Lunchables: Ciggs For Kids, Pelosi Not Scared 11.21.18

In episode 279, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Teresa Lee to discuss the weekly Google trends skim, a deeper look at the attack on diplomats in Cuba, Democrats gripe with Nancy Pelosi, the 30th anniversary of Lunchables, Thanksgiving plans, and more!

FOOTNOTES:

1. Tech’s ‘FAANG’ stocks have lost more than $1 trillion and counting from highs amid tech rout

2. Chiefs vs. Rams was an incredible (college) football game

3. Tekashi 6ix9ine Faces 32 Years to Life in Prison on Racketeering, Firearm Charges

4. The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome

5. Pelosi’s bid for speaker imperiled as public opposition grows

6. Happy 30th birthday to Lunchables, the lazy, still-popular lunch kit

7. WATCH: NICKELUS F - I AIN'T CRIED YET

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to season fifty eight, Episode
three of The Daily eight Guys, the podcast where we
take a deep dive into America's share consciousness using the headlines,
box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on Google and
social meats. It's Wednesday, November twenty one, two thousand eight. Team.
My name is Jack O'Brien, a K four hours ago.

(00:22):
I wanta Daily's guyst nothing to do, nothing to JACKO.
I wanna Daily's guys. Just get me to the airport,
put me on the plane. Hurry, hurry, hurry before I'm
Miles Gray. I can't control my fingers. I can't control
my Brian Jacko. Oh all right, and I'm sure to

(00:45):
be joined as always by my co host, Mr Miles Gray.
We're heres a red podcast. Shaw the hell listen with
the hot Test, Flow, the Spirit of Time with Zeit

(01:07):
Gang across the Land, mock Trump's pot, laugh and cry.
I would go further, but I could not find a
good instrumental version of that song. But every version we
just asked me to do it. Well you just hear that. No, no,
you're right, but that was from Prianka Dos. Thank you

(01:31):
at Prianka El dos for that one, and you even
hand wrote it. Improved that you did it. I get it.
Thank you so much. Not only was that one of
my favorite of your a K vocal performances, but right
as you started it, Eric gets the dog just left
into your arms and you know what, it was the
call of the Wild. Yeah. Also, I read in your

(01:53):
tweets that that was actually a shout out to your
Twitter list boyfriend, as you put it, Cody Crowfoot or Crowsfoot.
It sounds like a loser to me. Yeah, tell me
get on Twitter. You know what. Actually erase that kid.
You're the one that submitted, so you get to shine.
And I see your nice manicure in the photos, So
shout out to your silver fingernails. M I a K.
Was Curtis beat Melissa Jordan's at take me Hippie? Uh?

(02:14):
And we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat
by the hilarious and talented comedian and writer Theresa Lee.
What's up with me? Theresa Lee thought of a roast
for myself. Okay, could maybe work as an a K. Okay,
let's hear I look like I've definitely cried to a
chain smoker song. Oh no, wait, what would that mean? Like,

(02:40):
you know, they're not good musicians, but I feel like
chain smokers. Have you listened to their music? Yeah? I have.
It's very much like like a sad drunk girl, but
it's like trying to be deep like oh man, like yeah,
you're right, New York does make me sad. It's still
like ms right, yeah right appropriate to you look like
the age. Ye know, at every rave you will always

(03:03):
find a young lady crying her eyes out aud inexplicably.
I used to work a lot of raves and that
was like a trope you do, I see, was person
beyond like they cannot be consoled crying whatever. Yeah, like
with all the we're in their candy all over their
neck and all that. So that's gonna be my new
Twitter handle, Inconsolable Raven Teresa. You've been here before, but

(03:25):
we're going to get to know you even better in
a moment. But first we're gonna tell our listeners what
we're talking about today. We're gonna do a quick Google
trend skim. We're gonna say happy birthday to one of
the most delicious and unhealthy lunch snacks that we all got.
Delicious and least nutritious exactly. I'm gonna talk about why

(03:46):
I might have been wrong about the Havanna thing, the attacks,
the sound wave of attacks, or whatever magical attacks that
are making diplomats heads explode. We're gonna talk about the
challenge to Nancy Pelosi. We're gonna talk about white supremacists
actually being taken seriously by American law enforcement. We're gonna

(04:09):
talk about a lot of things, and then we're gonna
wrap it up with just some talk about what we're
up to for Thanksgiving, favorite Thanksgiving memories, favorite Thanksgiving foods,
just you know, all around reminiscence. But first there, we
like to ask our guests, what is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh? Um,
I searched do you have to tip magicians Bay? Because

(04:33):
I went to know well, I went to the Magic
Castle been. It was for a birthday, but I was like,
I've heard that sometimes when you walk around people will
do magic at you. And I was like, oh, do
I need to get cash? Because my friend's sister had
like kind of covered you know, the evening. But I
was like, do I need to bring tip? And don't

(04:54):
because they can just take the money from your pocket
using magic. Right, they don't need money because they have magic.
But have you guys ever been Oh yeah, yeah, there's
like a there's just like a magician that's on the
wall who I imagine was like a you know, famous
at the time and good and whatever. I don't know him.
I'm sorry if I'm butchering your culture magicians. But he's

(05:16):
like in Yellow Faith and his pictures like all over
the wall. Yeah, he's got like it's like his name
is like ching su Wu or yeah, and it's like
a white guy with like a you know, like a
braid and wearing Chinese garb and his photos all over
like some stick from like the it's an old one.
I'm sure he's dead, but so I don't. I don't know.

(05:38):
Maybe it's like homage. But it's weird. It's like sort
of weird. It's not it's weird. No, that's definitely a problem.
The pictures that are in the Magic House are so
funny because you also see what I feel like inspired
even Joe Bluth like that, because like you'll see like
the overly done headshots are like you are taking this

(05:58):
very seriously. Eight But yeah, yeah, Yellow I can imagine
what that what that act even was like like already
I come from the Orient. Yeah, oh my god, so
many guns. I feel like that was a big stereotype
in early American culture, like in the twentieth century, that

(06:23):
like Asian people are magical. Yeah, I mean, you know,
they could be, right, but I mean, yeah, we live
in all all along and ship exactly what how the
magic I think is actually just shame based culture. That's
our magic. Do we think that people listeners know what

(06:43):
the Magic Castle is? The Magic Castle is a restaurant
and magic club and hotel I believe. Also it's a
it's a club. Yeah, it's an actual castle off Franklin
in Hollywood, near Yamashiro restaurant. Another great place in weird
quasi Asian things. But it's a private club. You can't
just pull up and put like go there, Like someone
has to be a member, and the member can grant

(07:05):
access to a group of people to go in there.
And then it's like, you know, it's like getting on
the Haunted Mansion, Like there's cool stuff inside that's kind
of freaky spooky, and the piano that plays itself and
all this. It kind of feels like a little bit
like Disney Ish because there's secret I mean, there's like
different rooms I can go into. Magic just happens. But yeah,
it's cool. It's actually looks like I mean, you guys

(07:25):
know this, but for people who don't, it looks like
a castle. It's yeah, so it's kind of cool to
go inside and there's magicians just roaming around, like magicians
hang out there, and then there's like ten different magicians
doing up close magic shows, which is like you just
sit across the table from them, or like twenty people
sit around and they're just doing wild magic. The last
time I went was one of the guys who consults

(07:46):
for David Blaine, and then I learned a lot more
about even how the magic trick game works, how like
these like these are like the producers who work with
the artists who they're like, okay, you could take this
trick on the road or whatever this French magician. But
it's also weird because they make you wear suit in there.
You have to dress up, and then by the end,
like everybody's just fucking smashed in there, so it just

(08:07):
up looking at the end of a wedding, so you
know whatever. Yeah, it's fun though, it is. I I
have discovered that I'm more of a fan of magic
than I would have liked to believe. Yeah, I really
liked the David Blaine Special and then I watched Magic
for Humans. Yea, this is crazy. I like, yeah, I

(08:28):
like it. I like magic because I like uh, I
like getting lied too, So it's yeah, yeah, there's something
till you meet until you meet that magician who was
actually using magic. Right, this is a rom com? I know, Wait,
how has there not been a magician rom com yet?
I'm sure there. Yeah, it's called now you love me

(08:49):
right exactly? Now you don't? And yeah, I mean one
of the greatest magic tricks that magicians pull off is
making a lot of women like them. It seems like, yeah,
which is strange. Yeah, there's all The pattern is always
like old school magicians. The pattern like they use always
kind of cringe e like smooth guy talking. Yeah, it's

(09:10):
super pick up artists. Yeah. Yeah, he's like, don't try
and fall in love with me. Now, don't worry you're
ginger itis And how totally handled that, Teresa. What is
something you think is overrated? Um? I think that living
a long time is overrated because I feel like not.
And I don't mean this in a morbid way, because
I'm not like, oh, we should all die. But I

(09:30):
just feel like, as a society, we're always talking about
like trying to live a long time, but then you're not.
Actually you spend so much time trying to figure out
how to live longer with that actually just living that
makes sense, Like there's a lot less living in the
moment and more like, Okay, how can I pack everything
you know I want to do so I can make
more money so I can buy more things than live longer,
and then your life is over and then you're like, oh,

(09:53):
the whole point was just to live, and you didn't
do that given your death experience or something. No. I
like to think about death and life a lot, but
I just think, um, the whole idea because whenever you die,
like it's going to be now, you know, Like I
think we think of death as far away thing where
it's like, Okay, when it happens, I'll have be able

(10:13):
to look back on all this experience I've banked and
be like I have this, but you won't, like you're not.
I mean, most of the time we're not looking back
on even now I have, we have like whatever, decades
of experience and we still think like there's so much more.
So wherever you are, you're still going to have more.
So I don't know. I just think it's not about
like thinking too far in the future. Yeah, we've hang
by a thread, you know, And that's true, like you

(10:33):
never know, you never know when it is time for
YouTube your physical existence to cease. Yes, I like to
look at it. Yeah. Yeah. And also living a long
time is not necessarily good. I think I don't think
we should all die young, but it's not inherently good. Yeah,
if you live super long, you're just going to find
more problems to deal with, and you're probably gonna have

(10:54):
more good moments, but all some more bad and all
kind of balances out, so it's not inherently a good thing.
I think if you're in a culture where people respect
their elders and like want to learn from you, like
learn all the things that you've learned, then I think
it can be valuable. But right, yeah, I think it
can also suck if you're just like put away in
a home somewhere and it's just like and you're a

(11:16):
burden to the people you love and yeah, but I
think that's more of a that can be a cultural thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, what is something you think is underrated?
I think, uh, smoothies are underrated. I bought well, I
bought a blender, and I it's not like super fancy,

(11:39):
just black and Decker Target. It's actually okay, it's not
even that great. But um yeah B and D from
t um and making those ses. No, but I've been
making smoothies every day, and I don't know, there's something
really empowering about it because I don't even cook a lot.
So just being able to make something that's so simple,
even though I'm like I could just eat this fruit
and you know you're separately, but I put it in there.

(12:01):
I'm like, I made a thing and I walk around
my house and sip it and it's just like one
little thing I did to start the day off, and
I feel accomplished. Nice. Yeah, it's you're making something, even
if it's just like the easiest thing to make. It
is it is technically like cooking. Well that's what the
thing about cooking. Yeah, you get feedback instantly because you
sip that this is delicious. They all say is awful.

(12:24):
But I was going to say that yogurt is probably
too old. If that's such a thing. Wait, what's this? What?
What what inspired you? Did you see someone else live
in smoothie life and you're like, I need to get
on that way. No, I'm not good at that because
whenever I see people doing something like I should do that.
But then I don't know. I had to buy one. Well,
I bought one because I wanted to make Margarita's. And
I don't even drink, but it was like I had

(12:46):
people over and I made Margarita's and so I bought it.
And then I was like, well, now I have a
slender And then I was like, oh, I've always wanted
to eat more fruit. So then I just started doing it.
But I just started and then and then I did
it every day, and so I made a habit. Do
you have a recipe that you recommend her, like one
that you're like, oh, that's actually good. Kind of take

(13:07):
the like a couple of things I want to go
grocery shopping that, and then I kind of mix and match.
I usually like, have a banana, I'll put them in
the fridge. I'll put like a banana frozen banana in
the fridge and then it's easy to blend and then
I don't know. I like berries. I like mangoes peach.
I've been doing like mango peach a lot. Yeah, but
you know, can't go wrong with red berries. Yeah. I
like to get a lot of the ship that I

(13:27):
would normally have to choke down in a salad and smoothie,
just like the leafy stuff. You put that in there
and just jam that in under the cover of a
banana or two, uh, and it works out well. What
is a myth? What's something people think is true you
know to be false? Okay, this one's maybe on the
more a cynical side, but the myth that you should

(13:50):
always keep going and never quit, specifically in comedy or industries,
because I think, like, I don't mean like you should
give up if you're sad about it, but like people
are always like so, I think people get insecure when
someone talks about quitting and everyone's like, oh, no, no no, no,
you gotta keep going, like you're gonna make it. But
some people just don't want to keep going. And I
think we get really insecure about if someone quits, what

(14:12):
does that mean about me? Like I don't want to
quit it's like they no, like yeah, And I think
it's like I don't know, sometimes people just change their
mind or move on. Yeah, And I think it's totally okay.
It does. It's not a failure if you try something
you don't like it. Um. But I also think the
whole idea like everybody's gonna make it because it is
a myth, because everybody who wants to and works at

(14:33):
it and keeps improving will make it. As long as
you're like always looking at yourself and like, okay, what
did I Where am I falling short? How can I
get better? But people who just I mean, there's people
who just stick around doing the same thing at the
same act for three years or whatever, and they're probably
not gonna make it until they change what they're doing.
So I think that's a myth because we kind of
just tell that to ourselves over and over and I'm like, well,

(14:54):
we should stop saying that because that's not true. It
doesn't it's not hopeless. But if you want to get better,
you got get better. Never give up, no matter what.
It doesn't just mean like pulled onto the whole of
the ship. As long as you can, you got it.
You have to take your craft seriously and hone it,
and like, yeah, those people who do have experienced success.
But I think, yeah, there's some people literally just like,

(15:16):
well I've been hanging around for years, what's going on? Yeah, Yeah,
if you're a sinking ship, you can you don't drown,
you can learn to swim and then maybe you want
to be on an island instead, I don't know, or
take some kids life jacket. Yeah, And I also think
people's ducks don't do that. Adapting what you're definition of
making it is is important. And like being uh interviewed

(15:40):
Barry Son and felt the guy directed Men in Black
and like he was. He said that one of the
like he'd never had a roadmap for his career and
like his career was his way of figuring out what
he wanted to do, so he would like just try
different things and stuff. And I think that's a valuable
way to think about it. That I'm sort of the
same way because like I started doing comedy doing UCB,

(16:02):
and then I just couldn't like the hustle of it.
I just didn't have the heart for it, and I
was sort of like trying to do I just realized,
like it wasn't feeling totally right, and I just tried
to be less rigid about defining what like what my
career could be or what I have to offer. Yeah,
and I just tried to bunch of it and look
here I am on a Second Way podcast, right, you
know what I mean? And keep in mind that people

(16:25):
who we look at and say, oh, well, they've made it,
don't think they've made it right. Well, then they also
don't think like if you know someone for one thing,
they might be trying to jealous of some other thing
like that. Like what you're saying abotub, I would never
have thought that's something you're doing, because you're doing very
well doing what you're doing. But I also recently have
been you're welcome, thank you. But I recently had that
thought because I was like, I feel overwhelmed saying yes

(16:47):
to everything, and I was like, I'm not trying to
do this. Like if someone's like, hey, do you want
to do this character show whatever, I'm like, oh, I
gotta like write a new character for the show. Because
someone asked me, I'm like, well, that's not a thing
I'm working on. I could just say, oh no, I
don't have a thing I'll just feels hyeah, because if
it feels right, you might be saying, yeah, hell, y'a'll
do that. But if you start feeling like yeah, there's
no reason to drag yourself through it. And you also

(17:09):
have a finite amount of time and energy. So yeah,
like because forever about yeah exactly, it all ties together.
We should just send the show right now. That was
such a good search history over and under that we
could just end the show now. That makes it reminds
me of the person who probably is trying to live
long is the comedian who hasn't changed their bit my

(17:31):
hands as long as possible without changing anything about myself.
All right, let's do a quick check in with Google
uh and the Google trend skin. One of the things
that's trending is Facebook stock, because it has been falling
for weeks and months and this is gonna be the
longest quarterly losing streak that Facebook has ever had as

(17:52):
a company. The latest drop is because of that New
York Times profile that we talked about a couple episodes back.
It was revealed that just just sort of the inner
workings and how Cheryl Sandberg, who is supposed to be
like the rational humanists, like sort of a human ambassador
to uh is just like really kind of head down,

(18:17):
bullish and just like charges through problems and is not
who I think a lot of people thought she was
based on this profile. And yeah, just all around, tech
stocks are having a bit of a losing streak. I
actually heard a new anagram. Fang is acronym is what

(18:37):
they're calling the new like I had heard gaffa before,
which is Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, but fang uh, Facebook, Amazon, Apple,
Netflix and Google Netflix. The conversation so much money stop? Yeah, well,
well the thing I feel like from people I've talked

(18:58):
to you, I think their ideas they think Google or
Apple is just going to have to buy them out.
So they're like, we'll just deficit spend till the wheels
blow off this thing. But they're so big now that
it seems weird, Like what would that That would be
the largest acquisition in the history of acquisition. I don't know. Hey, look,
if you guys know how that business model runs with
all that, what do they spend like twenty billion? I

(19:19):
don't know, it's crazy, but I mean it would make
a lot of sense for Apple because people have been
talking about how Apple is like perfectly situated to have
this huge content offering, but they haven't really like done it.
They've just been like sitting back and being like, yeah, wait,
wait till you see what we come up. We've been
saying a lot of cool names, and I'm like, Okay,
let's see where you going with it. But I have

(19:40):
not seen anything. So maybe maybe Apple. But they started
doing they have video podcasts on Apple. It's like a
small tap but it's not quite podcast. They're kind of
like episodic. So it makes me wonder if on the
other side, Netflix is going to start doing audio. Yeah,
I think podcasts. I know that there are people out
there who are investing and raising money for a Netflix

(20:02):
of podcasting, So that's coming your way. Uh, yet another
product and we won't be good enough for that. But
another thing that's trending is rams because it was this
did you Okay? I missed it because I am still
My family just moved and so we do not have

(20:25):
anymore I would have watched it, I swear, but my
kid plus uh no. But people are saying it's the
best Monday night football game of all the time, maybe
the best football game ever played. Everyone was watching it
besides me, what what did you see, Tresa? What did
you see? Watched the whole thing. I watched um like
most of the first half. Um, and then yeah, I

(20:46):
mean it's very excite cool watching like these teams were
in the last few years. Not I think the Chiefs
would played well last year, but but there is cool
to kind of see, like, you know, like a team
that's not like the Patriots or whatever, like playing really
really hard and like you know, got like Mahomas. It's
so cool to watch. So but it was. It was
very Yeah, it was an exciting game because I think
it just kind of was like very close and yeah tight.

(21:09):
And I didn't watch the end, so I don't know
how that ended up playing out. But yeah, I just
I know the final score. But for the Cheets, the
Rams on the Rams one alright, the Los Angeles Rams.
The Rams uniform looks fake. It looks like when you
have like a Disney movie about football, look like, yeah,
it's just like so yellow it Los Angeles football player. Yeah. Well,

(21:37):
I I feel like Kings a lot of the time.
Is the name of the team. Um, they are my
favorite squadron. Yeah, the Rams and the Chiefs are basically
the two best teams this year, and they're following this
trend which is like all offense not a lot of
defense because they've changed the rules in the NFL to
basically protect the players from getting injured too badly, and

(21:58):
by making it less violent, they have actually made it
more athletic and like more of a passing based game
than it was even before. And the Rams and the
Chiefs both have really great passing games, so they did.
There were a lot of flags, So I wonder if
that there's more more of that now. Yeah. I haven't
been keeping up as much this season. Yeah. Yeah. And

(22:19):
then racketeering is also trending, which I was confused by.
But Miles, you were saying Takashi six nine, Dude, I
don't know if you guys know who Takashi six nine.
I mean generally the listeners and anyone in this room.
He is a rapper. Who you know? He's just a goon. Uh.
He keep calling himself the King of New York and

(22:40):
cause a lot of problems. He's not a great rapper.
He had some child pornography charges that he that he
skirted a while back. He looks like a unicorn, preppuccino. Yeah,
he's just like, I don't know, he's just part of
this new crop of rappers who I'm not really feeling
and like he's just wildly problematic ship that he does
and says, uh, you know, like using the N word

(23:03):
when you're not black ship like that. But anyway, Uh,
he basically got caught up. He's facing I think thirty
two years to maybe possibly life depending on how like
while these charges go for racketeering because of his involvement
with the Nine Trade Bloods gang in New York and
he's always said he's a he's a Blood or whatever,

(23:24):
and there's been all kinds of back and forth about
his gang affiliation. But essentially, like he's caught up with
racketeering charges like from like you know, intimidation stuff with guns,
like a shooting that happened at the Barclay Center earlier
this year. Uh, And I think, yeah, people many people like, wait,
Takashi's going to jail because he's a huge rapper. I
don't get me wrong, Like a lot of people like

(23:44):
him for whatever reason. But yeah, so I think a
lot of people like, yo, wait, what's racketeering? And you
know that's when you use a criminal acts to basically
make money or take money from people over and over again.
So it's usually like protection like when they're like, oh,
I'd hate for something bad to go wrong with you
this year, like the mob days, like that kind of

(24:05):
protection ship is like you know, you're running the mill racketeering,
but yeah, just you know, it seems like he got
caught up with some organized crime shit and we will
see what happens of the young man. He's got an
album coming in I think next week or some shi
feel like he's really into Harley Quinn because he looks
kind of like her, his hair looks like her. Yeah,
when he's had an interesting like he kind of came

(24:26):
out of nowhere, I mean before like they always show
pictures of him like how he was not living this life.
But you know, I don't know. I don't get these
young kids with the rainbow teeth rainbow teeth. And also
you can tell because I remember the Breakfast Club, like
Charlemagne was like, hey man, you gotta you gotta tone down.
You're like cocky behavior, like you're going to get in trouble,
like whether it's with other people in the streets who

(24:48):
are who are really gangster or legally because you are
living wild and dangerously out here, and it seems like
the latter may have happened, so people knows his clean.
It's we'll keep an eye on that, and we're gonna
take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're

(25:15):
back and a story that we might have teased already,
but we're finally getting to it. I never like to
admit this. This is why I've been putting it off
so long. I might have been wrong about that whole
Havanna diplomat attack that then became the just diplomats in
both Havanna and in China being attacked by some invisible,

(25:39):
mysterious ray gun. What was your initial take is that
the initial was that it was mass hysteria. Oh, I
think I remember this being on an episode I was on.
Ok Yeah, I talked about it nonstyle. I've really gone
out on a limb on this one. So why are
you preparing the crow for eating? Okay? So the New
Yorker came out with a dive on the subject, and

(26:01):
it kind of just implicitly dismisses the idea that there's
mass hysteria, Like they don't even really go into that
as an option, And it's mostly based on the fact
that they put this like dream team together of neurological
researchers and medical experts, and they examined all the brains
and there were definitely cases where people were like, uh, yeah,

(26:23):
I too feel sick and nauseous, and I was in
that sam you know office, And they examined those people
and they were like, oh, but you don't have these
scrambled brains that we've been seeing on these brains games.
But it seems like they're able to look at the
people who were hit by this ray and say, yes,

(26:44):
this shows definite signs of actual physical trauma, like something
definitely happened, verifiable damage, something happened, we just don't know what,
which makes this story, in addition to me being wrong
about it, it it makes it like way more interesting because
that means that there's a weapon out there that not

(27:07):
only do we not have access to the weapon, we
don't even know how it's physically possible that there's a
thing like technologically we don't know the physics yeah, of
like how this is, like what it's doing to people's
brains or how it's happening. So it suggests there's like
a blind spot in the scientific method that like the

(27:27):
Western world has been pursuing and communist countries have like
burrowed into some other of the orient. Well, but there's
all sorts of you know, Soviet science projects that were
under cover that we you know, never found out about,
and that maybe that's what's going on. A lot of

(27:48):
people suspect it's Russia, but it's I mean, this article
definitely leaves you with more questions than answers, but it
also made me much more I'd say I'm still more
eggnostick then, like firmly on one side, but pulled you
away from definitely, Yeah, exactly, I'm curious about So like

(28:09):
if you say they have different science, it's more like
on a military level, right, which we probably also do,
because if every country is kind of like trying to
hide the science, it is probably hidden from their people
to write. It's not like it's like everybody there knows
it's been published and we haven't just read about it. Right,
It's like the new taser. People walk around like, oh,
you don't have a sonic, right, but our military still

(28:32):
can't figure out what's happening. But if there was like
a big scientific I mean, I don't know what this is,
but like let's say, yeah, there's something like, oh, now
you can have telekinesis. I feel like it's that's huge
enough for humanity that as a scientist, even if you're
working for the Soviets or China or whatever a different country,
I feel like it would break through the secret layer

(28:52):
because it's just so much like it's on a scientific level.
So they not published that, I say, did they not
talk to other science? You know what I mean? Like confusing?
It wouldn't just live if it feels like in the
realm of conspiracies where it's like it's probably something, but
it's I doubt as this whole secret thing where they've
unlocked time travel and we just don't know, because it
would be really hard to just keep that even within

(29:14):
like a Miller's hairry. I mean, if if it is
in that line, it could be something that they were
working on and then they just stumbled upon like a
different application. They're like, wait a second, with these couple tricks,
we actually have this whole other thing like keep that
low though, which is actually how most scientific discovery happens anyways,
is by accident and yeah, it's entirely possible that like

(29:37):
wasn't for breeze meant for something else before, yeah, or penicillin,
but is probably the more important one. Yeah. Sure, you
know that's another reason why I think, look, Trump, you
should look at this to Mr President and be like, oh,
we're even found behind in the weapons world where we
got wacky ship we don't know about, or if this

(29:59):
is the case it is in fact a weapon we
don't know about. But yeah, it seemed like yet earlier
today or the day before, they were like I saw
an interview with the mother of a diplomat who was
in China and like sort of how at first they
thought it was there and the other things, but they
also noticed that the pets that lived with her were
also like avoiding rooms that they were hearing stuff in,

(30:21):
and like the dogs wouldn't want to go back to
the apartment. So I mean, you know, if the rumors
are true, dogs are pretty good at hearing. Yeah. At
the same time that that also sounds like the sort
of ship you hear from people who are like my
house is haunted. My dog will never go in that room.
It's got an evil spirit in it. But you know,
there's something about that maybe it's not an evil spirit,

(30:42):
but maybe there's something we don't know, like because there
are reports and sometimes like very quote unquote haunted areas,
multiple separate people will have stories and then it'll be like, oh, well,
maybe it's not ghost, but what is it, Like maybe
there's something we don't know that's causing like that energy
or something like it's a wires we could I mean,
it could literally be like something like that, like maybe

(31:04):
it's some whatever that's built on a tilda and it
makes you feel uneasy, like it could be something like that.
But but if you don't know what it is doesn't
mean there's nothing. Yeah, we've covered how in pre sound
a lot of the times, which is like a sound
wave that the human area is incapable of hearing. It's
like below the register that we can hear. But a
lot of the times when there's like a really haunted

(31:25):
area or something, it can cause hallucinations and people and
it also like just gives you this feeling of dread.
So you believe in hauntings, I believe that there's a
scientific explanation for most hauntings. Wait wait, wait, wait, hold on, wait,
go on. Then first, so of ghosts. So like if
there's like a pipe that is like, oh okay, so

(31:47):
you're not saying like there's some like well you can
measure it. It's called it's called in presound, and like
because we can't hear it, we're not aware of it,
but it's like giving you what are what are things
that cause him? For sounds though that are like machine
means or like all all sorts of things. But then
that's what the ghosts want you to think. I think
we can may share a quick thing that that made

(32:07):
me think of because I don't think I believe in aliens,
and I never thought, no, okay, I don't, but I
want to share the story because I I don't believe
in aliens. It's fun to read about. But the other
night I was about to go to sleep and I
was just kind of having like a more panicky night,
and I kept seeing this you know, sometimes it's a
panicky night. And I saw, yeah, Sunday and night, and
I saw this light that kept blinking and I couldn't

(32:29):
tell where it's coming from. And I started freaking out
because I was like, okay, it's not there. It looks
like it's coming from under my bed, and I was like,
there's nothing there, and I looked and I was like,
it's probably just something, and I'll it's my phone or something.
And I was like, I'll just go to sleep and
ignore it. But then my boyfriend's thought too and he
was like, Okay, let's figure it out. And then we
got spooped. And this is why I'm like, I don't
believe in aliens, but for a moment, I believed in aliens.

(32:50):
That's the thing. I'm like, this is how you know
if you really believe in it or not. When you're
in a situation of unknown, what's your first thought? And
my first thought was like I'm scared, which meant that
deep down I probably believe in that, because otherwise I
wouldn't have been scared. But then we figured out it
was the way that my USB drive was facing. It
was reflecting off of the mirror and like basically causing

(33:11):
this really weird. It was a weird looking light and
it was spooky. So you think we'll just go back
to your ani thing. You think, with the universe being
so vast, that we're the only life forms in existence
in the entire universe. Well, I don't think that necessarily,
but I don't necessarily believe in the whole like aliens
are coming to abduct us to study us. Yeah, like,
I don't think they're coming through my window. Let's talk

(33:32):
after this. I will show you some freaky stuff. We'll
call my uncle. All right, Let's talk about Nancy Pelosi. Yeah, Nancy. Well,
you know, so there's a lot of new incoming a
freshman Democrats into the House. And if you campaign on
the idea that, like, I will oppose the leadership of

(33:53):
Nancy Pelosi, A lot of incumbent said that in their
re election campaigns, and so now there was a letter
release or sixteen signatories to the letters saying that they
would oppose Nancy's claim to the speaker's gavel to become
Speaker of the House. Now, with the math of like
this confort of this process of her being confirmed or

(34:13):
you know, just sort of chosen as the speaker, she
can only afford to lose fifteen votes, like fifteen no
votes from the Democrats. And they're sixteen signatories to this letter. Now,
we don't know if that means that they might they
might say they oppose it and might vote present at
the like on the floor vote, which would just mean
it's like a half asked no, which wouldn't count as
the full no. But you know, it's a lot of

(34:35):
people are like, oh, this kind of messes up the
math for her to become speaker. But you know, as
much as I have take issue with some of Nancy's positions,
the people who signed to this letter are mostly these
like boring centrist white male Democrats are more conservative who
are already like in districts where Nancy Pelosi is like

(34:57):
the a fucking just ghost liberal liberal boogie everything. She's
the Baba Duke Okay of politics basically in their districts.
And I think for them, they just they need to
outwardly show that, like you know that woman you're so
afraid of, Like I'm against that, that's why you voted
for me, and like I'm I can't just have my
my first vote will be a no against her leadership.

(35:17):
Um I thought that, Yeah, I thought that the opposition
was coming from like the aocs and the no one.
Even Alexander Kazo Cortez herself was like, look if you
look at that, this push from these sixteen people, if anything,
creates a vacuum for a more conservative speaker to moving
for the for Democrats. And I mean, like when you
look at the people who like are putting their names

(35:39):
in the in the ring, like Marcia Fudge from Ohio.
I mean, she even said like she's kind of falling
back a bit. She hasn't, you know, initially said I
I all challenge her, you know, I'll challenge her to
become speaker, but she's sort of falling back. And a
few other people were notably not signatories to that who
said they might challenge Nancy Pelosi. So it's you know,

(36:00):
I don't know, I don't know what's actually gonna go
on with it, but I think, you know, when you
look at it, I understand what you know, people on
the like left of Pelosi feel is like, you know,
it's time. It's been too long, we need new leadership.
And look what's happened like over the last few years,
like the Democrats have just been become stagnant. But I
think for such a crucial two years coming up, there

(36:23):
is something to say about her experience. Granted, I don't
like how she likes to play ball or do bipartisan
you know, any kind of bipartisan activity, especially with this
white house, but it would be good that she can
at the very least transmit this knowledge to whoever is
going to take over. And I'm I could live with
this if Nancy's like, okay this next two years and
then if we keep the house all handed over that

(36:48):
right when when she said if Hillary one, she said
she would step aside or step down, you know, like
because she there would be a new era. But I
think she knows too. I mean, she has acknowledged that
it needs to happen, um. But I think a lot
of people, you know, especially when you look at a
lot of these super progressive Democrats that have come in,
they weren't taking pac money or you know, all this
other ship and or corporate money. Nancy Pelosi does. And

(37:11):
there's a you know, the new wave of guys aren't
really feeling it. But she's still decently progressive. Like I
do have to say that. I think it's the fact
that there are there are times that she makes decisions
that are like just our head scratchers, Like recently she
agreed to a rules change that would like basically require
supermajority to raise taxes on the bottom eight percent, which

(37:33):
I get on the surface, you're saying, Okay, it would
be harder to raise taxes on like just the bottom eight,
but you're also giving veto power to these Republicans who
will never ever uh you know, vote for a tax increase.
So it's like, we don't need that right now because
the real like don't agree to these rules changes when
we're trying to have a real seismic shift in like

(37:54):
tax policy too, and begin setting the table for that
as well. And just to clarify, Alexandro Casio Cortes is
not one of the names on the list. No, I
mean no, no, what do you mean to to No, No,
she she isn't signed to it. It's you know, it's
a very just in theory. Likes the idea of maybe
getting some fresh blood in. But she was yeah, and

(38:16):
she said, you know, for her, she was looking at it,
you mean, not to become speaker to oppose there's six Yeah. Yeah,
I mean she's always said we've needed change, but she
hasn't been like I'm going to vote no, because she's like,
as far as I can see, the people who you know,
this letter's whacked because it didn't really even specifically say
what their their gripes were with her, it was just
saying it's time for something new, and they didn't even

(38:37):
offer an alternative. So it just feels like it's like
probably from more conservative areas and they want to it's
just a political thing. Well, Linda Sanchez is like one
of the few people on there who's voted less with
Trump than any of the people and this like she's
probably the most progressive person on that list of people
who did sign. But a lot of these people like

(38:58):
you know, Seth Moulton, Massachusett, it's who totally fucking took
a l out of town hall and a couple of
days ago, he was like trying to tell his constituents.
He's like, hey, you know, people Democrats really want to
get rid of Pelosi and the whole there goes no,
and he was just like boom. He's like, yeah, I
was just kidding. Yeah, but you know, we'll see. We
don't know. I mean, yeah, I just think again, I

(39:21):
can handle it if it's just two years, because I
don't know what the alternative is, because she you know,
there's like now is not the time to be more divided.
But yeah, she's for sure like a very like lifelong politician. Yeah,
and That's what I worry about is like you know,
and I said this before, is that if she wants
to work with Trump, I don't think that's going to
help us or progressives going into like handing him wins

(39:45):
that he can totally claim all the credit for being
like I lewered prescription drug US. You know, the infrastructure
said that I did. And that's where it gets a
little tricky. So you know, but based on the options,
I don't know, right, I mean, I would love Karen
Bass to uh step up. But see who's Karen Bess?
She like heads the Progressive Caucus, African American woman, she

(40:05):
was the rand the State Assembly of California. She's you know,
I could see her. She's experienced, and I like her
progressive streak more than Nancy Pelosi's. But again, I don't
know if the first thing going into these very crucial
years like just a eviscerating in fight, you know, democratic
fight is going to be the best thing. Although this

(40:26):
would be the time to have it, right, would be
now as opposed to in a couple like or in
a year. It's now would be the time to have
an in fight. And you know, I was listening to
somebody was saying that, like, when I'm thinking about how
important Nancy Pelosi is going to be over the next
two years, I'm thinking about the last two years when

(40:47):
you know, Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were like kind of
the main faces of the Democratic Party because they were
opposing Trump and they were the only people to oppose him.
But this person was pointing out that actually, in the
next two years, you're going to have the people who
are running for president on the Democratic side who are
going to be the faith of the Democratic Party. But

(41:08):
the Speaker has tremendous power and you know, setting the
agenda of what kind of legislation is going to go
to And that's where I get like, let's not water
down ship or you know, right's there's a potential for
ship to go wrong, and who knows. I don't want to,
you know, I'm not a wise man. Do you think
that there's a bit of like just playing the politics
game though, when they're saying like, oh, we gotta get

(41:29):
through these next two years, like oh, we don't like
her either, because then like then the two years and
then it's the election and the like, there's always kind
of going to be the next benchmark. Even if the
Democrats when or even like if let's say we whatever
Trump gets elected out of office, then there's gonna there's
still the opposition where there's gonna be like, oh, well,
it's really tight now, so we really got to just
sts go until the next And I feel like that's

(41:50):
a little bit of a tactic that they're always gonna use, exactly,
And I think that's why it's what makes it a
little complicated, because you also don't have someone who's you know,
really stepping up and saying I'm the person to go
up against Nancy Pelosi. Like even the progressive wing is
still trying to figure out, like so we I mean,
January three is when like the new Congress has sworn in,
and that's when the floor vote happens for speaker, and

(42:11):
that's when people have to go on the record because
there's a caucus vote that happens earlier, but that's all confidential.
You don't know how people voted. But the one that
matters is on in January, when people will put their
name on the vote. Because if things go let's say,
if things go really well and whatever Pelosi's takes over
and everything's like whatever, strawberries and cream and a good

(42:35):
and then Democrats take over, then there's going to be
the argument that, like, well why change our winning streak.
So I feel like either way, it's kind of like
it's kind of a rock and a hard place, and
it's like, well, what's the what is the thing that
we want now? Maybe is the best way to look
at it. All I know is that people who know
ship about politics keep mentioning Karen Beth and uh, she's

(42:57):
not the head of the Progressive she's a member of it,
and she was a speaker of the State Assembly. She
also gets shipped done. Yeah, there are plenty of people
you could look at and say, like, yo, there's some
good people out there that could that have experience and
have a like a vision of the future that like
that is like a very working people first kind of agenda.
And I think that's what's really missing. But but that's

(43:19):
what a lot of people got into office campaigning on.
So yeah, alright, we're gonna take another quick break. We'll
be right back and we're back, and just real quick,
we want to say happy birthday to Lunchables. They just

(43:41):
turned thirty. They were invented in a lab by a
food scientist who then pitched them to a bunch of
tobacco executives because at the time Oscar Mayer was owned
by R. J. Reynolds, and they were like, oh my god,
this is brilliant because we can make it super addictive
and they are really bad for you and have a

(44:06):
happy take on this. It's not just cheese and ham
like it is, but it's super salty, and ham is
not actually like a ham. A lot of the things
that it doesn't just like come directly off an animal's body.
I think it's processed or at least I mean, it's
just like pink. It's like has ham. It's like just

(44:27):
a ham disc and the crackers are like buttery, and
the cheese is cheese, and I mean, I love I
remember because my mom the store she would never buy,
like you know, immigrant parents, they don't buy the ship
all the your American friends for lunch. And I'm like,
I want this, like funck no. But then I had
to be like, yo, you don't have to do ship.

(44:47):
Mom to send me out the door with this fucking thing,
and you're good, And she got it for you. She
did once and then she like looked at and she's
like this looks like just garbage. And then I only
maybe there's like two months in like fourth grade what
I was rocking lunchables and then put the kibosh on them.
We really took for granted the great food we were getting,
Like my mom would make me like in a thermos,
like beef noodle soup, like really good food. And then

(45:10):
I'd be like, oh no, I want to eat pizza,
like this is everyone's making fun of me. And then
but then I'm now I'm like, wow, that was like good.
That was when I was really young. My mom used
to make like bent like the Bento box you know,
is looking all flying ship and people's right, and I'm
like it's it's like me so fish. And then like

(45:31):
they were eating like salami sandwiches and I would just cry.
I like begged for a tuna, and then especially finally
started making tuna, and but I was like I don't know,
I just wanted it because other people had it. Yeah,
And then looking back, I was like, yo, yo are
eating ship. Yeah you can gormet shit. But yeah, the lunchables,
you know, apparently they're still doing very well because Kraft

(45:51):
Heins just sold them for one like nearly one and
a half billion dollars. So parents are still lazy. I
wonder what they are now. They've updated the types of food. Well,
there was the pizza one that is you men pizza,
the dessert pizza too, Did you guys ever have that?
I was like they had a dessert pizza. Lungeables we
have it was like chocolate sauce on it, eminem really

(46:15):
on what on a little bread thing? Oh yeah, whoa,
this is wild? And that was the main course or
that was just the dessert. I can't remember. That was
part of the regular pizza or was its own I
can't remember, but I do remember eating a dessert pizza. Yeah,
I think no, I definitely saw an image of it.
I think they have all kinds now it's and they

(46:37):
are also the smoothies of children's lunches in the sense
that you get to feel like you made something like
a sandwich and another one. They have so many of
it's funny when you go to lunchables dot com, it's
like are you a kid or a parent? And the
kid was like the parents side is like lungetables with
a drink juice lunchable organic juice with caprice and that's

(47:00):
funny that that used to seem like a testament of
how healthy something was. One present juice, And now I've
realized juice is really better. What does that mean when
they say that juice, it's just like it's actually they
squeezed it out of a piece of fruit, as opposed
to it being like sugar water mixed with like some
grape flavoring. Oh oh, so it just means like we

(47:21):
use fruit to make this sugar water. Yeah, sugar juice. Yeah,
because it wasn't juicy juice. I remember as a kid
there was like it's a juice, and I thought it
was healthy. I'm good on that. Give me my mon, sugar. Alright,
let's talk Thanksgiving, you guys, what's what are you guys
doing Thanksgiving? I can start out because I'm really excited
to not be going fucking anywhere. I am staying here.

(47:44):
Last year, we flew back to the East Coast with
two young young children in tow and it was actually
just one. Yeah I think about it. So it was
one on the way and one very young child who's
not at a right age for traveler wasn't at a
great age for travel at that point, so I'm happy
just to be chilling out. We're going to do our

(48:06):
first Thanksgiving in our new house. One of my wife's
friends is coming over. She's a great cook, so we're
gonna do it. And also we are going to be
able to drive around Los Angeles with everybody. God, los Angeles,
that is how Los Angeles was meant to exist. I'm
going up to the Bay to see her Majesty's family
and I'm hoping that the drive won't melt my head.

(48:30):
But it should be fine. But that's my favorite thing
about l A in the holidays is like when anybody
who's a transplant or just has somewhere to go, like
and it's just empty. Oh, it's like a fantasy world.
I'm like, Yo, do you want to go to the
West Side in a day visit all your friends on
the East side. I'm driving to the Bay too. You

(48:51):
are my God, you guys, your car, pol well, my
doggie and my sister coming. But I'm I'm I did
to go home. But I'm similar about because when I
used to live in New York, I never came home
for Thanksgiving because I was too close to uh Christmas
and it's far away and I love staying in the
city because everybody leaves and and then all the people
who stay kind of get together and do something like

(49:14):
have their own kind of orphan real or watch football
or you know. And friends giving is a phrase I
made up. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I never heard that,
but I like that feeling and to the point now
where like when I was invited to friends giving this
year and I won't be here for it because I'm
going home, and I was like, oh man, I'm missing out.
But like the whole point of friends giving us to
help people not feel like they're missing out. But now

(49:35):
I feel like it's more fun than actually I know, friends,
I feel like this is your friends giving, like blue
the funk up in a major way. Like I was
seeing theme friends givings like next level friends givings used
to just you would see people, but like for the
first time I was looking around on in social media,
I'm like, damn, these people are doing like going all
out friends. People get vulnerable on things of friends giving

(49:57):
because it's like all the people who aren't going at
home and then they're like sort of sad but not
everyone's like opening up and you're bonding and then like
that's my dad. What are you gonna eat? You said
you're their family friends really good cook. Yeah, she's really
good cook. You specifically pointed that out, so you must

(50:18):
really be looking forward to this cooking. Yeah. No, no, Well,
I'm going to get the groceries, which is another thing
I like to do. I'm going grocery shopping. I like that.
That's like a distressing activity for me for whatever reason,
is hanging out in grocery stores, just because it's like consumerism, Disneyland.
It's just everything a nice little organ You remember, going
from being like a broke college kid going to the

(50:40):
grocery store to kind of having a job and going
to the first time. You're like, yo, I could get
this ship if I want. And I'm going to buy
two kinds of ice cream today. Yeah, that's I don't
know why. I still I do get a kick out
of the grocery store. I'm gonna try to make my
mom's sweet Potato cast role this year, and that is
that is a big, big thing if we can pull
it off. What do you what about you? What I mean, Well,

(51:01):
my mom doesn't like when I'm in her kitchen, so
I don't know, she's very pretty. She's like, don't get
get on my kitchen because she's super particular where everything goes. Like, um,
so I ended up the last couple of years, I'll
just make a dip for the advertisers because she's like, oh,
you could take care of the apps for people. So
I I like used to make spinach artishow dip in
college that people like. So I was doing that. Yeah,

(51:22):
it's not really a Thanksgiving thing, but like she just
she has everything covered. Um. I like making pie, but
I don't. Yeah. Really, when I'm home, I'm really not
supposed to be in the way of the kitchen. So
it has to be things that are able to do
in like a very short amount of time and get
out of the way. What kind of pie do you make?
I I like pumpkin pie. I think that. Yeah, it's
probably the easiest one to do, is it. Yeah, because

(51:44):
you just do and oh ship, I never really thought
about that. You make your own cross? No, okay, we
can take that, yes, handmade. Do you guys have any
like favorite memories? Do you guys do the when you
go home? Do you like see all your old friends
and stuff? I live where I grew up, so right, Uh,

(52:06):
you see him all the time. All yeah, like the
Friday before James Franko always goes to hang out at
this bar in my hometown, like the day before Thanksgiving,
and it's kind of annoying because people always go and
then he just camps out at the table and just
and like get such a bunch of attention. Yeah, where
Davis on the side, Like, hey, I'm here to Last

(52:28):
year I did um my mom and I went to
San Francisco to do community service in the morning of Thanksgiving.
We want with my college friends. Uh, and it was
really fun. So I might try to do it again
this year. I guess I have to sign up. I
haven't done that yet, so maybe it might be too late.
But I almost got wrangled into doing a fucking job. Yo.
And you guys were talking a lot of ship about

(52:49):
white people running before the Yeah, well because it was
because I became that meme. It was like I forget
it was like this black dude and was like, you know,
like when your white girlfriend's family on Thanksgiving days, like
let's go for a ten mile run and they're like
what the fuck know? And her masters asking me if
I want to do a turkey trot zike gang. If
you didn't know this, over the weekend, I busted my

(53:10):
pinky to like pretty much broke the ship and stepped
on two dead beasts. I have two beast things on
the sole of my foot, so stuck on his head,
stepped on slipped on an an appeal, and that was that. Yeah,
the idea of exercising on like I could play soccer
or something. I know, like that's like people come like,
we'll play flag football or something. I could do that.

(53:31):
But does that happen before after the meal? Before? Oh
my god, could you imagine that would be just punishment? Yeah,
I like what you said. I can't remember jack her
mouth at it. But that running is white people dancing. Yeah,
that's what I was saying, because if you're just like,
I don't know, let's do something, let's run. Yeah, dancing.
I was the white person whose feelings were hurt. Everyone

(53:56):
can dance and run. Asian people like karaoke at parties.
That's a big thing. Oh yeah, my in laws Low
they go out to like one in the morning karaokeing
Koreatown every time they come to town. Oh yeah, and
they got no rules in Koreatown, like you, there's some
of those places where you could straight up smoked cigarettes
inside in a basement. That's why they go. But uh oh,

(54:21):
when did you ask if I had a good memory? Yeah,
or like a great thanks what's odd? My best memories
all involved food that was made, because it's always the
same thing. I see my cousins and everybody and we're
having a good time. But a couple of years back,
my uncle had like the Salt Lick in Austin, like
had FedEx like brisket for our Thanksgiving, and my good

(54:42):
it was the most pleasant surprise ever when I was like, yo,
what you bought like Texas brisket? And you're okay with
the meat that wasn't turkey? Yes, And I'll get into
that probably on our Black Friday episode. Okay on Oh yeah,
I'm gonna say like barbecue for thanks Giving? That sounds
all them. Yeah, we're not having turkey this year. We're

(55:03):
doing a chicken and a ham Ham Ham a talk
shout out to ham Horn. They had to change. They
had to get rid of that sound bite from Dirty
Rock of her going ham because I think they got
hit with a probably. So my favorite memory from Thanksgiving
weekend is this tradition that I told former Zeke guests

(55:23):
Swarm Booie about, and he's going to incorporate it into
his family tradition as a tradition that came down from
my dad's family where one of Santa's elves like that
after Thanksgiving. It had to be between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
was like Ichabod season. That was the name of the elf,
and one of the closets in our house he would
like visit. And so my dad would make like a

(55:45):
big show of thinking he heard something and like going
checking all the different closets until he found the one
that the elf was in, and then he'd have a weird,
like long conversation with the elf where he was like, yeah,
he's been all right, I guess. But then you get
like one Christmas present early, and there's something about like
getting one present early and like just you appreciate that

(56:07):
present so much, and also it's just cool like to
like that for some reason, just like having seeing your
dad interact with like a magical creature. Would he go
into the close, close the door behind so you're only
hearing conversations. No, No, he would like be standing there.
We'd be on the other side of the door, and
he'd be like kind of talking, like making eye contact

(56:29):
with the elf, but you could only elf. You guys,
it's a real no. I'm just that you could only hear, right.
It was one only he could see and hear him,
including my mom, which we're going to update that so
Sarah can also see there. But yeah, we're doing that
for the first time this year with my kids. So
I'm pretty psyched about. I should be bilingual too. Exactly

(56:54):
the first time you do it? Are you going to
explain that, You're just gonna be like, there's it? Holy
should check. Let's do a tradition my dad used to
do to get us excited about Christmas. Don't be so literal.
But yeah, wait, what the fund is? Elf on a shelf? Okay,
So this is a thing that I've heard about and
I think I'm vaguely familiar with. But it sounds like

(57:17):
a version of what I just talked about, except there's
a toy elf like sits on like different places in
the house, and like he moves every day and like
leaves a different present for you every day. I think, yeah,
the parents have to move him like in the middle
of the night. I know it sounds weird. Good people
of the Viking Cultural Exchange Opportunity, please explain elf why

(57:42):
you guys love that so much. Yeah, and I'll tell
you why Japanese people love KFC. My mom ruined Santa
and uh, we don't have young listeners on this right, no,
hope Santa. And for my little brother because she got
in the fight with my dad once about because he
was like a born again Christian and and then they
were kind of like it was early on. They've worked

(58:02):
through it, but early on they were having a lot
of issues with that. And my dad wrote as a
tooth as the tooth Fairies about God like trying to
convert my brother, but as the tooth fairy. And so
she got mad and she was like, it's not real.
It's your dad, It is not real either, and he
was so upset. Oh my god, it's like but I
believed it until I was like twelve too long. Yeah, damn.

(58:24):
I was just talking with somebody about that. How I'm
from the beginning, I was just so yeah, I just
couldn't understand. I'm like, okay, maybe, but I never seen.
And also I think my parents did a bad job
of like inoculating me yeah, the season or whatever. But
I remember being in like fourth grade and kids would

(58:44):
be like, well, Santa got me there whatever, blah blah blah.
I'm like, Yo, you're dumb, bro. It's a little things
like writing the letter and then actually going to the
post office and like little things like that. As a kid,
you can't fathom, Well, how could you fake it? We
nailed a letter like you know, yeah, yeah, and that's
I guess. Yeah. My parents are sucked up and they
were like, what do you want. I actually I remember

(59:07):
finding out that he wasn't real and like being like,
so they just lied to us all this time, and
that pissed me off so much. It was like it
was like being a college student who's like a communist
Capitalism is a lie. Was the same emotions. Aren't there
schools who are like trying to tell parents like it's
not good to say some gifts are from Santa, because

(59:29):
then like if some kids who who parents don't have
as much money, their gifts are less late and from Santa,
then like that could create some kind of self worth
issues or like, wow, them Santa didn't bring me the
PS four with all them ships and I just got
this you're a bad kid shin guards and I don't
even play hockey or but that's what the those trees
are for. In them all you can you can grant

(59:52):
a kid a gift. There. You go, oh they have that,
they have those toys for tots. You buy, um, yeah,
you buy it's wish list And then they get man,
I want to tell them it's from Miles. Well, sometimes
they get nicer one because my mom would always do
that when we went shopping and something. She'd be like, oh,
they want like yeah, like PlayStations and stuff. I'm like,
I don't get that. She's like, well you're not. You're

(01:00:13):
just gonna medium gift. Teresa, it's been a pleasure having you.
Where can people find you? I have a podcast it's
called you Can Tell Me Anything, So you guys can
listen to that. And I'm also on Twitter at Larissa t.
What's the premise of your podcast? It's comedians telling me
something they've never told anyone. Yeah, secrets, learn some messed

(01:00:36):
up ship And is there a tweet you've been enjoying.
I've been really enjoying dog tweets. There was one of
a dog running into a pile of leaves. But I
don't know if I can dog names Stella. Look this
up dog named Stella. This dog just enjoys fall so much.
The door opens, he runs out of the house and
straight into an enormous pile of leaves, and it's the

(01:00:59):
cutest thing. Every just like runs around in it and yeah,
sucks it up. It's a lot of hard work for
somebody else. Well, that is also like the biggest pile
of leaves I've ever seen, just ship man. See that's
the problem with like no seasons here. I remember wanting
to just jump into a pile of leaves as a kid. Instead,

(01:01:20):
I just jumped to a pile of trash and got
pricked by Hyperderman. How did you not elaborate on the
japan buying KFC for Thanksgiving? Well, somebody has to explain
elf on the shelf to me better, and I'll all right,
all right, it's a big thing. That's post war thing
that the tradition. Yeah, the kernel is just it's like,

(01:01:42):
you know, after MacArthur came through at the World War Two,
bringing all the American companies and meats and ship like that,
KFC just be kind of became this thing that people
were like really fixated on and because Christmas was basically
not you know, not g I started coming into to
Japan like just like this conflation of the two and
Christmas more of a couple's holiday in Japan anyway, Couples

(01:02:06):
like Valentine Yeah yeah yeah, New Years as much more
of a family one. Yeah, that's the one where you
go home and like you don't you eat for like
five days straight. You don't do ship, which I love,
but like, yeah, for it's more couples. You know, you
buy short it's like you see like the jewelry commercials
and ship it's like for courteous assuiting. And then the
Colonel is like Santa Yeah yeah, I mean the Colonel

(01:02:29):
is just kind of people just love the colonel over there.
But although Japan has actually been not working with KFC
as much, it's the I think the younger people aren't
really buying into the whole KFC Christmas thing because they
used to be like cups that you would get every
Christmas that came out, and those ships were like collectors
items like Starbucks holiday cups. Yeah in a way, but
less controversial. Anyways, you get a Christmas cake too, that's

(01:02:52):
another Japanese thing. It's Christmas cake. It's like a short cake. Oh.
I had a friend who visited from South Korea and
he was so excited about when I lived in the
work and he was like, can we go to KFC? Right? What?
So damn the best restaurant in New York? Uh, miles,
where can people find you? You can find me on

(01:03:13):
Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray. Two tweets, one, predictably,
is from Reductress. This one is a photo of a
policewoman with her arms crossed, looking very confident, and it
says horse girl from high school a cop Now, it's
just so funny. Is everybody knew the horse girl? There's

(01:03:35):
always a horse somebody, some equestrian out there. Uh. And
then another one, uh is from Alyssa Keiko At Alyssa Keiko.
It says a millennial savings account is just a Twitter
account with ten k followers just in case you need
a crowd fund for medical bills. Wild. Also, guys, I'm
like only a few away from ten k. Come follow me,

(01:03:56):
add miles of great follow him and help my Twitter
savings account. A millennial satan count all right? Uh? Enjoyed
Zak Borstein's tweet, don't think Trump realizes this will all
end with everyone he's ever met testifying against him like
the finale to Seinfeld. Uh like to tweet from Italian
Alex Pureen, who tweeted this National Review article that the

(01:04:19):
headline was the same left that despises President Trump despise
George W. Bush long before him, and he tweeted, fuck,
they got us owned by our own logic. I'm just like,
why what is that? Anyways? You can follow me on
Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. You can follow us on
Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. Were at The Daily zeit Geist

(01:04:42):
on Instagram. We have Facebook fan page and a website,
dailiesis dot com. Orris post our episodes in our foot
link off to the information we talked about in the episode,
as well as the song we right out on my
old What song are we going to write up to day?
We'll do a track by Nicholas f who is a
m C from Richmond, b A. And I don't know

(01:05:05):
if you remember on one or six in part he
was like winning Freestyle Friday over and over again, and
I forgot about him till I saw this track from
him called I Ain't cried yet. This is for all
my old hip hop heads, you know, just on some
sample based beats and some good lyrics. So this is
from Nicholas f I ain't cried yet. All right, we're
gonna ride out on that. Uh. We'll be back on

(01:05:28):
Friday with the special Black Friday episode of the podcast
that has nothing to do with Black Friday, comes talking
about it. Yeah, it just comes out on Black Friday. Uh.
And then after that back to a regularly scheduled program. Uh,
have a great Thanksgiving everyone, talk to you later. By hey, yo, No,

(01:05:52):
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shot to Yaka. Loosen up and chop soon. Don't stir.
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good like Christis actors, but being the page and write
a passage. As a write of passage. I came for

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about the shadows like stick in the rafters, but I
sleep into the sounds and got by you and drunk
and laughter. I felt worthless, but they get it hopeless.
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