Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Geist Almighty.
Speaker 1: That's courtesy of Hugo Bossk.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know about that? Do I know about Hugo Bosk? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know who Bosque is? I don't trand Ocean bounty Hunter.
Speaker 2: Oh man, your son would know.
Speaker 1: You so embarrassed that I didn't, fuck dad. We actually
Speaker 1: just got a book of like every Star Wars character,
Speaker 1: and I have to say I am impressed with George Lee.
Speaker 1: I guess this is a known thing that George Lucas
Speaker 1: is the best at, like coming up with fake names.
Speaker 2: But man, he.
Speaker 1: Really denar come really killing it. Man.
Speaker 2: What's one you? What's one that jumped out at you?
Speaker 1: I mean I had heard the words salacious crumb before,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I knew that it was a
Speaker 1: Star Wars character. I thought it was just like a
Speaker 1: fucking cookie or something.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's like the rat god.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and job is BArch But yeah, there's some there's
Speaker 1: some good ones.
Speaker 2: It's like two hundred and forty eight characters.
Speaker 1: And my son's like, what does this say? And then
Speaker 1: I have to turn around while driving and read.
Speaker 3: You're like, uh, this is salacious crumb. He's a gesture
Speaker 3: in the court of crime. Lord Jaba Desgic to you,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We're doing.
Speaker 1: We're going deep in the Star Wars cannon canon. I
Speaker 1: am Jack. That is Miles Bray. These are some things.
Speaker 2: That are trending.
Speaker 1: Great to be here, it's great, great to have you, Miles,
Speaker 1: thanks much. Gen Z is letting the millennials know not
Speaker 1: to wear skinny jeans anymore, as our girlfriends are letting
Speaker 1: their boyfriends know, or just removing their boyfriend's skinny jeans
Speaker 1: from their closet because.
Speaker 2: Men are cool videos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then make the cool videos like POV you
Speaker 1: threw away all your boyfriend's skinny.
Speaker 3: Gee, you threw away all your boyfriend's clothes and he's
Speaker 3: nude in the street every shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, this is like a thing that's been
Speaker 2: happening for a while.
Speaker 3: Like gen Z has been saying, skinny jeans are fucking
Speaker 3: whack shit, like why y'all wearing them? But it's funny
Speaker 3: now because it's like that battle has now is beginning
Speaker 3: to manifest now, like millennials saying.
Speaker 2: Like I got rid of my skinny jeans? What's up?
Speaker 3: It's like a lot of dudes or like me after
Speaker 3: I got rid of my skinny jeans and they're all
Speaker 3: playing the same like Lona del Ray song Underneath. But
Speaker 3: I just love like some of the comments on some
Speaker 3: of the other videos are like people asking for gen
Speaker 3: z insight on their own jeans, like if their jeans
Speaker 3: are too baggy, if they are are too skinny, what
Speaker 3: is considered skinny? Are they washed or are they with
Speaker 3: the times? But yeah, the greatest, the greatest relationship on
Speaker 3: the Internet continues between millennials and gen Z.
Speaker 1: Miles, what you just said was so tight tight like
Speaker 1: skinny jeans. Sorry, my internet fro so, I have no
Speaker 1: idea what you just said, but I heard like little
Speaker 1: bits of it and it was it was dope.
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm saying nothing. We've talked about constantly about
Speaker 3: skinny gene. But also I said a shout out to
Speaker 3: the greatest love affair on the Internet between millennials and
Speaker 3: gen Z, Like where gen Z?
Speaker 2: You're kind of like, now, what the fuck are y'all doing?
Speaker 3: Y'all millennials doing it like millennials and never like shut
Speaker 3: the fuck up, you suck, like you know a past
Speaker 3: generation might were like.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, oh, like am I bad. Okay, we do suck?
Speaker 1: Can you help me not suck? Are these okay? Are
Speaker 1: these okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And like it's and credit to gen Z because they
Speaker 3: embrace it too, like because they post videos they're like, look,
Speaker 3: let me help y'all skinny jean wearing motherfuckers out. Here's
Speaker 3: some here's some ways to look modern like you're in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three. Luckily for me, I could never fit
Speaker 3: into skinny jeans. Any jeens that have appeared skinny were
Speaker 3: purely because of my plumpers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the baggy, baggy up top or what you have,
Speaker 1: just plumpers top end.
Speaker 2: All the way through the thigh to the calf.
Speaker 3: Man, It's yeah, no, light's getting through there. That's why
Speaker 3: I'm wearing big cargo pants now. It's like I'm I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm in daddy mode. I'm like, fuck, yeah, bro, bring
Speaker 3: these baggy ass cargoes into my life. Yeah, because it's
Speaker 3: nice to put a phone in your pocket and not
Speaker 3: feel like it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, look at that. You're you're you're learning, You're
Speaker 1: you're evolving.
Speaker 2: He's learning, he's becoming sentient.
Speaker 1: I'm still not comfortable unless you can see the outline
Speaker 1: of my underwear through my jeans.
Speaker 2: That's I know it. It's that's yeah, it's important to me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, those.
Speaker 3: Boxers look really bunched uff on one side, it's funny
Speaker 3: to know exactly not just that I have change in
Speaker 3: my pocket, but how much changed exactly I have in
Speaker 3: my pocket.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's a The videos are funny. They're like
Speaker 1: POV your boyfriend after you threw out his skinny jeans
Speaker 1: and then he's just wearing all these like baggy pants,
Speaker 1: but they're playing like Lana del Rey over it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's good. It's your love, it, it's your
Speaker 2: wonderful life together.
Speaker 1: And then it starts out with a picture of him
Speaker 1: in skinny jeans, just like looking like an unwashed piece
Speaker 1: of shit, this asshole.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Anyways, before you leave your husband or break up with
Speaker 1: your significant other, try throwing out their skinny jeans first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just cut them to pieces and say maybe this will
Speaker 1: savage things. I would say, do that before going to
Speaker 1: a couple's therapy, Yes, oh for sure, couple. Yeah, your
Speaker 1: couples therapists is probably going to tell you the same
Speaker 1: thing you just told you.
Speaker 3: Why you guys, here, hold on before I even ask
Speaker 3: you why you guys here have you thrown out of
Speaker 3: skinny jeans?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, I would then I'm you know what I'm going
Speaker 3: to do your solid I'm not going to charge you
Speaker 3: for this fifteen minutes so far. Just go back and
Speaker 3: do that and then come back after that. That's the
Speaker 3: pauge chief.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: The NAACP has issued a travel advisory for people traveling
Speaker 1: to Florida, warning that the state is quote openly hostile
Speaker 1: towards African Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ plus individuals.
Speaker 1: Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of
Speaker 1: Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of and the challenge
Speaker 1: is faced by African Americans and other communities of color.
Speaker 3: Wow, you got a hot take there, right, pretty apt
Speaker 3: to descriptions, just like when those countries are like, don't
Speaker 3: go to America. Man on the I'm like, yeah, you
Speaker 3: know your part, that's about right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh man, what a sad state of things is. I'm
Speaker 3: sure Ron DeSantis is a is he school power about it?
Speaker 1: He said, what a joke? Yeah, we will see how
Speaker 1: effective that is.
Speaker 2: Holy shitch. So weird. It's like a weird how effective
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 1: Doesn't this like technically mean that he's saying, you can't
Speaker 1: stop me with your like puny travel advisory.
Speaker 2: Gone by it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he's saying. Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 3: That ain't gonna stop me from being on my all
Speaker 3: my fascist shit. Yeah wow, what are the or it's
Speaker 3: just like or he thinks in such rigid business terms
Speaker 3: that he's like, oh, what do they think they can do?
Speaker 3: People not gonna come to Florida, right ha, because guess
Speaker 3: what for all the people that read that. Some people
Speaker 3: got excited by what you just read, right, so they
Speaker 3: will offset those.
Speaker 2: Who do not come. But I mean it, Yeah, I
Speaker 2: get why you would say that.
Speaker 3: But I can also see why Ronda Santis as craven
Speaker 3: as he is, would be like, yeah, what a joke.
Speaker 1: One of the NAACP reps who actually lives in Miami
Speaker 1: put it bluntly. We are cautioning people when they come here,
Speaker 1: you're going to experience what we are experiencing. Anytime there
Speaker 1: are policies that are going to be put in place
Speaker 1: that are going to impact and disrupt the quality of
Speaker 1: life of black people and all people of color. We
Speaker 1: take that very seriously, and Rhonda Santis screamed, what a joke.
Speaker 2: We'll see how effective that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, and you better not say racism because I'll
Speaker 3: throw you in jail because I just signed a new
Speaker 3: law that said racism is a hate crime word.
Speaker 2: Right, So we're headed the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, oh my god, dark turn for fans of
Speaker 1: the LA Lakers and the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's true. It's true.
Speaker 1: Both franchises are down three to zero and when seven
Speaker 1: game series, no team has ever come back from being
Speaker 1: three to zero down?
Speaker 2: Is that in the history of sports or in basketball?
Speaker 2: I think it's just basketball.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I feel like hockey, there's always like you know,
Speaker 1: a goalie will suddenly get hot or something right, and
Speaker 1: then it just turns off.
Speaker 2: Get's scoring from there as a.
Speaker 1: Goalie or just like being able to Like, isn't that
Speaker 1: a thing that happens in NHL playoffs? Were like suddenly
Speaker 1: just like one goalie, like who wasn't that great all
Speaker 1: season just suddenly turns just becomes impenetrable wall. Yeah, impenetrable wall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: suddenly that means the best.
Speaker 3: I don't know why saying that because that was the
Speaker 3: fucking Kings did that?
Speaker 2: Yeah didn't they? Zero three?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. The Lakers games have been close,
Speaker 1: and they're painful.
Speaker 3: Man, they're painful because we're doing tired, My god, fucking hurt.
Speaker 2: He looks mortal. That's what's so hard to watch. It
Speaker 2: is like he looks like a regular guy out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he doesn't look like Lebron James. But I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2: It is what it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've were it's hard because we're playing at
Speaker 3: our best, like we're doing as best as we can,
Speaker 3: but it's clear just not good enough to overcome them.
Speaker 3: Like the Nuggets are just a step above and there's
Speaker 3: nothing we can do about it.
Speaker 2: So I can make love that incredible.
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray uh Man truly the Yeah Lakers fans, he
Speaker 1: has entered the nightmares of Lakers fans for all years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nightmare fuel.
Speaker 3: And then like you know, but then you look over
Speaker 3: there on the East Coast, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Bukat, the
Speaker 3: buckets are coming, and the Celtics fans are the team.
Speaker 2: I don't know the team looks like they've given up,
Speaker 2: I think is which.
Speaker 1: Is weird because they are the more talented team. This
Speaker 1: was as big a favorite as any team has been
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference Finals or any conference finals.
Speaker 2: The Celtics were huge favorites.
Speaker 1: They were favored, so they lost the first two games
Speaker 1: in Boston, came to Miami, and the Celtics were favored
Speaker 1: again by Vegas, like they were four and a half
Speaker 1: point favorites, like not an insignificant amount of points after
Speaker 1: going down to oh at home, and then they got
Speaker 1: just beat by like thirty points.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I just love that the Lakers Celtics, right, Like,
Speaker 3: it's funny how it's manifesting with fans too, because like
Speaker 3: you know, obviously we're both getting joy out of watching
Speaker 3: our respective decline, but then at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: we're like, hold on, y'all, everyone expects you to be
Speaker 3: in the finals. Yeah, we started the year off from
Speaker 3: the literal gutter two for the Lakers, one celled organism.
Speaker 3: But again, I think it is what it is. I
Speaker 3: just but also like in true like Laker legend form,
Speaker 3: Magic Johnson is like fucking concern trolling, like the Celtics
Speaker 3: fans he said in my forty four years of being
Speaker 3: associated with the NBA, like whoa, whoa, whoa, you are
Speaker 3: really setting the weight up for this. I never thought
Speaker 3: i'd see a Boston Celtics team, a franchise with seventeen
Speaker 3: championships quit. I know Celtics fans all over the world
Speaker 3: must be disgusted and devastated. The Miami Heat blew them
Speaker 3: out one, one, o two in Game three. It's like,
Speaker 3: thank you for them, just that very like straightforward description.
Speaker 1: I know he is more people who aren't familiar with
Speaker 1: his Twitter person Ona Magic Johnson is the most bland
Speaker 1: and obvious, like captain obvious motherfucker who was ever tweeted.
Speaker 1: He'll just say he'll like recap a game that just
Speaker 1: ended after everybody or like you know, all fring their
Speaker 1: third level fourth level backlash to the backlash take. He's like,
Speaker 1: the Celtics dropped one in a you know in a
Speaker 1: big loss for them, but it was all in build
Speaker 1: up to him just killing the Celtics with a concern
Speaker 1: trolling tweet that was this one.
Speaker 3: Denver's defense has taken Laker guards Shroud and Russell completely
Speaker 3: out of their games.
Speaker 2: Thank you you.
Speaker 1: And they gave him a talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, I remember that I was watching
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like, he's so nice, so he'll probably be
Speaker 1: entertaining as a late night talk show.
Speaker 2: He in fact was not. He was not. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and uber is trending after the head
Speaker 1: of diversity equity Initiative at uber is I think being
Speaker 1: placed on leave for some meetings, some like company wide
Speaker 1: diversity training meetings called don't call Me Karen about like
Speaker 1: how we people need to like stop calling white women
Speaker 1: Karen and like start thinking about their feelings.
Speaker 3: So in an era of diversity equity inclusion where your
Speaker 3: companies are trying to, you know, figure out how to
Speaker 3: do shit right, one of the talks here it's even
Speaker 3: described as like, yeah, like there's gonna be open and
Speaker 3: honest conversation about race, and like there were white speakers talking,
Speaker 3: I guess to people like don't call me Karen, diving
Speaker 3: into the spectrum of the American white women's experience as
Speaker 3: well as the quote Karen persona. And I think a
Speaker 3: lot of the people, like namely a lot of black
Speaker 3: employees or other like employees of color.
Speaker 2: Were like, what the fuck it?
Speaker 3: Like, why are we centering like the pain of someone
Speaker 3: who is called a Karen as part of our like
Speaker 3: understanding of better diversity equity or inclusion. Okay, uh yeah,
Speaker 3: they said it was offensive triggering them. These conversations were triggering. Apparently,
Speaker 3: the like the head of diversity equity inclusion was saying
Speaker 3: kind of clap back with a sort of a spicy reply, saying, quote,
Speaker 3: sometimes being pushed out of your own strategic ignorance is
Speaker 3: the right thing to do.
Speaker 1: Interesting, So who is being strategically ignorant here?
Speaker 3: I don't know. This is the thing that's so wild.
Speaker 3: Like DEI efforts, like at companies just they fall flat.
Speaker 3: Because if you're especially like when you're putting people from
Speaker 3: within the company, like in those roles who like might
Speaker 3: already have a vested interest to like not rock the
Speaker 3: boat too much, shit falls flat. And I don't know
Speaker 3: who if, like the DEI person was put up to
Speaker 3: do this or that through osmosis that they begin to
Speaker 3: feel empathy.
Speaker 2: And we're like, we need to both sides this conversation.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm just getting constant feedback from the c suite
Speaker 1: at Uber, like yes, is notoriously like a pretty problematic company.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you know they're they're not They're not so
Speaker 3: much for about equity for their fucking drivers.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's a bit of a roadblock.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know why putting this DEI officer
Speaker 3: on leave is like unless they're like, oh, they completely
Speaker 3: went like rogue on us, did that? Or if they've
Speaker 3: just set up a woman of color who's in the
Speaker 3: DEI position to just be the fall person or their
Speaker 3: terrible like C suite man like guided DEI discussions. It's
Speaker 3: very it's hard to know without the full picture, but
Speaker 3: I will say I'm not surprised that a gigantic company
Speaker 3: just is falling short with the kinds of things they
Speaker 3: think are nuanced conversations are really eye opening conversations about race.
Speaker 1: There's been a breakthrough deal to keep the Colorado River
Speaker 1: from going dry, but it just seems like it's like,
Speaker 1: don't give California, Nevada, and Arizona as much water. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, this seems like a deal that will
Speaker 1: have consequences for people and they're lives, So I don't
Speaker 1: know it's being covered as like they figured it out
Speaker 1: but I think I think the thing they figured out
Speaker 1: is going to be like people use less water, so yeah,
Speaker 1: or I.
Speaker 3: Mean, is it gonna actually like like is it for
Speaker 3: agriculture because maybe people don't use that much water agriculture
Speaker 3: using yeah.
Speaker 1: Uses like fucking water park worth of water every two seconds,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, so they've just.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Okay, I'm like, so that's like the
Speaker 3: most frightening thing for me to think of as a Californian,
Speaker 3: because that's the Colorado River is like always front of mind,
Speaker 3: and when you drive by any of like the lakes
Speaker 3: that like serve as like reservoirs, you're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh fuck, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Even in La now, like after all this rain and
Speaker 1: you know, it's they're like all these wildflower blooms and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I was driving around I think of the valley
Speaker 1: this weekend and I look and there was this big
Speaker 1: like field that was green, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a golf course. I'm sure enough like that that's
Speaker 1: those are the only places that have enough water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the golf courses. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I look at the I look at the hills, and
Speaker 3: I go, that's all turning into fuel. Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 3: it's such a double edged sword. You look at it,
Speaker 3: because usually are we don't get enough rain in the
Speaker 3: winter for like our hills to have any kind of
Speaker 3: green on it.
Speaker 2: And now they are fucking green.
Speaker 3: And again, in the back of my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 3: then it durns to brush and then it becomes the
Speaker 3: fire fuel. But yeah, again, this is this is the
Speaker 3: world we're in. Uh So those those anxieties do not
Speaker 3: go away. I mean, I'm going to assume that some
Speaker 3: of the you know, reservations that are also counting on
Speaker 3: like water from here are also probably.
Speaker 2: Going to get a fucked deal. But I'll have to
Speaker 2: look further. But wow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Agreement announced Monde calls for the federal government to pay
Speaker 1: about one point two billion dollars to irrigation district, cities
Speaker 1: and Native American tribes in the three states if they
Speaker 1: temporarily use less water.
Speaker 3: Okay, most of this cuts two point three million acre
Speaker 3: feet would come from water districts, farm operators, cities, and
Speaker 3: Native American tribes that agreed to take less.
Speaker 2: Water in order to qualify for the grants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're just being like, hey man, what if
Speaker 3: I paid you to not need water exactly.
Speaker 1: Truly, seems like that's the plank. Do we got a deal? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about what?
Speaker 3: I don't know, buy it with the money we're giving
Speaker 3: you what We'll make it go right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I hope it works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody with some expertise please hit me up tell
Speaker 3: me if this is good or bad before I read
Speaker 3: into it too much and I'm like, nothing's working.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Those are some things that are trending on this Monday
Speaker 1: May twenty second. We are back tomorrow with the whole
Speaker 1: last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to
Speaker 1: each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't
Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy.
Speaker 2: And we will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye