Weekly Zeitgeist 34 (Best of 7/23/18-7/27/18)

The weekly round up of the best moments from DZ's Season 41 (7/23/18-7/27/18.)

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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 uh NonStop
infotainment last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here

(00:22):
is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Alright, guys, So I did want
to just check in. So this caught my eye. That Equalizer,
to the Denzel Washington vehicle, his first sequel in his career, uh,
ended up at number one over the weekend. It did.
It made thirty four million just in America alone. And

(00:43):
this jog my memory back to the Sony Hack, which
I know, we don't like to give North Korea that
that they revealed some some problematic things about our country,
but they did. I don't like to think about the
Sony Hack and remember that that was simpler times, right, Yeah,
I know. And that crazy dude James Franco needs to
watch out him. But there was this email thread where

(01:08):
this producer was, you know, waxing philosophical about whether or
not they should green light this movie um sequel Equalizer too,
and his whole thing was look bad. Denzel is my
favorite actor of his generation period, point blank. He's the

(01:29):
best Uh, but whatever, but we can't green light it
unless you just want to hit singles. I'm I'm looking
to hit home runs. And the fact is that African
Americans do not do well overseas. And uh, he was like, basically,

(01:50):
other countries are racist, and therefore I'm saying that we
shouldn't make a movie with a black man in the lead.
So even though our country so progressive, yeah, we haven't
figured out. Yeah, these these people and Grace, here's the
flow chart we've solved. We've solved racism. Okay, next step,
what about these other countries. No. Also, I'm pretty sure

(02:13):
Bad Boys did really well and Bad Boys too, and
it's Denzel we Will Smith is like widely seen as
the last American movie star who can open a movie
just regardless of what movie it is. Overseas. People are
just like, yeah, Will Smith is the last movie star.
And but this dude wanted to sound I feel like

(02:34):
there's this kind of bias where it's like, oh, well,
it's a harsh truth, but that must mean it's true.
That must mean that it's a smart thing to say,
the Ben Shapiro type. But I mean it is interesting
to see how defined this sort of ship was like,
because you know, you look at the movies that were
made for the vast majority of movie history and including

(02:57):
up till now, and you know how many just white
male leads there are, like just a shocking number. And
it's like you don't think that they're like, look, we
gotta make it a white male lead. We gotta make
movies with white men in the lead role, like specifically,
like actually voicing that in emails white man in apparently yeah,
apparently they were uh. And you know, it's a self

(03:20):
fulfilling thing because they match the production budget, however much
it costs to make with a marketing budget. And if
you think that, you know, based on your brilliant analysis
of of the marketplace overseas, that it's not going to
make its money back, you probably hold back a little
bit on the marketing budget. So therefore that probably hurts things.

(03:42):
What is the movie about? The Equalizer? Denzel Washington is
a superhero. Basically, he's like he's the best at killing
uh in like seconds and he can guess how long
how many seconds have taken to kill a room full
of people, and he knows exactly based on its surroundings.
How any ways, he could kill you. So he's like

(04:03):
rain Man but with yes. Do you remember the TV
show that was an old white dude, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and it was called the Equalizer and he would just
go around like righting wrongs on like the download for people. Yeah,
and now it's that's essentially what tons I was doing.
But I think the first one he kind of gets
pulled into it a little bit, and it seems in
the second one he's back into it, like he's just

(04:25):
trying to lead a quiet life, as like aver in
Boston and he sees some ship. Yeah, there's this young
woman who like he reads uh literature in a cafe
at night, and she like comes in and she's had
like a funked up life and he tries to take
care of her, and then like she gets fucked up

(04:46):
by the Russian Mob. I was literally going to say,
what the Russian mob takes down the entire Russian mafia
by himself. It is so much fun. Uh. But yeah,
it's basically like if the take in France, guys U
had stayed about as good as the first taken and
had a like I think Liam Needson is a good actor,

(05:07):
but you had like the best actor playing the lead role,
like Mercury Rising meets Taken meets John Wick. Okay, it's
got some John Wick in it meets under Siege meets Underseiege. Great,
and that's how that's what you call an elevator pitch.
My favorite thing in all those movies is that one
scene where somebody tells someone else who they're dealing with. Right, well,
you don't know who this guy is, Yeah, let me

(05:30):
tell and so is blah blah blah blah. And there's
a big scene like that in Underseage. This is the
first one I remember, Like he's not just a cook,
this guy black ops specially like they give you someone
can finally who they're dealing with here. It's always my favorite.
Just a chef. Man. What was the thinking that Mark
Wallburg review where he was like you need to be
careful And he's like you need to be careful. Bro's

(05:54):
like you should be you should be careful. Bro. You're
talking to Mark Wallburg and the all day. Bro, have
you seen the preview for his newest Yeah? Oh man,
oh you know what movie you're thinking of? Contraband I think,
And he's in the trailer he's like, oh, what you
think of the only person who brought a gun. It
was because we just watched it a couple of weeks ago,

(06:17):
and it was something He's like, you should be careful,
like the bag, you should be careful, bro, you should
be careful. So, Sasha Baron Cohen. The second episode of
What Is America? Who Was America? Aired last night. I
just read recaps of it because I do not have showtime,

(06:37):
But Miles, you watched parts of it. Yeah, I used
the internet to not pay for showtime and find ways
to watch it. But yes, Today's So last week everybody
was getting real hot and bothered by the whole Kindergartians segment,
where like GOP congressmen were like, yeah, armed kids and
basically like there's one dude happen you know, we we

(06:58):
we we went over that. So this week, the man
in the hot seat is Jason Spencer, who is a
Georgia State Representatives so he works in the state legislature
and he Sam Michaels, Yeah, Sam Michaels, Jason Spencer. So
he I mean, just to give you some background, he's
had a few you know, he's he's a little bit
of a controversial guy, whether it comes to stand Georgiambly. Yeah, yeah,

(07:21):
like caping for Confederate statues or having like anti uh
you know, key job or Burka bills. So here at
the beginning of the segment on this is Who Is America,
they sort of did a quick greatest hits of sort
of Jason Spencer's history in the Assembly. My name is
Jason Spencer. I'm a state representative, uh in the Georgia
General simbly that's the House of Representatives. Jason Spencer Republican

(07:44):
threatening forman Democratic colleague because she criticized his support of
Confederate monuments on Facebook. Representative Jason Spencer says his bill
is definitely in response to mass terrorist. House Bill three
would make it illegal for people to conceal their faces
in public. Okay, so he likes you know, we we
get where he likes fascism. Yeah, the political spectrum. Didn't

(08:05):
you also say that one of his opponents would potentially
go missing or like has to watch her. That's when
he said, yeah, he intimidated someone for criticizing a Confederate
monument bill or something. There's another another black woman who
was like, maybe Confederate monuments aren't a good idea, and
he was like careful bit you might go missing, which
is not a hypothetical in the South, Like yeah, yeah,

(08:28):
it's actually not a hypothetical history anywhere. Yeah, that's a
very good point. So suffice to say, he's racist, islamophobe.
We get We kind of get it. So don't cover
your face. Bills are also about anti fascist action because
people cover their faces to just not get recorded. So
like there's a lot of bills like that, not just
in Georgia but all over the place. Sort of it's
a like a you know, it's a two for one,
you know, you get you get to hit the brook

(08:50):
thing and get so in this one, Sasha Baron Cohen
dusted off his like ex massade Israeli special Forces character
with the exaggerated face that somehow that somehow people still
look at this and go, that's a that's a human being.
Nor So they so they started to do some exercises

(09:13):
where he was running him through like what to do
if you know how to deter a would be kidnapper? Uh,
And so one of the first ones is like, yeah,
take your clothes off or like you know, literally shove
your ass in someone's face. Because maybe homophobia is actually
a good way to keep yourself safe. So this is
just like a quick SoundBite of one of the drills
they did when he was like, okay, so imagine a
guy's got a gun. He's like, you're coming with me?

(09:35):
What do you do? And then listen to this thing
and picture this man, this state assemblyman, with his bare
ass out and he's charging Sasha Baron Cohen who has
a pistol in his hand. Show me your weapon. Go
how much you all? You drop that gun right now?
I what can I see that one more time? Ringtowne,

(09:58):
show me your weapon? Go that guy right now, I'll
touch you. I'll make you a homosexual. Drop that gun. Usa,
I'm making a T shirt right now. I cannot believe
this man put his bare cheeks out there like that
and he's running backwards forward. You know, showing showing their

(10:23):
ass really saved a lot of those guys that have
a grade. Those guys that have a grade, they were like,
wait a second, hold on, I'll show you my ass
and then and then you know that was the secret though.
They were like whoa, whoa, whoa, cannot touch you don't
want to be gay? Yeah, well well we'll see. So
this guy they went on and they kind of up
the stakes a little bit more where so they're still

(10:44):
doing this is how you protect yourself because the whole time,
like you know, you could be you know, kidnapped by
isis so the way you talk, Jason Spencer is like, yes, yes,
I believe that. So this next one, he's like, okay,
so we're going to do one more because aside from
taking your clothes off, a lot of it is about
attracting attention to yourself by like screaming or cursing. So

(11:05):
there being kidnapped exactly to bring attention to yourself. So
this is the really cool point. Yeah, so this is
him saying, okay, now let's do the screaming part. You know, America,
there is one forbidden world. It is the end world. Though.
Now I am going to be the taible voice. You
have three seconds to attack detention. Go na na na

(11:26):
are because the end well is NONI not this well.
This well is disgusting. Yeah, he really, And so this
suffice to say this has gotten our man, Jason Spencer
and some hot water. I mean he's I think he's
already been primaried out, so he's not going to be

(11:47):
in office. But you know this. It's weird because this
morning on like news shows are like, is Sasha Baron
Cohen going too far right? Like is this ethical or whatever?
Like he's getting racist to be racist? Camera came. This
has never happened, especially not in bor At the movie.
We all fucking know him from right. This is this

(12:07):
is why I think it's actually journalism what he's doing,
because like a lot that's going a little far well,
a lot of the ship that you get people saying,
like there's a there's a segment where he has a
town where they think that he's building a mosque there
and they just get outraged and start saying all this
like crazy racist ship. Like this is not stuff that

(12:29):
he's making them say. This is just stuff that they
would not normally say in front of a camera, if
you know, if it was the news. But he manages
to put them in situations where they say the things
that you know, we only suspect they say. But do
you think it's journalism in that, Like I feel like
it's political satire that is just very eye open. I

(12:50):
don't do the journalism part. I guess I would not
call it journalist because he's duping them into behaving like
that point of journalism is like being open people. You
cannot secretly record a conversation as a journalist and use
it as a source, you know what I mean? There's
off the right, like there's they're supposed to be ethics
in journalism. So if this is journalism, it's probably better

(13:12):
journalism than a lot of what we see. But it
doesn't you know, like does it reveal stuff about our country? Yes?
Is it journalism? No? Man, it's fucking art. This is art,
But wered you're looking for is art. It's a glimpse
of a part of reality that we don't know. Because
there's also like there's a lot of people that say
this ship on camera all the time. They're just on
different parts of the Internet than the ones I go to.

(13:35):
They're not even yeah, and they're not even not in
l a man, they're in words. Like I saw a
video from this guy who just like works in works
in Orange County, just straight up a video clip of
a lady being like, get out of my country. And
he was like, I'm just fixing your neighbor's fence and
she was like, she was like I hate you, and
he was like, why do you hate me? And she
was like because your Mexican, like verbatim, I hate you

(13:56):
because your Mexican. And he was like like there was
somebody feel me. I think either somebody who was working
with her, his mom or something. He was like, someone's
filming you and she was like, I hate yeah, it's definitely.
You know. What he does, I think is he creates
a safe space for racist to just be like, Okay,
I'm gonna talk my ship now. Especially that pushes them
to an outrage point where they think, all right, fuck it,

(14:18):
I'm going to say what I think because this is
this is the thing that they're scared of. They're scared
of mosque will be built in their town and that
they'll be taken over by Muslims. And then suddenly Queen
Indiana's under Sharia law, you know, yeah, and that's what
and they're too where they just don't at the end
where he's like, well we have black people and like
they're lucky there who we tolerate them, And you're like,

(14:39):
who said that was that? Jason Spencer? That's no, that's
going like further on in the clip of like the
mosque town hall thing, and you realize, damn, like it's
that he really just like just pulled the curtain back on, right,
And that was like a thing that I had a
third thing, Right, that was a thing I hadn't heard
racists say before. So from that perspective, it was like, yeah,
that's that that we barely tolerant black people, right, well,

(15:01):
just that like they feel like they're doing everyone a
favor by tolerating people of other races. It was just
like a weird, sort of warped version, sort of a
new spin on racing, Like I'm doing the good thing,
not getting violent and like trying to terrorize these people. Yeah,
this is what like a lot of a lot of
quiet racists are, like, I'm a fucking saint man. You

(15:23):
put me on a damn stamp. That's I have not
lynched anyone this year. And uh. Last night's episode was
also featured the Dick Cheney interview where he got Dick
Cheney to autograph a waterboarding kit that h dick Cheney.
There was also a part where he basically said that
he used the water boarding technique to interrogate his wife

(15:48):
because he thought she was being unfaithful to him, and
dick Cheney laughed at that, so like, is the monster
we all thought he was. He's a d vader. Hey, guys,
remember this guy who sucked still really bad? Yeah? Exactly? Who?
What is something that's underrated besides Nancy Kerrigan? I mean
she is a guy that's who walks along us. Underrated

(16:10):
is always undercan't rate them enough? Is the freaking Zyke Gang.
Every every single show I did last week, I did
like ten or eleven shows. The Zyke Gang was out
for every damn show and every damn seat at least
a couple of people and some for some reason, Philly
is popping off with Zyke Gang. It was great. I

(16:33):
mean it was. It was so great to get to
meet everybody and talked to it. Someone was like, Jack
O'Brien's my freaking hero. That's like me too. But here's
the thing I met him. Don't meet your hero. Yeah yeah,

(16:55):
hey man, matter to man. That's pretty cool jack O'Brien,
that you up in your head and never meet. No,
but it was it was so great to meet everybody
and talk to everybody. Was it was yeah the best.
That's awesome way to go. Guys like Yang, you know,
we're internationally known and locally respected. It's very true because
it's it's it's it's a show of love, you know.
But really they should be thanking us for introducing them

(17:16):
to ye, by should be thanking me for working at
Playboy and not remembering that Jamie and I worked together. Second,
I reposted that picture the other day of Cooper Heffner
coming to my going away party on a segue, did
you know? Okay, okay, what background? So I used to
Playboy doing their video content, and Jamie worked there too,

(17:40):
and at the time it was I was on my
way out, and I think Jamie had started. I think
we overlapped for me five months orthing like that. But
our departments were never because I worked at the magazine. Yeah,
you worked on that side of the office. And then
I was with the digital freaks that the magazine was like,
these guys are fucking losers. Basically we were. I was
analog back then. It was a it was a simpler time.

(18:01):
We didn't know we were about to be enemies. But anyway,
so Cooper Heffner is now running the company into the
ground because he's like I think, please ye and he's
like's got to be like a sick lifestyle brain. He's
like that's what we're gonna like. And it's like, that's
not the problem. So this is there. So my last day,
I did get laid off from Playboy on my birthday

(18:23):
and it was a very chill and but I really
liked my co workers that I worked with the magazine,
and they were very nice and like it wasn't their
call and they're like, well, we'll throw you a goodbye
party slash happy birthday party. So I got like the
saddest cake of all time. We were like downstairs in
the bar area with this really sad cake and little

(18:43):
Coop because he's little Little Coop comes up on his
hoverboard and he like rolls up. We've never met before.
He was like, hey, why is everyone looking so bummed out?
And my boss was like, we just had to lay
off for our employee on our birthday. He's like, oh,
bummer of ice cream cake and just just disappeared from

(19:06):
my life forever. There's a little Coop on this little
Oh my god, just rolled the up. Gives me nightmares.
It was, Yeah, it was a troubling office. Why was
there an open bar twenty four hours a day? That
was disturbing? Wow, I don't know. Some really dark, darkest
timeline stuff going on. I just like the idea too,
that he would pull up to be like, oh that's

(19:27):
a bummer, take a size cake and then do like
a three sixty years like a cool move on the
ways like bummers h And it was just like one
of those things where it's like, man, we're not going
to address that today. There's too much going on. That's amazing,
sous hero, I're pretty underrated. I guess it is the
moral of this story. And he's a tiny man that

(19:48):
probably doesn't want anybody to know that. Correct, He's right,
I mean, and I love La petite Mail, but Coop, yeah, no,
he's a he's a very insecure le petite mail, right,
who rides around on a hoverboard because probably when you
say small man, we're not talking about his right. Speaking
of inventors who don't feel guilty enough for their inventions,

(20:10):
Facebook stock is taking a big dive right now. They
have lost I think a hundred and twenty billion dollars
in valuation. Technically, I think a hundred twenty three billion
dollars billion dollars overnight. To put that in perspective, Twitter's
market cap has thirty three billion dollars. So Facebook just
lost four twitters and that was all overnight. Yeah. The

(20:33):
snapchat is I think only seventeen. So yeah, I think
when you really that's how you realize how fucking big
Facebook is, because that was only what I think there.
I think they started six hundred twenty nine yesterday and
they opened at five oh six. So anybody check in
on Mark Mark you okay, man, you check on old
Mark Suckerberg, see what how he's doing. They try and

(20:55):
spend it though, because it was about their earnings report,
and they're like, well, we're doing it because we're spending
a lot on secure aready and like algorithms and machine
learning and make sure we you know, we we keep
stories in about uh, fucking Alex Jones telling people to
shoot Robert Mueller or you know, Holocaust deniers and things like.
I don't know that's but they're saying, it's a lot
of spending that they're doing to get your safety right.

(21:17):
They missed their numbers was essentially the big thing is
that they didn't grow as fast as they had projected
they were going to grow, and that combined with all
of the trouble they've been having pr wise, uh combined.
I think people are just looking for an excuse to
kind of jump off the bandwagon. And yeah, like you said, Myles,
they're treating it as a technical issue like okay, well technically,

(21:39):
like we had this issue and now we're addressing it.
But I think we're seeing in recent days that this
is a fundamental philosophical question that I don't know is answerable,
where they're basically saying, you know, they're not willing to
take complete responsibility for what people learn on Facebook, and

(21:59):
the end formation that gets disseminated, and that information is
like leading to mobs murdering innocent grandmother's in India, leading
to Alex Jones saying that he thinks Robert Mueller is
a pedophile, and ethnic cleansing, Yeah, ethnic cleansing is happening.
And so there was this meeting with where somebody was

(22:23):
trying to explain, uh, the guy who's I think in
charge of the algorithm or or actually he's in charge
of their new video player, and he was saying, what
we're trying to do is make it so that if
you are saying something that is untrue, you're allowed to
say it as long as you're an authentic person we
try to make it so that it doesn't get much distribution.

(22:44):
So those are kind of different things. So basically he's saying,
you can say whatever you want and we won't distribute it.
But that requires, like, I don't know, there's not a
clear philosophical outlook there. Well, I guess it's just sort
of like, we respect your right to say whatever, but
we it's not a right that people have to hear

(23:05):
it right all over the place. But that seems like
a very difficult thing to accomplish because it's a lot
of judgment involved, and they can't make a judgment call
on every single one of these I mean, they can't
even make a judgment call on holocaust deniers, right, Like, Yeah,
Mark Zuckerberg recently said that it's okay to be a
Holocaust denier. He's trying to use this like national standard

(23:25):
for free speech, and that doesn't really cut it in
for a media outlet that has like direct and untraceable
access into like of the global population's brain and probably
like a much larger chunk of the global population that
is up on two feet affecting change since it's mostly like,

(23:46):
you know, youngish people in other countries. And then in
our country, at least able bodied people do use Facebook. Ever,
not anymore, not as much. I I won't say not anymore,
but like to post a show, be like hey, but
not like what's going on? Because I remember I started
off being like really hyped on it and being like,
oh ship, here's that homey from elementary school that moved

(24:08):
away years ago, or people mistaking me for someone they
thought was a long lost classmate. And then I will
post my vacation food you post on somebody's timeline, it's up.
Not anymore. Yeah, Now I'm like, I don't know. Maybe
it's the luster. I don't know, it's less attractive to me,
or like I'm like garbage. Yeah, I'm like, I'm I
don't I don't get the thrill of using Facebook as
I used to. And then once you look at all

(24:28):
this ship, be gentle crying your pile of billions of dollars,
fam because we're coming for that ship too, but like
the Yeah, I don't know, just it seems not as
useful or I just don't I just don't like it
as much, or maybe I'm taking my privacy more seriously,
or I'm just I don't want to use it I don't.
That's a nice exactly like oh my privacy, like you

(24:50):
know everything about me. I'm like, oh, you've been selling
my ship. And also now if you want to promote
like a show or like something like now you have
to pay or like trick the algorithm. And it's just like, oh, man, suck,
and I mean we need to And I think people
are getting better at thinking about their attention as a
finite resource. You know, you only have so much attention
to go around, and you can't let it be squandered

(25:12):
on bullshit, especially like untrue bullshit, because it's both harmful
to you personally into society in general. But yeah, I don't.
I don't know necessarily how they walk this line, because
so they did, uh you know kind of shrink info
Wars or shrink Fox News is distribution and I think
shrink info Wars is and maybe even banned info Wars

(25:33):
his account. Uh. And now the right is up in
arms about that, and you know they've been receptive to
pressure from the right, uh, you know, claiming that they're
censoring free speech. And so it's just like it's going
to be this back and forth. There's no clear answer
to how they're going to address this, and I put
your foot down as Facebook and be like, fuck, you're right,

(25:58):
I don't give a funk do whatever you one. I'm
not I'm not used. I'm not letting this thing turn
into a tool for fucking evil or just completely deceiving
people who are vulnerable to this kind of misinformation. I
guess if you have enough money, yeah, right, Because he's
probably like, all right, well good, how's the condo looking on? Mom?
Is actually gonna be done, It's gonna get it's gonna

(26:19):
be hot in like fifteen years. And I'm not to
go all right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll
be right back, and we're back. So Meila Cunas was
on The Deck's Shepherd Show. I think it's called Chair Expert.

(26:39):
I think we don't need to say that as I
call it talking about her past relationships and Miles, can
you give us a direct quote what she said about
her relationship with Mac? So she dated McCauley culkin for
like eight years. I had no idea. And then as
like they're talking about relationships, like they get on the

(26:59):
sub ject of her and Mac daddy, And this is
the full quote from this thing. I fucked up. I
was an asshole in my twenties and I'll be the
first to admit it. And that's something that took me
a long time to come out and be like, yeah,
you know what, I was a dick and accepted and
I own it. And it's fucked up what I did.
It's fucked up what I did, and it's sucked up

(27:20):
how I did it. When I let me finish, when
I got to be single, I said, I need to
figure myself out, genuinely need to know why I did
what I did and like regroup myself as a human being.
And shit, I don't know when you say, and it's
sucked up what I did, it's fucked up what I did,

(27:41):
and it sucked up how I did it, Like that
whole like stream of conflicts sucked up how I did
it is so crazy because it's like it suggests a
violent act or just the most grotesting deception. Yes, what God.
Some theories where mcaulay Culkin's grandma's ashes were put into
his coffee for eight years, so he consumed an entirety

(28:05):
his grand his entire grandma and his morning cup. Because
she doesn't know why she did what she did. She did.
She did. Yeah, I don't if she was like me
in my twenties, she probably told McCoy was like, hey,
let's go meet my family, and then that was a
lie and then just went to Chipole and broke up
with him. Oh, files, that's horrible. I didn't have I

(28:29):
was broken up with that. Really, she didn't get you
there by saying let's go meet my Actually she did,
Hey you should be you should be at Chipotle. Hey
where are they at? Where's your food? I'm not eating,
but we need to talk what? And then I cried
listening to the song Bodies by Smashing Pumpkins on the

(28:51):
double disc album The Melancoli in Penisada. I didn't know
I was. I thought you were saying like, let the
body sit the floor. The first sad I used to
go to there was when I was saying someone, this

(29:12):
is a couple of years ago. There was a restaurant
that we would always break up. That we broke up
a million times. It was always like this one restaurant.
If he was like we should go to Modern Needs,
I'm like, I'm about to get dumped. Don't show up,
Jamie always show up. Foods good. And then we would
break up every like four or five different times, and
you only ate there. When you broke up, it was
just like, all right, we better head back there. Yeah,

(29:34):
like modern needs. I mean, at least, well, it's already
been ruined for us because we only break up here,
so may as well enjoy the fries. Oh man, that's
like Serpico, right, yeah, I feel like I just mean,
like that one moment where he yells, I can shout anywhere,
meet me at Felix's anyway. Alright, guys, we have to
get to the important stuff though, because comic so it

(29:59):
was a down year for Comic Con, and it might
be the first of the rest of the history of
Comic Con the club. Because Disney and Marvel were not there.
There was no big Star Wars thing because they have
their own con. Marvel did not drop any heat like
they having years passed, and so the big reveal wash

(30:22):
the Aquaman trailer was it sick? I guess that was
the top trending thing over the weekend. Usually you would
hear the news that a comic con will escape the
immediate Nerd universe the Twitter. Usually at least one thing
happens and shit like I remember last year. I think
it was that Ricky Morty clip of like when they

(30:43):
were reading that trial script out, you know then, so
that I felt like that was a huge thing, and
then there were some trailers. But this year, yeah, I
think I was, like, I guess there was a Breaking
Bad reunion panel that was But that's not like a
forward looking thing, Like it's like I remember these motherfucker's
years around, right, Okay, Aquaman not a fan. Yeah, the

(31:03):
trailer had some cool moments, but the stuff that takes
place underwater just doesn't look like it takes place underwater.
It looks like they're just kind of walking around on
a green screen stage. That's bullshit. Um, but who is
a Jason Momoa is Aquaman? Right? Which I mean I
can't get enough of that guy. I mean wholes and
showing you the trailer right now? Man, that water looks yeah,

(31:28):
it just looks like they're in a dark field. Yeah,
it looks like they're in a field and it's like
particles are around them, like rather than the this is
whatevery Marvel movie looks like it's like all blue, right right,
every movie looks like this. You can't tell that it's
fire or water. I guess sorry, yeah, I mean it
is expensive to make shi it look really mean, I

(31:48):
feel like inen like we should be able to believably
make people look like they're actually underwater, right, I mean,
like the reporter's head videos in like the nineties that
we're doing believably. So make the aquall I mean, those
guys we're underwater. There was a whole crowd of people
who are like, whoa wait, this is underwater. Yeah yeah,
I mean there's just a lot of money and sometimes

(32:10):
don't go to the right place. Yeah yeah, I mean
this is the director this movie anyway. Yeah, yeah. There
are some good looking action sequences, are like brief flashes
of action sequences that look like yeah, if you watch
it and you don't think about the fact that it's
supposed to be underwater, it's like, oh, this looks tight. Yeah,
it looks like a good action movie. And that's why
the guy who directed some of the best fast and

(32:32):
furious movies. So I think there's a chance for it still.
But oh yeah, it'll do fine. I think do you
guys think they're gonna be okay? Yeah? I don't think
someone would be like, damn, did you see that trailer?
I mean, they took an l on the water, you know,
fucking motion graphics. I'm gonna have to whatever, but you
know it's bad for d C when it's their comic
com They're the ones who are like releasing ship and

(32:54):
they still get overshadowed by Marvel News, which is that
guard into the Galaxy. Three fired the director James Gunn
after there was what do I send my resume? Exactly
because there were some old tweets of his that came
to light and that this was all part of the

(33:15):
ongoing Culture Wars. We have a sound a SoundBite for
Culture Wars just kind of not just hear the voice
done live. But yeah, so it was Mike Sernovich and
Jack We're Jacks. Yeah. It was like a campaign by
them to dig up ship on on the directors James Gunn,

(33:39):
because you know, he is anti Trump online. They've been
looking for their person that they could get taken out
the way that they think liberals took out Roseanne liberals.
Um so, I mean because on one side, this guy
just made like really just she jokes. Those guys that

(34:00):
act like you should get fired for being a fucking
hack online. I think that should be a fireble offense
for anyone. I'm a hack Oh no, no, but I
think like when you look at the way people were reacting,
like Ted Cruz is like if this is true, like
he needs to be prosecuted, and you're like, bro, he's
talking about like ship that is not even of this,

(34:20):
Like this is like third grade humor. Yeah, I mean,
I guess third graders don't make that many jokes about pedophiles.
But yeah, this is like, this is extremely it's a
bad jokes, trying to use trying to be edgy, trying
to use shock humor, very immature male humor. Yeah, it's
very like, oh, what's the edgiest thing I can think of? Pedophilia?
I'm going to make that joke over and over over

(34:40):
a period of what years, you know. So it's hacky,
But if you believe in pizza gate, you're like, damn,
this is all coming together, right, I mean, but that
just shows how desperate they are to come up with
evidence in the whole pizza gate that the media is
run by a cabal of pedophiles. Theory that they've been

(35:01):
working on. Oh, I thought it was that the media
is run by a couple of pizzas pizzas, Jewish pizzas,
so right. One of his tweets was, I'm doing a
big Hollywood film adaptation of The Giving Tree with a
happy ending the tree grows back and gives the kid
a blowjob. There was one where he tweeted that the
water pressure at his hotel felt like a three year

(35:23):
old peeing on his head. Just like, yeah, that's exactly
what it is. But the idea that Ted Cruise was like,
if this stuff is true, but pressure truly is that bad?
We need to talk to the hotel. It's very confusing.
You can't get a lather going like that. But a writer,
everyone should be fired for posting badly. If you post bad,

(35:46):
fucking lose your job. Man, Stop posting, step into the
arena if you don't have the Yeah, it's fine, No,
not everybody has to post your James Gunn you direct movies.
But in drafts this was written at a time when
he was directing movies for Trauma, and you know his
career hadn't really taken off. But like, trauma is better
than that, right, It's still way way better trying to

(36:07):
be edgy and do shock humor. Trauma is better than that.
Like come on. But in retrospect, it's weird that his
career path ever led to Disney and directing directing such
a huge movie. I thought Disney was supposed to be
like a big big Do they not vet tweets? That
seems like an important part of stuff? Now, Like if
I was a big company like Disney and I hired somebody,

(36:30):
I would be like, just delete your whole Twitter, right,
And they basically supposedly knew about these tweets in the
same way that they knew about Roseanne's background of tweeting
crazy ship and they were just like, from here on out,
just shut the funk up, please, And Roseanne did not
do that. Uh you know, Gunn did do that, but
because there was this public outrage, then they caved and

(36:53):
fired him. And our writer Jam McNabb pointed out that
before we start jumping in and you know, start a
campaign to get James Gummery hired, we should look at
other directors who were fired by Disney for worse reasons.
Like there is a director named Brenda Chapman who wrote
the Pixar movie Brave and was hired to direct it.

(37:15):
It was a very personal story to her. Everybody who
worked on it with her, were like she had an
amazing vision, she was lovely to work with, but because
Pixar was such a boys club, they let her go
and basically just said that her vision didn't match with
the companies, which was that she was making a movie

(37:35):
from a strongly female perspective. And you know, they replaced
her with Mark Andrews. Uh just two male names just
thrown together. Uh so Sam Michaels, Yes, Sam Michaels and
Mark Andrews two team direct. But yeah, so, I don't know,
it seems a little weird to get to two worked
up about the James Gunning. I'm sure he's learned a

(37:56):
valuable thing is to like I wanted, they still cut
and checks to Johnny, right. I mean, like there are
people who like, comparatively on paper, one guy who's just
just a fucking dumb idiot making ship jokes versus like
a serial abuser, you know, but they still have him
right there. And also like there's these two certain of

(38:17):
its episode they're fucking their backgrounds are fucking awful too,
pretty sure it like, I mean, aside from their racism
and crazy you know ship that they post online, I
feel like one of them like legitimately was charged with
rape a few years ago or like fifteen years But yeah,
over at the Q and on subreddit, they are they

(38:40):
are responding to this look into CPS. They're helping the
elite steel children. No one wants to talk about it.
That congresswoman who was exposing CPS was murder suicideed. Your
world is run by devil worshiping pedophiles. People are finally
starting to wake up stop supporting a coldest petals like Disney.
So that's their read on the situation. But you know,

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like you were saying, this does tie into an overarching
conspiracy theory that the media is run by pedophile pizzas. Yeah,
pizzas love kids. That's why, Um they got that deal
with the trills for the kid access. We're gonna talk
about Laster too. Yeah. Yes, So Lasseter is the head

(39:21):
of picks Are who like created Toy Story and Frozen
and I think the Car's franchise, and it came out
was very huggy at work and liked to make female
employees hug him and would say inappropriate things. And uh,
you know, Disney did an investigation. He was on leave

(39:42):
for a while and they quietly were like, he's going
to stay on as a consultant through the end of
the year. He's not allowed back in the office and
he's fired at the end of the year. But he
was heading up Pixar at the time when Chapman was
fired from Brave, so you get the sense of what
picks are. Culture was like, yeah, I mean this is

(40:02):
sort of animation a lot all the time, and Pixar
sort of positions itself like this is there's a new
animation where Pixar we're for the whole We make movies
that are for the whole family, including the adults. Like
we make all cultures, like we were diverse, we tell
a lot of stories. Um, we have values that are
different from you know, what you would consider old Disney

(40:24):
movie animated values that are very like fairy tale or whatever,
people princesses and stuff. Um, but it's you know, it's
still just animation. It's still the same old fucking dudes.
And I mean, what's what's amazing about the laster thing
is like he's a big fucking deal to really be
that dude's rich. That might be the most powerful person
who's been staffed by me too. Exact point, And what's

(40:46):
I mean? What I'm I mean not to like speculate,
but there's no fucking way they fired him for hugging.
This guy makes literally billions of dollars for Pixar. Frozen
is like, I don't, I mean, you have kids back,
you know what Frozen is. You know Frozen doesn't end. Yes,
you know there is. You look like you just came back,
like you know that ship. It's like that drag. It's

(41:08):
like that dragon bridge. I went to a Frozen birthday
party where they had the same three songs from Frozen
on repeat, a very loud volumes the whole time. It
was and then and then yes and then probably uh
from I don't know. I shored it out and woke up.

(41:28):
Then I was covered in blood. I used to babysit
a lot, man, I work with kids a lot. And
when did Frozen come out? Ten years ago? Three years ago?
Did not come out? Frozen two came out a few
years ago, Frozen came out ten years ago, Frozen come No,
it didn't come out ten years ago. I bet it was.
I bet it was. No time flies when you're frozen? Man,

(41:54):
how the fund did I just hear about it? Like,
you just heard about Frozen. Yeah, just now, Wow, you
must not hang out a whole lot of it. I
can't stand that ship. In l A. I was hearing
kids in my parking lot seeing Let It Go in
a little a little helium chorus and they didn't know
most of the words. It's so funny because the history

(42:14):
of Frozen. Well, so, first of all, Brave was supposed
to be their groundbreaking movie where it was the first
Pixar movie with a female protagonist and all right, you
guys are going to show yourself. Hold on, we got
ourselves a white female protagonist. Stop the presses. Um. Frozen
was seen as like this big deal because it had

(42:34):
a female relationship at the center of it. It centered
a non romantic female relationship rather than uh, the romantic
relationship between the main character and a love interest. But
initially it was a little Mermaid ursula situation. And the
only reason that they ended up making it friends is
because Let It Go they like heard it and they
were like, oh, that's too good of a song. Yeah,

(42:56):
well we need to make them friends. It's based on
It's based on the Ice Queen, which is a hands
Christian Andersen fairy tale and she does know anything about
hands Christian Anderson. It always ends with a girl dying,
depends with an evil woman getting killed in a really
painful way. So like, yeah, ELS's was supposed to be
the Ice Queen is supposed to be the is the
villain of the story in the fairy Tale the Ice Queen.

(43:17):
And I mean thank god they changed because that's a
much better movie. But they did it accidentally just because
so they basically anytime they're adding diversity or you know,
strong female character, it's it's a mistake that they're like
doing kicking and screaming. Uh. And yeah, and plus you
have picks are being part of the whole tech world,

(43:39):
so that doesn't help. Also, are there not a lot
of women in tuch Uh. We're going to take a
quick break to look that up and be right back

(44:00):
and we're back. There are some people at Gym's right
who don't necessarily know how to act in public. They're
there for the show. They want to be the show, right,
And I think we have a new high in this
in this category of people who just come looking to
make a statement because so Planet Fitness there their motto

(44:22):
is this is a judgment free zone. And the idea is,
you know, we're not sitting here like you don't have
a bunch of personal trainers being like, oh you're you're
not throwing plates around, bro, Like what the fun is?
You're fucking delts are not really developed right for your side?
Don't They have like a meat head alarm in their
place to like if you if you're one of those
guys walking on with like a two yallon juggle water,
they'll like hit the meat hunt and yeah, dude, they're

(44:44):
serious about that ship. Yes, wow, So there's like this
is just for if you're wearing like a weightlifting belt,
they'll be like, hey, yeah, hey, what are you considered
about your back safe? They're like, hey, we're we're super
accepting of all types of people want to work out,
except you. You need to go You need to go
to the fucking scream gym. There are plenty of those
gyms for people who are very very serious about ship.

(45:07):
But this dude took that to mean judgment free zone,
to mean that he could just show up and work
out nude. Yeah. Well it's in New Hampshire, you know,
so I kind of in a way New Hampshire, My man,
it's fucking The motto is live free or die that
you know what I mean. So in a way I
understand that this guy, his name is Eric Stagno or Stano,
thirty four years old, pulled up. Apparently this is what

(45:30):
they say. The story from witnesses is that the guy
walked in, stripped down right there in front, left the
clothes and belongings at the front desk, walked back and
forth across the gym a couple of times, and then
settled in over at the yoga mats, and then when
officers arrived, they said they found him nude in a
quote yoga type position. So I don't know if they
don't know yoga, and he could have been doing or something. Yeah,

(45:53):
some dive bomber pushed ups I don't know, you know,
dog dog cobra. But they said the only comment he
made was that he thought it was a Judge mint
free zone. So is he doing a bit or That's
what I'm saying is trying to point he kind of
looks like he he looks like a bit. Yeah, he
looks like he might. I don't know, like he would
be one of those dudes who you're like, are you

(46:14):
a hipster? Or are you as homeless in Los Angeles? Yeah,
from a police perspective, that's kind of how you first
have to come into it, right, like we need to
figure out is this a mental health issue or just
a dude fucking around? And then that's kind of like
your path from actual you know, if you can smack
them around, because if it's a bit, you're like you're

(46:36):
mentally you're like okay, so let's you kind of have
to start there, right, like very like hey Boddy, Yeah,
but the very at least like what's up, dude? Hey man?
Not my stay my man? Right? Are you good? The
fact that he was doing yoga is the least surprising
detail of the story. This dude who has like a
long beard and accidental dreadlock looking like it's forming on

(46:58):
top of his head. Definitely like definitely looks like he
was he was there to do yoga also, because like,
you're not going to be working around free weights with
your ship just hanging that. I was gonna ask you
guys for some truth. You're gonna you have to be
naked in a gym you have and you have to
perform one type of workout and or exercise. What would

(47:22):
you do naked in the gym, and you have to
choose one. I would love to go with treadmill basketball.
I would get on a squat sled, you know, pushing
out and they're like, oh my god, I don't know
what I'm looking at. I think that would feel it,
because look, if you're gonna do it, I might as

(47:43):
well pull a power move and make everyone as uncomfortable
as I am. Right. Yeah, I'm not an exhibitionist, so
I would be like, you know what, I'm just gonna
make this a moment. I would just avoid anything anything
that has that like sticky pleather on it, because then
it's touching parts of your body that aren't meant to
are touching things that people have like sweat on and

(48:05):
really get the sweat out. So I'd probably just do like,
you know, jumping jacks or something like that. What about you,
maybe just the elliptical, Yeah, just a low impact and
not too Yeah, you know, it might be interesting to
see what your body looks like working out nude, don't

(48:30):
you think, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you get a whole
different perspective on on how you're engaging in this exercise.
I think we have a whole new video series. We
can start. I guarantee probably what this looks like underneath
your clothes, right, doesn't have to be nude workouts on
the internet. Yeah, of all the people of all different
walks of life. Can't you imagine there's probably a nude

(48:50):
yoga retreat there in l A every weekend somewhere, right,
I'm sure, yeah, right now, I'm sure it's like an
Airbnb experience, that nude yoga in the Hollywood Hills. I might.
I might do it with dread Head. If I felt
better about myself, I would do it. Hey, this is
judgment free zone, man, Okay, here we go. Alright, a
sound of clothes taking on. If you had to record

(49:12):
one podcast nude, what would know The Daily with Michael Barbara? Yeah,
because those I'd be like, what, that's just my conversation.
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeite. Guys,
please like and review the show. If you like the show,

(49:36):
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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