May 20, 2018 • 52 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, what is something that's overwritten? Man?
I know some people are gonna be upset at me
for this, but man, reality competition shows, bro, Reality competition
shows are whacked. Listen. I'm tired of senior Instagram stories
that you and your friends watching Dance with the Stars
or American Idol or The Bachelor. I hate all of it.
(00:44):
It's all stupid. It's let's bring substance back to television.
So what do you what do you propose? I want
to say, so, if that's what's the air that that's
breathing up all these reality competitions, what's the air? You know?
But I'm saying like that's taking the space of something
that you think it's more worthy of it. I think
for everyone reality competition show, we should have to Atlantas
(01:06):
Damn Okay, Like if we can have that, but let's
bring some substance out, man. You know what I'm saying, Like,
I think that they're winning. We're I think these reality
competition shows are getting us so close to like some
Hunger Games type ship that we don't even realize it.
Oh eventually, yeah, I mean we're dumbing us down nearly
doing the Running Man. The Running Man film will be
a real life thing. That's how, That's how we're gonna
pick the next president. It's just like yeah, yeah, god,
(01:31):
I mean yeah, I don't know if the president could
even run, but that would be interesting. I mean, somebody
needs to test that theory that we've been talking about
that like he believes that he's that he believes he's
good at sports and that he could like make a
Major League Baseball team if he just tried out. Like
somebody needs saying that you should make the you should
make the next election a physical competition. Absolutely, like some
(01:55):
American Gladiators type ship. Yeah, I feel like Gladiators. Ready, Yeah,
I'm all that done that they would have with the
nerve balls and oh yeah yeah. Yeah. It's just a
matter of time you're saying before that becomes an actual gun,
an actual yeah, because like we're just trying to get
like healthcare. I was watching Dancing with the Stars and
I was not watching. I was watching. I watched people's
(02:16):
instagram stories. Every morning I take a poop and I
watched all of you guyss instagram sor and I was
watching somebody cheer the funk on for Tanya Harden and
I was like, what is happening? Right? This is Tanya
Harding and you guys are going while I'll be like, oh,
look at her do the step, And I'm like, yo, okay,
is there a reality show that you like, the reality
competent show that you would there's one that everyone has
(02:37):
trash exactly. So this is the This is my favorite
thing about these kinds of sentiments, Right, It's like there's
ones you don't like, but then there's the ones that
you do like, and you probably it's on MTV. What's
it called? Man? Are you the one? Are you the one? Yes?
It's very ridiculous. Get ten guys and ten girls and
(02:58):
you locked them in this house, right, and then you
go and then you you're missing a operative ten emotionally
stunted men and ten emotionally stunted women that are very
desperate for a connection. And then what you do is
you tell them that you've had like matchmakers and psychologists
and love gurus guarantee them that within this house they
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have a perfect match, that there are ten perfect matches
in this house, and but there's only one way to
find out, and it's to send someone into the Truth Booth,
where you can only do it once a week. So
here's what always happens. You're trying to get these ten
perfect matches so you guys can split a million dollars.
And what always happens is that first match that they
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sent into the Truth Booth, everyone's just like, yo, these
people are in love. We know it's certainly they're definitely
in love, and they go into Truth Booth and then
they're not a match. But those two people are like,
we really love each other, so we're not gonna we're
not gonna partake in any of the competitions. We're not
gonna date anybody else. It's just gonna be us. And
the rest of the show is everybody else trying to
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convince that one pair not to be together anymore so
they can find the end of every episode. What they
do is like like if they win a challenge, they
could send someone in the Truth Booth to begin like
figuring out who's a match and then at the end
they all have to go to this like ceremony where
they all pair off together and sit down and then
like a list of pairs. Yeah, lights go on to
tell you how many matches you get, but you don't
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know who they are, so you're just like, oh, we
got four right this week. We don't know who the
pairs are, so you need to be mixing it up
every week. But that one couple is just like not
just love them. I love him, I'm not going to separate.
I don't care what about the money. And then everyone's like, yo, bitch,
you're about Yeah. It's crazy too because a lot of
people you see how they're like how they really repeat
their patterns, are like, you know, I always date guys
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like this, and I'm really worried about a lot and
then they just end up falling for them anyway. And
how long are they locked in? Ten weeks? Yeah, it's
like a ten episode show. Oh and each week is
an episode. Yeah, I think, uh, if you just basically
want to like for me, thing I love about it
for being in my early thirties and now is like
looking back and realizing the chaos that you have mentally
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of like trying to like, you know, if you really
want your match, or what it means to date, or
how you even process that. You're like, oh, wow, like
I always date really shitty people or whatever, and how
these people completely disregard that because they just feel like, well,
my perfect match is here, so I'm just going to
project that onto you. It's a microcosm of dating in
your twenties because truly, like everyone around him just like,
this person is trash and you're stepping in our way
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of success by dating this person. But they're like, I
don't care. And there's always one ugly person every season
who knows that, like it's gonna be hard for them
to find their match, and they're all about the money,
like that's all they care about. So that was the
person being like, yo, let's get this money. Let's get
this money, because they know it. But there is somebody
else who has statistically or you know, scientifically, like very
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loosely termed scientifically, been deemed to be the ugly person's match,
and everyone, ever, everybody's worried that it's them, and everyone's
avoiding that person and not trying to do it's so
but then people come around too, you know, because then
people were like, man, I really was actually feeling that person.
Maybe I'd be honest with Remember that one time they
added an eleventh girl. Yeah that was a problem. That
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was a very so, very very reality, right exactly, you
just don't step for this one. You know what overrated
was people putting Dancing with the Stars on their Instagram.
I want to apologize to an hose name if I
friended her by bringing up the Bachelor. Oh yeah, you
(06:30):
know what, but you know you're you're overrated on this show?
Is gonna stop her? Check super producer? Is uh you host?
You produced a Bachelor podcast? Right? What is it called?
Will You Accept This? Rosen? Okay? And it's hosted by
h Okay So it's not on this network, but you
know we should love anyway. Um, we took one step
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closer to being the dystopian timeline from back to the
future to where Biff is president this morning. Um, you
know that that's the the timeline where they based Biffs,
like future the future version of Biff off of Donald Trump,
Like all the way back in the eighties, they were like,
this is what it would look like if Donald Trump
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was president. They actually said that, like yeah, yeah, they
people who worked on the movie said that that was
at least partial part of the inspiration for the Biff character,
because he built his empire by, you know, off of gambling,
and Trump at that point was a casino owner. So
some people have been pointing out, you know, similarities between
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that version of reality and hours now that they actually
called it, and uh that Biff is president. So in
another thing come true from that world. The Supreme Court
ruled today that states can determine if they want to
allow gambling. Um, so you know, we just gotta make
sure he doesn't find that almanac. Yeah, yeah, it's big
(07:55):
win for New Jersey and uh, most of my ends,
but not you know, bad bad day for Las Vegas
probably presumably, uh but yeah, so um, you know, supporters
argue this is just directly from the New York Times
article on it. Supporters argue that legalization will produce revenue
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for the states and critically weaken illegal sports betting operations,
which makes sense. It's like organized crime bout out to right.
But people who are against it say that legalizing sports
gambling will you know, hook young people on gambling, which
young people are too broke to be. Uh me and
(08:41):
I feel like fantasy sports already kind of does that
because they monetized fantasy sports. Uh. And also they're worried
that it will encourage people of modest means to squander
their savings and earnings and correct. I mean, that is
definitely a worry because I know some people who have
who have had gambling problems, and that once gambler takes
over your brain like it did Marge Simpson, it's hard
(09:02):
to come back. But when I look at this though, too,
is that a lot of people been talking about how
this is actually a good sign for the effort to
have ICE like enforce their sort of deportation orders in
sanctuary cities, because sort of the same thing of like, uh,
they're trying to conscript a lot of local police officers
to actually enforce these immigration laws, and those are things
(09:22):
that the states they say, well, no, that's in our
purview to actually determine whether or not we want to
do this. So this this ruling also would help I
guess people who are worried about sort of like the
invasion of ICE coming into cities to deport people, there
is actually a pretty good signal that it'll be probably
difficult to do that states right, states rights. Yeah, so
I don't know, it'll be interesting. They're also worried that
(09:43):
it will corrupt professional and college sports, but I mean, well,
it's not like that's ever happened with soccer in Europe.
Wait it has, so who knows. But it's funny to
think about, like when it comes to like with this
issue about what happens, because I want to see this
country burned, you know what I mean, And I want
to see it in weird, funny ways where it's just
(10:04):
like online bet online, But do you gamble? No? I
don't do you gamble? No, it's against my religion. I
worship the hawk that's from No, I don't gamble. I
mean yeah, well, let's be real. I I used to.
I like to, I like play dice here in there.
I like to wait a bet on sports. Okay, wait
(10:25):
wait wait wait wait wait wait, let's I know. I
know you want a cute time, but like, I find
all you very interesting. But he is sometimes you said
these small things that as on the black part of me.
He's like all right, but the inquisitive side the podcast,
I'm like, what that's going on? Let play a little
cel why not? Wait you know what your valley dude,
But you got an Englewood hard man, you know what, Like, yeah, look,
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my family's all over the city. Now wait, have you
have you shaken him up to the point where like
someone tried to steal your money? No? No, no, because
like everyone I played would never had that much money
in it. Were like, you know it, really want to
hang out with you, bro. Your world is like BT
and Vice comes together. It's like I was talking about
all the weird ecstasy hacks and ship I was doing.
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Have you have you played dice? No I haven't. You
gotta shake them up, so yeah, we just have a
we'll do it live. You've got a good corner right here,
right there. You've got a good enough real because you
get to play dice, you know, you gotta have a
good solid corner. And I mean pull the carpet back
a little bit because you don't have to dice hit. Yeah,
you can't have anything bouncing off it because when you
when they hit the floor, they gotta do a good role.
(11:30):
So there's the one dude that plays dice, like, wait,
how did it bounce? Though? You know what I mean,
he's loaded. It's always like doing a little bit older
than you. He owes everyone money. He's trying to but yeah,
because it'll be interesting to think about, Like what happens
with the story? Do you guys follow stories like this? Yeah,
of course I follow every story. But I mean this
is you know, like anything right, this is just the
(11:51):
first shot that says, Okay, well we've seen now that
the floodgates can open now for this kind of gambling.
I think in a few months from now, we'll see
who the real kind of steak holders are and who
really funny you know funny who who benets from all
these things? Like what these were interesting new addictions? Is
like my ohole therapist he broke down to me about
how much him his colleagues make, but trying to find
(12:12):
new ways to open up new groups and new focuses
and what not. But even something like this, like he said,
like what he said in a list, He's like, you
know what's funny, He's like, what people such as younger people,
as people of a certain incomes to people who start
making money, we need to make more money. Is that
when it comes to stuff like the internet, funny ways
you know people are internet so like more therapist, But
he said gambling, but internet gambling. So I just kind
of always wonder. It's not like they're not they're at
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the top of the people who founded a profit from this,
but I always wonder about, like what we're The one
thing that we don't talk about is like trying to
curb new addictions, right, and this is so immediate. But
that's why this could be interesting because if you can
just lose ten grand on your phone from like placing vets,
because you're like, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna
put another and wins from that people who are pair
(12:56):
cell phone screens, you know what I mean. At the
whole is like, so I want to just give a
quick update on Israel and the coverage of what happened yesterday.
Um The New York Times was hailed for changing their headline.
They changed it from Palestinian protesters killed as US embassy
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opens in Jerusalem. They changed it to Israel kills dozens
at Gaza border, which referring to people who have been
killed as dozens. It's like, I don't know what I
was expecting them to, like make it Baker's dozen of
people killed by Israeli. They also the New York times
is calling it rifle fire when it's sniper fire, like
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sniper rifles, which I don't know that's important. A lot
of there's just a lot of softening. Yeah, they're scaring
a lot of what is going on there? And so
I I admitted something this morning I'm not proud of.
But I so I knew Gaza Strip, West Bank. I
had a sense that that was where are the conflict
between Palestinians and Israeli's happened, but I had never really
(14:05):
like gone and read like specifically what is the Gaza Strip,
what is the West Bank? Uh? And like where are
they on in the country and how it works? So uh,
in case anybody's as stupid as me, and you call
yourself a journalist, jack, I don't, uh, And you call
yourself a second rate podcaster, Jack, I do? Yes? Thanks? On. So,
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Gaza is on the west coast, uh. Their borders are
completely controlled by Israeli forces, even on the ocean side. UH.
And they're basically being starved with an economic blockade. UM.
A guy named Norman Finkelstein, who is a leftist left
(14:47):
dish thinker who has pointed out that of the water
and the Gaza Strip is more poisonous than the water
in Flint. So this is why and all so Gaza
is the most populated, most densely populated region in the
world because so much so many of the people have
(15:09):
been you know, forced out off of their land and
into that small strip of land. So that's just to
give you a kind of some context on you know,
who is going towards the fence and being shot by
Israeli snipers. You know, where's gal Gado at? I don't know.
I'm I just don't understand, Like where are these she's
(15:30):
keeping for the idea? Probably yeah, but where are these
like celebrities I missed that, who are like out here
talking that talk? But when there's these clear blazing if
this ship was happening in America or I'll put it
this way, and this might really get me into trouble,
but if the ship was happening a white woman, like
where the funk would gal Gadole be at? Like you
know what I'm saying, And like it makes me so
mad that we sit like they sit here and everyone's
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like talking about like these like anti Semitism stuff and
like trying to demonize the other side when we're literally
watching people be slaughtered for just peacefully protesting. And I
understand that some people might have gotten violent, but again,
I've been listening to NPR in the car, and it
sounds like these people were just like, Yo, let's just
demonstrate how hard it is over here, and then again
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and fucking sniped and she like that. Well, I mean,
they're trying to look like this pretty charged up that
I can't say that it's like, you know, non violent
in the sense that like it looks like what the
marches look like in the Civil rights where people just
kind of I mean, there's a lot at stake for
these people, so it's hard for them to be do
anything but literally try and fight for their exist They're
running towards a fence, so basically Israel is trying to
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stop them from getting to the fence, as as though
if they get to the fence, they'll be able to
like bust through and go directly into Israel. But there's
like also another like thing they would have to get through,
and then they could easily be arrested on the other
side if they did make it through all of that.
But we got some feedback from people who were saying
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that Israel should be allowed to defend itself and complaining about,
you know what happened yesterday is you know, missing the point,
But I don't know, defend themselves against what. I would
directly ask one of those people to tell me, defend
themselves against what do you think these people are coming
over there to do. That's what I'm saying. Where the
number is about the number of injured idf SO soldiers. Yeah,
(17:16):
I'm not gonna deny that. There are different sides of
the story that are being given, and it's hard to
get a completely unbiased take on anything, but the bottom
line is there were over sixty Palestinians killed by sniper fire.
Uh and there a baby right, including a baby, and
U zero deaths or even injuries among Israeli soldiers. So
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that's not a that's not a fair fight, that's not
self defense, and it's killing innocent people. It's pure hatred.
Because I was listening to an interview from the guy
and he was saying like, basically, my idea was if
there's a bunch of us, they can't stop all of us.
And when I was listening to that, I was like,
this dude is talking about pure desperation. At this point,
like he's just like, I'm trying to get us a win.
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All right, We're gonna bring in some producer around Hosia
here Hi. I just want to say that a lot
of people don't understand that there is a serious buffer
zone between the Palestinians and where the Israelis are. Palestinians
are zero threat to any Israeli civilian. They're nowhere near them.
The amount of yeah, like what Jack was saying, there's
a fence and then there's like three other fences, so
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you can't just hop over and be attack or a
threat to any Israeli civilian. And it's not how it
works there. There's a buffer zone, and I think people
need to understand that that a lot of these people
are just civilian. They're like older women, they're older men there.
You know there's young people too, but they're not people
that could actively go and harm any Israeli soldier. So
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I think there's a lot of blind spots in the
media when it comes to that, is they're not really
describing what's happening out there. They're just saying there's protests.
You see a photo of people running around and and
smoke and stuff, and they're like, oh, it's crazy. Yeah,
that's not the full story, and yeah, I think that's well.
I think what hopefully what the the media shift will
begin to actually uh showcase or rather illuminate for people
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what the situation is for these people and why they
are struggling to exist, because I think we only look
at it from one side in terms of saying, oh,
these people killing protests and that's it, but it's not
why are these people protesting? What is their life situations? Like?
What is their existence like? Are they being treated with dignity?
Are they treated like human beings? Well, I think here's
what's gonna happen. And I like that you brought up
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the civil rights movement earlier, which is like I'm pretty
sure back in the sixties when Nicholas was watching it
on TV, there was like, well, of course the firefighters
have to hold them down they were coming at them,
or of course, and like all those people now and
when I look at that ship now, and you know,
my white classmates are all like, oh, well, you know,
if I was there, I would have been upset and
stuff like that. But it's happening now and we're getting
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that side now, and we're doing the same spifications in
our head now with like, well, the Israelians have to
protect themselves, and forty years from now, our kids and
our grandkids are going to read all that ship and go,
how why do they do that? Why do they sniper
rifle them? And stuff like that, And it's the same
exact ship. We're justifying, the same exact ship. If you
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just read quotes from Israeli forces, if you read quotes
from uh We've spoken anecdotally about friends who have gone
to Israel for a little while and then come back,
and it's clear that there is an ideology in Israel,
in parts of Israel, in certain groups in Israel, that
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doesn't view Palestinian people as human beings, and you like,
you can hear it, and yeah, the other is very severe,
and you know it's dehumanizing. Yeah, it's pretty wild. And
only a culture that doesn't view people as human would
be able to justify you know, I mean the only culture.
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Yeah that's like, oh the US too, right, people of color,
So you know it's everywhere, you know what I mean?
And so I think, God, this is all about are
we willing to look at people with dignity or are
we othering people so much that it's easy to perpetrate
this kind of ship against um. And I also do
want to mind everyone that these protests have been going
on for weeks as part of the Great March of Return,
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versus a lot of people are being like, oh, they're
just mad because them bassy open. It's like, no, they've
been out here protesting for for basically since nineteen being
like you took our home away. So in the past
handful of weeks, forty protesters have been killed by sniper
fire from the Israeli soldiers or over forty, so that
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is something that is fairly I mean it's not recent
in the sense that there's been Israeli forces, you know,
mistreating Palestinian people, but those protesters have been being shot
for weeks. Also, there's no real excuse for live fire
in this situation under any circumstances, because you could have
easily used a were bullet, knocked someone down and killed
(22:02):
no one, or just anything, tear gas whatever, anything any
other way, don't need to kill anybody ever. Yeah, with
sniper fire being the most impersonal, like just completely removed,
so you can't even say like, oh, they panicked because
they were like down there and riot gear and like
the people were coming at them. Now they were sitting
(22:23):
up in a sniper's nest taking people out. All right,
we're gonna take a break. We'll be right back, and
we're back. Uh trash. Yeah, speaking of dehumanizing people in
(22:44):
these United States of America's yeah, as we have to mention,
they're like redlining welfare for people in states like Michigan
and ship They're like, oh, if you live in the
rural part, you don't have to work because that's mostly white.
But if you urban center, well you better have a
job if you want these fucking benefits. Anyway, I digress. Yeah,
So we've talked about how, you know, the the idea
of uniting all poor people behind a campaign for you know, equality.
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Uh Is was Martin Luther King Jr. Is like last
great movement uh and was wildly unpopular and at the time,
and then he was assassinated in the middle of that movement.
He was in Memphis for a labor strike. And so
there's a guy named Reverend William Barber who is sort
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of picking that fight up and organizing large scale, long
term poor people's campaign that is expected the last six
weeks and thirty five different states and it started yesterday
and the Reverend William Barber, who is you know, in
his fifties and has is disabled like his legs don't
(23:55):
work that well, he has ankle problems, was tested and
put in jail for I guess blocking traffic. Yeah, well,
because yesterday there were I think demonstrations like it says
in the seven states, including d C. And yeah, again,
it's there's nothing more dangerous to this existing power strikes
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we have in most of the world when you have
the poor and downtrodden folk in masses, realize who the
actual people are that are keeping them down because it's
easy to divide people along race lines or along religious
lines or whatever, and then yeah, whatever it is. But
the second you put everybody together, it's like, holy shit,
(24:38):
that's a very very it's it's frightening to again the
existing powers that be, and you know, they're really trying
to again with this poor People's movement, they're focusing on real,
like real issues that affect all people that are completely nonpartisan,
like in the purest form, you know, like whether it's
just focusing on like poverty for children, women, uh, lack
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of access to healthcare, or education. Education, Uh, basic civil
rights and things like that. People. Yeah, like these are
like real issues I have nothing to do with like
partisan politics. And that's what is freaky because that resonates
with anybody, you know what I mean. You don't have
to be an you can be you can be starving
and a Democrat, or you can be starving and a
(25:24):
Republican and it doesn't really does not matter. So again,
I think this is something you know, we've talked about,
and I just I really urge people to to learn
up about this because I mean it's like one of
the one of the nice bright spots in terms of
the kind of advocacy um that is that's a current.
May I break it down for stupid people. Yeah, I
(25:46):
had a friend in high school name m and my
man was slanging is dick everywhere in high school. Okay,
I mean not a jigglo. He just had game. He
had colored eyes. You know what I'm saying. There's always
that one nigga who's just like man, these if you
didn't have these colored eyes, he'd be a regular ass nigga. Yeah,
(26:08):
but all right, so he was slaying it. And what
he would do was he would be slaying with mad
girls who were all in our school, and he would
work effortlessly, like just like so much to make sure
that they never ever liked each other. So he would
always be like, hey, yo, like we said this ship
about you and oh yo, this ship about you yo yo.
(26:32):
These were what these girls and why he was doing
that was because he knew if they ever all hung out,
they would mind out that he was sucking all of them.
M And that's what's going on here. Than we are?
Who are we? We are your jack? You gotta real
and don't I don't want to tell you what happens,
(26:53):
but you got a real uh vibe. I'll tell you
hurt your feelings? What man, I can't believe I'm using
these real names. We're gonna bleep this. No, no, I'll
tell you what happened already. She was one who's played
the most, you know, played the most, and then in
the end she just ended up marrying him. But she
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didn't know the whole time she was being played everybody else,
you know what I mean? And that's what these white
like this one percent, this power structure is doing to us,
is they're playing all of us. What they do is
eight it's not us, it's the immigrants us. You know
why you're not getting jobs white men because black people
(27:34):
are taking them through affirmative action because black panther came out. Yeah,
and then and then they make black man fight black women.
They make everyone's fighting each other, and we're not realizing
that this power structure is winning and gets it in
every night. I'm glad you have a nice way to
tie it all together for every instance. Listen, I should
have been an educator, but the problem is my metaphors
(27:57):
would get me in trouble. You would use metaphors about
the people in the classroom, like, look, we all know that.
Everybody you know that, Mr Mum, I know Okay, now
who's in a fight right now? You know how Ricky
always be stinking all the time. You know how Ricky
always be stinking. Teachers really do gossip about that ship.
We interviewed a bunch of teachers that get cracked for
(28:19):
the thing we were doing, and they were like, yeah,
we got so much about the students. Pathetic because yeah,
you realize, like when that's your day job, it's almost
like the kids are your coworkers, which is what absurd
to think about. But it's true. Yeah, high school students,
You think your teachers don't know that you were like
out getting sucked up this weekend? They know they snitches.
(28:40):
Oh man, we had an epic. I remember my high school.
We thought there was a narc because like the dean
found out about a party and like sat my entire
classroom like, we know, did you go to a boarding academy? No,
just like Catholic high school and everyone, Like we were
obsessed with this idea of who the narc was and
it was like just this complete It was like the
fucking what's that m Night Shamalan movie, like the village
(29:01):
kind of ship. Were like we were just sort of
like fearing a thing that did not exist, that we
had self created. I don't know if that's it sounds
like an m nice that is what happened, and it
keeps them in that and it keeps us in the thing.
We're like, oh shoo, who the nark? And like we
were devising the craziest ways to party. Like that's how
my dad would punish us. He would come in and
be like, I know what you did, right, And then
we'd be like how the teacher find out? We don't
(29:23):
know I think it's so it wasn't. I don't know
that's and that's what we suspected. And then he got
excommunicated from was he always rolling around dressed up like
a wolf. Now he got in trouble for like having
like he had. He got in trouble for like bringing
weed or some ship. In our mind, we were like,
you see, they already got that ship on him. So
the way he's gonna get out of it like it
was like a fucking Rico case or something. It's a
(29:45):
good movie. I think it's a good movie. Village. I
think it's a good movie. It's just solid. I think people.
I think it hit people at a time when they
were just like tired of his twist endings. But I
thought it was a better twist ending than fucking Signs. Yeah, definitely.
I thought. I thought Signs get to pass because it's
just like where it fell in his career. And then
the village gets hated on I think too much. I
(30:06):
agree with you, but it's like it's the message behind
it is so solid. Yeah. I met somebody who passed
out in the theater watching Signs because it was too
intense for them. That and I will never respect that person. Yeah,
that movie dumb, and it was the part where the
alien walks by it behind the camera and the birthday party.
They shout out to my person. Literally they said they
(30:27):
seized up, like not had a seizure, but just like
tensed up and then just passed out, and they to
stop the fucking movie so the paramedics could take this
person out who couldn't handle an alien walking back in
a home video of a birthday party. Shout out to
my boy Dean Dobbs, who I met very very dope YouTuber.
I met him at the Sundance Institute. We met because
everyone was introducing themselves and he said I saw the
(30:49):
movie Signs and I wanted to make movies. And I
busted out laughing because I was ever heard. But I
respect Dean. I think he's but I was like, I
need to watch that movie again because apparently it's inspiring
a generation of filmmakers and if I don't appreciate it,
then like I'm just like not going to get movies
for the next twenty years. And like, yeah, what is this?
(31:11):
And this all start with the aesthetic of Signs. It
starts off with Homeboy's wife getting crushed right, No, it
ends with that. That's like a reveal towards the end.
Do you think it starts out like that, because that's
how a scary movie for starts out right, right. It's
then the car, the car. That's a bad look. When
(31:32):
I'm complaining before, I mean it is they're stealing that
scene from sign like yeah, it's like those thieves scream
to you, I never remember the scene and scream to
where the knife goes through the person's ear because they
put it up to the Glory Hall because of the
scene where the dick goes through. Uh, the guys here,
(31:54):
I think Wayne's brothers shout out to the Waynes brothers.
Except where for Damon Wayne's he's deep in that ship
right now. Have y'all go google Damon Wayne's when you
guys are done with this and see what's happening to
him Right now, he's getting roasted on Twitter. Why for
the lethal weapon show. Yeah, everyone talk about that one dude.
(32:15):
Everyone is blaming him for what the guy getting fired. Yeah,
they all think it's Damon Wayne's fault, and niggas is
just like, of course, of course you do this. Oh
you're such a cry baby diva of course the black
guy would ruin this um he's getting. I don't know.
I guess I think it's really like that show Lethal Weapon,
(32:36):
and they like that dude, which is so confusing because
when I watched the show, I watched it because of
Damon Wayne. I don't know who the funk that dude
is right now, the guys Sean Williams, Scott or whatever,
right and people are so mad. They're like, I'm telling
you go on Damon Wayne's Twitter right now because he
was trying to release videos of like what happened was
they let that dude direct an episode and then Damon
Wayne's got injured in the process and was really upset
(32:59):
about it because people had told him, hey, don't do
this and stuff like that. But the guy still was
just like, no, I want to do this certain special effect,
and they like cut into Damon Wayne's head. Oh no
not Yeah. The other kind of story of the moment
when it when it comes to politics, is that we're
(33:19):
gonna have to put that Trump Nobel Peace Prize just
on hold momentarily. I'm not saying it's not gonna happen,
but they're just is it's looking like the North Korea
talks might be in danger stalling out a little yeah,
stalling out a little bit um. And this is actually
how I know that I'm not a true partisan, because
(33:40):
when I heard this, I wasn't like I'm not rooting
against this, like I I actually like felt my stomach
sort of turn when I was like, fuck, they're fucking
this up this morning, because I don't know, like I
I don't want North Korea to be holding a nuclear
weapon pointed at my family and me all the time.
(34:02):
So basically, North Korea is threatening to reconsider peace talks
uh if the US and South Korea don't knock off
their military exercises, um, because we'd already I guess, done
some naval exercise in April and apparently some other things
that are pissing them off. Kim Jong un doesn't like
the fact that Trump is saying the meeting is straight
(34:24):
up about denuclearization, like he did at the you know,
hostage release celebration greeting event uh directed by Michael bay
Uh and he got out a little bit over his
skis like you could tell that he'd already converted these
North Korea talks into like campaign talking points, and he
(34:47):
was like, yeah, you know, we're gonna get the nuclearization.
And you know, he totally forgot that Kim Jong un
was listening, because Kim Jong un was like, all right, man,
let's not spike the football just yet. We're we're not
totally on board with that. And around the same time,
John Bolton, our new head of who literally looks like
a fucking muppet, right, uh said basically the worst thing
(35:10):
he possibly could have He said exactly. He said that
we're planning to use the Libya model in conversations with
North Korea, which is basically evoking Kim Jong uns number
one fear about the talks because Libya denuclearized and you know,
not too long after that, their dictator was brutally murdered
(35:34):
in the streets by like mobs. Uh So, the one
reason that he has like raised like the the idea
that he would never take his nuclear weapons off the table.
Look what happens when you do, right is look what
happened to Libya, and fucking Bolton just straight up it's
crazy too because Kim John I think he took power
(35:54):
like the day after Gafi was killed, like his first
day in the job. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa and yeah,
like everyone was saying, don't say libya. So it's so easy.
But again, they are just so thirsty for a fucking win.
Can you wait until the ship is signed, wait until
the deal is broken? But you know, but I think
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people were a little naive and anyone and everyone, right
myself included, to sort of just immediate jumped to conclusion
because Trump was like, oh, he's he's really open to
do something. He's really gonna do something here. And to
know that the his his nuclear arsenal, is his only
bargaining ship in this thing, so he cannot give that
up just like that without any getting anything back. So
(36:38):
I don't know. I mean, Trump is a deal master,
so I guess we'll just wait and see. Oh wait,
he cave to China on the fucking ZTE deal the
telecoms deal or not the deal, but rather punishing them. Uh.
And then it's maybe who knows if Kim Jong un
is like, you know, let me see what I can
get out of this dude now too. But this follows
a pattern with North Korea of being like, yeah, we're down,
(36:58):
we're down, We're down, We're down, and the Hawks breakdown
or collapse Yeah, now that I'm totally bummed out about
the prospect of them falling apart, I'm realizing I'm becoming
very pessimistic about the likeliness that they succeed because we're
basically counting on too like overly sensitive and capricious, pathological narcissists,
(37:20):
not to offend each other. Like before, in the lead
up or during this meeting, and I don't know, North Korea,
it seemed like they were just like, you know, eyes
on the prize. They were focused on doing this meeting
and accomplishing whatever South Korea had convinced them to accomplish.
But now that they've sort of wobbled a little bit,
(37:40):
I feel much less optimistic about where this is headed.
I won't lie. Had a little bit of hope. You
get too crazy together like that for all you know,
I speak the same way. You can't be saying I'm
talking to a crazy person. But if you're both crazy,
I mean, they're just like, well, you know, on the
same page. I just wish that everything I didn't have
to like, I do appreciate the government being transparent, but
(38:03):
it's like with Trump, it's like one he's always lying
to us, so it's not transparency. It's like, so just
hold off. He just likes to make it look things
much better than they are. But you know, uh, it's
it's not totally dead in the water, but it's just
it's just I think what it is just a reality check.
They're like, yo, hold the funk up, bro, don't go
being like, hey, they're gonna fully denuclearize and we're gonna
(38:24):
give him nothing back, because that was their main thing,
is that like if these talks are just for you
to come to Singapore and be like, come up off
your nuclear weapons and that's it. They're like, no, we're
not doing that. And so I think, you know, obviously
he's trying to set himself up Kim Jong to be like, Okay,
we are going to have to work on ship to
be concessions made for this to be a reasonable negotiation.
(38:45):
But you know, we'll see. Pompeo is dangling the idea
that once they denuclearize, American businesses will pour in and
invest in, uh, you know, North Korean infrastructure, and you
in North Korea when you look at the globe from
space at night, like all the other countries are lit up,
(39:05):
in North Korea is just completely dark. There's a lot
of infrastructure to add to that country and a lot
of money to be made. So Pompeo was saying that
you're going to see a lot of American businesses if
we open up trade with North Korea and if they
are willing to do nuclearize. So that's that's a bargaining
chip we have. But I mean it's also a bargaining
chip that we had with Iran. And uh, you didn't
(39:28):
see a ton of American business poor in there, because yeah,
we did define it seemed like who knew what was
going to happen with with the nuclear deal and now
we've shown that we back out of those. So uh,
you said that there is a meaning behind your a
k the Paul Gonzalez thing. Uh, No, Paul is a scammer.
(39:52):
Uh And maybe this will help people in the southern
California area. But this is a man who's on dating apps,
who is um going off first days with women and
then yeah, that's yes, faugin ZoZ is the dining dash dater.
He is going out here and taking women off for
his days and then he is leaving. Yeah before the check.
(40:14):
It's usually the thing is they show up. He's like oh,
I came here early and already already, but I'm down
to eat again. And so the waiter will come match
the order the thing, and then he'll bone out with
leaving her like with the fucking check while he's had
a whole steak dinner. And it's the first day. So
you don't know this person and he's meeting these women
on apps like go On, go On Jesus and Merrow's
(40:36):
YouTube channel because they've talked about a couple of times.
Is hilarious because yeah, like one of the recent times,
one of the managers the restaurant recognized he kicked him
out and then comp this woman's meal because he was like,
it's okay, queen, Like, I'm sorry about him, but listen,
that's a dope scam. I don't. I don't. I don't
want to encourage men to do that, because look, when
(40:57):
women go on days like that, check up and then
if you want to do half, that's cool, but you're
never gonna see me again. But no, we're not going
half on the first day. I'm a queen. You used
to go ahead and pick that up. You can't afford me,
and if you dave somebody who can't if you if
you both broke, it's cool because then you're both broke.
But if one of you is not broke and the
other one is, then you make the other person broke
(41:18):
because then yeah, yeah, exactly, and then you put your
sink a little bit. She was fired. But all I'm
saying is is like, that's a great scam. My man's
just out here really dying. They've made articles about him.
Women are pissed. If you google him, you can see
his face. He's like moderately attractive. He looks I think
he lives with his mom too or something. He's like running.
(41:41):
He like lived around the corner of his mom. There's
there's many demensions. He's like, hey, queen, let's go out
to Master Steakhouse tonight. Yeah, but think about it. If
you're a woman, and you probably I mean, if you
live in that l a ship. We will be out
here just rolling the dice with dudes and be like,
well why not, Paul, He's like, oh, I want to
meet you that Christy right, He's like, I want to
(42:01):
teach you at Mastro's. Queen. Like the sides there his
top line looking to stop looking. Oh that's a scald
kind of guy, you could get seriously disarming, you like
that looking to stop looking. Yo, that's good for my
wallet because that's what Oh, I forgot my wallet, my
(42:22):
favorite first you may be looking for me. I've done
that before, you know, on a date. I forgot your wallet.
Oh you lost your Oh shit, I can't believe I
forgot my wallet. You can't say oh ship like that. Miles.
You said oh ship before you even started pet your pocket.
I can see you. That's not good. The devil knows
their own you have done, not like because he just
(42:46):
said you did it. I don't know. Look, it's a
comedy show. That's a bit. That's not a big guys.
Luckily you got the Hey. People don't don't put it
out there like that, good guy. Hey, what is that?
I'm also mad at Paul Man. That's my scam right well,
(43:06):
for that was supposed to be for women. I mean, look,
I guess some people are out there going, duh, that's
good for y'all. Women need to start doing that. Just
go scam. I showed up to the day. You don't
have to wear makeup. You know much makeup costs? Okay,
I paid already. I know a lot of dudes who
feel like they have girls that they're seeing on these
(43:27):
apps who are just using them for free meals. Like
that was someone I did someone in college like that.
I did this volleyball player. Oh my god. I was like,
I loved her, and she would only hit me up
to eat. It was always she would be like, oh,
what's up. I'm like, oh, yeah, you want to kid.
She's like, yeah, I'm hungry. You hungry, And then we're
always eating. And then I remember one time I was like,
I brought it up. I was like, why do we
(43:48):
always eat? Like when we're doing this, she got so
defensive and I was like, that's when I realized, don't know,
why do you always eat? Yeah, well, guys, if you
want to know the chicks into you, like, I don't know,
take the business to the park, go walk on the beach.
That's cute. And on the first day you're not rounding me.
But she got her meals. We can go to a
park during the daytime. It so much fresh office. That's
(44:10):
not when you're in college. You were store and you're
and you're slinging bags on the side to get a
Brookstone sound machine. You don't have the you don't have
to back. And at that point I sat through some
pretty rough dates because I was like, oh food, we'll
be right back, And we're back. Now we're going to
(44:39):
get onto something that is currently blowing the minds of
everybody in our office, um and the internet. It is
the Laurel or Yanni debate. So let's let's just hear.
Let's let's just get right into it. Let's hear this
piece of audio. Um, and everyone tell us, we don't
tell us. You know, we can't talk to you is
the one way medium. But did you hearing? Yeah, Laurel
(45:01):
or Laurel okay? Now Laurel again, Laurel, Laurel, Laurel, Laurel okay,
Well can hear it? Lay here? Laurel or Yanni? Oh yeah,
I don't hear that little lady in the back. Like hell.
(45:23):
We have established that Lacy had superhearing, Like we were
playing this high pitched thing in our old studio that
only people who are like under a certain age are
supposed to be able to hear because their ears haven't
just been completely fucked yet, and Lacey was the only
person who was able to hear it, like the full
frequency range of protect these little drums, right, so as
(45:50):
really reflects on people with your hearing. Are Laurel? You're Laurel? Right,
I hear Laurel. I heard Laurel all day yesterday. I
heard Laurel when we just listen to it there, but
all morning this morning I heard a version of it
that sounded like Yanni and started hearing Yanni and I
hadn't been able to hear Laurel again until just then.
So no, you didn't hear that. Was watching a rerun
(46:11):
of Jersey Shore where Nicky was like right, yeah, it
was like, um, but this is basically when that dress
thing happened, where like some people saw it as black
and blue and some people saw it as white and gold.
So see, now I got to keep listening to this
like a sociopath or something, because when I saw the
blue dress, I first saw it as a blue dress,
(46:32):
and then I started looking at that ship just forever,
and then it was white to me, and I could
go back and forth. So now I need to listen
to this until it's Yanni because I need to be enlightened. Right, yeah,
so I don't it sounds like Laurel. Laurel second or
for a second, Laurel. No, did you change that, Nick?
(46:56):
What you're doing? Nick? The first time you played it
sounded like Yanni. Yeah. I think what happened is because
Lacey was saying something, it sort of disrupted my hearing
for a second that I hear it. So aren't they
saying that it's a combination of like Yanni is in
there too, but it's at a higher frequency or something,
but you can't hear them both at the same time,
(47:16):
And when you're hearing one, you like can't hear the other.
It's crazy because when I was hearing Yanni earlier, I
couldn't hear Laurel at all, and you can only hear you.
I could only hear Yanni, and now I can only
hear Laurel. Like an auditory illusion, kind of those ones
where it's like where you see like those like on
an electric sign, where looks like something spinning and you
can't tell which direction it sping. Have we been in
(47:37):
the room with people who are hearing different things but
they're in the same room. Yes yesterday Caitlyn Darante and
Jamie Lofts were in here and Caitlin Darante heard Yanni
and Jamie Loft is heard Laurel. We were all hearing Laurel.
And then just now in Nick's booth, I was hearing
Yanni and everybody else was hearing Laurel. Okay, because all
about the same. Maybe it's just with us, it's like
(48:00):
it's it's crazy. So when the dress thing happened, they
were like these articles saying it was all about how
our visual cortex interacts with a light reflecting off surfaces
in our visual frame. There's like this wire article where, uh,
they were saying, our visual system is supposed to throw
away information. But I've studied individual differences in color vision
(48:20):
for thirty years and I just never really bought that
that it was like a color specific thing. And now
I think I'm vindicated. I think this is proof that
it's it's not just colors, it's basically how our senses
interact with our brain. Um. There's this book Incognito by
David Eagleman that is one of my favorite nonfiction books
(48:41):
that everybody should read. But uh, he talks about how
there are way more nerves traveling from our brain to
our eyes in that direction than from our eyes to
our brain. Uh So, in other words, we see with
our eyes but we also to a large degree see
with our memory, Like our memory fills in a lot
of our visual field with just what it knows is
(49:01):
they're based on what you've seen in the past and
in context. So if that's true, and if that applies
to all of our you know, sensory perception organs, then
you know you're bringing so much of your memory and
your personal experience to everything you hear that it is
(49:21):
going to be totally different to different people basically, um.
And I think, like, I don't know, think about how
completely different it sounds when you hear a song for
the first time, to like when you hear it for
the seventh time and you absolutely love it, too when
you hear it for the hundredth time and you're just
like so tired of this song, It's like it sounds
(49:42):
like a different song. And I don't know, I feel
like that's partially what's happening with how this is hitting
our brains. I don't think I'm ever gonna hear yoanni.
I think if I do, I'm gonna have to like
bring the audio tracking, the logic and start like fucking
with the speed of it or something, because that's what
what's crazy is that this thing has even like Mother
(50:04):
Jones is writing about it and ship and like they
have like they were linking to tweets where someone was
pitching it up and down in different directions and different
uh quantities or whatever, and they're saying, like you can
hear Yanni at certain levels. But honestly, I'm team Laurel.
So I've been both. Man, I've been to the other.
Show it the other. That's why I want to go.
(50:26):
I wanna make sure my chakras are online that. Yeah,
I gotta hear them both. Yeah, tea before make sure
all your Marinian is moving right. Yeah. So super producer
Nick Stump was just asking if there is like a
definitive answer for what is actually being said in the
same way that once you saw the dress it yeah
(50:47):
it was blue and black like we always said, and
all those other people were crazy. Uh, there is only
one answer. It is Laurel. Okay that I'm just saying
that because I my ego can't handle anything. Yeah, so
I don't know all I will, I guess. Super producer
Nick Stuff just ruined it for us and found out
that it's from vocabulary dot com. When you type in
the word Laurel and have its speech it back to you.
(51:08):
The text speech It says Laurel, and obviously there's not
gonna be no Yanni because that's a name of one
of the greatest vocalists of our time. I don't buy it.
All right, Well, we don't have to know big news,
big news. All right, that's gonna do it for this
week's weekly zeit. Guys, please like and review the show.
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If you like the show, uh means the world to Miles.
He he needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having
a great weekend and I will talk to him Monday.
By
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Really, what is something that's overwritten? Man?
I know some people are gonna be upset at me
for this, but man, reality competition shows, bro, Reality competition
shows are whacked. Listen. I'm tired of senior Instagram stories
that you and your friends watching Dance with the Stars
or American Idol or The Bachelor. I hate all of it.
(00:44):
It's all stupid. It's let's bring substance back to television.
So what do you what do you propose? I want
to say, so, if that's what's the air that that's
breathing up all these reality competitions, what's the air? You know?
But I'm saying like that's taking the space of something
that you think it's more worthy of it. I think
for everyone reality competition show, we should have to Atlantas
(01:06):
Damn Okay, Like if we can have that, but let's
bring some substance out, man. You know what I'm saying, Like,
I think that they're winning. We're I think these reality
competition shows are getting us so close to like some
Hunger Games type ship that we don't even realize it.
Oh eventually, yeah, I mean we're dumbing us down nearly
doing the Running Man. The Running Man film will be
a real life thing. That's how, That's how we're gonna
pick the next president. It's just like yeah, yeah, god,
(01:31):
I mean yeah, I don't know if the president could
even run, but that would be interesting. I mean, somebody
needs to test that theory that we've been talking about
that like he believes that he's that he believes he's
good at sports and that he could like make a
Major League Baseball team if he just tried out. Like
somebody needs saying that you should make the you should
make the next election a physical competition. Absolutely, like some
(01:55):
American Gladiators type ship. Yeah, I feel like Gladiators. Ready, Yeah,
I'm all that done that they would have with the
nerve balls and oh yeah yeah. Yeah. It's just a
matter of time you're saying before that becomes an actual gun,
an actual yeah, because like we're just trying to get
like healthcare. I was watching Dancing with the Stars and
I was not watching. I was watching. I watched people's
(02:16):
instagram stories. Every morning I take a poop and I
watched all of you guyss instagram sor and I was
watching somebody cheer the funk on for Tanya Harden and
I was like, what is happening? Right? This is Tanya
Harding and you guys are going while I'll be like, oh,
look at her do the step, And I'm like, yo, okay,
is there a reality show that you like, the reality
competent show that you would there's one that everyone has
(02:37):
trash exactly. So this is the This is my favorite
thing about these kinds of sentiments, Right, It's like there's
ones you don't like, but then there's the ones that
you do like, and you probably it's on MTV. What's
it called? Man? Are you the one? Are you the one? Yes?
It's very ridiculous. Get ten guys and ten girls and
(02:58):
you locked them in this house, right, and then you
go and then you you're missing a operative ten emotionally
stunted men and ten emotionally stunted women that are very
desperate for a connection. And then what you do is
you tell them that you've had like matchmakers and psychologists
and love gurus guarantee them that within this house they
(03:20):
have a perfect match, that there are ten perfect matches
in this house, and but there's only one way to
find out, and it's to send someone into the Truth Booth,
where you can only do it once a week. So
here's what always happens. You're trying to get these ten
perfect matches so you guys can split a million dollars.
And what always happens is that first match that they
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sent into the Truth Booth, everyone's just like, yo, these
people are in love. We know it's certainly they're definitely
in love, and they go into Truth Booth and then
they're not a match. But those two people are like,
we really love each other, so we're not gonna we're
not gonna partake in any of the competitions. We're not
gonna date anybody else. It's just gonna be us. And
the rest of the show is everybody else trying to
(04:01):
convince that one pair not to be together anymore so
they can find the end of every episode. What they
do is like like if they win a challenge, they
could send someone in the Truth Booth to begin like
figuring out who's a match and then at the end
they all have to go to this like ceremony where
they all pair off together and sit down and then
like a list of pairs. Yeah, lights go on to
tell you how many matches you get, but you don't
(04:23):
know who they are, so you're just like, oh, we
got four right this week. We don't know who the
pairs are, so you need to be mixing it up
every week. But that one couple is just like not
just love them. I love him, I'm not going to separate.
I don't care what about the money. And then everyone's like, yo, bitch,
you're about Yeah. It's crazy too because a lot of
people you see how they're like how they really repeat
their patterns, are like, you know, I always date guys
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like this, and I'm really worried about a lot and
then they just end up falling for them anyway. And
how long are they locked in? Ten weeks? Yeah, it's
like a ten episode show. Oh and each week is
an episode. Yeah, I think, uh, if you just basically
want to like for me, thing I love about it
for being in my early thirties and now is like
looking back and realizing the chaos that you have mentally
(05:05):
of like trying to like, you know, if you really
want your match, or what it means to date, or
how you even process that. You're like, oh, wow, like
I always date really shitty people or whatever, and how
these people completely disregard that because they just feel like, well,
my perfect match is here, so I'm just going to
project that onto you. It's a microcosm of dating in
your twenties because truly, like everyone around him just like,
this person is trash and you're stepping in our way
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of success by dating this person. But they're like, I
don't care. And there's always one ugly person every season
who knows that, like it's gonna be hard for them
to find their match, and they're all about the money,
like that's all they care about. So that was the
person being like, yo, let's get this money. Let's get
this money, because they know it. But there is somebody
else who has statistically or you know, scientifically, like very
(05:48):
loosely termed scientifically, been deemed to be the ugly person's match,
and everyone, ever, everybody's worried that it's them, and everyone's
avoiding that person and not trying to do it's so
but then people come around too, you know, because then
people were like, man, I really was actually feeling that person.
Maybe I'd be honest with Remember that one time they
added an eleventh girl. Yeah that was a problem. That
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was a very so, very very reality, right exactly, you
just don't step for this one. You know what overrated
was people putting Dancing with the Stars on their Instagram.
I want to apologize to an hose name if I
friended her by bringing up the Bachelor. Oh yeah, you
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know what, but you know you're you're overrated on this show?
Is gonna stop her? Check super producer? Is uh you host?
You produced a Bachelor podcast? Right? What is it called?
Will You Accept This? Rosen? Okay? And it's hosted by
h Okay So it's not on this network, but you
know we should love anyway. Um, we took one step
(06:51):
closer to being the dystopian timeline from back to the
future to where Biff is president this morning. Um, you
know that that's the the timeline where they based Biffs,
like future the future version of Biff off of Donald Trump,
Like all the way back in the eighties, they were like,
this is what it would look like if Donald Trump
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was president. They actually said that, like yeah, yeah, they
people who worked on the movie said that that was
at least partial part of the inspiration for the Biff character,
because he built his empire by, you know, off of gambling,
and Trump at that point was a casino owner. So
some people have been pointing out, you know, similarities between
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that version of reality and hours now that they actually
called it, and uh that Biff is president. So in
another thing come true from that world. The Supreme Court
ruled today that states can determine if they want to
allow gambling. Um, so you know, we just gotta make
sure he doesn't find that almanac. Yeah, yeah, it's big
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win for New Jersey and uh, most of my ends,
but not you know, bad bad day for Las Vegas
probably presumably, uh but yeah, so um, you know, supporters
argue this is just directly from the New York Times
article on it. Supporters argue that legalization will produce revenue
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for the states and critically weaken illegal sports betting operations,
which makes sense. It's like organized crime bout out to right.
But people who are against it say that legalizing sports
gambling will you know, hook young people on gambling, which
young people are too broke to be. Uh me and
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I feel like fantasy sports already kind of does that
because they monetized fantasy sports. Uh. And also they're worried
that it will encourage people of modest means to squander
their savings and earnings and correct. I mean, that is
definitely a worry because I know some people who have
who have had gambling problems, and that once gambler takes
over your brain like it did Marge Simpson, it's hard
(09:02):
to come back. But when I look at this though, too,
is that a lot of people been talking about how
this is actually a good sign for the effort to
have ICE like enforce their sort of deportation orders in
sanctuary cities, because sort of the same thing of like, uh,
they're trying to conscript a lot of local police officers
to actually enforce these immigration laws, and those are things
(09:22):
that the states they say, well, no, that's in our
purview to actually determine whether or not we want to
do this. So this this ruling also would help I
guess people who are worried about sort of like the
invasion of ICE coming into cities to deport people, there
is actually a pretty good signal that it'll be probably
difficult to do that states right, states rights. Yeah, so
I don't know, it'll be interesting. They're also worried that
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it will corrupt professional and college sports, but I mean, well,
it's not like that's ever happened with soccer in Europe.
Wait it has, so who knows. But it's funny to
think about, like when it comes to like with this
issue about what happens, because I want to see this
country burned, you know what I mean, And I want
to see it in weird, funny ways where it's just
(10:04):
like online bet online, But do you gamble? No? I
don't do you gamble? No, it's against my religion. I
worship the hawk that's from No, I don't gamble. I
mean yeah, well, let's be real. I I used to.
I like to, I like play dice here in there.
I like to wait a bet on sports. Okay, wait
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wait wait wait wait wait wait, let's I know. I
know you want a cute time, but like, I find
all you very interesting. But he is sometimes you said
these small things that as on the black part of me.
He's like all right, but the inquisitive side the podcast,
I'm like, what that's going on? Let play a little
cel why not? Wait you know what your valley dude,
But you got an Englewood hard man, you know what, Like, yeah, look,
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my family's all over the city. Now wait, have you
have you shaken him up to the point where like
someone tried to steal your money? No? No, no, because
like everyone I played would never had that much money
in it. Were like, you know it, really want to
hang out with you, bro. Your world is like BT
and Vice comes together. It's like I was talking about
all the weird ecstasy hacks and ship I was doing.
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Have you have you played dice? No I haven't. You
gotta shake them up, so yeah, we just have a
we'll do it live. You've got a good corner right here,
right there. You've got a good enough real because you
get to play dice, you know, you gotta have a
good solid corner. And I mean pull the carpet back
a little bit because you don't have to dice hit. Yeah,
you can't have anything bouncing off it because when you
when they hit the floor, they gotta do a good role.
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So there's the one dude that plays dice, like, wait,
how did it bounce? Though? You know what I mean,
he's loaded. It's always like doing a little bit older
than you. He owes everyone money. He's trying to but yeah,
because it'll be interesting to think about, Like what happens
with the story? Do you guys follow stories like this? Yeah,
of course I follow every story. But I mean this
is you know, like anything right, this is just the
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first shot that says, Okay, well we've seen now that
the floodgates can open now for this kind of gambling.
I think in a few months from now, we'll see
who the real kind of steak holders are and who
really funny you know funny who who benets from all
these things? Like what these were interesting new addictions? Is
like my ohole therapist he broke down to me about
how much him his colleagues make, but trying to find
(12:12):
new ways to open up new groups and new focuses
and what not. But even something like this, like he said,
like what he said in a list, He's like, you
know what's funny, He's like, what people such as younger people,
as people of a certain incomes to people who start
making money, we need to make more money. Is that
when it comes to stuff like the internet, funny ways
you know people are internet so like more therapist, But
he said gambling, but internet gambling. So I just kind
of always wonder. It's not like they're not they're at
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the top of the people who founded a profit from this,
but I always wonder about, like what we're The one
thing that we don't talk about is like trying to
curb new addictions, right, and this is so immediate. But
that's why this could be interesting because if you can
just lose ten grand on your phone from like placing vets,
because you're like, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna
put another and wins from that people who are pair
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cell phone screens, you know what I mean. At the
whole is like, so I want to just give a
quick update on Israel and the coverage of what happened yesterday.
Um The New York Times was hailed for changing their headline.
They changed it from Palestinian protesters killed as US embassy
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opens in Jerusalem. They changed it to Israel kills dozens
at Gaza border, which referring to people who have been
killed as dozens. It's like, I don't know what I
was expecting them to, like make it Baker's dozen of
people killed by Israeli. They also the New York times
is calling it rifle fire when it's sniper fire, like
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sniper rifles, which I don't know that's important. A lot
of there's just a lot of softening. Yeah, they're scaring
a lot of what is going on there? And so
I I admitted something this morning I'm not proud of.
But I so I knew Gaza Strip, West Bank. I
had a sense that that was where are the conflict
between Palestinians and Israeli's happened, but I had never really
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like gone and read like specifically what is the Gaza Strip,
what is the West Bank? Uh? And like where are
they on in the country and how it works? So uh,
in case anybody's as stupid as me, and you call
yourself a journalist, jack, I don't, uh, And you call
yourself a second rate podcaster, Jack, I do? Yes? Thanks? On. So,
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Gaza is on the west coast, uh. Their borders are
completely controlled by Israeli forces, even on the ocean side. UH.
And they're basically being starved with an economic blockade. UM.
A guy named Norman Finkelstein, who is a leftist left
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dish thinker who has pointed out that of the water
and the Gaza Strip is more poisonous than the water
in Flint. So this is why and all so Gaza
is the most populated, most densely populated region in the
world because so much so many of the people have
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been you know, forced out off of their land and
into that small strip of land. So that's just to
give you a kind of some context on you know,
who is going towards the fence and being shot by
Israeli snipers. You know, where's gal Gado at? I don't know.
I'm I just don't understand, Like where are these she's
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keeping for the idea? Probably yeah, but where are these
like celebrities I missed that, who are like out here
talking that talk? But when there's these clear blazing if
this ship was happening in America or I'll put it
this way, and this might really get me into trouble,
but if the ship was happening a white woman, like
where the funk would gal Gadole be at? Like you
know what I'm saying, And like it makes me so
mad that we sit like they sit here and everyone's
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like talking about like these like anti Semitism stuff and
like trying to demonize the other side when we're literally
watching people be slaughtered for just peacefully protesting. And I
understand that some people might have gotten violent, but again,
I've been listening to NPR in the car, and it
sounds like these people were just like, Yo, let's just
demonstrate how hard it is over here, and then again
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and fucking sniped and she like that. Well, I mean,
they're trying to look like this pretty charged up that
I can't say that it's like, you know, non violent
in the sense that like it looks like what the
marches look like in the Civil rights where people just
kind of I mean, there's a lot at stake for
these people, so it's hard for them to be do
anything but literally try and fight for their exist They're
running towards a fence, so basically Israel is trying to
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stop them from getting to the fence, as as though
if they get to the fence, they'll be able to
like bust through and go directly into Israel. But there's
like also another like thing they would have to get through,
and then they could easily be arrested on the other
side if they did make it through all of that.
But we got some feedback from people who were saying
(16:56):
that Israel should be allowed to defend itself and complaining about,
you know what happened yesterday is you know, missing the point,
But I don't know, defend themselves against what. I would
directly ask one of those people to tell me, defend
themselves against what do you think these people are coming
over there to do. That's what I'm saying. Where the
number is about the number of injured idf SO soldiers. Yeah,
(17:16):
I'm not gonna deny that. There are different sides of
the story that are being given, and it's hard to
get a completely unbiased take on anything, but the bottom
line is there were over sixty Palestinians killed by sniper fire.
Uh and there a baby right, including a baby, and
U zero deaths or even injuries among Israeli soldiers. So
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that's not a that's not a fair fight, that's not
self defense, and it's killing innocent people. It's pure hatred.
Because I was listening to an interview from the guy
and he was saying like, basically, my idea was if
there's a bunch of us, they can't stop all of us.
And when I was listening to that, I was like,
this dude is talking about pure desperation. At this point,
like he's just like, I'm trying to get us a win.
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All right, We're gonna bring in some producer around Hosia
here Hi. I just want to say that a lot
of people don't understand that there is a serious buffer
zone between the Palestinians and where the Israelis are. Palestinians
are zero threat to any Israeli civilian. They're nowhere near them.
The amount of yeah, like what Jack was saying, there's
a fence and then there's like three other fences, so
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you can't just hop over and be attack or a
threat to any Israeli civilian. And it's not how it
works there. There's a buffer zone, and I think people
need to understand that that a lot of these people
are just civilian. They're like older women, they're older men there.
You know there's young people too, but they're not people
that could actively go and harm any Israeli soldier. So
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I think there's a lot of blind spots in the
media when it comes to that, is they're not really
describing what's happening out there. They're just saying there's protests.
You see a photo of people running around and and
smoke and stuff, and they're like, oh, it's crazy. Yeah,
that's not the full story, and yeah, I think that's well.
I think what hopefully what the the media shift will
begin to actually uh showcase or rather illuminate for people
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what the situation is for these people and why they
are struggling to exist, because I think we only look
at it from one side in terms of saying, oh,
these people killing protests and that's it, but it's not
why are these people protesting? What is their life situations? Like?
What is their existence like? Are they being treated with dignity?
Are they treated like human beings? Well, I think here's
what's gonna happen. And I like that you brought up
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the civil rights movement earlier, which is like I'm pretty
sure back in the sixties when Nicholas was watching it
on TV, there was like, well, of course the firefighters
have to hold them down they were coming at them,
or of course, and like all those people now and
when I look at that ship now, and you know,
my white classmates are all like, oh, well, you know,
if I was there, I would have been upset and
stuff like that. But it's happening now and we're getting
(19:54):
that side now, and we're doing the same spifications in
our head now with like, well, the Israelians have to
protect themselves, and forty years from now, our kids and
our grandkids are going to read all that ship and go,
how why do they do that? Why do they sniper
rifle them? And stuff like that, And it's the same
exact ship. We're justifying, the same exact ship. If you
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just read quotes from Israeli forces, if you read quotes
from uh We've spoken anecdotally about friends who have gone
to Israel for a little while and then come back,
and it's clear that there is an ideology in Israel,
in parts of Israel, in certain groups in Israel, that
(20:37):
doesn't view Palestinian people as human beings, and you like,
you can hear it, and yeah, the other is very severe,
and you know it's dehumanizing. Yeah, it's pretty wild. And
only a culture that doesn't view people as human would
be able to justify you know, I mean the only culture.
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Yeah that's like, oh the US too, right, people of color,
So you know it's everywhere, you know what I mean?
And so I think, God, this is all about are
we willing to look at people with dignity or are
we othering people so much that it's easy to perpetrate
this kind of ship against um. And I also do
want to mind everyone that these protests have been going
on for weeks as part of the Great March of Return,
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versus a lot of people are being like, oh, they're
just mad because them bassy open. It's like, no, they've
been out here protesting for for basically since nineteen being
like you took our home away. So in the past
handful of weeks, forty protesters have been killed by sniper
fire from the Israeli soldiers or over forty, so that
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is something that is fairly I mean it's not recent
in the sense that there's been Israeli forces, you know,
mistreating Palestinian people, but those protesters have been being shot
for weeks. Also, there's no real excuse for live fire
in this situation under any circumstances, because you could have
easily used a were bullet, knocked someone down and killed
(22:02):
no one, or just anything, tear gas whatever, anything any
other way, don't need to kill anybody ever. Yeah, with
sniper fire being the most impersonal, like just completely removed,
so you can't even say like, oh, they panicked because
they were like down there and riot gear and like
the people were coming at them. Now they were sitting
(22:23):
up in a sniper's nest taking people out. All right,
we're gonna take a break. We'll be right back, and
we're back. Uh trash. Yeah, speaking of dehumanizing people in
(22:44):
these United States of America's yeah, as we have to mention,
they're like redlining welfare for people in states like Michigan
and ship They're like, oh, if you live in the
rural part, you don't have to work because that's mostly white.
But if you urban center, well you better have a
job if you want these fucking benefits. Anyway, I digress. Yeah,
So we've talked about how, you know, the the idea
of uniting all poor people behind a campaign for you know, equality.
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Uh Is was Martin Luther King Jr. Is like last
great movement uh and was wildly unpopular and at the time,
and then he was assassinated in the middle of that movement.
He was in Memphis for a labor strike. And so
there's a guy named Reverend William Barber who is sort
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of picking that fight up and organizing large scale, long
term poor people's campaign that is expected the last six
weeks and thirty five different states and it started yesterday
and the Reverend William Barber, who is you know, in
his fifties and has is disabled like his legs don't
(23:55):
work that well, he has ankle problems, was tested and
put in jail for I guess blocking traffic. Yeah, well,
because yesterday there were I think demonstrations like it says
in the seven states, including d C. And yeah, again,
it's there's nothing more dangerous to this existing power strikes
(24:16):
we have in most of the world when you have
the poor and downtrodden folk in masses, realize who the
actual people are that are keeping them down because it's
easy to divide people along race lines or along religious
lines or whatever, and then yeah, whatever it is. But
the second you put everybody together, it's like, holy shit,
(24:38):
that's a very very it's it's frightening to again the
existing powers that be, and you know, they're really trying
to again with this poor People's movement, they're focusing on real,
like real issues that affect all people that are completely nonpartisan,
like in the purest form, you know, like whether it's
just focusing on like poverty for children, women, uh, lack
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of access to healthcare, or education. Education, Uh, basic civil
rights and things like that. People. Yeah, like these are
like real issues I have nothing to do with like
partisan politics. And that's what is freaky because that resonates
with anybody, you know what I mean. You don't have
to be an you can be you can be starving
and a Democrat, or you can be starving and a
(25:24):
Republican and it doesn't really does not matter. So again,
I think this is something you know, we've talked about,
and I just I really urge people to to learn
up about this because I mean it's like one of
the one of the nice bright spots in terms of
the kind of advocacy um that is that's a current.
May I break it down for stupid people. Yeah, I
(25:46):
had a friend in high school name m and my
man was slanging is dick everywhere in high school. Okay,
I mean not a jigglo. He just had game. He
had colored eyes. You know what I'm saying. There's always
that one nigga who's just like man, these if you
didn't have these colored eyes, he'd be a regular ass nigga. Yeah,
(26:08):
but all right, so he was slaying it. And what
he would do was he would be slaying with mad
girls who were all in our school, and he would
work effortlessly, like just like so much to make sure
that they never ever liked each other. So he would
always be like, hey, yo, like we said this ship
about you and oh yo, this ship about you yo yo.
(26:32):
These were what these girls and why he was doing
that was because he knew if they ever all hung out,
they would mind out that he was sucking all of them.
M And that's what's going on here. Than we are?
Who are we? We are your jack? You gotta real
and don't I don't want to tell you what happens,
(26:53):
but you got a real uh vibe. I'll tell you
hurt your feelings? What man, I can't believe I'm using
these real names. We're gonna bleep this. No, no, I'll
tell you what happened already. She was one who's played
the most, you know, played the most, and then in
the end she just ended up marrying him. But she
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didn't know the whole time she was being played everybody else,
you know what I mean? And that's what these white
like this one percent, this power structure is doing to us,
is they're playing all of us. What they do is
eight it's not us, it's the immigrants us. You know
why you're not getting jobs white men because black people
(27:34):
are taking them through affirmative action because black panther came out. Yeah,
and then and then they make black man fight black women.
They make everyone's fighting each other, and we're not realizing
that this power structure is winning and gets it in
every night. I'm glad you have a nice way to
tie it all together for every instance. Listen, I should
have been an educator, but the problem is my metaphors
(27:57):
would get me in trouble. You would use metaphors about
the people in the classroom, like, look, we all know that.
Everybody you know that, Mr Mum, I know Okay, now
who's in a fight right now? You know how Ricky
always be stinking all the time. You know how Ricky
always be stinking. Teachers really do gossip about that ship.
We interviewed a bunch of teachers that get cracked for
(28:19):
the thing we were doing, and they were like, yeah,
we got so much about the students. Pathetic because yeah,
you realize, like when that's your day job, it's almost
like the kids are your coworkers, which is what absurd
to think about. But it's true. Yeah, high school students,
You think your teachers don't know that you were like
out getting sucked up this weekend? They know they snitches.
(28:40):
Oh man, we had an epic. I remember my high school.
We thought there was a narc because like the dean
found out about a party and like sat my entire
classroom like, we know, did you go to a boarding academy? No,
just like Catholic high school and everyone, Like we were
obsessed with this idea of who the narc was and
it was like just this complete It was like the
fucking what's that m Night Shamalan movie, like the village
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kind of ship. Were like we were just sort of
like fearing a thing that did not exist, that we
had self created. I don't know if that's it sounds
like an m nice that is what happened, and it
keeps them in that and it keeps us in the thing.
We're like, oh shoo, who the nark? And like we
were devising the craziest ways to party. Like that's how
my dad would punish us. He would come in and
be like, I know what you did, right, And then
we'd be like how the teacher find out? We don't
(29:23):
know I think it's so it wasn't. I don't know
that's and that's what we suspected. And then he got
excommunicated from was he always rolling around dressed up like
a wolf. Now he got in trouble for like having
like he had. He got in trouble for like bringing
weed or some ship. In our mind, we were like,
you see, they already got that ship on him. So
the way he's gonna get out of it like it
was like a fucking Rico case or something. It's a
(29:45):
good movie. I think it's a good movie. Village. I
think it's a good movie. It's just solid. I think people.
I think it hit people at a time when they
were just like tired of his twist endings. But I
thought it was a better twist ending than fucking Signs. Yeah, definitely.
I thought. I thought Signs get to pass because it's
just like where it fell in his career. And then
the village gets hated on I think too much. I
(30:06):
agree with you, but it's like it's the message behind
it is so solid. Yeah. I met somebody who passed
out in the theater watching Signs because it was too
intense for them. That and I will never respect that person. Yeah,
that movie dumb, and it was the part where the
alien walks by it behind the camera and the birthday party.
They shout out to my person. Literally they said they
(30:27):
seized up, like not had a seizure, but just like
tensed up and then just passed out, and they to
stop the fucking movie so the paramedics could take this
person out who couldn't handle an alien walking back in
a home video of a birthday party. Shout out to
my boy Dean Dobbs, who I met very very dope YouTuber.
I met him at the Sundance Institute. We met because
everyone was introducing themselves and he said I saw the
(30:49):
movie Signs and I wanted to make movies. And I
busted out laughing because I was ever heard. But I
respect Dean. I think he's but I was like, I
need to watch that movie again because apparently it's inspiring
a generation of filmmakers and if I don't appreciate it,
then like I'm just like not going to get movies
for the next twenty years. And like, yeah, what is this?
(31:11):
And this all start with the aesthetic of Signs. It
starts off with Homeboy's wife getting crushed right, No, it
ends with that. That's like a reveal towards the end.
Do you think it starts out like that, because that's
how a scary movie for starts out right, right. It's
then the car, the car. That's a bad look. When
(31:32):
I'm complaining before, I mean it is they're stealing that
scene from sign like yeah, it's like those thieves scream
to you, I never remember the scene and scream to
where the knife goes through the person's ear because they
put it up to the Glory Hall because of the
scene where the dick goes through. Uh, the guys here,
(31:54):
I think Wayne's brothers shout out to the Waynes brothers.
Except where for Damon Wayne's he's deep in that ship
right now. Have y'all go google Damon Wayne's when you
guys are done with this and see what's happening to
him Right now, he's getting roasted on Twitter. Why for
the lethal weapon show. Yeah, everyone talk about that one dude.
(32:15):
Everyone is blaming him for what the guy getting fired. Yeah,
they all think it's Damon Wayne's fault, and niggas is
just like, of course, of course you do this. Oh
you're such a cry baby diva of course the black
guy would ruin this um he's getting. I don't know.
I guess I think it's really like that show Lethal Weapon,
(32:36):
and they like that dude, which is so confusing because
when I watched the show, I watched it because of
Damon Wayne. I don't know who the funk that dude
is right now, the guys Sean Williams, Scott or whatever,
right and people are so mad. They're like, I'm telling
you go on Damon Wayne's Twitter right now because he
was trying to release videos of like what happened was
they let that dude direct an episode and then Damon
Wayne's got injured in the process and was really upset
(32:59):
about it because people had told him, hey, don't do
this and stuff like that. But the guy still was
just like, no, I want to do this certain special effect,
and they like cut into Damon Wayne's head. Oh no
not Yeah. The other kind of story of the moment
when it when it comes to politics, is that we're
(33:19):
gonna have to put that Trump Nobel Peace Prize just
on hold momentarily. I'm not saying it's not gonna happen,
but they're just is it's looking like the North Korea
talks might be in danger stalling out a little yeah,
stalling out a little bit um. And this is actually
how I know that I'm not a true partisan, because
(33:40):
when I heard this, I wasn't like I'm not rooting
against this, like I I actually like felt my stomach
sort of turn when I was like, fuck, they're fucking
this up this morning, because I don't know, like I
I don't want North Korea to be holding a nuclear
weapon pointed at my family and me all the time.
(34:02):
So basically, North Korea is threatening to reconsider peace talks
uh if the US and South Korea don't knock off
their military exercises, um, because we'd already I guess, done
some naval exercise in April and apparently some other things
that are pissing them off. Kim Jong un doesn't like
the fact that Trump is saying the meeting is straight
(34:24):
up about denuclearization, like he did at the you know,
hostage release celebration greeting event uh directed by Michael bay
Uh and he got out a little bit over his
skis like you could tell that he'd already converted these
North Korea talks into like campaign talking points, and he
(34:47):
was like, yeah, you know, we're gonna get the nuclearization.
And you know, he totally forgot that Kim Jong un
was listening, because Kim Jong un was like, all right, man,
let's not spike the football just yet. We're we're not
totally on board with that. And around the same time,
John Bolton, our new head of who literally looks like
a fucking muppet, right, uh said basically the worst thing
(35:10):
he possibly could have He said exactly. He said that
we're planning to use the Libya model in conversations with
North Korea, which is basically evoking Kim Jong uns number
one fear about the talks because Libya denuclearized and you know,
not too long after that, their dictator was brutally murdered
(35:34):
in the streets by like mobs. Uh So, the one
reason that he has like raised like the the idea
that he would never take his nuclear weapons off the table.
Look what happens when you do, right is look what
happened to Libya, and fucking Bolton just straight up it's
crazy too because Kim John I think he took power
(35:54):
like the day after Gafi was killed, like his first
day in the job. He's like, whoa, whoa, whoa and yeah,
like everyone was saying, don't say libya. So it's so easy.
But again, they are just so thirsty for a fucking win.
Can you wait until the ship is signed, wait until
the deal is broken? But you know, but I think
(36:15):
people were a little naive and anyone and everyone, right
myself included, to sort of just immediate jumped to conclusion
because Trump was like, oh, he's he's really open to
do something. He's really gonna do something here. And to
know that the his his nuclear arsenal, is his only
bargaining ship in this thing, so he cannot give that
up just like that without any getting anything back. So
(36:38):
I don't know. I mean, Trump is a deal master,
so I guess we'll just wait and see. Oh wait,
he cave to China on the fucking ZTE deal the
telecoms deal or not the deal, but rather punishing them. Uh.
And then it's maybe who knows if Kim Jong un
is like, you know, let me see what I can
get out of this dude now too. But this follows
a pattern with North Korea of being like, yeah, we're down,
(36:58):
we're down, We're down, We're down, and the Hawks breakdown
or collapse Yeah, now that I'm totally bummed out about
the prospect of them falling apart, I'm realizing I'm becoming
very pessimistic about the likeliness that they succeed because we're
basically counting on too like overly sensitive and capricious, pathological narcissists,
(37:20):
not to offend each other. Like before, in the lead
up or during this meeting, and I don't know, North Korea,
it seemed like they were just like, you know, eyes
on the prize. They were focused on doing this meeting
and accomplishing whatever South Korea had convinced them to accomplish.
But now that they've sort of wobbled a little bit,
(37:40):
I feel much less optimistic about where this is headed.
I won't lie. Had a little bit of hope. You
get too crazy together like that for all you know,
I speak the same way. You can't be saying I'm
talking to a crazy person. But if you're both crazy,
I mean, they're just like, well, you know, on the
same page. I just wish that everything I didn't have
to like, I do appreciate the government being transparent, but
(38:03):
it's like with Trump, it's like one he's always lying
to us, so it's not transparency. It's like, so just
hold off. He just likes to make it look things
much better than they are. But you know, uh, it's
it's not totally dead in the water, but it's just
it's just I think what it is just a reality check.
They're like, yo, hold the funk up, bro, don't go
being like, hey, they're gonna fully denuclearize and we're gonna
(38:24):
give him nothing back, because that was their main thing,
is that like if these talks are just for you
to come to Singapore and be like, come up off
your nuclear weapons and that's it. They're like, no, we're
not doing that. And so I think, you know, obviously
he's trying to set himself up Kim Jong to be like, Okay,
we are going to have to work on ship to
be concessions made for this to be a reasonable negotiation.
(38:45):
But you know, we'll see. Pompeo is dangling the idea
that once they denuclearize, American businesses will pour in and
invest in, uh, you know, North Korean infrastructure, and you
in North Korea when you look at the globe from
space at night, like all the other countries are lit up,
(39:05):
in North Korea is just completely dark. There's a lot
of infrastructure to add to that country and a lot
of money to be made. So Pompeo was saying that
you're going to see a lot of American businesses if
we open up trade with North Korea and if they
are willing to do nuclearize. So that's that's a bargaining
chip we have. But I mean it's also a bargaining
chip that we had with Iran. And uh, you didn't
(39:28):
see a ton of American business poor in there, because yeah,
we did define it seemed like who knew what was
going to happen with with the nuclear deal and now
we've shown that we back out of those. So uh,
you said that there is a meaning behind your a
k the Paul Gonzalez thing. Uh, No, Paul is a scammer.
(39:52):
Uh And maybe this will help people in the southern
California area. But this is a man who's on dating apps,
who is um going off first days with women and
then yeah, that's yes, faugin ZoZ is the dining dash dater.
He is going out here and taking women off for
his days and then he is leaving. Yeah before the check.
(40:14):
It's usually the thing is they show up. He's like oh,
I came here early and already already, but I'm down
to eat again. And so the waiter will come match
the order the thing, and then he'll bone out with
leaving her like with the fucking check while he's had
a whole steak dinner. And it's the first day. So
you don't know this person and he's meeting these women
on apps like go On, go On Jesus and Merrow's
(40:36):
YouTube channel because they've talked about a couple of times.
Is hilarious because yeah, like one of the recent times,
one of the managers the restaurant recognized he kicked him
out and then comp this woman's meal because he was like,
it's okay, queen, Like, I'm sorry about him, but listen,
that's a dope scam. I don't. I don't. I don't
want to encourage men to do that, because look, when
(40:57):
women go on days like that, check up and then
if you want to do half, that's cool, but you're
never gonna see me again. But no, we're not going
half on the first day. I'm a queen. You used
to go ahead and pick that up. You can't afford me,
and if you dave somebody who can't if you if
you both broke, it's cool because then you're both broke.
But if one of you is not broke and the
other one is, then you make the other person broke
(41:18):
because then yeah, yeah, exactly, and then you put your
sink a little bit. She was fired. But all I'm
saying is is like, that's a great scam. My man's
just out here really dying. They've made articles about him.
Women are pissed. If you google him, you can see
his face. He's like moderately attractive. He looks I think
he lives with his mom too or something. He's like running.
(41:41):
He like lived around the corner of his mom. There's
there's many demensions. He's like, hey, queen, let's go out
to Master Steakhouse tonight. Yeah, but think about it. If
you're a woman, and you probably I mean, if you
live in that l a ship. We will be out
here just rolling the dice with dudes and be like,
well why not, Paul, He's like, oh, I want to
meet you that Christy right, He's like, I want to
(42:01):
teach you at Mastro's. Queen. Like the sides there his
top line looking to stop looking. Oh that's a scald
kind of guy, you could get seriously disarming, you like
that looking to stop looking. Yo, that's good for my
wallet because that's what Oh, I forgot my wallet, my
(42:22):
favorite first you may be looking for me. I've done
that before, you know, on a date. I forgot your wallet.
Oh you lost your Oh shit, I can't believe I
forgot my wallet. You can't say oh ship like that. Miles.
You said oh ship before you even started pet your pocket.
I can see you. That's not good. The devil knows
their own you have done, not like because he just
(42:46):
said you did it. I don't know. Look, it's a
comedy show. That's a bit. That's not a big guys.
Luckily you got the Hey. People don't don't put it
out there like that, good guy. Hey, what is that?
I'm also mad at Paul Man. That's my scam right well,
(43:06):
for that was supposed to be for women. I mean, look,
I guess some people are out there going, duh, that's
good for y'all. Women need to start doing that. Just
go scam. I showed up to the day. You don't
have to wear makeup. You know much makeup costs? Okay,
I paid already. I know a lot of dudes who
feel like they have girls that they're seeing on these
(43:27):
apps who are just using them for free meals. Like
that was someone I did someone in college like that.
I did this volleyball player. Oh my god. I was like,
I loved her, and she would only hit me up
to eat. It was always she would be like, oh,
what's up. I'm like, oh, yeah, you want to kid.
She's like, yeah, I'm hungry. You hungry, And then we're
always eating. And then I remember one time I was like,
I brought it up. I was like, why do we
(43:48):
always eat? Like when we're doing this, she got so
defensive and I was like, that's when I realized, don't know,
why do you always eat? Yeah, well, guys, if you
want to know the chicks into you, like, I don't know,
take the business to the park, go walk on the beach.
That's cute. And on the first day you're not rounding me.
But she got her meals. We can go to a
park during the daytime. It so much fresh office. That's
(44:10):
not when you're in college. You were store and you're
and you're slinging bags on the side to get a
Brookstone sound machine. You don't have the you don't have
to back. And at that point I sat through some
pretty rough dates because I was like, oh food, we'll
be right back, And we're back. Now we're going to
(44:39):
get onto something that is currently blowing the minds of
everybody in our office, um and the internet. It is
the Laurel or Yanni debate. So let's let's just hear.
Let's let's just get right into it. Let's hear this
piece of audio. Um, and everyone tell us, we don't
tell us. You know, we can't talk to you is
the one way medium. But did you hearing? Yeah, Laurel
(45:01):
or Laurel okay? Now Laurel again, Laurel, Laurel, Laurel, Laurel okay,
Well can hear it? Lay here? Laurel or Yanni? Oh yeah,
I don't hear that little lady in the back. Like hell.
(45:23):
We have established that Lacy had superhearing, Like we were
playing this high pitched thing in our old studio that
only people who are like under a certain age are
supposed to be able to hear because their ears haven't
just been completely fucked yet, and Lacey was the only
person who was able to hear it, like the full
frequency range of protect these little drums, right, so as
(45:50):
really reflects on people with your hearing. Are Laurel? You're Laurel? Right,
I hear Laurel. I heard Laurel all day yesterday. I
heard Laurel when we just listen to it there, but
all morning this morning I heard a version of it
that sounded like Yanni and started hearing Yanni and I
hadn't been able to hear Laurel again until just then.
So no, you didn't hear that. Was watching a rerun
(46:11):
of Jersey Shore where Nicky was like right, yeah, it
was like, um, but this is basically when that dress
thing happened, where like some people saw it as black
and blue and some people saw it as white and gold.
So see, now I got to keep listening to this
like a sociopath or something, because when I saw the
blue dress, I first saw it as a blue dress,
(46:32):
and then I started looking at that ship just forever,
and then it was white to me, and I could
go back and forth. So now I need to listen
to this until it's Yanni because I need to be enlightened. Right, yeah,
so I don't it sounds like Laurel. Laurel second or
for a second, Laurel. No, did you change that, Nick?
(46:56):
What you're doing? Nick? The first time you played it
sounded like Yanni. Yeah. I think what happened is because
Lacey was saying something, it sort of disrupted my hearing
for a second that I hear it. So aren't they
saying that it's a combination of like Yanni is in
there too, but it's at a higher frequency or something,
but you can't hear them both at the same time,
(47:16):
And when you're hearing one, you like can't hear the other.
It's crazy because when I was hearing Yanni earlier, I
couldn't hear Laurel at all, and you can only hear you.
I could only hear Yanni, and now I can only
hear Laurel. Like an auditory illusion, kind of those ones
where it's like where you see like those like on
an electric sign, where looks like something spinning and you
can't tell which direction it sping. Have we been in
(47:37):
the room with people who are hearing different things but
they're in the same room. Yes yesterday Caitlyn Darante and
Jamie Lofts were in here and Caitlin Darante heard Yanni
and Jamie Loft is heard Laurel. We were all hearing Laurel.
And then just now in Nick's booth, I was hearing
Yanni and everybody else was hearing Laurel. Okay, because all
about the same. Maybe it's just with us, it's like
(48:00):
it's it's crazy. So when the dress thing happened, they
were like these articles saying it was all about how
our visual cortex interacts with a light reflecting off surfaces
in our visual frame. There's like this wire article where, uh,
they were saying, our visual system is supposed to throw
away information. But I've studied individual differences in color vision
(48:20):
for thirty years and I just never really bought that
that it was like a color specific thing. And now
I think I'm vindicated. I think this is proof that
it's it's not just colors, it's basically how our senses
interact with our brain. Um. There's this book Incognito by
David Eagleman that is one of my favorite nonfiction books
(48:41):
that everybody should read. But uh, he talks about how
there are way more nerves traveling from our brain to
our eyes in that direction than from our eyes to
our brain. Uh So, in other words, we see with
our eyes but we also to a large degree see
with our memory, Like our memory fills in a lot
of our visual field with just what it knows is
(49:01):
they're based on what you've seen in the past and
in context. So if that's true, and if that applies
to all of our you know, sensory perception organs, then
you know you're bringing so much of your memory and
your personal experience to everything you hear that it is
(49:21):
going to be totally different to different people basically, um.
And I think, like, I don't know, think about how
completely different it sounds when you hear a song for
the first time, to like when you hear it for
the seventh time and you absolutely love it, too when
you hear it for the hundredth time and you're just
like so tired of this song, It's like it sounds
(49:42):
like a different song. And I don't know, I feel
like that's partially what's happening with how this is hitting
our brains. I don't think I'm ever gonna hear yoanni.
I think if I do, I'm gonna have to like
bring the audio tracking, the logic and start like fucking
with the speed of it or something, because that's what
what's crazy is that this thing has even like Mother
(50:04):
Jones is writing about it and ship and like they
have like they were linking to tweets where someone was
pitching it up and down in different directions and different
uh quantities or whatever, and they're saying, like you can
hear Yanni at certain levels. But honestly, I'm team Laurel.
So I've been both. Man, I've been to the other.
Show it the other. That's why I want to go.
(50:26):
I wanna make sure my chakras are online that. Yeah,
I gotta hear them both. Yeah, tea before make sure
all your Marinian is moving right. Yeah. So super producer
Nick Stump was just asking if there is like a
definitive answer for what is actually being said in the
same way that once you saw the dress it yeah
(50:47):
it was blue and black like we always said, and
all those other people were crazy. Uh, there is only
one answer. It is Laurel. Okay that I'm just saying
that because I my ego can't handle anything. Yeah, so
I don't know all I will, I guess. Super producer
Nick Stuff just ruined it for us and found out
that it's from vocabulary dot com. When you type in
the word Laurel and have its speech it back to you.
(51:08):
The text speech It says Laurel, and obviously there's not
gonna be no Yanni because that's a name of one
of the greatest vocalists of our time. I don't buy it.
All right, Well, we don't have to know big news,
big news. All right, that's gonna do it for this
week's weekly zeit. Guys, please like and review the show.
(51:29):
If you like the show, uh means the world to Miles.
He he needs your validation, folks. I hope you're having
a great weekend and I will talk to him Monday.
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