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Welcome to Season three eleven, Episode five. That is how we're opening production of iHeartRadio Wait podcast.
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We take a deep dive into American share consciousness. Miles, it's all fucked up now, it's all fucked up. Now are you fuff Daddy? At the end of Victory, I just heard that song very recently, so yeah, we're it's just po. But Blake got let in early, so I entered the chat for this recording and our.
Guest was already there looking at you.
We usually we usually power play our guests, like Lorne Michael's, making them wait outside of our office for twenty four hours. The guest you here is actually the guest from the day We've made them wait a full twenty four hours.
Yeah, so this would be Monday's show.
It's Friday, Yeah, November third, twenty twenty three.
You know what that is? Eleven three, twenty twenty three. Eleven three, twenty three, No, it's actually not. They kind of eased up today. It's only World Jellyfish Day, National Sangwich Day, which I'm all for that, and also National Jersey Friday. Shout out to all the man children like me who are living vicariously through their sports jersey collections, like I have my illustrious half collection behind me. So it's all about the people that rock the jerseys, not
New Jersey. Shout out New Jersey too.
Though, Shout out in New Jersey as well, you know, get them where you can. They the one state that they wouldn't give a National Day too.
They're like, sorry, guys, and shout out to this New Jersey. I got ooh, what is it? That's the New York nick. I still haven't really down wore my outcast one. Really. I can't wait till I put a hoodie under there and I'll fucking got a bubble jacket on and it's eighty degrees outside because it's la and I'll look like a fucking asshole. Well, my name is Jack O'Brien AKA.
Your feet should really be flat on the ground because it looks weird when you move home around.
I ask you how tall?
You say five eleven, But put on these sneaks more like four foot seve and now stand in the boots with the lifts.
Now face or think about election.
Wonder why you won't accept gifts courtesy a blanky heck. Really well done. R e m stand aka dedicated to Ronda Santas and I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co host, mister Miles.
Grass Miles aka, uh oh, we've got an exact because here we go from blinky heck, sawed off boot heels, feet lifted up. Can't see how it was done because of why pantcuffs short king man can't take down Trump? La la la, okay, Cypress Hill. We love that you got the sawed off boot heels because, yeah, you gotta make room for the inserts or else you can't be five eleven.
So interesting that they lower the boot heel to make room for the lifts, otherwise you would just be completely.
Vertical, yeah, or could you imagine so unstable? Just like you're like, fuck, I should have sawed the heels down, and you're just super like what?
He looks so unstable as I As I mentioned, he looked like he was walking on chalkboard e racers.
Yeah, I don't know why.
That's what it looked like to me, but I am correct. Watch him walk across the stage in his weird lifted boots. He looks like he's got chalkboard e racers glued to
the bottom of his feet. Anyways, Sick Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of our favorites, a brilliant comedian, writer, actor who's brought you comedy albums such as the Blake album, Stuffed Boy, Live from the Pandemic, twelve years of voicemails from Todglass to Blake Wexler and his new special Daddy Long Legs. The d Lung Legs is absolutely hilarious. You can go watch it right now on YouTube. Wait, wait till the end of the episode, but then go watch it on YouTube.
Please welcome the hilarious, the chaotic. He's riding a recumbent bike in short shorts.
It's Blake Wexler.
This is Blake Wexler, AKA. I pledge allegiance to my plumpers of the United Legs of America and to these two thickies on which I stand no chafess. I swear to God indivisible, to jiggly to fit in my overalls. Folks, thank you so so much.
Overall, that's wild to make to fill out some overalls. That's it. Yeah, you look like three fighter character and ship like legs, thick bell tops. I wear bell top pants or the top bell or bell mid bell eyes. Yeah yes, oh you just wear like gipers. Those those bands with them just blown out. Yeah yeah, the thigh area.
Yeah, but they're filled out. They're full leg. Oh yeah, instead of billowing there full of leg.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's no room in there, no room. I can't even carry a phone. I have to carry all my things in my hands because pockets on pants are useless to me.
Hands full of pocket junk.
Yeah, yeah, gums, a phone, a charger, three checksick, another pack of gum. That's like mostly, but I forgot about three note books in one of those US three receipts. Yeah, exactly, so money receipts. I have a life alert, are you dude?
Is that just like is that like a shared illness that like het dudes have, is like pockets on receipt all the time. I have so many fun I don't know why I can't get your receipt It's fucking weird. Her Majesty's I was like, what the fuck is with all these receipts? And I'm like I might be you're gonna need it. Yeah, oh those you want to see what?
Right?
Oh yeah, yeah, show me what you have.
I do money phone with those parking receipts, with the parking lot tickets, I do.
I do a money phone with them. Oh yeah, right, stack, And I tend to be on the phone with This is from Lax when I picked up and one of these, like two weeks ago.
You never here's here's why I keep doing it, and it's it's it's you give a dog a cookie. It'll keep coming back. Where once I went to Trader Joe's lost the real ticket to get out of the parking lot. Used an old ticket from months before, one of the many that I just have in my door, and I put it in enough times that the thing was just like just let them out, and it's just the thing opened so nine years ago and now I still hold all them my car constantly.
Yeah you can do that though, sometimes you can. You can just hit the button, be like sorry, it won't let me out, and hold up the old thing and they'll be like, all right, we feel sorry for you.
Mine is like I wish there was something practical. I think it's left over stress from when my dad got audited in nineteen ninety four, and oh my god, like it basically destroyed my family because he was like, I gotta find all his paper because and nothing was digital and shit and it was like all these boxes. I remember being so hot in the garage trying to help my dad find shit. And it was like I was like, you guess I got to keep your paperwork, got to
have your paperwork. Paperwork. But I'm like keeping paperwork, like for again, a trader Joe's bag, salad or some shit. Uh help me, Oh my god, it's some hoarders. The parking Authority's gonna audit you and you'll be ready. Yeah anyway, yeah man, here we are. Anyways, here we are.
We are a group of mentally ill middle aged men.
On our way out. Oh but you know what's wild. Shot on my niece, who's uh sick or seven we're about to turn seven. She fucking loves receipts.
M hm oh really as there's a lot of data on there.
I know she's like you looking at it. It's so wild because my brother in law was like, hey, if you got receipts, man, she'll take them. And I was like, what for real? Its a joke and she dude's gonna have to pay for him. Yo, the CVS one. She's like, oh fuck yeah, look at this motherfucker right here. I think it helps you feel like you're buying shit or something like as a kid, you're like, oh, yeah, I feel powerful. Yeah. Yeah.
The CBS receipt is the It's the moby dick of receipts.
You know.
That's why everyone just takes things and walks out. Yeah, because of the receipt do you and pharmacies bad?
Uh?
But I didn't use the right grammar. There is CBS and pharmacy is bad in Los Angeles. Also because there's nothing in Philadelphia. My question I am I infer this is that Philadelphia there's nothing on the shelves, like they stopped trying to stop people from stealing, so there's just nothing on the shelves at any CBS or right eight in Philadelphia, like they have no inventory of any In Boston. It's the same way, like, but I was wondering if it's the same way and LA anecdotally.
No, I've noticed increasingly just everything's behind plastic. Yeah, yeah, I think that's why. Yeah, they have the big plastic boxes, and I'm like, for fucking eye drops for real. I'm like, Bro, my eyes are just okay. Sorry? Can I get a manager to give me fucking regular ass eye drops?
These things are infected? Yes, look at these things the fuck over.
Help me. I can't even see, bro, I can't even open my eyes. Help me.
So everything in the at the Philly ones is just like behind the counter.
Or there's anything there actually is not there's It sounds like I'm being hyperbolic at which I never do, but I am being dead. There is just nothing on the shelves, so they've been closing. I read a story that was happening nationally, but I was wondering if it was one of these stories where people are just complaining about cities and it's not a real, actual thing. But it is real in Philly, and it's the same thing in Boston
I've heard as well. But I guess LA New York seems like they have a good hand.
Are they trying to do? Like is it because like the mentality is like, well, if you guys are gonna steal, then you can't even have anything. Then like that sort of the attitude doesn't sound it seems hospitable.
Yeah, no, No, they've been closing a lot of stores have been closing at like a very high rate apparently. So I don't know if it was a thing of like, hey, let's just trust that the people won't steal, right, but we're stealing.
It's so while because we were just talking about this story how Target was crying crime wave as they closed stores in New York and San Francisco, and then the data was like, well, these aren't even the stores that are getting stolen from the most like, and also the numbers you're claiming it's affecting, like aren't really adding up for you to say you have to close a store, which which again always feels like the you know, retail lobbying efforts to be like we need more cops, I
want more cop money.
That's what it does seem. There is some sort of direct line between nothing being on the shelves and a CVS and then somehow also giving cop Well why wouldn't right, you know, No, that's what I mean.
Yeah, if you didn't know any better, you'd go in there and you'd be like, what the fuck's going on? Oh my god? I went to CVS and the theft is so rampant that there is we need law and order. And I wonder is it because Krasner is still the DA over there?
Oh, no, idea, he might be.
He might be.
I voted for him, I think. Yeah, all very scientist. Yeah, this is all very like. Hey, is he still crashing over there because they.
Don't like him?
They don't like him the cops. All right, Blake, 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 that we're talking about today. A Democrat is finally calling for a cease file. Oh wait, not not really. Senator Dick Durbin accidentally seemed to call for a ceasefire and then.
Walked it back.
But we'll we'll talk about just generally, you know, Biden ignoring the slutter and Gaza and where where we're at with regards to his polling and the presidential race. Airbnb is that there's just like a steady drumbeat of Airbnb horror stories. So we'll look at that. We'll look at De Giorno making a Thanksgiving pizza. For some reason, Seattle has come up with a wacky new policy where the police aren't allowed to lie, all right for some reason.
Well, I hope you guys like empty pharmacies. That's true.
If that police can't lie, enjoy that, Seattle.
Yeah, yeah, you're gonna have to go to the try cities to get your affer in. Now. That's good luck finding a single use umbrella, Seattle, single.
Disposable umbrella. Yeah, it's actually not waterproof.
Gets what it's about fifty minutes of water resistance before it absolutely just goes hollow on you made of newspaper, right right, Yeah.
Before we get to any of it, Blake, We do, of course like to ask our guests, even you, what is something from your search history?
Swordfish internal temperature. I am trying to eat more of the.
Six swordfish temperature page temperature, Okay, open up.
His nose was running, which has been a massive pain in the ass because it is a huge nose that that thing has.
No Yeah, it's one of the biggest of those. I was impalled fourteen times last year.
He keeps sticking me, that little son of a bitch, and all I do, I'm just trying to care for him these and it's also you know, the sea, their temperatures are rising. Therefore, my swordfishes temperatures are rising, and so of course fish their temperatures rising. Yeah, the sword fish are trying.
To fund the police control.
And you know ninety percent of your money that you pay for swordfish at Whole Foods does go to the Fraternal Order of Police and that's and that's just facts. Yeah, and I do demand the sword. Also when they hand me like, yes, you were sword, I'm like what, I start looking.
Okay, I got where is it? Yeah, the butcher has it in his belt in a sheath.
But yeah, I'm trying to eat more like fish steaks and it's new to me and like it's a swordfish steak. So I wasn't aware, by the way, I know a lot of people know this. This is very new to me, where that like a steak, like a beef steak, you can cook swordfish to different temperatures. So and just in my mind, I'm like, oh, can you do that with all meat or can you get violently my biggest spear in the world, just getting violently ill eating from eating food,
that's fair, Yeah, thank you. So I'm eating undercooked raw meats. Someone told me that you can get sick from doing it and I believe it was pat Yeah, it was Patty pathogens. And she told me, yeah, I believe it's one thirty one thirty five, which is like more medium rare, and then I mean above that, it just becomes like a brick. But that's what I was looking sword for. Yeah, and it's good.
I was not aware because Yeah, every piece of swordfish I've ever had is tastes like and I'm not don't don't think that I only have one reference to make, but it tastes like I'm cutting into a chalkboardy race, I.
Keep talking about cho I'm sorry, did you get a.
Trouble a lot detention in school? Like it just keeps coming that I'll show them one day what air grow up? Yeah, the but they yeah, they're always so dry. I did.
I did not realize that that was because I was just like drilling it to like extra.
Right, yeah, which still can be good. Wait, Blake, You're like, I'm trying to eat more like steaks that are like fish. You like that sort of sounded like you're a guy who can only eat like beef steaks And You're like, I don't know if there's another there's a fish steak. Then I'll try it. Now, give you that a one sauce, like.
I just have no no perspective, or I've never traveled steaks. It's just a say I go to the movies, I order popcorn steak. No, just make it could gield to one thing. I can't have multiple things. Pasta steak ozangna is like pasta steak? Yeah, pasta yes?
Wait then what's it? Okay, we don't have to. We don't have to. We don't have to explore that. We could take this on, is it though? No poke holes holes, No, I won't not like you're not while.
To do some diagramming and then we'll come back with two questions at the end.
That's perfect. Yeah, hey Blake.
Why don't you tell us something that you think is overrated?
Yeah?
Fact, I had here written down the heat, and I'm like, is are we talking about pat Riley? But of course not, I'm talking about the heat in your house where I for years thought that heat cost about four dollars and fifty cents per minute to run. So I was like, in gas money on your gas bill. So and I lived in la for forever, so I would never I would be like let's just throw on sweatshirts or coat. And then I started living with my now wife, and she was like, this isn't the right way to live,
and so then I started turning it on. You're also living on the East coast in it was clay degrees this morning.
Different temperatures. Yeah, correct.
And when we turn it on, if you haven't used the heat in a while, there's generally a lot of like dust and I don't know, mouse bones and there, and I'm allergic to some of that.
So allergic to mouth.
I don't it's not mice is a full you know, out of the garage mouse, it's fine, but it's bone.
Smoked a whole mouse this morning.
Yeah, we came.
Right off the bone, had a full mouse. And yeah, no, it generally gives me allergies. So I just think it's over. I like to bundle up. I prefer a blanket and like a nice comfy hoodie in home. Yeah I do. And which yeah, and I'm right. I was about to say, I realized that's strange. It's not strange, it's blake.
Will you do me a favor, go ahead right now, will you wait? Yeah, I'm right, Okay, is the heat on right now at your place. No, No, it can't be. And you said it was thirty degrees this morning. Yeah, but it's gone up to about forty nine. Okay, will you touch the tip of your nose and tell me if that's warm or cold right now? I can't feel it. I can't even tell it. It's broke off. Yeah. Fuck, that's like snowman. That's always when I know the house is too cold is when the tip of my nose
gets cold. I'm like, no, I mean, I don't need to have all this shit on, but yeah, it's funny. Is someone who loves to wear like warm, like cold weather clothing just for some reason. I get in my house, I'm like, do I need to wear a parka on my couch? I don't know.
But when I was a kid, we I but we grew up like never wanted for anything, you know, grew up my dad had a good job. And I'm saying this because of what I'm about to say.
We take those silver spoons out of your mouth real quick. I can't hear you. I can't.
They're actually welded to my teeth. My teeth instead of fillings, i'd have silver swims. Melted down formed the bowlers, and we just I slept like in the a converted attic which had air conditioning but no heat. So when I would come home from college, win or break, I would sleep in a coat. You know what, That's probably why I don't give a shit about heat, because I did it when I was young. I was able to sleep
in a coat. Why can't the woman I love more than anything on earth I suffer along with me?
Yeah, no, she'll finger. Didn't tell many people about you, huh. It just kind of kept you up in that attic. No, no, it was.
They wouldn't come up until my plates started piling up outside the door and feed me. Yeah, the little sloths.
Or if we had company over and they would blindfold me and give me my happy juice. Yes, yes.
And I met the broom once, the broom that they used to hit the ceiling and say, sorry, we have rats every time I'd sneeze or something.
We have rats, I said, The mice bones are rattling again up there.
Hence you who turned on the heat.
You got allergic to mice bondes because they were your only friends for so long.
But they were they were They were also from a physiological.
No, it does in the mental state.
And also if i'd like break a bone trying to escape, I would make a splint out of their bones.
Yeah too weird, just bone supporting bones.
Why not man bone sometimes together? You know? Thank you? Mm hm exactly. Let's take a quick break and we'll come back and hear what you think is underrated. We'll be right back.
And we're back and blake. You know, we like to ask our guests, what is that? Do you think it's underrated?
I love trains. I love traveling on trains. I just love trains, and it's such a great way to travel. I've been going back and forth from Philly to New York a lot for shows. I love taking the train. When I lived in La down the San Diego you could take it like by the ocean, and you can get work done on the train. You don't have to I don't want to think about the downside of this. But you don't have to go through security, you don't
have to get there super early. It's just open seating Southwest style, so you can just get on the train, sit down, plug in electrical outlets wherever you need them.
It is.
Use your phone to you know, like you get Cel phone service, you get Wi Fi. It's it's just a fantastic means of travel. Trains, Amtrak dot Com, slash Blake Westler for twenty percent.
Blake. You fucking you threw us off so bad with this sincere fucking take. Dude. You were waiting right, and I'm like, what the fuck are we I'm like, yeah, I like trains too, Yeah, hell yeah yeah, trains fucking rule man. Yeah, so what boose awesome? What's the best fucking train ever?
Go?
Yeah, dude, Thomas, Okay, all right, yeah, a friendly train. All right, this guy knows what the fuck he's talking about. Express Home. Yeah, okay, expert.
That weird nor Weed movie where they all went to war with one another on the train. What was that called slash Bite? Do you know what I'm talking about? They were on the train I trained. I won't remember what it's about.
The silver skillet. What it was called called silverk not snow Piercer. Yep, that's it. That is it? Oh okay, I'm not kidding, no, bit it was it. I could get the name of snow.
And you thought it was a Norwegian film? Yeah, called slash Bite.
It's been forever. I think they made a few of them. But it was good. Yeah, it was so snow piercer.
Let's let's talk about So we got us Centaer Dick Durbin calling for a ceasefiring Gaza. It only took nine thousand deaths for a democratic politician to actually call for a.
At least someone the more mainstream, the progressive in the main Yeah.
But he was just asked on CNN if if it was time for a ceasefire, and he responded, I think it is, and.
Was like, oh really shit, yes, fuck yeah.
But it only seems like a big deal because Biden won't use any stronger language than the word pause, which of course implies zum, it's going to keep going afterwards, Yeah, not stop, a brief pause followed immediately by resumption. I like this quote from The Hill where Biden on Wednesday suggested a pause and fighting was needed to get the prisoners out in response to a heckler who asked him
to call for a ceasefire. So that's how hard the mainstream media is hitting it that, like a heckler has to intervene to get him to comment on this because the mainstream media. She said a clip of like, what's like.
Are they are they actually referring to the rabbi who yelled at who like interrupted him, Because that's a little wild. That's because I know there's a rabbi like definitely inner and got and was like calling for a seastfire, and that is so wild that they would just reducing this like toler.
Wow, anti semitic heckler.
Yeah, wasn't a rabbi. Yeah he was overserved.
Yeah, bottom, some drunk wandered in off the street.
Dude. You gotta see his shorts on YouTube. I love it. It went viral.
But yeah, then Durban basically walked it back, clarifying that he only believes in a ceasefire in certain circumstances, such as the release of those who have been kidnapped and an indication that this is a good faith effort on the part of the other side, which just it sounds like he's just like wandering off muttering to himself at the end of that statement and yeah, good faith on both side and the other side and so forth and so on.
Well, yeah, when I mean people are saying, when body of water, when will the Palestinian airstrike stop? You know, when when will Palestine stop with their like a NonStop bombardment. But yeah, okay, Dick derb cool cool, cool, like yeah, yeah, I think so all right, let me just move on. Is that just enumb.
Finally we have a leader on the progressive side?
I think, I think yes, yeah, yeah, I.
Think any encouraging maybe yes, perhaps, yeah, But it's just I don't know, a lot of people are pointing to the fact that Biden's numbers are cratering, but also like he he doesn't seem to be changing his tune very much in response to that creating, possibly because RFK Junior taking so much of of the Republican vote, or you know, in some polling, people think that he's going to make it so that Biden can still squeak out a victory against Trump because so many of the mega people are
anti vaxers, and Trump did vaccine. He did the vaccine, did the vaccine, So he made it. I'm gonna start using some dark arts ship in this election and just be like, Trump's a vaxer man. He's in league with Fauci, don't you know.
Whatever it takes. You know, he committed a vaccine. He committed the vaccine.
The multi exact, he violated my vaccine. Right. But yeah, I mean this is like, this is kind of the thing with the with the Democrats, right there, there's always something that helps them not follow through on the things they promise voters, right And because and like the mag We've said this all the time, the MAGA phase of the GUP has been a fucking blessing to Democrats, because we said, their whole platform is just saying, well, we're not them at least now give us vote. Okay, we're
not them, We're just just we dress better. And we used actual words from the dictionary consistently most of the time. And like you said, yeah, the polling's been like really going downhill with younger voters and Arab Americans. And this isn't an this is not an insignificant number of voters. Like young young voters have especially helped Joe Biden and the Democrats claim numerous victories over the last couple of cycles. And like, you know, you're like, well, what can he
do to stop this besides actually stopping the siege? Is there anything else Joe Biden could possibly do without listening to the numerous pleas of many people in the country. And around the world. He recently touted like an office
that would look into like in Islamophobia in America. But considering the rhetoric that's coming out of the White House, it feels very Kente cloth in the rotunda in the summer of twenty twenty, aka just an optics play, like no substance behind it, Like why don't you listen to the people who are telling you if you're so concerned with islamophobia, let's actually let's wrestle with that and look that, look at that through the lens of American foreign policy,
be like, yeah, yeah, here's the thing that check out this PDF.
And now RFK we're gonna first thing we're going to look into is what does it mean?
What is it Islamophobia? Yeah? Is that even a thing? And who does that a word that you guys just made up? I don't know, I don't know. We'll see and you know, like with RFK, some polls say that it could open up a three point gap. Others are saying it could be a seven point gap, because that's how much RFK Junior could siphon off from the Republicans. But obviously these are just like snapshots in time they're no way are going to ultimately reflect the final outcomes
since it's so early. But this is the kind of shit that helps Democrats think they can get away with like their mirage, like campaigning tactics, or they're like, well, hey, I mean even even if we're losing Arab American support and a huge chunk of younger voters. This if RFK enters, that's going to eat in. That could open up a
seven point gap. Maybe that's going to be And right now I feel like we're getting even more talk about Mike Johnson, who is the new speaker, and he's getting a lot of coverage and rightly so, he has a lot of power. He is violently homophobic, He is like anti choice. Recently is revealed he has no bank accounts, like when he's looking at his financial disclosure.
That's just smart, Miles, this guy's just smart. Where Yeah, well you're gonna lend it to the bank where you can't even see it when he comes on extra oven that is plugged in.
Yeah, right, thank you. Surprise, surprise, Now I'm talking to a smart person. Yeah. Surprisingly, the guy with all the receipts believes in bank accounts though, uh, how but like, like a lot of people are saying like, either this guy is hiding ship and trying to be deceptive, or they're like they are hiding a child like Johnson. That's another one too, where they said he had a shady adopted kid that I'm not going to cast his persons quite yet. I'm gonna look into that a little bit more.
But he has like a Matt Gates type. I adopted this person like many years ago, and I'm like, who is this anyway? It could also mean that he's just terrible with his money. Also, because he's in a lot of debt. It looks like so who knows, but a lot of the cover of a bank account. Yeah, truly, they're like, bro, what are you doing? He's like, are you where do you put it? I can answer your questions. What are you talking about? Yea, what is a bank account? What is that? Do you want me to Yeah? I
don't know. But like the like a lot of the coverage and discussion, especially with Mike Johnson, is in the context of these people are so fucking craven they should not be in power. This is what's gonna happen if you don't support Joe Biden, And again we understand, I understand what you're saying. These are the people that are also running for office or trying to ultimately control the government.
But it excuses the lack of conviction, especially the Democratic Party has when it comes to its own commitment to progressive reform and it at this point, how are you gonna blame people for feeling like it's all bullshit? Like you're getting hammered into people. Oh, don't talk about don't Why are you tearing down Biden? Like why aren't you saying the economy is good? Because if you don't, they're like, if you don't put your values aside to keep the
status quo, you are bad. And it's you know who's not bad. It's not the people that have the power to materially change this shit. It's you, and it's it's giving. It's the same dynamic that is used to frame consumers as the drivers of climate change and not governors or governments and multinational corporations. Like it's like, who's I'm sorry you are, Yeah, you got the mandate, you're in office, and now you're gonna be like, well, I don't know,
can you do this? Can you? No? No? And I think that's like a huge I think we're at a really interesting crossroads right now because, like we were saying, I think in yesterday's episode, this dusty propaganda playbook is not working like it used to and talking about the economy and like the macro economic sense isn't good enough for people, especially people who are coming of age, entering the workforce and have their own dreams of you know, being able to afford a place to live, I mean,
let alone home ownership, but all these other things. So yeah, it's it's very like they have a lot of easy out to sort of obscure the lack of real shit that has been going on, lack of real progress that's being made, at least the shit that was promised to people on the campaign trail. Right.
Yeah, And again it's there's always this tone that like you're being childish if you are idealistic or put pushing back and just being like that it's the childish thing to not just like play political hardball unlessen to the political theorists about what we should be you know, what's what's the smart saye like by the books thing to be doing. It's like, yeah, but you're using that you're weaponizing that logic, which has made sense, does make sense.
Nobody wants Trump to be the president, but you're using that logic weaponizing it against us. So that's on you. That's on you. For like, if if Biden doesn't get nominated because you keep weaponizing the shit, then like that's on you. That's that's just how politics work.
Yeah, it's like the same base like with cops, right, you're like, what's your track record again? Oh? Wow? Not great? And what now? What is this now? You you need more money? And with like with the Democrats, like how long have you had to codify Roe v? Wade? How long?
But you decided to fucking play you want to play keep away hot potato with it, and people's lives are hanging in the balance, and at a certain point you have to be like, that's that is actually the craven shit, not me saying I'm I'm envisioning a better way for things to operate or for people to have a some
better semblance of a of a positive looking life. So ah, you know this is I think this is just gonna continue, like with Democrats and consultants kind of scratching their heads as like polling goes down, like, but the economy did they see that the GDP went up? I'm sorry, Yeah, how can you sell that to somebody? Can you sell that to somebody who is living in poverty or is like you know, like someone who's like classified as like the working unhoused, because we have plenty of people like that.
I think they give a fuck about that. It's not going to move the needle. And I so everyone speaking different sort of languages to try and argue against or for a certain candidate, but like they're really missing the essential truths that people are experiencing and witnessing on their day to day lives.
Right, which is what a lot of those essential truths are the thing that is like powering the mega movement in the first place. Yeah, you know, like that's not coming from nowhere. The fact that this racism and like you know, escapism is so popular is not coming from nowhere.
Yeah, but hey, the GDP would up.
No, the GDP, which we can all have a firm grasp on. It affects us in our daily life. Whenever I walk down the street, the GDP is holding my hand front. Not ancient romes, I no, not at all. I think it's such a good point about the Maga movement being such a gift to Democrats, where we can as Democrats keep looking well, if you don't vote for us, it's so much worse over there, and like cartoonish, like it is a cartoon of how bad it could be.
But once that movement starts to subside, now we're just kind of stuck with not fulfilling on these promises, and people will start jumping from It's like, well, you know, the Maga made the Republicans look cartoonishly bad. Now they just look bad. But Democrats haven't been helping us either,
so this is gonna get worse. I think once there's like the big bad wolf of Maga goes away where you can't they'll have Democrats won't have anything to point at that's as cartoonish that subside, So you have to have a foundation of being helpful and being truthful and benefiting your voters at some point.
Yeah, But I think it's also we see this across the world, even in you know, the situations we're currently speaking about around the globe, where sometimes it benefits you to have people so craven or the appearing so extreme to help you kind of be like, that's actually good for me, Like, so I don't I'm not really trying
to get rid of that. It's actually good that they're there because we can kind of maintain this course of act, like this course we're on, and not have to do too much and then just raise the specter of right wing extremism to get people to fall in line, because at the end of the day, we're still seeing police indiscriminately kill people in the streets. We're still seeing the
economy not working for working people. It's only because of working people taking up for themselves that we're seeing things happen. So I get when people like, but he's the most pro union president ever, It's like he wasn't. He wasn't organizing the auto workers, he wasn't organizing the Starbucks, he was not organizing Amazon work. He's not the one doing I get that the the environment might be more positive in that sense, but that work is being done by
the people on the ground. So you know, you got you got a lot. You got a lot to work on. Democrats, if you're going to continue to be like, you gotta vote for us, because shit is still really bad for people, and without something that resembles that. I mean, like, but again, I think this is it's sort of it's definitely a bit of a fantasy to think that the Democratic Party as it is is ever going to do anything different.
And I think that's why we always end up coming to the place of, well, that's why there needs to be some sort of political realignment in this country that is able to siphon away some of the power from the main parties and actually give people some other option, because, like we said earlier, like between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, you're still going to get indiscriminate bombing of people in Palestine. It's just like, at what speed are you getting it?
And that to me, those aren't those those aren't real options if that's something that's front of mind for you. And I think it's really fucked up to browbeat somebody be like, well, oh, okay, I'm sorry that you have a problem with all these these people getting killed with our munitions. But but but Donald Trump, like, that's that's not that's not moving the needle.
Yeah, I don't know that it's going I don't know the maggot things going to subside. Also like that it doesn't seem like, yeah, the country, the support is moving in the right direction, like our our third party candidate that is everyone's like, oh thank god, this guy camera is an anti vaxer who like is like, you know, appealing to people who don't who want support science. Like
that things are not moving in the right direction. And also, like we we talked at the very beginning of like this show, we were talking about how but when Trump first came to office and that like it was new people, you know, everyone's breathlessly covering it and it was shocking that like somebody who says the things he says and is as racist as he is, like could come to power.
But now we're at a point where it feels like people are just kind of like they accept it that that's a thing, and it's let like people are now sliding back into a world where it's like yeah, and also this other party is actively fucking us. And so you know that that's what happened with the Nazi Party, like that they were around and very unpopular for a decade, and like people think about that story and think it's like this quick swift rise to power, but it wasn't.
They were around, They were popular when they first came to power, they or when they first like became a thing and started like beating people up on the streets and you know, being incredibly offensive and anti semitic in like on main they were front page news, and then by the time they rose to power, the people were just like, yeah, there walked into it. We know about them. Yeah,
people just slept walking into it. So I think there's a real danger that these dynamics that the Democratic Party are counting on, whether there is like some crisis that suddenly makes like the populace like want to shift right word because of like a terror attack or something like that, or whether it's just like sleepwalking into it. Like I
think the everybody is playing with fire. Who's just like counting on these same dynamics of being scared of Trump to hold up like that that's not indefinite, That won't that won't hold up indefinitely, and then you're in some real big fucking trouble.
Yeah, that's that's a really good point.
I think, even like after you said that, I think, I hope what I meant, because it makes me sound smarter, is that it wouldn't. It may not be maga in that name or Trump on like Trump, but it will be a version. It'll take on it, maybe a new face, maybe name name, or they'll keep the name. It's a great name. So who knows.
No, you are wrong, but I was right. That's a great point.
No, No, you just talked longer and you do this and it makes part.
Of your thing. This is why you have me on. I know you guys fucking set me up right now, that's right.
Yeah, it's like, oh, let him be funny and then we talk and yeah, no, I'm but it's I.
I still come back. I'll still keep coming back. Thank you. Strength of character, folks, strength of character. Thank you.
All right, let's uh, let's take a break and we'll be right back.
And we're back. And it's it's the holiday season and all around. Oh did you know is that I don't know?
I I lost a I lost So it just like caught me for a brief. Is the holidays?
Andy Williams. It's Andy Williams, the late great Andy Williams. Holiday. Was that guy probably a violent racist?
Oh he was an alcoholic and definitely oh yeah, oh my god, just drool you know that like drunk sweat where just there's like beads of sweat above the lip, but it's like sixty one degrees.
He's holding a saucer for some reason to catch his drool.
Yeah, there's a whole genre of holiday songs where the person seems to have suffered some sort of head injury, where like the Sayanta Baby and like that one's very infantilizing and dumb sounding, and then the.
So what they dodoctor dot on my cock? You're not saying words anymore, homie. Yeah, wait, what was that last one?
It does sound like all of these people are singing it as their hospital gown just comes undone, and they don't even know about it because they're just.
So artne Oh dude, I'm so, I'm I'm vindicted. I'm vindicated here. I was looking into Andy Andy Williams politics. He was at the fucking Ambassador Hotel when RFK was killed because he was friends with RFK. But I was like, oh well, but he later on he's like, yeah, I was friends with him, but I'm a lifelong Republican. And he was like letting Rush Limbaugh use his music for his radio show and said Obama was a Marxist. So yeah, thanks Andy, thanks for.
That thanks, Thank you Andy. He was he was there at the at the hotel when he was killed.
Hey sir, right here, right, how about you know around the corner here, around the corner, about to come through the kitchen, about to come to the kitchen.
Allegedly anyways, all equally honoring the holidays. Dejoorno is dropping a frozen Thanksgiving pizza on all of our asses.
I don't beating us over the head, I think because it's frozen.
Ah, a murder This is used as a murder weapon. Yeah, this is a Thanksgiving dinner that takes twenty minutes to make and you know, zero work. Just press a couple of buttons and it looks like in the in the photograph where they've made it look like as good as possible.
It looks like shiit to me. Oh, personally, it looks like somewhere you got it looks like you've gotten a fight at your Thanksgiving and you were leaving with a plate like to go home with and then you got so many just threw it on the fucking ground. And yeah it was a pizza. It's kind of like, visually what this looks like.
I was reading the review of my six Swordfish, I think, oh no, once it left. That's a goofy.
Bravy covered rectangle. Yeahs like ship, but like the reviews seem to be that like it was, it tastes much better than people thought it would, but still a no for me. Me dog was kind of a thing I saw from other accounts I was looking on the internet. If you've got an official no for me dog, I mean, it's not delivery, it's disgusting. Hey, you know there's one for you. I like that.
I'm no one that that might have been just your group of friends in middle school, but.
You are you. I don't. I don't need this. I never thought like I'm always down with a Thanksgiving sandwich, you know what I mean? That's like I'm willing to go there. Pizza hmm. Turkey as a spin theory.
Could be good if all right, so here's what you would need to do for this to work for me. Okay, potatoes, drop the turkey, just green beans, stuffing, mazza, RelA cheese, gravy sauce alright, bro, and a whole fucking pumpkin pie right in the middle.
Yeah, oh jesus, I don't think you got to fill this thing with red wine with a twenty twenty five Merlow and like a jelly doughnut.
I want this brulau to be older than you, to be younger than a baby. Okay, then a parent baby whose parents haven't met yet.
Yes, And the crust is stuffed with a clock napkin that you wipe your mouth with when you're done with it.
It reveals a nice cloth napping with every bite was a fortune written on it, handwritten, not not mass produced. It's a handwritten fortune on your napkin. Choice, go ahead, thank you? Next call like, yeah, call it you on? What do you what do you suggest? Yeah? I think you under the cheese our receipt mazzer. Also mozzarella not a Thanksgiving I get that. It's a pizza. So you're like, I gotta have the mozzarella on there or whatever, But we got the mots bro no man. The fact that
it's a gravy sauce gives me hope. The fact that they've put gravy as the sauce. Hey, it's my known as gravy. That's right. It's like it is marinera.
I don't want turkey and I don't want potatoes. I do not want potatoes as a topping on any pizza.
We heard you. I don't just reiterating that over. I'm sorry. I don't want turkey and I don't want They know, they know, honey, they know, they know. We got it. We got you cook.
You could put some poultry on there after the fact, but when you put it, you put cooked turkey on as a topping and then cook it again. That's bout. Yeah, that's cried out ass fucker. That bird is dry, bro, this is hookers dry. I think the best thing bird. So we hydrate this real quick.
What's bird water? You don't want to know. But the best Thanksgiving leftover thing I've ever done was made pop out a ina with it like potato balls, you know, like a Portos, the potato ballsat So, yeah, this is what you do. Take mashed potatoes and then you take the you fork off the turkey meat right, And what I did was I made it for yeah, okay, thanks guys.
And then you basically fill the center with like little bits of turkey with gravy, and then you wrap that in a fucking mashed potato ball and then you take stuffing right like the dry stuffing, like the mix you roll your potato balls in that and then deep fry that fucker. I'm telling you, that's what I did, like maybe eight years ago, when my friends high as fuck, and it was it's it's wonderful. I think people started. I'm not saying I came up with this, but after
the fact I started, people started making this ship. But anyway, I'm not here.
You dipping that in some gravy, but you want to keep the inside.
What we did was we took we we braized a like turkey meat, like slow cooked it in gravy, so you had like this treaded turkey, like really soft turkey meat that was already like in a gravy mixture. So then it goes very well into the potato ball. Anyway, that's recipes with Miles. Yeah, I'm fucking impressed. That's amazing. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll fucking do it. You should, yeah, and then you will, Bro, you'll do it, will Bro. I'm not sure. Go ahead.
I've always wanted to dip, dip gravy and more gravy, and that that feels like an opportunity with this recipe.
Oh like that, I think. Yeah, I thinky think like freezing that like gravy into a stick and then dipping that in gravy.
A gravesticle or yeah, yeah, I mean even though Dejorno Pizza does give you that option, and maybe that would get over my difficulties with the dry turkey if you.
If they gave you a gravy dipping sauce on the side for your gravy pizza, or.
Just think ahead and integrate fucking stuffing with the flavor profile of your crust or dough, you know what I mean. So like, your delivery mechanism is already has that like sage herby stuffing flavor whatever.
Bro, Like, I can't you don't say delivery around the pole. I mean, you can't say delivery mechanism with them. They'll be so pissy. Fuck I just jump out the window. This meeting is over. Fuck you have them until that moment.
I fucked it up, didn't I. They're like, yeah, you learned yes for an answer? Yeah, do you guys validate? No?
No, the fuck out of our office? Where's is located? I wonder what their corporate campus.
Is like, Oh, I bet it's sprawling.
I bet, Yeah, A lot of it's like Microsoft's I would imagine soccer field, you know.
Yeah, also looks like a UFO landed in the middle of Silicon Valley.
That's the campus over there. Hydration. There's no like, there's no like folksy origin story about Digiorno, because it's not anything. It's a fucking name. They just gave their stupid frozen ship. I don't know why I.
Made in the same yeah, probably made in the same lab as snackables.
You know, this is fucked up.
When I was in college, this is really I really lucked out here, So let's just look past that. This could have been, depending on who you ask, a disaster. But I came home drunk when I put it the jorna in the oven, fell asleep, woke up, just smoke filling up the place. The thing didn't even the thing is so filled with chemicals. It just like it didn't catch fire or anything. It just kind of became a new It went underwent like a chemical reaction and went from food to something else, like.
The carbon it went to became carbon.
It was the Carbon Supreme that I ordered, and it became full coal, and I ran my apartment off that for months.
It was it was actually a smart thing and it had a diamond inside it. Did it did?
It was the golden tickets for my honeymoon. It's on my wife's finger right now. It's a pizza diamond.
There you go. Yeah.
Well, Blake Wexler as always such a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
Thank you. I I'm sorry we only got to do topics today. They're hard hitting. Though they're hard hitting, it's all good.
They we they were they're the two topics that America demands.
Yeah, true, true, So we did. We did right by the listeners. The people can find me at Blake lestern dot com, eplic Lextner on social media. I'll be in Ashville doing stand up comedy why Not on December first, and my special Daddy Long Legs has eclipsed one hundred thousand views in the first month. And thank you to all the Zeit Gang for watching it. I saw a lot of comments, people shouting out the Zeit Gang, shouting out the podcast, so I've read all of them and
I really appreciate you all for listening. So it is such an amazing show. The listeners are so great. And I'm also selling speaking of Daddy Long Legs, so merch where I've created it will go on sale tomorrow. A spider one is a sexy spider that's Daddy long Legs, and then the other spider is Dad long Legs. Where it's just a big slop and you can and buy those things. It's original art and yeah, they'll be on my social media as well. But thank you both so much for having me.
This is the best. You're the best. Is there a workimedia you've been enjoying? There is? I have a I have a tweet.
It's from Blair, friend of the show, friend of the host, friend of the guest, Blair sat u. Yeah exactly Blair Blair, which is a new handle that she had, which is fantastic.
Always wanted to I was this, It's got two c's. Is this I just't like, I want to say Sachi Maine. But hey, anyway, Saki May, you can only do so much for people. I yeaound if you know I already get a life changing idea, so.
You gave them a lifeline and Blair wrote, nothing is funny on here right now, But I will say I remain amazed that the human body knows how to not piss and ship while asleep, Like how do the holes notice stay closed? So I'm still enjoying that. So yeah, she cracks me out. I think she's filming a special soon. So yeah, she's been on the road too, She's been killing it. Who's she on the road?
She's so funny functions sometimes and I think she's opening for Jessel Nike or something too amazing. Anyway, shut up shot people stand up comedy? What and that?
That is such a great question, like how much of our brain is doing work that we're not aware of, such as keeping the holes closed?
Well? Is it a union job? Miles? Where can people find you? What's the working media you've been enjoying?
Uh?
Find me on the AT based platforms at Miles of Gray. Find us on the basketball podcast Miles and jacko mad Boosties. Oh sorry forgot. I've got two Big Sixers fans here. We're just talking about the hard and trade online.
We don't have to talk about the Sixers at all. But I will be coming on your podcast, I think in a week or so and.
We'll talk about it. Ben, Yeah, and Corner, but both of you and then you're gonna wait. But you guys are new fair. I forgot your your bucks now, yeah, we we've decided to. Yeah, so you're a Bucks fan now I'm a Sun fan now. Yeah.
Yeah.
You guys are so philly. You ran yourselves out of town, ourselves.
Boo ourselves through batteries at ourselves and.
I swallowed a d battery. Yeah, also swallowed a d uh. You can find me on the ninety Dance podcast for twenty Day Fiance and also check out The Good Thief if you like some murder free true crime that I host Murder Murder Free so Media, I like, literally have me a specific thing. Okay, So I know I was first I was like, I like the Goosebumps thing, and I was like, I don't know anymore. I watched it. I kept watching it again. You're I'm back, baby. It's good.
Oh good. There's just there's a good amount of like nineties like it's very millennial like facing. So there's like like some of the music cues, I'm like, oh shit, okay, we're doing this one now. So yeah, and also like it's it's it's it's light horror. It's not like freaky ship. You don't have to contend with like dolls that got bones and ship. So yeah, that's what I like. Try it. If you want some spooky shit, still there you go.
You can find me on Twitter. Jack Hunter score O'Brian tweet I've been enjoying. Artemis tweeted the line fish fear me, interestingly, is two thirds composed of the very small set of English words you can bonger.
Oh that's so interesting.
And then Kim at Kimmy Monte tweeted Bill Nye's full name is William New Year's Eve. I love it, which if you know how his name is spelled, that's very funny. You can find me on Twitter at Jack Hunter, score obrian. You can find us on Twitter. Oh you can also find me. I appeared on Behind the Bastards talking about Glad the Impaler. Hey this week, that's the name of your sort of the Halloween episode Watch out now. I've been trying to get out in the nickname the Jack
the Impale. That's what I say. Now when Miles of the funny joke, watch when Miles says a funny joke about swords, because you have to watch out for that.
Oh heads up? Yeah, anyways, you you go go listen to the behind the Bastards. It's the edgy content you come for.
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Did you just come What just happened there? You know what? That was the the word it's like a retrograde fart he was contending with it, was I feel better? Yeah?
Yeah?
The song yes uh. On yesterday's show when we had mclet on, we were talking about like, as people like music lovers, it's always great to find a new band that like speaks to you and you're like, oh my god, this is a band I've been wanting to hear and I didn't realize that I didn't know it. This is okay. So at first, this track is called Mirage and it's
by this ozzy Australian psychedelic group called Glass Beams. The track itself is dope, but I will encourage you to look at the YouTube live version Glass Beams Mirage Live because you kind of the vibe of this trio is so dope to me, like they're just there, viby as fuck, and their the rhythm section is so in the pocket baby, you thought it was a fucking receipt. Okay, thank you so much for that anyway, But just check this out. This is Mirage by Glass Beams. I'd say watch out now,
but it's not sure. Yeah, exactly all right. We'll link off to that in the footnote.
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