Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season two eighty eight, Episode three.
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And it's a podcast where we take a deep dive into American share consciousness. And it's Wednesday, May twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. Oh man, it's Brother's Day. Shout out others the siblings out there, and you know, and also to my fellow African Americans. I'll also say his Brother's Day. Also, yeah, why not? I mean, I don't know what the spirit of it. The photograph seems to be two Caucasian kids, so I'm guessing it's just for the sibling brother from but I would.
Expand that to the larger spiritual sense.
Also Aviation Maintenance Technician Day, National Wyoming Day, National Scavenger Hunt Day, National escargold Day, we we Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Medical Services for Children Day.
Is it saying like you're advocating for them, like, yeah.
They should also be able to access emergency medical and National Yucatan Shrimp Day.
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Oh hell, you're talking about the many similarities between the French accent and the Philly accent, the two most sophisticated accents on the planet. My name is Jack O'Brien aka hold on to your butt to everyone, buddy, you're a podcaster, smart man on the mic, talking about the news with Oh you're insight repping the daily zeitgeist every single day, y'all go and I'll.
Bring the truth, make get your own way singing. Miles and Jack.
They're the hosts on the show, keeping us informed, making sure we all know yeah, and then there's like they have like a second part of the chorus. So this is an AKA brought to you by chet GPT spot said. Due to AKA writers strike, akas are now app source to chat GPTCA.
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Real long and like it doesn't seem to know what the what the words to we will rock you are.
So we're gonna spend the show.
We're gonna spend a lot of this episode talking about why you should be.
Scared of AI.
But I just wanted to open up with you know, a reason to laugh and point at chat gpt because it's long. Man, there's a good Miles, you're a funny man, quick with the jokes, adding laughter to the serious topics. Spoke and Jack your the brains bringing knowledge to the game.
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But time get out the suction vehicles whatever, it's time to sweep clean up the floor. As the Lakers went out to the Nuggets, I mean, I can't feel bad about it. They're the month they were just they were so much better. I can't so good man, they were so good. I can't really freaking good. That Yokich guy real, he that good man? Hey, Yoker, give me, give Joker, give Antony a shot at the ball. I like Joel, but yeah, Joel, but that Joker is really good. My little house Keeping up Top.
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like interview episodes with like experts. We might even like do some mail bag episodes where we get to hear from you, guys, from We will do so with.
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Please we're hearing from you. Sick sick motherfuckers. Hey and Miles, speaking of sick, disgusting mother motherfuckers, were true. Joined in our third seat by a brilliant comedian writer actor whose stand up album The Blake Album Stuffed Boy and Live from Pandemic debuted at number one on iTunes. His album Twelve Years of Voicemails from Todd Glass to Blake Wexler charted on Billboard. Please Welcome. He is the hilarious chaotic.
He's riding a recumbent bicycle in short shorts and his plumpers are plake.
What this is, Blake Wexler A K A. I crave to zeit in Zike the Blake of Dawn, Come to Miles because Jackie will be gone.
Crave to zeit.
It was craved to zeit by Beanie Siagull Eye Cherry, which is a mand I just made up, but no I wrote.
That Beie A.
I wow, that was a real Philly mashup. You you went with the broad Street bully. Beanie Siagull is eagle eye Cherry from Philadelphia.
No, but there is eagle in its name, and there's a street called Cherry Street, so Cherry Temple's uniforms.
Yes. Oh my god, Egle, you know where eye Cherry is from? Beyond Sweden? Sweden? I don't know Cherry was Swedish. My bump is on the Swedish It does sound like a name that was mistranslated. So yeah, yeah, I can see it.
Oh my god, this all makes sense. His half brother is in Nina Cherry Oh Buffalo Stance. Remember Nina Cherry Buffalo Stance. Yeah, that's his brother. Wow, the cherries are I.
Didn't realize the all Cherries are out. Oh wait, so then he moved.
He's born in Sweden. But then when by the.
Way, we talked about we're doing the new format, this is one of them where Miles just oh my god, this is ch it's my family history of the myself an expert on Cherry for Me, interview expert on uh Eugli Cherry, Blake Wexler.
Yes, last time I spoke to you was on an episode of our sister podcast, Miles and Jack Got Mad Boostie.
We were talking about the seventy six ers.
Yeah, we were talking about how we weren't going to be fooled even though things were looking good for them at that point. I think it was maybe like the peak of optimism for the seventy six ers, Like it was yes, yeah, people were like, I don't know, these sick like they're putting it together and you and I were.
Like, shh yeah, right, what are we dumb?
Yeah they're idiot.
Yeah they're gonna drop it. But look at the momentum they're carrying into the post. This looks fantastic.
Like, I know the eventual crash is going to be hilarious, is what is all I see? When I see momentum, I'm like, I just hope they're wearing protective gear because it's going to be a catastrophic crash. Sure enough, it was super frustrating they lost to a Celtics team that, as we're seeing, was beatable. The Celtics are getting in the process that you know, they're down three to zero as of this recording to the Miami Heat.
Yeah it could be broom time.
Yeah, But I do think this series has made me feel better about the Celtics loss, because, first of all, second round losses is where we belong as Philadelphia seventy six ers.
And also we would have gotten rinsed by the heat.
It would have somehow been worse than this, like what's happening to Boston more embarrassing. So thank you Boston for taking this one for us, and thank you James harden enjoyl Embiid for quitting at the end of game seven to just be being like they saw the matrix, they were like, this would yeah, so.
It was good timing.
I wish they just saw it so we could have just been swept and not had to deal with any of it. You're playoffs just it would have been even better. Yeah, it would have been the time that we could have saved. And this team is so frustrating and so just completely void of joy. Yeah, I don't even get any there's no I told you. So that makes you feel good because it's like, yeah, we saw it coming. It's like
predicting a car accident. It's like, why don't people are in the streets, And I don't feel good about it.
I wish you listened to It was nice that they chose the crowning failure that destroyed all of our hearts and minds.
They saved it for Mother's Day, so that was kind. That was full of them.
Anyways, Blake, glad we had our Philly Sports Minute up top.
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Be a AI full episode.
An AI generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon, spook to the markets. AI can now read your brain waves and turn it into video, and being used to track mass movements and their weapons to detector's stink.
So it's just all very confusing.
There's a lot of information coming at us in general, so we'll just talk about the difficulty of sorting through it all.
All of that plenty more. But first, Blake, we like to ask our guest, what is something from.
Your search history?
Search history a cheap gift. My wife's birthday is this weekend. I know the actual is of Randy Johnson kills bird was what it was because I think a cup maybe it was over the weekend, Randy Johnson, by the famous I'm picking up on Jack's Q that I was talking about obscure Philadelphia sports stuff, and Jack had to keep jumping and explaining what the fuck I was talking about.
So I'll just do it myself.
Randy Johnson was a FA A Hall of Fame pitcher, and this seems mathematically impossible, but one time he was pitching and he threw the pitch to the plate and then a bird flew in the path of the pitch and the bird, I don't know what happened to it.
I don't know if it survived. It was below it explode.
Yes, yeah, totally like there, it was decimated.
A bird is flying and then there is just a cloud of feathers and that's it.
It was stunning. And then it happened again. Over the weekend. We're in warm ups. There was a pitcher for the same team that Randy Johnson played for, the Arizona Diamondbacks, was warming up in his pitch. By the way, this is all accident. These people aren't burderers, right.
And they blood thirsty motherfuckers, these fucking fat There was foul play, but I do need to go.
But no, they hit. I probably should be believing it.
I'm feeling faint, but yeah, another pitcher hit a bird with a pitch over the week over the weekend, over the weekend, same kind of image.
It was not as cool.
I know, you love that that just that bird exploding sort of thing. Jack, you don't like to get your your but no, this shot, it wasn't nearly but he was out in the outfield, he was warming up, so you know, yeah, he didn't put much behind it, but it did kill the bird.
Also in the Cleveland Guardians the Cleveland Guardians White Sox game, a bird also got fucked up by like a ground ball like this over over the weekend pitch. I mean, yeah, Randy Johnson, known as the Big Unit. You can imagine what kind of heat was coming off that arm. Now he's just a you know, he's just like a hobby photographer.
Yeah, he seemed like he would like just disappear into the desert once.
He goes to like he takes like sports photos, like you see him in the background of like football games and ship like on the field like a telephoto lens.
He's like, I'm just really into photography. He gets the best shots because he's six eleven, right.
He's out here.
He's he just loved he just loves looking at things through the lens. You know, he's taking like concert photos anyway. It just it's always fun to see he's like. I think I can think he got into it in college or something. And that's I was just like, and I just kept it going after that.
That's cool.
What is something you think is overrated?
Blake overrated coffee while eating out at a restaurant, And I've never for a variety of reasons. And some of it, like some of our listeners might and I do share these listeners with You might have a weak stomach, and it's it's an away game, so you're dealing with a public restroom. And also if you're specific about how your
coffee's made. I find out that the sweeteners can often be very limited at a place at like UV, you still see the sweet and low that that pink travesty, and then there's equal where I don't know, nothing's less equal than when you drink that shit and splenda, which
is like a nightmare as well. So I also have found that depending on what breakfast place you go to, I like a ratio in my coffee of sweetener milk to coffee, and then these these sickos will come over and then just dump more coffee into your thing, which ruins all do the math. Yeah, and then at night not a big espresso person after after dinner.
Yeah yeah, let me cut you off there. What's something you think it's underrated?
Along?
Enough of that? Yeah, yeah, we're on that. Where the fuck that came from?
I don't know the last time I broke it to a sweat so quickly that you burned me that badly?
Just that I'm soaked.
It's like sixty one degrees if I plated completely dredged.
His limpic has been hijacked. Gun.
If it was possible to take out my legs from underneath me, you just did it.
And it's not possible usually because your legs pump stuck to the ground.
Wait, so you are you really that incensed when the balance is thrown off?
Like, yeah, you can't do more.
If you if you're a half and half person, if you're like a sugar person that you need to get the balance right, and they just come in.
It's very presumptuous.
It's a different drink entirely.
What is that fault here you're saying, so that's the worker's fault. I'm just trying to see where you're at.
They suck, right if you can even find one. No one wants to work anymore these businesses. No one's there. You serve self service kiosks are everywhere, so yeah, it's and.
Then you write the zero out on the tip thing zero if I pay a nation point.
Yeah, ask Joe Brandon, is what you write on there? I have switched to black coffee. Uh, and it is.
Yeah, it's just better all around other than and it tastes like shit, what is something you think is underrated?
Underrated?
Yeah, I hope this meets your standards.
It's taking a break in the middle of the day.
Huh.
We're taking a break in the middle of the day.
Where if you have a non traditional office hour job, like you don't have like nine to five in the office. I've found that working remotely, it's it can be hard to take like if you're a workaholic, it's hard to take breaks, like there's no oh, everybody left the office. I should probably go now so you can work super late.
So with a non traditional schedule, I think it's good and rejuvenating, like middle of the day, read a book for forty five minutes, put on like a forty an episode like of a drama for forty five minutes, and then get back to work and it kind of just wipes your whole. Brian said, game changing.
I love it.
Yeah, it completely changes the makeup of your day because you still need that rest. It's just like it doesn't necessarily have to be at the end.
Of your day something else. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
That's like.
That's like when I when I had like a job where and I had my own office. Whenever I had lunch, I'd lock the door and I would just watch like Reddit video, like the Reddit video sub reddit for fucking an hour, and it didn't refresh with it at all. I was like, is it fucking five yet? Please keep watching these lego stop motion recreations that are quite fantastic.
But yeah, but I get that.
Yeah, it's good to have something that's a little that mentally switches gears rather than like putting your day on pause and be like I'm holding all this mental bandwidth just for a second and then right back into.
It something like taking a walk.
Not Yeah, that's kind of nice, just to some something to get quick bike ride, get the blood plumping and hey, well, speaking of taking a break, uh, we're we're gonna take a quick one and we'll be right back with some news.
And we're back. And so.
Was written an article today about the godfather of AI, who has been responsible for a lot of the more impressive developments that chat, GPT and all these various headline making applications were built.
On top of.
He has decided to leave Google because he wants to be able to like ring the alarm louder. He thinks we as a species are in trouble with this AI stuff, and he kind of lays out a progression of the problems he thinks we're going to see, and he said his immediate concern is that the Internet will be flooded with false photos, videos, and text and the average person will not be able to know what is true anymore. So that's his first immediate concern. And then like maybe.
Five minutes after I read that article, a news story broke that the market's like all freaked out for like five minutes because somebody generated an image of an explosion at the Pentagon that was realistic enough that it freaked people out and they started. There was like a sell off, which some people are assuming was all by design, right to like you create a little dip in the market, then you buy and things go back to normal and you make a little profit.
But I don't know.
Yeah, it's just it seems like everything is happening very fast. The guy issues a warning like three weeks ago, and then that thing like happens before the end of the sentence that he's speaking warning us all.
And yeah, I don't know, I'm I've begun.
Super producer Brian sent along some documents about how you know that this could be used to end the world or end our species pretty quickly, and I found those troubling.
So I'm a fan of existence personally.
Yeah, it's every every fucking headline.
It's like it's either like oh that's kind of interesting or it makes you want to ship your pants in fear, like yes, yeah, or both, and you're like, oh, I don't know how to make heads or tails of it, because come on, those AI avatars.
I made a Pixar version of me and it was accurate, thank you, so fun.
No, I didn't.
There was like an app that's like do you want to give us forty dollars to do it. I'm like, that makes that a weekly fucking not get away from me.
You want to give us forty dollars in your genetic sequencing? Okay, now we're talking many pieces of biographical data.
Will it make it cuter if I give you my DNA? Oh yeah, way cuter. We'll nail the aisles.
The thing that got the guy to quit was when Microsoft being launched their chat GPT interface. That led Google to like start disregarding all of his warnings and all of like the AI people's warnings. Apparently Google had been like kind of holding back and trying to be responsible for the last year and then but the second that like someone else was first to market with an AI product, they were like, all right, well that's out the window.
And now it's just a race to like see who can be the first and you know, make the biggest splash with this shit. And so yeah, it just feels like, barring some massive change from how the US government is organized the profit motive, it will not allow us to keep this shit bottled up.
It's going to cause.
Major problems sooner rather than later if they can't regulate it. But we're in a world that seems like it has decided it is beyond regulation when it comes to major corporations finding ways to make money off of things.
And not to scare us even more, but it's it is moving incredibly quickly. I think that's the wildest part of it right now. But it's been around for a while, just us as the public is becoming more aware of it because chat GPT was kind of the first popular consumer facing application of AI, where you know, banks have been using this shit to like fight fraud for a very long time, and now we're just becoming aware of it.
Where you see and the writers strike and and whatnot. Which, by the way, I know you said you don't stand with the WGA. Both of you said before the show. My mind's not made up.
But well allow me. They're greedy. Yeah, it's just a love of work, as we talked about.
Yet, Yeah, I love the guy, the genius behind this HBO Max rebrand to Max, he just pointed out that like the the w these writers need to show their love.
Of work and get back to work. That's the thing that's going to say that, Yeah, if.
You don't want to write, then work somewhere else is what is what I've been screaming at the top of my lungs out of my car while driving by the picket lines.
But no one's got under your head as you drive.
They just hear gun because the rest of it like, no one hears no.
I was just sorry, I was siding with the business owners.
I'm just a very conservative fiscal ideologies.
I don't like guns flavored.
But yeah, and then I think also we're talking about, you know, the race of these big tech companies, where I was just reading something that all the big tech companies have had a head start with this except Apple, for some reason, I believe, is just starting its generative AI department, which is kind of funny where you would not expect that they would be behind on something like this, right.
And the person who decides did not to have a generative AI department that was kind of competitive with the other companies has been fired, I can guarantee you. Well, yeah, yeah, that was not like a decision that was respected around the massive corporation that is Apple, Like they're all.
Being like, what the fuck did we do? We're getting killed?
That thought different, Yeah, damn.
But I mean like, yeah, there's other like there's a couple other developments, right, there's one that I saw that. Uh, this is just the headline from VICE US Intelligence building system to track mass movement of people around the world.
I mean, intelligence is a good thing. It's what I were in a friend US, that's US US like my legs right.
Yes, massive quick the BM I took this morning.
Yes, we're good. Movement is good.
It keeps it keeps the blood pumping exactly exactly.
But but the people that run you know that whose business it is to run US intelligence or big spy as we call it, have announced that this project will be able to track like what they say, anomalists, mass movement for our own safety. Obviously, it says quote in an ever increasing amount of geospatial data is created every day. This is like the lead programmer of the Haystack program.
With Haystack, we have the opportunity to leverage machine learning and advances in artificial intelligence to understand mobility patterns with exceptional clarity. The more robustly we can model normal movements, the more sharply we can identify what is out of the ordinary and foresee a possible emergency. And now that are out of the ordinary, must be stopped exactly.
That that's called horse.
That picks off the things of the haystack, which is us.
So like other other researchers and companies that are participate painting in this project said like with all the data that's just like laying around as they see it, Like they're like, we can make sense of a lot of this stuff. They're like, we can figure out if someone has suffered a traumatic brain injury just from like the gyroscopic or like movement sense or in a like on
a mobile phone. Like they're like, yeah, we could figure that out pretty I think, like pretty easily with about ninety percent accuracy.
The theme of this like announcement was very like don't worry.
It's not some scary drag net to disrupt protests, right, it could definitely be used to disrupt protests or at least predict where they're going down, because they're saying, like what if like you saw a certain group of people suddenly like moving towards one area, or like they don't use their phones, or like certain cars are not on the there's like there's less traffic in a usual direction
than normal. We can begin to extrapolate where like the flow of people might be moving in another direction, And.
What are they claiming if it's not to disrupt protests? Like is it to terrorists? Terrorists? Do terrorists like work in flash mobs? Like are they uh?
Do they like have it? It's like anything else?
Right, Like they're saying like in an event of an attack, right, they could foresee like where like if infrastruate taken out, where people most likely would go, and they could.
Foresee an emergency. It's like a lot of very vague stuff.
But I'm sort of like you're using all this cell phone and other like they're saying they're tapped into smart devices, cell phones, fucking like existing sensors that that are like set up around cities, and they're like there's just so much data no one's bothering to make sense of it. And if we do, then really have an advantage on you know, those non do gooders. And if you're like one of these people was like I'm going off the grid,
Like this is bullshit. I just want you to hear from the lead researcher even like his perspective on the concept of going off the grid, because it's not good.
By the way, this is doctor Jack Cooper no longer from DARPA because that is a scary word. This is from IARPA.
Yeah, thank god.
Yeah, thank god.
It's IARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.
Yeah.
But here here's doctor Jacques Cooper on why you can't run from this.
Thinking about it is with respect to private to see today, you might think that privacy means going to let off live off the grid in the middle of nowhere. That's just not realistic in today's environment. Sensors are cheap. Everybody's got one. There's there's no such thing as as living off off the grid.
He says, it's so matter of fact.
It's like, sensors are cheap, Like we can, we can figure shit out pretty quickly if we wanted to.
When he says sensors are chea, what is he saying there? Probably he also appears to be like just on the verge of falling asleep at all moments.
Oh yeah, he's and apart. Oh yeah. Emotionally, Yeah, he's been. He's been.
He's on a cocktail of sedatives that the Defense Department has given him in order to deliver this frightening news in a monotone But I mean, I think it's just all to say that, like it's like his sales pitched version of you can you can gather data so easily with how cheap the sensors are, like specific sensors that could.
Give you sort of certain geospatial data right now.
They're saying, like, we can't tell you exactly what we can figure out to do now, but with all the information we have, this is what they think will help with especially through machine learning, as they feed it more and more information about like certain movement patterns that like anomalous ones will come out very quickly, So that's christ Also, how about this AI can fucking read your mind potentially.
This is another headline from a group of researchers in Hong Kong who are showing like really promising results and using AI to essentially translate brain activity into understandable visuals like use like just brain scanning combined with generative AI.
So what they were doing was like to show this, they showed participants in this study video like all kinds of different videos, like like a couple walking across a bridge, or like a windy plane, or like a cat like you know, just like walking in front of a camera. And as these people watch the videos while they were like hooked up to these like brain scanners. I think it was like an MRI type device. They fucking transformed. They just off the brain activity that the sensors were
picking up. They were able to translate it into somewhat accurate video depictions of what was basically going on from this brain activity. So like in one of the examples, you see like this striped cat, and based on what the generative AI did from the person's brain activity, was putting a striped cat with like very similar coat up as its version.
Of like and this is what the brain is seeing right now, even though we can.
It's a cuter cat is the most concerning part, Like they made the cat more adorable.
The eyes are bigger.
Yeah, aah yeah, it's a much cuter cat.
Yeah.
This whole like website has all kinds of like these examples, and it's really wild to see like how like just like a fish would show a fish, or like a group of a crowd walking through a city would also show a crowd walking in a city. It obviously had its like wonky Ai kind of art like vibes to it. But again, as even with the other studies, are saying they're like the more we feed it, though, the machine
learns and it gets better and better every time. And I'm just like, wow, I can already see how how this could be used in police interrogations or some shit. Like I don't even know how like that what the applications are for this, because we're already seeing like these parallel advancements like happening like alongside AI. And while they're certainly like benign or beneficial applications, the possibility for.
Like an AI powered police state is starting to really.
Kind of come into focus too.
And you're like, oh, man, like what I don't I don't see how this is used to like make our cities less polluted or food cheaper. Like I just saying, my brain is saying, oh man, they're gonna be so
good at getting bed guys. But yeah, you think about right, like, because we're in this situation where inequality is just increasing at this rate, and also like our ability to like surveil and clamp down on people is also like increasing too, and what like it just sounds like the option of rather than solving these like existential issues like oh yeah, man, we got we're gonna have all these like space tools
to keep these motherfuckers in check when shit really goes now. Uh, and that's what I just I get very very scared.
Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and maybe keep talking about it.
Well, we'll come back and talk about some different stories.
We'll be right back, and we're back, and Marjorie Taylor Green is in the news for a couple of reasons. Actually, one she paid one hundred thousand dollars for Kevin McCarthy's garbage, like a piece of chapstick he had used, which is like, I don't know, it's it's like a weird work activity where like we're gonna auction off our stuff to each other. But wait, where like somebody's like one hundred thousand dollars for the boss's chapstick.
She off her Nazi gold that's what you're hanging with. Yeah, she's able to through PayPal.
I don't know if I wanted to associate that that poor business with what we just said. That is, let me ask you a quick question. So I'm like addicted to chapstick. If you were to borrow, like so your partner's chapstick, you wouldn't even think twice about it. You would just put it right on right, like you wouldn't like wipe it or anything. Or is that is that like using their toothbrush? Do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I think I would. I think I would use it. I would direct what do you mean? Like my podcast Miles Miles is Yes, Jack.
And I do a thing where he goes, oops, I got a little extra my ma and I go, oh, bring those lips here and go, that's really cute thing, you know what do The thing that bucks me up is record to get the guests one. Yeah, when I've seen like if someone like, I'll use other people's chapstick because if it's fucking super like the airs dry and my lips are fucked up, I'll be like yeah. But then like when I see like the grime on the ridges on the side, I kind of get a little
freaked out. Or I'll do the thing where I like really rub it on the top of my hand, you know what I mean, just to sterilize it, you know, just to.
Give what I would. Yeah, another person's not even her majesty, like just another I use her majesty's chaps. I'm saying I'm if I'm using like.
A like just some friends friends, yeah, or some guy you know interesting.
Yeah, if if I was to use one of yours, and I think that you guys have clean mouths in that, and I do mean that sincerely, I would push it all the way up to like the side, and I would take like a piece off the side of it and then put it on as if it's like a more viscous lip bomb.
Wow what I'm saying. I like that.
I also envision you twirling the chapstick to like like dispense it all the way out and then like corn on the cob and just roll your lips on the side.
Park But it hasn't touched them out. You flipped the chapsticks. Great, there you go. I'm like, dude, you fucking I like it. I like the taste. I interrupted.
But the thing about Margie Taylor Green that don't it's it's a fucking shell game, like it has nothing. All this is is her moving her funds into Kevin McCarthy's fund.
That's all it is. It's a fucking it's just a leak.
It's just a like an fec workaround to be like, hey, you got a lot of cash. You want to send some to my pac like to my pack or something, and it's it's legal to move the money like that. So all it was was facilitating one hundred thousand dollars transfer of like her donor cash to McCarthy. Yeah, but hey, she bought, but she won the chapstick. I love how just so like empty where it's like, you know, it's a we know that this isn't what we're doing, but anyway, you won the chapstick.
Are the fucking one hundred thousand?
Like what do you got in your pocket right now? Okay, well yeah we'll go with that.
Yeah, okay, folks, we have we have a parting receipt from Dulles International Airport. Entry time four fifty, exit time two days later, nineteen twenty.
Cheap. We're in. We're in, not cheap, not cheap.
But you were saying she's in the news for other reasons too, because on top of this, and on top of like the Craven brinksmanship about the debt ceiling, which I mean, well we'll get to that probably tomorrow.
Talking, I feel like they're not that. I feel like that's just like they're incentivized to not back yeas they want.
Their whole strategy for the upcoming election is they feel like they could do better with a catastrophe and they're just going to create the catastrophe and blame Biden.
They need, I mean, we like they need a recession to try and campaign on into twenty twenty four. And the thing with Joe Biden in them, they fucked up so bad because they could have raised the debt ceiling during the lame duck between the election and not like the inauguration for the incoming like new members of Congress. They had the votes to raise it without the fucking Republicans.
But you know what they were doing, because they think there's some four D chess assholes, is they thought, oh, you know, we'll do we'll chess pass the ball to them when they have control of Congress and make that their fucking problem to deal with and we can score points off of it when they completely show how much
of you know, how out of sorts they are. But at the end of the day, they're like, they basically just gave them the fucking football to be like, yeah, go ahead, man, spike it on our heads now because Democrats have no leverage. But this has been happening since, you know, since Obama in twenty eleven was one of the great debt ceiling crusades sequestration.
If you remember that phrase from that time.
But like you know, Joe Biden knew better, and at the time, a lot of Democrats were like, man, we can't keep doing this thing when when they have control of the House and we have the presidency or a majority of our other chambers, that we allow them to dictate what's going to go on with our economy.
And then they.
Completely missed the point again, so good luck to them and all of us, because if the government defaults, that's a lot of payments that stop going out, especially for people like that get like social security, veterans benefits, many many other things would be affected by it. But they'll get their sweet, sweet fucking recession.
It's a normal system of government. Find a new angle, mid Yeah, exactly.
Oh so what or maybe the Democrats can always use that an excuse to like cut back on social programs and bring in more austerity under the guise of what we had to do we had to negotiate with them over the debt limit. I mean, there's many ways to look at how you know, many cynical ways to look
at what's going on. But Marjorie Taylor Green, right, she's dating some dude named Brian Glenn who was like on a more talk show or morning news show in Dallas, and a clip surfaced of like him covering like some performance that was like a drag thing going on, and he himself is in drag.
And if you know.
About the you know, GOP's current just violently homophobic, transphobic agenda.
You're like, oh, really, this is this is who you're with.
So this is just a clip of her boyfriend doing this news thing, like in drag and just having you know, a fun time with these other performers that this news story he was covering.
I could tell you I don't think I think a lot of people up now.
They're all hashtag I am up of course, come and check it out here.
So I saw on Saturday.
I'm kicking these shoes off, but make keep the panty hose on this steel kind of good.
Actually I'm not gonna I promiser.
Okay, Well, I don't know if I'd believe that part. He probably should pee in them.
Pee in them like that sounds like someone who's about to piss and some panties.
Oh yeah, like what like?
And also like, who no one asked you that? Why is that a thought? I'm not gonna pee in your panty hose?
I'm sorry?
Hey, can I borrow your hat? And don't worry? I'm not gonna pee in your hat?
Like what my catheter didn't fit in the pantos they're really tight.
So it's a.
Patriot Takes on Twitter was like, wow, like, look at this energy, and obviously the Republicans don't they believe in nothing, so say there's no way you can shame them on their fucking I don't give her. Actually, her response to this tweet is so funny and it's so of like a person who's like knows, like how how much.
Of a bad look? She tweeted quote, I'm literally lolling.
Brian Glenn dressed in drag for morning news in Dallas years ago, reporting on an upcoming local theater production, and the morons over at Patriot Takes thinks this is an attack. Brian loves to throw back and is reposting laughing crime oji. The left is so stupid. Hmm okay, sure they're just showing you again. How how Uh, how wobbly everyone is with their outrage jure, especially especially on the right.
But yeah, I'm literally literally lulling right now.
They're so stupid. Oh my god, you guys are so stupid.
I'm sure, and I'm sure like many and like the replies are like it was for a news thing, like what.
What so drag?
Like, I'm curious because if anyone in drag is a groomer, that there are there is a context in which being in drag you're not a groomer. And if so, please explain the nuance, because prior to this, I did not know there was any nuance from a normal red blooded American wearing pantyhose and promising you that I'm not gonna piss them.
Yeah, and I promise I did not have a good time. I promise I did not have a good It's like, just have a good time. Drag shows are some of the most fun things that you can go to allow yourself to have a good time.
It's different from a local news reporter dressing and drag and some somebody else, uh dressing, dressing and drag.
Uh.
The local news obviously has a car out when it comes to uh what what but when they dress and drag and have fun.
Yes, exactly, oh someone like and one of them replies, someone goes, there's a difference between.
A costume and a drag show, is there?
I mean? Interesting?
Please go on though, mister punisher skull emoji with the red American flag.
They just have this like very detailed, Like it's wrong, but it is very thought out.
The fucking float chart is like detailed. Yeah.
Well, Blake, Blake Wexler the pleasure having it, Blake, Blake Wexler.
Where can people find you? Follow you all that good stuff?
People can find me? Follow me at Blake Wexler on all social media. I'm gonna be in Bristol, Tennessee at a comedy club called the Blue Ridge Comedy Club June second to June third.
And also I talked about.
That bike ride that I did earlier called the Eagles Autism Challenge. Donations are still open on that for like until the end of the week. So there's a link in my bio if you want to support. It's an amazing cause, autism awareness, autism research. Those links are on my social media as as well. And thanks to everyone who already already donated.
Oh amazing and there raised six million. You said those six million.
Yeah, they raised like six point two million, and I think it's still.
Three point one per plumper perp. Yeah. I think I saw the local.
Yeah, they're like local man willing to raise shorts to show plumpers for It's.
A shame because they had my photo and they had to blur out my legs, which also obscured the amount of money that was that I wrote on each leg, which is a bummer.
But you know it's local. Like the FCC. They won't let my plumbers be.
Is there a work media you've been enjoying.
Yes, at the Todd Glass show on TikTok. Very funny comedian Todd Glass who left me voicemails for twelve years and I released that as an album. He is so funny on TikTok where he does these videos where he pretends to be an uber driver and the people in the car are like, no, it's Todd, but they're in the back of the car. And he posted one recently where he just goes, he pulls over and he goes, I can't drive when there's cars behind me.
I always think it might be a cop.
And then the guy in the back seat goes, you can't drive with cars behind you, and he goes, yeah, he has like a big series of those that's really really funny. So if you want just good clean laughs, Yeah, at the Todd Glass Show on on TikTok and Instagram.
Amazing miles. Where can people find you? Is there a work media you've been enjoying?
You can find me on at Twitter, Instagram, at Miles of Gray.
What at Twitter? Twitter? At Twitter? I don't know, folks, what do you What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? What are gonna do? At Miles of Gray where they got them?
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This was just this was just kind of stupid. Uh.
This is from the hype. It's just said her, Oh my god, your dick is so small. Shrink Ray Company CEO. Hell yeah, fans, there it is. Tweet I've been enjoying is from Brody Goopta, who tweeted the new HBO Max Max sorry advertisement that introducing Max the one to watch for HBO max dot com.
And uh, she tweeted, drop.
The the face just book then ad it's the site that is the Facebook.
It's clean drop just basically what they've done here.
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Song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? Oh?
I'm still on this college acapella thing and it's fucking me up because I there's just something about like college acapella groups doing like like more mainstream songs.
It just kills me. I just love hearing it because it just so just so fun. Uh.
And this one is from we Be Jazz in I'm not sure what school they're from.
Let me make sure because.
That's where any any guesses where We Be Jazz in is from E y U University, Winter's College in Toronto, I believe is where they're from. Anyway, they did a fantastic cover of Stevie Dan's Steve This is Stevie Dan.
To mash up.
Of Stevie Dan's pog You're gonna love it of Peg by Steely Dan and it's just like it.
I don't know. They're like, it's funny.
Whenever I listen to acapella music, I picture people smiling ear to ear like I've never you can never picture someone like being like.
Action faced singing like acapella.
So I was like, like in my one's wide eyed and that's what this gives you.
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