Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: These are some of our favorite segments from this week,
Speaker 1: all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Miles,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seed
Speaker 1: by a brilliant TV writer, performer, and enrolled member of
Speaker 1: the Cowlitz Indian tribe who's written on shows for Nickelodeon,
Speaker 1: Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, the Netflix animated series Spirit Rangers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the creator of the brilliant web series Gone Native.
Speaker 1: Please welcome back to the show. The Hilarious, the Talented
Speaker 1: Joey Cliff Joey.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, I'm Joey Cliff aka Oh I'm Joey clifft
Speaker 3: we oh.
Speaker 1: Guest it, I'm a z Ike.
Speaker 3: Guys, take my hand, We'll record it.
Speaker 1: I swear WHOA. I'm on the Daily side Geist.
Speaker 3: Shout out to me fifteen seconds ago when I realized
Speaker 3: to a parody song about myself?
Speaker 1: Did that fifteen seconds ago? I was off the that
Speaker 1: was that was off the dome man the Daily Ze. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're fucked Jack. This guy came up with that fifteen
Speaker 1: fucking seconds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to help us fucking I mean it's better than
Speaker 3: usually usually. Like you start singing and then I'm just like,
Speaker 3: oh ship Google popular lyrics, and it's just like, okay,
Speaker 3: can I like can I do the the not like
Speaker 3: us like like verse like about like certified podcasts certified
Speaker 3: Joey Cliff, Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: So this I had like a little bit aheadway. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've noticed a lot of our guests block out the
Speaker 1: heart sing in their memory, so it's they just remember
Speaker 1: when we start singing. They're like, oh god, I forgot
Speaker 1: this show show as weird as fuck. Yeah, Joey. We
Speaker 1: do like to ask our guest what is something from
Speaker 1: your search history?
Speaker 3: Okay, so the last thing for my Google search history
Speaker 3: is the question is.
Speaker 1: One pull up? A lot of pull up.
Speaker 3: So I've started, like I've I've think I've talked about
Speaker 3: my my personal fitness journey on the daily es I
Speaker 3: guist a little bit, but I've just reached the point,
Speaker 3: after a year and a half of working without the
Speaker 3: personal trainer, that I can do one pull up. And
Speaker 3: I'm very proud of myself for like, like i feel
Speaker 3: like I'm at the point where if I see a
Speaker 3: bar hanging above my head, I don't care what time
Speaker 3: of day it is. I don't care like where I'm at,
Speaker 3: I don't care how I'm dressed. I'm gonna bust out
Speaker 3: exactly one very struggled.
Speaker 2: Pull up or do the one the kind I do,
Speaker 2: or you use your upward momentum from a jump.
Speaker 1: To be like, yeah, man, I'm up. That's how I
Speaker 1: used to be able to do that. No, this is
Speaker 1: a full hang. Okay, this is a.
Speaker 2: Probably ong or some ship. Nobody can do a fun
Speaker 2: like that. Oh yeah, recording, nobody can do it. But
Speaker 2: if I can't, the entire zoom window are my muscles?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean like loo frock Lesnar can probably
Speaker 3: do one, maybe one and a half hole.
Speaker 1: I doubt. I'm just saying I doubt that pull ups
Speaker 1: are that. That was the one part of the Presidential
Speaker 1: Fitness test. Oh. I didn't even attempt. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: just like, go up and I'm out of here. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna let you see me squirming.
Speaker 2: The stretch ship like the push ups, I was like,
Speaker 2: miss me with that. The stretch. You want to see
Speaker 2: how flexible.
Speaker 1: You can are? Oh me touch my toes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, watch me fuck up this little wooden box with
Speaker 2: the inaccurate lines drawn on it, like the one we
Speaker 2: had at our school to like gauge however flexible you were.
Speaker 2: And then the other one, uh run shuttle run, shuttle run,
Speaker 2: killing it at the fucking shuttle run.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's impressive. Yeah, oh yeah, like wind sprints? Yeah,
Speaker 1: pull up yeah, get the fuck away from me.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Was rope climb universal? Did everybody do the We don't have.
Speaker 3: Rope climb at ours. We we had a rope climb
Speaker 3: in mine.
Speaker 1: I could not.
Speaker 3: I could I just that was that was my like,
Speaker 3: oh there's just no way I could ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, same like the pull ups and rope climb. We're
Speaker 1: a real mess for me. Well, congratulations on the one
Speaker 1: pull up. Yeah yeah, hell yeah. I'm still too afraid
Speaker 1: to try. But hey, you can do it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You give hope to those of us who just got
Speaker 1: up there and it's it's hard. My body is so heavy.
Speaker 1: The thing is, because my body is so heavy, my
Speaker 1: arms so weak, I can't support my own weight. What
Speaker 1: is something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: So I this is always my go to and it's
Speaker 4: such a dipshit answer, But I think kindness is underrated.
Speaker 4: I think, especially now, we should one at all ship.
Speaker 4: But then the other alert I appreciate it, no, you're
Speaker 4: right answer, But the the other sort of goes along
Speaker 4: thematically with what we were just talking about is I
Speaker 4: think like regional wrestling is underrated. Wow, And there's a
Speaker 4: promotion in Oakland which I love so much called hood Slam,
Speaker 4: which is like an amateur region. No it's not amateur,
Speaker 4: it's regional wrestling. So it's not like pro at the
Speaker 4: ww WWE corporate sort of thing, but it's like a
Speaker 4: professional local wrestling, and it's got so much vibe in
Speaker 4: personality and it feels gritty like the early twentieth century
Speaker 4: I imagine, and I love it so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like local like wrestling. They I mean, while the
Speaker 2: production value may be one thing, the dedication of those
Speaker 2: people is like wild because I feel like I see
Speaker 2: the wildest wrestling clips, like earlyst clips gone wrong, or
Speaker 2: at these like sort of like local wrestling shows, or
Speaker 2: someone's like, oh my god, that guy literally went through
Speaker 2: like a patio glass door like.
Speaker 4: That was I've seen, Yes, I've seen people like launch
Speaker 4: you know what, you like twenty five feet from like
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five feet high and like land on other
Speaker 4: people in a way where I don't know how it's
Speaker 4: possible right for everyone to be moderately okay.
Speaker 1: And I yeah, there's no way that, like when it's
Speaker 1: a person landing on a person, there's no safe version
Speaker 1: of that. There's no like, oh well yeah, actually because
Speaker 1: this part of their body like actually landed on the starde.
Speaker 1: There's like too many variables at work there. There's just
Speaker 1: like no way that's actually going to like work every time.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's the other thing that I
Speaker 1: always find out about wrestling that I can't believe is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is our hundredth show in May. It's like, wait,
Speaker 1: what do you mean.
Speaker 4: If dude, if I sleep wrong, I'm fucked for a week.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, like like my I can't move my body correctly.
Speaker 4: But these guys are like doing this, you know, a
Speaker 4: dozen times a month, launching themselves off stuff and soya.
Speaker 4: And I Also the thing I like about Huitsland too
Speaker 4: is it's like pretty queer. Like there's a lot of
Speaker 4: representation there, which is great. So it's like it's all around,
Speaker 4: it's like fun for the whole.
Speaker 2: Family, right right, Yeah, those are wild when they're like, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: I take about fifteen fluorescent light tubes to the face
Speaker 2: a day.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's any like knock on effects
Speaker 2: from like that's actually just my waft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I get out of the bed in
Speaker 1: the morning.
Speaker 2: Makes for a nice pop, but it's it's safe for
Speaker 2: us mostly, just like scratchy when you say it has
Speaker 2: early twentieth century vibes.
Speaker 5: What what specifically, Well, I'm really into the history of
Speaker 5: wrestling and so so before Vince McMahon came into the
Speaker 5: game and did, particularly in the early eighties sort of
Speaker 5: this like corporate entertainment consolidation thing, wrestling from the late
Speaker 5: thirties through the eighties was extremely regional.
Speaker 4: It was like very gritty, It had local personalities, it
Speaker 4: had you know, it was like it felt dangerous in
Speaker 4: a way. I'm not saying that WWE does not feel
Speaker 4: dangerous in various specific ways, but like it just felt
Speaker 4: I don't know, it's like it feels like one of
Speaker 4: the last truly like standing a local or regional phenomena,
Speaker 4: and I like that a whole lot. It's like a scene.
Speaker 4: It's its own scene.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in like the late nineties, like early too,
Speaker 2: like when e c W was like there's like there
Speaker 2: was WWF and then there was e c W and
Speaker 2: They're like, are you ready for e c W? And
Speaker 2: I was like, no, I'm a baby. I do not
Speaker 2: want to see r v D bloody this other man.
Speaker 4: I'm still getting ready from the last thing. I'm not this. Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I truly, I truly enjoy it. It feels it really
Speaker 4: feels like it's from another time in the most positive way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Like we like to say, you know, the true
Speaker 1: American art form is like movies or rock and roll,
Speaker 1: it's wrestling.
Speaker 4: Wrestling if you can check it out if you don't
Speaker 4: know about it. Josephine Riseman's book Ring Master, about Vince
Speaker 4: McMahon and his ascension all the stuff that he did,
Speaker 4: is the best book that explains American political culture I've
Speaker 4: ever read, because it sort of it maps a one
Speaker 4: for one. He and Trump were like best friends in
Speaker 4: the early eighties and continue to be close. Like there's
Speaker 4: so many similarities and it is. I do think that wrestling,
Speaker 4: particularly the sort of like culture of it, is the
Speaker 4: best and easiest way to understand American politics.
Speaker 1: That was the first thing that like Abraham Lincoln stood
Speaker 1: out as is he he was like a great wrestler,
Speaker 1: Like he was like people like back then it was
Speaker 1: like you would go in and like grapple with someone
Speaker 1: until somebody got like knocked off their feet, and he
Speaker 1: was just like unfuck with able in that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he was just like throwing people around. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Dan O'Brien.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a lot of a lot of wrestling presidents
Speaker 2: I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, taft, that's what Biden's missing. Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like it's like almost wild, how many of
Speaker 2: these people are like, yeah, bro, the whole thing is
Speaker 2: overpowering another human being.
Speaker 6: That's why I gotta have a wide base, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. Yeah, all right, so we know that
Speaker 6: you think the cat culture is underrated and timboul.
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? Overrated?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with fancy water bottles. Also on this trip,
Speaker 7: I meant to bring. My previous water bottle was silicone
Speaker 7: and kind of got too moldy, So I was shopping
Speaker 7: for new ones and getting recommendations from from friends and
Speaker 7: they're these like you know, fifty sixty eighty dollars water bottle.
Speaker 7: Yoh yeah, there's a because because some people want them
Speaker 7: like super insulated and it's tapered and it's got some
Speaker 7: sort of design element to it. But even some of
Speaker 7: the cheaper ones, you know, there's still you know, twenty
Speaker 7: or thirty bucks. And and and I actually ended up
Speaker 7: forgetting to bring the ones that I had that I tested.
Speaker 7: And so at Lax they don't sell a plastic water
Speaker 7: bottles anymore, which is great. So I just got a
Speaker 7: bottle of in metal and uh and those fables and
Speaker 7: it was you know, five or six bucks, and I
Speaker 7: made it through the whole trip, and I get to
Speaker 7: use it again, no mold. Yeah, and if I decide
Speaker 7: I don't want to, if I lose it, no big deal.
Speaker 7: I lost five or six bucks. And and it's completely recyclable. Also,
Speaker 7: so I think overrated. I do not see the advantage
Speaker 7: of you know, even a twenty dollars fancy water bottle
Speaker 7: compared to just getting a disposable, refillable regular water bottle
Speaker 7: bottled water at the airport or something in a metal container.
Speaker 1: Like like a smart water. What do we do. What
Speaker 1: are we working with.
Speaker 2: There's a company that has like that cells, like those
Speaker 2: metal bottles I know.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I think they did.
Speaker 7: They did have some brands that I had heard before,
Speaker 7: like those like those ones, but this one, this one
Speaker 7: like a little more sturdy.
Speaker 1: And it was great.
Speaker 2: There go, yeah that's a I was just like just traveling,
Speaker 2: the bringing a water bottle is so important because oh
Speaker 2: my god. Yeah, I only in the last maybe two
Speaker 2: years took seriously like how dehydrated you actually get on
Speaker 2: a plane and how much that affects your ability to
Speaker 2: like adjust with time change and things like that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and plus so many airports now are have like full
Speaker 2: on refilling style station, so whatever kind of cup, like
Speaker 2: if you have a Nalgene or whatever, you just pop
Speaker 2: that shit.
Speaker 7: Open and fill it up. And this works right for that.
Speaker 7: What I hate that was when when you go through
Speaker 7: security and if you haven't consumed all your water and
Speaker 7: they don't have like a sink or a drain to
Speaker 7: put it in, and then you know pound like yeah
Speaker 7: I got pounded, or you got to pour it into
Speaker 7: this like flimsy plastic bag. Yeah yeah, but yeah yeah
Speaker 7: on the plane, like and now, also I don't know
Speaker 7: if they're all cutting expenses or just we were in
Speaker 7: on the in the cheap skate section. But you don't
Speaker 7: even get like a full bottle or can of water
Speaker 7: when you when you ask for one anymore.
Speaker 1: Tiny little cup. I do the thing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, man, can you top off my bottle?
Speaker 2: And they're like, yeah, yeah, here right here, and they
Speaker 2: just dump like the two liter into my ship and
Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's again a testament to your energy that
Speaker 1: it doesn't go well. You're like, and it's not to murder?
Speaker 1: Could you dump that whole thing and my ship? Man,
Speaker 1: keep your voice down, sir, Why are you screaming in
Speaker 1: my wedding so much? Hey? Fill this ship up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 7: Saying I've got cleavers in my carry on.
Speaker 1: But and if they were, they're not for murder. What
Speaker 1: do yeah, sir?
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, Once I give them as gifts, all bets
Speaker 7: are off. I don't know what my friends are gonna
Speaker 7: do with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly right. All right, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we'll be right back. And we're back. We're
Speaker 1: and we we've got alert set up, We've got a
Speaker 1: couple people from the Zeitgeist newsroom who are on the
Speaker 1: billionaire sub beat kind of. They have a line out
Speaker 1: just in case anything pops up, and we just got
Speaker 1: a flag.
Speaker 8: We just got just got one. Well stop me if
Speaker 8: you heard this one, folks. A billionaire who thinks he
Speaker 8: is invincible due to his wealth thinks that he can
Speaker 8: help build a submarine that can safely take people to
Speaker 8: see the wreckage of the Titanic.
Speaker 1: Me so familiar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're calling it billionaire sub tragedy to Titanic boogaloo,
Speaker 2: and uh, we're not talking about the Ocean Gate disaster
Speaker 2: from last year. This is a new idea from a
Speaker 2: different billionaire, Larry Connor.
Speaker 1: He said, quote, I want to show.
Speaker 2: People worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it
Speaker 2: can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life
Speaker 2: changing if you go about it the right way. Wow,
Speaker 2: I guess not life changing and that it ends your life,
Speaker 2: I guess. But the wild part is that this dude
Speaker 2: was fucking inspired by those five people who died in
Speaker 2: that other homemade submarine last June, to the point that
Speaker 2: when he saw it he called his friend who owns
Speaker 2: a submersible company with his best her idea, go see
Speaker 2: the Titanic and not die. He said, quote, you know
Speaker 2: this is apparently what the builders said, quote you know
Speaker 2: what we need to do is build a sub that
Speaker 2: can dive to Titanic level depths repeatedly and safely and
Speaker 2: demonstrate to the world that you guys can do that.
Speaker 2: And that Titan was a contraption. A little bit arrogant.
Speaker 1: The Titan was a contraption using contraption like a clap trap,
Speaker 1: like he's using it as he's like, this was a
Speaker 1: submersible that was a that's like some bombs Sawyer together
Speaker 1: Swiss family Robinson ass submarine.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's weird to sell this as like a way
Speaker 4: to illustrate that it was a contraption, Like we're all
Speaker 4: not sold on that yet.
Speaker 1: Right right right, They're like the thing with the video
Speaker 1: game controller that everyone has that floated and killed a
Speaker 1: bunch of innocent people. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I just like the idea that this is just the
Speaker 2: call of homemade submersible to the Titanic, Like that's specific
Speaker 2: idea is just irresistible to billionaires.
Speaker 1: They just like can't stop themselves like that do you
Speaker 1: ever hear about the my Way killings, Like the there's
Speaker 1: this trend where anybody who sang the song my Way
Speaker 1: by Frank Sinatra in the Philippines like got murdered. There's
Speaker 1: like a ton of murders where it doesn't really make sense,
Speaker 1: but it was just like they the singing of that
Speaker 1: song for some reason in that culture like infuriated people,
Speaker 1: and there were multiple murders that were blamed on that.
Speaker 1: And it's just like this weird like something about that
Speaker 1: specific culture and that specific song just didn't mix or
Speaker 1: mixed in a very specific way and like caused people
Speaker 1: to die. I feel like maybe we found like the
Speaker 1: hack for killing billionaires. It's just this idea, the call
Speaker 1: of the deep, Yeah, the call of the homemade. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: you pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps with your
Speaker 1: own bare hands. You should build a submersible with those
Speaker 1: same hands. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, don't use the Titanic, don't use your wealth
Speaker 2: to like help anyone build a fucking build a fucking
Speaker 2: really strong tin can to go look at some dead
Speaker 2: stuff at the bottom of the sea and.
Speaker 1: Maybe dying in the process.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, Yeah, I mean, but this guy, So
Speaker 2: he's actually kind of he's not a nube at this
Speaker 2: kind of shit. It turns out like he has already
Speaker 2: been to depths that far to surpass the Titanic site
Speaker 2: alongside his friend who has like a submersible company. Like
Speaker 2: he's gone to the like fucking Mariana Trench.
Speaker 1: Like, wow, he's.
Speaker 2: Gone below twenty thousand feet in a submersible. So I'd say,
Speaker 2: like he definitely it stands to reason that he may survive.
Speaker 2: But like when you look at his Wikipedia, he's like
Speaker 2: does all these like auto races. He's fucking He's like
Speaker 2: had this goal. He's like, I went to the Mariana
Speaker 2: Trench and now I want to go to space. I
Speaker 2: want to do that within one year, go to the
Speaker 2: deepest part of the sea and out of like into
Speaker 2: outer space as the extremes I can reach with my wealth. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Titanic is around twelve five hundred feet, So I
Speaker 2: mean he's so I don't know, well, I I part
Speaker 2: of me just thinks, like maybe it's the law of
Speaker 2: the sea that if you're a billionaire at a certain depth, like.
Speaker 1: It just the sea just consumes you. Just take it.
Speaker 4: It calls you. It calls you to It's really that's
Speaker 4: where like the siren myth came from. It's like, yeah, people,
Speaker 4: it's like just calls them to the bottom. I truly,
Speaker 4: I know it's it's it's a cliche to even bring
Speaker 4: it up, and you just you just touched on it that.
Speaker 4: It's like, I don't know why they don't think fixing
Speaker 4: climate change would be the coolest thing. Yeah, like we
Speaker 4: would all celebrate you, we would all not joke about
Speaker 4: you for a day. Just fix the fucking problem.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah exactly, we'd all.
Speaker 4: Be so psyched and not elon, we would not make
Speaker 4: fun of you for a full day if you fixed
Speaker 4: climate Yeah, it's just yeah, put your money your wuth
Speaker 4: is because then I like you could actually solve world
Speaker 4: hunger with bab It's like, okay, then fucking do it, genius.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you afraid of?
Speaker 2: Like just two billion dollars to two hundred who cares?
Speaker 1: Yeah the fuck up? Yeah. I think the way you
Speaker 1: get to be a billionaire is being pathologically selfish exactly.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's interesting I read this other thing
Speaker 2: about his not greed exactly, but when the pandemic hit,
Speaker 2: he made like one point six million dollars in profit
Speaker 2: because like stock volatility, like that was after taxes. He
Speaker 2: gave it all to his workers that were making like
Speaker 2: less than like one hundred grand a year, like spread
Speaker 2: it out like amongst his like employees, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Larry Connor did.
Speaker 2: But then it's also like sure, like you're a billionaire,
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, I just I fucking farted, like
Speaker 2: I parted out one point six million dollars on accident.
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, I guess they can fucking have that shit.
Speaker 2: I mean, so I don't know if it's but and
Speaker 2: then like other people like I was reading this article,
Speaker 2: like he was also had like you know, was paying
Speaker 2: for all the extended childcare that his employees need. So
Speaker 2: he does like the bare minimum to not look like
Speaker 2: an absolutely craven billionaire. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: you know, you're still a billionaire.
Speaker 1: And at the beginning of the pandemic, like we were,
Speaker 1: there was like a conspicuous feeling where everyone was just
Speaker 1: like looking around like wait, so these fucking people have
Speaker 1: like what money. It was like that that imagine song
Speaker 1: they released, that imagined song where we fucking hate you guys,
Speaker 1: right right, And so yeah, very smart. He's like, you
Speaker 1: can have my money, like throwing his wallet essentially when
Speaker 1: he's being mugged.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look over there, cashuck losers for his life. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I do there.
Speaker 1: If we're going to give up on them fixing climate change,
Speaker 1: which I'm almost ready to do, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 2: A cynical jack cynicism man, a single individual billionaire of
Speaker 2: his own accord, maybe like a gun point, they might
Speaker 2: help fix the problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if they're going to do projects with their
Speaker 1: own money, like I love doing projects where their sense
Speaker 1: of invincibility takes them to the bottom of the ocean
Speaker 1: or into space, like in something that they tried to
Speaker 1: build themselves.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, I mean it's it's and I'm glad that
Speaker 4: they're taking out in themselves because the converse situation of
Speaker 4: them helping fix climate change is they put the contraption
Speaker 4: in the air and it like brings us back to
Speaker 4: the ice age or something along those lines. So I
Speaker 4: just I'm glad when it goes wrong it usually only
Speaker 4: takes them out. But I know, I don't know. Jury's
Speaker 4: I don't know, AI, we'll find out soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is wild that they like we would we
Speaker 1: would like make name Christmas after you if you fucking
Speaker 1: fixed climate change, we'd be like, Nope, this one's about now,
Speaker 1: Mary Connor. Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. If God loved
Speaker 2: the world so much that he gave his only son.
Speaker 2: I think this billionaire gave up a lot of his
Speaker 2: money and saved the planet.
Speaker 1: Dude, I don't know. Jesus, I think he might have
Speaker 1: to fuck off on this one.
Speaker 4: Move move over, Jesus.
Speaker 1: You could have Boxing Day, Okay, America's dude, to like
Speaker 1: take up Boxing Day. We'll give that to you, where
Speaker 1: everybody trades their presence. Don't you think we should have that.
Speaker 2: That's kind of fun, dude, I give it up my
Speaker 2: fucking gifts, Dude, about I wanted that.
Speaker 6: You just said that because you want my gifts, because
Speaker 6: I get better gifts, because I have better gifts, because
Speaker 6: my parents are better than yours.
Speaker 1: My dad's in the.
Speaker 2: CIA, My dad's in the CIA, and I got three
Speaker 2: mister buckets full the fuck up.
Speaker 4: You should see all the balls coming out of his mouth,
Speaker 4: out of.
Speaker 1: His mouth, The balls pop out of my mouth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a Southern drawl.
Speaker 1: A little yeah, yeah, like the older other man who
Speaker 1: keeps talking about popping balls out of his mouth. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about neo babies. Oh yeah, new one. Yeah we gotta. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Northwest, Kanye and Kim's daughter, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: like at the outset, I'm not here to criticize a child.
Speaker 1: I am here to criticize that child's parents. I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm here to trash a ten year old girl. People.
Speaker 4: Jack would never criticize a child, and I'm glad we're
Speaker 4: hearing it here.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeahely, Well, just not Kim and Kanye's child.
Speaker 1: Other children, but they don't have it if they don't
Speaker 1: get in excuse for that. Yeah, will keep that. But
Speaker 1: I think Northwest might have a future in this industry.
Speaker 1: So I've gotta, I've gotta, you know, be careful. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: be careful with your words for sure. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: she recently like landed one of the starring roles in
Speaker 1: this like thirtieth anniversary performance of The Lion King. Not
Speaker 1: like the Broadway version. It was just more of like
Speaker 1: songs from them from the movies, Like Nathan Lane was
Speaker 1: there and Jeremy Irons was fucking there, and like you know,
Speaker 1: even people from the recent remake and their performance went
Speaker 1: down over Memorial Day weekend and a lot, and you know, sadly,
Speaker 1: because the internet is a fucking shitty place, there's just
Speaker 1: so many people talking wild shit about Northwest performance.
Speaker 2: I'll play a bit of it here just so you
Speaker 2: can kind of hear what we're talking about. And this
Speaker 2: isn't to be like yeah, man, fuck yeah, fucking right.
Speaker 2: They come to her now, uh huh. And then it
Speaker 2: goes around play more.
Speaker 1: All the professionals come in and are like, okay, we
Speaker 1: got we're dancing around you. We're dancing around you. We're
Speaker 1: dancing around you.
Speaker 2: You're okay, You're okay, But yeah, I think, you know,
Speaker 2: to be honest, I think it's an above average performance
Speaker 2: for a ten year old in a school production. Yeah,
Speaker 2: just keep it, keep it a buck here. And look,
Speaker 2: she's having her fun, she's doing her best. But like
Speaker 2: most people just decided to tear her down because you know,
Speaker 2: like was saying, like, there are so many kids with
Speaker 2: actual vocal and dance training that would have done such
Speaker 2: a better job. And yes, while that's true, you're anger.
Speaker 2: You should not be directed at a child get mad
Speaker 2: again at her parents for putting her in this situation
Speaker 2: because nepotism ain't going away, baby, It's all around, and
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles it's it will never go away. Every Yeah, truly,
Speaker 2: there's nothing you can do. But like again, it does
Speaker 2: suck for like kids that dedicate themselves to perform on
Speaker 2: stage and then they just get swept aside because the
Speaker 2: kid of like a celebrity couple like wants the role.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it is interesting just to see like there
Speaker 2: are I think equal I think after most people are
Speaker 2: just like saying a bunch of wild shit on like TikTok,
Speaker 2: Instagram and like Twitter. Most of the people's writings like
Speaker 2: is this was that Kim and Kanye are really setting
Speaker 2: their kid up for success by doing stuff like this
Speaker 2: because I don't I didn't know that Northwest was a
Speaker 2: aspiring stage performer. It just felt like she's meant to
Speaker 2: do a lot of stuff that her parents.
Speaker 1: Are like, yeah, try that, try that.
Speaker 4: I didn't know they had a child at that age.
Speaker 4: Like if you were like, guess what how old their
Speaker 4: child is? I don't know, one five, I have no idea.
Speaker 4: And then and apparently they're old enough to sing at
Speaker 4: the Hollywood Bowl to the Lion King.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because like I just think of like how Kim
Speaker 2: had the booze like removed from her appearance on that
Speaker 2: Netflix Tom Brady roast.
Speaker 1: So yeah, she must understand.
Speaker 2: I mean it's people don't know why a lot of
Speaker 2: people are like she probably did not like that.
Speaker 1: Most people were just talking about how she was getting food.
Speaker 2: So at least on some level, she knows what it's
Speaker 2: like when people don't take you seriously, at least from
Speaker 2: like an ego like perspective. But like putting your kid
Speaker 2: in that same position, it just feels a little bit
Speaker 2: fucking wild, Like I like I also we're also seeing
Speaker 2: this like with Lebron James and his son too right now,
Speaker 2: where there's a little bit like just let your kid
Speaker 2: do what they do, don't get overly involved and create
Speaker 2: outsized expectations. Much in the same way if you're going
Speaker 2: to use your celebrity and be like we're jumping the
Speaker 2: line at this audition and this is the new child
Speaker 2: Simba for the production.
Speaker 1: Just kind of.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 1: This whole thing just stresses me out, makes me feel
Speaker 1: bad for the kid, makes me feel bad for the
Speaker 1: kids who would have had a better chance were they're
Speaker 1: these people's parents, not like cutting them to the front
Speaker 1: of the line.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean and I get it, Like I
Speaker 2: think that that's why it just kind of freaks me
Speaker 2: out because like as a parent, like I think my
Speaker 2: own kid is a living fucking god.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, Like this kid's fucking
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Yeah, Like he can't walk
Speaker 1: the work judge. We are the worst judge, but he
Speaker 1: could be Simba in the Like I think I believe
Speaker 1: that my kid, on the other hand, would have nailed that.
Speaker 2: Yeh right, But like you know, but then also part
Speaker 2: of me realizes, like part of my role is to
Speaker 2: like nurture their interests and also give them like a
Speaker 2: foundation to like operate from where they realize like dedication
Speaker 2: and commitment are like the ways you can like improve
Speaker 2: your skills or like your craft or whatever, not shortcuts.
Speaker 2: But I think that might be impossible for Kim, especially
Speaker 2: who has not who has basically ascended very passively and
Speaker 2: probably thinks like that's normal and like not even like
Speaker 2: that's fine, man, She'll just get fucking made fun of
Speaker 2: a little bit. But at least she was up there
Speaker 2: on that stage because that's my daughter.
Speaker 1: The number one. Number one, Kim didn't ascend passively. Kim
Speaker 1: like got out of like I feel like a household.
Speaker 1: That is the equivalent of like when they talk about
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin coming out of like a prison in Russia,
Speaker 1: like where everybody like murders each other and he's the
Speaker 1: only survivor. She's like the bane of American popular culture,
Speaker 1: like American popular trash culture. I think she's a she's
Speaker 1: a survivor. I think she'll be she she she earned
Speaker 1: a lot of the attention. Yeah, well hey, and then
Speaker 1: Chris did a lot for her career.
Speaker 2: So maybe there's also that too, where she's like the
Speaker 2: mother will also assume a lot of responsibility in getting
Speaker 2: the child their own sex tape.
Speaker 4: Yes, I just think, I mean, this is just all
Speaker 4: of that is I think beautiful and rational. I just think,
Speaker 4: you know, this is yet another circumstances which there's no
Speaker 4: one around you being like, hey, maybe not, maybe don't
Speaker 4: do this. Yeah, what are the twenty years since you've
Speaker 4: had anyone say no to you? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: I wonder what happened like if someone everyone's like, did
Speaker 2: you ask North if she wants to do this? I
Speaker 2: don't she wants to do it. Okay, I know her,
Speaker 2: she said no, she was crying all the way to
Speaker 2: the audition, but she wants to do it.
Speaker 1: She wants to I know, I know, I know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, because that's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's like for getting mad at a kid who like,
Speaker 2: if they have any sort of desire to perform, they're
Speaker 2: not They're gonna be like, I don't know if I'm
Speaker 2: ready to be Simba and this like really cool thing
Speaker 2: that's happening. Of course, every kid who has a remote
Speaker 2: interest is going to say yes. So being like what's
Speaker 2: wrong with Northwest? It's like, dude, she's ten, okay, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with not it.
Speaker 1: Look at this, look at this part of her perform. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And that's why I keep saying the same thing about
Speaker 1: RFK Junior, Like, guy, he didn't choose Oh wait, how
Speaker 1: old is he sixty? But he has the mind of
Speaker 1: a spoiled ten years? Oh he's seventy. I'm sorry, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: he's seventy. Eh he's seventy. Wo dude, that's crazy that
Speaker 1: he's the young one seventy.
Speaker 4: I know, he's a young, spry seventy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, very spry, very spry, very spry. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's been a lot of talk about who RFK
Speaker 1: is going for in this, like is he trying to
Speaker 1: appeal to the mega people? Is he trying to steal
Speaker 1: the Joe Biden voter And and he kind of gave
Speaker 1: us a little bit of a a better clue. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he was got he feigned outrage at the removal
Speaker 1: of Confederacy statues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I'm trying to figure out who this ven
Speaker 2: diagram of voters is. Where that sweet spot is r
Speaker 2: f K, you know, like right there in the middle,
Speaker 2: because like he's into bitcoin, brainworms.
Speaker 1: Ending forever wars, ending vaccines.
Speaker 4: I think it's Stone. I think she. I think the
Speaker 4: middle of the I love it's one d got me wrong.
Speaker 2: It's Alicia Silverstone and Jessica Bielle kind of on the
Speaker 2: low but you won't really say it out loud.
Speaker 1: And justin Timberlake. She's not against vaccine, she's against the
Speaker 1: injuries that vaccine could cause.
Speaker 4: And she just loves statues, you know, four statues.
Speaker 1: And I'm all about artisan work and artisanal work and copper,
Speaker 1: the use of steels.
Speaker 4: To you think of the artisans that.
Speaker 1: Were exactly, but like, yeah, in this recent podcast, he
Speaker 1: let people know, man, this is just quote.
Speaker 2: I have a visceral reaction against against the attacks on
Speaker 2: those statues. There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn't
Speaker 2: have slaves, and you know, I just I just have
Speaker 2: a visceral reaction against destroying history.
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I think we should celebrate who
Speaker 1: we are. Who we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, slaveholders, that's your that's not y'all. That's on y'all.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, he said it, not me.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: We should celebrate the good qualities of everybody. If we
Speaker 2: want to find people who are completely virtuous on every
Speaker 2: issue throughout history, we would erase all of history. I
Speaker 2: love that tactic. I love that rhetorical attack.
Speaker 1: So he wants them up not as a reminder of
Speaker 1: how bad slavery was, but as an opportunity to celebrate
Speaker 1: the good qualities of Yes, Confederates, Yes, wow, I do
Speaker 1: want it.
Speaker 4: So this is important to say in this context. It's
Speaker 4: like earlier I said kindness is important. I fully believe that,
Speaker 4: but this is also a good time to reiterate that
Speaker 4: you can be kind and acknowledge that this is so
Speaker 4: fucking stupid. And responsible. Right, Yeah, I am, I'm I'm
Speaker 4: similarly genuinely curious. I mean outside of just like appealing
Speaker 4: to people who love podcasts that are heavily advertised by supplements.
Speaker 4: Like that's who he's he's appealing to here, Yeah, people
Speaker 4: who love the podcast, the supplement pushers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like because they're like Robert E. Lee, that's like
Speaker 2: one of like it's all based on this fucking just
Speaker 2: weird rewriting of like the Civil War where a lot
Speaker 2: of these people like to be like robbery Lee wasn't
Speaker 2: a slave owner. And then it's like the fine print
Speaker 2: is like, uh okay, it's like he inherited slaves through
Speaker 2: his marriage or some shit, very reluctantly, and he fought
Speaker 2: numerous legal battles for his right to own slaves. But
Speaker 2: he's a goddamn hero. Okay, don't get focused on like
Speaker 2: the bad ship. And yeah, like this whole thing is
Speaker 2: about you. Hear this all the time with like you know,
Speaker 2: even the way people are kids are being taught about
Speaker 2: the Civil War, like it's more and more it's not
Speaker 2: about about like it wasn't about slavery, just about guys
Speaker 2: who like love.
Speaker 1: Their homeland and they're just defending their culture. That's all
Speaker 1: this whole thing was about. And then like, but don't
Speaker 1: look at them. Why these statues were erected or why
Speaker 1: these like forts were named after it. It's like these
Speaker 1: were a salve to the.
Speaker 2: Hurt feelings of white supremacists that felt fully defeated after.
Speaker 1: They were going to Yeah, they're erected during the ascendancy
Speaker 1: of the KKK, Like, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: We're going to arrest teachers that like actually tell you
Speaker 4: the story of what happened in the Civil War. But
Speaker 4: it's not about that.
Speaker 2: They're erasing history.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I think, no, it's your statue. I think to try
Speaker 2: and make these people to be some like these virtuous
Speaker 2: martyrs for.
Speaker 1: For just love their town man, that's all what was well.
Speaker 4: I think that, you know, And also like the contradiction.
Speaker 4: It's so interesting because it's like there's always like a
Speaker 4: big truth and a big lie being told simultaneously. And
Speaker 4: the truth is this is who we are, like it
Speaker 4: is it is part of they history that this has happened,
Speaker 4: and that's an important thing to acknowledge and sort of
Speaker 4: like what it represented. But then the lies in being
Speaker 4: like these people were good actually and it's like, no,
Speaker 4: we have to acknowledge that there's been a lot of
Speaker 4: bad yeah, yeah along the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are the people who fought for the rights
Speaker 1: of the South to own slaves. We don't want to
Speaker 1: erase that history. So here is a statue of them
Speaker 1: looking fucking awesome on horseback.
Speaker 4: Look at how many push ups you can do?
Speaker 2: Look Look how fucking barrel chest did that? Dude is
Speaker 2: bro Oh my god, but his kind face. Look at
Speaker 2: his arms like Christmas hams so big, so big and strong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean like so like Trump, RFK is also opposed
Speaker 2: to the removal of these metal hunks of racist ideology.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know if he wins any Biden
Speaker 2: voters with this, But again, this seems to be more
Speaker 2: of a contest of who can do the worst job
Speaker 2: in office rather than the best.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, go off, go off, RFK. Let him know,
Speaker 1: Let him know.
Speaker 4: Do you think he and Hines are going to get
Speaker 4: divorced after this? Like? Why is what's happening?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I've had that thought for
Speaker 1: like eight years now, Like, well, surely this must be
Speaker 1: a point at which she's like what the fuck? But clearly, clearly,
Speaker 1: not like I remember early days she was like kind
Speaker 1: of distancing herself, but now she's like, you know, part
Speaker 1: of his campaign to run for president.
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe that'll be the October surprise. It'll
Speaker 4: be the most biggest done of an October surprise, is
Speaker 4: that she divorces him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: She just kind of seems to be like I don't Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, he says stuff, but you know.
Speaker 1: We agree to disagree.
Speaker 2: I think was like the one of the last things
Speaker 2: I saw from Fox News March tense stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 9: You know, one of the things that I've learned, especially
Speaker 9: about politics, is you're not going to agree with somebody
Speaker 9: about everything and it's okay. So you know, we've we've
Speaker 9: learned to talk through it, talk it out, listen to
Speaker 9: each other, sometimes agree to disagree or say, oh, I'm
Speaker 9: going to think about that. I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to think about that.
Speaker 2: That COVID seems to not affect the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, thanks, honey. I'm gonna let me take a
Speaker 1: second thought. Who do you think started at then if
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect then or are you just being I've
Speaker 1: recovered from the worm.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was back then when I was going through
Speaker 2: a divorce and it it suited me to be effected.
Speaker 1: Wow, she has like this very strange, very specific superpower
Speaker 1: to be like really endearing as the partner life partner
Speaker 1: wife of somebody saying like outrageous shit, like it's just
Speaker 1: she's used it. She took that and used it for
Speaker 1: the worst ends, like I you know, she she went
Speaker 1: from Larry on the show to just being like and
Speaker 1: now I apply that same kind of smile, roll your
Speaker 1: eyes and just be like, this is who I'm married.
Speaker 1: I guess energy to somebody who would fucking end the world.
Speaker 2: I think it's like it helps him a lot to
Speaker 2: have someone on the surface seemingly as saying, as Cheryl
Speaker 2: Hines beat to do like be good cop to his
Speaker 2: like whack job cop, you know act.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like it's like his fault first and foremost.
Speaker 4: I never want to be like, well this post in
Speaker 4: this is sort of you know whatever, but like she
Speaker 4: her not going, hey, guys, this is fucked and irresponsible.
Speaker 4: Is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, it's but hey, it helps because pardon me,
Speaker 1: I remember for the longest time.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, Cheryl's like I liked Curbs so much.
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, if Cheryl's I mean, like she didn't
Speaker 2: put up with a lot of Larry's shit. You know,
Speaker 2: it kind of got to a breaking point with Larry,
Speaker 2: So this can't be it can't be that bad with
Speaker 2: RFK Junior Solf credit to that because that that protected him,
Speaker 2: in my mind, from any real criticism for a long time,
Speaker 2: until I started be like, wait.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is he actually saying, Robert, That's just
Speaker 1: what I picture her saying a lot, Robert, Robert, what
Speaker 1: are you saying?
Speaker 2: What did you just say in there on your interview?
Speaker 1: Just babe that you know it's Robert E.
Speaker 2: Lee was a good man and he didn't own slaves, Honey,
Speaker 2: he did.
Speaker 4: She's like, I'll think about that, Okay, go think about it.
Speaker 1: I'm just reading this book about a biography of Robert E. Lee,
Speaker 1: the Definitive One, and it's said that bitch quote between
Speaker 1: owning a handful of slaves from his own family and
Speaker 1: then managing his father in law's two hundred slaves, Lee
Speaker 1: was very, very involved with slavery during his life and
Speaker 1: up to the end of eighteen sixties. Okay, I'll think
Speaker 1: on it, honey, I'm going to think on this. There
Speaker 1: you go. All right, let's take a quick break, and
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get to the real news.
Speaker 1: The world's first airline for dogs.
Speaker 10: Here, Yes, and we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back. A lot of people are saying so, just personally,
Speaker 1: I root for the box office. I want to be
Speaker 1: able to continue to see movies in theaters like Reagan.
Speaker 1: You were just saying, off to the future. Yeah, like Reagan,
Speaker 1: Like reg I want to be able to Reagan in
Speaker 1: August when people aren't afraid to say shit anymore. But
Speaker 1: everybody likes a story about Hollywood's failing and they had
Speaker 1: a tough The people who pull for the box office
Speaker 1: had a tough weekend this past weekend as Furiosa, the
Speaker 1: Med Max prequel, and Garfield. A lot of people were like,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the next Barbenheimer gar Furiosa.
Speaker 1: I don't know if people were seriously saying.
Speaker 3: That, but I feel like I feel like it was
Speaker 3: just me. I was the only person who was loudly
Speaker 3: saying that.
Speaker 1: But that didn't happen at all. It was the worst
Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend not counting the pandemic since the movie
Speaker 1: Casper with Christina Ricci in nineteen ninety five. Yeah, damn,
Speaker 1: almost thirty years. Wow. Yeah really, yeah, they broke the streak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they really took it back to ninety five. Our writer
Speaker 1: JM says, by the way, Furiosa's way better than casper A.
Speaker 1: Furios is fantastic. Yeah, I mean I can only imagine.
Speaker 1: I we'll hopefully see it. But Casper, by the way,
Speaker 1: a children's movie in which it goes to by my
Speaker 1: mass is at least in his forties, relentlessly hits on
Speaker 1: Christina Ricci as a teenager. Yeah, but he's like a ghost,
Speaker 1: like but he's like a kid ghost, you know, he's
Speaker 1: perpetually a kid. But yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's also.
Speaker 3: Exactly certified Casper, certified pedaphigt.
Speaker 1: But yeah, furios is thirty two million. To put that
Speaker 1: in perspective, last year, Disney's A Little Mermaid remake made
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighteen million a Memorial Day weekend. The
Speaker 1: year before that, top Gun Maverick made one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty million. Obviously, those were both massive hits, so.
Speaker 2: Let's just they're not on the same level like in
Speaker 2: terms of international fandom, Like I mean, I get obvious
Speaker 2: because Furry Road was huge, but not like to the
Speaker 2: place where you have people who like live and breathe
Speaker 2: a little Mermaid all the time, or like live and
Speaker 2: breathed top gun shit.
Speaker 1: Fury Road was like when it was coming out, we
Speaker 1: were all like, this is very silly, Like this seems
Speaker 1: like they have given a kooky old man a huge
Speaker 1: budget to make a film in which people like the
Speaker 1: names of the characters were the first thing to go
Speaker 1: viral because they were just like so over the top, right,
Speaker 1: And then it came out and was one of the
Speaker 1: best action movies ever made. And so I think people like,
Speaker 1: it's just so funny how people are like, so this
Speaker 1: helmer legged it out to four hundred million, so expect
Speaker 1: Furiosa to do the same. And it's like, well, it's
Speaker 1: not lightning in a bottle, Like you're not gonna always
Speaker 1: be able to capture lighting at a bottle the second time.
Speaker 1: And also it's a fucking prequel. How many times do
Speaker 1: we have to do this? You guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I will agree, And that's what I'm a
Speaker 3: huge Like, I know, I talk about Garfia a lot
Speaker 3: but I'm also just a huge like Mad Max post
Speaker 3: apocalyptic fan, So for me, this was just like this
Speaker 3: was genuinely weekend. I was like so soaked devoted. And
Speaker 3: you know, that's something that I really love about the
Speaker 3: Mad Max world is like you have a character named
Speaker 3: the Bullet Farmer who farms bullets and has bullets for teeth,
Speaker 3: and there's a point in like Fury Road where he
Speaker 3: pulls one of his bullet teeth out and then puts
Speaker 3: it in a gun and then shoots somebody with his
Speaker 3: bullet tooth. It's just like it's just watching like an
Speaker 3: insane fever dream for two hours. Oh yeah, And I
Speaker 3: super agree. I think that, you know, I think that
Speaker 3: Fury Road was like George Miller, I think is a
Speaker 3: fantastic director, But I think that Fury Road just the
Speaker 3: alchemy on it was like so perfect of it's just
Speaker 3: an insane car chase for two hours, you know, and
Speaker 3: Furiosa I think was good. But I do think that
Speaker 3: it was hurt by the fact that, like Fury Road
Speaker 3: came out like a decade ago, and though it's considered
Speaker 3: to be like the best movie the twenty tens, it's
Speaker 3: just been a little while I feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: just like the box office is a little bit fraction
Speaker 3: right now, and you know it Fury Road or Furiosa.
Speaker 3: It definitely had buzz of like, oh, this is a
Speaker 3: really good movie going into it, but it didn't necessarily
Speaker 3: have the like, holy shit, you have to see this,
Speaker 3: but yeah, you know, yeah, and I think it's gonna
Speaker 3: have a little bit of a long tail, assuming they
Speaker 3: don't just throw it on Max in two weeks or whatever.
Speaker 3: It's like, I think it's got good buzz, and I
Speaker 3: think that like next weekend and the weekend after that
Speaker 3: will probably also be I.
Speaker 1: Think we'll continue to see. Like it's just so the
Speaker 1: thing that happened about ten years ago is they let
Speaker 1: the marketing department take over what films got made and
Speaker 1: how they were developed. And so now that like the
Speaker 1: Marvel movies and all the franchisees have been like juiced dry,
Speaker 1: they're like, now have to like make movie movies again.
Speaker 1: And so it's like marketing people trying to make movie movies,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I don't know, make a prequel to
Speaker 1: that one from the Barbie movie, Like the best thing
Speaker 1: we love Gosling, Make a Gosling funny movie and it's
Speaker 1: just like they're pulling pieces out, but like this is
Speaker 1: they The thing that is making those first movies great
Speaker 1: is like the filmmaking and you know, the actual like
Speaker 1: things that actually drive creative inspiration and creative execution. And
Speaker 1: so I think we're going to continue to see like
Speaker 1: these types of like hyped movies like this isn't I
Speaker 1: think it's weird that this is being pitched as like
Speaker 1: a flop. That's not that big of a flop. It's
Speaker 1: like about what I would have expected it to do.
Speaker 1: But like, I think we'll see these movies underperform like
Speaker 1: big box office expectations, and then we'll see like surprise hits,
Speaker 1: Like we'll continue to see things like everything everywhere all
Speaker 1: at once that like nobody sees coming and just like
Speaker 1: get through by nailing it.
Speaker 3: I think it's also tough because the industry is very
Speaker 3: quick to label a movie as either a flop or
Speaker 3: a hit, like you know, day one of it being
Speaker 3: out sure and like I mean, I don't know. It's
Speaker 3: like when I was a kid, like Jurassic Park was
Speaker 3: in theaters for a year, you know, like like titan Next.
Speaker 3: Titanic is one of the most profitable movies of all time.
Speaker 3: It's opening weekend was like, fine, you know, it did
Speaker 3: like what like forty million or whatever it's or fifty million.
Speaker 3: It's opening weekend off of a several hundred million dollars project.
Speaker 3: I remember people were like, this is kind of a flop, guys.
Speaker 3: But then like, but then it's like second weekend, it
Speaker 3: did like thirty five million. It just kept going up
Speaker 3: six million, you know, and it just got that going
Speaker 3: for like twelve weeks or whatever. And I think that, like,
Speaker 3: you know, Fall Guys is another movie that I feel
Speaker 3: if people immediately label to flop, but then like you
Speaker 3: go to any screening week two and screenings were packed
Speaker 3: of people that are excited to see it. It's just like,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit of patience would be appreciated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But because they're they're like they're measuring it
Speaker 1: up against fucking Marvel movies. It's like, well, that's not
Speaker 1: how these are going to perform, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not going to do a four hundred million
Speaker 3: dollar opening weekend or something like well it should.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like that's my ass on the line, Okay.
Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, it's it's definitely like difficult, and I think,
Speaker 2: like to your point, Joey, like there is such a
Speaker 2: to immediately be like this is an impact right now,
Speaker 2: just over three days, I can tell you this is hit,
Speaker 2: this is flop, and yeah it's not. It's the worst
Speaker 2: way to assess a film. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll be able to fully quit
Speaker 2: the habit of like you know, it's like the sort
Speaker 2: of development process. Now it looks like they're just looking
Speaker 2: around the couch, like underneath the couch cushions for stuff.
Speaker 1: Then maybe they forgot about they can make a movie
Speaker 1: into They're like, oh, oh, what about this fucking thing too?
Speaker 4: I forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Okay, so if Fury wrote a Furiosa was
Speaker 3: a flop, I gotta say the Garfield movie was a hit.
Speaker 3: It's made one hundred million dollars box office off a
Speaker 3: sixty million dollar budget so far.
Speaker 1: I know it's a hit. Well, but people are pulling
Speaker 1: at a flop. Like the headline is like, what Garfield
Speaker 1: and furios A flop at the box office, and it's.
Speaker 3: It's like no, the Garfield movie and the Garfield Movie
Speaker 3: came out in international territories like two weeks ago. So
Speaker 3: the just the so, but like it's made a hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars off a sixty million dollar budget, and I
Speaker 3: get furios a little or a little bit because it's
Speaker 3: got one hundred and fifty million dollar budget and it
Speaker 3: also made like thirty million dollars this weekend or whatever.
Speaker 3: So it's like that just has more of thee to
Speaker 3: make its money back. Where's the Garfield movie. It's made
Speaker 3: forty million in profit or whatever you know already, like
Speaker 3: and that's not even counting like promotional tie in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean speaking of promo you if you were,
Speaker 2: I saw you getting a lot of retweets this weekend
Speaker 2: in regards. Oh yeah, okay, so Garfield weekend and so
Speaker 2: this was this was a big weekend for me. I
Speaker 2: saw Furiosa, you know, with my my girlfriend on Friday
Speaker 2: and Imax, and then we planned basically all of Saturday
Speaker 2: and Sunday to be like Garfield Days. So as you know,
Speaker 2: any weekend is for me normally.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we basically set aside, yeah, you're not Monday,
Speaker 3: not Monday, So we set aside basically two days to
Speaker 3: do all of the Garfield promotional tie in things like
Speaker 3: Olive Garden had a deal where they've got like lasagna
Speaker 3: sponsored by the Garfield movie. There's I was that we
Speaker 3: were talking about that, like, I mean, it's Olive Garden.
Speaker 3: It's always all Garden hits, you know, especially those all
Speaker 3: of Like my girlfriend she commented on like she'd been
Speaker 3: this was her first time in an Olive Garden in
Speaker 3: like years, and she had a bred stick and she
Speaker 3: was like, oh, this is like real good.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the fucking taco bell of Italian food
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was great as like we walked
Speaker 3: in the door wearing like very elaborate Garfield shirts, and
Speaker 3: the people at the counter immediately like gave us Garfield
Speaker 3: Children's menu coloring books yes, and then and then because
Speaker 3: they were just like, oh, you guys should have these.
Speaker 3: And then we sat down at our table and our
Speaker 3: Garfield coloring books were next to it, next to us
Speaker 3: when the waiter walked up and they were like, oh,
Speaker 3: do you want us to like wait for your kids
Speaker 3: to get here, and you were like no, we're two adults,
Speaker 3: we're ship the fuck up. So so our Saturday.
Speaker 2: We ate all guard Where do you think my kids are.
Speaker 1: Two parents are just waiting. Happened a lot like separately.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, for sure they didn't go to the bathroom
Speaker 3: on their own or whatever. Right, But so like we
Speaker 3: ate at this, We ate this this three course lasagna
Speaker 3: meal at Olive Garden, and then afterwards we were going
Speaker 3: to check into Motel six, who has a thing they're
Speaker 3: calling the Garfield Suite, which is for there's like ten
Speaker 3: locations in America that have one room decked out in
Speaker 3: Garfield merchandise that's called the Garfield Suite. It's hard to book.
Speaker 3: You have to like call it in in order to
Speaker 3: get the room. It's like it's and when I called in,
Speaker 3: it was like the most nerve wracking, Like, oh I
Speaker 3: got a book this, I got to book this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like twelve people like texted to me or whatever. So
Speaker 3: after we had our like Olive Garden meal, we get
Speaker 3: to the Motel six by Lax, which is the only
Speaker 3: motel in Los Angeles that had the Garfield Suite, wearing
Speaker 3: our elaborate Garfield shirts. We're getting ready to check in.
Speaker 3: They're like talking about like, oh, you guys must be
Speaker 3: really big Garfield fans because we're like wearing our shirts
Speaker 3: you're like, garfae, Yeah, they're about to check us in.
Speaker 3: They like turn around the thing for me to sign,
Speaker 3: and they stop and say, wait, we double booked the room.
Speaker 3: And when we looked to the right and saw somebody
Speaker 3: like two cats registers over just covered in Garfield are
Speaker 3: tattoos bizarre.
Speaker 1: Basically like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So it was the odds of like we
Speaker 3: they double booked the room, this Garfield suite, and the
Speaker 3: two people the two groups of people who booked the
Speaker 3: room showed up at the exact same time that took yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it was it was intense. It was like people
Speaker 3: were like like they were like tears about to be shed,
Speaker 3: like you know, it was. It was we were all
Speaker 3: very passionately but like politely but very passionately fighting over
Speaker 3: this room themed after a nineteen seventies comic book character, right,
Speaker 3: and finally, you know, yeah for sure, for sure, for
Speaker 3: sure So finally yeah. So the resolution was basically like
Speaker 3: we kind of realized, okay, like there's no way that
Speaker 3: both all of us are going to get this room,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's it's just not gonna happen. So
Speaker 3: instead what we did is we were like, will you
Speaker 3: like give us a refund and just let us take
Speaker 3: like fun selfies in this room. Right, So they like
Speaker 3: they said like oh thank god, yes, and they brought
Speaker 3: us into the room and we like got we took
Speaker 3: got like five minutes worth of pictures in the room
Speaker 3: and then we left and yeah, it was just such
Speaker 3: a wild experience. You just filed that bedroom just for
Speaker 3: good measure. Oh yeah, I for sure took a ship
Speaker 3: in the ode. No, we tried to be like really
Speaker 3: cool and yeah yeah, but like so I posted about
Speaker 3: this on Twitter and it like blew up and now
Speaker 3: it's like I think, like the thrillest it like interviewed
Speaker 3: me about it this morning.
Speaker 1: Was like articles during.
Speaker 3: Write ups, it's like it's uh, like the producer of
Speaker 3: the Garfield movie like posted about on an Instagram. It's like, dude,
Speaker 3: hopefully this will lead to something really dope rather than
Speaker 3: a Motel six room with just like merror orange.
Speaker 1: Stuff on the walls.
Speaker 2: And they're like, no, man, we want to offer you
Speaker 2: something even better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to offer you the Heathcliff suite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the dumpster.
Speaker 2: Wait, so was the because because you seated the room
Speaker 2: to this other person?
Speaker 1: Were they grateful? How did that play out.
Speaker 3: I mean honestly, so I would say that this is
Speaker 3: a situation of like a bunch of you know, for sure,
Speaker 3: grown adults without children. I get that, who were all
Speaker 3: just like okay, we like understand this and like you know,
Speaker 3: and everybody was very It was like the sort of
Speaker 3: thing where it's like nobody nobody wanted to use the
Speaker 3: I need to speak to the manager tone.
Speaker 1: Right, but it was more like a ship Are you serious? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you like.
Speaker 3: Don't like I don't know, there's like glts in the system.
Speaker 3: Oh and another fun detail is they were like we
Speaker 3: could like reschedule. They were first they were like, we
Speaker 3: can give you an upgrade on your Motel six room,
Speaker 3: and we were like no. And then the second thing
Speaker 3: they offered is like very specific yeah. And the second
Speaker 3: thing that they offered was like, oh yeah, we've so
Speaker 3: we do have one day in this entire promotion where
Speaker 3: the room is still available. You can put change your
Speaker 3: to that it's on a Monday. And I was wearing
Speaker 3: a T shirt that had fuck Mondays on it, and
Speaker 3: I was like, that's even less.
Speaker 1: Of an uption. Are you fucking serious?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they offered us the room on a Monday, uh
Speaker 3: with me right now? And like, and I think my girlfriend,
Speaker 3: she's very my girlfriend who's very kind and very sweet.
Speaker 3: Her name's Goldie, said very sincerely to the Motel Sex employee.
Speaker 3: You don't understand Garfield hates mondays as a justified reason
Speaker 3: for us to not get the room on a Monday.
Speaker 1: Right, right, Rare, you know, right right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the resolution is, yeah, so we got we
Speaker 3: took a couple of selfies in the room and you know,
Speaker 3: kind of and seated the room. And you know that
Speaker 3: the other person they were very grateful and motes stics employees.
Speaker 3: I think we're just happy to not have like a
Speaker 3: fist fight break out over a Garfield room.
Speaker 2: Well that's good that, like you had self both parties
Speaker 2: had self awareness in the in the incident, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And like Motel six, we we talked over social
Speaker 3: media a little bit and they're going to send us
Speaker 3: like a nice gift basket. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's like there, I feel like we're all trying to
Speaker 3: like treat the situation. Okay, you know, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: was unexpected thing. I did not expect to maybe get
Speaker 3: into a fist fight over a Garfield suite this week?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know I will put my money on
Speaker 1: you in Goldie though. Oh how many second? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: saw how many pull ups?
Speaker 2: Like yeah, man, you'd be like, hold on before you
Speaker 2: want to fucking ball your fists up in front of you.
Speaker 1: Watch this ship. You do one pull up now, very struggled, like,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely going like shaking later, Hey, where are you going?
Speaker 1: Where are you going? Producer Justin Connor was like, is
Speaker 1: this gonna be like the beginning of Barbarian? Like yeah,
Speaker 1: like you check in and then the people show up?
Speaker 3: What if Barbarian was in the I think you should
Speaker 3: leave sketch from Dark right, the Garfield sketch for the usually.
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