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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
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Really Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our
third seat by the hilarious, the talented Matt Lee. What.
I'm so glad to be here. Just what have you?
It's just, you know, and on such a beautiful day,
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a beautiful September eleventh day, you know the smoking air
smoke is still in the air. Is the word pronounced acrid?
It's acrid? Yeah, okay. I was singing to this because
I said it I think out loud on the show
and someone's like, I think he's saying around. I realized
how many like mispronunciations I got from teachers in elementary school,
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like vote cap tests, being like and this is a
crid Yeah you go on saying this, and I I was like,
what the fund do you say? And I'm like, shut up,
Miss Loud wasn't lying. Well. Elementary school teachers are are
definitely the least the least smart teachers. That's why that's
why they go into elementary school. That's not to say
that they're not great teachers. I mean, but I like,
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I went to school for just a hot second to
get a multiple subject teaching credential so I could teach
elementary school because I'm stupid as shit, and I did
not want to like be challenged by like some really
smart middle schooler or high schooler. So I was like,
I'll go to elementary school, and you know, I'll be
the smartest person probably, you know, on campus. Like everyone'd
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be like, damn, he's so smart. You can smell, he
can he can spell all of the numbers, you know,
But yeahs a g in it. They don't know that.
What is something from your search history? Uh? If I'm
you guys want honesty, it's I think the Age of Aquarius,
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it's where we're entering it, or it's just around the
corner my search history. Honestly, it's it's it's not even
such a search as it is me just going straight
to the bar and and typing into the porn stars
dot com. If I'm if I'm honest to two porn
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stars just porns, just the porn site. Why that one
that seems very obscure. You know something different about it.
Here's what makes me. Here's where where I kind of goes. Look,
I need off brand, I need people you haven't heard of.
I need people you haven't seen on entourage. I U
I uh, I don't know, because I started thinking, why
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do I go to that site? And I realized it.
Have you ever talked to friends who go, Hey, what
porn size do you go to? Maybe you guys are like, look,
we don't talk about porn this in depth, but Jack
barred me from talking to him about it. I'm into it,
So I I say, what what porn size do you
go to? Looking for for different porn sites and honestly
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to see how they're laid out. I love good web
design um and so yeah, I don't know why someone
through that one apped me and I and I went
to it and it just seems like it's really compact
and organized, like the UI. The UI is great, great
U x UI design. Yeah yeah, yeah, a lot of
times they'll just throw a bunch of things that you
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so many things else. But outside of that boringness, it's genuine.
Search history is like camping gear. Because my family was
intending to go camping, so that's not as fun. That's
that's been like the one thing though that has been
on fire in terms of sales. Outdoors were literally literally
yeah yeah, the outdoors. It's like, I know so many
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people have bought bought tents and ship that they don't
they aren't gonna use, but bought them like early on
and be like, yeah, you know what, like maybe more
of an outdoor lifestyle is what I need. And then
it's like in the box still we bought. We bought
so much. We've said we were supposed to go this weekend.
We bought so much, we set it all up, we
made sure everything worked, and then we got an email
that we can't go to the campsite. So we've bagged it,
uh and we're just gonna have it. But the great
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thing about camping equipment is that you kind of can
just use that equipment forever because you never like that's
the one industry where they're like, oh you don't have
the latest thing, you've never needed the latest thing. In camping,
you can do whatever gets you buy. I have a
sleep I have a sleeping bag that I use from
and it's just it's just yeah, I've had it. Since
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I was a fucking child, and I've just never been
able to like bring myself to buy a sleeping bag,
like I've gone camping too, and they're like, good's cool,
and I'm like, I'm pretty sure my Camp five sports
Chalet brand. They glue whatever the fun is fine for
northern California, it wasn't. But you know what, That's why
I wore a full fucking sweatsuit in and I was okay.
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But yeah, like when you look at the prices ship,
You're like, I'm right at myself in towels, Danielle, What
is something from your search history that's revealing about who
you are? I looked up blue Shoe. UM. Blue Show
is a it is a a dick pill product for uh,
for keeping keeping your dick card. And they advertise on
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a lot of wrestling programs, like a lot of wrestling podcasts.
And I have a friend who told me the story
about how one night he took some blue shoe. UH.
It is a delightful story. It is not mine. I
hope to get him on my wrestling podcast to talk
about it. But yeah, a friend of mine took some
blue shoo and so I looked up I looked up
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exactly what blue schoo is and how blue choo works
and I'm still not sure. But according according to Jim Ross, uh,
it'll make your dick so hard like a cat could
scratch it. So that's something hard like a cat could
scratch it, like one of those cat posts. Yeah, I
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got in my head as someone with many cat scratch
posts around my home, the implications of that are devastating. Um,
it's incredibly upsetting. Wrestlers have very lively, very lively talk,
but yeah, I I if you listen to, in particular
the Gym Ross podcast, he will talk for too many
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minutes about what Blue Show has done for him in
his dick, and too many minutes is one is? One
minute is too many? Um? But he will go in
for like five minutes just talking about how great Blue
Show is, um, so that he can sex ladies. Yeah,
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is it too like gum che like a soft chewable
thing or chew like just chew a bble in like
Flintstone's vitamin sense? Do we know? Um, let's let's find out.
I believe um. Oh gosh, now I'm on their official side.
They should just pay me. Maybe there's some listeners that
are like, now, hold on, say a cat could scratch it?
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Did you say a cat? I believe it's so. It
looks like it almost looks like smarties. It almost looks
like a Smartie. Yeah. Interesting, I wonder getting some from
my family. Yeah, of course you need to. Uh that's yeah,
I'm curious what it what it tastes like? Is it
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flavored like blue raspberry? Are we thinking, yeah, it's interesting,
Well we'll have to uh taste tests some blue choo
at some point. Yeah. You should absolutely do that on
the air and then stay on air for however long
it takes for not being your system anymore. It's like
that radio broadcast where they had a water chugging contest
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and someone die. It was yes, yes, yes, Oh that's
you know the things people do for content. Radio is scary.
Radio kills people. I feel like radio is very scary. Yeah,
because it's like unregulated to a large degree. UM kind
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of miss it. What's a myth? What's something people think
it's true, you know, to be false or vice versa.
You know. I I don't know if people still ascribe
to the myth that if you eat before swimming, like
you'll get cramps or something. Like that, just having this
conversation over the weekend. I don't I don't know if
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that myth is really well well for personally, I know
that it's not true because I've done it, But I
think it's a myth that might still if I still,
I might still persist out there. I mean it's an
old school myth, Like I think it's probably put out
there by Big Pool. Like, you know, I think we
were talking about this, Jack, didn't we say it's basically
big Mom was trying to Yeah, it could be like
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come on, chill the funk out for like thirty minutes
before I have to watch you drown in the pool.
Like fucking wait. I think that's what it was, because
the one scientific thing was that just sort of the
the digestive process would draw more blood to your stomach
and like intestines, and then that may cause someone to
be lightheaded. But like, in no way saying that like
it is a danger to get in there. We don't
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make kids stand still after they eat for like a
half hour. It's all big old guy swimming laps in
the pool during the Oh yeah, like uncle, just like
I'm trying to see how long I can go without
taking a breath kids. Last time I did les, but
you must wait thirty minutes. What is a myth? Finally?
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What is uh something people think it's true, you know,
to be false service versa. I don't know if I've
used this one before too, but it always comes up
that the people that you see online that are like
often retweeted, or the people that you see on YouTube,
or the people that you hear on podcasts have money.
I was once at the train station, um a train
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station in l A and there was a security guard
there and he recognized me from my work on like
screen Junkies and whatever, and he was like, well, what
what are you doing riding the train? I was like,
why ride? I take the train? And then which is
like not from one place to another? Yeah, just going
from one place to another place, and um, craziness and
uh and to be fair, train culture like it's not
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the same as it is in a Chicago or in
a UM or in a New York or even in
San Francisco. But he was like, oh, I would have
thought that you would, like I just assumed that you
would be driving like a fancy car. And I was like,
I don't We're not all beauty pie. My dude are
very happy that we can cobble together one of ten
jobs to make one rent. That's if it's so interesting.
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I feel like that conversation has been going on for
a long time, but it just never quite catches on that.
It's like, there are so many different versions of like
being a podcaster or even just like making stuff that
mostly lives online where I forget when this was like
maybe five or six years ago, there was um someone
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who worked I believe for BuzzFeed. There was like a
wave of employees who had to get who are like
really you know, internet famous on BuzzFeed, but then had
to have like second jobs and people were giving them
ship for it when it's like they're like you're famous,
why why are you working at a restaurant? It's like
why would you be consider where this blame should be
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you know left? But just I don't know, Yeah, that
conversation has been so imperfect, Like oh, that's crazy. So
you are responsible for all of this content that people
really love and yet the money is not coming down
to you. What an interesting versation to have, you know
what I mean. But then but then it winds up
being no, you're a loser, and that's why you have
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to work at Trader Joe's instead of being like, how
come they take your stuff and then give you like
fifty bucks per appearance? You know what I mean? And
I don't know. I don't know what buzz Yeah, I
blame you. I don't know what BuzzFeed is, is charging
or what's going on. And granted this whole industry is dying,
it's very exciting as far as like the Internet, as
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far as like the being on YouTube and talking about
stuff stuff um and a lot of people will ask like, hey,
like I want to do what you do, and it's like, oh,
when I do, wasn't gonna be around in two years.
You gotta find something else. That door is closing quickly. Yeah,
you're like, no, no, no, you don't understand. I got
in just in time. No I did. I always say
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like I try to keep that ladder down, but the
industry has pulled that ladder up behind me. I am
the last one to get in and be like you
can make money just sucking cracking jokes about move bease
like it was it. I was the last one, and
I apologize. It's like that's seen in Titanic where there's
like the guys slipping under the watertight door. That's us. Sorry,
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sorry everybody else you have to you know, you know
it's not worth it. It's fine. Just go on TikTok,
make a new dance. I promised challenge. Don't do the
benegrill challenge. God are people still doing the benadryl challenge.
A child died from the benegril challenge on from TikTok.
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I don't know how, Like maybe she saw it on TikTok.
Maybe it's you know, so a lot of times whatever
the latest technology buzzword is will get blamed for things
that were happening anyways. But so maybe it's just the
benadryl challenge has been a thing, and benegril abuse has
been a thing and somebody saw it on TikTok and
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is blaming TikTok. But her aunt and uncle, who I
was gotta trust in aunt and uncle are saying that
it was a TikTok based challenge. What is the benetial challenge?
Because he's very upsetting because I've because diaphan hydramine for
me is just like I can't sleep, I have anxiety,
and it's a chemical cousin of a lot of anxiety meds. Um,
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so do you just take a crap ton of bennage? Will?
I think that's it? And then see how alright, guys,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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And we're back. Uh. And there's a new documentary out
about Jimmy Carter's presidency. Uh, and like how he was
homies with like Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers the
whole time, and people were just constantly like rolling through
and playing like live shows on the White House lawn
and it was apparently just a very fun time. It
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was Jimmy secretly a really rad president and we just
don't hear about it because he was like, you know,
only a one term and president and relatively ineffective. Yeah.
I think basically he was. He was secretly like did
the least evil. Uh. Was not like about it when
it came to like starting wars indiscriminately. Um. And he
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just kind of hit at the wrong time as the
country was shifting towards fascism. He was like he was
he was too cold first Yeah, too cool first time.
Let's let's put it that way. I mean he keep
he threw up the first solar panels on the White House.
He did took them ships right off, by God. So
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one one myth or kind of urban legend that I've
been hearing for years was that Willie Nelson once smoked
a joint on top of the White House while while
he was visiting the White House, which seems like, okay,
I can see it maybe like happening at a party,
Like he just like snuck away. So there's this new
documentary about him being like this thoroughly like Christian religious,
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like I think he was a teetotaler, like didn't drink,
even though his brother was a public alcoholic, like like
a like they would book him as like a drunk
funny person to have on various radio shows or various
late night TV shows, and he would just like show
up drunk during Jimmy Carter's presidency and then eventually was like, oh,
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I'm an alcohol and this isn't funny. Um. So in
this new documentary about his presidency, Carter explains that Willie
Nelson says that his companion that shared the pot with
him was one of the serve been set the White House.
That is not exactly true. It was actually one of
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my sons. Yeah, Rules, And so the documentarian finds Chip Carter,
Jimmy Carter's son at the time, who was just like
a teenager who like had good taste of music. It
was like this fucking Rules man, Like Dylan's always hanging
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out like one of the one of the Almond brothers,
like had dinner with them, and then like played a
concert for like three people in the White House. Like
so anyways, he was listening in as Willie Nelson was
doing a show like for people in the White House.
And then this is what he says. The date was September,
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so Sunday will be the forty year anniversary. Carter was
in the thick of his reelection campaign against Ronald Reagan
that didn't go well in Iran. Fifty two American hostages
had endured more than a year of captivity. Nelson was
in the middle of a set at the White House,
recalls Chip. In the break, I said, let's go upstairs.
We just kept going up until we got to the roof,
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where we leaned against the flagpole at the top of
the place and lit one up. If you know Washington,
the White House is the hub of the spokes, the
way it was designed most of the avenues run into
the White House. You could sit up and could see
all the traffic coming right at you. It was a
nice place up there. Um. So yeah, they just turned
the roof of the White House into like a fun
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place to get high. Um. And now Don Jr. Just
does his coke farts up there. Oh my god, is
gonna keep funning? Man, you gotta take that upstairs. Man,
that's so rad. Man. I feel like there should be
a book called like we were four Years in Power
by Tommy John Just for four years dude, the White
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House red Man Gravity bong rips in the Lincoln Bedroom
exactly sick. I mean the people that played this is
like man like Charles Mingus, I'm already like, okay, you
got some good jazz vibe with the Staples singers Bob Dylan,
Bob Dylan, Lauretta Lynn, Sarah Van Cezel Taylor, Linda Ronstat
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share the line. Crosby stills in nash once dropped by
the place unannounced, like it was like that where fucking
David Crosby's asses Like Carter here he's dealing with the
you're on hostage sit They said, Carter made time for them.
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He was like, I'll call you back. I'll call you back.
He's like, I told how many I really respect you?
Just one second? Just six minutes, okay, guys, three four,
it's getting to the point. It's like, what the fun
His house in Georgia had the most expensive sound system
of like back when that was like a thing. I
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mean it's still a thing ing, but like the way
they describe it as pretty funny because it's all like,
you know, wired and old school ship. But they he
really focused on the sound system. Yeah, he was an
audio file man, but for him, he would have been
criticizing the sound quality of podcasts today if you were
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a younger person. That's why he doesn't listen to him.
I think he gave that quote. He's like, it's just
it's missing something, is what he says. If it was
on vinyl. I'd listen to podcasts if they were on vinyl.
The first hipster president that fucking rules. There's also a
way to view it as like he was kind of
a byway between the radicalism of the sixties and early
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seventies and the yuppyism of the eighties, since it was like,
you know, went during Nixon and Ford, it was, you know,
the power was against the people, and then he turned
to the White House into what the article calls a
people's park. But it like that ends up being the
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strategy capitalism uses to infiltrate. Uh yeah, it is just
like kind of co opted. Yeah, exactly because part of
the thing Bill Clinton plays the saxophone and then passes
like a monstrous crime bill, right, meaningless like you know,
you get meaningless culture points without any substantial material change
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to people's lives. That's why, like any good American, I
tryed to look too deep in anything presidents do because
it looks like it's all just a big bummer. It is.
It is definitely electoral politics is a big bummer, dude.
But I will say, hey, at least Carter didn't sign
a crime bill, you know what I mean, Like they're
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like not doing terrible ship At this point I consider
to be almost like that's it's not just a win,
like that is what That's what angels do. Angels go
into power and then they just don't do anything bad.
And I'm like, foo, you deserve to be get a
sainthood for this. Yeah, don't indiscriminately kill people. How does
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he do it. Well, guys, I wanna take you inside
the home, one of the many homes of Ellen degenerous.
So this person who used to be on her staff,
who is remaining anonymous because they don't want to right,
So I'll just read from you the this interview they
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did with the Daily Mail, who you know we've but
still still interesting. They said Ellen was a hero of mine.
I thought she was an amazing person. But before I
took the position, people were warning me not to take it.
I was told she had very high turnover and that
I should stay under the radar as much as possible,
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avoid as much direct contact with Ellen as possible. Working
there was described as being more like a boot camp.
So that's what she years heading in. I do love
that turnover. Like that we talk about like a toxic
work environment. The result of a toxic work environment and
people quitting all the time sounds like just a fun
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pastry um. But then she says, when I interviewed with
Ellen and Porsche, I felt much better about the job.
They were both charming, funny and perfectly lovely. I was
a little bit nervous, but it was well paid, so
that's you know, that's not surprising. We have seen that
side of Ellen for Aaron for her entire public career.
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The harsh reality of the quote degenerous regime soon became
clear after she started. The staff is confronted each morning
with a laundry list of passive, aggressive notes listing what
the entertainer didn't like about the previous day. That's the
thing that I'm most struck by in this interview is
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the level of energy that has to be expanded by
Ellen to put this much negative negativity out there. Um
So violations included a chef using a guest toilet, so
basically the help a maid forgetting to put a piece
of trash on the recycling Ellen is terribly obsessive, and
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if anything's out of order in her environment, she gets upset.
There might be twenty to thirty things every day. We're
talking about the finest, finest details here. Assault shaker out
of place, where a light switch left on. Assault shaker
out of place really is giving me a misery like
Cathy Bates and misery vibes, where it's just like that
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thing is slightly tilted to the wrong in the wrong direction.
Part of that, I just remember how she just messed
up James CON's legs because I think I saw it
like when I was way too young. That's I think
I saw when I was like five, like in the eighties.
I don't know about this, y'all. Was there a moment
was that like when he's trying to escape or some ship.
I think when he's trying to escape, he knocks over
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a chess piece, uh, and then puts it back, But
he puts it back for and that's what gets his legs.
That's my favorite villain thing of like when the person
thinks they're smart, but they have every detail like prem
that that labels slightly askew. Yeah. Um. The staff was
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getting better and better and making fewer mistakes, but she
couldn't help herself, so she would lay traps. She would
actually leave match sticks around the house behind cupboard doors, cushions,
or books to see if the staff was cleaning and
moving things. One day, the staff found around eight of them,
all in weird places. The rest of the day became
a race to find them all before she got home
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and fired someone. Oh Jesus, that's really just it's like
shows that you have such a fucked up relationship with
people who are in your employe, you know, or like that.
You're like, well, if I pay you, I can, I
can do what the funk I want because I'm giving
you money. And that means psychological trauma through these matchstick
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fucking traps. You've got her staff at work saying these
same kind of her having the same kind of control issues,
and now it's at home to like, what was this
thing about the plate twice? If you need us to
get out? Yeah right. I think she fired people for
not liking the consistency of the latte foam the um
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because the machine was dirty or some ship. Yeah, she
wanted the coffee maker deep cleaned every day after complaining
that there was too much or too little froth on
her latte um, which doesn't really relate, Like those things
don't relate. That's the milk steamer Ellen. Also, that just
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shows you how disconnected she is from the latte making
process that her staff lives to her like oh yeah, okay,
well deepep, we'll deep clean the coffee machine. Then yes,
then you should deep clean every time. The ltte foam
was a mess. And it's like, I don't even know
how the ltte foams made. When someone came to the house,
for example, to repair an appliance. She wouldn't hold back.
It could be something as simple as the compressor on
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the refrigerator making too much noise. That is that's a
detail that I'm just like, Okay, this person is telling
the truth, because like you can't make that up. That's
absolutely like there's something that just rings so true about that,
just like the compressor. One of the top security firms
in Hollywood terminated their contract with her. Some of the
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criticisms that this source heard where that Ellen didn't like
the way they walked. I'm not even kidding. They literally
didn't like the way they walked. She literally didn't like
the way they walked. Also how they opened and closed doors.
What like opening closing I get because that's like a
thing I grew up my gun if you want that
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door closing, but opening around the house or anything, Yeah, exactly.
But what are people entering like fucking Cramer and Seinfeld,
Like this is all stuff that I have seen, like
people who are really on bad terms with their roommates,
Like I've heard them like start to complain, like call
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them like this person is like a thunderfoot. They everywhere
they just like stop around, and it's like, you know,
that's clearly because you're just like annoyed by this person.
That's not They don't have especially powerful footfalls, like they're
just um. What one detail from the article that I
wanted to point out though, is that Ashton Kutcher is
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apparently one of the people who has tweeted in her defense,
but she and her team have only treated me and
my team with respecting kindness. She never pandered to celebrity,
which I always saw as refreshing honesty. I just wanted
to note that. Via listening to UH way too many
hours of podcasts, I heard an anecdote about Ashton Kutcher
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from somebody who is like a successful writer director in Hollywood,
but one of their early jobs was working for Ashton
Kutcher's um viral video site. UH. They made that viral
video which the girl has diarrhea in the hot tub. UM.
That is a staged prank video made by Ashton Kutcher's team.
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But anyways, this writer director got fired by Ashton Kutcher's
like main right hand person and asked why he had
been fired, and the entourage member said, Ashton hates your face.
Brouh create punked. I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh and
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then superproducer on HOS and the Chat says Ashton. Kutcher
also told to me more that he didn't think alcoholism
is a thing in order to get her to lose
her sobriety and drink with them. That's right. I remember
you talking about that in that book. Wow. So you know,
I think that's the thing. Like, when you're living on
that planet, it's hard for you to see that it's
any different than how you are. You're like, I don't know,
like from all the rich people I know, like it
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was pretty chill celebrities. I mean, not a celebrity. I
don't know anybody with an income that's less than four
million dollars a year, But I imagine she would treat
those people okay as well. Yeah totally. Um. Anyways, the
like these details are just like I I don't have
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any like not that I really doubted the complaints before,
but these details are just like two like dead on
for me to like think that any any of this
is made up. I would love though that this is
just like the best coordinated smear. Like everyone's like, you know,
these details are just too good to be fake. And
she's like, I'm telling you, I'm kind it's a coordinated
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attack against me. I'm just curious about the psychology where
you get that. What is it because she's so rich
that she feels omnipotent and therefore everything should be in
her control? Or is it that like is it from
lack prior to this that now the pendulum just gone
completely the other way and knocking walls down. It's like
I didn't have anything. Now I will have everything I want. Like,
(31:15):
I'm just I'm trying to figure out, like how I
could you know, if I worked for Ellen, Like how
I can maneuver that space, how you can win? Right? Yeah?
But like I'm assuming this is all like pre pandemic,
right yeah. I mean the stories of her have been
long or you know, anecdotal tales since the early odds
from what I could tell, Yeah, um, yeah, I don't
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know how it happens or you know, whether we're just
hearing from She's especially dedicated about about how about treating people,
like the discipline to write a list every day that
has like twenty to thirty fun ups from the previous day. Uh,
the it you know, like that takes such energy? Oh, yeah,
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and that helps you feel superior too, And you don't
have to look at your own inferiority complex if you
spend your time looking for the deficiencies outside of yourself. Right,
there's something you know that's that control baby, you know?
And you know Jack and I apologize. I will get
that coffee maker deep clean for you. Uh. I don't
know that LA type phone was a little off, but
I'm telling you that's not where it comes from. But
(32:26):
I will clean the machine on thee less. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back, and Halloween is coming up, it'll be here.
(32:48):
It'll be here before we realize that, guys. Uh, and
we're all gonna just be staying home. Listen to the
Monster Mash. Apparently I got no issue with this. I'm
gonna be yeah, I mean you both, for both of
y'all being parents, what how are you going to make
it feel? You's gonna be like, Look, dude, I all
that candy from their supermarket that's just yours. Look you
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can have my car for the night. Um, I think
we're gonna I said this to my wife today. I said,
you know, I think we do the costume. Let's do
it up. I was like, let's all do it up.
I was like, but also, you know, kind of behind
her back, let's set up a little path that she
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can walk. So it's kind of like, you know, a
haunted house on the property. As I was telling, you
have two tenants in the back who I know are
you know, they're equally youthful. They would also be like, yeah,
let's make it this badass thing for this one kid.
And then you go, hey, you know remember we we
didn't We didn't just do do nothing. I mean, I
could go on forever about this, but having a kid
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and having to adjust a pandemic style stuff, I will say,
just having one kid, we give her so much attention.
We try to fill that void of things. So while yes,
Halloween you want to get with your friends and do
all these things, we look at it and we go, hey,
we don't know when Halloween is back, but there is
a chance it's maybe just this one time we got
to do this other thing. But what if this other
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thing is also really fun and we watch movies and
ship like that house loween? You know what I mean exactly?
You get it exactly. If Jack your kids got costumes
and stuff. Are they just gonna walk around the house?
What are you gonna dol canceled. We're gonna burn the costumes.
And you know there's also the route of like, you know,
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kids don't have calendars, They don't fucking know every time
they come, what are you talking about Halloween? Nah? Just
gaslight them into thinking they made that up. Llaween. Oh
my god, that's so far from now. And that was
like yesterday. Okay, then Copernicus, tell me what day it is. Yeah,
(34:57):
I'm sorry, you tell me what it is, daddy, I'm
so sorry. Dial out, daddy, I'm sorry. Do you want
another drink? Yes day? What the sky was orange? That
was Halloween? You just missed it, slept right through it?
Ye want you to wake up? Yeah? But the city
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just but this is l A specific. You know Garcetti,
our wonderful mayor who can't do a single thing right, Uh,
this thing? You just he's out here saying there's no parties,
we can't do Halloween. The official restrictions are this in
l A, no door to door trick or treating. So
they're saying, yeah, there's no way people are crowding the streets.
(35:39):
You don't know what the folks going on and can't
do that. No trunk or treating either. I didn't know
that was a thing. He knows all the little alleyways. Yeah,
I mean that would be a little weird where like
everybody pops their trunk and it's just like a free
for all. I would be like, that's interesting, interesting that
you would cancel the one event where everyone will definitely
be in a ask. Right. Then there's like saying no
(36:05):
parties obviously because the people are the l already has
a terrible outdoors trying that ship. No carnivals, festivals, live entertainment,
haunted houses. Uh. They haven't said like what the violation,
Like what happens if you violate um? But they're saying
the things that they are okay with parties paying for
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the salvation of the city. This is honestly an attack
on on fucking Satan, is what it is. Because everyone's
still allowed to go to church, you can do all
these things, but here it is the Devil's Christmas, and
there no one is allowed to get together and fucking
hang out and exchange candy and wear masks and and
have Also it's a testament to how hard GARCETI usually
(36:54):
goes on Halloween. The fact that he's no, no car parades.
It's like, no one's doing that. We're doing in my
neighborhood every year, and I love it. No like orgies
where you and your friends dress up as the teenage
mutant Ninja turtle. What no masters, no group master splintering. Yeah,
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you need to put the cards back closer to the chest,
showing hey. Jerry followed JR. Come on, man, let everybody
know what's going away. The thing that he's like, this
thing of the car parades, Like I like, I like
how this article goes on. For example, a car parade
with people dressing in costume or decorating their vehicles and
driving by socially distanced judges. That's so specific. That is
(37:42):
too specific. That is that is a party planner got
involved there or somebody like that. I actually did this
for Easter with my kids to like, we drove around
in a car that has curson at people going to church. Yeah, exactly,
it's not gonna help it. Where is he if he
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already in hell? You don't know. This could be purgatory, um,
but it is weird. It's a it's a strange thing
where the kids are like, I can't see anything. I
can't see the other cars. Um, so it would be
better if you were the judge, or if the kids
got to judge the cars. Yeah, I think it would
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be cool. Is like you had like groups of adults
who just did like flash mobs in the street and
the kids come out and they're like, Okay, that group
of drunk guys wasn't the funniest or the best, but
they were scary. I don't know they a way to
be like you know, some entertainers get out there and
be like watch from your windows. But I say that
like as if I would ever want to do that,
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or I would even be excited to see that. Some
of these things he said we can't do. I'm like, yeah,
that's great. I don't give a ship. And you know what,
I don't want other people doing it either. But the
Halloween movie nights out a drive in theater. I feel
like it's probably the most like seemingly safe thing that
still feels like a thing. But you know, I still
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haven't gone to a drive inter of you guess I
have not I would. I'm not against it, Like I said,
I'm very lazy, but I would do that. I think
that's cool. We just have to drive kind of further
out though, you know, like the valley or like deeper
valley places. So, uh, you know, just maybe just you know,
buy one of those inflatable screens or something. Just get
(39:27):
a projector inflatable screens. Yeah, like those big inflatable screens.
I don't look, I'm I'm guy. I'm doing some guymall purchases. First,
Slimmer Boy is a mocker slimmer. What's the emphasis on that?
I think it's I think it's choose your own adventure
on where the emphasis? I heard they were? They were
(39:49):
in really bad shape. Who's that slam Mack Haymaker slammer
whatever maker the wrestler. Yeah, why what my finishing slammer? Um,
he's got hack saw dugging against the ropes Haymaker Slammer
(40:13):
Maker slammer. All right, that's gonna do it for this
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
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Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
(00:24):
Really Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our
third seat by the hilarious, the talented Matt Lee. What.
I'm so glad to be here. Just what have you?
It's just, you know, and on such a beautiful day,
(00:44):
a beautiful September eleventh day, you know the smoking air
smoke is still in the air. Is the word pronounced acrid?
It's acrid? Yeah, okay. I was singing to this because
I said it I think out loud on the show
and someone's like, I think he's saying around. I realized
how many like mispronunciations I got from teachers in elementary school,
(01:08):
like vote cap tests, being like and this is a
crid Yeah you go on saying this, and I I was like,
what the fund do you say? And I'm like, shut up,
Miss Loud wasn't lying. Well. Elementary school teachers are are
definitely the least the least smart teachers. That's why that's
why they go into elementary school. That's not to say
that they're not great teachers. I mean, but I like,
(01:29):
I went to school for just a hot second to
get a multiple subject teaching credential so I could teach
elementary school because I'm stupid as shit, and I did
not want to like be challenged by like some really
smart middle schooler or high schooler. So I was like,
I'll go to elementary school, and you know, I'll be
the smartest person probably, you know, on campus. Like everyone'd
(01:52):
be like, damn, he's so smart. You can smell, he
can he can spell all of the numbers, you know,
But yeahs a g in it. They don't know that.
What is something from your search history? Uh? If I'm
you guys want honesty, it's I think the Age of Aquarius,
(02:13):
it's where we're entering it, or it's just around the
corner my search history. Honestly, it's it's it's not even
such a search as it is me just going straight
to the bar and and typing into the porn stars
dot com. If I'm if I'm honest to two porn
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stars just porns, just the porn site. Why that one
that seems very obscure. You know something different about it.
Here's what makes me. Here's where where I kind of goes. Look,
I need off brand, I need people you haven't heard of.
I need people you haven't seen on entourage. I U
I uh, I don't know, because I started thinking, why
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do I go to that site? And I realized it.
Have you ever talked to friends who go, Hey, what
porn size do you go to? Maybe you guys are like, look,
we don't talk about porn this in depth, but Jack
barred me from talking to him about it. I'm into it,
So I I say, what what porn size do you
go to? Looking for for different porn sites and honestly
(03:17):
to see how they're laid out. I love good web
design um and so yeah, I don't know why someone
through that one apped me and I and I went
to it and it just seems like it's really compact
and organized, like the UI. The UI is great, great
U x UI design. Yeah yeah, yeah, a lot of
times they'll just throw a bunch of things that you
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so many things else. But outside of that boringness, it's genuine.
Search history is like camping gear. Because my family was
intending to go camping, so that's not as fun. That's
that's been like the one thing though that has been
on fire in terms of sales. Outdoors were literally literally
yeah yeah, the outdoors. It's like, I know so many
(04:01):
people have bought bought tents and ship that they don't
they aren't gonna use, but bought them like early on
and be like, yeah, you know what, like maybe more
of an outdoor lifestyle is what I need. And then
it's like in the box still we bought. We bought
so much. We've said we were supposed to go this weekend.
We bought so much, we set it all up, we
made sure everything worked, and then we got an email
that we can't go to the campsite. So we've bagged it,
uh and we're just gonna have it. But the great
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thing about camping equipment is that you kind of can
just use that equipment forever because you never like that's
the one industry where they're like, oh you don't have
the latest thing, you've never needed the latest thing. In camping,
you can do whatever gets you buy. I have a
sleep I have a sleeping bag that I use from
and it's just it's just yeah, I've had it. Since
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I was a fucking child, and I've just never been
able to like bring myself to buy a sleeping bag,
like I've gone camping too, and they're like, good's cool,
and I'm like, I'm pretty sure my Camp five sports
Chalet brand. They glue whatever the fun is fine for
northern California, it wasn't. But you know what, That's why
I wore a full fucking sweatsuit in and I was okay.
(05:05):
But yeah, like when you look at the prices ship,
You're like, I'm right at myself in towels, Danielle, What
is something from your search history that's revealing about who
you are? I looked up blue Shoe. UM. Blue Show
is a it is a a dick pill product for uh,
for keeping keeping your dick card. And they advertise on
(05:28):
a lot of wrestling programs, like a lot of wrestling podcasts.
And I have a friend who told me the story
about how one night he took some blue shoe. UH.
It is a delightful story. It is not mine. I
hope to get him on my wrestling podcast to talk
about it. But yeah, a friend of mine took some
blue shoo and so I looked up I looked up
(05:51):
exactly what blue schoo is and how blue choo works
and I'm still not sure. But according according to Jim Ross, uh,
it'll make your dick so hard like a cat could
scratch it. So that's something hard like a cat could
scratch it, like one of those cat posts. Yeah, I
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got in my head as someone with many cat scratch
posts around my home, the implications of that are devastating. Um,
it's incredibly upsetting. Wrestlers have very lively, very lively talk,
but yeah, I I if you listen to, in particular
the Gym Ross podcast, he will talk for too many
(06:36):
minutes about what Blue Show has done for him in
his dick, and too many minutes is one is? One
minute is too many? Um? But he will go in
for like five minutes just talking about how great Blue
Show is, um, so that he can sex ladies. Yeah,
(06:58):
is it too like gum che like a soft chewable
thing or chew like just chew a bble in like
Flintstone's vitamin sense? Do we know? Um, let's let's find out.
I believe um. Oh gosh, now I'm on their official side.
They should just pay me. Maybe there's some listeners that
are like, now, hold on, say a cat could scratch it?
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Did you say a cat? I believe it's so. It
looks like it almost looks like smarties. It almost looks
like a Smartie. Yeah. Interesting, I wonder getting some from
my family. Yeah, of course you need to. Uh that's yeah,
I'm curious what it what it tastes like? Is it
(07:44):
flavored like blue raspberry? Are we thinking, yeah, it's interesting,
Well we'll have to uh taste tests some blue choo
at some point. Yeah. You should absolutely do that on
the air and then stay on air for however long
it takes for not being your system anymore. It's like
that radio broadcast where they had a water chugging contest
(08:06):
and someone die. It was yes, yes, yes, Oh that's
you know the things people do for content. Radio is scary.
Radio kills people. I feel like radio is very scary. Yeah,
because it's like unregulated to a large degree. UM kind
(08:26):
of miss it. What's a myth? What's something people think
it's true, you know, to be false or vice versa.
You know. I I don't know if people still ascribe
to the myth that if you eat before swimming, like
you'll get cramps or something. Like that, just having this
conversation over the weekend. I don't I don't know if
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that myth is really well well for personally, I know
that it's not true because I've done it, But I
think it's a myth that might still if I still,
I might still persist out there. I mean it's an
old school myth, Like I think it's probably put out
there by Big Pool. Like, you know, I think we
were talking about this, Jack, didn't we say it's basically
big Mom was trying to Yeah, it could be like
(09:12):
come on, chill the funk out for like thirty minutes
before I have to watch you drown in the pool.
Like fucking wait. I think that's what it was, because
the one scientific thing was that just sort of the
the digestive process would draw more blood to your stomach
and like intestines, and then that may cause someone to
be lightheaded. But like, in no way saying that like
it is a danger to get in there. We don't
(09:35):
make kids stand still after they eat for like a
half hour. It's all big old guy swimming laps in
the pool during the Oh yeah, like uncle, just like
I'm trying to see how long I can go without
taking a breath kids. Last time I did les, but
you must wait thirty minutes. What is a myth? Finally?
(09:56):
What is uh something people think it's true, you know,
to be false service versa. I don't know if I've
used this one before too, but it always comes up
that the people that you see online that are like
often retweeted, or the people that you see on YouTube,
or the people that you hear on podcasts have money.
I was once at the train station, um a train
(10:16):
station in l A and there was a security guard
there and he recognized me from my work on like
screen Junkies and whatever, and he was like, well, what
what are you doing riding the train? I was like,
why ride? I take the train? And then which is
like not from one place to another? Yeah, just going
from one place to another place, and um, craziness and
uh and to be fair, train culture like it's not
(10:39):
the same as it is in a Chicago or in
a UM or in a New York or even in
San Francisco. But he was like, oh, I would have
thought that you would, like I just assumed that you
would be driving like a fancy car. And I was like,
I don't We're not all beauty pie. My dude are
very happy that we can cobble together one of ten
jobs to make one rent. That's if it's so interesting.
(11:02):
I feel like that conversation has been going on for
a long time, but it just never quite catches on that.
It's like, there are so many different versions of like
being a podcaster or even just like making stuff that
mostly lives online where I forget when this was like
maybe five or six years ago, there was um someone
(11:22):
who worked I believe for BuzzFeed. There was like a
wave of employees who had to get who are like
really you know, internet famous on BuzzFeed, but then had
to have like second jobs and people were giving them
ship for it when it's like they're like you're famous,
why why are you working at a restaurant? It's like
why would you be consider where this blame should be
(11:44):
you know left? But just I don't know, Yeah, that
conversation has been so imperfect, Like oh, that's crazy. So
you are responsible for all of this content that people
really love and yet the money is not coming down
to you. What an interesting versation to have, you know
what I mean. But then but then it winds up
being no, you're a loser, and that's why you have
(12:06):
to work at Trader Joe's instead of being like, how
come they take your stuff and then give you like
fifty bucks per appearance? You know what I mean? And
I don't know. I don't know what buzz Yeah, I
blame you. I don't know what BuzzFeed is, is charging
or what's going on. And granted this whole industry is dying,
it's very exciting as far as like the Internet, as
(12:26):
far as like the being on YouTube and talking about
stuff stuff um and a lot of people will ask like, hey,
like I want to do what you do, and it's like, oh,
when I do, wasn't gonna be around in two years.
You gotta find something else. That door is closing quickly. Yeah,
you're like, no, no, no, you don't understand. I got
in just in time. No I did. I always say
(12:50):
like I try to keep that ladder down, but the
industry has pulled that ladder up behind me. I am
the last one to get in and be like you
can make money just sucking cracking jokes about move bease
like it was it. I was the last one, and
I apologize. It's like that's seen in Titanic where there's
like the guys slipping under the watertight door. That's us. Sorry,
(13:17):
sorry everybody else you have to you know, you know
it's not worth it. It's fine. Just go on TikTok,
make a new dance. I promised challenge. Don't do the
benegrill challenge. God are people still doing the benadryl challenge.
A child died from the benegril challenge on from TikTok.
(13:38):
I don't know how, Like maybe she saw it on TikTok.
Maybe it's you know, so a lot of times whatever
the latest technology buzzword is will get blamed for things
that were happening anyways. But so maybe it's just the
benadryl challenge has been a thing, and benegril abuse has
been a thing and somebody saw it on TikTok and
(14:01):
is blaming TikTok. But her aunt and uncle, who I
was gotta trust in aunt and uncle are saying that
it was a TikTok based challenge. What is the benetial challenge?
Because he's very upsetting because I've because diaphan hydramine for
me is just like I can't sleep, I have anxiety,
and it's a chemical cousin of a lot of anxiety meds. Um,
(14:25):
so do you just take a crap ton of bennage? Will?
I think that's it? And then see how alright, guys,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
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And we're back. Uh. And there's a new documentary out
about Jimmy Carter's presidency. Uh, and like how he was
homies with like Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers the
whole time, and people were just constantly like rolling through
and playing like live shows on the White House lawn
and it was apparently just a very fun time. It
(15:09):
was Jimmy secretly a really rad president and we just
don't hear about it because he was like, you know,
only a one term and president and relatively ineffective. Yeah.
I think basically he was. He was secretly like did
the least evil. Uh. Was not like about it when
it came to like starting wars indiscriminately. Um. And he
(15:32):
just kind of hit at the wrong time as the
country was shifting towards fascism. He was like he was
he was too cold first Yeah, too cool first time.
Let's let's put it that way. I mean he keep
he threw up the first solar panels on the White House.
He did took them ships right off, by God. So
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one one myth or kind of urban legend that I've
been hearing for years was that Willie Nelson once smoked
a joint on top of the White House while while
he was visiting the White House, which seems like, okay,
I can see it maybe like happening at a party,
Like he just like snuck away. So there's this new
documentary about him being like this thoroughly like Christian religious,
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like I think he was a teetotaler, like didn't drink,
even though his brother was a public alcoholic, like like
a like they would book him as like a drunk
funny person to have on various radio shows or various
late night TV shows, and he would just like show
up drunk during Jimmy Carter's presidency and then eventually was like, oh,
(16:43):
I'm an alcohol and this isn't funny. Um. So in
this new documentary about his presidency, Carter explains that Willie
Nelson says that his companion that shared the pot with
him was one of the serve been set the White House.
That is not exactly true. It was actually one of
(17:04):
my sons. Yeah, Rules, And so the documentarian finds Chip Carter,
Jimmy Carter's son at the time, who was just like
a teenager who like had good taste of music. It
was like this fucking Rules man, Like Dylan's always hanging
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out like one of the one of the Almond brothers,
like had dinner with them, and then like played a
concert for like three people in the White House. Like
so anyways, he was listening in as Willie Nelson was
doing a show like for people in the White House.
And then this is what he says. The date was September,
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so Sunday will be the forty year anniversary. Carter was
in the thick of his reelection campaign against Ronald Reagan
that didn't go well in Iran. Fifty two American hostages
had endured more than a year of captivity. Nelson was
in the middle of a set at the White House,
recalls Chip. In the break, I said, let's go upstairs.
We just kept going up until we got to the roof,
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where we leaned against the flagpole at the top of
the place and lit one up. If you know Washington,
the White House is the hub of the spokes, the
way it was designed most of the avenues run into
the White House. You could sit up and could see
all the traffic coming right at you. It was a
nice place up there. Um. So yeah, they just turned
the roof of the White House into like a fun
(18:30):
place to get high. Um. And now Don Jr. Just
does his coke farts up there. Oh my god, is
gonna keep funning? Man, you gotta take that upstairs. Man,
that's so rad. Man. I feel like there should be
a book called like we were four Years in Power
by Tommy John Just for four years dude, the White
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House red Man Gravity bong rips in the Lincoln Bedroom
exactly sick. I mean the people that played this is
like man like Charles Mingus, I'm already like, okay, you
got some good jazz vibe with the Staples singers Bob Dylan,
Bob Dylan, Lauretta Lynn, Sarah Van Cezel Taylor, Linda Ronstat
(19:15):
share the line. Crosby stills in nash once dropped by
the place unannounced, like it was like that where fucking
David Crosby's asses Like Carter here he's dealing with the
you're on hostage sit They said, Carter made time for them.
(19:36):
He was like, I'll call you back. I'll call you back.
He's like, I told how many I really respect you?
Just one second? Just six minutes, okay, guys, three four,
it's getting to the point. It's like, what the fun
His house in Georgia had the most expensive sound system
of like back when that was like a thing. I
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mean it's still a thing ing, but like the way
they describe it as pretty funny because it's all like,
you know, wired and old school ship. But they he
really focused on the sound system. Yeah, he was an
audio file man, but for him, he would have been
criticizing the sound quality of podcasts today if you were
(20:20):
a younger person. That's why he doesn't listen to him.
I think he gave that quote. He's like, it's just
it's missing something, is what he says. If it was
on vinyl. I'd listen to podcasts if they were on vinyl.
The first hipster president that fucking rules. There's also a
way to view it as like he was kind of
a byway between the radicalism of the sixties and early
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seventies and the yuppyism of the eighties, since it was like,
you know, went during Nixon and Ford, it was, you know,
the power was against the people, and then he turned
to the White House into what the article calls a
people's park. But it like that ends up being the
(21:02):
strategy capitalism uses to infiltrate. Uh yeah, it is just
like kind of co opted. Yeah, exactly because part of
the thing Bill Clinton plays the saxophone and then passes
like a monstrous crime bill, right, meaningless like you know,
you get meaningless culture points without any substantial material change
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to people's lives. That's why, like any good American, I
tryed to look too deep in anything presidents do because
it looks like it's all just a big bummer. It is.
It is definitely electoral politics is a big bummer, dude.
But I will say, hey, at least Carter didn't sign
a crime bill, you know what I mean, Like they're
(21:46):
like not doing terrible ship At this point I consider
to be almost like that's it's not just a win,
like that is what That's what angels do. Angels go
into power and then they just don't do anything bad.
And I'm like, foo, you deserve to be get a
sainthood for this. Yeah, don't indiscriminately kill people. How does
(22:07):
he do it. Well, guys, I wanna take you inside
the home, one of the many homes of Ellen degenerous.
So this person who used to be on her staff,
who is remaining anonymous because they don't want to right,
So I'll just read from you the this interview they
(22:31):
did with the Daily Mail, who you know we've but
still still interesting. They said Ellen was a hero of mine.
I thought she was an amazing person. But before I
took the position, people were warning me not to take it.
I was told she had very high turnover and that
I should stay under the radar as much as possible,
(22:53):
avoid as much direct contact with Ellen as possible. Working
there was described as being more like a boot camp.
So that's what she years heading in. I do love
that turnover. Like that we talk about like a toxic
work environment. The result of a toxic work environment and
people quitting all the time sounds like just a fun
(23:14):
pastry um. But then she says, when I interviewed with
Ellen and Porsche, I felt much better about the job.
They were both charming, funny and perfectly lovely. I was
a little bit nervous, but it was well paid, so
that's you know, that's not surprising. We have seen that
side of Ellen for Aaron for her entire public career.
(23:35):
The harsh reality of the quote degenerous regime soon became
clear after she started. The staff is confronted each morning
with a laundry list of passive, aggressive notes listing what
the entertainer didn't like about the previous day. That's the
thing that I'm most struck by in this interview is
(23:57):
the level of energy that has to be expanded by
Ellen to put this much negative negativity out there. Um
So violations included a chef using a guest toilet, so
basically the help a maid forgetting to put a piece
of trash on the recycling Ellen is terribly obsessive, and
(24:21):
if anything's out of order in her environment, she gets upset.
There might be twenty to thirty things every day. We're
talking about the finest, finest details here. Assault shaker out
of place, where a light switch left on. Assault shaker
out of place really is giving me a misery like
Cathy Bates and misery vibes, where it's just like that
(24:42):
thing is slightly tilted to the wrong in the wrong direction.
Part of that, I just remember how she just messed
up James CON's legs because I think I saw it
like when I was way too young. That's I think
I saw when I was like five, like in the eighties.
I don't know about this, y'all. Was there a moment
was that like when he's trying to escape or some ship.
I think when he's trying to escape, he knocks over
(25:03):
a chess piece, uh, and then puts it back, But
he puts it back for and that's what gets his legs.
That's my favorite villain thing of like when the person
thinks they're smart, but they have every detail like prem
that that labels slightly askew. Yeah. Um. The staff was
(25:25):
getting better and better and making fewer mistakes, but she
couldn't help herself, so she would lay traps. She would
actually leave match sticks around the house behind cupboard doors, cushions,
or books to see if the staff was cleaning and
moving things. One day, the staff found around eight of them,
all in weird places. The rest of the day became
a race to find them all before she got home
(25:47):
and fired someone. Oh Jesus, that's really just it's like
shows that you have such a fucked up relationship with
people who are in your employe, you know, or like that.
You're like, well, if I pay you, I can, I
can do what the funk I want because I'm giving
you money. And that means psychological trauma through these matchstick
(26:09):
fucking traps. You've got her staff at work saying these
same kind of her having the same kind of control issues,
and now it's at home to like, what was this
thing about the plate twice? If you need us to
get out? Yeah right. I think she fired people for
not liking the consistency of the latte foam the um
(26:32):
because the machine was dirty or some ship. Yeah, she
wanted the coffee maker deep cleaned every day after complaining
that there was too much or too little froth on
her latte um, which doesn't really relate, Like those things
don't relate. That's the milk steamer Ellen. Also, that just
(26:57):
shows you how disconnected she is from the latte making
process that her staff lives to her like oh yeah, okay,
well deepep, we'll deep clean the coffee machine. Then yes,
then you should deep clean every time. The ltte foam
was a mess. And it's like, I don't even know
how the ltte foams made. When someone came to the house,
for example, to repair an appliance. She wouldn't hold back.
It could be something as simple as the compressor on
(27:20):
the refrigerator making too much noise. That is that's a
detail that I'm just like, Okay, this person is telling
the truth, because like you can't make that up. That's
absolutely like there's something that just rings so true about that,
just like the compressor. One of the top security firms
in Hollywood terminated their contract with her. Some of the
(27:41):
criticisms that this source heard where that Ellen didn't like
the way they walked. I'm not even kidding. They literally
didn't like the way they walked. She literally didn't like
the way they walked. Also how they opened and closed doors.
What like opening closing I get because that's like a
thing I grew up my gun if you want that
(28:03):
door closing, but opening around the house or anything, Yeah, exactly.
But what are people entering like fucking Cramer and Seinfeld,
Like this is all stuff that I have seen, like
people who are really on bad terms with their roommates,
Like I've heard them like start to complain, like call
(28:23):
them like this person is like a thunderfoot. They everywhere
they just like stop around, and it's like, you know,
that's clearly because you're just like annoyed by this person.
That's not They don't have especially powerful footfalls, like they're
just um. What one detail from the article that I
wanted to point out though, is that Ashton Kutcher is
(28:44):
apparently one of the people who has tweeted in her defense,
but she and her team have only treated me and
my team with respecting kindness. She never pandered to celebrity,
which I always saw as refreshing honesty. I just wanted
to note that. Via listening to UH way too many
hours of podcasts, I heard an anecdote about Ashton Kutcher
(29:06):
from somebody who is like a successful writer director in Hollywood,
but one of their early jobs was working for Ashton
Kutcher's um viral video site. UH. They made that viral
video which the girl has diarrhea in the hot tub. UM.
That is a staged prank video made by Ashton Kutcher's team.
(29:27):
But anyways, this writer director got fired by Ashton Kutcher's
like main right hand person and asked why he had
been fired, and the entourage member said, Ashton hates your face.
Brouh create punked. I forgot about that. Yeah. Oh and
(29:48):
then superproducer on HOS and the Chat says Ashton. Kutcher
also told to me more that he didn't think alcoholism
is a thing in order to get her to lose
her sobriety and drink with them. That's right. I remember
you talking about that in that book. Wow. So you know,
I think that's the thing. Like, when you're living on
that planet, it's hard for you to see that it's
any different than how you are. You're like, I don't know,
like from all the rich people I know, like it
(30:10):
was pretty chill celebrities. I mean, not a celebrity. I
don't know anybody with an income that's less than four
million dollars a year, But I imagine she would treat
those people okay as well. Yeah totally. Um. Anyways, the
like these details are just like I I don't have
(30:31):
any like not that I really doubted the complaints before,
but these details are just like two like dead on
for me to like think that any any of this
is made up. I would love though that this is
just like the best coordinated smear. Like everyone's like, you know,
these details are just too good to be fake. And
she's like, I'm telling you, I'm kind it's a coordinated
(30:54):
attack against me. I'm just curious about the psychology where
you get that. What is it because she's so rich
that she feels omnipotent and therefore everything should be in
her control? Or is it that like is it from
lack prior to this that now the pendulum just gone
completely the other way and knocking walls down. It's like
I didn't have anything. Now I will have everything I want. Like,
(31:15):
I'm just I'm trying to figure out, like how I
could you know, if I worked for Ellen, Like how
I can maneuver that space, how you can win? Right? Yeah?
But like I'm assuming this is all like pre pandemic,
right yeah. I mean the stories of her have been
long or you know, anecdotal tales since the early odds
from what I could tell, Yeah, um, yeah, I don't
(31:39):
know how it happens or you know, whether we're just
hearing from She's especially dedicated about about how about treating people,
like the discipline to write a list every day that
has like twenty to thirty fun ups from the previous day. Uh,
the it you know, like that takes such energy? Oh, yeah,
(32:05):
and that helps you feel superior too, And you don't
have to look at your own inferiority complex if you
spend your time looking for the deficiencies outside of yourself. Right,
there's something you know that's that control baby, you know?
And you know Jack and I apologize. I will get
that coffee maker deep clean for you. Uh. I don't
know that LA type phone was a little off, but
I'm telling you that's not where it comes from. But
(32:26):
I will clean the machine on thee less. All right,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back, and Halloween is coming up, it'll be here.
(32:48):
It'll be here before we realize that, guys. Uh, and
we're all gonna just be staying home. Listen to the
Monster Mash. Apparently I got no issue with this. I'm
gonna be yeah, I mean you both, for both of
y'all being parents, what how are you going to make
it feel? You's gonna be like, Look, dude, I all
that candy from their supermarket that's just yours. Look you
(33:11):
can have my car for the night. Um, I think
we're gonna I said this to my wife today. I said,
you know, I think we do the costume. Let's do
it up. I was like, let's all do it up.
I was like, but also, you know, kind of behind
her back, let's set up a little path that she
(33:31):
can walk. So it's kind of like, you know, a
haunted house on the property. As I was telling, you
have two tenants in the back who I know are
you know, they're equally youthful. They would also be like, yeah,
let's make it this badass thing for this one kid.
And then you go, hey, you know remember we we
didn't We didn't just do do nothing. I mean, I
could go on forever about this, but having a kid
(33:53):
and having to adjust a pandemic style stuff, I will say,
just having one kid, we give her so much attention.
We try to fill that void of things. So while yes,
Halloween you want to get with your friends and do
all these things, we look at it and we go, hey,
we don't know when Halloween is back, but there is
a chance it's maybe just this one time we got
to do this other thing. But what if this other
(34:14):
thing is also really fun and we watch movies and
ship like that house loween? You know what I mean exactly?
You get it exactly. If Jack your kids got costumes
and stuff. Are they just gonna walk around the house?
What are you gonna dol canceled. We're gonna burn the costumes.
And you know there's also the route of like, you know,
(34:35):
kids don't have calendars, They don't fucking know every time
they come, what are you talking about Halloween? Nah? Just
gaslight them into thinking they made that up. Llaween. Oh
my god, that's so far from now. And that was
like yesterday. Okay, then Copernicus, tell me what day it is. Yeah,
(34:57):
I'm sorry, you tell me what it is, daddy, I'm
so sorry. Dial out, daddy, I'm sorry. Do you want
another drink? Yes day? What the sky was orange? That
was Halloween? You just missed it, slept right through it?
Ye want you to wake up? Yeah? But the city
(35:19):
just but this is l A specific. You know Garcetti,
our wonderful mayor who can't do a single thing right, Uh,
this thing? You just he's out here saying there's no parties,
we can't do Halloween. The official restrictions are this in
l A, no door to door trick or treating. So
they're saying, yeah, there's no way people are crowding the streets.
(35:39):
You don't know what the folks going on and can't
do that. No trunk or treating either. I didn't know
that was a thing. He knows all the little alleyways. Yeah,
I mean that would be a little weird where like
everybody pops their trunk and it's just like a free
for all. I would be like, that's interesting, interesting that
you would cancel the one event where everyone will definitely
be in a ask. Right. Then there's like saying no
(36:05):
parties obviously because the people are the l already has
a terrible outdoors trying that ship. No carnivals, festivals, live entertainment,
haunted houses. Uh. They haven't said like what the violation,
Like what happens if you violate um? But they're saying
the things that they are okay with parties paying for
(36:29):
the salvation of the city. This is honestly an attack
on on fucking Satan, is what it is. Because everyone's
still allowed to go to church, you can do all
these things, but here it is the Devil's Christmas, and
there no one is allowed to get together and fucking
hang out and exchange candy and wear masks and and
have Also it's a testament to how hard GARCETI usually
(36:54):
goes on Halloween. The fact that he's no, no car parades.
It's like, no one's doing that. We're doing in my
neighborhood every year, and I love it. No like orgies
where you and your friends dress up as the teenage
mutant Ninja turtle. What no masters, no group master splintering. Yeah,
(37:19):
you need to put the cards back closer to the chest,
showing hey. Jerry followed JR. Come on, man, let everybody
know what's going away. The thing that he's like, this
thing of the car parades, Like I like, I like
how this article goes on. For example, a car parade
with people dressing in costume or decorating their vehicles and
driving by socially distanced judges. That's so specific. That is
(37:42):
too specific. That is that is a party planner got
involved there or somebody like that. I actually did this
for Easter with my kids to like, we drove around
in a car that has curson at people going to church. Yeah, exactly,
it's not gonna help it. Where is he if he
(38:04):
already in hell? You don't know. This could be purgatory, um,
but it is weird. It's a it's a strange thing
where the kids are like, I can't see anything. I
can't see the other cars. Um, so it would be
better if you were the judge, or if the kids
got to judge the cars. Yeah, I think it would
(38:26):
be cool. Is like you had like groups of adults
who just did like flash mobs in the street and
the kids come out and they're like, Okay, that group
of drunk guys wasn't the funniest or the best, but
they were scary. I don't know they a way to
be like you know, some entertainers get out there and
be like watch from your windows. But I say that
like as if I would ever want to do that,
(38:46):
or I would even be excited to see that. Some
of these things he said we can't do. I'm like, yeah,
that's great. I don't give a ship. And you know what,
I don't want other people doing it either. But the
Halloween movie nights out a drive in theater. I feel
like it's probably the most like seemingly safe thing that
still feels like a thing. But you know, I still
(39:07):
haven't gone to a drive inter of you guess I
have not I would. I'm not against it, Like I said,
I'm very lazy, but I would do that. I think
that's cool. We just have to drive kind of further
out though, you know, like the valley or like deeper
valley places. So, uh, you know, just maybe just you know,
buy one of those inflatable screens or something. Just get
(39:27):
a projector inflatable screens. Yeah, like those big inflatable screens.
I don't look, I'm I'm guy. I'm doing some guymall purchases. First,
Slimmer Boy is a mocker slimmer. What's the emphasis on that?
I think it's I think it's choose your own adventure
on where the emphasis? I heard they were? They were
(39:49):
in really bad shape. Who's that slam Mack Haymaker slammer
whatever maker the wrestler. Yeah, why what my finishing slammer? Um,
he's got hack saw dugging against the ropes Haymaker Slammer
(40:13):
Maker slammer. All right, that's gonna do it for this
week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. If
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