Episode 122 : What Are You Doing, Step-Constituent?

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[00:00:26] epo because Gene?

[00:00:37] 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, 0!

[00:00:49] What a Week. We didn't record Thursday because you unfortunately had to put down your best four-pawed friend.

[00:00:58] Yeah, my sweet boy Gibson, he got too old and sick for this world,

[00:01:02] and the junta decided that he was going to be executed for crimes against humanity.

[00:01:09] He was not living up to the stances of Juche.

[00:01:11] No.

[00:01:14] And if you want to hear me get weepy about that, that's thanks, I hate it.

[00:01:17] You've got to pay for my pain.

[00:01:20] I couldn't record because I had taken a shit too powerful for the toilet.

[00:01:26] I forgot that was why.

[00:01:28] That's just like...

[00:01:30] He's like, hey, I don't know if I'm able to be there.

[00:01:33] I've got to unclog a toilet.

[00:01:36] I was like, what kind of shit are we talking about here?

[00:01:38] What's going on?

[00:01:40] Dude.

[00:01:40] How long had you been at it at that point?

[00:01:43] Probably 45 minutes.

[00:01:45] Oh my God.

[00:01:45] I was breaking a sweat.

[00:01:47] Here's the thing, it was a long fucking day at work.

[00:01:49] Working an 11-hour shift.

[00:01:51] And I just had like, I'm driving home and I just feel like a rock.

[00:01:55] Yeah.

[00:01:55] Shift in me.

[00:01:56] Ooh.

[00:01:57] Yeah.

[00:01:58] And like, if you listen to The Last Things I Hate, you can hear the story of being on some

[00:02:03] medicines that are changing my digestive habits and my bowel movements a little bit.

[00:02:08] And what I've been doing to kind of like counteract that.

[00:02:11] And I just kind of, with all the like working 50 plus hours a week, everything else I got going

[00:02:17] on in life, it kind of slipped.

[00:02:19] It was basically like a stag 24 ounce can.

[00:02:22] Okay.

[00:02:23] In every sense.

[00:02:25] I'm picturing it.

[00:02:27] Am I really describing an exotically painful bowel movement?

[00:02:31] Like the kind where you, the kind where you sweat.

[00:02:34] Yes.

[00:02:34] It only lasts for a moment, but you are sweating.

[00:02:37] Woo!

[00:02:37] Yeah.

[00:02:38] Yeah.

[00:02:38] Yeah.

[00:02:38] It was, it was, and I hear D's car pull in.

[00:02:42] Oh no.

[00:02:43] I'm like, cool.

[00:02:44] Just doing everything I can pour in the hot water.

[00:02:47] Oh, damn.

[00:02:48] Uh, I even did like vinegar real quick, which sometimes works.

[00:02:53] And the, unfortunately the plunger I have is not necessarily, uh, built for the type of

[00:02:58] toilet that this house has is built for the toilet that I had in my apartment.

[00:03:04] Oh boy.

[00:03:05] Mm.

[00:03:06] Oh boy.

[00:03:06] I am just pissed.

[00:03:09] You're sweating now more than you were on the toilet.

[00:03:11] You had to pour the soap down and.

[00:03:13] They actually work quite well.

[00:03:14] All right.

[00:03:15] Well, that's good.

[00:03:16] The indignities, man.

[00:03:17] They are piled upon us.

[00:03:18] It's already been a rough fucking day.

[00:03:21] Right.

[00:03:21] Now, now my turds have turned against me and you, the toilet, my best and dearest friend.

[00:03:27] Right.

[00:03:27] Will not accept my gift.

[00:03:28] You're slowly taking Ed's at Trun's crown of the most punished man alive.

[00:03:33] Just, you know.

[00:03:34] Yeah.

[00:03:34] It's just like, yeah, I get a fucking break.

[00:03:36] Help me out here.

[00:03:37] Yeah.

[00:03:38] Help folks.

[00:03:38] Help me out.

[00:03:39] Doing my new hamburger impression.

[00:03:41] Folks.

[00:03:42] Why?

[00:03:43] Why?

[00:03:43] Why?

[00:03:44] Why didn't the turd flush?

[00:03:46] Well, because I'd eaten something.

[00:03:48] Because I'm on so many medicines, my turds are hard like a rock.

[00:03:54] It's 48 Minutes, Dogs Barking.

[00:03:55] My name's Jason.

[00:03:56] This is Brian.

[00:03:57] If you haven't guessed by now, well, then I don't know what to tell you.

[00:04:00] And if you haven't guessed also by now, we are a little.

[00:04:04] Drinking.

[00:04:05] Yeah.

[00:04:05] Drinking.

[00:04:06] Drinking.

[00:04:06] Who's thinking?

[00:04:06] Who shot Abe Lincoln?

[00:04:08] John Wilkes Booth.

[00:04:09] I was going to say, yeah, okay.

[00:04:10] I couldn't remember for the life of me because I've just been so focused.

[00:04:14] Well, yeah.

[00:04:14] We're drinking a Jim Beam single barrel.

[00:04:17] Yes.

[00:04:18] Beautiful Jim Beam single barrel.

[00:04:19] I'm not much of a straight whiskey guy, but this is doing the trick.

[00:04:23] It's fucking tasty.

[00:04:24] I feel like a splash of Coke.

[00:04:26] Yeah.

[00:04:27] It's eventually going to become a whiskey and water.

[00:04:29] Yeah.

[00:04:29] Well, that's fine, too.

[00:04:31] All I've got in the fridge are a Diet Mountain Dew Major Melon.

[00:04:35] So, yeah.

[00:04:36] I don't know what to tell you about that one.

[00:04:37] A little too fruity.

[00:04:39] It's the wrong time of the year for trying to experiment with that flavor profile and

[00:04:42] hard booze.

[00:04:44] It's been a weird week, so we do not have a main topic tonight.

[00:04:46] We're doing all sorts of, calling all sorts of audibles.

[00:04:49] We're doing it.

[00:04:49] We're just kind of having fun with it.

[00:04:51] We're going to freak it.

[00:04:51] We're going to have fun with it.

[00:04:52] We're going to break it down nasty style.

[00:04:55] Yes.

[00:04:56] We're going to freak that bitch out, Tone.

[00:04:57] We're going all in.

[00:05:00] Now, I thought the other day that we were about to have a very, very funny scenario on

[00:05:04] our hands.

[00:05:04] I thought it was going to be time, because we saw this, raw alerts, breaking two ambulances

[00:05:10] along with 20 to 25 vehicles have reportedly appeared full of Secret Service, have left

[00:05:15] Mar-a-Lago.

[00:05:17] Oh, boy.

[00:05:19] Ambulances, all these Secret Service guys at Mar-a-Lago.

[00:05:21] Oh, it's happening.

[00:05:22] And for about 10 minutes there, we had a moment.

[00:05:25] For those who don't know, when you are president-elect, vice president-elect, or even the sitting

[00:05:32] president or sitting vice president, the motorcade that travels with you is fucking insane.

[00:05:37] I have been on 170 when Joe Biden was driving through, and that was about, I want to say,

[00:05:44] like 20, 30 vehicles long.

[00:05:45] Emergency vehicles, local police, Homeland Security.

[00:05:49] All of that.

[00:05:50] And I've also seen George Bush's limousine pull into a gas station at one of the worst

[00:05:58] neighborhoods in St. Louis.

[00:06:00] So they aren't exactly doing their best.

[00:06:03] It's consistent.

[00:06:04] I don't know.

[00:06:04] Yeah.

[00:06:05] Like, oh, that was the presidential limousine in Kinloch.

[00:06:09] Like, what?

[00:06:11] Woo!

[00:06:12] Woo!

[00:06:14] He had an appointment.

[00:06:15] I don't know.

[00:06:16] Are we in West County yet?

[00:06:18] Is this Ray Ray's house?

[00:06:19] Yeah.

[00:06:21] But yes, readers...

[00:06:22] Everyone here looks really hungry.

[00:06:25] Do they have enough peanuts?

[00:06:28] Andrew Feinberg later said, no, it's actually part of the motorcade.

[00:06:32] Everything's fine.

[00:06:33] But for a little while there, I thought...

[00:06:35] Probably means there wasn't a moving van from a local furniture company.

[00:06:40] Yeah.

[00:06:40] With a couple love seats in there.

[00:06:46] Gotta have the plastic covers on if they're going to JD's office.

[00:06:48] Yes.

[00:06:50] Are these Scotch guards?

[00:06:52] Always wear protection, JD.

[00:06:54] Yeah.

[00:06:54] Just...

[00:06:55] So apparently the guy, Andrew Feinberg, was originally the one reporting this.

[00:06:59] Oh my God, there's ambulances.

[00:07:01] He's a White House correspondent for The Independent.

[00:07:04] And he's posting this...

[00:07:06] How'd you not know?

[00:07:07] Right.

[00:07:08] You're the White House correspondent.

[00:07:10] It's your fucking job, brother.

[00:07:12] My brother in Christ.

[00:07:13] Right.

[00:07:14] This knowledge should be, like, secondary to you.

[00:07:17] You ought to know.

[00:07:18] You're the guy that's supposed to be telling us what's going on in the White House.

[00:07:23] And apparently you don't know.

[00:07:25] Just clown shoes over there at The Independent.

[00:07:27] I don't know what's going on.

[00:07:28] It's ridiculous.

[00:07:30] Yeah.

[00:07:30] Art Candy, a checky.

[00:07:31] Yeah.

[00:07:32] But replying here...

[00:07:33] I mean, you're the one who reported it and now you're telling everyone to calm down?

[00:07:36] Rich.

[00:07:37] Rich.

[00:07:37] I mean, I probably would not post for a while.

[00:07:41] Yeah.

[00:07:42] Yeah.

[00:07:42] Getting people's hopes up.

[00:07:43] Because I'm...

[00:07:43] Again, we thought this was going to be the greatest day since when Trump had COVID.

[00:07:48] Yes.

[00:07:49] And he came back and he was, like, breathing like a fish out of water on the mezzanine.

[00:07:53] And then you heard the stories about not going out like Stan Chara.

[00:07:57] I mean, we all...

[00:07:57] Don't want to go out like Stan Chara.

[00:08:01] Woo!

[00:08:03] Probably the only reason that guy has a Wikipedia page now.

[00:08:06] Yes, probably.

[00:08:06] Yeah.

[00:08:07] We also learned some really gross shit courtesy of Vanity Fair, which I hate the fact that

[00:08:12] Vanity Fair broke this, but beloved author Cormac McCarthy, when he was 42, fell in love

[00:08:19] with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool.

[00:08:22] Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant and secret inspirations

[00:08:25] in literary history, giving life to many of McCarthy's most iconic characters for 47

[00:08:31] years.

[00:08:32] Britt closely guarded her identity and her story until now.

[00:08:35] That's the whole subhead.

[00:08:36] That's Vincenzo Barney writing for Vanity Fair.

[00:08:40] Unfortunately, she looks like aged-up Yolandi.

[00:08:43] I can't get it out of my head.

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:46] The haircut's a choice.

[00:08:47] It's not bad.

[00:08:48] It's just...

[00:08:50] It's utilitarian, I guess.

[00:08:52] Yeah.

[00:08:52] It's...

[00:08:53] I mean, she's with her two horses.

[00:08:55] It's a great photo.

[00:08:57] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:57] But it's not what you think.

[00:08:59] It's very striking.

[00:09:00] Yeah.

[00:09:01] I have heard a little bit of discourse on this.

[00:09:04] I don't care.

[00:09:05] Dudes were doing fucked-up shit back then, which is not to say I condone it.

[00:09:09] Right.

[00:09:09] And I get that.

[00:09:10] I mean, now that he's passed on, this kind of stuff is going to come to light.

[00:09:14] Fucking David Bowie, Mick Jagger...

[00:09:16] Well, theirs weren't even out after they died.

[00:09:18] Those were just like...

[00:09:19] That's just so...

[00:09:20] Like, yeah.

[00:09:21] That just happened, I guess.

[00:09:22] There's just like a lot of...

[00:09:24] Dudes were doing some fucked-up shit.

[00:09:26] I guess it's more like I'm not surprised.

[00:09:28] We used to put lead in gas.

[00:09:30] You know?

[00:09:31] Like, we weren't a proper...

[00:09:34] We'd never been a proper country, but we most certainly weren't whenever this was going on.

[00:09:39] Yeah, because, I mean, you know, 40...

[00:09:41] What was that?

[00:09:41] 47 years.

[00:09:43] So that would put us in the middle of the late 70s.

[00:09:46] You know?

[00:09:47] So...

[00:09:48] Yeah.

[00:09:48] I think the 70s was like the last time you could have culturally gotten away with that.

[00:09:54] Right.

[00:09:55] According to Britt, she was in and out of foster care.

[00:09:58] She used to go to the pool at the motel off the freeway at the south side of Tucson.

[00:10:02] This guy, by the way, is not a very good writer, and you put him on this story, I feel like

[00:10:07] you've kind of shot yourself in the foot here.

[00:10:10] The Trillbillies made a point of that this is a really compelling story written pathetically

[00:10:16] awful.

[00:10:17] Yeah, like the worst guy you could possibly get to write this.

[00:10:20] And they theorized that this guy had the story, he had the scoop, and the only way that

[00:10:26] he was going to let them have it is if he got to write how he wanted to, and they're like,

[00:10:30] fuck, it's too good.

[00:10:31] It's too juicy.

[00:10:32] Full editorial control over someone who just does not write all that well.

[00:10:35] I mean, maybe he's trying to emulate the McCarthy style, but it's just not hitting.

[00:10:40] There's too much about how the story comes about.

[00:10:42] Yeah.

[00:10:43] But like bad gonzo journalism.

[00:10:45] Some great accompanying photographs.

[00:10:47] Norman Gene Roy in particular got that shot.

[00:10:49] That's the header there.

[00:10:51] It's an interesting piece to read, but it's just, it's not good.

[00:10:54] It's a very compelling and introspective story written sloppily.

[00:11:00] My real problem with it is that it's way too long.

[00:11:05] Could be trimmed a bit.

[00:11:06] Of course, me not being a professional editor, I don't know how the hell I would even convey

[00:11:11] that, you know, that that's what needs to happen.

[00:11:13] But it just, it struck me that way.

[00:11:15] But it also, it's also very simple.

[00:11:17] We met when I was 16.

[00:11:19] He was in his 40s.

[00:11:20] I kept this a secret for all this time.

[00:11:22] The ick obviously is there.

[00:11:24] Yeah.

[00:11:25] You're going to have it.

[00:11:25] But I mean, this is the guy that wrote The Road.

[00:11:28] Right.

[00:11:29] Right.

[00:11:29] Where someone like barbecues a dead baby.

[00:11:32] Yeah.

[00:11:34] So, I'm just saying.

[00:11:37] There's a darkness in the man's soul.

[00:11:39] We kind of knew that.

[00:11:40] The guy that, Anthony Burgess, that wrote Clockwork Orange, was like a, he would go to Africa

[00:11:47] and was a sex tourist.

[00:11:49] And I think it was quote of saying something like, he left the best part of himself in the

[00:11:52] dark continent.

[00:11:53] Ooh.

[00:11:54] Ooh.

[00:11:55] So, I mean, you know what?

[00:11:56] Like, again, white dudes that be writing back then.

[00:12:01] Yeah.

[00:12:01] Pretty much.

[00:12:02] The fact that it took this long to hear like some real skeletons in his closet come out

[00:12:06] is kind of impressive.

[00:12:08] I think the worst thing that really came out when he passed was that he was cheap.

[00:12:12] Right.

[00:12:13] And he wouldn't take, and then his wife was always pissed about like if he wasn't writing

[00:12:19] something or didn't have something recently published that money was hard.

[00:12:22] Right.

[00:12:22] Because he wouldn't take speaking fees.

[00:12:25] Which, okay, I guess, you know, if you want to maintain some kind of ideological purity

[00:12:30] about that.

[00:12:30] Not that he like would go speak for free, that he just didn't want to fuck, like people

[00:12:35] would offer him real money and he'd be like, I'd rather not.

[00:12:38] Just do, not do that.

[00:12:40] All right.

[00:12:41] I guess.

[00:12:42] That's the way you want to play it, brother.

[00:12:43] I mean, you know, you got a name like that.

[00:12:46] I get the kind of defending your purity or whatever, but at the same time, brother's

[00:12:51] got to eat, you know?

[00:12:52] Yeah.

[00:12:53] Absolutely.

[00:12:55] Yeah.

[00:12:55] Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson.

[00:12:58] Over the past weekend, Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, two people who live on this planet at

[00:13:05] the same time as us, got in a fight that was sanctioned by an organizational body.

[00:13:13] Yep.

[00:13:14] If I wanted to see a 20-year-old shithead with bad tattoos fight an old guy with a really

[00:13:20] thick neck, I'd go to the pool bar I used to hang out with at in North County when the

[00:13:25] shift change would happen.

[00:13:26] When the old white dudes, when the old white dudes would be there avoiding their wives and

[00:13:32] then all of the young, cool black guys that wanted to play pool would start showing up

[00:13:36] around 5 p.m.

[00:13:37] Yeah.

[00:13:38] I just would go, I would go to the Redbirds.

[00:13:40] Okay.

[00:13:40] Okay.

[00:13:40] All right.

[00:13:41] Yeah.

[00:13:41] That seems about right.

[00:13:43] Yeah.

[00:13:43] First, there was the problems getting signed on.

[00:13:47] Like, Netflix was having major problems.

[00:13:51] Couldn't handle the load.

[00:13:53] Because every time I would try to get on, it'd be like, buffering 25%.

[00:13:56] I'd get 30 seconds of commentary, nothing about the actual fight, and then buffering again.

[00:14:03] And, you know, I did all the usual.

[00:14:05] I restarted on the TV, did all the...

[00:14:06] Came out here, tried it from the desktop of a computer, tried it on the phone.

[00:14:11] Nothing worked.

[00:14:11] The streams were ridiculous.

[00:14:13] You couldn't actually see the fight.

[00:14:14] So I had to kind of experience it vicariously the next day.

[00:14:19] Were you able to, or did you even try to see the fight?

[00:14:23] I was tempted.

[00:14:25] I think I just went to bed.

[00:14:26] Yeah.

[00:14:26] Because I got my fucking weird fucking sleep schedule.

[00:14:29] You probably made the better choice.

[00:14:31] Gotta be honest.

[00:14:33] I heard that the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson match itself was pretty underwhelming past like the

[00:14:38] third or fourth round.

[00:14:39] It was actually the women's match beforehand that was the actual...

[00:14:44] If you were interested in the sweet science.

[00:14:46] That is what I've heard as well.

[00:14:47] That would have been the thing to watch.

[00:14:51] Yeah.

[00:14:51] So apparently it all went down.

[00:14:52] Tyson went the eight rounds.

[00:14:54] It went to Paul in unanimous decision from the judges.

[00:14:58] Judges scoring about 80, 72, 79, 73, and 79, 73 in favor of Paul.

[00:15:04] Paul, this video does thankfully give us the highlights.

[00:15:09] And of course it's been removed.

[00:15:10] So, all right.

[00:15:11] I'll pass on that.

[00:15:12] But a lot of people did think that there was something fishy about the fight.

[00:15:16] And I think I did too.

[00:15:18] But again, I only saw it after the fact.

[00:15:20] But there were several moments, especially early on, early in the first round, where Paul

[00:15:25] throws a punch, Tyson dodges, and it looks like left himself open for that big old Tyson

[00:15:31] uppercut that we all know.

[00:15:32] Yeah.

[00:15:32] That usually ends matches very quickly if it's applied correctly.

[00:15:36] He didn't do it.

[00:15:38] He just kind of wove out of it, paused, and then the fight continued.

[00:15:42] There were a couple moments during grappling where it sounded like Paul said something to

[00:15:46] him.

[00:15:46] People are saying, you know, he said, oh, you want to get paid or what?

[00:15:49] Or, you know, things like that.

[00:15:50] There's a lot of stuff about the match being, you know, kind of predetermined in Paul's

[00:15:55] favor.

[00:15:56] Obviously, nobody knows anything for sure.

[00:15:58] But conspiracies online tend to do that, especially when it comes to something that we've

[00:16:02] all wanted to see, which was Jake Paul getting rocked by this older boxer.

[00:16:07] It's what everyone wanted.

[00:16:08] Was to see Jake Paul get his look like a Iraqi war vet that stepped on IED.

[00:16:15] They wanted the K&P sketch about, you know, he will play to God after what I have done

[00:16:20] to him.

[00:16:21] They wanted that to be real.

[00:16:22] Yeah.

[00:16:22] They wanted that to happen to him.

[00:16:24] Brandon Willard posted this video on Twitter.

[00:16:26] Mike still got it in him.

[00:16:27] But you see that jab.

[00:16:28] Like, he just gets in.

[00:16:30] Yeah.

[00:16:31] And Jake almost fully eats it.

[00:16:33] Like, there's good contact, but like, he's on the hunt.

[00:16:37] Yeah.

[00:16:37] Yeah.

[00:16:39] And someone via stake then posted this thing about how here's how it was rigged against

[00:16:45] Tyson.

[00:16:47] And of course, the second post is, I want to begin by mentioning that Jake Paul and Mike

[00:16:51] Tyson are members of the Illuminati.

[00:16:53] They're part of the same secret society.

[00:16:55] So this entire rivalry of trash talking was staged.

[00:16:58] Not everything is wrestling, guys.

[00:17:00] It was weird.

[00:17:01] It was weird.

[00:17:01] But I think the weirdest thing, even after all that, was the pre-fight interview where

[00:17:07] we got a little dose of Tyson's cheeks here.

[00:17:10] So here it is, a little bit of this courtesy of Netflix on Twitter.

[00:17:14] Being interviewed by his son on the pre-fight, what's your prediction?

[00:17:20] Mike says, vicious win.

[00:17:21] He's like, all right, get out there.

[00:17:23] Thank you, son.

[00:17:24] They hug it out.

[00:17:26] Tyson turns away.

[00:17:27] This whole time, we've only been seeing from like shoulders up on Mike.

[00:17:30] And as he turns and walks away, you realize he's just wearing basically a codpiece.

[00:17:35] Yeah, he's just wearing a jockstrap.

[00:17:38] And he's double-cheeked up on a Friday night.

[00:17:41] Yeah, he looks like he's doing some Cirque du Lace shit.

[00:17:46] Spinning on it.

[00:17:47] And a lot of people reacted to that with a bit of shock and surprise.

[00:17:51] People saying like, why is Mike Tyson showing his whole ass on television?

[00:17:55] And that also kind of fed into some of the conspiracies about like how it was a humiliation ritual and all that stuff.

[00:18:02] Oh, like what they did to...

[00:18:05] John Cena.

[00:18:06] Yeah.

[00:18:07] I would say John Cena's half naked all the time.

[00:18:09] Or what they did to RFK.

[00:18:11] Okay.

[00:18:12] Having to eat the Big Mac.

[00:18:14] Now that makes a lot more sense, yes.

[00:18:16] I think the only thing I ever wanted in my entire life was to see Jake Paul physically destroyed by a man that much older and had that much more experience.

[00:18:26] It's perverse.

[00:18:27] I understand that.

[00:18:27] I understand that I am not normal.

[00:18:29] I'm a genetic freak.

[00:18:31] But, you know, because the math didn't math for me.

[00:18:36] I still don't get how that shook out in a unanimous decision from the judges.

[00:18:41] It baffles me.

[00:18:43] There are things I will not understand in this world that is one of them.

[00:18:46] Because it looked like there was even a few moments where he was biting his gloves.

[00:18:49] And somebody asked him about it after the fight.

[00:18:52] Mike, why are you biting your gloves?

[00:18:53] I have a biting fixation.

[00:18:55] Like, all right.

[00:18:57] There was that interview, like maybe a day or two before the fight.

[00:19:00] Like some young YouTuber was interviewing him.

[00:19:05] And she asked him about his legacy.

[00:19:07] And he's like, why would I want to be so self-important?

[00:19:09] Like, when I die, you know, that's all there is.

[00:19:12] I don't want to live on past that.

[00:19:15] Oh, yeah.

[00:19:16] I mean, that's probably the most humble answer you could get.

[00:19:20] Is it like, this is the life you have.

[00:19:22] And why should I be thinking about glory that I'm not going to enjoy?

[00:19:27] That's so grim, Mike.

[00:19:29] Man.

[00:19:29] Yeah.

[00:19:30] But, I mean, that's my Tyson.

[00:19:33] Right.

[00:19:33] I understand that.

[00:19:34] And he's facing down 60.

[00:19:35] You know, this is probably going to be the last bout he does unless the money's real good.

[00:19:40] So, I mean, asking him about legacy now, I don't know.

[00:19:44] This is it, right?

[00:19:45] Legacy, we're in it.

[00:19:46] So, you did reference the photo of Don Jr., RFK, Mike Johnson, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump on Air Force One eating McDonald's.

[00:19:56] Mike Johnson looks like a Bible Belt preacher that has done some things.

[00:20:03] Like a minor character in, like, a prison show that they're like, what are you looking for?

[00:20:08] He looks like one of those guys that, like, in a documentary about, like, the quiverful movement that, like, goes down for some really, some real sicko shit.

[00:20:16] Somebody named at Bone GPT should be a dead giveaway.

[00:20:21] He's also got the checkmark.

[00:20:22] Posting this, this 1721 painting by Dietz Knudsen predicted the Trump-Elon RFK McDonald's dinner.

[00:20:31] And it is, you know, very clearly an AI-generated painting.

[00:20:35] You know, the details are all fucky.

[00:20:37] I guess if you're dumb, you could pass it off.

[00:20:40] People on the right, they ate it up.

[00:20:43] Started spreading.

[00:20:44] At Cliff underscore high.

[00:20:46] Cliff is anti-Celenai.

[00:20:47] Look at the precision of the staging here.

[00:20:49] The angle of the shoulders on the guy standing.

[00:20:52] General head tilt.

[00:20:53] Look at RFK, look at RFK Jr. hand slash arm positions and face.

[00:20:58] Look at the arrangement of the food in front of the fellow from the 1721 painting matching RFK Jr. food.

[00:21:04] Look at the eyes of both.

[00:21:05] So yeah, random shit like this happens all the time, every damn week.

[00:21:11] And of course there's a QAnon link.

[00:21:12] Of course.

[00:21:13] Yes, the Oracle of QZ.

[00:21:16] QueenB55.

[00:21:17] You know, Q says nothing is random.

[00:21:20] Zero chances this is not staged.

[00:21:23] It is too perfect.

[00:21:24] But why?

[00:21:26] Dietz Knudsen painting from 1721.

[00:21:28] Dietz Knudsen equals 1703 minus 1721 equals 18R equals 18.

[00:21:35] Look at drop 1703RR.

[00:21:38] They're using geometria to get to the bottom of this.

[00:21:43] Of course I saw D's nuts.

[00:21:45] They respond.

[00:21:46] The point is it's all staged to point to QDrops.

[00:21:49] The most influential people on the planet are directing us to the QDrops.

[00:21:54] Elon himself just posted this last night.

[00:21:56] Something really big is happening.

[00:21:58] So yes, apparently people did dig around looking for D's Knudsen.

[00:22:03] Which is of course a D's nuts joke.

[00:22:05] Which is a great one.

[00:22:07] And there's a lot of people redoing it in various AI styles.

[00:22:10] The Simpsons one because the Simpsons called it.

[00:22:13] They also did a few follow-ups.

[00:22:14] The Trumpet McDonald's one and it's painted by huge asshole.

[00:22:22] That's pretty good.

[00:22:24] Yeah.

[00:22:24] Apparently sometime in 2004-ish, Dietz Knudsen, there was a little bit of notice.

[00:22:30] There is four.

[00:22:31] Four searches.

[00:22:32] Hmm.

[00:22:33] Time Traveler looking for Q.

[00:22:36] John Titan back.

[00:22:39] I think making RFK eat the garbage food as a humiliation ritual is, yeah, I think that's

[00:22:46] It's stunning.

[00:22:46] It really is.

[00:22:48] And you gotta think that by the amount of time, the amount of time it probably took for

[00:22:53] that food to get there, that food's not good anymore.

[00:22:55] It's lukewarm at best.

[00:22:57] Yeah.

[00:22:57] At best.

[00:22:58] Because they're on the tarmac and then this is, I don't know, I can't see out the window.

[00:23:02] I don't know if they've taken off or they're just sitting taxiing, but they're still like

[00:23:05] on the plane.

[00:23:06] They've gotten that far.

[00:23:07] He's got the clearly like warm bottle of Coca-Cola sitting next to him.

[00:23:11] And he's got a lot of stuff on his tray there.

[00:23:13] Like a Big Mac and some nugs and some fries.

[00:23:17] Yeah.

[00:23:18] And Don Jr. just holding up the fries, logo facing out is like, Jesus, fuck, dude.

[00:23:24] The richest man in the world sitting next to him.

[00:23:27] The first buddy.

[00:23:31] I know.

[00:23:33] Oh, Jesus.

[00:23:34] It's a real Dutch situation there.

[00:23:36] Yeah.

[00:23:36] Unfortunately, Elon's real.

[00:23:38] Unfortunately for all of us, that is a real person.

[00:23:41] Ten times dumber than anything that's in that other book, yeah.

[00:23:44] What a cursed image.

[00:23:46] Jesus.

[00:23:47] Everyone looks like shit.

[00:23:48] Bloated, bloated, high.

[00:23:50] Really uncomfortable.

[00:23:51] And the only one who actually kind of looks like he's having a good time is Mike Johnson.

[00:23:55] Which is a terrible situation.

[00:23:57] Mike Johnson looks like the only guy who stoked to be there.

[00:24:00] Right.

[00:24:01] It trumps out the fake smile.

[00:24:02] The arcade looks like you just...

[00:24:05] This is a terrible way to phrase it.

[00:24:08] But this is like catching your friend in high school making out with a fat chick.

[00:24:14] He's got that look.

[00:24:16] Yeah.

[00:24:16] He really has got nothing to be ashamed about necessarily.

[00:24:19] But he has...

[00:24:20] He's internalized the shame.

[00:24:22] He's got it.

[00:24:22] That posture.

[00:24:24] Yeah.

[00:24:25] Oh.

[00:24:26] Oh, he's making out with Hot Dog Girl.

[00:24:29] Did every friend group have Hot Dog Girl that everyone knew about?

[00:24:33] Because I never met her.

[00:24:34] Everybody was really excited when we heard that Hawk to a girl was revealing her pookie.

[00:24:40] And then we realized that just meant her boyfriend.

[00:24:43] She's not showing hole?

[00:24:44] No.

[00:24:46] No, Hayley Welch is not showing hole.

[00:24:50] Because then we can answer the question, would you spit on that thing?

[00:24:53] Well, I mean, look.

[00:24:57] I'm not a man that's in any position to even come close.

[00:25:01] But I'm not going to say no if asked to.

[00:25:05] You know.

[00:25:06] If asked, I will serve.

[00:25:07] I'm not rude.

[00:25:09] If asked, I will serve, I think is the phrase.

[00:25:12] You're like John Kerry at the DNC.

[00:25:15] Yes.

[00:25:15] Reporting for Tui.

[00:25:18] Reporting for Tui.

[00:25:19] I'm sorry.

[00:25:20] Tui.

[00:25:22] Yeah.

[00:25:23] So.

[00:25:24] Imagine him digging that chin there.

[00:25:28] There's been a lot of reaction stuff on it.

[00:25:30] I really do not give a shit, to be honest.

[00:25:33] Because apparently her friend Chelsea, it's the Chelsea's friend's cousin.

[00:25:38] I don't know.

[00:25:39] It's just dumb.

[00:25:40] This final paragraph here on the Know Your Mean page really hurts my head.

[00:25:46] The two discuss their first date at the restaurant in J. Alexander's.

[00:25:50] Then they talk about the first time Welch told him she loved him,

[00:25:53] claiming they were both drunk at a hotel and it was the middle of intercourse.

[00:25:56] Oh boy.

[00:25:57] He then apparently laughed at her and she laughed back.

[00:26:01] They claim they hope to be married and have kids in five years.

[00:26:05] Pookie talks about how he doesn't like Welch's obsession with the comedian Matt Reif.

[00:26:10] The episode then transitions to an interview with Jake Paul about his fight with Mike Tyson.

[00:26:17] So she reveals her pookie and then talks to Jake Paul.

[00:26:20] I can't believe it.

[00:26:21] Talk about getting cuckold.

[00:26:24] And obsession with Matt Reif.

[00:26:28] Talk about a problematic fave.

[00:26:37] The clinking glasses really sell the whole Neil Hamburger bit that we're going with.

[00:26:42] I've been having to explain Neil Hamburger to the younger people I work with.

[00:26:46] That's got to be a hoot.

[00:26:48] Because I've gotten stuck in situations where I've had to walk around with a laptop and a water bottle

[00:26:54] and other things like crooked in my arm having to put out some sort of fire.

[00:26:59] And I'm like, what's going on?

[00:27:02] What do you mean the OEM labels aren't printed?

[00:27:06] And they're like, the fuck are you doing?

[00:27:07] And I'm like, there's this comedian.

[00:27:11] And I try to explain.

[00:27:12] And they're just like, the fuck, man?

[00:27:14] Three levels of irony I'm on here.

[00:27:16] Come on, keep up.

[00:27:17] Yeah.

[00:27:17] Jesus.

[00:27:18] Well, I'll be like, you know, what's worse than 9-11?

[00:27:23] What's worse?

[00:27:25] Why did Anthony Kiedis of the Grammy Award winning, Grammy Award winning band,

[00:27:32] Red Hot Chili Peppers, why was he at the salvage yard?

[00:27:36] Why was he at the salvage yard?

[00:27:39] I don't know, Neil.

[00:27:40] Why?

[00:27:40] He heard they had some good junk.

[00:27:43] Oh.

[00:27:46] My favorite still has to be the cranberry sauce joke.

[00:27:49] What's the cranberry sauce joke?

[00:27:52] Now, it originally says about Courtney Love,

[00:27:53] but I have rewritten it to be about a certain someone,

[00:27:56] a Cheeto in the White House.

[00:27:58] Why won't Donald Trump be having any cranberry sauce this Christmas?

[00:28:06] I said, why won't Donald Trump be having any cranberry sauce this Christmas?

[00:28:15] Well, hopefully he'll be dead by then.

[00:28:19] And originally being about Courtney Love, not nearly as funny.

[00:28:22] I think the new one is, you know, that's just my take on it.

[00:28:25] He's got some Eric Clapton jokes about a dead kid that absolutely fucking just go off.

[00:28:30] There's nobody out there doing anti-comedy that's also actually funny like him.

[00:28:36] Oh, and Greg Turkington is also one of the most interesting people I've ever spoken with.

[00:28:40] That's what you were saying.

[00:28:41] I'm so jealous.

[00:28:41] He was just playing the big ball to me.

[00:28:43] I'm like, that sounds absolutely...

[00:28:45] You got Comedy Central to pay for a pilot of that?

[00:28:48] He's just like, I know.

[00:28:50] So, okay.

[00:28:51] I don't...

[00:28:52] I'm not as familiar with the big ball.

[00:28:53] That was a game show.

[00:28:55] It was a game show where he was the host.

[00:28:58] Okay.

[00:28:58] And his like, Vanna White was a female bodybuilder with a very deep voice.

[00:29:03] Obviously has done a couple courses of steroids.

[00:29:06] Right.

[00:29:06] It's a fucking fever dream.

[00:29:08] I don't even remember like the gimmick as far as like what makes it an interesting game show.

[00:29:14] Okay.

[00:29:14] The pilot was on Adult Swim's website for a while.

[00:29:18] I have no idea if it's still up.

[00:29:20] It is an insane thing that occurred that that was made.

[00:29:24] Even just a pilot.

[00:29:26] That sounds awesome.

[00:29:26] Now I kind of want to see that.

[00:29:28] I'll have to hold on to that and that'll be my breath man next week.

[00:29:30] I'll tell you about my experience with the big ball.

[00:29:33] The big ball!

[00:29:35] That's true.

[00:29:36] I'm sorry.

[00:29:38] The live on X here, the one that just really got me was House of Decline is hosting I Saw the Beavis Club.

[00:29:48] I kind of want to join this space and just see what's happening.

[00:29:53] But we're doing a show.

[00:29:54] We'll have to do it.

[00:29:55] We're doing I Saw the Beavis Club.

[00:29:57] We interrupt this broadcast for I Saw the Beavis Club.

[00:30:01] But I'd like to bring a little levity.

[00:30:03] I don't always get to in this show.

[00:30:06] Talked about some really despicable people doing despicable things.

[00:30:10] This is a little bit of that old internet wonder kind of being brought back.

[00:30:16] Gentleman by the name of Riley Walls.

[00:30:19] Not related to the vice president candidate.

[00:30:22] I found millions of YouTube videos that have default camera names as titles like IMG underscore zero two seven six and made it into a website where you can watch random ones, unedited pure moments from random lives.

[00:30:40] And this has been my obsession this week.

[00:30:44] The website is walls are W.A.L.Z.R.com forward slash IMG underscore zero zero zero one.

[00:30:53] And he explains on the site this.

[00:30:56] Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built in send to YouTube button in the photos app.

[00:31:02] Many of these uploads kept their default names, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives inspired by Ben Wallace.

[00:31:11] I made a bot that crawled YouTube and five found five million of these videos.

[00:31:17] Watch them below ordered randomly.

[00:31:19] And we're going to just see what comes up for us.

[00:31:22] A lot of live music does come up on these.

[00:31:27] Oh, nice version of Knights of the White Satin with a flute player who's going to get very tired by the end of that song.

[00:31:34] Six views this has from 2011.

[00:31:37] A sideways video of a couple of bros doing about to do some pushups, it looks like.

[00:31:42] Oh, no, they're standing against the wall.

[00:31:44] They're doing the.

[00:31:46] Yeah, they're doing the perspective thing.

[00:31:48] Like they do one hand pushups.

[00:31:50] 37 views on the fake one handed pushups.

[00:31:53] 11 views on an adorable child pushing a shopping cart in a store.

[00:31:58] Yeah, some store.

[00:31:59] I can't.

[00:32:00] I can't.

[00:32:00] It's like a target, but.

[00:32:01] Yeah.

[00:32:02] It's got zellers, it looks like.

[00:32:05] Knock a shit over like hell yeah.

[00:32:08] Oh, knock a more shit over.

[00:32:10] Wow.

[00:32:12] Someone's just standing there filming that.

[00:32:13] I don't know.

[00:32:13] So, so strange.

[00:32:15] Someone filming a party in 2012.

[00:32:17] It's just these weird, disjointed clips.

[00:32:21] You know, Terrence Malick style.

[00:32:23] Just someone's life.

[00:32:25] Different people's lives from all around the world.

[00:32:27] A lot of Spanish speakers in this last group that I've seen.

[00:32:30] I mean, it's hypnotic.

[00:32:32] It really is.

[00:32:33] It's so.

[00:32:35] Appeal.

[00:32:36] I.

[00:32:37] I spent a lot of time on this site this week.

[00:32:39] Yeah, this just feels.

[00:32:41] Like this very interesting like slice of life.

[00:32:45] And we all like gave it up.

[00:32:49] To be like monetized for not our benefit.

[00:32:54] Absolutely.

[00:32:55] I think that's like this feels like looking at like one of the last pure things of the

[00:33:00] internet.

[00:33:01] Yeah.

[00:33:02] I think that's why it caught my eye.

[00:33:04] It's simple.

[00:33:06] It's effective because it's just this is just somebody thought this was important enough

[00:33:10] to record.

[00:33:13] Yeah.

[00:33:14] Like, I mean, just like watching that child, you know, three, four years old.

[00:33:19] Bumble his weight.

[00:33:20] Bumbling through the toy aisle.

[00:33:22] They knock one thing over and then they knock over a couple other things.

[00:33:25] They lose grip with a little the little cart that they have and they fall on their butt

[00:33:29] and like they're just kind of got this confused look on their face.

[00:33:33] And it's just it feels.

[00:33:35] Yeah.

[00:33:35] It's like watching someone's home movie.

[00:33:38] Yes.

[00:33:38] Flipping through a stranger's photo album.

[00:33:41] Yeah.

[00:33:41] Yeah.

[00:33:41] It feels like you're seeing something that's kind of banal.

[00:33:47] Sure.

[00:33:48] But it's earnest.

[00:33:49] Well, there's a power.

[00:33:50] Even like what looked to be like a bunch of like college freshmen like partying.

[00:33:54] I think there's something to be said for the simplicity and the power in that.

[00:33:59] Absolutely.

[00:33:59] I think that's something we probably have gotten away from too much.

[00:34:04] Especially on something like a YouTube.

[00:34:07] Yeah.

[00:34:07] I don't feel like there's a lot of stuff on there anymore that's just like real.

[00:34:12] Yeah.

[00:34:12] I think that's the way to put it.

[00:34:13] Realness.

[00:34:14] Like everything feels just like a little too.

[00:34:17] It's just a little too perfect.

[00:34:19] Synthetic.

[00:34:20] Manufacturing.

[00:34:21] Synthetic.

[00:34:21] And even when it tries to like.

[00:34:23] So there is a music gear influencer named Emily Hopkins or Hospins.

[00:34:32] I can't remember.

[00:34:33] She's from Long Island and she's like a cute nerdy woman.

[00:34:39] Okay.

[00:34:39] And she plays harp.

[00:34:41] She was going under Emily the Harpist for a long time.

[00:34:44] Yeah.

[00:34:44] I think one of the first like 10,000 people to follow her.

[00:34:48] Like when I first followed her on YouTube, I don't think she even had like 5,000.

[00:34:53] She's got the blonde hair, dark hair thing, glasses.

[00:34:56] Yeah.

[00:34:57] Plays the harp and all that.

[00:34:58] She's got a golden retriever, indie nerd boyfriend.

[00:35:02] Like just there's a lot of stuff when she was first figuring out what this, her channel

[00:35:07] is going to be like.

[00:35:08] There was a lot of stuff that was really interesting, stuff that was really funny.

[00:35:11] You know, talking about being Italian from Long Island.

[00:35:14] You know, we give out bags of marinara on Halloween.

[00:35:18] So there's like a view of her like, you know, on a stoop with bags of red sauce and like

[00:35:25] a shitty like octopus costume.

[00:35:29] Yeah.

[00:35:30] Okay.

[00:35:31] And there was a thing that started like about a year ago in the comments that like, oh,

[00:35:37] is Emily goth egg.

[00:35:39] Oh, there is an adult film star with the same hairstyle.

[00:35:43] Very much the same look.

[00:35:45] Yeah.

[00:35:46] Same physique.

[00:35:48] Oh, that's right.

[00:35:49] Because she got goth egg to appear in videos with her.

[00:35:51] Yes.

[00:35:52] So that's.

[00:35:52] Yes.

[00:35:53] Thank you.

[00:35:54] So, yeah.

[00:35:55] About like a month or so ago, Emily had goth egg on her channel and like did tons of

[00:36:01] content.

[00:36:02] Not the kind that some of us probably were hoping for.

[00:36:04] But it was like, but like for me as a is a nerd for music stuff, I thought it was really

[00:36:09] funny.

[00:36:10] But like it also just felt like a little too perfect of a bow on things.

[00:36:15] I get that.

[00:36:17] Even like the most earnest people still have to have a bit of ironic distance or something,

[00:36:24] you know, like there's a lot of creators that I like, but it's very clear that like

[00:36:28] the lighting is perfect and everybody, you know, everybody.

[00:36:31] Yeah.

[00:36:32] But then like you have something like Emily or I'm a little out of the game, but there's

[00:36:37] like a couple where there's like a handful of like three or four that are like kind of

[00:36:43] top tier and Earthquaker releases a new pedal and they all have a video out the same day.

[00:36:51] Fender has a new type of jazz master.

[00:36:53] They all like there was actually a thing where Fender had sent out so many review copies of

[00:36:59] the Acoustasonic Jazzmaster a year or two ago that people were making videos about.

[00:37:05] Like, is this like peak YouTube music gear influencer?

[00:37:09] We're like 40 people, not even people with that big of channels were getting sent this,

[00:37:15] you know, this guitar to like do a video on.

[00:37:18] Well, because I think speaking of Street Fighter, I think a lot of people felt that same way

[00:37:21] when more review copies were going to YouTubers and streamers than were to, you know, reviewers

[00:37:28] like journalists and all that.

[00:37:29] Yeah.

[00:37:30] I mean, it's it's changed.

[00:37:32] And like I've flirted with the idea of doing that.

[00:37:36] Yeah, you mentioned that.

[00:37:37] It's like the weird synth music that I make and also like like photography.

[00:37:41] And it just all seems like a lot.

[00:37:44] It feels like you're giving up a lot as a person, like you're giving up a lot of your

[00:37:49] agency, your love, your privacy.

[00:37:52] You're really opening up yourself for like cheap shots to be picked apart to like review

[00:37:59] a guitar pedal early.

[00:38:01] Most people don't talk about the kind of messages they get or that kind of stuff.

[00:38:04] Well, Heimbach, who is a European guitar, well, more synth gear nerd guy.

[00:38:11] I actually really like his videos quite a bit.

[00:38:14] I think he's he seems like a very sweet, gentle Nordic European man does a lot of instrument

[00:38:22] history stuff like he has gotten early like European synthesizers from like the 50s and

[00:38:28] 60s that are barely what you would call a synthesizer.

[00:38:32] They're like they're very archaic.

[00:38:34] They're very primitive, but they have like a really interesting sound.

[00:38:38] And people need to remember that like when you're talking about old like electronic keyboards

[00:38:45] or synthesizers, that a lot of that stuff was so intricate, the circuits and so lovingly

[00:38:53] designed and there had to be so much ingenuity in the development of these things.

[00:38:57] We take it for granted now, but like a Farfisa compact electronic organ, every single note,

[00:39:07] all, I don't know, 50 something keys.

[00:39:11] I forget how big the key bet is on those, but each one of those has its own fucking voice

[00:39:16] card.

[00:39:17] Oh God.

[00:39:17] So there has to be a voice card for every note.

[00:39:20] And so think about how many, you know, you've got to make sure you're doing it, you know,

[00:39:23] and with the Farfisas, there's like a really weird architecture to the voicing.

[00:39:29] That's because it's called a triangular.

[00:39:32] Okay.

[00:39:32] It's how it's been described by people who are a little bit smarter about it than myself.

[00:39:35] And I actually have a Farfisa compact that lives in my mom's basement because it's fucking

[00:39:39] heavy.

[00:39:39] I love it.

[00:39:40] It sounds amazing.

[00:39:41] It's such a beautiful, strange thing, but all of the voicings don't necessarily work

[00:39:47] anymore.

[00:39:47] And to get it repaired means like shipping it off to someone.

[00:39:51] Oh wow.

[00:39:52] And like, it would be prohibitively expensive just to ship it, let alone get worked on.

[00:39:57] Um, it would almost be worth it just to do a road trip.

[00:40:00] Um, and just, yeah, road trip there when the drop it off and then a second road trip to

[00:40:06] come back.

[00:40:07] But Heimbach does a lot of stuff like that.

[00:40:10] A lot of old weird stuff, but he did something where he took the negative.

[00:40:16] And sometimes like xenophobic or like racist comments that he got on YouTube and social

[00:40:21] media.

[00:40:22] And he would record himself saying them.

[00:40:26] And then he would, um, do like basically like an art installation with them.

[00:40:33] Okay.

[00:40:34] And so he would record them onto tape and then he would kind of slowly destroy these loops.

[00:40:41] Um, and he would do things like have one where the thing that was providing the tension.

[00:40:47] So it would feed through the heads and, you know, be audible, you know, so play would be

[00:40:53] like a butter knife or something.

[00:40:55] So as every single time it plays through that butter knife is causing degradation.

[00:41:00] And so that loop is losing fidelity and things like that.

[00:41:05] Okay.

[00:41:05] I always thought that was pretty interesting, but like Heimbach's like a guy that's not

[00:41:10] doing like the newest thing review very often.

[00:41:13] Like, unless it's something weird, like, um, make noise with like their Strega, uh, noise

[00:41:19] synth, which I have, which is really fun and creative.

[00:41:22] Like he would be, he's like the perfect guy to talk about that and like did shit where

[00:41:27] he was having, I think he took red peppers, red bell peppers and use that, the, the, the

[00:41:32] create an electric bridge between two different contact points, which would normally be like

[00:41:37] your fingers.

[00:41:37] Yeah.

[00:41:38] Yeah.

[00:41:38] To create these kinds of like, you're like basically doing West coast, uh, modular synthesis,

[00:41:44] but instead of doing like Athens Jacks or banana Jacks, you're using your fingers as

[00:41:49] you're conducting, like you're using your body as the, the connection between these two points.

[00:41:55] Okay.

[00:41:55] But he was using like red bell peppers, which I thought was really fucking funny and it

[00:42:01] worked.

[00:42:02] I don't even know what the point of this diatribe is.

[00:42:04] I guess we're just going for time here, aren't we?

[00:42:06] Well, I think your point is that, you know, uh, the genuineness like his is hard to find.

[00:42:12] Yeah.

[00:42:12] And there are people whose channels when it comes to that stuff that I've really enjoyed,

[00:42:17] uh, that have tapered back their output because it's like, I just don't want to review the

[00:42:23] next big thing.

[00:42:24] The latest and greatest.

[00:42:25] Because like, that's a great opportunity to build like a relationship with like a Kai or,

[00:42:29] uh, native instruments.

[00:42:32] But I also don't believe that you need like the latest and greatest thing to make music

[00:42:38] that you'd like or music that's meaningful or impactful.

[00:42:42] So some of those guys have like dropped off.

[00:42:44] I think like accurate beats is one of those people that like, he's a German guy who loves

[00:42:49] making the hip hop music.

[00:42:50] And I think he kind of got burnt out on reviewing like, you know, here's like the new version

[00:42:56] of this.

[00:42:57] And like when I think deep down, it's like, you don't really need the new version of

[00:43:02] that.

[00:43:02] Like there's so much interesting music that has been made on less than ideal equipment

[00:43:08] with less than ideal instruments.

[00:43:12] And I think when you start thinking, oh, I need the newest NPC or I need the newest version

[00:43:19] of this guitar pedal or like, oh, I need a new delay pedal because my old delay pedal just

[00:43:24] isn't like, it's not cool enough.

[00:43:26] And this one's made by, you know, Earthquaker or whatever.

[00:43:30] Then you start using it as a crutch that you're putting in front of your actual musicianship,

[00:43:37] your actual ability.

[00:43:38] I mean, it's all marketing.

[00:43:40] I mean, we've all fooled ourselves into thinking like, well, I need it.

[00:43:43] If I want to play really cool music, I need a really cool guitar.

[00:43:46] Right.

[00:43:46] And I can tell you someone that's owned some really nice guitars, like my favorite guitar

[00:43:51] I've ever owned.

[00:43:52] And I regret selling it was a fucked up Gibson S1 that had a bad tuning machines, a weird

[00:44:00] neck.

[00:44:00] I think it might even had mold growing over, growing under the paint.

[00:44:04] Someone had fucked up the pickups.

[00:44:06] At one point in time, someone had attached a Bigsby to it and removed it.

[00:44:10] It was a fucked up guitar.

[00:44:12] I bought for, I think, a hundred dollars from my, my manager that I worked for at Guitar

[00:44:19] Center.

[00:44:19] He sold that in a weird Tysco electric that I also regret getting rid of because it sounded

[00:44:25] super fucking cool.

[00:44:26] I think I got both of those for like less than two from him.

[00:44:30] And that Gibson had like a really comfortable neck.

[00:44:33] It was fucked up.

[00:44:35] Nothing about it was right.

[00:44:37] I got the neck worked on, but it was a junky ass guitar.

[00:44:40] Someone had like taken a chisel and removed the serial number.

[00:44:44] Oh Jesus.

[00:44:44] Like this was a fucked guitar, but I had the most fun playing it.

[00:44:49] And I got it for nothing.

[00:44:52] I've played fucking 50 Stratcasters.

[00:44:54] It did not make my dick move an inch.

[00:44:57] Like here's a guitar that's worth probably $30,000.

[00:45:00] And like, I can't jack off to this.

[00:45:05] I've been fortunate to see really, you know, I played original Travis Beans, you know, which

[00:45:11] are really hard to come by.

[00:45:12] And been like, this is neat.

[00:45:15] This guitar kind of sounds like shit.

[00:45:17] That's disappointing.

[00:45:18] You know, you get to play a really rare, like I think you've only seen in books.

[00:45:23] Right.

[00:45:23] And you're like, it's all right.

[00:45:24] And it could be just that one.

[00:45:26] Like I actually felt like the one I played just happened to be a dog.

[00:45:28] But I've also then got to play my dream guitars and been like, oh, this is every bit as cool

[00:45:33] as I thought it was.

[00:45:33] But I guess I'm just saying like, you don't need like the coolest shit to do cool shit.

[00:45:38] You don't need the newest guitar or the nicest amp to do cool shit.

[00:45:45] You don't need the coolest camera to do cool shit.

[00:45:47] Now, are there things that are nice about having the nicest guitar and about having like

[00:45:52] the nicest equipment for like whatever thing you're doing?

[00:45:55] Yes, absolutely.

[00:45:56] Yeah.

[00:45:56] But to go back to it, like I've played very expensive PRS guitars that I think are technically

[00:46:02] flawless instruments.

[00:46:04] Every single bit about the construction, the wood, the book matching on the maple tops,

[00:46:10] the electronics, the fit and finish, you know, the way the frets are dressed and all that,

[00:46:16] like technically perfect.

[00:46:19] But in the end, very boring guitars.

[00:46:23] Give me something that's kind of fucking weird.

[00:46:25] Yeah.

[00:46:25] And a little janky.

[00:46:26] Give me back that fucking Gibson.

[00:46:27] And that's how I feel about this manufactured YouTube versus something like this IMG 001 site.

[00:46:34] Give me random shit that is real versus, hey guys, that shit, you know what I mean?

[00:46:42] There's a manufactured quality to it all.

[00:46:45] There's a trend chasing quality to it all.

[00:46:47] And it just, it hurts in a certain way.

[00:46:49] It's just like physically painful.

[00:46:51] You're listening to 48 minutes of dogs barking the podcast.

[00:46:55] And now it's time for the crypto scam of the week.

[00:46:58] I feel like at this point of things, myself personally, I'm getting kind of exhausted of

[00:47:05] just like the same scam being run.

[00:47:09] That's fair.

[00:47:10] Because the only thing outs, because what we have here, folks, is for the, on our little

[00:47:15] spreadsheet here is scammer brags about impersonating coin-based support, quaint, colon, scam, 30K in

[00:47:22] seven minutes.

[00:47:24] Yeah.

[00:47:24] The only thing, yeah, the Zen Z trade, like the fucking kids are learning to rug like fucking

[00:47:32] pump fun coins and shit.

[00:47:35] Yeah.

[00:47:35] There was one called some kid, some 12 year old that like rugged for like thousands of

[00:47:39] dollars.

[00:47:40] He was calling himself racist dev.

[00:47:42] Oh, Jesus.

[00:47:43] Yeah.

[00:47:43] I mean, this one is like, he did it three times in a row.

[00:47:49] Actually, you know what?

[00:47:50] Fucking mood.

[00:47:51] He did it three times in a row.

[00:47:53] He named one quant.

[00:47:55] He named one Lucy after his dog.

[00:47:57] And then he even named one sorry.

[00:47:59] Dollar sign.

[00:48:00] Sorry.

[00:48:00] And then he fucking rug that one too.

[00:48:03] You know what?

[00:48:04] That actually kind of rules.

[00:48:06] But that's still.

[00:48:07] Well, I mean, I go back, goes back to, I mean, this is, this is just like the second,

[00:48:12] the newest version of my favorite rug I ever watched happen on a telegram channel, which

[00:48:16] it was the guy rugging and being like, hold on.

[00:48:18] I fucked up something.

[00:48:19] Add liquidity again.

[00:48:22] Rugged again.

[00:48:23] Hold on.

[00:48:23] Hold on.

[00:48:23] I got to fix this.

[00:48:24] I got to fix this.

[00:48:25] Add liquidity back.

[00:48:27] And then as it pumped again, pulled the.

[00:48:30] So he probably made like that guy probably made like 10, 20 grand.

[00:48:34] It's been like, hold on a second.

[00:48:35] Hold on a second.

[00:48:35] This isn't right.

[00:48:36] I'm still cooking here.

[00:48:37] And even a coffee Zilla was like, this, this sucks.

[00:48:44] Is this the future of if a finance is this kid giving you the double bird as he rugs a

[00:48:50] third time?

[00:48:50] You know, like, yeah, I think it is.

[00:48:52] I think it is.

[00:48:53] Yeah.

[00:48:53] I think that's pretty much it.

[00:48:56] That's.

[00:48:57] So nothing new under the sun, I guess.

[00:48:59] Yeah.

[00:49:00] Fucking Bitcoin's almost 100 K.

[00:49:02] Yeah.

[00:49:03] Which I boy egg on my face.

[00:49:05] I said, I didn't think it was going to go past 85.

[00:49:08] Yeah.

[00:49:08] The cycle.

[00:49:09] Yeah.

[00:49:10] I got out too early.

[00:49:11] I just didn't think the money was going to be there.

[00:49:13] I didn't think that the man was going to be there, but apparently I was wrong.

[00:49:17] Well, you hate to see it.

[00:49:18] I don't know.

[00:49:18] Yeah.

[00:49:19] You want to do it?

[00:49:19] Want to go?

[00:49:20] Want to see something gross?

[00:49:21] Yeah.

[00:49:21] Let's see something gross.

[00:49:22] It's shock.jpg.

[00:49:25] And now the moment you've all been waiting for.

[00:49:30] Shock.jpg.

[00:49:31] This isn't even all that gross.

[00:49:33] Once again, the shock sites, big quotes.

[00:49:38] It's just porn.

[00:49:39] It's called Gork.

[00:49:40] Gork, gork.

[00:49:41] Goggle my goods, it says.

[00:49:43] And it's just gay porn.

[00:49:45] I'm a guy.

[00:49:48] Well, yeah.

[00:49:48] See the.

[00:49:49] I could go.

[00:49:50] I could go without the sound.

[00:49:53] The sounds is the whole reason the website is called Gork.

[00:49:56] G-O-O-O-R-K.com.

[00:49:59] It was getting my gag reflex, and not because it's someone just getting absolutely face-fucked.

[00:50:07] Like, the only thing that's missing is the nose being held shut.

[00:50:10] Yeah.

[00:50:10] Oh, God.

[00:50:11] I hate that.

[00:50:13] It's like, you're already deprived of it.

[00:50:16] Yeah.

[00:50:17] Don't.

[00:50:18] Don't make it worse.

[00:50:19] Yeah.

[00:50:19] Come on.

[00:50:20] Someone is being nice enough to do that for you.

[00:50:22] And now you're just taking advantage now.

[00:50:26] You just, you've made, you're, it's now it's mean.

[00:50:29] No, I don't like my porn to be mean.

[00:50:32] Oh, by the way, speaking of porn being mean, we do have to issue a correction.

[00:50:37] Last week, we referenced a pornographic actress.

[00:50:40] Her name is Coco Love Lock and not Coco Love Cock.

[00:50:45] Please accept our humblest apologies.

[00:50:48] It shan't happen again.

[00:50:49] I'm so embarrassed.

[00:50:51] Egg.

[00:50:52] You ruined my happy meal.

[00:50:55] Egg and happy meal on our face is what I'm doing.

[00:50:58] Just, I like had conversation with someone that was like, I made this reference to my friend

[00:51:05] that I do the podcast with, and I thought I would just be like saying something that scandalized

[00:51:10] him, and he knew what I was talking about, which made me feel bad.

[00:51:15] Hit the uno reverse on you.

[00:51:17] Yeah.

[00:51:19] Or you think you're going to weird me out, huh?

[00:51:21] Yeah.

[00:51:22] And it's like, well, I can't even remember the particularities of the conversation, but

[00:51:25] man, it was just like one of those things where like, you know, you think you're a piece

[00:51:28] of shit, and then you find out someone that you respect is also a piece of shit.

[00:51:32] Well, there's your mistake right there.

[00:51:34] Respecting me.

[00:51:35] It's all gross from here on out.

[00:51:37] Oh boy.

[00:51:38] Well, I guess yet more wanting to puke is breath mint time.

[00:51:44] It's time for your mom's favorite part of the show.

[00:51:48] It's time for the breath mint.

[00:51:54] The only thing, only thing's missing is someone also sticking like a penny in a light socket

[00:52:00] with her.

[00:52:03] I always remember too, there was a long period of time, Howard Sturr, the guy, Fred, who does

[00:52:08] all the sound effects, he would pull up a gagging sound from some video.

[00:52:12] And then I later found out it was a video I knew very well.

[00:52:16] It was a roar of snow going, gawk, gawk, gawk, gawk, gawk.

[00:52:19] And anytime Felicio is referenced on the show, he would just hit that soundboard.

[00:52:23] Gawk, gawk, gawk, gawk, gawk.

[00:52:26] Which is what reminded me that this shock site even existed.

[00:52:29] But anyway, it's time for the breath mint.

[00:52:31] Jesus Christ.

[00:52:33] Gawk, gawk, gawk, gawk, gawk.

[00:52:35] Yep.

[00:52:35] Hey now.

[00:52:36] Hit him with the high end.

[00:52:38] We're getting Chris Christie the right recipient.

[00:52:41] Chris, how you feeling?

[00:52:42] I don't know, guys.

[00:52:46] To me, he sounds like the one overweight gay dad on Modern Family, even though it's not,

[00:52:51] he doesn't actually sound like that, but that's how he's in my head.

[00:52:53] I never remember any of the characters' names because I don't watch that show.

[00:52:57] So I only see Chris.

[00:52:58] Chris Christie fell off.

[00:52:59] You think?

[00:53:00] I think the last time we really got a Chris Christie moment was when he sold his soul for

[00:53:05] Donald Trump and there's that video of him giving the Michael Scott face in that press

[00:53:11] conference.

[00:53:13] Because I think the last couple times I've seen him was he was on CNN talking about how

[00:53:17] Donald Trump is bad.

[00:53:18] I'm like, yeah, everybody says that.

[00:53:20] Hit me with something new, Chris.

[00:53:22] Oh, he's uniquely unfit.

[00:53:24] I've heard that like three times this week.

[00:53:25] What the fuck?

[00:53:26] Yeah, well, guess what, dude?

[00:53:27] He's back.

[00:53:28] In pog form.

[00:53:29] P-A-W-G.

[00:53:32] Now I'm thinking about Donald Trump as a fat-ass white girl.

[00:53:35] That's great.

[00:53:38] What are you doing, step constituent?

[00:53:44] I'm stuck on Air Force One.

[00:53:47] He's sucking the door.

[00:53:52] He's pulling his pants.

[00:53:54] Anyway.

[00:53:56] Moves his diaper to the side.

[00:53:58] Oh, no.

[00:54:02] You've been a bad boy, Donald.

[00:54:06] Oh, boy.

[00:54:09] They call it 10,000 mules.

[00:54:11] Oh, that whiskey's going to my head.

[00:54:22] All right.

[00:54:24] This week for the Breathman, I watched, in lieu of the Tyson Paul fight, I instead watched

[00:54:32] Alien Romulus.

[00:54:33] As a longtime Alien fan, and as someone who liked Fede Alvarez's previous films, I didn't

[00:54:41] know what to think.

[00:54:42] And I'm still kind of wrestling with it.

[00:54:43] It's a legacy sequel.

[00:54:44] It tries to have it both ways by being a sort of sequel to Alien Covenant.

[00:54:52] It tries to also be a legacy sequel in that it's new characters in a familiar setting

[00:54:58] kind of vibe.

[00:54:59] I mean, you know the kind of the drill here.

[00:55:01] But a bunch of miners, both underage and people who mine things, working for Weyland-Yutani

[00:55:08] on one of these outworld colonies, they get this idea that they're going to pilfer an

[00:55:13] abandoned research station that's about to hit these ice rings outside of a different

[00:55:18] planet.

[00:55:18] So like, okay, we're going to go up there.

[00:55:20] We're going to steal whatever valuables they've got, and we're going to get out.

[00:55:23] Okay, good hook.

[00:55:25] You got me there.

[00:55:26] I'm going to imagine the abandoned research center is a place that's familiar to us.

[00:55:31] Actually, no.

[00:55:32] It is not Sevastopol.

[00:55:34] It's not one of the things from like the games or anything like that.

[00:55:36] As far as I know, from my recollection, it is not an existing thing.

[00:55:42] Now, it might have been in Alien Covenant.

[00:55:44] It's been a long time since I've seen that.

[00:55:46] So I'm kind of 50-50 on whether it is actually something we know about.

[00:55:49] But from what I recall, I don't think it is.

[00:55:52] But it is a Weyland-Yutani ship, a scientific research vessel that does have preserved specimens

[00:55:58] of the xenomorphs.

[00:56:00] And so they turn the gravity back on the ship and they start reactivating systems, which of

[00:56:06] course wakes up the dormant creatures.

[00:56:07] Everything goes to hell in a very linear fashion that we've seen before.

[00:56:13] Yeah.

[00:56:14] There are some interesting ideas.

[00:56:16] The young woman, the main young woman whose name is Rain, her brother is an android.

[00:56:21] He's also constantly malfunctioning and he has a propensity for dad jokes.

[00:56:26] So they're trying some interesting characterizations here.

[00:56:29] You've got the heist movie idea that gets abandoned halfway through the movie.

[00:56:34] That's a shame.

[00:56:35] Because, of course, it becomes like, okay, fuck the heist.

[00:56:39] We've got to get out of here and all that.

[00:56:41] So that kind of thing.

[00:56:43] Spoilers for those who have not seen the movie.

[00:56:45] But they do have a rather unfortunate extended use of Ian Holmes' face.

[00:56:53] The deceased actor who played Ash in the first Alien movie does appear in this one as a partially

[00:56:59] destroyed cyborg.

[00:57:00] Not Ash, but the same model.

[00:57:03] Right.

[00:57:04] That did not need to have happened at all.

[00:57:07] Right.

[00:57:08] Lance Hendrickson, as far as I know, is still alive.

[00:57:11] He's available.

[00:57:12] Actually, he's passed.

[00:57:13] Had he?

[00:57:13] Oh, okay.

[00:57:14] Because I actually had a conversation with a co-worker who said that that was one of the

[00:57:18] things that really sat wrong with him about the movie.

[00:57:22] And, of course, I then had to give him my pitch about you need to watch the editor's cut

[00:57:26] of Alien 3.

[00:57:28] Well, listen, here, now we're talking about Alien movies.

[00:57:31] Let me, let me, gosh, I just feel like...

[00:57:34] You like to shoehorn that one in whenever you can add.

[00:57:37] I mean, it really is something special.

[00:57:39] No disagreement there.

[00:57:40] I definitely see the vision.

[00:57:42] Yeah.

[00:57:42] You've seen it now, yeah?

[00:57:43] I have now, yes.

[00:57:44] Yeah.

[00:57:44] And I certainly understand what you're saying.

[00:57:46] It's almost a completely different film.

[00:57:47] It is.

[00:57:47] Once you get about halfway through.

[00:57:49] Yeah.

[00:57:49] I agree on some choices and I disagree on others.

[00:57:52] And I think that there is a whole different movie that sits in the middle of the two cuts

[00:57:58] that I think could have been achieved with a little bit more time and a couple reshoots.

[00:58:02] But it diverges quite a bit and I grapple with which one I like better.

[00:58:08] I think I like the editors because you, the editors cut because you see like the plight of the prisoners.

[00:58:14] Yes.

[00:58:15] You see their inability, like they could be saved.

[00:58:19] Right.

[00:58:20] As far as in, they could be rehabilitated, but they are discarded.

[00:58:25] Mm-hmm.

[00:58:26] Whatever they are doing, they are lost.

[00:58:29] And they are trying to do their best.

[00:58:32] Yeah.

[00:58:32] They're the detritus of the universe.

[00:58:34] And I feel like in Romulus, they're trying to give you that same feeling about these miners

[00:58:40] who are trapped in these very long contracts, who are given no choices.

[00:58:46] You know what I mean?

[00:58:46] Yeah.

[00:58:47] There's a lot of that hopelessness that's built into the themes and the script of this one.

[00:58:52] I do say that the last half of Romulus hits some great action beats that feel real and fresh and really cool.

[00:59:01] Some really interesting ideas.

[00:59:03] Turning off a ship's gravity so that the alien blood doesn't eat through the hull.

[00:59:08] Yeah.

[00:59:09] Okay.

[00:59:10] That we've got an interesting idea here.

[00:59:12] Using physics to, it's interesting concepts and they kind of play with how space actually would work

[00:59:19] and how it would work to help you in certain situations.

[00:59:22] There's a callback to Alien Resurrection that I was not expecting.

[00:59:26] Really?

[00:59:27] In an extended sequence where there is a human-alien hybrid baby.

[00:59:32] And it is interesting because it takes that idea from Resurrection and then also adds the engineer faces from Prometheus.

[00:59:40] So that was cool.

[00:59:41] Yeah, I heard that monster is really neat.

[00:59:43] But also kind of like, why are we doing this again?

[00:59:45] But whatever.

[00:59:47] It's a repeated theme.

[00:59:49] It's a motif.

[00:59:50] It's going to happen again.

[00:59:51] But it also incorporates the black goo from Prometheus.

[00:59:55] So there's some stuff where they're trying to kind of make it all work together.

[00:59:58] Some of it works.

[00:59:58] Some of it doesn't.

[00:59:59] They used a line from Aliens completely out of context that pissed me off.

[01:00:04] But that's one line of dialogue.

[01:00:06] You can cut that and you're fine.

[01:00:07] I think on the whole it's really enjoyable.

[01:00:09] It's only enjoyable though if you're a nerd for these movies like me.

[01:00:12] If you're a casual moviegoer who doesn't keep up with alien lore, it might not be as enjoyable for the average viewer.

[01:00:20] I don't know.

[01:00:21] It's hard to tell.

[01:00:21] The tension's great.

[01:00:23] Characters are interesting.

[01:00:24] The goopiness of the monsters is goopy.

[01:00:27] It's what you need.

[01:00:28] A lot of practical effects.

[01:00:29] A lot of great practical effects.

[01:00:30] They look just nasty.

[01:00:33] It's good.

[01:00:34] Take a shot.

[01:00:35] If you like it, you like it.

[01:00:36] If you don't, well, it's not for you I guess.

[01:00:38] I do want to give it a shot.

[01:00:39] I didn't hate Romulus, Covenant.

[01:00:44] Prometheus I had some issues with.

[01:00:46] Ugh, so many issues.

[01:00:49] Prometheus is one of those movies that you go and watch YouTube explainers about certain things,

[01:00:54] particularly what the engineer is saying.

[01:00:57] That's super interesting.

[01:00:59] The thing that really sets off the engineer is Waylon being such a huge irredeemable piece of shit

[01:01:06] and realizing, oh, these humans, we were trying to make them the best of us.

[01:01:11] Yeah.

[01:01:11] And it's even implied that the engineers gave Jesus to the world and that y'all, look what y'all did to Jesus.

[01:01:19] Yeah, that was a little odd.

[01:01:22] I don't think that's terrible, though.

[01:01:24] Terrible, no.

[01:01:24] Odd, yes.

[01:01:25] I mean, there's degrees, you know.

[01:01:27] But if the argument is that humans and capitalism are a terrible leech on the world.

[01:01:35] Sure.

[01:01:36] There's no more than the god alien race being like, yo, we even got one of y'all and taught him how to be like us

[01:01:46] and instill our morals and our principles in him.

[01:01:49] And you were like, oh, you also have to die.

[01:01:53] Like, it is in your nature to be terrible.

[01:01:55] Yeah.

[01:01:55] And we've tried to fix it and we can't.

[01:01:58] You are a failure.

[01:01:59] That's interesting, at least, if nothing else.

[01:02:01] But that's all stuff that you don't get.

[01:02:05] It's not explicit.

[01:02:06] Yeah, you have to watch a director's cut or something.

[01:02:09] Or you have to watch the...

[01:02:11] I forget how you get that information, but people have gotten it.

[01:02:15] And it's like, yeah, the engineer is actually interested and benevolent on some level until he sees Yutani screaming at the one female researcher.

[01:02:24] And then that's where it goes to shit.

[01:02:26] Like, oh, wait.

[01:02:27] Oh, yeah, that's right.

[01:02:28] You guys are fuck shits.

[01:02:29] Anyways, time to die.

[01:02:30] Yeah.

[01:02:31] Well, enough of that experiment.

[01:02:33] We're going to get rid of y'all.

[01:02:34] Yeah.

[01:02:35] Prune this tree.

[01:02:37] Mm-hmm.

[01:02:38] How about yourself, Brian?

[01:02:39] What'd you bet?

[01:02:39] Oh, jeez.

[01:02:40] Oh, jeez.

[01:02:41] Oh, jeez.

[01:02:42] Just having so much fun speaking into my glass here.

[01:02:46] It sounds like I'm coming off the old radio here.

[01:02:49] Gosh, you know, it's 1935.

[01:02:51] I just had my first saltine cracker.

[01:02:54] Boy, what a treat.

[01:02:56] What a treat.

[01:02:57] Hot crackers.

[01:02:58] What a scoop.

[01:02:58] All right, put a little bit of butter on there.

[01:03:01] Yowza.

[01:03:01] Yowza.

[01:03:02] You got something to flip a skirt.

[01:03:04] Running around doing too much, but I can tell you that Friday night, I went and photographed

[01:03:09] a promising up-and-coming Texas rapper, Big X, The Plug.

[01:03:16] Hell yeah.

[01:03:17] Who I enjoyed thoroughly.

[01:03:18] I, however, hated the crowd, which was stupid.

[01:03:22] Oh, no.

[01:03:23] For people who don't know, St. Louis has a running, it's almost a running joke that rappers

[01:03:29] will travel the Midwest, they'll travel the South, and they'll be playing to what looks

[01:03:33] like what you expect a hip-hop crowd to be in Chicago or Louisville or Nashville or Atlanta,

[01:03:42] but in St. Louis is almost exclusively angry white dudes from white flight suburbs.

[01:03:49] And that was about half of the crowd.

[01:03:51] I want to say half to two-thirds.

[01:03:54] Jesus.

[01:03:55] And I'm going to say I have not witnessed that many people falling out at a concert that wasn't

[01:04:04] an EDM concert my entire life.

[01:04:07] In my 15 years of photographing live music, it felt like at one point, before even anyone

[01:04:12] really took the stage, three or four people were passed out, falling in the shit.

[01:04:18] But the show hadn't even really started.

[01:04:21] Jesus.

[01:04:21] And people were fucking just, we're failing our children and not teaching them about proper

[01:04:26] hydration and substance abuse.

[01:04:29] Oh, yeah.

[01:04:29] You think they were...

[01:04:30] Oh, some people were definitely like, maybe they took an edible.

[01:04:34] Oh.

[01:04:35] That they, that was too strong.

[01:04:37] But like, when I was waiting for one of the openers to go on stage, like just some young

[01:04:44] woman behind me, just like, her legs just fell out from under her.

[01:04:47] And like, we thought that she like hit her head on something.

[01:04:50] Ooh.

[01:04:50] Like shit that was like scary.

[01:04:51] It wasn't just funny, like, ah ha ha, you like, didn't, you got really fucked up and

[01:04:56] didn't drink enough water and now you're, you're passing out at a sold out show.

[01:05:00] It's more like...

[01:05:01] Oh, this is real.

[01:05:02] Like you have like, you might have hit your head real fucking hard.

[01:05:05] You might be concussed.

[01:05:07] Staff members coming and like, we've got, okay, we've got to get her on her back.

[01:05:12] Okay, you like, just a random dude in the crowd.

[01:05:15] You got to lift her legs and get the blood flowing back to her head.

[01:05:17] And he's like, got her and the staff members got her leg or her head between his legs

[01:05:23] to keep her neck straight.

[01:05:25] Right.

[01:05:25] And like talking to her, this ain't even shit to get that fucked up about.

[01:05:29] Like, this is just like a really good show.

[01:05:31] This isn't even like, like, this is not something I would like get so like fucked up at.

[01:05:37] Yeah.

[01:05:37] To put myself in that position.

[01:05:38] I would like maybe get like a little drinky.

[01:05:41] Sure.

[01:05:41] Maybe get a little high.

[01:05:42] Yeah.

[01:05:43] But whatever these people like, what are y'all doing?

[01:05:45] They're going, well, they're going hard for like three.

[01:05:47] Three hours before the show.

[01:05:49] I think that's the problem.

[01:05:50] People are missing Mr. Big X himself, who was great.

[01:05:54] I only really only heard the one song.

[01:05:56] And of course that was mm-hmm.

[01:05:58] Mm-hmm.

[01:05:58] And back on my BS.

[01:05:59] And yeah, I don't think I heard that.

[01:06:01] The blunt smoke was a little rough for me.

[01:06:03] Just like post-COVID, my lungs ain't what they used to be.

[01:06:06] He performed everything I wanted to see.

[01:06:08] And I was like, all right, he did all the cool shit.

[01:06:11] He had some cool shit to say in between songs.

[01:06:17] Got some okay photos.

[01:06:19] And peaced out.

[01:06:20] It was the first sold-out hip-hop show I ever photographed at Del Mar Hall.

[01:06:24] That room could get a little claustrophobic.

[01:06:26] I was going to say, yeah.

[01:06:27] Sold-out shows of the pageant don't really go that direction.

[01:06:30] I don't know.

[01:06:31] Like, dude had like a good flow, good vibe, good energy.

[01:06:34] I hope he keeps doing cool shit.

[01:06:36] His new record, I enjoy quite a bit.

[01:06:38] It's got some good stuff on there.

[01:06:39] Yeah, that was cool.

[01:06:40] And then last night, one of the greatest local bands still performing in this fucked up town, Hell Night.

[01:06:47] Hell Night.

[01:06:48] Did a co-10th anniversary show with Path of Might.

[01:06:54] Ugh.

[01:06:54] Which was then opened up by one of the best heavy acts in St. Louis, The Gorge.

[01:07:00] My God.

[01:07:00] Quite a good show.

[01:07:01] Quite a good show.

[01:07:02] Yeah.

[01:07:03] Dad's to the front.

[01:07:06] It is that kind of shit, isn't it?

[01:07:08] Yeah, I mean, that's kind of like how it was pitched.

[01:07:12] You know, I remember like Andy White, the guitarist, posting on Facebook.

[01:07:15] Like, we're old.

[01:07:17] We've got kids and responsibilities now.

[01:07:20] Like, we're going to play this show, but we don't know like when the next one's going to be.

[01:07:25] Don't be like, oh, sorry, couldn't make it.

[01:07:27] Because there might not be in, like, the last time I was invited to a Hell Night show was last October.

[01:07:34] Two Octobers ago.

[01:07:35] And it was unfortunately the same night as Ash Niko, which was a sold out show.

[01:07:40] I felt really bad missing the show they played last year.

[01:07:44] But I'm really glad I got to catch this show this year.

[01:07:46] The Gorge were playing some of their older shit, which has a little bit more dynamics to it.

[01:07:52] Phil Ring is just an amazing guitar player and vocalist.

[01:07:55] That whole entire band, everyone there is fucking money.

[01:07:59] Path of Might is a bunch of dudes that played in way more interesting bands beforehand.

[01:08:04] But whatever, like, it shit still slaps.

[01:08:07] I had to explain to the person that was with me that like, yeah, all these guys were in bands 10 years ago

[01:08:12] that were way fucking more interesting than this.

[01:08:14] But this is technically a better band than anything they were in before.

[01:08:19] Well, yeah, I mean, it was kind of a super group when they first formed it.

[01:08:22] Yeah, it's just, I also get like a little bummed that dudes playing really interesting weird punk music

[01:08:27] when they go like, yeah, I want to play shit that I'm really interested in.

[01:08:30] And it's prog metal.

[01:08:31] And you're like, you're kind of telling on yourself.

[01:08:34] They had too many listens to that one Cannes album.

[01:08:36] Yeah.

[01:08:37] Yeah, it's just like, oh, it's kind of a bummer.

[01:08:39] But they were fucking cool.

[01:08:41] And then Hell Night is...

[01:08:42] Raw.

[01:08:43] I photographed a lot of their early shows with their original vocalist, Mike C,

[01:08:48] who just had this insane guttural scream.

[01:08:52] Those songs were like upsetting.

[01:08:54] Yeah, if you go listen to Blister Pack.

[01:08:56] Absolutely.

[01:08:57] Blister Pack, like Invader.

[01:09:00] There's some stuff on there that's fucking just crazy as fuck.

[01:09:04] Yeah, definitely find that on Bandcamp, dear listeners.

[01:09:07] You will find yourself a new favorite band, I guarantee it.

[01:09:11] I would be really hard-pressed to find out if the dudes from Chat Pile had never listened to Hell Night.

[01:09:17] That really shit with Mike C.

[01:09:19] But the vocalist they got now was in Shadows Fall, a Grammy-nominated metal act.

[01:09:25] He has dreadlocks that almost touch the ground.

[01:09:28] It's kind of insane.

[01:09:30] He's also a killer vocalist, dude.

[01:09:32] It sounds great, but it's the thing where I think the band was more interesting with Mike C,

[01:09:38] but Mike C kind of just wasn't feeling it anymore, and they parted on good terms.

[01:09:44] I would say, yeah, there's really nothing being lost by having a real professional-ass front man for that band.

[01:09:54] Yes.

[01:09:54] As opposed to a guy that's like a master carpenter who rebuilds chimneys and shit for a living.

[01:10:01] Well, it's a useful skill, but it ain't gonna get you too far in the metal band.

[01:10:04] Well, I mean, again, that's a little bit more interesting than having a guy who's in a Grammy-nominated metal band, my opinion.

[01:10:10] Holy shit, what a fucking show.

[01:10:12] What a fucking performance.

[01:10:13] Holy fucking shit.

[01:10:14] So fucking cool.

[01:10:16] So fucking fun.

[01:10:17] Andy White, just sick guitar tones.

[01:10:19] Oh my god.

[01:10:19] I love that guy.

[01:10:20] He's also just a cool hang.

[01:10:21] Andy White's one of the sweetest people you'll meet in St. Louis.

[01:10:25] One of the kindest guys, incredibly talented musician, great skateboarder, raising a kid with his cool yoga instructor wife,

[01:10:35] and they seem to be killing it, raising a great little human being.

[01:10:38] You love to see it, folks.

[01:10:40] Eric Eister, been playing in fucking cool-ass bands for a million years.

[01:10:44] That's right.

[01:10:45] I only knew him for a while as Eric Eyeball, but yeah, Eric Eister, yeah.

[01:10:48] Eric's a fucking another sweet human being.

[01:10:52] Adam Arsenault, who I actually went to school with on drums.

[01:10:57] Not the chubby chipmunk kid that I knew growing up.

[01:11:02] Not anymore, yeah.

[01:11:03] Now he's got fucking some gnarly grade sideburns.

[01:11:07] Fucking killer drummer, though.

[01:11:09] Oh yeah.

[01:11:09] Great dude in his own right.

[01:11:11] And yeah, it's just really fucking cool to see, because I remember going to some early Hell Night shows that they were headlining,

[01:11:17] and there'd maybe be like 30, 40 people, but they packed out off Broadway pretty good.

[01:11:22] Kind of hard not to with a lineup like that.

[01:11:25] I was going to say.

[01:11:25] It was neat.

[01:11:26] It was neat to see just some people I hadn't seen in a while having fun, got some cool photos.

[01:11:31] Oh, that's right.

[01:11:32] Yeah, I did see that.

[01:11:33] The Hell Night photo, yeah.

[01:11:34] I guess posted a couple.

[01:11:36] But it was fun.

[01:11:37] It was cool.

[01:11:37] I hadn't seen Hell Night play in almost 10 years.

[01:11:40] I hadn't seen Path of Might or The Gorge play in just as long.

[01:11:43] So it was a good vibe, man.

[01:11:44] It was good times.

[01:11:45] I had a couple tall boys.

[01:11:48] Sick.

[01:11:49] I mean, I didn't take a ton of photos, because I just wanted to have fun.

[01:11:52] But I was like, fuck it.

[01:11:54] The fact that you got to do both is dope.

[01:11:55] Yeah.

[01:11:56] I got to have a good time.

[01:11:57] I got to make some good photos.

[01:11:59] I'm just feeling really exhausted and burnt out in general.

[01:12:04] Yeah.

[01:12:04] And thinking, all I really want to photograph next month is Suki Waterhouse and Better Friends

[01:12:12] and maybe one or two other things later in the month.

[01:12:15] And I'm like, that's it.

[01:12:16] I don't want it.

[01:12:16] And in January, he doesn't really have anything.

[01:12:18] I'm like...

[01:12:19] Take a break.

[01:12:19] Yeah.

[01:12:20] That's fine.

[01:12:21] The thing is, when's the next time Suki Waterhouse is going to play St. Louis?

[01:12:25] Well, right.

[01:12:26] I mean, also Better Friends has got Gouge Away on that fucking bill.

[01:12:31] Well, yeah.

[01:12:31] So, you know.

[01:12:32] Yeah.

[01:12:33] You know.

[01:12:34] You know.

[01:12:34] Like, it's the...

[01:12:35] It's like fucking microwave with that lineup.

[01:12:37] Exactly.

[01:12:38] Like, fuck, man.

[01:12:39] That whips.

[01:12:39] You can't really...

[01:12:40] Yeah, you can't really...

[01:12:40] It's like, I'm going to go...

[01:12:42] Try to go to Censusville slash Saves the Day because...

[01:12:44] You better fucking go.

[01:12:45] I know.

[01:12:46] Both of them are playing their classic albums in their entirety.

[01:12:49] I'm like, well, when is that going to happen again?

[01:12:50] Exactly.

[01:12:51] Yeah.

[01:12:51] Exactly.

[01:12:51] Like, it sucks to be like, have everything going on.

[01:12:54] Like, my work is crazy.

[01:12:56] Right.

[01:12:56] You know, trying to be a social animal.

[01:12:58] Trying to, like, have something resembling a normal life.

[01:13:00] But it's like, fuck, man.

[01:13:01] Like, Tokyo Police Club playing their final show.

[01:13:05] Yeah.

[01:13:05] And it was fucking such a great show.

[01:13:07] So, it's like, okay, that's worth it.

[01:13:08] That's worth it.

[01:13:09] Yeah, it was so fun.

[01:13:10] It gets exhausting.

[01:13:11] Oh, sure.

[01:13:12] I did not think I would be going so hard at life at 38 in a way that was similar to how

[01:13:18] I went hard at life when I was, like, 25.

[01:13:20] The way I look at it is you're only as young as you feel, which explains why I am now 75.

[01:13:26] Yeah.

[01:13:27] Well, I mean, it's why I go to the gym two or three times a week and beat the shit out

[01:13:31] myself for a couple hours.

[01:13:32] Because, like, I'm trying to stay good.

[01:13:35] Yeah.

[01:13:36] I went for a two-mile hike today.

[01:13:38] Congratulations.

[01:13:38] So.

[01:13:39] How do you feel?

[01:13:40] Oh, completely exhausted.

[01:13:41] Yeah.

[01:13:42] Because I'm an old fat ass.

[01:13:44] Yeah.

[01:13:44] I'm trying.

[01:13:45] Trying stuff.

[01:13:46] Trying to work on life.

[01:13:46] If people want to know what the fuck I do to beat the shit out of myself, I start out

[01:13:50] with cycling 10 miles.

[01:13:53] Uh-huh.

[01:13:54] Then I do about an hour of weight training.

[01:13:57] And then I do about 35 minutes of a cool down on the treadmill.

[01:14:01] So you're out of there in what?

[01:14:03] Two hours?

[01:14:03] Two and a half hours.

[01:14:04] Two and a half hours.

[01:14:04] Okay.

[01:14:05] Absolutely beating the shit out of myself.

[01:14:07] Yeah.

[01:14:07] Well, I mean, look, whatever it takes.

[01:14:09] I lost 10 pounds in a month.

[01:14:11] Fucking A, brother.

[01:14:12] Building muscle.

[01:14:13] Let's go.

[01:14:14] So, yeah, you can too.

[01:14:16] Indeed.

[01:14:17] It is possible.

[01:14:18] It is possible if you just believe in yourself and want pants to fit good.

[01:14:24] There is that too.

[01:14:25] I really can't understate the pants fitting good part.

[01:14:28] These pants, I couldn't have, the pants I'm wearing right now, Jason.

[01:14:31] Yeah.

[01:14:32] These beautiful, these beautiful.

[01:14:33] Very nice.

[01:14:34] Very nice.

[01:14:34] Gray jeans.

[01:14:36] Very comfortable.

[01:14:37] I couldn't have wore these four months ago.

[01:14:40] I am starting to feel the strain on these Coleman copper dickies.

[01:14:45] Man, you got to.

[01:14:46] I know.

[01:14:47] Fucking just hit your steps, bro.

[01:14:49] I know.

[01:14:50] Working from home makes it a little bit hard.

[01:14:53] Get a rowing machine.

[01:14:54] Put a rowing machine here.

[01:14:56] That's probably the best advice I've heard in a long time.

[01:14:59] Rowing machine does sound pretty dope.

[01:15:01] Yeah.

[01:15:01] Put one in the basement.

[01:15:02] Sure, sure.

[01:15:03] And you can tell the kids don't bother me.

[01:15:05] And just listen to Pantera in a row for an hour every night.

[01:15:10] Full Frank Underwood style.

[01:15:12] Yeah.

[01:15:14] Just get in there.

[01:15:15] On that note, I think it's time for us to tell people where to find us online.

[01:15:19] Brian, where can they find you?

[01:15:21] Oh, God.

[01:15:21] Oh, God.

[01:15:22] Oh, God.

[01:15:22] I love how you have to open it with, oh, God.

[01:15:24] Because it's like, I don't want people to find.

[01:15:26] Who was it that was the guest of ours that said, I don't want people to find me online?

[01:15:31] Was that Striker?

[01:15:32] It might have been Striker, yeah.

[01:15:33] He DM'd me today and he said every time he logs in the letterbox, he sees a review for a movie called Flow.

[01:15:40] And he thinks of us because of Dracula Flow.

[01:15:43] Hell yeah.

[01:15:43] He showed that to him.

[01:15:45] I love to be someone's first experience with something like that.

[01:15:49] That's always just, it's a treasure to me.

[01:15:51] As I got me feeling, as I got me feeling like my uncle works at Nintendo.

[01:15:58] Where can people find you online?

[01:16:00] If you want to find me on Twitter and Blue Sky, you can find me at iShotGidibor, I-S-H-O-T-G-U-I-D-B-O-R-D.

[01:16:08] If you want to find me on Instagram, you can find me at amusicphotographer.

[01:16:13] If you want to check out a website that's still not working, you can go over to amusicphotographer.com.

[01:16:20] If you want to check out a website that does work, you can go to my portfolio, which is assholemusicphotographer.com.

[01:16:27] If you want to check out the last and only good media website left in the St. Louis, you can head over to the ArtsSTL,

[01:16:32] where they are still on a 120-something day posting spree, 120-something concurrent days with new content.

[01:16:42] Folks, you love to see it.

[01:16:43] Content. We love it.

[01:16:45] We love to see words and photos and things like that.

[01:16:49] Jason, where can they find you?

[01:16:50] Oh boy!

[01:16:51] You can find me at a number of places.

[01:16:53] Chances are, if you see video crime, that's me.

[01:16:56] V-I-D-E-O-C-R-I-M-E.

[01:16:59] That's going to be Blue Sky.

[01:17:00] I'm still on Twitter, but I don't really use it.

[01:17:04] I'm on Letterboxd.

[01:17:05] I'm on all the different places where you can talk about movies and stuff.

[01:17:07] I'm on pretty much anything you can think of.

[01:17:09] If it's got a video crime, chances are it's me, with the exception of Instagram and TikTok,

[01:17:15] which I also do not post on.

[01:17:16] There I am, Laser Goose CEO.

[01:17:19] You can also find me as part of a podcast that is not this one called

[01:17:22] Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals.

[01:17:25] Now, I know I talked to you guys about there being a Halloween release,

[01:17:28] and I apologize for the delay.

[01:17:30] Our producer is hard at work on the episodes.

[01:17:32] I did hear the first completed episode of Season 2, so they are coming soon.

[01:17:37] You can find updates on at midnightpals.bluesky.app.

[01:17:42] You can also go to the website and catch up on Season 1.

[01:17:45] That is midnight-pals.simplecast.com, or anywhere fine podcasts are sold.

[01:17:52] You can give us a call here at the show, 314-246-9766-314.

[01:17:59] Ahoy, poo, if you like to spell with your telephone.

[01:18:01] You can shoot us an email, jason at 48minutesofdogsbarking.com,

[01:18:11] brianwithayat48minutesofdogsparking.com,

[01:18:13] and support the show, patreon.com slash 48minutesofdogs.

[01:18:19] Dogs?

[01:18:20] Dogs.

[01:18:21] The barking the dogs?

[01:18:25] Where you'll get one of my favorite things to do,

[01:18:28] which is, of course, the post-show hangout.

[01:18:29] It's called the Thanks I Hate It.

[01:18:31] The Thanks I Hate It for this episode is going to be a little bit of a weird one.

[01:18:35] I'm talking about my dead cat, but you'll get a chance to check that out

[01:18:39] if you go to patreon.com slash 48minutesofdogs.

[01:18:42] If you get in there at the $10 level before the end of the year,

[01:18:45] you can get yourself the 90-minute commentary track

[01:18:48] on the Japanese puke fetish video, Gero Monster Home Delivery.

[01:18:52] Folks.

[01:18:53] Folks.

[01:18:56] We've been pitching this for like half a year.

[01:18:58] I know, and we've really got to get actually on it.

[01:19:00] Look at our calendars and see what we're available.

[01:19:03] Do something.

[01:19:06] Other than that, that about does up the show.

[01:19:08] As we always say at this time, namaste, good luck,

[01:19:11] give mommy a good gut fucking 25th Amendment now,

[01:19:14] who ate all the pussy, and eat shit.

[01:19:16] Goodbye.

[01:19:16] Goodbye.