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Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to seventeen, Episode two.
After Daily Gus the production of My Heart Radio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
American share consciousness. It is January five, a Wednesday, which
of course means that it is National key to Day,
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Was the last time you met one that's plucky diabetic?
I don't know. Man, Well, I'm thrilled to be joined
as always buy my co host Mr Miles bro Well.
The c d C won't let me be, let me
be me, just let me see. I won't get the
shot or maskut be. Hospitals won't be empty because to me. Okay,
shout out to you at DJ Uptown STL for that
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you know that wonderful and and them inspired A K A.
I get it. The rates are rising, people are doubling
down on recklessness. It's a lot at the moment, but
it's good to start this new year with y'all. Yeah,
how this this is the first time we've spoken in weeks.
How have you been? But we did have some little
off unofficial transmissions backing here and there, but we do
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know anywhere for for a break, I tried to go
up north to I tried to go to Lake Tahoe
to see snow, and I was gonna go with her
Majesty's family, the niece's nephews rather just the nieces. But
then Tahoe had like a one in fifty year storm
and so we were like, okay, so we got to
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cancel all of our plays. We just chilled in the
bank for like a couple of days, and it was wonderful.
We had a friend of ours who was supposed to
come down from Tahoe and visit, and she was stuck
up there for like she she eventually like had to
just push through the storm because the locals were getting
mad because they were running out of gas and food
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in to Um. But it was like dozens of feet
of snow. Yeah, it was like crazy in like certain places,
and like you would see clips of people like just
driving their car like out of a block of snow,
and you're like, but yeah, the the lack of roads also,
like too many people not knowing how to drive through
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a storm, just causing a ton of spinouts, like on
the main arteries that go through there. It's just it
was a mess. But yeah, other than that, blessed rest
East because people out visiting us try, you know, thinking
My nephews were like, what are we gonna get to
swim in the pool? And it rained the entire like
every day that they were here. It was fucking frigid
and raining, And you know it's good. We like to
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keep it for ourselves. Yeah, so very selfishly like time.
I guess, uh, well, Miles, we are thrilled to be
joy in our third seat. But brilliantly talented comedian actor
writer who you know from Losa Spooky is on HBO,
where she turned in a performance so remarkable and transformative
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that I googled Ambassador Melody Gibbons actor trying to figure
out who was playing them, even though she had just
been on t d Z when I did that. You've
also seen her in Trill on Hulu. You will see
her in season five of Search Party. Please welcome back
to the show, Greta title man. Wait, you really didn't
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know it was me when I was like with you
in what like in real life? Yes, yeah, and he
was like it was so when he figured it out,
we were like, that's Greta. Yeah I know. He's like,
so take it away, you know it was You are
so fucking good in that show. You know. I fly
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back down to Chile on Sunday to finish shooting season two.
That's the best news I've heard more of my my
prized Melanie Gibbons. It's an other worldly performance. Yeah, thank you,
very very funny, Greta. The background you're working with their
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looks like a Danny Villeneuve like like there's a horizon
in the background right here. Yes, okay, that's just yes,
just you know, your standard kitchen banquet, one might say,
but some looks like a gorgeous horizon in the backroom
horizon on like or if you're like saying like I'm
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on location reporting from the Arctic. A lot of I am.
I wish that we did this yesterday because I would
have been in Mexico. Well no, I guess yesterday morning
I would have been. But you know, what can we
do here? I am? Now? A lot of you are
Los Angeles, Well, we are thrilled to have you with us.
That's very exciting about season two, very exciting about season
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five of the search party for the best shows out
there doing it. I'm very excited. Well, we're going to
get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First,
we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of the things
we're talking about today. We're just gonna say a fun
farewell to Betty White. We're going to do the opposite
of that with Marjorie Taylor Green. We're going to look
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at the latest TikTok trend in parenting. We're gonna those
are stories that I did not write, Um, Miles, you
wrote them, and I don't know what any of them
are about. And I'm excited. I know what the Betty
White one is about, so I will not be just
like devastated by the news, but I don't know what
the other Oh what what what news? Um? Well, we'll
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get to have you heard this song Jesus is the
one by Zach Box actually have and I love that song,
so I could think of actually passed. We're gonna talk
about the I think we mentioned this towards the end
of last year that car crash deaths and car crashes
are up even though there are fewer cars on the
road during the pandemic. And we might have even made
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reference to an l. A. Times article that had an
explanation that was like, people are just mad and selfish.
Now I don't know, man. So super producer Brian Jefferies,
actually producer of the Trending show, The Daily Trending Show,
pointed out that we and the l. A Times got
that totally wrong. So I wanted to dig into that
because it's actually very interesting. It has to do with
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city design and America being a funked up place, and
we might even get to the fact that wheel Fortune
is a fucking train wreck. All that plenty more. But first, Greta,
we do like to ask our guests, what is something
from your search history? Something that I searched recently was well, okay,
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I mean gold Price program was something that I searched
a few days ago, obviously very important, Crischell Stouse or whatever.
From selling Sunset. Now here's the thing. I'm not a
big reality TV head. My husband loves selling Sunset. So
now I just like I'm the person that I'm watching
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something and doing a full like Wikipedia deep dive about
who they are at the same time. Clearly you didn't
do that while watching Lost of Spookies, which is good.
But then I have, like, you know, a bunch of
other ship. I guess probably Rezzi is always up. I
have a Google search for Michael Stipe up, you know,
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justin class. What's I don't think I've ever heard him
referred to? Was Mike Snipe? Well, he lives at my
friend's building, and I was in my friend's apartment going
to visit her, and I thought that I saw him
and it could not have been more opposite than what
he actually looks, so that I was like, do I
have no idea as to what Michael Stipe actually looks like?
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Turns out I had no fucking clue, So what did
you What did you expect versus what it was? Because
I have this guy that I see at Trader Joe's
who I'm convinced is Michael Stipe, But I second guess
every now and then when I kind of look closer,
I think, like, in my mind, I know he's bald,
but in the moment, I was like, he's not bald
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because there's something about him, like he and Moby could
potentially get like smushed together as being like bald white
guys that wear glasses. Even though Moby has a bunch
of like insane tattoos now, so he's very recognizable. I
don't know, shout out his restaurant here in l a
little Pine. That's very funny to me that Moby got
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a bunch of tattoos. Is Michael Stipe? How is the
height wise? That's always something that always top of mind
for you. You know, you think that I would know,
and I'm going to look it up for you right now.
I guess the only their tab that would kind of
be like inside into my brain is Hippopotamus attacks. That's
the other tab that I have opened currently. You don't
have to look it up. I was just curious if
he struck you as taller or shorter than you expected
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when you The gent that I saw in person was
probably like five ten, and now that I'm looking it up,
Michael Stipe is five nine, so I wasn't far off.
Do you know kind of car he drives? Sorry to ask,
I don't think he drives a car, Michael, you think,
Michael st Guy, I'm telling you next, I'm gonna I'm
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gonna take a picture of this guy who's his double
ganger that I see AROULI him. He lives in New York.
He's like he's like the person state no way, I'm sorry,
I'm raist, no but I am. But like, when you
are a bald, white man of a certain stature, you
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could be Michael Stipe. You could be Jason Statham, you
could be Moby, you could be you know, there's a
whole you could be Mr. Clean. There's a whole laundry list. Yeah, okay,
that makes me feel bad. And I do suspect that
the person that you were mistaking for Michael Stipe like
chose that lane was like to be a Michael Stipe
bald That's going to be my lane that people, you know,
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because because you gotta you can't just create your own
white guy space. The whole vibe was like I'm wearing
like an old vaporized T shirt and I got like
this shitty classic car that like works, but I'm not
trying to front like it's fancy, but clearly it's catching
your eye because it's older and like just being like
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like moving like a ghost. And he had like a
big Adam's apple and I'm like, that's all very spy,
wouldn't I wouldn't expect him to like I also, was
it like a authentically burnt out tea or was it
something that was bought at like Max Fields. It looked
the vibe felt authentic to the when I was like,
this could be Michael Stipe because it just felt like
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this wasn't like this wasn't really overdone. Because remember me,
one time I saw you know, like, m yeah, it's Halloween,
I'm doing an r em cost dude, what's your problem?
Like it's Michael Stipe. I don't know, but it's like
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the same thing. One time I saw Diane Keaton out
and I said, look at this Diane Keaton cosplay looking motherfucker.
I was like, this person is trying to do Diane
Keaton with the hat and the glasses and everything. And
then I look close. I'm like, oh, ship, that's that's
the real deal. And then it so I have those
moments too, I'll be dismissive of the real thing because
I'd be like, you, look at you attempting this other
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p It's jarring when you see someone that has a
signature look and you see them out in the wild
in the Signature book. I saw Billy Porter at the airport,
and initially I was like, Wow, that guy is dressed
exactly like Lillie Porter. And then I was like, oh, no,
it's actually just Billy Porter. He's the only person wearing
completely crystal jeweled sneakers and like a gorgeous hot that
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is like high and tilted and looked stunning very early
in the morning that his hand motions are suggesting this
hat is taller than any head I've ever it was.
It was, yeah, like a b Lincoln. Lincoln, No way
it could. I bet. I bet when they sat in
the airplane, it was touching where the lights in the
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and I don't see him playing that either. He'd be like,
I need a new seat because I'm not taking my
hat off and it's touching the air condition or not? Right?
Do we discuss this before one Diane Keaton and her
signature look came up the question of like, are there
other actors who have just been like, ah, this is
what I look like, like, this is kind of how
I dress, and this is how I'm gonna addressing all
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my movies, And that's just like they come with the wardrobe. Yes,
I can say firsthand, Jeff Goldbloom, Yeah, he's on he's
on Search Party this season, and like how he dresses
that you you would compliment him on something and he like,
these are mine. Like everything I hear is mine and
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you're like, oh, the like I would compliment Like his rings,
I'm like, oh, I love your rings, Like you know,
costumes really hit it out of the park or whatever.
They're all just like his own, his own stuff. I mean,
he's a very jazzy dresser. Yeah, and he just you know,
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he has zany style and I think that he has
been another person to like the Jeff Goldbloom style is
now how you see him on and off screen. I
feel like Andy Garcia. Also, that's like my vibe with him.
I feel like just always suit yeah, like or like
on vacation, like rich person vacation with Linen on I
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was gonna say lin In and like a hot yeah. Yeah.
Like there's like a soccer player, this Bulgarian soccer player
named Dimitar Berbatov, and he was once told he looked
like Andy Garcia and he said he devoted his entire style,
like his whole wardrobe is now informed by Andy Garcia
because you kind of look like Andy Garcia, who's twenty
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years older than you, as to feel like Gabriel Iglesia's
always looks the same. Okay, yeah, that's definitely yeah, he
has a style signature. Look. Yeah. Yeah, But we should
circle back to hippo attacks because I'm sure everybody is
thinking about those. I think super producer Becca Ramos mentioned
that there are there's a TikTok about hippo attacks going viral.
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There are right now. Yeah. We were looking it up
because it was on an episode of like I Survived
Death or whatever I guess some podcast that my friend
listens to, and we were all talking about this guy
who survived this insane hippo attack. And when I see
hippo's I want to just like cuddle with them. Looks
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so cute and sassy baskets. Well you know that they're
like so fucking yeah. Yeah, the most deadly creature in Africa.
I think it's wild. And also there mouths. I think
they have like a two thousand pounds like jaw crush. Yeah.
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The eyewitness testimony that hippo tacks involves people being bitten
in half a lot of the time, which you don't
appear that about sharks, even though right, well, sharks don't
mean to eat us, yeah, whereas hippos are like, I'm
coming for you, like I thought you were a seal.
Yeah right right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's on And they'll
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wave their little butts and their tails just like shoot
ship out in like many directions. That's like the one
thing I remember seeing in a nature documentary into ship fans.
I wish I could be pretty metal man. Yeah, I
would like that. That would be pretty cool. That would
be a great way to you know, you don't you
don't need a receptable to take it away from you
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because you have one built in that just fires across
the Yeah. What is what? Something you think is overrated?
Something that I think is overrated has to be zippers.
M hm, Yeah, I think zippers are really overrated. I
was thinking about this this morning. They buttons, Man, buttons
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never fail you. Zippers, Zippers break. What if you're a
little zippy thing. If the little pulley thing comes off
and you don't have a little safety pin to scutcheon there,
you're fucked. Also, they can get caught, they can nag things,
And I just think, like I would love to go
back to buttons. I think zippers. Yes they're convenient, Yes
we like them for convenience, but like, you know, let's
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be a little bit more tactile. Let's get in there
with a button. And maybe this is born to people
and people are like, God, this girl sucks. You should
never come back on this podcast railing about something that's
not even funny. But I'm here to let you know
that zippers, when they fail you, you're kind of fucked.
It's not a laughing matter. It's not a laughing matter,
especially one that can fall down on It's like with
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its own Oh, nothing more aggravating, nothing more aggravating. Or
when you have a zipper and then part of it,
part of the zip part comes unzipped, and it's like,
what's going on? I just closed you. You shouldn't be
opening up down there, the closures down without making any
effect on you. Don't even get me started on the
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stupid sweatshirts that have the duel zip so that you
can zip it up and then unzipped the bottom part.
I won't get you start on that because I think
we'd be here all day. The base zipper, what are
we doing? Yeah? Has that has that ever coming. I'm
sure there's like a reason for that, but sweatshirts are
not it. I don't know what the reason is. I
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think it's a fashion statement. I mean, do I have
a black top with a crystal zipper where I can
undo the bottom zipper on the top, sipurn have the
meat and it can become kind of this gorgeous crop
top situation. Yes? What am I waiting for that top
to completely break and then leave me full tits out
on the dance floor one day? Yes? I can't trust it.
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You can't trust a zipper. What is something you think
is underrated? Diarrhea? Boom and we're done? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I agree. My children have had a seventy two hour
and very productive stomach bug right now. It's not good.
Look here's what I'll say. No one wants it, but
when you get it, there is no greater feeling of
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relief once it has passed. And I just think it's efficient.
I think that it clears the system quickly. And I
just think we we literally shipped on diarrhea as seeing
like this awful thing. But you know, I think it's
an are rated for the cleanse, the immediate cleanse it's
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not vomit, and I think for that we need to
be a little bit more grateful for diarrhea. And I
hate to and I hate to do this to the listeners,
but you're picking diarrhea over vomit. What Absolutely, I'm just
setting the table for a terrible discussion. Hold on, if
you have access to a bathroom, okay, look, yeah, you
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want to sit on it rather than put your face
in it. Vomit is more acceptable to do anywhere, right, Like,
if you need to, you can run to the sidewalk
and vomit on the sidewalk. You can't necessarily, like rip
your pants off in diarrhea all over the sidewalk. So
I understand one might say, well, vomit's more convenient. You know,
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vomit can kind of happen anywhere, It can sort of
be impromptu. You don't need to be worried about a
bathroom situation, right if you have access to a bathroom,
especially if it's your own, Honey, I'm going to have
diarrhea all day. You not can want to vomit at all,
and we will be isolating that and making honey, I'm
gonna have diarrhea. It sounds like the lost line from
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Samantha from Samantha, diarrhea all day about this diarrhea? Yeah, alright,
getting the lines are open. Call in let us know
you zippers or buttons? You diarrhea, vomit buttons? I say,
as I bring it up, buttons, buttons, I say, I
feel like, I mean, the Internet has been electrified by
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the debate about which way toilet paper rolls are supposed
to go. So I feel like these could these could
be Oh, everyone's like, I will come to your house
and make that toilet paper roll go over. It's like,
if you're taking the time to switch my toilet paper roll, yeah,
you need to get a life, honey. You need to
ask yourself whether your zippers or buttons exactly, because that's
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what you should be worried about. That is. Yeah, we're
asking the wrong questions here. Thank you. All right, let's
take a quick break. We'll be right back and we're back.
And so Betty White passed on New Year's Eve, just
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capping off a really shitty year. But what what a legend,
what a career. Yeah, I just I didn't I would
like put this in the dock, and I was like,
I don't know why because we don't necessarily always like
sort of reference people's passings and stuff on the show,
but unless like it's a trending up. But there was
something I think that like Betty Whites obviously like her
career aside was just legendary and like longer than anyone's
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on Earth as it relates to television. She just also
had this huge place I think in culture that was
sort of interesting to see in that moment multiple like
sort of not reckoning, but just these realizations occur where
some people were like, oh, it's such a lost I
saw some people who were like really upset other people.
You know, there was always these jokes about like protect
Betty White at all costs kind of things that you
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would always see on Twitter and Instagram whatever, and it
was like, yeah, it was a sad day. And then
I don't know, part of me I wasn't like a
secessary like the biggest, like singular Betty White fan, but
I really liked her as a performer. Every time she
did a cameo, I was like, she's fucking got it.
Like that's called mastery when even in your nineties you're
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going toe to toe with like other comedic talents that
might be you know, generations between you and still just
like holding your own. So I always really appreciated that.
But there was something about I think, like her getting
to almost a hundred that I feel like was maybe
working on People were like, that's that was the goal, right,
It was like, let's get Betty White to a hundred.
They had a whole special plan for later this month
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for because I think January would have been her hundredth birthday.
But I don't know. As I like I sat back,
I was kind of like, I'm I was just prossed.
I don't know. I only bring this up to process
this out loud with everyone else. I'm like, I I'm
glad she was here, and I'm glad she she passed
away in a very natural way, like getting to years old.
I feel maybe Benny White's lucky number was you know,
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maybe she was like nine is the is the age?
Who knows? I mean, I was, I'm a huge am
still am Golden Girls just like huge. And then to
think about the cultural impact that had and how she's
just you know, she worked. I'm pretty sure she was
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consistently shooting. Wasn't she on hot in Cleveland for like
a million years and didn't stop working regularly, maybe like
four years ago or something. But she never even announced
that she was like quote unquote stopping working. She just
kind of was like, that's how I want to do it.
I kind of just want to slowly back away, not
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like opportunities can come and go, but you never formally
announced that you're like leaving the business or retiring. Yeah,
and and also she was supposed to be like the nicest, sweetest,
most lovely person ever, right could have fooled me. She
seemed like a real asshole. Yeah. I feel like this
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is one of those things that like the people who
ruined the toilet paper debate about, like who are like, no,
it's gonna be over under, And like I feel like
I associate people being like Betty White is like I
hope Betty White doesn't die with that sort of like
meme or that like level of like internet sort of thing.
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But I think they're right about this one. Betty White's
last dying breath is the toilet paper over Yeah, she
saw it under the paper. I do think that what
I did love about Betty White, then we can move on.
I feel like it's really hard as an actor too,
I would imagine, because like, I'm terrified of getting old.
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But when like a young act young male actor like
makes out with an older woman and it's like the
joke is like, oh my god, he's making out with
a grandmother. And I feel like Betty White just took
that in stride all the time, because I think she
did a lot of making out with like young hot
uh celebrities. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that did almost become like
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a thing where it's like and then they'll kiss Betty White, yeah,
and you'll make out with Betty White and then yeah,
then we'll cue the laugh track and that's it. Meanwhile,
anti vaxers said that she was killed by the booster shot,
so obviously there's that too, And then that just implied
come on, yeah, yeah, if you're on what's her name,
Marjorie Taylor? Yeah, great transition, Miles. You know what, some
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people thought we were gonna be a little rusty come
back from break, but you fucking nailed it with that transition.
My way right to it. Yeah, because empty g got
booted from social media and is fighting with Dan Crenshaw.
I'm just reading the headline that you wrote, sir, take
it away. I mean, I'm just you know, a long
time COVID deny her anti vaxer slash CrossFit doctor major
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lye tainted growth, went a little too far on Twitter
with the social mediaize again with the misinformation, and Twitter
permanently disabled her personal account because she was talking about
I don't know about all these vaccination deaths you heard about,
just bringing up this thing about the vaccine killing people,
and they're like, you know what, welcome to Twitter, strike five.
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You're out fifth right. I don't know why they settled
on that number, but yeah, she has had that personal
account pretty pretty much, not pretty much. It's permanently deactivated.
So now all she has her official congressional account to
spute nonsense from. But I have a feeling that's probably
more for official business rather than her scathing takes on.
You know what, what COVID actually is. Do you think
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she cares? I feel like she's not going to care.
She's like, what whatever, I don't care that this is official.
I'm just gonna do it anyway. She does not care, Yeah,
I mean she does, and then she doesn't, right, because
then she'll go on like get her which is this
really stupid? Other? Like Twitter sort of clones site that
you know, the trumper made. It's called get Her like
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get her t E T t R get or g
E T T Getter m hm. And she's just like,
you know, she went on there to be like, oh,
I can't believe they're like booting me off the free speed.
I'm I'm someone who represents seven thousand types, like okay, sure,
but that the rules are pretty clear on Twitter. Don't
don't spread misinformation that could potentially hurt someone's well being
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because they're believing you as a somehow a member of Congress.
So you know what, after she was booted from Twitter,
this all kind of this all happened after she was
fighting with Dan Crenshaw again, the Texas Congress member. The
guy was the ipatch who always says he's like, I'm
not all for the histrionics but made like a like
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a Jankee Avengers film about like stopping the steel. So
they were going on back and forth because again, if
you remember, this all started a month or two ago
when Dan Crenshaw was like doing people like Marjorie Taylor Green,
they're hucksters. They're just trying to ride this mag away
like they're not really about this conservative ship, and so
they always started they started bickering constantly. Then Dan Crenshaw
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basically had said this thing on Twitter. He's like, hey, man, Biden,
should you know, like increased FEMA's presence in areas that
need expanded testing and support, you know, because you know
Trump actually even did that. You know, he had to
add the caveat that. He wasn't just saying like, I'm
trying to tell Biden what to do, that's good. He
was saying Trump did this. So from there, maybe Mark
(28:35):
I can't call her Marjorie major ly tainted growth then
tweeted at him, She's like, this guy shouldn't call himself
a conservative. He's like riding for Biden or something I
don't even know. Then her account got deactivated and she
posted she she apparently was trying to suggest that maybe
hurt and Dan Crenshaw's spat got her account de activity.
Said all I said was no, we don't want FEMA
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doing any of that, and hospitals need to hire back
unvaccinated health care workers. Then poof, I'm kicked off Twitter.
I mean, yeah, Big Cruncha definitely can for her. You
saw the production value on that short film that he
made like he's got backing from the highest levels of
you know, finance. This this guy is fucking untouchable. Yeah,
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so you know, I'm glad to see them fighting. But
also this is a moment where Amicron has you know
well and truly is in the process of taking over
the country, and the infection rates are so high. So
I guess the only positive to take away at the
moment despite all this is that, you know, hospitalizations are
not as high as Delta. But yeah, this is all
all of this information, misinformation is coming out of time
(29:40):
when we we have never needed it. And a lot
of the studies we've talked about where it's like eight
of people who are you know, anti vacs have encountered
one of these like Facebook myths that kind of sets
people down this road at some point. So it also underlines,
you know, the responsibility of places like Twitter and Facebook
to their shipped together. Because she also got banned for
(30:01):
twenty four hours from Facebook. You mean meta, Yeah, whatever,
I don't. I don't respect their new name. It's like,
you know, somebody tries to change their name like from
a meta now baby, Yeah, I know, I just don't
respect some Sometimes those name changes are trying to avoid
a dark side and greata. You are part of Meta's
outreach campaign, letting us know today, Yeah, let us know
(30:25):
that Meta title men she will be changing her name.
I'm having I'm having a career pivot for a great
check though. Can you imagine they come up like hot,
hot piece of ass Mark Zuckerberg's sun kids little talents
in me. They're like, can we get some of those
like Instagram character bits you do? But like really talking
up Mark, No, I have beef with Meta. I'm pretty
(30:47):
sure I'm shadow ban on Instagram. Really, well, why would
you do? What kind of truth did you tell? You know,
me just talking in a British accent about my snatch
and I think people just like report that I use
foul language. And now no one sees any of my content.
Now I spiral and it makes me feel bad. Oh no, well,
(31:08):
now we all have to go to at Gertie Birdie, Right,
Gertie bird go look at my account, like all my stuff,
look at your handle on get her could yeah, and
then find me on getter as Metta Zuckerberg. Metta Zuckerberg
titleman is does this signal? Is trump perma band on Twitter?
(31:29):
Or is that just like, yeah, oh it's permanent, but
hours for her they're checking back. I think she has
to screw up enough times. There was just like a suspension.
I also think they're like, we need people to stay
active on this, and like the only people left are
people that are like following Marjorie Taylor Green. Right, yeah, alright,
(31:55):
finally we do have a TikTok trend to check in with.
It is uh, you know, we we we tend to
get a little scatological every once in a while here
on the Daily Zeitgeist. What we haven't been talking to
you all for a couple of weeks now, so we
we had it all stored up, so we had we
had to do it to them. So there we do
have to tell you about a TikTok trend about parents
(32:16):
smearing ship on their kids. Yeah, oh, on their hands,
right yeah, yeah, like we're on their arms. Like this
is the thing we've seen on the internet before, like
sort of an isolated moments, but now because TikTok's ability
to affect culture is just so powerful, we are seeing
this new the reemergence of it, but called the hashtag
poop challenge, and like, you know, if you've not seen
(32:38):
a video like this. Like a parent will usually be
in the bathroom, pretend to be on the toilet and
asking for help from someone outside, typically a kid, and
be like, hey, I need more like toilet paper, can
you help me with something? They come in and they
smear some shit looking food like nutella or pudding or
peanut butter like on the kid's hand or arm, and
then just be like, and now I'm record you. Let's
(33:00):
see if my violation of our trust will get the
likes the clicks, and you know, you see it all.
You see some kids scream and cry because they can't
believe that their parents just smeared shit on them. Then
you see other kids who are like, there's one kid
is like crying but also playing with it more as
like they're trying to figure out there like you're like, no,
but I'm kind of interested in what this may or
(33:22):
may not be. And then you have some true o
G kids who just looked their parents in the eye
and they're like, you know this doesn't smell like ship
and nice try who are like young and you think,
I think I saw one that was actually really sweet
when a kid like kind of realized what it was
and looked at his parents. I was like, it's okay,
it's okay, and then just like this is so much
(33:44):
more fucked, like now you're putting the child like to
comfort you for shipping on them. I don't know, I'm
just the the whole the culture behind that. I can't
kept behind it. Like, yeah, that's what I think is
interesting because I'm you know, I get pranking your kids.
I is a victim of this kind of ship no
pun intended constantly, like having uncles or cousins who would
(34:06):
always be like, oh, let's kind of funk with them.
So I know that, like, you know, having fun and
doing that kind of stuff is you know, par for
the course. But like this this new era of now,
it's like but in my day, we weren't uploading these
videos where I was crying because I was so afraid
of the darker the lights going out to like the internet,
uploading to the internet for people to feast their eyes upon.
(34:27):
So yeah, I'm just it is interesting to watch how quickly,
like consciously or subconsciously, parents are like, I don't know,
maybe your maybe your tears will get me some fowers. Jack,
are you going to do the poop challenge to your kids.
I mean, have I done the poop challenge with my kids?
Is that where did I misunderstand it? And is that
where their stomach bug came from? Our all questions that
(34:48):
I'm not going to Oh it was okay, okay, okay,
got more sense now, I know. Would you prank your
kids though, definitely not a social media like this, just
in the privacy of your own home, like civilized adult.
We're getting divorced. They got to pick a parent to
leave with right now? Yeah, yeah, I don't tap it. Yeah,
(35:11):
my wife is very much more prone to I don't
know me wanting to mess with the bounds of like
truth to see how they react, and I'm just too
tired to do that. Yeas of right now. Were you
pranked a lot as a kid, either of you? My
uncle's yeah, not not my dad. I wasn't pranked a
(35:31):
lot because I think I was, like I think I
was like an annoyingly precocious kid where whenever anyone would
try to do something, I would be like, that's not true,
and it would be like, how do you know? And
I would be like, because I just do, like I'm
actually smarter than you. Yeah, I think, I don't know,
(35:53):
I was like one of those kids. I never thought
the tooth Fairy was real, Like, I don't know, I
was kind of just like, no way, some bits flying
into my window, grabbing my teeth and putting money under
my pillow. Yeah, I was like, okay, first of all,
these teeth are worth way more, and second of all nerve.
But I mean, I did believe in Santa Santa Claus.
(36:14):
And I also, I guess until actually this year, when
I was really little, my mom used to My mom
was not a crafty person, like she was not like
a pt A mom or anything like that, but she
did do this thing, which I guess was a prank
where on St. Patrick's Day she would mess up our room,
(36:36):
me and my sister's rooms, like pull our clothes out
of the drawer under our beds, and like then she
would put little green footprints to like a little pot
of candy, like a pot of gold, and she made
us believe that lepre cons like came into our room
and fulfed up, and that prank was cool for like
(36:58):
a few years, and then I just realized it was
her doing it, and then I was left to clean
up my room right what were the footprints? They were
like paper, They were like little like you know, cut
out little footprints from paper. I mean, it's cute to
do to your kids. Maybe you should do that, but
I didn't. I never. I wish she was things. You
(37:20):
wish your parents were alive to ask him. Why why
did she pretend to be a lepricun? I wonder if
it's like a thing to where on the most cynical level,
parents can do that to cover up the fact that
they flipped the room looking for drugs. Damn, lepricn came
through here. But at least there's a lot of gold.
And I'm glad to know you don't have drugs. All right, Well,
(37:41):
let's take another quick break and we'll come back and
talk about car crashes and wheel a fortune. H And
we're back. And as we talked about in a previous episode,
(38:03):
car crashes, car crash deaths are up, even though there
are fewer cars on the road, and there was there
was this l A Times like. The way I learned
about this, at least was through a l A Times
iPhone notification Apple News notification that that was like and
here's why. And then you read the article and it's like,
I don't know, people are like mad or something. And yeah,
(38:27):
and so we we talked about that. We didn't say
that's definitively why, but super producer Brian pointed out that
there's actually a much better explanation that the l. A.
Times completely missed. But I just want to quote from
the l. A. Times article. They said I fear were
they are? They quoted somebody saying, I fear we've adopted
(38:49):
some really unsafe driving habits and they're going to persist
our roads are less safe than they were pre pandemic.
And then I think they anecdotally we hear from governor's
offices around the country that it's a sem them in
a sign of the overall lack of consideration we're showing
for other citizens. So it's basically they're like blaming it
on individual like character defects, which I feel like it
(39:12):
goes along with the I think this is the overall
like sort of shape that America tends to take with
any problem is find a way to isolate it, to
like put it in terms of individuals and psychology, Like
you're struggling right now, you probably suffer from depression. You
(39:32):
should exercise more and take these pills, and you know,
instead of looking at like the broad structural problems that
we have in our community, right, if it's just that
people were out of practice, right. Yeah. Yeah, that was
one of the psychic predictions of Super Producer the beginning
of She's like more car crashes. People don't know what
(39:54):
they're doing is driving, and it happened, and we're like,
can you predict me becoming a like just a very
happy person manifests that are healthy. Yeah, I don't know.
So I think there's definitely like some of that for sure.
But I also I think so there a thing that
I hadn't really taken into account is something called strodes,
(40:16):
which they're like these city planners who are talking about
how America is full of these like combinations street roads,
which I didn't know. The road my my exact question.
So I think roads are supposed to be like thoroughfares
where like lots of cars, they're wider. Streets are supposed
(40:38):
to be single like one lane each one lane, yeah,
that people can like walk along, and America has just
kind of broken down that distinction to the point that
now everything is basically just this like combination street road
there's like strip malls all over the place. There's you know,
(40:58):
these mass of like two lane three lane roads that
have like pedestrian crosswalks, which is where people are seeing
a lot of the death's happening. And basically what happens
in normal times is that traffic like slows are driving down,
Like when there's a lot of cars on the road,
especially if they're all on the road at the same time,
(41:19):
like during rush hour, then people can't drive fast. But
when there's little traffic in the way, as has been
the case during most of the pandemic, the overly wide
design of scroads encourages people to drive very fast, regardless
of the speed limit, and they're hitting pedestrians, they're crashing.
Because there are parts like when you drive around, like
(41:41):
any time you drive through l A or different parts
of the county and stuff, you I find myself being like, damn,
it's like a fucking three lane street with nobody on it,
and I'm like, let's open this ship up, like in
your mind it feels like a freeway or something that
I get like this, I I definitely suffer from, or
not suffer, but I get that impulse in a wide
open road that's open. You're like, dude, the speed limit
(42:05):
has to be like fifty five on here, right, wide
open road that's open, Yeah, exactly, know, just just nobody
on there. But like you know, in like certain streets,
they just you'll see like you're like, oh sh it,
you can go faster on this bit like very wide
road or whatever. And that definitely affects my subconscious sometimes
when I'm driving. I I live by the Wilshire Country Club. Yeah,
(42:27):
and you know that like stretch of Beverly that's like
between Highland and Rossmore that's just like straight right right
right m m. I see sometimes you know, you can
be flying, flying, flying down that little road and some
people truly go like a hundred and fifty down that road.
(42:50):
Oh yeah yeah, and I see these people that are
like dropping on the side of it. I'm like, what
is wrong with you? Death trap? Yeah, But to me,
I'm like, that's on the pedestrian because that's just not safe, right.
But there's also it's at a place where there's no
And this actually brings up another point, which is that
(43:11):
there's a massive private golf course that you can't go
through any other way, but this one road that doesn't
have any fucking sidewalks, so they literally make it like
impossible to walk from one side, like to walk like
three blocks across the city. It's you see people like
traversing the little like ledge by the fence of the
(43:33):
golf of the golf. Yeah. So anyways, the like the
reason that America has been designed to this way is
because it delivers people faster to like stores and stuff,
and like they just are putting stores and other like
profit making centers like all over the place instead of
(43:53):
at like very like tightly planned like places that have
a bunch of you know, traffic plan in place to
make sure that it's safe and how shocking. I know,
it doesn't sound like us. No, that doesn't sound American
at all. Yeah, so there are strategies for reducing them,
(44:13):
like you know, putting roundabouts instead of traffic signals and
intersections like they all sounded when I first read them,
like yeah, okay, but like it's what other other countries
do constantly. And the city Fort Alaisa, Brazil cut its
traffic deaths nearly in half between by just lowering speeds,
(44:35):
narrowing lanes and adding complexity to the roads and you know,
other cities have basically eliminated traffic deaths by just like
doing these, so like we know what the answer is,
Like the La Times doesn't mention it. The La Times
is like, you guys are just mad because of pandemic
and you just need to calm down and start thinking
of each other. And it's like, no, we actually know
(44:57):
how to completely eliminate this by reducing speeds, banning cars
from city centers, building out bike paths, and you know,
creating very slow or car free zones that actually Oslow
virtually eliminated traffic deaths in twenty nineteen by doing that,
So we know how to do this. It's just like this.
(45:18):
This box article points out that like city planners don't
think about it as like a thing that they're trying
to eliminate. They think of it as like baked in,
Like it's like a alright, what's the cost of doing business?
You know what's humiliating when you get to a crosswalk
and they want you to pick up that little flag.
They want you to cross the street with a little flag.
(45:39):
Do you know what I'm talking about? Have you seen
this anywhere? No? No, It's like there are some in Brentwood,
I think there's some. There are, there are some in
random parts of d C where I grew up, you'd
like push the pedestrian crossing thing. There wasn't a light,
but then like little flares would go or like little
lights would flare on the road. Then they want you
(46:00):
to like take a little like pedestrian crossing flag and
walk across the street like holding this flag again, putting
all the like impetus on the pedestrian instead of the driver,
because the driver is getting to where they're going to
spend money faster. And so that is who American city planners.
(46:24):
So you were struck by a car in the crosswalk?
Were you doing anything like a ribbon dance or something?
She wasn't holding the flag, And to me, it's like
if what doesn't matter what I'm holding. I could be
carrying a like huge Jackson Pollock across the street and
if you're going to kill me with your car, I
(46:46):
feel like that would happen. Yeah, it's and it's funny too,
and you like you think about like other places have
speed cameras, like the UK and stuff where it's just
like we don't need to put fucking law enforcement on
the roads. There's some fucking camera that will clock your
us the second you will buy that ship going too fast,
and that's like already you can tell how much compliance
(47:08):
that creates with people because they're like, well, there's no
way I can avoid the fucking automated speed ticket distributing machine,
and that will already get me to be like oh
that that that that that maybe not right now. Yeah.
They have a quote from somebody who's like I just
came from you know, I lived in Brazil for a
number of years and came back to the United States
and was shocked that like this wasn't this hadn't been
(47:30):
adopted here, Like it's been adopted and like it's I
you just if you break the speed limit, you know
that you're going to get a ticket. It's just like
how it is, and the speed limits are there to
keep people safe. It's funny too, because I feel like
in America, like I don't know where, it's like that
robot company that's like getting a congressional contract to like
(47:51):
put these all over the country where they're like, yeah, man,
these speed cameras, like and you're gonna generate more revenue
through like violation tickets and things like that. But I'm
wonder if it's at odds with like our culture of
being like no man, like the open road, like you
gotta just trust that you're going to drive the right
speed or some ship. I don't know, there's like something
philosophical at like at odds with each other there. Well,
it kind of just goes back to it we're talking
(48:13):
about five minutes ago, where it's like the consumer capitalist
part where it's like, nope, let's not have those and
let's just have people get where they need to get
going to go and spend money. Yeah, and also those
businesses that have been built into the actual infrastructure of
the city and that we're dying in order to like
make more profitable. Those are more entrenched than some like
(48:36):
tech company that is probably also like making a bunch
of money doing this overseas, so they like, you know,
hopefully that but that's like how we have to think
about it, is like, well, hopefully they get better at lobbying,
because that's right, that's the only way we're gonna fucking survive.
So yeah, that part of like the Wilshire Country Club
(48:58):
on Beverley. I actually live right by there to Greta
and like that, I mean, it's just right. The whole
story about that that is like absurd, and the fact
that there's not like sidewalks or any pedestrian like option
for that whole area is pretty shocking. I mean, I
I personally think we need to as a city just
(49:20):
tear down the fences of the Welshire country Club and
like claim it for the public, because you have to
be like a public green space, because like a central
party would blow your mind when you've I remember there's
a kid who I played hockey with, like wealthy. His
his backyard was the Bolshire country Club and at night
they'd be like, let's go out there and like smoke weed.
(49:41):
I'm like, what the fun? Like, I remember not knowing
there was a golf club a golf it's just a
big black fence. That's dude. How do y'all live over
here there? Yeah? Keep keep you in your small pets away,
don't on that. No, don't puff green on the green. Alright,
(50:07):
let's let's check in with Wheel of Fortune real quick.
You know we've all been so focused on controversy surrounding
Jeopardy Miles. I know it's kind of taken over your
life completely, but no, it's like that was a big
story in one but it seems like we've all let
a lot of Wheel of Fortunes fun you slipped by
(50:27):
because I I don't know anyone who watches it. But
at the end of last year, there were multiple instances
of Wheel of Fortune like being just a really just
bed at being a game show. They like. So one
time a contestant made it to the final round of
the game, got the answer right, but she left too
long of a pause between words, and so they're like, ah, sorry,
(50:51):
you didn't like It's almost like it's what Pat say,
Jack's like own personal like money in his wallet that
he's like, nope, sorry, like he's they're like cheating their
contestants out even though it like definitely makes it a
worse show. And then there's another example. So we're gonna
play a clip from that example here. What are you
(51:16):
doing is the category? You have ten seconds to try
to talk it out. Good luck choosing the right card,
choosing the right word. You know, this one's tough because
you said all the right words, including the word word.
(51:38):
But as you know, it's got to be more or
less continuous. We'll we'll allow for a little pause but
about four or five seconds, I'm sorry. I had a
good job in getting it, but but we can't give
you the prize. And it was was like, and it
is my autie. Actually if you were going to get
(51:59):
Q three parked in the lot, that is so fucked up.
Did she end up getting the car? No? No, no
no no, it was just like a l right there, boom. Sorry, yeah,
I would have lost my mind. I would have gone
completely off. So back back in April, a similar thing
(52:19):
happened where a contestant like, they just do one thing,
so it's like, it's not it should be like the
New York Times puts out a crossword puzzle every day.
That's like, you know, good, and they also have easy
ones on Monday, so like, you know, there there are
people who are good at doing easy crossword puzzles that
would be great for this. Back in April, a contestant
(52:41):
solved a cross word category, which is literally just figuring
out what four words are on the board. They don't
form a sentence, but in listing the words, a guy
out of the word and like in between such as
you would in a list of words, and was disqualified
and everyone was like what then there was another example
where it was like I forget what the answer was,
(53:03):
but it wasn't. It wasn't a thing like I think that.
It was like young jock was the answer. They were
like a type of person and it was young jock
or just person. It was person person. Yeah. Yeah. So
and this was just the day before the controversy. We
(53:23):
were just talking about the categories person and the answer,
which the contestant didn't get was young jock, which is
not a type of person. I thought that was is
going down, met Mia, the mall is going down. We
all did that dance like I guaranteed to go down. Yeah,
(53:43):
first number two. Yeah that's not like pat But that's like,
that's not how crossword puzzles were. Like there they are
supposed to be famous expressions or you know, phrases that
people have said before in public spaces, and they were
just like yeah, okay, I was just going to ask
(54:05):
if young jock was a thing that I didn't know about. Yeah, right, Like, oh,
there's a young jock that is so crazy. No one
has ever, no one refers to any I mean like
a jock, yes, but a young jock to me, or
just referring to like a young little athlete right right now,
I think that's what it what they meant. But it's
(54:27):
just I think they've probably had the same writers for
too long and they've just run out of ship and
they're just like, I don't know, like just recombining words
that they know popular jock. Maybe I don't know, like
that seems like closer to something I would have heard,
like than young Jock. But well, I'm look, I'm not.
They didn't hire me to write this ship. But there's
(54:48):
also the fact that pet say Jack is just a
complete fucking asshole. He back in February was called after
making fun of a contestant speech impediment. And how is
the show still on? It must make a shipload of money.
I mean, I don't know why I'm asking that question.
That's a completely stupid question. People are adjected to watching
Wheel of Fortune, and also for people that like Wheel
(55:11):
of Fortune is perfect for people to get insanely frustrated
watching Jeopardy because they don't get any of the answers
right watching Jeopardy because when you're just guessing letters with
Wheel of Fortune, it makes you feel way smarter than
not knowing like facts, Like when you watch Jeopardy. He
(55:32):
he also went on Twitter and like complained about cancel culture.
That was like a week before he made fun of
someone speech impediment. And then one time he yelled at
a contestant who rightfully pointed out again that a puzzle
like didn't make any sense. They were supposed to answer
like things that are in a kitchen, and they said
cabinet tells, oven, sink, And then the contestant was like,
(55:56):
kitchen oven, what what is that? Because it was supposed
to like complete this phrase, so kitchen, cabinet, kitchen towels,
kitchen sink, and then oven, and he was like kitchen oven,
Like that doesn't really make sense. You should have been
table right there. You got and say Jack was like,
you want don't argue, Darren, you got the puzzle. Ung
(56:17):
grateful players. I've had it. No, I'm just teasing and
then laughing and saying I finally snapped. It's like it's
just such a such a very specific producers have to intervene,
I think getting their late seventies power there too. Absolutely,
I mean, no one they're gonna be like, well are
(56:38):
you going to have the conversation with Pat today? And
they're like no, no, let's let's let's not they're like
because in his Twitter I always like laugh at how
like just maggot out. It is one of his most
recent retweets his friends, Happy New Year. If you've been
censoring yourself or worse, affirming woke or other dogmas you
know aren't true, make the year you break free. Don't
(56:59):
like group the fear, ambition or anything else enslave you.
Think for yourself, seek the truth, speak your mind. He
tweeted that, or he retweeted thee and he will so
he'll rant things like that himself, but then he'll delete them.
One point, he tweeted, I now believe global warming alarmist
or unpatriotic racist knowingly misleading for their own ends. Good night,
(57:22):
and then had to delete it when the producer like,
hey man, we might have to fire you if you
don't delete that, and then he was like, that was
a parody, which is just a true king true joke. Yeah. Anyways,
it still is my favorite show on TV. So do
(57:44):
you watch Meal of Fortune every day? Really? No? No, No,
I haven't watched it since I was like six, since
you were a young jock, A young jock back in
the day, just waiting for them to call me out
and here I am. I fucking missed it when we're
looking for was young jack es Well Greta as always
such a pleasure having you. Oh thanks for having me. Um.
(58:07):
I will recognize you when you appear on season five.
You're gonna I'm gonna get an email from you, like
after you finished this season and you're like, hey, sorry,
this is so embarrassing, but what episodes were you in
because you got cut? Any Where can people find you?
Follow you all that good stuff. You can follow me
(58:28):
at Gurtie Bird on Instagram, and you can follow my Twitter,
where I very occasionally tweet an occasional tweet, also at
Gurtie Bird, and you can listen to my podcast Senior
Superlatives all about high school Amazing. And is there a
tweet or some of the work of social media you've
(58:50):
been enjoying? Yes, you know, I like to observe, you know,
my friends on Twitter and my dear friend io Debris
tweeted something yesterday made me laugh and the tweet is
it's crazy that monk wore his shoes in the house
and I really really like that for all of my
(59:10):
monk heads out there, you'll laugh because it is really
crazy that that just made me check though, right, because
he's like very does he have like he has like
extreme O c D. Right, And you're right, because I
feel like the only things I can remember is Tony
Shalou being very careful about germs. But wow, and he
wears his shoes in the house, lying, I know, it's crazy.
(59:37):
Oh now a whole other series about people investigating Monk
whether that ship was just performative because they're like, I
don't know, he wears his shoes in the house. I know.
They're like, maybe he's not actually an O C D
real genius. Right, They're like, have you seen I saw
him pack for a trip? He put the suitcase on
his bed, impat the bed, fat in his daytime clothes
on his nighttime bed. Miles, where can people find You?
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And what is the tweet You've been enjoying? Frying me
on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray and also
the other pod Fiance with Sophia Alexandro where we talk
about ninety day Fiance the worst best show ever. Some
tweets that I like. First one is from a Wembley
Sewell tweeted no More circling back, square up, prepared to fight.
(01:00:23):
And now there's Zach Fox reference, one might say, right, then,
let's see this one is from Cameron at Cameron Bradford tweeted,
imagine being the first American soldier in Vietnam to put
on fortunate Son. Everyone would be like, dude, you're a genius.
This is the exact vibe. Stupid. And finally at baby scalop,
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dude to stop asking if the wine is dry. It's
literally a liquid, Like are you dumb? I mean true,
true facts. Let's see. Katie Rich tweeted a friend of
mine did social media for All State and her job
mostly consisted of the leading hundreds of women's vile, warny
comments about the Mayhem guy. And then uh cat Algorista
(01:01:09):
tweeted Goldilocks was so stupid for not wanting to sleep
in a bed too big for her. Oh no, I'm
too comfy. Shut up. I never thought about that is done.
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off the information that we talked about today's episode as
well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Myles with song do we think people might enjoy? We're
gonna go out on a track, a good great collab
Leon Bridges and Krungbin, who I love their psychedelics, sur frock,
funky vibes, and this is a track from the two
of them called B Side, and it's just a great track.
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I mean, like his vocals with their like instrumental and
they're just their vibe as a band goes perfectly together.
So he used is to easier way back into normalcy
or whatever we call this ship. Alright, Well, the Daily
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