LAFD vs. LAPD, Girl Scout Cookies Cancelled?! 01.10.25

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How about what other lizards do your freaks? I don't know, wait, you know what could I handle? The what a komodo dragon? What is what like constitutes a good reptile to eat? Like is it muscle or is it fat? Like Romoto dragons are venomous, so poisonous.

In like a nasty way, Like there's a venomous animal where it's like yeah, where like it's like built into their DNA over many years, like just evolution, like built a fucking perfect weapon. And that's the sort of poison that I respect. The komodo dragon's mouth is just like dirty, It's just it's just nast ship They're just like h which is also kind of true humans, Like when you talk to emergency physicians, they're like the last thing you want to be bit by is a human being. Are fucking nasty.

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It's hello the Internet and welcome to season three seventy, episode five of Dirt Eily's Guys stayed production by Heart Radio.

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Is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American share consciousness. We now have a YouTube channel YouTube Slash at Daily's likee ice pod, how you can go check out what we look like as we're saying words like this. It is Friday, January tenth, twenty twenty four. My name is Jack O'Brien. AKA. If I could fill this bag with beans, do you think guy could take a seat, because you know, I feel so darn comfy if I could just sit on some beans. That is

It's Andrew two.

I'm gonna tell you I didn't have one, and now I'm gonna wing one. I'm looking up for Larrys right now. Okay, it's raining.

Ash, it's raining Ash.

I don't actually know how the rest of this ting goes.

Anyway, I walked outside this morning at Echo Park and I was like, things are bet no, and wait a second, yeah, legitimately snowing Ash right now.

Is it continuously coming down on you.

I didn't think so, but it does sort of a you know, like a like for anyone who's from where snow falls, it's like the first snow.

Of the year.

Yeah.

Yeah, like a lot of nice little.

Little yeah, smaller than a flurry, but it's it's I mean, it's definitely coming down.

There's this in terms Blake would understand in his sheltered little world out there that's not on fire. Andrew, We're thrilled to be joined in air third seat by a brilliant comediuan writer and actor who's new specialist Daddy lung Legs. He is the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his size, Please welcome Blake wackfle.

Or this is Blake Wexler, and I am going to do an aka, but uh, I just need to say heart thinking about everyone in the fires, so much love to them. It's horrific. And now this is Blake Wexler AKA. These shorts are too tight on me because I'm one step closer to the trend and I'm about to Blake. Plumpers need a little room to breathe because I'm one step closer to the trend and I'm about to blake. That was from Blankie heck hell yeah, he which sounds

When you're extremely drunk and.

When I'm trash. Yeah, they're like, you want another room.

I'm like, yes, go join, Yeah, I want the room of the one I went to by accident.

Yeah, I forgot my first room.

Yeah, the hollering dude, I did that once where I lived when I was living in LA This was back in my drinking days, and got off on the wrong floor and could not get into my room what I thought was my room, and I kept like knocking and then like trying to pull the torn up as if that would make it unlock. And I just heard someone from the other sid I just go, please stop.

Yeah, I'll do it.

That'll that'll either really wake you up or really not wake you up. Yeah yeah, no, yeah that coming to that. That moment when the light switch switched back on was humbling, and I apologize.

Still, yeah, great, well, it's all great, it's all great. Everything is super great.

Right, do you want to get to know me in a few minutes?

You know, what I would really like to get to know you a little bit better.

But I'm gonna I'm gonna.

Hold off for a couple of your time. There's no rush.

Andrew and I are gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about. You can kind of jump in if you'd like later in the episode. It's called a tease in the business. And then we're gonna come back. We get to know you.

We like to.

It's called the weave. You've ever heard of it?

Okay, I'm sure I'll see what's going on, is as it as the show goes? Yeah, get the head of it. It happened to you, yes, exactly. This show breathes you, you know what I mean? All Right, some of the things we're talking about. LA wildfires are.

Still raging out of control right now. We we're recording this yesterday on Thursday. But it's uh yeah, we're continuing to just see unimaginable tragedy around us. We'll just you know, talk about firefighters, talk about press conferences with firefighters and the police, a real nice like compared contrast there, uh and the local news coverage which is fucking I don't know, have you Andrew watched any local news.

The local news. I just had a real I am in a.

Group that moves too quickly for human comprehension. But that's been all I can kind of handle.

Yeah, so, you know, you're like on top of the latest happening.

I can't tell. It's sort of the opposite.

It's sort of just like a lot of reactions from fucking you know anywhere, from progressives to hardcore communists about what's happening. And it's a little hard to figure out what's happening sometimes, But that's.

Just experiencing unimaginable tragedy through the fog of memes. Yeah.

Yeah, so I just wait for the evening edition of the La Times to come out, having a newspaper in my Yeah, tangible we're going to.

Talk about this was just like a story I kind of needed right now. New York putting congestion pricing in place at the beginning of this week just like a thing that they did with like a long, long term benefits that they'd like to achieve, and just I don't know, it feels like miraculous when a government intervenes in a way that is designed to like make people's lives better, So we'll talk about that and why it's incredibly unpopular. We'll talk about which Girl Scout cookies are being canceled

Here's here's a tease.

Which Girl Scout cookie, which everyone agrees is the fucking worst, is Andrew T's favorite find out?

Yeah? Anyways, all of that, plenty more. We might even talk about Sean Hannity. But before that, Blake, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history.

I wrote this down before I looked at the show run run of show whatever the industry term is that you guys use, and it was congestion pricing. We don't have to get too far into it. But I live right out So I live in North Jersey, in Jersey City, So the Holland Tunnel is to Lower Manhattan, where a lot of the congestion pricing is is like three minutes away. And I had a show in Brooklyn last night, and

Should pay me to do this shitty show in Brooklyn.

Everyone should pay me. I shou I didn't have to pay rent. I should be treated like an ambassador. Basically, where have my lodging provided for me? Like a diplomat? But I then realized, oh this, we should just be taking public transit. They should put fucking bike lanes that where you don't get murdered by a car, like if you just get on a bicycle. They should have that infrastructure in cities. So yeah, when I was pissed off about it selfishly am I go, this is a good thing.

You'll just be curious.

It's so curious about the details of it because you are right at the interface of I guess I just assume congested pricing meant it was within when the city was likely to be congested.

It's a big Yeah, it's a big range where I believe on weekdays it goes until nine pm. I think, so it's not Yeah, no, it won't sleep here. I am exhausted. I cannot sleep in this fucking city. But yeah, no, you're right. I mean, it's obviously a controversial issue for a reason where I think the big issue people had with it was like, oh, like a teacher, for instance, who has to drive into the city. Now they're paying more money coming in from North Jersey to the city.

Better you take public transit, or you could take public transit.

Yeah, yeah, from Jersey into Lower Manhattan. Is the is the point where like, oh right, yeah, I guess that makes sense.

Yeah, And if I was in New York, I wouldn't want people from Jersey in there either, So like I do understand there the design.

Yeah yeah, yeah, keep people from New Jersey out of here, please.

Sorry, we got yeah, we're selling the previous. We're selling the previous.

So you see how they reacted to drones.

Way, why don't we fly them in on drones.

See now we're two birds with one drone.

You can do that, you fit, you fix congestion, all the congestion just by covering. This is the island of Manhattan and drones and the people in Jersey.

Yeah, sort of a dome of drama. Drune dome, drum dome.

Blake, what's something you think is underrated?

Underrated non alcoholic beers? And uh, I'm a beer drinker. Love that ship, but you don't. You can't get enough of that that ship, that hot ship.

And this is a word for word recreation of what Blake says every time he enters a bar.

It's fucking crazy.

Three hot ships, please pull the rocks.

I'm a beer drinker, just f y I I'm a beer drinker by trade, love that ship.

By trade, by birth, my lineage. It goes way back of beer drinkers. And but sometimes you don't want to drink and Uh, it's good too. By the way, everybody's different. Some people don't drink it all, some people, you know,

Yeah, yeah for a thing that sounds genuinely disgusting nasty.

Yeah, yes, you think it's gonna be like cloudy and I don't know, just be like ipa but like mixed with water. But yeah, hop water is just like if Lacroix made a really good ipa flavor.

Yeah, what's so weird? Yeah, it's really Do you do you have a favorite? I do have.

I recently had a new favorite of teeing you Up to te myself Up.

No, no, no, I want to hear what yours is? T Myself Up? Is your new podcast coming out the spring.

Where I just asked.

Leading self serving questions.

The most miserable person in the world.

So You've had a really interesting the thing that I'm interested in.

What do I think about you talking about that?

You see like someone with opinions on nos Faratu because I've not seen it because so.

Much I have And yeah, I didn't get it at all? What was that movie about? I really like Sam Adams has this like hazy. I P a thing that I tried the other night that was really good, But what is if I made comfortable?

I don't know if you could tell?

All right, Sam Adams has probably got his answer is going to be a dunkin Donuts flavored I P a water.

I think when I'm doing knuckle boxing, what's the mustache wax is off your little fingers?

I know.

I was in fucking Atlanta for Christmas and I went to this ooh pub called I think the Porter or something like that was fucking great and they had crazy food there. They did shrimp toast and it was like a real weird lost in translation, but it was just these huge shrimps on pieces of toast.

Yeah yeah, well yeah it must have been.

But they were like whole like Georgia shrimp, which I guess is a thing, but oh my god, it was so good. Anyway, their non alcoholic beer was by this company called Untitled Art. Huh, and their ipa was the closest to an ipa. I think of the non alcoholic beers, I tend to be like on the watery side is more accurate. Like I think like a na Corona tastes exactly like a corona, but for like the obvious reasons. But I think some of the happier ones, I'm like,

I'm pretty sure.

I'm gonna give a like poptimist like mainstream answer. I actually think the Heineken zero point zero tastes it's a lot like a Heineken. It's zero, like a lot of non alcoholic beer like has some at like it's like point five alcohol or whatever. Like the Heineken has no alcohol tastes like a Heineken. I feel like that one's actually.

Yeah and is readily available.

Yeah, and that's also the most available one.

So the Guinness, it tastes just like a Guinness because guests apparently just tastes like everything else besides alcohol anyway, Right.

But how much? How much guinness can you really drink?

Right, fellas? Before you move on, I like my I pas with viscosity though, I like you to, you know, blop out a little bit, you know, just like like I'm crazy. I like it to be like somewhat watery, not not as much a paste.

My face gets red when I drink Guinness, where like I get like a guineas only yeah's interesting and.

Yeah you're you're like like the like the just the rosy cheeks knock back a guinness.

Yeah, pale, Yeah, some sort of immunocompromise situation, like the look of it. Yeah, no, that's me.

It's where all your proteining or diet comes from. Guinness.

It's just what is if you have enough? Yeah?

What is something blake that you think is overrated?

So I think overrated as a practice is street cleaning, like residential street cleaning in cities where I've never First of all, I've never seen street cleaning happen. And I go outside and look and like, wow, look how clean this fucking street is? Like they don't nothing gets cleaned, And if you don't know what it is like basically

Yeah, that just stressed me out so much too. My heart rate shot through the roof just hearing about that arrangement.

I do kind of genuinely believe that it's a little bit like velociraptor rules for the non ticketable side of the street on on alternate side parking, like yeah, fucking double park the entire street. Like I feel like, and I know this can't be true, but I genuinely feel like the fucking like traffic cops, the whatever, the people giving tickets, it's like they can only see the side of the street where people were like, you're not supposed to be parked, and it's lawless on the other side on here.

Yeah, all right, this is this is crazy. Brian the editor has come through and described a situation that doesn't make any sense to me. Brand the editor lives in Mexico City.

If you sit where to America City.

Thank you? Yeah whatever. But they employ people who need money, okay, weird and give them a high viz vest and broom and then they just actually clean the.

Streets every day.

So like, where do you get the big machine that comes through and uh blows ship in your face if you have to be yeah, because I have seen the streets.

Yeah, it does.

It just turns it out of the way into a different direction.

Because it makes it makes It's like what if you only had a broom and no dust pan.

Yeah, it's exactly what's.

Great if we created a three hundred thousand dollars machine that was like a broom with no dust pan and uh, there's some water I think mixed in a little bit where likes it down.

Yeah, it's a change. The leaves are moved, but they are there.

So many things could be fixed with. Just like we're going to invent four hundred jobs based on like talking to people in the city, like jobs that they think should exist, and yeah, the task we're going to pay them.

Well yeah, yeah, one utility for those street cleaning things.

I don't know if this is actually as.

True anymore in the era of three D printing, but if you're looking to create DIY lock picks, the bristles from a street cleaning thing are some of the best in the biz as far as lock picking tools.

How the fuck do you know that.

This mustache as well? I want to add that.

But only at certain times of the month. You have to get it at a certain times after they molt, yes, right before they molt. So you can't at it unless you can make friends with the walrus right before they mold off.

The lock pick thing.

Editor Brian has in Chat started on a path of proclamations that I'm worried are going to become legally actionable.

So I'll just say he agrees it works.

So well, I know that that's amazing, all right, you guys are much cooler than me. Also, the street cleaning thing I wasn't talking about you, Blake. The street cleaning thing does tie in with I think what we're going to talk about with regards to the police, because it's like, how do we have just every What if the only tool you had was a hammer and you had to make it do every job with the blunt end of a hammer.

A bunch of hammers that actually shoot really little hammers via concussive force, and that's all you can do with them. They're not really designed for hammering anything.

By the way, we.

Don't have people who go out in the street clean the street. We have one really fast, heavy machine that goes around and if you get in it the fucking way, you have to deal with the cops. Asshole. Okay, A weird way to street clean clean up the streets. We're taking out the trash. Were No, we just like literally mean we want the streets to be.

Not literally trash. Yes, asshole.

As Biden said, we count on police to be our teachers, are psychiatrists, our librarians are our custodians, our wives. We don't need to defund the police. We need to fund more. That was his argument, giving them more fun. Anyway, let's take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll talk about the wildfires. And we're back. And as mentioned up top, Miles is not here because of the wildfires. I'm gonna, you know, give him space to you know, talk about

Yeah, turning your way.

And yeah, it just it's it's not one of those like I know a guy who has a friend who like this impacted. It's like every everybody's like one degree of separation away from people who are losing.

And you know, to the extent that there is any kind of silver lining to the well, I don't know. And I'm also going to say something that I'm not even totally sure.

Is true, but I think this is the first like climate major climate disaster that has affected large numbers of middle and upper middle class white people.

Yeah, I think that's true.

I mean maybe assumption in the UK that is, but you know, in this far Australia, you know, this is certainly like I don't know what sort of like change in political will this could possibly bring, but it is sort of that where it's like, you know, you can't hide from this, like, you know, as much as it's a result of us, like you know, exploiting the global South and people of color and poor people everywhere, it's like, yeah, but it's it's we're changing shit, and it's it's there's

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean I think that's right.

It's not that that seems good, but that's the truth.

Right. It feels like we're in a you know, the scale seems biblical, Like I feel like it needs to be biblical for like people to get their heads around what is happening and like the amount of change that needs to happen. But yeah, hopefully this is cutting across enough borders that there's political will to do something beyond the guy being like, hey, is anybody know any private firefighters? Yeah, that could come through and save my house.

Uh, andrew rained on that parade for me because I thought there were cool like you know, yeah fighters.

During that And look, I'm not saying I know for sure that there are not, but it's just a thing where it's like it's not from what I read about like the private fire services that exist.

It's not like a uber for firefighters.

It's more like a service that you have worked with for years.

Yeah, or it's not a last second you can't cram it as the fire is closing in on your home.

You can't price firefighters. Oh yeah, I guess there's right. There are planes that you can hire, but the general firefighting I think is like part of like, you know, a service that you've had. I've I heard it described as like a lot of it was honestly landscaping advice like it's just like, you know, you're you're you're maintaining a house that can be saved in the event of a fire rather than just like Blackwater but for firefighters.

Right, Yeah, that is a movie starring Mark Wahlberg that is going to be made because of this tragedy. That that is one outcome that I can foresee is like a person facing down wildfire season and they're like, we got to call in the fizz or what just.

Shit face drunk in like Quincy, Massachusetts, turns on the who cease fire and then yah's that Logan airport on a Jet Blue flight to La Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know where Mark Wahlberg was this week, but Victor suproducer Victor points out that if he was here, it wouldn't have gone down the way it was.

Sure would have punched that fire right out.

Yeah.

But yeah, which is not to say that there's not like resources to be marshaled, but like the best way to spend you know, this money is on things like taxes and an appropriate city budget that funds the Los Angeles Fire Department or whatever fire department you're in.

Like it or not, we're all on some level in this together. Yes, I do just want to like firefighters.

I think they come into the national spotlight every once in a while, and when they do, it's not like the cup where we're just like, wait, why the fuck do we have these guys anything, like these guys are fucking terrible, Like it's a you kind of get reminded why everybody wants to fuck them and uh and why, Like if you have to give a movie character a heroic job, you go with firefighter, Like to.

Give this guy a calendar.

Yeah, yeah, I don't care what he looks like, Uh, turn him into Jack Off material. But there was I don't know, like I'm probably in the midst of you know, of just this story, but like there was the equivalent of an NBA like highlight where a fire helicopter just dropped a swimming pool of water on a fire that was like spreading out of the Hollywood Hills. It was literally like everybody, it's you know, fairly close to where we live, and like all our neighbors were like, holy shit,

Without getting too dark, I saw I don't know, blue sky. I guess the comment threat underneath it was like you know, various things that you could yell when you when you make a great shot in basketball, and someone was like, you know that pilot was yelling Kobe. And then people pointing out, yeah.

I'm zooming in on the photo of the helicopter. Oh my god, that's Mark Wahlberg flying that bird.

Hey, you know he wouldn't tell anybody if he did. He's just like a humble.

By.

The helicopter is just a fancy drone. So I just want to say that as a Jersey person, I saw a copter and I wanted to shoot it down. Then is that thing doing up there? I started spinning it. I was spinning at the sky.

New Jersey people would be freaked out by l a man lord.

Aliens.

So I've been kind of like glued to this coverage. You know, our kids are out of school, so we're just you know.

I had a friend who had school yesterday, which is also insane.

Really god, but you know, glued to the fire map. I see fire maps when I close my eyes now, like the varying colors, which Andrew you were pointing out before.

I do have a note for the listen. I understand fire watch app wonderful service. People have been really enjoying it.

Watch duty.

We'll say there you I bright red fire makes sense, dark magentaish or dark pink. Let's say fire warning, yellow fire whatever, the equivalent of tornado watches.

It's like you'll be ready to be evacuated, but.

Then they just have a you're in a dry fire prone area and that's like a different shade of pink, which is very alarming, and get the map.

Yeah, because you're like, yeah, I guess the other one's orange. The point is the gradations of danger go from red dark pink, yellow, and then least dangerous is light pink, which I think is bad ui.

On a personal level, we.

All agree that it should be like yellow orange, red, and some like grading it in there right, like.

That that's my pitch. That's what they're doing.

Great inherent Yeah, they are doing a great job. Also, Like my eight year old is like addicted to that app now, like he just we were like he's like scrolling it and like obsessed.

Yeah, yeah, one of the It's different where in La we had like an earthquake kit in our place because I love for the listeners. I live in LA for ten years and it's one of the only it's the only place I've ever lived where I had an emergency kit basicly go bag.

Yeah, yeah, I could.

Go bag, which isn't necessarily you know, there are obviously situations in other places where you could need that. But I remember having like earthquake water, Like we would always have like a case of water somewhere and then we would get thirsty on our way out and grab the water, so we just wouldn't have any water. Yeah, is this something that you like? Do you guys have earthquake kits? Like, I know, like some of you have packed up I was talking to yeah before.

Yeah, mine's not freshened up since the last time. I probably put in the big work to do it in twenty twenty. Like I think my cube of water cannot possibly be good. I will say before that I did have an earthquake kit that was based on gallons of water and being hungover in my late twenties early thirties.

The fact that I like.

Drank my earthquake water really says something about America.

I think because I was too hot.

But yeah, I got the cube that's allegedly non toxic.

But there's just no way the cube's been there for like four years. It can't be good.

Quake diet coke.

Yeah, I got a twelve pack of coke for what lukewarm diet coke from the early nineties. What the cube is like a separate It's not just like a two gallon thing of arrow.

Oh, I mean it's it's it's like a water container that someone recommended.

That's like, okay, a square thick, Yeah, the square. You can see a square. Everyone can see a square.

Can't can't Now you've lost to tell.

You about spears afterwards, and you're gonna flip that.

Wait, so you're talking about like a third dimension. That's I'm not you.

Know what doesn't make sense to people would say that. Yeah.

So I was watching this press conference yesterday and it just really drove home the thing we were talking about about the police, Like, the police are coming into this in a couple of ways. One, because people noticed that the firefighting budget was cut a small amount last year. You know, like people who are defensive or you know, hate the Republicans are Like the Republicans are making this seem like they slashed the entire budget. It was, you know,

Say there's a thing with like we're watching the argument for defund the police.

Like literally, even if you're the most like.

Conservative non maniac possible who thinks we need some kind of police, Like, most of the money that goes to the police is the least efficient way to do those job descriptions like the non fucking law enforcement allegedly side of things.

You're like, what the fuck are you talking about?

You you got in like the cops having five times more budget or more than the than the fire department. But talking on a retail level about helping individuals versus people try to help communities several orders of magnitude in both the wrong direction. Yes, So this is just a bad investment, you fucking business dickheads, Like, yeah, explain that exactly.

Well, the police, there are, there are teachers, there are doctors, and there are firemen.

Police are our firemen.

Yes, exactly, there are doctors, there are wives, there are firemen.

It's just a more expensive, least effective version of all those things.

Yeah, why would you want that?

And then the second half of the police part was just the most essentially the verbal equivalent of firing is gun in the air with the like inscrutable police speak about the possibility of looters where they're just like, uh, and we just got one message for you, don't even try it. We're now shifting into the safety operation where

The fullest extent of the law. Yeah, exactly, shiit not to invoke you know, previous week's biggest story, but the biggest theft that will be occurring in southern California will be on behalf of insurance companies have already stolen tons of money and will not be paying out on things that they owe.

That is oh yeah, my prediction.

My prediction is that that they are going to be going bankrupt and it's going to be up to the government to yeah there is all people's yeah, which I don't know.

People will simply not be made whole on the things that are absolutely owed, which I feel like is likely anyway. And if you're thinking about theft Californians and the globe, just remember the theft already happened, and it's a bunch of guys in boardrooms.

Two nights into many homes across the city being evacuated, and the police are reporting they've encountered three instances of looting, I think. And by the way, they give themselves a very wide latitude when determined something is looting.

So someone picked a quarter up off the ground, and yeah, so they were looting the ground.

Yes, yeah, we saw they're looting our city. The very foundation of our city is our grounds.

It's our ground. That's true.

Yeah, And that is true, and you can't you can't deny that. And we're not taking questions and we will take no further answers at Las time. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're back, and we're back, and we'll be doing this whole episode with this New York accent.

Smart voice.

Hey fucking smart over here. I went to Sunny Yonkers for one and a half years.

A lot of.

Great people out of the seaming system.

Man, I couldn't agree more.

I'm just jealous. Okay. New York has introduced a policy that seems to be aimed at overall improving their infrastructure and quality of life while making business interests angry and uh, making people less likely to drive cars. Like that, anything that has anything to do with people's right to drive a car seems to be such a fucking like, uh just hot button issue. So the fact that this is happening seems like a minor miracle. The fact that it

I keep my guns in my car, so these are this is a hot But you take away my car, you take away my Yeah, I.

Mean you could, I mean you could.

You could get your like if you replace the water bottle rack on your bike, you could fit at least one.

Gut in there.

Yeah, and then.

Maybe maybe turn the top bar into a shotgun. Yeah, shotguns about it, just tink it about it.

I keep a grenade in my tail, which I know it's not a gun, but it's still fun.

And if it backs up, you know, if your car is backed up, that's it becomes rolled out.

Yeah, that's true.

All right, I'm not secured in there.

I'm sorry, pens in It's fine.

Yeah, So people taking cars into Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods will now have to pay a toll up to nine dollars. Up to nine dollars, so that's that's where we're maxing out. This is the new Congestion Relief Zone plan. It went into effect because of federal judge ruled against New Jersey's lawsuit to stop it. And this makes New York the first city in the US to implement a congestion relief

It's probably yeah, ship blake again.

Oh, by the way, I love Brian just wrote I love how people pay for a car, insurance, gas, parking, maintenance and not nine dollars. It's my approach to that is like, oh, like I order like a Burger fries wings and then like a diet coke with dinner. You know, I can't have I've already pushed myself to such a limit. I can't have this extra one hundred and fifty calories or whatever my one. So I agree this is a

I was going to ask, what is it.

It's like the ferry the path trains, and that's it, right, yes, And then you could so when the Holland Tunnel shuts down at eleven sharp, you would have to drive up from Lower Manhattan to what is called the Lincoln Tunnel, which the whole rest of the world is doing simultaneously.

So that I think is a complaint. It's not an argument against congestion pricing. I'm just adding like, whatever the hell else is going on?

Yeah, but can't I mean, surely they can just up the frequency of the path trains also they should do that. Yeah, yeah, it has been night. Public transit just takes an hour. Yeah, that's life in New York, baby, it's life anywhere. Yeah, like like Boston anywhere. So I think that's the problem is that Jersey, I think has fucked itself, and then

Yeah, but yeah, I mean.

Jersey fucked itself is kind of the state modle it.

Is on my Jersey. We fucked ourselves.

Hey, go fuck ourselves. Do we fuck ourselves on this one?

I think it got damaged in such a way that it's okay to operate during daylight hours.

They're repairing it at night.

Oh, they're repairing at night. Yeah, yes, okay, that makes.

Still it's a good question.

The question is still there or how bad, how badly does it need to be repaired that you're shutting down one of the two major arteries into New York and again the city doesn't sleep.

Yeah.

I feel like the most American answer to this is just, you know, we've all seen the Sylvester Salom movie. Where the tunnel gets damaged daylight, just you know the man up. There's gonna be some heroes on when that thing eventually goes down, and uh, we'll all be fine.

My pitch.

We have city bikes, why not have a city motorcycle have a whole line at d y evil over. Yes, we need a ramp and several ramps. We can't just have one ram because then that whole bottlenecks. So yeah, I think evil canieveling over the Hudson is the solution here into a harp.

They get do they get parachutes on the way back.

You don't get charged going back into Jersey.

Yeah, all right, it is Girl Scout Cookie season. Do you guys partake?

I haven't in a minute, but I did tease my favorite because I guess I've just been an old man since forever and I think they're no longer available. But my favorite Girl Scout cookie is the fucking nearly flavorless short bread one apparently oils trefoils.

The name is you dip it in anything, or you just like so much milk.

It's basically what I do, because I take any number of oils and turn it into sort of like a paste with milk. I don't know why it's it's objectively gross. I understand that, but they are my actual, factual favorite girl Scout cookies.

I like, like every time I have them, Like in concept, I'm like, nah, I don't funk with those, Like why would I get that instead of something with like chocolate on it? Tea, yeah, some something thermal I think my favorite. But the trifoils really do hit like I I only eat there too, and yeah, I always enjoy the hell out of them.

I think it is.

Because we fought a war against those fucking tea drinking breads to not have short in.

Our in our life. They're fucking they're my favorite.

Thin mints in the freezer is going off on trifoils, but just yeah, the producer.

Producer Victor is second third hour trifoil has completely lost it, uh and is saying Trefoil's got that savory butteriness which is so funny, that's right, but also really surprisingly sweet, like just a fun a big, a big sugar punch, which is something that I'm always looking for. I don't want any sort of sweet treat that is not going to make my teeth hurt. A little bit.

Jesus Christ.

Sorry, I just saw that they were they were retiring their smore cookies that were so good.

Yeah, so that's exactly where where I want to go with this. They're retiring the I'm so bummed about this. The s'mores are of all the cookies. They don't seem like like they seem you know, they're just sandwich cookies. They don't seem like they would be that sweet, but they are so packed with sweetness and sugar like they're ah, I love I love those s'mores so much cookies, and they're on their way out as well as the toast ya.

That is crazy A toast yea.

I think it was introduced fairly recently, or maybe I just found out about it. Like, while this show is the thing, the name of the toast ya has baffled me.

What is it?

Like?

It seems to be made by somebody who thinks that there is like a like, is it supposed to be toasty but like the it's.

Toast, Yeah, it's squat toast.

It does look like a squeak.

Is it supposed to be a call in response like toast?

Yeah yea, but it's got a dash in between so almost like it's single.

Word that's ah.

So it's a French toast inspired cookie dipped in delicious.

Icing that looks good.

It's fluid, it's not bad like I actually think the most overrated cookies like the ones that I wouldn't have been sad to see. The peanut butter patties I don't fuck with. They're like the chocolate covered peanut butter on the inside. I just think there's something off with the balance. I don't I don't think it works.

I think they were trying to dodge the Reese's pieces or the Reese's peanut butter cup allegations, and they just, you know, Reesa's is just holding down like a market ratio segment that is going to fuck anyone else that's trying for chocolate peanut buttery.

I think like the caramel delights, the thin mints, the trefoils, I think are all like goaded should have just not touched as well as the s'mores and the toasty is good. I just can't get my mind. I think they just need to take it away and then reintroduce it with a name that.

Doesn't like suck that's on some.

Unconscious level make me furious, like other people might be that way too, Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

No, I'm not getting whatever that. What are lemon ups?

Lemonade?

Lemonades and lemon No, no, it's two lemon cookies. There's two lemons.

All right, this is what this is.

I don't want to start this. I don't want to do that. I don't want to do this today. Go ahead, go ahead, get it out.

There are two regional Girl Scout cookie makers that make different cookies. So in some places you'll get them and they are definitely like have a thick coating of chocolate around them. Others they're just very thin like chocolate wafers with like that. I think they have like some Yeah, there there is like a definitely a superior senment.

Fuck so East Coast, West Coast beef.

Over West Coast, beef over Girl Scouts.

Jesus, I'm scrolling down on this article that we're looking again, and it does say the Girl Scouts of America said they were quote disappointed about the quote unauthorized resales out a statement about cookies. There's fucking Girl Scout cookie scalpers, which is the fucking lowest possible thing. You could be crazy going to stocks people.

Do you go?

Do they trail the girl scouts and like be like a a you know, I know you just like made it, but just cancel your order. I got I got that for like a better better price.

You know they're they're higher. I think I think it's more stock X. It's like, oh ship, they're sold out of, sold out of. Oh damn yo.

You know what what she just come through with. She just came through with trefoils. That's all she's got left.

That's crazy, hey, for you to have.

To miss out on these caramel delights? Oh many? All these looks so good.

Do you have a favorite?

It's thin mints for sure, in the freezer and it has to be for some reason. It has to be in the freezer. And because it doesn't like get hard to eat, it's just nice and chilled. It's great. We'll get them from my niece, but she takes a while to get them, Like I'll order them from her so she gets like the bump, you know, the financial bump. Walk outside a store down around the corner and just get them so I can have.

The one that you can actually have when you want them.

Yeah, when I want them, which is right now, Yeah.

You should like send a send a note to her girl Scout leader about how she's.

I'm showing in person. There's gonna be no note. I'm gonna kick the door.

It's gotta be sort of like a Glengarry glen Ross situation where you're just fucking like school and these girls about actual sales, about being closed, you know, about closing deals because it's sucking unacceptable exactly, you should fire them.

Just got a cop badge, give away sergeant badges? They might actually is that a thing boy Scouts? I mean I way too far in the Boy Scouts for someone with that. That is who I am, and I will just tell you that it is.

I mean, it is for nerds obviously even when I was coming up. But it is shockingly paramilitary and like if it's really god, yeah, you're like.

It's yeah, yeah, you know my kids are in boy Scouts and I am the leader of my six year old's troop.

Ours was like a fucking cop and then this like super religious guy and then it's like a horrible Yeah, I was just was my Scout leader. You know, at that age of the age, gap doesn't work amazing.

Well, thank you guys for joining Blake. Wonderful having you as always. Thank you, thank you for being so vulnerable about your girl scout cookie taste not a problem. Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff.

People can find me a like Wexler on all social media like Westory dot com. I have some stand up dates coming out March thirteenth for Collins uh the comedy for it, and also I mean March fifteenth, I'm in Pasadena. Who gives a ship at this point, you know? And then April fourth to fifth, uh, Sissyphis in Minneapolis.

Amazing, That's where I'm going to be. Yeah, it sounds like you're going to be a busy boy.

Now I'm going to be a busy boy.

Oh no, I said it like I was.

San is such a great name for I assume a comedy club.

Busy boy, comedy Oh Sisyphis, busney boy, busy boy.

It's not that bad.

Yeah, I mean all the lineips are like mail anyway, but uh yeah, Sissyphis. It's this cool brewery and that has a comedy club attached to it. It's a really cool spot in.

To roll up the Hill.

They named it after our careers.

Uh, Blake, is there a workip media that you've been enjoying? Yeah?

Do you mind if I share it?

Oh?

I would love I would love for that. Actually, well, here it is. It's crazy about to ask you that.

Let's see, we've finally synced up. At we finally after all these years? Understand hold another? All right social post at smiling nodding on blue sky. Every new restaurant in a major city is either called thistle and Thorn and things. Adding turmeric to Brussels sprats makes them worth thirty dollars, or it's called burger bitch and as a neon sign in the window that says I'm gonna fuck a Hamberger's smiling nodding.

Yeah, that's a good one. That really got me. Andrew, where can people find you as their working media you've been enjoying?

I mean, you know, is this racist? Is my podcast?

I will just say the only media I've consumed is this unbelievably hectic signal group called La Fire's Mutual Aid. I guess what I will say is please send resources to California. However, Yeah, like many times of Naturals, I think a lot of people's first instinct is like the big name brand things, the places like Red Cross or you know, Planned Parenthood, and almost always those.

Are the least helpful places.

They're already well funded, they are often politically compromised, and you know sense it's possible to do your own research truly, do like look around, figure out what you actually believe in, and you can send money directly to people easier than ever before.

Do I have a specific one?

I know K Town for All's been doing a ton, but you know that's my own personal bias. Because this is only going to be happening more and more. The name brand in national and international aid organizations tend to not be the best place to send your money.

Yeah, so do your research. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien and on Blue Sky at Jack ob The number one tweet I've been enjoying mister Mitch at one eight hundred. Ghost Man tweeted Bill Sar's guard as a Noospatu voice, what is your wife's Instagram? And uh Zach Dunn tweeted water isn't for putting out wildfires. It's for powering a machine that lets me hear what it would sound like if Cartman read my Grandpa's will.

Oh my god, gotta cool.

Those AI engines? Baby? What does every time I see them draw a helicopter drop a bunch of water on this?

So much server?

Yeah, so much server cooling. That could have been done with that water.

Rip to the real victims.

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Uh?

Yeah, I think I got something. Okay.

So this is a track from slosson Malone One called King Sisyphus of the Atlantic from his album A Quiet Farewell, and it's got this sort of psychedelic low fi almost like a poet what I would call like a post hip hop kind of sound that flips a classic soul sample in the song called Nothing I Can Do About It.

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