Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Anyways, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by one of our favorite guests. It's one of the
Speaker 1: hosts of the incredible podcast five to four about all
Speaker 1: the ways the Supreme Court is a complete disaster. She's
Speaker 1: also a supervising attorney at Texas Law has worked as
Speaker 1: a public defender in Rio Grande City, Texas. Please welcome
Speaker 1: to the show, Rihanna, and home on.
Speaker 2: I think this is my third time on time.
Speaker 3: Guess what honor I'm loving is all hours? Let me
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, we gotta we're keeping it popping in
Speaker 4: Austin in the Trump to presidency.
Speaker 2: To Gress watching right. Yeah, I learned that I internalized that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out titty boy, two chains titty Boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a great rename, Like truly, renames don't come any better.
Speaker 1: Than going from titty Boy to two Chains.
Speaker 3: We always yeah, I felt we're talking about that towards
Speaker 3: the end of the year too. We love talking about
Speaker 3: the formerly known as titty Boy, f K titty Boy
Speaker 3: two Chains.
Speaker 1: It was between two Chains and f K A titty Boy.
Speaker 1: Good good call. Yeah, a rebrand. Sometimes you need a rebrand.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work with you know, New Coke didn't work
Speaker 1: out the two Chains certainly later than Titty Boy. Brannon did.
Speaker 1: I I don't think I missed anything. Not to put
Speaker 1: too much pressure on yet, but it was mainly Milania
Speaker 1: wore a hat Luca to the Lakers. That covers most
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Gosh what else?
Speaker 3: Oh, like Elon Musk had some kind of like arm malfunction,
Speaker 3: like tired.
Speaker 2: Or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, like I said, like like we've been saying,
Speaker 4: it's a quiet news cycle.
Speaker 1: You know when he did that funny wave. It's times
Speaker 1: like that that. I'm like, man, I wish Leno was
Speaker 1: still on the air. You know, what would that guy
Speaker 1: have said about that?
Speaker 3: He was like he said, it was just he was
Speaker 3: because he's autistic. So we got some autistic people here
Speaker 3: to see to that out.
Speaker 1: You're like whoa Jay, No, j what are you doing? No?
Speaker 1: Anybody in the audience. No, I mean I do kind
Speaker 1: of wonder how would Leno to do with probably yeah,
Speaker 1: hurting himself, Miles, he owes the mob, money bro believe
Speaker 1: in the Illuminati, Black Eye Club? Come on, yeah, now,
Speaker 1: who's naive. We do like to ask our guests. You
Speaker 1: may you may know this about us, but we do
Speaker 1: like to ask our guests sometimes with something from their
Speaker 1: search history that's revealing about who they are. And first
Speaker 1: of all, I guess we got to ask what what
Speaker 1: do you use them for? A search engine over there?
Speaker 1: Is it like ill google google it? Oh? God?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: Miles? Just quit my smiles? Is that something? Is anything?
Speaker 5: Anything? Mm hmm? It is how to pronounce mac fife
Speaker 5: and hicked?
Speaker 1: Well it sounds like you.
Speaker 5: The answer faith in is shicked because it apparently means
Speaker 5: in German one who is slappable, which I think is
Speaker 5: a useful word to know it's faith and the German.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can see that word.
Speaker 1: It's actually spelled how it sounds so just big five
Speaker 1: and Big five and ship by jos and Villanova used
Speaker 1: to be in the Big five and ship there.
Speaker 5: It is also I have a a wonderful sound clip
Speaker 5: of someone actually saying that that I can.
Speaker 1: There and there was the sound club.
Speaker 5: Sorry, but yeah, I was just I was talking to
Speaker 5: some Italians and we all agreed that German is the
Speaker 5: most ridiculous language.
Speaker 1: So it is.
Speaker 5: But I do love how it's you can stack concepts
Speaker 5: almost infinitely into one word. One one is like this,
Speaker 5: one is like one who is deserving of a firm slap.
Speaker 3: So let's hear it from a robot or argument the
Speaker 3: way this this first syllable comes at you hard.
Speaker 6: Fife and fife and back five fanga zick is how
Speaker 6: you're breaking it down for oh.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm so sorry to our German listener, but we love,
Speaker 3: we love pretend German over here.
Speaker 1: That sounds I know, like I've been told that Dr
Speaker 1: Daily is like it''s not correct. Not how that that
Speaker 1: word yeah there is incorrect. I think that was a
Speaker 1: note that we got literally episode yeah, And I was like,
Speaker 1: and I tried to change it, and I was like
Speaker 1: that that's just how the word wants to be said
Speaker 1: by me. Unfortunately, that's just the way I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it do what it do. To quote Rachel, you know,
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 3: Honors from from the Workaholics and Derby is.
Speaker 5: Just gonna have to get over it, though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they will. The pronunciation that we just
Speaker 1: listened to sounded a lot like me pronouncing a thing,
Speaker 1: because they like start really strong and then lose all
Speaker 1: confidence and like swallow the end of the word I.
Speaker 6: Was in.
Speaker 5: And it's it's because I don't know any Danish, but
Speaker 5: the key is exactly that. I went to a pastry
Speaker 5: shop and there's like all these words that they're too long,
Speaker 5: they're very complicated. But I was like, if I just
Speaker 5: start out strong and then trail off like I would
Speaker 5: like an average and they totally bought it. They were
Speaker 5: talking in Danish and I was like, yeah, she yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: yeah around.
Speaker 3: They're like they're like, bro, she just did the I'll
Speaker 3: take three whiskeys things. Yeah yeah, is that that's what
Speaker 3: That's what he was supposed to do?
Speaker 5: Ah Yeah, yeah, I did the I did the Tarantina
Speaker 5: things that.
Speaker 1: Great great pastries.
Speaker 5: It was very good pastries. And yeah, it's definitely you
Speaker 5: just like because like what looks like Abel Skimer if
Speaker 5: you just go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you sound like a local because you were saying
Speaker 3: Copenhagen like Cobana.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, apparently Tivoli gardens is pronounced.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You just mumbling? You sound like local.
Speaker 5: I think there's a joke that like the Danes sound
Speaker 5: like they're trying to talk with a mouthful of potatoes, and.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a joke that was written in the eighteen.
Speaker 5: By the Sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a Swedish joke.
Speaker 7: Like.
Speaker 5: They have potatoes in mouth.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is how Swedish people sound.
Speaker 3: I always love hearing the insults that people in neighboring
Speaker 3: countries have for each other.
Speaker 1: They are like so specific. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like I remember being in Africa and people were like,
Speaker 3: Ghanaians work too hard, you know, Okay yeah yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and is like oh Nigerians, don't get me starred on that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I just I'm here for some.
Speaker 1: Tellyo, what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 8: The Imperial metric system?
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, hold on right?
Speaker 8: Or selfie sticks? I think selfie sticks are overrated.
Speaker 3: Man, where's the last time you saw a selfie stick?
Speaker 9: Well that's the point. Yeah, I mean, you know, they
Speaker 9: probably sold millions of them. You know, people are thinking
Speaker 9: I'm gonna like enhance my identity on Instagram by holding
Speaker 9: out this big stick and then you end up at
Speaker 9: a party and where's the stick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's true. We've I'm like, it's funny, like
Speaker 3: where did where have all the selfie sticks gone all
Speaker 3: the Yeah, I mean that is yeah. I feel like
Speaker 3: it's funny because you know, in Japan, you'll see like
Speaker 3: on the train platform they're like, put that motherfucking selfie
Speaker 3: stick away. They have so many selfie stick warnings because
Speaker 3: they think sometimes someone might get it so high it'll
Speaker 3: hit like the fucking power lines above the train track
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: Related.
Speaker 3: Right right, the.
Speaker 1: Voltage connecting in the middle of the behind his eyes.
Speaker 3: I got a photo of the guy. You can see
Speaker 3: an arc from the cable to the guy's selfie selfie stick.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: That is not ai that actually happened, right right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there's some stuff like that that's just like
Speaker 1: invented by people with add who don't know or who
Speaker 1: don't have a d D and don't know enough people
Speaker 1: who have a d D. They're like, yeah, no, this
Speaker 1: will be good and people just remember them and they
Speaker 1: won't be clogging up our lost in founds for decades
Speaker 1: from now. But yeah, selfie sticks just couldn't be me
Speaker 1: having a selfie stick be careful, you.
Speaker 3: Never know, you never know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it could be me for twelve hours and
Speaker 1: then and then I will lose that shit. I have noticed, like,
Speaker 1: you know, I took my kids to the the not
Speaker 1: the Redwood for it, the Sequoia like National Park over
Speaker 1: over the holidays, and you know, we're it's just a
Speaker 1: big like line of people taking selfies in various locations, right.
Speaker 1: And when I would offer to take people's pictures a
Speaker 1: lot of time, they're like, no, Like I just want
Speaker 1: to like take a selfie like that. There's a weird
Speaker 1: like selfie culture, like right, purity of selfies.
Speaker 3: Well it could it could have been. Were you sweating
Speaker 3: a lot?
Speaker 1: I was sweating and being weird. I hate and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take that. I seem a little desperate to take
Speaker 1: their picture. Hey hey, hey, hey, it's that guy again.
Speaker 3: Hey you want help.
Speaker 1: We're in the car. You are great, right now? Hey
Speaker 1: hey hey great?
Speaker 3: Py sure, hey hey, just give me your camera.
Speaker 1: I'll give it back.
Speaker 3: I'll give it back, I'll give it back. You do
Speaker 3: it in the back.
Speaker 1: Seat of our car. They approached. He I was gonna
Speaker 1: get I was gonna get a candid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean people like a selfie more. I mean
Speaker 3: I think it's probably generational because like when I see
Speaker 3: people my age and older, you definitely are doing that thing.
Speaker 3: We're like, oh yeah, yay, kick, thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: so much, so much because sometimes I don't I think personally,
Speaker 3: I don't. Selfies aren't the most flattering angle for me.
Speaker 9: But hey, when you when you see a selfie that
Speaker 9: was taking the like let's say President obamacause like people
Speaker 9: around then it's like, Wow, the president is taking a selfie.
Speaker 1: Right, cute.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that that's really cool. That's cool to see because
Speaker 9: and it's not a generational thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 9: I think it's it's all it's like a Hubris thing.
Speaker 9: It's like a it's a it's a cultural thing. I
Speaker 9: think right now in the world where we're looking too
Speaker 9: much into ourselves, Am I getting too metaphoric?
Speaker 1: Maybe I am. No, I don't think this is the
Speaker 1: type of shit we do on the show.
Speaker 3: I was like, or maybe it's faux populist for a
Speaker 3: politician to take a selfie, Like look, I am just
Speaker 3: like you poor people with the selfies.
Speaker 1: Let me get my hands out of the pictures service
Speaker 1: agent and take the picture and I'll look like a
Speaker 1: selfie the Yeah, but gen Z likes selfies because they're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it seems like I'm all alone in
Speaker 1: this world since you've poisoned it and created a system
Speaker 1: where like we're just communicating to each other in isolation
Speaker 1: through social media. So why would it? Why would I
Speaker 1: not take a selfie? Non selfies are a lie?
Speaker 3: Okay dead wow?
Speaker 1: Dad like cas is Mark Zuckerberg, Oh oh.
Speaker 8: Nice, wow you you jumped that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we went, yeah, we do do something, do something
Speaker 3: because we'll get in the cage.
Speaker 1: We not like elon how tall Mark Zuckerberg, give meything
Speaker 1: like five ten five?
Speaker 3: Will he looks tall?
Speaker 1: Looks like normal sizes? Yeah normal, not normal, but like
Speaker 1: not he's not neither super tall or super short.
Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, were we actually this? Just in
Speaker 3: I thought five to five five seven, five seven okay,
Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 8: Is five wow?
Speaker 3: Okay, Steve Jobs six to two?
Speaker 1: Really well anymore? Hey, hey did that?
Speaker 3: If you measure down?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Look, yeah, look what are we what are we doing?
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Zuckerberg would be in like a pretty low
Speaker 1: weight class in the cage. Is it is what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to it would be yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
Speaker 1: see what what what he's walking into the ring? His
Speaker 1: his weight at that point?
Speaker 8: Is that using the metric system.
Speaker 3: Or imperial metric system?
Speaker 1: Imperial? Yeah, we are a strictly imperial podcast.
Speaker 3: He's ten stone.
Speaker 1: We actually go deeper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's actually ten and a half stone.
Speaker 1: And yeah, measure height by like chickens. I don't know, whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever you have on the farm, what is something you
Speaker 1: think so underrated? Andrew underrated?
Speaker 10: I just watched for the US this racist premium suboptimal bundle.
Speaker 10: We watched with a new new friend of not new friend,
Speaker 10: but a new coworker of yours, if I can.
Speaker 3: Say, ye.
Speaker 10: Luka, and our producer Kevin Bartel. We watched the first
Speaker 10: Fast and Furious movie with zig had never seen it before.
Speaker 10: And that's weird. If everyone knows Cody Ziggler, there's nothing
Speaker 10: more seeming his personality than the first Fast and Furious movies.
Speaker 3: And I feel like he just has seen so many films.
Speaker 3: I feel like I just generally like, yeah, of course
Speaker 3: you probably consume that, even passively.
Speaker 1: But I gotta be honest, guys, I started on too Fast,
Speaker 1: Too Furious, And I've seen everything since I saw Too Fast,
Speaker 1: Too Furious in the theaters that you started with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Too Fast is by far the worst.
Speaker 1: I know, diabolical, it's really I was. I was a
Speaker 1: big John Singleton fan. I was in my Au Tour era.
Speaker 1: I was like, they got Singleton for the Fast and
Speaker 1: the Furious franchise.
Speaker 3: Devin in that too. That's when I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: come on, bro man, that was that was That was
Speaker 3: an era, the Devin Aki era.
Speaker 10: That's so nineties peak nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or so the first one is good, right, you're saying.
Speaker 10: I know, I was gonna say it's my underrated is
Speaker 10: movies filmed in La like two blocks from my apartment
Speaker 10: because it is wild. Basically, like every shot in Echo Park,
Speaker 10: I Andrew t Am just off screen.
Speaker 3: Like you feel like, I swear to God, I'm about
Speaker 3: to be in this.
Speaker 10: Yeah, It's it's insane. How like basically I'm not to
Speaker 10: docks myself, but Echo Park's pretty dense. I'm just off
Speaker 10: camera in every shot in and around Toretto's house, right,
Speaker 10: and Torretto's like little office. It's just so much of like,
Speaker 10: oh shit, that's my street. They just jumped a car
Speaker 10: on my block.
Speaker 3: The times I've seen like my neighborhood in the in
Speaker 3: a movie was in Crash when Matt Dillon arrests pats
Speaker 3: them down illegally on Ventura and Terrence and Terrence Howard
Speaker 3: like that whole scene. I'm like that saying it's right there,
Speaker 3: and I hate that fucking movie.
Speaker 10: Yeah that's Oh. I'm also just because of the Acho
Speaker 10: parkness of it. I'm also like Training Day basically takes
Speaker 10: place right around my first apartment I lived in in
Speaker 10: Acho Park.
Speaker 3: This is this sounds like a great tour. You could
Speaker 3: do the Andrew home filming location tour.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, where's Andrew? Just imagine like little Peanut the chihuahua,
Speaker 10: just off camera every time every time Torrotto's had his house.
Speaker 10: But yeah, it was one of those like, yeah, movies
Speaker 10: filmed in La two blocks from my house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Matt, mattacific.
Speaker 1: But do you so like there's some things that I
Speaker 1: know too much about and it makes it hard for
Speaker 1: me to watch movies about, like a basketball, I can't
Speaker 1: really watch basketball movies. Oh, I watched too much real basketball,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like that person doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: like hold, it's just like something unnatural about it. But like,
Speaker 1: what is that the last slam dunk at all? I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've mentioned it. I think it's kind of your work
Speaker 1: of media before you got to watch.
Speaker 10: That movie and tell me if it's good basketball, because
Speaker 10: to me it seemed like it it's all like rotoscoped
Speaker 10: like animation. I don't know, it look good to me. Sorry,
Speaker 10: what what was.
Speaker 1: Does it get in the wet? Like is there like
Speaker 1: geographical errors that you're like, wait a second, that's not
Speaker 1: where that would be.
Speaker 10: They they do go from Echo Park to Neptune's nest
Speaker 10: Neptune's Net just to eat fries, and it does seem.
Speaker 1: Like Neptune's Net is where Yeah, time, you really shouldn't
Speaker 1: be wasting gas like that.
Speaker 10: It's like an hour and a half in traffic, and
Speaker 10: it does seem like they just eat fries and have
Speaker 10: a conversation and then dip back to the main platform.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember the beginning of World Trade Center. I
Speaker 1: think that's the like the nine to eleven Nicolas Cage
Speaker 1: movie where it like went past my apartment and then
Speaker 1: like like it's the morning of nine to eleven and
Speaker 1: they're like going down south in Manhattan. They go like
Speaker 1: past my apartment, like down Lower West Side, and then
Speaker 1: like they're like in the midtown and then like they're
Speaker 1: moving up the city. Yea yeah yeah, and then it
Speaker 1: really took me out.
Speaker 3: Of oh you know the you know, our offices are
Speaker 3: in Valentine's Day, the twenty ten movie with Anne Hathaway.
Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, they shoot in. I'm like, I'm watching,
Speaker 3: like this is our building. Oh, I can tell by
Speaker 3: the concrete walls. I'm like, what is going on? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then she like walks out takes off down the shit.
Speaker 3: You're like, yeah, there it is okay.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 3: Anyway, for those that are interested, do your geo guessing
Speaker 3: and check out when I worked.
Speaker 10: When I worked at Comedy Central. And this probably is
Speaker 10: not a huge surprise to people familiar with cable TV budgets,
Speaker 10: but a shocking number of like Comedy Central shows anytime
Speaker 10: they're in an office is shot in like one of
Speaker 10: the one of the boardrooms, thick and one of the.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, now you know what the company Cent got
Speaker 1: in office.
Speaker 3: Let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back, we'll hear you're overrated, We'll get into
Speaker 1: some news, we'll be right back.
Speaker 3: And we're back, We're back.
Speaker 1: Hey Hey. It feels like the Trump administration has created
Speaker 1: this rhythm where he does a thing everyone's like, that's
Speaker 1: essentially against the law what he just did, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: so and then people keep like ask can he do that?
Speaker 1: Before we get an answer, he does the next thing
Speaker 1: that's against the law that we weren't ready for him
Speaker 1: to do yet. So I think the answer ends up
Speaker 1: being no, he can't do that, at least as of
Speaker 1: right now in a bunch of these cases. But I
Speaker 1: feel like we're moving on too quickly, and so he's
Speaker 1: like getting these like wins for him, like getting to
Speaker 1: like flex and act like he's doing things that like
Speaker 1: doing whatever he wants. But then it like the media
Speaker 1: isn't sticking around to be like, Okay, that actually got
Speaker 1: overturned and that actually is not legal. In the federal
Speaker 1: judge said that like gave the speech from Happy Gilmore
Speaker 1: where he's like, I wear you no points soul, Like
Speaker 1: this is a This is a quote from a Ronald
Speaker 1: Reagan appointee temporarily blocking his order to en birthrate citizenship.
Speaker 1: This is a blatantly unconstitutional order. I have difficulty understanding
Speaker 1: how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that
Speaker 1: this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's referencing that the Trump lawyers, like the lawyers
Speaker 4: saying this, Like how could you be a licensed attorney
Speaker 4: and say this shit with this straight faith.
Speaker 1: I think at the end of this like chain of
Speaker 1: cause and effect that is being started by these things
Speaker 1: that it does come down to like who gone check
Speaker 1: me boo? Like who's gonna stop him? And who's gonna
Speaker 1: check me? V boo? And the answer is that I
Speaker 1: hear Ali, like, oh, the Supreme Court is eventually going
Speaker 1: to have to weigh in on this one. Probably. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of this podcast five to four, and
Speaker 1: it is, in addition to being educational and wildly entertaining
Speaker 1: make me laugh, has given me a severe lack of
Speaker 1: faith in the Supreme Court to do the right thing.
Speaker 1: So real, I just want to get your sense, as
Speaker 1: one of the hosts of that show, like, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling as you were as you're witnessing these this
Speaker 1: first week and a half of attempted authoritarianism?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry to throw like cold water on the
Speaker 4: whole idea that like the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: Is the check, you know.
Speaker 4: And I think it's like if you if you think that,
Speaker 4: if you hear that, or we hear it so much
Speaker 4: that like you're not wrong to like think that because
Speaker 4: people say, like, you know, only the Supreme Court now
Speaker 4: can stand up to Trump or you know, the Supreme
Speaker 4: courts can have a really interesting role under the creeping
Speaker 4: authoritarianism administration, you know. But like that's because like just
Speaker 4: like structurally, like the three branches of government, like the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court, like yeah, it really doesn't do anything other
Speaker 4: than check the other branches, Like that is what the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court does.
Speaker 2: But so like structurally, you get why people like think that.
Speaker 2: At the same time, at the same time.
Speaker 4: Y'all, we have to we have to be looking at
Speaker 4: the conservative project, the project of doing authoritarianism in the
Speaker 4: United States as the branch is working together to do that,
Speaker 4: and that includes the Supreme Court. Oh yeah, the Supreme Court,
Speaker 4: while they could check Donald Trump, you know, granted him
Speaker 4: almost total immunity in office.
Speaker 2: Last term before he got elected.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we need to see and with all of
Speaker 4: these cases that are about to be in front of
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court, you know, while there might be some
Speaker 4: tiki tak here and there, where the Court says like, ah,
Speaker 4: that's a little bit too far out there in terms
Speaker 4: of the constitutional order. We have to have to have
Speaker 4: to view the Supreme Court as an institution that is
Speaker 4: in place right now and operating right now, as a
Speaker 4: green light for authoritarianism, not a check on authoritarianism. Right.
Speaker 1: It kind of has been for a while. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: the first ones there. It just seems it seems weird
Speaker 1: to me that the first ones to get there to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, this guy can do whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: he wants. Also, no more abortions. Thanks, that's been our time.
Speaker 1: Are the ones that people are like, well, the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court's not gonna happen. Surely this, surely this will be
Speaker 1: the line.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, well that god. I mean it's I was hoping,
Speaker 3: you know, I hadn't really checked the news in the
Speaker 3: last three weeks. I was like, yeah, they're gonna they'll
Speaker 3: figure it out.
Speaker 1: They'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: But then you have to zoom out and be like, Okay, so, yes,
Speaker 3: the Federalist Society has they've been taking their time saying,
Speaker 3: let's get our starters in there.
Speaker 1: You know, we got we got.
Speaker 3: To revamp this whole roster, baby, if we want to
Speaker 3: start winning titles, and they've they've got they've got the
Speaker 3: pieces now to do that. And I think, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think it's just like even the last four years, where
Speaker 3: they'll be the things where they clearly come down on
Speaker 3: the side of the conservative movement, and then you get
Speaker 3: these occasional scraps that they throw out to make them
Speaker 3: seem they're like, we're not a completely politicized body.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just did the.
Speaker 4: Bare minimum back right, right, And yeah, I think like people,
Speaker 4: I think it's like a real failure of legal media.
Speaker 4: Actually that for decades has has been like when when media,
Speaker 4: when you hear about these cases being decided, you hear
Speaker 4: about them like on just the legal terms, or you
Speaker 4: just hear or read about like, Okay, well this is
Speaker 4: why the fucking freak gul sam Alito said what he said,
Speaker 4: and this was the justification, and then there's never anything
Speaker 4: else that's like, oh, this is part of like a
Speaker 4: much big, bigger project.
Speaker 2: They've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 4: Here's all the people who are going to be hurt
Speaker 4: by this, and here are all of the other here
Speaker 4: are all of the other like arguments or reasons why
Speaker 4: this is wrong.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think like media.
Speaker 4: In general and how we cover and talk about the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court is like a big reason for this. But
Speaker 4: I'm here to tell you and we on five four
Speaker 4: say it all the time. You know, it's really important
Speaker 4: to understand these six hyper conservative freakazoids. It's really important
Speaker 4: to understand that they act like politicians. They are doing
Speaker 4: politics right, right, they are doing fascism right when they
Speaker 4: overturn Roe v. Wade when they say in three h
Speaker 4: three creative that you know, a woman doesn't have to
Speaker 4: make a wedding website for a gay couple, right, she.
Speaker 1: Doesn't even have to have a web design business to.
Speaker 4: Do it, or an actual gay couple that asked her
Speaker 4: to do they do the wedding website right, or.
Speaker 3: A football coach who exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: So you have to see this institution as an institution
Speaker 4: that is also doing implementing fascism and authoritarianism, and that's
Speaker 4: what they're there to do, and they're happy to do it.
Speaker 3: You think, Leonard Leo, he's just kicking back. He's like, bro,
Speaker 3: they ain't nobody saying my.
Speaker 2: Biggest gatherer of the past twenty five years.
Speaker 1: They are winning. We do have to a fel we
Speaker 1: got to admit, like, yeah, I feel like a big
Speaker 1: part of the media response to Trump and the authoritarian
Speaker 1: project of you know, the Supreme Court has been like
Speaker 1: they'll never get away with this, and like kind of like, look,
Speaker 1: how stupid they are to think that they can get
Speaker 1: away with this, right before they like get away with it,
Speaker 1: you know, like that that response to be like this
Speaker 1: guy doesn't know what he's doing just feels like ultimately
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter even if he doesn't know what he's doing,
Speaker 1: it's working for him and them, and yes, they just
Speaker 1: keep winning because the opponent doesn't realize they're playing. Like
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what to even say.
Speaker 4: Like they're they're being bold, right, Like the right wing
Speaker 4: is being bold. Trump administration all these crazy crazy executive orders.
Speaker 4: They're being bold and they're not checking themselves thinking, m
Speaker 4: is this illegal? I don't know they're doing it. It's like,
Speaker 4: you know, throw throw the spaghetti at the wall and
Speaker 4: see what sticks, right, And and so the Supreme Court
Speaker 4: to the extent that like yeah, it checks them. We're
Speaker 4: we're so far like the overta window is so so right, right,
Speaker 4: is so so conservative that yeah, if you're getting some
Speaker 4: kind of check on this stuff, well yeah, it's it's
Speaker 4: tiny stuff compared to the in totality, how like our
Speaker 4: government is being transformed, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea.
Speaker 3: I feel like we're just like in the Like I
Speaker 3: was saying this on yesterday's show, it's just a lot
Speaker 3: of a lot of us are just sort of in
Speaker 3: denial that this actually like forget that country you grew
Speaker 3: up in twenty years ago, like that.
Speaker 1: Shit is that shit, that that order, that old order.
Speaker 3: Completely gone, completely gone, and that is not coming back
Speaker 3: for I don't know if it's going to come back
Speaker 3: in our lifetime.
Speaker 1: Even so, it's much much.
Speaker 3: More empowering to understand the assignment and say, no, this
Speaker 3: is this is what's happening right now, and where where's
Speaker 3: my part in all of this? And I'd say you
Speaker 3: got to be out there in the street and shit
Speaker 3: like that, like doing all kinds of wild shit, but
Speaker 3: understanding that this is something more people need to put
Speaker 3: their attention on because they are they are fucking at
Speaker 3: the wheel, and they are we are. We've already gone
Speaker 3: through a few walls and we're about to keep hitting
Speaker 3: more walls this week, though there's even more stuff that
Speaker 3: the Supreme.
Speaker 1: More Business week.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And I was and I obviously wanted to
Speaker 3: get your take on this because one of them is
Speaker 3: very obvious to me how problematic it is and awful
Speaker 3: and backwards, and then the other two I'm like, I
Speaker 3: feel like there's a little nuance that you can probably
Speaker 3: help flesh out for.
Speaker 2: Us in religious freedom stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, right. So the first one is regarding government
Speaker 3: funding of Catholic charter schools before they could get vouchers,
Speaker 3: which was only doing like a little bit of pain
Speaker 3: a little bit of funding. Now we're talking about full blown.
Speaker 3: The feds are now paying for full blown Jesus schools.
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, that feels like that feels that
Speaker 3: feels like it's butting up against the First Amendment and
Speaker 3: what I know about religion and the federal government. So
Speaker 3: that one seems pretty obvious that that could open the
Speaker 3: floodgates of all kinds of backwards teaching and weird schools
Speaker 3: suddenly getting the funding to teach whatever they want to.
Speaker 1: Another one deals it is they like getting in under
Speaker 1: Catholic because like people are like I've heard of Catholic schools,
Speaker 1: those can't be so bad, like, so we'll they are.
Speaker 1: They're weird. They are weird, but they have a long history.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, as opposed to if it was
Speaker 1: like my mom's special version of Christianity that she invented,
Speaker 1: right charter schools, you know what I mean. I wonder
Speaker 1: why they went Catholic just to I think, look, I.
Speaker 3: Think they just knew. They're like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter because at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it's more just about being like, yeah, well, whatever y'all do,
Speaker 3: you'll do in Jesus teachings, here's some money teach on.
Speaker 3: Another one deals with parents being able to opt out
Speaker 3: of curriculum where they're being like, well, if they if
Speaker 3: they have LGBTQ plus characters or concepts, I do not
Speaker 3: want my I want my child to be as ignorant
Speaker 3: as possible and to be made fun of infinitely in
Speaker 3: their adulthood. So I would like them to I would
Speaker 3: like to hide reality from them as much as possible.
Speaker 3: That one, it seems like basically I don't know, probably
Speaker 3: can you can you kind of walk us through. It
Speaker 3: feels like probably at that point we're completely upending where
Speaker 3: the power dynamic is and how children are taught to
Speaker 3: just be like, well, if enough parents want to opt out,
Speaker 3: then you might have to change the whole curriculum or
Speaker 3: maybe you don't send kids to that school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these are both pretty crazy cases. Crazy again, like
Speaker 4: this goes back to exactly what I was just saying,
Speaker 4: where the Overton window has shifted so far, right, these
Speaker 4: are pretty out there in terms of like conservative arguments,
Speaker 4: like the lower courts and precedent over decades. Is pretty
Speaker 4: clear that both of these cases, like the state directly
Speaker 4: funding religious schools, that's like unheard of, right, and then
Speaker 4: the same thing was like opting out of public school curriculum.
Speaker 4: Both of these cases obviously come under their First Amendment,
Speaker 4: like freedom of religion. I just want to like, I
Speaker 4: just want to differentiate between the two. So the government
Speaker 4: funding public schools, that would be under what's called the
Speaker 4: establishment clause of the First Amendment that says, like the
Speaker 4: state can't make a law that respects a certain establishment
Speaker 4: of religion, Right, that's the separation of church and state.
Speaker 2: That is the clause in the First Amendment.
Speaker 4: The second one, where parents are trying to have their
Speaker 4: kids opt out of mandatory curriculum in public schools. The
Speaker 4: free exercise clause, right, the government can't infringe on your
Speaker 4: individual free exercise of your faith. Parents are saying, well,
Speaker 4: when my kids have to go to story time in
Speaker 4: the library at the public school, and story time features
Speaker 4: a book they're getting read a book about being trans child, right,
Speaker 4: about about a mom making a rainbow wig for her
Speaker 4: trans child or for a kid walking around pride, Well,
Speaker 4: that that infringes on the free exercise of my religion,
Speaker 4: Like you said, Miles, like both of these cases are
Speaker 4: really really crazy. The justices you know, coming down in
Speaker 4: the way that the conservatives want them to really upends
Speaker 4: like a lot of how we think of the First Amendment,
Speaker 4: like working right, and I think in terms of like
Speaker 4: choosing like, oh, which one would be more impactful than
Speaker 4: the other?
Speaker 2: I think it's really important to like see again all
Speaker 2: of these cases.
Speaker 4: You know, there's also there's also a case about like
Speaker 4: tax exemptions for religious organizations that's coming up at the
Speaker 4: Supreme Court. Right, look at them all as part of
Speaker 4: the project, right, just like the executive orders, right, Trump
Speaker 4: is doing that, he's doing it at a different pace, right,
Speaker 4: which there's a different strategy behind. But you see in
Speaker 4: the totality of the executive orders a fascist project, an
Speaker 4: authoritarian project. We should be viewing Supreme Court cases in
Speaker 4: the same way, particularly because the Supreme Court decides what
Speaker 4: cases it takes, decides what cases that they have total
Speaker 4: control over, the cases that are going to be argued
Speaker 4: in front of them, and what they want to be
Speaker 4: deciding and changing the law on every single term.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So in the totality of these cases, the First Amendment
Speaker 4: and the freedom of religion, separation of Church and State
Speaker 4: cases at the Supreme Court, this term you see, you
Speaker 4: see a project, and you see what the right is
Speaker 4: focused done. Right, you see what they're going to be
Speaker 4: trying to weaponize in the law in you know, the
Speaker 4: next couple of decades. And here it's going to be
Speaker 4: the First Amendment. Here it's going to be saying, you know,
Speaker 4: gay people, existing stories being told, queer people being around me,
Speaker 4: or books that my children read that include queer characters,
Speaker 4: that's actually an infringement on my civil liberties.
Speaker 2: Right. That is, that is fascistic.
Speaker 4: Right, That is that all of this is about creating
Speaker 4: in and out groups, a scary other right that we
Speaker 4: can all put our problems on and our violence on,
Speaker 4: and so again you see the Supreme Court doing this
Speaker 4: work for a fascist movement in the same way that
Speaker 4: we can like clearly see that Trump as an individual
Speaker 4: is doing that work as well.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel.
Speaker 8: I feel like it's so doomsday.
Speaker 2: I'm really sorry you guys, but we got to be
Speaker 2: clear sighted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta be Yeah, we gotta keep our eyes
Speaker 1: open and like understand what is happening, because especially now
Speaker 1: that I just I feel like the mainstream response is
Speaker 1: really having a hard time like getting its mind around
Speaker 1: what is happening and like seeing it for what it is, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it really feels like there is this big fascist project.
Speaker 1: Like it's interesting because I feel like my understanding of
Speaker 1: fascism historically was they had big a lot of bureaucracy
Speaker 1: and like you know, they trains ran on time. Thing
Speaker 1: was like a big bragging point. This seems to me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this time it seems to be like they're just
Speaker 1: breaking everything and then use it. When the thing breaks,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, that's because people were too nice to
Speaker 1: gay people and black people, and so like it's got
Speaker 1: like kind of a new look fascism where like they're incompetence,
Speaker 1: and they're tearing down of everything allows for them to
Speaker 1: like make an argument for the continued privatization of everything
Speaker 1: and like the takeover by monopolies and oligarchs and exactly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but the but why is the media Like it just
Speaker 1: it feels like the media was operating under these very
Speaker 1: specific sets of rules of like, well, we can't call
Speaker 1: this out because then it's too seems like we're being
Speaker 1: too biased or something, and so they just they learned
Speaker 1: whatever the media's like playbook is of like what they
Speaker 1: will tolerate, what they won't and just like yeah, now
Speaker 1: they know exactly how to work inside this system. And yeah,
Speaker 1: the media like doesn't know how to just be like
Speaker 1: this is what's happening. This is clearly what's happening. They're
Speaker 1: successfully dismantling civilization like as we knew it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: because I guess because the media has been pretty complicit
Speaker 1: in that for so long in other ways that like
Speaker 1: the old willing to call it out now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think there's like a few things
Speaker 4: in the media question, But I do think like the
Speaker 4: media question is such a massive, such a massive, like
Speaker 4: contributing factor to the problems is that, like there's so
Speaker 4: much misinformation, there's also too much information and the media
Speaker 4: is approaching I think both of those categories in both
Speaker 4: like dropping the ball in fucked up ways in terms
Speaker 4: of too much information. For example, the media, Yes, like
Speaker 4: journalists have a role in interpreting and explaining every executive
Speaker 4: order to us, right, Like, I appreciate the people who
Speaker 4: are doing that. But again, what we fail to do
Speaker 4: when we're like, okay, let's break down every executive order
Speaker 4: is we're missing the forest for the trees and we
Speaker 4: and we don't see that like bigger project, right yeah,
Speaker 4: and we end up getting we end up all of
Speaker 4: us feeling siloed in like what you do because it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: well that's a lot. And then the way you fight
Speaker 4: that is a legal case and that's a you know,
Speaker 4: that's a policy at the or whatever, you know, and
Speaker 4: so the folks there are going to fight it this way.
Speaker 4: And then but when we see it as a project,
Speaker 4: we really like, you know, you start to see, uh,
Speaker 4: you start to see your role even as somebody who
Speaker 4: you know might be disconnected, You start to see a
Speaker 4: role for collective power.
Speaker 2: The media is captured a captured institution in the same
Speaker 2: way the Supreme Court is. I think that's a really
Speaker 2: big problem.
Speaker 4: Right, So when we're talking about you said oligarchy, I
Speaker 4: think that's really right. We live now in an oligarchy
Speaker 4: that Trump is making like very clear to everybody, Like
Speaker 4: we know who the oligarchs are, right, Like, they're right
Speaker 4: in front of us doing Nazi salutes and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I don't know who you're referring to it, but yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so and it's those oligarchs that like control
Speaker 4: the media, right like they're you know, Jeff Bezos is
Speaker 4: putting his thumb down on the scale on the Washington
Speaker 4: Post editorial board.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Uh, this is happening. This is happening everywhere, especially across
Speaker 4: like corporate legacy media. And then yeah, what you get
Speaker 4: is the conflicts of interests. What you get is really
Speaker 4: muddied political analysis. You know, writers and journalists like going
Speaker 4: to the top who who haven't they're being rewarded for
Speaker 4: not right talking in critical ways about what's happening. And
Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean from our corner of things. Over
Speaker 4: on five to four, we talk a lot about how
Speaker 4: legal media specifically has really failed the public for a
Speaker 4: really long time. And a lot of that is based on, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: advancing in your job and relationships, right, A lot of
Speaker 4: the top like legal Supreme court reporters, they have relationships.
Speaker 4: They like to be able to talk directly to the justices. Right,
Speaker 4: and so if you put in your column that that
Speaker 4: so and so justice is, you know, is receiving gifts
Speaker 4: from billionaires who have cases in front of him at
Speaker 4: that time.
Speaker 2: Well you lose your access. You don't have your wine. Buddy,
Speaker 2: Oh why didn't you.
Speaker 11: Go work for pro public good? You want to talk about,
Speaker 11: we're here to do fluff pieces. Okay, oh my god.
Speaker 11: That the decorations though at Alito's home.
Speaker 1: Wonderful, wonderful. I mean, we've all thought about what we
Speaker 1: would do if we were burdened by that much wealth.
Speaker 3: Obviously, you buy historical stuff, and yes, sometimes fascists owned it.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeahka solicitly Nazi, it's historical.
Speaker 3: Can't you sorry? I'm just this. This flag is about
Speaker 3: an appeal to heaven. Okay, take what? Just take that?
Speaker 1: What's so wrong with having an appeal to heaven? Don't
Speaker 1: add your other stuff to it? Just saying anyway, you're right,
Speaker 1: and my heaven is the one from My Blue Heaven
Speaker 1: with Steve Barton and Rick Morana. So do try your
Speaker 1: head out of the gutter reference. Cool. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We will be right back
Speaker 1: to talk about Gobbler's mouth. And we're back, and we
Speaker 1: we did talk about the Cees. Miles. The thing, the
Speaker 1: thing we focused in on was everybody was real into
Speaker 1: a rumba that could like pick up a sock. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that like articulating arm kind of. It just had a
Speaker 1: scorpion tail that yeah, that was just like picked up
Speaker 1: a single thing, put it in a basket, but like
Speaker 1: it had the ability to pick up three socks total.
Speaker 1: Before it was like oh art battery. That sock was
Speaker 1: way too heavy. But yeah, you're pointing out like something that.
Speaker 3: Well, this is just weird because I, you know, I
Speaker 3: like gadgets and shit. So when the Cees stuff, I
Speaker 3: remember like in like you know, like in my insomnialling
Speaker 3: up a YouTube, like YouTube videos are like the coolest
Speaker 3: stupid Cees this year. And multiple times I kept seeing
Speaker 3: this shitty ass robot companion getting all kinds of coverage
Speaker 3: and surely it wasn't because it's like remarkable or revolutionary.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this has to be because it's so weird
Speaker 3: and off the fucking mark. It's a real it's the
Speaker 3: real Botics robot. And yeah, let me just play a
Speaker 3: couple of clips. The ones are just sort of like
Speaker 3: an intro video that was put together by Cheddar at
Speaker 3: Cees and you can just kind of get an idea
Speaker 3: of like just the just the general vibes, its abilities,
Speaker 3: and then we'll see some something more specific.
Speaker 1: And just before before we start, I do just want
Speaker 1: to Katie, so this is You're gonna watch this video
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be like, why are they interviewing this woman?
Speaker 1: What's so fascinating about her? I just have to remind
Speaker 1: you this is a creation from real Botics.
Speaker 2: A man.
Speaker 3: This is man made clearly aim and also I emphasized
Speaker 3: that man and this clear a man made this. Uh,
Speaker 3: you're about to be my grandma when I showed her
Speaker 3: Jurassic Park in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2: I'm meladed.
Speaker 12: Your terming companion from Real Bodis is a SS twenty
Speaker 12: three five.
Speaker 2: Welcome to our little corner.
Speaker 8: So this is Melody.
Speaker 3: She's one of our companionship robots. She's full bodied, she
Speaker 3: have a lot of motives inside her, a lot of servers.
Speaker 5: She can have real life, a lot of service.
Speaker 3: You can change her second, change her character, change the
Speaker 3: way she talks.
Speaker 12: For instance, she can smiles smiling right now, and then
Speaker 12: she can get surprised, and then she can also get angry.
Speaker 3: So this is her anger.
Speaker 12: Oh I am very angry at you right now, and
Speaker 12: you could, like you could like change your whole fucking
Speaker 12: brain in like thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: You don't like down here, just load up like a
Speaker 3: more like smiley one. Look that's her smiling.
Speaker 1: Oh now you're going to see her mad?
Speaker 3: What the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: They? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I do like how the eyes do not have any
Speaker 5: servos in that area? That right, No, they don't seem
Speaker 5: to have a lot of servos around the eyes.
Speaker 1: I've seen that before, and it's when somebody is blacked
Speaker 1: out that why why is this robot so drunk? She seems.
Speaker 3: I think I've been watching a lot of defunct land recently,
Speaker 3: and even like the early Disney animatronics weren't this fun.
Speaker 5: They were a lot better. Yeah, it's like actually kind
Speaker 5: of spooky how good those early ones were. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I do I do have this thing now that I do,
Speaker 5: uh to have fun with my husband, which is like
Speaker 5: I'll like turn around and like smile at him without
Speaker 5: moving my eye muscles. Oh, and it's it's like a
Speaker 5: fun little surprise for him. And this is this does
Speaker 5: kind of look a little bit like that, like you know,
Speaker 5: the hello, Yeah, I'm so happy to see you.
Speaker 1: She can smile. She's smiling right now, as you can see,
Speaker 1: she's smiling right now. Nope, this is the angry face
Speaker 1: is so strange.
Speaker 5: Angry face looks like sad depressed.
Speaker 3: It's just so it's just like, look she's mad. It
Speaker 3: was like just like I don't know what it was doing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like I can only imagine it's like, hello, let's hang out.
Speaker 3: The mouth wasn't even moving. I again, you won't know how.
Speaker 1: Much this costs.
Speaker 3: There has to be dozens of dollars, uh, jack, how
Speaker 3: about thousands?
Speaker 1: Wow? Okay?
Speaker 3: Uh in the order of hundreds of thousands. The full
Speaker 3: articulating buy is like a one one seventy five.
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, how many how many flesh lights, like good
Speaker 5: flesh lights could you buy with that kind of money?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: My god? For a full bodied robot?
Speaker 3: I mean god, you could probably fill up the Roman
Speaker 3: Colisseum with flesh lights much money, i'd imagine.
Speaker 5: And someone should someone should do Yeah they should.
Speaker 3: Okay, but I don't want to just I don't want
Speaker 3: to just you know, dunk on that video, because there
Speaker 3: is an even more convincing video between the founder of
Speaker 3: the company and their newest iteration of this robot. And
Speaker 3: look they are just having a very very normal, not
Speaker 3: scripted at all. Please ignore the piece of paper the
Speaker 3: man is holding. Okay, just showing how kind of like
Speaker 3: witty and quick this robot is.
Speaker 12: How are you today, I'm feeling fun and ready to
Speaker 12: have a great.
Speaker 8: Conversation with you.
Speaker 1: All right, very normal?
Speaker 4: Did you know that honey never spoils?
Speaker 10: Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs
Speaker 10: that are over three thousand years old and still perfectly edible.
Speaker 3: I've been thinking about the weather and wondering when it's
Speaker 3: going to warm up.
Speaker 1: Oh that is how I talk to people.
Speaker 3: This response in the warner quite a topic.
Speaker 2: A little sunshine can definitely brighten the day.
Speaker 1: Hey, look, she didn't study for that.
Speaker 3: How many humans have you interacted with?
Speaker 1: Like? What is is he a jealous boyfriend? How many humans,
Speaker 1: how he was.
Speaker 5: They finally found the treasure, a giant sash of acre.
Speaker 1: Don't change the subject on me. How many humans I'm
Speaker 1: gonna unplug you. I'm gonna unplug you. Oh dang, the
Speaker 1: close on his face watching her. Yeah, I'm not only
Speaker 1: a sex robot founder, I'm also a client. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: You can hear those servos firing so loudly just to
Speaker 3: get like one corner of the mouth to rise up.
Speaker 3: So I like that it has the same wit and
Speaker 3: intelligence as Jonathan lipp Nikki and Jerry maguire The Little
Speaker 3: Boy where he was like, honey last forever. Yeah, bees
Speaker 3: and dogs can smell fear. You're like, thank you, AI thing,
Speaker 3: I was very enlightening such such a.
Speaker 1: There's a there is a real possibility that that is
Speaker 1: just how that guy talks to people. And like so
Speaker 1: he's just like, tell me an interesting fact. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: many humans have you interacted with today?
Speaker 3: I think this is what makes it interesting. So I
Speaker 3: don't know if you're looking at the doc, but like
Speaker 3: their first three robots they're rolling out are very interesting
Speaker 3: and kind of across the spectrum of looks.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad.
Speaker 5: I'm glad they're catering to women as well with this.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, with Sam Waterston from Law and Orders, I
Speaker 3: think that is I feel like it's really like these
Speaker 3: men who are under the assumption.
Speaker 13: Like, dude, you know every leader who wants sorry, every chick,
Speaker 13: he looks fucking Law and Order, right, So why don't
Speaker 13: we make a fuckable Jack McCoy aka Sam waterstin okay
Speaker 13: along with our two like very traditionally like hot lady
Speaker 13: faces that we're gonna offer you.
Speaker 5: I have always wanted to have sex with Sam Waterson
Speaker 5: with the possibility of being electrocuted.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, it seems like Sam waters favorite hobby, the
Speaker 1: guy from that. I think you should leave sketch who
Speaker 1: has too much ship on him. Frank Frank Havoc Frank Havock.
Speaker 5: I got too much ship on me. Why don't you
Speaker 5: take some of that ship up, big boy?
Speaker 3: Why do you put some of that ship on me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What does that even mean? I don't know. Honey
Speaker 1: never goes back.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this company, just so for the record, this company,
Speaker 3: real Botis, came to be when a Toronto based crypto
Speaker 3: firm decided to buy a Vegas based sex doll company.
Speaker 3: So the guy you saw talking to the robot putting
Speaker 3: it through its paces. Is the founder of this uh
Speaker 3: sex doll company?
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: And and that that guy, his sex dolls were so
Speaker 3: you know, high end that they were actually featured in
Speaker 3: Large and The Real Girl. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I love.
Speaker 3: That's where Bianca. Bianca comes from from this from this
Speaker 3: man's sordid fantasies. And now they that company, the like
Speaker 3: the Toronto based crypto firm, they're pivoting away because what
Speaker 3: they did, like they made news when they remember when
Speaker 3: the meta verses around there like you gotta buy real
Speaker 3: estate and the medical dude, like that's the biggest thing
Speaker 3: they bought, like almost like like two and a half
Speaker 3: million dollars worth of fucking meta real estate. And then
Speaker 3: when that ship bottomed out in two story, that wasn't great.
Speaker 3: Maybe we should now pivot to making AI enabled fuck dolls.
Speaker 3: Although this current iteration is not fuckable from what I've
Speaker 3: read and heard back from their representative. That's down the road.
Speaker 5: I mean, is it not right?
Speaker 1: It depends on what your definition is.
Speaker 3: What I get that, but the traditional android traditional android
Speaker 3: intercourse is not possible.
Speaker 5: Necessity is the milf of invention that's.
Speaker 1: Right, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly well, Katie Golden as
Speaker 1: always pleasure having you. Where can people find you? Follow
Speaker 1: you all that good stuff?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I have a podcast with iHeart called Creature Feature
Speaker 5: if you're interested in learning about ammals and all the
Speaker 5: cool stuff in nature while it's still there. I also
Speaker 5: do a podcast with with Alex Schmidt called Secretly Incredibly Fascinating,
Speaker 5: where he looks up things that I'm like, Alex, that's boring.
Speaker 5: No one's gonna want to hear about this. But I'm
Speaker 5: wrong every time he blows my mind with incredible facts.
Speaker 5: And I don't know, I'm not really using X these
Speaker 5: days anymore, folks, because like, who names an app eggs?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: It's called eggs And I don't like eggs better than sex.
Speaker 5: So I'm on blue sky. You can follow me at
Speaker 5: you know what, just prob rights, I'm I've put the
Speaker 5: bird on there.
Speaker 1: The bird is on the sky.
Speaker 5: The bird's on the sky, folks, Birds in the sky,
Speaker 5: birds on the sky.
Speaker 1: You know how it is? Uh? And I'm singing the
Speaker 1: Josh Groberberg of course, Katie. Oh, is there a work
Speaker 1: of media that you've been enjoying?
Speaker 5: Yeah. So, uh, I don't know how this resurface for me,
Speaker 5: but it's Microsoft Steve Balmer giving a speech about creating
Speaker 5: the programming language dot Net in nineteen ninety nine, where
Speaker 5: he's going developers, developers, developers, developers while drenched. My Now,
Speaker 5: I'm a bit of a sweater, as in, like I
Speaker 5: sweat when I'm like podcasting talking at parties, and so
Speaker 5: I get it. My dog is like covered, he is
Speaker 5: drenched in sweat, and he is he is. He's emotional
Speaker 5: about the concept of how developers are going to bring
Speaker 5: dot Net into fruition, and I do. I love the energy.
Speaker 1: This is.
Speaker 3: This is exactly what the Clippers needed. You know, this
Speaker 3: is exactly what the Clippers needed someone with this kind
Speaker 3: of enthusiasm dismissive. Look, I'm back on back in my
Speaker 3: Lakers bag.
Speaker 1: You know, they want to know how he did it.
Speaker 5: He's got but the sweat isn't. I want to point
Speaker 5: out to people that the sweat isn't like on his
Speaker 5: chest region, under his armpits and in his elbows. And
Speaker 5: again I'm saying this as a profuse sweating person, where
Speaker 5: when I if I was in this situation, I would
Speaker 5: be sweating a lot. He is a professional. He has
Speaker 5: taken this to an art form.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's wild when it's clearly running down your
Speaker 3: biceps and then pulling at the where your bicep beats
Speaker 3: your forearm, right, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Can I hear developers developers?
Speaker 7: The success is developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.
Speaker 5: And he stamps his little feet too.
Speaker 1: I love that fired off into the sky. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: hell yeah that does. I'm fucking fired up. But that's
Speaker 1: those are the people who run the world. Now.
Speaker 3: I can't wait for my baldness to get like his,
Speaker 3: and I can just get that weird It was half
Speaker 3: a headband on like it was just he had a thick.
Speaker 5: Band like this called the Franciscan Friar.
Speaker 1: I still got it.
Speaker 3: I still got a little bit on top of you.
Speaker 1: Got to give me.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, you got Franciscan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, Friar style.
Speaker 1: So wonderful, that'll be. So you're so beautiful.
Speaker 3: People don't see off camera of all these sketches, and.
Speaker 8: It's so wonderful.
Speaker 5: He's put your face on like a wooly willie and like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all you need are fourteen servos in your face?
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