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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh These are some of our favorite segments
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist Miles. We're thrilled to be joined in
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Speaker 2: Please welcome.
Speaker 1: It's Kim Winda.
Speaker 3: AKA it's a small plug.
Speaker 2: After all.
Speaker 4: That's all I got was.
Speaker 2: How was Gary?
Speaker 4: He's working?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're working, Yeah, working hard, working for a living.
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 3: On Reddit, there's a stub reddit called what is this
Speaker 3: where people are just like, find something like I found
Speaker 3: there some of my kids backpack and it's like it's
Speaker 3: it's a fucking weed baggy you fuck okay, handed handgun.
Speaker 3: So often people don't know what butt plugs are. They're like,
Speaker 3: I found this in my Airbnb under the bed, and
Speaker 3: everyone's like Usually it just be like wash your hands
Speaker 3: immediately they have.
Speaker 4: It right up to their faces.
Speaker 1: Fine here my nose for scale A terrible use texture
Speaker 1: to it, know, it could be so many different sizes.
Speaker 1: All right, fine here in my mouth.
Speaker 3: Can get all the way back to my youth. Yeah,
Speaker 3: tongue for scale. Oh man. Anyway, there's just thinking about
Speaker 3: plugs because Kim's here. Sorry, you don't know that.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm just glad when you say it you think
Speaker 4: of me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, I mean, look, I think even it's Gary
Speaker 3: even you know what I mean, It's not even just
Speaker 3: a butt plug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a.
Speaker 3: Whole personality, an inner moral compass. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is his moral compass? Like? Was it is?
Speaker 1: He like points south?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, so interesting gives me the worst best ideas,
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's funny when you start Gary
Speaker 3: butt plug. There's someone made, uh a Gary Bucy butt
Speaker 3: plug where it's a plug but the handle and.
Speaker 1: This picture I was gonna say, teeth like are so
Speaker 1: teeth are so prominent in my image of Gary Busey
Speaker 1: and teeth are not something I necessarily wanted my butt plug.
Speaker 3: Well, you can have it both. You can have the
Speaker 3: you can have the feeling the image of teeth without
Speaker 3: the sensation. In my mind, that would be a wonderful surprise,
Speaker 3: just first time going at it bent over.
Speaker 1: Gary by screaming, Gary, I don't know what I would
Speaker 1: just want to show you this before.
Speaker 3: Uh, very specific, friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is something from your search history that's revealing
Speaker 1: about who you are?
Speaker 4: Well? I saw Doctor Faustus at the Griffith Park Shakespeare
Speaker 4: Free Shakespeare outside and then I was just reading about
Speaker 4: doctor Faustus and people selling their soul to the devil,
Speaker 4: and uh, yeah, I don't know, I'm just learning a
Speaker 4: lot about.
Speaker 3: Is that the first deal with the devil in fine
Speaker 3: art we get?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's based on a on a German legend,
Speaker 4: but it's the first. And then the coin Misery Loves Company.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: Then I was just reading about Christopher Marlow who wrote it,
Speaker 4: and he's a fascinating dude. He was maybe a gay,
Speaker 4: he was maybe a spy.
Speaker 1: He was a party animal.
Speaker 4: You your soul to the double you have a lot
Speaker 4: of party energy. Hell yeah, and yeah, I mean I
Speaker 4: was also definitely reading all the Trump conspiracies and people
Speaker 4: thought he was dead for like a day. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was an exciting day. We were all really excited.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 3: What was the thing that got you though? You kept
Speaker 3: going Maybe maybe.
Speaker 1: I'll stay a little bit more invested in this.
Speaker 4: Someone someone convinced me in real life. They were like,
Speaker 4: here's why, it's definitely true. And I was like, I
Speaker 4: really want to believe you, but I just feel like
Speaker 4: he's going to pop out at a press conference and
Speaker 4: be all normally's talking. And that's what happened.
Speaker 3: And then it was like, I meanause, you know what
Speaker 3: did they tell you?
Speaker 2: What was?
Speaker 3: What was like sort of the.
Speaker 4: It was like.
Speaker 1: Power he.
Speaker 4: Uh, just like that he hadn't been seen in a
Speaker 4: couple of days. I think my the main thing that
Speaker 4: was convincing me was like that man loves a patriotic holiday.
Speaker 4: If there's somewhere he can be on like a you know,
Speaker 4: boat parade with an American flag, he's not. He's not there, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: something must be wrong. But I was also like, maybe
Speaker 4: he's getting that like Lindsay Lohan face.
Speaker 1: I feel like you can't as a president get a
Speaker 1: face lift because it requires you to be out of
Speaker 1: the limelight.
Speaker 2: For two long.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, Biden was showing up high and
Speaker 4: tied a lot of different times.
Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, it's just it's like, yo, man, when'd
Speaker 1: your eyes go?
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's what I'm alert.
Speaker 3: Oh cool, Jack Nicholson in personation you're doing yeah.
Speaker 4: And I was like, it would be kind of funny
Speaker 4: if Trump showed up like, you know, nothing, nothing's going on,
Speaker 4: and he just looks like nineteen eighty five, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden.
Speaker 1: His body is melting underneath his face.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, of course his body, his body's obviously melting
Speaker 4: underneath his face.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well she gets some Morgan transplants.
Speaker 1: And doctor Faustus. I'm actually not familiar. Is do they
Speaker 1: go to a crossroad, like how much of the sold
Speaker 1: sold to the devil stuff that we know today? Original
Speaker 1: They don't.
Speaker 4: They don't go to the crossroads. But the devil just
Speaker 4: kind of pops up and it's like, hey, let me
Speaker 4: give you. I got this amazing deal for you. You'll
Speaker 4: get to do whatever you want. You can do necromancy
Speaker 4: for twenty four years, and then at the end of
Speaker 4: the twenty four years, the Devil's going to drag your
Speaker 4: soul down to hell, right, and you'll be in hell
Speaker 4: for eternity. But the play is really good and funny,
Speaker 4: and a lot.
Speaker 3: Of twenty four years.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's very I was like, everybody
Speaker 4: would do that because it's like Klarna, everyone would.
Speaker 2: Be like okay, illay that off later exactly.
Speaker 1: This is just a metaphor for all of Americas. Yea
Speaker 1: more years a sick man now, and they know you
Speaker 1: won't be able to pay it back, just like the
Speaker 1: Clarina knows you won't be able to pay it back.
Speaker 1: They just own you now.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just kind of like, Wow, it's so
Speaker 4: fun to do, and then at the end it's like,
Speaker 4: oh no.
Speaker 3: I see so many people wrecking their credit with that
Speaker 3: shit like online who are like, yo, you don't have
Speaker 3: to pay that ship back, and they're like what are
Speaker 3: they going to do? They're not even based in the US,
Speaker 3: Like they sell your debt to a US based company you.
Speaker 1: Just heard one time on social media. Yeah, they actually
Speaker 1: can't do anything. They're not based in the US.
Speaker 3: In Ireland, okay, more about global capital.
Speaker 4: You could roll the dice though, and be like things
Speaker 4: might get fall apart more and they won't know where
Speaker 4: to find you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of people who definitely, I
Speaker 3: know people who think like that.
Speaker 1: Twenty four years is so weirdly specific, and also it's
Speaker 1: the same amount of time that I did my deal
Speaker 1: with a guy who just popped out of nowhere and
Speaker 1: offered to give me the life of my dreams.
Speaker 4: He explains a lot about you, Jack.
Speaker 3: He sold me on something called a Faustian bargain.
Speaker 2: Bargain I just hear.
Speaker 1: I always stopped listening at bargain.
Speaker 4: Like you cast.
Speaker 1: Okay, go a podcast. I didn't know that there were
Speaker 1: I didn't. It was like a real monkeys plot thing
Speaker 1: where back when I did the deal there were only
Speaker 1: like a handful of podcasts. I didn't know everybody was gonna.
Speaker 2: Have a podcast. Yeah, it's kind of a bum deal.
Speaker 1: Now, Fuck, I should not have sold my soul for this.
Speaker 4: Well, you're gonna have a good twenty four years and then, yeah.
Speaker 2: What you say your own?
Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, all right, we might have a
Speaker 3: really cool family this year. Come up on twenty three
Speaker 3: sweating blood.
Speaker 1: Nope, and that is one of.
Speaker 3: Those I thought I filed him down last night.
Speaker 2: What is something Miles you think is overrated? Overrated? Bro?
Speaker 2: A fucking overly juicy sandwich?
Speaker 3: Okay, Like, I know, when you eat like a burger
Speaker 3: or something, you're like, oh, look at all the moisture
Speaker 3: in that Patty or whatever. And you see there's so
Speaker 3: many info the like cut a sandwich. It happened like squeezing,
Speaker 3: like oh little the juice come out. Yeah fine, Like
Speaker 3: in certain context that is indicative of like, oh this
Speaker 3: is looking It's not like a dried up beef brick
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a fucking sandwich. Okay. I was at
Speaker 2: Jersey mics. Uh oh, this man in front of me.
Speaker 5: Bro asked for an inordinate amount of like vinegar, going yes, sack,
Speaker 5: not even like keep going okay. So I thought I
Speaker 5: was on a fucking prank show because he kept going,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I'm looking around for like the other
Speaker 5: straight character in this sketch to be like, this is
Speaker 5: a fucking lot.
Speaker 3: Of liquid now, right? Are we even eat? Is this
Speaker 3: even a sandwich now? And he kept saying can I
Speaker 3: get Can I get a little more?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Can I sorry? Sorry? Can I get a little more?
Speaker 3: And I at least four times by the time he
Speaker 3: hit the fourth one, the sandwich artist basically did a fuck.
Speaker 2: You amount of trying to be like oh yeah. They
Speaker 2: were even like, broh are you fine?
Speaker 6: Squeazed like emptied the full clip out on it, and
Speaker 6: he was like amazing, thank you h and like the
Speaker 6: guy like then trying to wrap it, there was like
Speaker 6: liquid pulling in the fucking in the fucking paper and
Speaker 6: they wrapped the bread even holding I From.
Speaker 3: What I understand, some people just like it to be
Speaker 3: not even a sandwich, just like a goopy mess with
Speaker 3: sandwich innerds that they eat.
Speaker 1: And the bread becomes part of the sauce that's on
Speaker 1: top of it.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: Uh. And so anyway, he fucking just like he just
Speaker 3: sauntered out of there like it was normal. And I
Speaker 3: was like, we had this moment and I was up next.
Speaker 3: I was like, what the he's like, bro, I've never
Speaker 3: seen it.
Speaker 1: Think. I was like like that you guys, both guys
Speaker 1: both knew you would witness something.
Speaker 2: We were like, oh.
Speaker 3: Shit, okay, man, anyway, let me let me get a
Speaker 3: club supreme bro.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you don't don't fucking overdo it with the.
Speaker 3: Juice because I hate a fucking like a sandwich and
Speaker 3: Jersey Mike's is wet, okay, like that's how they do
Speaker 3: shit there. But most I know that, so I eat
Speaker 3: it the second I get it. I'm not to be like, yo,
Speaker 3: let that shit cook in the fridge. No, but other
Speaker 3: sandwiches generally, like a nice sandwich, you think it can
Speaker 3: last a few hours without getting completely sobbed out.
Speaker 2: And I understand again, it sounded like it was sogged
Speaker 2: out on.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 2: This was like a by deree.
Speaker 3: It was like a French dip with oil and vinegar
Speaker 3: pre soaked basically.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so y'all, I not for me, and I
Speaker 2: can't believe.
Speaker 3: I think it was just more of this situation I
Speaker 3: was in where the guy was like, oh, amazing thing.
Speaker 2: Like I thought he was gonna be like, okay, buddy.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that much, right, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but after the fourth one, because it got a
Speaker 3: little passive, he's.
Speaker 2: Like, sorry, can I let me just get just can
Speaker 2: I get just a little bit more? I really like,
Speaker 2: I really like a lot of the juice on there.
Speaker 3: And then just that like it was like hissing at
Speaker 3: the bottom because it's right, yeah, yeah, like it was
Speaker 3: there was no more liquid in the bottle. Yeah, just anyway,
Speaker 3: don't do that, folks. And if you do, tell is
Speaker 3: that a fork and knife job? I guess, in which
Speaker 3: case it feels different.
Speaker 2: I don't know. This ship was so soggy. I'm not joking.
Speaker 3: There's probably oil drips like a fucking like like a
Speaker 3: trail of.
Speaker 2: Clues all the way back to walked.
Speaker 1: Outside, threw that sandwich in the away in the garbage,
Speaker 1: and then just jacked off in his car from.
Speaker 2: Just making somebody do that. That was what he was
Speaker 2: there for. What's your king, man?
Speaker 3: I don't like I'm not a Nickelson, but I like
Speaker 3: to go to restaurants. It's specific, but I like just
Speaker 3: making really specific orders and making the person uncomfortable with how.
Speaker 2: Wicky my order is. And I just kind of take
Speaker 2: that in.
Speaker 3: That's why we're these metaglasses, so I can record the
Speaker 3: whole thing.
Speaker 2: For metaglasses. My overrated, Uh just great.
Speaker 1: We had a great metaphor for capitalism this weekend with
Speaker 1: a trade in the NFL. I overrated is like NFL
Speaker 1: owners for a thousand reasons. But even if you're a
Speaker 1: fan of an NFL team, having an owner, I think
Speaker 1: is bad for you. There there's a trade in the
Speaker 1: NFL that was like not quite Luca level, Like when
Speaker 1: Luca got traded to the Lakers last year and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, how how does anyone think that was a
Speaker 1: good idea, this is a practice. So Dallas traded the
Speaker 1: best defensive player. It was Dallas. Again, the city of
Speaker 1: Dallas is just getting fucked over. Traded the best defensive
Speaker 1: player in the NFL to Green Bay for like a
Speaker 1: couple first round picks and like another you know, replacement
Speaker 1: level defensive player. And it's it's apparently like, you know,
Speaker 1: Dallas has this famous owner who's like got a big
Speaker 1: ego and is like he thought he had made some
Speaker 1: sort of handshake agreement with his person and he like
Speaker 1: went back on it, but.
Speaker 2: He had like just tried to cut the guy's.
Speaker 1: Agent out of the negotiation process and then so just
Speaker 1: based on his like personality issues with him, right he
Speaker 1: made he just like gave him away because he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not how we do things around here.
Speaker 2: Great, great team they got there, Yeah, great team. They suck.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, like I feel like every
Speaker 3: Cowboys fan I meet in this era is like.
Speaker 1: Fuck, dude, they were expected to suck before this trade happened.
Speaker 2: Oh and now it's like double suck. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And he's so he's like this strong arm owner who
Speaker 1: like does everything on his terms. He's older than Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: and I just want to racist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want.
Speaker 1: To contrast that with the Packers are owned by fans,
Speaker 1: right right, right, and they're run as a nonprofit, so
Speaker 1: every all the money they make goes back into the team,
Speaker 1: and they are like, this trade was pulled off by
Speaker 1: I guess it's either their president or CEO, but like,
Speaker 1: you know, normal non profit company shit. But the guy
Speaker 1: who pulled it off just took over in July after
Speaker 1: the previous leader of the team reached the mandatory age
Speaker 1: of seventy Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is this a sci fi utopia? I fucking
Speaker 2: hate Brett Farv So I don't know if I could
Speaker 2: ever get behind the.
Speaker 8: Packers just as a kid, like I just don't don't
Speaker 8: like but I love this, But I love this for them.
Speaker 8: That's how a team, or like capitalism should work. Is
Speaker 8: like it's owned by the fans and the workers. I
Speaker 8: don't think it's like I don't think it is a
Speaker 8: perfect utopia. I'm sure there's all sorts of fuckery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let us know what, despite our outward view of it,
Speaker 3: is it all fucked up?
Speaker 2: Now? Is it all? My favorite philosopher Didy, what the
Speaker 2: fuck is?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Are the Packers. Do they look like a contender? Now? Yeah?
Speaker 4: They do?
Speaker 3: Oh so they really just that was like a huge
Speaker 3: swing for them to be like, oh we just picked him, Okay,
Speaker 3: good good.
Speaker 1: They've gone from they're like the only team that consistently,
Speaker 1: you know, any anytime, like I'm a sadly a Patriots fan,
Speaker 1: and anytime you have like a run, you're lucky enough
Speaker 1: to have a good quarterback, Like you can guarantee there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some years where you like have a shitty
Speaker 1: quarterback and like your team is bad, because it's just
Speaker 1: like that's not a thing that anybody can predict except
Speaker 1: Green Bay.
Speaker 2: For some reason.
Speaker 1: They've gone from Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan
Speaker 1: Love is now their quarterback, and like they've just all
Speaker 1: been awesome, and they've all been like a situation where
Speaker 1: like the next guy was just like waiting in the
Speaker 1: wings and they're like, okay, he's ready trade away the
Speaker 1: previous guy. The next guy is awes like right away, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And that doesn't have like, for whatever reason, it's just
Speaker 1: impossible to predict if a quarterback is actually going to
Speaker 1: be good in the NFL, except in Green Bay. They've
Speaker 1: like got it figured out anyways, you know, having having
Speaker 1: a powerful, one powerful, charismatic in quotes leader at the
Speaker 1: head of any organization, I feel like does not work.
Speaker 1: As we're seeing over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: You don't want a decrepit monkey skeleton running anything, as
Speaker 3: mister Burns even showed us.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, You don't want that.
Speaker 3: I was watching the Netflix Cheerleader, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader
Speaker 3: show that they put out, like I haven't watched a
Speaker 3: couple episodes of it, and you get glimpses of Jerry
Speaker 3: but more, you see his wife more.
Speaker 2: But Jerry Jones, God damn. Every time something like what
Speaker 2: the fuck are you guys doing over there? Just so old? Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And I feel like every time I hear about him,
Speaker 3: he's always in some shit being racist or old or
Speaker 3: whatever the fuck. But yeah, hey man, great great matchup,
Speaker 3: great matchup.
Speaker 2: Love that for everybody.
Speaker 1: All right, quickly, We'll move on to the next thing.
Speaker 1: What's something you underrated?
Speaker 9: Something I think is underrated is I just finished watching
Speaker 9: this show called dragon Age Absolution, and it's based on
Speaker 9: a video game, and it is so good and so gay,
Speaker 9: and I don't know anyone who's watched it, And I
Speaker 9: was actually really surprised that it was gay.
Speaker 4: Uh No, I don't know.
Speaker 9: I just I watched a lot of animation, and to
Speaker 9: get main characters that are gay and don't like die
Speaker 9: immediately after they kiss is so rare, especially in fantasy like.
Speaker 9: It's this phenomenon. If there are gay men in any
Speaker 9: like genre, they will be like star cross lovers and
Speaker 9: probably won't even get to kiss, but you'll just know
Speaker 9: that they are lovers and it's implied, and then one
Speaker 9: of them will die, and that happens every single time.
Speaker 9: It's crazy. So this one was great. There's actually like
Speaker 9: half of the main cast is gay and they're out
Speaker 9: here sucking and fucking and you know, finding dragons. Oh yeah,
Speaker 9: I loved it, and I don't know of anyone who's
Speaker 9: watched it. And there's only one season in six episodes,
Speaker 9: and I'm pretty sure it's canceled, but in the way
Speaker 9: that Netflix doesn't cancel stuff, they just never renew it,
Speaker 9: right right, right, Yeah, So I think people should watch that.
Speaker 2: It's Oh, it.
Speaker 3: Does a voice on there too, Mort Burke's wife, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Ashley Birch, Yeah, Quitian.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, such a fun character dragons are really you know,
Speaker 1: I have a nine and a seven year old, and
Speaker 1: like the most popular book series right now with kids
Speaker 1: that age is Wings of Fire, which is just a
Speaker 1: book series where everyone's dragons, like like the characters themselves.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah dragon yeah yeah, just dragging it all. Yeah
Speaker 1: and there, Yeah, everybody seems obsessed with that. Like I
Speaker 1: am searching on a fairly regular basis wings of Fire adaptation,
Speaker 1: Like there was a project that was in development that
Speaker 1: like went away, but it's a so when daddy is there,
Speaker 1: like are we going to get a wings Fire? Do
Speaker 1: you think it'll be like when I'm in high school?
Speaker 1: And so I think.
Speaker 3: That's that's what I kept asking my parents about an
Speaker 3: X Men movie as a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when are they going to make the movie? Or
Speaker 1: this when's the movie?
Speaker 9: Like you gotta wait, gotta wait, have a potential recommendation
Speaker 9: for your kids, and well dragon ages yeah great.
Speaker 2: And then also.
Speaker 9: There is another show called The Dragon Prince, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 9: like my hyperfixation is animation. I watch it all the time,
Speaker 9: so I could go on and on and on. Yeah,
Speaker 9: The Dragon Prince is amazing and it's a lot of
Speaker 9: TV I think it's like seven seasons, maybe even more.
Speaker 9: But it's pretty dragon heavy and they talk and they
Speaker 9: have personalities not all here too. Yeah, it's really great.
Speaker 9: It's actually one of the producers, I think of Avatar,
Speaker 9: the Last Airbender made this.
Speaker 3: Okay, I see the parallel might have been one.
Speaker 9: Of the creators too, But the voice of Sokka is
Speaker 9: the main character in this show and it's great. It's
Speaker 9: also I think like not enough people watched it, but
Speaker 9: that's how I feel about, Like all of my underrated
Speaker 9: things are just animated shows that no one's heard of.
Speaker 9: Like Infinity Train, Oh my god, is the best show ever.
Speaker 9: I just found out a mutual friend of mine wrote
Speaker 9: on it. I had no idea and it's so good,
Speaker 9: but you can't find it anywhere because it was lost
Speaker 9: in the merger of like Warm, one.
Speaker 3: Of those Yeah, fucking there's so many fucking shows.
Speaker 9: Like that, and it's so many animations too. Like a
Speaker 9: couple of my favorite shows are just nowhere to be
Speaker 9: found now, right Infinity Train, Summer Camp Island, and I
Speaker 9: would literally I'm saying, don't torrent, No, no one torrent
Speaker 9: ever except for maybe if.
Speaker 1: You do want to watch these shows, then you should, except.
Speaker 9: For mental you really shouldn't because of like that's really
Speaker 9: bad to do.
Speaker 3: But yeah, or find or find maybe some people from
Speaker 3: the crew and vemo them some money out of guilt.
Speaker 9: You know you should. Yeah, actually that's the sweet thought.
Speaker 3: I'll yeah, sorry, I just bit torrented the whole series.
Speaker 3: Here's like thirteen bucks. Can you slip that amongst everyone?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Would you steal from the oil industry?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Then why would you steal from the film indo? I said, yes,
Speaker 3: all right, the first.
Speaker 1: Flocks in the oil industry. That's the worst example. Let's
Speaker 1: from the cops. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back,
Speaker 1: talk overrated and get into some news, and we're back.
Speaker 1: So is Congress. Yeah, summer break. Adults who get summer
Speaker 1: break and aren't T shirts. Yeah, remember they t shirts?
Speaker 1: They cut out early, remember in July in a panic,
Speaker 1: like that's it. You guys are talking too much about
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Efstein.
Speaker 2: We're done.
Speaker 3: We're going to fucking summer camp now and then come
Speaker 3: back in September. Because they wanted to avoid just making
Speaker 3: this a thing and having to vote on it. Well,
Speaker 3: now they're back from like you're saying up top, plugging
Speaker 3: their ears and not trying to come to grips with reality.
Speaker 3: And Democrats are also included in that, and they have
Speaker 3: some major business to tend to, like first, averting another
Speaker 3: government shut down, They'll need sixty votes in the Senate,
Speaker 3: so that means they'll need help from Democrats to get
Speaker 3: their you know, get their spending in order to avert
Speaker 3: a shutdown. We'll see how that goes. That'll be an
Speaker 3: ongoing story for the next few weeks. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Democrats are tough as nails, so I
Speaker 1: feel like to hold them, hold their feet to the FOT.
Speaker 10: Okay, you guys promise not to do that stuff. Okay,
Speaker 10: I'm really gonna trust you now, I'm really gonnateresting now
Speaker 10: and anyway, So then the other thing that's on most
Speaker 10: people's minds, despite Trump wanting everyone to forget about it,
Speaker 10: is the Epstein files. So here's just a quick roundup
Speaker 10: of everything that's just happened, even in the last week. So, first,
Speaker 10: Republicans released a huge fucking tranch of documents to be like, look.
Speaker 3: See these are we got these from the DJ and
Speaker 3: even some Republicans like Thomas Master were like, we've seen
Speaker 3: ninety seven percent of this stuff already, so nice, try
Speaker 3: to pretend to be like, see, okay, can we move
Speaker 3: on to like racism yet?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: So then, also the Republicans on the House Oversight and
Speaker 3: Government Reform Committee have subpoenaed the Epstein estate for documents
Speaker 3: like a client list or if there's anything resembling a
Speaker 3: client list, the birthday book that had the Trump drawing on.
Speaker 2: It, and those should all be but.
Speaker 3: They're supposed to be delivered to Capitol Hill by next Monday.
Speaker 1: It was like a weirdest eight saleh those items are
Speaker 1: of much interesting to me.
Speaker 3: Who's a perfect how much do you want for this
Speaker 3: golfing polo? Okay, I'll take that. I'll take that. This
Speaker 3: is actually this is my size. And then also the
Speaker 3: panel is going to interview Alex Acosta, the former US
Speaker 3: Attorney of South Florida, who is the one who cut
Speaker 3: that strange deal non prosecution deal after you know, his
Speaker 3: arrest for child sex crimes in two thousand and six.
Speaker 3: The committee has also subpoena the Clinton the Clinton's but
Speaker 3: no Donald Trump quite yet, so we'll see what is there.
Speaker 3: Thomas Massey and Roe Kanna are still pursuing the release
Speaker 3: of the documents in that like searchable format for the
Speaker 3: public to see. So Massive filed what's called a discharged
Speaker 3: petition for the quote Epstein Files Transparency Act on Tuesday,
Speaker 3: which would basically force a vote on the on the
Speaker 3: floor if two hundred and eighteen representatives signed on to
Speaker 3: this discharge petition. Roe Kanna has said all two hundred
Speaker 3: and twelve Democrats will sign. Massey has said he's got
Speaker 3: twelve Republicans, so that sounds like theyve got the numbers.
Speaker 3: To date, it has one hundred and thirty four signatures,
Speaker 3: including Massey and three other Republicans, which are believed to
Speaker 3: be Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Lauren Bobert.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm like.
Speaker 3: Oh, we mean, but knowing MTG and Bobert and Mace,
Speaker 3: I'm like a little bit like, what do you You're
Speaker 3: probably gonna use this as a bargaining ship, right to
Speaker 3: be like, let me put some pressure on.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 3: This is something Marjorie Taylor Green has been pretty like
Speaker 3: loud about the whole time. You're gonna lose the mega base.
Speaker 3: You can't tell us about elite pedophile couples and give
Speaker 3: us nothing. But then on Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee
Speaker 3: met with a group of Epstein survivors in a closed
Speaker 3: door session. Nancy Mace left early and was like walking
Speaker 3: out of the conference like committee meeting, visibly upset, like
Speaker 3: in tears. And she's mentioned like the you know a
Speaker 3: few years ago that she was drugged and assaulted by
Speaker 3: an ex she posted on x quotes since it's already
Speaker 3: being reported. Yes, I left the oversight briefing with Epstein
Speaker 3: victims early as a recent survivor, not two years in.
Speaker 3: I had a very difficult time listening to their stories
Speaker 3: full blown panic attack, sweating, hyperventilating, shaking, I can't breathe.
Speaker 3: I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims
Speaker 3: are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one
Speaker 3: will fight for us. God bless all survivors. A's how
Speaker 3: she signed off on that. Some people are like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I wonder what this means if like she's seen the light.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm sure on some level it's difficult to probably hear
Speaker 3: the testimony of these people and then maybe you yourself
Speaker 3: be like and I'm kind of made my faustian bargain
Speaker 3: to not do anything about it, so I can just
Speaker 3: be on the news and scream about transgender people. And
Speaker 3: it's eating up my insights right now, and I think
Speaker 3: I have to leave.
Speaker 1: My ankles are melting. Also, yeah, the fuck, what the
Speaker 1: fuck is going on? It's bad for our health. That
Speaker 1: turns out this Epstein scrutiny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Trump is dealing with this by just doing
Speaker 3: everything he can to make like.
Speaker 1: The thing that like all of these are just things
Speaker 1: that seem transparently, like you can't be like, I'm against
Speaker 1: the revelation of like that information, Like it just seems
Speaker 1: so impossible to push back against publicly, you know, And yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here they are.
Speaker 3: Trump has said from his office, they have said supporting
Speaker 3: the release of the documents would be seen as a quote.
Speaker 2: Act of war, that's so.
Speaker 3: Wild, quote helping Thomas Massey and liberal Democrats with their
Speaker 3: attention seeking, while the DOJ is fully supporting a more
Speaker 3: comprehensive fire release effort from the Oversight Committee would be
Speaker 3: viewed as a very hostile act to the administration.
Speaker 1: What could be more comprehensive than just releasing the documents
Speaker 1: and letting people look at them, right, exactly, and that's
Speaker 1: true though.
Speaker 3: This is what Thomas Massey has said basically about that,
Speaker 3: being like, well, look, man, like, maybe here's a thought
Speaker 3: that would absolve Trump or clear his name, if at
Speaker 3: all possible.
Speaker 2: He's been given.
Speaker 7: I think the best way to clear President Trump's name
Speaker 7: is to release all the files. I actually don't think
Speaker 7: he's done anything criminal. I think he may be covering
Speaker 7: for some rich and powerful people that are friends of his.
Speaker 7: And in fact, some of those billionaires are running ads
Speaker 7: against me in Kentucky right now.
Speaker 2: One of them is in Epstein's Black Book.
Speaker 7: So we're, you know, we're getting close to the center
Speaker 7: of power here. And I think, you know, embarrassment is
Speaker 7: not a reason to conceal all of this stuff. We've
Speaker 7: got to get it out in the open, regardless of
Speaker 7: whose friends might be incriminated.
Speaker 4: Emarrassment, Yeah, that's what this is about. Let's not rich
Speaker 4: fellows who are criminals.
Speaker 3: Right, He's giving them like this sort of rhetorical out
Speaker 3: that like on the news that they're I've seen on
Speaker 3: conservative news being like, well, you know, he might just
Speaker 3: be mixed up with the wrong p and you know,
Speaker 3: he's just trying to make sure these guys don't catch
Speaker 3: any strays while everything's brought to light. And he's like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I think that's He's like, I don't
Speaker 3: think he did anything bad. I think he's just he's
Speaker 3: just helping out some friends right now.
Speaker 4: Although like he just happened to be there and he's innocent,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 2: He's a good boy.
Speaker 1: He's like a rich kid who gets caught doing something
Speaker 1: bad and like the parents' attorneys are like, you're on
Speaker 1: a he's a good boy.
Speaker 4: He was at the trap house, but just as a friend, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Supporting his friend, trying to pull his friend out of
Speaker 1: the trap house.
Speaker 3: M h m hmmmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So it's all not stopping Mike Johnson. He's trying. He's
Speaker 3: been like, well, we're gonna have a we'll have some
Speaker 3: kind of vote on that on Friday. Well, we will
Speaker 3: look to bring more transparency to the Epstein documents. I
Speaker 3: don't know what he's doing, and he's just he's saying
Speaker 3: the things that make him sound like a normal person.
Speaker 3: He's like, I believe transparency is absolutely important for all
Speaker 3: the for all the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes. But
Speaker 3: he's not. He's doing fuck all in terms of practice.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the hard bit, is like it's
Speaker 3: gonna slow up the business of especially the House of
Speaker 3: Representatives until they resolve this on some level. I just
Speaker 3: don't know what in what capacity.
Speaker 4: They're just gonna make it go away. I think they're
Speaker 4: gonna be like, well, we saw it the end.
Speaker 1: I don't know what.
Speaker 3: But there's too many people who are like I've already
Speaker 3: seen these documents that are Republicans, right, and I'm curious. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a version of.
Speaker 4: Right, just gonna they're gonna swallow it and just you know,
Speaker 4: like like what's her name, Nancy Mace, Like, yeah, she's
Speaker 4: all upset because she had to confront that she's a demon. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, like and be a human being for a second,
Speaker 4: But like by tomorrow she's gonna be like, yeah, I
Speaker 4: don't care, Yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 3: I think the most craven thing would be for all
Speaker 3: of them. And that's why I believe it's possible, is
Speaker 3: that they this is just a way to extract something
Speaker 3: from the White House to be like, no, I'm all
Speaker 3: in on this unless you give me this right now
Speaker 3: or down the road, and then for sure.
Speaker 4: And I've said it before on this show. But it's
Speaker 4: like the third rail of this thing is that Epstein
Speaker 4: was CIA and they were the government is who was
Speaker 4: letting him do this for reasons that I still find
Speaker 4: very strange. It's like, why why would you have to
Speaker 4: run a full scale pedophile honey trap operation, Like like
Speaker 4: just do the catch a predator, Just get people to
Speaker 4: come to the room where you said there'd be a
Speaker 4: twelve year old, and then when they get there, they're like,
Speaker 4: there's no twelve year old, you fucking idiot, mm hmm right,
Speaker 4: but they had the twelve year olds, which is insane.
Speaker 1: The Alexander Acosta interview is very interesting to me, not
Speaker 1: that like they'll ever ask the important questions or but
Speaker 1: like I am curious to like one of the quotes
Speaker 1: from him at the time. So you know at the
Speaker 1: time that he because Trump, you know, after he let
Speaker 1: Epstein off with like a historically lenient deal for what
Speaker 1: he had done, then you know, Trump appointed him to
Speaker 1: a cabinet position, and an anonymous sort of claim that
Speaker 1: when it cost was vetted for his cabinet post and
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, he stated, I was told Epstein belonged
Speaker 1: to intelligence and to leave it alone. You know when
Speaker 1: people were like, well, why did you let him get
Speaker 1: away with this like minor minor prosecution and a and
Speaker 1: a stipulation that anybody that was touched at all by
Speaker 1: you know, those implicated and his actions like could not
Speaker 1: be prosecuted. Like just a that's that's one of the
Speaker 1: most suspicious aspects of this entire thing. And the fact
Speaker 1: that they're interviewing him is very, very compelling.
Speaker 4: No, it's the third rail. And like Gillen Reileen's sisters
Speaker 4: married to a guy developed some kind of like Israeli
Speaker 4: spying program that steals all your data.
Speaker 1: And when Gillen's father died, like the people at his
Speaker 1: funeral was like a who's who of the intelligence community.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all massad.
Speaker 3: They play golf together, go home if I can put
Speaker 3: my Tim Dillon hat on.
Speaker 1: Like they're all friends. All right, I'm friends with NBS.
Speaker 3: They're goofy guys, these guys, you know they mean, that's
Speaker 3: all true.
Speaker 4: Like that picture of Gilan at you know, Chelsea Clinton's
Speaker 4: wedding or whatever. It's like, yeah, rich people protect each other.
Speaker 4: That's the big reveal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, exactly, It's like what I think people I say,
Speaker 3: it's like we can learn from the class solidarity.
Speaker 2: Of the elite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: They have each other's back.
Speaker 1: No, great if they revealed about the Clintons, like, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever their roll in this one, like that would be
Speaker 1: great to like fuck this version of the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: and bring it all revealed. Yeah, just bring it all out.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think the Democrats will clean house
Speaker 4: no matter how the obviousns they should do that.
Speaker 3: They're fighting tooth and nail to not talk about Zorin
Speaker 3: Mumdani right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, concerned about that. They're they're more mad at Mizorin
Speaker 4: than that Bill Clinton was on the Lolita Express one
Speaker 4: hundred times.
Speaker 2: Just goofy.
Speaker 3: You know, they're goofy guys.
Speaker 1: Goofy guys who like to fly private.
Speaker 4: And with Clinton, they're always just like, you know, he's
Speaker 4: a he's a charismatic.
Speaker 3: He's a ladies man, charismatic predator.
Speaker 2: You know, like what they're a Trump too.
Speaker 4: They're just like, you can't he's just he loves the ladies.
Speaker 3: It's okay, that's a that's like a dated term from
Speaker 3: the fifties for serial predator. Yeah, you know, he's a
Speaker 3: ladies man. Parenthetical prolific predator.
Speaker 4: All right, an apex predator.
Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of apex predator, let's talk about Ladmir Putin.
Speaker 1: You know, during the pandemic. I remember this being a
Speaker 1: story that like he was officially freaking out, like would
Speaker 1: would not allow people around him, was not seen for
Speaker 1: like the entirety of the pandemic was very like germ phobic.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, it seems like he might have
Speaker 1: some of the same fears, fear of his own mortality
Speaker 1: and inability to grapple with his own mortality that a
Speaker 1: lot of the Trump seems to have. That a lot
Speaker 1: of these kind of strong men, people who are so
Speaker 1: desperate to dominate the planet seemed to have.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's also not forget he he famously has
Speaker 3: his poopoo collected whenever he leaves Russia.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, the poop. That's a security concern, man,
Speaker 1: The thing, the stuff I would do with that, guys,
Speaker 1: poo poo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't even get me started. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, uh, Putin and Kim Jong un went down to
Speaker 3: China for jig. President Jijiping had like a fucking military
Speaker 3: dick measuring contest where he unveiled all kinds of nasty
Speaker 3: scary killing machines for his two buddies, and Putin and
Speaker 3: g were caught on a hot mic like while like
Speaker 3: these guys were talking, and this is what they were
Speaker 3: saying to each other.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 3: As Putin and She walked toward the Tinman Rostroum, where
Speaker 3: they viewed the parade with Kim, Putin's translator could be
Speaker 3: heard saying in Chinese, biotechnology is continuously developing. The translator added,
Speaker 3: after an inaudible passage, human organs can be continuously transplanted.
Speaker 3: The longer you live, the younger you become, and you
Speaker 3: can't even achieve immortality. In response, she who was off camera,
Speaker 3: can be heard responding in Chinese quote, some predict that
Speaker 3: in this century humans may live to one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty years old. Now I don't know what she is
Speaker 3: thinking here. Is he being polite because some maniac just
Speaker 3: said he could do like the ship of theseus to
Speaker 3: his insides? Or is he also on the same page.
Speaker 3: Maybe I think it's the latter, probably because if anything,
Speaker 3: these people are so starved for power, Like the only
Speaker 3: thing worse than death is to not have power. So
Speaker 3: it's like, well, if I can, if I can live
Speaker 3: forever then I'll never lose power. But if I die,
Speaker 3: I'll lose power. You see how that works.
Speaker 4: It's also like they get they've have so much. They're like,
Speaker 4: what's next? Living forever? Like all the tech guys get
Speaker 4: into that too. It's just like, who wants to live forever?
Speaker 4: Especially when the things are not going to get more wood?
Speaker 3: What fucking vampires like? Man, it's been a blast to
Speaker 3: be honest and not dying for centuries. It's been watching
Speaker 3: many loved ones pass away.
Speaker 4: I mean, now you're talking that's what vampires say. Yeah, right,
Speaker 4: I have seen ages passing.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's all my castle? Do you think Putin and
Speaker 3: she like see vampire was.
Speaker 2: Like, dude, that sounds fucking sick, so sick?
Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, Yes, I want to like Faustian bargain,
Speaker 4: sign me up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just change my insides out man, and I become younger.
Speaker 1: Hey, could you like, could I stop him for a
Speaker 1: quick pit stop so you could change my insides out?
Speaker 2: Yeah? What do you want?
Speaker 4: They've all got blood boys for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh god.
Speaker 4: The blood boys as far as the eye can.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we talked on an episode. I think it
Speaker 1: was The Weekly you were out Maybe miles about this
Speaker 1: multi billion dollar industry that's like largely spurred by the
Speaker 1: guy who created the X Prize for like space travel,
Speaker 1: and his next thing is like an X Prize for
Speaker 1: immortality essentially, and he's this big you know, he's super
Speaker 1: focused and like invested in all of these like life extension, immortality,
Speaker 1: like the cutting edge of science, and like basically what
Speaker 1: they've found is that like you could like maybe get
Speaker 1: up to close to one hundred, but all of the
Speaker 1: all the rich people are essentially like maxed out already,
Speaker 1: Like all the rich people are already like doing like
Speaker 1: cellular ts.
Speaker 4: It's like death becomes her. It's like you're good and
Speaker 4: then one day your skin falls off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, oh, great movie.
Speaker 4: You should a great movie. And also just it's so
Speaker 4: crazy too. You're just like all this money and all
Speaker 4: this power these people have. They could be solving climate change, homelessness, poverty, hunger. Yes,
Speaker 4: they're like, no, I gotta live longer, extract more capital
Speaker 4: from poor people.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's a quote like one of the doctors who works
Speaker 1: with them, that's like they spent their health getting rich
Speaker 1: and now they're riches getting health again.
Speaker 4: No, it's like, you know guy, do you guys know
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Bathory. She's like the vampire countess. So it's like
Speaker 4: she killed killed young women and bathed in their blood
Speaker 4: to stay young.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, it's like that.
Speaker 4: It's just that it's literally it's like, I mean, who
Speaker 4: knows is she Gillane? She walk among us film?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: The historical images Like that's that's.
Speaker 4: Why they can't show us the Epstein files because it'll
Speaker 4: be like they're vampires.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fully, yeah, they're like Henry Kissinger off himself, but
Speaker 3: he was a vampire. That's why he lived so long.
Speaker 4: He definitely would. I don't know why these evil people
Speaker 4: live so long.
Speaker 3: Vampires, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They're willing to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is well, man, Yeah you don't.
Speaker 4: They don't lie awake at night feeling bad about doing
Speaker 4: that is.
Speaker 3: Kind of a comfort though to think of, like a
Speaker 3: fucking billionaire who has everything and could do whatever the
Speaker 3: fuck they want whenever, that they'll never actually achieve the
Speaker 3: thing they're most afraid of or like want to obtain most,
Speaker 3: which is immortality. And like, I'm sure when they're spending
Speaker 3: all that money, if they're fucking me hurts what the.
Speaker 11: Fuck the fuck is going on in my stomach can
Speaker 11: hurt some of the concierge. Doctor must be a fucking night.
Speaker 11: I'm sure it's okay because you're getting paid like a
Speaker 11: million dollars a year to be like Jeff Bezos's doctor
Speaker 11: be like, yeah, you just need more steroids.
Speaker 1: Man calls you in the middle of the night at
Speaker 1: all times being like, what the fuck, dude, I've got
Speaker 1: I've got a hangnail?
Speaker 2: What is it a ship?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I was gonna say, like the addendum to that,
Speaker 1: like spent their health getting wealthy and are spending their
Speaker 1: wealth getting healthy again is like, you know, the way
Speaker 1: that they got wealthy was like destroying the fucking planet
Speaker 1: and so they're like killing other people and then being
Speaker 1: like all right, and now it's time to like make
Speaker 1: it so that we can live longer in a tiny
Speaker 1: bubble of survivability on this planet that we've completely fucking destroyed.
Speaker 4: Classic villain activities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's like not, I don't know, like all
Speaker 1: the villains are kind of the same. We were talking
Speaker 1: about how like a lot of the movie villains and
Speaker 1: like Superman and like from Superman to Naked Gun, the
Speaker 1: movie villains this summer. We're all like Elon Musk coded
Speaker 1: and it's just because yeah, well like we have actual,
Speaker 1: actual villains.
Speaker 4: We got real life super villains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like how do you beat Jeff Bezos?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got all the villains and none of the superheroes.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it kind of is a shitty deal.
Speaker 4: Oh, Alex Luthor's no Superman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I've been told on this guy I just
Speaker 1: met that I can if I just like make a
Speaker 1: little deal with him, I'd be able to get like
Speaker 1: some superpowers.
Speaker 4: But well, I think how long he would before?
Speaker 1: Would it be four years?
Speaker 2: That's a good deal. I think that's the number keeps
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a great deal. Actually, you should.
Speaker 3: Definitely do it to Thanos snap the oligarchs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the power I get is lucid dreaming. Sure,
Speaker 1: I could like turn that into something cool dreaming and yeah,
Speaker 1: vaguely the gift of gab.
Speaker 3: Here's the deal, devil, I want to fart less? Is
Speaker 3: there anything you can do for me? Here?
Speaker 1: That was you know, that was like a big hitler thing.
Speaker 1: He was. He was extremely flatulent and like his a
Speaker 1: lot of the drug like hard drugs that were prescribed
Speaker 1: to him were purportedly to treat his like extreme hyper flatulence,
Speaker 1: and I need meth to treat my hyper flatulence.
Speaker 3: That's wild because from what I understand that taking those
Speaker 3: kinds of uppers is bad for your gi.
Speaker 1: Because the uppers that you're referring to were cut with
Speaker 1: a baby laxative.
Speaker 3: I think, Oh, okay, okay, you're not fucking smoking pure
Speaker 3: ass by like bayer Labs Nazis. Do you think you
Speaker 3: think you had like bayer Labs making his meth and
Speaker 3: ship like who was making.
Speaker 2: Who was Hitler?
Speaker 1: I know they had, like they were making massive quantities
Speaker 1: of myth, like there are a lot of their soldiers
Speaker 1: were on myth.
Speaker 3: Who made the myth for the Nazis? I mean it
Speaker 3: feels like because I'd be like, you can trust it's
Speaker 3: a it's an industrial so.
Speaker 4: It was probably it was gonna be like IBM.
Speaker 3: Right, it was the Burbon made by the Temblor Pharmaceutical Company.
Speaker 1: Great, great, great, you can trust us again?
Speaker 3: Yea Temblor Hitler's first choice. Ah, that's a good fun
Speaker 3: fuck hook for the brand.
Speaker 4: Yeah, an endorsement.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Ed or back and just.
Speaker 1: Two slightly related stories about things bad things smartphone doing
Speaker 1: to our brain and bad things smartphone doing to our assholes. Okay,
Speaker 1: so apparently it significantly raises the risk of getting hemorrhoids, according.
Speaker 2: To a study.
Speaker 1: Those described in a CNN article that presumably a lot
Speaker 1: of people read while sitting on the toilet.
Speaker 3: Oh so not just using a smartphone will give you hemorrhoids.
Speaker 3: It's it's sitting on the toilet with it, Yeah, using it?
Speaker 2: Wow? Okay.
Speaker 9: Is it sitting on the toilet specifically or is it
Speaker 9: just like sitting anywhere?
Speaker 1: I think they're saying specific sitting on the TOI reportedly quote,
Speaker 1: regular smartphone use on the toilet was associated with a
Speaker 1: forty six percent greater risk of having hemorrhoids because apps
Speaker 1: are designed to distract us and people are losing track
Speaker 1: of time. And sitting on the toilet for a long
Speaker 1: time is especially bad because the open toilet seat compresses
Speaker 1: the rectal area.
Speaker 3: There's nothing underneath there just to support your rectal so
Speaker 3: it's just for a light to push.
Speaker 1: Your rectal floor. Is getting a get to use? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And this is related to this other story I saw
Speaker 1: recently about the growth of executive function coaches to fix Basically,
Speaker 1: you know, they're like, well, all of a sudden, we're
Speaker 1: seeing people who have worse ability to follow through on tasks,
Speaker 1: and like, basically, executive function is this new term for
Speaker 1: our brain's ability. It's like they consider it like our
Speaker 1: brain's air traffic controller that can like kind of juggle
Speaker 1: tasks and allows you to do a job where there's
Speaker 1: like multiple important tasks and you have to like choose
Speaker 1: which one to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like impulse control and just keeping track of shit, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, keeping track of things like navigating friendships on top
Speaker 1: of your job on time. People are like feeling very overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: And in the past, so this was usually used to
Speaker 1: describe like a deficiency in people with ADHD and people
Speaker 1: like on the spectrum, and they found that these executive
Speaker 1: function coaches could help people, like when you would give
Speaker 1: them an executive fund, a coach that focused on executive function,
Speaker 1: it would like help them improve. But now like everyone
Speaker 1: is having these same problems, and it seems pretty obvious
Speaker 1: to me that it's because everyone is working all the
Speaker 1: time and on call in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: Like it's like that used to be the thing that
Speaker 1: you would see it in movies where like it was
Speaker 1: a cop would get a call in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night.
Speaker 9: Like a CIA officer, yeah, or the president or just
Speaker 9: Robin Williams and any of his characters.
Speaker 1: Robin Williams would have just a red phone. It was like,
Speaker 1: we've got to get Robin Williams on the phone. But
Speaker 1: now we all have that like red phone on them,
Speaker 1: you know, on the desk that like and it can
Speaker 1: ring at any time and you're like, oh, there's an emergency.
Speaker 1: And now it's funny. The article that's writing about this,
Speaker 1: I think was in like Business Insider, and so they
Speaker 1: keep kind of going back and forth. The description is like,
Speaker 1: you know, we have more distractions today than ever, like
Speaker 1: kind of fault is partially our fault. You know, we're
Speaker 1: digitally We're just a digitally distracted bunch of silly billies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, just since everyone wanted to design algorithms
Speaker 3: that keep people stuck to their phones god.
Speaker 1: And cut off your IV drip of tiktoks to do
Speaker 1: your job.
Speaker 2: They got me good.
Speaker 9: So I was kind of like very anti smartphone before
Speaker 9: twenty twenty, and then lockdown happened and I was just lonely.
Speaker 9: So I got an iPhone, and I have not been
Speaker 9: the same since.
Speaker 3: Oh when you were off the iPhone prior to lockdowns.
Speaker 9: I well, yeah, but it wasn't like I did have
Speaker 9: an iPhone at like before then. And then I switched
Speaker 9: to like a dumbfo dumb phone. Wow, and that was
Speaker 9: great and I actually loved it. And I haven't been
Speaker 9: able to justify going back to it though, because like
Speaker 9: this article is saying, like the scaffolding of workplace environments
Speaker 9: that I'll designate start and end times is like gone
Speaker 9: now yea, So I feel this pressure, and I think
Speaker 9: everyone does to feel like available for work stuff, oh
Speaker 9: twenty four to seven, or even for like friendships too.
Speaker 9: Like it was really nice having this stupid phone because
Speaker 9: it was so hard to text, and I would just
Speaker 9: call people and I would make plans and then I
Speaker 9: would meet at that place at a certain time, and
Speaker 9: it just there wasn't a lot of changing of plan
Speaker 9: or if someone canceled, then I just be alonesomewhere for
Speaker 9: a bit.
Speaker 4: And that was actually nice too.
Speaker 1: That's okay, you get a little bit of alone time.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about this trend that I was
Speaker 1: listening to another podcast where they were talking about people
Speaker 1: like sharing their location so that friends can like track
Speaker 1: the location of other friends, and it was like they
Speaker 1: were they were At first, I was like, Oh, they're
Speaker 1: going to talk about how weird that is. And then
Speaker 1: the two hosts of the show were like, yeah, and
Speaker 1: we do that and that's like normal, but you just
Speaker 1: like can't be a weird stalker about it. I'm just
Speaker 1: like even that like feels like extra being on all
Speaker 1: the time, Like just always having everybody like have access
Speaker 1: to you anytime you want feels like, yeah, like rough
Speaker 1: environment for a human brain to exist in.
Speaker 3: I don't we already live in like a metaphorical panopticon,
Speaker 3: so to make it the real thing to be like no,
Speaker 3: and they know where I am at all, I'm all
Speaker 3: always being watched is a little whatever. I mean, I
Speaker 3: do that. Her majesty is always like can you share
Speaker 3: your location with me? And I'm like yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: But then she's like you didn't leave the house at all,
Speaker 3: And I'm like.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is this?
Speaker 3: Like I'm on trial here, by the fucking I'm cooking
Speaker 3: spaghetti for the baby. I had to do working things sorvy.
Speaker 1: I mean, they do talk about how COVID really like
Speaker 1: they're like, COVID happened. It taxed adults executive functioning because
Speaker 1: like now we no longer have like a at work division.
Speaker 1: It's like we're always kind of at work. But then
Speaker 1: after COVID they say that, you know a quote, modern
Speaker 1: life is stretching everyone's mental capacity to the brink. The
Speaker 1: experts I spoke with point to the endless interruptions and
Speaker 1: cheap dopamine hits of our digital devices as one obvious culprit,
Speaker 1: like in addition to research suggests that the digital world
Speaker 1: can warp our perception of time, which would logically affect
Speaker 1: how well we manage time, which, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: These are like the apps are designed by people who
Speaker 1: like in the past used to do psychological experiments on
Speaker 1: like rats and shit, Like now they're designing apps to
Speaker 1: make it so that we can't tell how much time
Speaker 1: has passed. Like the the weirdest experience I've ever had,
Speaker 1: I think it was the angry like playing angry Birds
Speaker 1: when that was the thing and like the late aughts
Speaker 1: and like just being like, oh my god, like forty
Speaker 1: minutes just disappeared and I didn't notice it at all.
Speaker 1: Like it's just like it was like time traveling TikTok.
Speaker 3: I definitely time travel on TikTok, which, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 3: I'm not proud of how many times I've gotten the Hey, motherfucker,
Speaker 3: you've been scrolling an awful lot. Maybe put this shit down.
Speaker 3: Like even the fucking dope dealer was like, Hey, come on, man,
Speaker 3: give it the TikTok apps say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like one of the next videos that would come up
Speaker 3: was like from the TikTok community thing where someone was like, hey,
Speaker 3: just remember when you're scrolling a lot to take a
Speaker 3: break or whatever, and I'm like, what the fuck an hour,
Speaker 3: fifteen minutes has gone by.
Speaker 2: You've got a beard? Yeah, the yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's in addition to you know, this thing that
Speaker 1: used to be reserved for like the hardest job in
Speaker 1: the world of like being president, like the red phone
Speaker 1: on your desk, like you also have a casino in
Speaker 1: your pocket with like apps for work and like media
Speaker 1: consumption and like all these things like those are all
Speaker 1: designed to addict you and just like get you lost,
Speaker 1: like lose you in time and space.
Speaker 2: So it's it's.
Speaker 3: Funny when they got like modern life. It's like you're
Speaker 3: talking about late stage capitalism. Yeah, yeah, fucking assholes, that's what,
Speaker 3: don't that's thanks for the euphemism, but like people are
Speaker 3: being ground to dust for nothing, and like in other
Speaker 3: times and maybe your wages were actually substantial, then at
Speaker 3: least you could like do something because you had some
Speaker 3: kind of excess income to like blow your off. But
Speaker 3: now people have to have multiple jobs just to fucking
Speaker 3: get by, and you're on call all the time. Like
Speaker 3: maybe talk about that rather than your company being like
Speaker 3: and we're giving out yoga mats on Monday, so.
Speaker 1: Come, yeah, exactly, we love it.
Speaker 3: We love a wellness program.
Speaker 1: They do talk about the wellness programs in this article.
Speaker 9: It spooks me how these apps too are Like like TikTok,
Speaker 9: I didn't use until when they were when it was
Speaker 9: like going to be banned. Yeah, I downloaded it because
Speaker 9: I was like, I want to see what this is
Speaker 9: like everyone loves it, and I won't have the risk
Speaker 9: of being addicted to it because it's about to say to
Speaker 9: be banned, right, But obviously that didn't happen, and I
Speaker 9: downloaded it, and now I'm addicted to TikTok. But it's
Speaker 9: wild to me, how every third TikTok is an ad
Speaker 9: and yeah, yeah there's a shop within the app, Like
Speaker 9: I mean, Instagram is addictive too, but it's it's not
Speaker 9: a little market selling to me, like the way TikTok
Speaker 9: is like put your credit card in this app, oh
Speaker 9: right now, press the button and you can buy a
Speaker 9: new hair brush, which I did, you.
Speaker 3: Know, like Instagram will be like your hair looks so good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Instagram now go to their website to go by the
Speaker 3: thing where it's still a buffer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and even now like people.
Speaker 3: Are live with their TikTok shops like where you can
Speaker 3: just go on your own like handheld QVC show where
Speaker 3: you're watching somebody sell fucking candy or whatever. I'm luckily
Speaker 3: every third video. Yeah, I've I've definitely weaned myself off
Speaker 3: of the tiktoks as at least when I was like
Speaker 3: peak tiktoking, like at twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: That was a bad run.
Speaker 3: That was a bad run for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's uh yeah, so I don't know. It
Speaker 1: just feels like a thing that I always like, my
Speaker 1: my most hopeful self is like we're going to look
Speaker 1: back on this the way we did smoking and be like, man,
Speaker 1: I can't believe we did that to ourselves. But I
Speaker 1: also like, I don't know, like I could also see
Speaker 1: it just being like worse and worse, and like we
Speaker 1: look back on this and be like, oh, those are
Speaker 1: the good old days before everything was so seamless that
Speaker 1: we just like lived in Wally universe where it was
Speaker 1: just like we were constantly in a slipstream of like consumption.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's slowing down because I mean,
Speaker 3: when you think about it, it's replacing so many quote
Speaker 3: unquote normal human things we used to do, like socialize
Speaker 3: or like fucking even like read books. Like there was
Speaker 3: a new thing about how Americans are falling off like
Speaker 3: with reading so quickly it's like wild, Like I think
Speaker 3: there's a study it was twenty eight percent of people
Speaker 3: who've read for pleasure in two thousand and four. It's
Speaker 3: at sixteen percent in twenty twenty three, and it's just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it just keeps falling off. It keeps falling off, Like
Speaker 3: people don't even read for pleasure in.
Speaker 1: The UK eighteen percent of people read for pleasure in
Speaker 1: the twenty three in the United States.
Speaker 2: Jeez, that's bleak. Yeah, Twitter counts, right, I can read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was a veryble because it's like
Speaker 3: many it's because it's not just like the technology, it's
Speaker 3: also like our education system, like it's multifaceted. It's purely
Speaker 3: not that. But like I also see now people like
Speaker 3: are they just find pleasure from their phones? Yeah, and
Speaker 3: that's such a fucking grim reality.
Speaker 9: We're saying something earlier about like how it's replacing normal
Speaker 9: daily activities, like the availability through smartphone, and I definitely
Speaker 9: found that, Like when I stopped, I did try to
Speaker 9: go back to a dumb phone, but it's almost impossible.
Speaker 9: Like the way that work, it works for people, and
Speaker 9: like social life works for people, you really are removing
Speaker 9: yourself from the way everyone's functioning now and right right,
Speaker 9: it is a pretty isolating thing, is what I discover it.
Speaker 9: And it can work if you're okay with that. But
Speaker 9: also it's like everyone else is assuming that you're on
Speaker 9: the same wavelength as them, like you're able to be
Speaker 9: in an I message group chat, or you're going to
Speaker 9: hit them back on Instagram if they you to something
Speaker 9: like there, it's really hard to maintain a social life
Speaker 9: without a smartphone. It's just you have to do it
Speaker 9: so differently and the world isn't built for.
Speaker 3: That anymore, or I don't like how or how I
Speaker 3: did it, like pre smartphone in high school, like there
Speaker 3: was that one friend who always knew what was going on,
Speaker 3: so that Hey, what's going on because I'm not on Instagram?
Speaker 3: Can you tell what's happening this weekend? Okay, Okay, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 1: I used to laugh at Jenine Garoffalo because she was
Speaker 1: like I remember in the aughts, she was like the
Speaker 1: last person I had heard of who was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't really go online, I don't mess with like
Speaker 1: digital anything. I was like, okay, okay, Tom Hanks from
Speaker 1: Castaway sounds good. And now I'm I am that person
Speaker 1: where I'm just like, I mean I'm not, but like
Speaker 1: I envy that and like, oh that is like that
Speaker 1: sounds right to me. That's like that is the ideal.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not possible, but.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we're so much of the digital era
Speaker 3: has allowed people to lose their teather to like the
Speaker 3: real simple things that keep us present as human beings. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know where people are experiencing like moments of nature
Speaker 3: through a phone screen. When I get like when you
Speaker 3: live in a city or something, it's not as readily
Speaker 3: available to you, but there are just certain sensations that
Speaker 3: you get from your body from just being present that
Speaker 3: are so fulfilling in a way that I feel like
Speaker 3: we lose track of shit like that, and it's so
Speaker 3: easy to get swept up in well that the nonsense
Speaker 3: I'm seeing on my phone is my entire reality, when like,
Speaker 3: if you just look up and around you, that's not
Speaker 3: what's unfolding in front of your eyes. It's something completely different,
Speaker 3: And I think reminding ourselves of that is so fucking important.
Speaker 1: We talked last week about how there's these AI kitten
Speaker 1: videos that are just like a series of images of
Speaker 1: this really chubby, adorable orange cat, not always like they
Speaker 1: don't always look exactly the same, but like it's something
Speaker 1: that the AI is iterating and like you just like
Speaker 1: see horrible things happen to the cat, like really sad things,
Speaker 1: like people are feeling like this outpourn people, like a
Speaker 1: lot of the reposting of it, These are going like
Speaker 1: hugely viral, and a lot of the reposting of it
Speaker 1: as people being like oh not me, like crying at
Speaker 1: this video of this chubby cat that's clearly AI, And
Speaker 1: I was like, I had this really like bleak vision
Speaker 1: of like outside of if you like completely looking at
Speaker 1: this from the outside, it's like we're cut off from
Speaker 1: each other and from like interaction with nature, and so
Speaker 1: we have robots making videos that are just like milking
Speaker 1: us of our normal human interactions like that. It's like
Speaker 1: a fucking like mechanical like calf's mouth that is like
Speaker 1: milking a cow and like a milking factory, and like
Speaker 1: we're just sitting there being like I feel the emotion
Speaker 1: and like moving forward with that ship and it's just
Speaker 1: like that, and they're doing it to extract like our
Speaker 1: feelings but also like extract time from us so that
Speaker 1: we stay we're expressing this natural human emotion and we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: that is where I get that emotion now and stay there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, buy things.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, slippery fucking slope, I think, I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: oh no, we're mid uh, We're right in the middle
Speaker 3: of the slippery you know when you see somebody like
Speaker 3: slipping on ice, and like the first because they haven't
Speaker 3: quite gone down, we're like maybe on that third step
Speaker 3: where you still think you got it.
Speaker 2: Man, We're we are parallel to the ground. We are
Speaker 2: on face.
Speaker 3: We actually hit our head terribly five years ago, and
Speaker 3: now we still.
Speaker 9: Were slipping the bump bump the size of a grapefruit
Speaker 9: on our forehead.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, screaming down the hill.
Speaker 1: There's a there are two birds flying around our flying
Speaker 1: around our heads.
Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think we need to bring back being bored, sitting
Speaker 9: sitting outside staring at nothing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm still I'm always impressed when I don't
Speaker 3: have my phone and I'm just not even like being
Speaker 3: like high or anything like I can just purely be like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I've been staring at this thing for like five minutes
Speaker 3: and it's just like a tree.
Speaker 1: Great, let's move on.
Speaker 3: Let's move on because that Oh god, it's time to
Speaker 3: feel bad for these kids, man, Jack. We got to
Speaker 3: protect these kids.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm trying, but it does feel like you're
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, it's like a losing battle, right,
Speaker 1: not a losing battle necessarily, but yeah, Like I think
Speaker 1: about that. There's this Onion headline that's like a quote
Speaker 1: unquote cool dad exposing his kids to like a bunch
Speaker 1: of cultural references that will have them completely cut off
Speaker 1: from their generation. It's like a dad showing his kids,
Speaker 1: like stop making sense with the talking heads. And I
Speaker 1: think about that all the time because I'm like, am
Speaker 1: I doing that because I'm not letting them like play
Speaker 1: roadblocks and shit like that. But like I kind of
Speaker 1: don't give a fuck, Like I don't know, Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think, don't give a fuck about that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean not making sense? Yeah, yea be trippy.
Speaker 3: I because, like I said, my mom took me to
Speaker 3: see a fucking Italian art film about a famous Castrado singer. Okay,
Speaker 3: my dad showed me David like you know, fucking Naked
Speaker 3: Lunch and eraser Head.
Speaker 2: When I was way too young.
Speaker 3: I was, and but they also like didn't I wasn't
Speaker 3: fucking with video games still like late in the game
Speaker 3: because they weren't buying me that shit. But the things
Speaker 3: I still think about, like with like great admiration and
Speaker 3: love and appreciation was just all this different shit that
Speaker 3: I was exposed to, because that completely expands what you think,
Speaker 3: like that the the deck of possibilities you know in
Speaker 3: your mind, like especially with art and things like that.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's there, like I can't believe I
Speaker 3: was exposed to this, these kinds of human human artistic
Speaker 3: expression as a child, Like it really fucking kept me
Speaker 3: on the wrong foot my entire life. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I think showing your kids stop making sense is totally good.
Speaker 3: You start showing the Max Headroom clips.
Speaker 1: Just ship that even I don't think it is all right,
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