ship momentum, Yeah, we gotta find a perfect spot for them blocks. Yeah, that's my and that's the cliffhanger. Yeah, they find him. What was your favorite block in the Tetris universe? Because there's flat there's flat Boy, who is

just a total fat well. Flat Boy was the most badass one because you always set your ship up for flat Boy exactly if you can just get that Flatboy in that what a feeling that to me, that was the first time I fucked. Yeah, the sexual like undertoe was this conversation telling a lot to me about like why I was so into Flatboy. Yeah, you put that Flatboy like right in that crevice and you're yeah, yeah,

the whole thing goes all at once. Yeah yeah, And that's like kind of how I've organized my life since then. It's like just like build up a bunch of ships and then like hope for a big payoff, it all comes together at the last second, Oh no, the flatboy didn't come. Just waiting for that flat, just piles and

piles of oh no, where's the flat by. My whole professional career as well, has been put backing myself into a corner and praying that something a one out of a million chance would happen will happen, and so far not so good. Flat boys many a washed up comedian is sitting on a park bench that they live on right now, go ahead, and I just never got a flatboy? Did that flat? Someday my flat will come. So it sounds like it has less in common with that pitch

you just made I feel like that. That was also kind of what they went with for like battleship. I think they were like, Okay, so we gotta do battleship. Let's aliens come and you gotta like sink them by guessing with the with our battleships. There's that also had yeah swinging a mixed yeah. Some people liked it something. So this is more. This is more in common with Argo and the new Air Jordan movie, where it's like

international affles directing it. Well, Ben Affleck, it is is directing the Air Jordan's Invention movie, and they wish Ben Affleck was directing this because it does feel like they were like what if Argo where the stakes were game Boy? Yeah, instead of of freeing hostages the stakes where you get to play Tetris on the game Boy. It's not about the Russian inventor of the game so much as it is about the Dutch video game designer who bought it

and introduced it to Western audiences. He has to like travel behind the Iron Curtain in order to like get so get the rights to the theme to their national anthem, because isn't that their national anthem that's playing in the in the then then and then and then and and then and that then that that I thought that was. I thought that was a Russian national anthem. You can see that very easy, highly possible and starts speeding up at which taught us to, you know, I just got

a gun to the audience past. You'll never get a flat boy. Yeah, yeah, Actually the Russian version that there is no flat boys. Yeah, they're all equally sized, ye all. Yeah, but it's the story of like him basically licensing Tetris seems to be the sound. Yeah. I like that. I like contract law and it reminds me of this like analysis that Malcolm Gladwell, my king, the only person who I go to when it comes to intellectual discourse recommendation

on private jets to take. Yeah, he was on the low lead express plight logs, but he did do he did do a story about like he he likes to read those CEO biographies and he's like, when you actually look at how they tell the story, it's like this heroic singular CEO's heroes journey through like the heart of darkness to like everybody tells me can't do it, and it's only his idea and like he you know, triumphs over evil too, increased shareholder value or whatever the funk,

And like when you actually look at what they do, it's just, you know, like a series of very mundane and predatory decisions that they make. They find one thing that they can exploit and then exploit it over and

over and over again until they're billionaires. It's just like very wrote and mechanical and like uninteresting, but they find ways, like there's a whole section of your local bookstore that is these retcond stories that like turn the narrative of how this person built unnatural, immoral amount of wealth, like it turned it into like a hero's journey. And that's

what this sounds like. Like the guy did have to go back like make friends with the inventor of Tetris and you know, get get interrogated by some Soviet diplomats. But in the end they were like, we kind of like this guy, well, will let him have the have the rights because that's how business worked, And they're turning it into like this spy thriller where he like steals it.

You know, I imagine because there's sometimes there's a premise so boring that you're like, well, if they're making it, it's got to be good, right, you know what I mean, because there's not the only thing that's holding it together at this point is the i P of Tetris, which they I mean, maybe we live in that world now where that alone is enough to sell the movie, but I can't imagine that it's not like really good, like at least as a script, like it's like, oh no,

this is a fun thing because we're missing something. We're missing because there's definitely something there. There's no way it can't be that. It sounds it sounds so boring. Dog. I mean I would say that about like movies, where are the thing is getting made with no I p attached? But like this, I feel like probably like there's been rumors of a Tetris movie for a number of years, and like I I feel like the assignment came before the before this premise, like they were like all Tetris

is a thing that everybody cared about. That Like, I've never been so aware that my brain was being rewired as I was, Like, I don't know what it did to it, but like when I would play Tetris on the game Boy and then like close my eyes hours later and I would see tetrists and I would play Tetris in my head and I'd be like, this can't

be healthy. I have other thoughts, hungry, Yeah, like the it's that being on a boat and skiing are the only things that have ever like rewired things so much that like I closed my eyes and I can't undo whatever that did to my brain. Yeah, No, it's but but the thing is is they're definitely taking multiple pitches. You know, they're taking a lot of pitches with this, like Catchers I p and so I imagine for them to choose the most boring sounding one that they're like,

oh no, this is this is there's something there. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like they're doing a clean sweep through my child like Mario is coming out in a like six months then Tetris. It's just like a clean sweep through like the things that I cared about at age seven to eight. You know, yeah, they're just coming through weird. Al Yankovic just had a movie that was that was big for me at that period. What actor is going to play crash bandicoot? Do you think that's the use?

Is he going to take that too? Sorry? What were you gonna say play? I don't I don't remember, but I think it was, Oh no, I do. So. I believe there was like maybe as a someone who wants to come off as intelligent and fails almost uniladder really, but I remember there was one movie I don't remember the name of it, but it sounded so fucking boring and it won all these awards, all every smart person was like, this is a genius movie. And ever since then,

I'm like, I'm not going to be tricked again. If a movie sounds boring, it must be to what Matt was saying, it must be a brilliant film. So I will not go out on a on a limb and say this will be bad because I can't be fooled again. I won't be publicly fooled about this. But it's gonna suck. Well, what's the movie you're referring to? Specifically? You know what would be make great podcasting is if I remember the name of it. But unfortunately, remember don't you don't even

remember what happened? Didn't you just remember the sensation of being like, that's gonna be boring as ship? Was it the Constant Gardener? Because we've talked about this, We're talking about the constant Gardener sounds boring as ship? But it's not at all about constantly gardening. Yeah, it's not about somebody who just is really under gardening. No, it's it's about like, uh, what the funk was that about? There's like pharmacy and stuff. Yeah, pharmacy intrigues happening in Africa?

Is it's in Africa somewhere, and there's this song that's like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, oh yeah yeah. I knew we were gonna end up end up with this story sing sing this song from So I'm gonna keep talking, but I want you to do that under me talking. I think that's gonna like give howd of a fun Like it's a big spiritualist vibe. Oh yeah yeah. I think the thing that I object to is, sorry, the hero of this story is not like a person. It is just a lawyer, story of capitalism as it happened,

Like I don't know, it's a it's a bummer. Like it makes sense because we are in a country where the mainstream media treats the destruction of a seven eleven front window as more serious than the like violence done to black bodies. So like it makes sense to me that this is just like where they think our values are. And maybe they're right, but it's just I don't know. Human stories used to be bigger than like a story

of how Tetris got licensed. And yet you know, if if somebody told me that this end this ends up being really good, I wouldn't be shocked. I guess, yeah, I mean here's the thing. Brands. That's all we got now, dog thank you, like thank you, wake up and smell the Folgers coffee specifically or blue bottle. Yeah, you know, because the brands there are there are there are Bottle, Liberal,

Blue Bottle. You know, like the brands are are They are our overlords, they are our bosses, they are fires because I drink black Rifle coffee to rother but exactly to let people I know I finished sentences, or I respond to people finishing sentences by saying fuck yeah brother, yeah exactly. I mean, you know, it's a way, it's your lifestyle, it's everything is brands here, so you know you gotta get with it. Start, you know, brand brand. You gotta get good brand brain. Brandin. I got brand brain,

and I'm cool with brands now. That's right. Another brand story. It feels like it's working from the same currency of like what if people do things to brand? And by the way, we are recording this on Friday, so if important news has happened over the weekend, doesn't matter. Another spy balloon. Okay, yeah. I also just realized we're off on Monday, so man, yeah, sorry if yeah, if we've missed a bunch, but we're talking about this. It's going to be work anymore. He wants to work, and that

is what we're talking about. Nobody wants to work anymore anymore. Thank you, Blake. There's also the Winnie the Pooh horror movie that we talked about. It was basically Winnie the Pooh's copyright lapsed after a hundred years after the first published, so they can so anyone. It's up for grabs, it is, but it's only the first book, which only included Piglet and Winnie the Pooh and tigg No Tigger, It's it's Signfeld without Cramer. So yes, okay, Tigger was Cramer's. It's

air tight. Yeah, no red shirt because that was actually a Disney addition to the soho was just butt naked shirt? Yeah, I mean could be. But so Basically, a UK filmmaker who until recently worked for an electricity supplier full time while making micro budget horror films on the side, happened upon this idea and realized that the Winnie the Pooh copyright was gonna lapse. Made this movie. It's called Winny of the Pooh, Blood and Honey it is. I'm okay,

with this actually apparently it's very bad. Apparently not good. Well, I mean people are saying it's amateurish, sloppy and quote embarrassingly bad. But this is who's saying that critic. But it depends which ones because at this point, like I wouldn't be surprised if all the like the ones that are like Marvel, the ones who are bought out basically are just like Disney told us to say it was bad, right yeah, yeah. The same filmmakers are also working on

horror takes on Bambi and Peter Pan. So it feels like this is the opposite side of the coin of like Hero's Journey, where the hero is the acquisition of the rights to distribute Tetris on Game Boy. This is the opposite where it's like the ultimate violence that you can do in our like cultural mindscape is to make Winnie the Pooh a real edge lord sick fuck you know, like this is the ultimate meaning yeah, the ship. Yeah,

we're not saying. I feel like this is a bummer because, like I think there could have been an interesting horror movie based on the fact that, first of all, each character in the Winnie the Pooh universe definitely represents a different like mental imbalance, Like, so there's something interesting there. There's also like the gluttons seems high. You r Is suffers from depression. Piglet definitely suffers from like anxiety, like anxiety, yeah,

or you know, he's like just manic. Oh yeah, that's true,

so Cramer. But and then there's also like the idea, So I guess the premise of this is that Christopher Robin returns to the hundred Acre, would like as an adult and like Poo and Piglet have gone feral and like murdered all the other characters, and like this idea of like children's imaginary imaginary friends, and like the imagination of children like that, like being abandoned like that that is examined to great effect in like Inside Out and

Toy Story three or four, like the toys being abandoned but never dying and just like existing perpetually at the bottom of like a landfill, just stuck in place. Is like dark and interesting and has been handled well. But this feels like they just like turned it into an exploitation film. It's like a few degrees away from just doing parody porn, which I'm think is fine. You know if you're gonna if you never said anything else, Yeah, yeah,

there's nothing wrong. I'm I'm great friends with people who make the best parody porn over at Wood Rocket. They do great. They did the Simpsons Born, they did what do they do? Rugrats, which is a strange choice, but it wasn't they weren't hard to do. Yeah, hard to do, but I thought wire act. But it's a brave choice. So but you know, so like making the you know, lapsed i P you know, horror film of child things seems like, okay, have you considered making a sketch? Right?

Try that? Do start with a sketch? See? How too long does this have to be? Yeah? You do get the sense that they were asking that as they set out to make this movie, like how long does it like for a feature? How long? How long we talking here? Yeah? Ten minutes? To get a distribution it starts. So I'm gonna start with a number, and you tell me if

it's higher six? Seven, Yeah, well surely it can't be nine christ kill Oh no, well, Blake Wexler as always a true pleasure having you on the daily's like geist, where can people find you? Follow you? All that good stuff? The pleasure is online and this was so fun with you Jack and Matt. People can find me at Blake Wexler on social media if you're in Cincinnati, Ohio or

you want to make a nice little trip there. This week I am filming my stand up comedy special at Go Banana's Comedy Club, doing six shows February to the six. I host a podcast called Blake's Takes for God's Sakes, and I think that's that's plenty. So if you know anyone in the Cincinnati area, please please send him to those goddamn yeah, yeah, send them them. Is their work

of media that you've been enjoying there is. It's on social media platform that we were discussing earlier, Twitter and from Twitter dot com right, and this is from comedian Tony Sam And it was a picture of Burton Ernie and it said I've never cared if Burton Ernie were gay or not. I just have always felt that Ernie deserves better. Was it enjoyed? So it's true. Yeah, we'll see what happens when the I p on Sesame straight runs out, but that that for now is a tweet

that I enjoyed. Matt leave pleasure having you. Where can people find you? And is there a work of media you've been enjoying. Yes, you can find me on my podcast where I rewatch popular TV shows from the early two thousand's Spot Yourself a Gun. We started with Sopranos, we finished it, now we're doing the wire. I would love for you guys all to check that out. And yeah,

at Matt leave jokes on Instagram follow me there. You can find me at the local CVS with a gun holding up the place asking him to give me the A D h D medication. So you can find me on the news. When I eventually do this, I'm gonna kill somebody and thank you for having me. In terms of tweets that I like, just recently comedian and TV writer Monique Moreau, who is She's autistic and she she wrote for Thomas the Tank Engine for a while. She wrote, put autistic people in charge of the trains for the

love of God. Was perfect joke. It's just you know she because she's autistic and she loves trains. So when she got the Thomas the Tank Engine job, I was like, this is so perfect. And uh, she's a hilarious comedian And check her out at Monique Morrow. Yeah yeah, oh sorry at Big Bad but that's her, that's he, that's he, that's not the handle, it's big yeah he at Big Bad Butt tweet. I enjoyed dinghis Khan at mild Cuthbert tweeted,

Hey man, my late wife really hated your anecdotes. She called them blurry facts, similes of human experience, cheap postcard reproductions of a life lift poorly. She often said, the endings of your stories landed like dead pigeons falling from the sky. She said she wouldn't miss them. I don't know why, but that really good? Did it? That's great? So you can find me on Twitter dot com liking

things like that at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist where at the Daily Zeitgeist. On Instagram, we have a Facebook vantage and a website, uh where we link off to Oh man, that really fucked me up, Blake, I do it every time? What is it? You can follow us onto it anyways. There's also footnotes were like the information that we uh talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy and super producer Justin Is

there a song that you think people way to enjoy it? Yeah? Is it called Buro Byo Bogata? It is not fun have been amazing if you guess, that would have been awesome, but no, I were highlighting black artists this month. Is okay? Well, ship, I don't know, we just die? Is it because I sang the song? Yeah, you're sang the song and I don't. I'm not familiar with it, but you know, so what's an African song? Okay? I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention. Justin is not a fan throwing me off. Jesus Christ.

That whole fa prepared. I mean, you heard Blake with the Instagram thing that came in and I don't. I don't even know where I am any and I'm on mad um. This is This is a track called Entropy by a super Boy. This is an artist from my home of Chicago. It features Jonia and Moroccan American singer from Queen's Uh And if you're in the mood to ease your way into your morning or wind down your evening,

do yourself a favor and turn on this song. It has amazing key work in it, some amazing unique vocal performances. I'm a fan of when like singers kind of steal the vibe of like rappers and kind of ride to beat like a rapper. It's it's a really good track. So you can find this song Entropy by super Boy

and Donia in the footnotes. All right, well, the Daily Zaka as a protection of our Heart Radio for more podcast from my Heart Radio as the heart Radio Appapple podcast, or wherever you're listening to your favorite chose that's gonna do it for us this morning, back this afternoon to tell you what is trending, and we will talk to y'all then fight right m hm hm