Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles. We
Speaker 1: are thrilled to be joined in our third seat, yes
Speaker 1: by someone who it feels very embarrassing to be doing
Speaker 1: our akas in front of. They are the president and
Speaker 1: CEO of Democracy Forward, who recently testified on Capitol Hill
Speaker 1: about the extremist ideas pushed by Project twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which must
Speaker 1: have felt like a nice warm up for this momentous podcast. Apparent,
Speaker 1: Please welcome sky partner.
Speaker 2: Guy, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the main event.
Speaker 3: Scoy, great to be here.
Speaker 1: Oh, thanks so much for joining us. How do we
Speaker 1: compare so far to the to the House Oversight and Accountability.
Speaker 4: Well, you know that you know that that hearing the
Speaker 4: Republicans called it, and I don't think they realized it,
Speaker 4: but every witness they invited either authored or sponsored Project
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, and so so it was a it
Speaker 4: was a very interesting, It was very interesting hearing, and
Speaker 4: it's going to be interesting to be here with you guys,
Speaker 4: But neither of you I think authored or sponsored Project
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five, So we're already ahead.
Speaker 2: Nothing that I'm putting my name on. Yeah, right, was
Speaker 2: this hearing sort of put together to try and like
Speaker 2: assuage people's fears, like they're kind of no.
Speaker 4: They all together a hearing that they called the quote
Speaker 4: unquote legacy of incompetence and of the Biden administration. That
Speaker 4: was the so called purpose of this hearing, and the
Speaker 4: four witnesses that they got, all of whom ended up
Speaker 4: having a deep connection to Project twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 4: of course I was there to talk about the real
Speaker 4: threats that we have to our democracy.
Speaker 3: Project twenty twenty five is.
Speaker 4: Included in that, and the fact that many of the
Speaker 4: things that Biden Harris administration have done for people in
Speaker 4: communities have been stalled or blocked in the courts or
Speaker 4: in other places by these same groups behind Project twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five. But right, it was a very interesting day.
Speaker 4: So I'm just I'm just glad to be here with
Speaker 4: people that are not authors of Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we're hard to find it.
Speaker 3: Apparently it was hard for the committee to find it, right.
Speaker 1: Just the one person. All right, well, Scott, we are
Speaker 1: going to start digging into Project twenty twenty five p.
Speaker 1: Two five, let's call it, so we have to keep
Speaker 1: saying that the syllable sounds cooler. Just let's just all
Speaker 1: figure it out for ourselves what we want to call it.
Speaker 1: But before we do that, we do like to get
Speaker 1: to know our guest a little bit better. Great asking you,
Speaker 1: what is something from your search history that's revealing about
Speaker 1: who you are?
Speaker 3: My search history, Well, I'm taking this from an airport
Speaker 3: and I was actually just searching the quickest place I
Speaker 3: could get a very quick diet coke here in the airport.
Speaker 3: So that both tells.
Speaker 4: You that I appreciate diet coke.
Speaker 3: I know this is a kool Aid sponsored podcast, so
Speaker 3: I like too. I like cool Ai too. But it
Speaker 3: shows you that, and it shows you that you know,
Speaker 3: I don't I don't. I don't do PEPSI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't talk with diapepsy. You sit down to a
Speaker 1: table at a restaurant, they say you you order a
Speaker 1: die coke and they say is diepepsi? Okay?
Speaker 3: And I say iced tea please.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, You're like, I don't like it that much, right, right.
Speaker 4: I think I'm They're probably lovely people and a great
Speaker 4: company or something.
Speaker 3: But I'm a Dike.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, PEPSI definitely.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm trying. No, we don't we don't need
Speaker 3: to make we don't need.
Speaker 1: To you know, make right exactly. We're pretty loose about that.
Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, I I I'm a staunched Dike coke guy.
Speaker 1: I have as I've become less habitual in my diet
Speaker 1: coke consumption.
Speaker 3: Which is good. That's that's good.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a big positive for me and my lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I will say I've now will have a diapepsia every
Speaker 1: once in a while and be fine with it because
Speaker 1: I'm just not getting that every day, all.
Speaker 3: The chemicals every day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly. I thought I would become more sensitive
Speaker 1: and be like, only the finest for me, but I
Speaker 1: think it's more like, yeah, I just pour it down
Speaker 1: my throat. I don't care.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's I'm glad that that. That's admirable that
Speaker 4: you're drinking less diet coke. And I've actually been trying
Speaker 4: to limit my consumption too. Which is why the search
Speaker 4: is retells you.
Speaker 5: I'm failing.
Speaker 2: That's right, right, right, like fastest version now immediately with haste.
Speaker 2: I'm curiou as somebody who you know, you're testifying on
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill. You're looking at all the imaginations of you know, this,
Speaker 2: this think tank, the Heritage Foundation, and how they're trying
Speaker 2: to just put the country backwards. I know that you
Speaker 2: must have also had your eye on this trend that's
Speaker 2: on the internet about marinating diet cokes, and I was
Speaker 2: curious about what your thoughts were on that.
Speaker 4: I don't you know what, I'm not called to testify
Speaker 4: on that, so yeah, oh got it.
Speaker 2: But have you heard about this? There's like a thing
Speaker 2: we were covering where people insisted that of a coke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but the concept being that if a diet
Speaker 2: coke is in the refrigerator for like, let's say five days,
Speaker 2: that's the optimal I guess temperature for them taste the best.
Speaker 1: Or do you always like diet coke molecules aligned?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I am a I am a fountain diet coke person. Oh,
Speaker 4: I like a diet coke out of the fountain, which
Speaker 4: is why when I'm in an airport. There's an opportunity
Speaker 4: because they Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: You're a connoisseur.
Speaker 3: Now I could have just been this. Yeah, diet coke
Speaker 3: influences he here.
Speaker 2: Like it's only fountain, You don't you won't have it
Speaker 2: any other way?
Speaker 4: No, I mean I will drink it from a can,
Speaker 4: but I really prefer I think the fountain is good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's something about the plastic twenty ounce bottles that
Speaker 1: for some reason, like by the uh, make sure the
Speaker 1: coke is marinated five days in the refrigerator logic that
Speaker 1: like plastic bottles make it taste warm to me, you
Speaker 1: make it taste bad to me for some reason. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's because it takes me too long
Speaker 1: to drink it, Like it takes me a whole thirty
Speaker 1: seconds to drink it instead of like fifteen, so it
Speaker 1: warms up a little bit. But there's something that even
Speaker 1: though I'm sure the same chemical concoction is being poured
Speaker 1: into the plastic bottle that's being poured into the can, specifically,
Speaker 1: the mini can really hits hard for me. I do.
Speaker 1: I do love a fountain as well, but fountain of
Speaker 1: always variable.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go, that was a good question.
Speaker 3: I love it. I'm going to ask the scene that
Speaker 3: what about your search history? That's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes it could be a little tricky, I'm sure
Speaker 1: an employee, because that's invasive, what your search history is? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you don't know, that's a mistake with coworkers, fine,
Speaker 1: uh huh. And then instead of just interacting with them
Speaker 1: in any way, you just have a notebook and go
Speaker 1: uh huh and make little like notations. What are you
Speaker 1: writing down there? Nothing? Nothing, No, it's just real. That
Speaker 1: is real interesting. Franchiseco. What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 5: I was at a show, a stand up show the
Speaker 5: other night, and a comic made reference to Chuck E
Speaker 5: Cheese because they have kids, and nobody in the audience
Speaker 5: had kids, because they were all like young and whatever
Speaker 5: and like and and I want to tell you, guys,
Speaker 5: Chuck E Cheese is underrated. Chucky Cheese is great, CHUCKI
Speaker 5: Kees is wonderful. Yeah, I'm glad it still exists. There
Speaker 5: need to be more places for kids. Obviously we've destroyed
Speaker 5: all toy stores. It is, as you know. One of
Speaker 5: the comics said, it's like a casino for children, and
Speaker 5: there's a jump part and it's adorable and it's like
Speaker 5: fairly affordable. It's air condition Yeah, Chuck E Cheese is
Speaker 5: really terrifying, the sort of animatronic dude that comes out
Speaker 5: if you get if you do get one, but like
Speaker 5: it's great. Yes, there's germs everywhere, but like you need
Speaker 5: a place where they can just you know, where a
Speaker 5: kid can be a kid, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: which I think is their logo, their slogan, or it
Speaker 5: used to be. I don't know what it is now,
Speaker 5: but Chuck Entertainment Cheese is a good spot and I
Speaker 5: and I support it. I feel like it's like the
Speaker 5: working man's like Charmed Kids Playhouse that costs two thousand
Speaker 5: dollars to rent, you.
Speaker 1: Know, right if you put the full name on people,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Charles Entertainment, Yeah, I mean it is
Speaker 1: the legal name.
Speaker 2: Do you remember like the ones that were kind of
Speaker 2: trying to be like Chuck E Cheese, Like Pistol.
Speaker 1: You ever go to Pistol Pets Pizza? No, that's coming.
Speaker 5: Where was that, Philly?
Speaker 1: There was no.
Speaker 2: There was one in the valley I remember going to
Speaker 2: and it was just kind of like one of those
Speaker 2: it's like we got a we got freaky robots and
Speaker 2: ship too. It's not chuck e cheese Pstol PiZZ.
Speaker 5: You know where I did go though, in the in
Speaker 5: the in the peninsula in California was Rocky and Bullwinkles.
Speaker 5: Do you guys ever remember that?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Oh fun yo, oh wow, I have that that place
Speaker 1: in a minute.
Speaker 5: They were like animatronic Bullwinkle and Rocky. It was so
Speaker 5: it was good. It was good. And yeah, it's always
Speaker 5: like it's just pizza arcade, maybe a jump house. Hell yeah,
Speaker 5: I love it, got it all.
Speaker 1: I like the pistol PiZZ was doing like kind of
Speaker 1: committing infringement on two from two angles because there's a
Speaker 1: famous basketball player named Pistol Pete. Yep, like his nickname
Speaker 1: was Pistol Pete. And then also they're ripping off chuck
Speaker 1: e cheeses and they were like maybe it'll be like
Speaker 1: so so much infringement that they're just like.
Speaker 5: If you look a pistol Pete, it's men's underwear. What
Speaker 5: pistol peat it's all about the field. Oh wow, oh god,
Speaker 5: that is sheer all right, and I've seen a penis okay.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay not oh they saw jos. Okay, not the brag,
Speaker 1: but I have seen a penis sprinkling of pornogas. Oh
Speaker 1: these we all yo, you don't you're not coming to
Speaker 1: play if you're rocking?
Speaker 7: What yo, pistol?
Speaker 1: Pet do we have to share with the viewer now?
Speaker 2: Now we will be banned from any kind of video
Speaker 2: ever again. If I if I show the base of
Speaker 2: the shaft.
Speaker 5: Yo, I really like that. These are hot, These are hot.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of ye I got a full soldier
Speaker 1: boy from Miles.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. I was looking at that and I'm like.
Speaker 5: Hey, this is yeah, Okay, anyway, should we go to
Speaker 5: my over eating moving on?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I just I just got.
Speaker 5: And you're gonna miss out on this, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fair.
Speaker 5: We've all seen really jacked man lubed up in a
Speaker 5: sheer song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is definitely like you know you
Speaker 2: you see you see this kind of stuff out there,
Speaker 2: pride when you you're showing off that hard body and
Speaker 2: letting them know what you're working with.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the the pride, Yeah, I've seen more of
Speaker 5: Like god, what is the fair in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: That's uh fullsome street.
Speaker 5: Fullsome street fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: My favorite is the is like in Pride or fullsome Street,
Speaker 5: Full some Streets definitely more about like you know, a
Speaker 5: BDSM and whatnot. But like when it's Pride and there's
Speaker 5: someone who doesn't have a great body, but they are
Speaker 5: a newdist and it's just like it is the it's
Speaker 5: a call for like the con shell rings out and
Speaker 5: every guy who just wants to be nake nake, like
Speaker 5: just let it hang out on a corner is just
Speaker 5: like they're just standing. They're just like, right, this is
Speaker 5: my dick, look at it. I'm here, and it's like
Speaker 5: and there here's my little like seventy two year old
Speaker 5: flat ass.
Speaker 1: They got podcast or ass podcasts.
Speaker 5: Very much podcass yes, check, just like imagine what he's
Speaker 5: going to be like when he's older.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and you should let people know some retirement.
Speaker 5: This ass has made some money. Okay, we've started podcast
Speaker 5: empires with this booty.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. Yeah. Actually, like for a minute, from
Speaker 1: from my tailbone, it goes in from there. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a problem. The tailbone is actually the furthest out.
Speaker 5: Something else that's underrated is a wedge, A wedge pillow.
Speaker 5: I don't have one actually, but you should sit on
Speaker 5: a wedge. It really makes you know, makes you sort
Speaker 5: of like pelvic tilt. Yes, get your pelvic tilt going,
Speaker 5: so your lumbar's act and you know, get your foot
Speaker 5: pep stool or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm doing it right now. What is something you think
Speaker 1: is overrated? I think the Lakers?
Speaker 8: You know, I think every year we're like talking about
Speaker 8: the Lakers as if they have like this chance at
Speaker 8: a title. And I don't know how it is to
Speaker 8: be a Los Angeles fan, but I'm looking at them
Speaker 8: like the guys are not in the conversation with no championship.
Speaker 1: They haven't been since Yeah, yeah, you know the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Lakers from the MBIA. Yeah there. I actually was
Speaker 1: the franchise. Maybe it's just the Lebron fans. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: although I feel like it wasn't like this when he
Speaker 1: was in Cleveland, right, like the the ESPN was not
Speaker 1: leading off every show being like Cleveland might be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Right well, I think because you get to combine having
Speaker 2: the goat player with a franchise that everybody except Laker
Speaker 2: fans hates, so it all works. I get the momentum
Speaker 2: to do that look. As a lifelong Laker fan, I'm
Speaker 2: hurt by that take, but I'm also one hundred percent
Speaker 2: also believe that. I'm like, every time they're like they
Speaker 2: could do something, like, we're not doing that, I'm always
Speaker 2: we're not doing shit. Okay, just leave that alone. And
Speaker 2: in a way, I feel like we're kindred spirits between
Speaker 2: Raptors and Laker fans. Like we had, we had a
Speaker 2: good thing going and then we completely blew it up
Speaker 2: without properly replacing parts. And I'm like, are we so
Speaker 2: what are we just gonna wait another twelve years or something?
Speaker 2: So yeah, no, I agree, I agree. No one should
Speaker 2: be saying that we're at the moment in any kind
Speaker 2: of conversation given.
Speaker 1: What we got. But hey, and yet you're in every
Speaker 1: conversation that happens.
Speaker 2: I think because now, especially with Bronni being there, there's
Speaker 2: all this new intrigue, and I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Lebron,
Speaker 2: but the Lakers is not a discovery zone. This is
Speaker 2: not a place for you to play with your child
Speaker 2: and make memories. This is a serious basketball franchise.
Speaker 1: Send that young man to the G league where he
Speaker 1: will actually develop, and then let's talk. But I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of the nepotism. Though I'm a fan of it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's la you know, it wouldn't happen any
Speaker 2: other way.
Speaker 1: Had to be the Lakers for something like that. For sure.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering, like, is Lebron the Lake, Like if the
Speaker 1: Lakers had to be a single player throughout the history
Speaker 1: of the NBA. I'm sure Lakers fans would want themselves
Speaker 1: to be Kobe, But I feel like they're actually Lebron.
Speaker 1: Why is that because they're the second best ever, they're
Speaker 1: the second greatest, right or at least, you know, the
Speaker 1: It varies dependent and people love to hate both the
Speaker 1: Lakers and Lebron. Yeah, but yeah, but he isn't.
Speaker 2: I mean he, like Kobe was like the one who's like, no, yeah,
Speaker 2: hate me so I can like traumatize you in your
Speaker 2: own arena.
Speaker 1: Was his whole thing.
Speaker 2: I think with Lebron, he just hasn't played with the
Speaker 2: Lakers enough, I think to be able to be like
Speaker 2: when people think of the Lakers, they think of Lebron,
Speaker 2: because I think people would think in l A people
Speaker 2: would think of magic before Lebron.
Speaker 1: I would say, like Kobe saying he's the defining player.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, if we're doing allegories, also both and Kobe
Speaker 1: stayed in the same place their whole career, whereas the
Speaker 1: same can't be said for the Lakers. Right, Oh got it? Okay? Interesting? Interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, take the Lakers are the Lebron James
Speaker 1: of the n.
Speaker 2: B A for ESPN, Like, yeah, I mean, that's a
Speaker 2: good outrage article.
Speaker 1: The ship out of that. Can you believe what O'Brien
Speaker 1: has dropped off ESPN? Fuck out of here. I'd be
Speaker 1: walking out of ESPN's headquarters like Reagan and during this
Speaker 1: assassination attempt, Oh price what Yeah, all right, let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back.
Speaker 2: And I guess the last debate that we are going
Speaker 2: to get in this cycle happened Tuesday night when Jadie
Speaker 2: Vance and Tim Wallas had their showdown on CBS. And
Speaker 2: I say, I'm I guess it's the last one because
Speaker 2: I think Trump fully backed out of the second presidential debate.
Speaker 2: He's also backing out of a lot of interviews, which
Speaker 2: I hope is a sign that he they're trying to
Speaker 2: pull like a Dave type situation.
Speaker 1: We're like, we need a double fucking now because this
Speaker 1: guy cannot go out there.
Speaker 2: Sorry to bring up like a really timely friends of
Speaker 2: Kevin Klein Sigourney Weaver film.
Speaker 9: You know, you know who could do it is uh
Speaker 9: John Voight in Megalopolis, which is oh my god, yesterday instead.
Speaker 2: Of wait, isn't it Sigourney we were Yeah, she was
Speaker 2: the she was the first lady. Okay, So before we
Speaker 2: get into it, the two of you.
Speaker 1: You both watched it, right, is that what you said?
Speaker 1: You both got it?
Speaker 7: Well, No, because I knew I was coming on to
Speaker 7: this and you would tell me you.
Speaker 2: Could learn about it. Yeah, that's smart.
Speaker 1: Okay, page great answer. And then Andrew, you're you're one
Speaker 1: of the most like up on you know people. This
Speaker 1: is my one prepared line for this entire episode.
Speaker 9: So I was really interested in watching a fascist who
Speaker 9: thinks he's a libertarian, who's resentful he doesn't have the
Speaker 9: approval of liberals on the screen.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, So I watched so Megalopolis.
Speaker 9: I will say, you know that I'm expect I don't
Speaker 9: come on here. I I I feel like the reviews
Speaker 9: are probably pretty accurate. It's it's a pretty specific type
Speaker 9: of person who likes really gonna love it.
Speaker 1: Probably not me.
Speaker 9: That being said, I there are two scenes in this
Speaker 9: movie that made me laugh harder than anything I've ever
Speaker 9: heard laughed at movie theater.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 10: This is a new movie that I thought you were
Speaker 10: talking about some old movie right now. There's so much stuff,
Speaker 10: and I have no idea why none of us are
Speaker 10: aware of the same stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, and this was also no one would buy this,
Speaker 2: No one wanted to distribute this film, so like, there
Speaker 2: was really no rollout of this aside from people were
Speaker 2: like I think like or not. I think like Francis
Speaker 2: Ford Coppola was assaulting people on set and then doing
Speaker 2: massive rewrites on his trailers. It was the thing in
Speaker 2: his trailer smoking weed.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta you know, uh are artists not the.
Speaker 9: Art or whatever of it. No, there's a lot of terror.
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, John Voyd Child a buff. It's
Speaker 9: a yeah, who's it's a real, real gropy kind of set.
Speaker 1: We'll just yeay.
Speaker 9: But yeah, i'd heard it was, you know, not so good,
Speaker 9: but yeah, not a joke. I laugh for like, I'm
Speaker 9: not a big theater laugher. But I really went buck
Speaker 9: Well also. And I'll get to this at my recommendations
Speaker 9: at the end, but I saw.
Speaker 1: It at which I don't know if the two of
Speaker 1: you have ever been there. I'm aware of it.
Speaker 2: I've not been inside there though, but I'll just give
Speaker 2: just just a little indication of what kind of joint
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 9: Yeah, for so, okay, you know, like AMC a list
Speaker 9: for I don't know whatever, thirty dollars a month, you
Speaker 9: get unlimited ish with some restrictions movie screenings. This version
Speaker 9: of this is they have a year pass that costs
Speaker 9: ninety nine dollars. What it is yo, in my opinion,
Speaker 9: the best deal. Yeah, it's like twenty eight cents a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god, dude. And I always here is
Speaker 2: like that place is busted. Like they're like, yo, I
Speaker 2: don't know, man. They say it's a movie theater with dining,
Speaker 2: but it does not have like the right vibes the part.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it doesn't not feel like if you were
Speaker 9: writing a movie about an obvious organized crime drug money
Speaker 9: laundering place, allegedly it would allegedly seem a lot.
Speaker 1: Like this place. I'm my mind is blown with like
Speaker 1: a deal.
Speaker 2: That's like worse from a business perspective than fucking movie past.
Speaker 10: Somehow they're just maybe they're maybe they're in trouble and
Speaker 10: they're just throwing stuff at the wall like this.
Speaker 9: Yeah, let me just say I know about this past.
Speaker 9: I have been to this theater, and I just still
Speaker 9: won't go. I'm sorry, I still won't buy that pass.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay.
Speaker 10: I was intrigued for a second because I did recently
Speaker 10: cancel my AMC.
Speaker 7: Right, I have kind of regretted it.
Speaker 10: It's like, of course, like I thought there was nothing
Speaker 10: coming out I cared about, but then I realized as
Speaker 10: soon as I canceled that there's a bunch of stuff
Speaker 10: that I like kind of care about.
Speaker 7: And I'm like, oh damn, I see that now they.
Speaker 9: Do have they have new movies. I mean, I saw
Speaker 9: Megalopolis within the first week it's out, and it's it
Speaker 9: seems fine, like there's nothing like outwardly wrong with the place.
Speaker 1: It just is.
Speaker 2: There's no one star reviews at this place are escaped.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was just looking at up I.
Speaker 9: I did see a Reddit review for their other location
Speaker 9: where apparently if they sell to like zero tickets or no,
Speaker 9: if zero people have checked in. Regardless of how many
Speaker 9: tickets they've sold, they just straight up won't play the movie.
Speaker 9: And so someone arrived late and they just walked into
Speaker 9: a you know, a theater with all life run no no,
Speaker 9: like everything just like the club is closing.
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, man, here just nothing.
Speaker 9: And then he you know, they went to to find
Speaker 9: an employee, which took a beat, and then when they
Speaker 9: finally did, they're like, oh, yeah, we just told you
Speaker 9: want us to play it, and they just like it
Speaker 9: was like like a TV at your friend's house. Yeah,
Speaker 9: a couple of buttons on the ipand and the movie started.
Speaker 1: Can you wait a second?
Speaker 9: I got to rewind it really quick. You got to
Speaker 9: rewind it. They should let you take just pause the movie.
Speaker 1: You should.
Speaker 9: You should just if enough people in the theater yell
Speaker 9: pause at the same time, just a little pee.
Speaker 1: Break for everyone to pause.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 10: It could be like a button you push when you're
Speaker 10: like you're you're thinking, and if enough people silently push
Speaker 10: the pause button, yeah, it's agreed upon.
Speaker 2: You triggered the threshold for the pause.
Speaker 9: So as we're talking about it, the other thing that
Speaker 9: rules about this place is it's like a dine in
Speaker 9: movie theater like an Alamo, except their.
Speaker 1: Ordering system is on your phone, so in orders for
Speaker 1: their business model to work, you have to turn on
Speaker 1: your phone. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cool, perfect, and you have to have sounds on and
Speaker 2: truly or else you won't know it is.
Speaker 9: It is my favorite theater for a certain type of movie.
Speaker 9: And I will say meis was definitely.
Speaker 2: Yeah for ninety nine dollars for the whole year, like
Speaker 2: it does sell come like gil bro Let's fucking let's
Speaker 2: go get wild over at the fucking Yeah. All right,
Speaker 2: Well enough of that because we're putting off the actual
Speaker 2: news that happened. Vice presidential part of me was like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, go ahead, I mean, because here's
Speaker 2: the thing. There's a lot of talk obviously about what
Speaker 2: was specifically said, and like like any you know, reputable
Speaker 2: journalist would do talking reporting on what was said. None
Speaker 2: of it was really all that surprising given how each
Speaker 2: campaign has been messaging like the stakes of the election,
Speaker 2: and just like the rhetoric being used, but like like
Speaker 2: the thing was Vance tried to come off as some
Speaker 2: kind of moderate when it came to things like abortion
Speaker 2: or like election denial, but failed. Tim Walls was just
Speaker 2: so normal and nice. He sort of just kind of
Speaker 2: seemed out of place next to a political creature and
Speaker 2: chronic bullshitter like Vance. Like there were times where he
Speaker 2: would be like, oh, well, you know, there was a
Speaker 2: time like he misspoke. He was talking about like understanding
Speaker 2: school shootings, and he's like, and I've become friends with
Speaker 2: school shooters, and like, now like, can't you know, like
Speaker 2: conservative news like what Tim Walls is friends with school shooters.
Speaker 2: It's like, dude, the guy clearly misspoke. And he was
Speaker 2: talking about becoming friends like because his sort of stance
Speaker 2: on gun control change, and he said that happened after
Speaker 2: meeting you know, grieving parents and so like again, I
Speaker 2: think from stylistically, I guess if you're just going from
Speaker 2: who quote sounded better, I would say Vance sounded better
Speaker 2: in that like his the cadence at which he spoke
Speaker 2: was smoother, but there was no substance to what he said,
Speaker 2: and he basically used his smooth talking to lie constantly
Speaker 2: and dance around the real hot button issues like him
Speaker 2: and Trump's constant vilification of immigrants, or the fact that
Speaker 2: Vance wouldn't even say whether Trump lost the election.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty. It was very Yike's adjacent.
Speaker 7: I did I saw that?
Speaker 1: I saw Hi?
Speaker 7: Yeah, refusing to answer.
Speaker 2: It's it's very I mean, it's like he tried to
Speaker 2: wiggle his way out of it. But again, it's like
Speaker 2: one of those things when you listen to you're like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, this dude is so full of shit,
Speaker 2: you know, And I think Roy Wood Junior tweeted something
Speaker 2: along the gist of sort of like JD. Vance has
Speaker 2: the energy of a man like a restaurant manager that
Speaker 2: understands your experience was terrible, but he has not taking
Speaker 2: that hamburger off the bill. Yeah, that's essentially like so
Speaker 2: I think it was for most people, like I don't
Speaker 2: like this fucking guy.
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of talk about the polls,
Speaker 1: like well, who won, who won? There's all like so
Speaker 1: many headlines who did win the debate last night?
Speaker 2: I mean, like, I think in a snap pole that
Speaker 2: like CNN or CBS may have done, people seemed evenly
Speaker 2: split if that fucking matters. When it came down to likability,
Speaker 2: I think Vance demonstrated that, you know, despite his better
Speaker 2: than expected performance, people just don't like him. And Walts
Speaker 2: came out with a boost in his approval ratings rather
Speaker 2: than JD Vance. But it really is one of those
Speaker 2: things where it's like you want to see the presidential
Speaker 2: debates are really giving you an idea of like who
Speaker 2: the president will be, whereas this one just feels like
Speaker 2: and then the two lesser characters can talk on stage.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, but it's like he's such a freaky. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I think it's such a missed opportunity to really you
Speaker 9: just gotta call him a freak to his face constantly.
Speaker 2: That was the thing, right, like Walts was, he's just
Speaker 2: he I think he's just genuinely incapable of getting the
Speaker 2: knife ouse, you know what I mean, Like you're like, yo,
Speaker 2: this should have been a knife party up there. This
Speaker 2: guy is has said so many fucking stupid things and
Speaker 2: like offensive, racist, violently misogynistic things that you could just
Speaker 2: be like, hey man, I've actually committed to memory like
Speaker 2: eight things you've said, and I can every time you
Speaker 2: say something, I can just dead that with something that
Speaker 2: came out of your mouth. And the moderators did point
Speaker 2: out a couple things that they each said or whatever,
Speaker 2: but you know, it just it didn't come it didn't
Speaker 2: come out that way. So I think the other thing
Speaker 2: is that, like Vance, clearly this campaign is just trying
Speaker 2: to say everything that's happening right now is because of
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris down from the fucking weather to like Mike
Speaker 2: Bacon costs forty six dollars because of President Kamala Harris,
Speaker 2: and that logic, like he kept using this same shit
Speaker 2: over and over every answer was somehow masterfully and I
Speaker 2: mean that in the most sarcastic sense, would just kind
Speaker 2: of re route the topic back to Kamala Harris. So,
Speaker 2: for example, right like Waltz is pointing out his dehumanizing
Speaker 2: rhetoric around immigrants and how he blames immigrants for like everything,
Speaker 2: It's like this guy's gonna blame immigrants and everything, like
Speaker 2: including like the housing crisis.
Speaker 1: Here is JD.
Speaker 2: Vance's just spectacular answer on how he's like, oh, you
Speaker 2: think I'm blaming everything on immigrants?
Speaker 6: Will hold this l Tim Well. Tim just said something
Speaker 6: that I agree with. We don't want to blame immigrants
Speaker 6: for higher housing prices, but we do want to blame
Speaker 6: Kamala Harris for letting in millions of illegal aliens into
Speaker 6: this country, which does drive up cost him twenty five
Speaker 6: million illegal aliens competing with Americans for scarce homes is
Speaker 6: one of the most significant drivers of home prices in
Speaker 6: the country. It's why we have massive increases in home
Speaker 6: prices that have happened right alongside massive increases in illegal
Speaker 6: alien populations under Kamala Harris's leadership.
Speaker 2: Under Kamala Harris's leadership, I'm just like, I love how
Speaker 2: he goes. Look, I'm not going to blame illegal aliens
Speaker 2: for everything. I'm a blame and Kamala Harris for letting
Speaker 2: in the legal aliens that are the reason we have
Speaker 2: a housing shortage, Like uh yeah, sir, And just like
Speaker 2: this idea that like yeah, yeah, yeah. The reason homes
Speaker 2: are unaffordable is because people that are you know, so
Speaker 2: destitute that they're willing to leave their homes and families
Speaker 2: behind are the ones outbidding people you with a cash
Speaker 2: offer for a starter home.
Speaker 1: That's that's precisely it.
Speaker 2: If they can't be the corporate you know hovering of
Speaker 2: single family homes being turned into rental units and things
Speaker 2: like that. So it's just like sure, man, yeah, that
Speaker 2: that's what happened. There are a few other really interesting
Speaker 2: gems that came out of him. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people also talked about like gun violence and school
Speaker 2: shootings and what the plan is there. Tim Wallas was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: gun control that could help.
Speaker 1: JD.
Speaker 2: Vance's first answer was something akin to like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously you got to cut down on school shootings,
Speaker 2: but you know, we also need to cut.
Speaker 1: Down on like the inner city gun problem.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, okay, so now just swinging and focus
Speaker 2: on like black and brown people. Again when the question
Speaker 2: was about protecting kids, but when he asked, you know,
Speaker 2: when asked for something a little more like, but what
Speaker 2: how do you protect kids?
Speaker 1: This was JD. Vance? But what do we do about
Speaker 1: the schools?
Speaker 6: What do we do to protect our kids? And I
Speaker 6: think the answer is and I say this not loving
Speaker 6: the answer, because I don't want my kids to go
Speaker 6: to school and in a school that feels unsafe or
Speaker 6: where there are visible signs of security. But I unfortunately
Speaker 6: think that we have to increase security in our schools.
Speaker 6: We have to make the doors lock better, we have
Speaker 6: to make the doors stronger, we've got to make the
Speaker 6: windows stronger. And of course we've got to increase school
Speaker 6: resource officers.
Speaker 1: So we need more police.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we need the doors to lock better.
Speaker 2: That's just like again his delivery smooth the substance. We
Speaker 2: need door lock better, we need stronger door. He's clearly are.
Speaker 9: Going to be our first gamer VP because it's just
Speaker 9: like there's no dumber like strategy except and just like
Speaker 9: unless you truly believe like, oh h we're fighting now,
Speaker 9: Oh just right, we need more need more armor hit
Speaker 9: points on the out of here man.
Speaker 2: We actually need a stronger hp H people on like
Speaker 2: the weapons, the offensive weapons that the resource officers are using,
Speaker 2: as well as some kind of protective spell that can
Speaker 2: be cast on the students during such an.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it feels like.
Speaker 10: His goal is just to just talk in a cadence
Speaker 10: so that you like zone out and don't hear what
Speaker 10: he said.
Speaker 2: That's that's almost precisely like what he's trying to do,
Speaker 2: because it's like the thing where it's smooth. It's again,
Speaker 2: it sounds like the guy's talking and saying a normal thing.
Speaker 2: He's talking. Oh, and you're like and if you like, oh,
Speaker 2: this guy's talking, you're like, what what what is he?
Speaker 1: What is he saying?
Speaker 2: And he did his best, I mean, I guess compared
Speaker 2: to his running mate yeah, he's a better because Trump
Speaker 2: is just the sure but that's not really saying much.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting interesting to see some of the coverage
Speaker 2: be like I mean clearly jd Vance like walked out
Speaker 2: of that one though, like on top. But I think
Speaker 2: just to say that is because he just is like
Speaker 2: just really good at being a bullshitter and you know,
Speaker 2: saying things that are not true, like with the confidence
Speaker 2: of three thousand white men.
Speaker 1: But that's what it takes.
Speaker 9: It seems Yeah, I will just say that seems like
Speaker 9: it's the game.
Speaker 2: Who cares if he's lying?
Speaker 10: I mean I was gonna say, obviously it's different, but
Speaker 10: it reminds me of like there are certain comedians. I'm
Speaker 10: a stand up, so this is like my the way
Speaker 10: I think of this, Like there are some comedians who
Speaker 10: you'll watch like crush technically, like everyone's laughing, like when
Speaker 10: you think about your like they're just talking in joke cadence,
Speaker 10: Like what they're saying is like a magic church was done,
Speaker 10: like you will, well, ultimately those people left thinking they
Speaker 10: had a good time.
Speaker 1: Right right right?
Speaker 2: That is like that is that's how I thought, Like
Speaker 2: Asi's and Sorry's like early specials were like I'm like,
Speaker 2: I think this guy is just getting louder at.
Speaker 1: Certain points, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, you will eat that and you're like whoa, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, dude, I can't believe that toilet paper cost
Speaker 2: that much at the store.
Speaker 5: You.
Speaker 10: I think both speak to the same thing, which is
Speaker 10: that like a lot of people just.
Speaker 7: Don't want to have to think.
Speaker 10: So if you offer them that, they're like, yeah, he won,
Speaker 10: I didn't have to think about what happened at all.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I think most people though, when his like when
Speaker 2: it came down to things like being like pro choice,
Speaker 2: like he just failed like spectacular, Like he'll be like no,
Speaker 2: like obviously, I think like this is this isn't a
Speaker 2: bad like people should be able to have a decision,
Speaker 2: but that I think that choice goes to the states
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. And like Tim Walls, he had
Speaker 2: a pretty good answer. He's like like miss me with
Speaker 2: all this like like nonsense about if it's a state's choice,
Speaker 2: Like this is just down to someone deciding what they
Speaker 2: want to do with their own body, like anything that
Speaker 2: isn't if we're not just debating that, like there's no
Speaker 2: point in talking about it.
Speaker 1: And he did keep hitting that point.
Speaker 2: So like in contrast to advance would say, you're like,
Speaker 2: oh right, this guy said something like actually that makes
Speaker 2: sense rather than his meely mouthed dancing. Then there's just
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff too, where like they were talking
Speaker 2: about family leave and again dances. Like we're all about choice, man,
Speaker 2: Like the choice like if you want to sure, if
Speaker 2: you want to take time off, great, but like also
Speaker 2: if you want a toil to death, you know at work,
Speaker 2: you should be able to should have that choice, You
Speaker 2: should have that choice. There shouldn't be some federal guideliness
Speaker 2: to like be having family leave because.
Speaker 10: You know, yeah, if you are that you're gonna your
Speaker 10: family's going to starve to death because you couldn't work
Speaker 10: over this time, then you should be able to work.
Speaker 1: And you shouldn't have the option. No, no, here, it's
Speaker 1: a choice.
Speaker 10: If you want to make no money or exactly, that's
Speaker 10: your choice.
Speaker 1: And that's your choice, and that's what we're all about. Choice.
Speaker 2: If you don't want your kid to be able to read,
Speaker 2: and you've created some form of mathematics that you want
Speaker 2: to teach them in your home, that's your choice, okay,
Speaker 2: and we'll try and get you subsidies, so we can
Speaker 2: completely destroy public schooling.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's that's our choice. That's all choice.
Speaker 2: That's what it's like when you hear that, like it's
Speaker 2: your like, okay, am I choosing?
Speaker 9: I was just gonna say, VP de Bay does have
Speaker 9: this weird sweet spot of like, who the fuck is
Speaker 9: actually watching this except for the people that can see hopefully.
Speaker 1: I would assume see through all this or.
Speaker 9: Like have their mind made up either way, I guess right.
Speaker 9: Like so it's just like there's a little like it
Speaker 9: only matters if someone totally biffs something. Yeah, right, I
Speaker 9: think undecided wat I think the people like a lot
Speaker 9: of places or a lot of you know, mainstream media
Speaker 9: coverage of it is like JD.
Speaker 2: Vance really fucked up at the end when asked point
Speaker 2: blank about the twenty twenty election, and he was just like.
Speaker 1: Sure who won? And he's like like Tim Wallas was like, hey,
Speaker 1: so did he lose? And then dating Vance goes.
Speaker 2: You know, I want to talk about the future, you know,
Speaker 2: and you're just like holy shit, Like he just felt
Speaker 2: like one of those things are like that's those are
Speaker 2: the kinds of non answers that are really revealing, and
Speaker 2: I think that was like one of the moments that
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Harris Walls campaign will seize because it
Speaker 2: was just kind of being like, yeah, like, we got
Speaker 2: another batch of like freaks out here who are like, no,
Speaker 2: we whatever, whatever I need it to be is the reality,
Speaker 2: and we'll, you know, do whatever we have to to
Speaker 2: get there to achieve that.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, did we learn anything new? Not really so
Speaker 1: in that sense.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, it's not like this shifted Poles
Speaker 2: in any meaningful way aside from like their own likability
Speaker 2: or people's perception of them and their suitability to be
Speaker 2: vice president.
Speaker 1: But yeah, nothing, nothing great, you know. In a way.
Speaker 2: That's why I appreciate you telling me I'm spoiling Megalopolis
Speaker 2: for me, because now I can't wait to see that.
Speaker 2: That's actually something I can't wait to at least, so
Speaker 2: watch a pirated copy allegedly. All right, well, let's take
Speaker 2: a quick break as we discussed the finer points of
Speaker 2: Megalopolis amongst ourselves, and we'll come back to talk about
Speaker 2: this poor red faced boomer who may have wasted four
Speaker 2: thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: And we'll do that right after this, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, and it's biopic season. Everyone is that actually
Speaker 1: a season or season?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yank you, yank you, yank you?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It's just like this
Speaker 1: is the type of movie they like to put out
Speaker 1: to get get some love. There's usually I feel like
Speaker 1: there's like a one point five ex multiplier on your
Speaker 1: chances of getting an Oscar if it's a musical biopic
Speaker 1: like Bohemian Rhapsody, like Ronny Mallock deserved that Oscar tooth
Speaker 1: act into act and maybe them gompers, yeah, gompers in
Speaker 1: an accent and I'll do it. I think the Elton
Speaker 1: John guy got some love. That song the I Walked
Speaker 1: the Line did some numbers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway,
Speaker 1: we're cap now, I'm just capodi. Uh uh. Specifically musical biopics.
Speaker 1: We've got three coming out to some would say too many,
Speaker 1: but they they kind of seem to have had that
Speaker 1: same thought, and they're like, Okay, how do we make
Speaker 1: these not all the thing that they made fun of
Speaker 1: them walk hard, you know? And so, uh we got
Speaker 1: the Bob Dylan one, which seems like it's a pretty straightforward,
Speaker 1: like could have been one of the movies being made
Speaker 1: fun of him walk Hart. It's just they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but we got Timothy Chalame as Bob Dylan, as young
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan might be. Yeah enough said, it's only covering
Speaker 1: him up to nineteen sixty five, so it's like gonna
Speaker 1: cover his him going electric. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys know about this whole controversy during Bob Dylan's career,
Speaker 1: but he was like an acoustic troubadour and then like
Speaker 1: people were so bored at the time that when he
Speaker 1: decided to start playing an electric guitar, they were.
Speaker 2: Like Judas, Yeah, fuck you man, wearing your fucking back
Speaker 2: on us.
Speaker 5: We will, but arguably there are they gonna just like
Speaker 5: stop before like nineteen sixty eight and like the height
Speaker 5: of the anti Vietnam War movement and the height of
Speaker 5: like what kind of made Bob Dylan even more legendary.
Speaker 5: It's just like gonna be We're gonna just deepul it
Speaker 5: his size, everything about Bob Dylan.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be more about like the iconhography, the music,
Speaker 1: the music, the pair the we're gonna see him like
Speaker 1: go to a store and be like what about those sunglasses? Yes, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: glasses make you look like ship and he like puts.
Speaker 5: For any elderly You're like, oh, and then he's it.
Speaker 2: Takes him off the face of a blood guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, you can borrow mine.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: That's every musical biopic is just like someone in a
Speaker 5: piano messing around or on their guitar, and we're like, yeah.
Speaker 1: A bot fan. The trailer did get me, But that's
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker?
Speaker 5: Is it in black and white?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean everything's almost thinking like makes me happy.
Speaker 2: Timothy Shallowy is also just like in so many i
Speaker 2: P type movies, right, like they're not original scripts, like
Speaker 2: he's in Doom. He was Willy Wonka, like, uh, call
Speaker 2: me by your Name was like based on a novel
Speaker 2: like this all kind of being like it's like he's
Speaker 2: the IP god.
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan get Timothy shallow may Man.
Speaker 5: I didn't call me by your name was already a book.
Speaker 5: But I feel like that doesn't count as like a
Speaker 5: big IP.
Speaker 2: No no no, But I mean but in the I
Speaker 2: sort of mean that and sort of like the inside
Speaker 2: baseball Hollywood way, because we're like everyone in Hollywood now
Speaker 2: says everything has to be IP. Intellectual property has been
Speaker 2: based on something else, to the point where like I
Speaker 2: know writers who are writing scripts and just claiming it's
Speaker 2: based on a book that exists because they're counting on
Speaker 2: development executives to not read it or actually parson through
Speaker 2: that amazing and they're like, oh, that's great, and you
Speaker 2: got the rights and they're like yep, and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, there's actually a post credit sequence and call
Speaker 1: Me by Your Name where it's revealed that it takes
Speaker 1: place in the G I. Joe transformation, just to anchor it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, like that's like everyone just because
Speaker 2: the amount of creative thinking in this town has just
Speaker 2: gone fucking just ooof that.
Speaker 1: It's now everything like it it's not something people know about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we got these terrible fucking movies or like
Speaker 2: half assed biopics that like about really interesting people, like
Speaker 2: that Amy Winehouse thing. I feel I could have probably
Speaker 2: been interesting, but I yeah, there's been a big string
Speaker 2: of missing.
Speaker 5: Yeah I didn't even see that one. I haven't seen
Speaker 5: a lot of them, just just because you're like, I
Speaker 5: could watch a documentary like I didn't watch Anina own one.
Speaker 5: I have watched I mean Amy Winehouse documentaries. I'm like
Speaker 5: that's that's depressing enough. You know, I want like the
Speaker 5: real depressing thing. I mean, it's also by the way,
Speaker 5: I didn't even talk about this. I was going to,
Speaker 5: but like the manette, I'm deep in the Menandez brother situation, okay,
Speaker 5: and I'm like the documentary on max HBO whatever is great,
Speaker 5: Like it's really good, and I don't want to subject
Speaker 5: myself to fucking Ryan Murphy's you know, sensationalized bullshit on Netflix.
Speaker 5: It's just like that, you know, he's.
Speaker 1: The real thing that he says is been the best.
Speaker 5: Thing that happened the Menendez brothers in thirty years.
Speaker 1: Shut up. He's like, I mean, I don't believe they
Speaker 1: were incestuous, but you.
Speaker 5: Know, but like what if they were and it was hard?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right, But anyway, maybe them fucking stars, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: they should be.
Speaker 5: Thinking nobody knew who they were. I put them on
Speaker 5: the map.
Speaker 1: The schall May thing, like, we don't have to show
Speaker 1: the trailer because you can just close your eyes and
Speaker 1: picture the trailer and it is that. That is exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. Bob Dylan and you know, Timothy shell
Speaker 1: May put a Bob Dylan wig on Timothy Shellman so
Speaker 1: in order to and be probably as a result of
Speaker 1: some of these other biopics, there was also a Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston one that didn't do very well. Studios are trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, like, how what do we do here?
Speaker 1: How do we spin this so that it feels like
Speaker 1: it's different than every musical biopic that you've ever seen?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Also, they usually try to hide the fact that movies
Speaker 1: are musicals now, like that seems to be the trick is,
Speaker 1: like make a musical and then don't show any of
Speaker 1: the songs in it, and oh, what this a musical? No?
Speaker 1: Like that the Mean Girls remake that the entire reason
Speaker 1: for it existing was the Mean Girl's the musical, but
Speaker 1: they like cut the musical out of the title and
Speaker 1: made a trailer where it was just a remake of
Speaker 1: Mean Girls. Yeah, and I did great because people wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're saying, and I guess I'm okay with that,
Speaker 1: but I guess it's like not a selling point, so
Speaker 1: they're trying to come up with other selling points. We've
Speaker 1: talked before about the upcoming Pharrell biopic.
Speaker 5: That we're just doing people who were alive, I mean
Speaker 5: Dylan's alive, Dylan's alive.
Speaker 1: I do think a big part of the problem with
Speaker 1: whatever biopics is that like if the person like is
Speaker 1: so iconic that like, you know, everybody knows, like Tupac
Speaker 1: for instance, like everybody knows exactly what they look like,
Speaker 1: nobody saw a lot of them on camera, and then
Speaker 1: you like have a film with somebody else playing that
Speaker 1: who's not as magnetic.
Speaker 2: The Tupac movie wasn't L. The Bob Marley movie wasn't
Speaker 2: L and a lot of it was because these people
Speaker 2: look nothing fucking like them.
Speaker 1: You're like, what the fuck is?
Speaker 5: But Straight Out of Compton was not a L. I
Speaker 5: love that movie.
Speaker 7: That was it.
Speaker 2: I Mean that's where it's like, thank god you had
Speaker 2: Osha Jackson, Junior.
Speaker 1: Ice Cube and sit like that.
Speaker 2: And the acting was great. But like with the Tupac one,
Speaker 2: they just went after a dude who went viral for
Speaker 2: looking like Tupac and we're like, oh, get him some
Speaker 2: acting classes, and that's what you got there. So the
Speaker 2: for real, I'm like a huge I'm a gigantic Pharol fan.
Speaker 2: Oh really growing up all like because people are like, oh,
Speaker 2: you kind of look like is he Asian or not?
Speaker 9: And I was like oh, you know what this might
Speaker 9: be like a style lane for me, like when I
Speaker 9: was like seventeen years old, and like the Neptunes, I
Speaker 9: have like a near encyclopedic knowledge of like every song
Speaker 9: they produced and artists they collaborated with.
Speaker 2: But I saw the trailer for this one. I went
Speaker 2: to see Beetle Juice Beetle Juice, and I grown so
Speaker 2: fucking hard. I was like, why is Pharrell a fucking lego?
Speaker 2: Like what are we even doing here? And also this
Speaker 2: isn't the time for a Pharrell biopic. It just came
Speaker 2: to me it came off as such a weird cash.
Speaker 5: Grapes like Despicable Me or the Minions involved as.
Speaker 1: Well, it just lego? Should I mean it should? Or
Speaker 1: like never more inspired than when he is making music
Speaker 1: for the Minions or animated Like yeah, dude, does it
Speaker 1: seems to be very artistically inspired by like cartoons and
Speaker 1: kids entertainment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's very whimsical, Like it's no, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think so okay.
Speaker 5: I was like, he's not.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of times I remember in the
Speaker 2: early days of the Internet it was like, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: he's Filipino, and like, are like we really really really
Speaker 2: people are like really digging in it's it still seems
Speaker 2: it seemed like a mystery unless you probably Wikipedia in
Speaker 2: the there. But all that to say, it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't this again, Why is it a Lego?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 2: Because the Lego movies do well and you're just trying
Speaker 2: to have some synergistic thing here where it's like for real,
Speaker 2: plus Legos take your kids and then you can hear
Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg talk too. But they all look like fucking Legos.
Speaker 5: You know what Jack said it It is a cash grab.
Speaker 1: It's a cash grab, and all Lego toys look pretty similar,
Speaker 1: like all the Legos, Like I know, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to work on that and I said that first and
Speaker 1: I have to check my old white supremacy in my bad.
Speaker 1: But like they like show these people who are supposed
Speaker 1: to like Garner, oh wow, like oh yeah, he's this
Speaker 1: is where he gave that song idea to that famous
Speaker 1: artist and it's just like another Lego person, but like
Speaker 1: they have a goatee and you're like, uh, oh, guys,
Speaker 1: bust a rhymes in the world of.
Speaker 5: Like famous producer and given how uh Diddy has gone
Speaker 5: down right, Yeah, it does make me feel like slightly
Speaker 5: like like let him do this, because like maybe maybe
Speaker 5: this is just me being naive. I know, Diddy did
Speaker 5: come out with some sort of documentary like about himself
Speaker 5: or like, you know, people do all kinds of crazy things.
Speaker 5: But I'm like, maybe it means like because like if
Speaker 5: you also had like really awful shit on you, would
Speaker 5: you want to be doing press tours? Like you know
Speaker 5: what I mean. It makes me feel like, oh, maybe
Speaker 5: he's like a good guy. Like it's the way I
Speaker 5: feel about fifty cent and fifty cents got a documentary.
Speaker 5: I think about Diddy where which makes me be like, oh,
Speaker 5: maybe fifty cent is like actually not a bad person,
Speaker 5: Like maybe he doesn't have rape allegations and assault allegations
Speaker 5: because why would you be doing his documentary? But quick
Speaker 5: Google sears probably not.
Speaker 1: But no, But I don't know.
Speaker 5: There's something about this that I'm like, yeah, Okay, maybe
Speaker 5: maybe there's still good people in music out there. Who
Speaker 5: are you know, we once admired.
Speaker 2: I think at this point it's a safe bet to
Speaker 2: just presume that anyone at the height of the entertainment
Speaker 2: industry probably has like a graveyards worth the skeletons in
Speaker 2: their closet.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 5: The me too moment really passed over the music industry
Speaker 5: and was like too much, too big. We'll get back
Speaker 5: to this.
Speaker 1: I need music, I need music to do drugs to
Speaker 1: at least. It's too much homework, too much homework.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah for real though Forrell.
Speaker 1: The one so suggesting that this really is just them
Speaker 1: trying not to have to cast somebody who looks like
Speaker 1: the iconic person. We also have the Robbie Williams movie
Speaker 1: that is coming out soon. Robbie Williams is a massive
Speaker 1: star in the UK.
Speaker 5: He's a blurred lined guy. Right.
Speaker 1: No, that's Robin. Yeah, that's Robin Thick's son. Right, that's
Speaker 1: Alan thick son, Alan Thick's son, Robin. Okay, now that Robbie.
Speaker 1: Robbie Williams like had a couple songs of the early
Speaker 1: two thousands that like broke through in the US. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: Millennium is one where he's and like he's basically like hot, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's kind of his thing. He's like a hot
Speaker 1: boy idol like Okay, but he's still alive. He's still
Speaker 1: too fresh in people's memory to have a biopic starring
Speaker 1: anybody who's just like a what we're saying, yes, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And so what they've done is they were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're thinking like, okay, we have this problem that
Speaker 1: we can't solve with Robbie Williams, this Robbie Williams biopic,
Speaker 1: Like how do we cast it? And then they at
Speaker 1: around that time, the Planet of the Apes movies are
Speaker 1: coming out, and they're like, what if Robbie Williams a
Speaker 1: monkey for some reason?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And not not everybody in the movie a monkey. And
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna start talking like the politician that we
Speaker 1: were just meeting for the first time out of Virginia.
Speaker 1: Not everybody monkey, Robbie wimms though he let's see this
Speaker 1: teaser really quick. Thank you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, their kids kicking any What is the true story
Speaker 2: here this chimpanzee who evolved into a hot singer or what? Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Has he become human at some point?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I think it's it's meant to be. Because he said.
Speaker 1: Different.
Speaker 2: I've always felt a little less evolved, yes, and interesting evolved.
Speaker 5: Okay, this feels like a cover for me too.
Speaker 1: Stuff.
Speaker 5: I've always felt less evolved. My animal instincts got the
Speaker 5: better of me. Haven't you seen my biopic I'm I'm
Speaker 5: a monkey.
Speaker 1: I'm a bit at one of those freak chimps that
Speaker 1: will rip your arms off. Yeah, it so. The really
Speaker 1: shocking thing about this is that it has come out
Speaker 1: like at various festivals and people think it's good, Like
Speaker 1: it got a eighty six percent on Rotten Tomatoes. People
Speaker 1: are like, this thing actually goes it's fucking cool or
Speaker 1: tears shed somehow. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I look, I don't want to judge it, like do
Speaker 5: something different, you know. I mean, it's better to have
Speaker 5: this than the same old, same old biopic, which for
Speaker 5: the longest time I thought was biopic, which I still
Speaker 5: think it should be pronounced biopic. But that's a bio biography,
Speaker 5: like a biopsy.
Speaker 2: But like, are you getting a biopsy?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I always think of like cancer.
Speaker 5: Checks whatever biop But but right like it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: they did something different. I don't know why it had
Speaker 5: to be about Robbie Williams, but it sounds like it's
Speaker 5: a nice movie about a chimp that finally learns it's
Speaker 5: his place and.
Speaker 1: It's on the stage and inspires a generation. No, like
Speaker 1: dance Monkey Dad.
Speaker 2: I'd prefer some just weird thing where it's like if
Speaker 2: Pharrell was an alien, you know, because he says that
Speaker 2: a lot, and amongst people growing up, he's like, I
Speaker 2: always felt different, my creativity out like he says that
Speaker 2: a lot. Like I think it's even in the trailer
Speaker 2: about how he said I always felt different. Like that's
Speaker 2: a better thing to see than like, oh, so now
Speaker 2: you're a fucking lego.
Speaker 1: No, not right, no, three thousand biopic that it needs
Speaker 1: to be him secretly, he's been an alien the whole time.
Speaker 1: He's been trying to tell you the whole time. That's
Speaker 1: what at Aliens was like everybody like that. That shit
Speaker 1: was not ironic, nothing, not a metaphor for aliens. You
Speaker 1: are listening to me. You are not listening to me.
Speaker 1: I am what actually from it? I just want to
Speaker 1: be heard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no one even noticed my flute is using alien technology.
Speaker 2: Everyone goes, wow, we've got cool flute. He's got it's
Speaker 2: from another fucking planet, y'all.
Speaker 1: Anyways, hollywould make that happen. Things are so weird though,
Speaker 1: at this point that I saw this tweet, so somebody
Speaker 1: retweeted a thing from a discussing film blue check mark.
Speaker 1: So you know it's real that announced an animated Phil
Speaker 1: Collins biopic is in the works that will take place
Speaker 1: in the world of Grand Theft on Collins will voice himself.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, okay, what the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: And I was just like, yeah, no, that is not
Speaker 1: that the strangest biopick that I've heard of a musician
Speaker 1: yet this year.
Speaker 5: That really sounds tight. Like I don't even know Grand
Speaker 5: Theft's auto very well, but I know Phil Collins music,
Speaker 5: and I feel like those two things work kind of
Speaker 5: well together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, animated genesis Phil Collins thing is fine, but this
Speaker 2: is this isn't real, right, I'm guessing because this can't be.
Speaker 2: I don't understand why this would make sense to anyone
Speaker 2: who's actually making films to be like, all right, man,
Speaker 2: can we get the biggest video game franchise ever and
Speaker 2: use that ip to then mash that together one of
Speaker 2: my favorite musicians, Phil Collins.
Speaker 1: Man, that's a sick fucking movie right there. No it's
Speaker 1: not true, right, it's not true. It's not true. No, no, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: And in the same way we would be sitting via
Speaker 1: reporting that it was true. But our writer J M
Speaker 1: McNabb was like, guys, this isn't true. Guys, hey, don't
Speaker 1: do it. Don't don't say it's true. Believable. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all about IP.
Speaker 5: Yeah it is, and and and also a little bit
Speaker 5: of like not paying actors and I you know, I
Speaker 5: don't know what the state of the animators strike is
Speaker 5: right now, but I'm like, you know a.
Speaker 1: Lot of this.
Speaker 5: You gotta imagine these were films that were being made
Speaker 5: during the writer's strike and the SAG strike, So that's
Speaker 5: my we might be seeing the product of that as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a fun, whimsical origin story where Pharrell
Speaker 1: was just like playing with legos and we were like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, no, actually it was to fuck a
Speaker 1: bunch of people out of as much money as possible.
Speaker 2: We told Farrell this is that this he probably is
Speaker 2: going to get the biggest return on it being animated.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's gonna announce he's a billionaire at some point too, right.
Speaker 1: Could be.
Speaker 2: I mean, if Selena Gomez just became a billionaire, I know, I'm.
Speaker 5: So disgusted with I know you, I know, you guys
Speaker 5: talked about I'm just so disgusted with these stories of billionaires,
Speaker 5: like a newly minted billionaire, shut that fuck up. This
Speaker 5: is so illegal.
Speaker 1: Jealous, yeah, because you'll never be one.
Speaker 5: Well, I make like a third like what I make.
Speaker 5: I don't even know how much I make compared to
Speaker 5: a million dollars, but like it is, we were talking
Speaker 5: about it earlier. It is really funny that people who
Speaker 5: make like good money, like millions of dollars a year,
Speaker 5: who are fine, who are like taking great vacations and
Speaker 5: living wonderful homes. Truly, we are being told and somehow
Speaker 5: believe that they are closer to being a billionaire than
Speaker 5: they are too, like you know, being a McDonald's work
Speaker 5: or a Walmart greeter. You know what I'm saying. And no, no,
Speaker 5: you have way more in common with a Walmart greeter
Speaker 5: than you do with billionaires. And by the way, you're
Speaker 5: being taxed a rate that like anyway, it's just like you're.
Speaker 1: The ones who should be so mad, and yet you're
Speaker 1: voting for Trump at.
Speaker 5: Like people who make like half a million dollars or
Speaker 5: a million dollars a year, which is like good, good
Speaker 5: on you. That's fine. You're a hard worker. But if
Speaker 5: they realize there's a pro public study that came out
Speaker 5: that it was just like shows you the discrepancy. People
Speaker 5: who are in that mid tier are paying way more
Speaker 5: in taxes than the richest, and they should be fucking
Speaker 5: livid about.
Speaker 2: It, right, And those are the people that they I
Speaker 2: think it's like a perfect group to have that because
Speaker 2: they become the fighters for like the taxes are killing.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, because they have their home owners they have
Speaker 5: political power their voters exactly, and it's.
Speaker 1: Just, yeah, that Zillow argument is going to be hitting
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just got a curb report or whatever that shit
Speaker 2: is called it, like what your what your mom house worth?
Speaker 1: Now? But yeah, forell I mean, come on, yeah they
Speaker 1: have whatever. Dude, just he's not a billionaire yet, you know.
Speaker 2: Did you see Selina Gomez though, she said when they
Speaker 2: brought it up, She's like, I'd rather not talk about money.
Speaker 1: I think it's in poor taste.
Speaker 2: Like you fucking billion that's such a fucked up answer
Speaker 2: to give, Like, I think it's in poor taste to
Speaker 2: talk about the fact that I've become a billionaire, Like.
Speaker 1: Y'all, yeah, come on, now, you lose the right to
Speaker 1: do that. Once you become a billionaire.
Speaker 5: It's not importance exactly. It's not importaste to be a billionaire.
Speaker 5: It's important to talk about it, right.
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