I Am Legend 2: Legendier, American Dystopia 02.17.23

a beautiful day, gorgeous day. My name is Jack O'Brien, a k work in Sight to five. What a way to make living barely fit these thighs in these pants that I've been given, there's so milky white, ain't got no melon, and in them there enough to blind you shine right through madn um. That is courtesy of the Plake Rodgers on the discord. Appreciate you, appreciate the thank you, thank you, No that's demanded. I actually nobody has done

that before, and yet it's the only appropriate. It's the work that people put into making those ak s. And I gotta say, I'm like impressed with your fan base is ability to do it for you because I have to, Like, every time I go on this podcast, I'm like, all, God, I have to think about party song. I do that full weird everything else. Yeah, it's too hard, many weirds. Yeah. He also did like a whole first verse to it, but I didn't feel up to it. But I appreciate you,

the Blake Rogers. Maybe maybe I will release the LP version of this, the long unedited directors cut of this episode. But thank you, thank you, the Blake Rogers. I'm thrilled to be joined today by today's guest co host, you know him from Pod Yourself with Gun Pod Yourself the Wire. Matt, Here comes mad Leave, Doo doo doo doo. Here comes bad Leave and I say, it's all, what's up? I think that was a Carver drop from the wire. What's up, guys, I'm here there. You got my sound have you? Thank you?

Thank you for joining us. Yeah, you do have your soundboard. That's great. We need soundboards and this. I feel like, let's be real if we're being honest about what this show is. Is it not a Morning Zoo type show? Yeah? Exactly. I feel like, you know, people listen to this on their drive over to wherever the neyor Zoom Cafe is to telecommune to their jobs. You know, I assume that your listeners have jobs. Yeah, they think, I think most

of them do. I mean they're number one job being being a fan and writing and writing parody songs of your name for the ak. Yeah, it's a great job in content, that's right. Uh, Matt Worth thrilled to be joined. It's a true dad cast. Today we're joined in our third seat by a hilarious and talented comedian podcast host. You've seen him doing stand up on stages something called TV, which I'm told short for television. Yes, you've heard him

on podcast like the truly hilarious get Rich Knicks. He is apparently one of the foremost experts on guessing who will win at the Oscars, the like sharp when it comes to oscar pools. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented Nick Turner. Thank you very much. I don't want to be known as a dad, okay, I want to be known as the best that number one. Now here's the thing. I have a parody song I actually found on the street walking to my hound today street like a piece

of paper that flew near your person. Yeah, I don't know what happened, but apparently this piece of paper thought Miles would be here. So I'm gonna do a quick edit and uh okay, I I edited it. Hey, so did everybody who showed up to listen. Guys, I mean, what is what a lovely surprise for all of us? Here's the song? And I would talk to five hundred Matt Leebs, and I would talk to five hundred more, just to be the man who talked to a thousand

Matt Liebs. He's the guy that I don't Jack Jack and Jack Jack Jack and Jack Jack Jack Jack met very good there, it is, Thank you. I spent a lot of time on that, a lot of time finding you found it took a while for you. I mean you were looking for a parody song on the street. Let's be honest. There's a little work went into it. Not a lot of people looking down. Now the Angels in America says, look up. I say, look down, look at your shoes. What are they doing? That's great? Nick?

Is it true? I mean you you do have big oscars behind you in the zoom. You are an expert in who wins your oscar pool? Sharp? Is that correct. Uh sharp like like sharp, I think is the is the tournament in Vegas? For like the people who are like ahead of the game and like you, I thought you were accidentally smarter than the house. I thought you were doing a malapropism. You meant shark, like like bull shark or card shark. Now I've heard sharp just on

like sports podcasts, like the smart people in Vegas. I'm a sharp, I'm a shark. I frequently sharp shark and they're all true about Look, yes I have I have

the goods. I think there's a lot of people in this space and uh, it's like a lot of betting prognosticators, you know sports usually they never talk about their predictions afterwards, right because you know, it's embarrassing if you look at like the number of the ones they get right, you know, from even like the most famous sports betters, Like it's about fifty three for like if you're doing great, But I have much higher odds in my bettings. And it's

not just about on the day. Anyone can get them right on Oscar day because before they even announced, because you've had there coming out that year that I have sevent hundred dollars on Avatar four to lose, so uh, you gotta get them early. We started it's a podcast called to Show Me the Money that I do with Pat Stango, one half of the bo Boys podcast where

they look over the box office every week. Yeah, and so you know, we've known each other through comedy for a long time, but we've we've together started a summer movie box office league together and we we participate in a very big Oscars Oscars pool each year, which I'm the only person to have won multiple times. That sounds like it's the Oscar pool to complet like, that's the top of the lot. It's not just like you're you know, your work friends oscar pool. That sounds like it is informed. Yeah,

and experts, are you guys members of the academy? Like how much of is there like a conflict of interest here? We're members of the betting Academy. It's a ragtag group. There's left controversity and we don't hurt each other there so uh yeah, so yeah, gambling famously, violence of verse. There's never been any violence in well not anymore. I mean it was when they were O t b s, but now everyone's in their own home. It's just a punch of wall. That's right. So some of my big

bets that have come to fruition. I had the Daniels at plus nine hundred to win Best Director. They are now currently in the lead. That's nine times your bet plus. But that's what plus nine hundred means. And uh, if I had everything everywhere, all at once for plus seven hundred picture the whole awards season, like what did you just play December January, that's that I've made. And uh, I've got a bunch of seven plus seven hundred for Wakonda Forever's Angela Bassett, who is now in the super

first place for Best Supporting Actress. I didn't realize that I was the only prognosticator as far as I know, on any podcast to think Andrea Riseboro is going to get a nomination for Best Actress. I don't know if you're familiar with a controversy where she um like, yeah, she got nominated, and then people were like I heard that she had people like vying for her, and everyone got mad because she wasn't famous enough to have people vying for her. Were you Nick one of the dozen

people who saw the movie? And that's where your confidence came from no And this is a big part of our podcast. It's not about watching the movies. You don't need to watch the movies. Get caught up watching all the movies, they lose sight of the big picture. Yeah, which is the awards. Which is the awards and you know it's it's it's looking at trends, it's looking at past awards shows, looking at which ones predict the Oscar is the best and a big, big, big one is

this weekend at the Baptist. And in terms of betting, if you're if you watch an award show and then watch somebody win, you'll see it before the lines change on whatever betting site. And so baptis are such a good predictor. And so if you just watched the Baptis and then like whoever wins picked that person, that line is going to change the next day and you're here, wow,

look at you. That's like what are the flashboys? The like Wall Street traders who were making money by having a faster like have Essentially they had a faster ticker. They even invested in having like this was in some Michael Lewis book. They invested in having the like Ethernet Care or you know the internet what what what's it called?

The one with the is like fiber optic, fiber optic cables like going from like where information was that they like made sure the line was straight so that like the fiber optics didn't have to like go around any curves down like microscopic second like fractions of a second, and that's they were making a lot of money that way. So that's kind of like what you were doing by watching the Bathtas, which is actually like that's a level

of commitment that nobody has gone to. Yeah, awards show so much that you watched the Bathta is like you're you're in it for the love of the game. Yeah, that's the actually on the show in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, So I won't be watching it first, but I just have to write write some code. Unfortunately, don't you already know You already know who's gonna win. That's already know that that is the thing, so you know it doesn't matter. Best picture. By the way, in terms of Bathta and Oscar,

is almost no crossover in the last decade. One one movie. So I've been saying since it was a massive hit that I thought everything, everywhere, all once was gonna win. I'm an amateur boh boy myself and Oscar preday. I'm usually pretty good at the at the Oscar pole stuff. So I'm terrible at it, but only because I never know what movies come out, and I see movies years later. So I go like, well, did old brother, is that gonna win this year? And people are like, no, that

was from a long time ago. I'm like, well then I'm fucked. Yeah. Last year, our big prediction was was Koda months early and Troy Cotzer early. Wait what did win? I forgot Koda. It was a late surge. Yeah, I didn't even see it is a good Yeah, it's you know, it's good, it's cute, it's a family movie. It's um

it hits all the right you know marks. But um, you know, I wouldn't say it's my favorite movie of all time, but I certainly thought, you know whatever, I rode that horse all the way to do you Have? And you were saying so like you don't have to watch the movies too, Like you don't have to make yourself like Green Book. It's not about quality quality, it's just narrative. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so you know, it

could be anything. But one thing that makes betting on these incredibly difficult and why it's almost impossible to win ten tho dollars is because these lines are not available on American regulated sports books. I feel like it's always a name Draft King will not be there. It's only offshore betting sites like your Bovada's, your bet us Is, your Every Game's. These are where we're going. Yeah, and so they don't have like super high max is. The highest they go is you can bet like a couple

hundred dollars on stuff. But like I maxed out Andrea Riseboro to win Best Actress plus thirty. So I stand to make a good amount if this, If if that rides all the way to the end, I hope. I hope for your sake and for your children's sake that yeah, I did to a Now impl now I have a horse in that. Alright, Nick, we're gonna get to know you a little bit better normal. For sure, you can tell a listener to a couple of things we're talking about.

We're gonna talk about how the FBI will investigate the Harris County jail, just the reality inside that jail, there's a quote and in the article from one of the lawyers who's going to be I guess or who who's involved in the investigation, about how like you wouldn't believe it unless you like had the evidence in front of view. And it just feels like that sentiment is something we're hearing more and more of, is like this, this doesn't happen here. You don't. I can't. You can't believe that

this is happening here. So we're gonna talk about that. Uh, we're gonna talk about the there's an I M. Legend sequel coming and they are making it. They're making the sequel to the original ending, not the ending that we all saw in movie theaters, but the ending to the movie that was the ending to the book. That is like the whole point of the movie that they then

changed because it didn't test well. So well, we'll talk about that they changed it from like the whole all I remember is there's some zombie dogs in that movie, and zombie dogs in that There was definitely a zombie dog. I'm like his dog, right, yeah, yeah, and then Disney die at the end. Well yeah, but not in the ending that they're making the sequel to I'll tell you

that damn much. So anyways, this is I just wanted to bring this up because it's an early you know tip for Nick for the oscar bedding pull for two years. For sure, all my money is going into this, all of that plenty more. But first Nick, we do like

to ask our guests, what is something from your search history? Well, all my search history I was looking up is mostly gambling related, and so it was actually top twenty four users gold Derby Baptist because if you want one single place to go to get the good info, gold Derby they have four categories of prognosticators and uh all star, top twenty four, Top twenty four, the year critics and uh groundho and some yeah scenes a shadow and everything

everywhere all at once, wins Um Andrea Rise Bros. Pr Team pops up out of a hole and if they are kicked out by the Academy and it's another twenty four months, okay, So uh so anyway, yeah, you have to like filter through the twenty four who are critics and experts don't know anything. And this is what I'm talking about. This is not about knowing your ship. This is about gambling and the people who are the most in tune are the people who are this year's number

one top twenty four, top twenty four users. It's every time. It's how I got Anthony Hopkins over Chadwick Boseman two years ago when everybody thought Chadwick Boseman was getting the muscar. Yeah, you want some money on that? Oh yeah, I went big on yeah. And that's how I won the whole Did you want money on green Book? Too? I did not. I did win one year Problematic Faiths. One year I did win the big pot when La La Land won and then the pot was then, uh taken from you.

Lah and I my wife we were we were watching and we we were looking up the menu for this really expensive restaurant that we've always wanted to go to, and we were like, this is how we're spending the money. And we're like, I'm gonna get this and I'm gonna get this, and then we did it, and uh, we never we never went to that rest Warren Beatty was like a little psych Yeah, I do. I do some of that. So I do go to gold Derby just

throughout the year. I like to see, like what they're saying is gonna hit even before I've seen the movies. But I also do that with that sort of thing with like fantasy sports. Sometimes it's like you are sorting through this like massive list of it quote unquot about experts and you just like find one person who's really smart about it, you know, and that's are you on? Can somebody go see the Nick Turner picks on gold Derby?

Are you a user? Um? That's a great information. I have filled it out for oscars, but I do not. I do not go there, and I guess it's not something I'm willing to do. Yeah, good, it's not what it's about. Also, it's like it's about like what picks are this week? What are the best picks this week? And so you know, gold Derby is not really for me to give, it's for me to take. It's a feeder. Yeah, that's a Nick Turner feeder. What if some of you

think is overridden? Thank you for asking Jack? Hey, Nick, what's something you think is overrated? Now this question is out of left field, but I think I have an answer. Chubby Checker, Oh, Chummy Checker is overrated? Take that. I think it's correct. Okay, Now it might not be the most timely take but take, well, I just heard of him. Where did these damn kids telling me about Chuffy Checker Man? Shut the funk up forever day. We need to talk

about Chubby Checker. If you see he's probably ninety, but if you see him, he has an impeccable hairline and hair. Does he still here? He's still alive. A team, the same team that that did makeup in hair on the Whale. So Chubby Checker, we all love him. He's the twist guy. He brought a picture of him in two thousand five. Amazing, Yeah, he looks amazing. Wait was he like twelve when he

was famous, because he's only eighty one now? Uh no, okay, I don't know, but I feel like he was maybe a person who like looked like looked older when he he was younger because he was born in forty one. Wasn't he famous in like the early sixties? So in yeah, nineteen sixties when his big song came out, so he was nineteen, he looked like a middle aged I guess everyone looked like a middle aged person back then. Lead Also, he's probably you know, the heft helps and yes, he's

very tall. It's crazy that he's still chubby. Yeah, well you can't lose your I mean, you know, at this point, if he comes out skinny, who's going to No one wants to skinny Checkers. Yeah, skinny Chess, no thing. So okay, everybody thinks they love the twist. It's a dance that you know you anyone can do because they're literally moving right to left. Yeah, almost not a dance. So in nineteen six, Checker at nineteen releases Let's Do the Twist and it's number one hit. It does great. He's a genius.

So then in nineteen sixty one, the label comes back and they Chubby, you did it, and you gotta do it again? Okay, what you gotta give us something else? Yeah? So then Chubby's like, you know what, guys, I'm not full of ideas. I'm gonna think of another dance. So in nineteen sixty one he's eventually like, I got it.

I figured it out. He releases Let's Twist Again like we did last summer, which incredible move to reference a previous song in a song, and that song that has staying like people still play Twist Again like I've heard that song the years later another hit. So he's a genius. Okay, So then sixty sixty one, those are his years. Nineteen sixty two, label comes back. They say, Chubby, you did it, twist man, you know. He he's got a new nickname at this point, and they're like, you're the twist guy.

And he's like, I know him, the twist guy. Let's fucking hit it. Get in the basement because the twister is coming. That's what I would have said, Tom coming to my office executive back then. Yes, nineteen sixty two, he thinks, uh, let's let's uh, let's do it. He releases Twisting USA, which I assume he thought there was gonna be a Twisting for every country. But this song was not hit, you know, And so I think at that point he starts to lose it a little bit.

And a couple of months later he comes out with Slow Twisting and Paloma Twist, which are sexy twist songs because the twist is not sexy, you're you're bound to knee your partner in the growing. Yeah. So he got some slow versions, not hits, and then let's say summer of nineteen sixty two, he's at the end of his rope. And uh, he's lost his mind. He doesn't even know why he got into the twist game. And he releases teach me to Twist, which you know he's lost his nine.

We're like tring you talk twist, I forgotten to twists. It's like, yeah, you know, the way to really like learn something is by teaching it. So maybe he's just like you guys have clearly lost your love and passion for the twist. How about this, I'm gonna play a fucking mind game with you if you teach me to twist? What if? What if we tried that? But just yeah, sheer desperation, like a panic idea, like idea, it's like a like attempt to get you know, like people talking.

You know, it's just to get some engagement. Like it sounds like a degenerative neurological disorder where he slowly like teach me to twist, and then it's just like where are car keys? And it just keeps going down. So not a hit, folks. So then that same year, in nineteen sixty two, he pivots and he thinks maybe I'm just like he was twisting. Yes, yeah, yeah, he said, maybe I'm the dance guy for dances that aren't really dances, and he releases Limbo Rock. Oh but I'll tell you what.

The song was a fucking hit. Yeah, a huge hit. He's back so the nineteen sixty three you Gotta do it again? He comes back with Let's Limbo some More. Yeah, yes, this is this psychopaths journey. I mean he's only twenty. Imagine he's a story. So then not a hit, and then he's like, you know, he he's starting to rethink everything, and he's like, maybe I am the twist guy. And then also in nineteen sixty three, he releases Twisted Up. Back to Twisted not a hit, N four nothing. He

he doesn't release anything. He goes insane. He gets an airbnb in Big Bear, he takes a gun and a dog, and he waits a year just thinking there's got to be something else. And then in nineteen sixty five, bam, he's back with Let's do the Freddy. Oh Freddy, Yeah, that's a left turn you didn't expect. Where did that song come from? His name's Chubby Well. Freddy and the Dreamers released the song that same year, and so he was just listening to the radio and he was like

they're doing a dance song. Chubby dance guy. He did he steal their dance? He stole it. Also, the dance is basically lifting your arms above your head and sticking out one leg. It's the Daniel song. Okay, that's all. It's a dumb fucking day. Why couldn't he be like, put your arms to the side. It's the Chubby just anyway, not a hit. He's gone, He's done. That's it. That's the Chubby Checker everybody loves so much. You're right. He He apparently appeared in a film called Don't Knock the Twist.

Nobody's better watch your fucking mouth about the Twist. Imagine if he had had like a TikTok and it comes out every week with like, why are people ruining my twist? A New York Times op ed in defense of the Twist, Yeah, wow, dude, that is uh, he's your right journey. You just took a song. Yeah, so overrated. I don't know if he's overrated. I don't know if that's what I took from that, but wow, what a what a run. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and find out what

you think is underrated? Holy shit, and we're back, and man, what a what a Wikipedia page on Chubby Checkers. Yeah, some other songs, but none of them were dance related. It's a it is a singular checker. It's not it's not the game Checkers. It's not Chevy Checkers. Che Checker. Yeah, I said Chevy Checkers. My dad, my dad, who famously on this show, famous maybe not famous at all, refers to Brad Pitt as Brad Pitts. Yeah, that's close enough. Well he's he's done some bad stuff. Yeah, there we go.

He's What is something you think is underrated? Nick? Great question, I think, thank you. Expensive gardeners are under rated. Expensive gardeners. When I was on the East Coast, I dreamed of having a gardener. I didn't know. If you told me i'd have a gardener one day, I'd be like in my gold house, you're sick. I thought gardeners mostly just like trimmed hedges into the shape of animals. Yeah. I

didn't know everyone had a gardener here. So now I have a gardener, and it sucks because cheap gardeners aren't good. You can pay more to have them come at a reasonable time. You can pay more to get them to stop using gas powered everything wake you up. But most people don't have those. And I've actually asked my gardener to stop working on Mike half of the garden because all they do is just like blow shift around. They don't weed. That's what I need them for. Um, yeah,

that's an expensive gardener job. They come at four thirty in the morning. Yeah, and they just mostly are focused on blowing next to my window. Yeah. The job of the gardener is to slowly gass you to death every Tuesday at three am. Yeah. It is uh yeah, And also it's if you're renting your gardener, is just part of the deal a lot of the times, and which is puts you in a shitty position when the gardener, let's say, randomly keeps hitting on your wife in front

of you and uh keeps offering her vodka in the morning. Listen. I'm all for, you know, drinking with a gardener, but you know this, Uh, I feel like you should be able to be like, okay, like that. I don't like that. I've got a lot of follow up questions. My wife left me for the gardener. I didn't want to hear it, but I wanted to feeling all right. Well, Expensive Gardeners, the sequel to The Constant Gardener. I think that might

be the worst movie title. It's awful. Constant Gardener. A constant Gardener just sounds it was like, it's that and a very long engagement are my too worst movie titles because that's too I don't just sound like the put together sounds so long. It sounds like a Chubby Checker, like the thing that is coming up with on the spot, like a panic twist there the constant twist that so we we did, we didn't twist again, but that for that. So what the let's twist again presumes is that there

was a they stopped twisting and started again. What if they were constantly twisting that it was a constant twist twist, Yes, let's twist constantly and forever. Anyways, the FBI is going to investigate Harris County Jail. This is something that families of victims have been asking for because thirty two detainees have died in the jail within a fourteen month period. It's it's monsters, It's unbelievable. It's like hard to fathom that this is happening, was happening people were like, this

is happening, and then it kept happening. One of the more recent victims, Jacoby Pillow, died from compression astphyxia from being restrained, similar to George Floyd. And there's this quote, So the FBI is opening the investigation because the sheriff was finally like, hey, like, yeah, this doesn't this is not good like and the sheriff finally asked the FBI was like, we need to get to the bottom of this.

But there's this like one of the attorneys, Ben Crump and Paul Grinky made a statement, you know, while requesting the Department of Justice open an investigations, that it's appalling that you could have thirty two detainees die in the Harris County jail in a fourteen month period. I mean, nobody would really believe it unless you have these bodies

that showed you it was really happening. And I feel like I keep running into this sentiment where it's, you know, like the the bleakness of like Florida schools have banned all books and are selectively Like we talked ab this on yesterday's episode. They have selected books total that are okay for the entire K through twelve in one of

their places. So like but you you kind of like you hear that and you're like, but that can't be true, right, And so like I needed to actually see somebody on Twitter whose name is like Brian jags Fan, Brian just taking a video of his kids school library with all the shelves being completely empty for me to be like, oh, it's really the end. This is like it's really the

dystopia the Ohio trained around it. Like again, like people are just like this is just there's like true American chernobyl in the middle of the country, and the mainstream media is completely ignoring it and letting Pete Buddha Jedge, whose like department it is, who's like the only person who's supposed to be able to keep you know, actually punish these people. He's going on the Sunday shows and

answering questions about the state of the Union. Like the worst thing about it is the well not maybe not the worst thing about it, but one of the most insane things about that is the amount of like Pete defenders there are out there, and they think we're all mad about the Iowa Caucuses. Yeah, yeah, they think we're still mad about Iowa. I don't give a funk about Iowa. No, I'm still mad about it, that's true. But no, not mad about South Carolina. But that's a different story. Yeah, yeah,

not mad about a lot of things. But yeah, with the with the pete stuff. The new line of the Pete defender is um Actually, there's like there's usually about on average a thousand trail a thousand train derailments a year. So we're good here. So we're good. And I'm just like, you understand how insane that sounds, right, Like the idea that like, oh no, it's okay. As the Department of Transportation head, he should continue the status quo of trains

derailing and causing many chernobyls around the world. That's fine. There's uh in our discord Verruca assault in the discord. Should this medium post that they were like this? I keep thinking of this post by injury injury hit Maria Jeeva or samara Eva injury hit Samaraiva, who lived through this sur launking collapse and said that sort of this sort of dissonance is what it feels like to live through a society that is crumbling, and it's it's really

like it's an interesting medium. Public look off to the medium post in the footnotes, but not the show that's that's so I had to do it, like the author like posts like pictures from there, you know, photo role at the time, and it's like a game of scrabble they're playing, and then like a burning body left out in front of their workplace, and then like, uh, you know a live show that they went to, and then like a mall that got bombed that they were just

like driving driving past, and they're just like the They're like, you don't. There's not this moment where suddenly the news is like okay, things are officially bad. There's no launch party for decay is a direct quote. It's just a pile up of outrages and atrocities in between friendships and weddings and perhaps an unusual amount of alcohol. Perhaps you're waiting for some moment when the adrenaline kicks in and you're fighting the virus or fascism all the time. But

it's not like that. Life is not a movie, and if it were, you're certainly not the star. You're just an extra. If something good or bad happens to you, it'll be random, and no one will care. That's actually how I've always viewed myself. Yeah, Like you ever seen War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. Yeah, there's a scene where like the aliens show up and they're just like dissolving people into ash and he's like running through like ash piles and stuff. Yeah. I've always looked at

myself as like, yeah, I would be the ash. Yeah, I'm the ash that like he wipes off he still in the movies. My parents would be so proudly yea. But yeah, it's just I don't know, people, people keep having this and my brain keeps having this where it's like you almost like can't believe how bad it's gotten overnight. Like we we don't have the level of oversight and consequence and accountability that we had under George W. Bush when like Katrina happened and like that Brownie got fired.

Like instead of that, we've just got people like not even being asked questions the fucking on like meet the press or whatever. Yeah, it's just everything, you know, like it's a consequence of a lot of things that include ship that was going on during George W. Bush's time. So it's like, yeah, it's it's all it's all led

up to this moment accumulation. Accumulation used to be good, and it's just like the accumulation has gotten to a point where everything is like so so many things are falling apart, and people are just kind of like I don't know if everyone's dug in on there, like you know, they're in particular whatever you know, content they're consuming that's telling them who the good guys are and the bad

guys are. It's like everyone's dug in. So if you're told like, oh, all the bad guys hate Pete bouddhag Edge, so you have to love Pete Buddha Gedge in order to you know, fight the bad guys. And it's just like or you could just like, you know, you could live with an actual opinion on things that doesn't have anything to do with your particular content choices. I don't know, it's all it's all insane, Yeah, like there's too much

of this side or that side to it all. But and I definitely used to be like more guilty of that, like just being like, well, democrats are better than Republicans, so like stop saying things that are raging to democrats.

But like I don't know. Yeah, as things have gotten worse and more just evident, it feels like there is I don't know how sophisticated is, but it definitely is kind of enveloping and just like everywhere the like whatever the opposite of edge it prop is like Zanni prop like what like just just whatever the propaganda is this like calm down, move along. This isn't out of the ordinary.

Trained railments happen all the time. That black cloud and like chickens dying and everybody having to move out of the city is not that abnormal. Go read white noise. Uh I love move along, folks. Nothing to see here, but with like a lady painting nail emoji next to it and class signs in between. Cool. Right now you're speaking my language is like barely a person you're not. He's the most robotic human being I've ever seen. Like there's not a person who's like that prepared for everything

while giving you absolutely nothing. Um, he's just trying to be like the Democratic Party. He's well, he's also the highest form of capitalist, like this capitalist system, which is Mackenzie and the consulting arm that is like everything can just be explained by like improving how this does in the market, and like everything is the market to free ideas,

but it's not. It's it's all tilted in the direction of you know, capital and whatever it's going to take to allow people to make the most money and accumulate the most property or sales or when the fun and just irrespective human life. You know who my favorite uh Democrat is, Oh whoever runs against Biden? Yeah, yeah, you can't fucking wait, the balls they won't even be able to walk. He or she's balls are going to be

so big. Yeah, that'll be That will be a lot of fun too, especially watching the same Pete defenders go try to use the same arguments with Biden, because everything we know with Pete is just you know, like you just hate that he is the future of the Democratic Party and blah blah blah. And with Biden, it's just like, you know, they're now going to have to go back to like, wow, agism much and you're like, no, motherfucker,

he's he truly is an old, useless man. It's oh god, the person who runs against him is not like kahm, it's just something even further centrist, like I hope it's somebody that's true, that there's a chance that it will just be like this guy's a communist Cloba char is ready. Yeah, I don't know, by Legoyevitch read my lips, blego Yevitch, get the pop filter in place. All right, we'll be back to talk about some bullshit in a moment. And

we're back. And so there's some there's some lighthearted news I don't know, dumb, dumb, lighthearted bullshit such as that Warner Brothers. I believe is that the Yeah, they're they're like, we are their studio. They're a studio. And they just announced that two projects coming that are very fun and very much warners, the sequel to I Am Legend with Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan's but they're bringing Will he died though I know. So this is what's this

is what's interesting. So the first movie the the whole point of the book that this movie is based on. It's called I Am Legend. And these are spoilers for anyone who doesn't have it, hasn't seen the alternate two thousand and eight ending, but that that is what this This is a sequel to the alternate ending that they shot and then had to change because it tested so badly because Americans are like, no, we're not dad, guys.

It tested worse than Will Smith dying at the end. Yes, because so here it's called I Am Legend because it turns out in the end he like confronts the vampires, and the vampires are like, we're just trying to get our child, who you have captive and are like performing medical experiments. Thing you sick, fuck like give us that back.

And then it turns out he like there's this like voiceover where he's like, that's when I realized I am the monster of their world, Like I am the legend, Like I am Legend refers to him being a legendary ul monster. He is Dracula and they are. Even though the the entire film that's spent with you thinking, or the entire novel that this is like a bunch of vampires, they are the monsters. It's like, no, I am the legendary monster. I am legend. They shot that. That makes

so much more sense. I just realized. You watch a whole movie that's just called I Rule and you're like, yeah, it's cool that guy. Yeah. They so they shot that, they like, and you're like yeah, it turns it into like a lazy rap bright like it's like instead instead of like the very cool point of like it self implication stuff like that. So they cut that turned it into him blowing himself up. But now they're like, people are ready for the original ending where he's a monster.

It takes place like twenty thirty years after the original alternate ending, and like presupposes that or maybe they'll just like cram that ending onto the beginning of this movie. I don't know why they need to fall all over themselves trying to justify why this movie is. That's what moviemaking is. Now. It's like, didn't that guy die? And then the responses, fuck you, the movie's planned. You want

to see it? You do? Yeah, it's because it has to be attached to some sort of i P that they're like, oh, we gotta make sure whatever it is just cannon And it's like, but you can just make another movie and just be about whatever, and they're like, no, not if we want the sweet I P. Like like everything that happens in the Last of Us, there's like, you know, articles about how it relates to the video game, Like I don't care. I don't care that it was a video game. Guess what. This is a TV show.

That's what I'm doing. It does nothing, has to be anything. It's a great idea, shut up about it. But when I do a video game, it does different things. So how am I supposed to play video game? I did a whole thread on Twitter that started off with uh, talking about how it's really pissed that it, Uh, it wasn't faithful to the you know, to the original game, and then every point in the threat is like, um, he has a knife when he is supposed to be

meticulously searching through drawers in order to craft to shift. Uh, there should be at least two episodes spent on him just trying to find rolls of tape and half cut out pieces of plastic bottles, just because people are literally insane about the amount of like, uh, they're they're sucking up my memories of a game from just a few years ago, right, should be real time? Yea, right, that's right. So anyways, I don't know, I'm I'm all for Michael B.

Jordan's being added to any film. Yeah, literally, like between the two options of them just being like and we're gonna stay with the thing where it's about somebody who is so cool that we had to call the movie I Am Legend, or them being like, all right, we can admit we fucked that up, and we're gonna make

this equal that unfucked it up a little bit. I'm good with I'm good with this, especially if you're cann add Michael B. Jordan to it, because he's great And if you really love Michael B. Jordan's you should see him in The Wire, the greatest show of all time. Yeah, and you might have a podcast about that. May may not have a The Wire I watch podcast, doesn't matter. The point is watch. There's a lot of people I haven't seen The Wires fucking blush it. Yeah. Season four,

the Education season, oh so good. Yeah. I think that's the best season of television, although I do also really like season two and five. Yeah, yeah, I like those ones too. Five is a slow burn little Cotty on the back yeah. Five. Yeah, definitely Patty on the backy. But five becomes more and more genius the more times you watch it because you can get pass the like

press part of it. Oh, once you get past the press part of it and realize, especially in the moment we're living in now in which print media is all but dead, and you go like, yeah, I guess, like, you know, even though they are patting themselves on her back, on the back they did have they do have a very crucial role in society. You know, newspapers, local local journalists, people who actually go to state courthouses or local city

you know, council meetings. And now that I think about it, I think that's my complaint was that it was like the journalistic malpractice was like too blatant and silly, and yeah, I'm like, oh wait, no, yeah, rewatch it. Yeah, igah, I think I just have to rewatch it, like we watched it now and realized that it's like, oh no, no, no, no, this is a prettty real. It's funny to think about the water cooler on the Soprano or on the wire set,

and now everyone around the water cooler has an English accent. Yeah, yeah, that just they also, you know, let's be real, some of them still have an English accent when they're trying to do an American accent in a while. Mcn from close enough. But I am legends. Great, you know what make more, make more? More? Legend? Rules I watched it.

I think last year I made Lyra watch it for the first time because it was one of those movies where I wanted to rewatch it, but she would just you know, you get like, I don't want to see that in your head no matter what it is. But yeah, that's a good movie. It's hard to make a good movie with one actor. Yes, right, yeah it is. It's um, I'm trying to remember what the plan was. I know,

I remember he's looking for a cure. Still, that's just yeah, he's got like his wife, right, like his wife kids are I think I thought that flew to a helicopter and he watches him blow up in a helicopter. He's like playing golf, you know, he's hitting balls off the end of a big Yeah, at the end of a big ship. The big thing I remember from I um legend is my feelings about it. We're like, God, damn it. I wish I was me because I would just just be raiding pharmacies. There's back. I saw it back when

I used to do a lot of drugs. But it was like, yeah, just like I would go to all the pharmacies and be like hook it up and just uh yeah, that's how I'd live my life alone. I feel like so much of our desire for a post apocalyptic world. And I say desire because it is like it's fantasy, wish fulfillment. Like people are like, oh, it's scary, and like I don't want all my loved ones to die, but like it. But I think it's all about having

a walkable city. Like it's just a city that you can like walk through and not be worried that a car is going to run you down. Like that. There's something so beautiful about that, Like just banned all cars tomorrow. The world would be a beautiful place. It would be so fun. From the wish fulfillment for me is just a little bit of alone time away from the nagging wife, Am I right? I mean it is. It is dad cast.

So I was looking at the wickie. I think it's just a woman he has in the basement that he's trying to cure. Well, I don't know who she is, and it's a little weird. He's just got a woman his basement. But he's the only person alive, you know what, no rules? Uh, So he had a rat, he has a rat he's trying to save her whatever, and he's like doing experiments and has a hard time. He has a strange disfort where he can't determine the difference between a human and a rat. That explains the the people

is just comments earlier, just fucking rat. Alright, Well, it's been a it's been a successful dad cast. I think absolutely. We didn't talk about kids at all, so that's all I do all days, talking about fucking baby stuff. Man, is my kids one hundred day of kindergarten and they they're celebrating that, oh, the first one hundred days, one hundred days exactly, and I'm very excited it's been. It's been had me in a happy mood all day that they made it to it. You your wife is Korean? Yes?

Is that so that I'm that the Hunter days is a Korean thing that is a hundred days rather than years. Yeah. And also everyone in the country that's born in one year is the exact same birthday whatever, and everyone's a year, although I think they're changing that. Yeah, I mean it's not like that. We we just celebrate the first year actually like that. That's a big celebration. Hundred days is a big deal, and then the one year birthday is

when you know they've really made it. And that's uh yeah, that was like, Yeah, I've got a Korean nephew, so I'm up on the hundred two hundred days. Yeah, I thought it was just a press did any thing President? Well, we look back at the first hundred days and we see if the kid actually accomplished anything that's right, or

if they need to go to a trade kindergarten. There's like a fun thing the dull the first year birthday, where like you lay out different things for them to like then crawl towards and supposedly it like determines what their career is going to be. Very much. It reminds me of the beginning of liquid Swords that, you know, where like they picked the dolly Llama. Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of like that. It's pretty it's pretty cool. So my son is going to be either a judge

or a carpenter because he crawled toward a hammer. Black smoke or white smoke, Yeah, exactly, Nick, truly a pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow you? I'm gonna be in Denver this weekend at the Denver Comedy Lounge and uh in March. I'm going to be in Santa Cruz. I'm gonna be in Salem, Oregon. I'm gonna be in Seattle, Washington, and I'm adding some San Francisco. But I've I've got an album to prepare for, so I'm forcing myself out at the house and it's more

work than I enjoy. But for the rest of us, yes, your albums are very funny. So I'm at Etnic Turners on Twitter. I'll, you know, have stuff up there. Also, I write a podcast called Fraudsters on the Last Podcast Network. It's a deep dive into the greatest fraudsters of our time, deeper than the other shows. That's what sets us apart. We just did three episodes on lou Perlman. Wow. Yeah, reals of the highest order. You know, you had the

longest running scheme American history when it was discovered. It was discovered I think a year before made offs. Is he not the manager of in Sync and Becky Boys? That's one of his many crimes. He um, he had a blimp business before boy bands, and he crashed for insurance money. Five blimps. Damn, just like we can't get these dang things right. How long people, so the helium goes inside. Now you tell me I lighted on fire and then put it in the amazing. Is there a

tweet or some work of media you've been enjoying? No, all right, Matt, where can people? Oh? You can find me on Twitter at Matt leeb or on Instagram Matt Lee Jokes. Also, the third Thursday of every month in Los Angeles, over at the Silver Lake Independent j c C, I do a show called Michigas in which the comedians go on stage and uh, they basically acts as therapists to the audience. You know, they asked, hey, what's going

on with you? And then you, as an audience member, can say, hey, I got a problem with my roommate, and then some you know, degenerate comedian will try to help you out with that. It's a lot of fun. So yeah that I love that, super fun. If you ever need a Jewish looking comedian, we accept we accept all comedians, all races and religions, So yeah, I we'd love to have you. But yeah, go, uh, you know,

fucking check out Michigan It's hell fun. And yeah, you can find that on my on my Instagram and stuff is their media you've been enjoying there is. Well, there's a tweet that I really liked. So some right wing sucking grifter wrote something during the super Bowl, imagine the outrage if someone performed a white national anthem at the super Bowl. And then this Twitter user reply at thought Slime wrote, imagine if Dracula ran on stage and did

the monster mash and then imagine it was a graveyard smash. Uh, and I was that's I love that tweet very much. Oh and listen upon yourself a gun. We're talking about the Wire. It's a great podcast. It is one of the best. Let's see. Uh. Some tweets have been in cricket. Arison tweeted this meeting could have been an email. Well guess what this email could have been a kiss. It's

a good, good response. I enjoyed, just a good old fashioned David it'scough tweeted the part from the smoochy episode of The Simpsons where and it's it's Homer reading his notes, and it says, whenever Elon's tweets aren't on screen, the algorithms should be asking where's Ulan's tweets? Because Yeah, that really feels like what we're dealing with at this point. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O Brian. You can find us on Twitter at Dailies. I guys,

we're at the dailies. I guys on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website Dailies like guys dot com, where we post our episodes and our foot No, no, we're in this episode. Oh no, God, wake up your baby. Today's gonna be mad at me. Anyways, it's where we link off to the information we talked about in this episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy. Hey, super producer, justin, what's the song that you think people

might enjoy? This is a fantastic song from an all black psychedelic rock group out of Rockaway Beach near the Queens area in New York. This is a band called Black Rabbit, with the track called the Way the Wind Whips. It's got a lot of like Tam and Paula vibes to it. Some of their other tracks they sound very

much like the Beatles. But yeah, they're just a young black rock group that I heard of years and years ago when they were a lot more obscure, and they've kind of blown up since then, so um yeah, he checked them out in the foot notes. They used to bust Beatles songs like perfectly, and then they started releasing original music and it's it is amazing. It's very psychedelic and very fun. Yeah, so you guys can check that out in the footnotes. The way the Wind whips is

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