Hello the Internet, and welcome to season two eighty three, episode four of Dally's Ice Stay production of I Heeart Radio.
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Take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it is Thursday, April twentieth, twenty twenty three. You know what that means.
Work it up, dude.
No, it's four twenty. Happy for twenty to all who celebrate, all who observe. My name is Jack O'Brien aka Potatoes O'Brien. Sorry, I should have come with like a I know I should have come with a four to twenty AKA, but.
I'm just all out of sorts.
I'm standing today because my back's fucked up, so I'm like doing. I'm this is gonna be the first podcast you've ever heard me standing, got like standing energy Miles is out for four twenty today.
Just to fully, it's not because it's four twenty.
It's because the geist Child cometh and beckon if. But also I'm a little I'm a little worried. I like the geist Child's appearances on the podcast yesterday and on the trending the day before were showstoppers, and I think I'm going to be replaced.
But that's why didn't replace us all day.
Yeah, of course I'm thrilled to be joined by a very special guest co host that bitch on Twitch.
It's DJ Daniel good Man. Well you may not have a four twenty ak.
But.
Cherry ak and Jack Harrare I Blaze, Sweet Northern Lights got me mapping for days. Blue Dream and purple cush good for my brain. These are a few of my favorite strains. Whoo, when the blunt sparks, when the cloud blows, when I'm feeling.
Sad, I sigh and get high on my favor it strains and then I don't feed so bad. That is fucking Shout out to the legend math demigod Rob Cunningham on Twitter, go follow him on YouTube. He is a math legend. Thank you so much. Happy to be here, your boy, DJ danel aka the Portland trail Blazer. Hey, watch out now. Happy to be here, Jack, you work with the Portland team quite a bit. It's a pleasure to have you. Happy to be here.
Yeah, that your aka made me wonder are there new ways? Are there new trends in weed smoking? I've I haven't smoked weed in nearly a decade. I'm hearing about all this cool stuff that the kids are doing with alcohol consumption like that, uh, the big jug of water and vodka and.
Around. Well, what's the new trend in in weed with kids? It's it's still a space race and the concentrates department. It's just about like making the the purest, dopest dope out of these little crystals of THHC and goofy terpenes and whatnot. But me, I stick to my little pen, my little extract pens, and the occasional j I still like to roll one up every now and then. So pardon me for kicking at old school compared to the
new kids with their fancy puff coves and whatnot. But yeah, it's you know, I still kick at old school.
Does anybody going the opposite direction and being like I want the gentlest high? Yes, please, I don't want to be violently high. That was always the thing that I was back when I smoked weed, like you never knew what you were going to get. I guess I also didn't like buy my own way. I wasn't a fair
connoisseur of any sorts. I would just smoke weed with other people, and in that practice you never know what you're going to get, and I would sometimes just find myself on another planet, you know, without intending.
To be there. Brother A, I feel you, b there is literally a company. This is not paid advertising, but I just happened to listen to the dough Boys and they talk about it all the time. You ever heard a diet smoke literally called diet smoke, and it's supposed to be like low grade weed. That's for the every smoker who is like, you know, I'm not really trying to blast off and disappear from this, you know, from
this mortal coil. I'm kind of just trying to like be a little bit high, and there is stuff for that. So that is absolutely a market that is totally worth pursuing if anybody is interested in getting back into cannabis but doesn't want to buy three hundred dollars worth of bonds and you know Terpenes well, well.
Daniel, we are thrilled to be joint. It's been enough of our bullshit chit chat. Let's get down to it. We're thrilled to be joined by one of our favorite guests here on The Daily Guys, a talented writer, host, actress. Welcome back to this show, the brilliant and talented Danny Fernando.
Yes, Edd Bless, I fuck with edibles, man, that's my Yeah. So I want a general I think a lot of people want to general high. Thing that I don't understand is how people can get high and then write, Like who wants to write when you're I want to take a bath and go to bed, Like I need like a red bull to write. I need the opposite.
I think, I think we there are certain people for whom you know, you know, there's the thing with like add medication. For people who don't need it, it affects them like speed, and for people who do need it, it actually calms them down. Like I think there's a similar thing.
That happens with weed.
Like I know people who used to like need to get high before class to like do as well as they possibly could. I just think that there's it totally affects people in different ways. For me, it gave me a panic attack, and I just kept going.
Just kept being like, nah, I want to be cool.
I'm going to keep giving myself a panic attack. But yeah, writing well, hi, I the times that I tried that was non productive.
I will say I'm similarly unproductive when it comes to being high. I can. I can smoke weed and play ultimate Frisbee and that's about as far as minds acting active activity plus weed can get. Other than that, it's on the couch watching Succession or something. Yeah, Succession seems stressful to me, honestly. You know, I did a couple of episodes Super Blazed, and I had to like watch them again because I was, like, I think I missed a whole business transaction rooms.
Who's this old guy again?
I've told me to fuck off.
How much of the linga, the business lingo, are we supposed to understand because I feel like they throw a bunch in there that's probably like a reference to something they've worked out in the writer's room, but like they're not counting on us knowing what the fuck they're talking about.
I feel like it excites. It's the same thing with like all of their La slash Hollywood references. Like I just I know that it excites the groups that it excites. And I wrote on a similar show that had like a big business aspect, and we we had like a business someone that that's their job, that went through all of the scripts to kind of make it sound like we actually knew what the fuck we were talking about.
Oh, business consultant.
Yeah, a business consultant. There you go. Wow, Sorry, I am high.
So I mean usually business consultant is the most general job that you can possibly tell someone you do.
Like that consultant.
That must be the number one job that CIA agents tell people they do because they know it will immediately turn people's brain off. But also kind of true. Yeah, you know McKenzie, it's like mackenzie, but not yeah, because I also kill people exactly. All right, Danny, we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about. Your boy Dan All has brought
some four to twenty news. The Bipartisan Hope Act as being reintroduced by AOC, among others, So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about how the Fox Domingion settlement is being covered or not covered specifically by Fox News, by Newsmax and o An, both of whom have pending lawsuits with them. We might get into some great Pacific garbage patch. I think we shouldn't call it great. I think it's bad. But well, we'll talk about that big old garbage patch
between California and Hawaii. We might talk about So there's a there's a major League baseball story, but I promise you if we talk about it, it won't be a story about baseball. It will be a story about drinking in public. One of the top two ways to drink is being affected by these new Major League Baseball roles because they've sped up the time the game takes, which also reduces the amount of beer that can be consumed. Or you would think it would, but baseball fans are dedicated,
if nothing else, to getting shit faced. We'll talk about that and that pillow humping scene. Were you guys familiar with this pillow humping scene that happened in Obsession? Not to be confused with Obsessed. There's a new Netflix show called Obsession not yet. It's a combination of the Beyonce movie and the show's succession ah n No. It's about a hot shot surgeon who becomes obsessed with his son's mysterious girlfriend eventual fiance, and there is a showstopper of
a scene that you might hear people referring to. So we'll give you the proper context for that, because it has seems to have thoroughly weirded out the internet, which is just.
In my middle school fan fiction. I mean, who hasn't humped a pillow? I know, right, y'all, but I.
Don't want to see fifty something men doing it personally. That's I guess it depends on which fifty something man.
It issal.
Might pull it off.
He did, No, actually he did? You see his Esquire? Was it Esquire? You gotta? I'll send it to y'all. He did hump a couch. He was humpy that couch.
He was.
I might have saved it on my Instagram.
Pardon me while I google all of that plenty more. But first, Danny, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?
Okay? My search history had how to predict when something will happen using tarot.
Okay, so I've had.
This is wild one. I feel like I've seen every major psychic out here, including Oprah psychic who I love, and no, I will not give you the info for anyone that dams me, but I have now seen four different psychics who have told me that my future partner is from New York and like they didn't know, Like I did not tell them anything. I didn't tell them. One of them. One of the the most recent psychic I saw was from Miami. I literally gave her like my nickname, like I didn't put my info for her
to like look me up. But she was reading my cards and she said, I see that your partner is from New York. And I've had four other people tell me that. So I also tweeted something funny or I was like, man, I can't believe my partner has never had good Mexican food. That's crazy. You know, a lot of New Yorkers got mad. But anyways, I keep hearing this. I've heard this for years. So I was trying to like figure out when when. And I think it's this summer, y'all. I think it's.
Okay, the summer of this is the summer of New York. Just like I know a lot of people are moving to New York.
I don't know.
It seems like a good summer for New York. I am curious what the psychics ruling would be on. So they say, Okay, you're going to meet someone from New York. Then you go and with your many many followers you in salt All, New York.
Does it?
Does that still hold up? Like or are they like, well you just sabotage.
It, you like here, No, I was kind of talking shit and a lot of like Latino New Yorkers wrote me. Like my my friend Christian Mercado's in New York, he's a filmmaker, wrote me. And like several other people were like they were like stop messing around, like stop you know, playing games, like there there is good Mexican food here. So I was just kind of like, you know, making fun of them. It's not as good as here, sorry, not as good as here. But I was just kind
of teasing them. So yeah, good natured shit talking, Yes, good natured shit talking.
So I might say, flirting with your eventual there you go, you know, yeah, that is. I've been to one psychic in the last five years, just like went to the boardwalk Ocean City, New Jersey. Shout out, shout out, Ocean City, New Jersey. But I like it's kind of a zultar atmosphere, like bit the place where big the big mirror happens, and so I think that's kind of what I was looking for. But they also were like big things happening
in New York for you and your wife. They actually said my wife was going to meet her partner in New York. But yeah, I was like, but we're They were like, yeah, yeah, move it along here.
But I just like seeing a bunch of them to see if they all say the same thing, and a lot of times they do, and I'm like that makes me a little and I only see ones that come heavily recommended. It has to be like from a friend who was like, she accurately predicted this exact thing that happened in my life. And then I'm like, oh, I want to I want to talk to them.
So there you go, there you go. What is what is something you think is overrated?
Okay, y'all this these Stanley cups. Have y'all heard of these?
No?
The thing?
Okay? And no it's Stanley Tumblr mug. Somebody listening right now is drinking has one in their car like with them right now. So my aunt got me one of these big Stanley Tumblr mugs for Christmas, and I remember thinking like, oh, that's cool, that's nice, like thank you and my brother and sister in law, who I opened it up in front of were like, oh, she got you a Stanley.
I was like what.
Everywhere I go people comment on this. My friend that I was facetiming with, she was like, oh you have you have a Stanley And there's like tiktoks on them. There's like tiktoks telling folks where you can get them when Target restocks them. These are like gold. What I have in my hand right here is cold. And so I was talking to a girlfriend of mine and she was like, yeah, all all the white girlies love them. It's like moms, forty sisters.
Okay.
And so I was googling. Literally, if you type in like why is Stanley mugg, It'll come up like so popular. And I had no idea that I have the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket Stanley mug.
So Stanley they look similar to what I would associate with. YETI yeah, and yet, but they have a different logo stamped on them. So I'm assuming they're just like some up market version of like a yetti tumbler where it's the the it'll stay your drink will stay cold for a month.
Yeah, what's the hats of these?
I also think it's the straw. I know that sounds crazy and I'm sure that YETI also has them, but there's something about the fact that they have they come with a straw that's like a really big deal. But like I don't know if y'all know, water talk like water TikTok is a big deal and it's a little a little chaotic. It'll be like I was watching I'm trying to carefully choose my words here.
There was this woman it's chaotic.
There was this woman who it's like a completely different culture, you guys. There was this woman who was like, this is how I make my water. It's my cotton candy water. I start with four pumps of vanilla it's like vanilla syrup that you would yes, vanilla syrup that you would see at Starbucks. And then I add the maple syrup, and then I add three pumps of this blue like yes, and that's what she needs to drink water.
Wow.
And so there's all of those like water, how to make like cotton candy. It's for grown adults who cannot drink water and have to have it taste like an otter pop essentially.
Yeah, wow, Yeah, I can't tell if I'm like, you know, low key disgusted. Or I'm mad at myself for not thinking of plussing up my water, Like why am I not plussing up my water?
This is probably because you want to keep your teeth? Is that right?
Hey, you're telling me four pumps of vanilla cream it would have been bad for my teeth. I never never kind of thought.
But anyways, they do it in these Stanley cups. I don't know, y'all tweet at me and let me know your Stanley cup, Like, let me see your Stanley cups. I guess I don't know.
Stanley got a lot of products, by the way, I'm on their website right now, and the offering is vast. We're talking all sorts of Stanley materials here and kind of want a cup. Not gonna lie. They got good colors.
I like. I like being a part of a movement.
So you're a taste maker, Danny. This is this is big right now.
This is big for I'll just say this is also interesting because the Stanley cuff has been a brand for decades because of hockey. I'm just wondering, like, do I go and incorporate a company that makes the Super Bowl and is the best bowl in the business and ship. I'm sure the NFL would sue. You'd have to call your directly off of me. I would be in the courtroom with no pants on.
You'd have to be called. You have to call your company the Big Game. Unfortunately, this Bowl is called the Big Game for some reason.
I have a I have a mystery for if there's any water talk TikTok water water.
Water talk out there, waterheads, but.
It sounds like water talk is like the name of a segment on the most boring podcast ever.
But I so I had a Tumblr thing.
It was like a free giveaway, you know, thing like what we're talking about is daily Cup, but it was it was like branded from I think a hospital that my wife worked for.
At some point, I had water on my.
Bedside table tap water overnight, left it there the next morning. Usually I'll like clean it out and you know, get my water for the for the next day. But I left it there the next morning, and then when I took the lid off the next night, it smelled like someone had farted into my water cup.
And I'm trying.
I still like haven't been able to figure out what happened, Like, does does the water contain methane? Like, is there am I just was I having a small stroke. I don't know, but I'm curious if anyone else's experienced this, leaving water enclosed overnight and then it smells just awful the next day for some reason.
I do know that sometimes when I'm using the hot water at like certain in the sink, it doesn't smell like the city's water, la And that's not hard to It was.
Tap, yeah it So maybe there was just a yeah, caught a bad section of the of the piping or something.
I don't know. That sounded gross. I don't know what that phenomenon is, because it absolutely exists. You leave a cup of water out for a day, it goes from water to gross and there's no you know, it's undeniable.
I assume that was like dust and stuff landing in it, and but this was enclosed and the whole thing just smelled bad.
Maybe I don't know. I'm going to get pretend science here for a second, and I have a feeling there's something about like evaporation or water, like escaping its liquid form and then turning into its vapor form on the inside of the glass and then turning back into water and dripping back in, like maybe in something in that process it makes it gross. But like that's all I can think of.
If it mixed the inside of a stomach, and yeah, therefore the gases they're created.
I don't know.
It's very confusing. There's somebody maybe I slept, walked and farted.
Into my cup. I don't know. You do do that. I do do that. I do need that.
Danny, what is something you think is underrated?
I don't know if this is considered a good movie or not. Like I have no concept of what's good from the nineties because I was a kid then. But I think The Mask is a really good movie. And like when I Daniel Whitt, wait you kind of were you? You shook your head in a way that's quite the opposite I was.
I was saying, like, that is the movie. I'm sorry. I apologize.
No, no, no, please, no, oh my gosh, you you're allowed to have your opinions. I just was like, wait, you're already disagreeing.
No, no, quite the opposite. I love the Mask.
No, but like I was looking at one, I loved it. I feel like it shaped a lot of the shaped a lot. Jim Carrey himself has shaped a lot of my comedic when I was growing up, a lot of but like the rotten tomatoes, like here's one from ciscol of Ciskel and Ebert carry in his aggres over by our back, but this time he's better used as an ingredient instead of as the plot. And then like me, isn't it? This is from Entertainment Weekly, This is rotten. He gave it rotten. Carrie now has the clout to
find a vehicle worthy of his hyperactive gooniness. When he does, we'll see if he's truly a jester of our time or simply the moron of the moment. And this was from twenty ten.
Those are the two options, either a generational comedic talent or an idiot.
But okay, so I don't know why I went down a rabbit hole, as you do. And so he got so in nineteen ninety four he was paid three hundred and fifty thousand for ace Ventura, so to be the star. That's pretty low, but you know whatever, it was ninety four. Then off of that he was then paid fifteen million to appear in the sequel for ace Ventura When Nature Calls.
So he went from three hundred and fifty thousand to he became such a big star in those like two years that he was then paid fifteen million.
That's wild. Also for all you math heads out there, I just looked up what three hundred fifty thousand in and it was in nineteen ninety four money, and that's seven hundred and twelve thousand, which for like a movie star in a movie still feels like not a wild amount of money. Like so like paying someone to be the star of a like a I don't know, like a a wide release comedy, seven hundred and twelve thousand
doesn't feel like a wild amount of money. I mean it is, of course a lot of money, no doubt, but like that still feels like completely within the realm of possibility of not that much. Comparatively, Yeah, fifteen million.
They thought they didn't know if that movie was going to be direct to video or not, you know, like that's when when they made the original Acevan True and then immediately discovered that they had like a phenomenon on their hands.
I was just gonna say, in the Mass Cameron Diaz so high really is just so smoking high. I just there's some really pivotal women from the nineties that I was like, oh yeah, I'm bisexual her, and so Soma hyak in anything but man early like nineties, not even in why am I blanking that? Like for me, it was like fools rush in when she's like she's just like smoking hot, and Matthew Perry's like, how did I get this woman?
And I'm like, exactly, yeah, the classic nineties of the dumpy white dude with the absolutely drop dead gorgeous woman.
So anyways, but the Mask, I think it's really it's really funny. I think it's really funny. I think it holds out and it's also a dark Horse comics and with all this ip I'm like, can't I know there was like Son of the Mask and all the other stuff, But like, is he I feel like he could? I feel like he could have his own universe.
Yeah, we could bring that back.
Bring him into the comic book world.
That was. It was such a wild time when like Ace Ventury came out, like you said, they had no idea how I was going to do, paid him three hundred thousand dollars and immediately he was his own film genre like that that was a period I talk about like there was a period when I was young, when
like Bruce Willis, movies was my favorite film genre. And like there there was definitely a period around this time when, like Jim Carrey, movies was every kid, I knews, favorite movie, favorite genre of movie.
Yeah, what a run whatever. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news.
And we're back, and the Bipartisan Hope Act to Encourage Expunging Weed records is back. It's being reintroduced. It's baby tell them Yeah.
So well, funny story is the four twenty episode. And I was like, gotta find a weed story man, and found this wonderful website, Marijuana Moment, And let me tell you something, if you want to find your weed news, you gotta be following Marijuana Moment. Baby. But more importantly, I was happy to see, if anything, a bipartisan effort
to help people expunge their weed records. We know this is something that has been you know, expunging weed crimes has been a has been like a countrywide push for probably the last like ten years of people being like as legal weed as something that is more widely accepted across the countries. More states are legalizing cannabis, either for medical purposes or for recreational use. The idea of expunging people for really petty possession crimes is just like a
necessary next step. Also, big fan of Ben and Jerry's for really leading the charge on this. Shout out one of my favorite ice creams. But recently, earlier this week, the Hope Act was reintroduced. The Hope aac standing for Harnessing Opportunities by Pursuing Expungement, brought forward by Representative Dave Joyce, a Republican from Ohio and our girl, AOC Alexandria Casio
Cortez from New York. It's a bill that's basically incentivizing states to to speed up the expunging process because right now, it's expensive, it takes a while, and the process is really unclear. And this is the part that Jack noted that I definitely want to talk about. One of the parts of the Act is to make public how the expungement process works, where it happens, and just like basically a how to on like if you want to get
your record expunge, this is how to do it. And the fact that it is taking this Act to make that public is kind of like just put it on a fucking website.
Just put the act is saying, just put it on a free public website. Is they're just having to say that. Like that was so revealing to me because it's like that means because that that doesn't cost anything. Really, it costs like minimum server hosting.
These people are these these states already have websites. It's just putting a page on the website. You're already paying for the hosting. Get your get your you know your person who's running the freakin' I don't even know what server they're using, but like whatever they're using to write one extra page of oh yeah, this is how it's done.
But this, I think this is revealing because it shows that someone is making money off of that not being there, right, and that like we talk a lot about and I've seen a lot of people in the news talk about how much incarceration costs the public and taxpayer dollars. But the dirty secret is someone is making that money. Like that money is being paid to people in the prison
industrial complex. Like in the same way that like when we gaw get like the amount that is spent on defense and like all these weapons that don't ultimately, like the the US doesn't ultimately need like someone that there are private people who are becoming billionaires off of that shit. Yeah, so that's why it's happening. That's why you need a fucking bill to just be like, put this web page where people can find it, please.
Yeah, and speaking to the someone's making money off of this part. Another part from the article is that the legislation would require the Attorney General to basically carry out a study that shows exactly how much this costs and how much people who run the prison industrial complext are making off of each person off of cannabis condiction. Cannabis convictions. Uh, you know, the financial costs for states and incarcery people
for these things. It's like, you know, it's unclear how much it's costing you know, the public to help keep people in jail for buying an eighth And it's like this, you know, it's really it's you know, it's ridiculous, and I'm glad that this is being pushed forward. However, and will say the fact that it is being reintroduced suggests
that it's not past the first time. This is obviously another effort to get people to you know, to to to massage into the situation of we need to be more clear and transparent about how expongement works, what it costs to even keep people in jail for this nonsense. And while it may not be a step towards or may while it may not be federal legalization, it is at least a step towards increasing the public sentiment towards like, how would you like to not pay this much more
money to keep people in jail for literally nothing. So it's like, yeah, you know, hopefully it's a movement on the needle at least a little bit.
Yeah, I would say, like I'm being adjacent to this and that I microdose shrooms, and I feel like we're behind, Like I still hear stories of people being arrested at air reports for having their shrooms, and I use them for depression, which heavily recommend and I've talked about extensively, but like it scares me the idea that I might be filming in a different location where they're illegal, right, and that I wouldn't be able to carry them with me when it's something that I rely on for my
mental health totally. So it just feels like we're still lagging in so many of these states and situations. And I want to say this kind of reminds me. This website reminds me of what I wish they would do with our taxes. It's just obviously someone makes money off of that too. And we just had, you know, tax season. Some people are still in the thick of it, and like it's insane to me that I'm like, you literally know how much I owe? Like, just tell me and
I will pay me the bill. But they obviously make money industry. Yeah, there's an entire industry.
How difficult.
And then when you don't pay they they or they you don't pay the right amount, they tell you, hey, actually you owe this much. It was like, thank you, thank you for telling me, because so you.
Knew you were just giving us busy work. That's that's what I feel like.
I keep running up to, running up against they're giving us busy work, like to keep us busy too, and then they're like, no, this was actually the answer. Thanks for showing your work on that.
Now you didn't get it right jail, yeah, yeah, And it's it's just instructive that it's been legalized in many places to sell it.
But we can't get this Hope Act past or can't get any traction for it because selling it makes people money, but getting people out of prison doesn't make people money. And in fact, people in prison makes prison industrial complex billionaires.
Real think really quickly quickly back to Danny's point, I think it also just begs the question in terms of how far are we behind on the positive effects of other things that we considered to be like narcotics or
or you know, bad drugs, et cetera. When it's like just being able to do research on these things and you know, provide solutions for people who really need them, I understand we're facing we are you know, reaching a similar point with ketamine and how ketamine is also, like you know, in certain doses, is super helpful for people suffering from all sorts of different, you know, different things
in their lives. And it's just, you know, it's it is continually disappointing how we are trying to push things that could ultimately help people and it gets hampered up by money making. When when in fact, when in fact, if we were to pursue these things as an end,
they themselves would also make a lot of money. It's just maybe to take a little bit of time to do a little R and D to see how maybe microdess and mushrooms is actually super duper helpful, and that's a whole other industry that you could just create out of that. And yet it's like, no, we have to live with these archaic ideas of how these drugs are bud. It's just it's silly. It is very sick.
That's wild to me because it's I mean, same thing we talk about weed, but literally of the earth. It's just so it's insane to me that we have regulated or made it illegal things that you can literally grow. Yes, but I do want to say I have done clinical ketamine and did it at a doctor's office.
Yeah, yeah, I mean there's like that that is one that there is.
Here in LA you can do that. No, yeah, there are places, sure.
Sure there Yeah, that ketamine is one where there has been a lot of progress made and like you can do it in a clinical setting. But also there's still a bunch of restrictions around it and it's not as you know, up and up and like easy and they're for it makes it more likely that people will use it in ways that are not as beneficial so like just going strong in the direction of research and finding
healthy contexts where people can actually use this. Like MDMA, I think, is the next one that is really getting a lot of attention in the research community, but very slow.
I've been doing a lot of personal research on that and all the outbeatings I go to and let me tell you something, the euphoria is unmatched, and I don't know, I think everybody else should, you know, take a page eye of that and experience it.
But they like it's being described as like a wonder drug when it comes to ptsd A right, but like actually doing it, taking it and then having a conversation with a trained therapist, like you're just like breaking down all these barriers and getting to things that usually without the therapeutic youth m like, are pretty hard to get to.
I just forget, like how different our jobs in world are from the rest of the world. Because when I would take shrooms and then go to my writer's room, and then my showrunner was like, oh, I want to know what shrooms are taking. So then she started taking them and got her family, like her mom and dad to start taking them. And I'm like, in any other setting, we would be drug tested and I would be fired,
you know. But we're in a creative industry where they're like, oh, that helps your brain, Like I want some of that where it's not seen. I remember this MTV show I worked on. This was before weed was like completely legal, but that our showrunners had like a big bong and
would smoke like during lunch. And I'm just like, this is such a different world than Frisco, Texas, where I came from, where I you know, I went to high school, and and people are being like drug tested for these things that actually do really help folks with their depression, with their attention. What I was going to say is shrooms opposite of what we started talking about today with weed. For me, it's an upper so and I don't have any like I don't come down, I guess, is what
I would say. Yeah, I can take it and then write, is what I meant, Whereas normally with most edibles, I just want to go to sleep. Yeah, but those are also the strains I know that I'm doing. I don't need education on it or anyone that wants tons alone.
Everybody.
Yeah, actually, any some information that I think you might find useful on the subject.
All right.
Newsmax and OIN are avoiding this. It's basically like a lot of people are saying it's weird because this Fox settlement is arguably the biggest media story of the year. It's a lot of money seven hundred and eighty seven point five million dollars that they had to settle.
I don't know if it's going to bankrupt them, but it's it hurts.
We got a bunch of great leaks from the lawsuit. I wish we would have been able to see it in public court. But again, this is the problem with counting on the US justice system or corporations to fight our battles for us. But you know, a good blunt instrument for shaking loose some interesting details like that Tucker Carlson doesn't believe any of the shit he's saying, like we have him in text messages saying like this is all bullshit and Trump is a disaster for him and
the Republican Party. So that. There's also two other pending lawsuits with Dominion suing OAN and Newsmax, as well as Patrick Byrne, the former Overstock CEO who appeared on as an expert and spread misinformation about Dominion in the twenty twenty election, and so they are not reporting on this Fox News settlement. One spokesperson for I Think It was On came out very confidently and was like Newsmax issued a confident statement claiming that the case against them is
materially different than the one involving Fox. But the only difference seems to be that they kept going like that. Fox kind of backed off of it after a little while while once they got sued, and Newsmax and On were just like strong and wrong the whole time on claiming that the twenty twenty election was stolen. So will be interested that they seem like actual actually in danger of being put out of business with a similar size settlement,
So be interesting to see. Yeah, you won't hear about it anywhere on Newsmax or.
Oh no, I don't know it just you know, I feel like in general, settlements are always a little you know, I can understand in certain situations while the idea of settling out of court is probably better for both parties and certain situations, but when it's like when you were settling such an enormous lawsuit that directly affects the outcome of the politics and the and the world that would affect hundreds of millions of people. I feel like you shouldn't just be allowed to swipe it under the rug
for however much money. Like I want every detail to come out about why they settled, what the what? You know, I want every single detail to be known to everybody so that they have to stand by what they settled for and why. And I'm sure that there's a way that you can personally seek that out, but there has to be a widely public I mean, like, you know,
this almost sounds like I don't know. I don't want this to be further applied to things like witch trials or some shit like that, where it's like, well, they were convicted of this and they settled, so now we're going on a witch hunt. But it's just like when you affect an entire nation's worth of people with your lies, like you have to be held to task. And just paying seven hundred million dollars, which is of course a lot of money, I don't think that's enough, Like I
want to know. Definitely not Yeah, yeah, definitely, it's just unfair. It should have hurt more.
I mean, they paid that amount because it was worth it to them, Yes, for this not to happen in a public vesicle.
Oh my god. Yes, yeah, so, which is bullshit. Yeah, it is bullshit.
It will be interesting to see if we can get Newsmax and O and then just out of existence, sued out of existence.
That'd sick. Yeah, sick.
I was going to say, speaking of settlements, I sent my friend this article from Gawker because they had a blind item on a beloved actor, which I'll talk to you guys afterwards. And my friend was like, Gawker's still around. Didn't realize that they still were around.
Well, they went I think they went out, like all dates back, they're back again.
Oh but no, I was referring to their thing with Hulk Hogan, right, that's how they went under. Yes, but they they're still.
Reporting the King.
I think they went out of business at the end of January, unfortunately.
Oh so that literally was it was like, yeah, one of the last stories, one of the last stories.
Unfortunately, because they had some great people and uh working there, including you know, one of the hosts of Stradio Lab and just I thought it was so good and it was also just satisfying for them not to be out of business, because for sure they were put out of business by racist Yeah, person who uses teenagers as blood bags allegedly.
So are we still talking about hu?
I'm talking about Peter Thiel.
Oh.
I'm sorry the whole Cogan thing to get them put out of business, but you.
Are You are obviously have It's your job to pay attention to the news. So I only knew parts of that, and the only parts I know are whole Cogan is racist and he like sued them. That's all I know.
Bam, that's all. But you're not allowed to tell people I'm racist. Brother.
Oh, also his never mind, let's continue, Let's not talk about Hull Cogan anymore.
I kind of need to hear what you want.
Oh.
I was just gonna say Roy with Junior, who I love and adore. He has a really great Yeah, shout out Roy. He has a really great It's up on Comedy Central's website. It's part of his stand up special where he was saying, like, y'all give trans people such a hard time when Hulk Hogan's name is Terry, Like he's a guy from Tampa named Terry, and y'all have
no problem me. And he was like, do you think ice cube is really ice Cube's name, and as I think of that next maybe it's that's just what they want to be called, because I think of that next time. Y'all are giving trans people a hard time. So shout out to Roy for you.
Know, being head name brother Terry Terry, Okay, I mean from it's like, you know, people do amazing things when they like are forced, like by circumstance, or like have a really tough upbringing, and like he came up with one of the best fictional names of all time from the difficult circumstance of growing up being named Terry. He's like that was was in the lab as a kid, dreaming of other things his name could be other than Terry, and he hit on a good one.
Whul Cogan. I think that was maybe not his invention, but oh well, there's some marketing team that's like, what do you mean he came up with it.
I also found out that John Cena was Big Tim Just wow today, Yeah, that's who went by Big Tim.
That was his birth name.
Believe this.
How about John Cena? Oh yeah, no, that's better. That's better than Big Dam.
That's awesome. That's funny.
All right, Let's take a quick break, we'll be right back, And we're back. And the Great Pacific garbage Patch is now so big and permanent that a coastal ecosystem is thriving on it, according to scientists. This is one of those interesting news stories that I feel like I wanted to click on it, like with a hopeful note in my heart of like, ah, you know, doctor Ian Malcolm
was right, Life will find a way. And then you get to and I mean, there there are a bunch of different animals and cnm and e's and stuff living on the garbage patch, connecting themselves two different pieces of floating plastic.
But it's not good. It's still really bad. Yeah.
I actually got a bunch of new information about the Pacific garbage Patch that I wasn't fully aware of, like that it's mostly like a soupy microplastic pool at this point.
That's mostly what you see.
It's not the floating landfill that I think I had been imagining in my head. We had eight million tons a year of plastics to it. The majority of it comes from the fishing industry. This was one that kind of blew my mind is that the majority of the plastic in this Texas two times the size of Texas garbage gyre comes from one industry, Like it's it's not us,
Like it's not your straws and like that. And it's great to like be conscientious and like, you know, recycling or plastic sure, dude, you know, or just don't use plastics. That's all great. But I think the way that this story got down trickles down to me is that because of all the plastic bottles you use, like those, every plastic bottle you used has ended up in the middle
of the Pacific on this floating island. And it's actually one industry, the fishing industry is responsible for at least one Texas of of the entire garbage patch, and just nobody does like that is something you can do something about, you know. That's that's an industry that you can regulate in a world where the US government actually regulated corporation.
Well, I was being from Texas. I love whenever we're used as a size of measurement. Congratulations, it's the size of three texases, so I think it.
Would be the size of the United States.
Yeah, pretty much, we're three different texases. That makes a lot of sense to me. Also, I just I don't know. I kind of disagree slightly in that this is a product of us, because yes, it is the fishing industry, but we are the consumers of that. It's the same with when we're talking about methane with cows, like that's that's a direct correlation to the amount of meat that we're consuming.
Hey, Danny, those aren't my funtless Okay, those cells are.
No.
I totally agree with that, but it just it's also the fault of like it just feels more addressable when you realize it's a one specific industry.
Basically, what I'm saying is vegans are like not us again, not us, which I'm not vegan, so but so I take I take part responsibility. But I just feel vegans are always like, no, we're not contributing, except with almonds. I'm paying attention, y'all. I've been that whole story about how almonds are like destroying the world. I'm like, okay, so everything we.
Do, yeah, there's always horrifying stories of the microplastics in people's blood.
And yeah, yeah, not from my Stanley cup.
Though not from your Stanley stainless Stanley cup doesn't end up in the Pacific garbage.
It's indestructible. It's indestructible.
It will be here long after humanity. That should be their tet their marketing. Pitch will outleak, will outlive you.
Yes, all right?
And then finally a baseball story that's not a baseball story, but it is one thing I'm seeing pop up. It's always interesting when like people start sharing baseball news and.
You're like, oh, you're a baseball fan. Interesting.
But they introduced new rules this season with the goal of speeding up the game. The most impactful is a pitch clock, so pitchers only have fifteen to twenty seconds to throw the ball after catching it. It has like cut an entire hour out of like the game run time.
So it's working.
But the big concern that people had being this being America and the only important thing being how we sell things, is how much beer are people going to be able to sell now? Because most teams stop selling beer after the seventh inning because they don't want people driving home like freshly drunk. They want them driving home like still drunk, but with kind of a hangover. I guess like three innings is not enough guys to no longer be drunk. I'm assuming so that people are saying that it actually
isn't cutting down on the sale of beer somehow. Damn.
Yeah.
So people are chugging.
I mean people are chugging.
You're getting it in, you know.
That's I think baseball, more than maybe any other sport, is about the experience of going and being in an interesting looking place and getting drunk with your fellow humans that I want to get about the game.
I want to get into baseball. I've never been into baseball. I don't understand it, and I'm really jealous of not like the game. I obviously understand the content. I used to play softball when I was younger, and I hated it, and I really want I just I want to be a baseball person. Y'all seem like you're having fun. You got your peanuts and your hot dog and your beer, and you're out there and you're baking in the sun and you're watching like one thing happen every five to
six minutes, and I'm jealous it. It reminds me of golf. So I'm like, I want to be. I'm going to force myself to get into it because I want to be. It's like a baseball culture here in La is huge.
It is huge. Yeah, go Doyer's it is fun. I mean I think, you know, there's a certain recreation about baseball that I don't think you necessarily get with other sports where, you know, I think as you mentioned, like sitting outside baking in the sun, like that is unique. That is unique to baseball. It's so much more just like hanging out and chilling with your friends. You grab some food and just kind of like chill and enjoy
this awesome experience. And then if the game is really close, the last half hour of it is like the most exciting part. It just gets so it's so much fun. You get to chill for a little bit, then you're full of beer and hot dogs, and you just get to go wild for a big home run. So it's just I don't know, I completely agree, great recreational experience baseball. Yeah.
But so the upshot of this is that they are turning this into an opportunity to sell even more beer, because they're basically saying like, well, we can't We're going to lose out on too many beer sales with this shortened game, which actually isn't backed up by like they did a bunch of test runs in minor league baseball stadiums, and the managers of those games found that concession sales were not affected at all by the shortened games.
They go, but they are.
Arguing to extend the last call beyond the seventh inning, so conceivably it will just mean selling even more beer under the guise of maintaining the status quo, which is pretty diabolical. I got a question, pressed, I got a question.
Yeah, So isn't the idea of stopping selling beer at a certain point is that people aren't getting drunker at the very end of the game, so that they're not leaving drunk, right, yes, but they're not driving away from the stadium drunk. So despite the fact that the game is shorter and you have quote unquote less time to sell beer, extending the time you just el beer seems to exacerbate the problem of people leaving the stadium drunk.
Right.
Oh sure, yeah, they've just chosen that problem as opposed to the problem of making less money. They're like, well, you're gonna have trouble tracing it back to any individual one of us, and.
We may.
Well, yeah, there you go. Okay, sounds good. Surely this surely this will not go wrong at all. Yeah, I need the narrator voice here. In two weeks, it did it did, it did all right.
And finally, there's a scene from a Netflix show that is going viral. The show is called Obsession. It's about a hot shot surgeon who becomes obsessed with his twenty something sons mysterious girlfriend come the fiance Anna or Anna, and follows them to France. And when the couple go out for dinner, this brilliant surgeon breaks into their hotel room, smells Anna on Linen's and proceeds to hump the pillow and.
People.
I'm looking at the photos and I'm enjoying it.
It looks like John Stewart is stock That's what the photos look like to me.
I haven't watched the live.
Action, but so this is But also his son's scent would be on it too. Write Is that what we're saying? It was his son and his daughter in law. We're staying in this bad Yeah, okay, see that's where Okay, my brain immediately went there.
But it's really creepy. It's not a thing that I guess I've I guess. It kind of comes up in the movie in the bedroom. But the idea of like dead with son who he's like real into the sun, be like getting laid like this is just the most specifically I've seen.
That where the Dead is.
Maybe there was like a Nora Ephron movie that was also about this, but it's it's a lot.
They really went for it.
There's a TikTok here that says obsession scenes to skip. If watching with your parents would be like, it would be the whole the whole thing. Why would you watch this series with your parents? Yeah, the whole thing. It's just the credits run.
It can be a good watch exactly.
Maybe you think that your dad is like two into your fiance and so you like sit sit them down and.
Watch this and be like this is you. This is man. I was gonna say, is it things to not watch with your parents or ways to find out your parents are into some freaky shit? Oh right, neither are for me?
For this?
Is this like number one on there? Is it? Like everyone watching this right now? Is this like number one on Netflix or something?
I don't know.
One of our producers I'm not going to say, who was like, oh my god, I just watched this, so it's we have it going viral, and we also have confirmation from inside the Zeit gang that this is this is being watched, and yeah, I guess that was a
service that was being provided by Netflix UK. They were like, if you've made the parentheses questionable decision to watch Obsession with your parents, these are the moments you'll probably want to excuse yourself, which is kind of brilliant marketing because then those are the moments that people are just going to rush to right and meme.
So they've done the.
Work for viewers, which is probably pretty smart. This is like, what what are the other Netflix? I mean, I guess three hundred and sixty five Days was like a Netflix movie that kind of went viral. I don't know if there were like very specific moments from that. There was the guy with the enormous dick scene from a Netflix.
Show that went viral. Do you remember that?
No?
It was like it was like a guy was jealous of his husband or his wife's ex and then like his wife's ax like showed up at his gym and just had like the big, the biggest, like it was like a car tunic big dick and.
She was like, oh, that's ridiculous. Where would someone possibly watch something like that.
Wait, what was it called Netflix?
When we type in Netflix, Netflix, big dick guy, Big dick Guy's probably gonna.
Oh no, you can see it immediately. Okay on sex life is that what you.
Were saying, Yes, sex slash life.
Oh yeah, if you demos is dick real is the number one?
Uh?
There's I'm guessing no, dick real.
Yeah, listener, if you type in Netflix big dick guy, that is all of the images is this man?
And it's big, right, I'm not like, Oh I.
Haven't seen it.
Do you actually see it? Oh?
Yeah yeah, Oh it's all blurred out in the well, this black bar looks very big. So yeah, the like blurred sensor thing is going down pretty low.
I don't know, I haven't seen it. It's pretty I have a child lock on, I guess exactly.
Okay, Well that's the that's the last one and probably better one to go viral, because just watching a middle aged man hump a pillow, I can't not get intil I've seen it.
Right, I just I'm just sorry, dany go ahead, No, I'm I have now seen the dick and I want to confirm for you Jack, this is a big dick.
Yes, kind of like unnaturally a big dick. I also just want to share, you know, in the process of finding the story earlier from at Marijuana Moment, it's like when you discover websites, you're like, of course it's a website for that. Scrolling halfway down the page of the Netflix Big Dick Guy search on Google brings you to big Dick guide dot com, And of course, like, why why would I think that that doesn't exist? How was that not the number one? How was that not the
number one website? Is that like wiki feet for for dicks? I mean, I don't know.
The follow up question everyone had was was the sex life penis aprosthetic? And the answer is yes, according to Newsweek, although Newsweek has been questionable in their recording.
Okay, but I have from Yahoo Sports Adam. I don't know why they're commenting. Adam Demis's friends confirm his size wasn't quote special effects. My wow, you all know Ya Sports would not play us, so not my Yahoo Sports.
They have never led me Asterday.
They asked, like his last five girlfriends? That would be wild?
Well, Danny, such a pleasure having on the daily site Geist. I'm glad we left it edited appropriately to yeah, high brow moment, Yes, where can people find you?
Follow you? All that good stuff?
I am at miss Danny Fernandez on all the things. I also have a horror short, a thriller that I wrote and started called in the Static, which is hitting the festival circuits this summer. I can't announce what festivals we've gotten yet because they won't allow us to announce it. But if you fallollow me and you we might be coming to a city near you.
So yeah, there you go.
Well follow Danny if you're not already, you probably all are already. But if you're not follow Danny, find out about that.
Oh yeah.
Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying beside the pillow humping scene?
I have these tweets. I have one of them that's from at Isabelle stecka Steck goal. She says, A growman will look you dead in the eyes and tell you he's rooting for a sports team called the Nuggets.
Happy for everyone before twenty There you go, yeah, Daniel, Yes, sir, thank you for guesting today. We're going We'll find you. And is there a work of media you've been enjoying? Yes? There is. You can find me all over the internet at DJ Daniel, DJ Underscore, danel on Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok. I guess. And the piece of social media that I'm sharing is the same one that I share every four to twenty. And I'm going to do the great thing of describing an image on a podcast, so
fans get ready. It's a picture of a dude smoking weed out of a pipe, and then next to it is the same picture, but he's wearing a party hat. And the left one is me every day and the other one is me on four twenty, and that is just the fact of the matter. It's like, you know, if everybody's celebrating, lest we forget that, that's just what we're all doing every other day anyway. So you know, I don't know why, but put a little fun hat on. And lord knows, I got my fun hat on right now.
There you go. So I don't have my fun hat on, no crap.
Let's see some tweets I've been enjoying. I bless the rains down in Castimir tweeted, yeah, officer, I was speeding to get past the logging truck. I don't know if you saw this movie that came out in two thousand and three. I've never since two thousand and three have not driven past a logging truck without having that exact just scaring. And then Audrey Farnsworth tweeted, when I finish a package of English muffins, I crushed the content or on my forehead like a beer can. Audrey's a really
funny writer. You can find that's funny me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeikeist. We're at the Daily Zeikeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website Daily zekeist dot com where we post our episodes and our footnote for Nords or we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode, as well as a song that we think you might enjoy, especially today being for twenty DJ Daniel, I'm told that you have a you have.
A special special track for people just want to listen to. While indeed, if you're partaking in this wonderful holiday four twenty, I hope you listen to Acid rain Drops by People under the Stairs, a classic la hip hop jam. I just I could not think of a vibe that is more perfectly suited to match what you'll all be doing. So I hope you, you know, roll one up or
do what everyone do. Eat an edible, take a chill pill, land the couch, throw on some massive rain drops, and enjoy yourself on this wonderful four twenty and stay safe. Please drink some water, don't co operate in any heavy machinery. And just you know, I forget what a which.
Of those like music algorithm platform things. Maybe it was Pandora, but like one of them after me liking, like, you know, three hundred of my favorite songs is like, oh you're you're stoned right now.
I get it.
Like it was like stoner hip hop is your preferred genre of music, here's a playlist for you. And I was like, I haven't smoked weed in ten years, but I guess I have that taste in music.
So go listen to that, whether you're a part taking or not.
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