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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the

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Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments

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Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one uh NonStop

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Speaker 1: infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here

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Speaker 1: is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, we are thrilled to be

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Speaker 1: joined by the very funny and talented brighter and podcaster

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Speaker 1: who you can hear on the wonderful NBA Baseline podcast

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Speaker 1: uh and his new podcast Never Meet Your Heroes, which

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Speaker 1: he tells you all the most shocking details and twists

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Speaker 1: and turns from celebrity back stories like Mark Wahlberg Shila

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Speaker 1: buff We'll have to ask him if he included Miles

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Speaker 1: Gray's rat on the limit in the UH in that backstory.

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Speaker 1: Also Michael Jordans, He's one of the best follows on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome back to the show. Jabari OHI David. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me again. I'm not gonna alloe

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Speaker 1: to you. I've already made the determination I'm never going

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Speaker 1: to over you know, like out do you guys? With

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Speaker 1: the intro, So my a k A is a co

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Speaker 1: worker last week told me you're exactly like sugar Knight

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Speaker 1: except for nice. And I guess what they really mean,

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Speaker 1: because I've been told this many times before, is you're

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Speaker 1: a big black guy with shaved head, so that's cool,

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Speaker 1: and you got a beard too. Nice good. It was

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Speaker 1: right there, It was right and you know what I'm

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Speaker 1: stealing that right? You got? He's like, oh, I'm like sugar,

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Speaker 1: and you hold their ass over the edge of your

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Speaker 1: royalties right now? Yeah, exactly. You think that you're stereotypical bullshit?

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Speaker 1: Remind me another time. I'll tell you. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: a story about signing up for that man's you know,

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Speaker 1: that man's big hit song at karaoke there in the

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Speaker 1: valley and he walked out because he was upset. Oh

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Speaker 1: wait what he was at the karaoke bar in Ireland

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Speaker 1: thirty two. It's a it's a spot that's over there.

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Speaker 1: I think, what is it like Burbank or not Burbank,

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Speaker 1: like Van Eyes or whatnot? I was there, you know,

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Speaker 1: Rob Vand was it Rob band Weak? Vanilla Ice was there.

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Speaker 1: He was in the bag. He's having a good time.

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Speaker 1: Folks are showing low. So I figured, hey, look we're here,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go ahead and do this. I signed up

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Speaker 1: for it. The song came on, he gets up and

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Speaker 1: walks out because, like, I guess it was offended by it,

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Speaker 1: but whatever, because you did maybe Yeah, it's like broken

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Speaker 1: what we know you're from? Yeah, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: respect that song. Have you ever made loving an inner tube?

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Speaker 1: But Vanilla ice off of to the extreme? Is that

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Speaker 1: a song? That's not the title, but he talks about

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Speaker 1: making loving an entery tube, which is like the sort

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Speaker 1: of thing that a middle school student which I was

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Speaker 1: think was cool, Like yeah, anyway, had sex would be

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Speaker 1: like that. That sounds really like uncomfortable and difficult. You

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Speaker 1: gotta come from Tuban culture, not just Retuban but inner

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Speaker 1: Tuban and embrace your inner Tuban while you're inner Tuban

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Speaker 1: as filize. Yeah, we like to ask our guest, what

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Speaker 1: is something from your search history? Last night, I was

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Speaker 1: reading about boxers because everybody was watching the no like

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Speaker 1: Jay King was talking about Logan Paul, the logan or

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Speaker 1: Jake Paul who's the one who fights mm A or

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Speaker 1: whatever they both do, just talking about how Jake is

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Speaker 1: get punched in the face. And if you know that,

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Speaker 1: you're the guy back to the karate kids. If you're

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Speaker 1: the guy that like people will tune in to see

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Speaker 1: that's a good lane. That's a good lane. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was comparing him to other I was trying to

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Speaker 1: and then I found this guy whose name I already forget,

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Speaker 1: also like an actor, and I was like, that's Jake Paul. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he was he also doing like black people versus

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Speaker 1: white people boxing matches too. I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: in the ring folks, right, because I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's weird that all the boxers were black, Jewish, Italian

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Speaker 1: Like sort of did you see yesterday? A lot of

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Speaker 1: Because everyone was like, if you just kept fighting him,

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Speaker 1: his spit decision. Yeah, and everybody was mad because they

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Speaker 1: just tuned in to see Jake Paul got his lights clock. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And that's the thing, you know what, And it's perfectly

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Speaker 1: as a money making scheme, that's what you do. It's like,

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Speaker 1: every time, Like do that, untol and you're an idiot

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Speaker 1: But then also recently I looked up the Paul siblings

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Speaker 1: English and a little bit German and Jewish allegedly, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think I was also like, the Paul brothers are Jewish,

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Speaker 1: Like I know nothing? And also is that my internalized

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Speaker 1: anti Semitism for seeing these blonde idiot guys and not

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Speaker 1: thinking try you know, aryan gods fighting on pay per

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Speaker 1: like how many people steal the fights to to also

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Speaker 1: be like, first of all, I need to see him

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Speaker 1: get his as beat. Part two, I'm not paying to

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Speaker 1: probably has the fight rigged or something. I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he keeps fighting. I mean he's carefully like selecting his opponents.

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Speaker 1: Even though this guy was a professional mm A fighter

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Speaker 1: And we just keep tuning and being like this is

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Speaker 1: Myles Garrett though, the guy from the Browns, who would

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Speaker 1: just fucking demolish him. I hope he fights Miles Great. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just see him at a Calabasas house party and like

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Speaker 1: right exactly and then like push him. He looks at

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Speaker 1: the villain from the Karate Kid if he's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: Maybe and then we're just all the goons come in

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Speaker 1: and we and we steal all the things that aren't

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Speaker 1: of marble? What is something you think is overrated? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't know Honestly, I feel like somebody must have

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Speaker 1: said this at some point, but I'm just gonna throw

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Speaker 1: out almonds. When he talked about almonds, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: they take up way too much water. Yeah yeah, and

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Speaker 1: they just kind of taste like ship. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 1: what if what if peanuts were like made of wood,

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Speaker 1: they're like they're like splintering your mouth. I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: like they're like and then yeah, they raw like a

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Speaker 1: raw almond is just like I have the same thing

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Speaker 1: with carrots. It's just something about the texture. Yea bad.

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Speaker 1: funk almonds for real? Like does this extent to almond

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Speaker 1: milk for you? Yes, yes it does. It does because

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Speaker 1: we have oat milk now, so we don't need almond

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Speaker 1: milk anymore. And coconut milk if you're if you're trying

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Speaker 1: to replace like whole fatty milk, coconut milk is really good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, people don't funk with coconut milk,

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Speaker 1: which I think is wrong. I feel like coconut milk

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Speaker 1: is underrated. Yeah, maybe that should be my underrated You wait,

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Speaker 1: so you're saying you're the two of you like you

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Speaker 1: just look at almonds and you're like, good, get them

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Speaker 1: away from me because I like a I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: I like a roasted almond. I'm not the thing it's

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Speaker 1: got to be roasted, right, yeah, not in its natural form?

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Speaker 1: Well what most of the nuts we eat are roasted

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Speaker 1: right on some level. Like I don't eat rock gass shoes.

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Speaker 1: I don't eat raw peanuts. I don't eat raw nuts.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I don't. But you know

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Speaker 1: how it is. I'm saying, if it's like rock as

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Speaker 1: shoes delicious, Oh rock ashes are delicious, Yeah, absolutely delicious,

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Speaker 1: obviously better with extra you know, roasting flavoring. Sure, but

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Speaker 1: I think, oh, natural cash whose are fucking dope? Okay.

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Speaker 1: I just I feel like almonds became the default nuts

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Speaker 1: at some point in the past, like ten years over peanuts. Yea,

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Speaker 1: the healthy hard because they take a fucking it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's something like a gallon per nut. And you're like, what, no,

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Speaker 1: knock it off, fucking knock it off. We don't we

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Speaker 1: don't need amo. That's where I'm like, we don't need

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Speaker 1: almost that bad. You're not even that good, right, I

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Speaker 1: don't think they're that good. And yeah, like like when

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Speaker 1: you look at the water usage, like the little like

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Speaker 1: regular gen pop water consumption, like it's the smallest dent

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Speaker 1: in the world when you compared to just like doing

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Speaker 1: anything to agriculture, like because they just like use all

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Speaker 1: the water, right Yeah, because yeah, when you go down

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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, this is how much water and almond takes.

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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, but what about all the live stock

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Speaker 1: that's where that's where the real water is going. Yeah. Ship,

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Speaker 1: what is something you think is underrated? The show Leverage?

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Speaker 1: You have? You just seen leverage. I have not, Okay, leverage,

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Speaker 1: Leverage rules. Leverage is basically the premise of the show

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Speaker 1: is every episode is It's It's It's It's a forty

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Speaker 1: minute heist movie with con artists, except they basically like

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Speaker 1: they they steal from the rich and give it to

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Speaker 1: the poor people, and they do it by just running

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Speaker 1: incredibly elaborate and absurd cons on people who suck and

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Speaker 1: it's it is an extremely good time and more people

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Speaker 1: should know about it because it's just it's it's just fun.

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Speaker 1: Where where can you watch it? Is an old show?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was on from oh eight to two twelve. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a new season two that I I think you

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Speaker 1: can watch an Amazon Prime or something. But yeah, it

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Speaker 1: like post two eight show in like the best way

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Speaker 1: sense of moral purity. And with Afghanistan, I think it

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Speaker 1: gives people a really easy thing to be like, up,

425
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: there was a war there. These people are basically they

426
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: fought on this team, so they get to come on

427
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: back on the bus back to the locker room after

428
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 1: the game kind of mentality. But the second, it begot

429
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Speaker 1: begins to really sort of intersect with something a little

430
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,679
Speaker 1: more like closer to home or something that you may

431
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: actually have to think about deeper than just merely this

432
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: like very clean sort of logic path. Then it becomes

433
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: chaotic and things like that, and it's yeah, it's just

434
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: it's fucked up because there's countless ways that people are

435
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: being left behind, whether it's in the Middle East, in

436
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:38,399
Speaker 1: South Asia wherever. But we you know, we we we

437
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 1: chug along on this path and like we only see

438
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 1: things get worse. I'm just kind of thinking, like what

439
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: does it take, you know, because if it's not about

440
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 1: connecting people to the history to understand sort of like

441
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: the US's place in that, what like what will do it? Yeah,

442
00:24:53,400 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: there's Americans seem particularly bad at feeling empathy towards poor

443
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: people in our own country because I think they're you know,

444
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: we I talk on to hear a lot about like

445
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: just the work, the like psychological work that needs to

446
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 1: be done too for like kind of the passive white

447
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,239
Speaker 1: supremacists in the country to just like go about their

448
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: daily lives and like kind of pushed down whatever that

449
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 1: that reality is, whatever realities are hitting them. Like whether

450
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: it's somebody living on the street or you know, the

451
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:35,960
Speaker 1: videos of police shooting innocent people of color. Like, there's

452
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: just so much work that's having to be done for

453
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: them to like block that out. And so by letting

454
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Speaker 1: in empathy for anybody in the country already, you're almost

455
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: having to admit like that that whole thing is on

456
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: shaky foundation, Whereas I feel like the Afghanistan War and

457
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Speaker 1: the Iraq War, the media and the American people were

458
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: able to like kind of think of it as a

459
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: thing that was separate from them, So that's enabling them.

460
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: And then you know, the specifics of the really shocking

461
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: and horrifying footage from the airport, especially in those early days,

462
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,080
Speaker 1: I think like probably just crystallized things in the kind

463
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Speaker 1: of American consciousness, which is wild though too, because there's

464
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: so many people that are destitute here and and yeah,

465
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: like it's just this, it's like we just want to

466
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Speaker 1: put our eyes on the thing that feels like it

467
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: can be solved in that one thing. Oh, the Afghanistan

468
00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: thing can be solved if we get enough people on planes,

469
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: and then it's over and off to think about it

470
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: and it's done. I look at you know, you look

471
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Speaker 1: at things that happened in the streets of any city, Philadelphia,

472
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Speaker 1: of Baltimore, New York, l A. Wherever there's there's real problems,

473
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 1: and it's much easier, I guess, to go down that

474
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Speaker 1: path to think of how we can solve that is

475
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: just too much of a task for some people to

476
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: engage in mentally, when most of it really is just

477
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: about being like, no one's asking you to solve it,

478
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: but like fun man have the same feeling for for

479
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: that if you if your heart's broken seeing people who

480
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: are clinging to you know, trying to escape their country

481
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: to get here, and you can somewhat understand like, oh yeah,

482
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 1: I get that. Just just open your heart a little bit,

483
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: you know what I mean to be able to have

484
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: that sort of same level of compassion for more people.

485
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know, that's just that's me being like,

486
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: what's what's wrong with us? But it also feels like

487
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: all of this is you know, very very specifically by designing, like,

488
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,880
Speaker 1: for instance, there's a reason why we didn't ever see

489
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Speaker 1: the footage of you know, like what was going on

490
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. There's a reason why we didn't see the

491
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Speaker 1: body council's reason why they didn't even keep tracking a

492
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: lot of you know, in a lot of situations, there's

493
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: a really like it and the same thing goes where

494
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, you know, domestically, individuals are no longer seen

495
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: as individuals if we just call them gangs or we

496
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: say that it's gang violence instead of saying like, these

497
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 1: are people, these are Americans that are you know, they're suffering,

498
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: that are in terrible situations, that are you know, innocent,

499
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: you'll you'll be you beyond beliefs at at at In

500
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of situations, it's easy to

501
00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: just ignore. It's easy to do. You're like you to

502
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 1: look past people like it's the same it's the same thing.

503
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: You pull up, you put like let's say you're getting

504
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: off the freeway, you're getting off the four or five,

505
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: there's a dude sitting there right at you know, right there,

506
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: waiting for money. It's really easy. Folks will roll that

507
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: window of turn the music up and look forward. That's

508
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: what we've always done. Yeah, and I just yeah, and

509
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: I know like on some level, like you know, it's

510
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: it's a feeling of shame or powerlessness, like someone you know,

511
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: depending on how you you process it at times, like

512
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: for me, it's like a feeling of shame, like funck man,

513
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: Like I can't like this. I feel so helpless that

514
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: there's this person who's my age, who is We're probably

515
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: coming from very similar circumstances, and this is how things

516
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: shake up, because this is how things are, you know,

517
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: sort of designed in the country. Yeah, it's just and

518
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: I think it's it can be overwhelming for a lot

519
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: of people on some level too, But it's just like

520
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: this sort of very it's it's like one of the

521
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:10,320
Speaker 1: many superpowers that Americans and American media have created to

522
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: sort of keep the status quo going in this direction,

523
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: which is one that doesn't really care for people that

524
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: are marginalized or in need of help. Just focus on,

525
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: like focus on the people who who got it right.

526
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh talk about a new research poll

527
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: from Pew that is revealing the one of the big

528
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: differences between red and blue that we we weren't aware of.

529
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: I wasn't personally aware of. Yeah, it kind of makes sense. Well,

530
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: what is this new where is this new arena for

531
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: the political engagement? It is over the topic of walking

532
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: around your town. So when they look at these theys.

533
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: They just took a quick survey. I'm just curious about, like,

534
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: in the post pandemic, do people want to like live

535
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: in larger homes or that might maybe more spread apart

536
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: with distance between them? Do would they rather be closer

537
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: to people and be able to walk to places and

538
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: just have like more of that kind of thing. So

539
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: apparently only of conservatives that they pulled want to live

540
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: in a walkable neighborhood, while seventy seven percent preferred driving everywhere.

541
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: But what's funny though, too, is when it comes down

542
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: to Democrats or people who identify as liberals, they say

543
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: of moderate Democrats and fifty seven percent of liberals quote

544
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: unquote want walkable neighborhoods, resulting in a split among Democrats.

545
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: So it's just odd to look at these numbers, Like, sure,

546
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: I can understand why if you love your fucking truck

547
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to walk around or drive around

548
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: or merely because you don't want to be around people.

549
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: But to think like for what you see is like

550
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: stereotypical liberal ideology would be more like environmentally conscious, and

551
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: maybe you think that people would be like, oh, I

552
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: would like better design of or better planning of my

553
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: city so I could walk around and do things like that.

554
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: But it seems like they're split a little bit more. Yeah,

555
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: I guess I understand why conservatives don't want a walkable neighborhood,

556
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: but like, what is the so they just don't want

557
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: people walking past their house. I think it's the same thing, right,

558
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: if you're you don't want a sense of community problem. Ultimately, no,

559
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: you don't want your house. You want your your land,

560
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 1: and no one's allowed on your land. We see this

561
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, where it is not a walkable city

562
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: and not a great public transportation city, although it's gotten

563
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: better in some ways, slowly slowly, where yeah, it's like

564
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: people don't even want other people's cars parked on their

565
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: block because homeownership makes people fucking insane. I think this

566
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: issue is super complicated, especially in California, because the walkable

567
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: cities thing is also like sometimes that's a dog whistle

568
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: for gentrification, right, but what we really need is just

569
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: like better public transport. I mean, I think some of

570
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 1: the walkable city stuff is also like taking this European

571
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: idea of the walkable city where everything central that hasn't

572
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: existed in California. Or anywhere in the United States since

573
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: like the nineteen fifties, you know, ever since colors like yeah,

574
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, what if we gave you which I

575
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,479
Speaker 1: wanted to make sure people had to have a car

576
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: to live in this place, for sure, But even like

577
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: even walkable cities, even places like New York that are

578
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: like where the place where you can go everywhere, you know,

579
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: people have cars, and people move to the suburbs and

580
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: then drive from the suburbs. The idea of the suburbs

581
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: is really the thing that killed walkable cities, and liberals

582
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: are just as into the suburbs as anyone else. M right.

583
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: This thing with like is especially in l a right

584
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 1: like there's because people don't aren't really put estrians there

585
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: in their cars all the time. It really diminishes your

586
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: ability to feel connected to anyone else. Oh, I completely

587
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: disagree with that. I totally disagree with that because I

588
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: think the idea that you're like connecting with people around

589
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: with you, that New Yorkers are always like, yeah, I'm

590
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: just talking to everybody on the subway, running into my

591
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: friends all over town. Absolutely not. People can be completely

592
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: isolated in a crowd of people. In fact, you can

593
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: feel the loneliest you've ever felt in a huge crowd

594
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: of strangers. You know, everyone is not your friend necessarily immediately.

595
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: I have all kinds of social interactions from my car.

596
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: I have like daysed and confused interactions, which to me

597
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: is like just as counts just as much, just like

598
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: talking to somebody on the street. What are dazed in

599
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: confused interaction? You like, talk to somebody out your car.

600
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: You roll down your window and talk to somebody. I

601
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: went out the other night and I talk to like

602
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: some guys on a motorcycle who started hitting on us

603
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: from from the motorcycle. And then I went to Del

604
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,920
Speaker 1: Taco at midnight and I ran into my friend Michelle,

605
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: who was also at Del Taco at midnight, just in

606
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: the line at the drive through. Yeah, nice honking behind you.

607
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, So that's what it's, you know. But

608
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 1: I think the reason I bring that up right is

609
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: because I totally agree in that even just being physically

610
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 1: in proximity to someone doesn't necessarily create a sense of community.

611
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: But there's a way that you can absolutely shut yourself

612
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: off by being in a car all the time in

613
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: a way that like it's it's much easier to insulate yourself.

614
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: I know there are ways to do that in many walkables.

615
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: What do you say, you know, headphones man Like people

616
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: are putting their earbuds in like, But there's a difference

617
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 1: right between you never seeing somebody like you know of

618
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 1: of any different social class or whatever, and you have

619
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 1: whatever idea built up because it's born out of some media,

620
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: diet or whatever your social group says about a given

621
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: another group. And I think being in a car really

622
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: does allow that to reinforce in a way that I

623
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: think is can be pretty exceptional. I think you are

624
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: very much You're a very social person, and I'm also

625
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: across the line. But I think there is like even

626
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: for me recently, right, I started riding my bike more

627
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: because I wanted to be I wanted to like actually

628
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: feel like be around my neighborhood, see people out of

629
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: their homes too, and reinforce this idea that like, I'm

630
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: also around other human beings that are trying to live

631
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: in the same way versus it's easy to get caught

632
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: up inside, so I guess more so in the pandemic,

633
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: to get inside your house and just start creating a

634
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: sense of the world that might not actually exist because

635
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: of like what you're consuming media wise. So for me,

636
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: and maybe this is just more of a personal thing,

637
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: I found it a lot easier to be like in

638
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: public space around other people, and I'm not necessarily talking

639
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,720
Speaker 1: to people, but there is something that just feels different

640
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: than being in a car and just like just having

641
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: you know, like completely sort of insulated. Yeah, I guess

642
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: it's also like I feel like in l A, people

643
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,959
Speaker 1: drive somewhere to walk, you know. So it's like people

644
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,919
Speaker 1: do walk, they just have to drive somewhere to walk

645
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: there because it is a gigantic place and we don't

646
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: have the greatest public transportation, right It's like, Yo, let's

647
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: let's drive forty minutes to go walk Ford you pretty

648
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: much that is, you know what I mean? And and

649
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: I think that's what I love about biking, or I'm

650
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: getting more into it now. I like cutting down a

651
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 1: lot of shorts. I like biking. I do I think

652
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: out there, I think biking in l A is kind

653
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: of terrifying because of culture. You know. I've been other

654
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: places where I'm like, it's easier to bike here because

655
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: it's a like I do think having real bike lanes

656
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: would be great for for l A, we could use

657
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: a lot more bike lanes. Everything is definitely centered around cars.

658
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: I do think cars here are a little bit like

659
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: guns in Texas and that you will pry them out

660
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: of our cold dead hands, right right, right right, because

661
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: that's how Yeah. Like, so I do think we're just

662
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: gonna get We've got to get better electric cars rather

663
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: than trying. I don't think there's gonna be in l

664
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Speaker 1: A without cars ever, probably no, No, people are like

665
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: just habitually, there will be in l A without cars,

666
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: but it'll be after like yeah, that's when the roaches

667
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: are running. But yeah, like you know, my partner, for example,

668
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: she's from d C, so her outlook on using a

669
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,479
Speaker 1: car is so different than mine, being a valley scum

670
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: rat kid who like the car was your like to

671
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 1: me was like liberation, like when you're younger. And so

672
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: there are a lot of times she's like, why wouldn't

673
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: you just walk there? And I'm kind of catching with

674
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 1: something like because this is l A. And then I'm like, man,

675
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: I'm completely fucking I'm not even looking at things in

676
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: a way that will allow me to like actually just

677
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: make it sure you could have good public transportation and

678
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: walk ability, but then you'd have to live in Washington,

679
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: d C. I mean, as we found out in the

680
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: movie Crash, sometimes those of us in l A crash

681
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: or dank cars and what I'm saying again to feel connect.

682
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me. Maybe it is because I just

683
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 1: go out cruising all the time, looking for action and

684
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: like you know, crashing into people, fighting with the city.

685
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 1: As as Miles one said, he thinks I do all day,

686
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: which is what I do all day. But yeah, I

687
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: do just think like the idea that car culture is

688
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: inherently isolating is not I don't think it's true. Yeah,

689
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: but also, yeah, it's nice to walk. I walk around

690
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood. But also because la is so spread out,

691
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes you walk somewhere and you don't see anybody. Yeah,

692
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: and it's and I think that's what's also kind of

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00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: a bummer too, because like I'll go on parts of

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00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: the l A River and bike and like you'll see

695
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: these like pockets whre there's a lot of people, and

696
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 1: then suddenly I'm like there's like tumbleweeds and ship I

697
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: love to some boys. Yeah, but I mean, you know,

698
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: this is again back to the urbanism stuff. Like the

699
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: big issues in California are that we need more dense

700
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: housing for people because we are a city of a

701
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: lot of people, but there's all these single family homes

702
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: and that's what everybody thinks they get if they go

703
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: to California. But I can't have that anymore. And again,

704
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: I do think people are gonna maybe hold onto that

705
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: idea a little bit with they're called dead hands as

706
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: climate change happens. Yeah, well, I think because we're sort

707
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: of all inundated and like inoculated with the concept of

708
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: like American wealth building is based on real estate holdings, right,

709
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: which doesn't work anymore when the houses are burning down

710
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: all the time and being you know, flooded by hurricanes,

711
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: and especially as insurance companies start to drop people that

712
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: are in natural disaster zones, which is what I think

713
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: Mike Davis said is probably going to happen next, you know,

714
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: because so far it's just been like everything burns down

715
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: in Malibu or whatever, and then they just build it

716
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: back bigger every time. But there will come a point

717
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: when the insurance company has refused to do that. But

718
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: then what happens, Like banks are like lobbying and they're

719
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: like homeowners insurance is a is a right, Like it's

720
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: fucking medical insurance. You know what I mean to do?

721
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: You know? And I think I don't know. I think

722
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: people are are also just thinking about where they do

723
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: want to live. I do think that I do know

724
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: some liberals who moved to some walkable cities because they

725
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 1: were like, if I'm stuck at home during the pandemic,

726
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: I'd rather be somewhere I can like walk around and

727
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: walk to a place that I want to go. Then

728
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: in the suburbs, where I thought I wanted to be

729
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: right and just walk four miles and all you see

730
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 1: is like a desolate spearmit rhino, like an industrial park. Okay,

731
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: but that's the beauty to me, miles you know that,

732
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: Like I love it. But yeah, like we people don't know,

733
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: they're not used to that one in North Hollywood, well yeah,

734
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: but that's like we walked to the Century eight, which um,

735
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 1: I think is a different theater called something else now maybe,

736
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: but I looked it up recently on YELP and was

737
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: very delighted to see that the reviews were like this

738
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: place is still very scary at night. Yeah, everybody was

739
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: like this is the sketchiest parking lot I've ever been,

740
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: And I was like, man, I love the valley. Yeah,

741
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: they're like, now they shot a fucking what's not wonder

742
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: Captain Marvel in that park, I think. So you're talking

743
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: about the one in North Hollywood, right, Well, yeah, there's

744
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: there's a couple of scary theaters in North Hollywood though. Yeah,

745
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: but that one by the old Wells Fargo Bank that

746
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: has like the huge mirror lie So that's the that's

747
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: the other one, that's the that's the Yeah, that's that

748
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: one's closed forever. I think Century eight is still open

749
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: and you can go see movies. Because I was like,

750
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: now that the arc lives posed, where can I go see?

751
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: Like if I wanted to see in like a Fast

752
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: and Furious movie, Like, where would I even go? It's like,

753
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: what if I just start going to that theater again,

754
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: which I could walk to? So maybe that brings it back.

755
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: Maybe you're right, maybe we all love walkability. That's right.

756
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be

757
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: back to talk about how COVID is affecting rap rock

758
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: legends of our youth. And we're back, and Adam Levin

759
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: has been replaced by super producer on a streaming corner, assholes,

760
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: open your ears. Sorry, Yeah, hard to pivot from that

761
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: very serious conversation about security and privacy and now the

762
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: pressing issues of our time, the way we distract ourselves

763
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: healthily from that television TV. Although this I feel like

764
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: this show really nailed something about the zeitgeist or just

765
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: I guess America. Oh White Lotus or yeah, White Lotus

766
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: show definitely always is always nailing the ze gust. Hello,

767
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: Anna Hosnie, thank you for joining us. What why why

768
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: do we watch White Lotus? When you first said why

769
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: are you watching it? What was parting? Well, okay, first

770
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: I have to do my streaming corner theme song. Okay,

771
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: go go go three six seven ten, batty d d

772
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: do dude, it's a stream in corner. Bad dot dot dude,

773
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: it's a stream in corner. You didn't watch White Lotus,

774
00:43:52,719 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: did you? You didn't watch It is gonna happen to

775
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: last time? When we were like, alright, well so I

776
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: missed all that. I was doing my theme song. We

777
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 1: were just saying that you have delaying because you didn't

778
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: actually watch White Lotus when we asked you about Godfather too, anyway.

779
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: Pretty I've ever been more offended than people just speaking

780
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 1: through my forty five minutes stream of corner. And we

781
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: were just so confused. We didn't want to get scammed again. No,

782
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,319
Speaker 1: I was just um, I was, what is it when

783
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: you're like pulling from someone? I was pulling my inner

784
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: Kim Cantrell Chanel. Um. I guess before we get into

785
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: the just the talk, I'll I will read what the

786
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: description of White Lotus is, so if you haven't seen it,

787
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: you understand what we're gonna be ranting and raving about.

788
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: They say from Mike White, the creator of HBOS in light,

789
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: The White Lotus is a sharp social satire following the X.

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00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: It's a various employees and guests at an exclusive Hawaiian

791
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: resort over the span of one highly transformative week, As

792
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: darker dynamics emerge with each pressing day. This biting six

793
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: episode series gradually reveals the complex truths of the seemingly

794
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: picture perfect travelers, cheerful hotel employees, and idyllic locale itself.

795
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: There it is, and another interesting fact, Mike White did

796
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: in fact go to high school or college. I forget

797
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: with my friend Laurie's wife really okay, yeah, the other day.

798
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: Now we're looking with guests, now we're cooking. He also

799
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:39,240
Speaker 1: did he write he wrote School of Rock. He's enlightened

800
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: with Laura Derny Yeah, yeah, but also School of Rock.

801
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: He's okay, stop bringing up School of Rock every time.

802
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: But interesting, kind of varied career. But this is I

803
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: don't know, very kind of keenly just sharply observed about

804
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: the one percent, I guess, and uh and their relationship

805
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: to themselves in their world and there their leisure, their leisure.

806
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: M I don't know. It was how do we get

807
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: into this? What do we? What do we? I mean? Yeah,

808
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: I just say so, like I know there's been a

809
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: lot of think pieces on it and all that, but

810
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not really one that thinks too hard.

811
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: So I just thought it was just like a fun

812
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: dark comedy that just like kind of you know, showed

813
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: that rich white people are just like vapid, idiot losers,

814
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: and that's just kind of like funny to me. Yeah,

815
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: some woman, like I'm really simple, Like if you're like,

816
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 1: look at this rich white woman, like she doesn't get

817
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: that like white men are over I'm like, it's me um,

818
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: so like that's all it really takes for me. Yeah, well,

819
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: I think because a lot of people I felt like,

820
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: we're mad because they were expecting this show to have

821
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: some kind of really biting sort of commentary on what

822
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: it was. And I get that maybe you thought because

823
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: it was like adjacent to something really interesting, because throughout

824
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: this show, like there is this juxtaposition of like understanding

825
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: like what life is like for the people of Hawaii,

826
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: like the relationship that it has to the mainland, and

827
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: like just how like sort of the cast system that

828
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: even Annexation has created in that sense, But there's also

829
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: like there's just, yeah, this dark comedy aspect about it,

830
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: which just sort of makes it palatable. And I in

831
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: the beginning, I thought maybe this was going to be

832
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: all broader commentary on something like that, and in the

833
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: end it just was really just sort of this very

834
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: more narrowly focused dark comedy. So I didn't mind that

835
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: it didn't have that, because I also it was kind

836
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: of one a very American thing where like the show

837
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: almost was able to like observe an issue or like

838
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: a controversy, but not quite have a reckoning with it.

839
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: So it's just sort of like, damn that's sucking a while.

840
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: The vibe was that the show rather than like, this

841
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: is why we need to really seriously talk about like

842
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: what it means to have annexed the Kingdom of Hawaii,

843
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: you know, like all these other things, like what it

844
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: means for these power dynamics among all these other people.

845
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: But really it was just occupy Hawaii. Yeah, I know.

846
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: And and the kind of the great part about it

847
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: is that, like it just I kind of liked It's

848
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: like you didn't really try, and I'd rather you just

849
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 1: didn't try, Like you created humor and the fact that

850
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: like these people were really shitty and you're pointing it out,

851
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: but like they didn't really make that much of an effort,

852
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 1: and it's like I'd rather than not make an effort

853
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: than make like a half assed effort something, you know

854
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: what I mean and fall flat trying to be like

855
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: deep with it. But I feel like the commentary was

856
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 1: all there like that it definitely didn't end in a

857
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: satisfying way. But the way it ended was that the

858
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: people who you've kind of just been disgusted by the

859
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: whole time because they are just myopically just obsessed with

860
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: their own privilege, and like preserving the illusion that they

861
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: deserve like every thing, and like fighting anybody who's in

862
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:06,160
Speaker 1: the service and service positions, like they just get away

863
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: with it and don't learn their lesson and that's just

864
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: like that that is how it works. Yeah, but didn't

865
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: that all feel like just in the writing like very

866
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: surface level, Like there were a lot of things that

867
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: they just touched on that they very quickly, very like

868
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: it was just like and then they like you know,

869
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: moved on, Like I feel like, yeah, you know, they'd

870
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: be like this guy hates the manager or whatever. Jake

871
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: Lacey's character Shane hates armand. Yeah, Shane hates armand and

872
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 1: it's like okay, but we're not really going to explain,

873
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: like explore further like what the funk is wrong with

874
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: Shane and like why, you know, like other than him

875
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: being like, look, I was just born into this, okay,

876
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: like what am I supposed to do? And it's like, yeah,

877
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: surface level, that's who he is, and that's all these

878
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: people are. They're all surface level people, right, Yeah, maybe

879
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: that is maybe that is the observation. So like just

880
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: to give people an idea, like there's like this tension,

881
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: there's there's character Armand who's like the hotel manager. Then

882
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: there's a couple of Nicole and Mark, which is played

883
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 1: by Connie Britten and Steve's On, who's like this wealthy

884
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 1: couple who have brought their kids and one of their

885
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: kids friends with them to just kind of like have

886
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: one of those rich people vacations. And then the other

887
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:20,720
Speaker 1: story the other storyline involves Tanya, which is Jennifer Coolidge's character,

888
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: who's like mourning the loss of her mother and is

889
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: there to spread ashes alongside this newlywed couple of Shane

890
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: and Rachel, where this journalist has like married rich and

891
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 1: is kind of having this existential dilemma of like what

892
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: that means for her. Yeah, but I think that there's

893
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: something where when they're on vacation, they are left with

894
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: too much time to think about like just themselves and

895
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: how awful they are, so they like do things like

896
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: create the issue with Urmand that that Jake has. Or

897
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: Connie Britten, who's like supposed to be a Cheryl Sandberg

898
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: type character, is like at one went like moving furniture

899
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: around the hotel room, like just like doing these things,

900
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: like creating these tasks and these problems too, just like

901
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 1: focus on to like continue this like sort of endless

902
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: like competition and like urge to prove something that like

903
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: I feel like deep down they know they can't prove,

904
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: which is that they deserve any of this ship. Mm hmm,

905
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 1: what's um? I I want to say that this one

906
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: of the best things about this show, where like some

907
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: of just the individual performances and I don't know, I

908
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 1: just want to maybe go around and we can talk

909
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: about some of our favorite people from the show. I

910
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,480
Speaker 1: remember when I wasn't watching yet and and it was

911
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: and you're like, due to Jennifer Coolidge, it's fucking crushing

912
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: this whole fucking show. And that's when I was like,

913
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: I'm watching because I'm such a Jennifer Coolidge fan. And yeah,

914
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: Tanya's character was called cool Dogs. Hey where the cool

915
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: Dogs at? But yeah, like honestly her performance is like fantastic,

916
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: and like her sort of storyline with Belinda and Natasha.

917
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: Rothwell's character was just like this fucking strange journey of

918
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 1: like white savior, doom and guilt and like also people

919
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: trying to act like they were being authentic by offering

920
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: or not offering money. It was a it was a

921
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: lot it was a lot. Yeah, you know, Jennifer Coolidge,

922
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: I mean truly like a legendary actor who like comedic

923
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: actor who never really I think, like I feel like

924
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: she gets you know, pigeonholed a lot in what she

925
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: has been offered in the past. And it was like

926
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: really nice to see her like playing this, like just

927
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 1: showing that she has like this wild range where she

928
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,399
Speaker 1: can play like this, Like what is she She calls

929
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: herself an alcoholic she comes to like an alcoholic psychopath

930
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 1: or something like she's like under all you're just gonna

931
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: find an alcohol like psychopath and you're like wow, wow,

932
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 1: like that level of just like madness, You're like, wow,

933
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 1: she's kind of And the thing is she's nailing it.

934
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: Like her character, every person she interacts with, I immediately

935
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: feel bad for them. And that's how you know she's

936
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: nailing it. Yeah, she just walks up like you having

937
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: a good You're like, she's trappings. So she reminded me

938
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: of the character and shadows the energy vampire. Yeah, she

939
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: just came in and would destroy the life force of

940
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: everyone except the dying guy who she ultimately ends up with. Right,

941
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,800
Speaker 1: I do want to add this one thing. Those characters

942
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: of Paula and Olivia like the gen Z college girls.

943
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: My dad said he like they made him feel so

944
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: uncomfortable that he couldn't get past the st episode because

945
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: he was getting like zoomer anxiety. He's like, oh man,

946
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: they're like they're just gonna fucking read your ass and

947
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: like you don't know what to do, and he was like,

948
00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: yet he was feeling that off the screen. He's like, yeah,

949
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: I couldn't really get past it. First. They nail the

950
00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: cruelness that gen Z can bring in their critiques, and

951
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: you're like, oh my, just like them reading at the

952
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: look that they both give you at the same time,

953
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,319
Speaker 1: and you're like no, no, no, no, don't look at

954
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,800
Speaker 1: me right because these characters are like almost like you know,

955
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 1: they have like the cutting commentary that like a five

956
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: year old would where they're like, oh you're bald, and

957
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, thank you child, but they're just like

958
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: you're like an empty, like lame want to your wife.

959
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: Like they have like this expanded vocabulary and know a

960
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: lot more like psychological terminology, so like it's like the

961
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: same kind of observation, but it just cuts you in half.

962
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: But also they're just like disdained for things too. I

963
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: think was really that line where they're like, do you

964
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: guys meet on Riya You like, wow, okay you are

965
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: He's just like, oh no, You're just like damn. They

966
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: just come for you immediately. The reading is like the

967
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: books they're reading are like he's like, hi, like Nietzsche

968
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: and like Freud. Look, it's like okay, uh, nobody wants

969
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,240
Speaker 1: nobody actually reads that. But um. And then Jake Lacy,

970
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: the like bro character who's like inherited a bunch of

971
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 1: money and like it seems to have like the most

972
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: violent conflict with like just well just with every everything

973
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: about himself and like he's always reading Malcolm Gladwell Blanket

974
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: and he's never yeah yeah and never making any progress,

975
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: and it's always like at the same place I thought

976
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 1: was he captures like a guy who says he's gonna

977
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: read on a trip energy and it's like yeah, almost, dude,

978
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: I'm bringing the book here. I'm bringing the book there.

979
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm bringing I brought it to bed. No, I didn't

980
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: read it. I was about to, but you know, vacation

981
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: and I gotta say, Molly Shannon comes in. I mean

982
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: Molly Shannon is honestly, like every every role she plays

983
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: immediately is like she just progresses in a way where

984
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: I'm like, she's so fucking funny. She just comes in

985
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: as a mom who's just like, you know, like you're pretty,

986
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: you know, like that wedding I blacked out. You're like,

987
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 1: I don't remember you know, saying that. It's like, what

988
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: are you saying? People say it's lovely? I don't remember

989
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: that at all, but it was great, right, nothing, right? Yeah.

990
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: I feel like her, and I feel like the character Jake,

991
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: the mom, Molly Shannon, and the two gen Z girls

992
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,800
Speaker 1: were like the ones that like stuck out to me

993
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: as like the most I don't know, like I hadn't

994
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: seen them on camera like in a thing before like

995
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:58,319
Speaker 1: nailing to that degree, like that archetype because there, Yeah,

996
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: there's like a lot of pain in them, like the

997
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 1: like that is and the way they deal with it

998
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:09,320
Speaker 1: is like very pathetic and like just completely like transferring

999
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 1: like their anger about one thing to another thing, and

1000
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 1: they just really like nailed it in a way that

1001
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: felt realistic and yet like so just obvious. And also

1002
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: Steve's on. I forgot about Steve's on until I saw

1003
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: him and I was like, oh wait, Steveson is actually hilarious.

1004
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: His whole like meltdown through the series of like he

1005
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: finds out his dad died of eates and and he's like,

1006
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: I just first he thinks he has testicular cancer. Then

1007
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: he finds out his dad died of eates because he

1008
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: was you know, bisexual or or gay. Well, I don't

1009
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: even know. It's not really explained. And then if I

1010
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: let these like starts to be like he starts to

1011
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: melt it down because he at one point he had

1012
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: an affair and decides he wants to be open with

1013
00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: his son, and his son is he really not accepted.

1014
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: He's just like okay, cool, dad, Like, stop telling me

1015
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: about this. They're so like his character. And then just

1016
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: like that scene at the dinner where they're like, be

1017
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: nicer to your brother. You know, it's tough for young

1018
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,440
Speaker 1: white guys. And then like Paula, they're like, well you know,

1019
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: the daughter is like you've never even asked Paula question.

1020
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, Paula doesn't know anything about me,

1021
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 1: and she's like, well, I know about your balls, bro,

1022
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: what do you mean walking around lament that? Yeah, And

1023
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: then He's like, Okay, ask me a question, Paula, and

1024
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: she says, what do you stand for? Oh my god?

1025
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: His character just like like what do I stand for?

1026
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: Because they're all that like emotional turmoil. He still lacks

1027
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: the depth needed to analyze any of it, but he

1028
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: can't do it. It's just I thought his character was

1029
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: like perfect, just like Dad, he's just like kind of

1030
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: checked out, so self involved with his own crap. It's

1031
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: kind of nice to see like Zon he like you

1032
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: can see that he can there's a like whatever this

1033
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: next phases him playing this kind of weird middle aged guy,

1034
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: like because that angs when he was younger, Like sure

1035
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: it was funny, but I feel like it really suits

1036
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: him now, like as he's gotten older and like you

1037
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 1: know that he now looks like he I don't know,

1038
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,439
Speaker 1: it just feels like more spot on. And then also

1039
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: like Molly Shannon too, It's just really helped to just

1040
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: see like you're like fun, dude. Momy Shannon has like

1041
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: always been super talented, but like now she's getting like

1042
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: great roles to really you know fred or wings in. Yeah, yeah,

1043
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:36,880
Speaker 1: I thought this was a great role. There's one more

1044
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: moment with Steveson the moment he gets the call from

1045
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: his uncle and he's like, well, how did my dad

1046
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: die of AIDS? And he's like he was sleeping around

1047
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: with men. That face he makes, I cried, just his

1048
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: I think his facial expressions alone throughout the series of

1049
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 1: just like complete confusion, like what he Yeah, he embodied

1050
00:59:57,640 --> 01:00:01,919
Speaker 1: the like circuits frying in a computer Reuters How made

1051
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: that a facial expression? And then the face he's making

1052
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:06,680
Speaker 1: when he's just sitting like this the next day, where

1053
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: it's with his hand with his face in his hand,

1054
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: and his daughter's been like, that's really homophobic for you

1055
01:00:10,680 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: to be this upset about it, Like what if Grandpa

1056
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: was like a power bottom. It's a camp process any

1057
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: of the information. I mean, I was dying, Mike what.

1058
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Speaker 1: The creator and writer of the show's dad was Reverend

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Speaker 1: doctor James Melville White, a former speechwriter and ghostwriter for

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Speaker 1: the religious right figures such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

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Speaker 1: His father came out as gay in so kind of

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Speaker 1: lived in experience, right right? Cool? And are interesting? Mark Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And then the other character, I just want to like

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Speaker 1: Murray Bartlett as armand is like one of the most

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Speaker 1: realistic depiction of like a relapse just of being high

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Speaker 1: and like uninhabited and or uninhabited, and just like that

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Speaker 1: performance is fucking incredible. Yeah, that, especially that last episode

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Speaker 1: when like he's like fuck it, babe, It's yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: yeah that, I mean, his whole It's also like you

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Speaker 1: really felt for his character too, because like you know,

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Speaker 1: like he's he's trying to keep a ship together, he's

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Speaker 1: trying to stay clean, and he's also like in the

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Speaker 1: midst of like the most chaotic week of his career

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Speaker 1: is like managing a hotel with like unruly guests, finding

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Speaker 1: bags of drugs and not knowing what to do and

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Speaker 1: like his own demons. It's like, yeah, it's funny because

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Speaker 1: he provided a lot of comedic relief, but also like

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Speaker 1: super like you said, like this very realistic portrayal of

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Speaker 1: of someone just like struggling with their own addiction to Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I also like that the people around and we're kind

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Speaker 1: of like okay, armand no one was really that concerned

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Speaker 1: that this guy was so off the deep end. Like

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Speaker 1: you open your door and your boss is eating ass,

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Speaker 1: Like that's the problem there. I was just like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, not my business and seen the show. It's yeah,

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Speaker 1: you'll you'll be surprised, but I think it's worth checking

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Speaker 1: out for sure. Now, yeah, we should probably put a

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert at the beginning of this, because this is

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Speaker 1: no I think this is spoiler alert twenty minutes ago,

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Speaker 1: spoil alert all you can eat. But fet I actually

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Speaker 1: really like Dylan. He doesn't get yeah, I can have

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Speaker 1: any shift I want. I do have more like right,

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Speaker 1: And then I was just kind of like, yo, this

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Speaker 1: is so gross. And then I'm like, well, this is

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Speaker 1: this is this dark comation. It's like, finally, let's party.

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Speaker 1: There is a scene last episode that's the grossest thing

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Speaker 1: I've ever seen with Armand to be real, they have

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Speaker 1: to have like shown actual like that that right, you

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Speaker 1: can't fake that, or you it would cost a lot

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Speaker 1: of money to fake that, or you just don't put

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Speaker 1: it in a post. Yeah that's true. You think that

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Speaker 1: would digitize. I don't think. I think it worse. I

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Speaker 1: ran that back a number of times and just like

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Speaker 1: watch it and frame by frame and I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: that you did your own studies yourself trying to replicate

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Speaker 1: the shot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's like what are you

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Speaker 1: doing in the bathroom. Like everything about the suitcase, I

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Speaker 1: got a new one coming in the middle. Don't worry

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Speaker 1: about it. Anna as always such a pleasure having you

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Speaker 1: and your streaming corner on. Where can people find you

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Speaker 1: and follow you? Well? Hold on, I have to do

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Speaker 1: my outro song for sure, boy, just because your as

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Speaker 1: like another four that's the end stream, thank you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can get the horn section from Scodio Policias, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I also sampled that. All right, that's gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: For this week's weekly Zeitgeist, please like and review the show.

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Speaker 1: Oh if you like the show, uh means the world

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Speaker 1: of Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're

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Speaker 1: having a great weekend and I will talk to him Monday.

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Speaker 1: By M. E.