October 11, 2020 • 47 mins
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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 last stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really,
(00:25):
what is something from your search history that's revealing about
who you are? I'll just be straight with you, guys.
I was looking up stuff about the UNI Bomber last night.
Watch the documentary. What's the documentary called. It's called the
UNI Bomber in his own words? Oh yeah, yeah, right
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that one. Now it's like, yeah, it is super good
and super interesting and uh in a way, very timely
about environmental issues. So look at us. Give it a
look up. Not endorsing, not endorsing bombing, no, but endorsing documentaries, yes,
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especially not endorsing those bombings, because I mean, the guy
builds a ship bomb But man has manifesto. What a
vision for the future. Huh check it out, just going
deep on like eco fascism, and it's corollary. It's good corollary.
He and and he has the supervillain origin story that
(01:31):
is like mind blowing. Um, it's truly. His story is
one of the most amazing stories. That's I've always been
obsessed with Ted Kazinski. That's why at cracked. Our version
of like the Twitter egg where you don't have where
you haven't posted a picture of yourself was the un
Bomber sketch for most of the history of the site.
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I think looks like looks like every guy exactly. So
I kind of did they do enough like sketches, like
sketch comedy about the UNI bomber sketch, Like who that
guy was? That feels like it would have like that
gave you hours of terrible sketch comedy of like a
dude who was like, I'm just a SKA I'm just
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a roller skater man. Uh, and they got me mixed
up and like this is yes, my little my my
s curl got I don't know how this became the
face of terror. I'm just a peace love and roller skater.
I don't know. I just want I always get the
biggest kick. Looking at at that sketch, I mean it's
very like a very blandly handsome man rocking a hoodie
well before it's time. Uh, and then like aviators and
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a mustache, like those are all things that are mostly cool. Now,
I just love police sketches in general. Yeah, they're so good.
I just want that job. Yeah, was the person that
is there any background on, like the person that gave
the description that led to that sketch, Like how we
ended up with that sketch? Yeah, it was somebody who
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saw one of the bombs being deposited. It was like
in the parking lot of electronics store something mostly targeted academics,
but some just like people who are making technology. And
so it was like not the guy who who picked
up the bomb and got sucked up by it, but
a different person working at that store or that office
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or whatever who saw somebody in the parking lot like
shortly beforehand. Wow. Okay, I'm just saying, rewatch terminator too.
You know the way they're going back and back in
time to take out the people who are going to
build the destruction of our future. Now, I should not
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be that sympathetic to the UNI bomber. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
you're like, yo, dude, he's like, he's like a terminator
if you really think about it. Bro. All right, I
want to stop talking about the UNI bomber because sorry,
guys brought energy in. Yeah. Yeah, I've been lamburdomized. Is
that is that a thing you should you should maybe
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trademark you just made it. Yeah, that's my That's gonna
be my shock jock show. Dude, just sipping lambrusco. Devin,
what is something from your search history? Okay? I don't
want to say this reveal something about my personality because
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that scares me. But I had to use it because
it was one of the first few things that came up.
But there's an explanation for it, um and that is
die of strangulation without bruising. Okay, now's a good time
to mention that the two of you do have a
podcast called True Romance that you co host together, and
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it's not a true crime podcast. It is not, But yes,
I do have an obsession with true crime, and I
was working on a little research project for something I'm writing.
And I think those of those people who can see
what's having Devin did like this physical affect when she
said project, which almost felt like very sinister, like I
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felt like she's going to take someone down. I have
a sinister demeanor, but I I really I have to
go on record as saying it was a research project.
I was just trying to see, in in a fantastical
world of imagination piece of fiction, would it be possible
for someone to die of strangulation and have no bruising
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so that when the police find the body they wouldn't
know that they had And what was the What was
the answer? Um, you can't really die of strangulation without bruising.
So you can break someone's neck though, right. I didn't
follow up with that, but probably from what I can
see on the Boys on Amazon, it seems like you
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can just snap it and nothing shows. Um. So, my
dad inherited some land from his great grandfather, and out
of family dinner with all of our relatives, I made
a joke about breaking a bone in my dad's neck
to kill him and get the land, and nobody laughed,
Oh come on, really, everyone just scared at me. And
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then I found out it was because there's a lot
of argument within the family on who's going to get
this land and I just really made it. Does someone
approaches you after dinner to be like, so, like, what approach?
Were you thinking too? Yeah? Exactly, They're like, so we
looked it up. You can't actually strangle someone without bruising
their neck. So that's what you were thinking, terrifying if
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someone already was like, actually, I thought about that too,
and that's just not the approach you're gonna want to
be healthy. He's too hard, he's too What is a myth?
What's something people think is true? You know, to be
false um or vice versa. Be honest with you. This
one gives me trouble. Yeah, I name your favorite Pokemon,
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my favorite Pokemon. Probably my favorite Pokemon might be uh,
Dragon Knight or Gengar is like the ghost Pokemon that's
like a little mischievous, little little fuck. And then, um,
but the myth that was going to say, okay, one
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of my myths is just a stupid like realization that
I had that like gen Z doesn't actually hate millennials.
Like there's like this myth that gen Z hates millennials,
and I really just don't. I think they don't even
think twice about us or like about millennials at all. Right,
It was like it's it's like that, I feel like
gen Z is the X that you think about all
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the time, and they don't even think twice about you.
They don't even watch your stories. You know what? I
mean like it's in that relationship where like they just
exist and we're like like I came to this realization
because I watched this TikTok where or this little boy
not even little is a boy, maybe a teenager, I
don't know, um, but he's explaining Trump's trade policy in
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this like less than a minute TikTok, and I understood
Trump's trade policy better than I ever had coming out
of that. And it was just this kid playing three
characters of like Vietnam, I'm China and the US and
they're talking to each other back and forth. And not
only did I feel incredibly stupid, but it was amazing
(08:33):
to see how I don't know, even now with like
Claudia Conway and all the stuff, like we're obsessed with
gen Z, we're obsessed with this like weird generation that's
just like spewing TikTok or spewing whatever and from and were,
and we're like eating it up and they don't even
think twice about it. They're just existing. And I want
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to be that blissfully. I want to be that blissfully unaware.
I guess think about think about as a millennial, think
about how often you thought about gen X like not
at all ever, right in the well, in the beginning,
my my relationship to gen X was those are the
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people I thought were cool when I was a kid,
because those are like the adults in media that sort
of informed what I thought being adult or being an
older kid was like you know, like I was taking
cues from gen X characters, I would say. But then
at a certain point, I don't know if it's like
you actually consciously think about it as like a generational
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relationship versus like oh I think jay Z is cool,
or like, oh I think this person is cool or whatever.
And then at a certain point, I think it's when
you get older and they start review there's a certain
point where you start seeing your generational tension or like
the differences. You're like, I don't, I wouldn't do that,
or like I wouldn't do that for L And then
I'm like, Okay, maybe they're older, um, but yeah it's
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not I don't. I definitely don't. Like I don't know,
maybe the way I think about it is different, but
definitely would think about it a lot when I was younger.
But gen X, like, yeah, gen X is like neoliberal values.
I feel like and I don't know. I just think
gen X was never like always was like this is stupid,
too much to ever be like you guys don't like us.
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There was never enough. There's never enough like generational pride,
but I feel like nobody. Yeah, the younger generations are
always smarter, better, and they give less of a ship
than like about you, then you give about them. That's
always going to be the case. I just want to
be that. I just want to be young again, yea yeah, yeah,
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And they'll be that gen X mentality. They'll be smarter
in a very like capable, talented, intelligent way, but they'll
also know less and you can't confuse that with being dumber.
It's just they just don't you have a ship enough
to have read all the ship that you've read. But
I think that inhibition, that lack of like any kind
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of just I don't know that it is a certain nihilism. Yeah,
there's something freeing about that that just like oh god,
well yeah, but it's interesting because like we we were
like the generation that got like are just heads kicked
in where we're like, oh man, none of this ship
is possible, Like that we thought was like going to
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college and like you march out here, why we became
so sensitive? And there were just like they hate us.
There's no reason why we should care that they hate
us or not, but we're just like so I feel
like millennial generation is like this very sensitive generation where
it's just like any any like side I or whatever.
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We're just like, oh, like they hate me. Maybe maybe
I'm projecting my feelings to an entire generation, but well,
I think we have similar feelings of like insecurities though,
like because of that, because the gen z they're also
equally coming up in a time like they were kids
during a terrible recession. They're coming of their you know,
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becoming of age in a terrible economic and political time,
so like they're kind of experiencing like similar things where
they're like like, you know, they haven't had like the
full wing spread of care freeness of like people who
came of age in the nineties or like early odds. Like,
so I think and there's there's certain I think we
are both equally like socially awkward at times and equally
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like kind of like can get super emo exactly, But
they're just perfecting the they're perfecting the aesthetic of it
for sure. Yeah, they're just cooler, man. Yeah, as long
as you can keep that in mind, the generation is
always going to be cooler. Yeah, and that's when when
the older generation you always have like people like Madonna
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or like somebody like that, it is like this new
generation is just not cool, and it's like like they
just never heard of you and they don't really funk
with you. It's like all those people hearing Dreams for
the first time or like or like that is the
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number one song in America right now? Really after that,
after that viral was it Tucker? Was it just a video?
Whatever it was from heaven? That is amazing. That guy
deserves like some type of like a commission from that. Yeah.
I mean Ocean Spray bought him a truck and lifetime
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supply of sugar water. Uh really yeah, but I think
Fleetwood Mac owes him a lifetime supply of money, cane
or whatever. Fleetwood Mac is good at giving people. Yeah,
money might be better, money might be good. Yeah right now,
that's yeah, Fleetwood can come by and chop up some
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fat lines, man, whenever you want, dog Face whatever youone. Yeah, wow,
that's I don't know it was number one. That is
something I mean, I mean it's great. Is dog Face
four twenty like doing for dreams what Wayne's World did
for Bohemian raps? So yeah, exactly, you know what I mean.
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But I think like this should be happening. This will
be happening like more and more right like as because
we now have it's just the flattening of all music.
It's like we have access to all of it. There's
so much good music and there are people and a
just message that Mick fleet Fleetwood remade his video. I
didn't know that. Then he definitely owes him money to
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come over any time to do dy that is creative
control or creative like that's I p that is that
he has stolen seating that where the like agencies to
swoop in like dog Phase four twenty. Hey, hey they're there.
They've definitely marked from U t A brother love to
sign you up to the agency. Man, are you thinking
about what you're gonna do with your likeness and your story?
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Well you have all these TikTok stars that are just
like being actresses now, like just like getting roles because
they're famous on TikTok, like the she's all that person.
But that's there's a remaking. I'm not old Molly Ringwald.
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I say so reflexively to like it's still Rachel Lee Cook,
Freddie Prince Jr. But I mean that's the same, Like
that's just the place that they're going to be discovered, right,
Like that's just a good place to discover young talent.
Like that's I don't feel like that's any less legitimate
than like a casting call or something like that. You know,
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I think it's I think for me, it's the same
vein as like nepotism or like family like like like
like legacy families in the industry, like it's it's always
going to be easy for some people kind of thing.
So yeah, I think it's better than those things though, Right,
I was just gonna say it's like nepotism, except earned,
because I get dog faced. If dog faces like in
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the lead in a new HBO series, I'll be like,
he did that on his home. Yeah, then we find
out we find out he's a Coppola. Was a Coppola
I didn't write anymore? Isn't that frustrate? What's a myth?
What's something people think it's true, you know, to be
(16:39):
false or vice versa? Okay, Um, I genuinely think that
Piranhas can't possibly be as dangerous as there. Yeah, they
can't possibly be as dangerous because all the stuff that
I thought was dangerous when I was a kid, like
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picksand and leeches. I was gonna say, it fits in
with a quicksand thing where it just can't be that bad.
And it's one of those things where I've done zero googling.
But also I'm watching that Nexium doc on HBO of
the Vow, and I don't believe that people don't know
they're in a cult like immediately, because that's the number
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one question I asked whenever I opt into anything, even
if it's like even if it's like CBS Rewards, I'm like,
is this a cult? Like you know, if I walk
into Chippotle, I'm like, is this a cult? And then
they're in a thing like Red led By, like a
charismatic leader who is reclusive in like any anything that
tries to get you to move to upstate in New
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York as a fucking cult. So like I want, I've
been watching this series and I'm like, I don't believe that.
I don't believe for a second that like ten years
in people were like, wait, this might be a cult.
We have to pay all of our money and provide
secrets as Collaid all might be a cult. Like, yeah,
I don't, I don't. I don't buy I don't buy
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that people doing the right away. Yeah, but but they
got me sleeping good again and I'm doing yoga now.
It's it's a good trade off. I don't know what
it is. It's have you seen Jack have you seen
the valu yet? I have not know it's it's it's right.
I mean, yes, it's very long, it's extremely long, but
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it's uh, I don't know. I suppose it's it's worthwhile.
But yeah, it's about it's about a cult. And um,
I think the Piranha thing is a good is a
good one too, because I feel like everybody is now
realized that quicksand doesn't exist, but Piranhas, I think still
get the respect of Like they will skeletonize anything if
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you just like dip it in the water for five seconds.
But uh, that was apparent. That comes from a Teddy
Roosevelt book. Like he before he was president, even while
he was president, he was like a famous nature like leader.
And the locals in Brazil like captured a bunch of
piranhas starved them and then dropped a dead cowen and
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they skeletonized it after after a while, And because Teddy
Roosevelt was a messy bitch who loves drama, he was like,
it was just a skeleton in mere moments. Why is
our only president with the tattoo? Is that true? Yeah,
he had a chess tattoo of the rough Riders or
something like that. Like he's such a badass, and the
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best thing about this pandemic, or the only good thing
for me about this pandemic has been I've gone to
a bunch of like national parks and stuff, and so
I'm like, I'm very psyched about Teddy Roosevelt. I'm sure
there's gonna be somens um someone who's going to reach
out after hearing this podcast be like, actually, he uh
did a bunch of war crimes or something. But I'm like, yeah,
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I think that's probably true. That's probably true. You can't
be an American, You're not an americ in president. You're like, dude,
he was so chill and he never did anything wrong
and he uplifted during his time. Yeah, his life is
like a good rollicking read it's a it's fun to
read about, but um yeah, also wildly problematic. All right,
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let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back, Caroline. I'm gonna start off with you.
What's a myth? What do you what is something people
think it is true that you know to be false.
I know that ben Affleck is not that smart. I
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don't know this personally. I don't think he's a genius director.
I don't think he's very funny. I think he has
frat brother energy. I know he went to Harvard. And
if you want another low brow answer, people say, if
you do shave your legs, it grows back looking darker.
That's not true. It's because of the angle the hair
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grows back. Thank you so much for letting you do
on your podcast. What the heck? That's what it is.
I mean with with ben Affleck, Bennett, I feel like
anyone who's still on the ben Affleck is a genius
defense force train. It just needs to get out of
the train and lay in front of it. Uh is
just simply is such a such an easily disproved Yeah,
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how is it? I'm sorry? How is it easily disproved?
He has gone through his life. We just and I
hate to just steamroll here. Just allow me to finish this.
He's been through so many things in his life, he's
overcome alled, He's won an Academy Award about a smart guy. Okay,
and and with all of that, people thought he was done.
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They counted him out. They said this guy has too
many issues. Then he gets a phoenix back tattoo to
summit all up his entire life experience. And you're saying
that this man is this man, he gets it. He
fucking he's giving you a the literal. I don't know.
I just I think he's buried. If he good enough
for Anada Armos, I guess I'll continue to accept him
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into my life. But as the I think I'm just
being an over sensitive Boston person because I am. I
just I'm so sick of the man. Although I will say,
if you get his coffee, order a dunkin Donuts, uh,
it's pretty good. This is good. I would very much
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like to change my underrated answer to the coffee I
dunkin Donuts because I used to going to Dunkin Donuts
in New York. It is something that I do miss.
And the ice coffee there I think is as good
as any dessert at any major restaurant. It's amazing. I
could have it every day. It's good. I tried. I
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tried the TikTok Influencer coffee the Charlie, and it is
so I like ship for days. It is definitely for teenagers,
not for adults. But you know, if you're a growing
young person and you need a lot of dairy, then
try the Charlie. Yeah, if you're a young child, it
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needs all that calcium. You want a glass of milk,
please get the Charlie. Take some activity. Yeah, well, obviously
we're proactivity on this show. Let's do what the funk
was that part seven thousand. President Donald Trump is apparently
struggling to breathe, but not admitting that. So just like
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being a big tough guy while not being really able
to breathe. His aids are speculating that part of the
reason that he immediately removed his face mask was because
he doesn't seem like he's breathing so well, and so
they he needed to get better oxygen come and do
his face what a well, that's the phaser over now,
(23:57):
Like the the leaks are basically them talking shit about
him is like bad health. They're like, honestly that the
mask off because he was sucking mad here honestly, so whatever,
but can you can we do this anonymously? Thanks? Right? Um?
There is like grave concern for the ability to breathe.
And I was like, no, dude, he's fooling, He's fucking around,
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that's all bullshit. Yeah. Um, there's a Yale psychiatrist who
thinks that he should be committed. Um. She says that
sociopathy is dangerous in part because, out of envy of
other human beings for having human characteristics, it actively desires
people to suffer and die. Um. And so the idea
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is that the thing she saw, I think in this
latest round of you know, irrational, um terrifying behavior was
that he seemed to really get a kick out of
putting people's lives in danger when he took off his
mask and was like, you know, giving recommendations that are
counter the you know, health advice of actual doctors and scientists.
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He seems to do physically be getting like a charge
out of that. The man is a troll. Yeah. Has
anyone talked about his new accent? Am I the only
one that can't get over his like speaking style from
that weird balcony video. Is it more accented, like deeper
New York accent. It's just weird. It's just like it's
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not it's this. It's like he's feels he's playing a character.
It feels like he's acting or something. He's he's pronuncing,
Like his pronunciation of certain words strikes me as different.
He's doing an impression of the Alec Baldwin impression of himself,
which is the greatest impression. We still agree he alcobal
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and totally nailing it. Thank you. What do I found? Mic? Oh? Yeah,
Alec Baldwin. Things we know about him is he's never
and drunk or even had a drink. I think, yeah,
really yeah, he's a yeah really yeah, just like w
Well w was drunk, is a dry drunk er, you know,
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recovered recovered alcoholic. I think Trump was never any like
just it never interested him. Do you think that's just
because he hates losing control? I think he also saw
his brother drink himself to death and was like, I
don't want to do that. But then yeah, the I
think there's the control aspect of it. And also he's
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it's not like a moral thing because he also has
been blowing rails of ad roll for since the eighties. Yeah,
I mean, so that's what I have always thought was
he he gives off like speed freak vibes and similar
to the Nazis who were all blowing rails of speed constantly,
like that is a thing that will make you not
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have empathy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh. Hitler was also very
anti intoxicants up until the end when he started getting
really into uh speed and then heroin combinations. Uh. And
he was a vegetarian, as people love to point out.
I mean there's a lot of like animal rights racists,
(27:22):
right right, Yeah, as you talked about the pipeline from Yeah,
that's a big part of the pipeline. They're like, oh,
we gotta save the children by killing everyone else. Yeah.
So I the reason I bring up his teetotaling is
that I do think that for somebody like that who's
in their seventies and only has really experience with intoxicants,
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that like take them up a notch. Something like the
side effects from these steroids might be, you know, hitting
a little bit different, might be causing accent changes. Do
you think he's getting loopy. Oh yeah, he seems loopy.
He seems slightly loopy to me. And guys, don't don't
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quote me on this, but this guy seems a little
loopy if you don't know, if you've seen these clips,
he looks like a dude who has just like maybe
uh you know, like his star Trek when they beam
you down or beam you up somewhere from the first
he looks like a dude who just got beamed down
for the first time. He's still kind of dealing with
like the trip. And I was like, whoa, Okay, okay,
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I'm here, that happened. All right, You're still good. Donald.
That was a little trippy. But he can do this
like he's still It feels like a process of finding
his feet but also trying to assert that his feet
are firmly on the ground. So it just makes for
this very like off balanced performance. And yeah, the it
quits quite a performance. Yeah. We had a listener right
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in and say they thought we were mixing up like
the type of steroids he was on, and that we
were just like confusing the articles steroids with anabolic steroids.
And it's actually like they that's what I thought too.
I was like, wait, the like, medical steroids don't make
you into like a roid raging you know, uh person,
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But he like, apparently this specific steroids, Like people have
been writing about it. Uh it's called Dexa metha zone
and like people were writing about how they were prescribed
it for hearing loss and they're like, I remember feeling
just like Trump for the first few days, better than
I'd ever felt my life. But there were several important
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differences between me and Trump. I was not in charge
of the free world. My worst decision was eating five
bowls of cereal in front of the refrigerator at three am, which,
by the way, he did. The One of the things
that his doctor pointed to to be like he's back, baby,
was that he ate like five plates of dinner in
(29:58):
the hospital. They were like, is a hungry boy? Um?
He just like housed like five dinners all at once.
Are they treating him like a fucking newborn panda? Why
is that like the standard for how well this is doing? Oh,
he ate like five Mexi melts and and and and
and down to two leader of Mountain Dew. You should
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have seen him the boy clinic. Just real quick before
we move on from the side effects. The Mayo Clinic says,
although disturbances of mood, cognition, sleep, and behavior as well
as frank delirium, they keep calling it frank delirium, which
is I guess like just straight up and down. Nobody's
even even the most sober eed person is like that
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is delirium or even psychosis are possible. The most common
adverse effects of short term corticos steroid therapy are euphoria
and hippo mania, which is not related to being a hungry,
hungry hippo, but just it's basically another word for Yeah,
it's hypomania, and it's just another word for being euphoric. Yeah.
(31:05):
So that's just all worth keeping in mind as we
view the president's long tweet storms about how everything is
love and how he's gonna win and how none of
none of the poles are telling the truth, right, We're
just even like how on one hand, right, age are like, yo,
this dude is a struggling to have breaths, and then
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you get these other reports where they're saying like all
his vitals are fantastic, it's everything is normal even to
have this happening, like regardless of what the medications are doing,
Like this should be just such a larger issue rather
than being like, yo, shut the funk up, man, he's
burning up on re entry. But like we can't say
(31:49):
anything because if he learns that, like it's it's just
it's all bad. It's all bad. It's all bad. Like
it doesn't matter like when you when you're just when
you're playing secrets like a poker hand with somebody, the
state of their health because either like it does affect
how the country's run on some level. Uh, it's yeah,
(32:11):
it's it's just it's super spooky. October America is gonna
ship itself to death on the toilet like Elvis, because
we're gonna die from v I P syndrome of like
doctors not being able to tell famous, big awesome person
the truth about their own health. Anyways, Uh, let's take
another break and we'll be right back, and we're back. Lastly,
(32:44):
I just want to say, someone sucker punched Rick moranis
in New York. You hate to see it. You don't
know what happened, but not, honey, I punched Ricker Moranus. Honeyeah,
I punched this ship out of that dude. Yea he
was just walking down New York mining his own when
(33:06):
some guy and I love n why hood he just
sneaks him with a quick one. Uh And I don't
think he was concussed or anything, but just a weird
It's like Rick Brandis is like the most like non
specific looking person where I don't know if this person
was having a bad day, was on some ship or whatever,
but uh like also Rick morandus was doing his most
to stay out of the fucking spin and then he
(33:28):
does one thing, he does one thing with Ryan Reynolds,
and now he's getting sucker punched in the streets of
New York. I want to say he's about to retire forever.
He's about to for fucking ever. Do you think he's
going to be like see, this is why I don't
do this ship man. I did want the guy, just
want him back in the spotlight. Maybe it's something the
(33:49):
guy hates him, and that it's that he loves him.
Oh ship his agent, Oh my god, Rick Morandi's his
agent hired the dude to punch him and they'd be
only twist I will is it someone he knows and
has a beef Going back to Little Shop of Horse
what if it was Frank Oz and we just don't know,
you know, we don't know Franks Sucker punch them in
(34:11):
the middle of the street. That's Cannon. Oh man, Well
we'll have to Well they'll they'll be more on this story.
I'm sure this will be developing as much as the
president's health status. So we'll keep it in this one. Miles.
You watched The Secret. I watched Cobra Kai The Secret.
I I gotta know what what is the secret? Just
(34:33):
tell me shout out to Zekegang for helping me locate
this film because I did not want to locate it.
And then I cast my gaze upon this nightmare. Uh
so I don't I don't know where to start first stop?
Hold on, is this movie like new or old? It's new?
(34:56):
It's starting? Uh Katie Holmes. Oh okay, dude, it's got
yeah exactly. You know, Katie Holmes is only in new stuff.
But this film was with Katie Holmes Josh Lucas and
it was like sort of the main dude and then
like Jerry O'Connell plays like this dude who's like longing
for her. Long story short is she's playing a mother,
(35:20):
a widow, who has three kids and they're in some
hard times. You know nothing. Josh Lucas. He's like one
of those dudes where I could tell you need to
see his face and then you'd be like, oh, yeah,
Josh Lucas. Yeah, he's like because I know, handsome dude
who was in a bunch of movie forgettable movies in
(35:40):
the past. So you guys don't know either, That's all
I was checking. No, it would be one of those
things when you when you see him, you're like, oh,
this dude, but you're like, I didn't know his name
was Josh Lucas because he's like a stock photo of
an actor. Do you see Ford v. Ferrari? No, and no,
and I do not recognize him. He looks like poor
(36:01):
Man's Kevin Costner. If you heard his voice, his voice
kind of puts it all together. He's a Costner Ryan
what's his name? Uh, who's the who's the real hunky dude?
He's not hunky though, it's not Yeah yeah Ryan Jack O'Brien. No,
(36:21):
he's he's a blend of I see a lot of Costner,
I see a lot of gossling. I think he's like
a blend of Costner, Gossling, he's a Cosmo. Yeah, yeah,
that's Gossner wraps up in a Gostner blanket. So this
uh So anyway, she's like, none of the things are
going right for this family. Like their stressed, the kids
(36:43):
like don't like their house. The one one of the
daughters is like jealous that here the classmates sweet sixteen
is going to have a fucking have food trucks. This
other little girl wants a yeah, you know what I mean.
Uh And and then one day, in the midst of
the ask, Katie Holmes like like rear ends this guy
in a truck and it's Josh Lucas and he's like,
(37:05):
so the whole thing is based around him being this
kind of like mysterious guy and his whole like outlook
is super positive. She's like when she rear ends him,
his truck's fine, but hers is like the bumpers off
and she's like, damn it, I can't afford the blah
blahah and he's like, hey, it's all good, and luckily
my car is not damaged, so let me help you out,
and he like fixes her truck, and like they're hanging
out at their house and she's like this man is
(37:26):
beginning to learn a little bit more about her like
life situation, and like first like they're like, we want
to have dinner and she's like, we want pizza, and
Katie homes like we can't afford pizza. She's like, that's right,
because we're poor, and like the Katie Holmes like leaves
the scene for a second, and then this Josh Lucas
guys like, look, just because you have no pizza doesn't
mean you can't have it. If you just think a
(37:48):
lot about pizza, you'll be able to get it. And
it has like this very like barbarically distilled down version
of the flaw of attraction, essentially like the most passive form,
which is like just think of pizza and it's magic.
And then fucking like clockwork, what the hex who's at
the door? Hey, I've got a pizza that that character
(38:08):
literally described two pages ago, word for word. I have
this exact order here for this family. It's already been
paid for. Don't even worry about it. And they're like,
oh cool, it came from mom's Katie Holmes boyfriend Jerry O'Connell,
and like slowly there's he's like all these moments where
they're like, oh my god, it's like happening. Jerry O'Connell
(38:28):
has money and he's not helping Katie Holmes. But Josh La,
it's v weird like they're dating, but like she's kind
of like doesn't she's not really feeling Jerry O'Connell because
he's like a herb anyway, like you could tell he's
like he's like his character pulls up like a down
vest and you're like, all right, get the funk out
of here, like you already. Jerry connell has huge herb vibes.
I totally get what you mean. Oh yeah, yeah, he's
(38:49):
a herbivore. And the whole thing with it's he's like
a rich guy. But then socus is on alpha. I
get it, bro, But he keeps saying, is all this
like lame shit. He's like, no, don't worry about it.
She's like, look, Josh Lucas, like, I can't just keep thinking,
like there's a hole in my roof. I can't just
think of a new roof to come by. I have
(39:09):
these bills. It's not a check's just gonna show up
for the exact amount I need. Blah blah, blah, and
then throughout the film you realized to get the roof fixed,
a fucking check arrives for the exact thing. But then
there's like, there's like a whole fucking twist, which is
that Katie Holmes husband died in a plane crash and
Josh Lucas was with him on that flight and he
was the only person who survived that crash. But also
(39:32):
like took a patent that Katie Holmes dead husband had
invented and improved it and like got and like started
becoming wealthy. And the reason he even found Katie Holmes
was to tell her that he had put the patent
in her name and she can expect checks to come in.
But because he was like kind of vibing with her,
he didn't tell her. So it became like the typical
rom com thing where one character has been deceiving the
(39:54):
other and then when it matters, they're like, you deceived
me this whole time, I don't understand, and they're like,
but it was for a good reason. I was on
the plane that your husband died in and I stole
his patent, and then I it's like it gets so convoluted,
and then there actually is no good reason for the lie.
It seems like she would have been really happy to
hear all of that from just right at the beginning,
(40:14):
just straight up yeah, without him trying to be like
like quirky hippie guy or I saved her a lot
of worrying and then he didn't even have to lie
about the secret. But the secret is not like the
I have not read the Secret. I just lived, like
the President. I don't read the books. I just lived
the books, and so I know the philosophy of the secret.
(40:37):
It's not that like if you imagine a pizza and
your brand, someone's going to deliver a pizza is no. No.
But that's so there are many ways, like people preach
the law of attraction, Like I think the Secret is
like the most I think broad version and is basically
gets a lot of people hooked because they're trying to
sell it to you as magic. Like, Oh, the problem
(40:59):
is your inability to like communicate your needs to other people.
It's that you just don't think about shit enough. It's like, No,
that's like a really weird way to describe, Like that's
not self help, um, because I do, like on a
certain level, I do believe that there is a power
to how you look at your own life. Not necessarily
that like if I think about PS. Five, someone's gonna
(41:22):
knock on my door and just drop one off. But
I do believe in like, you know, that perception is reality, right,
And if you're in a negative headspace and you're only
looking at negative like only thinking about what's wrong in
your life, then your confirmation bias is only going to
look for negative shit and be like, of course this
thing went wrong. Of course this happened, of course, But
and you get so much momentum going that yes, that
(41:44):
it feels like that's how your world is. But at
the same time, I think, like just I think an
easier way to look at this secret is like you
can also just sort of like try and look for
the positive things that are happening to you and just
be more aware of that rather than in a in
a mode or like everything sucks. Of course it sucks.
Of course that sucks, to sort of like, yeah, something suck,
(42:04):
but some things are good. Oh, hey that happened, that
was cool. Oh that happened, that was cool, And then
from there you could very like I think it's really
more about having more of a positive outlook and having
positive self talk more than like the magic of rear
ending some dude in a fucking four D f one
fifty who has a magical patent that will get your
daughter a pony and you arrange over. Yeah, that's that's interesting.
(42:28):
Um So that that sounds not worth watching. It's it's
where like you're like, oh my god, I have to
watch this. I mean, like, I think, look, if you
if you're feeling really shitty, uh, and you watch this,
you'll probably feel good because it almost it feels like fantasy.
(42:48):
You're like, everything that's been going wrong for this person
has been until one day everything that could go right
does start going right. And sure, like just the act
of watching the pendulum swing the other way maybe like
fine or whatever. But I mean it's not like a
good it's not even like a good romance film or
anything like that. Plus you gotta pay for it and
put money into these people's pockets. Are like, no, it's
(43:10):
a hard pass. You don't you don't you don't need to,
you don't need to waste your time on it. I
think telling you right now is fine. It reminds me
of pay it forward, wasn't that like one of those
like American self help philosophy books that got adapted into
a movie that was just basically like dramatizing a very
simplistic philosophy, but like that didn't quite work out unless
(43:33):
you're a fan of cinema, in which case, Uh, Pay
It Forward is one of the finest films of time.
And the thing the film does though, is like they
make Josh Lucas the way he talks to be like, man,
if I was like that, I guess I would have
everything because he's like so weird and cryptic, like where
he's checking out of a hotel and the the concierge,
(43:54):
the woman at the concierge, she's like studying for her
l s ATS and he's like when he's checking out
his like, hey, good luck on your else sets. She's like, Oh,
I don't know, it's just so hard. It's just so overwhelming.
I I just think maybe I won't do well. And
he's like, hey, hey, hey, can you see yourself being
a lawyer? Take a second right now? Can you see
yourself being a lawyer? Is that real? And she's like, yeah,
(44:16):
I can see it. It's it's so real to me,
and he's like, then so can I, and he like
walks off and she's like, wow, I don't know what
the funk that meant. I want to fuck that man. Yeah,
So in the end, I would say, like, yo, like
a cheap version is like just a less uh uh
(44:37):
spooky way to do the secret try and just you know,
change your negative self talk to more positive things, trying
to look for the positive in your life. I think
that's a better message than like then saying like, you
know your life is bad and the reason is you're
not wishing enough, which is what actually I think the
lesson is, Um, your life isn't great because your husband
didn't die in a plane crash. Next did Josh Lucas
(45:01):
and leave him a patent that Josh Lucas could improve
and then make a lot of money off of and
then pay you back for the money. You have to
talk about a relatable circumstance. Yeah, we've all been there.
On everyone has this story in their life. Were honest,
You'll love it's jarring in this and that that plot
line comes in way too late in the film and
(45:23):
you're like, what is this now? Like I just thought
it was about a dude come into this small town
and changing people's lives, and now he might be like
and then at a certain point like did he kill
the wait? What the That would have been a way
better movie. I thought it was going to be a
horror when you were setting it up. I was like, oh,
ship and the like is he the devil? And then
it's way lamer than that. I wish just like you've
(45:44):
been thinking about him and I'm here to reunite y'all,
we should write The Secret as a horror. I mean, yeah,
I'm sure that's that's out there right, That's definitely a
goose bumps book that already was. Be careful what you
wish for it was over there, you go, all right,
(46:04):
that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
please like and review the show. If you like the show,
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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 last stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really,
(00:25):
what is something from your search history that's revealing about
who you are? I'll just be straight with you, guys.
I was looking up stuff about the UNI Bomber last night.
Watch the documentary. What's the documentary called. It's called the
UNI Bomber in his own words? Oh yeah, yeah, right
(00:45):
that one. Now it's like, yeah, it is super good
and super interesting and uh in a way, very timely
about environmental issues. So look at us. Give it a
look up. Not endorsing, not endorsing bombing, no, but endorsing documentaries, yes,
(01:07):
especially not endorsing those bombings, because I mean, the guy
builds a ship bomb But man has manifesto. What a
vision for the future. Huh check it out, just going
deep on like eco fascism, and it's corollary. It's good corollary.
He and and he has the supervillain origin story that
(01:31):
is like mind blowing. Um, it's truly. His story is
one of the most amazing stories. That's I've always been
obsessed with Ted Kazinski. That's why at cracked. Our version
of like the Twitter egg where you don't have where
you haven't posted a picture of yourself was the un
Bomber sketch for most of the history of the site.
(01:55):
I think looks like looks like every guy exactly. So
I kind of did they do enough like sketches, like
sketch comedy about the UNI bomber sketch, Like who that
guy was? That feels like it would have like that
gave you hours of terrible sketch comedy of like a
dude who was like, I'm just a SKA I'm just
(02:16):
a roller skater man. Uh, and they got me mixed
up and like this is yes, my little my my
s curl got I don't know how this became the
face of terror. I'm just a peace love and roller skater.
I don't know. I just want I always get the
biggest kick. Looking at at that sketch, I mean it's
very like a very blandly handsome man rocking a hoodie
well before it's time. Uh, and then like aviators and
(02:40):
a mustache, like those are all things that are mostly cool. Now,
I just love police sketches in general. Yeah, they're so good.
I just want that job. Yeah, was the person that
is there any background on, like the person that gave
the description that led to that sketch, Like how we
ended up with that sketch? Yeah, it was somebody who
(03:02):
saw one of the bombs being deposited. It was like
in the parking lot of electronics store something mostly targeted academics,
but some just like people who are making technology. And
so it was like not the guy who who picked
up the bomb and got sucked up by it, but
a different person working at that store or that office
(03:25):
or whatever who saw somebody in the parking lot like
shortly beforehand. Wow. Okay, I'm just saying, rewatch terminator too.
You know the way they're going back and back in
time to take out the people who are going to
build the destruction of our future. Now, I should not
(03:46):
be that sympathetic to the UNI bomber. I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
you're like, yo, dude, he's like, he's like a terminator
if you really think about it. Bro. All right, I
want to stop talking about the UNI bomber because sorry,
guys brought energy in. Yeah. Yeah, I've been lamburdomized. Is
that is that a thing you should you should maybe
(04:07):
trademark you just made it. Yeah, that's my That's gonna
be my shock jock show. Dude, just sipping lambrusco. Devin,
what is something from your search history? Okay? I don't
want to say this reveal something about my personality because
(04:29):
that scares me. But I had to use it because
it was one of the first few things that came up.
But there's an explanation for it, um and that is
die of strangulation without bruising. Okay, now's a good time
to mention that the two of you do have a
podcast called True Romance that you co host together, and
(04:52):
it's not a true crime podcast. It is not, But yes,
I do have an obsession with true crime, and I
was working on a little research project for something I'm writing.
And I think those of those people who can see
what's having Devin did like this physical affect when she
said project, which almost felt like very sinister, like I
(05:14):
felt like she's going to take someone down. I have
a sinister demeanor, but I I really I have to
go on record as saying it was a research project.
I was just trying to see, in in a fantastical
world of imagination piece of fiction, would it be possible
for someone to die of strangulation and have no bruising
(05:35):
so that when the police find the body they wouldn't
know that they had And what was the What was
the answer? Um, you can't really die of strangulation without bruising.
So you can break someone's neck though, right. I didn't
follow up with that, but probably from what I can
see on the Boys on Amazon, it seems like you
(05:57):
can just snap it and nothing shows. Um. So, my
dad inherited some land from his great grandfather, and out
of family dinner with all of our relatives, I made
a joke about breaking a bone in my dad's neck
to kill him and get the land, and nobody laughed,
Oh come on, really, everyone just scared at me. And
(06:21):
then I found out it was because there's a lot
of argument within the family on who's going to get
this land and I just really made it. Does someone
approaches you after dinner to be like, so, like, what approach?
Were you thinking too? Yeah? Exactly, They're like, so we
looked it up. You can't actually strangle someone without bruising
their neck. So that's what you were thinking, terrifying if
(06:42):
someone already was like, actually, I thought about that too,
and that's just not the approach you're gonna want to
be healthy. He's too hard, he's too What is a myth?
What's something people think is true? You know, to be
false um or vice versa. Be honest with you. This
one gives me trouble. Yeah, I name your favorite Pokemon,
(07:05):
my favorite Pokemon. Probably my favorite Pokemon might be uh,
Dragon Knight or Gengar is like the ghost Pokemon that's
like a little mischievous, little little fuck. And then, um,
but the myth that was going to say, okay, one
(07:26):
of my myths is just a stupid like realization that
I had that like gen Z doesn't actually hate millennials.
Like there's like this myth that gen Z hates millennials,
and I really just don't. I think they don't even
think twice about us or like about millennials at all. Right,
It was like it's it's like that, I feel like
gen Z is the X that you think about all
(07:47):
the time, and they don't even think twice about you.
They don't even watch your stories. You know what? I
mean like it's in that relationship where like they just
exist and we're like like I came to this realization
because I watched this TikTok where or this little boy
not even little is a boy, maybe a teenager, I
don't know, um, but he's explaining Trump's trade policy in
(08:11):
this like less than a minute TikTok, and I understood
Trump's trade policy better than I ever had coming out
of that. And it was just this kid playing three
characters of like Vietnam, I'm China and the US and
they're talking to each other back and forth. And not
only did I feel incredibly stupid, but it was amazing
(08:33):
to see how I don't know, even now with like
Claudia Conway and all the stuff, like we're obsessed with
gen Z, we're obsessed with this like weird generation that's
just like spewing TikTok or spewing whatever and from and were,
and we're like eating it up and they don't even
think twice about it. They're just existing. And I want
(08:54):
to be that blissfully. I want to be that blissfully unaware.
I guess think about think about as a millennial, think
about how often you thought about gen X like not
at all ever, right in the well, in the beginning,
my my relationship to gen X was those are the
(09:16):
people I thought were cool when I was a kid,
because those are like the adults in media that sort
of informed what I thought being adult or being an
older kid was like you know, like I was taking
cues from gen X characters, I would say. But then
at a certain point, I don't know if it's like
you actually consciously think about it as like a generational
(09:37):
relationship versus like oh I think jay Z is cool,
or like, oh I think this person is cool or whatever.
And then at a certain point, I think it's when
you get older and they start review there's a certain
point where you start seeing your generational tension or like
the differences. You're like, I don't, I wouldn't do that,
or like I wouldn't do that for L And then
I'm like, Okay, maybe they're older, um, but yeah it's
(09:59):
not I don't. I definitely don't. Like I don't know,
maybe the way I think about it is different, but
definitely would think about it a lot when I was younger.
But gen X, like, yeah, gen X is like neoliberal values.
I feel like and I don't know. I just think
gen X was never like always was like this is stupid,
too much to ever be like you guys don't like us.
(10:22):
There was never enough. There's never enough like generational pride,
but I feel like nobody. Yeah, the younger generations are
always smarter, better, and they give less of a ship
than like about you, then you give about them. That's
always going to be the case. I just want to
be that. I just want to be young again, yea yeah, yeah,
(10:47):
And they'll be that gen X mentality. They'll be smarter
in a very like capable, talented, intelligent way, but they'll
also know less and you can't confuse that with being dumber.
It's just they just don't you have a ship enough
to have read all the ship that you've read. But
I think that inhibition, that lack of like any kind
(11:07):
of just I don't know that it is a certain nihilism. Yeah,
there's something freeing about that that just like oh god,
well yeah, but it's interesting because like we we were
like the generation that got like are just heads kicked
in where we're like, oh man, none of this ship
is possible, Like that we thought was like going to
(11:31):
college and like you march out here, why we became
so sensitive? And there were just like they hate us.
There's no reason why we should care that they hate
us or not, but we're just like so I feel
like millennial generation is like this very sensitive generation where
it's just like any any like side I or whatever.
(11:52):
We're just like, oh, like they hate me. Maybe maybe
I'm projecting my feelings to an entire generation, but well,
I think we have similar feelings of like insecurities though,
like because of that, because the gen z they're also
equally coming up in a time like they were kids
during a terrible recession. They're coming of their you know,
(12:14):
becoming of age in a terrible economic and political time,
so like they're kind of experiencing like similar things where
they're like like, you know, they haven't had like the
full wing spread of care freeness of like people who
came of age in the nineties or like early odds. Like,
so I think and there's there's certain I think we
are both equally like socially awkward at times and equally
(12:38):
like kind of like can get super emo exactly, But
they're just perfecting the they're perfecting the aesthetic of it
for sure. Yeah, they're just cooler, man. Yeah, as long
as you can keep that in mind, the generation is
always going to be cooler. Yeah, and that's when when
the older generation you always have like people like Madonna
(13:01):
or like somebody like that, it is like this new
generation is just not cool, and it's like like they
just never heard of you and they don't really funk
with you. It's like all those people hearing Dreams for
the first time or like or like that is the
(13:21):
number one song in America right now? Really after that,
after that viral was it Tucker? Was it just a video?
Whatever it was from heaven? That is amazing. That guy
deserves like some type of like a commission from that. Yeah.
I mean Ocean Spray bought him a truck and lifetime
(13:43):
supply of sugar water. Uh really yeah, but I think
Fleetwood Mac owes him a lifetime supply of money, cane
or whatever. Fleetwood Mac is good at giving people. Yeah,
money might be better, money might be good. Yeah right now,
that's yeah, Fleetwood can come by and chop up some
(14:07):
fat lines, man, whenever you want, dog Face whatever youone. Yeah, wow,
that's I don't know it was number one. That is
something I mean, I mean it's great. Is dog Face
four twenty like doing for dreams what Wayne's World did
for Bohemian raps? So yeah, exactly, you know what I mean.
(14:28):
But I think like this should be happening. This will
be happening like more and more right like as because
we now have it's just the flattening of all music.
It's like we have access to all of it. There's
so much good music and there are people and a
just message that Mick fleet Fleetwood remade his video. I
didn't know that. Then he definitely owes him money to
(14:51):
come over any time to do dy that is creative
control or creative like that's I p that is that
he has stolen seating that where the like agencies to
swoop in like dog Phase four twenty. Hey, hey they're there.
They've definitely marked from U t A brother love to
sign you up to the agency. Man, are you thinking
about what you're gonna do with your likeness and your story?
(15:13):
Well you have all these TikTok stars that are just
like being actresses now, like just like getting roles because
they're famous on TikTok, like the she's all that person.
But that's there's a remaking. I'm not old Molly Ringwald.
(15:35):
I say so reflexively to like it's still Rachel Lee Cook,
Freddie Prince Jr. But I mean that's the same, Like
that's just the place that they're going to be discovered, right,
Like that's just a good place to discover young talent.
Like that's I don't feel like that's any less legitimate
than like a casting call or something like that. You know,
(15:57):
I think it's I think for me, it's the same
vein as like nepotism or like family like like like
like legacy families in the industry, like it's it's always
going to be easy for some people kind of thing.
So yeah, I think it's better than those things though, Right,
I was just gonna say it's like nepotism, except earned,
because I get dog faced. If dog faces like in
(16:18):
the lead in a new HBO series, I'll be like,
he did that on his home. Yeah, then we find
out we find out he's a Coppola. Was a Coppola
I didn't write anymore? Isn't that frustrate? What's a myth?
What's something people think it's true, you know, to be
(16:39):
false or vice versa? Okay, Um, I genuinely think that
Piranhas can't possibly be as dangerous as there. Yeah, they
can't possibly be as dangerous because all the stuff that
I thought was dangerous when I was a kid, like
(17:00):
picksand and leeches. I was gonna say, it fits in
with a quicksand thing where it just can't be that bad.
And it's one of those things where I've done zero googling.
But also I'm watching that Nexium doc on HBO of
the Vow, and I don't believe that people don't know
they're in a cult like immediately, because that's the number
(17:22):
one question I asked whenever I opt into anything, even
if it's like even if it's like CBS Rewards, I'm like,
is this a cult? Like you know, if I walk
into Chippotle, I'm like, is this a cult? And then
they're in a thing like Red led By, like a
charismatic leader who is reclusive in like any anything that
tries to get you to move to upstate in New
(17:42):
York as a fucking cult. So like I want, I've
been watching this series and I'm like, I don't believe that.
I don't believe for a second that like ten years
in people were like, wait, this might be a cult.
We have to pay all of our money and provide
secrets as Collaid all might be a cult. Like, yeah,
I don't, I don't. I don't buy I don't buy
(18:04):
that people doing the right away. Yeah, but but they
got me sleeping good again and I'm doing yoga now.
It's it's a good trade off. I don't know what
it is. It's have you seen Jack have you seen
the valu yet? I have not know it's it's it's right.
I mean, yes, it's very long, it's extremely long, but
(18:25):
it's uh, I don't know. I suppose it's it's worthwhile.
But yeah, it's about it's about a cult. And um,
I think the Piranha thing is a good is a
good one too, because I feel like everybody is now
realized that quicksand doesn't exist, but Piranhas, I think still
get the respect of Like they will skeletonize anything if
(18:46):
you just like dip it in the water for five seconds.
But uh, that was apparent. That comes from a Teddy
Roosevelt book. Like he before he was president, even while
he was president, he was like a famous nature like leader.
And the locals in Brazil like captured a bunch of
piranhas starved them and then dropped a dead cowen and
(19:08):
they skeletonized it after after a while, And because Teddy
Roosevelt was a messy bitch who loves drama, he was like,
it was just a skeleton in mere moments. Why is
our only president with the tattoo? Is that true? Yeah,
he had a chess tattoo of the rough Riders or
something like that. Like he's such a badass, and the
(19:32):
best thing about this pandemic, or the only good thing
for me about this pandemic has been I've gone to
a bunch of like national parks and stuff, and so
I'm like, I'm very psyched about Teddy Roosevelt. I'm sure
there's gonna be somens um someone who's going to reach
out after hearing this podcast be like, actually, he uh
did a bunch of war crimes or something. But I'm like, yeah,
(19:55):
I think that's probably true. That's probably true. You can't
be an American, You're not an americ in president. You're like, dude,
he was so chill and he never did anything wrong
and he uplifted during his time. Yeah, his life is
like a good rollicking read it's a it's fun to
read about, but um yeah, also wildly problematic. All right,
(20:15):
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back, Caroline. I'm gonna start off with you.
What's a myth? What do you what is something people
think it is true that you know to be false.
I know that ben Affleck is not that smart. I
(20:42):
don't know this personally. I don't think he's a genius director.
I don't think he's very funny. I think he has
frat brother energy. I know he went to Harvard. And
if you want another low brow answer, people say, if
you do shave your legs, it grows back looking darker.
That's not true. It's because of the angle the hair
(21:04):
grows back. Thank you so much for letting you do
on your podcast. What the heck? That's what it is.
I mean with with ben Affleck, Bennett, I feel like
anyone who's still on the ben Affleck is a genius
defense force train. It just needs to get out of
the train and lay in front of it. Uh is
just simply is such a such an easily disproved Yeah,
(21:28):
how is it? I'm sorry? How is it easily disproved?
He has gone through his life. We just and I
hate to just steamroll here. Just allow me to finish this.
He's been through so many things in his life, he's
overcome alled, He's won an Academy Award about a smart guy. Okay,
and and with all of that, people thought he was done.
(21:49):
They counted him out. They said this guy has too
many issues. Then he gets a phoenix back tattoo to
summit all up his entire life experience. And you're saying
that this man is this man, he gets it. He
fucking he's giving you a the literal. I don't know.
I just I think he's buried. If he good enough
for Anada Armos, I guess I'll continue to accept him
(22:12):
into my life. But as the I think I'm just
being an over sensitive Boston person because I am. I
just I'm so sick of the man. Although I will say,
if you get his coffee, order a dunkin Donuts, uh,
it's pretty good. This is good. I would very much
(22:32):
like to change my underrated answer to the coffee I
dunkin Donuts because I used to going to Dunkin Donuts
in New York. It is something that I do miss.
And the ice coffee there I think is as good
as any dessert at any major restaurant. It's amazing. I
could have it every day. It's good. I tried. I
(22:53):
tried the TikTok Influencer coffee the Charlie, and it is
so I like ship for days. It is definitely for teenagers,
not for adults. But you know, if you're a growing
young person and you need a lot of dairy, then
try the Charlie. Yeah, if you're a young child, it
(23:14):
needs all that calcium. You want a glass of milk,
please get the Charlie. Take some activity. Yeah, well, obviously
we're proactivity on this show. Let's do what the funk
was that part seven thousand. President Donald Trump is apparently
struggling to breathe, but not admitting that. So just like
(23:36):
being a big tough guy while not being really able
to breathe. His aids are speculating that part of the
reason that he immediately removed his face mask was because
he doesn't seem like he's breathing so well, and so
they he needed to get better oxygen come and do
his face what a well, that's the phaser over now,
(23:57):
Like the the leaks are basically them talking shit about
him is like bad health. They're like, honestly that the
mask off because he was sucking mad here honestly, so whatever,
but can you can we do this anonymously? Thanks? Right? Um?
There is like grave concern for the ability to breathe.
And I was like, no, dude, he's fooling, He's fucking around,
(24:19):
that's all bullshit. Yeah. Um, there's a Yale psychiatrist who
thinks that he should be committed. Um. She says that
sociopathy is dangerous in part because, out of envy of
other human beings for having human characteristics, it actively desires
people to suffer and die. Um. And so the idea
(24:42):
is that the thing she saw, I think in this
latest round of you know, irrational, um terrifying behavior was
that he seemed to really get a kick out of
putting people's lives in danger when he took off his
mask and was like, you know, giving recommendations that are
counter the you know, health advice of actual doctors and scientists.
(25:07):
He seems to do physically be getting like a charge
out of that. The man is a troll. Yeah. Has
anyone talked about his new accent? Am I the only
one that can't get over his like speaking style from
that weird balcony video. Is it more accented, like deeper
New York accent. It's just weird. It's just like it's
(25:29):
not it's this. It's like he's feels he's playing a character.
It feels like he's acting or something. He's he's pronuncing,
Like his pronunciation of certain words strikes me as different.
He's doing an impression of the Alec Baldwin impression of himself,
which is the greatest impression. We still agree he alcobal
(25:51):
and totally nailing it. Thank you. What do I found? Mic? Oh? Yeah,
Alec Baldwin. Things we know about him is he's never
and drunk or even had a drink. I think, yeah,
really yeah, he's a yeah really yeah, just like w
Well w was drunk, is a dry drunk er, you know,
(26:15):
recovered recovered alcoholic. I think Trump was never any like
just it never interested him. Do you think that's just
because he hates losing control? I think he also saw
his brother drink himself to death and was like, I
don't want to do that. But then yeah, the I
think there's the control aspect of it. And also he's
(26:36):
it's not like a moral thing because he also has
been blowing rails of ad roll for since the eighties. Yeah,
I mean, so that's what I have always thought was
he he gives off like speed freak vibes and similar
to the Nazis who were all blowing rails of speed constantly,
like that is a thing that will make you not
(26:58):
have empathy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Uh. Hitler was also very
anti intoxicants up until the end when he started getting
really into uh speed and then heroin combinations. Uh. And
he was a vegetarian, as people love to point out.
I mean there's a lot of like animal rights racists,
(27:22):
right right, Yeah, as you talked about the pipeline from Yeah,
that's a big part of the pipeline. They're like, oh,
we gotta save the children by killing everyone else. Yeah.
So I the reason I bring up his teetotaling is
that I do think that for somebody like that who's
in their seventies and only has really experience with intoxicants,
(27:46):
that like take them up a notch. Something like the
side effects from these steroids might be, you know, hitting
a little bit different, might be causing accent changes. Do
you think he's getting loopy. Oh yeah, he seems loopy.
He seems slightly loopy to me. And guys, don't don't
(28:07):
quote me on this, but this guy seems a little
loopy if you don't know, if you've seen these clips,
he looks like a dude who has just like maybe
uh you know, like his star Trek when they beam
you down or beam you up somewhere from the first
he looks like a dude who just got beamed down
for the first time. He's still kind of dealing with
like the trip. And I was like, whoa, Okay, okay,
(28:28):
I'm here, that happened. All right, You're still good. Donald.
That was a little trippy. But he can do this
like he's still It feels like a process of finding
his feet but also trying to assert that his feet
are firmly on the ground. So it just makes for
this very like off balanced performance. And yeah, the it
quits quite a performance. Yeah. We had a listener right
(28:51):
in and say they thought we were mixing up like
the type of steroids he was on, and that we
were just like confusing the articles steroids with anabolic steroids.
And it's actually like they that's what I thought too.
I was like, wait, the like, medical steroids don't make
you into like a roid raging you know, uh person,
(29:15):
But he like, apparently this specific steroids, Like people have
been writing about it. Uh it's called Dexa metha zone
and like people were writing about how they were prescribed
it for hearing loss and they're like, I remember feeling
just like Trump for the first few days, better than
I'd ever felt my life. But there were several important
(29:37):
differences between me and Trump. I was not in charge
of the free world. My worst decision was eating five
bowls of cereal in front of the refrigerator at three am, which,
by the way, he did. The One of the things
that his doctor pointed to to be like he's back, baby,
was that he ate like five plates of dinner in
(29:58):
the hospital. They were like, is a hungry boy? Um?
He just like housed like five dinners all at once.
Are they treating him like a fucking newborn panda? Why
is that like the standard for how well this is doing? Oh,
he ate like five Mexi melts and and and and
and down to two leader of Mountain Dew. You should
(30:18):
have seen him the boy clinic. Just real quick before
we move on from the side effects. The Mayo Clinic says,
although disturbances of mood, cognition, sleep, and behavior as well
as frank delirium, they keep calling it frank delirium, which
is I guess like just straight up and down. Nobody's
even even the most sober eed person is like that
(30:41):
is delirium or even psychosis are possible. The most common
adverse effects of short term corticos steroid therapy are euphoria
and hippo mania, which is not related to being a hungry,
hungry hippo, but just it's basically another word for Yeah,
it's hypomania, and it's just another word for being euphoric. Yeah.
(31:05):
So that's just all worth keeping in mind as we
view the president's long tweet storms about how everything is
love and how he's gonna win and how none of
none of the poles are telling the truth, right, We're
just even like how on one hand, right, age are like, yo,
this dude is a struggling to have breaths, and then
(31:28):
you get these other reports where they're saying like all
his vitals are fantastic, it's everything is normal even to
have this happening, like regardless of what the medications are doing,
Like this should be just such a larger issue rather
than being like, yo, shut the funk up, man, he's
burning up on re entry. But like we can't say
(31:49):
anything because if he learns that, like it's it's just
it's all bad. It's all bad. It's all bad. Like
it doesn't matter like when you when you're just when
you're playing secrets like a poker hand with somebody, the
state of their health because either like it does affect
how the country's run on some level. Uh, it's yeah,
(32:11):
it's it's just it's super spooky. October America is gonna
ship itself to death on the toilet like Elvis, because
we're gonna die from v I P syndrome of like
doctors not being able to tell famous, big awesome person
the truth about their own health. Anyways, Uh, let's take
another break and we'll be right back, and we're back. Lastly,
(32:44):
I just want to say, someone sucker punched Rick moranis
in New York. You hate to see it. You don't
know what happened, but not, honey, I punched Ricker Moranus. Honeyeah,
I punched this ship out of that dude. Yea he
was just walking down New York mining his own when
(33:06):
some guy and I love n why hood he just
sneaks him with a quick one. Uh And I don't
think he was concussed or anything, but just a weird
It's like Rick Brandis is like the most like non
specific looking person where I don't know if this person
was having a bad day, was on some ship or whatever,
but uh like also Rick morandus was doing his most
to stay out of the fucking spin and then he
(33:28):
does one thing, he does one thing with Ryan Reynolds,
and now he's getting sucker punched in the streets of
New York. I want to say he's about to retire forever.
He's about to for fucking ever. Do you think he's
going to be like see, this is why I don't
do this ship man. I did want the guy, just
want him back in the spotlight. Maybe it's something the
(33:49):
guy hates him, and that it's that he loves him.
Oh ship his agent, Oh my god, Rick Morandi's his
agent hired the dude to punch him and they'd be
only twist I will is it someone he knows and
has a beef Going back to Little Shop of Horse
what if it was Frank Oz and we just don't know,
you know, we don't know Franks Sucker punch them in
(34:11):
the middle of the street. That's Cannon. Oh man, Well
we'll have to Well they'll they'll be more on this story.
I'm sure this will be developing as much as the
president's health status. So we'll keep it in this one. Miles.
You watched The Secret. I watched Cobra Kai The Secret.
I I gotta know what what is the secret? Just
(34:33):
tell me shout out to Zekegang for helping me locate
this film because I did not want to locate it.
And then I cast my gaze upon this nightmare. Uh
so I don't I don't know where to start first stop?
Hold on, is this movie like new or old? It's new?
(34:56):
It's starting? Uh Katie Holmes. Oh okay, dude, it's got
yeah exactly. You know, Katie Holmes is only in new stuff.
But this film was with Katie Holmes Josh Lucas and
it was like sort of the main dude and then
like Jerry O'Connell plays like this dude who's like longing
for her. Long story short is she's playing a mother,
(35:20):
a widow, who has three kids and they're in some
hard times. You know nothing. Josh Lucas. He's like one
of those dudes where I could tell you need to
see his face and then you'd be like, oh, yeah,
Josh Lucas. Yeah, he's like because I know, handsome dude
who was in a bunch of movie forgettable movies in
(35:40):
the past. So you guys don't know either, That's all
I was checking. No, it would be one of those
things when you when you see him, you're like, oh,
this dude, but you're like, I didn't know his name
was Josh Lucas because he's like a stock photo of
an actor. Do you see Ford v. Ferrari? No, and no,
and I do not recognize him. He looks like poor
(36:01):
Man's Kevin Costner. If you heard his voice, his voice
kind of puts it all together. He's a Costner Ryan
what's his name? Uh, who's the who's the real hunky dude?
He's not hunky though, it's not Yeah yeah Ryan Jack O'Brien. No,
(36:21):
he's he's a blend of I see a lot of Costner,
I see a lot of gossling. I think he's like
a blend of Costner, Gossling, he's a Cosmo. Yeah, yeah,
that's Gossner wraps up in a Gostner blanket. So this
uh So anyway, she's like, none of the things are
going right for this family. Like their stressed, the kids
(36:43):
like don't like their house. The one one of the
daughters is like jealous that here the classmates sweet sixteen
is going to have a fucking have food trucks. This
other little girl wants a yeah, you know what I mean.
Uh And and then one day, in the midst of
the ask, Katie Holmes like like rear ends this guy
in a truck and it's Josh Lucas and he's like,
(37:05):
so the whole thing is based around him being this
kind of like mysterious guy and his whole like outlook
is super positive. She's like when she rear ends him,
his truck's fine, but hers is like the bumpers off
and she's like, damn it, I can't afford the blah
blahah and he's like, hey, it's all good, and luckily
my car is not damaged, so let me help you out,
and he like fixes her truck, and like they're hanging
out at their house and she's like this man is
(37:26):
beginning to learn a little bit more about her like
life situation, and like first like they're like, we want
to have dinner and she's like, we want pizza, and
Katie homes like we can't afford pizza. She's like, that's right,
because we're poor, and like the Katie Holmes like leaves
the scene for a second, and then this Josh Lucas
guys like, look, just because you have no pizza doesn't
mean you can't have it. If you just think a
(37:48):
lot about pizza, you'll be able to get it. And
it has like this very like barbarically distilled down version
of the flaw of attraction, essentially like the most passive form,
which is like just think of pizza and it's magic.
And then fucking like clockwork, what the hex who's at
the door? Hey, I've got a pizza that that character
(38:08):
literally described two pages ago, word for word. I have
this exact order here for this family. It's already been
paid for. Don't even worry about it. And they're like,
oh cool, it came from mom's Katie Holmes boyfriend Jerry O'Connell,
and like slowly there's he's like all these moments where
they're like, oh my god, it's like happening. Jerry O'Connell
(38:28):
has money and he's not helping Katie Holmes. But Josh La,
it's v weird like they're dating, but like she's kind
of like doesn't she's not really feeling Jerry O'Connell because
he's like a herb anyway, like you could tell he's
like he's like his character pulls up like a down
vest and you're like, all right, get the funk out
of here, like you already. Jerry connell has huge herb vibes.
I totally get what you mean. Oh yeah, yeah, he's
(38:49):
a herbivore. And the whole thing with it's he's like
a rich guy. But then socus is on alpha. I
get it, bro, But he keeps saying, is all this
like lame shit. He's like, no, don't worry about it.
She's like, look, Josh Lucas, like, I can't just keep thinking,
like there's a hole in my roof. I can't just
think of a new roof to come by. I have
(39:09):
these bills. It's not a check's just gonna show up
for the exact amount I need. Blah blah, blah, and
then throughout the film you realized to get the roof fixed,
a fucking check arrives for the exact thing. But then
there's like, there's like a whole fucking twist, which is
that Katie Holmes husband died in a plane crash and
Josh Lucas was with him on that flight and he
was the only person who survived that crash. But also
(39:32):
like took a patent that Katie Holmes dead husband had
invented and improved it and like got and like started
becoming wealthy. And the reason he even found Katie Holmes
was to tell her that he had put the patent
in her name and she can expect checks to come in.
But because he was like kind of vibing with her,
he didn't tell her. So it became like the typical
rom com thing where one character has been deceiving the
(39:54):
other and then when it matters, they're like, you deceived
me this whole time, I don't understand, and they're like,
but it was for a good reason. I was on
the plane that your husband died in and I stole
his patent, and then I it's like it gets so convoluted,
and then there actually is no good reason for the lie.
It seems like she would have been really happy to
hear all of that from just right at the beginning,
(40:14):
just straight up yeah, without him trying to be like
like quirky hippie guy or I saved her a lot
of worrying and then he didn't even have to lie
about the secret. But the secret is not like the
I have not read the Secret. I just lived, like
the President. I don't read the books. I just lived
the books, and so I know the philosophy of the secret.
(40:37):
It's not that like if you imagine a pizza and
your brand, someone's going to deliver a pizza is no. No.
But that's so there are many ways, like people preach
the law of attraction, Like I think the Secret is
like the most I think broad version and is basically
gets a lot of people hooked because they're trying to
sell it to you as magic. Like, Oh, the problem
(40:59):
is your inability to like communicate your needs to other people.
It's that you just don't think about shit enough. It's like, No,
that's like a really weird way to describe, Like that's
not self help, um, because I do, like on a
certain level, I do believe that there is a power
to how you look at your own life. Not necessarily
that like if I think about PS. Five, someone's gonna
(41:22):
knock on my door and just drop one off. But
I do believe in like, you know, that perception is reality, right,
And if you're in a negative headspace and you're only
looking at negative like only thinking about what's wrong in
your life, then your confirmation bias is only going to
look for negative shit and be like, of course this
thing went wrong. Of course this happened, of course, But
and you get so much momentum going that yes, that
(41:44):
it feels like that's how your world is. But at
the same time, I think, like just I think an
easier way to look at this secret is like you
can also just sort of like try and look for
the positive things that are happening to you and just
be more aware of that rather than in a in
a mode or like everything sucks. Of course it sucks.
Of course that sucks, to sort of like, yeah, something suck,
(42:04):
but some things are good. Oh, hey that happened, that
was cool. Oh that happened, that was cool, And then
from there you could very like I think it's really
more about having more of a positive outlook and having
positive self talk more than like the magic of rear
ending some dude in a fucking four D f one
fifty who has a magical patent that will get your
daughter a pony and you arrange over. Yeah, that's that's interesting.
(42:28):
Um So that that sounds not worth watching. It's it's
where like you're like, oh my god, I have to
watch this. I mean, like, I think, look, if you
if you're feeling really shitty, uh, and you watch this,
you'll probably feel good because it almost it feels like fantasy.
(42:48):
You're like, everything that's been going wrong for this person
has been until one day everything that could go right
does start going right. And sure, like just the act
of watching the pendulum swing the other way maybe like
fine or whatever. But I mean it's not like a
good it's not even like a good romance film or
anything like that. Plus you gotta pay for it and
put money into these people's pockets. Are like, no, it's
(43:10):
a hard pass. You don't you don't you don't need to,
you don't need to waste your time on it. I
think telling you right now is fine. It reminds me
of pay it forward, wasn't that like one of those
like American self help philosophy books that got adapted into
a movie that was just basically like dramatizing a very
simplistic philosophy, but like that didn't quite work out unless
(43:33):
you're a fan of cinema, in which case, Uh, Pay
It Forward is one of the finest films of time.
And the thing the film does though, is like they
make Josh Lucas the way he talks to be like, man,
if I was like that, I guess I would have
everything because he's like so weird and cryptic, like where
he's checking out of a hotel and the the concierge,
(43:54):
the woman at the concierge, she's like studying for her
l s ATS and he's like when he's checking out
his like, hey, good luck on your else sets. She's like, Oh,
I don't know, it's just so hard. It's just so overwhelming.
I I just think maybe I won't do well. And
he's like, hey, hey, hey, can you see yourself being
a lawyer? Take a second right now? Can you see
yourself being a lawyer? Is that real? And she's like, yeah,
(44:16):
I can see it. It's it's so real to me,
and he's like, then so can I, and he like
walks off and she's like, wow, I don't know what
the funk that meant. I want to fuck that man. Yeah,
So in the end, I would say, like, yo, like
a cheap version is like just a less uh uh
(44:37):
spooky way to do the secret try and just you know,
change your negative self talk to more positive things, trying
to look for the positive in your life. I think
that's a better message than like then saying like, you
know your life is bad and the reason is you're
not wishing enough, which is what actually I think the
lesson is, Um, your life isn't great because your husband
didn't die in a plane crash. Next did Josh Lucas
(45:01):
and leave him a patent that Josh Lucas could improve
and then make a lot of money off of and
then pay you back for the money. You have to
talk about a relatable circumstance. Yeah, we've all been there.
On everyone has this story in their life. Were honest,
You'll love it's jarring in this and that that plot
line comes in way too late in the film and
(45:23):
you're like, what is this now? Like I just thought
it was about a dude come into this small town
and changing people's lives, and now he might be like
and then at a certain point like did he kill
the wait? What the That would have been a way
better movie. I thought it was going to be a
horror when you were setting it up. I was like, oh,
ship and the like is he the devil? And then
it's way lamer than that. I wish just like you've
(45:44):
been thinking about him and I'm here to reunite y'all,
we should write The Secret as a horror. I mean, yeah,
I'm sure that's that's out there right, That's definitely a
goose bumps book that already was. Be careful what you
wish for it was over there, you go, all right,
(46:04):
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