November 17, 2019 • 49 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. My first hour here yesterday, I said,
someone told me to go get lunch somewhere because I
had time to kill before I could check in. I
was like, why don't I go? I whan don't I go?
Somebody goes to check out that Fountain Coffee room place
in that Beverly Hills Hotel thing. It's like some downstairs
you know whatever. So I walk in there and sit down.
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I'm like, oh, this is a pretty you know, dollars
for a sandwich. I'm like, all right, I'm officially in
Los Angeles. Yeah. And then it became even more like
because like two seconds later, uh, Justin Bieber and his
wife walk in and sit right next to me the
entire meal, and I'm just like yeah, and like, nobody
there's them, Nobody talks to them, and I'm just like,
this is the most l a I've ever felt, you know.
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Did they pray over whatever they ordered? Dude? I mean
I gotta be honest. They there there wasn't a lot
of talking between them, you know, I don't know what
was phones. Yeah, a lot on their phones and just
there was some there was some tension there, but they
I mean, I gotta tell you, Haley is I mean,
just breathdown. I didn't. I didn't immediately recognize who she was.
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But when she walked in, you know when you just
see somebody and you go, I don't know who that is,
but I know they're wildly famous, you know what I mean,
like just im and then he and then he walked in,
and then I was like, oh, that's of course. Yeah yeah,
but you know, they seemed pretty nice. I guess I
do a skateboarder on skid row and yeah, cool. That's
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the new vibe, Like is that I wonder younger listeners,
is it normal just to be on your phones all
the time? Is that like the new younger people ship?
I get I feel bad when I'm on the phone
too much, like around somebody, but it feels normal. That's
where get weirded out, where it's like, well, you're doing
your thing on your phone. I'm doing my thing, but
it's like this used to not be well, you know
what it is too, which is like, this is why
I feel like kids are more socially awkward now, is
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because they don't. Whenever they're in like a party and
then there's an awkward moment of silence and they don't
know what to do. They bust the phone. It's like
their have it instead of having to overcome that weirdness
by either making conversation. I'm talking to somebody, Yes it is,
which is so bizarre to me. But it's like, you know,
I'm sure it's it's great to have, for sure, but
I think it's stunting, you know, social growth. I forgot
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my phone actually precisely in this kind of situation on
going to a party where I didn't really know many people.
And at first it's like, oh fuck, I'm gonna have
to pantom I'm having a phone because I'm not talking
to nobody. And then I just like was able to
just kind of sit when you actually don't have it.
I didn't even think about I was like, you know,
what what's up? Man? In that discomfort? Yeah, ask the
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uncomfortable question of Hi, what's your name? Hi? Who are
you doing? I love on somebody takes the phone out
and they hold it, but they don't like as you're
talking to them, they kind of like have it ready
to go, you know, like whenever, whenever this takes a turn,
I'm going in. I say, interesting, Yeah you are one
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boring story, but part of Long Island. You from. I'm
from Mountain, Suffolk County, way out and we're bagel bosses
from Yeah, exactly. Actually it's yeah. I mean, I mean honestly,
when I saw that video and everybody that I know
from Long Island, when we saw that video, we were like,
this is just the first time someone's pressed record. This
is this is such a normal occurrence, like not just
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that guy, but I mean like that's just people fighting
in bagl and like in bagel stories about being short
and Italian, like it's just such like it didn't I
was like, oh yeah. And then the fact that they
went so viral and what I'm curious for a Suffolk
County native in his videos where he's like I'm trying
to fuck all right, I'm going on his boat email
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my manager only women from Suffolk County, Okay, post fame
bagel boss when he's just trying to funk on I
G Live and saying it had to be from Suffolk County.
Is that is he thinking of a specific kind of
woman when he said, or is it that it's just no, no, no,
So what is he a specific type of Uh? Suffolk
County women. Long Island women in gentlemen for the most part,
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are like Italian brunettes, blonde only with the highlights, you
know what I mean. I didn't know. I like, I
didn't know that. I always grew up and I was like, man,
I really am attracted to blonde women with dark eyebrows.
And then I was like, oh, I eventually realized like, oh,
that's just a brunette woman with blonde hair. That's bond there.
That's how that works. But no, Suffolk County would mean uh,
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usually overly tan brunette, maybe with some like you know,
blonde highlights. And because Nassau County is known more for money,
so also Suffolk County is a little more trashy, so
there's a little more like middle class, lower middle class US. Uh,
you know, where's Teresa Capital from Long Island? Medium? Uh?
That I'm not sure because I feel like that's what
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I'm envisioning. But yeah, that's like a level five Suffolk
count fun a comedian friend of my New York City
comedians very funny Brendan Tagalo has a joke where it's
very I think, which sums it up very well, where
it's like Long Island women like to do a thing.
Would it be like like let me suck your bulls?
You know what I mean, like a w C you know,
like shout out to the Long Island medium who we
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all are imagining sucking someone's balls. Now. My mom is
is all into those things too, all of the Long
Island medium John Edwards. If you can tell her that
you know a past pet is okay, she'll give you money.
You know, uh lucky. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? Is?
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You know what? I feel like people pay way too
much attention to what people say. Okay, yeah, like okay.
Number one for me is a blogger. I figure out
what I'm trying to say as I talk about it.
M So I've never all that invested in anything that
I say or other people say. I always assume it's
evolving right interesting, oh like versus like I need to
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actually figure out everything I'm about to say right now
before I say it, and then I'll say it yeah,
and then being like really really invested in that got you.
You're just kind of like I'm channeling energy I'm feeling
right now based on a given topic. And then I'm
I'm fluid. Yeah, I'll make a can move, we can
move with the wind. I think the strongest I've ever felt,
most rigid, staunch belief I've ever had, is in how
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much I love candy corn. Oh, and I know you're
looking right dead in my eye. Yes, I recall saying
I don't like candy corn and you came after me
on on Instagram and I was like, I made that
wasn't the only social platform used, but yes, yes, I
know that was the one that really got to though.
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I was like, oh, no, she's she's aware, is there?
Can you tell me why you think handy corn is good? Ah?
You would like me to explain why sugar taste good? Huh?
I guess what is the flavor of candy corn? Vague?
Vanilla sugar? Is there vanilla in it? It's vega challenge
for you? Yeah, I don't know. It's just not do
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you have to be like this is chocolate done? So
I'm just so rigid. I'm just like what is the
definition of this flavor? If it's too ambiguous, I am gone.
Plankton and sugar. One much carbon is in this? It
has a butter scotchy aftertaste. Does that's a good way
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of describing it? Because I've always been closeted. See what happened?
Do you see what happened? I made room for him.
He was closeted in his This is probably why he's
going to leave me for you. If you cry, I
want to cry. Now you guys can see your show.
This sounds really cool. Do you like the pumpkins? Oh
(08:04):
my god, the pumpkins? Yeah? Is it the same same pumpkins?
So we're dealing with the same sort of base material,
but shaped as a pumpkin. Yeah, shaped as a pumpkin.
The coloring is a little bit more intense orange, I realize,
bright orange. What's how much does it stick to your teeth?
That's the other thing I remember, is I feel like
that's the best part is when candy stick to your teeth,
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it melts away slowly with your teeth teeth slowly. Well,
that takes down your enamel to the point where your
cavities developed. But then cavities are just little places for
the sugar die. So you have a little sugar sugar
treats that are later on of every root canal. Yeah,
(08:52):
that I've had thanks to you. Candy corn, Yeah, I've
only had one and it failed. I just was cracking
up listening to you guys because you were listen all
of my loves. Wax lips, right, you like that's like
eating straight up a candle. It's the best, right, How
do you want to eat a candle? Isn't that other one? Like,
(09:13):
isn't it like a wax cola bottle? Candy too? Yeah,
that's another one. This is all wrong. Somebody came to
me and was like, you could munch on your laptop, Zara.
If I'd be like, I'm ready, you're like, hold on,
hold on, not your laptop right now that you're munching on,
I'm sorry. What were you finish? It's not made of sugar.
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But I mean you guys all saw Willie Wanka on
the chocolate factory. There's the room where you get to
eat it. You know what it is? It's the textures.
I think is when I really think about it, because
I don't like the waxy ship because it evokes literally
a candle in my mouth. So it's like, this isn't
a thing I'd eat. And then the candle. I've been
kicked out of every candle store in this city. Got
(09:56):
a candle store in my face and plaster tell my.
But yeah, and I think with candy corn, it's that
I realized on I like chocolate sweets the most. If
there's a hierarchy, like fruity ones rank low, jelly beans
at the very bottom bottom. Yeah, so because they're there,
it's like in that similar like chewy thing like starbursts,
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I like more, but they get stuck to my teeth.
Laughy taffy. I feel like they've finally done something with
the formula because this year, eating some laughy taffy, it
wasn't stuck all in my teeth. You know what's a
beautiful in between of laughy taffy and starbursts? Air heads? Yeah?
Those I think. I like all candy I've just discovered, yeah,
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pan candy, pan candy, except I don't. I don't like, Yes,
I don't like jelly beans that are just jelly bean flavored.
Yeah that's annoying. Yeah, what is jelly bean flavor? It's
just it's almost like it takes a step like a
gives a head fake towards liquorice, but isn't liquorice. It's
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just isn't there, Like can you almost taste like doesn't
even have granules of sugar like inside some jelly beans,
Like there's a little crunch to it. Like yeah, what
does something you think is underrated? Okay? Um, well, first off,
I'll give you a local one and then a universal one.
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Just from being in Los Angeles for twenty four hours,
I'm gonna say walking is underrated here because I walked
yesterday from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood. And when I
told people that, they acted like I was Forrest Gump
that just got done with the cross, like someone threw
a foil blanket over me. I was like what I
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was like, Yeah, I was like, it's two miles. They're
like two miles like zober down. You're like, it's seventy
three degree. It's the perfect walking weather. Um. So that's
what I would say is underrated here. But universally, I
to say I just I just like made this connection recently.
I have a thing where every time I hear a helicopter,
(12:08):
I have to like find it in the sky. You
know what I'm saying, Like, I know what it is,
but I need to find it identification. Yeah. And and
not even because I think it's going to be a threat.
I'm just like, that's a helicopter, right, and I want
to see it. Yeah. And the feeling, the feeling of
finding it for some reason, is such a great feeling
where you like, it's not a cat. I love that,
you know what I mean, Like, whatever it is, we
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all have to find it. You've got to find it
in the sky. To congratulate yourself. Yeah, I know. The
one I really the small victory I sense is when
you know, like it's a big sound, so you don't
quite know the direction that's coming from when you almost
go it sounds like here, but I know it's here, yeah,
and you look exactly that's right, right. Yeah. Growing up
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living underneath a flight path of an airport, you hone
those aircraft sound skills. But that's one thing I really
It's funny. I was in an uber recently and the
fucking I heard a fucking like heavy military helicopter and
I was like, oh ship, what is that? Like a
Chinook or something? And I look up and I fucked up.
I looked the wrong way and then it was the
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other one, And in my mind, I said, you knew
it was the other side. You fool broke your trying
to look out that there's something forever. Like it's like
snots being able to scratch an itch if if you
don't find it, you know, and then it's out of
your site mine, and you're like, oh it hurts. There's
one thing I know. It's the sound of a helicopter.
That's a real man's man. Uh. These are things that
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become relevant again when you have like a three year old.
Three year olds fucking love helicopters. That's like, such a
helicopter flies. Oh yeah, well any large mechanical flying through
the sky. You ever taken to, like the fire department,
like when they're just out there for free, just a
construction site is like, we'll stop it, We'll pull over
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and just look at a construction site for like twenty minutes.
He knows all the different all the different trucks, crane, truck,
telescope and crane like bulldoze are different types of excavators,
Like I do yeah, i' what is something you think
is underrated? Yea, influencers underrated because and obviously we'll get
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into the whole likes thing and Instagram stuff later, but
I see, especially because of that stuff, I've seen so
much stuff on the Internet about like, oh, well that'll
shut down these fucking influencers and fuck them and like
they don't have real jobs and blah blah blah. But
I think everyone fails to remember that. And you can
speak about it the first person plural. We as influencers,
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we that is, we have filling. But like I have
definitely seen something on the internet at some point or
another on Instagram or on Spooker on Twitter and been like, oh,
that looks like a cool thing. I want to try that.
And then I go try that thing and I get enjoyment.
But guess what if I had nowhere to discover that thing.
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I don't walk down the street. I don't like down set,
like I don't just like go into random buildings and
be like what y'all have for me? What's going on?
What is in store for me? Yeah, Like there's so
like I wouldn't find out about those things, and that
happens to all of us. Yeah, we want to like
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pan and condemn these people for creating a career by
doing ship and then showing us the ship and then
we go do to ship. It's literally all it is. Well,
I think it's I think there's there's two versions of criticism.
There's ones who are just haters because they would rather
most of them, Yeah, and then there are I think
other people who see other like the you know, the
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mirage that influencers cell that contribute to like weird, fake
or unrealistic expectations of life. Think that all depends on
but that's really up to you, and like if you
can filter through that ship. I don't personally have a
problem with It's when I see influencers act like they
are God's gift to whatever the fuck that's not. I'm like,
hold on, remember where the funk you're at? Really quick,
Like you have you have the privilege of being able
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to just sort of commodify your existence to make money,
and that's your job. Respect, you know, get your get
your paper. But I think because there was like a
person who left a one star Yelp review we were
trying to talk about a few weeks ago, Yeah, where
an influencer was pissed because a restaurant didn't hook them
up with enough free ship because they were an influence.
She's not an influencer. She had eleven thousand followers. I
have eleven thousand followers. I'm not an influencer. I'm not
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selling anything. I got it, Yeah, exactly, No. But I
get that and that kind of you know, inflated, stupid
ego person I think though, is like casting a bad
shadow on what is not the whole industry. And also
I don't like the argument that well, people and children
are looking at the Internet and they're getting sad because
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everyone's life looks better than their um. You know what,
before the Internet, that ship was still happening. Ted does
not have a green lawn. He dies that ship. And
you've been looking at Ted's lawn thirsty as hell because
his ship as green as we're in a drought right now.
Do you think he's using water at night when we're
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where did that come from? Yeah? Meanwhile, Ted is probably
eyeballs up in debt from lawn die. You know, people
are down here taking the funk everywhere you go, you know,
I mean people are lying about their status, they're lying
about their money, they're lying about their happiness. So it's
not like if you take that part of the Internet away,
that that sadness isn't gonna still exist because it's just
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a human thing we purport. We puff ourselves up to
make ourselves feel better. Everyone doesn't. And so I just
think that we have a more instant access by just
looking at your phone. But guess what if you go
outside somebody lying to you right oh yeah, yeah, right
now on this show. And I mean, we have more
realistic ideas of celebrities than they did and past, so
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we've we've had them taken down a peg or two.
I think our everyday lives, the people we look to
as living there everyday lives, are maybe being a little
less realistic. I think advertisers themselves are the people who
are actually um underrating influencers in the sense that most
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of our generation we're not. We don't vibe with the
same kind of advertising our parents did where it's like, hey,
fuck yeah, look at this ship you are? You? Are
you a woman who more like clean? I'm sad and
I want the life and body of this Instagram account?
What is that? And subconsciously it works on you because
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it's selling you this actual You're like, is this a
real life I could have like this person's account and
they're like, I do want to go to there, to
that place to eat there, to stay there, to consume there.
And I think that's like the difference now is like
we you almost really need the trust of somebody or
the consumer has to trust the person, and that's really
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where you're advertising gonna be more effective. And that's that's
that's where I think advertisers get that, like people crave
authenticity now, I just think it's hard to deliver on
because there's no way to deliver authenticity through advertising because
your whole purpose is Influencers have been like except for
the ones that are really successful and can charge a
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shipload of money, Like, most influencers are tainted the second
they get like one offer, like yeah, like I have
band aids for life, we're doing band aids. I'm I'm
cutting myself all the time in the kitchen because I'm
so clumsy with this and thank God for my wedding
dress made of band aids. Yeah, listen, that's lit though,
if you go far as to cut our finger to
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aids devotion. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll
be right back, and we're back. What is something you
think is underrated. Underrated is impeachment parties. Where are they? Yeah?
(20:13):
I guess, okay, do you think it's dangerous to start
super celebrating in the streets? I guess what are we
celebrating the fact that maybe Democrats found the wherewithal to
finally hold their president accountable or that we think that
they could. Give you three reasons why. Number One, it's
important for your health. There's an important like a bit
(20:34):
of release saying yes, there's an important TED talk by
Kelly McGonagall that you could you should all go and watch.
That is about the importance of celebrations and how it
floods your system with oxytocin and remembering your strength and
how that builds on strength. You gotta celebrate. You gotta
get that ship in as often as possible. Number Two,
(20:56):
it's important because as soon as we start celebrating, we're
gonna figure out what election day is actually gonna look like,
because the scary Nazis are going to start coming out
for the small tailgate parties, and we need to start
those battles like early so that they don't happen like
a month before we try to vote right right, and uh,
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number three, because we got to get excitement rallying to happen. Yeah, right,
for public support. It's funny the first point you bring
up like speaks exactly to the thing that I'm doing
the wrong version of If that makes sense, I'm like
withholding celebrating in the event that it doesn't work, and
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then I'm doubly However, but if I look at it
very narrowly about doing that as a process of being like, well,
you know what, Like it's good to like feel invigorated,
because that doesn't stop me from like celebrating like some
sports team I like who may win in the very
narrow context, and I'm like, in my in my in
the back of my mind, I'm like, we're not getting
in the Champions League. What to deal? But in that moment,
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I allow myself to celebrate and that's what keeps me going. Interesting.
In this landmark Ted talk, Telly McGonagall revealed that people
who believe that stress is bad for them will die
thirty years earlier then people who just believe stress is
stress of the time. What do you mean that you
believe that stress is Yeah, the belief is what kills you.
(22:24):
Not and You're like this is killing me. This job
is killing me. So stress is like Freddy Krueger basically
yeah that see. But if you went, stress is actually
a teletubby in my life, it bops. I don't know
what to sharp teeth. That's always nipping at my heels.
You're going to die before me. That I celebrate, well
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in my mind. What if you're of the belief You're like,
I don't have time for stress. I have a question.
First though, are your calfs marbles? That is the quarry?
You can see you can see through the pants. The
more I'm looking at I always think of like, if
I was in a situation where I had to eat
a human being, I would probably eat my own calf first, right,
because I've been eyeing it my whole life. I would
(23:10):
eat your calf first as well. I mean, you've got
Miles has very good eating, right, there's good that good
meat on them bones. I want to talk about the
marveling if you want to take a butcher's look at
that one. Uh. They I was listening to a reporter
talk about impeachment, and they were saying that it brought
them back to when they were a child during a
water gate and their moms would all get babysitters and
(23:33):
go over to each other's house and just get drunk
and watch the water Gate and Peach, are we doing that?
I don't know. Let's go get drunk because because people
can't afford childcare. Right, Oh wait a minute, that's right.
We have all social programs where we're right now. It
was very heteronormative, where she was like, and then the
dad's would come home and they'd be like, where's my dinner?
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Why are you drunk? And why are you mad? And
now let me suck on my little brown dick a cigar? Right,
and then they would take some dextra join and move on. Yeah, man,
sober up a little bit with some actual speed. This
is something that has kind of been in the ether
(24:14):
for a little while. That Instagram might get rid of
the light count on post. Yeah might ether. Yeah, they
might eat ether the that that's been in the tether,
and they might ether the light count. What's the idea
behind this? I don't. First of all, they took away
activity so you couldn't see how thirsty people you followed were.
(24:36):
My goodness, I'm actually mad at that. It's also because
now you can't calculate the proper time for you to
post a picture, So on certain days and every day,
there's a prominent time where your users are the most active.
So if you want to have the most reached on
a photo, it used to be before they changed the
algorithm and started like showing photos randomly, it was all
(24:58):
about the time that you posted. And then when they
changed the algorithm and made the timeline no longer linear,
you can still cheat that by going to the audience
and seeing if people were liking pictures. So if you
would go to the audience and it would be like
a couple of seconds in between every single like, or
one second in between every single like from your followers,
you knew that people were active and online and it
was a good time to post. Then they took that
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away so that you can't know when you should be posting,
and that way they can control what is being seen.
All they're trying to do is they realize that Instagram
was so easily accessible for people to monetize, and they're
having difficulty of monetizing it themselves, so they're taking away
everything that we can possibly do on the app to
monetize our pages, so that people will be forced to
(25:41):
buy ads from fucking Facebook interesting, and they're cheating it.
They're lying and appealing to, you know, people who are
probably hurt by this app by being like, hey, we're
taking away these lights for you so that when you
get one, like on that picture of that struggle meal
that you posted, Um, you took on that, nobody will
(26:03):
know that chopped up hot dogs and means got one leg.
You went on the New Kids on the Block cruise ship.
Then Danny looks real bored with you. You took a
picture with joyful tone right right what was on the
New Kids cruise which is a shame for Really he's
struggling because he used to they used to call him,
(26:24):
they call names. But the you know, I think it's
a double in story because obviously there absolutely is a
thing of like, well, y'all be can't be making more
money than we are, so we have to dip in first.
But I think there is a bit of a benefit
though too. I think for people who might not be
like actually on the in the business of posting on
Instagram but sort of caught up in the optics of
(26:44):
like how many followers you have the pressure that people
can like, you know, younger people I think more especially
thinking of like, well, this doesn't have likes. I can
actually quantify myself worth versus through likes. But it does
provide cover, like you're saying, being like, well, you know
that that to have a benefit, and then business do
anything to help people. That's not what they're purely to
(27:06):
help people, um facts, not even pharmaceutical businesses especially not them.
But yeah, I think that that's what they say is
right now we're testing. This is from one of the
higher ups that Facebook or Instagram. Right now, we're testing
making like counts private. You'll be able to see how
many likes given photo video of yours has received, but
(27:28):
no one else will. We're announcing that we're going to
start testing in the US next week. You clarify that
the hidden number of likes would not be rolled out
to users in the entire country at once, but to
a small group. And I think that I like when
we talk about like the billionaire class. I'm not comparing
influencers to billionaires necessarily, but like, if you're talking about people,
I guess who get lots of attention, and if that's
what everybody wants, there's not a lot like most people's
(27:50):
instagrams are very normal and like just pictures of their kids, like,
you know, it's not the mono jet, you know, so
I could see how that would be beneficial to those people. Yeah, well,
and also people just a public service announcement pictures of
a newborn child too soon, not a good look out first,
let the baby's head form a little bit. I have
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I go back and forth with Amy Miller past guests
where we send each other photos from our what we
see on our timeline of people posting fresh out the
wound babies because they're not I get it, you're celebrating
your life. But also the cuteness probability is very low
for a fresh out the wound baby, like a hair
dryer first or something like yeah, we're not even like
(28:35):
necessarily in the delivery room. But I just see ones
where they're like two days on there, like look at
this child. I'm like this, yeah, but he but blessed.
It's a crapy bas the circle of life. Yeah, and
whenever it was an ugly baby, I just say, oh,
congratulations or that's a blessing. I will not call it
baby cute. Yeah, how are you and your wife's photos? Like,
(29:02):
let me know when when these kids want to works. Yeah,
they they gotta they got a manager kids. Uh what
blessed an extraordinary family? Uh, let's talk about YouTube because
they say same, same they are. So now they're changing
their terms of service or they're about to change them
(29:23):
in December. That says, quote, YouTube may terminate your access
or your Google accounts access to all or part of
the service YouTube if YouTube believes in its sole discretion
that provision of the service YouTube to you is no
longer commercially viable. So they're out here basically saying you
(29:45):
are making coin, We're gonna will fire you. YouTube confires
YouTube anymore. And I think that's one again has a
dual purpose. Right on one side, people can be like, oh,
this could be great for them regulating hate speech or
like you know the red but hate speech makes money.
But exactly, but then who knows if that's what that means,
right versus accounts that might be railing against the YouTube
(30:07):
algorithm or their ad sense or these other things. And
they're like, actually, this isn't commercially viable because we're trying
to appeal to our own advertage. I'm sorry, you gotta go.
I love that YouTube just sent out an email that
was like, hey, listen, we don't do whatever the funk
we want and you can't question us. Yeah, this is
no longer a platform to share ship. Thanks so much
for using YouTube. Yeah. I don't know if like that's
(30:29):
in response. I'm sure I know this is like huge
in the YouTuber world. I think a lot of people
have been saying this is why YouTubers, like especially creators
who have like sizeable followings should unionize to be able
to protect themselves from ship like this. Um, but I
wonder if it's because they've been taking hits to their
ad revenue that they've slay been like okay, fuck, if
this is going to be a profit machine, we literally
(30:50):
have to treat it like just a network. It's like
your show or your channel isn't commercially viable because you're
giving like hair tips or whatever the fun And that's
so crazy easy to treat people who just post to
your platform like they're your employees. Like this started is
like I get it, Like it's monetized ads and clicks
(31:10):
and people who watch your videos and subscribers, but like,
so what are they saying, like you'll be to get
to work. Yeah, I mean, stop talking about politics if
you get back to just these are monopolies and this
is what corporations will do to you if you know
they if they know that you can't go anywhere else,
(31:32):
then they're just gonna write right. I think that's the key,
and we have to continue to have that kind of
developing spirit because Facebook has lived in you know, basically
monopoly for so much longer than I think any social
has to be the longest of any social website because
before it used to be like, oh, we're on Exanga,
(31:53):
now we're on my Space. We own black people Meet,
but we're going back to black Planet. You know how
girls on black pen when they give a believe we
just need I don't know, let's go back to my Space.
It's just as bad as Facebook, and all your family
is still on it. But it's not it's not like
the spirit of innovation. It's the fact that they're crushing. Yeah,
(32:14):
they're crushing everything. They hire, Like the most lobbyists in Washington,
d C. Like these met Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
They run ship and they're not going to you know,
there should be seven different competing video players that people
are uploading videos to the same way that there's you know,
(32:37):
they're like when cars became a thing, Ford didn't just
get to make cars like from then on everybody. There
were a bunch of different car companies that came in
and started. But they were like, well, all right, the
car game will you know, grow and proliferate, but funk
public transit right, yeah, exactly. That was their version of like, no,
I get that up to get that the funk out
of it. I guess like with that kind of like
(32:57):
how we talk about the elasticity Clause and Constitution, it's like,
now we have to regulate the internet. Now these tech
giants are crushing us the same way that you know,
other industries have monopolized things and hurt the economy, and
now they have such a share of people's attention and
like really unethical business practices, whether that's having like outright
manipulative political as, are deceptive and lies right up, said
(33:21):
the KKK is checking out site for lives and they said, no,
lives are detective, but he said, we do it real good. Yeah,
And I think that's when you see to like that's
where their power has become completely ridiculous, and they're like,
but we're just making money. It's like, yeah, but now
see this is the problem now, like where you have
everyone's ears and eyes. Yeah, now this is different, it's
(33:42):
becomes something else. Sorry, you've got to give up the
keys now. Yeah. But that's also the problem with corporations
in general, because like, once you get to a certain size,
you got to be evil as fu Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
that's why I think there's so much energy behind like
people on the on the left right now, whether it
be locally or nationally, because there's a lot of things
(34:04):
that are lining up that are really sucking us over
about the way things used to operate that need to
be changed. Uh. And it's also why people probably are
lining up on the right and ready to have a
violent revolution if Trump gets impeached. But which is so
crazy to me, because people on the right are suffering
just as much, if not more, than people on the left.
(34:27):
The right their base is all poor people, Like I
mean there it's poor, the poorest of the poor, and
then the richest of the rich, and like a little
bit in between. So it's like, you guys are hurting,
but their main goal is just to maintain white supremacy. Really,
that's why it's they don't care what why supremacy ain't
even working that good no more. But that's the but
that's the currency they're dealing with. It's not as late
as it used to be. I know. But again, try
(34:49):
and tell them that because they harken back to a
time or like I remember when a black person served me, right,
But we're not gonna go back there. I'm gonna keep
slap on the same water. But I'm saying this is there.
They want, they want to to tbt time machine, but
it's too late. Yeah, we're not going back to slavery
like it's I'm sorry. So they want to cut out
these different versions. So they're like fine, like them find
(35:10):
police brutality. Let's arrest a guy for eating a chicken
sandwich on a fuckingpart platform. That's what I that's that
ship because that's the only way I can get my
jolly's now by thinking like, well, that wouldn't happen to me.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break, we'll be
right back, and we're back. One of my favorite things
(35:38):
is just anecdotes about Michael Jordan's I feel like every
time we learned an anecdote from his career we get
a little bit wiser about or further confirms how much
of an asshole he is. Like that one clip I
was going, I was showing Jack yesterday of him and
Charles Barkley on OPRAH years ago. It's like, let me
tell you a story about him, man, and Michael Jordan's like,
(35:59):
come on, shut up, like and He's like, I try
to give a homeless dude with some money, and then
Mike just smacks my hand away. So don't give him money.
If he if he if he if he has enough
energy to say, can you give me a dollar? He
has enough energy to say, can I take your order?
Oh my god, Michael Jordan, Please. You couldn't even let
Charles Barkley give his own money away. Yeah, well, he's
a degenerate gambler. I mean he has uh yeah, he's
(36:23):
he's about to hear this from another planet. Yes. Uh.
So this was on a Chicago area sports talk show,
and it's a story told by Jeremy Roenick uh who
was a NHL player one Michael Jordan was lighting shipped
up in the NBA. Uh And so at one point, yeah,
(36:47):
so at one point Jarmonic said, Michael Jordan told him
to meet me at Sunset Ridge early. We're gonna play
eighteen holes. Uh. We played around. I beat him for
a couple of thousand and got ready to leave. Now
the bull are playing that night. They played Cleveland that night.
I'm thinking he's leaving. It's ten o'clock. He goes, no,
let's go again. So we go and fill up a
(37:08):
bag full of ice and cores light and walk again.
We were all around another eighteen and I take him
for another couple thousand dollars. Now we've been drinking all
afternoon and he's going from Sunset Ridge to the stadium
to play a game. I'm messing around. I'm like, I'm
gonna call my bookie. All the money you just lost
to me, I'm putting it on Cleveland. He goes, I'll
tell you what. I'll bet you that we'll win by
(37:30):
twenty points. And I have more than forty points, and
I'm like done. Son of a gun goes out and
scores fifty two and they win by I mean, that's
but that's the kind of guy. That's how he was
his whole Like, that's why he was the best, you
know what I mean, It's just because he was so
competitive to a major fault. Yeah, that's that he would
(37:51):
mistreat other human beings in the name of self glory.
But the fact that he was drinking all day before
a game is just bunk. Mean, how many beers did
he really have? You know what I mean? If he
has six cores, I'm like, you can still fucking that
seems that seems like a lot of cores. Based on
Jeremy Roenicks. Look, I feel like they drank a shipload
(38:12):
of beers. I can't I can't quite put my finger
on what Jordan's alcohol consumption levels are. But a hockey player,
I'm like, yeah, exactly, drinking with a hockey player, players
will drink you under the bar. I've heard so many
stories about it. And just the way he like gott
in people's heads, like during the game, like the amount
of ship, Like I forget the player. I was like,
maybe it was Penny Hardaway somebody there. One time. Uh
(38:34):
was like talking ship to Jordan during the game, and
then he was wearing Jordan's while playing, you know what
I mean? And then Jordan was like, you're not even
good enough to wear my sneakers. You know what It's like.
It's a pretty devastate. Yeah, it's like, what did you
say to that? And he's just you know, he gets
in your head. But I've heard so many stories of
that where it's like whenever he loses, he's like, all right,
double or nothing, double or nothing, and it'll just go
(38:56):
until you give up. Yeah exactly, Oh yeah it was
it was Penny. It was Penny. Yeah, he said, he
called me, kid, kid, you're not even good enough to
wear unreal. Well, we're all three wearing Jordan's today. Yeah, exactly.
I'm wearing the nixt version of which is makes them
very humble. Yeah, which is the one that he just dominant,
(39:16):
even has the you know the four eight eight from
that specific game where at those points, yeah, where he
just dominated. It's like, I feel like I'm being cucked
wearing these things. I mean, honestly, if science could somehow
find that's what the power of his ego is, there
has to be some kind of universal like whatever editive fire,
(39:41):
the metabolism, whatever the funk made him able to put
away six beers and then go out and be better
than anyone has ever been at basketball, like six beers
at least. But also, I mean, do you think that
was a pretty easy prediction. I wonder what Cleveland at
that time, Dude, I'm still he's still playing the NBA.
It's the best athletes in the world, and he it
(40:04):
just goes like yesterday when we read this, you said
superpower and like that that really feels like what it is.
I mean, because he's playing against the best athletes in
the world and he's that much better than like it
was purely the money. I don't even feel like I
feel like he's a degenerate gambler because of his competitiveness
(40:25):
and there's nothing I don't think it's like it's it's
like the disease and that it's more of just like
we have to win and if money is writing on it,
it's like the money. I feel like it's the second
everything to him, besides just winning and being like is
that even he's also not a good winner, you know
what I mean, Like when he's like a piece of
shit about it as his Hall of Fame speech, Will
will know getting fist pumped there right in your skull. Yeah,
(40:51):
I do want to talk Jamie a little bit about
um a story that is very relevant to you. The Animatronic,
the band at Chucky Chee. I'm sorry for getting their
name wrong. So yeah, it's uh, it's Mr Munchies Make
Believe Band. Mr Munchies Make Believe Band, not Munchies Munchez.
Thank you. Mr munch has been together for forty years.
(41:12):
You've had plenty of time to learn their names. And
this is the And so for those the animatronic band
that is inside a many Chucky Cheese but has been
being phased out for a couple of years. Okay, so
this was actually this is terrible news. Is the worst
news of the day and impeachment, so what is happening? Okay? Uh,
(41:33):
so in Chucky Cheese announced that they're going to slowly
start phizzing out the animatronics, which launched me into a
long investigation of the history of them, which if you
haven't educated yourself on what the history of the animatronic
band is, it's pretty wild. There were these uh wild
eighties wars between the two pizza places, show Biz Pizza
(41:57):
and Chuck E Cheese. Uh, there are so many. I'm like,
I I can't wait for the movie of this. I
hope that desperately right after Santa University comes out, this
is going to really take first position for it, but
it you know, it's like the Chucky Cheese was founded
by the founder of um Atari and then he creates
(42:20):
this restaurant and then oh, it's a whole thing. Yeah,
So chuck e Cheese was invented for to have a
restaurant to promote Atari games basically the ar Yeah. Yeah.
And then their main competition show Bis Pizza had these
amazing animatronics that were made by this like young inventor
(42:43):
genius named Aaron Fector who had like was like one
of those classic like good inventor terrible businessman where he
invented whack a Mole and then got swindled by a
carne and ended up losing the rights to Whack a
Mole so he didn't have any money. Then he invented
animal like the rest adimatronics and then ended I mean
it just would haunt children forever. Yeah, And he still
(43:05):
lives in or like lives and works in Orlando, and
it like he's still making stuff, but it's like there's
this crazy legacy, uh, and they're they're finally taking him out.
If anyone in Zi Gang knows how I can get one,
I will travel, I will spend every cent to my name.
I'll start a kick start. I don't give a funk.
(43:26):
I like, I want to get one of these things.
But do you want the whole band or just any
any one of the band members. I don't have the
infrastructure for for a whole band. I could maybe I
could house one. If you have you have the whole thing,
we could put him in the office. Could you have
to be You walked in and that was I mean,
we look, we have a gigantic twin you know, version
(43:48):
of the note from Jersey Shore. I think we can
respect popular culture and bring in the whole wasn't Mr
Munch's Mr Munches make believe the four Mr Cheese and
he goes by Mr Chiefs. No, well, Chucky Cheese. That's
the whole thing, because much like Mr mucus Uh, he
used to be a cigar smoking rat and now he's
(44:11):
a mouse who's skateboards the whole thing. Christ he found
god species just skateboarding, and and he's the he's voiced
by the lead singer of Bowling for Soup. Yeah, okay,
so there's Mr Cheese, there's Mr Cheese. There's my personal favorite.
And I would prioritize this over all the others. Pasqually
(44:33):
pasquality is the Italian pizza chef. He plays the drums
and he does stand up comedy at the Laugheroni. They
show videos of it at Chuck E Cheese. Wait he is?
Is he like a racist caricature of an Italian chef,
like like a big mustache, like like curly hair coming
out the size of hold on, I got so wait
the same song It's time once again for a few
(44:56):
and is why I do get away? Pass Qually? Alan
is this is why you're doing? For more jokes from
a school Wally? Here we go. What do you get
when you put the radio in the refrigerator? What do
you get? What you get? Him? Up? Yes? Music? Okay,
(45:23):
that was pretty good. Why I do what I do?
Pretty okay? I'll give him that. Okay. So there's Pesqually
who else? Then there's Helen she's you know, she's the girl, right,
the token representation. She's a bird, right, she's a bird.
It's kind of invokes the Bertie from McDonald's land, but
(45:48):
Bertie Bertie's a rip off of Helen, make no mistake.
And then there's Jasper Jowels, who's the dog who the
Cowboy Dog and that's your band. Okay, that's your band
bay So now, but it has been announced, right because
I remember you first went on a journey because they
announced that they're like, we're going to start phasing this
(46:08):
whole ship out, and then they kind of didn't do that,
or like at least in this area, everything is sort
of remain the same. Where if in your area, if
your Chucky Cheese open before two five, you probably still
have most of the band. And now where are we
at now? It's it's been announced this week. I guess
that they're like, Okay, we're actually taking them out, but
where are they going? Like what? I don't know. The
(46:31):
characters aren't going away. They have like they have this
whole thing, and I think they're like based out of
Austin where they make all these videos, but they're with
puppets now, they're not with animatronics. They release a lot
of curse content on youth too, but I highly recommend.
There's there's a there's a parody of Ice Cubes Good
Day from is called Another Chucky Day. So there's a
(46:55):
lot man with the brother sample Well man, it's they
don't get that kind of money, but it's clear what
they're doing and the parodying. The music video too is
a brand new day and the sun is out shan
Berg jup and everything is fun and it's the open
up my eyes. I just gotta say, you got the
feeling that it's going to be another child day. Yeah,
(47:21):
so you know there the legacy lives on the Oh
my yeah, they I can see them in the tent. Wait,
why doesn't chick e cheese just move into the hologram? Uh?
Thing that's happening now? Isn't everything now turned into like
hologram performances? I wish, like, I feel like that would
work because the animatronics, I guess that they were scaring kids, yeah,
(47:44):
for decades, for decades, but I I don't know. I'm
gonna miss the animatronics. I'm very sad. So if you
live near a full band, go pour one out. You
can have up to two blue moons before they cut
you off there. Oh wow? Really yeah? I mean, you know,
parents a lot of you see a lot of videos
of parents fighting and Chucky choose. Oh it's one of
the most like best places to get into the same
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. My first hour here yesterday, I said,
someone told me to go get lunch somewhere because I
had time to kill before I could check in. I
was like, why don't I go? I whan don't I go?
Somebody goes to check out that Fountain Coffee room place
in that Beverly Hills Hotel thing. It's like some downstairs
you know whatever. So I walk in there and sit down.
(00:43):
I'm like, oh, this is a pretty you know, dollars
for a sandwich. I'm like, all right, I'm officially in
Los Angeles. Yeah. And then it became even more like
because like two seconds later, uh, Justin Bieber and his
wife walk in and sit right next to me the
entire meal, and I'm just like yeah, and like, nobody
there's them, Nobody talks to them, and I'm just like,
this is the most l a I've ever felt, you know.
(01:05):
Did they pray over whatever they ordered? Dude? I mean
I gotta be honest. They there there wasn't a lot
of talking between them, you know, I don't know what
was phones. Yeah, a lot on their phones and just
there was some there was some tension there, but they
I mean, I gotta tell you, Haley is I mean,
just breathdown. I didn't. I didn't immediately recognize who she was.
(01:26):
But when she walked in, you know when you just
see somebody and you go, I don't know who that is,
but I know they're wildly famous, you know what I mean,
like just im and then he and then he walked in,
and then I was like, oh, that's of course. Yeah yeah,
but you know, they seemed pretty nice. I guess I
do a skateboarder on skid row and yeah, cool. That's
(01:47):
the new vibe, Like is that I wonder younger listeners,
is it normal just to be on your phones all
the time? Is that like the new younger people ship?
I get I feel bad when I'm on the phone
too much, like around somebody, but it feels normal. That's
where get weirded out, where it's like, well, you're doing
your thing on your phone. I'm doing my thing, but
it's like this used to not be well, you know
what it is too, which is like, this is why
I feel like kids are more socially awkward now, is
(02:09):
because they don't. Whenever they're in like a party and
then there's an awkward moment of silence and they don't
know what to do. They bust the phone. It's like
their have it instead of having to overcome that weirdness
by either making conversation. I'm talking to somebody, Yes it is,
which is so bizarre to me. But it's like, you know,
I'm sure it's it's great to have, for sure, but
I think it's stunting, you know, social growth. I forgot
(02:32):
my phone actually precisely in this kind of situation on
going to a party where I didn't really know many people.
And at first it's like, oh fuck, I'm gonna have
to pantom I'm having a phone because I'm not talking
to nobody. And then I just like was able to
just kind of sit when you actually don't have it.
I didn't even think about I was like, you know,
what what's up? Man? In that discomfort? Yeah, ask the
(02:55):
uncomfortable question of Hi, what's your name? Hi? Who are
you doing? I love on somebody takes the phone out
and they hold it, but they don't like as you're
talking to them, they kind of like have it ready
to go, you know, like whenever, whenever this takes a turn,
I'm going in. I say, interesting, Yeah you are one
(03:17):
boring story, but part of Long Island. You from. I'm
from Mountain, Suffolk County, way out and we're bagel bosses
from Yeah, exactly. Actually it's yeah. I mean, I mean honestly,
when I saw that video and everybody that I know
from Long Island, when we saw that video, we were like,
this is just the first time someone's pressed record. This
is this is such a normal occurrence, like not just
(03:40):
that guy, but I mean like that's just people fighting
in bagl and like in bagel stories about being short
and Italian, like it's just such like it didn't I
was like, oh yeah. And then the fact that they
went so viral and what I'm curious for a Suffolk
County native in his videos where he's like I'm trying
to fuck all right, I'm going on his boat email
(04:01):
my manager only women from Suffolk County, Okay, post fame
bagel boss when he's just trying to funk on I
G Live and saying it had to be from Suffolk County.
Is that is he thinking of a specific kind of
woman when he said, or is it that it's just no, no, no,
So what is he a specific type of Uh? Suffolk
County women. Long Island women in gentlemen for the most part,
(04:22):
are like Italian brunettes, blonde only with the highlights, you
know what I mean. I didn't know. I like, I
didn't know that. I always grew up and I was like, man,
I really am attracted to blonde women with dark eyebrows.
And then I was like, oh, I eventually realized like, oh,
that's just a brunette woman with blonde hair. That's bond there.
That's how that works. But no, Suffolk County would mean uh,
(04:46):
usually overly tan brunette, maybe with some like you know,
blonde highlights. And because Nassau County is known more for money,
so also Suffolk County is a little more trashy, so
there's a little more like middle class, lower middle class US. Uh,
you know, where's Teresa Capital from Long Island? Medium? Uh?
That I'm not sure because I feel like that's what
(05:07):
I'm envisioning. But yeah, that's like a level five Suffolk
count fun a comedian friend of my New York City
comedians very funny Brendan Tagalo has a joke where it's
very I think, which sums it up very well, where
it's like Long Island women like to do a thing.
Would it be like like let me suck your bulls?
You know what I mean, like a w C you know,
like shout out to the Long Island medium who we
(05:29):
all are imagining sucking someone's balls. Now. My mom is
is all into those things too, all of the Long
Island medium John Edwards. If you can tell her that
you know a past pet is okay, she'll give you money.
You know, uh lucky. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated? Is?
(05:51):
You know what? I feel like people pay way too
much attention to what people say. Okay, yeah, like okay.
Number one for me is a blogger. I figure out
what I'm trying to say as I talk about it.
M So I've never all that invested in anything that
I say or other people say. I always assume it's
evolving right interesting, oh like versus like I need to
(06:14):
actually figure out everything I'm about to say right now
before I say it, and then I'll say it yeah,
and then being like really really invested in that got you.
You're just kind of like I'm channeling energy I'm feeling
right now based on a given topic. And then I'm
I'm fluid. Yeah, I'll make a can move, we can
move with the wind. I think the strongest I've ever felt,
most rigid, staunch belief I've ever had, is in how
(06:36):
much I love candy corn. Oh, and I know you're
looking right dead in my eye. Yes, I recall saying
I don't like candy corn and you came after me
on on Instagram and I was like, I made that
wasn't the only social platform used, but yes, yes, I
know that was the one that really got to though.
(06:58):
I was like, oh, no, she's she's aware, is there?
Can you tell me why you think handy corn is good? Ah?
You would like me to explain why sugar taste good? Huh?
I guess what is the flavor of candy corn? Vague?
Vanilla sugar? Is there vanilla in it? It's vega challenge
for you? Yeah, I don't know. It's just not do
(07:20):
you have to be like this is chocolate done? So
I'm just so rigid. I'm just like what is the
definition of this flavor? If it's too ambiguous, I am gone.
Plankton and sugar. One much carbon is in this? It
has a butter scotchy aftertaste. Does that's a good way
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of describing it? Because I've always been closeted. See what happened?
Do you see what happened? I made room for him.
He was closeted in his This is probably why he's
going to leave me for you. If you cry, I
want to cry. Now you guys can see your show.
This sounds really cool. Do you like the pumpkins? Oh
(08:04):
my god, the pumpkins? Yeah? Is it the same same pumpkins?
So we're dealing with the same sort of base material,
but shaped as a pumpkin. Yeah, shaped as a pumpkin.
The coloring is a little bit more intense orange, I realize,
bright orange. What's how much does it stick to your teeth?
That's the other thing I remember, is I feel like
that's the best part is when candy stick to your teeth,
(08:27):
it melts away slowly with your teeth teeth slowly. Well,
that takes down your enamel to the point where your
cavities developed. But then cavities are just little places for
the sugar die. So you have a little sugar sugar
treats that are later on of every root canal. Yeah,
(08:52):
that I've had thanks to you. Candy corn, Yeah, I've
only had one and it failed. I just was cracking
up listening to you guys because you were listen all
of my loves. Wax lips, right, you like that's like
eating straight up a candle. It's the best, right, How
do you want to eat a candle? Isn't that other one? Like,
(09:13):
isn't it like a wax cola bottle? Candy too? Yeah,
that's another one. This is all wrong. Somebody came to
me and was like, you could munch on your laptop, Zara.
If I'd be like, I'm ready, you're like, hold on,
hold on, not your laptop right now that you're munching on,
I'm sorry. What were you finish? It's not made of sugar.
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But I mean you guys all saw Willie Wanka on
the chocolate factory. There's the room where you get to
eat it. You know what it is? It's the textures.
I think is when I really think about it, because
I don't like the waxy ship because it evokes literally
a candle in my mouth. So it's like, this isn't
a thing I'd eat. And then the candle. I've been
kicked out of every candle store in this city. Got
(09:56):
a candle store in my face and plaster tell my.
But yeah, and I think with candy corn, it's that
I realized on I like chocolate sweets the most. If
there's a hierarchy, like fruity ones rank low, jelly beans
at the very bottom bottom. Yeah, so because they're there,
it's like in that similar like chewy thing like starbursts,
(10:19):
I like more, but they get stuck to my teeth.
Laughy taffy. I feel like they've finally done something with
the formula because this year, eating some laughy taffy, it
wasn't stuck all in my teeth. You know what's a
beautiful in between of laughy taffy and starbursts? Air heads? Yeah?
Those I think. I like all candy I've just discovered, yeah,
(10:42):
pan candy, pan candy, except I don't. I don't like, Yes,
I don't like jelly beans that are just jelly bean flavored.
Yeah that's annoying. Yeah, what is jelly bean flavor? It's
just it's almost like it takes a step like a
gives a head fake towards liquorice, but isn't liquorice. It's
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just isn't there, Like can you almost taste like doesn't
even have granules of sugar like inside some jelly beans,
Like there's a little crunch to it. Like yeah, what
does something you think is underrated? Okay? Um, well, first off,
I'll give you a local one and then a universal one.
(11:24):
Just from being in Los Angeles for twenty four hours,
I'm gonna say walking is underrated here because I walked
yesterday from Beverly Hills to West Hollywood. And when I
told people that, they acted like I was Forrest Gump
that just got done with the cross, like someone threw
a foil blanket over me. I was like what I
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was like, Yeah, I was like, it's two miles. They're
like two miles like zober down. You're like, it's seventy
three degree. It's the perfect walking weather. Um. So that's
what I would say is underrated here. But universally, I
to say I just I just like made this connection recently.
I have a thing where every time I hear a helicopter,
(12:08):
I have to like find it in the sky. You
know what I'm saying, Like, I know what it is,
but I need to find it identification. Yeah. And and
not even because I think it's going to be a threat.
I'm just like, that's a helicopter, right, and I want
to see it. Yeah. And the feeling, the feeling of
finding it for some reason, is such a great feeling
where you like, it's not a cat. I love that,
you know what I mean, Like, whatever it is, we
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all have to find it. You've got to find it
in the sky. To congratulate yourself. Yeah, I know. The
one I really the small victory I sense is when
you know, like it's a big sound, so you don't
quite know the direction that's coming from when you almost
go it sounds like here, but I know it's here, yeah,
and you look exactly that's right, right. Yeah. Growing up
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living underneath a flight path of an airport, you hone
those aircraft sound skills. But that's one thing I really
It's funny. I was in an uber recently and the
fucking I heard a fucking like heavy military helicopter and
I was like, oh ship, what is that? Like a
Chinook or something? And I look up and I fucked up.
I looked the wrong way and then it was the
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other one, And in my mind, I said, you knew
it was the other side. You fool broke your trying
to look out that there's something forever. Like it's like
snots being able to scratch an itch if if you
don't find it, you know, and then it's out of
your site mine, and you're like, oh it hurts. There's
one thing I know. It's the sound of a helicopter.
That's a real man's man. Uh. These are things that
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become relevant again when you have like a three year old.
Three year olds fucking love helicopters. That's like, such a
helicopter flies. Oh yeah, well any large mechanical flying through
the sky. You ever taken to, like the fire department,
like when they're just out there for free, just a
construction site is like, we'll stop it, We'll pull over
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and just look at a construction site for like twenty minutes.
He knows all the different all the different trucks, crane, truck,
telescope and crane like bulldoze are different types of excavators,
Like I do yeah, i' what is something you think
is underrated? Yea, influencers underrated because and obviously we'll get
(14:24):
into the whole likes thing and Instagram stuff later, but
I see, especially because of that stuff, I've seen so
much stuff on the Internet about like, oh, well that'll
shut down these fucking influencers and fuck them and like
they don't have real jobs and blah blah blah. But
I think everyone fails to remember that. And you can
speak about it the first person plural. We as influencers,
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we that is, we have filling. But like I have
definitely seen something on the internet at some point or
another on Instagram or on Spooker on Twitter and been like, oh,
that looks like a cool thing. I want to try that.
And then I go try that thing and I get enjoyment.
But guess what if I had nowhere to discover that thing.
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I don't walk down the street. I don't like down set,
like I don't just like go into random buildings and
be like what y'all have for me? What's going on?
What is in store for me? Yeah, Like there's so
like I wouldn't find out about those things, and that
happens to all of us. Yeah, we want to like
(15:30):
pan and condemn these people for creating a career by
doing ship and then showing us the ship and then
we go do to ship. It's literally all it is. Well,
I think it's I think there's there's two versions of criticism.
There's ones who are just haters because they would rather
most of them, Yeah, and then there are I think
other people who see other like the you know, the
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mirage that influencers cell that contribute to like weird, fake
or unrealistic expectations of life. Think that all depends on
but that's really up to you, and like if you
can filter through that ship. I don't personally have a
problem with It's when I see influencers act like they
are God's gift to whatever the fuck that's not. I'm like,
hold on, remember where the funk you're at? Really quick,
Like you have you have the privilege of being able
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to just sort of commodify your existence to make money,
and that's your job. Respect, you know, get your get
your paper. But I think because there was like a
person who left a one star Yelp review we were
trying to talk about a few weeks ago, Yeah, where
an influencer was pissed because a restaurant didn't hook them
up with enough free ship because they were an influence.
She's not an influencer. She had eleven thousand followers. I
have eleven thousand followers. I'm not an influencer. I'm not
(16:36):
selling anything. I got it, Yeah, exactly, No. But I
get that and that kind of you know, inflated, stupid
ego person I think though, is like casting a bad
shadow on what is not the whole industry. And also
I don't like the argument that well, people and children
are looking at the Internet and they're getting sad because
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everyone's life looks better than their um. You know what,
before the Internet, that ship was still happening. Ted does
not have a green lawn. He dies that ship. And
you've been looking at Ted's lawn thirsty as hell because
his ship as green as we're in a drought right now.
Do you think he's using water at night when we're
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where did that come from? Yeah? Meanwhile, Ted is probably
eyeballs up in debt from lawn die. You know, people
are down here taking the funk everywhere you go, you know,
I mean people are lying about their status, they're lying
about their money, they're lying about their happiness. So it's
not like if you take that part of the Internet away,
that that sadness isn't gonna still exist because it's just
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a human thing we purport. We puff ourselves up to
make ourselves feel better. Everyone doesn't. And so I just
think that we have a more instant access by just
looking at your phone. But guess what if you go
outside somebody lying to you right oh yeah, yeah, right
now on this show. And I mean, we have more
realistic ideas of celebrities than they did and past, so
(18:01):
we've we've had them taken down a peg or two.
I think our everyday lives, the people we look to
as living there everyday lives, are maybe being a little
less realistic. I think advertisers themselves are the people who
are actually um underrating influencers in the sense that most
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of our generation we're not. We don't vibe with the
same kind of advertising our parents did where it's like, hey,
fuck yeah, look at this ship you are? You? Are
you a woman who more like clean? I'm sad and
I want the life and body of this Instagram account?
What is that? And subconsciously it works on you because
(18:43):
it's selling you this actual You're like, is this a
real life I could have like this person's account and
they're like, I do want to go to there, to
that place to eat there, to stay there, to consume there.
And I think that's like the difference now is like
we you almost really need the trust of somebody or
the consumer has to trust the person, and that's really
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where you're advertising gonna be more effective. And that's that's
that's where I think advertisers get that, like people crave
authenticity now, I just think it's hard to deliver on
because there's no way to deliver authenticity through advertising because
your whole purpose is Influencers have been like except for
the ones that are really successful and can charge a
(19:26):
shipload of money, Like, most influencers are tainted the second
they get like one offer, like yeah, like I have
band aids for life, we're doing band aids. I'm I'm
cutting myself all the time in the kitchen because I'm
so clumsy with this and thank God for my wedding
dress made of band aids. Yeah, listen, that's lit though,
if you go far as to cut our finger to
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aids devotion. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll
be right back, and we're back. What is something you
think is underrated. Underrated is impeachment parties. Where are they? Yeah?
(20:13):
I guess, okay, do you think it's dangerous to start
super celebrating in the streets? I guess what are we
celebrating the fact that maybe Democrats found the wherewithal to
finally hold their president accountable or that we think that
they could. Give you three reasons why. Number One, it's
important for your health. There's an important like a bit
(20:34):
of release saying yes, there's an important TED talk by
Kelly McGonagall that you could you should all go and watch.
That is about the importance of celebrations and how it
floods your system with oxytocin and remembering your strength and
how that builds on strength. You gotta celebrate. You gotta
get that ship in as often as possible. Number Two,
(20:56):
it's important because as soon as we start celebrating, we're
gonna figure out what election day is actually gonna look like,
because the scary Nazis are going to start coming out
for the small tailgate parties, and we need to start
those battles like early so that they don't happen like
a month before we try to vote right right, and uh,
(21:18):
number three, because we got to get excitement rallying to happen. Yeah, right,
for public support. It's funny the first point you bring
up like speaks exactly to the thing that I'm doing
the wrong version of If that makes sense, I'm like
withholding celebrating in the event that it doesn't work, and
(21:39):
then I'm doubly However, but if I look at it
very narrowly about doing that as a process of being like, well,
you know what, Like it's good to like feel invigorated,
because that doesn't stop me from like celebrating like some
sports team I like who may win in the very
narrow context, and I'm like, in my in my in
the back of my mind, I'm like, we're not getting
in the Champions League. What to deal? But in that moment,
(22:02):
I allow myself to celebrate and that's what keeps me going. Interesting.
In this landmark Ted talk, Telly McGonagall revealed that people
who believe that stress is bad for them will die
thirty years earlier then people who just believe stress is
stress of the time. What do you mean that you
believe that stress is Yeah, the belief is what kills you.
(22:24):
Not and You're like this is killing me. This job
is killing me. So stress is like Freddy Krueger basically
yeah that see. But if you went, stress is actually
a teletubby in my life, it bops. I don't know
what to sharp teeth. That's always nipping at my heels.
You're going to die before me. That I celebrate, well
(22:48):
in my mind. What if you're of the belief You're like,
I don't have time for stress. I have a question.
First though, are your calfs marbles? That is the quarry?
You can see you can see through the pants. The
more I'm looking at I always think of like, if
I was in a situation where I had to eat
a human being, I would probably eat my own calf first, right,
because I've been eyeing it my whole life. I would
(23:10):
eat your calf first as well. I mean, you've got
Miles has very good eating, right, there's good that good
meat on them bones. I want to talk about the
marveling if you want to take a butcher's look at
that one. Uh. They I was listening to a reporter
talk about impeachment, and they were saying that it brought
them back to when they were a child during a
water gate and their moms would all get babysitters and
(23:33):
go over to each other's house and just get drunk
and watch the water Gate and Peach, are we doing that?
I don't know. Let's go get drunk because because people
can't afford childcare. Right, Oh wait a minute, that's right.
We have all social programs where we're right now. It
was very heteronormative, where she was like, and then the
dad's would come home and they'd be like, where's my dinner?
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Why are you drunk? And why are you mad? And
now let me suck on my little brown dick a cigar? Right,
and then they would take some dextra join and move on. Yeah, man,
sober up a little bit with some actual speed. This
is something that has kind of been in the ether
(24:14):
for a little while. That Instagram might get rid of
the light count on post. Yeah might ether. Yeah, they
might eat ether the that that's been in the tether,
and they might ether the light count. What's the idea
behind this? I don't. First of all, they took away
activity so you couldn't see how thirsty people you followed were.
(24:36):
My goodness, I'm actually mad at that. It's also because
now you can't calculate the proper time for you to
post a picture, So on certain days and every day,
there's a prominent time where your users are the most active.
So if you want to have the most reached on
a photo, it used to be before they changed the
algorithm and started like showing photos randomly, it was all
(24:58):
about the time that you posted. And then when they
changed the algorithm and made the timeline no longer linear,
you can still cheat that by going to the audience
and seeing if people were liking pictures. So if you
would go to the audience and it would be like
a couple of seconds in between every single like, or
one second in between every single like from your followers,
you knew that people were active and online and it
was a good time to post. Then they took that
(25:19):
away so that you can't know when you should be posting,
and that way they can control what is being seen.
All they're trying to do is they realize that Instagram
was so easily accessible for people to monetize, and they're
having difficulty of monetizing it themselves, so they're taking away
everything that we can possibly do on the app to
monetize our pages, so that people will be forced to
(25:41):
buy ads from fucking Facebook interesting, and they're cheating it.
They're lying and appealing to, you know, people who are
probably hurt by this app by being like, hey, we're
taking away these lights for you so that when you
get one, like on that picture of that struggle meal
that you posted, Um, you took on that, nobody will
(26:03):
know that chopped up hot dogs and means got one leg.
You went on the New Kids on the Block cruise ship.
Then Danny looks real bored with you. You took a
picture with joyful tone right right what was on the
New Kids cruise which is a shame for Really he's
struggling because he used to they used to call him,
(26:24):
they call names. But the you know, I think it's
a double in story because obviously there absolutely is a
thing of like, well, y'all be can't be making more
money than we are, so we have to dip in first.
But I think there is a bit of a benefit
though too. I think for people who might not be
like actually on the in the business of posting on
Instagram but sort of caught up in the optics of
(26:44):
like how many followers you have the pressure that people
can like, you know, younger people I think more especially
thinking of like, well, this doesn't have likes. I can
actually quantify myself worth versus through likes. But it does
provide cover, like you're saying, being like, well, you know
that that to have a benefit, and then business do
anything to help people. That's not what they're purely to
(27:06):
help people, um facts, not even pharmaceutical businesses especially not them.
But yeah, I think that that's what they say is
right now we're testing. This is from one of the
higher ups that Facebook or Instagram. Right now, we're testing
making like counts private. You'll be able to see how
many likes given photo video of yours has received, but
(27:28):
no one else will. We're announcing that we're going to
start testing in the US next week. You clarify that
the hidden number of likes would not be rolled out
to users in the entire country at once, but to
a small group. And I think that I like when
we talk about like the billionaire class. I'm not comparing
influencers to billionaires necessarily, but like, if you're talking about people,
I guess who get lots of attention, and if that's
what everybody wants, there's not a lot like most people's
(27:50):
instagrams are very normal and like just pictures of their kids, like,
you know, it's not the mono jet, you know, so
I could see how that would be beneficial to those people. Yeah, well,
and also people just a public service announcement pictures of
a newborn child too soon, not a good look out first,
let the baby's head form a little bit. I have
(28:14):
I go back and forth with Amy Miller past guests
where we send each other photos from our what we
see on our timeline of people posting fresh out the
wound babies because they're not I get it, you're celebrating
your life. But also the cuteness probability is very low
for a fresh out the wound baby, like a hair
dryer first or something like yeah, we're not even like
(28:35):
necessarily in the delivery room. But I just see ones
where they're like two days on there, like look at
this child. I'm like this, yeah, but he but blessed.
It's a crapy bas the circle of life. Yeah, and
whenever it was an ugly baby, I just say, oh,
congratulations or that's a blessing. I will not call it
baby cute. Yeah, how are you and your wife's photos? Like,
(29:02):
let me know when when these kids want to works. Yeah,
they they gotta they got a manager kids. Uh what
blessed an extraordinary family? Uh, let's talk about YouTube because
they say same, same they are. So now they're changing
their terms of service or they're about to change them
(29:23):
in December. That says, quote, YouTube may terminate your access
or your Google accounts access to all or part of
the service YouTube if YouTube believes in its sole discretion
that provision of the service YouTube to you is no
longer commercially viable. So they're out here basically saying you
(29:45):
are making coin, We're gonna will fire you. YouTube confires
YouTube anymore. And I think that's one again has a
dual purpose. Right on one side, people can be like, oh,
this could be great for them regulating hate speech or
like you know the red but hate speech makes money.
But exactly, but then who knows if that's what that means,
right versus accounts that might be railing against the YouTube
(30:07):
algorithm or their ad sense or these other things. And
they're like, actually, this isn't commercially viable because we're trying
to appeal to our own advertage. I'm sorry, you gotta go.
I love that YouTube just sent out an email that
was like, hey, listen, we don't do whatever the funk
we want and you can't question us. Yeah, this is
no longer a platform to share ship. Thanks so much
for using YouTube. Yeah. I don't know if like that's
(30:29):
in response. I'm sure I know this is like huge
in the YouTuber world. I think a lot of people
have been saying this is why YouTubers, like especially creators
who have like sizeable followings should unionize to be able
to protect themselves from ship like this. Um, but I
wonder if it's because they've been taking hits to their
ad revenue that they've slay been like okay, fuck, if
this is going to be a profit machine, we literally
(30:50):
have to treat it like just a network. It's like
your show or your channel isn't commercially viable because you're
giving like hair tips or whatever the fun And that's
so crazy easy to treat people who just post to
your platform like they're your employees. Like this started is
like I get it, Like it's monetized ads and clicks
(31:10):
and people who watch your videos and subscribers, but like,
so what are they saying, like you'll be to get
to work. Yeah, I mean, stop talking about politics if
you get back to just these are monopolies and this
is what corporations will do to you if you know
they if they know that you can't go anywhere else,
(31:32):
then they're just gonna write right. I think that's the key,
and we have to continue to have that kind of
developing spirit because Facebook has lived in you know, basically
monopoly for so much longer than I think any social
has to be the longest of any social website because
before it used to be like, oh, we're on Exanga,
(31:53):
now we're on my Space. We own black people Meet,
but we're going back to black Planet. You know how
girls on black pen when they give a believe we
just need I don't know, let's go back to my Space.
It's just as bad as Facebook, and all your family
is still on it. But it's not it's not like
the spirit of innovation. It's the fact that they're crushing. Yeah,
(32:14):
they're crushing everything. They hire, Like the most lobbyists in Washington,
d C. Like these met Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon.
They run ship and they're not going to you know,
there should be seven different competing video players that people
are uploading videos to the same way that there's you know,
(32:37):
they're like when cars became a thing, Ford didn't just
get to make cars like from then on everybody. There
were a bunch of different car companies that came in
and started. But they were like, well, all right, the
car game will you know, grow and proliferate, but funk
public transit right, yeah, exactly. That was their version of like, no,
I get that up to get that the funk out
of it. I guess like with that kind of like
(32:57):
how we talk about the elasticity Clause and Constitution, it's like,
now we have to regulate the internet. Now these tech
giants are crushing us the same way that you know,
other industries have monopolized things and hurt the economy, and
now they have such a share of people's attention and
like really unethical business practices, whether that's having like outright
manipulative political as, are deceptive and lies right up, said
(33:21):
the KKK is checking out site for lives and they said, no,
lives are detective, but he said, we do it real good. Yeah,
And I think that's when you see to like that's
where their power has become completely ridiculous, and they're like,
but we're just making money. It's like, yeah, but now
see this is the problem now, like where you have
everyone's ears and eyes. Yeah, now this is different, it's
(33:42):
becomes something else. Sorry, you've got to give up the
keys now. Yeah. But that's also the problem with corporations
in general, because like, once you get to a certain size,
you got to be evil as fu Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
that's why I think there's so much energy behind like
people on the on the left right now, whether it
be locally or nationally, because there's a lot of things
(34:04):
that are lining up that are really sucking us over
about the way things used to operate that need to
be changed. Uh. And it's also why people probably are
lining up on the right and ready to have a
violent revolution if Trump gets impeached. But which is so
crazy to me, because people on the right are suffering
just as much, if not more, than people on the left.
(34:27):
The right their base is all poor people, Like I
mean there it's poor, the poorest of the poor, and
then the richest of the rich, and like a little
bit in between. So it's like, you guys are hurting,
but their main goal is just to maintain white supremacy. Really,
that's why it's they don't care what why supremacy ain't
even working that good no more. But that's the but
that's the currency they're dealing with. It's not as late
as it used to be. I know. But again, try
(34:49):
and tell them that because they harken back to a
time or like I remember when a black person served me, right,
But we're not gonna go back there. I'm gonna keep
slap on the same water. But I'm saying this is there.
They want, they want to to tbt time machine, but
it's too late. Yeah, we're not going back to slavery
like it's I'm sorry. So they want to cut out
these different versions. So they're like fine, like them find
(35:10):
police brutality. Let's arrest a guy for eating a chicken
sandwich on a fuckingpart platform. That's what I that's that
ship because that's the only way I can get my
jolly's now by thinking like, well, that wouldn't happen to me.
All right, we're gonna take a quick break, we'll be
right back, and we're back. One of my favorite things
(35:38):
is just anecdotes about Michael Jordan's I feel like every
time we learned an anecdote from his career we get
a little bit wiser about or further confirms how much
of an asshole he is. Like that one clip I
was going, I was showing Jack yesterday of him and
Charles Barkley on OPRAH years ago. It's like, let me
tell you a story about him, man, and Michael Jordan's like,
(35:59):
come on, shut up, like and He's like, I try
to give a homeless dude with some money, and then
Mike just smacks my hand away. So don't give him money.
If he if he if he if he has enough
energy to say, can you give me a dollar? He
has enough energy to say, can I take your order?
Oh my god, Michael Jordan, Please. You couldn't even let
Charles Barkley give his own money away. Yeah, well, he's
a degenerate gambler. I mean he has uh yeah, he's
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he's about to hear this from another planet. Yes. Uh.
So this was on a Chicago area sports talk show,
and it's a story told by Jeremy Roenick uh who
was a NHL player one Michael Jordan was lighting shipped
up in the NBA. Uh And so at one point, yeah,
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so at one point Jarmonic said, Michael Jordan told him
to meet me at Sunset Ridge early. We're gonna play
eighteen holes. Uh. We played around. I beat him for
a couple of thousand and got ready to leave. Now
the bull are playing that night. They played Cleveland that night.
I'm thinking he's leaving. It's ten o'clock. He goes, no,
let's go again. So we go and fill up a
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bag full of ice and cores light and walk again.
We were all around another eighteen and I take him
for another couple thousand dollars. Now we've been drinking all
afternoon and he's going from Sunset Ridge to the stadium
to play a game. I'm messing around. I'm like, I'm
gonna call my bookie. All the money you just lost
to me, I'm putting it on Cleveland. He goes, I'll
tell you what. I'll bet you that we'll win by
(37:30):
twenty points. And I have more than forty points, and
I'm like done. Son of a gun goes out and
scores fifty two and they win by I mean, that's
but that's the kind of guy. That's how he was
his whole Like, that's why he was the best, you
know what I mean, It's just because he was so
competitive to a major fault. Yeah, that's that he would
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mistreat other human beings in the name of self glory.
But the fact that he was drinking all day before
a game is just bunk. Mean, how many beers did
he really have? You know what I mean? If he
has six cores, I'm like, you can still fucking that
seems that seems like a lot of cores. Based on
Jeremy Roenicks. Look, I feel like they drank a shipload
(38:12):
of beers. I can't I can't quite put my finger
on what Jordan's alcohol consumption levels are. But a hockey player,
I'm like, yeah, exactly, drinking with a hockey player, players
will drink you under the bar. I've heard so many
stories about it. And just the way he like gott
in people's heads, like during the game, like the amount
of ship, Like I forget the player. I was like,
maybe it was Penny Hardaway somebody there. One time. Uh
(38:34):
was like talking ship to Jordan during the game, and
then he was wearing Jordan's while playing, you know what
I mean? And then Jordan was like, you're not even
good enough to wear my sneakers. You know what It's like.
It's a pretty devastate. Yeah, it's like, what did you
say to that? And he's just you know, he gets
in your head. But I've heard so many stories of
that where it's like whenever he loses, he's like, all right,
double or nothing, double or nothing, and it'll just go
(38:56):
until you give up. Yeah exactly, Oh yeah it was
it was Penny. It was Penny. Yeah, he said, he
called me, kid, kid, you're not even good enough to
wear unreal. Well, we're all three wearing Jordan's today. Yeah, exactly.
I'm wearing the nixt version of which is makes them
very humble. Yeah, which is the one that he just dominant,
(39:16):
even has the you know the four eight eight from
that specific game where at those points, yeah, where he
just dominated. It's like, I feel like I'm being cucked
wearing these things. I mean, honestly, if science could somehow
find that's what the power of his ego is, there
has to be some kind of universal like whatever editive fire,
(39:41):
the metabolism, whatever the funk made him able to put
away six beers and then go out and be better
than anyone has ever been at basketball, like six beers
at least. But also, I mean, do you think that
was a pretty easy prediction. I wonder what Cleveland at
that time, Dude, I'm still he's still playing the NBA.
It's the best athletes in the world, and he it
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just goes like yesterday when we read this, you said
superpower and like that that really feels like what it is.
I mean, because he's playing against the best athletes in
the world and he's that much better than like it
was purely the money. I don't even feel like I
feel like he's a degenerate gambler because of his competitiveness
(40:25):
and there's nothing I don't think it's like it's it's
like the disease and that it's more of just like
we have to win and if money is writing on it,
it's like the money. I feel like it's the second
everything to him, besides just winning and being like is
that even he's also not a good winner, you know
what I mean, Like when he's like a piece of
shit about it as his Hall of Fame speech, Will
will know getting fist pumped there right in your skull. Yeah,
(40:51):
I do want to talk Jamie a little bit about
um a story that is very relevant to you. The Animatronic,
the band at Chucky Chee. I'm sorry for getting their
name wrong. So yeah, it's uh, it's Mr Munchies Make
Believe Band. Mr Munchies Make Believe Band, not Munchies Munchez.
Thank you. Mr munch has been together for forty years.
(41:12):
You've had plenty of time to learn their names. And
this is the And so for those the animatronic band
that is inside a many Chucky Cheese but has been
being phased out for a couple of years. Okay, so
this was actually this is terrible news. Is the worst
news of the day and impeachment, so what is happening? Okay? Uh,
(41:33):
so in Chucky Cheese announced that they're going to slowly
start phizzing out the animatronics, which launched me into a
long investigation of the history of them, which if you
haven't educated yourself on what the history of the animatronic
band is, it's pretty wild. There were these uh wild
eighties wars between the two pizza places, show Biz Pizza
(41:57):
and Chuck E Cheese. Uh, there are so many. I'm like,
I I can't wait for the movie of this. I
hope that desperately right after Santa University comes out, this
is going to really take first position for it, but
it you know, it's like the Chucky Cheese was founded
by the founder of um Atari and then he creates
(42:20):
this restaurant and then oh, it's a whole thing. Yeah,
So chuck e Cheese was invented for to have a
restaurant to promote Atari games basically the ar Yeah. Yeah.
And then their main competition show Bis Pizza had these
amazing animatronics that were made by this like young inventor
(42:43):
genius named Aaron Fector who had like was like one
of those classic like good inventor terrible businessman where he
invented whack a Mole and then got swindled by a
carne and ended up losing the rights to Whack a
Mole so he didn't have any money. Then he invented
animal like the rest adimatronics and then ended I mean
it just would haunt children forever. Yeah, And he still
(43:05):
lives in or like lives and works in Orlando, and
it like he's still making stuff, but it's like there's
this crazy legacy, uh, and they're they're finally taking him out.
If anyone in Zi Gang knows how I can get one,
I will travel, I will spend every cent to my name.
I'll start a kick start. I don't give a funk.
(43:26):
I like, I want to get one of these things.
But do you want the whole band or just any
any one of the band members. I don't have the
infrastructure for for a whole band. I could maybe I
could house one. If you have you have the whole thing,
we could put him in the office. Could you have
to be You walked in and that was I mean,
we look, we have a gigantic twin you know, version
(43:48):
of the note from Jersey Shore. I think we can
respect popular culture and bring in the whole wasn't Mr
Munch's Mr Munches make believe the four Mr Cheese and
he goes by Mr Chiefs. No, well, Chucky Cheese. That's
the whole thing, because much like Mr mucus Uh, he
used to be a cigar smoking rat and now he's
(44:11):
a mouse who's skateboards the whole thing. Christ he found
god species just skateboarding, and and he's the he's voiced
by the lead singer of Bowling for Soup. Yeah, okay,
so there's Mr Cheese, there's Mr Cheese. There's my personal favorite.
And I would prioritize this over all the others. Pasqually
(44:33):
pasquality is the Italian pizza chef. He plays the drums
and he does stand up comedy at the Laugheroni. They
show videos of it at Chuck E Cheese. Wait he is?
Is he like a racist caricature of an Italian chef,
like like a big mustache, like like curly hair coming
out the size of hold on, I got so wait
the same song It's time once again for a few
(44:56):
and is why I do get away? Pass Qually? Alan
is this is why you're doing? For more jokes from
a school Wally? Here we go. What do you get
when you put the radio in the refrigerator? What do
you get? What you get? Him? Up? Yes? Music? Okay,
(45:23):
that was pretty good. Why I do what I do?
Pretty okay? I'll give him that. Okay. So there's Pesqually
who else? Then there's Helen she's you know, she's the girl, right,
the token representation. She's a bird, right, she's a bird.
It's kind of invokes the Bertie from McDonald's land, but
(45:48):
Bertie Bertie's a rip off of Helen, make no mistake.
And then there's Jasper Jowels, who's the dog who the
Cowboy Dog and that's your band. Okay, that's your band
bay So now, but it has been announced, right because
I remember you first went on a journey because they
announced that they're like, we're going to start phasing this
(46:08):
whole ship out, and then they kind of didn't do that,
or like at least in this area, everything is sort
of remain the same. Where if in your area, if
your Chucky Cheese open before two five, you probably still
have most of the band. And now where are we
at now? It's it's been announced this week. I guess
that they're like, Okay, we're actually taking them out, but
where are they going? Like what? I don't know. The
(46:31):
characters aren't going away. They have like they have this
whole thing, and I think they're like based out of
Austin where they make all these videos, but they're with
puppets now, they're not with animatronics. They release a lot
of curse content on youth too, but I highly recommend.
There's there's a there's a parody of Ice Cubes Good
Day from is called Another Chucky Day. So there's a
(46:55):
lot man with the brother sample Well man, it's they
don't get that kind of money, but it's clear what
they're doing and the parodying. The music video too is
a brand new day and the sun is out shan
Berg jup and everything is fun and it's the open
up my eyes. I just gotta say, you got the
feeling that it's going to be another child day. Yeah,
(47:21):
so you know there the legacy lives on the Oh
my yeah, they I can see them in the tent. Wait,
why doesn't chick e cheese just move into the hologram? Uh?
Thing that's happening now? Isn't everything now turned into like
hologram performances? I wish, like, I feel like that would
work because the animatronics, I guess that they were scaring kids, yeah,
(47:44):
for decades, for decades, but I I don't know. I'm
gonna miss the animatronics. I'm very sad. So if you
live near a full band, go pour one out. You
can have up to two blue moons before they cut
you off there. Oh wow? Really yeah? I mean, you know,
parents a lot of you see a lot of videos
of parents fighting and Chucky choose. Oh it's one of
the most like best places to get into the same
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