Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
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Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Miles, we're sure to be joined
Speaker 1: in our third seat by the original super producer. She's
Speaker 1: the host of Ethnically Ambiguous, the producer of many of
Speaker 1: the great shows on this network, including this one. It
Speaker 1: is super producer on a hose.
Speaker 2: Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi.
Speaker 1: Hi hi phrase hi hi hi hi hi branded. I
Speaker 1: think I think we should be just transparent up front here,
Speaker 1: well transparents. See, in the moments before this episode episode
Speaker 1: was scheduled to record, we did have a special expert
Speaker 1: guest booked with a with a very particular set of skills,
Speaker 1: and they canceled like fifteen minutes before family emergency. We're
Speaker 1: not going to say who it is, just you know,
Speaker 1: sending good energy there. Way it is Liam Neeson, but
Speaker 1: we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but usually that's no problem because our show is based
Speaker 1: on the news. We have the news stories and we
Speaker 1: just get a guest, special guest guest to come in today.
Speaker 1: We had a doc full of questions for Liam Neeson
Speaker 1: in particular. Yeah, so we were like, what we do?
Speaker 1: What are we going to do? Super Producer on Josey
Speaker 1: steps into the fray bravely and is like, I need
Speaker 1: to tell you about what I've been watching on streaming.
Speaker 1: That is what we were going to do today.
Speaker 3: And also, yeah, also been steadily being like Golden Bachelor.
Speaker 3: When are you always talking? When are we talking about
Speaker 3: Golden Bachelor? Yes, said you know what, let's swap one
Speaker 3: expert out for another.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny when you said just now and you
Speaker 2: said super producer and then my name, I felt like
Speaker 2: a like a chest pain pain anyway, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it probably isn't related. Sometimes I just sometimes someone says
Speaker 2: my name and my heart stops because the idea that
Speaker 2: I now have to respond to something is just too overwhelmed.
Speaker 3: Spot Lights on you, Spotlights on you?
Speaker 1: You ready?
Speaker 2: So this is life? Huh?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah it is turn out yep. How are you?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? You're still getting out there whacking
Speaker 1: the town's balls around?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely definitely definitely you did the.
Speaker 1: Cocoa Goth title? Were were you watching?
Speaker 2: Yes? I was watching Legend Dairy Leon. Oh God, I
Speaker 2: have a question for you. Yeah, my esteemed partner said.
Speaker 2: I said, she's a legend, and he said, but she's
Speaker 2: not dead yet. And I said, I'm sorry what? And
Speaker 2: he said, you have to be dead to be considered
Speaker 2: a legend.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know where this opinion came from out of
Speaker 2: him because he doesn't really say much, So I like,
Speaker 2: is that true? I don't think so.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: You you respond with this legends never die.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah. I responded with I'm sorry, are you stupid?
Speaker 2: Just joking? I'm not that crazy. But I just was like,
Speaker 2: really sort of taken by this opinion of his.
Speaker 1: No, you don't have to be dead to be a legend.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. I was like, I literally say,
Speaker 2: everything is a legend.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. It does feel like the sort of thing
Speaker 1: that if you called like a great comedian who was
Speaker 1: like in their sixties a legend, they would be like,
Speaker 1: screw you. That that makes me feel old, That makes
Speaker 1: me sound old, you know what I mean? Like that
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. So I could see that, but no,
Speaker 1: it's there's nothing that says you have to be dead
Speaker 1: to be a legend, and of course legends never die. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: And also if we mean in the more like colloquial
Speaker 3: way that Ozzie's use it, like.
Speaker 1: Where it's like, oh, fucking legiond legions, You're just you're
Speaker 1: just tight as fuck. Oh yeah, we rock with you.
Speaker 1: What is something from your search history?
Speaker 6: Well, a lot of it's medical, So it's a lot
Speaker 6: like do I have a tumor? MRIs in cancer? How
Speaker 6: many pounds are in a stone? I recently looked up
Speaker 6: that's fourteen pounds?
Speaker 1: Fourteen?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know why in America you go to
Speaker 6: your doctor and get weighed and they put it in stones,
Speaker 6: like they do stand.
Speaker 1: That your doctor put it in stones.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe it's a woman thing, but like you get
Speaker 6: on this scale and they put it in stone, so
Speaker 6: you have no idea. I don't know whether women have
Speaker 6: just ran from the room. I don't understand what's happening.
Speaker 6: So I had to google how many pounds in a stone,
Speaker 6: which turns out to be fourteen.
Speaker 1: How many stones is it? Then? Love? Yeah? Sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: fifteen stone in a fish?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 3: But so that is so weird because I just that
Speaker 3: to me is such a like British weight like measurement
Speaker 3: metric for weight that is really okay, I guess I
Speaker 3: don't I probably don't know anything where doctors like, yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of the scales just have both on there
Speaker 3: maybe but like they're writing it down.
Speaker 6: I don't know how they write it down, but I
Speaker 6: have no idea. You're like, okay, I don't know what
Speaker 6: that is, but sure.
Speaker 1: Right, huh so I have both in it. I keep
Speaker 1: doing this.
Speaker 6: So I google a lot of medical stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is weird.
Speaker 1: Stone always sounds very primitive to me and dumb, like
Speaker 1: oh they just like said how much a stone weighs?
Speaker 1: Like they found one stone and we're like, the you
Speaker 1: weigh this money? But then I realized that we use feet.
Speaker 1: It was just like even dumber, like all right, right right,
Speaker 1: just our length is like yeah, that's how many, like
Speaker 1: how many feats that like somebody if you've stacked people's
Speaker 1: feet steps next to each other. So but isn't like
Speaker 1: because it's all because it's like the king's foot or whatever, yeah,
Speaker 1: is that long?
Speaker 3: So then that's how it's like, well, this god person's
Speaker 3: foot is this big so that's how we measure things.
Speaker 1: And did your height change when one king died and
Speaker 1: a new one was born? Oh I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: I'm seven to three now that the baby king has taken.
Speaker 3: Over, now that Prince Henry has assented.
Speaker 6: Well for a long time, you know, you shrink as
Speaker 6: you get older. And I went for physical and they're like,
Speaker 6: you're you shrunk by an inch and I'm like, I'm
Speaker 6: so young to shrink by an inch. And then I
Speaker 6: told my mother and she's like, you've never been that height.
Speaker 6: You've always thought about your height, You've always been that height.
Speaker 6: And I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 1: You've never been that. You've been such a wild thing.
Speaker 1: This thing is you've never been that hight. So yeah,
Speaker 1: let it go. Yeah, just like has this flashback of
Speaker 1: you standing on your tippy toes of the doctor's office,
Speaker 1: like when you're growing up.
Speaker 6: I guess we always knew I was lying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right to myself.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The origin of the stone, it's because they needed a
Speaker 3: like they were exporting. England was exporting so much raw
Speaker 3: wool that they needed to create a standard. So the
Speaker 3: Royal Statute fixed a stone of wool at fourteen pounds
Speaker 3: and then a sack of wool had to be twenty
Speaker 3: six stones.
Speaker 1: So it's all because of the wool export.
Speaker 6: Well that transfers to weight.
Speaker 1: I don't yeah, yeah, I don't know. They're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's the first thing back wool by the way. Humans, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what what's something you think is overrated?
Speaker 7: Overrated? Capitalism? We know everybody was not tired of living
Speaker 7: in this system.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're huge fans, but okay, tell us what's wrong
Speaker 1: with capitalism?
Speaker 7: I guess I don't know, just the way. I yes,
Speaker 7: it exploits human beings, animals, nature, is destroying the planet,
Speaker 7: is grinding us, all, crushing us.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 7: Yeah, completely anti democratic, unequal. Now listen, do I.
Speaker 4: Have a solution?
Speaker 7: Not quite, not exactly. I'm halfway there. I'll tell I
Speaker 7: will tell you what's.
Speaker 1: Away from it is I think a solution?
Speaker 3: It is capitalism. Yes, then don't do that.
Speaker 1: Giving me hip skin cancer presumably from my fund twelve.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you gotta do what I did. You gotta skip
Speaker 7: from the ten ten straight to the fourteen. You got
Speaker 7: to get on your ex's family plan wow, and ingratiate
Speaker 7: yourself to her parents and just stay there what.
Speaker 1: A ten to forty grade. I mean, I'm about to
Speaker 1: go twelve to fifteen, but maybe maybe I should wait.
Speaker 1: That's three years feels like a long time to wait,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of taking pride in the fact
Speaker 1: that I've waited so long to upgrade, and it turns
Speaker 1: out the only thing that that has got me is
Speaker 1: excess radiation.
Speaker 7: Okay, counterpoint, stay with it longer, more radiation. What powers
Speaker 7: might you accrue?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 7: What cool things might happen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a lot of unwanted body hair, like
Speaker 1: on your hip, like from where your pocket is.
Speaker 3: Probably it's a real tuft of hair here that smoke away.
Speaker 1: Where my case just like a perfect rectangle of no
Speaker 1: hair because oh right, like everything else is hairy, but
Speaker 1: just a yeah, weird, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 7: That's where you'll get your matching do too a.
Speaker 1: Little bit, I know, I am wondering on the tattoo thing.
Speaker 1: Is forty three too old to get your first? No?
Speaker 7: No, not at all. That's a perfect time. Actually, you've
Speaker 7: lived so much life, you know what you like? Your
Speaker 7: body's in the second half quite frankly, like you're you're committing,
Speaker 7: but not for so long.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it'll exactly less. It'll look good in like
Speaker 3: twenty years still, you know, right like versus like a
Speaker 3: lot of tattoos get when you're young and then you
Speaker 3: start being like I gotta kind of maintain some of
Speaker 3: these or they just end up looking like sailor energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: What's I think. What's exciting about that is you could
Speaker 7: go really big and bold for your first tattoo. I
Speaker 7: mean I started at eighteen. I was getting little tiny stuff,
Speaker 7: piecing it together, you know, little stickery type of stuff.
Speaker 7: You could just go, I'm going full sleeve. I'm getting
Speaker 7: the chest tattooed.
Speaker 4: Whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck, phoenix backtat phoenix backtap.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that, Dan?
Speaker 7: I don't think I don't think I have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben Affleck has the wildest phoenix back tattoo. Here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna i'll bring it up. So have you ever
Speaker 1: seen the cover or the movie poster for the film
Speaker 1: Red Dragon?
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness. I was about to say I couldn't
Speaker 7: imagine that it would be good, but it is terrible.
Speaker 7: I mean it's not great, but it is bitter. When
Speaker 7: I thought it might be, it looks.
Speaker 1: Like it's cracking a little bit in places for some reason,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, I couldn't be like that part of the design.
Speaker 3: I think there must be some yeah, because it seems
Speaker 3: like consistently going through. But hey, look he's a phoenix
Speaker 3: rising from the ashes.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 7: I'm I'm body positive, and I will say there's something
Speaker 7: about that tattoo that really accentuates the muffin top.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Also does make fun
Speaker 1: of people's tattoos count as being not body positive?
Speaker 7: Listen, I think that it's I think, at the end
Speaker 7: of the day, all tattoos, and I have a bunch
Speaker 7: actually look kind of stupid, Like they're all kind of bad.
Speaker 7: There's really no such thing as like a great tattoo.
Speaker 7: They're still fun to get, I think, and it's like
Speaker 7: a fun way to decorate your body. But I think, yeah,
Speaker 7: I think we gotta make fun of tattoos, your own tattoos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not to say that I mean bad,
Speaker 3: but let's have fun.
Speaker 1: Look, this is going to be flaky.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna show you my most recent tattoo. I
Speaker 7: got this in my forties. You guys, it looks like
Speaker 7: it came looks like I'm a huge fan of jam band,
Speaker 7: and I got it in the nineties when I was
Speaker 7: like nineteen. I just let the artists do what he wanted.
Speaker 7: And then I was like, eh, I don't love it.
Speaker 7: It's brand new, it's a brand new this this mushroom here.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, there you go.
Speaker 1: Mushrooms are definitely having a moment. They're having a moment
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 7: Mushrooms are all right, but there's so many more, let's say,
Speaker 7: beautiful mushrooms than this jam band space age whatever is
Speaker 7: going on. Yeah, black light poster, thank you. And it's like,
Speaker 7: is this my personality? Not really, but people are going
Speaker 7: to think so now and whatever.
Speaker 1: You have to adopt a mushroomy kind.
Speaker 7: Of yeah, I got to. I mean, to be fair,
Speaker 7: I have weaned myself off anti depressants. That is my
Speaker 7: mental health care plan is to just do mushrooms like
Speaker 7: every three months in the wood.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there are benefits. There are proven benefits, so
Speaker 3: you're not far off.
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 7: Micro dosing you macro dosing it all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do it all micro to macro, but mostly
Speaker 3: micro because that's been the I've I Yeah, it's been
Speaker 3: like wonderful, but even like for like socially on the weekends,
Speaker 3: like where I used to maybe like want to drink
Speaker 3: a ton or like do shit like that.
Speaker 1: I've found just a little bit of psilocybin gets me vibe.
Speaker 7: Oh I like that idea. I've never I have never
Speaker 7: experienced it in that way.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like knocker before beer, never fear. Little psilocybin gets
Speaker 1: you back your vibe. You know, there you go, but
Speaker 1: you don't go quite.
Speaker 3: You go a little bit over, you know, like what
Speaker 3: a microdose would be, but not enough to go like
Speaker 3: you know, asking like is this forever? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did not get to it for this is
Speaker 7: is this forever?
Speaker 2: Place?
Speaker 7: But last time that I did mushrooms, like a month
Speaker 7: or so ago, I definitely found myself wrapped in my
Speaker 7: hammock in the woods, weeping, but in a cleansing way,
Speaker 7: like an inside shell love cry then and then kind
Speaker 7: of emerged from the hammock as if from a womb
Speaker 7: reborn into the world, which is ray.
Speaker 1: It's one of the one of the things that capitalism
Speaker 1: doesn't afford us, is like that that we're probably missing
Speaker 1: most as people, is just like a good cry wrap
Speaker 1: in the woods. I feel yeah. Probably before everyone was
Speaker 1: keeping track of your time and stuff like that, people
Speaker 1: were spending you know, twenty percent of their time just weeping.
Speaker 1: Just get it.
Speaker 7: So what are you saying, should I start a wellness
Speaker 7: retreat in the woods? I'm doing it. I'm charging nine
Speaker 7: hundred nine ninety yeah, exactly. Just capitalism just immediately eats everything.
Speaker 1: Right, right right, and like yeah, and they got the mushroom.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I am committed to the lifestyle now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look you could.
Speaker 3: You could easily grift with that tattoo for sure over
Speaker 3: someone who's a little overly trusting.
Speaker 1: Man, I don't even remember if we have we done
Speaker 1: on rated yet. Now this overrated and underrated and search
Speaker 1: history has been I forget where we are. What is
Speaker 1: something that you think is underrated? Man?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll tell you, Miss Rachel.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you that's the name of the horse, lady.
Speaker 4: That's the name horse? So big. They're as big as
Speaker 4: I wanted them.
Speaker 1: As big as I wanted. Dude, you're about to pivot
Speaker 1: so hard by explaining you, Miss Rachel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big pivot. Miss Rachel is a kid's YouTuber. She
Speaker 4: makes content for like babies and toddlers in which she
Speaker 4: likes sings songs and she's in front of a green
Speaker 4: screen and it's animated and she's you know, live action,
Speaker 4: and she's you know, she's singing things like what's in
Speaker 4: the box? What could it be? Do you want to
Speaker 4: take something with me? Pulls out a toy, explains the toy,
Speaker 4: does the sign language for, like the color does you know?
Speaker 4: Teaches babies like some sign language and some words, and
Speaker 4: shows how to say the words like mom, you know, wow,
Speaker 4: and like repeating and repeating, and my daughter fucking loves it.
Speaker 4: It's so crazy. It's like she we put it on
Speaker 4: and she has the biggest smile on her face. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know who this miss Rachel is
Speaker 4: in real life, but I hope she's making so much
Speaker 4: money off of this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure she is. Like what kind of views is
Speaker 1: she getting on?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 1: Million? Yeah? Kid? YouTube? Like YouTube content for kids like
Speaker 1: that's monetized is insane. It's the amounts are absurd sometimes
Speaker 1: when you like to how quickly like a video goes
Speaker 1: up in one day it'ce like has three million views.
Speaker 4: It's because and I realized the reason is because you
Speaker 4: just play that video over and over and over because
Speaker 4: it's the one that makes them shut the fuck.
Speaker 1: Okay, and she does have a master's in music education
Speaker 1: from m YU, So okay, that's that makes me feel
Speaker 1: good that it's not just because there is some children's
Speaker 1: entertainment on YouTube that is purely guess in check. Like
Speaker 1: we we put a thousand AI generated videos up here.
Speaker 1: Most of them are disturbing and look like the inside
Speaker 1: of someone's brain as they are like having a bad
Speaker 1: acid trip that kills them. And but like one out
Speaker 1: of a hundred, like kids really fuck with and we
Speaker 1: just learned from that and keep making more and more
Speaker 1: disturbing Coco melon or whatever the fuck right, So it's
Speaker 1: good that there is somebody on YouTube who is, like
Speaker 1: I study education.
Speaker 4: It's someone who's not like just gaming the algorithm with AI.
Speaker 4: Because listen, as much as I love AI, because you
Speaker 4: can make the boobs as big as you want, thank you,
Speaker 4: I don't want my children to make the boobs as
Speaker 4: big as they want. That's right, because I guarantee you
Speaker 4: that like Karina, she wants to the boobs way because
Speaker 4: she wants the milk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those feet, yeah those are yeah, that's called by
Speaker 3: it's called evolution. What is it called, uh, the evolutionary psychology.
Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we learn everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say those words.
Speaker 3: It is nice though, like when you're like, oh, thank god,
Speaker 3: this person isn't just a failed improviser, right because you
Speaker 3: think about like blue beets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're just seeing the sadness behind every single time
Speaker 4: they sing patty cake, Yeah, patty cake, Patti cake, bakers Man,
Speaker 4: I never made a back up plan. Yeah, no, she's
Speaker 4: she is like wonderful, and uh, you just get like this,
Speaker 4: uh you know this like camp counselor energy that I
Speaker 4: remember back when I was like, you know, a little
Speaker 4: bit older kid. I used to just cringe at this.
Speaker 4: You know, like these adults who sang these songs right
Speaker 4: like hey, yeah, yeah exactly, Hey Lou, I'm happy. But
Speaker 4: then you see like them doing it for a baby,
Speaker 4: and you see the way the baby reacts, and you're like,
Speaker 4: you know what, you do have a place in this
Speaker 4: world and it is fucking important.
Speaker 1: And for doing this, have you ever turned your back
Speaker 1: for a second and the YouTube algorithm starts feeding your
Speaker 1: baby nine to eleven videos.
Speaker 4: You can actually with AI. You can on the twin towers.
Speaker 4: You can make the boobs space you want.
Speaker 1: Well that's good, dude. Her biggest video is four hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety one million views and it only came out
Speaker 1: a year ago.
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ, Well one hundred million of those views are
Speaker 4: me so yeah, no, so far we have not let
Speaker 4: the YouTube algorithm run it. Of course, she can only
Speaker 4: last about like I think, forty minutes before she is
Speaker 4: just like, you know, she.
Speaker 1: Wants yeah, yeah, yeah, totally quarters are getting a yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I'd like. It was weird how happy I
Speaker 1: was when my kids started, like having the attention span
Speaker 1: to be entertained by an iPad during the length of
Speaker 1: a flight, Because is that changes everything?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, I mean it's it's already changed our lives.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it's so funny how quickly we went from United
Speaker 4: front of like, we're not gonna just plot them in
Speaker 4: front of a screen. You know, we're where you know,
Speaker 4: we don't want to iPad babysitter. We're gonna try, We're
Speaker 4: gonna read it books. It's so funny how quickly we're
Speaker 4: just like, turn.
Speaker 1: Rachel, she's crying. But Rachel, there's something very difficult about
Speaker 1: seeing your child on and knowing that a thing that
Speaker 1: you have, a thing you can pick up a very
Speaker 1: a very light thing, doesn't one hundred pounds, very light
Speaker 1: thing and press a couple of buttons and your child
Speaker 1: will be happy. I know, put their brain on pause.
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they got our ass with skinner boxes. Yeah, skin
Speaker 1: o boxes. All right, if you say it cute, it's
Speaker 1: not as disturbing. Let's let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: come back and talk about boom face, y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, bomb bomb.
Speaker 1: And we're back, and we got we got a new
Speaker 1: a new dispatch from the guy who told us that
Speaker 1: millennials wouldn't be broke if they didn't eat so much
Speaker 1: avocado toast. Yeah, I thought I thought that guy just
Speaker 1: went into hiding. But he's with an even shittier take.
Speaker 1: Uh he basically, I'm just gonna play this guy's clip.
Speaker 1: He's at a business conference, and he's basically saying out
Speaker 1: loud the thing that most billionaire business owners are always thinking.
Speaker 9: I think the problem that we've had is that we've
Speaker 9: you know, we have people decided that they didn't really
Speaker 9: want to work so much anymore. Through COVID and that
Speaker 9: has had a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradees
Speaker 9: have definitely pulled back on productivity. You know, they have
Speaker 9: been paid a lot to do not too much in
Speaker 9: the last few years. And we need to see that change.
Speaker 9: We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump
Speaker 9: forty fifty percent in my way, we need to see
Speaker 9: pain in the economy. We need to remind people that
Speaker 9: they work for the employer, not the other way around.
Speaker 9: I mean, there is a there's been a systematic change
Speaker 9: where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have
Speaker 9: them as opposed to the other way around. So it's
Speaker 9: a dynamic that has to change.
Speaker 1: We've got So he goes on to say, we got
Speaker 1: to kill that, We got to kill that attitude.
Speaker 3: Like, I'm sorry, wow, what I.
Speaker 2: Was wondering earlier?
Speaker 1: You said something about trade ease, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what is that? Trades? Trades people? Yeah, yeah, trade. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He seemed cool and like he's in touch and just
Speaker 1: looking out for the common man. Yeah, what a monster.
Speaker 1: Holy shit.
Speaker 3: I mean, but this is the kind of thing we've
Speaker 3: seen this way of thinking play out in our own economy,
Speaker 3: like with the Federal Reserve as they try to quote
Speaker 3: tackle inflation, which is really diluting worker power and fed
Speaker 3: chair and private equity mogul Jerome Powell gave this very
Speaker 3: euphemistic description of how they intend to tackle inflation, and
Speaker 3: when he said, basically over the past few weeks, he said,
Speaker 3: fixing inflation will quote require a sustained period of blow
Speaker 3: trend growth and some softening of labor market condition. And
Speaker 3: as he put it, quote by reducing hiring demand, that
Speaker 3: would give us a chance to get inflation down, get
Speaker 3: wages down, and then get inflation down.
Speaker 1: Wow. So he means people need to get kicked in
Speaker 1: the teeth in the labor market, so they'll take lower
Speaker 1: wages because the thinking here is that higher interest rates
Speaker 1: mean companies can borrow less and to still make profits,
Speaker 1: they have to lay people off, as we've seen this
Speaker 1: happen over the course of the year, and if more
Speaker 1: people are unemployed, then they can pay lower wages and
Speaker 1: then presumably lower the cost of their goods.
Speaker 3: Allegedly, that's the concept that they they point to, but
Speaker 3: all of the research shows that the wages are not
Speaker 3: driving inflation, despite every billionaire wanting to kind of keep
Speaker 3: this narrative going. It's like we got to pay these
Speaker 3: people so much now that I don't know what to
Speaker 3: do except price gouge the customer. It's everybody knows it's
Speaker 3: supply chain issues. It's arising energy costs, a fucking housing crisis,
Speaker 3: and profit hoarding by corporations.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. Yeah, so we're just sort of.
Speaker 3: Caught in this like very like they're really trying to
Speaker 3: like say these things out loud. He's now that guy
Speaker 3: who just spoke Tim Gerner. He's like, ah, sorry about that.
Speaker 3: Didn't mean to kind of a hot take from me.
Speaker 3: It's just really he apologized for saying, Wow, it's it's
Speaker 3: a very it's like kinda yeah, I don't know. And
Speaker 3: also the thing about him, he's also a millennial, the
Speaker 3: avocado toast guy, so he was just trying to be like,
Speaker 3: as a millennial, that's figured it out to my fellow
Speaker 3: millenni's layoff the avocado toast, will you mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I did not expect him to be Australian. I've seen
Speaker 7: the headlines. I've never heard him speak before. I didn't
Speaker 7: know exactly who he was. Australians generally are the most
Speaker 7: laid back, chill people and I've been there a bunch.
Speaker 7: Their avocado toast is super expensive, but that's because in
Speaker 7: part they are actually paying their Like cafe workers make
Speaker 7: like twenty five dollars an hour. You don't tip over there.
Speaker 7: It's just not part of the system because for the
Speaker 7: most part, people are making a living wage. This guy,
Speaker 7: he's the antithesis of everything I know about Australians.
Speaker 1: That's all that's right. Yeah, he's the least chill azzie.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 7: I don't know why he can't just be vibin with
Speaker 7: some psilocybin.
Speaker 1: Yeahlicyb but everybody enough.
Speaker 3: I wonder what kind of revelation he would have on
Speaker 3: a mushroom trip. Though, I wonder, like he is.
Speaker 1: I know a lot. There's like a lot of Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley people and people like that who do take psychedelics,
Speaker 1: and I think that they do show the limitation of
Speaker 1: that because it can be just like bent to whatever
Speaker 1: is of interest in your interests.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think it can cure psychopathy or whatever's
Speaker 7: that guy just greed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the story and ones like it always frustrate me
Speaker 1: because I will be like, it really seems like the
Speaker 1: reason prices are going up is because they're raising prices
Speaker 1: and that feels bad because they're not raising people's wages
Speaker 1: to go with the prices. And then when they have
Speaker 1: to talk about the fact that they're raising the prices
Speaker 1: on the things we have to buy but not paying
Speaker 1: us anymore. When they talk about that, they say that
Speaker 1: it's actually we have it too good. Yeah, And when
Speaker 1: I say that, like everyone's like somebody will be come in,
Speaker 1: like in the discord or something. They'll be like, actually,
Speaker 1: I'm an economist, and your understanding of this is ass
Speaker 1: backwards and it's actually market forces that are like forcing
Speaker 1: this shit, like and I just I don't know, like
Speaker 1: maybe I'm missing some large piece of the puzzle, but
Speaker 1: it really feels like the whole idea of economics and
Speaker 1: all of this shit is just like noise that has
Speaker 1: been utilized to concentrate power and wealth in the hands
Speaker 1: of like a very few, and we have this thing
Speaker 1: where like now all of the economic indicators are telling
Speaker 1: us like things are good, guys, we should be happy,
Speaker 1: but nobody's happy because things aren't actually good for anyone
Speaker 1: except them, right, So it's it's just very frustrating. It
Speaker 1: feels like it's like an attack on like the very
Speaker 1: like I don't know they've done this thing, like whoa.
Speaker 1: Like capitalism is overrated in the sense that it's like
Speaker 1: not a good way to run the world, but I
Speaker 1: think it's underrated in how just like persistent and all
Speaker 1: encompassing and brilliant it is, and like this is just
Speaker 1: one of those ways that it like invades language and
Speaker 1: attacks meaning, you know, it attacks our ability to create
Speaker 1: meaning and even fucking like talk about what is happening
Speaker 1: around us right in a way that is really frustrating
Speaker 1: and deflating. And I think is the real reason that
Speaker 1: it's like so hard to get any sort of revolution
Speaker 1: like going is because it's just so fucking complicated and capitalism.
Speaker 1: You know, we can work hard, capitalism works harder.
Speaker 7: But you know, I am so glad you brought up revolution.
Speaker 7: I didn't want to have to say it. I don't
Speaker 7: want to. I don't want to have to say it
Speaker 7: needs to be violent, but I will say it's all
Speaker 7: these people seem to respond to in terms I don't
Speaker 7: know that it has to be so complicated. What freaks
Speaker 7: me out, and I'm taking this conversation completely sideways, but
Speaker 7: what freaks me out is how capitalism has kind of
Speaker 7: eaten our modes of communication or how I don't even
Speaker 7: this is these are new ideas and I'm saying them
Speaker 7: out loud for the first time. I'm just feeling empowered
Speaker 7: on this podcast where you know, we're all we're all
Speaker 7: hooked into the Internet and we're not in control of
Speaker 7: that that can that can be censored and taken away
Speaker 7: from us at any time. I really think, Yeah, we
Speaker 7: gotta get out there, We got to be we gotta
Speaker 7: get in the communities. We got to be talking to
Speaker 7: each other, coming up with alternate modes of communication, and
Speaker 7: we do actually have to get this revolution going.
Speaker 3: And we need to scare the fuck out of these people.
Speaker 3: But they're just going to be like then I'll just
Speaker 3: go deeper into the core of the earth in my bunker.
Speaker 7: Absolutely No, they all have bunkers in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Uh.
Speaker 3: But like this is just like this perspective of the
Speaker 3: ruling class, like market forces are not right, Like this
Speaker 3: idea that like workers should be grateful that they're paid
Speaker 3: sub subsistence wages while they get to fuck off to
Speaker 3: a tropical island. No, that doesn't fucking square with me,
Speaker 3: and not a single one of these mutant fuck jobs
Speaker 3: would ever dare say that maybe they are the ones
Speaker 3: should take a hit to their fucking wages.
Speaker 1: Never do you think you're a million times better and
Speaker 1: like smarter than us because you have a million times
Speaker 1: more money than any any of us have. You have
Speaker 1: all are a million times you know how to assemble
Speaker 1: this fucking automobile. Right, go ahead, asshole, get on the
Speaker 1: fucking line. You're gonna fuck up and hurt yourself because
Speaker 1: you know what the fuck you're doing, because you've you know,
Speaker 1: lacked your way up to the top, because of the
Speaker 1: class that you come from or the place you've were
Speaker 1: able to climb to. And I think that's what really like,
Speaker 1: I think that's what's really fucked up, is that there's
Speaker 1: this continuation if you're just watching like CNN or some shit,
Speaker 1: where they're never going to be like, I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: one maybe one like side commentator might be like, well,
Speaker 1: why don't CEOs make less? Like why why are we
Speaker 1: not asking someone who makes twenty five million dollars a year?
Speaker 1: Can they? They'll say that, but they'll treat it like
Speaker 1: it's a childish complaint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, exactly, And because the whole because what they're
Speaker 3: saying is the whole game is that you should aspire
Speaker 3: to get to that point. You don't want to stay
Speaker 3: at this low point because that's for that's like, that's
Speaker 3: the worst, and we're not interested in making the lives
Speaker 3: better for people who have to work like wage jobs
Speaker 3: or whatever. And it's just the Yeah, and I think
Speaker 3: that's the part that a lot of people they just
Speaker 3: feel that inherent unfairness of it all. And then you
Speaker 3: get people like Larry Summers who just like second that
Speaker 3: from like a tropical island and he's like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like they the workers need to like pipe down,
Speaker 3: like this is wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kevin McCarthy, that's right. That doesn't sound right. That's
Speaker 1: that's his name, Kevin McCarthy. Let's go with that. Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy has announced that the House will open a formal
Speaker 1: impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite the fact that
Speaker 1: their hearings and investigations haven't really turned up any evidence
Speaker 1: against him directly. I'm gonna go take a nap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes me tired. Well, we kept talking about how
Speaker 1: they would do things.
Speaker 3: They're like, we got a whistleblower okay, but they're too
Speaker 3: scared to testify. And then people like is there a whistleblar?
Speaker 3: They're like, I don't, honestly, I'm not even sure whistle
Speaker 3: before they're like, what are you doing actually with the
Speaker 3: fine whistle?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I know somebody who was willing to say
Speaker 3: some bad stuff about Joe Byron, but other than that,
Speaker 3: I don't know. And like he's also doing it without
Speaker 3: taking a House vote, which before he was like, I'll
Speaker 3: take a House vote and we'll see what happens. You know,
Speaker 3: the polling in a lot of battleground states has says
Speaker 3: most people are like, you know, fifty six percent, like
Speaker 3: an impeachment would be just a stunt, like a partisan
Speaker 3: political stuff, Like no one's like looking for this. But
Speaker 3: I think the other big thing about this is he
Speaker 3: doesn't even have the support of his own party. It's
Speaker 3: like a lot of Republicans are even worried about how
Speaker 3: like the whole hack of it all is gonna look,
Speaker 3: and especially when their logic is we need to open
Speaker 3: an impeachment inquiry so we can find out more stuff
Speaker 3: and then we'll be able to uncover something to impeach
Speaker 3: him for, rather than we have evidence that we need
Speaker 3: to pursue that is leading us here. They're like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, man, we just need to go Fine, we're
Speaker 3: going fishing, baby, but we're doing it with subpoena power,
Speaker 3: and they aren't starting with real evidence. And even the
Speaker 3: head of the Oversight Committee he even admitted that every
Speaker 3: subpoena he has issued that like to banks or other
Speaker 3: government agencies, they've they've cooperated one hundred percent given the information,
Speaker 3: and that he's like, yeah, I don't know. It's just
Speaker 3: like I've been denied access to anything. I still can't find.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I'm out of mood. Was here man?
Speaker 3: You know the term Hoover flags where your pockets are
Speaker 3: inside out.
Speaker 1: Man, they got nothing. That's amazing. It seems to be
Speaker 1: based on the logic that they like, well, the last
Speaker 1: time they did an impeachment thing, they found stuff, so
Speaker 1: there's probably stuff here. It's like, yeah, well they found
Speaker 1: stuff because like they did an investigation and there was
Speaker 1: like a lot of ship there. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: smoke and fire, and the time before that, like you know,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe maybe they're hoping for like a Clintonian
Speaker 1: situation where it's just like embarrassing. They dragged some shit
Speaker 1: out that's like embarrassing and just like create stuff, like
Speaker 1: find stuff as they're looking. Isn't that kind of what
Speaker 1: happened with Clinton? Like it wasn't about Lewinsky, it was
Speaker 1: about something some some other ship. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: a political expert.
Speaker 6: Yea, I think it was lied to Conger like something,
Speaker 6: but it was really about Monica ultimately. But the thing
Speaker 6: is like, I don't know, it's like we listen to
Speaker 6: the crazies now. Like growing up, my mother was always like,
Speaker 6: don't listen to that person. They're crazy here. And now
Speaker 6: it's like, oh, they're crazy, let's let's pacify.
Speaker 1: Them and know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's just like a massive will to
Speaker 3: try and be like, well, you impeach Trump, so we're
Speaker 3: gonna get you for what We'll figure it out, figure
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're gonna do it because he's gonna get
Speaker 1: mad if we don't. And then I don't know how
Speaker 1: to stand up to him. So we're caught in this
Speaker 1: fucking spiral till November, so we'll see where it ends up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just like there's there's just starting off
Speaker 1: with nothing and asking for more power to just manufacture something.
Speaker 1: And I'm yeah, but and I'm here for it and
Speaker 1: I'm hopcorn eating me. I am ready spill the tea
Speaker 1: here of public a Yama yama this shit. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Like the whole thing makes me tired because
Speaker 1: it's like it feels pointless. But also like there's there
Speaker 1: is a lot at steak with Biden's reputation and he
Speaker 1: seems really fragile. Does it like, does it feel like
Speaker 1: there's been more people being like he seems old like
Speaker 1: in the in the mainstream mediately or am I making
Speaker 1: that up?
Speaker 6: I think that it's just a tactic because the ill
Speaker 6: election is coming up, so now we're like he's super old.
Speaker 6: That's in my opinion. And I also think like the
Speaker 6: whole Hunter Biden stuff, like every family can knows has
Speaker 6: a family member who's messed up. Yeah I don't think
Speaker 6: that like most Americans are like, oh, he has a
Speaker 6: son who's a mess like we all have somebody and.
Speaker 1: He still loves him. Yeah.
Speaker 3: It appeals to like this like minority of like men
Speaker 3: who are like I don't love my kid because he's
Speaker 3: a screw up. But yeah, I mean there is like
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like since the earlier this year,
Speaker 3: it's like about once or twice a month you're gonna
Speaker 3: see some version of who could replace Joe Biden, Like
Speaker 3: and it's even written by like like Democratic out like
Speaker 3: you know, like left leaning outlets where you're trying it
Speaker 3: because I think there is the thing where I'm sure
Speaker 3: the DNC looks at the polling and a lot of
Speaker 3: Democrats are.
Speaker 4: Like, I mean to.
Speaker 3: Biden, Like that's like the energy of a lot of
Speaker 3: Democratic voters are like, I don't know, gotta be him.
Speaker 1: And I think now they're kind.
Speaker 3: Of like, ah shit, like is are we fucking up
Speaker 3: by like by just like riding with this guy to
Speaker 3: the end. But I don't know, I mean, like it
Speaker 3: it's one of those things where despite I think a
Speaker 3: lot of Democrats may be saying I wouldn't vote for him.
Speaker 3: It's like this thing where when push comes to shove,
Speaker 3: they're like fuck.
Speaker 1: It, and like I would literally vote for him if
Speaker 1: he was dead, like yeah, I don't care, Like I
Speaker 1: just don't want the fucking fascist in office, like yeah,
Speaker 1: like truly if if that happened, like yeah, well i'd
Speaker 1: vote for him if he was dead. And I vote
Speaker 1: for like a three D projection of him totally sandwich.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't care.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Subway tuna, Yeah, vote for subway right candidate our
Speaker 3: new president, Subway tuna.
Speaker 1: Somehow. To the point about like there being a push
Speaker 1: from various sides to uh make it seem like he's
Speaker 1: aging rapidly as the election approaches, there was that Hawaii
Speaker 1: story where I'm sure that this isn't the only time
Speaker 1: that people have been reporting shit like this, but there's
Speaker 1: the thing where people were like Biden fell asleep on
Speaker 1: stage and that was actually like officially debunked because like
Speaker 1: the footage that they used to spread that story was
Speaker 1: like a close up of footage that was I guess
Speaker 1: they like blurred it intentionally. And when you look at
Speaker 1: the high Death Nition footage of the exact same moment,
Speaker 1: he's like got his eyes open and he's like blinking
Speaker 1: and just like kind of has his head down. He's
Speaker 1: like nodding, so being solemn, it's that there's definitely a
Speaker 1: push happening to I personally, like, don't think he's the
Speaker 1: best possible candidate we are in the situation that we're in,
Speaker 1: Like that there's this the Hill article that was like
Speaker 1: the five Democratic alternatives and it's just fucking Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom. Those seem
Speaker 1: to be the only ones that I hear being taken
Speaker 1: seriously because she is will be the president if he dies,
Speaker 1: and he looks like a president in a movie. I think,
Speaker 1: is that right? The main thing with his slick back hair,
Speaker 1: that real nice, real, that's let us slick back real
Speaker 1: nice pie booda judge who lost the election last time
Speaker 1: and has done like, has not done anything good since then,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Right, except for like excuse the bad behavior of airlines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like had a bad few years since not
Speaker 1: being able to beat Joe Biden in the election. Like that.
Speaker 1: That feels like the case with a lot of these, right,
Speaker 1: Like that Harris like was like lost the election to
Speaker 1: great primary and has not had a good run since then.
Speaker 1: Same with Buddha judge. So the only ones that are
Speaker 1: like new untested are Newsome, Michigan Governor Gretcham Whitmer, and
Speaker 1: AOC they have on here because she would be old
Speaker 1: enough in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: I think Whitmere is probably your best bet there. I've
Speaker 6: heard good stuff about her.
Speaker 3: The most different like kind of cameon a lot of
Speaker 3: like yeah, a lot of Democrats like have been sharing
Speaker 3: a lot of the stuff that she's been doing in Michigan.
Speaker 3: It's just it's it's just I think the thing is
Speaker 3: that the DNC they're kind of processing this information in
Speaker 3: like a weird way because what the I think the polls,
Speaker 3: what they're not articulating, is that people want a different
Speaker 3: type of candidate. Like all of these come out of
Speaker 3: the same sort of like ice tray of candadate. It's
Speaker 3: just in different shapes. But we're looking for a lot
Speaker 3: of people like are seeking something different where someone is
Speaker 3: speaking to what is happening to people in a way
Speaker 3: that actually seems authentic and believable because all these people
Speaker 3: are just super polished like political operatives. They're not like
Speaker 3: the kind of people who like can like light up
Speaker 3: a room and like make every person feel like they're
Speaker 3: seen and heard and like in a way that like
Speaker 3: you know, Donald Trump completely abandoned like normal political speak
Speaker 3: and people.
Speaker 1: Are like, WHOA, that's different. Yeah, not to say that
Speaker 1: that's better, I feel like has that a little bit something?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, she does. She does, but I have a few.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't imagine the establishment.
Speaker 1: Circling around her. Yeah, so I would tear her to shreds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the New York Times.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The second she'd be like, I don't I think we
Speaker 3: need to end qualified immunity for the police. They're like, well,
Speaker 3: they're going to all your union fucking endorsements. Yeah, Like
Speaker 3: and that's all.
Speaker 1: It's like a fucking balancing act of how to keep
Speaker 1: certain people in, you know, your coalition, but also trying
Speaker 1: to present something that's a little bit forward thinking and
Speaker 1: if that's just I think an impossible feat for them
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah. I view it as like two separate things.
Speaker 1: There's like the you know, what I think is good
Speaker 1: for the country and what I think like the country,
Speaker 1: like what ideas the country should be moving towards. And
Speaker 1: then there's the like sporting event of keeping the Nazis
Speaker 1: out of office that is this one and so on
Speaker 1: that one. I'm just like, I don't know, it's Whitmer.
Speaker 1: How's Whitmer's arm? She left me? She like, keep you
Speaker 1: off balanced? Like are what are you looking at here?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: How are what are the saber metrics people say about
Speaker 1: her right, So from that, like, that's kind of hell
Speaker 1: going to this election as I'm just like fuck it,
Speaker 1: you know, let's but yeah, the whole thing makes me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we're in dire need of something really remarkably
Speaker 3: different and revolutionary. But yeah, all of these my fall
Speaker 3: flat year.
Speaker 6: I mean, I sort of feel like, you know, there's
Speaker 6: perfect and then there's what we have to deal with.
Speaker 6: And I think Biden's what we have to deal with
Speaker 6: right now. And it's like when you're fighting like real evil,
Speaker 6: you have to suck it up and do what's the
Speaker 6: best alternative at the time to fight that evil.
Speaker 1: Why is he gotta be so old though.
Speaker 10: He can't help it, He's grown to be that because
Speaker 10: he was born eighty years ago. Yes, that's because his
Speaker 10: parents had sex eighty years ago.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's the only reason why I did thinking
Speaker 1: about Joe Biden's parents and the Great Depression.
Speaker 2: Oh god.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, like Newsom has said that he
Speaker 3: wouldn't run against Kamala, but I think he's just being
Speaker 3: diplomatic because they've always kind of been in this competition,
Speaker 3: like they entered the political scene at the same time
Speaker 3: with him becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor and her becoming
Speaker 3: San Francisco's da in the state's first black district attorney
Speaker 3: in two thousand and five. And they've always kind of
Speaker 3: helped each other. But then there's also like when Barbara
Speaker 3: Boxer retired and that seat opened up, Gavin Newsom wanted
Speaker 3: that Senate seat too, but deferred to Kamala and then
Speaker 3: ran for governor. So I think part of him, despite
Speaker 3: what he says, has always been keeping an eye on
Speaker 3: the national stage. That's why he keeps fucking, you know,
Speaker 3: trying to debate Ron DeSantis. So yeah, I don't counter
Speaker 3: unless you want me to, and this.
Speaker 1: You want me he does. But yeah, literally one person
Speaker 1: asks me to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I've been called Yeah, he's doing the thing
Speaker 3: of like reluctant guy where he's like, no, man, I've
Speaker 3: told all the donors. We're getting behind Joe, Like it
Speaker 3: just is what it is, folks, We're moving on. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't run against common then all it's gonna take is
Speaker 3: like the slight you know, vibe shift And he's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I should.
Speaker 1: Have been president this whole time. Yeah, yeah, so you know,
Speaker 1: I run the what is it like the fifth largest
Speaker 1: economy basically of California. Its true boy energy, where he's like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I really shouldn't, but I couldn't unless you
Speaker 1: want me to. Yeah, oh totally, do you really want
Speaker 1: me to? I shouldn't though we really shouldn't. We really,
Speaker 1: I'm married, we really shouldn't. But okay, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll come back and talk
Speaker 1: about some things that aren't politics. We'll be right back
Speaker 1: and we're back. And so the main thing that we
Speaker 1: want to talk about on TV is just the absolute
Speaker 1: dominance of suits. It's been watched for twenty six point
Speaker 1: five billion minutes total across Netflock, Netflock, Netflix and Pecock.
Speaker 1: For the line structure, it's hard. I am through text.
Speaker 1: It's the making. It just hit seven weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: crossing the three billion minute mark. It's it's a genuine
Speaker 1: phenomenon that nobody wants to talk about because they're scared,
Speaker 1: are we.
Speaker 2: Well, let's be real, that show would not really have
Speaker 2: a resurgence if it wasn't for once again, our people's princess,
Speaker 2: Megan Markel Sorry, hate to.
Speaker 1: Say it, Yeah, how and she would she was on
Speaker 1: it for most of the seasons, right except for like, yeah, she.
Speaker 2: Signed for the majority of the show. I think she
Speaker 2: got written off later on to go do her duties as.
Speaker 1: The people's princess obviously, yeah.
Speaker 2: Her duties to suffer under a racist, fucking monarchy.
Speaker 1: As every as every person dreams of. Eventually will it
Speaker 1: come for me? But again, this is one of those
Speaker 1: things where because streaming is like such a weird business model,
Speaker 1: like nobody pays nobody really pays attention to the fact
Speaker 1: that this is like the most popular thing on TV
Speaker 1: other than the NFL. Like, right, just everybody's watching this.
Speaker 1: The show Suits is entering the bloodstream of America at
Speaker 1: unprecedented rates, and people are just like, yeah, whatever, Suits,
Speaker 1: I feel like and this was the nineties and that
Speaker 1: many people were watching Suits, there would be you know,
Speaker 1: they'd be on the cover. They Megan Markle and the
Speaker 1: lawyer with a photographic memory who didn't go to Harvard
Speaker 1: but is pretending to go to Harvard. Okay, Mike Okay
Speaker 1: produced Rebecca A fan of Suits.
Speaker 8: I'm a fan, Okay, I must understand to the viral
Speaker 8: tiktoks of people watching Suits because it is now on Netflix.
Speaker 8: I succumb to the algorithm, saying top ten shows in
Speaker 8: the country right now, Suits even though it was on
Speaker 8: a million years ago.
Speaker 3: I was someone four years ago.
Speaker 1: A million suits rewatch mode.
Speaker 8: I'm on suits rewatch mode. Okay, I watched it on
Speaker 8: cable television when it was out airing every night.
Speaker 2: It is fun.
Speaker 8: Okay, it is a fun, good time if you're like
Speaker 8: me who likes to watch disassociate of television aka television
Speaker 8: that is not current because you cannot be tasked with
Speaker 8: the weight of keeping up with something.
Speaker 2: So it's just great.
Speaker 1: It's a great television. It just takes you out of
Speaker 1: your body and makes you feel like you can just
Speaker 1: sit there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's I watched it all last week as I
Speaker 8: declaimed my apartment. It's fun to see the shenanigans the
Speaker 8: team gets into. It's very weird to see Megan Markle
Speaker 8: now that we know her as the people's princess Mega
Speaker 8: Markole in like such a very silly evening television show
Speaker 8: with like a a love interest that's like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: you're better than Mike. And her hair is poorly done
Speaker 8: because they didn't know what to do it.
Speaker 1: Wait, they get into on this, They get into absolutely
Speaker 1: did you know this before you came out with your
Speaker 1: hard anti suits stance.
Speaker 2: You don't actually have to speak to me during this segment.
Speaker 2: Just don't worry about me.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we needed I'm not here, becha. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming in to speak on behalf of it.
Speaker 8: I needed to a million my people's princess, Megan Markle
Speaker 8: aka the best pairalegal to ever cry.
Speaker 1: Rachel Zain, Rachel Zay, Yes, Rachel Zain.
Speaker 3: The because like, Okay, from reading a little bit about
Speaker 3: it and watching trailers for the first couple of seasons,
Speaker 3: the thing that I gleaned from it is that, like,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to understand why people are watching it, and
Speaker 3: I know that based on the sheer numbers. Jack, You're like,
Speaker 3: something is happening, but is it happening? There's something about
Speaker 3: the show or it just says to us right now
Speaker 3: that people are like I just need to fucking get
Speaker 3: away from it all. And Suits is somehow being the
Speaker 3: most potent vehicle for something like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I I feel like a big part of it is
Speaker 8: Netflix was really promoting it.
Speaker 2: They're like, we now have Suits.
Speaker 8: You want to rewatch that shit that you haven't seen
Speaker 8: in four years, and everyone was just kind of like,
Speaker 8: you know what, all of Netflix's originals kind of suck
Speaker 8: right now. I absolutely will watch Suits, and I think
Speaker 8: there isn't a lure to it of like, oh, did
Speaker 8: they scrub that from the internet. It just felt like
Speaker 8: it was kind of scrubbed because she was becoming the princess,
Speaker 8: like we couldn't watch any of her former work, or
Speaker 8: like the Royal Family.
Speaker 1: There was a conspiracy on behalf of the Royal Family.
Speaker 4: Don't keep it.
Speaker 8: From us exactly like she because she was being when
Speaker 8: she was in the Royal Family, you know, rebranded as
Speaker 8: this person who is you know, solely out there doing
Speaker 8: humanitarian work, you know, fighting for you know.
Speaker 2: People's rights, all that stuff.
Speaker 8: They're like, we can't have her making out on television,
Speaker 8: you know, because she'd be having some raunchy scenes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's noting some guy who didn't go to Harvard
Speaker 1: Law school and pretends.
Speaker 2: To who is not Prince Harry.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So in many ways, we are all Megamarkle because
Speaker 1: we were being kept from our true love by the
Speaker 1: Royal family. In this case, our true love is Suits
Speaker 1: and absolutely amazing, Thank you. I just don't. I still
Speaker 1: don't get it.
Speaker 3: You don't get it though, Like I get that like
Speaker 3: if heel like from Big yeah wow timely reference, but
Speaker 3: like it just feels like I get that it's not
Speaker 3: challenging plot lines or dialogue, and I think maybe there
Speaker 3: is like sort of that like if you have a
Speaker 3: secret or you've like there's an imposter syndrome element to
Speaker 3: it that's like relatable. But like at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, I'm like, people really just I feel like
Speaker 3: people just have this shit on in the back run
Speaker 3: they do, I guess are people?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, so you're not being like, yo, we gotta watch
Speaker 3: it and we gotta go through every little moment. So
Speaker 3: it's basically audio visual wallpaper.
Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, And you can chime in and you're like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, TII that was a fun joke or
Speaker 8: you're like, oh, really is gonna make with this guy
Speaker 8: right now? And all I can think about is that
Speaker 8: she's married to Prince Harry now while I'm watching this show,
Speaker 8: was she ever really gonna know like, oh my god,
Speaker 8: I'm marrying Prince Harry eventually?
Speaker 2: Like you're just watching this is such a time capsule.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: In American television.
Speaker 1: Okay, the acting it would take to be on a
Speaker 1: show pretending to be Rachel Zane without just breaking into
Speaker 1: laughter and saying, fuck it all, I'm going to marry
Speaker 1: Prince Harry is pretty That's crazy. It is weird that
Speaker 1: so many of our shows that we you know, we're
Speaker 1: in a time where like work is killing us and
Speaker 1: there's too much work, and work is driving a lot
Speaker 1: of unhappiness that like we end up gravitating towards the
Speaker 1: office and suits and these like workplace shows. But maybe
Speaker 1: it's just like revisiting the you know, the scene of
Speaker 1: the crime, like the thing that robbed us of our humanity,
Speaker 1: to like see it made right by this person who's
Speaker 1: like actually the best lawyer, even though he didn't go
Speaker 1: to the best schools.
Speaker 3: Right Because with the Office, I thought it was something
Speaker 3: to do with the time it came out and people
Speaker 3: are getting nostalgic for that, But this shit only came
Speaker 3: out four years ago, and it's not even like like
Speaker 3: I know people who are you know, like like in
Speaker 3: laws who are like are you watching suits? And I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: you're on the scream too?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well, all right, the mystery continues. We
Speaker 1: should get back to super producer on a hose a
Speaker 1: stream Are you there, Anna, Yes, thank you Becca Grazie,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Beca. But this is this is not America's
Speaker 1: streaming corner. This is on a hosey a streaming corner
Speaker 1: where she's going to tell you, well, so what what
Speaker 1: should we be streaming? Everybody is streaming suits? What should
Speaker 1: they be streaming?
Speaker 3: The television they need to be put put their eyes on.
Speaker 2: So you know, there's a lot of great shows that
Speaker 2: are actually ending this year, which is sad. It's sort
Speaker 2: of an end of an era. But I just want
Speaker 2: to give some shout outs to what we do in
Speaker 2: the Shadows. Okay, we finally find out if Germo is
Speaker 2: going to become a vampire or not. You know, we'll
Speaker 2: find out anything could happen. Yeah, yeah, Anyways, she love
Speaker 2: saying that how to what John Wilson ended this show
Speaker 2: is so good man devastating. Honestly, that show could have
Speaker 2: gone on for eighty six more seasons. I like in
Speaker 2: season three it becomes very sort of like break the
Speaker 2: fourth wall, like him filming himself at the Emmys and stuff.
Speaker 2: It just gets so good. He goes to burning Man.
Speaker 2: Really great episode on that.
Speaker 3: I like how when you went to the own Emmy
Speaker 3: party for HBO, he wasn't on the list. I have
Speaker 3: a show on the fucking network. They're like, sorry, Josh Wilson,
Speaker 3: we don't have to.
Speaker 1: He's ah, like what the early episode about the penis
Speaker 1: enhancement guy is one of the craziest things I.
Speaker 3: Ever the foreskin rejuvenation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, foreskin rejuvenation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's always there was some incredible episodes. You know,
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed the one where he ends up at
Speaker 2: a sort of Avatar convention.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 4: I thought that.
Speaker 2: One was so beautiful at the end. It's just like,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't personally fuck with Avatar due to
Speaker 2: the aggressively racist undertones, but I I like that these
Speaker 2: people were able to find something to make community.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're if you're looking for my co sign
Speaker 1: of the episode, I'm gonna give it to how To
Speaker 1: with John Wilson. It's like its own genre of media,
Speaker 1: Like it's totally its own thing.
Speaker 2: But for Nathan Fielder, ye yeah.
Speaker 1: It's but like he has such an incredibly unique narrative voice, Like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait to see what he does next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what else we got? What else we said by to.
Speaker 2: Physical Is Ending, which is a very sort of surreal
Speaker 2: but fun dark show about suffering from you know, eating
Speaker 2: disorders and body dysmorphia. I thought it was very entertaining.
Speaker 2: Rose Burn, Brynn Burn, Brinn, I don't know, so good,
Speaker 2: she's so good. I think she has such range.
Speaker 1: Rain I don't know.
Speaker 2: You guys don't agree?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know?
Speaker 2: Do you guys not agree?
Speaker 1: I agree with that take. Why is she making a
Speaker 1: slashing job from Australia?
Speaker 2: I really, I mean I I've loved her for a while,
Speaker 2: from her days on Damages, God, God, Damages was great.
Speaker 2: Damages is what you should be watching, not suit sorry
Speaker 2: to say it. And then also, you know her and
Speaker 2: Seth Rogan in Platonic, Holy shit, they are so funny together,
Speaker 2: from their Neighbors' Days to this Platonic. Guys, you haven't
Speaker 2: watched Platonic. I gotta say Apple TV really stepped up
Speaker 2: and put out some fucking content this year, from Platonic
Speaker 2: to Shrinking, even the after Party season two, who was
Speaker 2: really funny? Shout out Paul what's his name? Paul Walter
Speaker 2: Hauser Howser Walter, let me just Stirling corpor Paul Walter Houser.
Speaker 2: You got two last names that both sound like last names.
Speaker 2: I will never know which one goes first. But everyone
Speaker 2: in that was really great. Shout out to that anyway,
Speaker 2: go look at Apple TV great content. Shrinking was very funny.
Speaker 2: I was repressed nice. Harrison Ford does comedy.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like one of those things too. Chances
Speaker 3: are you probably get it for free. With there's so
Speaker 3: many things you realize you get for free just from
Speaker 3: like being a member of some other thing. Now, like
Speaker 3: it's I'm surprised. I feel like I don't have to
Speaker 3: pay for streaming anymore because I'm They're like, oh, you
Speaker 3: have this insurance, will you get Netflix?
Speaker 1: Huh, yeah that's true. Oh you have twelve sandwiches on
Speaker 1: your subway card. Oh you get Hulu now for a
Speaker 1: year ad free.
Speaker 2: Oh anytime you buy any Apple product they give you
Speaker 2: a year of Apple TV free.
Speaker 3: It is a little thirsty where they're like, here a man,
Speaker 3: six months, bro, do you want that? It's like, no,
Speaker 3: just needed a case for my iPhone. Okay, check it out.
Speaker 2: Those well anyway, So that's physicals ending. Reservation Dogs is
Speaker 2: ending sad. Such a great show.
Speaker 3: This is the third season.
Speaker 2: Now third season. Yeah, they unfortunately canceled Single Drunk Female
Speaker 2: after only two seasons. Even though that show was so good.
Speaker 2: I really loved it. Shout out to former guests Madison Shepherd,
Speaker 2: who plays one of the funniest characters on that show.
Speaker 2: Amazing the what is it was the person that you
Speaker 2: have to check in with after you like go to
Speaker 2: jail po not because she wasn't a par officer, so
Speaker 2: maybe like maybe probation officer, more more probation officer because
Speaker 2: this person wasn't on parole, she just got drunk. Relax Anyway. Also,
Speaker 2: the great is ending, which is unfortunate. Also a great show.
Speaker 2: The Other Two. I mean, never forget the Other two.
Speaker 2: Regardless of all the drama behind the scenes, that show
Speaker 2: was next level. That final season of the Other Two
Speaker 2: was a beat in television.
Speaker 1: Filmmate Jack did you come around to it? I did,
Speaker 1: Jack did.
Speaker 3: We had knives out for it for Jack when he's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know about this one, but again, your.
Speaker 2: Goddamn mine, that's the greatest episode of television.
Speaker 1: Some reason, like because we were like binging it going
Speaker 1: from season like whatever the penultimate season was to the
Speaker 1: last season there's like a tonal shift that like fucked
Speaker 1: me up a little bit, but I did end up coming,
Speaker 1: but the.
Speaker 2: Tone just was like, hey, you like the other two,
Speaker 2: well this is the other two times six thousand, Like
Speaker 2: we are going full pure chaos where you don't know
Speaker 2: what's real and what's not.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: It was so good.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: Apparently South Side is ending, which I haven't heard this,
Speaker 2: but I saw it online and that devastates me because
Speaker 2: it's so funny. Yeah, and also they canceled Seaway after
Speaker 2: two seasons, which.
Speaker 1: Is big mistake, big, huge mistake.
Speaker 2: But other things to watch that are still going on.
Speaker 2: Real quick, I'll do a quick one. Is this fool
Speaker 2: on Hulu? Oh my god, Frankie Sostrata, don't miss it.
Speaker 2: It's so incredible.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: Soca New Disney.
Speaker 1: Plus Star Wars.
Speaker 2: Star Wars show follows to women of colors, so get
Speaker 2: in on it, okay. Also Soca legendary character. Of course,
Speaker 2: we have to give love too. Only murders in the building. Baby,
Speaker 2: they came for Martin short, they came for.
Speaker 1: The whites.
Speaker 3: Were like, absolutely, y'all came out of the fucking portals
Speaker 3: to defend that man.
Speaker 2: I saw an incredible tweet the other day. I want
Speaker 2: to shout out from at YC when they say white
Speaker 2: people have no culture. I remember the day they mounted
Speaker 2: up for Martin Short.
Speaker 1: And we both shouted that tweet out and shouted you
Speaker 1: out for sending it yesterday. This episode, oh.
Speaker 2: I definitely don't listen and okay, yeah, shout out only
Speaker 2: Mambers and building great show. And then of course I
Speaker 2: have to give really quick some love to some reality TV.
Speaker 2: The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Season four, I
Speaker 2: believe has started.
Speaker 1: I have not watched a single minute of this and
Speaker 1: you showed me a trailer for the upcoming season, and
Speaker 1: it gave me a pen.
Speaker 2: That wasn't a trailer, honey, that was an opening.
Speaker 1: That's how the show opens.
Speaker 2: That's how the show started. Yeah, they were like, oh
Speaker 2: you wanted reality TV. This is theater. You're like, oh wow.
Speaker 1: This is Shakespeare. They're bringing your kids like a child
Speaker 1: choir singing underneath it.
Speaker 2: That's the whole show is like. And you're like, what
Speaker 2: is happening? What are these women are arguing about cheese?
Speaker 2: You know you're going on, but I gotta say nonsensical
Speaker 2: Bible quotes that don't go together. Like everything about this
Speaker 2: show is pure camp. And I really recommend if you
Speaker 2: want to watch a reality show but you just don't
Speaker 2: know where to start, and you want to get into
Speaker 2: some true nonsense, start watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake
Speaker 2: City because they are No one is doing it like them.
Speaker 2: They have no sense of what is happening in the
Speaker 2: outside world, right because everything revolves around them and it
Speaker 2: is hilarious and they're all going to jail. It's so funny,
Speaker 2: these women in Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they like a bit of fraud. Turns out
Speaker 1: they love fraud.
Speaker 2: They love to accuse each other of being in the mafia.
Speaker 2: They just genuinely have There's no shame in their game,
Speaker 2: and that's what makes good TV.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think the real reality show that even
Speaker 3: I've been anticipating ever since you but you said it
Speaker 3: was happening, Yeah, go on.
Speaker 1: What you real believe? Love after Love?
Speaker 2: I don't remember that lyrics, but do you believe?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, we're talking about the gold I'm
Speaker 3: not going.
Speaker 2: To take turns sort of singing it lyrics by lyric.
Speaker 3: Oh no, there's no way I could do The vocoder
Speaker 3: version of share right there, man, I don't it's hard.
Speaker 1: That's like you can well, I don't need anymore, I
Speaker 1: don't need all.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. He's got to do
Speaker 3: that little little wind pipe action. But yeah, the Golden
Speaker 3: Bachelor is coming out, and this is like taking exploitation
Speaker 3: to the next level. But this is exactly the kind
Speaker 3: of exploitation I needed to see because we have a
Speaker 3: seventy year old widower who is now looking at how
Speaker 3: many contestants does he have? How many eligible bachelorettes is there?
Speaker 9: Us?
Speaker 2: Like twenty sex I believe there's twenty women.
Speaker 3: Vying for this man's heart. Yeah, but like the difference
Speaker 3: being to excuse me, of course, but the difference here
Speaker 3: being that we've moved on from like, dude, anybody over
Speaker 3: thirty two is gonna make us puke to saying this
Speaker 3: is this is purely a group of contestants between sixty
Speaker 3: and mid seventies ish for this seventy year old man
Speaker 3: whose name is spelled like Jerry but pronounced Gary too
Speaker 3: experience the whole bachelor process with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they've spelled j e r r wild no
Speaker 1: j or.
Speaker 2: Spelled g e r r y but pronounced Gary.
Speaker 3: Does that Does that read is Gary or Jerry to you?
Speaker 1: That's that's definitely Ja, that's Jerry, right, it's.
Speaker 3: Looks I mean, who knows again, that's that's that's for
Speaker 3: him to figure out. But I mean, and you watch
Speaker 3: enough Bachelor to know that, Like, I think the thing
Speaker 3: you always worry about with contestants on it, with like
Speaker 3: the youthful contestants is like they know there's like this
Speaker 3: Bachelor to spawn con pipeline that you've definitely put me
Speaker 3: onto ever since I've come on to will you accept
Speaker 3: this rose? But it feels like with this these are
Speaker 3: truly like women in their sixties and seventies who are.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm ready to be in love again.
Speaker 3: And there's like a weight to it that just feels,
Speaker 3: I don't know, the stakes feel much higher.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So they've been promoting this like Senior Bachelor for
Speaker 2: a while, being like, oh, we're trying to get us,
Speaker 2: you know they do listen. Yeah, they've been like sign
Speaker 2: up now for the Senior Bachelor for like two or
Speaker 2: three years now, and we've all been like, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: well believe it when we see it. You keep teasing us,
Speaker 2: but you won't give us anything. So they finally did.
Speaker 2: They brought out Jerry, but I think it actually took
Speaker 2: them a very long time to find the perfect lead
Speaker 2: in Gary Jerry, which I think him being a widower
Speaker 2: is key because one you don't have an ex wife
Speaker 2: being like fucking Jerry Gary whatever.
Speaker 1: That would be an episode that's like instead of going
Speaker 1: to meet with a family, you were going to meet
Speaker 1: with the ex wife. Oh boy, you're still paying alimony. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's real tough, but yeah, like I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: the widower aspect definitely gives it a little bit of
Speaker 3: oomph for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I give it some oomph. It gives you know, uh,
Speaker 2: it makes Gary Jerry a sympathetic character. He clear did
Speaker 2: and cheat on his wife or like, you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know, start some situation that's negative that the ex
Speaker 2: wife can come out and complain about, or the daughters
Speaker 2: can't be like he left mom or whatever. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of perfect because he's like, oh, I'm sad even
Speaker 2: though his wife died six years ago.
Speaker 11: There is sort of an energy that he might not
Speaker 11: be ready, but you know, I hat I'm here to
Speaker 11: watch too, That's what I'm saying. Exploitation to the level.
Speaker 11: I'm here for because I'm not even sure Gary is
Speaker 11: Like when he talks about how his wife passed.
Speaker 3: Away, it broke my heart, just like that entire studio
Speaker 3: audience did when they were hearing his story for the
Speaker 3: first time about like they were retiring together and they
Speaker 3: picked out this perfect lake house and then like within
Speaker 3: days of like getting this house, she just like succumbs
Speaker 3: to like a terrible bacterial infection.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, you're passed on.
Speaker 2: And she was the love of his life, like child
Speaker 2: or high school sweetheart's been together, you know, a thousand years,
Speaker 2: however old they are. And but you know what, now
Speaker 2: he's got twenty two eligible senior women, all sixty plus.
Speaker 2: There's a great trailer where they're dancing to shares. Do
Speaker 2: you believe in love after love? I don't even know
Speaker 2: what the right after love is? Yeah, And let me
Speaker 2: tell you they are. They are dancing like a like
Speaker 2: a big pharma. I just discovered a medication that's gonna
Speaker 2: help me with my you know, dot dot dot. And
Speaker 2: they are living their best lives.
Speaker 3: I've I haven't seen somebody put on hosiery since the eighties.
Speaker 3: And they have like a scene or she's like rolling
Speaker 3: it up her leg I'm like, that's a visual trope
Speaker 3: I have not seen in a while. Yeah, it was something,
Speaker 3: and I think, yeah, this is exactly. This is kind
Speaker 3: of what you want to see her. People who are
Speaker 3: actually motivated to try and find someone rather than can
Speaker 3: I stay on camera the longest, which I feel like
Speaker 3: that's most of these people seem so far out of
Speaker 3: the range of being poisoned by social media that they
Speaker 3: are going to come in with, you know, a gene
Speaker 3: in desire to meet and look.
Speaker 2: Their fun facts are incredible. Like one of the women,
Speaker 2: Christina's her first concert was the Beatles in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 2: Like you know, Edith is building an eighty U in
Speaker 2: her backyard and she's the project manager. Like one lady's
Speaker 2: like I love Christmas.
Speaker 1: They're like, of course you right, do right, because I
Speaker 1: feel you're just gonna like teach Americans how to live
Speaker 1: better because they're all retired and they just like have
Speaker 1: amazing like things to do with there time.
Speaker 2: Well, they're like Sandral is very proud of her high
Speaker 2: credit score.
Speaker 3: Wait, Sandra, of course, Sandra, Sandra. That was the seventy
Speaker 3: five year old woman who is like an ageless Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a woman was a former aerobics champion.
Speaker 2: That's not a thing anymore, right, because an aerobics champion.
Speaker 3: You know what's there? What's everybody's favorite hobby?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: Uh, pickleball.
Speaker 1: They all fucking said they played pickleball, which is also.
Speaker 2: Guess what, Marina not too master's degrees. She's got three
Speaker 2: master's degrees. Why why Marina?
Speaker 1: Because I got to the master's degree and what do
Speaker 1: you do with that? I'm a professional pickleball player.
Speaker 2: And they're all like, I love Bruce Springsteen and you're like,
Speaker 2: of course you do. It's incredible. They're like, I watched
Speaker 2: Judge Judy. Honestly, you really it doesn't get better than this.
Speaker 2: It's like, I've never related to people on The Bachelor more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the pickleball thing is interesting because they all are like,
Speaker 1: and I love to play pickaball and I loved it,
Speaker 1: Like they cut it together. Everybody talk and then one
Speaker 1: of them like does a flirty thing where they're like,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing a pickleball. He can we'll see if you
Speaker 1: handle it.
Speaker 2: If you like my pickleball.
Speaker 1: That's like the three masters degrees, but a pickleball is
Speaker 1: just like a whiffle ball. It's not like a sexy thing.
Speaker 1: It's such a weird like flirt. They're seventy I know
Speaker 1: pickleball code.
Speaker 3: It's it's code for senior orgies.
Speaker 2: Here's why Teresa taught herself all about the stock market.
Speaker 2: Like it is. This is next level, baby, we are here.
Speaker 2: We're the golden era of the Bachelor. Literally, they're all like.
Speaker 5: Hey, do you know about four oh one K's and
Speaker 5: Gary Jerry's like oh, She's like roll it overfield so heated,
Speaker 5: you know, like they're just like gay.
Speaker 1: Jerry really looks like he is just what a bachelor
Speaker 1: with agent too, Like he looks so stereotypically like a bachelor,
Speaker 1: right right, right, there is something strange happening with whatever
Speaker 1: his self tannered solution is. But overall, I'm here for it.
Speaker 1: The fact that they've gone with a golden rose as
Speaker 1: the like kind of central symbol of this makes me
Speaker 1: uneasy that that feels like it is as likely to
Speaker 1: be a murder weapon as anything. But it's pretty.
Speaker 3: No, it looks pretty flop's aesthetics.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: I saw him pick it up. It's gonna be the
Speaker 3: new clue.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say real quick, there's some mysterious things
Speaker 1: about Gary Jerry's bois past.
Speaker 2: You better watch it, dude, don't come for Gary Jerry.
Speaker 1: Larry.
Speaker 2: Uh there was great.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, he he was on the Bachelor finale, like after
Speaker 2: the final rows and all these all the new bachelors
Speaker 2: were like giving him advice and they were just saying
Speaker 2: like all this stuff. I don't know. The way they
Speaker 2: were talking, you could just tell Gary Jerry had no
Speaker 2: idea what was going on. Like he genuinely was just
Speaker 2: like I don't know what any of this means, Like
Speaker 2: he just has no sense. I think they're really trying
Speaker 2: to media train him to be like kind of like
Speaker 2: hip and cool, but like his energy's like hah yeah.
Speaker 1: It's just so, it's so.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I think that's just kind of a freshing is that
Speaker 3: he doesn't have like he doesn't seem the best on camera,
Speaker 3: but he does seem like he's genuinely interested in having
Speaker 3: his skin look darker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like everyone's gonna slide into your dms And
Speaker 2: he was like, oh no, what what.
Speaker 3: Well do you remember the promo? They're like his dms
Speaker 3: have postage on it and his thirst traps are in
Speaker 3: a leather Bound album and they're like, okay, we get it, Like,
Speaker 3: don't don't fuck us up with your bad copy, right,
Speaker 3: just let Jerry do his thing.
Speaker 2: O traps are these to catch lobster.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, though, how many people from this cast
Speaker 3: are gonna get found out? Because whenever there's a season
Speaker 3: of The Bachelor Bachelorette, people always find a way to
Speaker 3: be like this person was actually the former Grand Wizard
Speaker 3: of the kkk oh and they're like.
Speaker 1: Ooh, sorry, true.
Speaker 2: Now here's the thing. Gary's from Indiana, so we do
Speaker 2: have to kind of be like, carry Jerry, We're gonna
Speaker 2: have to see who you've been donating to for the last.
Speaker 1: Like twenty years. Yeah, because uh, I'm just I'm I
Speaker 1: feel like we're gonna have some some people are gonna
Speaker 1: slip through the cracks, and I feel like inevident loafer
Speaker 1: is gonna drop, Yeah, exactly, one's the other foam shoe
Speaker 1: gonna drop?
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, what do you think the chances are? Is
Speaker 3: it pretty much guaranteed every season? And you watch enough
Speaker 3: to know if every season they are like y'all fucked
Speaker 3: up again?
Speaker 2: A lot of them more recently, as like the Internet
Speaker 2: has become, you know, easier to find everyone's goddamn everything
Speaker 2: that they've ever done. Like I know exactly how much
Speaker 2: you donated to Trump and when you.
Speaker 1: Know, like you can find that out. Yeah, it's called
Speaker 1: OpenSecrets dot org m.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just checking to see if anyone is from
Speaker 2: Palm Beach, Florida. Most of them seen from pretty progressive hubs,
Speaker 2: so let's fingers crossed. I also do want to give
Speaker 2: a shout out to Matt James, our first black bachelor.
Speaker 2: His mom, Patty is one of the women.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh yeah, yeah shit. Okay, Well everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: find love. That's gonna be interesting though. The family episodes
Speaker 1: will be interesting with like young like kids like you, like,
Speaker 1: what's your fucking problem?
Speaker 4: Gary?
Speaker 7: Gary?
Speaker 2: And I spell your name Jerry, but you spell it Gary. God,
Speaker 2: we have to get our moms on this.
Speaker 1: It could go either way, Gary, because it's g E
Speaker 1: R R y, so like I keep forgetting which one
Speaker 1: it is, like which one I thought it was when
Speaker 1: I first saw it, and which one it actually is
Speaker 1: because it's neither. It's just a It would be Gary
Speaker 1: if anything, but he's really fucked us with this name. Spelling, pronunciation, impressive.
Speaker 1: Impressive stuff from the Golden Bats. All right, that's gonna
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