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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Yeah, So,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Miles.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat.
Through trials and tribulations, the government tried to shut him down,
but he's here. Very funny comedian and writer who you
have seen doing stand up in places like your TV.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, the Internet. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
His new album ran Through is now available to pre
order on Apple and Vinyl. Please welcome back to the show,
the hilarious, the talented Alan Strickland, will y'all.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Of you all star Weekend, y'all, thanks for having me.
What's up, y'all, it's going to be back. Thanks for
thanks for having me. And yeah, you know, just for
the listeners. Little backstory, I guess Transformer neighborhood powers out.
So we're so so we're on a hot yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
And I get you should see it. You're not even
seeing this. This man has his fingers locked behind his head,
leaning back. That's how easy he is about this.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm not worried. I Meanwhile, I'm like, my foot's shaking
a hole in the ground underneath the table. Cool at
eye water over here.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That's right, that's that's who he is. In a catastrophe.
He's exactly hands by leg vibrating.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I probably caused it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So yeah, how do you.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What do you think going too hard?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
What do you what do you suspect did it? When
you say you're rocking too hard, it's because you've got
like a bit bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Mind, I got the big coin. But guys downstairs, I've
got my three I got all my hair stuff. You
have my hair team in there. They're in they're in
the master bathroom and they get in and around five
forty five every morning, I've got a routine. Uh you know,
Mark Wahlberg, how has that crazy routineries up at like three,
(02:21):
I've got that. But it's just for my hair. So
it's like my hair's up then, yeah, tweaking it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's dry.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much, very it's
very kind of you. Yeah, there's a lot of We're
drawing a lot of power from a lot of different
neighboring counties to Los Angeles, so it's just really, you know,
we gotta figure this stuff out, guys. You gotta figure
this stuff out. The grid, Uh, we gotta figure the
grid out.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah yeah, if anything for for Alan's hair, and those
aren't hair plugs, so that's that's natty up top. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Now now the plugs would even work right now because
the power's right.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Guys, that's comedy that you get. This upcoming album ran through.
When's it drop, Allen.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, it drops this Friday, October twenty fifth. You can
pre order right now. We've got a lot of one liners.
We've got a lot of relatable bits. We've got some
poignant yet hilarious takes on the celestial bodies that hang
in the sky above. Oh maybe some trauma stuff. Dating's weird,
you know, stuff like that. The get We'll get into
all of it. We wrap it all up nicely for
(03:25):
you. You're gonna lie, You're gonna light the way you laugh.
I guarantee it all right.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
And that plug was as organic as the ones in
your scale.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I'll tell you what, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
What is something from your search history that is revealing.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
About who you are on Saturday, as it will be
forever known going forward to the day after I saw miles.
Oh yeah, I plus one D day plus one and
I they don't give plus ones for D Day. I
noticed whenever I go to Normandy, they just make you
go solo. But I had to google bike tube because
(04:02):
I fucked up a day. I fucked up my Saturday
in a way that I'm like, I don't know if
I should be allowed to make a decision ever again.
And I drove to New Brunswick, which is like forty
five minutes away, which is a shithole, but they have
a great beautiful bike path that goes along like the
Raretan Delaware River. So drove my bike out there. Didn't
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realize a Rutgers game was going on. Home game, so
I was driving into football traffic like right when the
game was right before. So already fucked myself. And then
I get to the I couldn't park. I finally park
right across. It was right next to the stadium. And
then two like three miles into the ride, I hit
a rock at a speed that was crazy and just
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blew my just blew up my front tire and I'm like, oh,
I don't know how to fix this. And I was
like trying to get an uber to take me back
to my car, but there were search prices because of Yeah,
so I was getting so I was cheap.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Bankrupted yourself taking a bike ride?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yeah, I bankrupted myself. So I ended up just sitting
and looking up how to change a tire and then
I patched it. I figured it out after like an hour,
and then it.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Like popped again.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
So I had to walk three miles and like my
tiny little outfit all the way back to my car
through this weird.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Part a bike out yeah, I have on social media.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah, oh yeah it was, and it was real. It
was one of the more revealing ones that I.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And you were wearing one that says Saint John's on it,
so you were really getting smoked too.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
I was really Yeah, I was wearing a Chris Mullen
jersey and a Saint John's bottoms saying on the left
ask cheek John's jaw.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
N r Saint John's. Wait, did you have a So
you had like a patch kit on you?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
I had patches, and then I had to like it's
so inside the tire there's a tube and a tire.
So the tube is what you inflate if you have
that type of tire, it's like a little like a
mini tire. I guess, yeah, and that's what had the
holes in it. So I covered the holes and I
was able to be like, oh, I fixed it, and
then I didn't. Apparently I hit that rock so hard
(06:11):
it was not fixed. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Thought that was only children's bikes, but that's okay if
you ride children's Wow.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Feel my bike has three wheels on it. I'm sorry,
tricycle Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
But it does feel like they need to start making
bikes specifically to deal with the speed at which you
ride that thing with those plumpers like it would it
be safe to say that, like, bike companies should probably
just start like change their approach when it comes to
how you ride that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Thing, thank you. So I've reached out to Ford every
day for the past three years trying to get them
to make me a bike, a Ford bicycle, and they
won't do it.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
So Chevy. Yeah, and it has to be American made.
If it's not, I'm not going to fucking ride it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
You know this.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
So Mazda earmuffs the other ones. I only I can
only name Mazda's Internet National cars, so hummer.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, And I won't ask what kind of car you
drive in your personal life because I don't want to
ruin the brand image, but it is. It's a super
Roo Bronco. Yeah yeah, it's a super Yeah SUPERU Silverado,
(07:25):
the Silver Kim. What's something you think is underrated? Uh?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
State holidays? Because today is Nevada Day And did you
guys know Nevada has its own holiday.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
I didn't know what do you do to celebrate? Do
you gamble?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Traditionally you go to brothels gamble, Uh pay tithings.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
To that's like every state.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Well, when I moved to California, I was like, when's
California Day? In California doesn't have a California Day, but
Nevada Day does.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Oh yeah, I thought California would have a California Day
because in Nevada on Nevada Day it is like like
a federal holiday. All the banks are closed, DMVs closed,
stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
So I was waiting for California Day because you know,
everyone wants an extra day off. It never fucking came
and I realized it was, uh not every state has it,
but every everything feels special like California every day.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
That's what I'm saying. It's not every state needs one,
you know, feel.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Good about ourselves.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Yeah, there's Vegas, but everyone knows Vecas. The rest of
us need to feel special.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Park County is getting all the fucking attention, you know
what I mean? Isn't that what the county that the
Vegas is in? I think so, Yeah, I'm just gonna
say that as if I know. I'm pretty sure it is. Yep,
it is.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I don't know why we don't have I mean, I
probably because we also respect a lot of other holidays,
and I'm sure other states wouldn't because you know, like
some places are like MLK Day even though we're like
I think we should all what are we really not
gonna okay that?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure like Indigenous People's Day went right
over most people's heads here, even though they are a
really large community of that, right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It probably depends on, yeah, the governor and their outlook.
And like it's still Columbus Day. We still like Italian
Genocide or day. Okay, it's one of our favorites.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Mummy. Yeah, shout out the Columbia change though, for without
which the world might not have potatoes.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
What is something you think is overrated?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm gonna say, Calie sober, which is what I've been
sort of doing, which is where you only have weed. Yes,
I've been taking some time off of alcohol. It fucking sucks.
I'm just like so stoned all the time and like
and like kind of basically non functional the second the
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sun goes down. But I don't feel as bad in
the morning, which is the one silver lining. But that's
like turning me into a morning person, which I'm not.
So I have the worst of all worlds, which I'll
wake up. I'm unwillingly waking up at the crack of dawn,
but I am still like sleepy and out of it
in the evening.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I know I don't as good as you're gonna feel.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Well, yeah, I got I guess I gotta. I gotta
move into like like New Mexico sober or whatever and
just do meth. But just yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
The whole process of waking up because you never get
to sleep.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Kelly Sober is always interesting to me. I mean I do.
I am a firm believer that we is better for
you than alcohol as far as it's your body.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's largely why I started. But it's not that great
if I'm being honest.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
But yeah, you're still just like you know, like I know,
we we smoke a lot in California, but it's not
as social, yeah as it can be, you know, because
you still got to like go outside and you know,
you gotta light up. You gotta have the circle or
you got somebody has to have the weed worst versus
like if they I believe like Cali Sober will become
(11:12):
more social and more of a fun thing to be
when we start opening up more weed cafes in California. Yeah,
if we open up where you can actually like go
to a place you can eat and like, you know,
commune with people, I think it'll be like, h it'll
be even more fun to be Cali Sober.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I think those those places because I feel like when
they started legalizing weed, like people tried those businesses. And
here's my guess as to why that shit doesn't work,
is like it's much harder to get someone to buy
like ten joints in a night, whereas you can get
someone to buy ten shots. Sure, like you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Can have one joint and immediately be like I'm I'm
waiting too high right now. The last thing I want
is anymore. I think the business. The business model's tough.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I mean, but like Amsterdam has it, like with coffee
shops and so they figured so like it. Probably it
isn't like a I mean they do have a few bars,
and I know tourists at those places uption and shit
like that. But like I think, like food has to
be a big.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah to it, Like you have to make money some
other way.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You got to make the money, like from like food
and people just being able to sit down and smoke
and eat and like laugh and like have get like
you you know what, you want to open a business?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
We can do this, man, Yeah you can may pitch yeah,
Miles's pitches that they just need to do it at
movie theaters, which absolutely that would be just have.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Like optional movie theaters.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Essentially, you know there's oh my god, there's a weed bar,
and then you have bar movies.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
And you basically you just re up for ten dollars
every hour if you don't want to move from your seat.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
And then also you got to be able to talk,
Like you gotta be able to fucking talk in the movie,
Like if you don't had any smoke because I smoke
and I go watch horror movies, doesn't make you more
fun for me because I'll be I am like, I
will become like the stereo, not in a disruptive way
like people be, but I will become the stereotypical man.
I don't go in there, come on, now, come on now,
(13:10):
all ship you know. I mean that would because I'm
high and like so if I'm gonna be smoking and
a movie, you gotta I want this to be song
for everybody. Like we're gonna be giggling and talking and laughing.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, and guess who's not gonna give a shit about
you talking during the movie. The other extreme one.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah, people, it costs five dollars for every half hour
to stay in the seat. Stay as long as or
long or as little as you want. But you're wrenching
the chair. Movies are just playing. You can order food
on your phone. We cracked it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Be great, we cracked its.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Cracked it.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, I think people, I think the only not downfall.
But what will happen is you will start to get
people who will try to fuck in the movie theater
because it will it will put you in like nobody
else's around, right.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
We're yeah, we're adding businesses at an alarming rate. But
I do think like an hour like motel with like
one of those love like heart shaped hot tubs in
it could.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Be a good movie.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Or put a little canopy over your two seats and
just zip it up.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That's too much.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I don't like that so many people are going to
be jacking off, and then.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
After each person goes, you basically got to like close
the canopy again. Fill it completely with bleach.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, like a float pool. Like what are what are
those like sensory deprivation tanks? Yea, they just like replace it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Not listen, these are all details though. We're just talking
logistics because.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I feel so I'm just incidentally mentioning a business that
we should probably add a sensory deprivation tank. Just this
is this is an adult entertainment complex, but like not
in the pornographic way, you know, h entertain You might
as well also add a sky zone for adults, like
where adults can just you know, get high and then
jump on trampolines.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I will say it is crazy that there is not
just like a walk up sensory deprivation tank on like
the Las Vegas strip, just like a little you know,
like like just like one of those like side businesses
next to a casino or in the Morgan Wear casino
malls and you just like be alone for and it's
quiet for like fifteen minutes, or play an.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Absolute mess to like just imagining the amount of bacterial
infections that people get at those things is yeah, I've
done it once, and yeah, it's like I had a
minor scrape on my leg and it like was burning
because of all the chemicals in the water because legally
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there has to be because I think it's mostly salt.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But yeah, sensory deprivation. You're it's you alone with the
flora and fauna of every person that's ever been in that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Ye, just the biome of every Yeah, all right, let's
take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
We'll come back.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We'll talk about the news. We'll be right back, and
we're back.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Like I said, we are very very close to election day,
and you know, as the race gets closer, there's been
a lot of early scape voting draped in polling. You know,
how will Arab voters vote, How will the Muslim communities
of Michigan vote? Will they let Trump win? There's like
that kind of like rhetorica will they let Trump win?
(16:41):
Why are black men abandoning Kamala was her plan not
good enough? With the crypto and all the other things.
To that, I say, please direct your critiques at the
significant voting block that is white America and ask why
they aren't bothered. I think that's maybe a little bit
of an easier question to ask those those numbers tend
to be than the marginal sort of groups that you're
(17:03):
using to sort of create this like I don't know
pre explanation in the event that Harris does not win.
But as Jack has mentioned, the business blocked many times.
But the more you look at how billionaires are using
their influence to affect the race or just kind of
get in the way of like the normal discourse, it's
pretty clear that these people have no issue with the
(17:23):
Trump presidency either. So I feel like is another worthy
question and something that is worthy of some journalistic analysis. First,
is the La Times the main newspaper, Yes, the La Times.
They are owned by billionaire South African and musk friend
doctor Patrick Soon Schong, and he vetoed earlier this week
(17:46):
the editorial Board's plan to endorse Harris, which resulted in
the resignation of the editorials editor Mariel Garza doctor Sun
Shong tried to explain this away as him like he's like, well,
what I did was I pro posed sort of like
a like, let's take all the issues and analyze how
they will affect Americans and give people sort of a
(18:08):
non partisan analysis to help voters decide how they would
like to vote. But it was quickly dismissed as bullshit,
as Mario Garza herself said, no, we were planning to endorse.
He said no to that shit. And that's why I think,
that's why I'm walking from this, because these people are
fucking meddling and just something that's very been very normal
practice for the La Times since about two thousand and eight.
(18:30):
And I think this also goes along with like the
trend we have seen of like the wealthy buying newspapers
and gutting them an attempt to kill local journalism, which.
Speaker 7 (18:38):
Is doesn't bezos on like the Washington Post or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he does, he does too, he does too.
And we've seen them also have some interesting like a.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Lot of the headlines have become like oh, it's like
pretty normal to be in a gatorade bottle and you're like,
what what I'm kidding. I'm totally joking.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
I know they're on TikTok. I like their TikTok crow.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Right, the wa po TikTok. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
And again everything's a grain of salt because bezos.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Right, yeah, it's just a very like again, we see that,
you know, whether you own a newspaper or sit in
the c suite of a you know, conglomeration of a
company that you know owns different TV news networks, there
are ways to be like, let's do this. Maybe let's
not talk about this as we've seen, Yeah, clearly for
this last year, especially that relates to what's happened in
(19:30):
Gaza and the gend ongoing genocide there.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
But then all right, and you've convinced me I'm gonna
start a paper. I'm gonna for the regular people come,
come do and on and get my Halloway paper.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
See yeah yeah yeah. So aside from that, and I
think a lot of people, there are a lot of
celebrities like well, I never I'm going to cancel my
subscription to the La Times. I mean, there's a way
to get through that with ad blockers and stuff. But
I'm not here to advocate for that. I mean, that's
just that's what Reddit's for.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
We would never copy and payte stay into a Google doc.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
We've been never never look for a cashed version of
the website that or use private browsing to try and
get in the other way. But then we have the
fine folks at MSNBC, you know, they fucking love the
horse race and being like, I.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Don't know Trump.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I mean, it's kind of kooky, but let's you know,
maybe he could, maybe he could not. We just don't know.
They've been finding very interesting people to platform, like a
recent recent segment from Alex Wagner, to platform people like
these black people in Pennsylvania that will be voting for Trump. Now,
anyone who has heard Trump speak may have recognized that
(20:39):
a lot of these quote unquote normal voters people had
very similar talking points like that they were also repeating,
which I get to the repetition of it, kind of
like American people just like, yeah, she's not qualified or
educated enough. You're like, are you really doing really really,
there's a lot to say about Harris as a candidate,
(20:59):
but they're sort of using like the very trick like.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
This dumb floot bitch.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Man, excuse me, and I'm no feminist. There was a
woman who said that it's like and I'm no feminist.
I'm like, and that's fine, and I get that that
was very clear. But here's the thing I'm not saying that.
You know, like, there's no way that there are black
people that support Donald Trump. But this is just sort
of how I don't know if this is bad journalism
or propaganda. When you looked at one of the people
(21:28):
that was speaking like to this, like this quote unquote
panel of like normal voters in Pennsylvania, one of the
women speaking is literally a Republican candidate for office that
is running this cycle, and they.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Are you saying she's not a black woman? Is that
what you're saying, Miles?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It is in political arts.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Are you saying she turned black after being a Republican?
Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Miles, Not at all. I'm saying this is some opportunistic shit.
We've seen places like CNN do that when they have
their quote unquote undecided voters, and there are people who
are like very much just Trump voters, but they're being like,
I don't know, maybe we'll see it's just sort of
like this lack of.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Undecided and whether they're racist or sexist?
Speaker 6 (22:13):
How much money they which one?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
They want to openly admit to being on national television,
And I get that is a hard decision to make.
I totally get that they're also on Twitter. Some people
have alleged that another woman in the video was part
of a local Mom's for Liberty group, So hardly just
like normal people assurance liberty, that regressive, homophobic group. That's like,
(22:37):
we don't want kids knowing about anything that will get
them to have We don't. We're anti empathy.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
Don't look at it, don't look down when you're in
the shower, make you die. Contact with the shower head,
It'll let it dribble out. Don't let the shower pressure
be too.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Lie, turn down the water pressure. So again, I'm not
sure if this is just bad journalism or just straight
up propaganda, but the segment was quite pointless, like when
you look at these sort of like the underlying details
in question, Yes.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Myles, as a black man, how do you represent your demographic?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
What do you mean? What?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
What like?
Speaker 7 (23:16):
What are you guys gonna do? What are black men? Well,
right now, Indian people, we're gonna sell ourselves out. Okay, yeah, yeah, thank.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You so much, Thank you so much. Yes, black people,
and look, I do have the opportunity to speak for
Japanese people too, because we are a monolith.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're known Black and Japanese people
always voting.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, I mean, you know, Rui Hachimura, Naomi Osaka. You
know we're out here. We're trying to make a difference.
Although I don't think really can vote because he's not
a citizen, but as I have this jersey hanging behind me.
But you know, we're gonna do the right thing. What
we like to do is just continue to I think
the kinta cloth thing in the capital rotunda was big,
(23:56):
was really big.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
It was huge.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It was huge. It showed me that Nancy Pelosi's knees
were like she's spry. She was able to take a
knee unassisted. And I wasn't pressed with that. I was
impressed with that physical ability.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
That's incredible. We were went over by when Trump spoke
handy really poorly and that weird ad from years ago.
Wait what there was an ad word. Trump spoke handy
and it was like the worst pronunciation.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Are you for real?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
I'm pretty sure?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, Oh my god, I'm like.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Pandering or whatever. I think he just said like a
few words, but it was really bad.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
He did that for Nevada in twenty sixteen, Like in Reno.
He's like, everyone says it's Nevada, but I know we
all know it's Nevada, and Nevada's get so pissed off.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, I don't say Nevada. Come on now, I know
better than that as someone who's had to campaign for
another person many years ago. Oh wait, here's the ad
pikey bar Trump chawkar Oh, hold on on on'y key
bar Trump shark car.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Wait. Wait, guys, you guys are watching Like the way
his mouth is moving, it's like Hindy was never meant
to be spoken out of those lips.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's like sar car. Yeah, I've never seen somebody. I
don't see. I've never seen anyone speak any language with
their mouth that wide open, unless you're looking at the
words like a video game puzzle. It's like up key
bar Trump star Car.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Wow, it looks like he's prepping for a blowjob to.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Give a Yeah wow, I did not Wow.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Okay, it was like the volley or something. I don't know,
but it was uh and that won our vote, and
that's probably why Oshan married Vance. I don't know, maybe yeah, who.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Knows, that's all that matters.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
He's like, no, I really appreciate the effort he put in.
Holy shit. And then so on Fox there was like,
there's just another moment. We shouldn't be surprised they have,
Like Trump visited that barbershop in the Bronx. They edited
the fuck out of that entire interaction to make it
seem like he even knew how to listen to and
answer questions. The unedited video is just another example of
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just how fucking out of it Trump is. But that's
nothing new to most people who are observing this election.
But yeah, I just think so much is also being
ignored about how in terms of like the mainstream media
and they wouldn't deign to criticize Harris in this moment,
but like the moves that the Harris campaign themselves are
making quite possibly will be their own undoing, like pivoting
(26:28):
to the right on huge issues that matter to their supporters,
like law enforcement reforms, if any, immigration, just being like yeah,
we're basically can go as hard on immigration as Trump. Gaza.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
I also like beyond strategy, I know we're like all
caught up in like strategy and it's politics and it's
capitalism and it's evil. But it also just sucks that
they don't care. They don't have any morals and they
don't care about anything. I know, we know this, and
we've been knowing this, and that's what this country was
founded on. But in the spirit of Moodang's innocence, I
just want to take a moment that people like don't
(27:04):
do things for the sheer reason that it's good to
bite your keeper, you know what I mean, Like it's
just sad.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah, no, totally. And I think it's clear that they're like, well,
we're not going to do any of that stuff that
would be like you know, actually beneficial to people, but
detrimental to like our police industrial and military industrial states.
That they will also like they're like, so, let's just
pick off some exhausted white Republican voters and see if
like that can be it, because we're not going to
do this other stuff that is just way too much.
(27:33):
That's and I and again, like I've said this before,
if if they think like doing the off brand version
of the GOP is going to be effective, uh, you
got you might have another thing coming here, because if
these people want to see more suffering at the border
and for like people of color, they have the candidate
for that, and they will go all in on that.
(27:54):
They are telling you that as much. Why settle for
this watered down version if that's like that important of
an issue to someone as a voter. So the logic
is baffling.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
But go ahead, came maga magas.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh my god. But yeah, like again, go ahead, pin
this on progressives and people of color rather than the
Democratic Party's insistence on maintaining this cruel and awful version
of American democracy.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Please also slide point. People keep like conflating all these
different demographics, like Arabs aren't all Muslim, most of them
are Christian, And you're like, they're like, it doesn't I
don't know. It feels like really stupid. The boxes they're putting.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
People into it lacked in this weird way. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:36):
Anyways, well then again, people opening their worldview.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
We can't do that. Everyone has to be in their
own little box.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh my god. You look at those those those images
of what's happening around the world. Oh my god, how
do you do it? Anyway, I'm a congress person, and
you're like, what you're not?
Speaker 7 (28:52):
Fuck okay, congress person, you've never heard of Moodang?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Okay, sorry, fucking you know what's going on in Thailand
right now? Fucking eyes, my guy, Look at this greasy Look.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
At the blush on her cheese.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
She's eight yeah, fuck it twenty he write it in
fuck it she.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Would be a better alter.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Wait not this year.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Not if you want. Hey, look if you're if you're
Moodang twenty four, glad do you think.
Speaker 7 (29:21):
They're gonna be like birther people?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Like? Was she born? I have it on good authority
that this hippo is from Thailand. And you're like, you
have it on good Wow, that's you're racist.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Oh so has to be her running mate? Yeah so,
Oh my god, she was the giant hanguin. Miles, Oh
my god, Miles, they're.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Low information voter. I'm sorry, did.
Speaker 7 (29:52):
You already know no knowing about pesto yo?
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh oh but wait, but I'm based off this code
is that like a young penguin.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Baby penguins, Miles, he is a baby, and he's standing
next to his parents, and he's a million times bigger
than them, and he's just a little baby.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Oh, this is the Lebron James of penguins.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
Wow, that's what we're saying. That's baby pesto.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh, I like the muscle to move.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Dang's cuteness.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
She gets me, like, oh, is he old enough to
run for VP?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The experience? Does he lack the experience? He hasn't even
he hasn't even lost his baby down coat yet or
whatever that phase of either new.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
Like progressive actually progressive John Fetterman, Okay.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
I've never seen him assaulted couch, so you know he's.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Got he's got and yeah, he hasn't been compromised by
different interest groups. I love that. I love that. Okay,
so let's move on to this Netflix movie about the
hottest fucking snowman you've ever laid your mortal eyes on.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Speak for yourself.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
You see, I've seen hotter.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
I've made hotter Snowman.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
Okay, I like dad bought Snowman's thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, there you go. Yeah, exactly
what is this traditional version of hot we're being sold?
But so we all watch the trailer for this new
Netflix movie. I've already forgot the name of it. Uh
hot Frost Frost, which is very odd, so Netflix is
they're really hot to We've got the meats.
Speaker 7 (31:32):
Imagine Frosty but it's melted and meats.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, I mean Wendy's you're missing out. I mean, y'all,
y'all own that Frosty ship. But I think again, we've
seen the Obviously, holiday movies are very popular. I'm a
very I'm very much into holiday movies myself. I love it.
It's trash. It's like wallpaper being not white and never
having Christmas like white people do. I like to live
in their fantasy worlds in the form of these like
(31:57):
Terrible Sacharin holiday films. So this movie, which we all
subjected ourselves to watching the trailer too so we could
speak accurately on what this thing is.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Offering journalists here.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Okay, this is a movie where Lacy Shaybear, who you
might know from a lot of Holiday Channel or Hallmark Channel,
rom com. She was in Party of Five, Me and Girls,
et cetera. She's playing a widower who brings a nude,
ripped snowman to life with a magical scarf.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Also, this snowman is in like the town Square, being
like naked and like r with ads like stores in
school and just like right there he is.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
See this is why Mom's for liberty is right?
Speaker 7 (32:44):
What if it was their version of Jesus.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That have been so much funnier And it's like I
am Jesus's like, oh damn, I'm just trying to fuck
hold me my bad? Can I get my scarf back
so you can melt away? So apparently this guy's only
had like a few days, Like he's only like he
was literally born yesterday, as he was brought to life
by this magical scarf. He has a very limited time
on earth. Quote before he starts to melt, they naturally
(33:09):
obviously start dating. And it features comedic actors like Craig
Robinson and like Joe Joe Latruglio. So it's clear like
there is a level of self awareness to this comedy
that is like absurd, but also they also want to
get the traditional holiday people up in.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
I don't think this is actually a Christmas movie. This
is a movie about how hard it is to day
in la Okay. I will take a man that melts
in three days over some of them.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
I will literally fuck a snowman. I can't find anyone
car if.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
My pussy freezes and falls off Okay, I got this Kraren.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Some what I got this scart?
Speaker 6 (33:48):
I got this carrot from Sprouts and tell me it
cannot be used.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Oh my god.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
So also krishell Stoss always Krishelle from Selling Sunset.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
That was, Oh my god, good on you, chrisll Is
she with the dude from This is Us.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Dumped her and then and then now she's dating G
and they're like a really popular Australian or married to
G and they're a really popular Australian. But she also
dated her Selling Sunset boss and she still works with
one of the twins. Very strange.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
I remember watching that when G was introduced and one
of the twins was just sort of like, oh, I'm
sure with this and.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
I'm broken every day.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah, that's I love watching that show because despite all
the money those two have, they are fucking broken people.
Speaker 7 (34:39):
They're sad.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Yeah, so we watched the trailer. I'm just what are
your thoughts on this? Because oh, before I want to,
I just do want to preface this is part of
Netflix's like holiday stravaganza where they're going to be releasing
a new Christmas movie every Wednesday throughout the month of November.
Speaker 7 (34:57):
I'm gonna fucking cry. You're releasing all those movies. You
couldn't even get me a single line in any of them.
I want to be in a bad movie, so bad Netflix,
I will not call it a bad movie. If you
put me in it, I will be I don't care,
I'll be any I'll be the stay of an Indian person.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I don't know. I'm gonna say, would you be in one?
That was like a totally fucked up take of like
Indian Christmas kind.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
I had to do that for my sixth grade choir.
You think I wouldn't do that in a Netflix? They
the world. They never let me sing in anything, and
then they did a fucking Christmas around the World and
I had to be the one of the stars because
they didn't have enough brown people in my fucking Utah
elementary school, so I had to teach them about the
volley and they never let me sing again because I
(35:41):
was Yeah, I'll wear a sorry, I don't care, get
me on screen, Okay, I will dress sorry, Okay an
auntie to life?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Would you be? Would you be in a holiday rom
com about a single Indian woman trying to find love
on during the holidays called sorry, not sorry.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
I will write it.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (36:07):
And there I know what's going to happen is I
will be cast as a friend. I don't care.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Somehow I wrote directing it and.
Speaker 7 (36:15):
They made me the friend or I'm like the seven eleven,
don't put me in it.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I will.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
I told you earlier in this episode, I sell my
people out.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Okay, if the there is a price, this.
Speaker 7 (36:32):
Is going to be the main Indian girl.
Speaker 6 (36:34):
With yeah, right exactly, just throw back to by Hankah's areas.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Full on brown face, you know it. Oh my god, Oh.
Speaker 7 (36:47):
My god, what if they what if we say this
and that's one of the movies they released Netflix right now,
like some other Indian person gets to be the best friend.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Like did you that down? Right?
Speaker 4 (37:00):
That down?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Did you leak to sorry not sorry? Concept someone just
quote these three people just said the entire film right now,
with the title, with the plot and the cast, We're
fucking up. I don't know. I love holiday films. I
don't know about y'all, but Kim, I will ask you,
as someone who as a cartoonist illustrator, you you have
an imagination of things that are non typically coming to life,
(37:22):
coming to life having personalities. What did What's your critique
on seeing the huge nippled ripped snowman guy and his
life and him coming to consciousness? Well, two thoughts.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
One is I I did notice the lack of sentient
bug butt plug representation. I felt that was needed. But
I would totally watch this unronically. If this was done
in old school claymation style would be the best.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
I miss that.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
It would be so perfect to have your time still
hot Frosty.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
Yeah, one hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
It so funny. It's like I'm melting kids and as
that happens, just a butt plug drops.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
Had that in the whole time and the winnower picks
it up. A single tear rolls down her eyes.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
What's inside you all?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Along with children?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
It's medically viable polyurethane. Yeah, I I was like it
was Look, I'll watch any holiday films. I'll probably watch this. Obviously.
There is like a thing where I'm kind of like
the Frosty watch party. Think we should? I think we
should depending on how I mean. By the time it
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comes out, I have a feeling will still be in
the throes of debating the election and whether or not
it's certifiable. So in that liminal space where we're, you know,
on the edge of total collapse, this may be the
one thing that that soothes our nerves, in which case, yeah,
maybe we should do that, just yeah, yeah, truly, Oh wow,
what's happening? I don't know. This fucking snowman is hot, though,
(39:10):
so fucking hot. The other thing that is interesting too
is that Lacey Shabert was named in an age discrimination
lawsuit against Hallmark, which could explain the switch to Netflix,
because if and look, I'm all about the many days
of Christmas shit they do on Hallmark, but there's a
good damn near every day there's a new holiday movie.
She her shit is all over, like her face is
(39:31):
in she stars in this shit. So I wonder if
they did the thing where they're like, all right, she
aged out, we're done with.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Her looks so young. She doesn't look anything different than
mean girls.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Honestly, it said Hallmark did not want to cast old
people like Holly Robinson, Pete and Lacey shaber Wait.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
From the article and Variety, it says, Lacey's getting older
and we have to find someone like her to replace her.
As she gets older. Hamilton Daily allegedly said, damn okay.
I like how women are always I told like, oh
my god, don't be so competitive with younger women because
like you're always acting like they're trying to replace you. Meanwhile,
like men are like, yeah, we're replacing you that you're
(40:12):
afraid of.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, then he told Apparently the same guy told this
casting director Penny Perry, who's seventy nine years old, that
constantly she was quote too long in the tooth. I'm
sorry that quote. Does that mean that is too long
in the tooth for you to be casting aspersions on people?
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Also, if you use the phrase too long in the tooth,
you're fucking too long.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
As it's exactly old.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Say her aura was off Jesus.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, what is the etymology? Like you're like a.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
Recession.
Speaker 6 (40:52):
We can't have her because of her ginger vitis.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
Guys like it's noticing.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Oh my god, you know how Oh I guess it is.
It alludes to a horse's gums receipting with age. We're
talking about we're talking about livestock white over here. Yeah,
old horsemouth, look at that. We can't cast it only
wants to fuck this old horsemouth all right, let's move on,
let's find something different. Anyway, So this is all part
of a very new exciting time here. We will see
(41:18):
where this goes. I'm glad they're finally snow men to fuck.
I guess we're gonna go outside.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
We're gonna see a bunch of snowmen and a bunch
of holesome them, and we're gonna be like, how do
the men get a hold of it?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I know they're like, you need to worry about the men.
Speaker 6 (41:33):
There will be at least one carrot pun in that movie.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
That let's take some odds. Okay, there will be a
carrot pun. There will have to be some kind of
like it's like, clearly this guy's like kind of an
alien because he's just become human, and like where he
doesn't realize like he can't get naked all the time,
probably kind of thing that seemed like that was sort
of the case in the trailer where he's like so hot.
Speaker 7 (41:57):
Feels like there is like this theme of like women
falling in love with dudes who just appeared like what
was it enchanted or like I guess I was the
reversal of it, but it's I don't know, I feel
like it is like our version of like when men
go for like nineteen year olds, We're like, no, no,
we still want them to be an adult, but not
ruined by the world exactly. We want them to not
(42:21):
have met other men before they met us. We wanted
the patriarchy to not have insidiously ruined their personality.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
I mean, I think the one knock that goes against
it looks like his two only friends are cops. So
we'll see how that works out. So true, we shall see. Okay,
let's take a quick break and we'll come back to
check in with an overall terrible take from The Atlantic
about Halloween when we.
Speaker 8 (42:46):
Get back, and we're back.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
And so the big news in a story that we've
been following. The big news also in the streaming world.
You know, we were all rocked with the announcement that
Chick fil A is getting into the content game, where
they're basically going to create their own streaming service where
you can watch shows that we were speculating based on
(43:24):
their YouTube channel would be about cows that like do
wacky shit like Warner Brothers style. They have a cartoon
series that has like surprisingly a lot of views where
like cows get into wacky kind of Looney tun style adventures.
And then there's also a show on their channel called
Evergreen Hills Stories of Evergreen Hills that has very suspicious
(43:49):
view count but.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Hey, hey, hey, come on, man, why just because it's
faith based? Okay, there's a lot of Christians out there, man,
a lot of Christians.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
So the show Stories of every So those are the
two of the things that were announced, right, they're gonna
take I think.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
I think though, with the cow one, they now are
cows that run a gay conversion therapy sort of like
business where they yeah, where they they sort of victimize
chickens or something. Yeah. Yeah. And another one is about
the power of Sundays. I believe, or it might not.
I don't know. I'm just I'm just spitballing here, but
it's I think there's a lesson zero chance that they
(44:23):
could be if someone comes to something like that.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Just checking the view counts of Stories of Evergreen Hill
on YouTube, this is not suspicious at all. We've got
two hundred and eighteen two hundred and fourteen thousand, one
hundred and forty one million for another episode.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Oh that one's really good.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
I watched that.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
One actually, because I was like, is this thing just
like fire? Is this like the best piece of content?
It is a ten minute long little animated morality tale
about bullying. There's like a bunch of world building where
like an old guy takes his young helper to like
the spark tree and he's like, the spark tree works
(45:01):
like this. You can get the spark, but you must
use it like just a bunch of rules and ship
and there's just no reason I can conceive of that
anybody would be watching this ship on purpose.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
But well, that's why I think that that's what makes
this kind of getting it gets a little freaky, right
because before like they're probably just finding some like Christian
production companies that are just like they're like, yeah, we
like to make really boring Shita buy it. They're like
they have like people behind the shows like top Gear
and The X Factor and like that game show and
(45:33):
NBC The Wall, like they're they're doing deals with like
like proper production companies to like take their ship to
the next level. And also, let's not forget scripted podcasts,
which we all know are work all the time.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
I've never seen one not work. The Wall that's the
game show of the Wall. Yeah, pink fluence, no man
who knows. Yeah, make sure.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
It sounds like someone had the idle. They're like, what
if we did Cocoa Ballad for adults.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah, that's that's what this sounds like.
Speaker 8 (46:06):
It That's exactly what it feels like.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
It's like maybe AI's writing it and like it's just
turning out this stuff or something. It's very it's a
brave new world, guys, very brave, courageous new world exactly.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
So it does make me feel like I'm in a
post apocalyptic film, as have a number of stories in
the recent in recent weeks, like not just like oh, theoretically,
I see how this feels like we're in a weird
post apocalyptic movie, but like we were talking about this
lapd dog robot dog that they introduced and the video
(46:42):
of them like being introduced. Like what one is like
a shot from a news helicopter where like the news
reporter is like there it is, then you like see
it like walk on this it's like straight up out
of RoboCop. Like it is a like could literally be
lifted from RoboCop. And like there's other like news shots
(47:02):
where it just like walks by the news camera and
they're like, wow, there goes a hero.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Who rescued who right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Exactly, And there's like a news story that compares it
to the size of a Golden Retriever instead of more
threatening like you know, just the they picked the friendliest
dog possible.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
But anyways, and then our writer JM made the observation that,
like the footage of Elon Musk giving a giant, oversized
novelty check to someone who registered to vote for Donald Trump,
like that is something that is on TV in the
background of RoboCop like that. It's just like there are
(47:42):
these very specific moments that keep happening that feel like
they are just shots from RoboCop. Yeah, but overall, theoretically,
like this story about Chick fil A streaming has more
of a demolition man idiocracy vibe.
Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, I was about to say idiocracy for sure, like
I and I I just had it's happening in in
my in life too, like you you'll just I was
up in Oakland area. I went too fast food place.
I went to the drive through. They had one of
those centuries like you see them a lot in like
downtown or parking lots. Like it's like a police stand,
(48:23):
there's like a pole, there's silent on every yeah, yeah,
and uh it was out there and like we're in
line of the drive through and the speaker just starts going,
welcome to Carls Junior, we are here for your safety.
And I was just like, oh my god, it's straight
up Idiocracy, like like welcome to Costco, I love you,
like whatever. I was like, oh my god, so wild. Yeah,
(48:45):
it's uh, it's it's really We're we're really it really
is like a movie out there, donk like we really
we really are. Like it's like I'm like, did someone
cast this? Like did someone this is getting close?
Speaker 1 (48:59):
Yeah, Carls Junior was the thing from Idiocracy, right.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
Like I think I think it was Carl's Junior too,
or it might have been. It might have been it
might have been Jay and the Bee the Bee. Yeah yeah,
m but I felt safe.
Speaker 1 (49:15):
Yeah, and you did feel safe because who's gonna look
after you better than Jane to be.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Welcome or you can have it your way. Oh it's
Carl's Junior. It was Carls Junior. It was Carl Junior in.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
Idiocracy, Yes, yes, okay, in Idiography it has a couple
of details that I had even forgotten, like I didn't
realize that part of it was like everyone wears crocs. Yes,
that's the thing that happens in idiography.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Yeah, the thing that Mike Judges quote on it is
just so funny because like he was talking about the
costumer's decision to have people in the film wearing crocs
and he said, quote and I said to her, but
you actually bought these, like you can order these shoes.
What if by the time the movie comes out, these
things are everywhere and it doesn't look like we're set
in the future, and said, oh no, that's never gonna happen.
(50:03):
These shoes are too ugly. And sure enough, by the
time it comes out two years later, everyone is wearing crocs.
So it already started coming true even faster than we
made the movie, really, which is wow, you know spot
you know.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
It's also funny and idiocricy, the like normal person just
milling about like an extra whatever that is who Trump
is appealing to with the Arnold Palmer Dick story, right
like like that, like oh my god, oh well, well, it.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Was a nice run. It was a nice run. I know,
it's it's too I think that's why Like, you know,
Brian the editor, he was saying he watched it recently
and he's like it was a mistake. I can't this
like just hits weights in a way that is just
it's disturbing. How like this is this isn't even like
even like with the marketing stuff. It's like, oh, it's
got more molecules and whoa mole Yeah? Yeah, and how
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we are with like electrolytes or even ship like you know,
totally this is alkalized or whatever.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
You're like, okay, yeah, I mean they have the show
al My Balls, which is a pretty close corollary to
many TV shows. They have a WWE character becoming president,
which we've already crossed over there in that sense. Like
Donald Trump was like the reason he made such an
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effective like public figure being in a WWE storyline is
because he has in his entire career just been a
WWE character. Yeah, there's like a lot of stuff about
people not paying attention to their surroundings, like when Luke
Wilson like pod crashes through Dax Shepherd's wall and he
like doesn't even look up from his TV. They still
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watch TV and Idiocracy, so they aren't It's actually better
because they aren't like walking around with the TV in
their hand, so there's less distraction. But still like that
was something that was seen as abnormal enough to put
in satire at that time, right that people would just
(52:05):
be like, what is this screen saying that Carls Junior that?
And I think if there's that part where the like
the Carls Junior claims the woman's kids.
Speaker 2 (52:17):
They're like, Carls Junior believes no child should go hungry.
You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed
in the custody of Carls Junior. And you're like, that
feels it's like like the Chick fil A summer camp
for kids when they're like, what what is this, Like, Oh,
they're going to labor here, but we're gonna call it
a summer camp.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Yeah, okay, okay, and people pay for it. Yeah yeah, yeah.
But corporations are people. As Mitt Romney said to us,
you know, yeah, that was like the we should have
we should have been more scared then, but we were
like Mitt Romney's an idiot, but the heating hot, right,
Corporations are are people, and now are at a point
where they're the only people who have legal rights really
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like they're the only people who can actually get anything
to change.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
So what what other children?
Speaker 1 (53:04):
There's like some depressing answer. There's like children Men is
like the bleak answer.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Running running Man is. Have you guys seen Running Man?
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (53:12):
Yeah, yeah, Running Man's great, and I think they're remaking it.
Like I just saw something with a reality show. I
was like, oh, like, I don't know something, but I
think I think there's very Running Man vibes out there
in the world right now.
Speaker 1 (53:26):
Yeah, especially like the shots of like before they even
get into the game, right, that's what Children of Men
is like, the like very bleak, like the footage of
just like world at large stuff with like there's like
a refugee crisis.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
And oh that's right, that's right, like people.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
And you know, the lack of children being born also
you could tie to like lower birth rates are plastic balls?
Speaker 2 (53:56):
Yeah everything size now, Yeah, that's funny. We're like, I
don't like, it's probably Children of Men, but that's too bleak.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
So right, idiot, Well, it's also probably like Elon Musk's answer,
because he's like, the biggest problem facing us is underpopulation.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
Come fuck me, you know, right right? Be one of
my three million children. Yeah, I like. I like the safe,
entertaining combo of our falling apart world is probably demolition
Man mixture of ideocracy.
Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yeah, I'm going RoboCop ideocracy because demolition Man also feels
like it would be a conservative's answer where they're like,
you can't say anything anymore.
Speaker 2 (54:35):
I can't even I can't at this museum. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (54:41):
No, it turns out I can, and just people will
be mean to me online, but otherwise my life is normal.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Yeah, plane, it's safe. I mean.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
Brand consolidation definitely happening, although it's more it's not that
like Taco Bell took over all the other restaurants. It's
just like one company by the scenes takes over all
the other companies behind the scenes, and they're all just
like one mammoth company. That's like, you know, with there
a thousand faces.
Speaker 2 (55:11):
Alan, where do you land? Which one is? What's the
combo here for you?
Speaker 3 (55:14):
I mean, yeah, I think there's definitely deocracy vibes. I'm
also thinking about water World a little bit, but I
guess in like, we're going to a water world where
it's just the problem is Nestley owns all the water,
right like, and so that's why we have to drink
our own pea or whatever.
Speaker 2 (55:31):
But he was able to convert it. It looked like
the Okay, okay, maybe.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
You know that's what we'll have to do. We'll have
to use all the pea that's being stored in bottles
and Amazon warehouses to convert into water for us. For us, Yeah, yeah,
the regular lord.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
I mean, I think Elysium would be like a good answer,
but like I would have to watch Elysium and like.
Speaker 3 (55:57):
There's a lot of that I haven't seen, which now
I like, yeah, I really need.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
To because that that's the one where like the wealthy
just like escape to a small yeah, suborbital space station.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
Is that the one where they like they can buy
they literally can buy time? Or is that that time
that's about time?
Speaker 1 (56:17):
Okay, yeah I think so? Yeah, justin Time, justin Timberlake
is just in time?
Speaker 2 (56:23):
Yeah, yeah, with like Amanda siph Red right mm hmm
was the co host or sucks.
Speaker 1 (56:32):
I think I also watched it too. In time is
what it's called good concept.
Speaker 2 (56:37):
Though what your time was on Armed, Well, I think
that's what's like. I think it just makes satire and
sci fi just you just realize like there's a real
art to it, because like when you're really like good
at sort of just thinking about how these things play out,
whether in a satirical way or you're trying to like
create a cautionary tale for about the future, it's yeah,
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a lot of ideas together that eventually end up being
like spot on. Like I feel like, you know, in
the early days it was like the Simpsons, and now
people like Octavia Butler was right the whole time.
Speaker 1 (57:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Parable of the Sewer gets a
lot right unfortunately. Yeah, I don't know, Zeigang. We'd love
to hear pitches. Don't just say the name of the
movie though. Hit us up with some details that you
think rhyme particularly well.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
Snow Piercer probably too. And there's so many things like that,
the little elements of it.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
And we eat bugs. We're just I mean, I guess
we should say up front that on this podcast we
eat bugs and drink our own piss already.
Speaker 3 (57:38):
Yeah, Snowfish are so funny because it's like, man, I
wish we had high speed rail like that.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
Oh man. Yeah, like in California, you're like, oh.
Speaker 3 (57:48):
It's actually a good that's actually a good movie.
Speaker 1 (57:51):
Aspirational Snow Piercer is there, aspirational postcards.
Speaker 2 (57:56):
They're on time.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yeah, mad Max is like it feels like where we're headed.
Speaker 8 (58:02):
But yeah, Matt, Matt, not that cool yet.
Speaker 3 (58:06):
Escape from La Escape from New York. I feel like
I feel like that's like that's like seven twelve years
down the road. Maybe a little longer, but it does
feel like we're getting there for sure.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
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