Oops... All Overrated/Underrated! 05.25.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special episode of
Dernellys Geist.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is going to be.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
The OOPS All Overrated, Underrated and Search History series, featuring
some of our favorite guests giving some of our favorite
opinions from the past few months.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
We'll be checking in with these sporadically. They're just mostly
silly episodes, full of the treat part of the episode,
the not about the news part of the episode, and yeah,
we hope you enjoy them. All filler, no killer, I
guess you could say. And if you have a favorite

(00:41):
overrated underrated from the long history of the show, my
memory doesn't work that well. But if you have one
from a long time ago, let us know in the
discorder and the comments and maybe we can do an
all time OOPS all over under Search History. Anyways, without
further ado, here they.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Are OOPS, All Overrated, Underrated and Search History.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Bye. What is Nicole something that you think is underrated?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I think that well, this is very specific, but the
Manhattan Beach Public Library in La Oh, it's so gorgeous,
it's so beautiful, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Right by the water.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
You've got like these incredible views, very very calming.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
I mean, public.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Libraries are like pretty great and a lot of them
in the last few years have been going through all
these renovations in major cities. It's just this feels like
being in a little time capsule being in them. So
all public libraries that that one specifically.

Speaker 7 (01:41):
Wait, was that one like so nice? You felt like
you're like, is this.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
A public library?

Speaker 6 (01:47):
Exactly?

Speaker 8 (01:47):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:48):
I was like this, it's so gorgeous in here. This
makes no sense.

Speaker 7 (01:52):
I almost I saw like someone was posting how a
library was selling their card catalog because like they were
they were liquidating like everything inside, and like all these
like bibliophiles are like.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Where is it? I wanted because part of you like
just seeing.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
That bulky ass card catalog cabinet with the fucking brass
handles and ship and the little screws that kept all
the cards in. Like I looked at it and go,
I can smell it. I know I already forgot how
to use the Dewey decimal system, but I will fucking remember.
But there's just something I don't know for whatever that
that visual of a like now obsolete card catalog thing.

(02:32):
For that was one of the first times I understood
like when boomers like and this is my collection are
record players whatever, and I'm like, yeah, whatever, bro. Then
I'm like, the Dowey decimal system.

Speaker 6 (02:44):
Where else do we use it? Everywhere? I'm sure? But
like the if you say Dowey Decimal System card catalog.

Speaker 7 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you were doing a win for Dewey.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
By the way, wind Happy amazing branding for that guy.
I so go to the public library and I do
have trouble with the Dewey decimal system. Like I wanted
to be like, yeah, that's one of those skills they
told us we were gonna need and we didn't actually need.

(03:14):
Turns out I need it and I suck at it.
My way of dealing with the Dewey decimal system is
asking the library and hey, can you help me find
legos my some really one book about legs. Oh oh
you guys again. Yeah, it's in the same place that
it wasn't learn I'm just numbers.

Speaker 7 (03:37):
And what all this has happened? I go, man, let
me learn more about Melville Dewey, the creator of the
Dewey decimal system. And then I this is the ship
you go, like Wikipedia, I'm always scanning for is there
a controversy section? Yes, there is sexual harassment, anti semitism
and racism.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Dewey.

Speaker 7 (03:54):
The Lake Placid Club banned Jews, blacks, and others from membership,
a policy written by Dewey himself. Know why you do
it to us like that?

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Damn, we can't have anything nice, not even one nice thing.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
I just fuck it. It's the catalog. I don't need
the decimal system. I don't need I don't need to
recognize the system of organization, but merely the tangible cabinet
that remains there.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
It is there. It is the decimal system.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
That's what we call it.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
I feel like it's all like you can see that
it was typed in a typewriter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's smudge ink, smudges.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
And yeah, dude, there's many pencils. They still got many
pencils at the library.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
They got many pencils.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Oh yeah, but they're like less. They're not like as
around and as available. They're not trying to encourage the
use of them.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'm not getting golf courses.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Many golf courses have I would take minopolize the whole market.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
Yeah, you hate you hate.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
To see it. What is something from your search history
that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 9 (04:57):
One of the last google rabbit holes I went down
was googling sad pigeons nests. Have you all ever seen
how a pigeon makes a nest? It is the saddest
shit you will ever see in your life.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
Really, I mean, okay, and then they just pilot together,
but they do it they get down differently.

Speaker 9 (05:16):
So basically pigeons I only learned this recently, used to
be like back in the day, they were domesticated, so
they were basically pigeons we kept as pets. Then as
we went forward we were like, actually, pigeons are gross.
We abandoned them. But pigeons have not abandoned us. So
they still like to live in cities around people.

Speaker 10 (05:32):
But their like.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Bird life skills are not so good.

Speaker 9 (05:36):
So when a pigeon builds a nest, it will just
be like one sad stick. No sad pigeons.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
It'll be like the pigeons.

Speaker 9 (05:45):
It'll just be like yeah, like one little piece of
brush and it's like, this is my nest. It's the
saddest thing.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Are pigeons depressed? This sucks? This one is forced dicks bridget.

Speaker 6 (06:01):
It didn't know any better because it's not It doesn't know.

Speaker 9 (06:04):
It doesn't have like like like we have done this,
We abandoned the pigeons and it's so sad.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
So it's like if dogs one day just like went
out of favor and cities were just overrun with like
dogs running around Like that's what I always assumed. Pigeons
were just like I don't know, trying to get food
or something, but they're just there because they're like these
people used to like us. Yeah, it happened. I don't
know what made we're the humans.

Speaker 9 (06:31):
Yeah, I don't know what made them fall out of
favor as domesticated animals, but something must have happened, and
we turned our backs on the pigeons and there's they
still need to be around us, making their sad little
depression nests.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yeah, there's a metaphor here, and I'm trying to really
figure out what it is, Like there's something to this,
and there's something so poignant about you have completely taken
these this creature out of its natural environment, cashed it aside,
and not have The first thing that I that comes
to mind is just like when I used to like
people in college who were like rich kids who then

(07:04):
go to college and have to actually live on their
own for the first time, and.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
They're like, how do you get internet in this place?
They're like it's like they're sixty five years old.

Speaker 7 (07:14):
Yeah, and like I can imagine them putting like four
sticks next to a computer and be like is this
Wi Fi? Or my mom usually did everything for me,
so oh god, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Will say that usually in nature Oh sorry.

Speaker 7 (07:30):
God no, there's just one that was in the grooves
of a truck tire.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
In a tread I'm not smart.

Speaker 9 (07:36):
Egg and things that they really like up against a
door where you're like precarious place to put an egg
that you're trying to look at.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
You're doing an April Fool's prank where you're trying to
get the egg to fall on someone's heads. Every time
you see an animal doing like you know, building a nest,
building something, it's always like so industrious and well done,
and it's like, wow, this is just years and years
of evolution coming down to like create this genius that

(08:04):
like I couldn't. It is kind of nice to see
an animal that is like me in my twenties trying
to put the dude do a at home skill like
fix a toilet or something, and it's just like nah,
fucked up. Man. Your bad.

Speaker 9 (08:20):
The first animal I've ever seen that's built a ness
where I think I could do that.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, exactly together, do a better job.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
Actually, yeah, when somehow your evolutionary programming is enough to
be like, you're a mess with this mess, I move aside.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I know. Let me help you out here, Pal.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
You don't know what. Oh, you're an absolute mess.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Look at the fucking sad pitch at the stadium. Great
search history. What is something you think is underrated?

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (08:50):
I think underrated having bedrooms. I just moved from a
giant loft apartment to a two better apartment, and it
is so nice to have a room to go to
and close the door and go to bed. You think
New York City loft life, it's so cool, gossip girl like, uh,

(09:12):
and then you live it and you're like, kill me.
I need walls to focus. I would like to if
you're having a scuffle with your partners and I have
to go sit in the bathroom to cool down because
it's the only room with a wall.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
You know, I'm gonna go hang out under this blanket
for a half hour.

Speaker 11 (09:34):
He's laying on the lofted bed and I'm on the
couch and we're just like huh, but I can see him,
you know, and now it's like it's like he's sick
of me. He goes the other room. I'm like him,
I go to the other room. Everyone's we got doors,
but it just it feels like a home. You don't
realize that you're like, oh, in this industrial loft space.

(09:55):
It does feel like you're in a business space all day.

Speaker 6 (09:58):
Every day.

Speaker 11 (09:59):
You're never shut down where it's like now we're like,
oh my god, the apartment's so cozy. It's like, oh yeah,
So bedrooms are underrated even if you're loft. Is the
size of a two bedroom?

Speaker 7 (10:10):
Right, Hey, controversial take, but I do agree bedrooms are underrated.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I do think that the like style in like open
floor planning of a scam homes and workplaces. They were like,
we don't like this and workers don't like this and
it's bad. Essentially, like after a long time of being
like it's great, our workplace is open, open floor planning,

(10:35):
so everybody's really collaborative, and everyone was like, I fucking
hate this.

Speaker 11 (10:41):
You can't turn off that is like the biggest thing
is that there's never any like your brain doesn't know,
downtime in a space like that, because it's like, oh
are and I feel like through the two years we
lived in this lot, we rearrange the space so many times,
and it felt like we were never able to like
settle in because we're like, Okay, this isn't working, like
let's move this. Oh you know, like maybe we do

(11:03):
need more shelves, Like oh, like what if we just
like did this and it's like you end up buying
all this furniture to build walls, Like that's like essentially
to like create rooms because there are no right.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
Yeah, so underrated?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
What is something you take is overrated?

Speaker 11 (11:17):
Moving in New York City. I've been talking about this
extensively to everybody. I mean I've known this. I've lived
in New York for six years. But it never gets easier.
If anything, it's gotten harder. And we did only move
three blocks away, but it's still just it sucks. It's
not it's so hard.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
We're expected to move like every year. Yeah, just like
everybody moves constantly, you're moving the hardest place to move
it it's the.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
Hardest pace to move.

Speaker 11 (11:45):
You're always moving constantly, putting all your stuff in like
which I will say, the usable bins is a game changer.
You don't have to buy boxes, you don't have to
tear down boxes, but it does give you this like
very tight window for better or worse to be. Like
you have two weeks to pack all your things and
unpack all your things, right, and that's a lot. Like
I have to tonight finish unpacking all of these bins

(12:09):
because they're supposed to come get them tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
So we'll see. It's beIN city behind Becca.

Speaker 11 (12:14):
It's been city behind me, right, shout out a Grilla binzo.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Shout out to Gorilla Bins. I wish I had known
about Grilla Bins. I feel like in their twenty is
my wife and I put like the children of people
who go who own the container store through through Yeah,
I would use trash bag.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
Well, it gets to a point when you don't order
enough fins and everything just ends up in trash bags, because.

Speaker 7 (12:41):
I've made that part when you go, man, fuck this
bro just slesh in a trash bag. Let's fucking go no, no,
it's close, double bag it.

Speaker 11 (12:49):
Then we're packing everything and then like Orlando was like
did you did you? Did we order enough bins? And
I was like well, this is the same amount of
bins I were the last time. Totally forgetting that last
time we didn't order enough bins. So we're getting to
the end of these bins and I'm like, fuck, we
still have so much, so much a pack and we
have no bins left. And so then by the day
the movers came and they're taking the bins.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
I'm like, Okay. The trash bag is just.

Speaker 11 (13:13):
Like we're shoving things in and we're like okay, okay,
you aren't done yet. Okay, here another trash bag, another
trash bag.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
As they're like the apartment.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, right, moving, moving, All right, let's take a quick break.
We'll be right back. What is something Troy that you

(13:42):
think is underrated? Chain restaurants?

Speaker 12 (13:47):
Yeah, hell yeah yeah, restaurants very underrated. I feel like
certain ones better than others. But you know, I think
I think you can't really you need to appreciate the
ability to be almost any city in the country and
go cheesecak factory. Yeah, I'll be at least satisfied.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, you know, the like mistakes, stuffed. You know, there's
certain things that hit with like almost every chain restaurant,
like anything in an egg roll like yeah, you know,
like that's just been like fried crispy and has various
cream cheese ingredients inside. Is just like, come on, that's

(14:29):
gonna be good. Every version of mac and cheese. Yep,
there's a reason those ships are chained up. There's they're good.
They used to not be chain restaurants. I can tell
you that much. I will.

Speaker 13 (14:41):
I will say this and my genuinely I'm on somewhere
on social media public record. My friend Catherine, who is
like a food journalist, like an honest to god, full
ass full food journalist, did like an Instagram poll or
something one time. It was like, what's the most underrated
restaurant in Los Angeles? I replied, it is the Arby's

(15:01):
that is on Sunset Boulevard, by the way, rip to
that RB. Yeah, she did say that one got the
most responses of people being like it actually is.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
It is this one and this one.

Speaker 13 (15:14):
It's so rated, so low, and it is fucking awesome,
even if it doesn't just anymore.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, it used to. Yeah, I used to.

Speaker 12 (15:22):
I used to stop at that Arby's, used to stop
at that Arby's and really crash out. Yeah, really just
like blackout and come and then leave with why did
I order all that?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Arby's?

Speaker 13 (15:36):
Is that you just left a general meeting in Hollywood
and it didn't go right and you're about to get
on the highway Arby's.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, it's right next to the Netflix.

Speaker 12 (15:45):
Yeah, and you just said to yourself, like, you know
what I deserve?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Fringe dips. Yeah. They had me pitch off next to
a u ID thing like a smiley face on it,
and I lost. Yeah, the mask writer, what if we
took to your premise and gave it to this ai.
That sounds good? That does sound good. Actually, Troy, can
you give us one, like one order from a chain

(16:10):
restaurant that you feel like is like underrated or like
something that everybody should get. Okay, so have you guys
ever been to Texas Roadhouse? I think? Is that the
one with peanuts on the floor. Yeah, they haveeuts.

Speaker 12 (16:28):
Yeah, to see the through line between this and Days
of Thunder is very neat the bone, and Ribbi is
one of the truly like, wow, cannot lose.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Because that is that's that's an ambitious order for a
chain restaurant to go with.

Speaker 12 (16:54):
Yeah, it will be perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned every
single time. And it's like twenty five dollars for a
twenty ounce bone in Rabbi. It's like easily one of
the best steak deals you can get, and they have
it everywhere. And because you're a Texas roadhouse, you get
a bucket of peanuts and those those rolls with the
cinnamon butter.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
People love to Yeah, I love to fucking roll Texas
Texas roadhouses. Man, I'm I'm an evangelist. You know. The
way you think is the way you've reacted to Mike
me saying the place with peanuts on the floor is
leading me to believe that maybe it only has peanuts
on the floor when I'm there, Like, are you not

(17:35):
supposed to just throw them the shelves on the floor.

Speaker 12 (17:40):
What I remember is like it was like kinda yeah,
I guess people probably do just throw them on the floor.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
It's just me.

Speaker 13 (17:47):
We gotta look under we gotta look under Jack's desk
right now, because it's just showed it.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know, it looks like a hamster cage down there,
just peanuts.

Speaker 12 (17:56):
Yeah, I don't know that they've actually got like, are
not like this is fine?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (18:01):
I don't think like the corporate manual is like so
you know part of your side work is sprinkle peanuts
shells on the floor.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
Sure, yeah, yeah, I think that maybe this was It
was also the last one I went to is when
I lived in Kentucky a long time ago, so maybe
maybe that was specific to Kentucky.

Speaker 13 (18:18):
I feel like you just sort of like sort of
like pig Pen from from Peanuts, you just got like
a cloud of peanut shells or at all times.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now that would have made sense why that strip was
called peanuts.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
He got peanuts, he does have peanuts shells.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Kept waiting for our lunch line? What is mary something
that you think is underrated?

Speaker 8 (18:41):
Okay? I have I have two. Which one do you
think is better?

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Let's hear them both?

Speaker 8 (18:46):
The PBS Passport app mm hmm or Nascar?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, we I think we've gotten the PBS Passport app before,
or at least I have in my life.

Speaker 8 (19:00):
I mean, everyone knows it's good. It doesn't take much.

Speaker 7 (19:03):
Right Yeah, wait, wait what is it?

Speaker 2 (19:05):
What are you talking with on the PBS passport.

Speaker 7 (19:06):
Waitit hold on, yeah, I don't know what what is
the PBS Passport app?

Speaker 8 (19:09):
Oh, it's like they're streaming app.

Speaker 7 (19:12):
Okay, Oh, I have like the kid version of that.
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
So I mostly watch Finding Your Roots, Nova Nature, any
of the ken Burnstocks.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, just you have global access to ken Burns documentary.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, come on, that happens so much. There's so many
times when I'm like, but surely you can get them
somewhere else, right, right, right? Like with ken Burns documentaries.
Was it for for the Elvis Icons episode? I wanted
to watch an episode about the country music ken Burns
Presents Country Music.

Speaker 8 (19:51):
Oh, it's so good.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You gotta go to you gotta go to PBS. You
gotta go to the source.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
I remember when like the Civil War came out. I
was like, the only sound of the Civil or is
someone playing a fiddle with someone.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Reading the letter? Yeah? Someone reading and a fiddle in
the background.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
I'm like, and that was the ante bellum period, you know,
and during the Civil War.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
I remember when the Civil War dropped? Was also a dope?

Speaker 7 (20:15):
Like was that also like a like ultimate boomer dad gift?
Was any ken Burns like ten tape fucking set? I
remember like the Baseball one required purchases for fathers, like
white American fathers on Father's Day. That's right, and here
is your Ken Burns baseball.

Speaker 8 (20:36):
Burns Baseball with the side of Mike Lupika.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Okay, so that what what tell me about NASCAR?

Speaker 10 (20:45):
Though?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Okay, well, yeah, this is new. I don't think we've
gotten an under now.

Speaker 8 (20:49):
Anything about NASCAR until yesterday. My friend posted on his
instant story that he was watching NASCAR and to come
through and so and so I went, and all the
people there were from the South, and they were teaching
me about NASCAR and it's almost like wrestling, Like the

(21:13):
drivers have personality. Some of them are super racist, some
of them are super woke, and the guys.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I didn't know about that second category of NASCAR, to
be honest with you.

Speaker 8 (21:24):
Oh, Michael Jordan owns a bunch of cars.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Did you know that? This is something that we recently
found out about, unfortunately, because of a video clip of
him celebrating his Daytona five hundred win by pinching the butt,
grabbing the butt, treating the butt of a of the
you know, young child of the winning driver like it

(21:49):
was a Napkins dispenser. Yeah, well, no comment.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
We were like, oh shit, Michael's doing it, and we're like,
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Michael? Jordan, you're wrong.

Speaker 8 (22:00):
Yeah, So there were just a ton of cutaways to
Michael Jordan during NASCAR, and that's like just not what
I thought NASCAR was, and it was pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Nice were confused why during the cutaways they were like
and there's Michael Jordan very far from grabbing any child's
but like a.

Speaker 8 (22:20):
Yeah, that's what the lower bird said. It said not
currently touching a child's but also thirty five.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, all right, here we go, because I do need
to get your take on this. It's just hard. No, yeah,
that's it, you can't. Yeah, what do we think he
thought he was doing? Is like really the question that
we're at now. So either speculated that there was ice
down the kid's back maybe, but it's like even that

(22:51):
is hard to believe based Yeah, it's very strange.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
I think the only answer to that is.

Speaker 14 (22:58):
It's definitely Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Unfortunately, Yes, it's gonna be a note for me. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
Wait, So did you come away after that like with
a now you like you've learned a little bit. Now
you've got a team or a driver or an aspect
of NASCAR that like appeals to you now, or you're
just more like that was a nice experience.

Speaker 8 (23:18):
Thank you for that of rooting for all of Michael
Jordan's cars. Basically, he has multiple cars. Yep, yep, he
has three cars. One of them is a black driver,
one of them is a white short king with a
beautiful black wife.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (23:36):
The third car I don't know about because they came in.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
It's really last. Its like the beginning of a joke.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
A black NASCAR driver, a short NASCAR driver, and a
priest walking.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
To a bar. He got used on that steam list
like seventeen times, which isn't that many. Yeah, compared to
the president. Yeah, he set the bar so high. That
is one thing that we can say about this president.
The thing for me about NASCAR is when you're watching it,

(24:08):
there's not the I mean, it's kind of like almost
almost all the time, it's like watching a blowout NBA
game or something where it's just like it's there's never
that moment of like huge drama where it's like it
all comes down to this moment, like a close race.
It's still you know, like I guess there are close races,

(24:29):
but they're not pretty ended.

Speaker 8 (24:34):
The NBA is actually such a perfect analogy because it's
kind of like you can half watch and then the
final two minutes you're like, oh my.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
God, yeah, there go all right. Maybe maybe I need
to give it another shot.

Speaker 7 (24:47):
Maybe I just need to start watching the last three
laps of NASCAR.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
Oh, and also something I learned is some of the drivers,
if they win, their sponsors will give out free chick nuggets.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
Okay, Oh so depending on which fast food chain you're
aligned with.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
Yes, so there was a Wendy's car yesterday and if
he had one, Wendy's would have given out free chicken
tenders today.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh damn.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
And I heard that in the past. Sometimes drivers get
really emotional and cry and say, you know that they
that they could have given everyone free chickens.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
I mean, given the state of this economy, I would
imagine that it's like like, I'm sorry, we weren't able
to distribute food to people.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Children going hungry because of your loss. How does that
make you feel?

Speaker 15 (25:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
God, quick word, can't that be on someone else?

Speaker 7 (25:44):
I mean, yeah, we could talk about the government or
like all the gardens.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
It a little harder. Yeah, what is something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Recently I dug into a curious case.

Speaker 16 (26:00):
I had eaten a chit at a really good restaurant
in a restaurant beer garden here in Echo Park where
I live.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah, yeah, owned.

Speaker 16 (26:11):
By a German guy, great German food. I was like, ah,
I love schnitzel, Like I don't need enough schnitzel. There's
not really place to get it. And I was driving
by a Wiener Schnitzel the chain restaurant established, and I
realized that Wiener Schnitzel, uh does not sell schniftle.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
So I google that.

Speaker 16 (26:33):
I was like, does Ener Stenzel sell Viener Schnitzel and
they do not. Yeah, they sell hot dogs and chili fries.
So so then I was I like went down this.
I'm like, is this the only chain that is named
for a food that they don't serve?

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Right?

Speaker 16 (26:48):
It's like Chili's has Chili's you know right there, Like
apple Bee's probably has apples on the premises.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
It's not a huge part of the cuisine there.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
But yeah, and I and I give them a pass.
I'm like, what's an apple bee anyway?

Speaker 6 (27:00):
You know?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, Sonic does not serve Sonics. I've asked for some Yeah,
like well done, Sonic steak.

Speaker 16 (27:08):
Yeah, it's just it's it seems baffling that you would
name it Veener schnitzel and then not carry that item, right,
But yeah, that's what I've been working on.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Did we find out because because a Wiener schnitzel is
a pork schnitzel from.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Vienna, Yeah, that is exactly what that is, and it's
the best kind.

Speaker 7 (27:25):
Right, So then I'm like, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 16 (27:28):
I think it's veal and I think that's their special. Okay,
but it's like a champagne. It's just any kind of
schnitzel you're saying. It's not like a thing where you're like,
they do not have venn these schnitzel. They don't even
have anitzel.

Speaker 10 (27:43):
Yeah, no, not.

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
So you know that a lot of baffling decisions made
by that company.

Speaker 16 (27:52):
I've never been to I've never been tol So maybe
it's great and like the hot dogs make up for this,
I can't imagine that's true.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
I sat at the pitch stage. They're like, we're gonna
do kind of a niche food. We're gonna name it
after another niche food that it's that we don't sell,
and we're gonna put it in a building that like
we have to build and can we can never re
sell after all.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Specifically impractical structure.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah wow, so it's.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Called the Wiener House. Behave him.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
This is the guy who started it, John Gallardi. We
first worked at Taco Bell in the early days. And
then Gallardi good good us, like.

Speaker 16 (28:33):
They don't have a Bell there, I can do whatever
I want.

Speaker 7 (28:37):
So then like apparently then like the guy John Glenn
Bell of Taco Bell offered him like a spot to
open his like a restaurant next to his on PC.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
Taco Bell is started by a guy named Bell.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
Yeahah, it used to be called Taco That's good information
right there. But anyway, so then so okay, so then
he's the It was under the condition that said Bell
encourage him to take the offer, but wanted to have
Gallardi sell another kind of food. Gallardi decided to sell
hot dogs. According to Gallardi, his wife came up with
the name when looking through a cookbook. He was initially
skeptical of the name, saying I told my wife going home,

(29:09):
nobody in their right mind would call a company Wiener Schnitzel.
Three days later, I said, hell, it's better than John's
hot dogs.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
So I think I think his first idea was probably
on point.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, John's hot Dogs.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
I mean you're early enough to the game where like
you could be iconic just being John.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
It sounds foreign, just use it.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, that's right, it's good.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
It's his Wiener, right. They're like, yeah, people know, don't
know that means Vienna.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Think they're over compensating for the fact that they're clearly Italian.
And so they're like, well, we got to go like
how hard German with the name because nobody's gonna yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
Hey, it worked out for them, so maybe maybe she
was on point.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Yeah, right, Megan, what's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 15 (29:54):
Okay? What I think is underrated is sorry?

Speaker 7 (29:58):
Can I start with overrated?

Speaker 15 (30:00):
Because mine is it's funnier the other way, right.

Speaker 7 (30:03):
Okay, Okay, let's let's mess with the form.

Speaker 15 (30:06):
Let's do it overrated prestige television. Okay, don't make me
sit around watching freaking succession. I don't want to do that.
I don't want to watch the bear and be stressed
out by the yelling and the you know, the emotional

(30:26):
violence that we're committing upon in the sake for the
sake of comedy. They say, you know, laugh, riot, Wow,
I do, surely do love to laugh as people scream
over sandwiches. It's one of my top comedic When I'm
doing improv and someone says location, I say, at the
sandwich shop, you know, because what I think is.

Speaker 17 (30:49):
Underrated is slop on TV.

Speaker 15 (30:53):
More slop, more stupid shit that gets thirty eight seasons.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 15 (30:58):
By the way, when you started the show and you
said this is your four hundred and twenty seventh season,
I said, yes, Yeah, that's what I'm talking about this podcast.

Speaker 7 (31:08):
I want for four thousand episodes deep on the show.

Speaker 18 (31:11):
Hell yeah, this morning before you Oh god, everything, Every show,
even if it sucks, should have eighteen seasons as an
absolute minimum.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
It's an example of this kind of slow.

Speaker 15 (31:24):
Okay, We've talked about this on our show before it
Text me back podcast, check it out everywhere you get
your podcasts. Two best friends, Megan and Linda. And that's
the way about your tattoos. Anyway, we talked about this
on my show. Here's another problem. I think this kind
of fits into my tendency to get too.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Attached too quickly.

Speaker 15 (31:42):
I watch a lot of television and I like to
watch it non stop, like like a like a stretchy
saltwater taffy, you know, and like I so I like
to immerse myself in it and never leave. And so unfortunately,
the last time this happened to me, I sat my
ass down and watched like all thirteen seasons of House.

Speaker 10 (32:04):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
What a show.

Speaker 15 (32:07):
You know, it's a nightmare, but you know, the procedure
is what makes it comforting. Somebody gets sick, they try
to guess what it is, they're wrong, They figure it out,
problem solved, and wow that house Baby and and Doctor
House MD gets a really high It's sensational, just like yeah, wow,

(32:30):
we're twins. So the thing I love about this show
is I think it was considered a good TV show
at the time, which is crazy to me because it's
so bad. It's like really offensive. It was definitely like
the Obama era of like, oh, it's okay to make
racial jokes because we have a black president, Like thirty
Rock did that a lot, and you the Office did

(32:51):
it a lot, and it's just something you have to
understand about the time. Turns out we were super wrong
about racial progress and those jokes are funny.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
He doesn't mean it.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah, it doesn't mean it. Plus Obama's the freaking president.
Like how bad could it get? Get over it?

Speaker 15 (33:09):
You know, But there's like so many like I don't know,
there's like one episode where a kid died because he
was inhaling termite poop.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
You know, there was like pigeons.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Yeah, okay, because I was just doing lines of pop off.

Speaker 15 (33:24):
You better watch out because I can really fuck you up.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Stop. But he loves the stuff.

Speaker 15 (33:29):
Oh can we swear on the show?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
You want nice?

Speaker 15 (33:35):
And it just was so satisfying because every episode got
more and more insane, like you know, at the at
the very end, you know, at some point, House goes
to jail for I guess drugs or something, and then
he sort of yeah, finally, and then after he's been
sort of like highly treating patients and like ritually abusing

(33:57):
all of them because he's really mean to everyone, especially
the women and the people of color, so he finally
goes to jail, which I guess is technically not illegal
to be a racist and misogynist.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Anyways, he yes, he.

Speaker 15 (34:10):
At one point he crashes his car into his beloved
girlfriend's home because he's like obsessed with her, and then
she's like Okay, I'm going to bounce out of this,
and he's like.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Why would she leave?

Speaker 15 (34:22):
I'm like, because you crashed your buick into.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
Her hall, Like what are you talking about? Anyway?

Speaker 15 (34:27):
But at the very end he like, he goes to jail.
He finally gets out and he's on probation and so
he can't commit any crimes while he's on probation. And
at a certain point he somebody gives him like season
tickets to.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Isn't hockey related, it's hockey.

Speaker 15 (34:43):
I think it might be like somebody gives him like
season tickets to like Rangers or no, the Devils, I
guess is the new Jersey, And so he doesn't want it.
For whatever reason, he chucks them in the toilet and
flushes him down the toilet. Now, the old plumbing of
the hospital cannot abide that level of waste, and so
the pipes explode and drown the MRI machine and sewage

(35:08):
water and like wet paper from the tickets, and everyone's.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Like, who did this?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Who ruined the.

Speaker 15 (35:16):
Pipes and the MRI machine? And it was you know,
they were able to figure out it was house because
they found the tickets, and they take give the tickets
to the police. The police quote unquote finger print the tickets,
which at this point have been soaking in toilet water
for five What do you mean you finger printed pulp?

Speaker 7 (35:37):
Don't don't point out the plot holes here, okay, And so.

Speaker 15 (35:42):
They're like, we're going to have to take you back
to jail house, And so this is a spoiler for
the whole series, So if you don't want to listen,
I guess past wilpoilers. And by the way, this finale
did air like two thousand and nine, so but still
I want to be respectful. So House instead of going
back to jail for what is at most like a

(36:04):
level one mist demeanor, level three miss but the least
misdemeanor depends ends it's just like not anything. So instead
of going back to jail, he fakes his own death
in a warehouse fire and goes on a motorcycle ride
across the country with.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
His best friend.

Speaker 10 (36:23):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
So that means they can bring a house baby.

Speaker 15 (36:26):
And that means they can bring it back, and I
hope they do because there's nothing more sloppy and disgusting
than Doctor House Empty, and I can't get enough of it.
And that is underrated and overrated is trying to make
me watch any show that's ever been nominated for an
Emmy That yeah, boo, I mean that's I to me
that and I'll stop talking. But to me, that's the
worst part of television modern television, streamer television is that

(36:52):
you get one really good season of something like like
Lindy and I actually both just finished Pluribus.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Loved it.

Speaker 15 (36:58):
I loved it so much, and I'm like, immediately Pluribus
season two, question mark, and Vince Gilligan's like, I have
no idea. We haven't even started writing it yet. It
could be seven years before you get season two of Pluribus.
I'm like, buddy, yeah, the Pit was back in the
lab immediately. They only made me wait six months. And
in this season I had to see a man's erect penis.

Speaker 7 (37:19):
That's doesn't writing is way worse this season of the.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Patch it yet I don't care.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
Yeah, They're like, this is a death Duela.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
What I do is this?

Speaker 7 (37:32):
I'm like, yeah, The.

Speaker 15 (37:35):
Pit sometimes does a little bit of you know, sort
of like anachronistic wokeness. I guess or I'm not sure.
And sometimes like you get this with historical shows like
Franny Fisher was always doing this too, like historical wokeness
where it would not have existed, where they're like, by
the way, here's what here are the statistics on sexual assault,
as if any two er doctors would be having some

(37:58):
conversation about you or like black women are often under
underdiagnosed for x y Z mental illness or for x
y Z pain medication or whatever, and it's like, I'm
sure those conversations happen, but you are really I.

Speaker 7 (38:11):
Feel like they did it very subtly. They didn't subtly
with the woman who had sickle cell, Like I felt
like that was just like a patient came in and
that naturally comes up. They're like, yeah, I don't ever
tell this person they're not in pain when they're in panels, Like, oh, okay,
that's but this season it really feels like, well, here's
a new concept that I will explain very painfully to you.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
What is something you think is overrated? Okay?

Speaker 14 (38:36):
I think that learning new slang is overrated. I think
I think that the slang that you use should be
representative of your age. I don't think you need to
say let's fucking go if you are forty years old.
I just feel like you use the slang you learned
when you were younger. I think slang should be I
think you hear someone speak slang and you know their age.

(38:57):
I don't like older people using newer slang.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
I think that's cool being let us fucking see. I
like that, Yeah, you got it, that is cool beings.

Speaker 14 (39:05):
I just feel like because I, you know, and that's
tea you know, ultimately ultimately, And.

Speaker 19 (39:12):
I'm sure I'm guilty of this as well, but I
do think it is the appropriation. I get so mad
whe the like it's gen z slang and like black
people have been saying it for forty years, right.

Speaker 14 (39:26):
But it's just it's always it's always looked on in
a negative like like you know, the like Pokemon go
to the polls, which obviously wasn't something anyone even said,
but like.

Speaker 17 (39:33):
It's always that all the time.

Speaker 14 (39:35):
I guess you're right, but it's just always embarrassing when
older people try to use new slang. And I don't
think you need to, you know, I think you can
just use the slang like, you know, we can still
say things are tight. That's fine, that's our that's our culture,
you know. I don't think we need to add new stuff.
Tight was good, keep it up.

Speaker 19 (39:52):
But then how do you communicate with younger generations? How
do you translate the text?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Why do you need to?

Speaker 17 (39:59):
Because when we go to the island, oh fuck oh
shop we go?

Speaker 2 (40:03):
I got you? Yeah.

Speaker 14 (40:04):
The only reason, the only reason people use news saying
is to deep files.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
That is how we should know that.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
Is right.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
I'm that that is the beat generation called tea, called
weed tea.

Speaker 14 (40:27):
I just feel like I see a lot of older
people really trying hard to use young saying and I
don't think you need to.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
I just don't think it's necessary. The Guardian has an
article that's getting past around this morning about Clavicular and
the disturbing rise of Clavicular how a look snacks or
turned his horror story into fame there.

Speaker 7 (40:48):
Like that would be one thing if.

Speaker 17 (40:50):
You like is in the face with a hammer, like what.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
What is he?

Speaker 14 (40:55):
All I've seen is him being talked about what is he?

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Explained he's like.

Speaker 19 (41:00):
A weird he makes First of all, he makes fifty
seven thousand dollars a year and think that's I thinks
that's a lot. And then it's like he's like, isn't
that great? And he's like he's like in the weird
kind of the kickstreaming like young men. He literally is
like trying to look max. He thinks that looks or

(41:20):
the end all be all to everything. He hid himself
in the face with a hammer to change his drawlne.

Speaker 17 (41:27):
He also ran over a man live on stream. I
don't know if that guy died, but like it was
like insane. It was insane. He's like this weird he's
like what twenty twenty man.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
He sounds like he's manslaughter maxing a little too. It's
unclear if he's manslaughter masking or jesture maxing. He is hot, though,
right is he hot? Like I saw one? Yeah, he
seems hot. Right.

Speaker 17 (41:54):
You gotta stop saying these children are high.

Speaker 14 (41:58):
I just like, no, no, I just mean it's not
like he's like he like people regard him as attractive, right,
So that's like part of his thing.

Speaker 6 (42:06):
I think.

Speaker 19 (42:07):
But I think he's like built himself into that. I
think he's just like a white boy, like you know
what I mean. I think that's his whole thing.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
He's He's also said that he uses meth to cut weight,
And I know which is.

Speaker 14 (42:24):
Us culture? We've all got doing for years and to
help his addiction. Did he did the did the hammer
thing work? Did he get like better?

Speaker 2 (42:32):
I don't think any of this is real, by the way,
Like I don't. I think we would. I think he
would be under arrest if he had actually hit that
guy with his car.

Speaker 17 (42:42):
You don't think that was real.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
I don't know. It seems I thought that that.

Speaker 17 (42:46):
Was like a guy who was like a stalker. I
thought he did have to go.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
I don't know. I mean, maybe this this is based
on very little knowledge, but just everything I've heard, it
seems like he's like, I have taken so many steroids
that I'm now infertile. And it just seems like he
like says shiit to like make the wildest character possible essentially,

(43:10):
And but I don't I haven't watched the video where
he allegedly runs over somebody with.

Speaker 19 (43:14):
Also maybe he know his name is Braiden Peters.

Speaker 17 (43:20):
Biden Peters, Yeah, Braiden.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
That's the first first thing of uh, looks Maxing is
change your name if it's Braiden.

Speaker 17 (43:30):
He called Gavin Newsom a Chad, So that's cool, is it?

Speaker 5 (43:35):
No?

Speaker 17 (43:36):
I don't know what's happening.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
All right, let's take a quick break. We need to reset.
We will be back to talk about to Alpha Alpha Matt,
I don't know to two heroes, Rfkjinger and Kid Rock.
Will be right back. What is something from your history

(44:00):
that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 20 (44:02):
Well, I write trivia questions for TV game shows and
for my podcast go factorself, so most of my Google
searches really confuse Google because it thinks that I'm into
various things that I'm not. But so I'm always researching trivia,
always having to fact check stuff. Can't trust AI for
that stuff. And the latest thing that I came across
is something called Whackers Manual. The Whackers Manual, the Whackers Manual. Yes,

(44:27):
and I will let your imaginations learn wild is what
that is. I will tell your gon Jay Keith, Well,
it gets worse.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
There's actually a Miles shaped hole in the wall behind
Miles Miles mind shaped hole.

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (44:42):
And Whackers Manual It gets Worse was distributed to eighth
graders in the early twentieth century and was a part
of a required curriculum in certain parts of America. So
I will tell you that it ends up being a
little bit disappointing when you find out what it actually is.
But it definitely was fun to write questions about something
called Ackers Manual that was distributed to eight eighth grade boys.

(45:05):
Is a whacker a description of a person?

Speaker 7 (45:08):
Or is Whacker the last name of the person who's
saying this is their manual? This is you keet on
something very important if you want to get to the
actual Yeah, they want the part because my mind's going
doing the thing. That is what we're That is what
I was hoping for. But yes, no, it is somebody's name.
It is a possessive Whackers manual. I'm sorry sorry to
point out, but you know what, you can make your

(45:29):
own manual for whatever else you had in mind. Yeah, yeah,
just called it how to Jack Off?

Speaker 20 (45:36):
So I'm very curious to see what my Facebook ads
are about to be since I don't know, I don't
know if the internet knows the least it.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Is the least necessary manual for teenage boys, how to
jack Off? What am I do with this thing? You
want me to put my what in my No?

Speaker 20 (45:52):
Wait, so what I'm now I'm curious? What is Whacker's
man Well it turned out disappointingly. I'm sorry, Miles Whackers
manual was a manual written by someone named Whacker who
was writing out what his plan was for the city
of Chicago. Uh, there's a famous Whacker drive.

Speaker 7 (46:08):
In Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 20 (46:10):
With a lot of famous buildings there. And so he
wrote a manual that was teaching kids about civics and
about Chicago city government. And I know, I'm sorry you.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Do one about jacking.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
Well it's not to but you're up.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
But where did his ancestors get that last name? You
know what I'm saying, clan Actually there's a reason. Yeah,
they were removing weeds.

Speaker 7 (46:37):
Actually, fuck yeah, this never gets any better.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
You guys are so rigorously boring. What do your as
somebody who's constantly searching weird ship, do you see yourself
like being served ass that you wouldn't expect, Like, can
you see the trace of their listening to me? There's
my searches? Oh for sure. Yeah that's something. As we've

(47:03):
like done this more topical version of the show, and
I'm like researching Marylyn Monroe and then like all of
a sudden, like there will be on Netflix. It'll be
like Maryland Road documentary.

Speaker 20 (47:14):
And god forbid, God forbid you look up anything about
mattresses or beds or sleep because I think those are
the people who paid who you know, who pay the
most to auction to get their ads in. So yeah,
it took me about six months to clear anything related
to mattresses or sleeping or anything from my ad feet.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
The speed at which like the algorithms are like, you're
gonna have a kid, aren't you a little freak?

Speaker 2 (47:38):
It was so jarring that they're like, well, well, well
someone's been busy. Huh oh, somebody's shooting up the club.

Speaker 7 (47:47):
You're not just having sex for pleasure shooting up the club.
We don't even talk like that anymore, this ten year
old phrase, what's something you think is overrated? Morgan, doctor,
take us into your world of sous hatred.

Speaker 21 (48:02):
I just feel like, is it that impressive to rhyme
made up words with other made up words? Okay, Like
if it was a book full of rhymes of normal words, cool,
like yeah, the guy about it, yeah yeah. But if
it's like your rhyme and fluzel with douzel, like that's

(48:24):
anybody can do that, yeah yeah, yeah, So I don't
really get Yeah.

Speaker 7 (48:29):
Well, how do you feel about star bellied sneeches?

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Is that a doctor Seuss thing. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (48:35):
I think that one was like an allegory for race.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
I believe. Okay, I think they all mostly are race
or trees. I got it. It's like as Utopia thing.

Speaker 7 (48:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 21 (48:50):
Yeah, it's like all different races but also different species species,
but also the cops.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Some of us are cops. The cops are pretty cool.
Huh right, no, no, no love for that one, all right,
Hey forget it. Jacob's Zutopia. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:07):
Yeah, Doctor Seuss. I don't have I have a your
three era. You're in your sous era brother, not into it,
not into SEUs. Those are just those are elementary level rhymes.
Those are not Those are not fucking bars. And I
get the nostalgia, but I also didn't have My parents
didn't have a ton of Doctor SEUs ship when I
was a kid. So I think like there's levels to it.

(49:29):
Because I know other people who have so much Doctor
SEUs stuff for their kids, because like they grew up,
there's like a lot of SUS's momentum. I think in
their family they can't break the cycle.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
Yea.

Speaker 7 (49:40):
Luckily for me there was no cycle to break.

Speaker 13 (49:43):
I feel the Doctor's quite a lot of work there.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
The doctor name.

Speaker 13 (49:49):
I think it was just from the era where if
you are a parent, you were desperately trying whatever because
you had I mean, we went past the inform the
era of having enough information and now we're in the
era of has too much and mostly wrong information. But
they were in the sweet spot of like, not only
do we not know, there's no way we could know
what the right move is.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
And this is a doctor. Yeah, and he was like
sports medicine. I think, so right right right, there's.

Speaker 7 (50:17):
Like doctor Spocks, you know, beats and child.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
A fake doctor. It would it could have been motherfuckers
from Star Trek. Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
But it's like, well doctor that that legitimized everyone wanted
to be a doctor. I get it.

Speaker 13 (50:32):
It's it's funny that made up words thing because it's
like somehow like worse than what chet GPT could do.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Like it's like.

Speaker 13 (50:41):
You know what I mean, like chapt would just would
find a word that matches. This is somehow lazier than that. Intellectually,
that's what it's.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Kind of lazy.

Speaker 21 (50:52):
Like if you just when you hit a wall where
you're like, oh, I've hit a wall I guess I'm
just like that new creature called.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah right, it's like new, you're gonna say for all.

Speaker 7 (51:07):
Apparently thinking I wonder if like Doctor Seuss was just
sort of like he's like, man, it's like I'm trying
to do some of that white jazz poetry.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Yeah, you know, yeah, he was trying to stand and
they're like, get this cracker out of here, and then
he was out of here. The can had bullshit. They
run mad LSD Brothers.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
It's fine, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah your era that
you know, were you want to Susan's Contemporaries right back then?

Speaker 13 (51:37):
Yeah, I will if if you detect a note of bitterness,
it is because he he got me out of the game.
I was running the children's book game until his ass
came along.

Speaker 21 (51:48):
It's like how it was it like David Foster Wallas
like in English class with James Patterson or something or something.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
You're the David Foster Wallace in this equation.

Speaker 7 (52:00):
Yeah, I have integrity and a thick ass children's book. Yeah,
with footnotes.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
What is something you think is overrated?

Speaker 22 (52:09):
At risk of this being maybe too since here, but
being angry on the internet is overrated? Right now, or
making yourself angry. Reading the Internet is really one thing
that I am passionate about because I am like mostly
a social media creator these days, and it feels bad
to be part of that ecosystem. I don't like that
I'm supporting those people who are making money off it

(52:30):
and the bad feelings. But I'm just a big proponent
that you don't have to feel bad while you're scrolling.
And my main thing that I think not enough people
know this is underrated is having a fake Instagram, a
fence to but just to follow things that make you
calm and not angry. So you can have your angry feed,
but you have a separate one where you only follow

(52:51):
you know, bunny bunnies and fashion or whatever you're like
that's non controversial. And then you have your like this
is my I'm not angry time, and you go scroll
the night things and then you can go back to
your memai algroom. But you can teach an algorithm you
only want nice things. It's very doable, and so have
a second account that's calm, that's my that's my advice.

Speaker 23 (53:09):
That's good or you know, you know, the producer just
says something that is pretty a pretty good point. Your
your calm account can be the main account and your
angry account.

Speaker 22 (53:21):
I love calm on me, and I think that's a
great idea. I wasn't sure, are we if we're supposed
to answer the questions from that are that are texted
from the producer, or if we should pretend that's not happening.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (53:31):
No, that's awesome for you and your mental health. And
I love it, and I think maybe sometimes you need
to dip in the news, keep that in a little cage,
keep it, keep us separate. That's your fins to where
you actually learn about the horrors. See here's what I do.

Speaker 23 (53:43):
Like I so on Instagram is generally chill for me,
like is wrestling, sports food. Everyone's every once in a
while titties popped through my algorithm and then I'm like,
were is nice? And then it gets too much and
then I'm like, all right, I'm not a fucking I
don't just want like naked people. So then I had

(54:04):
to retrain my algorithm to take it all off. But
on threads, on threads is where just separate platforms for separate.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
There.

Speaker 23 (54:16):
This is where I get on the porn. Okay, no,
there is there is is where there is is where
I get angry. There is is where I been, And
I'm starting to pull back on that now too, because
it's taken too much of my energy.

Speaker 22 (54:26):
I mean, I think there's a lot of stuff wrong
with the way Facebook thinks about the world. But one
of the things that Threads has is a how angry
do you want to be? Setting where you can be
like all politics, some politics, no politics, and it will
filter out stuff that makes you and there are other
things that will make you angry. There's definitely a lot
of people being like this is how you should clean
your legs, and then everyone fights about it or whatever,
but like it's still rage baby. But the fact I

(54:47):
actually like thinking of that slider as the thing you
have in your brain when you train your algorithm. So yeah,
you can go from like news and things make you angry.
You can slide the slider over more towards boobs, or
you could go back.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
It's up to you.

Speaker 22 (54:59):
That's you in controller an algorithm. It's operated being angry
all the time.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
It's not.

Speaker 5 (55:03):
It's good for you, are.

Speaker 10 (55:05):
Right the block button and the mute button.

Speaker 22 (55:07):
Yeah, I'm used a great you guys have fun, Nah,
I can't have them talking.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
I can't have those guys talking without me. I better
know what the better know that I disagree me. Just
make a good enough argument. They're gonna Let me tell you.

Speaker 23 (55:26):
Here's a secret for you, Jack, here's what you can do.
You see something, and you and and maybe you see something,
you say something.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
You see threads. That's the theme of threads.

Speaker 23 (55:39):
You see something that makes you upset or like somebody's
responds and blah blah blah. Go in on them, go
in on them, say what you gotta say, and then
restrict them and mute them so you don't see anything
they say again, and they can't respond on ship that
you got. So that's the last thing they see and
they got physically, there's no option.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
In the door. Slams on them as you leave your message.

Speaker 23 (56:04):
Yes, and don't block them because in a case nothing
immute them restricted.

Speaker 22 (56:08):
I've had to block people for like the craziest things,
because people, especially on threat people will lose their minds
for stuff where I like I had I had since
I made just the dumbest joke about how the instant
pot takes longer than an instant to make food, and
I had to block a lady who was so mad
that I disrespected the instant pot right, and then her
husband went to Instagram to tell me to unblock his wife,

(56:29):
and I had to block him on Instagram to be like,
I'm not doing instant insta.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Pot came through, You'll just have this family family war
on you.

Speaker 10 (56:40):
And I hate to say it is Alex what they
sent me today to tell you.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Pot Mafia says its regards. I do always find this interesting,
like that there are some things that are like circumcisions
obviously one of them, but like insta pot is not
one that I knew was like secretly going to create
a flame that device. And I think that's fine, but
it's not instant like the least, it's the wrong name.

(57:10):
The thing that's good about it is you put it
in there and then forget about it and it.

Speaker 22 (57:15):
Yeah, you can do. It's just salt faster. But we
do a lot of like using it like a crock
pot where it takes a long time like that. Why
would like, why would you let people lie to you
when you buy their cool pot that's all, that's all?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Or why if you were the set it forget it
thing that isn't fast and like, in fact, it's just
like a fun little like it's kind of the opposite.
Why would you call it instepot?

Speaker 22 (57:37):
I mean, given how much hate I got about this,
I'm really glad to hear you on board from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
No, it's just a it's just a conversation about fucking
names like a better thing.

Speaker 22 (57:46):
Like I mean, if you were mad that it's not
a great joke to say the pot is not instant,
then like we can talk about that. I mean, the
world was better than Yeah, but it's still uh, it's
not a great premise. It was just it was worth
a thread. I was worth to pop in between Jackie
is porn.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Are there any other things that you've
noticed are like weird weirdly controversial, like obviously not the
main the main ones, but.

Speaker 22 (58:09):
Oh, I mean well literally everything is controversial.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (58:15):
That's definitely the silliest thing that I've ever had to
block somebody over. But yeah, people take every I mean,
you know the thing that does where you're like I
like Lego and someone's like a Lego killed my mom?
How could you say that? Like, I so everything I've
ever posted, somebody has something that's like, yeah, Actually saying
that is really insensitive to all the Yeah.

Speaker 10 (58:33):
Everybody who got feet that's stepped on a lego? Yeah yeah,
really disappointed. Then you say that, you'd be like, what
about a lot of people that don't have feet?

Speaker 5 (58:41):
Actually you said what.

Speaker 22 (58:42):
You said really disappointing? Is the other thing is they don't.
They're not mad anymore, so they just say they're disappointed.
You'd like stepdad energy, Yeah, yeah, do better. My mom
died from legos.

Speaker 5 (58:52):
Do better?

Speaker 2 (58:54):
All right, And that's going to do it for this
special Memorial Day edition of Oops, All Overrated, Underrated, and
we'll be back tomorrow with a whole last episode by.

Speaker 7 (59:04):
The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Co produced by Victor Wright

Speaker 7 (59:09):
Co written by j M mcnapp, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jefferies.