BONUS The Friday Show Collection - Kris and Brendan Explain the News for You
Guest:Hey, Chris.
Guest:Ho, ho, ho, Brendan.
Guest:How's it going?
Guest:It's great.
Guest:You know, it's New York City.
Guest:Anything could happen today.
Guest:A plane could crash into the trade towers or a business could open up.
Guest:You know, you never can predict it, according to our mayor.
Guest:Come on down.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Come on down.
Guest:Now, like, I need to jump in right away here because some people are like, what the fuck are these guys talking about?
Guest:If you don't live here, maybe you've seen this because it definitely kind of went viral.
Guest:But here in New York City, our illustrious mayor, Eric Adams, he found himself on the Channel 11 Sunday morning news show this past week.
Guest:That alone, it's like, this is not Meet the Press guy.
Guest:Right.
Guest:This was Channel 11, WPIX.
Guest:It's like where I grew up watching Little Rascals.
Guest:Like, this is not...
Guest:You're not on face the nation.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:There's no gotcha questions here.
Guest:No.
Guest:In fact, the question was the softballiest softball question you could ever get.
Guest:He was asked, what word would you use to describe 2023?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Shall I read his answer?
Guest:Please.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:What word would you use to describe 2023?
Guest:Eric Adams said New York.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:Hold on a sec.
Marc:You're already more than one word.
Marc:More than one word.
Guest:Also.
Guest:That's the word he would use to describe a year.
Guest:That's the two words he would use to describe a year.
Guest:New York.
Marc:Well, you know, they asked the mayor of Newark and he said Rhode Island.
Marc:So I don't know.
Guest:Everybody just loves two words and a place.
Guest:That's what you think of when you think of a year, I guess.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says his word is New York.
Guest:And he goes on to say...
Guest:This is a place where every day you wake up, you could experience everything from a plane crashing into our trade center to a person who's celebrating a new business that's open.
Marc:wow first of all knock on wood for both of those scenarios um also was was he recently like listening to and i i i forgive me for bringing this back up but dennis leary's uh no cure for cancer where he says there are so many ways to die in new york city drive-by shootings like
Marc:Like, asbestos shooting into the sky.
Marc:Like, what is going on right now in his head?
Guest:I just also love that the two sides of the coin here are 9-11 and I opened a bodega.
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Guest:But he also closed it out by saying, this is a very, very complicated city.
Guest:And that's why it's the greatest city on the globe.
Guest:I mean, there's a couple of ways I would describe a city where if your options were a jumbo jetliner crashes into you, or you maybe, you know, have a new job, like the greatest isn't one of them.
Guest:Like,
Marc:terrifying they're both kind of terrifying to be honest yeah like like uh hieronymus bosch painting sure i mean like any of those things i mean it's it's on par with elon musk saying go fuck yourself to uh to advertise to all the advertisers sitting there yeah like you had yeah you maybe could have said anything else and been okay
Marc:Exhilarating.
Marc:Exciting.
Marc:I mean, does he wake up every morning thinking, oh, did 9-11 happen again?
Marc:Did it?
Marc:And he looks outside.
Marc:Nope, nope.
Guest:We're all good.
Guest:Just another day in New York.
Right.
Guest:But, you know, it's also, I think it's that a guy like him, he is not a very impressive dude.
Guest:I think that he has this macro.
Guest:It's this, like, switch that whenever you're asked about anything, just say New York.
Guest:Use that as a chance to talk about, like, how crazy New York is.
Guest:It's, like, the most unique place in the world.
Guest:And so the guy was clearly trying to get him to describe this past year, which, like,
Guest:Tumultuous, right?
Guest:Like there's lots of, and I think like Eric Adams kind of realized like, well, I shouldn't be celebrating 2023, but I already answered New York.
Guest:So I have to give a response that's about how like New York is complicated.
Guest:Just like the year 2023 was.
Guest:Well, what's complicated about New York?
Guest:Well, there's great things here.
Guest:But also 2,000 people got killed in a gigantic skyscraper.
Guest:So why don't I combine those two things?
Guest:That's my answer.
Marc:I mean, you can't think of another terrible situation.
Marc:Like, I don't know.
Marc:You can't go out and you can't get a cab.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Good Lord, man.
Marc:Hey, Chris.
Marc:Brandon, my condolences, pal.
Marc:Oh, why?
Marc:What happened?
Marc:I saw NYPD shut down your favorite watering hole.
Marc:What place is that?
Marc:The tunnel.
Oh.
Guest:literal watering hole like I go to sit down there to take a bath you know it's so funny you said that you said NYPD and I was like is he gonna make a joke about the tunnels in Brooklyn and then you said watering hole and I was like oh no there's some bar that must have gotten closed that I embarrassed myself at or something like that and no he's still talking about the tunnels
Guest:This tunnel, this Brooklyn tunnel is fascinating.
Guest:It is.
Guest:But I will say this.
Guest:I did the worst thing.
Guest:I try to stay off of, you know, if I go on to social media, particularly Twitter, it's specifically to find something like a go to look for it and and pull it off or whatever.
Guest:I go check something out that based on, you know, something I was directed to find it.
Guest:That's it.
Guest:I use it as a resource tool.
Guest:I do not like to look at it anymore because algorithmically it's, it's fucked.
Guest:So this story breaks about underneath this synagogue, there's tunneling going on to connect the synagogue with an old building and,
Guest:And it all blew up one night, in case you don't know about this story, because the city was like, no, you can't do that.
Guest:There's building code violations and you need permitting.
Guest:And they went and shut it down.
Guest:And there was a big fight between the members of this Hasidic synagogue and the NYPD.
Guest:A lot of video.
Guest:So it got out all over the place.
Guest:And I, as a New Yorker who, you know, has grown up with these stories my whole life.
Guest:These are these types of stories are the lifeblood of New York.
Guest:you know, just like crazy shit happening in New York city.
Marc:Like the New York post, it still exists.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:It's the whole reason for the New York post.
Guest:But I like, I'll, and I'll even say this, like I couldn't even enjoy the New York post on this one because I,
Guest:immediately so i i was looking at the videos on twitter right all right and twitter is such a cesspool now that it immediately starts kicking back to you other things that you that it's suggesting you look at similar yeah because of what you're looking at now and i was looking at like news of this but because of all these blue check idiots who are like racists and anti-semites and nazis real anti-semitic real quick oh
Guest:Oh, my God.
Guest:It went so bad so fast.
Guest:Like I couldn't even enjoy this great, crazy story because it was so hateful and bigoted immediately.
Guest:And I couldn't even enjoy the New York Post front page, which was Subvey, S-U-B-V-E-Y.
Guest:And it said, Chabad boys, but with B-A-D in quotes, like bad boys, Chabad boys, spark holy war, H-O-L-E-Y, by digging illegal tunnel under Brooklyn Synagogue and with all the appropriate photos.
Guest:And I'm like, oh man, you know, it's like in a normal day, that's like a perfect New York Post headline.
Guest:Now I look at that, I'm like, oh, that's so fucked up.
Guest:What a bunch of anti-Semites these guys are.
Marc:So your worst thing that you did was you looked at it on Twitter and then you just got a bunch of anti-Semitic posts.
Marc:I'm just going to say, that's not the worst thing that you could have done, okay?
Guest:Sure, yes.
Guest:All right, you're right.
Guest:No, the worst thing for my own enjoyment of it, I guess, is the point.
Guest:Because it's also, that's the other thing.
Guest:It's like a victimless story.
Guest:It's an actual perfect story to laugh at and like enjoy the way we enjoy goofy things here.
Guest:Like, you know, and hey, I'm not, I don't keep this to just New York.
Guest:Like this happens all the time.
Guest:Remember that time there was like something about like 30 to 50 feral hogs in some guy's yard or something.
Guest:You know, it's like...
Guest:These just weird things that doesn't bother anybody or whatever.
Guest:It's just fun for a day.
Guest:It would have been really fun if the Jewish tunnel story was like divorced from just horrible hatred for like more than 30 seconds.
Guest:I had no time to enjoy it.
Marc:For me, though, so I'm at this place where I don't believe anything online anymore.
Marc:And I couldn't find this Brooklyn Tunnel story anywhere else other than like this video of what it appeared like a guy coming out of like a sewer grate.
Guest:Hasidic Jewish man dressed fully in his appropriate religious clothes coming out of a grate.
Guest:It wasn't like a manhole cover.
Guest:It was like a subway grate where a portion of it had been sawed off so he could crawl out.
Marc:And from the angle, it doesn't look like anything sawed off.
Marc:So I just think, am I watching like a video game and this guy is just like glitching on the video game?
Marc:It was nuts.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So yeah, I watched that a whole lot because I still don't believe that that's a real thing.
Guest:Well, also, yeah, it's, it does it.
Guest:It's not like he struggled to come out either.
Guest:He just popped out of this thing and ran away.
Guest:So, and then people wonder like, you know, are deep fakes going to cause problems with the information and that it's like, I don't know.
Guest:That was the real and it's causing problems.
Marc:So yeah, very interesting week.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It's apparently interesting for me because that's where I go to drink and I can't do that anymore.
Yeah.
Marc:That cop, by the way.
Marc:Wow.
Guest:Again, also the most New York thing ever.
Guest:So there's this video.
Guest:Again, if you haven't seen the full thing on this New York tunnel story, the cop is standing there keeping people at bay while they're trying to shut these tunnels down.
Guest:And he's just the most New York cop you've ever seen.
Guest:Just like...
Guest:like there's a ridiculous thing happening all around him.
Guest:And his face is the same face as when they have to tow your car and you're begging with them.
Guest:Like, no, no, I didn't even know it was alternate side.
Guest:And they just give you that face of like, come on.
Guest:It's just, there's not, they're just going to, it's going to, this is what's going to happen now.
Guest:We're just towing this, you know, that same face.
Guest:And yeah,
Guest:I guess these, they were students, there were people in the shul and they were telling him like, but no, these are our tunnels.
Guest:We, we built, we did, we did this.
Guest:We, we did, we dug these.
Guest:And he says to them, no, maybe in Israel, you can do this, but this is America.
Guest:We don't do this here.
Guest:And I'm watching this and I'm like, there's no way that guy grew up more than two blocks away from that.
Guest:like they are all everyone in this footage is like the quintessential outer borough new york character like there's you you guys are so much alike the only thing different are the clothing you're wearing and probably the the the place you worship but otherwise everything else is very very close oh
Guest:All right.
Marc:Last piece of news I want to talk to you about comes from NBC Philadelphia and not, as I first thought, The Onion.
Marc:And this headline is that Dave and Buster's to allow customers to bet on arcade games.
Guest:Yes, I did hear about this story.
Guest:I heard about this story because I was the one who sent it to you.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:So Dave & Buster's will begin offering loyalty members the ability to bet on its games, ages 18 and older, to place real money wagers on arcade games with friends.
Marc:What do you think about this, Brendan?
Marc:How would you like to lose your mortgage?
Marc:Would you like to lose it on skee-ball, hoops?
Marc:For me, it's Mario Kart, honestly.
Guest:I did ask you to think about what would be the stupidest game you could die over that a bet was made on, right?
Guest:Like a game that someone that you bet against, they just like...
Guest:them losing cost them everything.
Guest:And so they immediately pull out a gun and kill you.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:And yes, you mentioned Mario cart and I imagine it happening in like the most, like, like this guy thinks he's going to win.
Guest:He's right there at the end.
Guest:And then you blast him with like, I don't know.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Turtle shell.
Guest:I mean, honestly, I think a jury might let him off.
Marc:Your honor, the banana peel is highly offensive.
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Guest:There's nobody else in that jury that wouldn't have done the same thing.
Guest:I think it would be the big wheel.
Guest:You know the big wheel?
Marc:I don't.
Marc:I've never been to a Dave & Buster's.
Guest:What is a big wheel?
Guest:You know, like you pull on it and it goes around with numbers on it.
Guest:And when it lands on the number, you win that amount of tickets, right?
Marc:Oh, okay.
Guest:And there's this tiny little sliver in the middle that's like for like a thousand tickets and no one can ever land on it.
Guest:And I can just imagine somebody betting someone like their life that, you know, there's no way you're going to hit that thing.
Guest:And the thing is, it would tick so slowly.
Guest:Boop, boop, boop, boop.
Guest:And it's like, you don't know, you know, five seconds before whether it's going to hit that thing or whether it's going to be just off.
Guest:And I can imagine like you just hear the sounds would be like, you know, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
Guest:Yeah.
Marc:That's a good one.
Marc:I see they have Pac-Man there.
Marc:I can imagine a world where, by the way, first of all, I must say, I'm highly against this.
Marc:As a person who is very anti-online gaming, this is the worst.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:What are we doing?
Marc:We're now allowing people to bet on an arcade game with their friends.
Marc:Don't you see the hell that we're about to step into if we keep down this road?
Marc:Like, what is happening here?
Marc:They also have a Kinect 4, which I think is a great way to lose $10,000, is to lose a game of Kinect 4 with their friends.
Guest:there's those ones that are like basketball connect for have you ever seen that one that's a good one i i i would i wouldn't bet on that one i just can't imagine like the like it's one thing to lose money on like real sports or like you bet somebody about like a three-on-three basketball game you're gonna have can you imagine like all your money is hinging on whether you can like sink a a
Guest:a buzzer beater on like the movable basketball hoop.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Right.
Marc:These stupid fucking games.
Marc:Brendan, the year is 2050 and the remake of Color Money is out and it takes place in a Dave and Buster's.
Marc:This is bad.
Guest:Yeah, instead of a pool cue, the guy comes in with his own virtual reality helmet.
Guest:Right.
Guest:It's like Ready Player One.
Guest:What do you call it?
Guest:Doom.
Guest:No, really, it's called Doom.
Guest:It plays the game Doom right in here.
Guest:Doom.
Marc:My last story for you is a story that happens every year and I regret having social media each time it shows up in my feed.
Marc:And that is the Met Gala.
Marc:It happened again this week.
Marc:This year had a dress code that was the Garden of Time based on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's exhibit, Sleeping Beauties, Reawakening Fashion.
Marc:So Brendan, how did you spend your Monday if it wasn't scrolling past video after video of celebrities walking and sometimes being carried up the stairs to the Met?
Guest:doing anything but that.
Marc:I am so envious of you.
Marc:I hate this mid-gala thing.
Marc:Why are you envious?
Marc:You can do the same thing.
Guest:I know.
Marc:You're not a prisoner.
Marc:I know.
Marc:It feels like I am.
Marc:It's the vortex.
Marc:It's just what to do.
Marc:What am I going to do at 1030 when I'm about to drift off to sleep?
Marc:I'm going to...
Marc:press a button on my phone, and I'm going to see what's in the news, see if any transactions happen in baseball, and I just find all these videos.
Guest:So here's what I would suggest to you.
Guest:Find places where you could do exactly those things that don't involve an endless feed of nonsense.
Guest:Because I'm informed on the exact same things you are, but I go to Mets.com.
Guest:To look at the, what's the latest news for my team, the New York Metropolitans or MLB.com.
Guest:And they have a little side scroll thing that says transactions.
Guest:And you can just click on that and find who went where.
Guest:You don't have to rely on the brain fucker that is just going to constantly pummel your cortex with stuff that you don't need.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:The, the, the worm that lives inside my brain really enjoys it though.
Guest:Now that's a good story.
Guest:Oh my God.
Guest:I almost spit my water all over the desk.
Marc:Cause.
Marc:That is the best story I've ever heard this year.
Marc:Like, I mean, I think there was a headline that was the best from his campaign.
Marc:Let me see if I can get it.
Guest:The headline in the New York Times was, I got to read it directly.
Guest:Because it was just like the perfect thing.
Guest:Like, I was like, oh, you don't come back from that.
Guest:Here it was.
Guest:The New York Times.
Guest:RFK Jr.
Guest:says doctors found a dead worm in his brain.
Guest:Sorry.
Guest:Goodbye.
Guest:Fatality.
Guest:Totally.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So the hilarious thing about this story is...
Guest:is if you just hear about that, oh my God, a dead worm in his brain.
Guest:And then the quote from him that this all came from a deposition in 2012 was the quote in the deposition was that the doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his brain scans, quote, was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Seems bad.
Guest:Please vote for me.
Guest:It's the next one.
Guest:It's totally bad, right?
Guest:In that level.
Guest:But you keep reading the story and it turns out that this was the deposition they're talking about was because of a divorce, right?
Guest:And so he was being deposed and giving all the reasons why I can't give divorce.
Guest:this ex-wife any money because I'm disabled, right?
Guest:And I'm having trouble making income.
Guest:So there were all of these reasons, the brain worm being one of them, which when you're being told by divorce lawyers, like, hey, you stand to lose X divided by two, right?
Guest:Your fortune divided by two.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And you need to do whatever you can to keep some of that money.
Guest:You will say shit like that is ostensibly true.
Guest:Like I had a brain parasite, but you will be like, yeah, this thing ate my fucking brain.
Guest:I don't remember shit anymore and I can't go out of the house.
Guest:Right.
Guest:So please let me keep my money.
Guest:Well, now you're running for president and you have this out there as a fact that makes the New York fuck times say,
Marc:rfk jr says doctors found a dead worm in his brain so can i just say um did he then say that like he his ex can't have half his money because the the the living worms family has to get the other half
Marc:Hazard Day for seeing his skull.
Marc:Vanity Fair had a headline that is my personal favorite that I think trumps your New York Times headline.
Marc:And it's RFK Jr.
Marc:'s campaign says the worm that ate part of his brain will not affect his ability to serve as president.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:I had people trying to convince, like, you know, I work with a news organization on a daily basis.
Guest:We talk about what works in the news, what doesn't.
Guest:And one of the things that came up was this RFK Jr.
Guest:story.
Guest:And there's this feeling, and I agree with it generally, that like...
Guest:chaos candidates, right?
Guest:Like RFK Jr.
Guest:'s purpose is not to become the president, but he is going to cause chaos in the voting, especially if he gets on ballots.
Guest:And it's a largely attention-driven campaign based on nothing other than cult of personality stuff.
Guest:And then when you, so when that happens, you know, you have to be very on guard for what are you doing giving this person a platform?
Guest:Because generally all you're doing is like, there's no end game to what they're doing other than attention.
Guest:So you're just giving them the attention they crave and you're putting it under the guise of newsworthiness.
Guest:And often it's not newsworthy because anybody can want attention, right?
Guest:And so with this type of story,
Guest:Like I was talking to another news producer and he's like, you know, I don't know.
Guest:It's not going to affect one way.
Guest:The guy's goal is not to get elected.
Guest:So what does it matter one way or another?
Guest:And I was like, yeah, but the whole idea of he's going to go out there and cause chaos.
Guest:On either side, like you can't even argue necessarily who he's going to take votes from.
Guest:It could be MAGA people.
Guest:It could be Democrats.
Guest:Who knows at this point?
Guest:But it is a chaos campaign.
Guest:And my thing is like the only thing that is deadly to a campaign like this is when it becomes unpalatable to the chaos agents who want to perpetuate it.
Guest:And so when you're a person who your general thought, you just go back to like Ross Perot, right?
Guest:People were like, fuck all these people.
Guest:I'm going to go in and pull the lever for Ross Perot just because I think he's kind of fun going on TV with his charts and graphs and talking about how the giant sucking sound you hear is the US economy.
Guest:That guy, he amuses me.
Guest:I'm going to pull the lever for him, right?
Guest:But that's the same thing that winds up happening with RFK, right?
Guest:It's like people are like, I don't like...
Guest:the old guy.
Guest:And I don't like the crazy guy.
Guest:So I'm going to like, just go in and pull the lever for this guy who, you know, is in the Kennedy family.
Guest:when now the number one thing you're thinking about with that guy is the worm in his head, all bets are off.
Guest:Like, it's like, that's it.
Guest:It's over.
Guest:He's not, that is a killed my dog worthy headline, right?
Guest:Like that's another thing that in some ways is very quaint that you could still have candidates be totally upended by these like headlines, right?
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Christy Noem shot and killed her puppy.
Guest:She's done for the foreseeable future now because of that.
Marc:And also lied about meeting Kim Jong-un.
Marc:But it's hilarious.
Marc:It didn't even need to get to that.
Marc:She's done with the dog.
Marc:The dog was it.
Marc:It's over.
Marc:It's over.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Good day, sir.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:You would say the worm has turned on both of those candidates.
Marc:Oh, yes.
Guest:I have gotten into this habit of, particularly back and forth with a friend of mine who does the same thing, of when things come up, I go and use existing AI software to create a pop song about it.
Guest:And I just, I couldn't resist, but I had to make this song.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:The sky is the limit.
Guest:It's all come to pass.
Guest:I've got the big edge.
Guest:I'm the head of the class.
Guest:Gonna grab the big ring.
Guest:Nothing stopping my climb.
Guest:Except for this story in today's New York Times.
Guest:I'm RFK Jr., I've got worms in my brain.
Guest:I'm not medicated or clinically insane.
Guest:I'm lost in insanity.
Guest:The rest are all dead, but I can't overcome the tiny bugs in my head.
Guest:Other than the brains, hey, I'm fine on my feet.
Guest:Well, there is that one thing that makes my heart skip a beat.
Guest:Plus the mercury poison, and I fried vocal cords.
Guest:And I did all that heroin because I was born.
Guest:I'm our red heroin because I was born.
Guest:Oh, God!
Guest:I'm not fascinated, but I'm in lots of pain.
Guest:I'd like to talk about what you can't understand because the worm ain't that part of my memory.
Guest:One more time.
Guest:Everybody.
Marc:Banger.
Marc:What a banger.
Marc:That's a song of the summer.
Guest:Yeah, I'd like to thank the robot at suno.ai for assisting me with that.
Marc:I can picture myself top down in my car, driving to that song, going 60 miles on the highway.
Guest:For the last 24 hours, me walking around my house.
Guest:I'm RFK Jr.
Guest:I got worms in my brain.
Marc:Like it has worked.
Marc:Amazing.
Amazing.
Marc:All right.
Marc:Last story for you that you may have missed with your social media blackout.
Marc:It's OpenAI has suspended its chatbot voice named Sky.
Guest:Oh, well, this is a huge story.
Marc:So I didn't miss this.
Marc:Oh, OK.
Marc:All right.
Marc:So you know that this Sky, it sounded a lot like Scarlett Johansson in the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:And they introduced it as such.
Guest:They were like, ladies and gentlemen, her.
Guest:Yes.
Marc:And the voice came on.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So in a letter published by Johansson on Twitter, she says that OpenAI reached out to her about voicing this chatbot.
Marc:She declined, but the company just plowed ahead anyway with a voice eerily similar to hers.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So this chatbot can respond to verbal questions from users to mimic a real-time conversation.
Marc:Brennan, I got to ask you.
Marc:Which celebrity voice would you want to hear to be your artificial intelligence friend?
Guest:You know, I don't buy it.
Guest:I don't think anybody really wants that.
Guest:No?
Guest:No, because they've tried with GPS, and it's never taken off.
Guest:Like, it's a niche thing.
Guest:A few people think it's fun to have, you know, Samuel L. Jackson tell you to turn left or whatever.
Guest:But, like, there's... I don't think... I think that the...
Guest:The reason why Siri is a known commodity in Alexa, and I'm sorry for setting those off in your houses because I just said those, but an anonymity of the calm voice is important with these things.
Guest:Which is why ScarJo is perfect, right?
Guest:Yes.
Guest:And the craziest thing that I've ever found out was when that movie came out.
Guest:Before I even saw it, I remember the premise.
Guest:I've seen the trailers and it's like, oh, that's perfect.
Guest:If you're going to make a movie about a guy falling in love with his AI, the voice you want is Scarlett Johansson.
Guest:It's one of the most distinctive voices in terms of...
Guest:If you could dream up a voice that you could fall in love with, there you go.
Guest:That's perfect.
Guest:It's crazy that she was a replacement.
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:Who was she a replacement for?
Guest:It was Samantha Morton.
Guest:filmed the whole movie, they filmed the whole movie with Samantha Morton on set with Joaquin Phoenix acting opposite him just off camera.
Guest:But they were, you know, he wanted the relationship to be so close that that's what he, you know, he had her on the set.
Guest:And it was just one of those things where they, it was like Finding Nemo where they watched it with William H. Macy and they were like, this isn't working.
Guest:And they just completely cut the whole,
Guest:performance and replaced it with albert brooks it was the same thing here where they just cut the entire performance and had scarlet come in and do the part you know from scratch and she's like the most it's the most perfect casting and it's like oh crazy that it didn't happen in the first place but so like of course these silicon valley knobs are going to try to steal that no matter what like they know it's perfect so they're like
Guest:What can we do to top Siri or Alexa or whatever?
Guest:And it's like, well, we can get Scarlet.
Guest:Period.
Guest:Right?
Guest:And then she turns them down and they're like, yeah, we'll just do it anyway because we're assholes.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:But I think you're wrong.
Marc:I think...
Marc:I think as time goes on, there is going to be a want for different types of AI voices.
Marc:So what happens?
Marc:Let's say hypothetical that one day one of these companies, these tech companies, approach you and Mark.
Marc:And their pitch is they want their AI companion to act and sound like Mark Maron.
Marc:There are over 1,500 episodes, right, at their disposal.
Marc:Like, they can have Mark say anything at this point.
Guest:Look, I'm not Mark.
Guest:It's up to him.
Guest:But, like, that's a fucking no-brainer.
Guest:Like, of course.
Guest:Why would you not do it?
Guest:Like, if anyone is...
Guest:perverse enough that they want mark like talking to them all day long go for it like please yeah i think there is going to be a desire for that honestly if it ever got to the point where you're correct and it's just ubiquitous and you just pick whatever you know famous voice you want talking to you i would pick like danny devito
Guest:Like I, it's, it's like, I want, it's like, cause they want calm.
Guest:Right.
Guest:I think people are wrong when they like thinking of like the, like famous voices that are like real in your face.
Guest:Like I said, like Sam Jackson or something like that.
Guest:I don't think that it will get you through your day.
Guest:I think it would actually, you know, enhance your nerves.
Guest:Right.
Guest:I think you want like somebody, like you pick somebody who you have a mental picture of that is like,
Guest:totally chill like when you think of danny devito you're like that guy's never had a problem in his life even though i'm sure he has plenty every day but you're like that's guys he's like the easiest going guy there is and he's fun he's nice he gives me happy feelings like that's what you would want you'd want like somebody to be like hey wake up don't you want to get started with you today and you're like i sure do thanks ai danny devito
Marc:I can just imagine someone having the Yoda setting.
Marc:Oh, that would get tired real fast.
Marc:Yeah, but also, what are you saying?
Marc:Can you say an actual sentence?
Marc:Why is it all out of order?
Marc:Coffee I made.
Marc:What the fuck?
Marc:That's why I think AI Marc Maron would be great.
Marc:Like I just ask him a basic question and he's just appalled like Marc would be.
Marc:He's like, really?
Marc:That's what you want to know?
Marc:Jesus.
Guest:I can tell you as someone who basically has AI Marc Maron in my life already –
Guest:that it's not a bad thing.
Guest:I've been doing it for 20 years and I don't stop doing it.
Guest:So obviously I'm okay with it, but I will say I have had to erect many boundaries around AI Mark Maron.
Guest:And so like, I don't know if this, if this product you're talking about comes with user settings where you can highly customize it, maybe it would work, but otherwise it would be a lot.
Guest:It'd be a hell of an experience.
Guest:Also, I have a question for you, though.
Guest:When you travel, particularly if you're traveling by car, are you prepared to take a roadkill bear and put it in your car to skin it for its meat?
Marc:You know, it's funny you say that.
Marc:Last night.
Marc:No, I did.
I did.
Marc:I did not see a bear get run over by the person in front of me and then put that bear in my back seat to be then skinned and eaten.
Marc:What?
Marc:Okay, hang on.
Guest:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a sec.
Guest:Hang on.
Guest:These details all require a lot of questions and extrapolations.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:And I think the best way to do this, especially for those people who maybe don't know, although I don't know why you wouldn't know this because it's the most hilarious thing ever.
Guest:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Guest:released a video on Sunday night showing himself around a dining room table with, like, Brontosaurus ribs on it or something.
Marc:By the way, can I just pause right here?
Marc:Because for some reason, so my wife and I watch John Oliver's show every week, and for the past two weeks...
Marc:John has been getting sort of stumped or, you know, the news has surpassed him because the show comes out on Sunday.
Marc:It was all about RFK Jr.
Marc:So I just figured, oh, that's where this video was unearthed.
Marc:It was from this episode.
Marc:No, it's from RFK Jr.
Marc:Just put it out there.
Marc:So please, go on.
Guest:OK, so in this video where he is sitting in his, you know, Tony Westchester estate and he is talking to Roseanne Barr.
Marc:Wow.
Marc:How did that happen?
Guest:Who is clearly like cast in the role, by the way.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Because she's like she's like made up.
Guest:She looks she's TV ready in this in this barbecue that they're having.
Guest:And.
Guest:And so she knew she was going to be filmed or something.
Guest:And so, OK, the filming starts.
Guest:You know, I'm just going to read the transcript of this and we can stop line by line.
Guest:Thank you.
Guest:To address the issues that we had with.
Guest:Anyone who's been listening to the Friday show knows my kind of enjoyment with the RFK Jr.
Guest:sideshow, by the way.
Guest:I mean, and if if I thought if I said the peak of like my enjoyment of a politician who I don't like watching them spiral was going to be the worm eating his brain and dying in there.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I couldn't imagine a universe in which that was topped by another story, particularly a story where he's a criminal that was documented on the news 10 years ago as a mystery.
Guest:You can go back and watch the footage from 10 years ago of people talking about this crime, going like, oh, who would do such a thing?
Guest:Can you imagine if in that moment...
Guest:You like you were watching the news in 2014.
Guest:You see this story about the dead bear in Central Park and somebody standing next to you is like, oh, I know who did that.
Guest:RFK Jr.
Guest:You'd be like, you're an idiot.
Guest:Stop talking to me.
Guest:Like, don't go away.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:That's clearly like just like some vagrant dragged a bear into the park or something, you know?
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:RFK Jr.
Guest:did it is not the answer I was expecting.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:And so, unfortunately, we are going to go through this video line by line, unfortunately, like the Zabruder film.
Marc:I'm sorry to say.
Guest:Well, unfortunately, or just celestial coincidence.
Guest:We just saw Magnolia last night.
Guest:These things all come together.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:I also want like we're on an audio product here.
Guest:It would seem to make sense, especially like I'm a producer.
Guest:I know like how to do this when you're doing something like this.
Guest:It usually makes sense to just play the audio and we can play it and stop it.
Guest:I will not do that.
Guest:Yeah, don't do the voice.
Guest:Don't do the voice.
Yeah.
Guest:this guy's voice is and i know people are like oh that's people are mean about his voice yeah i'm sorry he did so much heroin he can't talk anymore that's that's that's that is a shame uh but yeah i can't stand listening to this guy uh so i will just read the transcript thank you uh of uh of this and we can stop where we need to okay
Guest:I was taking a group of people falconing up in Goshen, New York.
Guest:Now, I know this guy falcons.
Guest:Like, this is one of his big things, right?
Guest:He, like, you know, has videos.
Guest:Oh, win a falconing date with RFK Jr.
Guest:in that.
Guest:But it's still the weirdest and somehow most Kennedy line to start a story.
Guest:I was taking a group of people falconing in Goshen, New York.
Guest:Okay, Goshen, New York is now about two hours north of New York City.
Guest:west of new york city uh on the other side of the river rfk jr lives in westchester that's about an hour like due east of goshen okay so i kind of want you to like draw that in your mind new york if you went straight north from like brooklyn you would hit westchester then you have to dog leg out west left to hit goshen so he goes an hour out west to goshen okay okay
Guest:I was supposed to meet them there.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:He's talking about going and meeting these people.
Guest:So he's by himself, according to this story, or at least he's not with the traveling Falconer party.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:So it's just him in the car.
Guest:Supposed to meet them there at maybe eight or nine.
Guest:I was driving up maybe really early, like seven.
Guest:And then a woman in a van in front of me hit a bear and killed it.
Guest:A young bear.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:So, okay, let's stop here for a second.
Guest:Did this woman just like, was this like Frogger?
Guest:Like she just plowed the bear off the road and just kept driving?
Guest:If that's the case, how do you know it was a woman?
Guest:Right.
Guest:It's just a van in front of him that just did this.
Guest:Is he just assuming this is a woman driver for sexist reasons?
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:But if the woman did stop, where is this woman?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Where is her story about this?
Marc:Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:Also, on the other side of it, did they get out together?
Marc:Did they talk about it?
Marc:Yeah, did he say, no, no, no, break the law.
Marc:Go, go, go, go, go, go.
Marc:Don't worry, I'll handle this.
Marc:Okay, nice man who I just met with a weird voice.
Marc:I'm going to go now.
Guest:okay so i pulled over and i picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because i was okay okay hang on before because the next set the next part of this sentence is the craziest sentence in the whole thing but i have to stop there of the first one he says he picked up the bear and put it in the back of his van a
Guest:A bear is heavy.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:Even if it's a baby bear cub, it's heavy.
Guest:He just killed it.
Guest:There is, spoiler, a picture of him with this bear.
Guest:It is covered in blood.
Guest:Yes.
Guest:How did this guy...
Guest:I don't know.
Guest:You ever listen to a true crime podcast?
Guest:Like one, one true crime podcast.
Guest:You will listen to it and go like, oh, yeah, never touch anything dead because it will always be on you.
Guest:You will leave all sorts of identifying information and you will be covered in blood and you will never be able to not be able.
Guest:You will never be able to clean a blood trace anymore.
Guest:You know, it's always around.
Guest:So like, OK, the casual nature of just I just picked up this dead bear, bloody bear, shoved it in my car.
Guest:Already strains credulity.
Guest:But then his reasoning is.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Because I was going to skin the bear and it was in very good condition.
Guest:And I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator.
Guest:And you can do that in New York state.
Guest:You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.
Guest:Woo, woo, woo.
Marc:Okay.
Marc:A, what are you doing with bear meat?
Marc:Like, is that a thing that people are eating?
Guest:I get the idea of like, you know, my grandfather was a hunter.
Guest:We had all sorts of game that you want some venison.
Guest:You want this, that.
Guest:Never, ever.
Guest:Ever.
Guest:Was anyone like, oh, you know what?
Guest:So-and-so, Jerry up the road, he killed a bear.
Guest:He's got the great bear chili.
Guest:We should go get some.
Guest:I've never heard of it in my life.
Guest:Now, granted, it may be a thing.
Guest:Is it a thing in like...
Guest:fucking westchester county right like people are like i gotta put this fucking bear meat in my free in my fridge this is gonna save this is gonna i'm gonna have this for months also this is like an american brahmin of the fucking kennedy's he's like this guy is wanting nothing why does he need roadkill bear like
Guest:If this guy wants it, you want a tow?
Guest:I'll get you a tow.
Guest:Like, this guy can get anything he wants at any time.
Guest:He does not need a bear that's just gotten demolished by a van.
Guest:Right.
Guest:And I don't care what good condition it is.
Guest:And there's gravel in it.
Guest:There's some shit that you just took on from being hit by this car.
Guest:Like...
Guest:You don't need this bear.
Guest:Go get... I guarantee this guy eats dinner like Tom Womskins in Succession.
Guest:Like, he eats those birds where you have to put a towel over your head to eat it.
Guest:Like, you don't need roadkill bear.
Marc:Yes.
Marc:Like, he can get giraffe meat.
Marc:He can get probably human meat if he... Like, what is he doing right now?
Marc:He can get it?
Marc:I'm probably sure he has.
Like...
Guest:all right continuing yeah so then we went hawking and i had the bear in my car i love that the hawking is just the verb here and then we had a really good day and we went late this will be a theme by the way and we were catching a lot of game and the people really loved it so wait is this like a fucking hunt right is this a hunting trip or is he is he shooting these hawks
Guest:Or the falcon that he lets go on his hand.
Guest:It's like, hey, everybody, all right, get your guns out.
Guest:It's going to go.
Guest:You got five seconds.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Wait, what was the bird's name in Royal Tenenbaums?
Marc:Oh, Mordecai.
Marc:Mordecai.
Guest:Fly, Mordecai.
Wow.
Marc:I don't think it's the same bird.
Marc:It's white feathers.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says they've been going very late.
Guest:They were catching a lot of game.
Guest:So that's also, if you're catching all this game, does it go in with the bear?
Guest:Like he's got like a stack bear antelope.
Guest:It's like Noah's Ark in his truck, whatever his van, whatever it is.
Marc:The Kennedy kill van.
Yeah.
Guest:Not the first Kennedy vehicle that's been called that.
Guest:No, no, no.
Marc:This was the van.
Marc:It's like Batman.
Marc:It's not a station wagon.
Marc:No, no, it's not the limo.
Marc:It's not the station wagon.
Marc:It's the van.
Guest:We got a lot of these.
Guest:Got a whole fleet.
Marc:The boat?
Guest:We got a boat?
Guest:Oh, they've definitely killed people on a boat.
Guest:Are you kidding?
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says, so we stayed late.
Guest:And instead of coming back to my home in Westchester, I had to go right to the city because there was a dinner at Peter Luger Steakhouse.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:Pause.
Pause.
Guest:So I want to go back to how I mentioned the geography of this is.
Guest:So right now you can draw like an inverted L from Peter Luger to Goshen, New York through Westchester.
Guest:Does that mean you can go faster if you do the diagonal line that goes from Goshen to Brooklyn?
Guest:That's probably faster.
Guest:But is it...
Guest:crazy to go back home to westchester first absolutely and then go down to brooklyn it's you maybe add 15 minutes yeah like maybe and then the next thing i was going to bring up is change his clothes and take a shower before going to the nice steakhouse so maybe you add about 45 minutes total you're robert kennedy do you think you can't show up somewhere 45 minutes late that'd be a problem yeah
Guest:So instead of going home and washing off the bear guts and they've been on him all day, by the way.
Guest:Also, he's got a dead animal in his car.
Guest:At least one.
Guest:At least one.
Guest:Possibly because they were they did.
Guest:They caught a lot of game.
Guest:It's possibly a stack.
Guest:This is like a uno deck of animals in his car.
Guest:And he's like, I got to go to the city.
Guest:I just got to go to the city.
Guest:I got to valet this at Peter Luger, which does not have a parking lot.
Guest:So you do have to have either valet it or park somewhere under the Manhattan Bridge.
Guest:OK, so Williamsburg Bridge.
Guest:So he goes as I go into Peter Luger Steakhouse and at the dinner, it went late and I realized I couldn't go home.
Guest:I had to go to the airport.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So we have established has not cleaned himself, has not changed his clothes.
Guest:As far as we know, has not packed clothes.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Just did not play like or maybe he did pack clothes and the plan the whole time was to go from falconing.
Guest:to Peter Luger to the airport, which if that's the case, don't you end your falconing trip a little early?
Guest:Guys, the whole plan was we were going to go right from here to Peter Luger, but now I have a menagerie in my car.
Guest:I have to do something different.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Cut this short, but no.
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says, and the bear was in my car and I didn't want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad.
Guest:Oh, you think so?
Guest:Doctor.
Guest:i also love that he just figured this out now like he's halfway through his steak he's like his steak is tasty a little gamey gamey game oh no i have i have so much game in my car
Marc:or like was he thinking that you know what i'll bring this bear to peter luger and you know what maybe i'll just like hey guys can you fix me up some bear meat like you can get the whole bear yeah shave me off i don't know a breast of it like well that's the other thing his plan was like what is he he's saying he's gonna skin the bear
Guest:Maybe that takes a quick amount of time.
Guest:But cut the bear up and put it in his refrigerator.
Guest:That was his whole point for putting it in the car in the first place.
Guest:So that is adding two hours to your day.
Guest:Three hours.
Marc:On a day where you know that you have to fly away, right?
Marc:Yeah.
Marc:So, like, what... Like, this is just bad time management, honestly.
Guest:This is just, you know... But, like, if you go by the... Like, by the letter of his...
Guest:story everything he's saying is true if you believe that it is one of the worst cases of impulse control i've ever seen like and as a guy running for president even though it's he's not and that's stupid but it's like the the idea that like you as a president would not have enough sense to be like okay don't put the
Guest:roadkill bear in my car on this very very busy day that includes a flight out of New York at JFK airport like right because otherwise I've just added three to five hours to my day for you know trimming and dressing and cutting a bear and storing its meat and
Marc:RFK Jr.
Marc:has a Goodfellas type day for like the entire time.
Marc:I just think that song is happening.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Harry Nilsson.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:And he's got somebody at home stirring the sauce while he cuts and skins a bear.
Marc:I can't forget my lucky hat.
Guest:All right, going back to him.
Guest:So then I thought, you know, at that time, this was a little bit of the redneck in me.
Marc:All right, pause for a sec.
Marc:I'm sorry, Mr. Kennedy.
Marc:What part of redneck are you?
Guest:Just end it with, I'm sorry, Mr. Kennedy.
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like American royalty.
Guest:They called them Camelot.
Guest:This Kennedy says that there is a little bit of redneck in him.
Guest:That is not getting enough attention in the circles from which I travel.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:So that was a little bit of a redneck in me.
Guest:There'd been a series of bicycle accidents in New York.
Guest:They had just put in bike lanes.
Guest:And so a couple of people were getting killed and it was every day and people were badly injured every day and it was in the press.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Pause here for a second.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:Now knowing where he's trying to connect this to the story.
Guest:Why is that a good prank?
Guest:Right.
Guest:Like he's like, oh, the setup to this prank that I pull is that innocent people were dying on their bicycles every day.
Guest:What?
Guest:Why is why is that related to this bullshit prank?
Guest:He's going to detail about leaving a bear in a bike lane.
Guest:Like, if anything, isn't he then isn't that a prank on the bikers on the cyclists?
Guest:Right.
Guest:That like either someone will accidentally run over this bear or it's saying that the cyclists are dangerous because they killed a bear.
Guest:Like, isn't isn't this whole thing supposed to be like, no, I'm supporting like nature and the environment and use your bike.
Guest:And instead, his prank is I'm going to put a bear in the bike path and look like a bear got killed by a cyclist.
Marc:Like, it makes no sense in any imagination.
Marc:Also, can we just go back to the fact that he realized that the bear is in his trunk and, you know, it's bad.
Marc:That's like Michael Scott realizing that he had potato salad in his car the whole day.
Marc:Just the sun.
Marc:Beating down on it.
Yeah.
Guest:I really, some of this, I know it's all bullshit, but some of it I really hope is true on the level of like realizations that he came across at various times.
Guest:Like, you know, like, oh, I make my car stink.
Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:Like I, I now want to know like what season was this?
Marc:Was it like the summer?
Marc:Was, you know, like, I'm like, how bad was this stench?
Guest:All right.
Guest:So he says, so I thought I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were like,
Marc:I'm pretty sure he was drinking, Mr. Kennedy.
Guest:Well, also, like, the need to immediately... There's no need to put anything in here about drinking at all, right?
Guest:Like, you just say, so, you know, we had this joke, let's take this out to Central Park.
Guest:But instead he says, so I thought... I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea.
Guest:So, like...
Guest:What he's trying to say is he says it's his idea.
Guest:He goes, and I said, I had an old bike in my car that someone asked me to get rid of.
Guest:Put a pin in that.
Guest:And I said, so let's put the bear.
Guest:I said, let's put the bear in Central Park and we'll make it look like it got hit by a bike.
Guest:So everybody thought that's a great idea.
Guest:OK, so he is saying, but also he is basically in that same sentence saying I was with a bunch of drunks.
Guest:I was not drunk, but I came up with this idea and the drunks thought it was fantastic.
Guest:So obviously I had to do it.
Guest:Like, again, if you go by the letter of his story, it is terrible judgment.
Guest:It is like he's like, listen, how could I say no to these bar flies?
Guest:They loved it.
Guest:They thought this was great.
Marc:I mean, he didn't mention his other ideas of dropping it off of the Empire State Building or something.
Marc:Like a penny.
Right.
Marc:Look, it's King Kong.
Guest:Was beauty killed the beast.
Guest:So wait, but I also want to go back to what he said.
Guest:He has a bike.
Guest:Put a pin.
Guest:There's a bike in this car with a zoo of dead animals.
Marc:How big is this death car?
Guest:he's got all bad i got this old bike i've been meaning to to throw out yeah do you do that it's when wait he says that someone asked me to get rid of first of all the idea of that is hilarious like some neighbor is like hey rfk jr can you get rid of my bike for me
Marc:Like, who asked him to get rid of this bicycle?
Marc:And also, just put it on the side of the road.
Guest:I don't know, a normal thing, but why is this bike... It's like when I asked Prince Harry, could you take my recycling down to the dump, please?
Marc:Well, I mean... Prince Harry, you got room in the car.
Marc:To be fair, when you guys had Obama on, you asked him to take the recycling out, right?
Guest:Right.
Guest:i asked him so many things i was turned down on uh all right but so the bike is in his car all right he says everybody thought that was a great idea and then he says it would be amusing for whoever found it or something like this is where his bullshit is just starting to just completely flitter away yeah like whatever
Guest:at this part yeah because also it would be amusing for whoever found it like a mauled bear in the obstructing the bike path with a bloody bike laying next to it well that's hilarious i'd be so amused if i found that on my morning bike ride through central park yeah funny haha funny
Marc:Or something is just, yeah, funny or terrifying or just fucking bizarre.
Guest:Okay.
Guest:And so then he goes on.
Guest:I'm not going to read how he identifies, like, seeing this on the news and, you know, says he's probably exaggerating about the amount of news coverage it got.
Guest:The helicopter and stuff.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It's bullshit.
Guest:Yeah.
Guest:It was on the news and there were police involved and they did like send the bike to like a crime lab and they had to, you know, deal with this, you know, dead bear carcass.
Guest:I saw people doing like analysis of it.
Guest:My, my local city councilman released a, or the, the city comptroller who used to be my councilman, I guess that's why I'm still on his mailing list.
Guest:He released like the finances of like how much this cost the city to have the, you know, this, this,
Guest:You know, what it actually cost and what Robert Kennedy owes the New York City taxpayers for this dumb prank that he did.
Marc:The New York Times covered this story.
Marc:And apparently there was a reporter for the New York Times who was related or is related.
Guest:Yeah, there's one of the Schlossbergs.
Marc:Yeah, that's insane.
Marc:So, I mean, what a coincidence.
Yeah.
Marc:slash pretty sure he planted that story and was like hey cousin um there's this bear um story that's gonna come out you you should write something up or something i mean maybe but what is that benefit from him yeah i don't know i mean i think to me i think it's such a perfect example of like as this guy talks about being a redneck and out there hunting game and whatever it's like this is
Guest:The fucking Kennedys is one of the most elite families in the history of America.
Guest:Like like their their their tendrils are in everything like they're so much so that like this random crime story from Central Park is bylined by one of his relatives.
Guest:Right.
Marc:Right.
Marc:I mean, I guess this is what brain worms does to you.
Guest:you know well he made a joke about that he said like maybe that's where i got the worm from handling this bear which again so that was his statement about it which is like a winking statement to be like oh yeah i guess maybe i got a brain worm from it well but that indicates you know it is unhygienic and and frankly like you know something to be treated with care when you're handling a dead animal right like you're not like gallivanting around to dinner parties yeah
Marc:What are you doing?
Marc:Shaking hands.
Guest:The best thing is he posted this video because it was coming out in a story, right?
Guest:That was going to be, you know, in this profile that was written about him in the New Yorker.
Guest:And they called him to fact check this story.
Guest:So this was his idea of getting out ahead of it was like release the story himself.
Guest:And he posted this with the line saying, looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, New Yorker.
Guest:but touche like if i'm the new yorker i'm like i don't think i need to spin this yeah i think i'm gonna just uh let this lie holy shit i also think maybe he was like he's like what's the big deal like this is the least worst thing anyone in my family has done with the car like
Guest:i don't understand why everyone is upset about this i showed this video to mark and he goes this looks like a documentary shot at a high-end institution like it's like in 12 monkeys like this is like brad pitt sitting around telling a story roseanne's there listening to him
Guest:I also love that Roseanne Barr, a lunatic, is standing there clearly thinking, I need to keep my face frozen and barely react to this insanity that is unfolding before me.
Marc:Yeah, and just zip it and just let this guy spill like he's the jinx.
Marc:Robert Durst just spilling all the details.
Marc:Yeah.
Guest:This guy has probably spilled more blood than Robert Durst.
Guest:I mean, it's animal blood, but still.
Marc:Yes.
Guest:All right.
Guest:Well, that was, I've been the most enjoyable thing for me this entire week.
Guest:And I'm glad I got a chance to go over with you.
Marc:Dude, and you have to add, you have to make a new song.
Marc:You have to do a new updated song for RFK Jr.
Guest:Oh, I have to make a new one, do I?
Marc:Yeah, yeah.
Marc:To include the bear.
Guest:Well, you're in luck.
Guest:Hang on one second here.
Guest:Let's just pull this sucker up.
Guest:This would be, I would call it the coda of... Verse three.
Guest:Yeah, you know, with the AI, you can very easily add on to songs that you've already made.
Guest:Excellent.
Guest:So I believe I made this five seconds after seeing the video.
Guest:I found a dead bear and I wanted it to me.
Guest:But I drove it to the park and I dumped it on the street.
Guest:don't know why that memory is buried so deep that's a gift for my brain the worm let me keep it's like a glove man
Guest:It's as if he needed, he himself wanted a third verse for that song.
Marc:Exactly.
Guest:He's like, I didn't like how it ended.
Guest:I'm going to give this guy a little extra juice.
Marc:Holy shit.
Marc:That is amazing.
Marc:Thank you for that.
Marc:Ha ha ha!