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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to be joined in our third seats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very funny. Comedian and activist Yeah, the host of the
Speaker 1: great award winning podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim. Yeah, Senior
Speaker 1: fellow on comedy at the Pop Culture Collaborative. She's written
Speaker 1: for The New York Times, wrote and performed a piece
Speaker 1: on Fresh Air. He it's the hilarious, the talented.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, pipes, what is up?
Speaker 3: Let us go?
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: I haven't seen the news in a while.
Speaker 1: When I miss it's been good. It's been mostly good stuff.
Speaker 6: Oh you're gonna love this man. It's gonna hit you
Speaker 6: like a fucking ship Title Wave. It's gonna blow your
Speaker 6: fucking hair back.
Speaker 3: Get ready.
Speaker 1: That never recedes.
Speaker 4: I I was hanging out with Katy Perry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, in outer space.
Speaker 1: That sucks.
Speaker 6: Say she didn't let you post any of the pictures
Speaker 6: that you were sending me in our text like threat
Speaker 6: with each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I couldn't look her in the eye.
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean I get that she's she's famous. So
Speaker 6: that's just kind of a you can't look You can't
Speaker 6: look Jalo in the eye either if you're a service provider.
Speaker 5: But you can look her in the Yes, that's.
Speaker 1: A proctologists watched out of Site for the first time
Speaker 1: in a long time.
Speaker 3: Oh, good grief. Good like that movie.
Speaker 1: Really like her performance. But for some reason, when I
Speaker 1: had watched it before, I hadn't fully taken into account
Speaker 1: everything that was going on in the backyard. And I
Speaker 1: was Jay's with my friend and we were just like, O,
Speaker 1: what what is happening right there? It was like stopped
Speaker 1: it and pushing it back like it was just like
Speaker 1: she like walking to the door, like to go answer
Speaker 1: the door, Like.
Speaker 6: What the because wait didn't she I mean she she was.
Speaker 6: She was the one that like broke the door open
Speaker 6: for people to be like, yeah, big butts are cool.
Speaker 6: The boom Era is over.
Speaker 3: Never over.
Speaker 6: The boo bears, the boom beer is timeless. But I'm
Speaker 6: saying we finally, yes, we finally acknowledged the posteriors the Glutamus,
Speaker 6: Mini miss and Maximus.
Speaker 1: Yes, and shout out to the Maximus.
Speaker 6: I also, isn't the one where George Clooney is doing
Speaker 6: all the Zippo lighter tricks?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, little snapping on the I so side note that
Speaker 6: I got a promotional out of sight Zippo lighter at
Speaker 6: the time, and I was I perfected the flick open
Speaker 6: with the snap ignition and this was I was fit fifteen.
Speaker 3: I wasn't smoking.
Speaker 6: I wasn't even smoking then, and I was like stunting
Speaker 6: on people at school and They're like, you cannot be
Speaker 6: bringing a lighter to school, and I'm like, but did
Speaker 6: you see me flip it open like this and then
Speaker 6: snap the ship? And that's why I smoking.
Speaker 1: Bit open till it hurts a little because it's burning.
Speaker 1: No position, Rosie Joel. We do like to get to
Speaker 1: know our guests a little bit better by asking them
Speaker 1: we do something from their search history that is revealing
Speaker 1: about who they are. I'd like to ask you both
Speaker 1: for that, and then I understand that you've decided to
Speaker 1: trade off the overrated underrated.
Speaker 7: Yes, wait, Rosie, can you go first on search history?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I can, because today I was looking up the very
Speaker 8: exciting laws around internet safety when you work for a
Speaker 8: large corporation. So I was searching exciting things such as
Speaker 8: I'm like one hundred years old, guys, I'm looking in
Speaker 8: my history.
Speaker 9: I'm like, where's the search?
Speaker 8: Guys like I don't remember the acronym, but okay, I'll
Speaker 8: tell you this is a this is a good one.
Speaker 8: Currently in my search history, I do have my training,
Speaker 8: which I was trying to learn about different kinds of
Speaker 8: important health and safety. I also have a reddit for
Speaker 8: what do people give out free at K pop concerts?
Speaker 8: Because I was making a present for my friend who
Speaker 8: loves kpop? And what's the other most interesting history?
Speaker 3: Wait, what do you mean give out free at a case?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: Okay, let me educate you, because I too am I
Speaker 8: am like not a young hip person anymore if I
Speaker 8: ever was, and basically at K pop concerts and I'm
Speaker 8: sorry to the Taylor Swift fans it was their first.
Speaker 8: It is very common for the young girls and the
Speaker 8: young people who go to these shows. They make fan
Speaker 8: photo cards of the K pop idols. They switch kind
Speaker 8: of all kinds of merchandise. People will take classes cups,
Speaker 8: people will take those light sticks and when you go
Speaker 8: on Reddit and you look at freebies on concerts because
Speaker 8: I am just a dad who looks up everything on Reddit.
Speaker 8: They're just these unbelievable hales that these girls get when
Speaker 8: they go because there's you know, twenty thousand people there
Speaker 8: and they're all switching around.
Speaker 9: Little bracelets with their bias on it or with the
Speaker 9: name of the band.
Speaker 1: So like the Taylor Swift, it's kind of like that, but.
Speaker 8: Like more extrapolated to multiple different kinds of merchandise. And
Speaker 8: a big part of like K pop popularity is these
Speaker 8: things called photo cards where it's just like a little
Speaker 8: photo of the idol and they.
Speaker 9: Trade them kind of like trading cards. So yeah, I
Speaker 9: was looking up that kind of stuff to.
Speaker 8: Arrange a cute surprise for a friend, and I was
Speaker 8: really learning a lot, as I always do when I
Speaker 8: go on Reddit and ask a question that one hundred
Speaker 8: and forty year old men have asked before me.
Speaker 3: My daughter's going to a K pop show. Have you
Speaker 3: tried just.
Speaker 1: Going to Google and asking their ai? Absolutely not.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, dude, I'm I'm just as a as a
Speaker 8: person who spends a lot of time on the Internet
Speaker 8: and who writes a lot of articles and.
Speaker 9: Does a lot of journalism.
Speaker 8: The moment that that came up, I was like, I
Speaker 8: have to pretend it doesn't exist, yeah, because otherwise, at
Speaker 8: one point I will okay because I'm busy, and I
Speaker 8: will get got and suddenly I will be writing something
Speaker 8: completely factually inaccurate.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I gotta stay to the sources I know,
Speaker 9: the sites I know.
Speaker 8: And mostly that has just led to me just going
Speaker 8: to the thing like comic books because you can't.
Speaker 9: You got to ignore it.
Speaker 1: Google completely broken for completely, like years now, and now
Speaker 1: they just have a thing that's like what what if
Speaker 1: we just like took from the top five results that
Speaker 1: have been wrong for years?
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is my first old man yells at cloud
Speaker 7: moment where my kids don't.
Speaker 9: Look at the AI.
Speaker 3: It's terrible.
Speaker 7: You're so frequently wrong, and it's really terrifying, Uh if
Speaker 7: you're a person who really enjoys people reading, because I
Speaker 7: feel like it's just reducing literacy, like I'm Branson by
Speaker 7: even more, and you're just like, it's it's just Google
Speaker 7: is just it used to be so accurate.
Speaker 3: You guys, remember when Google was good? Always go over there.
Speaker 3: What we were looking for? Sows was good.
Speaker 8: Oh, Michael, Well, I mean I remember using as jeeves guys,
Speaker 8: I used as I've ever been.
Speaker 6: That was kind of the beginning of the AI creep though,
Speaker 6: because with ask jeeves, I remember it was so totally
Speaker 6: set up to be like rather than a search term
Speaker 6: like yours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly in a conversational way.
Speaker 6: But I mean the more I look at like AI
Speaker 6: and I hear like like like men talk.
Speaker 3: About it's like dude, like you can actually do therapy.
Speaker 6: On there and stuff like, I'm like, I'm now convinced
Speaker 6: AI was just created so men didn't have to appear
Speaker 6: like they didn't know anything.
Speaker 9: And no, I think that you I think it was.
Speaker 8: That is one of the biggest problems with it is
Speaker 8: it is exactly that because I didn't realize in my
Speaker 8: you know, naivete as somebody who's just too old to
Speaker 8: have been suckered into it. Multiple friends that I have
Speaker 8: who work with people who are in their twenties are
Speaker 8: just constantly catching them using it like it has become
Speaker 8: the go to so quickly to just put something through chat,
Speaker 8: gutp or ask them a question. And then people come
Speaker 8: on the internet as they always have done and act
Speaker 8: like they are an expert source. But the funny thing
Speaker 8: is now they are getting it from like a Before
Speaker 8: you might have gone to a fandom site, like fans
Speaker 8: sourced media and archival spaces are really really important and
Speaker 8: have for a long time been like at the heart
Speaker 8: of a lot of genre fandoms. But you would go
Speaker 8: there and you would read someone else's thing. You would
Speaker 8: maybe do some research, or maybe you just quote it
Speaker 8: from Wikipedia. But now you're literally just quoting something wrong.
Speaker 8: Like nine times out of ten that AI answer is
Speaker 8: going to be absolutely incorrect. I was looking up something
Speaker 8: about the technological safety.
Speaker 9: I'm really sure I'm making this corporation feel great.
Speaker 1: I obviously have.
Speaker 9: All the lingo down. I don't worry. I will never
Speaker 9: put a USB stick where it doesn't belong, guys.
Speaker 3: I know that much.
Speaker 1: But the thing that you learn in those trainings is
Speaker 1: if you find a USB stick in the.
Speaker 3: Parking lot, don't don't load it up.
Speaker 1: Don't don't just take pick it up and plug it
Speaker 1: directly into your computer as I had been doing for you.
Speaker 8: I don't date it because whose computer even still has
Speaker 8: a USB correctly exactly?
Speaker 3: No one may buy a dongle. Yeah, but what this USB.
Speaker 3: I really need it.
Speaker 8: But like even during that while I was trying to
Speaker 8: understand a bit more about like these different legislations have
Speaker 8: come in in the last twenty you know, since twenty
Speaker 8: fifteen or whatever, every time I would be googling to
Speaker 8: try and understand more about it, because I'm like, if
Speaker 8: I'm going to do the training, I may as well
Speaker 8: actually learn something. So I googled it and then they
Speaker 8: are legit giving me like the incorrect answer and information
Speaker 8: in the top, while the correct thing is in the
Speaker 8: you know the answer below, and that I think as well, Joel,
Speaker 8: you must you must know this feeling Me and Joel
Speaker 8: both came up like doing you know, journalism, entertainment, journalism
Speaker 8: and stuff, and if you wrote like a big deep
Speaker 8: dive interview or a law piece five years ago, the
Speaker 8: best kind of feeling of achievement was if yours was
Speaker 8: the first answer on Google, you would be like, Okay,
Speaker 8: I'm the most cited. I'm ever like this is me now,
Speaker 8: I'm like that better not fucking ever question, AI, I
Speaker 8: definitely got something wrong.
Speaker 1: Like right, yeah, I mean it just generally like it's
Speaker 1: a is a perfect replacement for men in that they
Speaker 1: just created a machine that will give an answer that
Speaker 1: isn't correct, very confidently made by men for men, and
Speaker 1: you don't place men, you.
Speaker 6: Don't, and you don't have to struggle in public square
Speaker 6: of men because you can quietly just you know, like
Speaker 6: your phone and even for fucking therapy. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: I know, and like I can see that there are
Speaker 6: potentially non malicious applications of it. But like when I
Speaker 6: see the amount of people like reflexively like just think
Speaker 6: that that's the answer, that's what that's what spooks me up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Joel, is there something from your search history that's
Speaker 1: really It's.
Speaker 7: So funny you bring up Ka Pop because I was
Speaker 7: hanging up Black Pink tickets. I like, I like Jenny,
Speaker 7: She's cool. Uh, everybody loves Lata Lisa, she's pretty. See
Speaker 7: girl's got her a little uh up a song that
Speaker 7: I'm it's like, maybe see the Girls song is everywhere.
Speaker 7: It's literally taken over my feet. And I was like, well,
Speaker 7: maybe I'll go, but tickets are more expensive, and then
Speaker 7: I paid for Beyonce.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh shit, I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 7: I think I can't do that.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 7: So I'm just gonna wait and there's still a ton
Speaker 7: of tickets lefto, so I'm like, maybe closure to the concert.
Speaker 8: We'll say, what about this, Joel. This is not an advertisement,
Speaker 8: as I am not sponsored, but I do enjoy the
Speaker 8: game Time app where you can buy a ticket like
Speaker 8: two hours before a show and it's like twenty bucks.
Speaker 8: That was what happened with Beyonce last time. There was
Speaker 8: all these people buying floor show tickets for.
Speaker 9: Like sixty bucks. Wow tour like.
Speaker 8: As long as you're like a couple of hours away.
Speaker 8: So I think you got the right idea.
Speaker 3: Wait, I haven't explored the game.
Speaker 7: Time appy yet, but let me download it because I'm
Speaker 7: also looking at floor seats for the WNBA games when
Speaker 7: those started back up. You know I've been wanting to go,
Speaker 7: haven't you, Yes, because it was you you were telling
Speaker 7: you about how much when the WNBA games were and
Speaker 7: I was like, I got to go check these things out.
Speaker 8: The WNBA you can buy because the Sparks ended up
Speaker 8: as the lowest team, if not maybe one of I
Speaker 8: think it was the lowest ranked. But and I went
Speaker 8: to the last game and it was unbelievable. The girl
Speaker 8: I just wanted to cry. She was like, I'm so sorry,
Speaker 8: We'll do better, like the captain of the team, and
Speaker 8: I was like, no, you are amazing, Like it's okay.
Speaker 8: None of us watching this are professional athletes, but that's
Speaker 8: like it's okay, Like you didn't do the cheapest they had.
Speaker 8: When I emailed to find out about the season tickets,
Speaker 8: they had season tickets that started at like four hundred bucks.
Speaker 9: Not terrible seats all the time.
Speaker 7: I just to the big place for the queer girlies
Speaker 7: to like hang out, meet one another, see amazingly tall
Speaker 7: Amazon women on each other, like I'm just really.
Speaker 8: Here for And I will add another selling point, which
Speaker 8: is when I went, two of the girls had a
Speaker 8: fist fight. It was pretty Griner and one of the
Speaker 8: girls from the Spots and they got in a fist
Speaker 8: fight and they literally pretty got the game and they
Speaker 8: both got ejected, just straight up ejected.
Speaker 9: It was it was pretty sick. I'm not going to sports.
Speaker 7: Fight is a top tier. I've never been to a
Speaker 7: sporting event where there's been a fist fight. But if
Speaker 7: there's one happening and I'm like, I'm on my feet immediately,
Speaker 7: I like, let's go, let's see.
Speaker 5: I just love I don't you know fighting I r
Speaker 5: L but sports in real.
Speaker 3: Life, that's it.
Speaker 5: Those are billionaires punching each other.
Speaker 4: We should be.
Speaker 9: Somebody writing somewhere it's like, just let them fight, that's fair.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of blood lust right now in the sports fandom.
Speaker 3: Like there there are a.
Speaker 1: Couple of NBA series that we have a really good
Speaker 1: chance of in Round one of the NBA Playoffs of
Speaker 1: going spilling over into street fights and everyone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's like the same reason people watch hockey, they
Speaker 8: just want to see somebody beat someone else up right.
Speaker 8: That's the the same reason people go to the to
Speaker 8: see any kind of large, slightly dangerous event is like, oh,
Speaker 8: what if it went wrong?
Speaker 9: Like there's a human curiosity there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and you're right twenty twenty five springing out the Bloodluss.
Speaker 1: What if the horses and the Kentucky Derby started fighting
Speaker 1: each other?
Speaker 5: Okay, I would want to kind you want to see
Speaker 5: the animals fight?
Speaker 9: Up your hoops?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 3: Felipe uh I.
Speaker 10: Was thinking a lot about this one. I'm going to
Speaker 10: make both of my underrated and my overrated things about sports.
Speaker 10: I think because I have to say it here in
Speaker 10: this country, soccer. Soccer is incredibly underrated, underrated. Yeah, it's
Speaker 10: my favorite sport. It's incredible. It's insane, the level of
Speaker 10: athleticism that you have to have to play it, and
Speaker 10: like people run, like those players run like six miles
Speaker 10: twelve miles every three days. And I'm like, it's not
Speaker 10: about the goals. Also, like there's really cool goals. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: So soccer is a big thing that I think is
Speaker 10: underrated here.
Speaker 6: Who's your Who's your team? I mean probably obviously the
Speaker 6: Columbia national team.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Columbia national team, which, as they say in the book,
Speaker 10: like Columbia is a great nation whose people will never
Speaker 10: let you down unless they play for the men's national team,
Speaker 10: which because they will always let you down.
Speaker 3: Shout out David Asina. You know what I mean.
Speaker 10: Arsenal Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah and it Spina actually
Speaker 10: played for my favorite club, which is Arsenal in London.
Speaker 6: Hell yeah, I'm right there, bro, I know.
Speaker 3: That's why I said, let me vibe check real quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are riding high right now, right real Madrid?
Speaker 3: Yeah, fucking beauty. That was Oh my god, I love
Speaker 3: throwing it in the haters. There's so many real Madrid
Speaker 3: fans were like, just wait, bro, have you heard have
Speaker 3: you heard of We're gonna We're gonna win back it now? Y'all?
Speaker 3: Y'all are trash anyway? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Have you guys thought about like adding dunks to the game.
Speaker 1: I just feel like maybe, like if you could like dunk,
Speaker 1: it would be cool.
Speaker 11: There.
Speaker 3: Shots from outside the box are like dunking. Bro, Okay,
Speaker 3: those you like a goal?
Speaker 10: If a goal comes from outside the box, it should
Speaker 10: count for two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many like, let's change this sport that
Speaker 1: sounds so beautiful that you love so much. Change it
Speaker 1: for the American audience. Maybe maybe rock and jocket a
Speaker 1: little bit. Maybe there's ten pointers from random spots.
Speaker 6: If you watch the South American League, they take fucking
Speaker 6: rips from outside the box. Like if it would be
Speaker 6: those scores would be wacky for the amount of like
Speaker 6: outside of the box I've seen in South American League.
Speaker 10: Be cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 10: He here's my here's the thing that will probably get
Speaker 10: me excommunicated from the United States college sports. Don't get
Speaker 10: it has never been my thing. Or got it, Like
Speaker 10: I didn't go to college here, but I'm like, these
Speaker 10: are just like twenty two year olds were late for
Speaker 10: cam you know, right right? Why is everyone so like
Speaker 10: riled up about this? You know what, do you all
Speaker 10: have jobs? You're no longer in college?
Speaker 6: This is this is my theory about it, Felipe, because
Speaker 6: the reason I really love football, let's call it football,
Speaker 6: that's what that's what it's called, is the sort of
Speaker 6: tribalism around the supporter culture.
Speaker 3: Like everybody has a club.
Speaker 6: Everybody is devoted to their their respective club or national team.
Speaker 6: They will they will dress up, they will get together
Speaker 6: on match days to experience it all. And I think
Speaker 6: college football is the closest thing in America that we
Speaker 6: have that's localized enough that even if you live in Nebra,
Speaker 6: where you have no professional sports team, you have a
Speaker 6: college team that allows you to be like, we are Nebraska,
Speaker 6: this is our team. We fuck with them, these are enemies.
Speaker 6: So I think that's the one parallel I see. But
Speaker 6: the difference being is they don't have the fun chance
Speaker 6: and so yeah.
Speaker 10: Like cancer doing soccer amazing, But but I get that actually,
Speaker 10: like this is the first time someone's like presented that
Speaker 10: like that way of looking at it, like I understand
Speaker 10: that a little bit more. It's it really is just
Speaker 10: like one of those things where like it's so weird
Speaker 10: to me. Sometimes I'll see like a grown man with
Speaker 10: like a like a ku like jacket, and I'm like you, sir,
Speaker 10: you you have daughters.
Speaker 1: And then I presume I didn't cry at either of
Speaker 1: their birds, but did cry the last time that team.
Speaker 3: Oh man, when Rafel friends was there.
Speaker 6: Man, Yeah, and it is getting sorry, Jacques vaugh you know,
Speaker 6: the list goes on.
Speaker 3: Damn. Why were they so French?
Speaker 1: Joel?
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean we were not familiar with your game.
Speaker 1: It's it's now basically becoming more of more like corporations
Speaker 1: where you are hiring people out, like the way that
Speaker 1: the system is set up. Like at first it was
Speaker 1: you they were on. The athletes were only paid with
Speaker 1: their education, which was not good because this amorphous entity,
Speaker 1: the NCAA is making all the money and just like
Speaker 1: not sharing any of it with the athletes. But they
Speaker 1: they then switched it and now it's just this weird
Speaker 1: thing where like people change teams constantly, Like it almost
Speaker 1: feels like when somebody is like, oh, you want to
Speaker 1: do it your way, fine, and they like make it
Speaker 1: bad on purpose, you know, like they've just like not
Speaker 1: put any rules in to make it so that any
Speaker 1: team keeps players that like are are there. It's everybody
Speaker 1: has to switch constantly. But anyways, it is I get
Speaker 1: what you're saying, Like from an outside perspective, I feel
Speaker 1: like it would be like, what the fuck is anybody
Speaker 1: talking about?
Speaker 10: Totally Yeah, it's totally like I didn't grow up with this.
Speaker 10: It's like when you go to your like like a
Speaker 10: friend's house and everyone's like, oh, for dinner, we're gonna
Speaker 10: have my favorite like tune a pasta or whatever, and
Speaker 10: it's like you're like everyone I likesta, but it's like
Speaker 10: everyone in the home is like this is amazing.
Speaker 2: And you don't forget dance to the castle dance Dad,
Speaker 2: just like embarrassed for everyone.
Speaker 1: I actually don't feel that good.
Speaker 3: Could I?
Speaker 1: I might have to call my parents pick me up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, chicken tastes like wood.
Speaker 1: Hey, myles, have you ever gone over a friend's house?
Speaker 1: Food just ain't no good?
Speaker 3: No good.
Speaker 1: From Bottle of ko Peck take That verse is mind
Speaker 1: blowing to me?
Speaker 3: What fun?
Speaker 1: What an unexplored direction that rap could have taken. Where
Speaker 1: if they had gone with that verse as the one
Speaker 1: that worked from Rappers Delight?
Speaker 6: Could you imagine if rappers rather than starting off I
Speaker 6: said a hip hop, a hip and they just started with.
Speaker 1: Have you ever got over a fritastic? And the food
Speaker 1: just ain't no good? The macaroni sug like. Rap is
Speaker 1: just like poor food commentary and stant like failed stand
Speaker 1: up comedy is like the direction that all rap goes.
Speaker 10: Have you ever noticed that airplane food is not as
Speaker 10: good as.
Speaker 3: To deal with?
Speaker 1: How small these peanut packages? All right, felipe, wonderful getting
Speaker 1: to know you. We're gonna take a quick break. We're
Speaker 1: gonna come back and we're going to talk about some news.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and we're back. We're coming back in
Speaker 1: mid mid laughter. We have fun when you guys aren't around.
Speaker 1: I hate to tell I hate to tell you guys this.
Speaker 1: We actually sometimes have more fun when you guys aren't
Speaker 1: around when we're in at breaks.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, that sounds like a thing parents would say.
Speaker 1: To there, Ye.
Speaker 3: Say this, daddy, have way more fun.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny that my kids are terrified of that.
Speaker 1: No they're like, well, what do you guys do when
Speaker 1: we're not? They have fomo like And also, my youngest
Speaker 1: has so much like angst about the two years before
Speaker 1: he was born.
Speaker 3: But what did he do?
Speaker 1: Like, what did you guys do with him?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, So he thinks about the before times of him white,
Speaker 6: which is wild because so for me, like my existential
Speaker 6: fear is all about end of end of life.
Speaker 1: But and somebody once met like put into perspective for
Speaker 1: me by being like, well, are you worried about the
Speaker 1: time before you were alive? I'm like no, Well then
Speaker 1: why would you be worried about the time after you're alive?
Speaker 1: And I was like, shut up, okay, no, I was like,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a really good point. My son has
Speaker 1: has fear of before he was alive.
Speaker 4: Interestingly, I just tell my kid, I was fucking what
Speaker 4: was I doing before you were?
Speaker 5: I was up every time.
Speaker 1: I was putting in the work to make you mama
Speaker 1: was busting it open.
Speaker 6: Okay, don't worry about me already, worry about you.
Speaker 3: Worry about you.
Speaker 1: Uh, let's talk about Pete Haggs after real quick. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: this is a will they won't they a bit of
Speaker 1: where Monday morning it was Pete Hagg said he gone, or.
Speaker 6: It was at least the reporting was the search has begun,
Speaker 6: has begun to replace him from morning, yeah he gone?
Speaker 1: What now it is he might not be gone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Caroline, I really searching.
Speaker 5: I mean, it really seems like they just like, you know,
Speaker 5: skim the top.
Speaker 6: Just kind of well they they skimmed the top of
Speaker 6: Fox News to find yeah, exactly, and now they will
Speaker 6: just be skimming the like sort of closing hours of
Speaker 6: a TGI Fridays near the bar to find a replacement
Speaker 6: I think for the new Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 3: So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 6: But Caroline Levitt, the White House spokesperson, was just like, no,
Speaker 6: Pete is fine, he's safe. This is all fake news,
Speaker 6: and everyone in the Pentagon is against him, which might
Speaker 6: be true because everything we're reading now in this last
Speaker 6: week is like we have Republican Congressman Don Bacon coming
Speaker 6: out and he's like, this guy's an amateur, like he
Speaker 6: shouldn't be there, essentially calling for his resignation. More people
Speaker 6: inside the Pentagon are telling the press that everyone hates
Speaker 6: this fucking guy because he's a greasy piece of shit.
Speaker 1: And her excuse was like, he's fine, it's just everyone
Speaker 1: in the Pentagon hates him, the Pentagon being the thing
Speaker 1: that he's supposed to be. Yes, they're like, they're like,
Speaker 1: doesn't that mean he's bad at his job?
Speaker 3: This is what they do. It's never that he's there.
Speaker 1: It's just everybody in the locker room fucking hates him. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're not firing him.
Speaker 3: He's a good coach.
Speaker 1: It's just all of the basketball players on his team
Speaker 1: hate him. But the coach isn't the one that goes
Speaker 1: out there on the field to get the result. It's
Speaker 1: the soul. It's the people underneath. It's the players.
Speaker 3: That's why that's important.
Speaker 1: They've all just said that they hate him and refuse
Speaker 1: to play for him.
Speaker 3: Oh so then what do we do?
Speaker 6: Fire off his fault? Yeah, I mean that's not yeah,
Speaker 6: exactly what is. And it's clear though too. I think
Speaker 6: as you know, there's been all these exits. He's fired
Speaker 6: aids for being leakers. But you can only purge so
Speaker 6: many people at the Pentagon before it stops functioning. And
Speaker 6: that's something that at least people around Trump are aware of.
Speaker 6: It's like, you can't just fire fucking everyone or else,
Speaker 6: we don't have the big nasty killing machine that is
Speaker 6: the United States Military that we can threaten people with.
Speaker 3: If we don't have big.
Speaker 6: Nasty killing machine, we don't have much to threaten people
Speaker 6: with anymore. So we gotta really be clear that the
Speaker 6: big nasty killing machine operates at you know, somewhat optimal levels.
Speaker 6: So now we're at the point where Pete haig Seth,
Speaker 6: as we saw on Easter Sunday, fighting for his life.
Speaker 6: It continued Tuesday morning where Brian kill Me did him
Speaker 6: a solid his former Fox and Friends Morning show for
Speaker 6: you know, Homie had him on for a segment. Kicks
Speaker 6: off this whole segment about like everyone's against me with
Speaker 6: really a very tragic Freudian slip, or maybe not tragic,
Speaker 6: just very He's probably just saying, what's to come here
Speaker 6: to set.
Speaker 11: The record, Strate himself, the former Secretary of the current
Speaker 11: Secretary of State, Pete heg Seth, former host right here
Speaker 11: on Fox and Friends.
Speaker 6: Pete great to say, if it's secretary, see you, I
Speaker 6: like you then didn't even get his title right, former
Speaker 6: Secretary of U, Secretary of State.
Speaker 11: Like that the record, Strate himself, former Secretary of the
Speaker 11: current Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: No, that's Marco Rubio fan and also he said former
Speaker 1: the former current.
Speaker 3: I mean he doesn't wash his hands after he pisses.
Speaker 3: What I mean, you said it, you said that years ago, Pete.
Speaker 1: That's off the dumbest story that somebody can be introduced
Speaker 1: to us on on this podcast then leads to them
Speaker 1: having a major role in history.
Speaker 6: To being the in charge of the killing machine is
Speaker 6: mister pans Pete? Yeah, not great, not great. So yes,
Speaker 6: he basically is there now to really perform for camera
Speaker 6: to beg Trump because Trump watches Fox News that Pete,
Speaker 6: he saith it is like this is just this this,
Speaker 6: this is just all a bunch of leaking. Now you
Speaker 6: tell me if this next sort of exchange is a
Speaker 6: good lie for Pete, he said. Some people are saying
Speaker 6: he's flatling and he's doing that thing again with like
Speaker 6: a lot of big facial gestures like he's Jim from
Speaker 6: the office looking down at the camera lens.
Speaker 1: He's gone barrel down. I mean, this one it makes
Speaker 1: this one is designed for that.
Speaker 6: But this one he's got he's given us facial he
Speaker 6: is eating in this performance in reality.
Speaker 11: Secretary, I guess I can conclude this. We know some
Speaker 11: bizarre situation with Michael Wallt's happened with the first time
Speaker 11: the whole thing with the signal app came out.
Speaker 1: You believe this came out.
Speaker 11: They said it was called team huddle because so one
Speaker 11: of the people work for you, one of the three
Speaker 11: who no longer are there, leaked this out as a way.
Speaker 3: To get back at you.
Speaker 6: Okay, I just want to point out that I like
Speaker 6: that he leads him to what this next time.
Speaker 11: This?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great idea. Yeah, that's that's that's what happened.
Speaker 6: Then you're not some like drunk fuck up who's way
Speaker 6: out of his league. Here is Secretary of Defense. It's
Speaker 6: that someone is telling on you, right, that's the problem.
Speaker 6: You're getting told on tattletales.
Speaker 1: It's just tattle tales. Yeah, that person who you had
Speaker 1: to fire as a bitch.
Speaker 3: Is that what the problem is. And let's let pete
Speaker 3: he saith yes, and this to the maybe save his career.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 12: That's right, Brian, when you dismiss people who you believe
Speaker 12: are leaking classified information. And again, the investigation is ongoing
Speaker 12: and that will take time, and if when.
Speaker 3: The evidence produced, it will go to DJ. Why would it.
Speaker 12: Surprise anybody, Brian if those very same people keep leaking
Speaker 12: to the very same reporters whatever information they think they
Speaker 12: can to try to sabotage problems of the present character.
Speaker 3: So once a leaker, always.
Speaker 12: A leaker, often a leaker, and so we look for
Speaker 12: leakers because we take it very seriously serious and we
Speaker 12: will do the investigation. And if those people are exonerated, fantastic.
Speaker 1: So you know what, I'm.
Speaker 3: Once a leak, always a leaker, a leakin a leaker. Wow.
Speaker 1: And his whole point is like, yeah, did the thing,
Speaker 1: but they told on me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, that.
Speaker 5: Is a level of lying I did when I was like.
Speaker 3: Eight, Sure, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: We've all improved since then.
Speaker 6: Come on, you realize that it's intellectually does you no
Speaker 6: good to be like you so like you're caught and
Speaker 6: you're like it's because this person told him. He's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: you have to actually attack the like you're the event
Speaker 6: that you're responsible for.
Speaker 3: How do you account for that?
Speaker 6: And if it's always this is the same thing that
Speaker 6: Trump does all the time. It's never explaining your actions
Speaker 6: or like justifying, it's about complaining that you got caught.
Speaker 6: It's like, oh, talk about let me see your DMS.
Speaker 6: You're talking to other women?
Speaker 3: How come you got my phone?
Speaker 6: It's like no, no, no, no, no, why are you talking
Speaker 6: to other women in your DM?
Speaker 3: No? How did you get my phone?
Speaker 1: Viola?
Speaker 3: I trust you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, And now how am I supposed to
Speaker 1: trust you now? Right?
Speaker 5: So we're watching that clip just to see his eyes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his eyes when he's like so, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, truly, it really went full. I think he's
Speaker 1: talking about corn carn Cob TV pretty soon. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: really felt like the guy from corn Cob TV.
Speaker 3: They told me that he did, told me that I
Speaker 3: didn't do.
Speaker 6: Sh so close to him, saying that, like you're here
Speaker 6: that these are the receipts, sir.
Speaker 5: He should have been shaving his eyelashes that whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his eyelashes are a little too long and luxurious.
Speaker 5: They want him out.
Speaker 1: He's a glamour queen. I do just want to it. Also,
Speaker 1: there there are rumblings that Elon Musk on his way out. Also,
Speaker 1: he's claiming he's not but people. The Washington Post is
Speaker 1: reporting that he has grown weary of attacks from the
Speaker 1: left and that his hand might be forced because of
Speaker 1: Tesla's plummeting stock price, which I would love for him
Speaker 1: to leave. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna say that.
Speaker 1: My man a song.
Speaker 4: About this, Yeah, yeah, it goes Eline Musk.
Speaker 5: When will you leave? Go to space forever down to
Speaker 5: Hell or in.
Speaker 6: A volcano down to Hell, or maybe go to Mars
Speaker 6: and do that scene from Total Recall where their helmets
Speaker 6: break and they're like.
Speaker 4: Ah, maybe King Kom crushes you anything anything literally anything
Speaker 4: literally anything, He's just leave.
Speaker 6: This is I mean, it does Your point JACKI about
Speaker 6: the stock price makes sense because this story's coming out
Speaker 6: the day or like this headline came out the day
Speaker 6: before the Tesla earnings call. Yeah, so as of right now,
Speaker 6: we don't know because that's the next big performance from
Speaker 6: Elon Musk that a lot of people are looking for.
Speaker 6: It's like, what are you gonna say, man, The stock's
Speaker 6: down like forty percent and it's all because of you
Speaker 6: and your Nazi stuff.
Speaker 5: It's all good.
Speaker 1: Like when he leaves these we're not going to magically
Speaker 1: forget that he did the Nazi salute. That's what That's
Speaker 1: where I do think the I do think the whole
Speaker 1: point that the media has been ignoring the Nazi salute
Speaker 1: to Okay, go ahead, I have to I have.
Speaker 4: To dropped a white man to say, why are we
Speaker 4: all even talking? He took everybody's social security?
Speaker 3: Right he has? And also just all the information.
Speaker 1: Yeah day two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, but what why are any of us?
Speaker 4: What should have happened is we eliminated everybody's social security,
Speaker 4: we reissued them, re certified them, and.
Speaker 5: Got that clown out of town.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't.
Speaker 5: I will not get over it, and we just keep
Speaker 5: tacking on. I can't.
Speaker 6: It's going to I mean at this point, like all
Speaker 6: everything that had to be done, I guess in terms
Speaker 6: of the project twenty twenty five of it all if
Speaker 6: Elon has done a good job from their perspective with
Speaker 6: Doge helling it man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So I mean just check in on Jack though.
Speaker 4: Are you okay that I interrupted you like that?
Speaker 1: And I call it's gonna take a lot of work.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take a lot of work.
Speaker 3: Can trust you any more?
Speaker 11: That?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to trust you?
Speaker 5: Your eyelashes are.
Speaker 1: After you went through my phone soft and squishy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am very squished. Look at those eyelash I
Speaker 3: knew you were a soft boy.
Speaker 1: I do think the thing that's probably going to keep
Speaker 1: hurting the Tesla stock price is the Nazi salute. I
Speaker 1: think that one's gonna have. I think that that one's
Speaker 1: going to die hard in the culture, the old cultural memory,
Speaker 1: when you're trying to when you're part of selling a
Speaker 1: product that relies on people thinking your brand is cool.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a bummer for people to
Speaker 1: see you out on Maine doing a massive, emphatic Nasi
Speaker 1: Nazi salute.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, especially the cack off the administration that day saying
Speaker 6: all eyes on you, motherfucker, and you're like, okay, here's
Speaker 6: my chance.
Speaker 5: Listen. My tzar predictions are like really slaying right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, I've said that's that really filled my ego
Speaker 4: in a way that I wasn't for.
Speaker 3: This is what I do. I give nicknames.
Speaker 5: You're really good.
Speaker 1: Wow, God you. And there's one other public figure who
Speaker 1: gives a lot of nicknames. I can't remember who is.
Speaker 5: No one cares.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump was always biting my fucking style, dude.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: Nazis are the act one villain everyone kills and is
Speaker 4: fine with it. There is no one else you can
Speaker 4: just like kill in TV and film that everyone just
Speaker 4: like gets over humans ze Kyle, Yeah, you give.
Speaker 5: Them a hat, you you.
Speaker 4: Whatever, they do a salute, you see something that even
Speaker 4: looks like Nazish to kill them, and everyone moves on.
Speaker 4: This country is being set up for a war, I'm saying,
Speaker 4: because the whole rest of the world of the Last
Speaker 4: World War was for Nazis.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, well we'll seem to be the bad guy.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean we've been.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been the bad guy.
Speaker 6: But now it's like, but now it's conforming to like
Speaker 6: the media informed version of good and evil.
Speaker 3: Are like, well, they're the Nazis now.
Speaker 6: I think that's also like the hard part with it
Speaker 6: in America too, because especially in America, like every like
Speaker 6: for the last sixties years of media, it's been like.
Speaker 13: Not kill the fucking Nazis.
Speaker 6: And that's why you have some people who are like, yeah, man,
Speaker 6: it's kind of different. Other people are still like I
Speaker 6: don't know. I mean, all the video games and movies
Speaker 6: I saw are kind of like tarnish that brand.
Speaker 3: But hey, we shall see, we shall see, we.
Speaker 4: Shall I don't have to literally, I worked at Blockbuster,
Speaker 4: so many movies.
Speaker 1: Seen it all, see them all, see them all.
Speaker 3: They die, they die, and no one cares.
Speaker 5: No one cares. We all just we rally around kill
Speaker 5: the fucking Nazis.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, it's just interesting to me how we
Speaker 4: can be over here being like, oh, this sucks and
Speaker 4: I can't wait for this to change, and I'll just
Speaker 4: keep my head down and you know, hope it gets
Speaker 4: better at some point and somebody gets in there. But like, meanwhile,
Speaker 4: the whole world is watching because we have like the
Speaker 4: world's largest nuclear arsenal, and they're just not gonna let us.
Speaker 5: Keep it if.
Speaker 4: We're run by Nazis, you know what I mean that
Speaker 4: they have a stock in that too. If we don't, like,
Speaker 4: if we're not like, hey, that's a problem. The rest
Speaker 4: of the world isn't cool with it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're definitely in that process of the rest of
Speaker 6: the world like, oh man, what the h They've got
Speaker 6: a guy who's lost his mind as their president and
Speaker 6: right now we're just at tariffs and you know, and
Speaker 6: and just and I mean not even just that, and
Speaker 6: disappearing people and trafficking them to El Salvador into gulags
Speaker 6: and ship Yeah, the the evidence is mounting for sure,
Speaker 6: but I think.
Speaker 5: Canada take out the cavalry.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, you made your nice Canadian friend mad.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, and we united them for a moment right
Speaker 6: now they're like, yeah, America's gotta go.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 1: It does feel like, I don't know, it's been a
Speaker 1: while since it felt like they faced consequences. I think
Speaker 1: because of how incompetent the main like National Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is like it it just it feels like the rules
Speaker 1: of politics no longer apply to them, and so they're
Speaker 1: just doing so they won that election where it seemed
Speaker 1: like they might have just left the rules of normal
Speaker 1: politics behind and rather than like being like, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: we test the border, the boundaries of this new power
Speaker 1: immediately went for went sighialing on the like main stage
Speaker 1: like did you see the MTG like tweet on the
Speaker 1: morning the Pope died, Like normally you wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: alienate all Catholics in America, she tweeted. She tweeted in
Speaker 1: response to the Pope dying. Today there were major shifts
Speaker 1: in global leaderships. Evil is being defeated by the hand
Speaker 1: of God, like straight up yes, yeah, yeah, all over again,
Speaker 1: just as easily not said that, but.
Speaker 3: That's look, I can't wait for there to be the
Speaker 3: Black Pope.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're about to have a fucking some kind of
Speaker 6: a cardiac event, baby.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, they're having like the Apprentice reality TV of like
Speaker 4: firing cabinet members.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: You know what would be the ultimate reality TV show though, m.
Speaker 3: Hm the Bible? Oh, Conclave, Conclave, Yeah, fucked that one up.
Speaker 5: Conclave.
Speaker 3: Conk.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the movie Conclave where they it's it
Speaker 1: was nominated for an Academy Award this past year. You're
Speaker 1: gonna like it. It's a it is a blast. It's a
Speaker 1: movie that's like super watchable and fun. That's about like
Speaker 1: the most boring seeming topic. But it's like about the choosing,
Speaker 1: like how they choose a pope, and it's they like
Speaker 1: all get the close the fortress around the building and
Speaker 1: nobody's allowed to come in or leave as until they've
Speaker 1: decided who the next pope is. And the only way
Speaker 1: that like information comes out is through like smoke signals.
Speaker 1: It's very strange, but anyways, it's a it's a rollicking
Speaker 1: good time at the movies. I highly recommend it. But
Speaker 1: if they could get it if they could get cameras
Speaker 1: in there, just go full reality TV. Oh my god, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: get the producers of the Amazing Race.
Speaker 3: But it's like it's like, yeah, it's the new making
Speaker 3: the band.
Speaker 6: But a few auditioning they're like, I really liked him,
Speaker 6: but his dancing was not great and his Latin is terrible.
Speaker 1: Big Brother Vatican super producer Victor suggested.
Speaker 3: I like it. I think the real world Vatican.
Speaker 5: How did I miss it? Oh yeah, I was just
Speaker 5: pumping breast milk for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, let's uh, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back.
Speaker 3: And we're back. We're back.
Speaker 14: What was your favorite ad Jack that just played?
Speaker 1: Oh man, the one where Jeff Bezos came on himself
Speaker 1: and just talked to us about progressive politics and like
Speaker 1: how we need to forget about forget about them. But
Speaker 1: and let I think he said, just let me handle it,
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 6: Well, the actual thing when he goes the progressive politics
Speaker 6: forget about.
Speaker 1: It, Jeff Bezos drunk. No anyways, Yeah, so this is
Speaker 1: one of those familiar positions of having to shoot down
Speaker 1: dumb conspiracies about something that itself sucks. And is not
Speaker 1: worth defending. But there were so there was a ton
Speaker 1: of conspiracy theories last week that Kate So, Katie Perry
Speaker 1: and Gail King and Jeff Bezos' girlfriend and a bunch.
Speaker 6: Of Sanchiz former former local news in Los Angeles, Yes,
Speaker 6: Fox List what they went to space came back and
Speaker 6: people were like, I don't believe it, because.
Speaker 1: I think they were just like most people hadn't been
Speaker 1: paying attention when the billionaires were going to space and
Speaker 1: just like kind of dipping their toe in the space
Speaker 1: and being like, technically, we've been to space. In your face, everybody.
Speaker 3: Right, I am an astronaut.
Speaker 1: Any questions an astronaut, and you will address me as such.
Speaker 14: The big astronaut story before this was people someone lived
Speaker 14: in space for not that couple, yes, like nine months
Speaker 14: or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that in fact, yeah, people were people were
Speaker 1: comparing pictures of Katy Perry on her like little ten
Speaker 1: minute space space in quotes flight with pictures of the
Speaker 1: astronaut who had been there for six months, and they
Speaker 1: were like, that looks like space hair. The woman who
Speaker 1: had been there, whose hair was just like flowing in
Speaker 1: all directions, whereas Katy Perry's hair was like still kind
Speaker 1: of and didn't look like it had even been hit
Speaker 1: by much wind, to be honest, And people were like,
Speaker 1: that's she didn't actually go to space, and like that's
Speaker 1: true in the technical set.
Speaker 6: Like it's true that she went to space in the
Speaker 6: technical sense, right that she right, she crossed that threshold
Speaker 6: sixty two miles yeah, in the sky that now you
Speaker 6: are in space.
Speaker 3: But I think it's the micro gravity of it all
Speaker 3: that people were like, would your fucking MICROGRAVI the hair's
Speaker 3: does move?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's all and there's so one of the
Speaker 1: things they were pointing to was the hair. Another thing
Speaker 1: they were pointing to was that like when space capsules
Speaker 1: come back to Earth from being actually like in outside
Speaker 1: of the atmosphere in space, they like get burnt and
Speaker 1: like you can see like the burn marks on them,
Speaker 1: and this one was nice and clean, and people were like,
Speaker 1: that's well, this just looks like they just like took
Speaker 1: it and placed it there. And of course that's because
Speaker 1: it didn't have to come It didn't it didn't enter
Speaker 1: orbit and then have to come back through the atmosphere
Speaker 1: and like turn into a ball of fire. It just
Speaker 1: like hit the technical limit of space right and then
Speaker 1: came back. It was like dipping its toe in a
Speaker 1: pool and then being like, I'm an Olympic swimmer.
Speaker 14: You know, and if you were faking it, you would
Speaker 14: muddy it a little, you would. This is like a
Speaker 14: rookie move to have a pristine capsule come back if
Speaker 14: you're gonna fake it right right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: There's also the thing about like Jeff Bezos opened the
Speaker 6: door inward.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know what the fuck that's
Speaker 3: supposed to mean.
Speaker 14: Wait, it's so funny the video. Have you seen it.
Speaker 3: I'n't seen that. I haven't seen that clip. I saw
Speaker 3: that he goes up.
Speaker 14: They want this big moment where Jeff is like opening
Speaker 14: the capsule, but someone inside opens it before he gets there.
Speaker 14: He just landed, and they go to open it and
Speaker 14: they're like the press persons like close it, close it
Speaker 14: because they want this big like camera mode Jeff opening it,
Speaker 14: but they had already opened this.
Speaker 3: And I think that's the thing.
Speaker 6: People, I mean, right, like the people who have actually
Speaker 6: you know, used that as the main point of their critique.
Speaker 6: I think that's where it should because there's too many
Speaker 6: people who like, who.
Speaker 1: Gives a shit?
Speaker 6: At these broads when out of they're not fucking at
Speaker 6: like whatever. To that part, it's like it's the it's
Speaker 6: the the going along with the Jeff Bezos vanity space
Speaker 6: thing while like we're well, meanwhile on Earth, everything is
Speaker 6: falling apart and we have terrible inequalities, Like come read
Speaker 6: the fucking room here for a second, Like that's I think.
Speaker 6: The more the critiques that I've read that, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: that's that's a bad look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently it takes a ton of jet fuel to
Speaker 1: like get this thing to the border of space. Like
Speaker 1: to the point that people were saying that this used,
Speaker 1: this was as damaging to the environment as the entirety
Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift's Eras tour.
Speaker 3: Is that an actual measurement they did?
Speaker 1: I saw that somewhere, so I can tell that.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that I saw it on the internet.
Speaker 1: I did see that on the Why.
Speaker 14: Don't you guys support women reaching new heights? That's what
Speaker 14: I'm hearing. Why can't we let them?
Speaker 1: That's what's so frustrating about is just like the it's
Speaker 1: like they make us have to like side with like, well,
Speaker 1: what you're gonna be one of these right wing trolls
Speaker 1: that says that this is like artificial, It's.
Speaker 6: Like, well, no, I don't think it's artificial. It's just
Speaker 6: it's just superficial. It's just dumb, and it's just it's
Speaker 6: it's meaningless in the sense that like this is just
Speaker 6: helps bring more attention to Bezos's space program and Katie Perry's.
Speaker 3: Tour, which is so weird.
Speaker 6: And she's like flashing the set list like you're you're
Speaker 6: spending your time in space, like and my tour, no
Speaker 6: one will go to. Here's a set list for you
Speaker 6: to see. Those are other parts. I'm just like such
Speaker 6: an eye roll. Meanwhile, like the two other people that
Speaker 6: were actual like scientists.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that there aren't.
Speaker 6: They aren't being being mentioned in the same breath because
Speaker 6: like those should people.
Speaker 3: Actual scientists, right, Dale came of it all. I don't
Speaker 3: know in the Laura Laura Sanchez of it all? Who
Speaker 3: who knows?
Speaker 14: But it is it Sometimes people just use anything as
Speaker 14: a chance to express their hate for a specific person.
Speaker 14: Some of this feels very just like, oh, a lot
Speaker 14: of people just don't like Katie Perry. Yeah, this is
Speaker 14: yeah new fuel because they all deserve equal hate. If
Speaker 14: it's like the project at large.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all of the things that people are pointing out
Speaker 1: about this flight are true of like the many of
Speaker 1: the flights that like billionaires took to space, but because
Speaker 1: these are women, everybody is pissed off and like the
Speaker 1: returning up one of the ones they're like, look at
Speaker 1: this picture. There's like a dummy's hand in the capsule
Speaker 1: and it was like a capsule from like a test
Speaker 1: flight in twenty seventeen. They just like switched it in
Speaker 1: for like just to I don't know, it's like to
Speaker 1: make the case that yeah.
Speaker 6: It's such a bigger l to like come after this thing.
Speaker 6: And then with the stupidest angle like.
Speaker 3: Did you do this picture from twenty seventeen? What?
Speaker 1: Not real? Like why why would they fake it? Yea.
Speaker 6: In the Daily Mail, there was like this whole thing
Speaker 6: about like Katy Perry regretting Blue Origin flight and amidst
Speaker 6: continued criticism, it said after after insiders told Daily Mail
Speaker 6: after the flight sparked backlash that Perry has taken the
Speaker 6: criticism hard and was stunned by the public, branding her
Speaker 6: quote tone deaf and quote embarrassing. This with the insider
Speaker 6: said Katie doesn't regret going to space. It was life changing.
Speaker 6: What she does regret is making a public spectacle out
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 3: M M.
Speaker 14: Maybe maybe they need to take up book a page
Speaker 14: out of like the peat hagscept book. Just don't change course,
Speaker 14: Katie Perrot. Just you did the thing, stand by it.
Speaker 14: Don't admit you've done anything wrong. Just be proud of
Speaker 14: what you did. Just just makes it look weird.
Speaker 3: Man. Yeah, the tour would go.
Speaker 14: Would y'all? I love free stuff.
Speaker 6: I would lie I would go live on TikTok and
Speaker 6: see if I see if it goes up that far.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I mean up up there. Maybe I
Speaker 6: want to say.
Speaker 1: I have no do to do that.
Speaker 6: I want to, I mean I want to go to
Speaker 6: outer space just generally as a sensation. But like if
Speaker 6: I have to do that and be one of like
Speaker 6: Jeff Bezos's like, uh little puppets on the ship, I
Speaker 6: don't know about that.
Speaker 14: So you do a SpaceX flight then yeah, yeah, SpaceX
Speaker 14: definitely more for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker 1: Goes for the opportunity to shake hands with Jeff Bezos's.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, that was I was like always one of the
Speaker 6: highest thoughts I had in college, was like, do you
Speaker 6: remember that guy Felix Bombgartner like jumped out of that
Speaker 6: hot air balloon from outer space? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: That to me, I was like, dude, I want to
Speaker 6: get so high and do that, like just purely, both
Speaker 6: literally and literally in both ways. Just just burn up,
Speaker 6: go up in that hot air balloon and be like,
Speaker 6: I'm about to feel infinity all That was the thing
Speaker 6: I'd always say in college.
Speaker 3: Like, dude, just feeling infinity all around you. That ship
Speaker 3: must be crazy. Yeah, that was my thing.
Speaker 14: So they need to take the six women that did
Speaker 14: the space fight and just hot box in a car
Speaker 14: and let's watch the same. Just get them as high
Speaker 14: as possible. I want to see Gail King high. I
Speaker 14: think she could go to space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that way, she'd probably say some really interesting stuff
Speaker 3: I'd imagine.
Speaker 1: All right, I do just want to talk about the
Speaker 1: weekend box office. Ryan Coogler's Sinners beat a Minecraft Movie
Speaker 1: dethroned a Minecraft Movie and became the number one movie
Speaker 1: at the box office. It made forty five point six
Speaker 1: million domestically sixty one million worldwide, beating expectations. It's the
Speaker 1: best opening for an original film since pre pandemic times.
Speaker 3: Wait, so which one was? Oh? Us? So? Us was
Speaker 3: the last movie?
Speaker 6: Which was the original pre pam hun okay, so another
Speaker 6: black hell interesting film that just it blew away expectations
Speaker 6: overperforming people would.
Speaker 3: Say to be slightly pegeorged. It's actually overperforming.
Speaker 1: The expectations are always low. That's so weird when it's
Speaker 1: a black filmmaker about these filmmakers that they haven't come.
Speaker 3: Is Ryan Coogler black?
Speaker 1: I believe?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh nah, I couldn't be. I know a couple guys
Speaker 1: named Ryan who aren't so most of.
Speaker 3: The Ryans I know my homies Ryan all.
Speaker 1: White guy, all white dude. But yeah, So there's a
Speaker 1: couple headlines. There's a Variety story and a New York
Speaker 1: Times story that like on Sunday, so like the day
Speaker 1: that the box office is being like U reported. It
Speaker 1: immediately had the backlash take of actually this isn't that good?
Speaker 1: Oh like Sovbariety said. Sinners has a mass sixty one
Speaker 1: million in its global debut. It's a great result for
Speaker 1: an original R rated horror film. Yet the Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: release has a ninety million dollar price tag before global
Speaker 1: marketing expenses, so profitability remains a ways away.
Speaker 6: Sounds like if it does even a fraction of what
Speaker 6: it did this first weekend, it's profitable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a ways away though, like multiple days, you know,
Speaker 1: Jet no never how we report on box office ever before,
Speaker 1: But in this case, for some.
Speaker 6: Reason, variety can't get fucked. They were the same people
Speaker 6: that put up that dumb Rachel Zegler hit piece laying
Speaker 6: like the failures of snow White on at her feet
Speaker 6: and being like I think it was because she's pro
Speaker 6: Palestinian and the and then you know she had to
Speaker 6: do her politics all out loud. That Galagha doc got
Speaker 6: death threats, and you're like, what is the meaning of
Speaker 6: this piece at all? Like this is nothing to do
Speaker 6: with the movie.
Speaker 14: Who are they in the pockets of like the studios?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's an and it's a trade.
Speaker 6: So like they all have direct sort like lines to
Speaker 6: heads of studios that are like we needed you know,
Speaker 6: it's like any media.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 14: I saw somewhere that the director gets the rights to
Speaker 14: this film back in twenty five years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which they don't like.
Speaker 3: It's kind Yeah, I.
Speaker 14: Think studios want to take this down and.
Speaker 3: Not exactly, it's not just a pure in it's just
Speaker 3: like this.
Speaker 6: This could be everyone's like also spinning it as like
Speaker 6: a cautionary tale, like don't give the black creator too
Speaker 6: much now, because it's interesting to compare it to it
Speaker 6: Once upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Because so. The New York Times also claimed Sinner's success
Speaker 1: has a big asterisks, again arguing that profitability is far away,
Speaker 1: and they also pointed out, Zach, what you were talking
Speaker 1: about that Ryan Kugler gets to own the movie after
Speaker 1: twenty five years? The New York Times said, despite not
Speaker 1: paying for any of it, he gets to own it.
Speaker 1: You know, he only wrote, directed, and conceived of it.
Speaker 6: But doing mask off sentence even though he didn't he's
Speaker 6: not paying for it.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, Mistergler will then own it despite not
Speaker 1: paying for it.
Speaker 6: Wow, let me bow and prostrate to the studio for
Speaker 6: exploiting my creative.
Speaker 3: Like what are you fucking talking about? I think?
Speaker 1: But yeah, so just real quick to compare it to
Speaker 1: Once upon a Time in Hollywood they had this same
Speaker 1: deal structure. First of all, Tarantino like got ownership of
Speaker 1: that movie after a number of years. So this is
Speaker 1: not as unprecedent as people are making it seem One
Speaker 1: made forty five million on three thousand, three hundred screens
Speaker 1: after the pandemic, and Tarantino made forty one million, so
Speaker 1: less on three thousand and six hundred screens, so way
Speaker 1: more screens, which means that they had higher expectations. And
Speaker 1: when that movie came out, everyone was like, it's a
Speaker 1: certified box office smash for Quentin Tarantino.
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, No, no it wasn't. I mean, I think
Speaker 6: just the other stuff. You see so many handring so
Speaker 6: much hand ringing, and like these other headlines like it.
Speaker 3: Could be the end of the studio system.
Speaker 6: And I mean, I think a lot of the questions
Speaker 6: around quote unquote profitability, I'm sure they have nothing to
Speaker 6: do with the fact that, again Ryan Kogler, in negotiating
Speaker 6: this masterfully, he also secured a first dollar gross deal,
Speaker 6: meaning he makes money the second tickets are sold. He
Speaker 6: gets a taste of the box office the second tickets
Speaker 6: starts selling, as opposed to then like waiting for the
Speaker 6: studio to recoup costs, and then you get a taste
Speaker 6: of those profits.
Speaker 3: Like it's they're like, oh.
Speaker 6: God, this this black man is getting too much. Now,
Speaker 6: this could be the end of the studio system. Like
Speaker 6: that is just I feel like, so obviously what all.
Speaker 3: Of this is about.
Speaker 6: But yeah, sure it's they could be the end of
Speaker 6: the studio system, and who knows if it could be
Speaker 6: profitable even though they're projecting it's going to do three
Speaker 6: hundred million when everything's said and done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they, I mean, Hollywood's famous for managing expectations
Speaker 1: and like lying about how much money a movie made
Speaker 1: so that they can change how much money they're actually
Speaker 1: sharing with the artists who again made the movie. But
Speaker 1: they didn't even pay for it. Yeah, so I mean,
Speaker 1: why why should they get it? We should we should
Speaker 1: be worshiping the people the capital, the people who put
Speaker 1: the capital up, not it's not these artists who didn't
Speaker 1: even pay for it. It also just reminds me of
Speaker 1: that Sony Leak. I bring this up so often, but
Speaker 1: it's just such a revealing email exchange where a producer
Speaker 1: was arguing that the studio shouldn't invest in Denzel Washington
Speaker 1: because black actors don't perform well overseas And this was
Speaker 1: not in nineteen eighty seven. They were talking about a
Speaker 1: sequel to The Equalizer. You know, after decades of Denzel
Speaker 1: being one of like the most surefire movie stars. So
Speaker 1: The Equalizer came out in twenty fourteen, was a massive hit,
Speaker 1: and this person was like, I just don't see it. Guys. Look,
Speaker 1: Denzel's my favorite actor. Okay, he's my favorite actor, my
Speaker 1: favorite actor, but we don't want to invest in this
Speaker 1: because you know, audiences abroad just aren't going to go
Speaker 1: see his movies. By the way, the Equalizer to grossed
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety million dollars on a sixty million
Speaker 1: dollar budget. But they just don't want to let black
Speaker 1: artists have success because that would mean that like the
Speaker 1: system that you know, gay makes it so that they
Speaker 1: have their jobs is is wrong? Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's it purely speaks to the exploitative nature of it too,
Speaker 1: Like we already don't properly compensate creators for things and
Speaker 1: to see something, especially like if a white creator, it's
Speaker 1: one thing, but if a black creator is doing it,
Speaker 1: now we're talking about quote like the like an existential
Speaker 1: crisis over the studio system.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, okay, okay, well good luck with that. Good
Speaker 3: luck with that.
Speaker 6: I mean, even like in La and stuff, it's like
Speaker 6: if you wanted to see Sinners like it was hard
Speaker 6: to catch, like certain screenings of it. It's because people
Speaker 6: are going like, this is not some fucking flash in
Speaker 6: the pan thing. And it's also as of right now,
Speaker 6: it's like his highest rated film that he's put out.
Speaker 3: And yeah, reminder of the studios.
Speaker 13: Let people tell fucking original stories. They fucking people like
Speaker 13: new Ship, not fucking snow White and all this other
Speaker 13: nonsense over and over again.
Speaker 14: I mean, I just wish that Minecraft and Centers had
Speaker 14: come out on the same day so we could have.
Speaker 3: Had minors miners.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's the Harbenheimer, so that everyone miners would be
Speaker 14: saving the studio system.
Speaker 1: Scrafold Actually, that sounds kind of hot. Scraft crafter.
Speaker 6: That sounds like the problematic like opt them optometry place,
Speaker 6: you go to.
Speaker 1: Lens crafters.
Speaker 6: Oh you went down to sincrafters, did you? I can
Speaker 6: tell from those transition lenses. Transition lenses, I don't.
Speaker 3: Think so you went to Syncraft not on my watch.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
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