Weekly Zeitgeist 291 (Best of 9/11/23-9/15/23)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 304 (9/11/23-9/15/23)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments
from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is

(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. Well, Miles, we're sure to be joined
in our third seat by the original super producer. She's
the host of Ethnically Ambiguous, the producer of many of
the great shows on this network, including this one. It
is super producer on a hose.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Hi hi phrase hi hi hi hi hi branded. I
think I think we should be just transparent up front here,
well transparents. See, in the moments before this episode episode
was scheduled to record, we did have a special expert
guest booked with a with a very particular set of skills,

(01:08):
and they canceled like fifteen minutes before family emergency. We're
not going to say who it is, just you know,
sending good energy there. Way it is Liam Neeson, but
we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt. Yeah,
but usually that's no problem because our show is based
on the news. We have the news stories and we
just get a guest, special guest guest to come in today.

(01:30):
We had a doc full of questions for Liam Neeson
in particular. Yeah, so we were like, what we do?
What are we going to do? Super Producer on Josey
steps into the fray bravely and is like, I need
to tell you about what I've been watching on streaming.
That is what we were going to do today.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
And also, yeah, also been steadily being like Golden Bachelor.
When are you always talking? When are we talking about
Golden Bachelor? Yes, said you know what, let's swap one
expert out for another.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, it's funny when you said just now and you
said super producer and then my name, I felt like
a like a chest pain pain anyway, I don't know,
it probably isn't related. Sometimes I just sometimes someone says
my name and my heart stops because the idea that
I now have to respond to something is just too overwhelmed.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Spot Lights on you, Spotlights on you?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
You ready?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
So this is life? Huh?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah? Yeah it is turn out yep. How are you?
How are you doing? You're still getting out there whacking
the town's balls around?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely definitely definitely you did the.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Cocoa Goth title? Were were you watching?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes? I was watching Legend Dairy Leon. Oh God, I
have a question for you. Yeah, my esteemed partner said.
I said, she's a legend, and he said, but she's
not dead yet. And I said, I'm sorry what? And
he said, you have to be dead to be considered
a legend.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Now.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know where this opinion came from out of
him because he doesn't really say much, So I like,
is that true? I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
You you respond with this legends never die.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, oh yeah. I responded with I'm sorry, are you stupid?
Just joking? I'm not that crazy. But I just was like,
really sort of taken by this opinion of his.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, you don't have to be dead to be a legend.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's what I thought. I was like, I literally say,
everything is a legend.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah exactly. It does feel like the sort of thing
that if you called like a great comedian who was
like in their sixties a legend, they would be like,
screw you. That that makes me feel old, That makes
me sound old, you know what I mean? Like that
that sort of thing. So I could see that, but no,

(03:53):
it's there's nothing that says you have to be dead
to be a legend, and of course legends never die. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
And also if we mean in the more like colloquial
way that Ozzie's use it, like.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Where it's like, oh, fucking legiond legions, You're just you're
just tight as fuck. Oh yeah, we rock with you.
What is something from your search history?

Speaker 6 (04:16):
Well, a lot of it's medical, So it's a lot
like do I have a tumor? MRIs in cancer? How
many pounds are in a stone? I recently looked up
that's fourteen pounds?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Fourteen?

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, I don't know why in America you go to
your doctor and get weighed and they put it in stones,
like they do stand.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
That your doctor put it in stones.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah, maybe it's a woman thing, but like you get
on this scale and they put it in stone, so
you have no idea. I don't know whether women have
just ran from the room. I don't understand what's happening.
So I had to google how many pounds in a stone,
which turns out to be fourteen.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
How many stones is it? Then? Love? Yeah? Sorry, I'm
fifteen stone in a fish?

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (05:03):
But so that is so weird because I just that
to me is such a like British weight like measurement
metric for weight that is really okay, I guess I
don't I probably don't know anything where doctors like, yeah,
a lot of the scales just have both on there
maybe but like they're writing it down.

Speaker 6 (05:20):
I don't know how they write it down, but I
have no idea. You're like, okay, I don't know what
that is, but sure.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Right, huh so I have both in it. I keep
doing this.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
So I google a lot of medical stuff.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is weird.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Stone always sounds very primitive to me and dumb, like
oh they just like said how much a stone weighs?
Like they found one stone and we're like, the you
weigh this money? But then I realized that we use feet.
It was just like even dumber, like all right, right right,
just our length is like yeah, that's how many, like

(05:59):
how many feats that like somebody if you've stacked people's
feet steps next to each other. So but isn't like
because it's all because it's like the king's foot or whatever, yeah,
is that long?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
So then that's how it's like, well, this god person's
foot is this big so that's how we measure things.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
And did your height change when one king died and
a new one was born? Oh I don't know, Like
I'm seven to three now that the baby king has taken.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Over, now that Prince Henry has assented.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
Well for a long time, you know, you shrink as
you get older. And I went for physical and they're like,
you're you shrunk by an inch and I'm like, I'm
so young to shrink by an inch. And then I
told my mother and she's like, you've never been that height.
You've always thought about your height, You've always been that height.
And I was like, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
You've never been that. You've been such a wild thing.
This thing is you've never been that hight. So yeah,
let it go. Yeah, just like has this flashback of
you standing on your tippy toes of the doctor's office,
like when you're growing up.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
I guess we always knew I was lying.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, right to myself.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
The origin of the stone, it's because they needed a
like they were exporting. England was exporting so much raw
wool that they needed to create a standard. So the
Royal Statute fixed a stone of wool at fourteen pounds
and then a sack of wool had to be twenty
six stones.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
So it's all because of the wool export.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well that transfers to weight.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
I don't yeah, yeah, I don't know. They're like, I
don't know. It's the first thing back wool by the way. Humans, Yeah, yeah,
what what's something you think is overrated?

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Overrated? Capitalism? We know everybody was not tired of living
in this system.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Okay, we're huge fans, but okay, tell us what's wrong
with capitalism?

Speaker 7 (07:57):
I guess I don't know, just the way. I yes,
it exploits human beings, animals, nature, is destroying the planet,
is grinding us, all, crushing us.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
All.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
Yeah, completely anti democratic, unequal. Now listen, do I.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have a solution?

Speaker 7 (08:14):
Not quite, not exactly. I'm halfway there. I'll tell I
will tell you what's.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Away from it is I think a solution?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
It is capitalism. Yes, then don't do that.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Giving me hip skin cancer presumably from my fund twelve.

Speaker 7 (08:31):
Absolutely, you gotta do what I did. You gotta skip
from the ten ten straight to the fourteen. You got
to get on your ex's family plan wow, and ingratiate
yourself to her parents and just stay there what.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
A ten to forty grade. I mean, I'm about to
go twelve to fifteen, but maybe maybe I should wait.
That's three years feels like a long time to wait,
and I was kind of taking pride in the fact
that I've waited so long to upgrade, and it turns
out the only thing that that has got me is

(09:03):
excess radiation.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
Okay, counterpoint, stay with it longer, more radiation. What powers
might you accrue?

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Exactly?

Speaker 7 (09:12):
What cool things might happen?

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, it's just a lot of unwanted body hair, like
on your hip, like from where your pocket is.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Probably it's a real tuft of hair here that smoke away.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Where my case just like a perfect rectangle of no
hair because oh right, like everything else is hairy, but
just a yeah, weird, what's wrong with you?

Speaker 7 (09:34):
That's where you'll get your matching do too a.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Little bit, I know, I am wondering on the tattoo thing.
Is forty three too old to get your first? No?

Speaker 7 (09:42):
No, not at all. That's a perfect time. Actually, you've
lived so much life, you know what you like? Your
body's in the second half quite frankly, like you're you're committing,
but not for so long.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, and it'll exactly less. It'll look good in like
twenty years still, you know, right like versus like a
lot of tattoos get when you're young and then you
start being like I gotta kind of maintain some of
these or they just end up looking like sailor energy.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
What's I think. What's exciting about that is you could
go really big and bold for your first tattoo. I
mean I started at eighteen. I was getting little tiny stuff,
piecing it together, you know, little stickery type of stuff.
You could just go, I'm going full sleeve. I'm getting
the chest tattooed.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, Ben Affleck, Ben Affleck, phoenix backtat phoenix backtap.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Have you seen that, Dan?

Speaker 7 (10:29):
I don't think I don't think I have.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, Ben Affleck has the wildest phoenix back tattoo. Here.
I'm gonna i'll bring it up. So have you ever
seen the cover or the movie poster for the film
Red Dragon?

Speaker 7 (10:42):
Oh my goodness. I was about to say I couldn't
imagine that it would be good, but it is terrible.
I mean it's not great, but it is bitter. When
I thought it might be, it looks.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Like it's cracking a little bit in places for some reason,
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Yeah, oh, I couldn't be like that part of the design.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think there must be some yeah, because it seems
like consistently going through. But hey, look he's a phoenix
rising from the ashes.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Listen.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
I'm I'm body positive, and I will say there's something
about that tattoo that really accentuates the muffin top.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Also does make fun
of people's tattoos count as being not body positive?

Speaker 7 (11:24):
Listen, I think that it's I think, at the end
of the day, all tattoos, and I have a bunch
actually look kind of stupid, Like they're all kind of bad.
There's really no such thing as like a great tattoo.
They're still fun to get, I think, and it's like
a fun way to decorate your body. But I think, yeah,
I think we gotta make fun of tattoos, your own tattoos.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not to say that I mean bad,
but let's have fun.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Look, this is going to be flaky.

Speaker 7 (11:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna show you my most recent tattoo. I
got this in my forties. You guys, it looks like
it came looks like I'm a huge fan of jam band,
and I got it in the nineties when I was
like nineteen. I just let the artists do what he wanted.
And then I was like, eh, I don't love it.
It's brand new, it's a brand new this this mushroom here.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Oh wow, there you go.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Mushrooms are definitely having a moment. They're having a moment
for sure.

Speaker 7 (12:18):
Mushrooms are all right, but there's so many more, let's say,
beautiful mushrooms than this jam band space age whatever is
going on. Yeah, black light poster, thank you. And it's like,
is this my personality? Not really, but people are going
to think so now and whatever.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
You have to adopt a mushroomy kind.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Of yeah, I got to. I mean, to be fair,
I have weaned myself off anti depressants. That is my
mental health care plan is to just do mushrooms like
every three months in the wood.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yeah, yeah, there are benefits. There are proven benefits, so
you're not far off.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
You guys.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
Micro dosing you macro dosing it all.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, I do it all micro to macro, but mostly
micro because that's been the I've I Yeah, it's been
like wonderful, but even like for like socially on the weekends,
like where I used to maybe like want to drink
a ton or like do shit like that.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
I've found just a little bit of psilocybin gets me vibe.

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Oh I like that idea. I've never I have never
experienced it in that way.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Yeah, like knocker before beer, never fear. Little psilocybin gets
you back your vibe. You know, there you go, but
you don't go quite.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
You go a little bit over, you know, like what
a microdose would be, but not enough to go like
you know, asking like is this forever? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yeah, I did not get to it for this is
is this forever?

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Place?

Speaker 7 (13:48):
But last time that I did mushrooms, like a month
or so ago, I definitely found myself wrapped in my
hammock in the woods, weeping, but in a cleansing way,
like an inside shell love cry then and then kind
of emerged from the hammock as if from a womb
reborn into the world, which is ray.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
It's one of the one of the things that capitalism
doesn't afford us, is like that that we're probably missing
most as people, is just like a good cry wrap
in the woods. I feel yeah. Probably before everyone was
keeping track of your time and stuff like that, people
were spending you know, twenty percent of their time just weeping.

(14:29):
Just get it.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
So what are you saying, should I start a wellness
retreat in the woods? I'm doing it. I'm charging nine
hundred nine ninety yeah, exactly. Just capitalism just immediately eats everything.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Right, right right, and like yeah, and they got the mushroom.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Oh no, I am committed to the lifestyle now.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, look you could.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
You could easily grift with that tattoo for sure over
someone who's a little overly trusting.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Man, I don't even remember if we have we done
on rated yet. Now this overrated and underrated and search
history has been I forget where we are. What is
something that you think is underrated? Man?

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Oh, I'll tell you, Miss Rachel.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, do you that's the name of the horse, lady.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
That's the name horse? So big. They're as big as
I wanted them.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
As big as I wanted. Dude, you're about to pivot
so hard by explaining you, Miss Rachel.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yeah, big pivot. Miss Rachel is a kid's YouTuber. She
makes content for like babies and toddlers in which she
likes sings songs and she's in front of a green
screen and it's animated and she's you know, live action,
and she's you know, she's singing things like what's in
the box? What could it be? Do you want to

(15:55):
take something with me? Pulls out a toy, explains the toy,
does the sign language for, like the color does you know?
Teaches babies like some sign language and some words, and
shows how to say the words like mom, you know, wow,
and like repeating and repeating, and my daughter fucking loves it.

(16:15):
It's so crazy. It's like she we put it on
and she has the biggest smile on her face. And
I'm like, I don't know who this miss Rachel is
in real life, but I hope she's making so much
money off of this.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
I'm sure she is. Like what kind of views is
she getting on?

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Million? Yeah? Kid? YouTube? Like YouTube content for kids like
that's monetized is insane. It's the amounts are absurd sometimes
when you like to how quickly like a video goes
up in one day it'ce like has three million views.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
It's because and I realized the reason is because you
just play that video over and over and over because
it's the one that makes them shut the fuck.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Okay, and she does have a master's in music education
from m YU, So okay, that's that makes me feel
good that it's not just because there is some children's
entertainment on YouTube that is purely guess in check. Like
we we put a thousand AI generated videos up here.
Most of them are disturbing and look like the inside

(17:19):
of someone's brain as they are like having a bad
acid trip that kills them. And but like one out
of a hundred, like kids really fuck with and we
just learned from that and keep making more and more
disturbing Coco melon or whatever the fuck right, So it's
good that there is somebody on YouTube who is, like

(17:43):
I study education.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
It's someone who's not like just gaming the algorithm with AI.
Because listen, as much as I love AI, because you
can make the boobs as big as you want, thank you,
I don't want my children to make the boobs as
big as they want. That's right, because I guarantee you
that like Karina, she wants to the boobs way because
she wants the milk.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, those feet, yeah those are yeah, that's called by
it's called evolution. What is it called, uh, the evolutionary psychology.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
That's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, so we learn everything.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, I was gonna say those words.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
It is nice though, like when you're like, oh, thank god,
this person isn't just a failed improviser, right because you
think about like blue beets.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
Yeah, you're just seeing the sadness behind every single time
they sing patty cake, Yeah, patty cake, Patti cake, bakers Man,
I never made a back up plan. Yeah, no, she's
she is like wonderful, and uh, you just get like this,

(18:53):
uh you know this like camp counselor energy that I
remember back when I was like, you know, a little
bit older kid. I used to just cringe at this.
You know, like these adults who sang these songs right
like hey, yeah, yeah exactly, Hey Lou, I'm happy. But
then you see like them doing it for a baby,
and you see the way the baby reacts, and you're like,

(19:15):
you know what, you do have a place in this
world and it is fucking important.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
And for doing this, have you ever turned your back
for a second and the YouTube algorithm starts feeding your
baby nine to eleven videos.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
You can actually with AI. You can on the twin towers.
You can make the boobs space you want.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well that's good, dude. Her biggest video is four hundred
and ninety one million views and it only came out
a year ago.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Jesus Christ, Well one hundred million of those views are
me so yeah, no, so far we have not let
the YouTube algorithm run it. Of course, she can only
last about like I think, forty minutes before she is
just like, you know, she.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Wants yeah, yeah, yeah, totally quarters are getting a yeah
yeah yeah. I'd like. It was weird how happy I
was when my kids started, like having the attention span
to be entertained by an iPad during the length of
a flight, Because is that changes everything?

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yes? Yes, I mean it's it's already changed our lives.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
And it's so funny how quickly we went from United
front of like, we're not gonna just plot them in
front of a screen. You know, we're where you know,
we don't want to iPad babysitter. We're gonna try, We're
gonna read it books. It's so funny how quickly we're
just like, turn.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Rachel, she's crying. But Rachel, there's something very difficult about
seeing your child on and knowing that a thing that
you have, a thing you can pick up a very
a very light thing, doesn't one hundred pounds, very light

(21:10):
thing and press a couple of buttons and your child
will be happy. I know, put their brain on pause.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, they got our ass with skinner boxes. Yeah, skin
o boxes. All right, if you say it cute, it's
not as disturbing. Let's let's take a quick break and
come back and talk about boom face, y'all.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yeah, bomb bomb.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
And we're back, and we got we got a new
a new dispatch from the guy who told us that
millennials wouldn't be broke if they didn't eat so much
avocado toast. Yeah, I thought I thought that guy just
went into hiding. But he's with an even shittier take.

(22:04):
Uh he basically, I'm just gonna play this guy's clip.
He's at a business conference, and he's basically saying out
loud the thing that most billionaire business owners are always thinking.

Speaker 9 (22:16):
I think the problem that we've had is that we've
you know, we have people decided that they didn't really
want to work so much anymore. Through COVID and that
has had a massive issue on productivity. You know, tradees
have definitely pulled back on productivity. You know, they have
been paid a lot to do not too much in
the last few years. And we need to see that change.
We need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump

(22:38):
forty fifty percent in my way, we need to see
pain in the economy. We need to remind people that
they work for the employer, not the other way around.
I mean, there is a there's been a systematic change
where employees feel the employer is extremely lucky to have
them as opposed to the other way around. So it's
a dynamic that has to change.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
We've got So he goes on to say, we got
to kill that, We got to kill that attitude.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Like, I'm sorry, wow, what I.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Was wondering earlier?

Speaker 1 (23:09):
You said something about trade ease, and I was like,
what is that? Trades? Trades people? Yeah, yeah, trade. Yeah.
He seemed cool and like he's in touch and just
looking out for the common man. Yeah, what a monster.
Holy shit.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
I mean, but this is the kind of thing we've
seen this way of thinking play out in our own economy,
like with the Federal Reserve as they try to quote
tackle inflation, which is really diluting worker power and fed
chair and private equity mogul Jerome Powell gave this very
euphemistic description of how they intend to tackle inflation, and

(23:47):
when he said, basically over the past few weeks, he said,
fixing inflation will quote require a sustained period of blow
trend growth and some softening of labor market condition. And
as he put it, quote by reducing hiring demand, that
would give us a chance to get inflation down, get
wages down, and then get inflation down.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Wow. So he means people need to get kicked in
the teeth in the labor market, so they'll take lower
wages because the thinking here is that higher interest rates
mean companies can borrow less and to still make profits,
they have to lay people off, as we've seen this
happen over the course of the year, and if more
people are unemployed, then they can pay lower wages and
then presumably lower the cost of their goods.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Allegedly, that's the concept that they they point to, but
all of the research shows that the wages are not
driving inflation, despite every billionaire wanting to kind of keep
this narrative going. It's like we got to pay these
people so much now that I don't know what to
do except price gouge the customer. It's everybody knows it's

(24:51):
supply chain issues. It's arising energy costs, a fucking housing crisis,
and profit hoarding by corporations.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
That's what it is. Yeah, so we're just sort of.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Caught in this like very like they're really trying to
like say these things out loud. He's now that guy
who just spoke Tim Gerner. He's like, ah, sorry about that.
Didn't mean to kind of a hot take from me.
It's just really he apologized for saying, Wow, it's it's
a very it's like kinda yeah, I don't know. And
also the thing about him, he's also a millennial, the

(25:24):
avocado toast guy, so he was just trying to be like,
as a millennial, that's figured it out to my fellow
millenni's layoff the avocado toast, will you mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
I did not expect him to be Australian. I've seen
the headlines. I've never heard him speak before. I didn't
know exactly who he was. Australians generally are the most
laid back, chill people and I've been there a bunch.
Their avocado toast is super expensive, but that's because in
part they are actually paying their Like cafe workers make

(25:55):
like twenty five dollars an hour. You don't tip over there.
It's just not part of the system because for the
most part, people are making a living wage. This guy,
he's the antithesis of everything I know about Australians.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's all that's right. Yeah, he's the least chill azzie.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
I know.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
I don't know why he can't just be vibin with
some psilocybin.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Yeahlicyb but everybody enough.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
I wonder what kind of revelation he would have on
a mushroom trip. Though, I wonder, like he is.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I know a lot. There's like a lot of Silicon
Valley people and people like that who do take psychedelics,
and I think that they do show the limitation of
that because it can be just like bent to whatever
is of interest in your interests.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
Yeah, I don't think it can cure psychopathy or whatever's
that guy just greed.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, the story and ones like it always frustrate me
because I will be like, it really seems like the
reason prices are going up is because they're raising prices
and that feels bad because they're not raising people's wages
to go with the prices. And then when they have

(27:07):
to talk about the fact that they're raising the prices
on the things we have to buy but not paying
us anymore. When they talk about that, they say that
it's actually we have it too good. Yeah, And when
I say that, like everyone's like somebody will be come in,
like in the discord or something. They'll be like, actually,
I'm an economist, and your understanding of this is ass

(27:29):
backwards and it's actually market forces that are like forcing
this shit, like and I just I don't know, like
maybe I'm missing some large piece of the puzzle, but
it really feels like the whole idea of economics and
all of this shit is just like noise that has
been utilized to concentrate power and wealth in the hands

(27:54):
of like a very few, and we have this thing
where like now all of the economic indicators are telling
us like things are good, guys, we should be happy,
but nobody's happy because things aren't actually good for anyone
except them, right, So it's it's just very frustrating. It
feels like it's like an attack on like the very

(28:14):
like I don't know they've done this thing, like whoa.
Like capitalism is overrated in the sense that it's like
not a good way to run the world, but I
think it's underrated in how just like persistent and all
encompassing and brilliant it is, and like this is just
one of those ways that it like invades language and
attacks meaning, you know, it attacks our ability to create

(28:37):
meaning and even fucking like talk about what is happening
around us right in a way that is really frustrating
and deflating. And I think is the real reason that
it's like so hard to get any sort of revolution
like going is because it's just so fucking complicated and capitalism.
You know, we can work hard, capitalism works harder.

Speaker 7 (28:59):
But you know, I am so glad you brought up revolution.
I didn't want to have to say it. I don't
want to. I don't want to have to say it
needs to be violent, but I will say it's all
these people seem to respond to in terms I don't
know that it has to be so complicated. What freaks
me out, and I'm taking this conversation completely sideways, but
what freaks me out is how capitalism has kind of

(29:20):
eaten our modes of communication or how I don't even
this is these are new ideas and I'm saying them
out loud for the first time. I'm just feeling empowered
on this podcast where you know, we're all we're all
hooked into the Internet and we're not in control of
that that can that can be censored and taken away
from us at any time. I really think, Yeah, we
gotta get out there, We got to be we gotta

(29:42):
get in the communities. We got to be talking to
each other, coming up with alternate modes of communication, and
we do actually have to get this revolution going.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
And we need to scare the fuck out of these people.
But they're just going to be like then I'll just
go deeper into the core of the earth in my bunker.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
Absolutely No, they all have bunkers in New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, exactly. Uh.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
But like this is just like this perspective of the
ruling class, like market forces are not right, Like this
idea that like workers should be grateful that they're paid
sub subsistence wages while they get to fuck off to
a tropical island. No, that doesn't fucking square with me,
and not a single one of these mutant fuck jobs

(30:21):
would ever dare say that maybe they are the ones
should take a hit to their fucking wages.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Never do you think you're a million times better and
like smarter than us because you have a million times
more money than any any of us have. You have
all are a million times you know how to assemble
this fucking automobile. Right, go ahead, asshole, get on the
fucking line. You're gonna fuck up and hurt yourself because
you know what the fuck you're doing, because you've you know,

(30:48):
lacked your way up to the top, because of the
class that you come from or the place you've were
able to climb to. And I think that's what really like,
I think that's what's really fucked up, is that there's
this continuation if you're just watching like CNN or some shit,
where they're never going to be like, I mean, maybe
one maybe one like side commentator might be like, well,
why don't CEOs make less? Like why why are we

(31:12):
not asking someone who makes twenty five million dollars a year?
Can they? They'll say that, but they'll treat it like
it's a childish complaint.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, no, exactly, And because the whole because what they're
saying is the whole game is that you should aspire
to get to that point. You don't want to stay
at this low point because that's for that's like, that's
the worst, and we're not interested in making the lives
better for people who have to work like wage jobs
or whatever. And it's just the Yeah, and I think
that's the part that a lot of people they just

(31:41):
feel that inherent unfairness of it all. And then you
get people like Larry Summers who just like second that
from like a tropical island and he's like, yeah, yeah,
it's like they the workers need to like pipe down,
like this is wild.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, Kevin McCarthy, that's right. That doesn't sound right. That's
that's his name, Kevin McCarthy. Let's go with that. Kevin
McCarthy has announced that the House will open a formal
impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite the fact that
their hearings and investigations haven't really turned up any evidence

(32:15):
against him directly. I'm gonna go take a nap. Yeah,
it makes me tired. Well, we kept talking about how
they would do things.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
They're like, we got a whistleblower okay, but they're too
scared to testify. And then people like is there a whistleblar?
They're like, I don't, honestly, I'm not even sure whistle
before they're like, what are you doing actually with the
fine whistle?

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
I mean I know somebody who was willing to say
some bad stuff about Joe Byron, but other than that,
I don't know. And like he's also doing it without
taking a House vote, which before he was like, I'll
take a House vote and we'll see what happens. You know,
the polling in a lot of battleground states has says
most people are like, you know, fifty six percent, like
an impeachment would be just a stunt, like a partisan

(32:59):
political stuff, Like no one's like looking for this. But
I think the other big thing about this is he
doesn't even have the support of his own party. It's
like a lot of Republicans are even worried about how
like the whole hack of it all is gonna look,
and especially when their logic is we need to open
an impeachment inquiry so we can find out more stuff

(33:20):
and then we'll be able to uncover something to impeach
him for, rather than we have evidence that we need
to pursue that is leading us here. They're like, I
don't know, man, we just need to go Fine, we're
going fishing, baby, but we're doing it with subpoena power,
and they aren't starting with real evidence. And even the
head of the Oversight Committee he even admitted that every

(33:42):
subpoena he has issued that like to banks or other
government agencies, they've they've cooperated one hundred percent given the information,
and that he's like, yeah, I don't know. It's just
like I've been denied access to anything. I still can't find.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, like I'm out of mood. Was here man?

Speaker 3 (34:02):
You know the term Hoover flags where your pockets are
inside out.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Man, they got nothing. That's amazing. It seems to be
based on the logic that they like, well, the last
time they did an impeachment thing, they found stuff, so
there's probably stuff here. It's like, yeah, well they found
stuff because like they did an investigation and there was
like a lot of ship there. There's a lot of
smoke and fire, and the time before that, like you know,

(34:28):
I guess maybe maybe they're hoping for like a Clintonian
situation where it's just like embarrassing. They dragged some shit
out that's like embarrassing and just like create stuff, like
find stuff as they're looking. Isn't that kind of what
happened with Clinton? Like it wasn't about Lewinsky, it was
about something some some other ship. I don't know. I'm

(34:49):
a political expert.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Yea, I think it was lied to Conger like something,
but it was really about Monica ultimately. But the thing
is like, I don't know, it's like we listen to
the crazies now. Like growing up, my mother was always like,
don't listen to that person. They're crazy here. And now
it's like, oh, they're crazy, let's let's pacify.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Them and know.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Yeah, I mean, there's just like a massive will to
try and be like, well, you impeach Trump, so we're
gonna get you for what We'll figure it out, figure
it out.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, but we're gonna do it because he's gonna get
mad if we don't. And then I don't know how
to stand up to him. So we're caught in this
fucking spiral till November, so we'll see where it ends up.
But yeah, it's just like there's there's just starting off
with nothing and asking for more power to just manufacture something.
And I'm yeah, but and I'm here for it and

(35:47):
I'm hopcorn eating me. I am ready spill the tea
here of public a Yama yama this shit. Yeah, I
don't know, Like the whole thing makes me tired because
it's like it feels pointless. But also like there's there
is a lot at steak with Biden's reputation and he

(36:08):
seems really fragile. Does it like, does it feel like
there's been more people being like he seems old like
in the in the mainstream mediately or am I making
that up?

Speaker 6 (36:20):
I think that it's just a tactic because the ill
election is coming up, so now we're like he's super old.
That's in my opinion. And I also think like the
whole Hunter Biden stuff, like every family can knows has
a family member who's messed up. Yeah I don't think
that like most Americans are like, oh, he has a

(36:41):
son who's a mess like we all have somebody and.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
He still loves him. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
It appeals to like this like minority of like men
who are like I don't love my kid because he's
a screw up. But yeah, I mean there is like
you know, I feel like since the earlier this year,
it's like about once or twice a month you're gonna
see some version of who could replace Joe Biden, Like

(37:12):
and it's even written by like like Democratic out like
you know, like left leaning outlets where you're trying it
because I think there is the thing where I'm sure
the DNC looks at the polling and a lot of
Democrats are.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Like, I mean to.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Biden, Like that's like the energy of a lot of
Democratic voters are like, I don't know, gotta be him.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
And I think now they're kind.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Of like, ah shit, like is are we fucking up
by like by just like riding with this guy to
the end. But I don't know, I mean, like it
it's one of those things where despite I think a
lot of Democrats may be saying I wouldn't vote for him.
It's like this thing where when push comes to shove,
they're like fuck.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
It, and like I would literally vote for him if
he was dead, like yeah, I don't care, Like I
just don't want the fucking fascist in office, like yeah,
like truly if if that happened, like yeah, well i'd
vote for him if he was dead. And I vote
for like a three D projection of him totally sandwich.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
I mean I don't care.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, Subway tuna, Yeah, vote for subway right candidate our
new president, Subway tuna.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Somehow. To the point about like there being a push
from various sides to uh make it seem like he's
aging rapidly as the election approaches, there was that Hawaii
story where I'm sure that this isn't the only time
that people have been reporting shit like this, but there's

(38:39):
the thing where people were like Biden fell asleep on
stage and that was actually like officially debunked because like
the footage that they used to spread that story was
like a close up of footage that was I guess
they like blurred it intentionally. And when you look at

(38:59):
the high Death Nition footage of the exact same moment,
he's like got his eyes open and he's like blinking
and just like kind of has his head down. He's
like nodding, so being solemn, it's that there's definitely a
push happening to I personally, like, don't think he's the
best possible candidate we are in the situation that we're in,

(39:21):
Like that there's this the Hill article that was like
the five Democratic alternatives and it's just fucking Kamala Harris,
Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom. Those seem
to be the only ones that I hear being taken
seriously because she is will be the president if he dies,

(39:44):
and he looks like a president in a movie. I think,
is that right? The main thing with his slick back hair,
that real nice, real, that's let us slick back real
nice pie booda judge who lost the election last time
and has done like, has not done anything good since then,

(40:06):
you know.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
Right, except for like excuse the bad behavior of airlines.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah, he's like had a bad few years since not
being able to beat Joe Biden in the election. Like that.
That feels like the case with a lot of these, right,
Like that Harris like was like lost the election to
great primary and has not had a good run since then.
Same with Buddha judge. So the only ones that are

(40:33):
like new untested are Newsome, Michigan Governor Gretcham Whitmer, and
AOC they have on here because she would be old
enough in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
I think Whitmere is probably your best bet there. I've
heard good stuff about her.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
The most different like kind of cameon a lot of
like yeah, a lot of Democrats like have been sharing
a lot of the stuff that she's been doing in Michigan.
It's just it's it's just I think the thing is
that the DNC they're kind of processing this information in
like a weird way because what the I think the polls,
what they're not articulating, is that people want a different

(41:11):
type of candidate. Like all of these come out of
the same sort of like ice tray of candadate. It's
just in different shapes. But we're looking for a lot
of people like are seeking something different where someone is
speaking to what is happening to people in a way
that actually seems authentic and believable because all these people
are just super polished like political operatives. They're not like

(41:35):
the kind of people who like can like light up
a room and like make every person feel like they're
seen and heard and like in a way that like
you know, Donald Trump completely abandoned like normal political speak
and people.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Are like, WHOA, that's different. Yeah, not to say that
that's better, I feel like has that a little bit something?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Yeah, No, she does. She does, but I have a few.
I mean, I can't imagine the establishment.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Circling around her. Yeah, so I would tear her to shreds. Yeah,
like the New York Times.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
The second she'd be like, I don't I think we
need to end qualified immunity for the police. They're like, well,
they're going to all your union fucking endorsements. Yeah, Like
and that's all.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
It's like a fucking balancing act of how to keep
certain people in, you know, your coalition, but also trying
to present something that's a little bit forward thinking and
if that's just I think an impossible feat for them
right now. Yeah. I view it as like two separate things.
There's like the you know, what I think is good
for the country and what I think like the country,

(42:33):
like what ideas the country should be moving towards. And
then there's the like sporting event of keeping the Nazis
out of office that is this one and so on
that one. I'm just like, I don't know, it's Whitmer.
How's Whitmer's arm? She left me? She like, keep you
off balanced? Like are what are you looking at here?

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Like?

Speaker 1 (42:54):
How are what are the saber metrics people say about
her right, So from that, like, that's kind of hell
going to this election as I'm just like fuck it,
you know, let's but yeah, the whole thing makes me.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yeah, because we're in dire need of something really remarkably
different and revolutionary. But yeah, all of these my fall
flat year.

Speaker 6 (43:16):
I mean, I sort of feel like, you know, there's
perfect and then there's what we have to deal with.
And I think Biden's what we have to deal with
right now. And it's like when you're fighting like real evil,
you have to suck it up and do what's the
best alternative at the time to fight that evil.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Why is he gotta be so old though.

Speaker 10 (43:37):
He can't help it, He's grown to be that because
he was born eighty years ago. Yes, that's because his
parents had sex eighty years ago.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
That's all. That's the only reason why I did thinking
about Joe Biden's parents and the Great Depression.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Oh god.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
But yeah, I mean, like Newsom has said that he
wouldn't run against Kamala, but I think he's just being
diplomatic because they've always kind of been in this competition,
like they entered the political scene at the same time
with him becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor and her becoming
San Francisco's da in the state's first black district attorney
in two thousand and five. And they've always kind of

(44:21):
helped each other. But then there's also like when Barbara
Boxer retired and that seat opened up, Gavin Newsom wanted
that Senate seat too, but deferred to Kamala and then
ran for governor. So I think part of him, despite
what he says, has always been keeping an eye on
the national stage. That's why he keeps fucking, you know,
trying to debate Ron DeSantis. So yeah, I don't counter

(44:43):
unless you want me to, and this.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
You want me he does. But yeah, literally one person
asks me to.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yeah, like I've been called Yeah, he's doing the thing
of like reluctant guy where he's like, no, man, I've
told all the donors. We're getting behind Joe, Like it
just is what it is, folks, We're moving on. I
wouldn't run against common then all it's gonna take is
like the slight you know, vibe shift And he's like, yeah,
I mean I should.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Have been president this whole time. Yeah, yeah, so you know,
I run the what is it like the fifth largest
economy basically of California. Its true boy energy, where he's like,
I couldn't. I really shouldn't, but I couldn't unless you
want me to. Yeah, oh totally, do you really want
me to? I shouldn't though we really shouldn't. We really,

(45:26):
I'm married, we really shouldn't. But okay, all right, let's
take a quick break and we'll come back and talk
about some things that aren't politics. We'll be right back

(45:48):
and we're back. And so the main thing that we
want to talk about on TV is just the absolute
dominance of suits. It's been watched for twenty six point
five billion minutes total across Netflock, Netflock, Netflix and Pecock.
For the line structure, it's hard. I am through text.

(46:14):
It's the making. It just hit seven weeks in a row,
crossing the three billion minute mark. It's it's a genuine
phenomenon that nobody wants to talk about because they're scared,
are we.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Well, let's be real, that show would not really have
a resurgence if it wasn't for once again, our people's princess,
Megan Markel Sorry, hate to.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Say it, Yeah, how and she would she was on
it for most of the seasons, right except for like, yeah, she.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Signed for the majority of the show. I think she
got written off later on to go do her duties as.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
The people's princess obviously, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Her duties to suffer under a racist, fucking monarchy.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
As every as every person dreams of. Eventually will it
come for me? But again, this is one of those
things where because streaming is like such a weird business model,
like nobody pays nobody really pays attention to the fact
that this is like the most popular thing on TV
other than the NFL. Like, right, just everybody's watching this.

(47:21):
The show Suits is entering the bloodstream of America at
unprecedented rates, and people are just like, yeah, whatever, Suits,
I feel like and this was the nineties and that
many people were watching Suits, there would be you know,
they'd be on the cover. They Megan Markle and the
lawyer with a photographic memory who didn't go to Harvard

(47:42):
but is pretending to go to Harvard. Okay, Mike Okay
produced Rebecca A fan of Suits.

Speaker 8 (47:51):
I'm a fan, Okay, I must understand to the viral
tiktoks of people watching Suits because it is now on Netflix.
I succumb to the algorithm, saying top ten shows in
the country right now, Suits even though it was on
a million years ago.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
I was someone four years ago.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
A million suits rewatch mode.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
I'm on suits rewatch mode. Okay, I watched it on
cable television when it was out airing every night.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
It is fun.

Speaker 8 (48:19):
Okay, it is a fun, good time if you're like
me who likes to watch disassociate of television aka television
that is not current because you cannot be tasked with
the weight of keeping up with something.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
So it's just great.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
It's a great television. It just takes you out of
your body and makes you feel like you can just
sit there.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
Yeah, it's I watched it all last week as I
declaimed my apartment. It's fun to see the shenanigans the
team gets into. It's very weird to see Megan Markle
now that we know her as the people's princess Mega
Markole in like such a very silly evening television show
with like a a love interest that's like, oh my god,
you're better than Mike. And her hair is poorly done

(49:00):
because they didn't know what to do it.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Wait, they get into on this, They get into absolutely
did you know this before you came out with your
hard anti suits stance.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
You don't actually have to speak to me during this segment.
Just don't worry about me.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
All right, Well, we needed I'm not here, becha. We
appreciate you coming in to speak on behalf of it.

Speaker 8 (49:23):
I needed to a million my people's princess, Megan Markle
aka the best pairalegal to ever cry.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Rachel Zain, Rachel Zay, Yes, Rachel Zain.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
The because like, Okay, from reading a little bit about
it and watching trailers for the first couple of seasons,
the thing that I gleaned from it is that, like,
I'm trying to understand why people are watching it, and
I know that based on the sheer numbers. Jack, You're like,
something is happening, but is it happening? There's something about
the show or it just says to us right now
that people are like I just need to fucking get

(49:53):
away from it all. And Suits is somehow being the
most potent vehicle for something like that.

Speaker 5 (49:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (49:59):
I I feel like a big part of it is
Netflix was really promoting it.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
They're like, we now have Suits.

Speaker 8 (50:04):
You want to rewatch that shit that you haven't seen
in four years, and everyone was just kind of like,
you know what, all of Netflix's originals kind of suck
right now. I absolutely will watch Suits, and I think
there isn't a lure to it of like, oh, did
they scrub that from the internet. It just felt like
it was kind of scrubbed because she was becoming the princess,
like we couldn't watch any of her former work, or

(50:25):
like the Royal Family.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
There was a conspiracy on behalf of the Royal Family.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Don't keep it.

Speaker 8 (50:29):
From us exactly like she because she was being when
she was in the Royal Family, you know, rebranded as
this person who is you know, solely out there doing
humanitarian work, you know, fighting for you know.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
People's rights, all that stuff.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
They're like, we can't have her making out on television,
you know, because she'd be having some raunchy scenes.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Yeah, that's noting some guy who didn't go to Harvard
Law school and pretends.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
To who is not Prince Harry.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yeah. So in many ways, we are all Megamarkle because
we were being kept from our true love by the
Royal family. In this case, our true love is Suits
and absolutely amazing, Thank you. I just don't. I still
don't get it.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
You don't get it though, Like I get that like
if heel like from Big yeah wow timely reference, but
like it just feels like I get that it's not
challenging plot lines or dialogue, and I think maybe there
is like sort of that like if you have a
secret or you've like there's an imposter syndrome element to

(51:36):
it that's like relatable. But like at the end of
the day, I'm like, people really just I feel like
people just have this shit on in the back run
they do, I guess are people?

Speaker 1 (51:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Right, so you're not being like, yo, we gotta watch
it and we gotta go through every little moment. So
it's basically audio visual wallpaper.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
Yes, absolutely, And you can chime in and you're like,
oh my god, TII that was a fun joke or
you're like, oh, really is gonna make with this guy
right now? And all I can think about is that
she's married to Prince Harry now while I'm watching this show,
was she ever really gonna know like, oh my god,
I'm marrying Prince Harry eventually?

Speaker 2 (52:08):
Like you're just watching this is such a time capsule.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (52:12):
In American television.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Okay, the acting it would take to be on a
show pretending to be Rachel Zane without just breaking into
laughter and saying, fuck it all, I'm going to marry
Prince Harry is pretty That's crazy. It is weird that
so many of our shows that we you know, we're
in a time where like work is killing us and

(52:36):
there's too much work, and work is driving a lot
of unhappiness that like we end up gravitating towards the
office and suits and these like workplace shows. But maybe
it's just like revisiting the you know, the scene of
the crime, like the thing that robbed us of our humanity,
to like see it made right by this person who's

(52:58):
like actually the best lawyer, even though he didn't go
to the best schools.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Right Because with the Office, I thought it was something
to do with the time it came out and people
are getting nostalgic for that, But this shit only came
out four years ago, and it's not even like like
I know people who are you know, like like in
laws who are like are you watching suits? And I'm like, wait,
you're on the scream too?

Speaker 4 (53:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Yeah, all right, well, all right, the mystery continues. We
should get back to super producer on a hose a
stream Are you there, Anna, Yes, thank you Becca Grazie,
Thank you, Beca. But this is this is not America's
streaming corner. This is on a hosey a streaming corner
where she's going to tell you, well, so what what
should we be streaming? Everybody is streaming suits? What should

(53:40):
they be streaming?

Speaker 3 (53:40):
The television they need to be put put their eyes on.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
So you know, there's a lot of great shows that
are actually ending this year, which is sad. It's sort
of an end of an era. But I just want
to give some shout outs to what we do in
the Shadows. Okay, we finally find out if Germo is
going to become a vampire or not. You know, we'll
find out anything could happen. Yeah, yeah, Anyways, she love

(54:07):
saying that how to what John Wilson ended this show
is so good man devastating. Honestly, that show could have
gone on for eighty six more seasons. I like in
season three it becomes very sort of like break the
fourth wall, like him filming himself at the Emmys and stuff.
It just gets so good. He goes to burning Man.
Really great episode on that.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
I like how when you went to the own Emmy
party for HBO, he wasn't on the list. I have
a show on the fucking network. They're like, sorry, Josh Wilson,
we don't have to.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
He's ah, like what the early episode about the penis
enhancement guy is one of the craziest things I.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Ever the foreskin rejuvenation.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, foreskin rejuvenation.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, he's always there was some incredible episodes. You know,
I really enjoyed the one where he ends up at
a sort of Avatar convention.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
I thought that.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
One was so beautiful at the end. It's just like,
you know, I don't personally fuck with Avatar due to
the aggressively racist undertones, but I I like that these
people were able to find something to make community.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah, if you're if you're looking for my co sign
of the episode, I'm gonna give it to how To
with John Wilson. It's like its own genre of media,
Like it's totally its own thing.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
But for Nathan Fielder, ye yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
It's but like he has such an incredibly unique narrative voice, Like.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Yeah, I can't wait to see what he does next.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Yeah, what else we got? What else we said by to.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Physical Is Ending, which is a very sort of surreal
but fun dark show about suffering from you know, eating
disorders and body dysmorphia. I thought it was very entertaining.
Rose Burn, Brynn Burn, Brinn, I don't know, so good,

(56:08):
she's so good. I think she has such range.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Rain I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
You guys don't agree?

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Oh yeah, you know?

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Do you guys not agree?

Speaker 1 (56:21):
I agree with that take. Why is she making a
slashing job from Australia?

Speaker 2 (56:26):
I really, I mean I I've loved her for a while,
from her days on Damages, God, God, Damages was great.
Damages is what you should be watching, not suit sorry
to say it. And then also, you know her and
Seth Rogan in Platonic, Holy shit, they are so funny together,
from their Neighbors' Days to this Platonic. Guys, you haven't

(56:49):
watched Platonic. I gotta say Apple TV really stepped up
and put out some fucking content this year, from Platonic
to Shrinking, even the after Party season two, who was
really funny? Shout out Paul what's his name? Paul Walter
Hauser Howser Walter, let me just Stirling corpor Paul Walter Houser.

(57:11):
You got two last names that both sound like last names.
I will never know which one goes first. But everyone
in that was really great. Shout out to that anyway,
go look at Apple TV great content. Shrinking was very funny.
I was repressed nice. Harrison Ford does comedy.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
He does.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
I mean, it's like one of those things too. Chances
are you probably get it for free. With there's so
many things you realize you get for free just from
like being a member of some other thing. Now, like
it's I'm surprised. I feel like I don't have to
pay for streaming anymore because I'm They're like, oh, you
have this insurance, will you get Netflix?

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Huh, yeah that's true. Oh you have twelve sandwiches on
your subway card. Oh you get Hulu now for a
year ad free.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Oh anytime you buy any Apple product they give you
a year of Apple TV free.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
It is a little thirsty where they're like, here a man,
six months, bro, do you want that? It's like, no,
just needed a case for my iPhone. Okay, check it out.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
Those well anyway, So that's physicals ending. Reservation Dogs is
ending sad. Such a great show.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
This is the third season.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Now third season. Yeah, they unfortunately canceled Single Drunk Female
after only two seasons. Even though that show was so good.
I really loved it. Shout out to former guests Madison Shepherd,
who plays one of the funniest characters on that show.
Amazing the what is it was the person that you
have to check in with after you like go to
jail po not because she wasn't a par officer, so

(58:37):
maybe like maybe probation officer, more more probation officer because
this person wasn't on parole, she just got drunk. Relax Anyway. Also,
the great is ending, which is unfortunate. Also a great show.
The Other Two. I mean, never forget the Other two.
Regardless of all the drama behind the scenes, that show

(58:59):
was next level. That final season of the Other Two
was a beat in television.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
Filmmate Jack did you come around to it? I did,
Jack did.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
We had knives out for it for Jack when he's like,
I don't know about this one, but again, your.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Goddamn mine, that's the greatest episode of television.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Some reason, like because we were like binging it going
from season like whatever the penultimate season was to the
last season there's like a tonal shift that like fucked
me up a little bit, but I did end up coming,
but the.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Tone just was like, hey, you like the other two,
well this is the other two times six thousand, Like
we are going full pure chaos where you don't know
what's real and what's not.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
I did.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
It was so good.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Apparently South Side is ending, which I haven't heard this,
but I saw it online and that devastates me because
it's so funny. Yeah, and also they canceled Seaway after
two seasons, which.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
Is big mistake, big, huge mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
But other things to watch that are still going on.
Real quick, I'll do a quick one. Is this fool
on Hulu? Oh my god, Frankie Sostrata, don't miss it.
It's so incredible.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Soca New Disney.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Plus Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Star Wars show follows to women of colors, so get
in on it, okay. Also Soca legendary character. Of course,
we have to give love too. Only murders in the building. Baby,
they came for Martin short, they came for.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
The whites.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Were like, absolutely, y'all came out of the fucking portals
to defend that man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
I saw an incredible tweet the other day. I want
to shout out from at YC when they say white
people have no culture. I remember the day they mounted
up for Martin Short.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
And we both shouted that tweet out and shouted you
out for sending it yesterday. This episode, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
I definitely don't listen and okay, yeah, shout out only
Mambers and building great show. And then of course I
have to give really quick some love to some reality TV.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Season four, I
believe has started.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
I have not watched a single minute of this and
you showed me a trailer for the upcoming season, and
it gave me a pen.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
That wasn't a trailer, honey, that was an opening.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
That's how the show opens.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
That's how the show started. Yeah, they were like, oh
you wanted reality TV. This is theater. You're like, oh wow.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
This is Shakespeare. They're bringing your kids like a child
choir singing underneath it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
That's the whole show is like. And you're like, what
is happening? What are these women are arguing about cheese?
You know you're going on, but I gotta say nonsensical
Bible quotes that don't go together. Like everything about this
show is pure camp. And I really recommend if you
want to watch a reality show but you just don't

(01:02:02):
know where to start, and you want to get into
some true nonsense, start watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake
City because they are No one is doing it like them.
They have no sense of what is happening in the
outside world, right because everything revolves around them and it
is hilarious and they're all going to jail. It's so funny,
these women in Salt Lake City.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Yeah. Yeah, they like a bit of fraud. Turns out
they love fraud.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
They love to accuse each other of being in the mafia.
They just genuinely have There's no shame in their game,
and that's what makes good TV.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
But yeah, I think the real reality show that even
I've been anticipating ever since you but you said it
was happening, Yeah, go on.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
What you real believe? Love after Love?

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
I don't remember that lyrics, but do you believe?

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, we're talking about the gold I'm
not going.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
To take turns sort of singing it lyrics by lyric.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Oh no, there's no way I could do The vocoder
version of share right there, man, I don't it's hard.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
That's like you can well, I don't need anymore, I
don't need all.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
There you go, there you go. He's got to do
that little little wind pipe action. But yeah, the Golden
Bachelor is coming out, and this is like taking exploitation
to the next level. But this is exactly the kind
of exploitation I needed to see because we have a
seventy year old widower who is now looking at how
many contestants does he have? How many eligible bachelorettes is there?

Speaker 9 (01:03:29):
Us?

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
Like twenty sex I believe there's twenty women.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Vying for this man's heart. Yeah, but like the difference
being to excuse me, of course, but the difference here
being that we've moved on from like, dude, anybody over
thirty two is gonna make us puke to saying this
is this is purely a group of contestants between sixty
and mid seventies ish for this seventy year old man

(01:03:54):
whose name is spelled like Jerry but pronounced Gary too
experience the whole bachelor process with.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Yeah, so they've spelled j e r r wild no
j or.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Spelled g e r r y but pronounced Gary.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Does that Does that read is Gary or Jerry to you?

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
That's that's definitely Ja, that's Jerry, right, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Looks I mean, who knows again, that's that's that's for
him to figure out. But I mean, and you watch
enough Bachelor to know that, Like, I think the thing
you always worry about with contestants on it, with like
the youthful contestants is like they know there's like this
Bachelor to spawn con pipeline that you've definitely put me
onto ever since I've come on to will you accept

(01:04:42):
this rose? But it feels like with this these are
truly like women in their sixties and seventies who are.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Like, I'm ready to be in love again.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
And there's like a weight to it that just feels,
I don't know, the stakes feel much higher.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Yeah. So they've been promoting this like Senior Bachelor for
a while, being like, oh, we're trying to get us,
you know they do listen. Yeah, they've been like sign
up now for the Senior Bachelor for like two or
three years now, and we've all been like, yeah, right,
well believe it when we see it. You keep teasing us,

(01:05:17):
but you won't give us anything. So they finally did.
They brought out Jerry, but I think it actually took
them a very long time to find the perfect lead
in Gary Jerry, which I think him being a widower
is key because one you don't have an ex wife
being like fucking Jerry Gary whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
That would be an episode that's like instead of going
to meet with a family, you were going to meet
with the ex wife. Oh boy, you're still paying alimony. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Yeah, it's real tough, but yeah, like I think, yeah,
the widower aspect definitely gives it a little bit of
oomph for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Yeah, I give it some oomph. It gives you know, uh,
it makes Gary Jerry a sympathetic character. He clear did
and cheat on his wife or like, you know, I
don't know, start some situation that's negative that the ex
wife can come out and complain about, or the daughters
can't be like he left mom or whatever. So it's
kind of perfect because he's like, oh, I'm sad even

(01:06:17):
though his wife died six years ago.

Speaker 11 (01:06:20):
There is sort of an energy that he might not
be ready, but you know, I hat I'm here to
watch too, That's what I'm saying. Exploitation to the level.
I'm here for because I'm not even sure Gary is
Like when he talks about how his wife passed.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
Away, it broke my heart, just like that entire studio
audience did when they were hearing his story for the
first time about like they were retiring together and they
picked out this perfect lake house and then like within
days of like getting this house, she just like succumbs
to like a terrible bacterial infection.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Oh my god, you're passed on.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
And she was the love of his life, like child
or high school sweetheart's been together, you know, a thousand years,
however old they are. And but you know what, now
he's got twenty two eligible senior women, all sixty plus.
There's a great trailer where they're dancing to shares. Do
you believe in love after love? I don't even know
what the right after love is? Yeah, And let me

(01:07:12):
tell you they are. They are dancing like a like
a big pharma. I just discovered a medication that's gonna
help me with my you know, dot dot dot. And
they are living their best lives.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
I've I haven't seen somebody put on hosiery since the eighties.
And they have like a scene or she's like rolling
it up her leg I'm like, that's a visual trope
I have not seen in a while. Yeah, it was something,
and I think, yeah, this is exactly. This is kind
of what you want to see her. People who are
actually motivated to try and find someone rather than can
I stay on camera the longest, which I feel like

(01:07:51):
that's most of these people seem so far out of
the range of being poisoned by social media that they
are going to come in with, you know, a gene
in desire to meet and look.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Their fun facts are incredible. Like one of the women,
Christina's her first concert was the Beatles in nineteen sixty four.
Like you know, Edith is building an eighty U in
her backyard and she's the project manager. Like one lady's
like I love Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
They're like, of course you right, do right, because I
feel you're just gonna like teach Americans how to live
better because they're all retired and they just like have
amazing like things to do with there time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Well, they're like Sandral is very proud of her high
credit score.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Wait, Sandra, of course, Sandra, Sandra. That was the seventy
five year old woman who is like an ageless Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Yeah, I got a woman was a former aerobics champion.
That's not a thing anymore, right, because an aerobics champion.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
You know what's there? What's everybody's favorite hobby?

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Though?

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
Uh, pickleball.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
They all fucking said they played pickleball, which is also.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Guess what, Marina not too master's degrees. She's got three
master's degrees. Why why Marina?

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Because I got to the master's degree and what do
you do with that? I'm a professional pickleball player.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
And they're all like, I love Bruce Springsteen and you're like,
of course you do. It's incredible. They're like, I watched
Judge Judy. Honestly, you really it doesn't get better than this.
It's like, I've never related to people on The Bachelor more.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Yeah, the pickleball thing is interesting because they all are like,
and I love to play pickaball and I loved it,
Like they cut it together. Everybody talk and then one
of them like does a flirty thing where they're like,
I'm bringing a pickleball. He can we'll see if you
handle it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
If you like my pickleball.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
That's like the three masters degrees, but a pickleball is
just like a whiffle ball. It's not like a sexy thing.
It's such a weird like flirt. They're seventy I know
pickleball code.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
It's it's code for senior orgies.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Here's why Teresa taught herself all about the stock market.
Like it is. This is next level, baby, we are here.
We're the golden era of the Bachelor. Literally, they're all like.

Speaker 5 (01:10:12):
Hey, do you know about four oh one K's and
Gary Jerry's like oh, She's like roll it overfield so heated,
you know, like they're just like gay.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Jerry really looks like he is just what a bachelor
with agent too, Like he looks so stereotypically like a bachelor,
right right, right, there is something strange happening with whatever
his self tannered solution is. But overall, I'm here for it.
The fact that they've gone with a golden rose as

(01:10:47):
the like kind of central symbol of this makes me
uneasy that that feels like it is as likely to
be a murder weapon as anything. But it's pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
No, it looks pretty flop's aesthetics.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
I saw him pick it up. It's gonna be the
new clue.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Well, I will say real quick, there's some mysterious things
about Gary Jerry's bois past.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
You better watch it, dude, don't come for Gary Jerry.

Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Larry.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Uh there was great.

Speaker 7 (01:11:23):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Well, he he was on the Bachelor finale, like after
the final rows and all these all the new bachelors
were like giving him advice and they were just saying
like all this stuff. I don't know. The way they
were talking, you could just tell Gary Jerry had no
idea what was going on. Like he genuinely was just
like I don't know what any of this means, Like

(01:11:46):
he just has no sense. I think they're really trying
to media train him to be like kind of like
hip and cool, but like his energy's like hah yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:55):
It's just so, it's so.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
I think that's just kind of a freshing is that
he doesn't have like he doesn't seem the best on camera,
but he does seem like he's genuinely interested in having
his skin look darker.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Yeah, they're like everyone's gonna slide into your dms And
he was like, oh no, what what.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
Well do you remember the promo? They're like his dms
have postage on it and his thirst traps are in
a leather Bound album and they're like, okay, we get it, Like,
don't don't fuck us up with your bad copy, right,
just let Jerry do his thing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
O traps are these to catch lobster.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Here's the thing, though, how many people from this cast
are gonna get found out? Because whenever there's a season
of The Bachelor Bachelorette, people always find a way to
be like this person was actually the former Grand Wizard
of the kkk oh and they're like.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Ooh, sorry, true.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Now here's the thing. Gary's from Indiana, so we do
have to kind of be like, carry Jerry, We're gonna
have to see who you've been donating to for the last.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Like twenty years. Yeah, because uh, I'm just I'm I
feel like we're gonna have some some people are gonna
slip through the cracks, and I feel like inevident loafer
is gonna drop, Yeah, exactly, one's the other foam shoe
gonna drop?

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yeah that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Oh boy, what do you think the chances are? Is
it pretty much guaranteed every season? And you watch enough
to know if every season they are like y'all fucked
up again?

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
A lot of them more recently, as like the Internet
has become, you know, easier to find everyone's goddamn everything
that they've ever done. Like I know exactly how much
you donated to Trump and when you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Know, like you can find that out. Yeah, it's called
OpenSecrets dot org m.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
Yeah, I'm just checking to see if anyone is from
Palm Beach, Florida. Most of them seen from pretty progressive hubs,
so let's fingers crossed. I also do want to give
a shout out to Matt James, our first black bachelor.
His mom, Patty is one of the women.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Oh wow, oh yeah, yeah shit. Okay, Well everybody's gonna
find love. That's gonna be interesting though. The family episodes
will be interesting with like young like kids like you, like,
what's your fucking problem?

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Gary?

Speaker 7 (01:14:17):
Gary?

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
And I spell your name Jerry, but you spell it Gary. God,
we have to get our moms on this.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
It could go either way, Gary, because it's g E
R R y, so like I keep forgetting which one
it is, like which one I thought it was when
I first saw it, and which one it actually is
because it's neither. It's just a It would be Gary
if anything, but he's really fucked us with this name. Spelling, pronunciation, impressive.

(01:14:45):
Impressive stuff from the Golden Bats. All right, that's gonna
do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
talk to you Monday. Bye.