Cash Splash 2020, STURGIS WAS V BAD 9.8.20

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season one fifty, episode
two of Days, a production of I Heart Radio. This
is a podcast where we take a deep dive into
America's share consciousness and say, officially, off the top, fuck
the Koch Brothers, fuck Fox News, fuck Rush Limball, fuck Sexty,

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fuck Ben Shapiro and fun Hucker Carlson. It's Wednesday, September nine.
My name is Jack O'Brien. A K blinded by Jack's thighs,
woke up, took a deuce, turned on the zigeist in
the morn. That is courtesy of at Minty Fresh Girl,

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at Minty Fresh Girl too actually on Twitter, and I'm
thrilled to be joined as always buy my co host
Mr Miles Gragck to live back to the ide, guys,
back to live, back to the I back here with

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Shack and mis O. You show me what is it
your suggestory? Maybe we get that some jokes with you.
Whatever was underrated, what ever was overrated? Whatever was underrated,
whatever was overrated? Thank you so much. To add dad Hound.

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They sold the soul back to life. Uh inspired a
k also, but he this person was very clear, said
the real one, not the one from Belly. Okay, but
shout out to that opening and Belly where they got
the contacts into the nightclub and they're moving through the
club like goons with the acapella version of this song.
I don't remember that. I don't they robbed it the
first scene of Belly when they were going through the

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nightclub and they robbed the nightclub and they have like
the white masks they put on. It's all blue, the
like acapella vocals from that where it's a different acapella
group capell I'm doing it, but you know, people there's
a it's very contentious about what they're version is respect
this one. Shout out to a dad. If Belly didn't

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use as many college acapella groups, probably is all right,
I suspected, Miles. Is great to have you back. How
are you? How have you great to be back? You know,
did a lot of looking in the mirror, uh, talking
to my therapist, taking in the heat, you know, all
kinds of things. Just just recharging, ready to go into

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the final two months of this election. Oh, with honor
and integrity and strengthling that should be hard. That should
be our new uh the Daily Zeitgeist honor in strength, Yes, uh, yeah,
what was the what was the peak temperature you experienced?

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I hit one seventeen on an errand yeah, I was
outside and when it was like one twelve where the players,
well it was pretty Yeah, it was pretty hot, but
it was nice. I kind of just sat out there,
smoked a blunt and let the sun hit me and
just I felt like a lizard, just kind of sunning
out there on the rocks. And then I was like,
very quickly, was like, okay, there's only so much a

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human body deadly, Well, we are thrilled to be joined
by the brilliant and talented Maurice Cherry. Hey, I don't
know if I could chime in earlier, so I've been
laughing silently over you don't have to lie where you're
laughing though, very very impressive sold the solar rendition. By

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the way, do you know are you familiar with the
acapella version that was in the opening of the Hype
Williams film Belly. I am because my best friend from
college fucking loves Belly. There Go loves that movie. So
I've seen it in an inordinate amount of times. Another
one he's talking about, Okay, good good, good to know
good to yeah, I was. I remember I the first
date I went on off of my Space was because

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this woman had Belly listed as one of her favorite movies.
I was like, you really and she's like, yeah, since
youre is one of my favorite characters, I'm like, what
about Kisha though she's like a queen? And I was like,
let's go on a date. Uh, and it ended terribly.
It turns out one movie directed by one of the
most prolific hip hop video directors as common Ground, isn't
the basis for a strong romantic relationship when you're nearly twenties.

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But you know what, Maurice, how are you doing? Where
are you? Where are you coming to us from? I
am in Atlanta, Georgia, the soon to be next COVID
nineteen hotspot most likely, But I think that could probably
be for any place that people went to over Labor
Day weekend, but here in particular, Oh, was there a
lot going on? People out and about. Well, so Labor

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Day weekend in Atlanta is kind of affectionately known as
the clusterfuck and pre pandemic back when the world was open. Uh,
there would be at least a dozen events here, book festivals,
there's a big science fiction convention here called Dragon Con.
There's Black Ay Pride, there's a number of sporting events, etcetera.

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And of worse, because the pandemic, a lot of those
events have either like went online or they've been canceled
or postponed or something that didn't stop people from coming here.
So I'm pretty sure that we're gonna have another big
flare up. But it's been so weird in Georgia because
we have had so little time to be locked down,
so to speak. We really only had about three weeks

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in April um so it's been like this very weird
kind of I don't know, at least for me, it's
felt like this weird tension in the city because a
lot of places still aren't open, but you know, the
cases are still rising and people are still coming here,
and it's like the virus is still out there, y'all.
Like it's it's kind of weird. Yeah, it's hard. It's
hard for people to sort of like separate their human

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body and like socializing needs with the reality of the pandemic.
I mean, in l A, the beaches were packed because
on top of it, we have a heat wave and
not everybody has can get cool immediately, So yeah, the
beach looks like a pretty good solution, but you you
get the crowds going, it's yeah, it's definitely a hard,
hard period. I think no matter where, highest temperature in

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the history of l A County over the weekend. So
all right, Mariice, we're gonna get to know you a
little bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell
our listeners a few of the things we're talking about.
We're gonna talk about the fact that the globally we're
kind of going through that same conflict the Olympics. IOC
is just like, yeah, we're gonna We're gonna do the Olympics,

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so they're pushing through to that. We're gonna talk about
Trump campaign funds. We people haven't been paying a ton
of attention to to that because of the many rings circus,
many alarm fire that he kind of keeps stoked in
the background to keep us distracted. So we'll talk about that.
We'll talk about the results of Sturgist keep rolling in.

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We're gonna talk about claims of connections between forest fires
and climate change, because that's the disputed a little bit
that one is feeding the other one is feeding the other.
It's it's interesting because it's not like a total um
plant for the oil industry. Who's disputing it, but his

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what his complaint is a little bit overblownt It's actually
a plant for clean coal, right, he's actually really into
the nuclear energy, very very safe. We're gonna talk about
gender reveal parties and life inside Ellen's home. Oh no,
that's a thing people found out. Yeah, yeah, her some

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of some of her household staff have come out and
talked about what what that's like. And let's just say
it involves her planting match sticks in places to make
sure that the clean Yeah, that the staff is cleaning
their boy love it. Yeah, that's like something Joan Crawford. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah it is. Is there anything about hangars, wire hangers
or anything like that as well? Just to fully complete
that circle, there's like a list, a daily list of
complaints that includes stuff like you served this food in
the wrong dish, like that that should have been in
this bowl rather than the bowl you served it to me. Um.

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So you know, just all sorts of interesting things. Uh
So we'll get to all that plenty more. But first,
more reason, we like task our guess what is something
from research history that's revealing about who you are. Oh,
that's revealing about who I am. Yeah. Well, today I
was looking up Move paper masks. Um there's a printing company.

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Printing company is called Move. They make you know, business cards,
stick or stuff like that, and they sent this email
out there like oh, we're now making paper masks. I'm like,
why would you have a paper mask? Like paper gets wet.
That seems very effective for a mask, And so I
googled it to kind of see what they were talking about,
and they're like, oh, well, we we cut the sides
in an accordion fashion for ease and comfort. And I'm like,

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but it's a paper mask. They even say it's not
medical grade, nor is it ppe. So why are you
selling twenty five packs of them? Is it just capitalism?
It's really kind of weird and stupid. Yeah, this is
so I'm looking at the mask. It almost seems like
a joke, like a parody of itself. Yeah, like it
does feel that way. It's very weird. It feels like

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a BuzzFeed article where it's like if you have like
really good crafting scissors, it's like how you can turn
a greeting card into fake ass ppe and it's just like, dude,
I don't know what it's catching or just looks like
it's just probably redirecting the germs up or down like
there's no and they're like, oh, you can recycle it,
Like yeah, I'm going to recycle this spittle soaked paper mask.

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Why ridiculous? Yeah, it's really something is Moved like a
popular company because I know, look, you're you're a designer,
You're in that space. So I'm like, move. I never
heard of that. Are they like a pretty big company? Um?
I don't know if they're big, but I think they
are pretty well known, uh, largely because of the different
kind of sizes of business cards they have. So one

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size that they have that I've used, I don't know,
for at least ten years now. It's almost like the
size of a pack of chewing them, Like it's a
small mini card. You can kind of just whip it
out to people like ha ha, here's my card. Um.
And back when I really had my studio running, I
would get those cards made and they would look like
those uh those like key ring lunch things that you

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would get where if you take it into a deli
or something they'll stamp it or punch a hole in
it or something. So I would do that for like
repeat customers, I'd like mark off a little X on
the back. The name of my studio was Lunch, and
so we kind of played into all of the kind
of foodie aspects of it. But I think it's well
known because of that. I mean, they do postcards and
stickers and stuff like that, but they're mostly known for
those little bit of cards. I'm like the last person

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to know about anything to do with paper goods, so
I don't know. I'm not surprised I don't know about them.
Um it is when you go to a mood dot com.
The front page of their site is people wearing these masks, uh,
and they're saying, we love paper so when we wanted
to make a more breathable mask option, you can guess

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where our heads went. Yep, And here it is uncomfortable
but sturdy paper mask that's fully recyclable. So it does
seem like they are definitely walking that line because so
it's then it has like four bullet points, thoughtfully designed,
five versatile colors made with planet friendly recycled paper, lightweight,

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breathable material, and then it. Only then does it say
this is not a medical grade mask or item of
personal protective equipment, right, they get that in at the end.
I guess does the ones typical cloth ones? That is
that considered proper PP or you know what I mean?
Because I know, like and nine if is like truly
like you're sort of respirator thing, so like you, I mean,

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some of them, I guess if they put like a
filter in it, maybe, but they're not meant to be
like medical grade. You know, it's because it's a poorous material.
But I'm like curious, like breathing through a like a
sheet of cardboard, like, yeah, this is it? Can't be
it better? This looks like origami approximation of mask, not
actual mask. It looks like it looks like it could
be good like Mortal Kombat cosplay. Yeah you could be Yeah,

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you could be sub zero, the one that makes people
nervous at a grocery store. Uh, Maurice, what is something
you think is overrated? Oh? God, zoone calls, Google me calls.
Basically any video call at this stage of the pandemic
I think is completely overrated. Um. I tend to have these.

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I mean I think probably everyone does it. At this point,
I've got a few of these that I have a week,
and if I'm my philosophy of it as if I'm
not getting paid for it, I'm not turning my camera
on us. I also happen to be unemployed right now,
so the camera really doesn't come on that much. I'm like, look,
if I have to pick my hair out, I have
to turn my ring light on. And that's not happening

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for everybody, okay, you know, and there will be something
and there'll be some calls that are like, oh, well,
you know, how come you don't have how come the
cameras on? And like, well, on my main computer which
is in my studio, I don't have a camera, which
I sort of mentioned y'all before, But I have one
on my laptop. So if I wanted to, I could
get my laptop and you know, go through all of that.
But why like the stuff we have to talk about
honestly could be a phone call. It doesn't really have

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to be a Zoom call, doesn't have to be a
Google meet call. I know those sort of stepped up
at the default as the pandemic started to kind of
you know, go on in the in the spring going
into the summer. But like the phone works too, we
can just do that. It's it is funny because I
think like part of it too is subconsciously it helps
make things feel slightly more elevated because you're like, yeah,

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it could be a phone call, and you know, for
all intents and purpose is it probably should be based
on we just need to communicate with words and not
our facial expressions to say I we need to do X,
Y and Z. But there's something where it's like, oh,
it's okay, so we'll do a zoom call, you know,
because we can't meet anymore do these other things. I
feel like it somehow makes things feel a little more formal,
but at the end of the day, it's like we're
achieving the same thing on a phone call now. Yeah,

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but like everything now looks like a zoom call. Like
media stuff is looking like zoom call, Instagram, lives, television,
like it's all I don't know. I'm I'm a bit
overrated by video. I think video in general right now
it's a bit overrated for your aesthetically oriented mind. What
do you, how do you? How do you? How do you?
How can we elevate this you know, like what would

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be less boring to you? Is it? Is it the angles?
Is it because everyone sort of doing the same sort
of like laptop facing thing. Do we need to put
a camera in the corner make it feel a little
more like verite? I don't know. I mean I think
it's because you know Zoom and I guess meat by proxy.
I mean, these are these are enterprise level conferencing tool.
It was like they're meant for work. And so the

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thing is that you've taken a work tool and now
I've tried to make it into an everything tool. Now
it's a happy hour, it's a gym, it's a daycare,
it's you know, it's all this other stuff now. And
even Zoom the company has had to sort of like
step it up in terms of encryption and a number
of different other features to try to meet this now
big consumer market that they have because they really just

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used to be for businesses. Now it's for everybody. Um,
I don't know a good way too, I guess make
it better. Although I have to say, you know, if
you're talking about events, because now you know the stars
are sequestered in such in their homes and whatnot, but
you know when you look at sort of award shows
and video events and stuff. I know, the VMA has
just happened recently, and they sort of had like a

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mix of live action and recorded sort of stuff, which was, Yeah,
it was okay. I think it worked. I think the
the kind of like creepy audience applause and silhouettes that
they had in the background was a little kind of
like black mirrorsh But I think they did okay. But
like the best implementation of it that I've seen where
it's like a good mix of recorded and distance sort

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of thing, has been the BT Awards. Like it's hands
down the best one that I've seen so far this
year that like has gotten it right because it's always
going to be I think some kind of like tech
issue or or something to that effect. But like it's
hard to get over the fact that everything now looks
like a weird version of Hollywood Squares because you just
can't like escape that, you can't escape the grid. Crety s.

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It's gonna be a horror movie that comes out with
the next year and a half based on that concept.
But yeah, God, I feel bad for the development people
at studios who are just going through piles of quarantine
inspired material. Now what do we do? Now? What do
we do with all these quarantine concept I feel like
the zoom thing is also being pushed by people who

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thrive on meetings or you know that. I feel like
the quarantine and like work from home movement has made
it evidence that a lot of things that used to
be meetings could have been quick phone calls or emails. Uh,
and people like that. There's a pushback. There's a reaction

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to that where people are like, well, we gotta we
gotta have a workplace, we gotta we gotta have a
department has happy hours. There's also that like terrible culture
of like productivity that's just hammered into American people's minds
or you got to productive? Are you? And then working
from home sort of Actually for some people, you realize

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how much more efficient you are, and then you have
time you're like, funk, I need to do a zoom
call or something. I need to do this because I'm
efficient now, but I bought it, but I need to
be productive. And you're like, yeah, well you happen to
do that in two thirds of the time, or you know,
seven eighths of the time. I mean My heart really
goes out to parents right now that are having to
kind of do the distance learning through zoom, because that

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just adds a whole other dimension to this, because now
you're having to kind of get your your child or
or not not your toddler, but like you have to
get your child to kind of sit in front of
this computer at a screen time in order to learn.
But then now there's all these rules that may have
taken place in school that now have to apply to
the home when school is active, if that makes any sense.

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Like I've seen stuff on Twitter where teachers have been like, oh, well,
if you're going to be in school from home, you
have to wear shoes like the kids at home. The
kids not wearing shoes unless they're putting their feet to
the camera. I don't see what the issue is, like, oh,
they have to dress up, no onesies or something. I
was reading something the Washington Post today about how a
kid had like a toy gun. Yeah, and they called

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the police on it, and they called and the school
called the police on the kid at home, Like yeah, orange, No,
this did not look like some you know, like he
had a blammer on him and he was like flashing
at camera, there's a fucking toy NERF gun, Like and
you see this right, Like there's like this new level

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of NERF gun where people can like custom make them
and kind of get a little like nerd out on them.
And this is what that was, like that kid's hobby,
Like he he had like his wall of NERF guns
that he made and he was like really happy about him.
And it's just like a kid, just a fucking toy.
But again, this child is black, not I'm sure I'm
curious what would have happened if a white child was
waving their NERF gun in front of it. But it
was just another you know, uh, just just terrible dumb

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story about being like, oh, let's just harass this child
just because. But yeah, zoom calls, video calls, all that
stuff completely overrated. What is something you think is underrated?
So I think, and and I'm only saying this now
because now I'm sort of getting to the point where
I'm trying to find stuff to do during the day. Um,

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lesser known streaming services are highly highly underrated. Walk with
me here, gentlemen. So I think we all have like
a streaming stack at this point, right, Like you've got
like mine is like Netflix, NI Plus, Hulu, maybe Prime Video,
even though you know sometimes there's stuff on there I
want to watch sometimes that So, like we all kind

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of have the ones that we go to is our defaults.
But like there's so many lesser known, cheaper, more kind
of fringe type of of streaming services that might be
worth checking out based on like what your interests are.
So like, if you're looking for a lot of say
like old black movies and television shows, you would go

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to Quality TV. Or if you're looking for like indie
films or documentaries, you'd go to Keino. Now, if you
want to learn some stuff, you could do master Class.
I don't know if master Class is really lesser known,
but I don't know if people know that you can
also stream all of that stuff. Um, if you really
like jazz performances, there's a streaming service by Quincy Jones

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called quest TV. Like, there's a lot of lesser known
streaming services out there that are pretty cheap depending on
what you're kind of individual interests are, and they're not
that hard to find. I think if there's a cave
you out to any of it is that the user
interface just varies greatly. I mean, you know, we all
know that Hulu sucks to kind of get around in
terms of the UI, but like some of these can

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be a little little choppy, but they either have like
an Apple TV app or you can cast through your
television via Chrome Cast. Like look at lesser known streaming
services highly highly underrated, Like are you using these to
replace the standard stack or are they supplementary? They're kind
of supplementary because I mean, right now, there's not really

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at least from what I can can see, there's not
like a ton of production stuff that's going on in
terms of like new shows for the fall or whatever.
And I've you know, seen a lot of people complain like, oh,
there's not gonna be new movies or just then the other.
But like there's a lot of older and I'm I'm
using older in a very relative term. I'm talking maybe
five years ago. There's like a lot of older content

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from like when we were at peak too much TV.
There's no way any one person has watched all of
the movies and all of the shows and all that
sort of stuff. So like I'm even having time to
go back and rediscover stuff that I missed the first time.
Around because I was probably busy doing something else. Like
right now, I'm watching season two of American Gods. I'm

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like in the middle of that because I watched the
first season and then didn't really get to the second one.
Before that, I was watching, uh, Green Leaf, which is
the show on Netflix. Well it's it's from Oprah's network
to own network, but it's like this southern black church
family drama kind of ship. It's really good. It's on Netflix.
But like, I'm going back now and like discovering all

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this stuff that I missed before, and I'm like able
to watch it in the vacuum of really somewhat solitude
because the articles have been written about them, the reviews
that went out, the shows are wrapped. It's like no,
now I can like enjoy it for what it is
and its own little capsule and not have to be
influenced by outside reviews or opinions. Yeah. As a as

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a service to our listeners, we dive into whatever is
trending in the Netflix Top ten, just to you know,
let them know whether it's worth watching, if they're any
ideas philosophies buried there in and Uh. This past week,
I watched Smurfs from two thousand eleven, and it was
great to have the uh, you know, the entire critical

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consensus already. You know, all the scholarly articles have already
been written about Smurfs two thousand eleven. So it was
nice to have that body all the way out there.
What is a what's a myth? What's something people think
it's true, you know, to be false or vice versa.
You know, I've I don't know if people still ascribe
to the myth that if you eat before swimming, like

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you'll get cramps or something like that. Just having this
conversation over the weekend. I don't I don't know if
that myth is really well well for personally, I know
that it's not true because I've done it, But I
think it's a myth that might still if I still
if I still sist out there. I mean, that's an
old school myth, Like I think it's probably put out

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there by Big Pool. Like, you know, I think we
were talking about this, Jack, didn't we say it's basically
big Mom was trying to Yeah, it could be like,
come on, chill the funk out for like thirty minutes
before I have to watch you drown in the pool.
Like wait, I think that's what it was, because the
one scientific thing was that just sort of the the
digestive process would draw more blood to your stomach and

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like intestines, and then that may cause someone to be lightheaded.
But like, in no way saying that, like it is
a danger to get in there. We don't make kids
stand still after they eat for like a half hour.
It's all big old guy swimming laps in the pool
during the Oh yeah, like uncle, just be like no,

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I'm trying to see how long I can go without
taking a breath. Kids, Last time I did too lengths.
But you must wait thirty minutes. Alright, let's take a
quick break and we'll come back and talk about what
is happening. And we're back, and we are, as Miles mentioned,

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I think, officially two months away from the end of
the world. Um, the this election, the presidential elections always
seem like they're a big deal. This one feels especially different. Yeah,
a little different. I don't know what is it. Why
Why does this feel sort of we haven't paid a

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lot of attention to campaign finance because it's just seems
beside the point. I think early on there were some
stories that Trump was breaking all sorts of records with
his campaign fundraising, and then Biden came in and he
was beating Trump after he got secured the nomination. And
now it seems like things have kind of slowed down

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for Trump and he's having to spend his own money
or he having to think about it belowing through cash
like we've we've never seen. There were stories over the
weekend that said, right now his campaign and other affiliated
groups have spent over fifty eight million dollars just on
legal expenses. So that is just stuff for like them

(26:20):
trying to you know, do all kinds of things like
enforce n d A s and other things like to
try and be you know, have these sort of like
intentionally sort of cynical lawsuits to try and like buy
themselves a little bit of time. So that bill is
coming up to about fifty eight million or a little
bit over that, and they're seeing an accepted form of

(26:41):
like spending of campaign finance. I mean, you may have
legal things that you have to deal with, but it's
like the book. So for example, among the expenses this
is from an article quote among the expenses paid for
with campaign donations, are costs for lawyers who are seeking
more than one million dollars in damages from a former
campaign staffer who claimed she was the target of s
dual discrimination and harassment by another aid. Other costs include

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costs during the Russia investigation and a lawsuit seeking to
block enforcement of a California law requiring the president to
release his tax returns. So that money is coming out
of the campaign to like just keep the president like
from being having to show his hand or his you know,
dirty laundry. So on top of that, the RNC and
the campaign together have spent over eight hundred million dollars

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since last July, and they had a two hundred million
dollar cash advantage when Biden basically became the presumptive nominee
and they're like, oh, this is well, he's got two million,
this is going to be something. But now that money
would just went into the air, like with those like
weird ass Super Bowl ads that they had. Apparently Brad
par Skill started a fundraising operation where people were like

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getting paid very well and they were in like a
very nice office and there's just a lot of money
leaving without much thought of like how it's coming back.
So now we're at the point where the new newest
headlines you've seen his Trump is not saying like maybe
I'll spend a hundred million of my own What do
you guys think should I put a hundred millions of
my own? He only puts sixty six of his own in.

(28:08):
So I mean, these are the marks of a very
very desperate man. And on top of that, Forbes said
his net worth went down six hundred million in the
last year. So it's I mean, I don't know, I
you can imagine like someone like him is like he
doesn't want to face legal fees coming out of this,
like he must win to just kick the can down

(28:28):
the road a little bit longer. But yeah, this is
the all kinds of all kinds of money going out
and his net worth going down is because so much
of his money is tied up in like hotels and
hotels and everything. Big cities in general, uh are are
getting hit by the coronavirus more the Vancouver Trump Hotel

(28:53):
shut down permanently. Shout out to them. But yeah, it's
it's like some places just like don't They're just like,
I don't know what you want to do with this building.
It's like toxic to like half the people in the country. Right.
That's wild that he can just you know, defend himself
against the illegal things that he has done as part
of his campaign. It's it's kind of like a little

(29:14):
loophole he discovered in the system. There's another like quotes
that have come out of you know, a lot of
this story is sort of investigating what's going on with
the fundraising. Is that a few people on the campaign
are now kind of like, you know, there are some
austerity measures going into place, some belt tightening that's happening,
and a lot of people like, I don't that's not
that's not a good look when we're, you know, around

(29:35):
sixty days out from election day, like you want to
be able to be like, okay, we've we've were ready
to just make it rain, rather than being like, okay,
we gotta we're gonna have to figure out how to
stretch this out. Um. But I think it's a testament
to like all of the confusing sort of ads and
mailers and all kinds of things that this campaign has
to do to try and you know, eke out a
win by literally any means. Yeah, it's especially surprising that

(29:59):
he's especially bad that he's out of money when you
consider that he never pays independent contractors who worked for him.
Uh So it's gotta it's gotta hurt. Yeah, let's talk
about Sturgis. We had talked about the like some early
numbers that are coming in that a hundred cases had

(30:19):
been tied to the smash Mouth concert slash Sturgis overall.
And now, according to a new study which tracked anonymized
cell phone data from the rally, over two hundred and
fifty thousand coronavirus cases have been tied to the ten
day event. So that's a slight increase over a hundred,
two hundred and fifty thousand, quarter million um that that's

(30:47):
I mean. In the beginning I thought, I was like, Okay,
obviously this is this is a super spreader event. And
then it was like, Okay, a man in his sixties
in Minnesota passed away last week after contracting the virus
at the rally. And now they're saying South Dakota as
one of the country's highest in rates of infection because
of this. Uh, the cost they're saying to public health,

(31:08):
it's an estimated twelve billion dollars in public health costs
for this, for this like just sudden like yeah, there
we go quarter million cases there you go, just yeah
for this, like you know, potentially based on like the
lack of insurance and what like the total cost is
for two cases like this out of nowhere could possibly

(31:29):
be up to that. They're not saying that's what it
is because I was an outside GRUS group making that estimate.
But the way they described this, the researchers say, quote
the Sturgis motorcycle Rally represents a situation where many of
the worst case scenarios for super spreading occurred simultaneously. The
event was prolonged, included individuals packed closely together, involved a
large out of town population, and had low compliance with

(31:52):
recommended infection countermeasures such as the use of masks. Have
they looked into weather having all those worst scenarios together
off sets like do they off set each other? Is
that maybe? Do you think someone was thinking of it?
Like the Planters, Like, but what if man just on
the off chance everyone's safe because it's so bad, Like

(32:14):
it's so it's like that it's like the Simpsons episode
where like Mr Burns has all the diseases and the
doctors showing them trying to put it through the door,
Like it seems like you have an immunity because you
have all these diseases trying to fight. That's wild. You
ever think they just had someone from the campaign died
like a month and a half ago at a rally. Yeah,

(32:35):
it's it's bad. I mean, I don't know if there's
that channel like all gas No Breaks. Oh my god,
I was just about to say all gast breaks. I
was just I coronavirus. What is so all gas no breaks?
This channel? This dude goes to literally the most lit

(32:56):
things in the country constantly, whether that's an anti quarantine
event in Sacramento to a Memorial Day hang in Michigan,
to Minneapolis protests to Portland's like he's just there and
you know, and he's kind of doing a very man
on the street, very dry humor and just kind of
letting the people make the content for him, and like
between him and his camera operator and the editing, like

(33:16):
it does its own thing. I'm sure you've seen an
all gas No Brakes clip if I showed you one.
But like, I mean, he was at the Portland protests,
he was at protests in Minneapolis. He was I think
somewhere in Florida for spring break, Like he's been at
all of these places where people are kind of congregating,
and he's just putting the mic out there and letting
people talk. It's wild. Two old bikers. The video for

(33:38):
Sturgeon starts off with this guy just go making motorcycle sounds.
They're at a stage and he has like the post
has his mask on, but he's like all right, and
this guy's just like coronavirus, and like they're talking to
all these bikers. There's like one biker who's like a
problematic dude who's trying to play both side. When a

(34:00):
black guy pulls up and saying, like, funk the police,
and he's like yeah, man, because they're hey, I appreciate it.
Like it's all kinds of awkward. But you also see
the mentality of so many people saying they're either like, well,
I'm gonna die either way. If you're gonna get you're
gonna get it. And also, fun, funk, all funk. All
the liberals and socialists that are telling us to be
scared was sort of like the overarching theme. But yeah,
there's some people who are out there with the great

(34:22):
sound effects though, yeah, well, we will keep an eye
on this, uh super spreader event and coronavirus. I was like, yeah,
that people who ride motorcycles are still doing like the
four year olds motorcycle sounds like that's still well. You

(34:44):
have to you have to watch it because like the
guy is like, I don't know, it's like no, no, no,
that's the way his face CONTs towards it's so good. Yeah,

(35:04):
video like a uh alright, oh my well so uh
the IOC, uh, the International Olympic Committee saw that what
Surgis did and was like, we will raise you a

(35:27):
global scale. How about we take this global gang. Uh.
So obviously the Olympics were canceled, although it didn't seem
like it was so obvious to the IOC because it
took them forever to cancel it because of all the
money that was at stake. But now, uh, they are
basically saying they're they're still gonna get it done in

(35:50):
get it done in one of the heads of the
i said the Games will start as planned on July
quote with or without COVID, and WHOA pretty sure it's
gonna be with COVID, right, al though COVID is not
a sponsor signing on what are you talking about with

(36:11):
or without you COVID? You're not invided my party COVID,
and I don't care if they're not. And so then
another you know, the the shubris and confidence coming from
the IOC is really something. This official goes on to
say it will be the games that quote conquered COVID.
You don't. We don't know that. We don't know that.
But you're saying, well, here's the thing. So so now

(36:35):
we're saying, well, would have would experts have to say,
they're saying virus experts have warned that the Olympics are
unlikely to happen even in as the pandemic won't be
contained in time, and even if developed, a vaccine would
take years to reach some of the poor countries. Speculation
the Games will be canceled had increased there So anyway,
they go on to say that there's another official, like

(36:57):
the Japanese sort of chief executive for the Olympics said, quote,
if a vaccine is ready, that will be a benefit.
But we're not saying we can't hold the event without it.
It's not a precondition and it's still gonna be in Tokyo. Right, Yeah,
that's I don't see how that's that's really gonna be possible.

(37:17):
I know, going up to the Olympics, one of the
things that they were talking about is sort of a
disease preventative measure, was that the beds were going to
be made out of paper. They're gonna be like cardboard,
like twin Bucks beds. I guess I don't know, um,
not that I think that would help, you know, kind
of stave off transmission, but like, you've got so many

(37:38):
people from so many countries, and i mean, look Olympians. Fuck,
there's gonna be so much sex and cavorting and everything
going on between. I mean, you've got these young athletes
at their peak physical prime from all over the world
in one place for like two weeks. I mean, come on,

(38:00):
can't stop the fucking. I mean, did you listen to
Adam rippon episode of Last school ESAs when he was
talking about the Olympic village at the Winter Olympics, And
I was like, yeah, that's what I thought. It's like
when they're like, it can get a nasty in the
Olympic village, Yeah, I can only imagine like and at
the same time, the when you see people so cynical,

(38:20):
and you know, the motivating factor in all of this
is just to stave off the loss of billions of dollars.
It's just reasons like, oh, they really don't give a funk.
And it pains me because Tokyo is like a second
home for me, like all my Japanese family lives in
the area, and the idea that it's you know, could
be ground zero for some really reckless global sporting event.

(38:42):
It was really disheartening. But I have a feeling they
might have to cancel this. They may be like, you know,
because the other thing is the shares of the Density Corporation,
which is like the just massive advertising firm that put
together like the like the largest sponsorship package in the
history of the Olympics. Their stock one like on the
strength of these comments too, So you know, you know,

(39:04):
it's all the game. Maybe it's all there. Everybody's holding hands.
I mean, the the hubrists of the modern Olympic Games
to the i o C as well documented like every
city that it's been in there's been some kind of issue. Yeah,
except for Atlanta. What was that like during like the
development in the lead up to were you living in

(39:24):
Atlanta at the time. No, no, no, I wasn't. I
was still in Alabama at that point. I moved to
Atlanta proper in n so like the years afterwards. But
I mean, having lived here since then, I can't really
say were the Olympics. And maybe I'm speaking from a
non local point of view, but I can't really see
where the Olympics on a long term basis has done
a huge amount of damage. I'm not gonna say there

(39:47):
hasn't been damaged. I'm sure there has been, just in
terms of like relocations and things like that. But even
when the Olympics were in Atlanta, with Atlanta being a
landlocked city, I mean a lot of the events were
in other states. Like there was stuff in Alabama, there
was stuff in South Carolina, there were stuff in Florida.
So everything wasn't right in the city anywhere. That is
wild now that I think about it, that the Southeast

(40:09):
had the Olympics like that recently. That's uh one of
the great great games too. Yeah, seriously, Um, that's Carrie
Drugs here right when she had the wild with her
busted ankle, and that Michael Johnson was like the Big
four year. Yeah, the Gold nikesh so dope air Max

(40:30):
sevens that came out the next year in all Gold
reference to that one of the more popular nake airmax
is to this day. So you know, commercialism works on
us occasionally, But but this, I don't know, this just
seems I could totally see speaking of all gas, no break.

(40:52):
I could totally see capitalism just going just fucking jamming
this one through, just being like we're getting this thing
done one way or another, especially if if Trump gets reelected.
I mean, yeah, the xenophobic patriotism is going to be
off the charts. But isn't there There's already like a

(41:12):
problem with the IOC in the US potentially because of Trump,
right like we're yeah, like because something he's doing, oh yeah,
it's hiss u s could be thrown out of Olympics
over Trump funding threats World Anti Doping Agency warrants. So
because the Trump is threatening to pull funding from the

(41:33):
World Anti Doping Agency and they're like, okay, well if
you do that, then there's a chance we you will
not be allowed to compete. And I know they don't
want that because it's like the one moment where Americans
forget how trash the country isn't like especially after this year.
Oh yeah, we need that ship so bad and and

(41:53):
I need all those like very sappy pre produced packages
talking about like the fucking struggle of this young man
from this land, like from this country who came here
for the American dream and is now making his foster
family happen. Whatever that is. It's always a same ship.
But like we see, it's so good at that ship.
I know they have like a contract through like or whatever,
but they're so good at like whipping up those packages.

(42:14):
Oh yeah, the Chloe Kim one for when she won
her snowboarding medal, uh the last Winter Olympics in I
was like, let's see it, man, let's see her parents
doing everything for her and she's so yep. Shout out
to the producers of the pre produced packages. Alright, let's
take a quick break and we'll be right back. And

(42:45):
we're back, and uh, let's talk about fires. There's a
fine coating of dust around the entire western half of
America right now. There's fires in Washington, there's fires in Denver,
southern California, northern California. And so what one story that

(43:08):
I wanted to look into is there's a like contrarian
environmentalist who is typically like, he's not just a total
right wing quack. He is kind of generally accepted to
be on board with the findings around climate change. But

(43:31):
he's claiming that it's not just global warming. It's weird
because so he's saying that it's more complicated than just
global warming. Is happening. Landscape drives out fires bad. More
global warming equals more fires. There's like a uh an
aspect of it where people were for too long fighting

(43:52):
against forest fires and making sure there were no forest fires,
which just led to too much growth and too much
few being built up. And you know, this person's point
is basically that like the Native Americans used to the
largest fire seasons in the history of California, for instance,

(44:12):
happened when indigenous people's were actually like actively burning controlled
fires to keep things from getting too hot, and the
sort of surplus of fuel that came about because people were, uh,
we're fighting against even small forest fires. Have creative fires

(44:36):
that are so hot that they actually destroy forests, like
actually kill the forest, whereas like normal controlled burns make
it possible for the forest to replenish themselves. Um, but
so it's getting a lot of burn in conservative circles
that this idea of like people are, uh, it's just

(44:57):
like a counter factual conservative of side of the climate
debate quote unquote. But it's like it's not he's not
claiming that the climate isn't a factor, Like the climate
is absolutely a factor, and he acknowledges that it's like
a larger it makes for a longer fire season, And

(45:19):
I don't know, it's just like there are plenty of
like the the whole point about the Native Americans is
interesting because they were using controlled fires to create these
large burns that would make it so that fire season
could be something that they controlled. And now like we

(45:42):
don't have those options available to us because people live
in too many of the places that they used to burn.
So now it's basically we have a more out of
control and longer fire season. Like that's not good. And
most people are acknowledging the complexities that he's like trying
to be Like, nobody's acknowledging this, um So I don't know.

(46:07):
It's just something that is coming up a lot as
people point to the connection between climate change and this
sort of out of control wildfire season. But yeah, he's
not advocating that, he's like so relaxed on the climate
change stuff. He kind of is, well that I think
that's pretty disqualifying for any person who's trying to present

(46:29):
a scientific opinion. But I mean, yeah, I guess it's
your point. He's walking this very I was reading his
Wikipedia page and he calls himself an eco pragmatist. Yeah,
that's what his whole thing is. Like, I'm just I
don't want he's worried that by including false claims or
exaggerated claims in environmentalists like you know, commentary or what

(46:53):
he calls activist journalism, the environmentalist movement is disqualifying itself
among like people who you know, pay attention to this
sort of stuff, where who might not pay that much
attention to it. But it's he's going too far, especially
with this argument. He's like taking it too far in
the direction of this, you know, and his peers are

(47:17):
saying that it's not just me being like, you've gone
too far, sir. His peers are like, no, like he's
kind of being misleading with the way he's talking about this.
Um so so do we so we do we rack
the leaves? Or not? So that's one of the things
he points to as being like people scoffed at that,

(47:37):
but it was actually like talking around a true fact.
It's just, you know, he Trump is such an idiot
that it sounded dumb when he said. I mean, it
sounded quite literally he was talking to Gavin Newsom like
it was his thirteen year old step son, and you
gotta rick these up, we're gonna have a problem. Yeah,
he wildly misunderstood the true fact. More fuel leads to

(48:02):
more out of control. Then you're not doing your chores, Gavin. Yeah.
But the so part of this story, I think it
ties into it is that a I've also seen people
be like, well, it's not that climate change is the
cause of the fires, it's human human behavior doing ship

(48:23):
like gender reveal parties, which is, oh, that's it's a
very dumb way of approach. Isn't that happening last year too?
It happened last year, Yeah, it happens. It's happened before.
And Arizona there was one that was awful. I remember California,
There's been at least two. So this one in particular

(48:46):
was happened while it was a hundred and sixteen degrees
in Pasadena. Um, and people are I want to set
off fucking bang bangs in the fucking dry asked like
parched environment, just to be like, this fetus has these genitals,
let's go celebrate these genitals. Yeah, Like it's what the

(49:13):
funny thing is, like it's brought in now the this
this woman who is a blogger who apparently is like
credited for starting the gender reveal party like fad phenomenon.
Her name is Jenna Carbonitis, and she like went on
Facebook like begging people to stop doing it like some
mad scientists who's like a creation has just gotten out

(49:34):
of hand. But it also like reads really not very sincere.
This is what her Facebook post said, quote, oh my god, no, okay,
very impassioned plea for the people. Uh. The fire that
evacuated parts of California is from a gender reveal party.
Stop it. Stop having these stupid parties, for the love

(49:55):
of God. Stop burning things things down to tell everyone
about your kids, penis, no one cares about you. It
was a hundred sixteen degrees in Pasadena yesterday and this
tool thought it would be smart to light a fire
about his kids. Dick. Toxic masculinity is men thinking they
need to explode something because simply enjoying a baby party
is for sissy's. Oh and of course I'm getting hate messages.

(50:16):
Excuse me for having a cake for my family in
two thousand and eight. Just because I'm the gender review
inventor doesn't mean I think people should burn down their communities.
Stop then puts edit. If you agree or don't hate
this post, please do not put angry or sad reacts
on it, because Facebook punishes pages who get those reactions
by limiting their reach. Facebook wants puppy pictures and not

(50:39):
anti gender reveal screens like oh classy. Like you start
off and then you're like because Facebook algorithm, like what
so I'm guessing they're having a boy? Yeah yeah right,
and that was like your kids penis, that's presumptive. But yeah, yeah,
we know it's a It's really it's weird. What her

(51:00):
what is her defense exactly here? Like she but if
it were a reveal for a girl or whatever female genitals,
that that would be okay, but like, but it's but
it's a dude celebrating a boy, so it's toxic masculinity.
Like I feel like her she could have started off
and like you know, honestly gender revealed parties, like even

(51:21):
being a thing was an l like society. Yeah, I mean,
I shouldn't put that ship out there as toxic and
regressive as funk. Actually, when I think about it, that's
the thing and not not being like I'm sorry a cake. Yeah,
I mean, I I get what she's saying about the
fact that you need to include explosives in a that

(51:41):
it went went from cake to like Tanner wite forest, right, Um,
and I yeah, it is just funny to add some
s e O, some search engine optimization at the end,
Like what is so her biggest fear was it really
that she was going to take a stand on these

(52:03):
or guys like Facebook punishes paces that get those reacts
on their posts, like come on now, um, don't be
frowny face about this post that is in fact infuriating
in every way. Um. Well, guys, I wanna take you
inside the home, one of the many homes of Ellen degenerous.

(52:26):
So this person who used to be on her staff,
who is remaining anonymous because they don't want to could
be in danger. Right, So I'll just read from you
the this interview they did with the Daily Mail, who
you know we've but still still interesting. They said Ellen

(52:50):
was a hero of mine. I thought she was an
amazing person. But before I took the position, people were
warning me not to take it. I was told she
had very high turnover and that I should day under
the radar as much as possible, avoid as much direct
contact with Ellen as possible. Working there was described as
being more like a boot camp. So that's what she
hears heading in, I do love that turnover. Like that

(53:13):
we talk about like a toxic work environment. The result
of a toxic work environment and people quitting all the
time sounds like just a a fun pastry um. But
then she says, when I interviewed with Ellen and Porsche,
I felt much better about the job. They were both charming,
funny and perfectly lovely. I was a little bit nervous,

(53:34):
but it was well paid. So that's you know, that's
not surprising. We have seen that side of Ellen for Aaron,
for her entire public career. Uh. The harsh reality of
the quote degenerous regime soon became clear. After she started.
The staff is confronted each morning with a laundry list
of passive aggressive notes, listing what the entertainer didn't like

(53:58):
about the previous day. That's the thing that I'm most
struck by in this interview is the level of energy
that has to be expanded by Ellen to put this
much negative negativity out there. Um So, violations included a

(54:20):
chef using a guest toilet, so basically the help a
maid forgetting to put a piece of trash on the recycling.
Ellen is terribly obsessive and if anything's out of order
in her environment, she gets upset. There might be twenty
to thirty things every day. We're talking about the finest,
finest details here. Assault shaker out of place, where a

(54:41):
light switch left on, Assault shaker out of place really
is giving me a misery like Cathy Bates and misery vibes,
where it's just like that thing is slightly tilted to
the wrong in the wrong direction. Part of that, I
just remember how she just messed up James CON's legs.
I think I saw it like when I was way
too young. I think I saw it when I was

(55:03):
like five, like in the eighties. I don't know about this,
ya was there a moment? Was that like when he's
trying to escape or some ship. I think when he's
trying to escape, he knocks over a chess piece, uh,
and then puts it back, But he puts it back
for and that's what gets his legs. That's my favorite
villain thing of like when the person thinks they're smart,

(55:25):
but they have every detail like prem down that that
labels slightly askew. Yeah. Um. The staff was getting better
and better and making fewer mistakes, but she couldn't help herself,
so she would lay traps. She would actually leave match
sticks around the house behind cupboard doors, cushions, or books

(55:46):
to see if the staff was cleaning and moving things.
One day, the staff found around eight of them, all
in weird places. The rest of the day became a
race to find them all before she got home and
fired someone. Oh my Jesus, that's really fucking just it's
like shows that you have such a fucked up relationship

(56:07):
with people who are in your employe you know, or
like that you're like, well, if I pay you, I
can I can do what the funk I want because
I'm giving you money, and that means psychological trauma through
these matchstick fucking traps. You've got her staff at work
saying these same kind of having her having the same
kind of control issues and now it's at home to like,

(56:29):
what was this thing about the place twice? If you
need us to get out? Yeah right. I think she
fired people for not liking the consistency of the latte
foam the um because the machine was dirty or some ship. Yeah,
she wanted the coffee maker deep cleaned every day after
complaining that there was too much or too little froth

(56:50):
on her latte um, which doesn't really relate, Like those
things don't relate. That's the milk steamer. Ellen. That just
shows you how disconnected she is from the latte making
process that her staff lives to her about. Oh yeah, okay,

(57:12):
we'll deepp we'll deep clean the coffee machine. Then yes,
then you should deep clean every time. The latte foam
was a mess. And it's like, I don't even know
how the latte foams made. When someone came to the house,
for example, to repair an appliance, she wouldn't hold back.
It could be something as simple as the compressor on
the refrigerator making too much noise. That is that's a

(57:34):
detail that I'm just like, Okay, this person is telling
the truth, because like, you can't make that up. That's
absolutely like there's something that just rings so true about that.
Just like the compressor, one of the top security firms
in Hollywood terminated their contract with her. Some of the
criticisms that this source heard where that Ellen didn't like

(57:55):
the way they walked. I'm not even kidding. They literally
didn't like the way they walked. Literally didn't like the
way they walked. Also how they opened and closed doors.
What like opening closing I get because that's like a
thing I grew up my granmar that door closing, but
opening around the house or anything, Yeah, exactly, But what

(58:17):
are people entering like fucking Cramer and Seinfeld? Like this
is all stuff that I have see like people who
are really on bad terms with their roommates, Like I've
heard them like start to complain, like call them like
this person is like a thunderfoot they everywhere, they just
like stop around, and it's like, you know, that's clearly

(58:39):
because you're just like annoyed by this person. That's not
they don't have especially powerful footfalls, like they're just um.
What One detail from the article that I wanted to
point out though, is that Ashton Kutcher is apparently one
of the people who has tweeted in her defense, but
she and her team have only treated me in my

(59:00):
team with respecting kindness. She never pandered to celebrity, which
I always saw as refreshing honesty. I just wanted to
note that via listening to uh way too many hours
of podcasts, I heard a anecdote about Ashton Kutcher from
somebody who is like a successful writer director in Hollywood,
but one of their early jobs was working for Ashton

(59:22):
Kutcher's um viral video site. Uh. They made that viral
video which the girl has diarrhea in the hot tub. Um.
That is a staged prank video made by Ashton Kutcher's team.
But anyways, this writer director got fired by Ashton kutchers
like main right hand person and asked why he had

(59:44):
been fired, and the entourage member said, Ashton hates your face.
Brouh create punk. I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh, and
then super producer on hose Nay and the chat says
Ashton Kutcher also told to me more that he didn't
think alcoholism is a thing, in order to get her
to lose her sobriety and drink with them. That's right,

(01:00:06):
I remember you talking about that in that book. Wow,
So you know, I think that's the thing, Like, when
you're living on that planet, it's hard for you to
see that it's any different than how you are. You're like,
I don't know, like from all the rich people I know,
like I was pretty chill celebrities, I mean, not a celebrity.
I don't know anybody with an income that's less than
four million dollars a year. But I imagine she would

(01:00:28):
treat those people okay as well. Yeah, totally. Um. Anyways,
the like these details are just like I I don't
have any like not that I really doubted the complaints before,
but these details are just like two like dead on

(01:00:49):
for me to like think that any any of this
is made up. I would love though that this is
just like the best coordinated smear. Like everyone's like these
details are just too good to be and she's like,
I'm telling you, I'm kind it's a coordinated attack against me.
I'm just curious about the psychology where you get that.
What is it because she's so rich that she feels

(01:01:10):
omnipotent and therefore everything should be in her control? Or
is it that like is it from lack prior to
this that now the pendulum just gone completely the other
way and knocking walls down. It's like I didn't have anything.
Now I will have everything I want. Like I'm just
I'm trying to figure out, like how I could you know,
if I worked for Ellen, Like how I can maneuver
that space, how you can win? Right? Yeah? But like

(01:01:34):
I'm assuming this is all like pre pandemic, right yeah,
I mean the stories of her have been long or
you know, anecdotal tales since the early odds from what
I could tell, Yeah, um, yeah, I don't know how
it happens or you know, whether we're just hearing from

(01:01:54):
She's especially dedicated about about how about treating people like
the discipline to write a list every day that has
like twenty to thirty fun ups from the previous day.
Uh that you know, like that takes such energy? Oh yeah,
and that helps you feel superior too, And you don't

(01:02:17):
have to look at your own inferiority complex if you
spend your time looking for the deficiencies outside of yourself. Right,
there's something you know that's that control baby, you know,
and you know Jack and I apologize. I will get
that coffee maker deep clean for you. Uh, I don't
know that lat type phone was a little off, but
I'm telling you that's not where it comes from. But
I will clean the machine onetheless exactly. Uh, Marias, it's

(01:02:39):
been so fun having you on today's episode of The
Daily zeitgeis where can people find you and follow you? Yeah?
So you can follow me on Twitter. My user name
is Maurice Cherry m a U r I c E
c h E r r Y. Also my website is
Marie's cherry dot com. Yeah. Yeah. Uh. Is there a

(01:03:00):
tweeter or some other work of social media you've been enjoying?
Mm hmm. You know, Twitter has been very interesting in
these past few days, I'd say probably particularly today. I
was reading something and this is not really I guess
what I would share as part of this, but like
it was something around Odell Beckham. I'll just leave it
at that. I was like, oh, that's yeah interesting. Um,

(01:03:25):
but I I saw a tweet. I think it was
just floating around somewhere where someone was saying that they
feel like there's just one set of clippers for black
Republicans and they have to check it out like a
library book. And I believe that I believe that hands down,
they've all got kind of that. It's it's either close cropper,
it's like that weird like nineties fade. Mom does like

(01:03:47):
it when you don't go to a black barbershop and
you go to where like the conservative part of town,
You're like, I don't know the barber there seems to
know how to cut my hair supercuts, Yeah, exactly, great
clips for air or something like that. It all works
the same, right, No, it doesn't. Miles. Where can people

(01:04:08):
find you? What the tweet you've been enjoying? You can
find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.
Also my other podcast for twenty Day Fiance with Sophia
Alexander talking about ninety day Fiance. I have a few
tweets that I'm really liking. Uh first one is but
this is from at Sarah Papolardo. At your Papolardo, I'm
gonna let my children set their own wildfire when they're

(01:04:29):
old enough to decide for themselves. I appreciate that. Uh.
This from at Jurassic Park to go Drastic Park updates.
So this was this is the tweet. Some of these
fuckers are way too big. I just love this stupid. Uh.
And then a lot of people were tagging me in
different Ben Shapiro jokey quotes, and so I'll give you

(01:04:50):
a little bit of Ben Shapiro voice. This is from
at GT zero zero. Uh. This is saying, hoes, I
got the gorilla grip, pussy, Ben Shapiro. Gorillas are not
time stronger than a human. If your vagina could apply
the same pressure as a grip of a full glown
silverback gorilla, the damage to a human penis would be devastating.
The cock would be completely annihilated. That's really good. That's

(01:05:14):
really good. You should you should speed up a little
bit at the end because he kind of does that
thing where right, yeah, out. He didn't have breath control,
he didn't take vocal lessons, you know what I mean. Oh,
you can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore Brian
a couple of tweets I've been enjoying soul Nate at

(01:05:35):
m Nate Shamlan tweeted, I gotta get my steps in
for the day, I say, as I marched directly into
the sea. Um and then mcgever med iiver the Andrew
Nadoo tweeted my least popular conspiracy theory is that orchestra
conductors don't actually do anything. Some guy just shows up
and says, okay, I'm gonna direct you, and the musicians

(01:05:58):
play the same but treat it like a makeup ish
thing and they're like, that's great, but you're directing so good.
You can find me on Twitter, Jack Underscore, Brian. You
can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at
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page on a website, daily zygeist dot com where we
post our episodes and our foot notes where we link

(01:06:21):
off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,
as well as the song we ride out on Miles
What are we riding out on? This is a track
from artists I've you don't not played anything from them before,
just came across this recently. Sasha Rudy is the artist
s A c h A r U d Y and

(01:06:41):
the track is called be a Man and it's just
got this like spooky, like sort of retro R and
B but also with some good like futuristic production and
you know the vibe. As I pick on these songs,
they feel familiar yet forward facing. Uh and yeah, it's
just kind of cool. He as a nice soulful voice. UM,
and yeah, it's yeah. Just check it out, you know.

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Let's let's let's ease into the week. It is a
short one, m all right. Well. The Daily Zeitgeist is
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afternoon to tell you what's trending and we'll talk to
He'll then by Heights being mad. I am easy to

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be alive. The last high listens and sent in my
b's like all that God that gone. I got him
in the time by him to listen to. It was

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prompt the size when I was just a kid.

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