Brain Candy Podcast – Episode 715 Transcript (Rough)
Hello! How the heck are you? I’m good!
You know I’m like fine… That’s a great answer, like there’s nothing um I’m medium like nothing
to like middle of the road like like hey my grandma used to say no news is good news you
know no new yeah I kind of feel like that’s like fine it feels nice yes all right there’s nothing
I’m I’m complaining about at this current moment knock on wood Adam’s gonna kill me for telling the
story but I don’t know why you just made me think of it I’m like scared to tell it but okay okay so
tell me what you think of this yes we got into a squirmish people do also known as a skirmish
okay so we were we did estate planning for our white trash estate over here and for our two
two items that we own and um but it’s like a big old binder and it’s like um not just like money
stuff it’s like custody of or child if we die or like if if I’m in an accident do I want to be on
the life support oh yeah this is very important I’ve been talking to a lot of people about this  recently it really is but it is it is a pain in the a sometimes because yeah if you if you do
the whole deal I mean it takes a minute so we had to get this notary over here to to do it and you
got to get a witness but the witness can’t be a family member and it really can’t be anybody named  in the darn thing so who are you gonna call the mailman like I don’t know I only have four people
in my life so it was like a big production and so we’re doing it it got all the pins we’re doing it
and [Music] um we get to the back of it where it’s about like okay if you’re in an accident
and you’re brain dead do you want the tubes in or do you want the tubes out and like keep in mind we
did all this before like you answer the questions and then they prepare it and then you just sign it
it’s not like this is like a surprise party here and we do the whole thing and I’m like okay so
in this case there’s a million scenarios and you have to think about it and we did this whole thing
so just sign it don’t read it just sign it Adam goes wait a minute tubes out I want the tubes
in no I was like you’re gonna need tubes in a second one sign this piece of paper
and like my thing wasn’t like I didn’t want him to like say it it was like this
notary lady is gonna be like well I can’t right link I’m recording what what’s wrong oh my God
okay well okay we interrupted that first segment to deal with an emergency a little trip to the
ER a little trip to the ER uh we were what IÂ thought was rudely interrupted by my son but
it turned out it was really interrupted oh um I watched the footage back and I would like to
know your explanation for the following so like Lincoln comes in you know and he says you know
Mama it’s an emergency and I’m like what was well you know and then he says that has hurt his head
and and I said oh my God and I I get up and then I grab my phone which makes sense and
then I took off my jean jacket now would you say that I did not even notice that what what like
it was fast but that was my instinct was like like what was I gonna do triage like tourniquet
that is such a good example of how in the moment we have no we just do what we think is the right
thing and something else like I didn’t want to be encumbered yeah it must have been like that like
that was one Theory maybe it was like because I took my headphones off and maybe it was like I thought everything
ought to come off yeah you didn’t know where to stop or or was it like I suddenly got hot
you know like the adrenaline I’m hot I get it oh it could have done that okay  okay it could have been that one all of those are good theories okay well I’ve had a lot of time
to think about this wow yeah that’s interesting to see what you do in that moment yeah I wanted
to know if you had any insight like what did what was like what do people like emergencies are weird
and your brand is weird things I I always say one of my favorite Expressions is an
unusual response to an unusual situation is a typical slash usual response yeah I guess so
you don’t know what to do in this weird
call 911 you don’t have to call 9-1-1 or something yeah he said Dada said don’t call 911 okay that
was the only thing when I I like drove home and I’m like calling Eli I’m like you’ll never guess
what happened and you said well what like is he okay what happened and I said the only thing that  makes me feel like he’s like not dead is that he said Lincoln said Adam said don’t call 9-1-1 that
was was a mistake definitely I was like and just that I’m like we’re not listening to Adam In This
Moment yeah and when we got to the ER the lady wasn’t gonna listen to Adam either because she
was like because normally they don’t let kids go back with you but they couldn’t let Adam just go
by himself because he had a head injury and so like they made an exception so we could all go
in but like she was like I don’t think he’s I’m comprehending everything right now I was like I
think you’re right because this is doofus didn’t want me to call 9-1-1 oh no but his logic was
um that it would be faster like that sometimes it does take but I think if you know we’re in
this situation again we’d probably call it 9-1-1Â um so I had to drive this bleeding like oh my God
injury and it was so bad but anyway he um has got nine Staples in his head and I’m thankful
um that it wasn’t worse I’m also thankful that it was election day so Lincoln was there when  it happened oh my God because what if he wasn’t and you oh for real oh my God oh my
God oh my God oh my we’re like yucking it up in here talking about Pooh stories and stuff  right right oh my God and Sarah and I both uh didn’t miss the irony that I was talking about
his end of life and living will plans when this occurred that really teaches you not
to make jokes I’m like this guy he’s gonna need to be on life support oh my God I cannot believe
that that happened me neither and I know you know like how whenever somebody has like an accident
or something and then the doctor’s always like if it had been one millimeter you know I always
hate those but I now I get like sort of why you hold on to them because there is such a
narrow margin of error where it could mean the difference and so you’re so thankful oh my God
because that’s how I feel like that could that was terrible but it could have been a life change  I hate to think about that life-changing um so we love we love uh Adam and we oh my God
are thankful he’s not on life support or in the ground and we hope he heals quickly we sure do
all of the like Vibes and everything to you and Lincoln and Adam you like rest and during
his recovery I’m gonna be like hey every day you gotta drink some athletic greens you gotta nourish
that body for real though but also the purposes of this show yeah because it important and luckily we
e morning get those vitamins get those minerals on the goes I know Sarah is a loyalist now it’s
become a habit we are on to our third container of it Eli and I drink it every single morning and
I’ll tell you one of the things that I have noticed well other people have even noticed
and you commented on it oh yeah my skin yeah has been dare I say glowy yeah I I agree like
it has totally changed and that is the only thing I’ve changed in my own routine that’s
it everything else is like same old same old but I added this and it gives me all the good stuff
all those greens yeah that like help my skin and just like I don’t know I would imagine it’s kind
of like you know I always say like we’re like plants like the outside is kind of a reflection  on the health of the inside yeah it feels like oh I’m healthy on the inside yeah and we were
recording 15 minutes of blame the other day and I had to stop and I was like what are you doing  with your skin it looks so good it’s just like I think it’s that light green and I’m like not
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um How Bizarre I feel like you’re traumatized no I just like
it’s a sliding door moment it’s like it could things could be so different I hate those moments
I hate stuff like that it freaks me out like I was we were going to uh that night we went to Eli’s
like a soft opening for a restaurant that Eli designed and I’m like I’m getting ready I’m like
doing my makeup and I don’t even know like Susie’s at the hospital right now like this feels so weird
like this is not what the heck what is happening I it just felt like like I could only imagine
what your family was dealing with that evening and just yeah it makes stomach just turn thinking
about those feelings that everybody’s experiencing yeah well and you know like whenever something
like that happens to people they’re always like you gotta hug the people hug your kids tight or  whatever I get it and like I know that feeling but like you cannot simulate like sort of a tragedy or
the feeling of urgency if you aren’t experiencing that it’s just like you can’t make somebody
feel it you know and so I do have an appreciation though so I’m just so glad that I don’t like to
think about it it was terrible right okay okay got any poo stories or something no no I have
um so you know how I am like when Lincoln gets into something then I I get into it and so you
know he’s gotten into chess so now I have to get into chess and um like he doesn’t make me I just
want to you know yeah but apparently this is like sweeping the nation I don’t know something about  like after the pandemic and then like Tick Tock and there’s all these Queens gambits yeah Queens
Gambit yeah a lot of people are like taking up chess and a lot of kids are which is great really
hopefully more girls and uh non-white people right will start getting involved because my God
it’s a real white sausage fest around the chessboards historically anyway but
um so then trying to learn the game but it’s you know it’s not easy and so I started thinking
about the chess Champions along the way and so I got it started watching all this stuff  about Bobby Fischer do you remember yeah yeah okay he predates us of course but
like everyone talks about him he’s sort of like a pop culture figure a movie searching
is about him yeah it’s not it’s just refers to him yeah I don’t know why but
he’s just this sort of Pop Culture figure and I thought what the heck ever happened to him  and you know I love old gossip so sure do this is gonna be great so I start getting into him
watching all these clips of him on Johnny Carson and like 60 minutes and stuff and I
was just so bummed out because he descended into madness no yeah and like he he was a Jewish guy
um but he uh ultimately became a holocaust denier no yes and like um obviously anti-semitic and um
are you kidding me can you believe no I can’t I mean I like that is bizarre right and so then
I was like now I’m hooked I gotta like learn everything I can about Bobby Fischer because
that I I need to un I need to solve the mystery of like how would that even happen you know right
and so of course I think that there’s a connection between the type of Genius that becomes
a chess master right and then what can become illness right and paranoia and all that but like
what do you how do you make sense of that because we all know that there is a fine line sometimes
between like extreme intelligence and then what can happen with that I think though that there’s
an overlap there sometimes and then you got Albert Einstein who’s like just seems happy as heck
yeah that’s it it’s it’s a difficult one to even answer because it’s it’s that [Music] um
uh environment what is it epigenetics like your environment and your genetics and the
circumstances and situations that happen to you you know it I I wonder when he started
well see this is like you know I always say this is the best part about old gossip is that so you
know the ending yeah so then you can go back and watch stuff and see if there’s like Clues yeah  from like the early days and um what I noticed is that so he was known for being kind of like high
maintenance like a diva kind of thing where he wouldn’t agree to a game if like um the room was
too cold or you know like he would think somebody messed with my like chair like he was he was like
we’re already like kind of signed to paranoia yeah but then the media would always characterize it as
um like oh this is he’s doing that to like mess with his opponents like this is like a power move
a strategy and like I don’t think it was no IÂ think this is now we can see somebody who had
like the seedling or germs of um conspiratorial or like yeah I wonder if that like almost falls into
like kind of schizophrenia you know like it sounds but I don’t think that that said I don’t know what
he definitely ended up extremely paranoid and they had these like polit you know how
sometimes with your mental like political sort of extremist views yeah whatever
and like but he I think part of why he was so compelling to the world and why he people loved
him at the time was that he was handsome number one and he was kind of charming and funny which
you know how a lot of times the chess guys kind of like don’t have a winning personalities right
like they’re not known when the when your social uh interactions are all with a chess board
you don’t get a lot of practice in the human to human interaction well I wonder like I don’t think
it’s because they just like didn’t have time IÂ think they just prefer not to correct so it’s like
it serves a function yeah the I could be really focused on chess so I don’t have to engage in that
way and face rejection in that way or whatever put myself out there be vulnerable I’m gonna do this
but then it’s not like um I think it’s super into Checkers like there’s something about Chess
that it attracts that kind of mind also yeah and so anyway like
I don’t know it just bums me out because yeah even at the end  of his life after he was clearly like off the deep end he still was kind of interesting and funny and
said things that weren’t crazy all the time like he he had elements of like whatever but
anyway he died when he was 64. there’s 64. chess board wow yeah people live how would he die of
um they said that it you know it was sort of like elements of the mental illness but
he didn’t take medicine that helped for his kidney because he thought it was like
okay I don’t know or something this is then he died but his mom abandoned him
and she taught him never to admit that he was Jewish so like we can see these components like
then morphing into like yeah so hating maybe yeah or maybe if that if she says never admit you’re
Jewish because that’ll keep you safe then that goes to some extreme of maybe like I feel and
the mind does weird things like it could tell him that it’s in danger and so he goes to some
very delusional coping strategy to to to almost create the illusion of safety totally come on
wow and then there’s got to be something like it sounds like such a disorganized mind
that maybe chess provided that organization it was like the place where he could organize all
the thoughts and that’s the only place they existed in an organized way maybe because
because but there are infinite number of moves so like that can make you oh
your brain hurt you know and then I don’t I can’t remember
I think that this was in the the how to change your mind about psychedelics and its effect
on people who had schizophrenia or had the the
were predisposed to schizophrenia okay that there was something about
how your mind created more possibilities and options for you rather than narrow it narrowing
the possibilities when you do psychedelics and where that is dangerous or can pose a
threat or have some consequences is if you already are predisposed to schizophrenia and
you your mind already has the wirings to see all the possibilities and then you yeah it’s
too much it’s too much and so that is that kind of sounds a little bit like there’s some
strange overlap there in infinite possibilities and infinite possibilities in in weird bizarre
theories you know what will impress me is when we have a chess champion who’s like amazing but
also like gets married and like can hold a conversation as kids and stuff right because  whatever like even there’s a new one Magnus Carlson he’s like known as the best in the
world and whenever you go to their Wikipedia and their personal life section it’s always like he
loves uh learning state capital you know it’s like never about relationships or is this the
young guy who there was all the controversy around about cheating and how okay yes I I was gonna talk
about this story months ago but there like wasn’t enough information and then it was all just like
hearsay and I’m like I can’t come in talking about how like the chess Community is outright or like
pointing the finger at this guy thinking that he’s cheating with his butthole and we are not  kidding when we say that like the chess Community believes that this guy was cheating and he’d
previously admitted to cheating but didn’t admit how and people think that he’s doing it with some
like like by CL like he has a buzzer and a butt or something yes yeah and that he’s like clenching it
based on what the who the [ __ ] no I don’t know how do you cheat with a butt plug [Laughter]
I don’t think he I think what I said earlier about that conspiratorial mindset and the
paranoia maybe is common in the community you hear what I’m saying yeah so well and like the
idea that somebody beat them in a chess game is too difficult to entertain it’s easier to
yeah wow and it’s it’s so funny but I don’t think he did and like Magnus when he was like 12 or 13
they brought in like the Russian all-time champ some guy like 60 years old by then brought him
in to play him like in a game and the guy comes in 30 minutes late which they all do it’s some
sort of weird thing and then he sits down doesn’t say hi doesn’t acknowledge his competitor plays
the whole game loses to the 12 year old Magnus and then walks away the end they never talk or
whatever like these people are a little that’s weird everyone was like yes Bobby Fischer he’s
interesting and funny and nice and then he’s like oh [ __ ] Bobby because they’re it’s like that
like their their body what do you call it when when somebody is a kid a child prodigy they all
have this like we’re we were child prodigy like uh and we’re so important now you’re the old
guy yeah yeah right right and you’re like come on like now you’re regular yeah I mean really
great when you were in kindergarten but right you know now you gotta lose the tude dude right
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my chest progress yeah let me know how it goes thank you I’ve also been intrigued recently by um
do you know Marilyn boss Savant the smartest or the person with the highest IQ her IQ is 230.
and she did the ask Maryland column in the Parade Magazine for 30 Years nope no idea I always used
to look for it in the Sunday paper and Parade Magazine it was just like a little column where
people would ask her either like logic questions like you know famous ones or they would just ask
her like stuff that they thought of like hey what do you think of this and then she would  tell her answer I love this I love her I’ve always loved her and um so I was watching
interviews with her and it is as annoying as you can imagine like male interviewers interviewing
this the 230 IQ lady oh and she’s pretty oh God tell me everything tell me everything okay well
like first I’m already first of all wait before you said I have to say I’m annoyed that I don’t
know who the woman with the highest IQ is but we all know who the men who have the really high IQs
that we all know like Stephen Hawking and we all I almost said Stephen King but I didn’t
but you know what I was so close maybe the reason is something I wanted to talk about
which is that why in God’s name like no offense to Maryland but like you have a 230 IQ and your
job is writing for Parade Magazine oh right Stephen Hawking actually did some [ __ ] that  helped us right like lady yeah yeah you’re not helping here right like she’s like I’m smart
and I’m just gonna kick back and like answer a couple I mean maybe she is the smartest or I
mean to me I’m like she’s doing less right that works smarter not harder I mean some would say
but like when you want to make a difference yeah like come on
she certainly could have done more than that
so I guess that’s why we don’t most people don’t really know her but
the the thing that I hated was how like she would go on these shows and they would always say like
aren’t men intimidated by your your intelligence and stuff like that
like they would never ask Stephen Hawking if women were intimidated by his what did she say
um she usually would like try to get out of it but in one interview she was just like yeah a lot
of them are and it sucks like I think she had trouble finding a decent guy that like didn’t
have a chip on his shoulder about it right um but did she try dating a Jewish man I think she think
she well he’s a doctor so odds are there you go because I’m like they are smart and they know and
they like a smart lady smart women yeah maybe that’s what she ended up doing but I mean like
I’m not intimidated by them it’s the best she just one thing I really liked about  her is that whenever they would refer to her as the smartest person in the world
she would say no that’s not accurate I IÂ have the highest score on the IQ test and
most people haven’t taken an IQ test and IÂ think there are probably a lot of people who
would score really high on it who just have never had the opportunity all over the world
and I really appreciate that she said that or they’re like how the test is even written and
the questions on there like I remember reading some study that was about like counting in math
and if you give children in I think it was in some City some major city in South America that I can’t
remember now but if you gave them like a a math sheet with adding and subtracting they failed but
if you gave them money and told them and like turn they could like they were like selling things on
the street and were giving correct change since they were like very young and all of them would
were crushing it if you changed it into a like material or item that they were familiar with like
they were familiar with doing math with money so they were able to crush it with math yeah
in that way but if it’s like things that are are foreign to you or then you right and it’s
sort of like okay so a bunch of white guys made a test that white guys are really good at right
and then they say that’s the definitive way you measure intelligence and thankfully she had the
humility to be like I mean this is a flawed system and I’m really good at taking this test they had
her taking it like every year I mean she was like because it really I think was like hard to believe
that someone could score that high so any hoodles I find those fun to watch there was one with David
Letterman that was so cringy oh no I think she was trying to be like funny because it was you know
Letterman right and at one point he goes I don’t think you’re the smartest person in the world
no oh my God like she’s trying to flirt with him and stuff this is a
good I like how you gave us two stories of uh intelligent man an intelligent woman who like
present with like high IQs chess champion but this is it really does ask the question of like
how do we measure intelligence and what really matters like for real you know I always think
like if you were to ask an octopus who like how intelligent a human is they’d be like a person
like that thing can’t even change colors yeah he’d be like you mean like what a dummy yeah right yeah
right you only have two arms what can you do and you don’t even feel with them really yeah Sarah
see you get it I mean yeah so it’s just like we we how we measure intelligences but the subject the
bottom line is that the the game is rigged so you do have to kind of learn how to play it so I was  like looking up like how to raise your I actually how to play chess I am Googling that too yeah um
but that’s why I downloaded I uh your this changes everything headspace app because you can increase
your IQ by like 20 points if you meditate wow IÂ don’t even know that one that’s a great incentive
because sometimes I I well I really don’t enjoy it you know that it and having a motivation to
do anything will keep you doing it and what IÂ think it’s hap is really happening there is you
are creating mental bandwidth you are clearing up space in your brain yeah and there’s no doubt
about it there’s no there’s it’s great for every reason but that was one that was like all right  I’ll get back on this habit that makes you smarter I don’t want to do it right why is that that
every single thing that’s good for us to doing IÂ really don’t understand this it makes me so mad
okay there’s gotta be some biological explanation for that yeah what could it be though I don’t  know because evolutionarily you’d think that we’d have like that okay drive for that yeah
totally honestly right okay next up have you I’m sure maybe not but if you’re on Tick Tock
you might have like this stupid I’m so mad about it the mer the Chicago serial killer no story I
have not been on Tick Tock in a minute and see IÂ think this is good for you like good for everyone
because like it’s it’s a cesspool I’m saying it I’m gonna participate because I have to but
right I’m mad about it so apparently there were Splats or Brainiac yeah notified me that there
was this potential serial killer in Chicago and I was like what I am excited because we
haven’t had one in so long it’s been a minute because the cameras and stuff so I was like
this great news except terrible of course let me find out more and then it turns out that
basically tick talkers and especially this one guy oh no just decided to like call it a
serial killer because like there’s some unsolved murders inch or unsolved deaths I should say in
Chicago of people like turning up in the freaking River okay that’s kind of what happens when you
have a river or any body of water like things happen sometimes people taking their own lives
sometimes yeah they get drunk and then stumble and plop right in there sometimes yeah whatever
but just because they’re unsolved doesn’t mean like there’s some smiley face killer
why are they calling him that they named it yeah they named it and so this and you know
how like the tick tockers always use these words that make them feel important like they’ll say  like in my investigation what your Google search shut up right yeah and and they’ll
be like I’m going to be providing them my evidence to detectives they don’t want it
narrowing down suspects they love that do they I don’t know it feels right from like you know
everyone in the world down to like just people in Chicago that’s there narrowing it down oh my God
um so basically were there connections between all of them like were they doing we’re okay
this guy says she does a big disservice to like this this this should be obstruction of justice
or or infringing upon a ongoing investigation or something or whatever I just see I used that word
I don’t even know if inference is that even right I know it sounds right um law enforcement keeps  saying like please let us do our jobs right we’re good but anyway he I had to apologize because
he basically made it up he he said that like he um was wait do you want to say hi to Sarah oh my
God so it’s like Proof of Life please right I was like is that our victim slash Survivor
he goes I’m just grabbing some painkillers oh Adam look at he’s alive uh say hello to
to everyone hi oh my God I’m so glad you’re okay yeah I’m so glad you’re not dead oh yeah
that was painful I can’t imagine not really oh yeah I can yeah I can
there’s still like 10 Staples in it yeah this is this is for the video version folks this is bonus
content bonus he’s doing it for clout you need to rest y shaped deep gash in the back of my head oh
my God yeah it was bad I felt bad for link he was like he was a hero though I said yeah yeah
he was a hero yeah he did he cope with it better than I did that’s really good you taught him well
oh but like the um see it’s it’s okay you know it’s okay it wasn’t that day though okay so
he basically decided one day he was walking home from a bar late at night and like some  car passed and was sort of like suspiciously like maybe going too slow or something and
it like got him thinking about like what if they put took you and put you in the car and whatever
and so like all these people that go to clubs got scared because that’s [ __ ] up it is man
what you think he’s like doing like Safety First no I don’t but I’m saying I’m I’m I’m  is it [ __ ] up yes but is this just the new is this a modern version of urban legends
I guess so but in urban legends we always just did it to scare each other we weren’t  trying to pretend like we were this gonna solve a mystery or something
and it just yeah it’s weird it’s a weird thing to do and then he the people that have loved ones
who have died unexpected yeah uh in the area were interested in him of course and he has a
thing where you can pay 30 bucks to no with him 15Â minutes and so like the victims families would try
to zoom in maybe would just not show up because he was like knew he was a fraud oh this guy that’s
gross is really gross yeah man he’s a scammer yeah and he’s and he just wants to feel important so
do something important you and Marilyn vosavant can go get get going and get a little bit yeah
so I’m I’m happy to say there’s no serial killer but I’m sad to say like there’s no sort of like
you know recourse for like does he get in trouble or something for this and I
just can’t get more followers or more likes that’s what it has so it happens
um man oh and like if you read the articles about it the law enforcement is like there is no serial
killer like there’s no connection to these various right things yeah that’s Dane yeah it’s dangerous
it may it it changes how people see things and view the evidence as it is like you can’t do that
yeah man I’m glad we’re on the same page yeah what do you think about
like um are you familiar with Mr Beast yes and only recently because I I saw I read an article
that said like he like bought a town and like is like everybody’s living there like who is like
employed through him and then I’m in the grocery store and they have like Mr Beast energy bars
yeah and I’m like wow this is like a whole world that I don’t really know about but totally exists
yeah he’s like one of the most successful YouTubers and  he started early enough that he grew and grew and then he was smart enough to sort of just
take all of the money from you know sponsorships and stuff and like put it back into it by giving
away money but then you get more views so then you get more money and it just became like exponential
but one of his kind of gimmicks now and believe me that’s all he does is gimmicks
is um like he’ll buy I guess they’re like Cochlear implants or like okay yeah you know hearing
devices for people with impairment and I just hate it with all my heart because it’s very much like
inspiration porn yeah and that thing where like it doesn’t matter he doesn’t provide any of the
Nuance of like these devices are not they don’t cure deafness they can allow you to have this
like sort of simulation of hearing when you’re wearing it but then like when you take it out  you’re still you’re you can’t be you can’t hear and there’s no information like that or nuance or
really encouragement of people to like regular people to learn sign language for example or
it’s just sort of like the Band-Aid solution yeah and then is what he’s providing like yeah
there’s a Band-Aid here’s a Band-Aid but also like I’m gonna profit off of it but look like
I’m being charitable and I’m just bummed out about it because I think a lot of people in the
deaf Community are just annoyed by it yeah it kind of reduces them I think to a spectacle right and
it just makes hearing people feel good yeah for sure and I remember seeing the movie uh sound of
metal so freaking good where uh he ends up like really wanting the implant and gets the implant
and doesn’t even like it like the sound isn’t what you think it would be it’s it’s not like oh here
you go the gift of being able to hear like kind of ableist in a way like yeah like able people
always think like don’t you want to be like us and they’re like no I’m fine I’m like yeah I’m
so annoyed by that oh and I’m sure you saw maybe in the news that doofus YouTuber who decided to
crash across the plane yeah can you believe he thought that was a great idea what a dummy
could have been killed yes so this YouTuber goes up in a plane it’s one of those tiny little
whatever they call them maybe like a single engine type of deal yeah  yeah and then jumps out right you know skydives or whatever and then the plane obviously crashes
and he did it on purpose just for like clout reviews or whatever yeah he might get 20 years
you know what I think people should get this the the uh I don’t know like
consequence for sure yeah like this is because it feels like we so often see people benefit and like
get I don’t know a payout from these dumb decisions I feel like it’s about time that it goes
in the other direction right you know like on one hand I can’t believe it like really you thought
this was a great idea but then on the other hand I’m just like well yeah this is what they do they  just keep upping the ante right I mean that’s what we said I’m like not surprised when people die if
they’re when they’re doing those like hanging off the edge of they’re like what what are you doing
stop it what are those people called
dummies [ __ ] morons Sledge I forget what those guys are called and then they posted videos of themselves
hailing off of skyscrapers I hate it I hate it it makes my it makes my fingers and toes curl nope
nope nope nope nope I’m good [ __ ] that I’m sorry yeah man it makes me feel dizzy just thinking
about it they’re dummies there was a great article in the New York Times that I would recommend
um it was about um I wish I could remember the title but it was basically that she was an Asian
American and her parents actually when she came to the US she was three so she had a Chinese name
but then you know you pick sometimes you pick like a name to assimilate an English sounding
name so when she was three she got to pick and the only Asian American she knew was Connie Chung
and so she chose Connie and um she thought it made her special and then
when she went to college she realized that like they’re a gazillion Asian connies named
after Connie Chan really yeah I didn’t know that me neither he said that like
like you you start to realize that it means so much to have someone to look up to yeah
and so the article was cool because you know how like people including me sort of lament the
digital culture for journalism and how like you kind of miss holding the newspaper maybe you’re a
magazine or something yeah what is cool is how um they can do articles that have more life to them
like the New York Times article where you scroll down and you start to see like moving images of
Connie meeting them and all the connies together and it was just so cute and then they showed
pictures of some of the connies and then their moms and wait was it a Connie con and he didn’t
call it that but they totally shut up I was like are you gonna tell me that this is because I know  you’re at a conventions now soos so this is come on it’s a con con that is such a disappointment
what a wait what a wasted opportunity waste come on I know you’re so right it’s just really
sweet and like I I was thinking like let’s say you you and your family moved to Asia
like switching your name is a big deal oh yeah like wouldn’t that be hard for you to go over and
you don’t you’re not Sarah anymore you’d have to be whatever right that would be really difficult
yeah they all did I would pick somebody who IÂ like related to or yeah and it would end up being
like a pop star or something like somebody on TV I like cake or something yeah right
yeah any cool and Connie Chung is a real character you know how she’s married to Mari Povich right
yeah yeah what a weird match I think that every time I think about them I’m just like I can’t
see but why do you think because you know how Mari and Connie were both successful in journalism and
then Mari was like you know what ah I’m gonna go a different route yeah because even like when Mari
had that talk show for many years it was like legit you know he was trying to be like more
Oprah style or Phil Donahue or something yeah but then like one time they did the you are the
father right and it was like gangbusters and then never looked back it I mean it’s never not a story
right so it’s like no matter how many times you do it people still want to know yes are
you yeah the father right and would you if you were him would you feel like you sold out yes
do you think he without hesitation I mean he can like cry on his bags of money so
okay wait let me ask you this who do you think’s a bigger sellout Mari uh-huh
or Judge Judy Mari tell me why because I kind of think it’s Judy because she came from she was a
judge that’s even more respected than just like a talk show host or journalist okay okay okay okay
I mean she’s still that’s a good that’s a good argument hmm I mean but maybe you think there’s
nothing wrong with Judge Judy the show but I mean it isn’t known for its like Elegance or anything
yeah oh I feel like they’re a tie now like okay maybe because okay here’s here’s why
I say Mari Mori Mari Mori you’re you’re right Maureen uh uh he’s a one-trick pony
Fair Judge Judy she’s judging all kinds of cases she’s bringing me the humor for for
all different situations and maybe it’s even more impressive that you’re still a  judge and you’re entertaining right it’s so not easy and he’s just opening a manila envelope
yeah sell out yeah he’s he’s like he’s inducting the paternity right all right I’ll take that
you’re right yeah but I guess what I’m getting at is I think Judge Judy could have done better
I mean she also crying on her money a lot of money so much money oh my God and I remember she at an
interview where she said like she works like two days a month I think because they oh my God yeah
and soos you and I are sitting here with with upper like higher degrees
and we’re just doing seven million episodes of a podcast so no you ready to sell out or what
are you out of your mind like I’ve believe me if the religion store were hiring I would work
there but like I would probably here’s what it would have happened people pay  therapists then for most people that get a PhD in religious studies and then become a professor you
even if you get a 10-year track job at a university which is really hard to do you  end up in like Butte Creek Iowa making forty thousand dollars a year dealing with Gen Z and
their dumb excuses on why they can’t go to class that day because they have trauma or something  oh my God I would hate it yeah you’re right you’re right you’re right this is way better
and I’m thinking now about how all these kids are having chat GPT write  their essays and stuff oh my God like I would not want to be in that business no me neither
I just saw something online that said uh the difference between like a millennial and a gen
Z employee it’s like the the Boomer boss asked the Gen Z employee to bring them 50 sheets of paper
and the Gen Z employee like gives the boss 50 favorite like boss like these are warm
it goes yeah I didn’t want to count them all out so I just typed in 50 to the printer and
hit print blank pages and the printer counted about for me and I was like damn I would have
never thought of that in a million years wow so you’re sort of like they got they
got it they know what’s up like I mean in a way that’s more they’re not harder that’s like like
I don’t know I don’t know which is the better way I have a relaxed to grind with those guys
nobody has like written in mad at my gen ZÂ rants yet I don’t know if like my time Jessie’s
not listening to us I’m wondering I’m thinking they’re not okay yeah their moms are yeah hey guys
we see you we are you well but like okay so like my son is Gen Z we’re the problem
we’re the ones that made these people it’s not like I’m totally blaming them right I’m saying
like we did something wrong Yeah by listening to these bozos my son genuinely thinks he has the
word democracy in our family I’ll be like wait a minute I don’t think that’s how this goes no oh
um okay let me see I think well I keep thinking about do you remember the documentary about the
amazing Randy did you ever watch that the honest liar yeah yeah I did did you the magician and that
right yeah yeah I did take the upper Dog Club next time I think you should because
I it’s like vague and I feel like there was a lot to talk about like in my memory I know it  was really good and I know there’s a lot to talk about it’s great because he devoted his
life like he was a you know magician or whatever but then he started to just make it his job to
tell the world about charlatans and people who were also doing tricks but then pretending they
had special powers yeah like he he did that to like a televangelist who was pretending like to
heal people and know what they were Afflicted with really like his wife was in his earpiece
being like they have arthritis because they would write it on the prayer cards yes and then the wife
would read them and whatever so like people like that who would Prey Upon vulnerable people yeah
the big focus of him was um John Edward who’s been on the show right I mean what am I what is that
that’s a interesting noise dog shaking or it sounded like somebody running with with
uh flippers down the hall right now I have PTSDÂ like I know I would do too what’s that noise yeah
okay well I don’t know what that was but at any rate and like but I think it’d be fun for dog
Club because like it’s gonna talk about astrology yep it’s gonna talk about psychics mediums all of
it and I think this would be a real fun combo all right thanks guys even cerebral people really want
to believe yeah and he won’t put up with it that’s a good one good pick all right well at any rate
um thank you for standing by us throughout that yeah Journey we took on this episode man
that began with me making fun of Adams oh my end of life tubular issue
and then he almost needed it I can’t believe it IÂ will have to have him look through that book again
make sure everything get that notary back and you know we covered a lot of smart people today
we did we did IQ test who needs him there’s no serial killer in Chicago yeah to the Chagrin of
many but yeah it was kind of an episode about people who have obsessions yeah that’s true
yes and then you know you know I’m gonna have to do a poll to see what people think Mari or Judge
Judy I think it’s a good poll all right thanks so much for using our codes and subscribing
and all that you guys you all are the best we love you and we’ll see you next time. [Music]
