WEBVTT - Target’s Fake Smile Mandate, Elon Would Fail Turing Test? 11.12.25 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:07.600 So we've been watching Alien Earth for a few weeks 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:12.080 behind the curve there. But my husband said the words, 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:16.360 said the phrase because I was like, did xenomorphs always 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.240 just look like a guy running around in a xenomorph suit? 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.720 And yeah, he goes, xenomorphs are part human and I 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.680 was like, well, obviously I understand the provenance of alien 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.760 DNA and xenomorph DNA, and I'm like, well, they share 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.880 DNA with humans. He said, they are part human, which 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.760 I disagree with, and I need your your Oh. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.839 I think originally it was that they're part like whatever 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:49.960 got face hugged, but now with Prometheus, I think they're 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.760 just straight up part human. Yeah, all right, all right, 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.920 I think I think because that was what that was, 0:00:55.960 --> 0:01:00.920 what happened, That's what poor Numi was it newly Repace? 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.880 Yeah, yeah, was she was it? 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.039 Whoever it was? Whoever it was at the end the 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.720 end of Prometheus. Basically you only see her corpse in 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:15.280 Alien Covenant. But yeah, so her corpse this DNA. I 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:19.560 guess presumably it's it's implied that it's her eggs got 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.240 turned into the alien eggs, but you know what I mean, Like, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.200 I'm pretty sure that's that's now just like part of 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.959 it is like every alien has I believe new me repaced. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:33.640 We could have looked this up, but I'm not going to. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.720 Yeah, it has a little bit of new me repaced 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:36.720 DNA in them. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.279 Okay, and she's a human, so yeah. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:40.560 That's because of old David. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.880 But she's also though, a straight up creationist who somehow 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:49.560 believes in xenobiology. So the character or the Yeah, there's 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.520 multiple points in Prometheus where they're like, we're doing this, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.960 you know the how okay for God with a capital 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.560 gene says we're says for letting. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:07.360 Me like yeah, yeah, yeah, you can keep talking. 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.080 We're no, And multiple points of Prometheus they're basically like, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.000 oh God did this, and it's like, you're a goddamn biologist. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.160 What the hell are you talking about? 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:17.919 Hi? 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:26.200 Mike, Hello, Hi, we're furious over here about uh Prometheus. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:31.399 I'm really sorry to hear that. Yeah, thanks for doing 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.600 the show, Yeah, thanks for having me. Are you an 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.079 alien fan Aliens in general? 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.919 Yes, the alien movies and stories specifically, I've seen some, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.519 and I would say I have enjoyed. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.480 But if you're an Aliens fan, then you are. Then 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.960 maybe I'm not one. I'm not, but I just know 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.280 too much about this ship. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.919 That's that's very interesting to know a lot about something 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.400 that you're not a fan of. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.000 Really, I got, I got. Really, people are really bad. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.280 At me over the things I said about Alien on 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.520 the last promo clip these guys put out. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:09.560 Yeah, was pissed. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.800 Because I wasn't our point just that they're not a 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.000 good weapon, they're not the perfect killing machine. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.760 My point, the point that I thought was being made, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.000 was the freaks in the Alien movies who are like, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.919 what a what an amazing organism? Those guys are wrong. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:28.359 That was my point. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.120 Yeah, I'm sorry you God for that. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.200 I liked it. Is it? 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.240 Is it possible that when you try to make a 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.640 nuanced point on the Internet there might be some people 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:44.600 who respond as though they don't understand the exact nuanced 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:45.640 point you're trying to make. 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.840 Is that to you? 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:53.440 It's definitely a theory. You're good and they're bad. I 0:03:53.440 --> 0:04:04.920 get it, Yet I can't be that. Hello the Internet, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.600 and welcome to season four to fourteen, episode three. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.360 Of Dirty Zi Guys Job. 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.160 There's a production of Iheartradios, the podcast where we take 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.600 a deep dove into American share consciousness, and it is Wednesday, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.839 November twelfth, twenty twenty five. My name is Jack O'Brien 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.240 aka Potatoes O'Brien, and I'm thrilled to be joined in 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.400 our second seat today by today's special guest co host, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.560 a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. You know 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.840 him from the US This racist podcast, a new star 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.560 Trek podcast that I'm thinking he'll probably tell us about. 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:39.840 It's Andrew D. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.279 I'm guessing he's contractually obligated. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.599 I forgot to doing AKAA come up with one. 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:50.880 But I'm just very clearly I am the way to 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:55.480 obsessed with alien biology, alien of all kinds. So that's right. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.680 The fucking scientist is in the house. What's up, my 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.120 the fake scientist is here. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:04.919 That's rightationist scientists. Andrew T. Andrew wre thrilled to be 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.919 joined by a very funny comedian who you've seen on 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.239 basically every TV show that has ever featured stand up comedy. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.640 Doing stand up comedy is a very funny stand up. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.960 His newest special is out next week on YouTube. His 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.160 two podcasts are The Faucet and Broccoli and ice Cream. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:26.000 Please welcome Mike Capwa. So happy to be here. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.599 Mike Kaplan AKA, a guy whose last album that came 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.479 out was called Aka, and a guy who will point 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.239 out that Andrew T and Aliens have the exact same 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.599 vowels in that A and I and an E, so 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.440 we're not so different. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:44.560 You and Aliens. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.640 That's right. Yeah, thanks so much for having me a 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.240 pleasure to thank you for being here, an amazing I 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.360 for the vowels and people's gimes. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:06:02.279 Yeah, vowel expert, that's right, you know all five. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:07.640 And sometimes and even sometimes doub you in certain situations. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.840 Why how come single you gets to. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.680 Be a vowel all the time, but double the single vowel. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.400 I'm coming here to ask questions that no one cares about. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:23.599 So real wants to answer because no one cares to answer. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.839 Some comedians say the things that everyone's afraid to say. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.960 I say the thing that everyone it's similar, but for 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:30.880 a different reason. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.880 They're afraid of what it would do to their career. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.120 Sometimes a vowel is that. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.960 In the English language, not so much, but in other 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.720 languages sometimes here's the way that I did. I studied 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:51.640 linguistics in college and all such fu. Yes, so the 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.159 way that why is sometimes a vowel is that it's 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.240 basically the same as the letter I or the E 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.440 sound in consonant position. So you know, if the word 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.279 starts with A with a y, it's as if you 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.159 just said e, like yes is yes? 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:09.600 You just say yes? 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.160 It is like an E and anything that starts with a. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.120 Exactly, and it is basically the same when anything starts 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.720 with A with a sound, with a W sound, it's 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.960 basically you're starting with an ooh, you know, like like 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.320 what are we talking about? What are we talking about? 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:32.560 You know, So it is as much theoretically as much. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.000 But for whatever reason, you know, we put why's in 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.120 vowel positions sometimes like in a tryst or a myth. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.680 You know, the the why is the only vowel. I 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.520 don't know if there are any. Here here's the place 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.720 I figured it out as I was talking about it. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.040 Here's the one place in the English language at least 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:54.120 where W acts as a vowel, no other vowels in 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.960 the word, and it is the verd P W N 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:03.160 pone and our consonants W. I just anyone thought that 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.120 I couldn't name it, you just got poned. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.320 I was going to say, if you're a graphic designer 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:09.440 from the mid two thousands. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:10.800 V is also a vowel. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.880 Just you know, that makes a lot of sense because 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:15.080 V is for vowel. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:16.080 Looks like you. 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:24.520 Rules such a such a great about universe of information that. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.800 We've just you guys talk about the zeitgeist. But I'm like, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.520 we're gonna do my zeitgeist. 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.080 Okay, the Kathlin Zeitgeist. We're going to get to know 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.480 you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:36.880 going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.240 talking about. We've got a broad theory that I'm working 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.679 on on that, like, as billionaires and people in the 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.160 Trump administration become more and more isolated, we're just getting 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.960 like a more and more entertaining look at what the 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.640 inside of their brains look like, like what every everybody 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.600 thinks is cool. We got Jeff Bezos entering some like 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.720 stadium and on PEP rally through a laser tube flanked 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:08.040 by late saber wielding guards. And then more importantly, Joyce 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.840 Carol Oates telling Elon Musk who he was on Twitter 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.760 and him like, we're having a really hard time dealing 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.040 with that. So we'll talk about that. It's a little 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:22.240 update to the new Emperor has Emperor's New Clothes era 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.400 that we're living in. We're also going to talk about 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.400 Target is forcing employees to smile, and they have new 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.480 rules around this, like with if you're within ten feet, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.679 you have to do this, if you're within four feet 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.880 you have to do this. And I think it's good. No, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.559 I think I think it sounds terrifying. And I want 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.360 to just talk about the phenomenon of the artificial smile 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.559 because it's been exported from America to other countries with 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.720 varying degrees of damage and like surreal weirdness, all that 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.960 plenty more. But first, Mike, we do like to ask 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.640 our guests, what is something from your search history that's 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:00.520 revealing about. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:00.839 Who you are? 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.199 Sure I in preparation for this, I opened up Google 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.160 dot com and I'll tell you, Uh the here's the 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.000 the first several things stop me anytime. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:13.480 Uh. 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:18.400 The most recent thing that I searched was literally my 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.680 own album A K. A. Because I wanted to get 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.280 a link for it to put in a newsletter where 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.160 I was mentioning it. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.760 Uh So, look into my head is like, what's in there? 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:35.040 Me? But next up is uh, Pips New York Times, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.440 the new game. I don't know if you guys are 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.000 familiar with the new game Pips in the New York 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.000 Times suite of app uh, you know the game app 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.599 games that feature like Wordle and spelling Bee, Pips is 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.360 a new one. Like Pips refers to the dots on dominoes, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:51.839 and so it's like it's like a. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.840 Yeah, it's like ken Ken but with dominoes. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.280 So it's like or like Sudoku but with math, but 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.320 with domino So that's a fun game that every every 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:08.120 midnight a new one becomes available. And my girlfriend Renie 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.080 and I went out. If we're you know whatever, we're 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.480 re usually watching something and one of us will note, oh, 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.880 it's Pips time, so we'll pause, and I will. For 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.080 whatever reason, I don't just go into the app. I 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.040 just go into Google and search. It autocompletes Pips New 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.320 York Times, So that is that is there. Then I 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:33.000 put in Panda Kitchen Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, which is a restaurant 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:39.080 indoors my mom and I we live. My mom lives 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.200 in New Jersey. I live in New York City. We 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.760 both love the comedian Paul Riser. His special was the 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.920 first one I ever saw when I was thirteen and 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.120 nineteen ninety one, we saw him lie I opened for him. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.440 I know from a right that makes sense. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.800 Of course, it's all connected, but his I mean, he's 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.560 been in whiplash, he's been in stranger things, and the 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.200 boys like his acting career is really thriving, and his 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.199 stand up has been solid for as long as he 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:07.640 been doing. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:08.679 He's wonderful. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.600 Saw him live a couple of years ago, and my 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:14.719 mom and I were driving with our partners to go 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.079 see him in Pennsylvania, just like an hour and a 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.280 half away, and my mom I was tasked with locating 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.680 a restaurant where I, a vegan and my girlfriend, a 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.520 vegan who is allergic to gluten, can eat in Pennsylvania. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:33.160 In that place turns out to maybe be Panda Kitchen, Stroudsburg. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:33.800 It is. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.800 I also looked up Nicki Glazer's SNL monologue. She is 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.280 a friend who I love, and I was so excited 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:41.800 to see. 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:42.880 Her on there. 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.760 And then also House of Dynamite White House Press Lady, 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.360 because my girlfriend Reenie and I watched House of Dynamite 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.360 on Netflix last night and she was like, I recognize 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.440 that person. Where else do we know her from? And 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.960 so I looked her up and found out where we 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:00.560 knew her from. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.000 Do you do the guessing? She like, don't tell me yet, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.840 don't tell me she. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:10.440 Is was incredible. She is amazing at like even just 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.880 if it's the eye. Like we were watching the Superman 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.760 movie a week or two ago and she had never 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.720 I saw it in the theater and I did not 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.920 recognize this guy. But she's like, is that bald guy Hank? 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.319 And at first I was like lex Luthor Hank from 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.400 Breaking Bad. No, not at all, but bald, the bald 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.120 guy who was the element man. Uh, you know, the 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.000 guy who could change part of his body into crypt 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.760 kryptonnight and such. He is the same guy who played 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.240 Hank No Ho Hank in Barry Yes, so much makeup 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.360 on Even when she said was, I was like, I 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:53.359 still almost don't see it. Reney has incredible powers of observation. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.040 Friends with that guy, the guy who plays no Hoo Hank. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.200 He's like a you know, family friends through and I 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.760 didn't know he was said, that's how deep he is 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:05.480 under makeup. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.080 He's so incredible. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.720 No Hohank character is so he's like one of my 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:14.720 favorite Greeings, my favorite characters in any any already so fun. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.360 So tell tell your family to tell his family to 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.040 tell him that I like it. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:23.720 Yes, well, wait, Mike, going back real quick, not real quick, 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.040 to the to the vegan and Chinese restaurant thing. And 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.640 this this might be a thing you already know, but 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.720 it's a thing that I was told when I went 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:32.880 to Asia that I really liked. Which is that for 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.360 in Asia, especially in China, where they do have a 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.560 lot of trouble, like really really really understanding, Like no, 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.280 I seriously don't want any meat in this for real. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.720 You can tell people you're Buddhist. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:49.680 Ah, and that's I am more Buddhist than many people. Yes, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.000 though here's here's how a Buddhist I am. Like, I 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.200 don't want to say that I am one, because previously 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.080 I would have said Buddhist as well, like a chump, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:00.800 you know, like a chump. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:02.920 But I love I've read a lot. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.640 I have a good friend who is a practicing Buddhist 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.000 who's taken you know, layperson vows like I have not 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.240 taken the vows myself. I would not claim to be 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.720 a Buddhist because I'm worried that people would say, oh, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:12.440 you're a Buddhist. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.440 Name three of their albums. Yeah, I do love you know. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.280 I've read a lot of Tick not Han and pay 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.560 my show Drum and Uh, Suzuki Roshi one of my 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.880 you know favorite like you know, teachers. And I have 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.120 this book of things that he has said that his 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.800 like students have reported, and one of them he said, 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.880 he said, Uh, for a non Buddhist, there are non 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.280 Buddhists and Buddhists, but for a Buddhist, everyone is a Buddhist, 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.520 including bugs, you know, just like we're all We're all 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.360 in this together, even the bugs. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.800 I'm realizing as you say this, because because I was 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.240 told this advice and I'm not vegan, but it was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.160 just given to I was on like a trip in 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.400 college and dah dah dah, and this was given to 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.760 a white person who was a vegetarian who was having 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.520 trouble not getting pork in their stuff. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:15:59.240 And I'm realizing. 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.440 I think the choral to that is, if you're a 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.320 white person who says you're a Buddhist, you're not going 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.680 to get follow up questions, but they'll still serve you 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.000 vegan stuff. Because they will kind of roll their eyes 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.560 and be like, Okay, we get what they want, right, Yeah. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.000 Yeah, appreciate it. I'll share one one more plug for 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.400 a Buddhist teacher who began life as a and continued 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.040 life as a Jewish woman, a culturally Jewish woman at least, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.040 named Sylvia Borstein. And she has a book that I 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:31.000 believe is entitled That's Funny You don't look Buddhist so perfect? 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:32.080 That's the perfect. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.080 Yeah, amazing, But thank you, thank you for the tip. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.720 I will use it. Mike, what's something you think is underrated? 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.960 So under I know that I saw I remember that 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.920 this question was going to be coming. I have a 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.960 few answers. My first answer is a thing that I 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.120 love that I feel like it's so interesting to talk 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.520 about things as overrated and underrated when I feel like 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.680 all of these things are relative. Where, you know, especially today, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.080 when your algorithm will you know, prop gate and perpetuate 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.800 the things that you like or that maybe you don't 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.760 even know that you are clicking on and engaging with. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.399 And you say to somebody like, why is my computer 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.760 why does my phone keep showing me this? It's like, well, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.720 because of you, you know, you have revealed something about 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.159 yourself and there's less of a monoculture today. So, like, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.320 I mean, one answer that I would say for myself personally, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.720 I love advice columns, and I think that most people 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.480 don't think about, or care about, or read or engage 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.639 with advice columns or podcasts as much as I do. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:34.280 We're out there. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.640 I'm not the only one. I'm not innovating it. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.440 But I think, based on my tastes, I love advice 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.160 columns and would love to and think that they are 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.600 thus because of that underrated. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:51.960 Yeah, they're definitely having a resurgence of the podcast space, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.480 Like it is a type like a format that has 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:59.200 been coming back, I think because it's a way to 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:04.000 engage with other people that isn't the news, you know, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:06.520 like that which people are just like, ah, I want 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.960 to hear about like messy drama that like isn't about 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.800 the fact that the world is dying, And so yeah, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.560 let me hear about the politics of your workplace, you 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:17.120 know what I mean? 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.440 And oh absolutely, And there's some that are so specific 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.919 like specifically with the politics of workplace, Like there's a 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.639 podcast I think she used to have a podcast, but 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.159 definitely has a column Alison Green, and her column is 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.679 called ask a Manager, and like, I'm not even I 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.840 don't work in a quote unquote workplace. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.560 You know, I don't have HR. I don't have you know, 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.359 a boss and a grand boss. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.560 And yet ultimately, at the at the root, all of 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.160 these questions are like, you know, questions about guidelines of 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.440 how to live as a human being, how to get 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.320 along with other people, Like there's you know, relationships, It's 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.320 all very human and relatable. Even if the question is like, 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.000 you know, my boss did this specific thing, shouldn't I 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:01.000 get paid more for? Like I know, one of the 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.199 questions we address later. Oh also, just real quick, do 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:05.840 you think that I know we're going to get into 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.879 this later. Do you think that Jeff Bezos is following 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.120 the target model of like, hey, everyone, when I come 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:16.560 out surrounded by lightsabers, smile if you're within one million 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.760 miles of me, smile. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.399 Or is he like look scared. 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:23.520 Before me? 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.720 Because the way, like everything I've heard about Amazon, like 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.880 being an Amazon executive, is that people are openly crying 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.920 in their offices, like because of how like brutal it 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.119 is to work there, like at the high level, not 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.359 just like on the you know, factory floors. So I 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.800 wonder if he has like a different kink where he's like, 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:45.399 you better not smile. 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:49.920 What is that he is knowing which side? I bet 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.840 he makes no rules. It's just like everyone who doesn't 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.439 do what he already wants get gets a little fired. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.879 Yeah, people get fired so quick at Amazon, a little fired. 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.280 That's but yes, it felt the columns. 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.879 Yeah, I mean, I just think that we all, you know, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.440 in life, at various points, are trying to figure out 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.439 what to do in you know, in general or in 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.560 specific situations. You know, some of us have friends that 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.920 we go to. Some of us, you know, might look 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:20.199 to various community enterprises you're a part of, be it 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.200 you know, a religious affiliation or you know, just your 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.199 your group text or what have you. And yeah, I 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.000 think and I'm not saying that I get all of 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.800 my how I live my life from advice coms. I 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.840 just I do love. There's some element also of sometimes 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.520 a person writing in is the unbeknownst to them, villain 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:40.840 of the story, you know, the the am I the 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:44.560 asshole without realizing that they might in fact be the asshole. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.119 And sometimes to see, you know, a person who is 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:53.840 the wronging party, the more harmful person in a situation complaining, 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:56.560 you know, the the one percent being like, hey, the 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.919 ninety nine percent has taken one percent of my one percent, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.959 you know, in my mind, like what what can I 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.439 do about this? And to see you know, come up 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:09.200 and delivered or just you know, a deliver it's just yeah, 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:12.879 it's there, can be, it could be. I have to 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.920 be careful because I don't want to just slide down 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:20.960 into a realm of judgment. Because I want everyone to 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.680 live their their best, happiest, most productive, you know, most peaceful, 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:31.160 healthy life. And you know, sometimes for me that involves 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:36.200 a little bit of schadenfreude, but I'm much more I'm 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.359 much more into freuden freude, which is taking joy in 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.080 other people's joy, which is I like to see when 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:47.200 people figure out what to do and learn and improve 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.320