October 3, 2021 • 47 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh these are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented Katie
Golden's what's up? Wait, you're in Italy right now? Correct? Yeah? Yeah, Italy. Yeah,
you're really you're really feeling it right now. I'm I'm
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I was gonna ask you, how are the people of
I mean, I'm guessing you are referencing the tumultuous decision
of having Chris Pratt be Mario. Yeah. Yeah, people, Yeah,
more than the euro Cup when they won. Yeah, siety
has crumbled, the fabric has torn. People are flipping cars,
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They are, you know, using breadsticks to break into stores,
and uh yeah. I could list a bunch of other
offensive Italian stereotypes as well, but I do not want
to get deported. How's it been? How's it how's it from?
Going from Calia? Italy? Good? Good? It's a I mean, actually,
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nobody cares about the Tomorrow movie here. That was a joke.
Not a single person cares j I don't think anyone
has even heard of Chris Pratt here. Yeah, I mean
the people are lovely and it's a it's a it's
a great time here. And they also take COVID very seriously.
Vaccination rates are higher than the US. People are respectfully
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wear masks and stores and if their masks falls below
their nose and you tell them, they will live it
up without you know, attacking you. So it's pretty nice. Wow, Okay,
I like that. And of course that's a mark of
a great country. You've got good mask adoption, vaccine acceptance,
and they don't know who Chris Pratt is, right, I
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think that's actually that's a common denominator. Right. You look
at countries that have really good healthcare, really take pandemic seriously.
They all don't know who Chris Pratt is exactly. That
has to be Chris Pratt's name cannot move the needle
at all. And you're you're in somewhere you want to
be Chris Pratt. And then is Luigi still Bob Hoskins
or who'd they go with for Luigi? Luigi? Was Mario?
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Or what was John Leguizamo? Remember? Okay, got it? Who'd
they go with for Luigi, I don't know, Sorry, I
was trying to pronounce Luigi and I unappropriate Italian. Charlie
Day as Luigi. Oh that's good. One like that the
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go and then Death Rogan is Donkey Kong and Keegan
Michael Key is Toad. So they just they nailed a
bunch of them. And then for Mario, we're just like,
I don't know one of the Chris's hey, you guys
sebash your man is scalco Is Spike. Alright, fellow label
me holding it down. He's gonna drop some zucchini fried
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zucchini jokes. God, I still think about that v M
as he hosted. That did not make any sense at all.
It's all I think about. Yeah. Yeah, there's a great
tweet from just Tom on Twitter, who uh looks at
the cast of you know, the Mari movie. Chris Pratt
is Mario, Anna Taylor, Joys Peach, Charlie Days, Luigia Jack
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Luigia Jack Black is Bowser and this person wrote, this
is whitewashing of Japanese characters, doing a racist impression of Italians.
Nailed it, kind of a yeah, a lot of levels
to that racism. Yeah, Chelsea we do like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history? This
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is a fun one. So, uh, we're coming our shows
coming back in October, so we wanted to start on
a Halloween note. Uh and so do you guys know
I'm sure you know a little bit about extreme haunted houses.
M yes, just let broadly let people know what an
extreme haunted yes, because that's for we love haunted houses
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around here. Haunted house. You have a haunted house, but
you hated jump scare. Yeah, it's that's surprising. Yeah. The ultimately,
when I walked to a haunted house, it's like my
adrenaline so up. Like I act like I just walked
into prison the first day and I'm like, what's so?
I know that's going to move? It did hiding from you? Yeah,
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and it's like no one wants to do it with me.
They're like like, you don't have you cundainly. You actually
seem really uncomfortable, And I'm like, no, man, I'm good.
That was the next most comfortable I've ever been because
I know that's somebody under that sheet. I went through
a haunted house last. Let's see, it was right before
the pandemic. So the Halloween before and uh we I
went with my girlfriend who's very scared of haunted houses.
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And of course it was just her and I. You know,
when you have a group, you've kind of got this
like layer of protection, and if it's just two people,
like they're they're on you. And uh. She had to
exit on the house into like the special cast area
where injured people go to sit on hay bales and paper,
you know, someone to take them out. Uh. And I
finished it and I came back out, and then there
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was a second haunted house and I decided to go
through a loan because I had paid and I wanted
this was a clown themed one. I wasn't gonna not go.
I decided not to go through alone because I thought
I would creep out the actual workers inside up person
going through. Yeah, going through alone, Um, but what's really
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I glow. I globbed onto some high schoolers and I
was like, hey, can I go through? They were very nice?
Yeah they were, and I was like, great, I can go.
They don't really uh, they don't really phasee me too much.
But an extreme haunted house I would not do. Um.
And the premise of those is that they can do
ship like you sign a waiver. They can waterboard you.
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They can shove disgusting ship in your mouth. They can
you know, assault you, put bags over your head, drag
you into another room. You know, you might leave with
bruises bloodied. You know, they can put your head in
a cage and put like a fucking spider in there.
You know. It's like very you know, super fun. Like
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it does border on what appears to be some kind
of fetish scenario. Um, but it's like very Uh. They
you know, people who are into them will say that
it's not the case. It's hard to sort of divorce
some of the images that you see the real money
but really really yeah, the real the real money that
they make on those is from the you know, rich
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guys masturbating behind a two way mirror. Well you know, yeah,
you know Jack Apparently McCamy manner uh takes their video
and projects that over into Las Vegas, where people are
paying money to decide what happens to these people. Okay,
but this is fucking bullshit. Of course this isn't true. Yeah,
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Like there are rich you know, mysterious shrouded elitis in
Las Vegas. Who are you know, kind of like a
snuff film type crowd who are paying money to kind
of decide or watch you know what happens to these
these people. But it's not true. You know what. What's
so the coolest part about these haunted houses is that
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the waiver is total bullshit. The you know, you can't
have a waiver that says you can die in this
aunted house, you know. Yeah, and it's like and you
can sign it, but that does not protect these people
from legal consequences. It's just not it's not true. So
so much what I'm trying to do right now and
what we do on the show is kind of separate
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fact from fiction, right And it does seem that a
lot of these fonded houses are a lot of smoke
and mirrors, and that a lot of what is making
money for these folks are their video walkthroughs on YouTube.
They get millions and millions and millions of watches because
they McCamy manner is free. You just have to bring
a donation of dog food. And so, you know, has
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this mystique of like the guy who runs at Russ
McKamy and all of the people who work there, they're
not being paid, which adds this other layer right where
it's like they have to want to do this ship,
but it's all kind of like it's it's just like
they're these fake documentaries that are made and put up.
There's these fake testimonials. It seems it's so hard to
pick out fact from fiction. I'm going deep into like
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these interviews with his fucking ex wife and like these
really Yankee little YouTube accounts that are like exposing the
manner and it's so full of outrage because so many
people are so outraged. Right, there's a whole petition to
get it taken down. It may be possible that the
petition was created by McCamy manor you know. So it's
sort of this like amazing like Blair witche in uh
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tactics to to make this place. And you know they
say there's like a twenty or forty thousand person waiting list,
which is also not true. Um, you know, so there's
it's it's really a fun kind of project to take
these haunted houses and dissect just what is a hoax?
Because there's also an example of somebody I can't remember
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who it was, some internet famous TikTok or something personality
who went and filmed their experience, and it was basically
just like crawling around with a blindfold on in the
backyard with someone yelling you know, horrible things that you
and that was really and you're blindfolded and being sprayed
with water and you don't really know where you are.
That's terrifying, but you know it's it's not the same
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thing as what we're seeing in the videos. Um So
that's really a that's a My search history has been late.
This is the um the this one started in San Diego, right.
I remember in the early years of it, like I
remember seeing like the videos that they would put out
because I remember like back when stumble Upon was a
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huge plug in for people's browsers, Like remember that I
haven't thought of stumble Upon any That ship used to
take me all over the internet, and I remember coming
across a video of it and it was truly like
you had never seen anything like it. Like people were
just like vomiting and like choking. You're like, oh, ship,
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and you're like and it's like the most extreme haunted house.
I didn't realize that it had still been evolving past
like that sort of initial I don't know, yeah, they'll
be like you know, veterans of war that are just
weeping for their Other videos are like, dude, it made
this navy seal poop himself. Yeah, it's so hard to
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pick apart what's real and what's not, which is really fun.
The Blackout Experiments is another is a documentary from that's
really good about a bunch of people kind of grappling
with their relationship and addiction to these places um, which
is a great example of also sort of not being
able to figure out how much of the documentary is manufactured. Yeah,
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there's all sorts of ways that we um manufacture ways
to get like contact with other people. I feel like
this might be one where people like, instead of living
in tight knit communities where you like hold hands when
you pray or whatever you people used to do, uh,
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now they like go to have people jump out and
like tackle them just to feel a human touch. Did
you did you a story about the guy who like
at a haunted house over the weekend he stabbed a
little boy in the foot on accident. Well, I in
like somehow had a knife and then like I guess
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something happened and the this person ended up like hitting
this kid in the foot with his knife. So was
he working there or was he going through it? Um,
I believe it's like one of the characters, you have
a real knife, Yeah, and I think what they said.
He was scraping the knife on the ground and playing
around them, and my son said, ahead, I'm not afraid
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your knife is fake. So the man was like, oh,
it's real, trust me, it's real, and that's when he
started poking it at his feet multiple times until he stabbed.
And this is for real. This is definitely true. Yeah,
it's like, yeah, it's being I mean unless the report
because because you know, part of it is to like
get people so interested and thinks like now they're gonna
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go because that whole Nathan for You episode was about
the challenge was creating a hunted how so scary that
you get sued was like at that point in order
to generate interest, and so it could be along those lines,
but it is along those lines. I've had this person
was given a prop where he thought was a prop,
and it was a really really bladed It's a fantastic
example too of how ship gets repeated, because like you
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go to the Wikipedia page or any news outlet and
it just repeats what Russ mckainey says, it says there's
a forty person waiting list and ball and it's all
just like you could just say something. It's a good
example of that, and people trying to sue him too scary.
I don't even know if it's like because everybody who
comes out of it on the real walkout videos is
like that was a lot of fun, though it was crazy.
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You know, they're not like I'm gonna sue you. I am.
I have PTSD because I was assaulted, you know, which
is essentially like emergency like foil blanket exactly, up action
movie like yes, yep, like Rose Dawson at the end
of Titanic Real. What is something that you think is overrated? Diana?
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So many things, really, I would say sheet masks, if
you know what I'm talking about, like a skin care product.
The sheet masks that are in those little patches, grip
it and you pull it out and you kind of
lay it on your face and you look like a weirdo.
I hate them. I think there's like trending weight too much.
I think they're not useful, they drip all over you,
They're not fun to wear. I don't understand them. Just
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a little bottle and do your face and let it
quick slowly tighten over time. That's what I like to get.
We've talked before on this show about those masks. I
I have pitched them as a great mask for a
stalker like slasher movie because they are truly terrifying. I've
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I've definitely been frightened by them just walking into my
bedroom and my wife turns around and looks, yeah, like
it really does work as a like horrifying. Like if
if somebody walked in with one of those on it
would it would really? Yeah, you remind I vividly reminder
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of like that scene in The Cable Guy where they
go to medieval times and Jim Carrey puts all the
chicken skin on his face and he's like silence that
or the other one, which is what's that movie the
Brendan Fraser baseball movie with Albert Brooks where he's the
picture the phenom or something. Yeah, And in that one,
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there's like a scene, yeah the rookie that he actually
like he puts a tortilla on his face, and that
also reminds me of it, so I don't know, or
the Scout, it's the Scout, the scal the old Albert
Einste curtilla is. That's what they kind of because they're
just kind of hanging off. They don't mold your face,
and they look weird. When one year our theater company
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for parade did Depression era Halloween costumes, which if you
want to go on a weird Google image search there
for there really like burlap sacks with holes in them,
so they look so terrifying. And then like a few
months later, they were all on a plane doing one
of those white face masks and did a little selfie
and I was like, you look exactly good. Have worn
that for Halloween? So I think exactly Halloween terrifying costume.
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Right now, historical Halloween custumes just across the bord are
very frightening. But yeah, Depression era in particular, yeah, there
they remind me of. Um. They're sort of the skincare
equivalent of the Michael Myers mask, which is like, you know,
there's lots of like drama theory around. You know, you
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have the the like happy mask, the sad mask, and
then like the neutral mask, and the neutral mask allows
you to like project whatever is inside you like onto
that mask, which is why Keanu Reeves is so successful
is because he is a human neutral mask. But the yeah,
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it's just blankness that you can put project whatever horrors
existing your own life. But you can you can turn
it up because they print designs on him. Now for
more fun, you know what I mean. Like I've seen
some where it will be like a frog face or
like a kabuki mask some ship. When I was there's
like all kinds of graphic ones. I think, just just
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to bring a little bit of fun to the face
mask game. Yeah that makes this sound worse. Yeah, maybe
I don't know, they get kaboky mask turned around and
that would be more more comfortable. I don't know. Yeah,
I don't think there's any way to get used to it.
I think the thing identified the most of what you
said was when it drips, like because like you know,
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they're supposed to be hYP you know, very hydrated. But
then I remember the last time I put one on,
this was kept going down my neck and I was like,
I hated that feeling, and it feels awful, yes, And
then I don't know my A lot of my skincare
concerns are around my jawline. And then you know they
don't mold your face. I feel like I just like
it's just hanging off and I'm just unhappy. I don't
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feel like I'm taking care of myself at all. What
is something you think is underrated? Sure? Boiled eggs, guys, boy,
I had too for breakfast. You don't need to fry them,
you don't need to to devil them. You just need
some hot water and maybe a bit of salt, some
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chili sauce or something. Wow. Just I got nothing else.
Just how are you? How are you applying it? Just
on the on the smooth outside, the chili sauce. I
mean you take a bite, you feel the whole. What
do you do? I'll slice it right down the middle,
dissect it, and then I'll put some yeah, some chili
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in there, maybe a thin slice of onion. Oh wow,
and then going into that yeah there. You never go
soft boiled. Yeah, only if I'm in rush, so it's
more out of okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like a
lot of soft boiled eggs, and I kind of want
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a similar diet as you. I usually eat like two
boiled eggs too, soft boiled eggs in the morning, a
little bit of cuepy mayonnaise, Japanese mayonnaise in a little
little bit of a tear drop of soy sauce. Wow, okay, okay, yeah,
that's how I get down. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try
this tomorrow. Yeah, how are you guys transport? Do you
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transport in in shell or do you transport like you
crack it? And then but here's the thing, I think
we're people. I I feel like I agree that the
boiled egg is thinking. So I don't want to force
that on other people necessarily, So I just try to
eat it almost like a vitamin. Like. I like that
I can boil it and I can eat it so quickly,
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and that's my breakfast, right, Yeah, yeah, that's and I
that's what I do. I take a small bite off
the top and create a chasm, and then I I
give my little mannise and soy sauce in there. Then
I eat the rest of the rest the egg and
one bite. Yeah, yeah, they're so good. All right, Well,
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let's take a quick break and we will be right
back to talking about some news. And we're back. And
it just feels silly to me every time we have
somebody who's zooming in from in this case, Italy or
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you know, Aumi from Japan and our show is so dumb.
It's just like, wow, you got the miracles of modern technology.
And then we're like, thank you for wasting an hour
with us. Thank you. Yeah, I just run the upfront.
Thank you, Thank you, Katie. I love being on this
is this is great. It's it's also like it feels
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really good. I know this sounds weird, but it does
feel really good to talk to Americans because it is.
It is a culture shock. I do love the people here,
they're very wonderful, but it is definitely culture shock. I mean,
even amongst people who do speak English, it's still like, well,
you know, I can be talking about like, man, you know,
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they're taking horse medicine in the US, and my friends like,
I'm sorry, horse horse needs medicine, right. Like I was
explaining that to to an Italian friend of mine and
and I was trying to speak in Italian and she
was like giving me this look of like I don't
think you said that right in Italian. And then I
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explained it again in English and she's like, no, you
said it right in Italian. I just don't understand what
you're saying. How someone should be so in coherent with
their decision making. I guess we are especially good reminder
of America and how stupid our show is a lot
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of that. Alright, let's talk about cyber ninjas. Speaking of
stupid American things. That is what a group that UH
decided to like put their own forensic analysis together despite
having no expertise in the area. They named themselves the
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cyber Ninja. Like they chose that, did they? Yeah, that
was given to them as far as I know. Yeah,
And they said they're six month long recount was the
quote most comprehensive and complex election audit ever conducted. I
think we all took that to me. And they were
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gonna like dig into the literal ones and zeros of
any vote cast like or and any counting software to
try and argue that there was fraud. They're still kind
of doing that. But they did put together a report
that they had their ultimate conclusion, and that accidentally got leaked.
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And what did they find, Miles, Oh, well, the cyber
Ninja's even though they were breaking open machines and things
and trying to look inside and swearing there was you know,
fraud in there. Turns out the analysis Joe Biden actually
won by a larger margin than the county had reported.
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He won by three hundred sixty more votes than the
Maricopa County tally did. But essentially it just affirmed the
same thing, which was that there was no fraud. Joe
Biden won by that much, now that it was a
razor thin margin, but Joe Biden one that there was
nothing there. Um. Even when they asked one of the
people who was like involved with it, like to check
the veracity of like this leaked memo, They're like, not, yep,
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it's true, there's there There was no seems like there
were no signs of widespread fraud, fraudulent votes being cast.
And it's like, wow, I'm you know, in a way,
I'm like, how could you articulate such a demonic statement
out loud if you're a cyber ninja to say that
Joe Biden did in fact receive more votes. However, However,
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because they can't, it can't just be hey, man, we
went through it turns out Joe Biden one, y'all, let's
keep this thing moving. Cyber ninja exactly, they said, we've
got something. They essentially are saying that they they're alleging
that they have uncovered anomalies. So stay tuned, is what
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they're saying now for the fifth phase of this fucking drift.
You know, Donald Trump was like so so like happy,
but also like there was too much media smerroring about this.
This is huge news that they found all this fraud,
but the things like they didn't even they're still not
saying that, even though Trump was saying, like they found fraud,
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they're very clear like there was no fraud there. We
found anomalous voting patterns, And I mean that's pretty damning
though considering probably they're auditing, was stuff like that beak
kind of looks like a T right for titan, which
probably stands for Trump right right the for Doe titan.
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That's that's pretty like anomalous. It seems like it's going
to be yeah, right, you think this person voted for
Trump for Biden. Come on, they would clearly vote for Trump.
Like essentially, like we knew there was there were anomalies
in the sense that people expected Arizona to stay Republican
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and it did not, Like that is an anomaly if
you look at like all the numbers across the history
of you know, don't put them on trial so quickly.
They let him take one out at a time. Jesus Christ,
and normally just that's a fancy word for head scratcher. Yeah,
and we found some heads scratchers and the Dan driff
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coming from that. Yeah, stay tuned, folks. We're scratching hard,
almost as if there was a historically bad president in
office that they were voting against or something. Well, you know,
they're still promising like lawsuits and more subpoenas and all
this other stuff to keep it going. But you know,
in the end, it's it's just as all people who
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are not just rabid racist knew like this has nothing
to do with voter fraud. This was just a fucking
charade to help keep the you know, maga faithful on
board with this, like just the scam. And the longer
they continue to be like we're still looking, we're still looking,
and things aren't necessarily like unequivocal from them, then it
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still gives them, you know, all the other people who
are in on this ship to keep pushing the same
nonsense and at the cost of just tearing the fabric
of the country in thrice is that is that hate,
say that anyway, probably not. Yeah, well you know, why not.
It's one day. So another thing to keep an eye on, though,
is a really really fucking spooky trend because they are
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these freaky motherfucker's running for the office of secretary of
state in a lot of battleground states. And the secretary
of State, I mean, it's the title can be different
from you know, from state to state, but essentially there
the there, that's the office that like manages elections. Like
if you wanted to funk an election, Like remember Brad
Rafinsberger from Georgia secretary of state there, he was a Republican,
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but he was still like unwilling to go along with
Trump's game to find votes that were not there. Imagine
if he were just imagine that, then we have something
really much more dangerous and different than what happened, even
though he's still kind of you know, hemming and hanging
about Joe Biden. But when you look at some of
the people that are running for these offices, like these
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state offices, many of them are basically just completely have
their heads in magaworld. According to Reuters, they interviewed nine,
they interviewed fifteen declare Republican candidates for secretary of State
in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada. They
found that nine of the fifteen of these people, you know,
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they're just not they're not clear on what they think
happened on the election. Ten of the fifteen have either
declared the election was stolen or called by their states
results to be invalidated or further investigated. So they these
are people who are saying, like, if this would have
happened again, if I was in office that time, I
would have willingly rat fucked the ship out of that election.
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Two of the nine candidates that they spoke to said
that Biden won the election. So this is the fucking
This is the other phase of what's happening here is
they really like the reason they didn't get away with
it the first time is because they don't have enough
stooges in those decision making positions to make the dominoes
fall in the order that they needed to. They are
clearly now moving for that. It is like, but clinching
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how close we really got to just stay a coup
because even like if people think like, oh, well, wouldn't
propriety just like being proper and going along with rules
just kind of keep people from doing this. Well, didn't
Pince look into every possible option to like not ratify
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the election, and he reached out to people like could
I could I do this? Like could I not? Yeah?
Dan Quail? Dan Quails like, no, dude, you can't. You
have what do you mean? We were a dan Quail
piece of good advice from fucking ceasing to exist potatoes
(29:40):
fucking could have the whole country in another direction or potato. Yeah,
that is uh not what you want to hear. Yeah, exactly.
And I think that's why it's you know, while it's
easy to look at these like rallies that are happening.
We touched on that like last week about yeah, they
had some J six justice for a political dissident prisoners
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type ship. That's not where they're that's not where the
threat is. The threat is them realizing you know again,
it's like I hate to bring up a Jurassic Park,
but when the raptors were testing the perimeter fences, you know,
that's what this last election was, and they realized it's
like anything there were there weren't enough people in on
this scheme for it to fall the way it needs to,
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and now they are very focused on electing people into
those positions so when the opportunity comes again, they're ready.
But it's like those raptors are testing the electric fences
while wearing shirts that are like, I'm gonna go eat
some humans after I'm marking through this electric fence. They're
wearing shirts that saying I am testing the perimeter fences
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to figure to begin to figure out how to escape.
But don't worry, guys, because Chris Pratt Nancy made friends
with the raptors and taught them how to work with humans.
So that's all you need to know is the next
storming of the Capitol will be Chris Pratt on a
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motorcycle with a fucking just a herd of raptors. All right,
let's talk briefly about another group of fat cats who
have had it too good for too long. And I'm talking,
of course, about the people who volunteered to be on
school boards. Come on like that. You know, they dedicate
(31:24):
their time to help educate our children, and now they're
going to complain that they've been subjected to being you know,
abused and treated like absolute ship by right wing political activists.
Come on, I've had enough. Where is the line? I
mean next? You know, we've seen the scenes at these
(31:44):
board meetings. They look they're just you can't even like
if you were if you had it on mute there,
you're like, oh my god, like was their network of
sexual predators like just like running them up in this
like school system. But no, they're like they're teaching our
kids critical race theory, which again is for graduate students
(32:04):
and law students. It's so complex you couldn't even begin
to fucking teach a child critical race theory even with
like the most a rudimentary graphs and pictures. But again,
we've seen this, whether it was critical race theory or masks.
You know, there were medical professionals who have had their
tires slashed from nearly like restating the obvious facts at
(32:25):
a school board meeting around masks or vaccines. Teachers have
been subjected to coordinated harassment campaigns for believing in teaching
history and and we're also when we talked about earlier,
extremists are trying to infiltrate the school boards themselves to
try and alter the curriculum like to whatever they see fit.
So things are chaotic and this group that the National
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School Boards Association, who like representing like thousands of school
board members, they're like asking the president to like, we
need protection here, like this is they're they're actually effectively
intimidating people into not doing what's right for children, purely
because of intimidation. And they really are asking that things
that are including quote the classification of these heinous actions
(33:09):
could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism
and hate crimes. And they're saying, we just we need
help all across the board, whether that's having the FBI,
Secret Service and like National Threat Assessment Center like give
them resources to understand like how to like do proper
threat assessment or examine what they say, quote examined appropriate
(33:31):
enforceable actions against these crimes and acts of violence. It
just seems like they're that there's so many avenues for
these people to harass them that they're just like this work.
We're not equipped for this, Like we need someone intervened.
I think the most absurd part of it is that
a lot of the people who are harassing these teachers
(33:53):
from the right seem to be the same people that
proposed as a solution to mass shootings at school, that
these teachers be given guns. Yeah, and so like just
for their own safety, I mean the safety of these
idiotic monsters, they should probably choose one of those things,
like either I'm going to keep harassing and antagonizing these
(34:15):
teachers or I want to arm them, but for your
own safety, maybe not both, right, yeah, yeah like that
if they were just like, Okay, we are going to
go with your suggestion to arm the teachers, but only
at PTA meetings. Yeah right right, yeah yeah that energy yeah,
(34:35):
temporary gun license, yeah right, or they're just like or
they're like, yeah, well we can do like uh, you know,
trial by combat, but we'll just get like the mountain
to represent the school boards and yeah, throw whoever you
want at them. Parents, how about you rick with the
flannel shirt tucked into your jeans. You want to fight
the mountain over Cretinori theory? Now, okay, next up, masks
(34:56):
anybody else no good get ripped out by the mountain.
But I think, you know, this is just kind of
that thing where it's it's hard to know, like how
can you solve this problem because it just feels like
this is just part of like the continuing convulsions of
this like amorphous culture war that is existing that if
it's not critical race theory, it's gonna be masks, and
if it's not that, it's gonna be trans kids, and
(35:17):
if it's not that, it's going to be this other
thing that there's just there's always going to find They're
always going to find a way to keep doing this.
So I don't know. I mean, I think maybe that's
why they're asking like some kind of law enforcement part
of this, because maybe jail might dissuade some of these
parents that are just like so hopped up on their
privilege that maybe it's not you know, maybe it's not
(35:39):
a thing that you can just slash someone's tires. I mean,
I think it's a bit of a snake eating its
own tail thing, because I think that the solution is
how you educate kids, Like if you want adults that
aren't idiotic and violent and hostile in these ignorant ways,
it's going to start in school. And yeah, that's I
(36:01):
guess part of why this UH battle is so important.
But it also I guess it would require patients for
some of those results to be seen, Like maybe we
can hope that in in thirty years. If things go well,
there won't be teachers trying to parents trying to fight teachers. Right, yeah,
(36:21):
it's yeah, I think And that's why I think conservatives
see just as they see the same path there. Right,
It's like it's through the schools. It's like Steve Bannon said,
it's through the school boards. And they know that just
there's been this like baseline of what American education is
and they realize it's turning out more people who would
probably not vote for Republicans, and they're just like, fuck, okay,
(36:43):
then like we need to like we need to start
deprogramming people as swiftly as possible to try and get
them on board with our more autocratic, you know, fascist
way of looking at governance. Yeah. Yeah, all right, let's
take a quick break and we'll be right back. M h.
(37:06):
And we're back, And all right, So we heard what
David had to say about you know, one way that
we express our affection for Michael Jordan's through buying Jordan's
of various origins. But you know they are things with
giant plastic clods on the bottom of them. They're made
(37:29):
from like they can't it couldn't be less organic or
you know, I feel like most of the shoes I've
ever owned are still not close to biodegrading. We but
here we have another option that I think, Yeah, for
the fans out there, specifically even fans of Jordan's. So
(37:49):
someone has decided to buy his used underwear at auction.
They paid two thousand, seven eighty four dollars eighty four
nineteen bids. Yeah, and it's a pair of boxers, So
that's makes it a little less disturbing to me, I guess.
But the company I would have valued them personally at
(38:11):
like two thousand like is what I would have been willing.
I would have had them a thousand times more expensive.
I think how many different pairs of shoes he wore
on the court that they came available. This is one.
I mean, if you're talking about exclusivity, this is a
great purchase one of one underwear. Yeah. I like that.
The company that was putting the auction on said that
(38:33):
their boxers have evidence of quote definite use. But what
they mean to say is that they're like loose threads
a dry cleaning tag, like it had clearly been in
the rotation of this man, not to say like and
you could see his ship stains for two for two k, right,
(38:56):
but this is like when I look at this, it
really does like raise the question, like I get again,
I'm a fan of all kinds of ship and there
there's memorabilia that I dream of owning someday, but it's
typically very directly tied to the work of the person
or the contributions of the person that I admire. Like
if it's Jordan's, I guess sneakers, I get Jerseys, and
(39:20):
I even sucking even a half smoked cigar, like you know,
that's still part of his like identity and you're like,
oh sh this is like Jordan's smoked this. But the
underwear so nondescript and it's and like look and if
also like if you're kind of freaky, like do you
really want them clean? Right? Like, yeah, we we had
a at cract. We interviewed uh woman who made her
(39:44):
living selling her used underwear on a Reddit. I forget
what the what the board was called, but and yeah
it was it was almost always, you know, much more
valuable if it had any signs, Yeah, signs of definite
you who would who would be the go to? Like,
oh man, everyone knows those underwear like maybe flavor flav
(40:06):
or something like that. Mark Wahburke, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
even then like or or I get it, like if
it's someone who's like posing in their underwear, then underwear
makes sense. But then to me it just seems like
I get it, like fuck it. If you're a fan,
like you'll buy anything, but it would just be hard
for me to look at it, like, yes, Michael Jordan
(40:29):
is here, you wouldn't fake them up glass have people
over and like, whoa, we have time. He is a hand,
spokes fun, just makeup, just make up, fake memorability you
have You're like, oh, yeah, that's that's Frederick Douglas's sock
that I got. I was gonna say something, nobody, we're
going back to the replicas too. I mean, when there's
(40:49):
so many documentary about people faking art, faking wine, faking
out ultra wealthy people, you you end up being on
the side of the forger of Like the thing you
like is the price tag. You don't really how will
you the skill it took to make that bag or
those bags are churned out at such a rate there's
no craftsmanship anymore. And so like the underwear whatever, you're
(41:09):
putting up there, You're you need like the sign thing
this is, this was real, this was this person's thing.
But I could also fake that. There's there's no like
a real way unless you had a DNA testing kit
in your home. You can have people come over and
be like, drop it in, see whose DNA shows up,
and they it's Jordan's. It's like the only real way, right.
(41:30):
I feel like I came up with the Mark Wallberg
answer too quickly that it might have impressively wrap it well.
I have been on a pair of Marky Marks fun
funky bunch underpants. Funky bunch underwear. They're funky, they do
bunch up, they do have signs of use. But yeah,
(41:52):
I don't know. I mean, like, I think, what for
anyone you're a huge fan of what, how far away
from the like prime memorabilia that you would want to have,
could you see yourself getting not to say like not
to say that you'll spend X amount of dollars, but
at what point does something become less special to you
as it relates to the object of your fandom. I
(42:13):
think I'm a bad person to weigh in on this
because I really don't get as a kid, you know,
like Jordan's Gretzky, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, these things if
I had seen them. But as I got older, it
feels like almost every hero you ever meet, it's just
a person like, yeah, excuse me, I did use the
restroom real quick, like that funk. That's disappointing. Just imagine
(42:35):
them doing anything but like elevating or levitating or something.
So you see them and it's just hard for me
now to be a fan and has been I think
for like since I was probably sixteen or seventeen. I
just the idea of buying someone's thing, I don't it
just stopped being appealing in any way. And so I apologize.
I'm not great to wait. No, no, no, that's not
(42:56):
not We're all different on this earth. Yeah, Jack and
I are fan brained. I'm fan brained. I'm trying. I'm
trying to think of like what I would care about
like that it to have at that like museum level,
like would be a showcase in Yeah, I want j
(43:18):
Diller's MPC fucking production unit made donuts on like I
would love I would have that. I'm like, look at
that ship, like this ship the band Phoenix bought the
bought the mixing table that made Thriller, and they paid
a absurd amount of money for it. But it's one
(43:39):
that I was like, Okay, Like that makes sense to me,
you like could use that for your like profession, like
the music that made the album Thriller traveled through this
Like that is fucking dope. Yeah, And I think that's
the I think it. For me, it has to be
very specific. Like the second it's like, this is j
(43:59):
Diller his hat that he wore, and I'm like, well,
that's cool, right, But like for me, like I still
I still think about things like that, like oh, that
would be so cool to just interact with unless it's like,
you know, the hat worn by Marky Mark, let's say
during that photo shoot, because like then, like you can
smell like what a sweat smelled like the time, and
(44:21):
like it's just what a terrible person. Uh, you can
smell the drug car that he was wearing at that time.
I'm guessing you can smell the blood from that man
he beat up in Boston. Oh, come don't bring that up.
(44:41):
That that bums jack out. That's what always says when
I bring that up. He goes, come on, don't bump
me out, like and he apologized that guy so u
or he issued an apology that that guy's probably her
right over here. I'm in the front row anyway, Like anyway,
I'm gonna go kick it with the Pope of That's
(45:02):
still uh one of my favorite things the Catholic Church
has ever done, send the Pope to America and have
his m C for his pope event be Marky Mark,
Like wow, yeah, dog, it was in Philly. Uh it
was no, no, no no, the new cool Pope so recently yeah, yeah,
(45:26):
when he when Cool Pope came to America, which is
a novel I'm working on. Yeah, he like stopped along
the East coast, you know, he went to New York.
I think he did Yankee Stadium. And then when he
was in Philly, Marky Mark was the guy, which is
weird because he's not like Boston would have made more sense,
(45:47):
I think, but you know it was was he just
like out there, He's like, what's up, Philly. I'll be
ready to fucking turn up. We got the one and
only Bishop of Robe, Vicar of Jesus Christ, the sessor
of the Prince of Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church,
Primemate of Bitterly, Archbishop of Metropolitan of the Roman Province,
(46:08):
Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, servant of the
servants the Pope. He doesn't even know his name, who
knows all those other descriptors. Yeah, he's a good Patholic
to that point where he's like, I don't know that
ship got drilled into my head of the Pope's many titles,
(46:31):
but then I Pope, look at that fucking hat. You guys,
is that new it? All right? That's gonna do it.
For this week's weekly Zeitgeist, please like and review the show.
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He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a
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Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh these are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Please welcome the brilliant, the talented Katie
Golden's what's up? Wait, you're in Italy right now? Correct? Yeah? Yeah, Italy. Yeah,
you're really you're really feeling it right now. I'm I'm
(00:43):
I was gonna ask you, how are the people of
I mean, I'm guessing you are referencing the tumultuous decision
of having Chris Pratt be Mario. Yeah. Yeah, people, Yeah,
more than the euro Cup when they won. Yeah, siety
has crumbled, the fabric has torn. People are flipping cars,
(01:05):
They are, you know, using breadsticks to break into stores,
and uh yeah. I could list a bunch of other
offensive Italian stereotypes as well, but I do not want
to get deported. How's it been? How's it how's it from?
Going from Calia? Italy? Good? Good? It's a I mean, actually,
(01:28):
nobody cares about the Tomorrow movie here. That was a joke.
Not a single person cares j I don't think anyone
has even heard of Chris Pratt here. Yeah, I mean
the people are lovely and it's a it's a it's
a great time here. And they also take COVID very seriously.
Vaccination rates are higher than the US. People are respectfully
(01:53):
wear masks and stores and if their masks falls below
their nose and you tell them, they will live it
up without you know, attacking you. So it's pretty nice. Wow, Okay,
I like that. And of course that's a mark of
a great country. You've got good mask adoption, vaccine acceptance,
and they don't know who Chris Pratt is, right, I
(02:16):
think that's actually that's a common denominator. Right. You look
at countries that have really good healthcare, really take pandemic seriously.
They all don't know who Chris Pratt is exactly. That
has to be Chris Pratt's name cannot move the needle
at all. And you're you're in somewhere you want to
be Chris Pratt. And then is Luigi still Bob Hoskins
or who'd they go with for Luigi? Luigi? Was Mario?
(02:39):
Or what was John Leguizamo? Remember? Okay, got it? Who'd
they go with for Luigi, I don't know, Sorry, I
was trying to pronounce Luigi and I unappropriate Italian. Charlie
Day as Luigi. Oh that's good. One like that the
(03:01):
go and then Death Rogan is Donkey Kong and Keegan
Michael Key is Toad. So they just they nailed a
bunch of them. And then for Mario, we're just like,
I don't know one of the Chris's hey, you guys
sebash your man is scalco Is Spike. Alright, fellow label
me holding it down. He's gonna drop some zucchini fried
(03:27):
zucchini jokes. God, I still think about that v M
as he hosted. That did not make any sense at all.
It's all I think about. Yeah. Yeah, there's a great
tweet from just Tom on Twitter, who uh looks at
the cast of you know, the Mari movie. Chris Pratt
is Mario, Anna Taylor, Joys Peach, Charlie Days, Luigia Jack
(03:50):
Luigia Jack Black is Bowser and this person wrote, this
is whitewashing of Japanese characters, doing a racist impression of Italians.
Nailed it, kind of a yeah, a lot of levels
to that racism. Yeah, Chelsea we do like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history? This
(04:12):
is a fun one. So, uh, we're coming our shows
coming back in October, so we wanted to start on
a Halloween note. Uh and so do you guys know
I'm sure you know a little bit about extreme haunted houses.
M yes, just let broadly let people know what an
extreme haunted yes, because that's for we love haunted houses
(04:33):
around here. Haunted house. You have a haunted house, but
you hated jump scare. Yeah, it's that's surprising. Yeah. The ultimately,
when I walked to a haunted house, it's like my
adrenaline so up. Like I act like I just walked
into prison the first day and I'm like, what's so?
I know that's going to move? It did hiding from you? Yeah,
(04:57):
and it's like no one wants to do it with me.
They're like like, you don't have you cundainly. You actually
seem really uncomfortable, And I'm like, no, man, I'm good.
That was the next most comfortable I've ever been because
I know that's somebody under that sheet. I went through
a haunted house last. Let's see, it was right before
the pandemic. So the Halloween before and uh we I
went with my girlfriend who's very scared of haunted houses.
(05:19):
And of course it was just her and I. You know,
when you have a group, you've kind of got this
like layer of protection, and if it's just two people,
like they're they're on you. And uh. She had to
exit on the house into like the special cast area
where injured people go to sit on hay bales and paper,
you know, someone to take them out. Uh. And I
finished it and I came back out, and then there
(05:42):
was a second haunted house and I decided to go
through a loan because I had paid and I wanted
this was a clown themed one. I wasn't gonna not go.
I decided not to go through alone because I thought
I would creep out the actual workers inside up person
going through. Yeah, going through alone, Um, but what's really
(06:03):
I glow. I globbed onto some high schoolers and I
was like, hey, can I go through? They were very nice?
Yeah they were, and I was like, great, I can go.
They don't really uh, they don't really phasee me too much.
But an extreme haunted house I would not do. Um.
And the premise of those is that they can do
ship like you sign a waiver. They can waterboard you.
(06:26):
They can shove disgusting ship in your mouth. They can
you know, assault you, put bags over your head, drag
you into another room. You know, you might leave with
bruises bloodied. You know, they can put your head in
a cage and put like a fucking spider in there.
You know. It's like very you know, super fun. Like
(06:46):
it does border on what appears to be some kind
of fetish scenario. Um, but it's like very Uh. They
you know, people who are into them will say that
it's not the case. It's hard to sort of divorce
some of the images that you see the real money
but really really yeah, the real the real money that
they make on those is from the you know, rich
(07:07):
guys masturbating behind a two way mirror. Well you know, yeah,
you know Jack Apparently McCamy manner uh takes their video
and projects that over into Las Vegas, where people are
paying money to decide what happens to these people. Okay,
but this is fucking bullshit. Of course this isn't true. Yeah,
(07:33):
Like there are rich you know, mysterious shrouded elitis in
Las Vegas. Who are you know, kind of like a
snuff film type crowd who are paying money to kind
of decide or watch you know what happens to these
these people. But it's not true. You know what. What's
so the coolest part about these haunted houses is that
(07:54):
the waiver is total bullshit. The you know, you can't
have a waiver that says you can die in this
aunted house, you know. Yeah, and it's like and you
can sign it, but that does not protect these people
from legal consequences. It's just not it's not true. So
so much what I'm trying to do right now and
what we do on the show is kind of separate
(08:14):
fact from fiction, right And it does seem that a
lot of these fonded houses are a lot of smoke
and mirrors, and that a lot of what is making
money for these folks are their video walkthroughs on YouTube.
They get millions and millions and millions of watches because
they McCamy manner is free. You just have to bring
a donation of dog food. And so, you know, has
(08:36):
this mystique of like the guy who runs at Russ
McKamy and all of the people who work there, they're
not being paid, which adds this other layer right where
it's like they have to want to do this ship,
but it's all kind of like it's it's just like
they're these fake documentaries that are made and put up.
There's these fake testimonials. It seems it's so hard to
pick out fact from fiction. I'm going deep into like
(08:57):
these interviews with his fucking ex wife and like these
really Yankee little YouTube accounts that are like exposing the
manner and it's so full of outrage because so many
people are so outraged. Right, there's a whole petition to
get it taken down. It may be possible that the
petition was created by McCamy manor you know. So it's
sort of this like amazing like Blair witche in uh
(09:21):
tactics to to make this place. And you know they
say there's like a twenty or forty thousand person waiting list,
which is also not true. Um, you know, so there's
it's it's really a fun kind of project to take
these haunted houses and dissect just what is a hoax?
Because there's also an example of somebody I can't remember
(09:41):
who it was, some internet famous TikTok or something personality
who went and filmed their experience, and it was basically
just like crawling around with a blindfold on in the
backyard with someone yelling you know, horrible things that you
and that was really and you're blindfolded and being sprayed
with water and you don't really know where you are.
That's terrifying, but you know it's it's not the same
(10:03):
thing as what we're seeing in the videos. Um So
that's really a that's a My search history has been late.
This is the um the this one started in San Diego, right.
I remember in the early years of it, like I
remember seeing like the videos that they would put out
because I remember like back when stumble Upon was a
(10:26):
huge plug in for people's browsers, Like remember that I
haven't thought of stumble Upon any That ship used to
take me all over the internet, and I remember coming
across a video of it and it was truly like
you had never seen anything like it. Like people were
just like vomiting and like choking. You're like, oh, ship,
(10:46):
and you're like and it's like the most extreme haunted house.
I didn't realize that it had still been evolving past
like that sort of initial I don't know, yeah, they'll
be like you know, veterans of war that are just
weeping for their Other videos are like, dude, it made
this navy seal poop himself. Yeah, it's so hard to
(11:09):
pick apart what's real and what's not, which is really fun.
The Blackout Experiments is another is a documentary from that's
really good about a bunch of people kind of grappling
with their relationship and addiction to these places um, which
is a great example of also sort of not being
able to figure out how much of the documentary is manufactured. Yeah,
(11:30):
there's all sorts of ways that we um manufacture ways
to get like contact with other people. I feel like
this might be one where people like, instead of living
in tight knit communities where you like hold hands when
you pray or whatever you people used to do, uh,
(11:51):
now they like go to have people jump out and
like tackle them just to feel a human touch. Did
you did you a story about the guy who like
at a haunted house over the weekend he stabbed a
little boy in the foot on accident. Well, I in
like somehow had a knife and then like I guess
(12:14):
something happened and the this person ended up like hitting
this kid in the foot with his knife. So was
he working there or was he going through it? Um,
I believe it's like one of the characters, you have
a real knife, Yeah, and I think what they said.
He was scraping the knife on the ground and playing
around them, and my son said, ahead, I'm not afraid
(12:35):
your knife is fake. So the man was like, oh,
it's real, trust me, it's real, and that's when he
started poking it at his feet multiple times until he stabbed.
And this is for real. This is definitely true. Yeah,
it's like, yeah, it's being I mean unless the report
because because you know, part of it is to like
get people so interested and thinks like now they're gonna
(12:58):
go because that whole Nathan for You episode was about
the challenge was creating a hunted how so scary that
you get sued was like at that point in order
to generate interest, and so it could be along those lines,
but it is along those lines. I've had this person
was given a prop where he thought was a prop,
and it was a really really bladed It's a fantastic
example too of how ship gets repeated, because like you
(13:20):
go to the Wikipedia page or any news outlet and
it just repeats what Russ mckainey says, it says there's
a forty person waiting list and ball and it's all
just like you could just say something. It's a good
example of that, and people trying to sue him too scary.
I don't even know if it's like because everybody who
comes out of it on the real walkout videos is
like that was a lot of fun, though it was crazy.
(13:41):
You know, they're not like I'm gonna sue you. I am.
I have PTSD because I was assaulted, you know, which
is essentially like emergency like foil blanket exactly, up action
movie like yes, yep, like Rose Dawson at the end
of Titanic Real. What is something that you think is overrated? Diana?
(14:05):
So many things, really, I would say sheet masks, if
you know what I'm talking about, like a skin care product.
The sheet masks that are in those little patches, grip
it and you pull it out and you kind of
lay it on your face and you look like a weirdo.
I hate them. I think there's like trending weight too much.
I think they're not useful, they drip all over you,
They're not fun to wear. I don't understand them. Just
(14:26):
a little bottle and do your face and let it
quick slowly tighten over time. That's what I like to get.
We've talked before on this show about those masks. I
I have pitched them as a great mask for a
stalker like slasher movie because they are truly terrifying. I've
(14:46):
I've definitely been frightened by them just walking into my
bedroom and my wife turns around and looks, yeah, like
it really does work as a like horrifying. Like if
if somebody walked in with one of those on it
would it would really? Yeah, you remind I vividly reminder
(15:10):
of like that scene in The Cable Guy where they
go to medieval times and Jim Carrey puts all the
chicken skin on his face and he's like silence that
or the other one, which is what's that movie the
Brendan Fraser baseball movie with Albert Brooks where he's the
picture the phenom or something. Yeah, And in that one,
(15:31):
there's like a scene, yeah the rookie that he actually
like he puts a tortilla on his face, and that
also reminds me of it, so I don't know, or
the Scout, it's the Scout, the scal the old Albert
Einste curtilla is. That's what they kind of because they're
just kind of hanging off. They don't mold your face,
and they look weird. When one year our theater company
(15:52):
for parade did Depression era Halloween costumes, which if you
want to go on a weird Google image search there
for there really like burlap sacks with holes in them,
so they look so terrifying. And then like a few
months later, they were all on a plane doing one
of those white face masks and did a little selfie
and I was like, you look exactly good. Have worn
that for Halloween? So I think exactly Halloween terrifying costume.
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Right now, historical Halloween custumes just across the bord are
very frightening. But yeah, Depression era in particular, yeah, there
they remind me of. Um. They're sort of the skincare
equivalent of the Michael Myers mask, which is like, you know,
there's lots of like drama theory around. You know, you
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have the the like happy mask, the sad mask, and
then like the neutral mask, and the neutral mask allows
you to like project whatever is inside you like onto
that mask, which is why Keanu Reeves is so successful
is because he is a human neutral mask. But the yeah,
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it's just blankness that you can put project whatever horrors
existing your own life. But you can you can turn
it up because they print designs on him. Now for
more fun, you know what I mean. Like I've seen
some where it will be like a frog face or
like a kabuki mask some ship. When I was there's
like all kinds of graphic ones. I think, just just
(17:22):
to bring a little bit of fun to the face
mask game. Yeah that makes this sound worse. Yeah, maybe
I don't know, they get kaboky mask turned around and
that would be more more comfortable. I don't know. Yeah,
I don't think there's any way to get used to it.
I think the thing identified the most of what you
said was when it drips, like because like you know,
(17:42):
they're supposed to be hYP you know, very hydrated. But
then I remember the last time I put one on,
this was kept going down my neck and I was like,
I hated that feeling, and it feels awful, yes, And
then I don't know my A lot of my skincare
concerns are around my jawline. And then you know they
don't mold your face. I feel like I just like
it's just hanging off and I'm just unhappy. I don't
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feel like I'm taking care of myself at all. What
is something you think is underrated? Sure? Boiled eggs, guys, boy,
I had too for breakfast. You don't need to fry them,
you don't need to to devil them. You just need
some hot water and maybe a bit of salt, some
(18:25):
chili sauce or something. Wow. Just I got nothing else.
Just how are you? How are you applying it? Just
on the on the smooth outside, the chili sauce. I
mean you take a bite, you feel the whole. What
do you do? I'll slice it right down the middle,
dissect it, and then I'll put some yeah, some chili
(18:47):
in there, maybe a thin slice of onion. Oh wow,
and then going into that yeah there. You never go
soft boiled. Yeah, only if I'm in rush, so it's
more out of okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like a
lot of soft boiled eggs, and I kind of want
(19:09):
a similar diet as you. I usually eat like two
boiled eggs too, soft boiled eggs in the morning, a
little bit of cuepy mayonnaise, Japanese mayonnaise in a little
little bit of a tear drop of soy sauce. Wow, okay, okay, yeah,
that's how I get down. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna try
this tomorrow. Yeah, how are you guys transport? Do you
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transport in in shell or do you transport like you
crack it? And then but here's the thing, I think
we're people. I I feel like I agree that the
boiled egg is thinking. So I don't want to force
that on other people necessarily, So I just try to
eat it almost like a vitamin. Like. I like that
I can boil it and I can eat it so quickly,
(19:50):
and that's my breakfast, right, Yeah, yeah, that's and I
that's what I do. I take a small bite off
the top and create a chasm, and then I I
give my little mannise and soy sauce in there. Then
I eat the rest of the rest the egg and
one bite. Yeah, yeah, they're so good. All right, Well,
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let's take a quick break and we will be right
back to talking about some news. And we're back. And
it just feels silly to me every time we have
somebody who's zooming in from in this case, Italy or
(20:36):
you know, Aumi from Japan and our show is so dumb.
It's just like, wow, you got the miracles of modern technology.
And then we're like, thank you for wasting an hour
with us. Thank you. Yeah, I just run the upfront.
Thank you, Thank you, Katie. I love being on this
is this is great. It's it's also like it feels
(20:58):
really good. I know this sounds weird, but it does
feel really good to talk to Americans because it is.
It is a culture shock. I do love the people here,
they're very wonderful, but it is definitely culture shock. I mean,
even amongst people who do speak English, it's still like, well,
you know, I can be talking about like, man, you know,
(21:18):
they're taking horse medicine in the US, and my friends like,
I'm sorry, horse horse needs medicine, right. Like I was
explaining that to to an Italian friend of mine and
and I was trying to speak in Italian and she
was like giving me this look of like I don't
think you said that right in Italian. And then I
(21:38):
explained it again in English and she's like, no, you
said it right in Italian. I just don't understand what
you're saying. How someone should be so in coherent with
their decision making. I guess we are especially good reminder
of America and how stupid our show is a lot
(21:59):
of that. Alright, let's talk about cyber ninjas. Speaking of
stupid American things. That is what a group that UH
decided to like put their own forensic analysis together despite
having no expertise in the area. They named themselves the
(22:20):
cyber Ninja. Like they chose that, did they? Yeah, that
was given to them as far as I know. Yeah,
And they said they're six month long recount was the
quote most comprehensive and complex election audit ever conducted. I
think we all took that to me. And they were
(22:41):
gonna like dig into the literal ones and zeros of
any vote cast like or and any counting software to
try and argue that there was fraud. They're still kind
of doing that. But they did put together a report
that they had their ultimate conclusion, and that accidentally got leaked.
(23:06):
And what did they find, Miles, Oh, well, the cyber
Ninja's even though they were breaking open machines and things
and trying to look inside and swearing there was you know,
fraud in there. Turns out the analysis Joe Biden actually
won by a larger margin than the county had reported.
(23:27):
He won by three hundred sixty more votes than the
Maricopa County tally did. But essentially it just affirmed the
same thing, which was that there was no fraud. Joe
Biden won by that much, now that it was a
razor thin margin, but Joe Biden one that there was
nothing there. Um. Even when they asked one of the
people who was like involved with it, like to check
the veracity of like this leaked memo, They're like, not, yep,
(23:50):
it's true, there's there There was no seems like there
were no signs of widespread fraud, fraudulent votes being cast.
And it's like, wow, I'm you know, in a way,
I'm like, how could you articulate such a demonic statement
out loud if you're a cyber ninja to say that
Joe Biden did in fact receive more votes. However, However,
(24:15):
because they can't, it can't just be hey, man, we
went through it turns out Joe Biden one, y'all, let's
keep this thing moving. Cyber ninja exactly, they said, we've
got something. They essentially are saying that they they're alleging
that they have uncovered anomalies. So stay tuned, is what
(24:35):
they're saying now for the fifth phase of this fucking drift.
You know, Donald Trump was like so so like happy,
but also like there was too much media smerroring about this.
This is huge news that they found all this fraud,
but the things like they didn't even they're still not
saying that, even though Trump was saying, like they found fraud,
(24:57):
they're very clear like there was no fraud there. We
found anomalous voting patterns, And I mean that's pretty damning
though considering probably they're auditing, was stuff like that beak
kind of looks like a T right for titan, which
probably stands for Trump right right the for Doe titan.
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That's that's pretty like anomalous. It seems like it's going
to be yeah, right, you think this person voted for
Trump for Biden. Come on, they would clearly vote for Trump.
Like essentially, like we knew there was there were anomalies
in the sense that people expected Arizona to stay Republican
(25:41):
and it did not, Like that is an anomaly if
you look at like all the numbers across the history
of you know, don't put them on trial so quickly.
They let him take one out at a time. Jesus Christ,
and normally just that's a fancy word for head scratcher. Yeah,
and we found some heads scratchers and the Dan driff
(26:01):
coming from that. Yeah, stay tuned, folks. We're scratching hard,
almost as if there was a historically bad president in
office that they were voting against or something. Well, you know,
they're still promising like lawsuits and more subpoenas and all
this other stuff to keep it going. But you know,
in the end, it's it's just as all people who
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are not just rabid racist knew like this has nothing
to do with voter fraud. This was just a fucking
charade to help keep the you know, maga faithful on
board with this, like just the scam. And the longer
they continue to be like we're still looking, we're still looking,
and things aren't necessarily like unequivocal from them, then it
(26:42):
still gives them, you know, all the other people who
are in on this ship to keep pushing the same
nonsense and at the cost of just tearing the fabric
of the country in thrice is that is that hate,
say that anyway, probably not. Yeah, well you know, why not.
It's one day. So another thing to keep an eye on, though,
is a really really fucking spooky trend because they are
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these freaky motherfucker's running for the office of secretary of
state in a lot of battleground states. And the secretary
of State, I mean, it's the title can be different
from you know, from state to state, but essentially there
the there, that's the office that like manages elections. Like
if you wanted to funk an election, Like remember Brad
Rafinsberger from Georgia secretary of state there, he was a Republican,
(27:27):
but he was still like unwilling to go along with
Trump's game to find votes that were not there. Imagine
if he were just imagine that, then we have something
really much more dangerous and different than what happened, even
though he's still kind of you know, hemming and hanging
about Joe Biden. But when you look at some of
the people that are running for these offices, like these
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state offices, many of them are basically just completely have
their heads in magaworld. According to Reuters, they interviewed nine,
they interviewed fifteen declare Republican candidates for secretary of State
in battleground states like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada. They
found that nine of the fifteen of these people, you know,
(28:11):
they're just not they're not clear on what they think
happened on the election. Ten of the fifteen have either
declared the election was stolen or called by their states
results to be invalidated or further investigated. So they these
are people who are saying, like, if this would have
happened again, if I was in office that time, I
would have willingly rat fucked the ship out of that election.
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Two of the nine candidates that they spoke to said
that Biden won the election. So this is the fucking
This is the other phase of what's happening here is
they really like the reason they didn't get away with
it the first time is because they don't have enough
stooges in those decision making positions to make the dominoes
fall in the order that they needed to. They are
clearly now moving for that. It is like, but clinching
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how close we really got to just stay a coup
because even like if people think like, oh, well, wouldn't
propriety just like being proper and going along with rules
just kind of keep people from doing this. Well, didn't
Pince look into every possible option to like not ratify
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the election, and he reached out to people like could
I could I do this? Like could I not? Yeah?
Dan Quail? Dan Quails like, no, dude, you can't. You
have what do you mean? We were a dan Quail
piece of good advice from fucking ceasing to exist potatoes
(29:40):
fucking could have the whole country in another direction or potato. Yeah,
that is uh not what you want to hear. Yeah, exactly.
And I think that's why it's you know, while it's
easy to look at these like rallies that are happening.
We touched on that like last week about yeah, they
had some J six justice for a political dissident prisoners
(30:02):
type ship. That's not where they're that's not where the
threat is. The threat is them realizing you know again,
it's like I hate to bring up a Jurassic Park,
but when the raptors were testing the perimeter fences, you know,
that's what this last election was, and they realized it's
like anything there were there weren't enough people in on
this scheme for it to fall the way it needs to,
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and now they are very focused on electing people into
those positions so when the opportunity comes again, they're ready.
But it's like those raptors are testing the electric fences
while wearing shirts that are like, I'm gonna go eat
some humans after I'm marking through this electric fence. They're
wearing shirts that saying I am testing the perimeter fences
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to figure to begin to figure out how to escape.
But don't worry, guys, because Chris Pratt Nancy made friends
with the raptors and taught them how to work with humans.
So that's all you need to know is the next
storming of the Capitol will be Chris Pratt on a
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motorcycle with a fucking just a herd of raptors. All right,
let's talk briefly about another group of fat cats who
have had it too good for too long. And I'm talking,
of course, about the people who volunteered to be on
school boards. Come on like that. You know, they dedicate
(31:24):
their time to help educate our children, and now they're
going to complain that they've been subjected to being you know,
abused and treated like absolute ship by right wing political activists.
Come on, I've had enough. Where is the line? I
mean next? You know, we've seen the scenes at these
(31:44):
board meetings. They look they're just you can't even like
if you were if you had it on mute there,
you're like, oh my god, like was their network of
sexual predators like just like running them up in this
like school system. But no, they're like they're teaching our
kids critical race theory, which again is for graduate students
(32:04):
and law students. It's so complex you couldn't even begin
to fucking teach a child critical race theory even with
like the most a rudimentary graphs and pictures. But again,
we've seen this, whether it was critical race theory or masks.
You know, there were medical professionals who have had their
tires slashed from nearly like restating the obvious facts at
(32:25):
a school board meeting around masks or vaccines. Teachers have
been subjected to coordinated harassment campaigns for believing in teaching
history and and we're also when we talked about earlier,
extremists are trying to infiltrate the school boards themselves to
try and alter the curriculum like to whatever they see fit.
So things are chaotic and this group that the National
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School Boards Association, who like representing like thousands of school
board members, they're like asking the president to like, we
need protection here, like this is they're they're actually effectively
intimidating people into not doing what's right for children, purely
because of intimidation. And they really are asking that things
that are including quote the classification of these heinous actions
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could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism
and hate crimes. And they're saying, we just we need
help all across the board, whether that's having the FBI,
Secret Service and like National Threat Assessment Center like give
them resources to understand like how to like do proper
threat assessment or examine what they say, quote examined appropriate
(33:31):
enforceable actions against these crimes and acts of violence. It
just seems like they're that there's so many avenues for
these people to harass them that they're just like this work.
We're not equipped for this, Like we need someone intervened.
I think the most absurd part of it is that
a lot of the people who are harassing these teachers
(33:53):
from the right seem to be the same people that
proposed as a solution to mass shootings at school, that
these teachers be given guns. Yeah, and so like just
for their own safety, I mean the safety of these
idiotic monsters, they should probably choose one of those things,
like either I'm going to keep harassing and antagonizing these
(34:15):
teachers or I want to arm them, but for your
own safety, maybe not both, right, yeah, yeah like that
if they were just like, Okay, we are going to
go with your suggestion to arm the teachers, but only
at PTA meetings. Yeah right right, yeah yeah that energy yeah,
(34:35):
temporary gun license, yeah right, or they're just like or
they're like, yeah, well we can do like uh, you know,
trial by combat, but we'll just get like the mountain
to represent the school boards and yeah, throw whoever you
want at them. Parents, how about you rick with the
flannel shirt tucked into your jeans. You want to fight
the mountain over Cretinori theory? Now, okay, next up, masks
(34:56):
anybody else no good get ripped out by the mountain.
But I think, you know, this is just kind of
that thing where it's it's hard to know, like how
can you solve this problem because it just feels like
this is just part of like the continuing convulsions of
this like amorphous culture war that is existing that if
it's not critical race theory, it's gonna be masks, and
if it's not that, it's gonna be trans kids, and
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if it's not that, it's going to be this other
thing that there's just there's always going to find They're
always going to find a way to keep doing this.
So I don't know. I mean, I think maybe that's
why they're asking like some kind of law enforcement part
of this, because maybe jail might dissuade some of these
parents that are just like so hopped up on their
privilege that maybe it's not you know, maybe it's not
(35:39):
a thing that you can just slash someone's tires. I mean,
I think it's a bit of a snake eating its
own tail thing, because I think that the solution is
how you educate kids, Like if you want adults that
aren't idiotic and violent and hostile in these ignorant ways,
it's going to start in school. And yeah, that's I
(36:01):
guess part of why this UH battle is so important.
But it also I guess it would require patients for
some of those results to be seen, Like maybe we
can hope that in in thirty years. If things go well,
there won't be teachers trying to parents trying to fight teachers. Right, yeah,
(36:21):
it's yeah, I think And that's why I think conservatives
see just as they see the same path there. Right,
It's like it's through the schools. It's like Steve Bannon said,
it's through the school boards. And they know that just
there's been this like baseline of what American education is
and they realize it's turning out more people who would
probably not vote for Republicans, and they're just like, fuck, okay,
(36:43):
then like we need to like we need to start
deprogramming people as swiftly as possible to try and get
them on board with our more autocratic, you know, fascist
way of looking at governance. Yeah. Yeah, all right, let's
take a quick break and we'll be right back. M h.
(37:06):
And we're back, And all right, So we heard what
David had to say about you know, one way that
we express our affection for Michael Jordan's through buying Jordan's
of various origins. But you know they are things with
giant plastic clods on the bottom of them. They're made
(37:29):
from like they can't it couldn't be less organic or
you know, I feel like most of the shoes I've
ever owned are still not close to biodegrading. We but
here we have another option that I think, Yeah, for
the fans out there, specifically even fans of Jordan's. So
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someone has decided to buy his used underwear at auction.
They paid two thousand, seven eighty four dollars eighty four
nineteen bids. Yeah, and it's a pair of boxers, So
that's makes it a little less disturbing to me, I guess.
But the company I would have valued them personally at
(38:11):
like two thousand like is what I would have been willing.
I would have had them a thousand times more expensive.
I think how many different pairs of shoes he wore
on the court that they came available. This is one.
I mean, if you're talking about exclusivity, this is a
great purchase one of one underwear. Yeah. I like that.
The company that was putting the auction on said that
(38:33):
their boxers have evidence of quote definite use. But what
they mean to say is that they're like loose threads
a dry cleaning tag, like it had clearly been in
the rotation of this man, not to say like and
you could see his ship stains for two for two k, right,
(38:56):
but this is like when I look at this, it
really does like raise the question, like I get again,
I'm a fan of all kinds of ship and there
there's memorabilia that I dream of owning someday, but it's
typically very directly tied to the work of the person
or the contributions of the person that I admire. Like
if it's Jordan's, I guess sneakers, I get Jerseys, and
(39:20):
I even sucking even a half smoked cigar, like you know,
that's still part of his like identity and you're like,
oh sh this is like Jordan's smoked this. But the
underwear so nondescript and it's and like look and if
also like if you're kind of freaky, like do you
really want them clean? Right? Like, yeah, we we had
a at cract. We interviewed uh woman who made her
(39:44):
living selling her used underwear on a Reddit. I forget
what the what the board was called, but and yeah
it was it was almost always, you know, much more
valuable if it had any signs, Yeah, signs of definite
you who would who would be the go to? Like,
oh man, everyone knows those underwear like maybe flavor flav
(40:06):
or something like that. Mark Wahburke, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
even then like or or I get it, like if
it's someone who's like posing in their underwear, then underwear
makes sense. But then to me it just seems like
I get it, like fuck it. If you're a fan,
like you'll buy anything, but it would just be hard
for me to look at it, like, yes, Michael Jordan
(40:29):
is here, you wouldn't fake them up glass have people
over and like, whoa, we have time. He is a hand,
spokes fun, just makeup, just make up, fake memorability you
have You're like, oh, yeah, that's that's Frederick Douglas's sock
that I got. I was gonna say something, nobody, we're
going back to the replicas too. I mean, when there's
(40:49):
so many documentary about people faking art, faking wine, faking
out ultra wealthy people, you you end up being on
the side of the forger of Like the thing you
like is the price tag. You don't really how will
you the skill it took to make that bag or
those bags are churned out at such a rate there's
no craftsmanship anymore. And so like the underwear whatever, you're
(41:09):
putting up there, You're you need like the sign thing
this is, this was real, this was this person's thing.
But I could also fake that. There's there's no like
a real way unless you had a DNA testing kit
in your home. You can have people come over and
be like, drop it in, see whose DNA shows up,
and they it's Jordan's. It's like the only real way, right.
(41:30):
I feel like I came up with the Mark Wallberg
answer too quickly that it might have impressively wrap it well.
I have been on a pair of Marky Marks fun
funky bunch underpants. Funky bunch underwear. They're funky, they do
bunch up, they do have signs of use. But yeah,
(41:52):
I don't know. I mean, like, I think, what for
anyone you're a huge fan of what, how far away
from the like prime memorabilia that you would want to have,
could you see yourself getting not to say like not
to say that you'll spend X amount of dollars, but
at what point does something become less special to you
as it relates to the object of your fandom. I
(42:13):
think I'm a bad person to weigh in on this
because I really don't get as a kid, you know,
like Jordan's Gretzky, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, these things if
I had seen them. But as I got older, it
feels like almost every hero you ever meet, it's just
a person like, yeah, excuse me, I did use the
restroom real quick, like that funk. That's disappointing. Just imagine
(42:35):
them doing anything but like elevating or levitating or something.
So you see them and it's just hard for me
now to be a fan and has been I think
for like since I was probably sixteen or seventeen. I
just the idea of buying someone's thing, I don't it
just stopped being appealing in any way. And so I apologize.
I'm not great to wait. No, no, no, that's not
(42:56):
not We're all different on this earth. Yeah, Jack and
I are fan brained. I'm fan brained. I'm trying. I'm
trying to think of like what I would care about
like that it to have at that like museum level,
like would be a showcase in Yeah, I want j
(43:18):
Diller's MPC fucking production unit made donuts on like I
would love I would have that. I'm like, look at
that ship, like this ship the band Phoenix bought the
bought the mixing table that made Thriller, and they paid
a absurd amount of money for it. But it's one
(43:39):
that I was like, Okay, Like that makes sense to me,
you like could use that for your like profession, like
the music that made the album Thriller traveled through this
Like that is fucking dope. Yeah, And I think that's
the I think it. For me, it has to be
very specific. Like the second it's like, this is j
(43:59):
Diller his hat that he wore, and I'm like, well,
that's cool, right, But like for me, like I still
I still think about things like that, like oh, that
would be so cool to just interact with unless it's like,
you know, the hat worn by Marky Mark, let's say
during that photo shoot, because like then, like you can
smell like what a sweat smelled like the time, and
(44:21):
like it's just what a terrible person. Uh, you can
smell the drug car that he was wearing at that time.
I'm guessing you can smell the blood from that man
he beat up in Boston. Oh, come don't bring that up.
(44:41):
That that bums jack out. That's what always says when
I bring that up. He goes, come on, don't bump
me out, like and he apologized that guy so u
or he issued an apology that that guy's probably her
right over here. I'm in the front row anyway, Like anyway,
I'm gonna go kick it with the Pope of That's
(45:02):
still uh one of my favorite things the Catholic Church
has ever done, send the Pope to America and have
his m C for his pope event be Marky Mark,
Like wow, yeah, dog, it was in Philly. Uh it
was no, no, no no, the new cool Pope so recently yeah, yeah,
(45:26):
when he when Cool Pope came to America, which is
a novel I'm working on. Yeah, he like stopped along
the East coast, you know, he went to New York.
I think he did Yankee Stadium. And then when he
was in Philly, Marky Mark was the guy, which is
weird because he's not like Boston would have made more sense,
(45:47):
I think, but you know it was was he just
like out there, He's like, what's up, Philly. I'll be
ready to fucking turn up. We got the one and
only Bishop of Robe, Vicar of Jesus Christ, the sessor
of the Prince of Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church,
Primemate of Bitterly, Archbishop of Metropolitan of the Roman Province,
(46:08):
Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, servant of the
servants the Pope. He doesn't even know his name, who
knows all those other descriptors. Yeah, he's a good Patholic
to that point where he's like, I don't know that
ship got drilled into my head of the Pope's many titles,
(46:31):
but then I Pope, look at that fucking hat. You guys,
is that new it? All right? That's gonna do it.
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If you like the show, uh means the world to Miles.
(46:52):
He needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having a
great weekend and I will talk to him Monday. By S.
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