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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this Valentine's Day episode
of the Zight of my Geist, The Apple of my Zite,
my best trends, sweetie zite, uh, the object of my
effect preds. Those are all courtesy of Johnny Day Big
J Davis. That's not a nickname or anything. I don't
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know why I just said that, because you're like that
one guy's dad who's coaching the basketball teams, which a
big big Johnny Davis. John, can I start today? Not
a chance, kid, not a chance? Sit back down? Have you?
We we we talked about this. Until you can get
the ball at least a half court dribbling, you can't.
We can't really, we can't really entertain that idea. But
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those are all messages on sweetie candy, which is appropriate
because I am absolutely housing handfuls of those things right now.
You have no Oh god, I was gonna jack please
eating your sweet chalk. That's sweet sweet chalk. Well, speaking
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of romance, let's talk about justin Timberlake. That's something that's trending. Um,
speaking of eating handfuls of something, yeah, you should be
eating handfuls. You my ship for this lame. This dude
just tried to do a two for one apology, like
a coupon for all his bullshit. My man, we have
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been waiting for you to address the Janet Jackson bs
for centuries now, and obviously we don't remember the Nipplegate
thing at the Super Bowl got away with it. Janet
took all all the flak to the point where like
people were like, we will never work with Janet Jackson again,
and this motherfucker should have spoke up and said, yo,
I was part of that's not it's not fair, like
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but you know, he kept it low, which patriarchy allows
people to do, especially if you're a white man. And
then with the Britney Spears doc I think we all
kind of felt some type of way if you watched it,
especially seeing like a lot of people we got angry
at again including ourselves watching the Britney Spears documentary, but
like specifically I didn't realize how deceptive the crimea River
video was to add to this speculation that Brittany was
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this or that or doing yeah, so yeah, the whack
is part like the part where he goes on the
call in radio show and they're like, soroll you banks
Brittany and he was like, I did it come on? Man?
Like it was just I don't know, how do you
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let a morning Zoo radio DJ like bully you into Uh,
that's not bullying, man, that's like when you're just you're
just a toxic dude. You know. I've been there, and
all I need is to know, oh, we we're here?
Is it? Is it toxic soupay? To be beyond my bullshit? Absolutely?
And it takes you have to like really have some
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moments to be able to look and leave that ship
behind you. But this, so, this is so he puts
out this apology and I just want to read it
because it's so like it's one of those ones that
it's like wavering on almost a good apology, and said,
I've seen the messages, tax comments and concerns, and I
want to respond, I'm deeply sorry for the times of
my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where
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I spoke out of turn or did not speak up
for what was right. I understand that I felt short
in these moments and many others, and benefited from a
system that condones misogyny and racism. I specifically want to
apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson, both individually, because
I care and respect these women and I know I failed.
I also feel compelled to respond, in part because everyone
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involved deserves better, and most importantly, because this is a
larger conversation that I wholeheartedly want to be a part
of and grow from. The industry is flawed. It'sas men,
especially white men, up for success. It's designed this way.
As a man in a privileged position, I have to
be vocal about this because of my ignorance. I didn't
recognize it for all that it was while it was
happening in my own life. But I do not want
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to ever benefit from others being pulled down again. I
have not been perfect in navigating all this throughout my career.
I know this apology as the first step and doesn't
absolve the past. I want to take accountability for my misstep.
Blah blah bah, I care deeply. Did that? Okay? Okay?
Mr Michael Jackson sound alike he wants to extend personal
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apologies to them via a single written apology and not
even getting specific, Not not even Janet Jackson, who I
allowed the dark forces of racism and white supremacy to
devour you, and I did not even for a moment
consider speaking up against it, as I saw such a
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terrible imbalanced reaction play out before my eyes. I mean whatever,
I'm not his publicist, but yeah, do we even know, like,
has there been a full like reporting of how that
went down? Even? No, because I think even I mean,
I'd hate to say it. I don't think. Maybe we've
probably dove the deepest with like JM writing about it,
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because we did talk about it, like of all the
fallout from it afterwards, um in an episode. I think
it was around one of the Super Bowls. You know,
we were doing the show for so long, y'all. They
don't remember that at all. Oh yeah, because that's when
I remember. There was a thing where like less Moon
Vez like said after that super Bowl, like Janet Jackson
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will never be on CBS again. But it took people
to like us to be interested. And I'm sure other
people have written up about it. I mean it's like, no,
I'm not I'm not gonna claim where the first people
talking about obviously, but that you know, no one I
don't think has ever actually examined it as like a piece,
as a as a cultural moment, like much in the
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same way framing Brittany Suddenly people went, oh right, that
was all kinds of bad and continues to be like,
I'm sure if you saw that too, uh, how like
their paths diverged from that moment on. Yeah, there's probably
some people have she was bigger than him by far
heading into that by far. Yeah, I mean she was massive.
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She still is, you know, Yeah. Yeah. Valentine's Day one
trending because it's I don't know, why is it? Do
we have a Sunday? Hey, I gotta go man, that
old that old yard, that old troumph Hey, fellows didn't remember?
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Did you do you? How do you do do Valentine's Day?
Like it's like a kid thing. It's like something that
are our kids get psyched up about? Right? My cousin
is a very talented jewelry designer and Richard yourman. Yeah,
my cousin Richard or David, I call him Richard, but
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but it's really dare. It's a really dumb bit. He
hates No. Sophie Ramsey designs really dope ship and so
I got something from that for damn my way. Okay, well,
don't let her match to hear that, because I'm making
ribs nice, I could. We're both anti that holiday, Like
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we don't mess around like on an anniversary or whatever,
but like sometimes it's just like it's too many holidays
to keep track of. And like I remember early on
dating you do that thing. We're like, do you care
about this? Trying to and are you just saying that
or exactly? I'm like, don't say that because you're trying
to be chill just because and then it comes out
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you did you really mattered because I don't mind jumping
all in, but I just want to know what you know.
Just tell me what key we're in so I could
play the notes And luckily we're both like, no, I'm
dead that ship. T J. Duck Low is trending. This
is somebody whose name I should not have to know.
That sounds like you put your name in like a
conservative Star Wars name generator when you come out t J.
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Duck Low from Tattooen. He is Deputy Press Deputy Press
Secretary to President Joe Biden, but he's been suspended for
a week without pay because, according to Vanity Fairs, Caleb A.
Karma Uh duck Low had a call with a reporter,
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so he was having a relationship with somebody who reported
on the Biden Alexi McCammon from Axios, and he reached
out to a reporter by the name of Tara Palmry
and was like, stop reporting on this. You're just jealous.
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You're just jealous of her because somebody else wanted to
fuck her instead of you. So literally that's quoted right
that she was quote jealous that an unidentified man in
the past had quote wanted to funck end quote mccammond
quote and not you end quote. So uh huh, come
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on in. It's almost like there's ship bags on both sides.
I mean, yeah, I get this. I mean he all
said I will destroy you said he will destroy her
career essentially, and what he's like on no paid leave
or whatever white people for a week. Yeah, that's what
I mean. He's gonna get fired, like you can't have
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that ship. Yeah. That Also people are pointing it's like
he's also calling on Newsmax people during the don't he
should be fired for that? Questions like okay, yeah, you're
like no, no, no, no, no, suffocate the little fires
by not giving them oxygen, thank you. Detective Chinatown three
isn't trending, but it should be because it just beat
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Avengers Endgame with a single day box office record um
for a single market, in this case China. So Avengers
end Game used to have the record for the most
the highest gross in a single country for its first
day in the United States had put up one fifty
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six million for the friday it came out. Detective Chinatown
three just came out in China and put up one
hundred sixty million, And according to Scott Mendelssohn, who writes
for Forbes, very good like reporter on this sort of
stuff was saying, like this has been coming for a
long time. There's gonna be movies coming out of China
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that a lot of the US market has never heard of,
aren't designed to even make a ripple in the US,
that are going to be bigger than any Hollywood blockbuster
is ever going to be. And this is going to
be you know, the shape of things to come. But
everything's for me. They can consume er. I mean, I'm
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not gonna lie. Watch the trailer. It looks kind of dope. No, No,
that's not right. It shouldn't be. Why why did it happen? Wow?
I mean, that's fully getting dunked on because on multiple levels, right,
because I'm like box office as in, people went to
a movie theater and they got this much revenue was generated. Yeah,
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they're fully and running all right. Well good good, I mean, yeah,
keep keep breaking the markers. The more people, more American
people can wake the funk up and be like it's
a it's a whole last world outside of your neighborhood. Good.
I mean, like part of me is like, oh cool,
maybe they'll like start making you know, fifty to seventy
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five million dollar movies. They'll make like five of those
instead of one fifty million dollar movie about superheroes. But
the other part of me knows that, you know, the
way American capitalism is trending, it just means that Walmart
will buy all the studios and like start churning out
just giant blockbuster garbage. Yeah, but it would be dope.
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I just started making a smaller movies or like medium
sized movies again. Yeah, Like and when when like development
was more free and like people were developing films like
I love this idea, not like can it make triple
the marketing costs we have to put in because we
have to do a like eleven figures spend on like
on marketing or some ship. Well, speaking of cooking up
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special meals for Milady, there's an article about different pizza
reheating techniques. You're you're coming for the crown. You're coming
from my favorite pizza reheating technique, which is cooking. I look,
I saw the article on the takeout as I peruse
for my food stories, and you know, because I think
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National Pizza Day was this week, so pizza was you know,
pizza was on the brain in this country, and they
did a roundup of like the best ways to reheat
leftover pizza. Now, I pointed this out because at the
first version that they that they note is the method
I learned from you jacket, beat up the pan, put
the slice in, put a little water in there, put
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the top on, let it steam a little bit, drop
the heat low, let that sit for a minute, and
then you come out the crusted, crispy and the top gooey, glistening. Great.
So some things I've learned since then. The pan better
be completely clean, like it can have been a pan
that you recently used to you know, make a grilled
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cheese or something like that, because it don't work is good, Okay,
let's move write that down. It will absorb any scent
of like anything that's been cooked on there. Uh. And
it's easy to funk this up. So I'm gonna I'm
gonna go ahead and say I've been derelict to my duties.
I have a new favorite pizza reheating technique that is
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on this list. Okay, which version is that? Well, you
go through them and the okay, So then there's version two,
which is heat up a pan on medium heat, dropped
the slice face fucking down on the pan with the
chee on the pan, and wait until you hear it sizzle.
Then you flip the slice over and then let it
hang out for another minute and that gives you a
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little burnt cheese top and a crisp bottom, and then
they say put hot sauce and kind of becomes its
own thing. Version three put the slice directly on the
rack of an air fryer or toaster oven okay, and
put that shirt on air fry or extreme convection and
let it get there until you see the top start
to bubble. Bring it out and you're in trouble. And
then lastly, one of the ones I mean, there are
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a couple more, but this one was really interesting. One
of the editors that takeout saying, you know, for the
unconventional way quote, and my wife gets credit for this sandwich.
Two pieces crusted side out and waffle iron them into melted,
crispy perfection. It's a second life for the pizza that
actually sounds fun. So which one are you? It's the
boring one, the toaster oven. Just put it on toast robin.
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We just got a toast robin and it's really it
makes it so good reheating fried food and a toast
robbing is I couldn't believe it. I get like little
like this Japanese thing called kaga, which is like Japanese
fried chicken pieces or whatever, and I get into the
Japanese market, but it's refrigerated there and it's frying like something,
you know, fried cold food, and the best put that
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in the toaster oven though it's it's a new lease
on life. So the one that is most intriguing to me, however,
heat up on medium, heat face down, face down. Yeah,
so that's a pan that's still like stovetop they're talking about. Yeah,
that's on the pan. Yeah, on the stove face down
as that's the way we'd like to beat our pizza
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and yeah, get get it like that. All right, I'm
trying that this weekend. I'll get back to you. I'm
not I don't have super high hopes because they felt
like uh and then add hot sauce is like like yo,
what no, no, no, no, no, we we're trying to
I guess for methods. I feel like you almost forgot
that that ship was from a couple of days ago.
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That's that's all right. That is gonna do it for
this week. We are back on Tuesday. Tuesday, we are
taking Monday off honor all the great presidents. All presidents, yes,
even Ronald uh and George Washington, all presidents. Really lift
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a finger. I don't know. See these are hot takes
you get from the show. Yeah yeah, but try that
out at your family's President Day and barbecue. Uh. We're
back on Tuesday. Until then, be kind to each other,
be kind to yourselves, wear masks, stay inside, don't do
nothing about white supremacy. We'll talk to y'all on Tuesday. Bye.