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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the

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Speaker 1: Weekly Zitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments

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Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment

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Speaker 1: laugh stravaganza. Uh. Yeah, So, without further ado, here is

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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. And finally, what is a myth?

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Speaker 1: What's something people think is true? You know to be false? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Doritos are of this world? M yes, they landed here

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Speaker 1: on an asteroid. It's not They're not real. Yeah you

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Speaker 1: like Drido's I do. That's why I can't like it's

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Speaker 1: like the perfect perfect Yeah. Could you eat a like

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Speaker 1: a family size bag without a doubt? Like and when

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Speaker 1: like some good caso or something like that? Oh? Fuck

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Speaker 1: you double up? Come on man, yo, I like to

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Speaker 1: come on man, you're looking. If we're gonna sin, I

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Speaker 1: just don't want to fully dive in. Yeah, we're not

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Speaker 1: just gonna have oral sex. Let's do this, Let's breach

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Speaker 1: the castle walls. Uh. Nacho cheese derritos with green Mountain

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Speaker 1: Greno salsa is one of my favorite combo. It's green

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Speaker 1: Mountain Gringo salace medium. It's just a salsa that I

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Speaker 1: really like. Where do they sell it here and yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just one of my favorite sauces. Does it say green

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Speaker 1: in it? Yeah? Awesome at least no, yeah, like we

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Speaker 1: don't want that. It was actually on that food blog,

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Speaker 1: the take Out they posited the question to their staff

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Speaker 1: is it nacho cheese or cool Ranch the superior torito,

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Speaker 1: and they were deadlocked. Na cheese because I think cool

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Speaker 1: Ranch gives you such a weird feeling in your mouth,

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Speaker 1: like tasting your mouth afterwards, this zing. Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: we call the zing. Right. The zing ends up at

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Speaker 1: like maybe three minutes after you've eating it, making it

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Speaker 1: feel like you've sucked on a battery or something. To me,

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Speaker 1: the proper way to eat the cool Ranch is in

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Speaker 1: the sandwich itself. Yeah, the sandwich successory. Well, like inside

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Speaker 1: the sandwich. Yeah, because what you said, anything anything you'd

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Speaker 1: put ranch on, bro Yeah, anything you would eat it with,

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Speaker 1: Like any kind of sandwich, you would eat it, but

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Speaker 1: you just put it in there. Yeah. You know it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I'm always not your cheese, but then I have cool

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Speaker 1: Ranch and I go, you know what, this one isn't

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Speaker 1: bad too. It's like chocolate and vanilla. Yeah, you need

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Speaker 1: chocolate vanilla especially Vanilla Bean may al right, a new

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Speaker 1: show that reminds me. My wife did this bit because

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Speaker 1: she was because I like vanilla, and she was like,

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Speaker 1: you like a psychopath, Like why you just eat the

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Speaker 1: vanilla and she was like, it's pretty FilmOn deal on stage.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I wouldn't because I think I'm pretty normal,

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Speaker 1: and she did it and it bombs. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a reason it's one of the popular

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Speaker 1: flavor right. Yeah, she was like I didn't think. I

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Speaker 1: didn't tell her that. I was like, this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be funny. Could you just wait to do that until

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Speaker 1: I'm so that's awesome? What is something that's underrated? Man?

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Speaker 1: Uh man? Jamie, Yeah, man, I'm a men's rights activist.

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Speaker 1: Surprised I tricked Anna out debate me coward to Jamie,

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Speaker 1: debate you think you're so smart with your menso to

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Speaker 1: debate an average man, Yeah, but to own you with

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Speaker 1: facts and logic, um, you can't. You referenced tenfoil hat.

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Speaker 1: I think what's underrated is um what I used to think.

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Speaker 1: We're really crazy conspiracy theories like I had. I've had

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Speaker 1: friends that have been telling me for years that all

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Speaker 1: the world's elite are pedophiles. And I was like, that

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Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but they were right this whole time looking

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Speaker 1: at these listen like huh, I'm like, man, it is

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Speaker 1: that is everyone you told me was a pedophile. She's like,

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Speaker 1: I've been I've been told that, Like I've been told

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Speaker 1: crazy things about Bill Clinton my whole life. But I

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Speaker 1: thought it was just because I grew up in a

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Speaker 1: red state, you know. But yeah, I mean, god, see,

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Speaker 1: that's why this whole Jeffrey Epstein thing, I bring it

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Speaker 1: all out bringing. I want to see it all that

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Speaker 1: we need to get to the bottom of this ship.

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Speaker 1: That is the funny thing is you're seeing like a

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Speaker 1: lot of more like right leaning people that are like,

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Speaker 1: well what about when what are your people? Comes out?

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Speaker 1: And every everyone left, Yeah, please take them. All the

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Speaker 1: fires are being stoked and ready. Yeah. And it's in

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Speaker 1: like every area of rich people to every genre of

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Speaker 1: rich Like there, if you haven't seen an Open Secret,

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Speaker 1: have you guys seen an Open Secret? That's the documentary

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Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago by Amy Berg about

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Speaker 1: like Hollywood specific pedophile and like I couldn't get a

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Speaker 1: and he couldn't get it right right right. But it's

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Speaker 1: like it's so prevalent. I mean, we got we're talking

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Speaker 1: Pearlman today and this is like Abuseville to like, especially

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Speaker 1: the Carrot of Fame is used to just manipulate the

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Speaker 1: is Dan Schneider not? Like there's so many people who

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Speaker 1: belong in jail and they're not. It's it's coming. Maybe

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Speaker 1: just like I feel like a lot of things are

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Speaker 1: just coming to the surface. That's why everything is so crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's just like we're at the culdron is bubbling. It's

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Speaker 1: it's reached peak boil and we're just like all standing

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Speaker 1: around like, oh god, it's gonna blow. Yeah. The Devil's

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Speaker 1: the Devil's balloon knots inside out. I can tell, man,

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Speaker 1: the Devil's windsock. Now, what is a myth? What's something

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Speaker 1: that you? Uh? I forget how Jack wards it? But

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Speaker 1: what's a myth? Now? Man? Just bust Okay, So this

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Speaker 1: kind of blew my mind and it's kind of a

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Speaker 1: that we've been missed using for years. As uh So,

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Speaker 1: my girl and I were kind of talking about this

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Speaker 1: whole basic idea that millennials are like ungrateful or lazy,

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Speaker 1: that we're so inundated with options that no one can

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Speaker 1: feel contentment because it's just we're so constantly aware of

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Speaker 1: what we don't have or or what the other thing

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Speaker 1: we could be doing. Like, my grandparents had a beautiful maryage.

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Speaker 1: They were married for like sixty five years. But it's

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Speaker 1: also like she was just yeah, what if I about it?

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Speaker 1: That was my myth. I would like to break the

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Speaker 1: myth that my grandparents had a good parent who Thanksgiving conversation,

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Speaker 1: I mean, any grandparents courting story is the scariest thing

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Speaker 1: that your baby, and then they were married for years.

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Speaker 1: Hey yo, that your baby. Yo, Ma, that's your baby.

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Speaker 1: That's your baby. No, what are you doing this? If

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Speaker 1: you wow? Okay, so go on, oh yeah, well it

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Speaker 1: Like I've been thinking about, you know, like he didn't

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Speaker 1: have to deal with any of that that ship. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about, like there's all these quotes

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Speaker 1: So like, for instance, do you know blood is thicker

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Speaker 1: which basically means the opposite. So it's basically the bonds

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Speaker 1: bonds that you're born into. But we literally say it

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Speaker 1: like blood a stick in the water, like blood over everything,

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Speaker 1: blood over everything. But it's really like because your friends

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Speaker 1: will adapt with you, it flows more like water. So

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Speaker 1: like blood, blood is slower to move, so your family

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Speaker 1: is not going to change, so you create your own

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Speaker 1: family that's like minded, and you guys are moving like

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Speaker 1: a hive. And so it's actually like an insult to

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Speaker 1: say blood is thicker than water exactly. We've been saying that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then the other one is they say jack of

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Speaker 1: all trades, master of none, right, which is like, if

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Speaker 1: all trades, master of none. But maybe that's better than

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Speaker 1: a master of one. So basically, a jack of all

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Speaker 1: master is only good at one thing. So if you're

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Speaker 1: good at ten things, you're gonna beat the master at

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Speaker 1: nine things. This is a thank you. That's smiling family. Yeah. Now,

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Speaker 1: next person to call me a multi hyph in it.

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Speaker 1: You don't fucking get the origin, homie. You don't know

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Speaker 1: the end of the phrase. Oh you're just a master

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Speaker 1: of super smash brothers. Okay, I'm a little bit good

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Speaker 1: at many other things as well. Hell yeah, Okay, that

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Speaker 1: that was empowering good. Yeah, that was to share that

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Speaker 1: feeling with you. Motherfucking paradigm shift. Yeah, I think we

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Speaker 1: need a new drop for paradigm shifts. Just going the

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Speaker 1: last married it on that that's what those earthquakes where

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Speaker 1: baby was just the paradigm shift to see the Devil's

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Speaker 1: but provides and it giveth and it taketh away. Jamie,

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Speaker 1: how is men con okay? So give us a quick update?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? Quick update? I'm not gonna I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna go crazy on the recap. But do you feel

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Speaker 1: like you know I've been talking to people know about

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Speaker 1: over a year now. Yeah, you you're you are a mention.

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Speaker 1: Yes you've been. You've written things about mensa, Yes, you've been.

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Speaker 1: I'll let you just tell your story. I'm sorry, so

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Speaker 1: not familiar, that's great. Honestly took the IMNA entry exam

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Speaker 1: If you if you dig well and your standardized tests

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Speaker 1: in elementary school, you'll probably do all on these. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Either way, I wrote about it as a joke, got

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Speaker 1: in as a joke, was writing some kind of goofy

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Speaker 1: a bunch of like rich liberal nerds. Yeah, sure so,

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Speaker 1: kind of poking at that. Um. Then turns out it

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Speaker 1: was a way more complicated organizations than I realized. There

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Speaker 1: are a lot of secret Facebook groups that were toxic there.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to remain I'm like twelve thousand

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Speaker 1: words deep into this story, um, and it is said

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Speaker 1: that many words already way more bizarre. Oh you're writing Okay,

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Speaker 1: am going craft envirol the co crow. But long story short,

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Speaker 1: there are all these uh all these secret groups, especially

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Speaker 1: this one unmoderated one who found my work and immediately

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Speaker 1: were like, you know, like there there were there were

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Speaker 1: general uh person online. Yeah, you poked a cultural bee

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Speaker 1: I just started writing about that I stopped making fun

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Speaker 1: kind of spiraled out. I like met people who were

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Speaker 1: deeply need to consider. Quote, the business model is to

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Speaker 1: keep you engaged. It's not even a question of whether

425
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Speaker 1: advertising is bad or good. It's ation of what do

426
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,960
Speaker 1: they have to do to keep you engaged long enough

427
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,360
Speaker 1: to get those ads in front of your eyeballs. Their

428
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,959
Speaker 1: tools are doing what they can to keep us engaged,

429
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: which is taking us down more and more extreme rabbit holes,

430
00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: which is polarizing us more and more because the salacious

431
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: talking points and salacious click baity headlines or what keep

432
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: people's eyeballs on their screens, And the more and more

433
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: you can keep us outrage, keep us angry, keep us polarized,

434
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: it just makes it much easier for Russia to come

435
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Speaker 1: in and exploit that for me, the biggest issue is

436
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Speaker 1: to fix a business model that intentionally feeds on the

437
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: worst part of who we are as humans. And yes,

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Speaker 1: people can say, isn't it just human beings? Is it

439
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: Facebook or Google or Twitter or YouTube's fault that people

440
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: love this stuff. It's not their fault. But they're absolutely

441
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Speaker 1: manipulating it and exacerbating it and getting into our psychology

442
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Speaker 1: in order to keep us on their screens. So I

443
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,800
Speaker 1: can't buy the isn't it just human nature? Argument? Right,

444
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: They're engineering things to manipulate human nature. And now, yeah,

445
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Speaker 1: to the point where it's like, well, funk, I guess

446
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: if we keep turning adding spice to the recipe, it

447
00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: will just it's already starting to burn. But if it's

448
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: like not, man, I guess we need spicier ship to

449
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: get people fucking going to keep so I can serve

450
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: you and add for shambong whatever the funk it is, right,

451
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: But I think that's really yeah, I think that's the

452
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,400
Speaker 1: that's part of the business model that I think legislators

453
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: also have to look at of like, oh, you're purely

454
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: guided by I need advertisers to buy ads. The only

455
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: way I can make our our platform attractive to advertisers

456
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: by saying I can keep idiots staring at this fucking

457
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: thing for X hours at a time. There's this book

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Speaker 1: Good to Grade that's like this guy did a study

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Speaker 1: on companies that had like sustained success, and one of

460
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: the like main things he says they all have in

461
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: common is called the hedgehog principle, which is like they

462
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Speaker 1: know one thing, Like they just always have the same

463
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 1: sort of core value at the heart of everything they do.

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Speaker 1: So like with I forget what the like a let

465
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Speaker 1: was one of the companies, and like it was like

466
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Speaker 1: some manner of like shaving, like staying focused on being

467
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: the best in the world, a like providing like shaving things.

468
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Speaker 1: So uh with Facebook, like it seems like the entire

469
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Speaker 1: like d n A of the country of the company

470
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Speaker 1: is built on you know, is built counter to actually

471
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Speaker 1: like protecting people's privacy and not manipulating them and not

472
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Speaker 1: making it easy for them to be manipulated. So it

473
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Speaker 1: doesn't like you can't just put a single person in

474
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Speaker 1: there and change like the molecular structure of the company,

475
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Speaker 1: Like that's just not an organism. They everything about it

476
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Speaker 1: is built to be a successful company that makes money,

477
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: and the way they do that is the opposite of

478
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Speaker 1: what we're asking them to do. So it's not going

479
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: to come from within, Like they would either need to

480
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Speaker 1: be dismantled or you would need to put like a

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Speaker 1: government agency inside the company that like regulates them and

482
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Speaker 1: is like sitting in on their media to be like

483
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: totally unprecedented. Yeah. And the funny thing, like the the

484
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Speaker 1: one thing that she was saying, like based on her

485
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Speaker 1: working there and understanding like seeing like, Oh, their whole

486
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: thing is to know what the funk you want to

487
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 1: see and just keep accelerating your need to keep looking.

488
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: And she's that's where she was like, Yeah, I'm in

489
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: this unique position where I've worked at the CIA, and

490
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: I can tell you Facebook knows fucking way more about

491
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: you than even the CIA does. So that's troubling. Yeah,

492
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: because the CIA knows a lot about me. Yeah, they

493
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: do screen Oh he used to run this really weird tumbler. Yeah,

494
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: a lot of weird, wacky stuff on there. Um, we

495
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: all saw the I mean that's not to say everyone did,

496
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 1: but the people that like even the Lego movie, all

497
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: these things that are about like dystopian sort of futures

498
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 1: and everyone went, okay, just just kind of keep a

499
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: heads up. There were people that were late adopters to

500
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 1: phones and then smartphones, people that were late joining Facebook

501
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: any of those social media platforms to be like, god,

502
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: damn it, all my friends are gone. I mean they're

503
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: going to just live out here in the woods rubbing

504
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: sticks together and never see anyone. I gotta kind of

505
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: join the hive. And if it became like inescapable for us,

506
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: so I felt like, no, no, no, well, we'll all

507
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: kind of monitor each other and like, hey, keep an

508
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: eye out, big brother. Right, we all read that. And

509
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: now it's just so we're so immersed in it's so

510
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: oppressive that we're like, now I'm little brother, and it

511
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: just seems absolutely impossible. Like you're talking about like we

512
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: need someone to come and regulate that will never happen.

513
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: We have no power to do that to in any

514
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: way hold them accountable when there are hundreds of billions

515
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: of dollars. And if you remember when Zuckerberg went up

516
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: to testify in front of Congress, these motherfuckers don't know

517
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 1: what face, they don't know what the funk. This is,

518
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: Like those cos were like my granddaughter got a game

519
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: that's it. I was racist, like, well, you are Steve

520
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: King so but like even then, we're we don't even

521
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: the legislators that are equipped with the idea that the

522
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: conceptually what this is and what the potential is of

523
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: this kind of thing. And that's where we're like, oh

524
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: man and and she in the this CI a former

525
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: CIA person, former Facebook and play even pointed to that.

526
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, I don't even know if Congress is

527
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: fucking equipped even under like conceptually get down to what

528
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: this is. She was like, we we need a targeted

529
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: assassination to take care of the problems like the Jackal compromat.

530
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: Then maybe he shouldn't fly private too much. The thing about, uh,

531
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: do you have friends who have to this day to

532
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: this day? Uh? Not you who are not on Facebook? Uh?

533
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: I have. I have one friend who has avoided my

534
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 1: Space every fucking social media, like the whole He's a ghost.

535
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: He is not fucking available on this ship. And I

536
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: commend him because now I'm it wasn't even like him

537
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: being like, oh, I don't know. He was just sort

538
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: of like, what I gotta do? Sign up? I don't

539
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: even know. I get a fucking picture on my No

540
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: I'm good, and then like now I'm like, this guy's

541
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: got it all figured out. Yeah, but it's funny, like

542
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 1: I feel like there are there are kinds of people

543
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: who were so suspicious that never engaged in it, and

544
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: then people like my my friend who was just too

545
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: lazy and didn't care enough about technology to be interested

546
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: in it until he was trying to use Tinder and

547
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: he's like, you need a Facebook account and he's like,

548
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: fuck it, I'm sure I'm just gonna use okay Cupid.

549
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: Then I don't need it. Good for him, Yeah, I

550
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: like his style. No, I mean, I barely funk with Facebook,

551
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: but I do funk with other social media platforms. It

552
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: does seem like young people make fun of people who

553
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: have Facebook, which is at least a little bit uplifting.

554
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: But they're gonna age into a category. They go, I

555
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: want to see everyone's baby photos. They're gonna merge into

556
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: it where because you see all that stuff like Snapchat

557
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: is such a great thing for the temporary nature of existence,

558
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: Like they're they're living life kind of knowing the previous

559
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,920
Speaker 1: generation was like that was your great grandmother's table, So

560
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: you own that now and you have to keep it

561
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: forever and it means nothing to me. It takes up

562
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: a lot of space. It's been in the family, and

563
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: the younger people are like, oh I had this photo.

564
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: It was the greatest day of my life. It disappeared, Well,

565
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: never see it again. Such as life, what's next, what's

566
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: the next thing? I'm in the present, so potentially that

567
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: could be. I mean, of course, there's still ways to

568
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: data mind all of your stuff and sell your information

569
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: with that, but it's it's a little less like every

570
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: time people sit down and type anything on Facebook, they're saying,

571
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,239
Speaker 1: here's where I am, here's what I like, Here's how

572
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: you can mark it to me that yeah, this never

573
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: goes away, And that's what I've been saying. Snapchat is

574
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,479
Speaker 1: an entire philosophy. It's not just a platform, man, it's

575
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: all about uh. Yeah. It was interesting. I heard an

576
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: interview with Janine Garofalo where she she like still has

577
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: the like mindset of like somebody in the late nineties

578
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: who's like, I don't really funk with computers, but like,

579
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: you know, for like good like reasons that at the

580
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: time might have seemed paranoid, but now but like it

581
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: was just wild because I was like oh, yeah, I

582
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: haven't heard somebody like this since I was like ten

583
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: years old. Like people just like stopped having this concern.

584
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: Everyone was just like, yeah, we joined, Yeah, everything's good now.

585
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: But she was like, yeah, I don't really do computers,

586
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: and like I don't put anything on the internet. And

587
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: I was like, what a loser. But two years in

588
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: retrospect and like, oh, I'm gonna get those likes. For years,

589
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: I didn't have any of the stuff. And I sent

590
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: out a mailing list through my website starting in like

591
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: maybe two thousand seven or eight something like that. And

592
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: then it finally like avalanche where I just I couldn't

593
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: reach out and get in touch with people. They were

594
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: only available through the networks. So I was like, damn,

595
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: you used to be like search them or go to

596
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: their website or something like you might even have someone's

597
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: actual phone number written down. And then so I'm doing

598
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: a bunch of stand up shows coming up, and I

599
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: sent out the mailing list for the first time in

600
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: like two years. It felt fantastic. It was just this

601
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: feeling like that's how I'd love to communicate. Here's what

602
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: I'm up to once a year or so, if you

603
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: want to email me back. Great, But I don't feel

604
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,479
Speaker 1: like it's healthy for humans to have to constantly be like,

605
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm not dead. Here's the thing, I'm still alive. That is,

606
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: I do feel like they're people who post a lot

607
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: a lot on social media. I do feel like that

608
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: comes from an existential place of I'm not dead every

609
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: time they post. Yeah, I exist and I matter, And

610
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: this is the version of me that you will accept. Yes,

611
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,719
Speaker 1: if I look at someone's thing and they have like

612
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: fifty thou tweets, even if I like them, I will

613
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: never follow. You need something that I can't give you.

614
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: It's it's terrifying. Yea, this is coming from a place

615
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: of deep, unnerving need to screaming to the void. Man

616
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: speaking of people with really weird dicks, Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't know.

617
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: I have no idea. If he has a weird dick,

618
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: probably been sued. Jack probably has a gorgeous dick. Leonardo

619
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 1: dick Caprio, Hey, I mean that's I think that's my

620
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: favorite joke that anybody's made on our podcast to this point.

621
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 1: Uh Anyway, Nerds Dick capriod Dick uh has is still

622
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: forced to answer questions about why Jack had to die

623
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,479
Speaker 1: at the end of Titanic, Like, so he's going around

624
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:39,240
Speaker 1: doing press for his upcoming you know, Artsy Quentin Tarantino movie,

625
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: and people are like, so, why didn't you just get

626
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: on the door with Rose? Like you could have fit?

627
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: It was obviously pivoting, like being like and great, what

628
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: was it like to work with Quentin Tarantino? Okay, and

629
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: look I gotta ask, Like everyone's still harping on that

630
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: to the point that like he's really like pissed about

631
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: out it. Like Brad Pitt was with him on during

632
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: this interview and was like, yeah, could you have squeezed

633
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: in there? You could have, right, And Leonardo Kapro was like,

634
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: no comment, and he was like did you mention it

635
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: at the time that, Like Margot Robbie was like, yeah,

636
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 1: did you mention that at the time. To James Cameron,

637
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: he was like like, I said, I have no comment.

638
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: Oh why couldn't the boat just avoid the ice? Right exactly?

639
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: Could have been a chill film. I think that's a

640
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: I think that's the boat point to be honest, the

641
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: whole Like he should have just gotten on the door

642
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: because like it might not have floated, Like, well, that's

643
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: why there's been this is such a hotly contested topic,

644
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,399
Speaker 1: like from people who made fucking diagrams of how they

645
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: both could have fit their bodies on the door, and

646
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: people were like, assuming their weight is this, and this

647
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: is the buoyancy of this would like but what how

648
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 1: do you assume that? So MythBusters did an episode about

649
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: the door where they were like, the way he could

650
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: have done it is to rein force its buoyancy with

651
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 1: a life vest but that requires him to swim, Like well,

652
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: it's like twenty degree water, swim under the door and

653
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: like put a life vest on there. And this is

654
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: a point James Cameron had to make. He was like

655
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: in response to that, he's like, you're talking about the

656
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: MythBusters thing, right, Oh you're talking MythBusters. Well let me

657
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 1: bust this for you. Yeah. Um, so I I agree

658
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: with James Cameron and on this and only this, uh

659
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: to quote Titanic. I mean, look, I think it's just

660
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: one of those things where people were so pissed that

661
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: he didn't have to die or something. But like, look,

662
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: that's why it's a fucking drama. Okay, it's fucking suspended

663
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: for a second to just be like, yeah, maybe he

664
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: fucking had he just died, Okay. James Cameron's like, you,

665
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,399
Speaker 1: guys know I pilot submarines, right, Like you're gonna ask

666
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: me about this. He's like, yeah, I thought about it.

667
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: Oh you want to talk water stuff. Let's talk water stuff.

668
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: I create a new fucking c tech. But you know,

669
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: I think I think more people are pissed about the

670
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 1: necklace being thrown away. I'm just mad about Rose committing adultery,

671
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: right wow, and talks about that. You don't go to

672
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: movies to not see lion Dick and you don't go

673
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: to see acts of adultery. Yeah, I don't want to

674
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: go and watch a nice boat movie and then be

675
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: tempted by infidelity right by the fruit of another you

676
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: know the I mean that was for me. I didn't

677
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: care as much about jack Down was like great whatever,

678
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: Like sure, that's what happens in movies or whatever listens. No,

679
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: it it's the perfect sense. You know, that guy would

680
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: be a shitty husbands like, oh, I'm such a lovable

681
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: rogue drawing pictures of people like yeah, what are your

682
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: what do you? What job are you gonna do with?

683
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: Definitely fucked at least three other women. On during that

684
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: dance sequence in Steerage with all the Irish dancing. But

685
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: you don't know as she blinked her eyes and he

686
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: was sixty nine. The lady, you think yours is the

687
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 1: only handprint on this car window when you fog it up,

688
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,840
Speaker 1: just hands over and all the other cars since serious

689
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: just to have handprints all over. So much heat was

690
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: coming off their genitals. They just fugged the whole thing up.

691
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: I mean, that guy was he was getting it in.

692
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: There's there's no way he wasn't. I also feel like

693
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: feeling like if they got off, like, hey, she still

694
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: would have been with cal right Billy Zane, like technically,

695
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: because didn't she say like she was still with him

696
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: until he like, well she shoot her, shoot her? Yeah,

697
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: but she at the end she just pretends that she

698
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: died and starts a completely new that's right, And then

699
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: she just heard tell of Cow's uh like fate where

700
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: he like shot himself after the market crashed in twenty

701
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: nine or something. Yes, I believe that's correct. I mean

702
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: I would have liked if she gave Cow some weird

703
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: like steerage std from you know Jack, like next thing

704
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: you know he's got like you know, lice and and

705
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: all the crabs and stuff from hanging out down there

706
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: with all those people. Yeah yeah, I feel like, but

707
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: then if they Jack and Rose are together living a

708
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: secret life, are they mad stressed? Because he's like, yo, dude,

709
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: like I'm kind of paranoid because you're faked your own death.

710
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: You got that wild ass necklace that's worth a lot

711
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: of money, Like I'm wanted, like in France, I was

712
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: drawing all those French girls, which is a euphemism, and

713
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: also like can I tell you more stories about me

714
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: and Fabrizio? She was a chill dude. There's no way

715
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 1: that that necklace would have gone unsold, unpawned. If if

716
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: Jack had made it, he would have pawned that ship quick,

717
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: all right. He gets like a bad like like heroin addiction.

718
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: He would have had gambling debts for sure. Yeah yeah,

719
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: oh man, see that's what that's the universe. You need

720
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: to explore what happens if they get off the boat.

721
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: She says, the necklace is Jack Dawson a good dude, right,

722
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 1: It's also kind of fucked up for her husband because

723
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: like she has grandkids and stuff, and then she dies

724
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: and goes to Heaven and the at the end of

725
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: the movie and Jack is there. She goes to Heaven

726
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: in the movie. Yeah, I mean she dies and like

727
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: arrives and it's the ballroom full of Titanic passengers. Oh ship,

728
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: that does happen. Yeah, that does happen at the end.

729
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm so But that means that like her husband, kids,

730
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: grandkids are all like, yo, where is she? What's just

731
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: supposed to be here? And she's just like off on

732
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: the Titanic homie, y'all don't know, hadn't been getting it

733
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: in in Heaven at the whole time. Man. Oh, she

734
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: walks in on him in steerage, like I should have

735
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: sold that necklace and started a nonprofit. Uh. And in

736
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: stear when she walks in on him in steerage, she's

737
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: just sitting back in the car with noise canceling headphones

738
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:55,840
Speaker 1: on daping. DiCaprio actually has sex allegedly that should be

739
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: how Jack Fox then yes, and like in the Heaven sequence,

740
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: he's got air pods in vaping hardcore and like, just

741
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: do your thing, girl, not air pods, bro. No, he's

742
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: canceling headphones so that he can't he can just totally uh,

743
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: zone out, that's right. Listening to Mt. Electric Field. My

744
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: friend was driving people to you know, he went to

745
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: Coachella and he was like watching the concert and he

746
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: looked over and he sees this like he was sort

747
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: of like this very attractive woman sort of caught his

748
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: eye and then he looked over and he's like, why

749
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: is she making out with that really gross, like fat,

750
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: just disheveled looking dude. And he's looking and he realized

751
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: it's Leonardo DiCaprio, and like at a certain point, apparently

752
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: like Leonardo DiCaprio like left and the girl was like

753
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: still like dancing, like waiting for him to come back.

754
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, how is that. I was there

755
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: for like two hours and she was still in the

756
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: same spot. I was like waiting for Leo to come back,

757
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: and she probably would have dancing by herself there all day.

758
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: He went little did she know? He went to steerage.

759
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: When you coach Ella is the Doo Lab? Yeah, I

760
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: don't even know what that is. Joke for the homies.

761
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: I pretended like I got it, but I didn't. Yeah,

762
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: the real plot hole, like you said, our writer Jan

763
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: was pointing out that she really did not have to

764
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: throw that, like, well, how much did they say it

765
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: was worth? The diamond it was like the rarest diamond

766
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: on earth basically to that hundreds of millions of dollars,

767
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: and she like threw it out for romantic reasons, like

768
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: as opposed to just like selling it and feeding a

769
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: village for the rest of time for kids are like

770
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: I had to take out student loans. Hell, yeah, there

771
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: is if you actually search how much was the Heart

772
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: of the Ocean worth? It? Says the very famous jeweler

773
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: Harry Winston, known for having owned the Hope diamond uh

774
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: and many other diamonds, made his own take on the

775
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 1: Heart of the Ocean diamond using a real blue diamond

776
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: fIF carrot. This piece is worth ten times as much

777
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: as the previous example valued at twenty million. So I

778
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: guess twenty times as much as the previous which was

779
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: ten million as the previous example. What does that? Does

780
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: that mean the real hard look ship was worth a

781
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: lot rose You could have done something with it. It's

782
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to find defense. It's like, yeah, we

783
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 1: need someone who has two hundred million dollars to flow

784
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: on a rock. Point. Very good point. Huh, Well, I

785
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: don't know if I have a buyer for that. Look,

786
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take another quick break. We'll be

787
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: right back, and we're back. All right, let's talk about

788
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: Sylvester Stallone. Yeah, you know, I got right Racey. You

789
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: knows they can say, don't I got rights. I don't

790
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: think I could do anything. You can say the hell

791
00:43:55,400 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: out of that phrase. He wants to reboot Rocky somehow

792
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: he did that right, Like Creed was a great movie,

793
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: and you know Creed two. I haven't seen, but Creed

794
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,839
Speaker 1: two Electric Boogleloo. Yeah, it's pretty good. Years the last

795
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: thing we saw. Yeah, he's seventy three. There's no way that.

796
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, the point of a Rocky movie is that

797
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: Rocky fights at the end of the Rocky movie. Yeah,

798
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: but now he's fighting against osteoporosis, and so that'll be

799
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 1: really out of calcium. Yeah, I mean so in this one.

800
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: Uh they said so. He didn't interview with interview recently

801
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: where he talked about a lot of things, but when

802
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: they talked about a sequel, Stallone says there's a good

803
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: chance that Rocky may ride again. He then goes on

804
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: to divulge the plot of the sequel, which involves now

805
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: get this ship, Rocky quote befriending a young street fighter

806
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: living in the US illegally, Rocky means a young angry person.

807
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 1: When he comes to see you, sister, he takes him

808
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: into his living an unbelievable adventure begins and they wind

809
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: up south of the border. It's very, very timely. What

810
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 1: the fuck is this? I mean, White fight Savior fucking

811
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: what the seventy three year old Rocky is like running

812
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: around on like border crossing adventures? Immigration advocate? Yeah, yeah,

813
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: I know, he looks amazing, right does he look? I mean,

814
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: if you pump yourself up with enough H G H

815
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: or whatever the funk else like a melting novelty camp.

816
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I'm sure. I mean I can only

817
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: guess he's like, yeah, you know, it's gonna be Mexican,

818
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he has so he had the

819
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: perfect mind for the eighties, because like so, the idea

820
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: of Rocky going to Russia to win the Cold War

821
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: was just the right amount of cheesiness for the eighties.

822
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: But right now, like it's like two on the notes aggressive,

823
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: It's just it doesn't it doesn't work for the modern world. Yeah,

824
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna go to Mexico and fight the mafia.

825
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: Yeah out, like what the means what it will bring

826
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: it in the stuff? You know you're gonna fight him,

827
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: Like Okay. The other thing is, though he wants to

828
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: do a TV prequel series, this guy is trying to

829
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: bite the whole fucking apple. And but this is where

830
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: he was like, I bet I can't do that because

831
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: a he doesn't even own the intellectual property rights to

832
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: anything having to do with Rocky. He was fucking hoodwinked

833
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: out of his IP rights to Rocky. He fucking he

834
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: created Rocky right, the fucking writer of it. It's a

835
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:46,959
Speaker 1: pretty common thing actually, yeah, yeah, he wrote it when

836
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: he was a nobody in Hollywood and like right sold

837
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: it to the studio. Like the studio didn't even want

838
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: him to be the person in it, and he like

839
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 1: had to basically put his foot down and be like, look,

840
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: you can have the intellectual property. Just let me just

841
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: let me fight, you know, let me look. But I think, yeah,

842
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: I think the producer who does have the rights are own.

843
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: Winkler like has a good relationship with Sylvester Stalone. So

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Speaker 1: he's the one who's always been like okay, like yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's do another one. Maybe not this pretty cool thing,

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Speaker 1: but also you know, I'm like I got old guy

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Speaker 1: meeting a young angry kid fighter is also creede. Right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like mean this time, yes, hear to come out

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Speaker 1: and see the movies. Uh. Rocky is also based on like,

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Speaker 1: so Stallone went and saw this fight where a guy

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Speaker 1: named Chuck Webner basically like made it to the last

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Speaker 1: round with Muhammad Ali, and so Rocky is essentially a

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Speaker 1: true story. And Sylvester Stalone just like never gave this

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Speaker 1: guy credit, and like at first he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's based on Chuck Wepner, and then people who are like,

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Speaker 1: that's not and he's like, it's not based on anyone.

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Speaker 1: It's Rocky. Uh so yeah, kind of fucked up Chuck

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Speaker 1: Weapner like signs uh boxing gloves and like a you know,

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Speaker 1: one bedroom house for living these days. Oh man, really

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Speaker 1: one bedroom house sounds pretty nice. Yeah, it's actually beautiful.

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Speaker 1: It's like a Santa Monica bungalow. It's really it's like

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Speaker 1: on one of those streets right off ocean that's like

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Speaker 1: kind of those preserved areas. Right, all right, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and

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Speaker 1: review the show. If you like the show, uh means

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Speaker 1: the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I

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Speaker 1: hope you're having a great weekend and I will talk

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Speaker 1: to him Monday. By S.