Weekly Zeitgeist 401 (Best of 9/29/25-10/3/25)

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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. Miles. We're

(00:26):
thrilled to be joined in our third and fourth seats
by the host of the very popular book podcasts Reading
Glasses and the new book show Reading Smut the Maximum
Phone Network. Please welcome to this show, Mallory O'Meara and
Bria G.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I can tell you're a fellow Irish person because you're
the only person who's pronounced my last name correctly.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Omeara.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, everyone says Omeira and wow, you definitely have spices
in your food if you can.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
If you can't pronounce my last name.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I have not. I've never I will eat food and say,
oh my god, what is that and they'll be like salty.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Okay, wow, someone studied abroad.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Amazing. Guess on your part that Jack O'Brien is Irish. Also,
you know your stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Potato potatoes?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Did Yeah? You didn't even like potato? My brogue come out,
try to cover it up. You know, potatoes O'Brien a
real dish that is delicious dish. Delicious dish that is,
especially if you put this special salt on it. Oh yeah,

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onions pretty basic.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
As far as we go flavor wise.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So that's right. Yeah, Well, we're thrilled to have you.
Congratulations on the new podcast Reading Smut.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
That's what it says on the tin.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, sorry, jacket there.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
The origin of it could potentially be from a place
called Jack's Yeah in Manhattan. Wow, So I'm just saying
Jack o'brown or anyway, Sorry.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Don't dig too deep or you're gonna find something, you know,
I don't know exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, you're gonna Yeah, you're gonna get powerful people are involved. Man,
you want to you might want to leave that alone.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
How how has it been going from a straightforward reading
podcast to uh, I guess it's still pretty straightforward to
read smut, But.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Do you think one would think, uh, I'll more talk
about genitals in this section of the book world than
what we're normally used to.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
But it's been a lot of fun.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah, are you do you both like smut or is
that kind of a thing where it's like, oh, this
is a whole other genre we really didn't probably.

Speaker 7 (02:48):
Tap into I think I'm like more of the nube
to it, like I'm I just we started reading it
like so our other show, Reading Glasses. We don't really
do book clubs or anything, but we did a couple
like special book clubs with smut books, and they were
really popular and we were like, oh, maybe we should
just see if people want to.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Be reading more of these.

Speaker 7 (03:08):
And the more we talked about, the more that people
wanted to hear about it. So we just decided to
dedicate the genres blowing up and Mallory can speak much
more to it than I can. But it's sort of
interesting to see why, like why are so many particularly women,
but a lot of I mean.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
You just said, you said, oh, fairly, you've read a
smut book. Why are we picking up these books?

Speaker 6 (03:31):
I had to pick it up because this the description
was so absurd that I was like, this is a book,
This is an actual book someone wrote the words to.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
And last week someone was talking about smutt. The book
is called hallow Peen. Oh yeah, I think it's Holly
Wilde is the author.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, there's a lot of seasonal smut with you know,
Christmas Smutt, Halloween, smutt yeah.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
With like a guy has like a rock candy penis
in it, and I was like, this is and I'm like, okay,
I mean like this is this is different.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
So I don't hate I don't hate it.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, I mean the first the first book we ever
did for the show was about a man who is
actually a door and gets turned into a human man.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
So yeah, it's a pretty popular thing. I mean, it doesn't.
That's the fun thing about the genre is it doesn't
take itself that seriously.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
A lot of corners of the literary world are very snooty,
and the smut people are like, hey, you want to
bang this gingerbread man, let's go. Yeah, really really silly,
really fun. And I think that's why people get into
it so much is because it doesn't take itself seriously.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
There's no it's very welcoming.

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like the scribbling of like
rather than like painting. It's like, dude, do whatever the
fuck you want. And it's actually very fun because there
are no rules and you get to be the guy's
dick is made a rock candy, he's dummy.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Bears come out, What are you gonna do?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Why not wear out?

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Is that real?

Speaker 8 (04:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:54):
I can write.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
There's a few excerpts I was going to read.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
But anyway, regin do one where someone where Frosting came out?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yeah, yeah, it was the balloon one.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Animalsting comes out.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, Well he's a he's aware balloon animal.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
He sometimes is a man and sometimes he's a balloon animal.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
But you have to be careful, nothing sharp around him.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Is this a testament to like how bad men are?
There always has to be like some Yeah, I'd rather
be a were wolf door human.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's five one one deep. Look into tinder and you're
rushing towards the nearest door.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
A guy holding a.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Fish, Yeah, once you see enough fish photos. A guy
with the rock candy penis looks pretty good.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So it's just like people's desire for truly consequence free
sex that's like not tied to anything or any like
per It's not going to remind you of the sex
that you've had with people, right, it's like, just get
me into a fantasy world where I don't have to
be tied down by experience or expectations or anything.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, And the heroes are always very into the women.
They're always like very feminists. They always have good jobs. Yeah,
it's it's a magical fantasyland clean back rooms.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
But I will also say they are like medical men.
There are real men.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
There are real women, like there are We don't read
just like the fantasy ones, although that's obviously what's kind
of popular right now. But yeah, there actually is like
definitely a clean bedroom trend.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
Wow, Like authors like and then like how how is that?
How you usually encounter that description, like in.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Beautiful sheets, gorgeous curtains, very clean. You know, you date
enough guys who have never washed their towels and don't
have juvat covers or bed frames, and reading these books
about these thousand year old fairies who have like two
thousand thread couch sheets.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Yeah, pretty nice guys.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
You don't have to go to Jordan Peterson to have
somebody imply that you should clean your bed around. You
can just read about your fucking balloon animals.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Wow, you'll get the same the same message. Yes, that's wild.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
I mean I one time I did have jeans I
used as a towel.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah, And I'm sorry in college, but.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
You moved on. Yeah, you've moved on.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
You've evolved you have. I'm sure you have real towels
now that I do.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I have one. I have one. I have a dish
towel that I've been using for about a week next
to my computer, and you.

Speaker 5 (07:31):
Carry it around on your shoulder like a chef.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Miles this morning when we were recording and I used
it to wipe my mouth. I think so highly of me.
He was like, is that a sock that your foot?
Valid question, though I can't even imagine someone pulling a
sock off their.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Foot to what you haven't dated enough men.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
I've seen jeans used as towels, man, A sock isn't
that bad?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
And I think the worse article of clothing to use
as a.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Towel I can and I've seen it.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Swa underwear.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it's rough out there, folks.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, wool isn't absorbent at all. Yeah, I just wipe
your hands on. I don't care. What is something from
your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 5 (08:23):
My search last week I googled is boat cruises in
Chicago because the weather is still nice here. It's about
eight degrees for the next few days, and my friend
is visiting, so we want to see the architecture and
maybe some ice agans attacking citizens from a helicopter. What
is going on? I can't enjoy anything.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, was that yes last night where they came out
of me.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Let's get a little little what there's trendy here? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Huh yeah, you said all chilis.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
Oh Jesus Christ, they're serving Iowa fresh.

Speaker 9 (09:02):
Forget them.

Speaker 5 (09:03):
Yeah, so that's the last thing that googles with boat
cruises because I was like, but I saw that literally
probably the but within a day of doing that, there
was that image of the ice ations like doing pr
for themselves and they're like on the on the Chicago River, Like,
oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Do you see that.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
They're like with a camera and it's awful.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
They're doing the macarena. Yeah, it was gross.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
I was like, oh my god, you can't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Giving out Halloween candy that was donated. We talked about
that in the past year, where when you donate Halloween
candy it goes to the US military. Like they're like
because the US military is like care packages, but what
they actually do is use it to like bribe the locals.
Oh yeah, foreign countries and now probably in our country.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, oh, I mean they've been bribing children in our country. Yeah,
you know, I mean, how else do you plant crack
on a father? You know what I mean? Sure, you know,
just a little trick. U slip swap.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's pretty swap. Root's been bribing me since g I Joe.
It's like the first thing that I liked. All right,
what is something you think is underrated? Moulin blimps? Finish
my question? Now I'm you are I'm heated up? Yeah, okay,

(10:22):
go on, why okay?

Speaker 10 (10:26):
All right, let me sell you a door so airships
are better than planes for the environment.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
There the blimp salesman rolls up them. It's not a car.
It's not a car, brother's door. Kate thought it was
a blimp.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Nope, yeah no, because on my door selling originals.

Speaker 10 (10:49):
There we go. Now, I like the way we're spinning
this out. Okay, so Hindenburg aside. Let's get past that
little aside.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
But we're gonna move past it.

Speaker 10 (10:59):
We're just gonna brack get the hinted.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Bra Zeppelin.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
It.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
I remember when I found out that was a real thing.
I was like, that's just the led Zepbelin album cover
that's not a thing that happened.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
And then I'm like, where what the fuck is this?

Speaker 9 (11:15):
So?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Okay anyway, berga side, what are there any is there
any modern I think were you? Were you? Oh? No?
Who was on?

Speaker 4 (11:24):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Maybe Daniel O'Brien was. I was talking about like how
limited the like the dirigible, Like there are a few
dirigibles actually in like in like being used around the
world right now.

Speaker 10 (11:35):
Very few.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (11:36):
This country, the US is home to the Goodyear blimps, you.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Know, famed for saying ice cubes of pimp on in
the early nineties. Yeah. Yeah, everybody did so much detective
work to try and figure out what the good Day was.
They should have just gone back through Goodyear Blimp history whenever.

Speaker 10 (11:56):
Yeah, you can find it.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
You idiots doing all this work.

Speaker 10 (12:01):
It's I gang hop on the discord. We need your
help figure this out.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
We I don't know.

Speaker 10 (12:07):
I am mystified by these because I used to do
a show about vehicles, right it was called car stuff
in a burst of creativity, and really the story of
the airship, the dirigible, the Zeppelin, it's kind of a
story about how humanity can't have nice stuff because it's

(12:32):
it's a thing that works, so long as people don't
try to shoot it down.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Mmr.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
You know what I mean, man, you have to hear
it all the time.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
It's the Zeppelin of our times.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
Wait, you think we were trying to shoot the Zeppelins
down now? Blimps down now? Probably not right.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
I don't know. They're shooting at fucking drones, aren't they. Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
I think it's too it's too tempting.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Is that what it is? What if I could bring
this down?

Speaker 9 (13:09):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Like with that with a plane, You're like, man, I
that no way, no way. But a dirigible now you're talking, Yeah,
it's you. Definitely. I think I'm getting the call of
the void when I look at a blimp.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Oh yeah, exactly. It's just like, man, look I could
I don't have to be able to aim good at all.
I could probably throw a football clear through that zeppelin
and bring it down.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
And you're looking at your friends and just pre checking
with them, and you're like, I'm a cool person, right,
Like I'm not.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, yeah, I've already called DIBs on bringing it down.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Ah damn it, all right, you go, you go to
get on board with this, And so I was like,
I bet, I bet like that the Hindenburg disaster was
such a mess and like so horrifying looking like just
that having a huge thing like burst into flame and
like I think thirty six people died, Like but is

(14:01):
it that dangerous? And it is like there's people dying
like a lot at that during that time of popularity.
There's a lot of ill fated missions, a lot of
them in New Jersey. For some reason, you could just
be that New Jersey doesn't know how to deal with.
But yeah, like a few years before the Hindenburg, uss

(14:22):
Akron crashes at sea off the coast of New Jersey
and severe storm, seventy three dead, many drowns. Oh, I
can see how weather is probably its greatest folk It's
a little bit of wink you guys, right, yeah, yeah, oh.

Speaker 10 (14:37):
Man, I just I feel like it could potentially be
an answer to a lot of the stuff happening with
private and commercial flights. It's just slow, ungainly cumbersome. They're
Chonky Boys in the sky.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Chonky Boys in the sky. Hell yeah, I love that.

Speaker 10 (14:58):
That's the album name.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, work I want Yeah. The fact that the
Empire State Building was originally designed to be a blimp
docking station. That's why it kind of looks the way
it does. Has always like captured my imagination and just
been like, man, there is an alternate version of history
where like the sky over New York is just full

(15:20):
of blip was the Empire State Building was dizzy right,
seems like it would just got to be a big
plinty thing on the top.

Speaker 10 (15:29):
Would be a bad It was designed for other stuff.
But in the pitch meeting someone was like, you know what,
also we should park glimpse here, you guys.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Lips at a time were essentially like our version of AI,
where it's just like the Throe blips into the pitch.
People excited about it. It was.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Like even though the big point you think it was
like it's fine, you'd think, right, but this.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Is one dirigible safe Okay, no way this metaphorical bubble
will ever burst. Yeah wow, we're just yeah one sorry,
AI Hindenburgh good or man it comes soon enough on
the way. Anyways, I agree with you. We need to
bring them back for good or ill just because they
would look cool. The world would look so sick.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
I like how you tagged for ill as if you
lightly implied that blimps may ruin the world, and you're like,
let's go for it.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Look it. They appear to be more dangerous than I
was hoping when you first brought this up a few
minutes ago. On the Wikipedia list of airship accidents, and
there's quite a few whimsical as hell. You don't need
a jet fuel to propel yourself quite as much as
you do with like the thousands of flights, thousands and

(16:43):
thousands of flights that are you know, going through the
air every day. That it is a plot point at
the end of Ministry for the Future, the book about
like what a future where we actually solve climate change
would look like. One of them is that we replace
air travel via jet fuel repelled rockets with with dirigibles.

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And it's fun, it's just slower. You just have to
be willing to like slow the pace of your life
down a little bit.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
And there's nothing wrong with taking a breath.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, I mean there is now saying ship like that today,
I'll get you killed. But the guy's two into breathing.
What is what's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 9 (17:27):
Okay, this is happening recently.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
I think when you're having a casual conversation and somebody
asked an intense question.

Speaker 9 (17:35):
I think that's underrated. Okay, so you're.

Speaker 8 (17:38):
Talking about day even Yeah, and then someone just goes,
this is literally what just happened to me this last weekend.

Speaker 9 (17:44):
Someone just went, so, what do you what age?

Speaker 8 (17:47):
Do you want to die yet?

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (17:49):
All just kind of sad in that and like really
talked about like the morbid nature of ours.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
This is so funny because yes, one of our guests
yesterday they're underrated was or maybe their overrated was getting
too deep, but basically an underrated was.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
Talking about the weather, whether keeping it light, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Keeping it light, keeping it light, and I love that
you come in and go dude, So I was talking
about the weather. When do you want to die?

Speaker 9 (18:13):
Right?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
When you want to die? Is a crazy thing to
come in with. That's that sounds like a threat, like
a threat that is.

Speaker 8 (18:22):
Well, yeah, it was probably like five four five pound moment.
So she was ready to kill me for sure.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
She's like, I got that thing on me.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Would you what did you give an answer or did you?

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I said, yeah, mine just trying to stick out my
taco John's lady.

Speaker 8 (18:38):
I mean the amount of the amount of Taco Johns
I've had in my life.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
It's crazy. I'm still alive.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Let's just start, let's just let's just put it all
out there, Okay, But yeah, I said so. Because of that,
hopefully this isn't too sad. I remember being like, not
that I like him up in the streets or anything,
but I remember being young and not being able to
like see what my life would be past twenty five. Yeah,
I'm well past that now. But so I was like,

(19:03):
I'm good at like sixty four, sixty six. Yeah, everyone
on the table got very sad. They were all like
eighty five ninety.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Four, and I was like, yeah, I give them like
a hard sixty four and.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Like I've done everything I need to know, Like maybe
fifteen twenty.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Minutes, you said a timer, I just lay in the traffic.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah. By the way, Tago Johns is a local Minnesota
Taco Bell variant, and I.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
Think people in this in the central parts of.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
The country know about it, right, I know about Tago Johns.
Should DJs. Yeah, that's a that's a heavy one. I've
never seen somebody in their nineties look like they're just
living a normal life. Like once you hit the nineties.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
It's like a different way of living.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's a different way of living, like it is subsistence
like you It just it feels like your awareness is
down to like a pinhole, like you have like a
pinhole view and like ability to interact with existence.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
And you'll have so much energy to interact too.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yeah. Sure.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Like my grandmother lived to be one hundred and in
her nineties. It wasn't until like she hit ninety five
when it started getting the thing where she's always kind
of had a routine and like wake up, they smoke
a cigarette, breakfast, if there's baseball, watch Japanese baseball, cigarette wrestling,

(20:32):
you are indestructible. She have another cigarette, then have some beer.
She would always drink beer.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
Every night, but like a little shoe, you don't have
like they have many cans of coke. They have many
cans of beer in Japan. So she would have one.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Of those, be wasted and go to bed and fucking
do it all over.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
And it was the same thing.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
And it was just like this like cycle where even
if I, like, you know, i'd visit maybe like with
a year in between, because I wouldn't be able to
travel being in school or something like that, and when
I'd see her, she would be.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Like, oh, you're back, Like, I don't know, motherfucker, I've
been doing my same shit every day.

Speaker 9 (21:12):
Yeah, She's like, it's been one hundred years for me.
You have no idea.

Speaker 8 (21:16):
People people who have those routines, who live really long
are like they have the same energy as like a
conspiracy theorist that realizes one of their conspiracies is true. Right,
So they think that like everything they do contributes to
how long They're like, Hey, I've smoked two cigarettes a
day and had a beer before bed.

Speaker 9 (21:32):
Yeah, every day for me, and it's worked for me.

Speaker 8 (21:35):
So like this is what it is. That's the same
person who's like, I've been retaining my semen because the
government is a bunch of.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
Listends and something. You know, that's the same energy.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
I love that creator, I love whatever it is mentally
that keeps them going on that path.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, you do have to retain your statement just to
realize to be able to see the lizard nature of
the government. But we we've covered that on you. We
also covered that on yesterday's episode and this morning. Something
you think is overrated?

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Something the thing is overrated. I think the last days
of summer, the dog days of summer. I think they're overrated. Okay,
because I'm an adult, I don't have to go back
to school, and we have global climate change now, so
every day is warm. It's December, it's ninety five degrees.
I could, I'm gonna. I could be swimming in February

(22:22):
of Minneapolis. But well, eventually will the water be a scenic? Sure,
but I can still do it. Okay, So I'm not right.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
I mean, you guys are set up there, that's where
people are going to be invading from.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
The Eye and all them lakes.

Speaker 9 (22:35):
Man, that's the goal. That was kind of part of it.

Speaker 8 (22:37):
I used to live in New York, and I was like, well,
this will be underwater pretty soon, so I'll find a
different place. My problem is now we have all these
like data center, data centers and everything, so like they're
they're soaking up all the walk So I don't know
that even we're not untouchable anymore. So I don't really know,
but I know they'll be hot.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
All the preppers say, Michigan, a lot of the Chigain
that's the Alamo in which they're already there, so that
a lot of the fulfilling, right, put up a fight
for some of that.

Speaker 9 (23:08):
But you're like, hey, you can't. You can't kidnap our governor.
That's our job. That's stuff.

Speaker 8 (23:14):
But yeah, so I'm thinking last days of summer because
i'm looking right now. It's it's October one. I'm looking outside.
I don't have the temp on me, but I'm pretty
sure it's like a balmy seventy five.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
You do have sleeves on.

Speaker 8 (23:27):
I'm inside. Yeah, this is a stresses I'm gonna get
all right. You don't want to see the lower half.
It's it's cleeves, but just on my It's just on my,
like calves and stuff.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
There's no pain, like compression sucks.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Yeah, but yeah it's calves a warm yeah.

Speaker 8 (23:50):
Yeah, you know that. Those are the money makers. I
post those on.

Speaker 9 (23:53):
You can check out my only fans to check my yeah, yeah,
only calves.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
Yeah, but it's that. But I'm inside, ac is on
a little bit. So I got and I want to
look like an artist, you know, so I feud this
on but outside, Yeah, this is uh, it's hot right now.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah, that's too hot for Minnesota in October seventy five.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
These are like these it's been like this lately. This
is how people get. Like we get a little bit
less snow, or we get like a crazy amount of snow.
We're like, well, right, do this what whatever? But and
then it's uh and then it's hot until like December,
and then you're like it doesn't.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
What was it like when you were a kid, Like,
what did you feel? What were what? What was October
like you had seen when you.

Speaker 9 (24:34):
Had legit you had legit seasons. October was a little
bit cooler.

Speaker 8 (24:37):
You felt to go, like, I played football, so be
like October's here, it's football, whether right, and you feel
good on Friday nights and all that shit. November was
like already barren wasteland. December you finally got like real
snow and all that sort of stuff. And then in
like January, February, March, April, you're like, maybe I dated
maybe frozen.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I didn't realize that maybe we should build just a
mo all that everybody walks through so we don't ever
have to go outside when we're Yeah.

Speaker 9 (25:04):
Yeah, how was it When I was younger, they built
tunnels so.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
We didn't have Yeah it's dark and hell's cold.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, all right, Ben, wonderful getting to know you. We're
going to take a quick break. Then we're gonna come
back and talk about Fox News is weird hoarding us.
We'll be right back. Were black.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Damn that I didn't I didn't you have a break
on that one. I don't like when you breathed, Jack.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
It's too much that off you hear when he last
he goes, wait, it's a good way to laugh without breathing.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
You want to cook his ass if he if he
actually laughed.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yeah, I'd be like always trying to show off those
nice teeth. I'll always the way.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
Oh so you want to know so you think you
Tarzan awesome?

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Oh it's always something.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, let's talk about teenage Mute and.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
So the Yeah, the fash Across America Tour has made
its Memphis stop, and Pam Bondi, Pete hag Seth and
Teenage Uni Ninja Gerbels Steven Miller dropped in to have
like another just having to watch these pep rallies where
a bunch of fucking federal like troops and agents just
have to hear some guys scream at them. I guess

(26:43):
that's like the theme of the week. So they did that.
They gathered all this law enforcement to basically be like,
you know what, you guys are fucking unleashed, which is
fucking terrifying because why the fuck is heg Seth the
fucking Secretary of Defense in an amaz American city telling troops.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
You'll fucking have at it, because they're just clearly trying
to make the agents and troops feel like they're above
the law.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Trump told on himself when he was like me and
Pete has been talking that like it would be cool
to train the military on our cities, So it would
be cool. Yeah, very cool, Donald, very very cool. That
seems wildly illegal.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah, but hey, you know what, like the teenage mutant
ninja turtles, they're also radical Ninja Gerbels got on stage,
and I don't know this, he's every time Steven Miller speaks,
it's just some whiny bullshit where it's just like big,
like you're not tough behavior, and he's he's on the run.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
He every I think I've seen three clips of him
total in my whole life of him talking, and so
this is probably the third one, and I'm always it's
always so jarring. Yeah, well, it just doesn't match. None
of it matches. Any of it when you're saying how
he's delivering it, his body movements, nothing matches.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yeah, and Marcella, look, you've grown around people who grown
up around people who don't take ship.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (28:02):
You know, you know No, I used to run an
MS thirteenth. I just kidd get myself.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
I mean, I think, like anybody, just let's assess his
men quote unquote menacing speech here really getting the.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
Truth with the men in menacing.

Speaker 11 (28:20):
But there was a square inch of block in this
city where a citizen.

Speaker 8 (28:24):
Doesn't feel safe. It's unacceptable.

Speaker 11 (28:27):
This is Memphis, this is the United States of America.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
What I want the listeners to listen for as a
bully the way I listen. First, First, you have to
listen for a speech impediment. There's history of it there.
You can hear it. It's really got a good ear
if you have a well trained ear like me. I've
been bullied childhood, bullying kid. Sorry, that's just my history.
You've learned to use it for good, but started rough. Okay.

(28:55):
You can really hear previous history of a speech impediment,
which also explains a lot of how he says things, Okay,
go hit the play.

Speaker 11 (29:02):
Okay, well ship is done, it's over, it's finished.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
You can hear what you know.

Speaker 11 (29:13):
The the gang bangers that you deal with, they think
that they're ruthless. They have no idea how ruthless we are.
They think they're tough. They have no idea how they
we are. They think that they're hardcore. We are so
much more hardcore than they are.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Please, someone needs to sample this. I hope some famous
hip hopper, right Jess uses it. Maybe Kendrick can do another.
If you need to do another drink this you can.
This is so we are so hardcore.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
This could be no idea how hardcore we are.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
What are the hardcore?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
They think they're tough, they're hardcore.

Speaker 11 (29:52):
We are so much more hardcore than they are.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
This is the This is again, like Marcella, this is
why we we gonna talk about this in an earlier episode,
and I was like, I need Marcella because I know, Marcella,
You're you're the the hair your bully hairs on the
back of your neck are shooting up being like this
bitch ass, this punk ass bitch right now.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
You think you think we're so much more hardcore.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Like that is the saddest fucking sentence I've ever heard,
is We're so much more hardcore than they are.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
It's it also sounds like how he talked to kids
in junior high, like he hasn't grown up. I always
thought that was the way to talk your hardcore.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Yeah, Like the West Side Connection album had just come out,
and he's like, you think.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
You're gangster, We're gangster. You think your hardcore.

Speaker 8 (30:42):
We are so much more hardcore.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Okay, we are.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
We're so hardcore. It's just a perfluous amount of hardcore
than we are.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
This actually is frivile. It's frivolous, the levels of hardcore.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
I wanted that to go on and on.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
Oh, I mean, it's there.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
It does.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
He goes on to basically say, you know why I'm
hardcore because I'll have the entire US military come after you.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Feld.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
So you're very tough, much.

Speaker 11 (31:10):
More hardcore than they are, and we have the entire
weight of the United States government behind us.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
What do they have behind you? Guys? Hear that behind USh.

Speaker 11 (31:18):
So we are gonna win. They are gonna lose. We
are gonna rescue Memphis and it will not only be
safe than ever before. But businesses and investment are going
to pour in and Memphis will.

Speaker 9 (31:28):
Be richer than ever before because.

Speaker 11 (31:29):
President Trump has the side of the priority and when
President Trump makes a decision, this team behind me today.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
Excuse Okay, So yeah, for everybody out there in Memphis,
I mean, I don't know, I barely know anything about
Memphis tennant key, but I don't think. I don't think
anyone's hardcore there from It's what I know from this.

Speaker 4 (31:51):
Nothing Memphis.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Oh yeah, you love.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
I do love this representation. It's very be for Vendetta.
I love this representation of like a leader of the
United States, like threatening gangs, like this is a ship
that they used to sample in the nineties, except yeah,
it didn't sound corny like this, do you know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
It's too over the top, like it is from a
movie that yeah, where like the performance is like that's
a little much, but all right, Like it's just it
seems like he studied like pathetic eighties movie villains to like, yes,
perform this speech like ya, how do we like set
tease something up so when this person falls flat on

(32:31):
their face, every everybody can feel fucking awesome. That feels
like the express like subtextual purpose of the writing behind
this scene.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Do you think that the blood was rushing through his
veins like he felt a high? Do you think he
was high?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
No, Look, you know how not hardcore this dude. I
bet he is shatter all. He's on speed. Yeah, he'll
take someone that a doctor or he's probably I think
like this whole administration is flying on adderall. I think
we're gonna talk.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
I mean, I'm saying he doesn't even seem like he
does it. I'm saying like his wife finally gave him
black cherry pepsi and he was.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Like, you think he's on some lady. You think he's
on some Latter Day Saints ship where he's like milk morning, motherfucker. Yeah,
don't talk to me. I had chocolate milk this morning
and said a regular milk him fucking freaking out right now.
I do feel like both in this speech and the
hegst speech where Heggsuf got up in front of the

(33:28):
generals and was like delivering a similar speech that had
like parts built in where you can tell they thought
that there was going to be like fucking swelling applause
and they have they have ox cord buzz, like it's
always just got the room buzz.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
So so here's the thing that's funny about that to
me is that when you're a comedian and you watch
other comedians and you watch them pause for laughter, that
is my favorite moment of silence. Now I have to
read rot this with that in mind, because I'm real
because I'm realizing that I don't think I was watching

(34:06):
that with like comedy brain in mind, but now I
want to rewatch it with the comedy the positive because
the posites are always so funny. In comedy with people,
there's a couple of people with specials that they're like,
I need you to applause, and then.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
There's the crowds.

Speaker 5 (34:18):
They go, oh, we're a pausing right now. Okay, but
I love a.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Force with sause.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
Break.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
That was a joke, folks.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yeah, if you watch my HBO Max special, there's a
moment in the special where I say, please stop applouding.
I don't have time for that because some of us
will write jokes to the point that we don't need
I don't need a plot. Your laughter is enough. I
need to move on.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Amazing hard. I was so hard for my special.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
The most hardcore.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
All they that there's words traveling about another comedian who
just taped a special that went less well that we're
not going to talk about.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
But the old fun is a dumb piece of ship
from bullet Wig. I do have a new podcast coming out,
Comedy is Dead, season two, with a new guest host,
Coloyd Michaela, who is based in Chicago. We have it
should be coming out next week. I'm really I'm doing
You know, we don't do planned drops anymore, right, guys,
we just dropped the ship. We're in a society where

(35:16):
and there's no preparing for anyone to listen. All three, right,
nothing matters anymore anyway. So we're dropping two episodes at
once because we recorded an emergency episode because we wanted
to talk about the thing we're going to talk about
later on here. But we get into that Theodon thing thing,
so you guys don't have to talk about. But I'm
letting the older they.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Hear your commentary because I know you're not going to
hold back.

Speaker 5 (35:40):
I don't hold back, but I do think that you
wouldn't know what I want to next, okay.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
And that I'm too.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
In kind of a related story, I just like did
you Marcella watch Pete haig Seth's speech to like all
the Pentagon generals, like all the military brass where he
wait wait.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Wait was that the one where okay, wait colol.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Sorry, he's like he's got a giant flag behind him
and he's like talking about how like you guys are
too fat essentially but like you know, just giving this
speech that again, same energy, same like you know, I've
I've pumped myself up. I've delivered this speech in the
mirror twenty times. But like you can tell there's nothing
behind it. You can tell that he's like very scared.

(36:20):
So anyways, that speech went very badly, just dead silence, no,
like not even polite.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Collaps and no, they were basically commanded.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
They were attention. They're like all right, sorry, stand up.
But so the fallout from that is there's a fallout
all he's now starting to institute random polygraph tests for
people who work in the Pentagon. That people are they're
saying it's to stop happening, to stop leaks, but I

(36:55):
guarantee there are questions on like how good does Pete
look in a suit? Though? Yeah, like he I mean,
and that that was a cool speech though, wasn't it like.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
It was Jack put me on the right.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Now, he didn't bomb up there? Right, is not a
word that we would use in relation to that. Just
in the machine is smoking.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Fire.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
No, that was sick man, that was so so sick.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
You're so good at lifting us up. Yeah, Jesus just blinking.
I saw that. That that the spider Man. That's what
that moment is, what when the Spider Man me when
they're just other?

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Yeah, got it?

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Doing that.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
Doing the polygraph with Pete doing the polygraph.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
The Pentagon's calling the reporting that he's subjecting people to
random polygraph has untrue and irresponsible, which is which is
the new catchphrase that they're using for like any report,
because they made journalists sign NDAs to be like anything
that you report that we don't approve could be like
you're basically the enemy at this point, like the good

(38:10):
countries do.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Yeah, yeah, like that Saudi Arabias we're going to talk
about later, Okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Right now, right now, let's get I mean, I mean, first,
I'm just generally right like looking at the state of
mainstream quote unquote comedience, it's so fucking depressing right now,
Like yeah, just for starters right, like a fallon is
not funny.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
But unfortunately he is my favorite code.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
But okay, I had such a I was such a
fan girl when I was like fifteen, and I'm like,
that's where I should have stayed.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yeah, he was little.

Speaker 6 (38:39):
I mean I get it at the time, like his
appeal was he was like the qudie guy who was
always cracking up on stage and energy where.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
He used to be finn I mean he used to
be more chiseled, you know, he didn't have a drinking
problem yet. Yeah, so it was growing, it was coming,
it was happening in front of our eyes.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
This was this was him.

Speaker 6 (38:56):
He went on CNBC to promote like some new show
he's doing. He was asked by the host on CNBC's like, Hey,
what's it like being a late night host in this
era of like FCC threats.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
And how does that in free speech? And this is
just like the very.

Speaker 6 (39:11):
You know, with his chest out, no fluttering, straightforward breeve
answer he gave.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
I am wondering how you're thinking about what you can
put in a monologue, What it's like being on an
FCC licensed avenue? Are broadcasting rights? You know?

Speaker 12 (39:28):
Our show's never really been that political. You know, we
hit both sides equally and we try to make everybody laugh,
and that's really the way our show really works. I mean,
our monologues are kind of, you know, the same that
we've been doing since Johnny Carson was doing the Tonight Show.
So really, I just keep my head down and make

(39:49):
sure the jokes are funny. I have great writers, clever,
smart writers, and we just yeah, we're just trying to
make the best show we possibly can it.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
We're gonna keep I'm gonna keep my head down.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Is mad at me. We're actually not like Jimmy kim
like famed radical political ideologist Jimmy Kimmel. This is essentially
like what he's saying, which was crazy. We're not like
that shit.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Yeah right, We're just you know, we have both sides.
We normalized Trump, you know, that's kind of our thing,
but we also like to hit both sides.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Let me touch his hair, which was a fun moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
Yeah. The Felon thing is interesting because he was never political.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, and I think.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
About God, somebody recently did like God, I wish I
could find it. But they were talking about how it
wasn't until more recent presidents that president started going on
late shows because like, he brings up Carson, but Carson
didn't have presidents on his shows, you know, so it's like,
you can't compare yourself to that, because Carson did sometimes
teeter the line in terms of humor, and it's frustrating

(40:56):
to watch him make that comparison because it's like, dude,
you're so you're right that you have never been political,
but to compare yourself or bring up Johnny Carson is
not correct.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:07):
Yeah, it's just interesting to see him squirm a bit
because I think he knows.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
He's like, damn, this is such an o for me.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
But he doesn't want to be there. He wants to
be drinking.

Speaker 6 (41:14):
He ends up talking like somebody like on Cops who
got pulled over, like be a suspected drunk.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
He's like, no, this is what I do kind of
like all the time.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
Just like he definitely looks like he's lying to his wife.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
You know, you can hear in the voice when someone's
just being like really detaching themselves from the answer they're
giving and that was just.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
So up, but detaching themselves because I think he really
believes that. I think he actually probably has never wanted
to ever put his toe into any political side of it,
Like he gets tucked into it, do you know what
I mean? Like, that's what I'm saying, is him specifically.
I'm not surprised that he's detached. What's frustrating is like
if you're so detached and why did you why do

(41:54):
you have these people on your shows? Then yeah, exactly
it's really pathetic.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Or is it one mic?

Speaker 4 (42:01):
But yeah, the we odd comedy thing. I was just
reading this thing where Pete david I knew. I saw
Pete Davison on the line up and I was like, okay,
you're a comedian, like a stand up like that.

Speaker 5 (42:11):
But also and his dad died in nine to eleven.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
There's firefighter.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
That's just the wildest thing. Like I really couldn't wrap
my head around that. There's like this clip of him
on THEO Vonn's podcast. We're talking about it and.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
He's like, yeah, I guess because like, you know, my
dad like died of nine to eleven or something like
I guess, I'm I guess I shouldn't be going or whatever,
And like just everybody.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
Can we just pause and celebrate this Pete Davidson impression.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
And it's really fantastic.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
I wasn't expecting.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
I wasn't expecting to hear that look, you gotta you gotta,
you gotta get it where you fit.

Speaker 5 (42:46):
It was really good.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
I just watched the clip, but like it's just again,
really it sounds.

Speaker 5 (42:50):
Like you were watching it all morning and jerking off
to it so you can get the.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Sound, right. I was edging.

Speaker 4 (42:54):
I was edging. Okay, I'm not quite full full blown
ja oh, but you know I was. I was walking
the line as, uh, what's what's his jinny.

Speaker 6 (43:01):
Cast says, but like hearing him say that articulated and
also he goes on to say like, yeah, they're paying
me enough money to look the other way. Mm hmm,
like this is what other comedians have said or some
form of like like weird equivocating. I think Jim Jeffries though,
he got pulled off because he's like.

Speaker 4 (43:18):
Yeah, so they killed a journalist, like so we don't
do that all the time, and they're like, Okay, you
can't say that, so now you're not.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Gonna come yeah because they haven't admitted it.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
So yeah, yeah, I am.

Speaker 5 (43:28):
I will also say with the Pete stuff, because his
is the one. I think my brain has been like,
like I get sad for the legacy. You know, people
are always like my legacy a firefighter they care about,
you know, the legacy they leave behind and their family name.
You know, if you're a firefighter, you're you land mentally
in like the traditionalist space like I want to be

(43:48):
a hero, I want to be a man. I want
to do something with my life, you know. And it's
a bummer. And then you also go, yeah, Pete's just
an American, Like he is just so American that he said,
why would he care?

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Why is that? Like he's not connecting it like that,
and he's like, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
My dad died and now are you know?

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yeah, it was like a long time ago, and we
like won a war about that or whatever. I think,
don't I didn't really pay attention.

Speaker 5 (44:12):
I haven't. I lost enough with my dead father. You
take this money away from me. But it's that thing
where I mean, I think we have this and everybody
in our family. That's why I think we should be
talking about this type of shit, because like, how many
of your parents give a shit about international politics? Mine did,
But that's because we're from Al Salvador.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
And nic Agua.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
You know, there's a long history there. You were supposed
to care.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
Yeah, and America is a front row seat at all
the destabilization in those places too, so like exactly, you'll
be well aware of how all that.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
The international relationships work there for sure.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
And so with someone like him, he just strikes me
as that American that just is like, well, it's not
affecting me, right, even though we know that it is
because all these fucking rich people are all in cahoots.
But you know, you know who we should say. And
then Cola McKayla brought the up, is that Jessica Curson
because she's gay and Jewish, she's the one that she

(45:06):
was like, she's gonna have interesting stories when she comes back.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Yeah, she does.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
People were exciting some of her old like stuff that
she said and like on stage and just in interviews
and talking about how she's like, yo, female comedians basically
don't exist over there because they can't say shit. And
she was saying something to the effect of, like, we
have it so good here that we're able to do
this material. And then sort of the underneath all that
is like hearing about these like agreements they're signing.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
To be like, well, not fucking say anything that will
bring any anyone.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Into ill repute, Isn't that wild? Producer Victory points out,
I guess Bill Birrd did a bit where he slammed
Beyonce for going over there and then also said he
would one take the deal to.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
Oh yeah, that's right, he does do that. That's like
how he ends it. I believe it's like the punchline is, hey,
I'm not better, I'm just pointing it out, which you
know that's what's going on here. Yeah, and he also
tried to be like in America and it is like, yeah,
but the whole killing a journal list kind of puts
it over the edge.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Or I mean just generally right, like if you can't
you can't really be some kind of as a comedian,
right Like, you have to be a proponent for free
speech because your careers are built on the backs of
people before where that they could not say things because
of decency laws or things like that. And I'm not
saying that philosophs, I mean, like in a utopia philosophically

(46:23):
they would be aligned with that.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
But to your point, Marcella, it is true. It's the
same way where.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
Like people are like, well, yeah, I'm goa wear nikes,
I'm gonna have an iPhone. Like I don't really give
a fuck like that really, like if it comes down
to it and I'm not they're not gonna It's not
like they're taking me to a prison to go execute somebody.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
I'm getting paid and.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
People are gonna fucking maybe laugh And then I fucking
skate with millions exactly.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
And we were my friend and I cause we were
we were like we wanted to watch to be together,
but we both had to do something at a certain time,
and we were like we had a little bit of
time that we're like, what can we watch that, Like,
we don't care if we miss what we're watching that
we both agree on, and we agreed on old Bob
Barker TV. There's like an old episode like from the
fucking og days where he still dyed his hair brown.

(47:06):
That was always funny. We were watching those episodes and
I was like, oh, this is interesting because this is
the early days of like TV getting kind of spicy
during the day and you know, he says shit that
you're like, oh, yeah, you're not Suppo, you can't say that,
and uh, it just made me be like man, the
history of entertainment, this crossover with television versus like vaudeville.

(47:26):
You know that because in vaudeville you did have the
person that was hired to say the political shit, you know,
like there was always that act. Less of course of it.
You didn't want that, but there was always a There
was always the act that just you were allowed to
have someone push things over to the edge because you
were in public and free speech was free speech. It's
this weird space we're in where it's like a scrambled

(47:47):
egg of the history, the past, the future, the present,
and all these entertainers that claim to be oh what
we love Lady Bruce, But technically you don't if you're
going to this festival and accept things money, you know.
But I also know that the research I've done as
an entertainer is I have learned that if people say

(48:09):
they wanted to be famous when they were a kid,
these are people. These are the people that fuck up
and have no morals and real ethics.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Eventually that's the end.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Yet it's just I have to be famous, yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Because that's always been their goal. I have never thought
of that I wanted to be a teacher my whole life.
And then I was like, well, shit, I don't think
I want to do that. What do I want to do?
And you know, make a list and you know, comedy
ended up on that list from someone else suggesting it
to me, not even me thinking I was going to
pursue the arts. And I've made a fine career from it.

(48:41):
But it could also be argued that many people would
look at my career and look down on it and
be like, your career isn't shit because I'm not fucking
hello rich and I'm not like you know, yeah no,
but I'm doing fine in terms of, like of your crash,
how I've maintained my self respect and who I am
as a person, my morals, my fix, my family history,
you know what. I'm trying to respect them. And that's

(49:03):
the difference, because I could have been taking so much. Dude,
these motherfuckers, uh honey, Booboo's mom was doing a reality
show and they wanted me to be a head writer,
like in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and it would have
been good money.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
I was like, I'm not participating in that nonsense. My
team was taste because they were giving it to me
there was a gig I could just take, and I
was like, I'm not doing that. I'd rather do stand
up and be on the road. So there's choices you
make as a comedian and as an entertainer. And it's
someone who's gonna be on TV. But you know, in America,
you can't really fucking at the end of the day,
all the answers are wrong. You're in America. We are

(49:40):
everyone's demon, you know, around the world. Guys, I'm high.
This is what happens.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Hey, we are demon though, we are demon. Yeah. I'm
reading the History of Comedy book where they book it's
called the Comedians thought, oh yeah, but they like I
And mainly I just like skipped right to the sixties
part because I couldn't deal with like the very old ship.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
And you know, ps, guys, I say, books, there's no skipping.
You can read whatever book you want. Jack, Okay, don't
let the let the bars.

Speaker 8 (50:11):
That's what I do.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
I'll go to the to the last three pages I
read those, I'll go done.

Speaker 5 (50:16):
That's because you're stupid, though, That's that's true.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
But I was surprised by how much like there were
a lot of shows that like the Smothers Brothers, I
guess were like a show that went political at a
certain point and like they got canceled for it and
were like their careers were really damaged for going political.
So like there has been this censorship for a long time.

(50:39):
And I remember, like this came up in the context
of Lorne Michaels because Lorne Michael's like went to a
show a year after they were canceled and they were
like getting heckled by John Lennon who was just like
shit faced and heckling them, and he was like, all right,
I never want to do anything that's going to get
me canceled from TV, and that's why he gave us

(51:02):
Jimmy Fallon That's me.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
And then and then also with this mother's brothers, it's
interesting because Martin Short and Steve Martin were kind of
in that space. You know, they were young, and it's
cool to watch them go on Fallon and talk ship
because they come from the era of like, now, dog,
we were political, Like you think we're some easy going
sweety pies, but actually we have always been political because
that is their history, because that's just that's that's where

(51:26):
they come from. So I love that they did that.
That was a you know, and everybody get to see
it or appreciate.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
Yeah, and they're like, he's like, oh, I'm more of
a Gutfeld guy because Guttfeld was on like the night
before or two nights before.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Yeah, And he's like.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
And it's because he's like, Okay, so you know you're
gonna act like I'm not talking ship directly.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
To Okay, he's a put like you pussy. He just
called him up. That's you want to talk about who's
more hardcore Steve Morton? Okay, and they come from that,
but that that's that whole world. It's like it's all
fucking again. It's all mixed in a really fucked up
diarrheable nonsense. Mm put that on a T shirt.

Speaker 1 (52:02):
Oh yeah, diarrhea bwl of nonsense. Let's take a quick
break drive.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
And then we'll come back our last.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Story about the diarrhea bowl of nonsense. We'll be right back,
and we're back. We're back, and way Mo's in a
bit of hot water. I guess. Yeah. No, the cops

(52:28):
caught them doing an illegal U turn and oh wait,
they just let them go.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
This is just kind of a silly story. Because it's
the only reason this was making news is the cops
pull this car over. They walk up to it and
they're like scratching their heads like a cartoon.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Where our driver?

Speaker 4 (52:48):
What do we do now? Like truly, they posted this
on their own Facebook.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Pairs, like we didn't know what to do, guys.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
It's like there's nobody in there, so we just had
to so we just kind of fucking let it off
and do its thing.

Speaker 9 (53:02):
That's how That's how you know it's a white way
moh got away.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 6 (53:07):
But like they didn't even give way mo the company
a citation, right, you know what I mean, which is
like weird, Like, oh, I guess we'll have to.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
Like all of our cars are programmed to abide by
the like the laws. You're like, well, clearly this thing
busted an illegal U turn, so it's not. But I'm
just like, what kind of fuck the loophole is this,
you know what I mean? Like it's been deemed road
worthy enough to fucking be autonomously operated on the roads,
Like there has to be some way that the quote
unquote driver, Like where's there's no accountability because no driver?

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Yeah, you would think they would have to have some
protocol in place for when the way most start running
red lights are doing, you know, doing illegal thing. You've
seen it as entirely possible. Yeah, what if they just
like start getting weird, Like in the middle of that,
you look at your windows takeovers and shit, yeah.

Speaker 8 (53:55):
There's nobody in these cars now, correct me if I'm wrong.
This is how blade runner starts, right, It's like a
cop has to track down a way Moo does kill somebody,
and then they got to track down its owners and
then they find out that everybody's around I haven't seen
blade running.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Yeah, Or the way MO would have to go undercover
as a normal car and like pretend like it's a
normal car. It wouldn't actually know that it wasn't a
normal car. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it is in
a normal like functioning civilization. The way that this would
work is they would come up with the idea, they
would test the way Mo's a bunch with like a

(54:32):
driver ready to take over at all times, and then
they would have to like do legislation to like get
the world ready for this technology. And instead the way
we like hit the edge of the possibilities around this
is just like a confused cop walks up, looks through
the window and is like and then just turns around like,

(54:55):
let's it go.

Speaker 9 (54:56):
Yeah, this is how do you?

Speaker 8 (54:59):
How do you I feel about? Like, obviously, I'm guessing
we're all pretty much on the same page as far
as like all this stuff is so recked, Like this
technology could be helpful, but it's so reckless. Like you
just said, do you think we speed up or do
we slow down? Do you think there will ever be
a thing where we walk back from this or are
we just now full speed ahead? Guess what? Everything's automated?

(55:21):
I mean, honestly, even like porn stars are using like
robots to make their dicks bigger and ship I don't Yeah, sorry,
that was actually the second to last thing I googled.
So that's why they're.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Using robots to make their dicks.

Speaker 6 (55:32):
There's like how to make dick bigger with robot was
my last Google search via I'm sorry via robot.

Speaker 9 (55:43):
Man, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Let's just click the episode. That's the episode, no non text.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
That was my last Google search.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
All right, man, it has been great having you.

Speaker 9 (55:53):
Man like machines they used so they can always get erection.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Oh sure, sure, but.

Speaker 6 (56:03):
Old school machinery not yet, Okay, well I think I
mean my thing is like they're obviously the amount of
capital that's been spent and wasted on AI is like
they're they're into deep now, so that this has to
work or they're going to be just economic gramifications that
are like gonna make the dot com bubble look like
fucking a day at the park.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
And it's essentially using what AI stands for is like
using the best technology that they have to fool people
into thinking that the technology is even smarter.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Is a person is a person.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
I am person, So I feel like it's better situated
to maintain its bubble. I do feel like at a
certain point the patience or you know, the credulity of
people is going to run out. But like in generally,
are we going to take a step back from like
just rapidly advancing technology and just like letting reckless technology

(57:02):
lead the way? I think like really bad shit's going
to have to start happening for that, Like two, I guess,
really bad shit's going to have to start happening too
rich people. I guess. Let me clarify that in America.
You know, in other countries they have I think more
reasonable laws. But in America, the only things that matter
are corporations, which is why it's like front page news

(57:25):
if someone breaks the window of a bank or burns
away mo exactly. Way Mo's are people, we believe here
at the Daily I guess we believe that in the
near future.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Way Mo's are people, way mos are my mother.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
More than half of the people on earth will be
AI from a real news story.

Speaker 8 (57:43):
Oh no, yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
I think it's just like the thing we were talking
about in the Trending episode where Peter Teel's like the
lack of innovation. It's like, no, all these people are
focused on like things that will make money, right, you know,
and there are people that are trying to innovate for
like the betterment of our world, right, And I think unfortunately,
right now, all the emphasis is like, well, how do
I make money with technology rather than how to improve

(58:07):
the world with technologies? Like we're past We're past that
like era where people were like I've invented something to
help the world. It's like I came up with an
app to fuck over whatever, and you're like Jesus Christ.

Speaker 8 (58:18):
Right, Like you know, how kids still have their innocence.
I haven't app to get rid of that.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
You just knock it out real fast on Instagram. You're
gonna look it. An app that just covers, uh, gives
your kid the talk, shows them their first porn video,
and tells them Santa Claus ain't real in the same
one quick movement.

Speaker 8 (58:36):
Oh my god. Yeah, what's crazy is that's not the thing.
Someone is going to see this and be like that's genius.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
And then you, as a parent who brought the person
into the world, doesn't have to be embarrassed to do
your job.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
No, I just put this.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
I just put this VR headset on them and then.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Knock out those awkward conversations.

Speaker 9 (58:54):
Yeah settings to make sure they really get the point.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Do you remember clockwork Orange? That's right.

Speaker 6 (59:03):
It's sort of like the Ludovico never mind anyway, I
just like that, but with all sort of like, you know,
conversations you need to have with your children to help
them understand the world.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
I don't even know who this lu DeVico guy is.
All right, Hey, Ludovico technique. Whoa Hey, let's talk. So
this is time once again for a weekly check in
with the two thousand and two al Pacino movie Simone
or sim One. So it s the number one M

(59:32):
zero N E. Is that how it's written? I believe,
just to drive it home.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
So this is a movie that doesn't really exist in
the share consciousness. It's about a director who becomes frustrated
with a movie star and replaces her with an AI
actress named Simone, as in Simulation one, sim One Simmone.
There you go, fucking mind blow did it? I don't

(01:00:01):
remember this movie again? Just like I don't know. Man,
sure whatever it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
Like, Man, we just had nine to eleven. Man, do
whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (01:00:09):
Yeah right, yeah, I'm pretty sure. The way it works
is he kind of like mashes some keys on a
computer keyboard and barks digitize into a microphone, make it
have a great ass ince and then it just like
creates a a digital actress and yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
And then the media that it's like it sort of
becomes this thing where.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
It's like, who's a Simon. Oh my gosh, he's so
secretive and everyone gets so fucking obsessed with the idea
of who this person is that that it's like, oh interesting, Okay,
now everyone wants to know where the reclusive computer program
is or yeah tweet, he's like working in an empty
warehouse with just two movie screens and a keyboard, and

(01:00:59):
like it seems to be the the energy have so
have I?

Speaker 8 (01:01:04):
None of you have seen this?

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Right? I remember when I think I saw it back
then does he Okay?

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
So I'm guessing I haven't seen this. So I'm guessing
one of two things happened. Either he somehow has sex
with the AI and like becomes sentient whatever, or it
kills him. Am I right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
I don't. I don't remember it. I'm sure there's like
a lot of playful flirting. It like almost kills his career.
I can't imagine, like because it's not I don't think
it's a thriller. I think it's like a fun sort
of remember that movie like ed TV, Just like yeah,

(01:01:40):
satirical fun, like what the world sure is getting crazy?
But yeah, I don't know. Everyone forgot about this movie,
including Idea right now.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
No, I mean there is some I have just reading
the description like wait, what the.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Fuck is going on?

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
There's something about zoophilia in it, Like wait what?

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Because I think it gets away from him and she
ends up Simon becomes even more famous, simultaneously becoming a
double winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, tied
with herself.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Yeah, so this was just the what we could see
their pipe dream like all the way back there, because
this is what like David Zaslov saw this and suddenly
this is when he became interested in being a film executive.
There it is, we'll create, we'll remove the humans, create digital,

(01:02:36):
and they will win Best Actress. I can't imagine the
performance by the AI actress in this is good, you know,
because the performances by AI actors currently aren't good. No,
I've yet to see one where I was like, oh,
that was like they're doing something interesting there.

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
I mean, but it is a matter of time before
because remember we went we started off with being like
Will Smith doesn't even know how to eat spaghetti, and
now like it is getting slick and it's get the
can't eat spaghetti. Now ish it's a full blown wow.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
It's using the spoon and the forty spaghetti and curly
it up. Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:03:18):
Other you have ever even been tricked by ai ya,
Like you've seen a video like that's crazy and then
you're like oh fuck, and then you just you feel
like you have to like explain to everyone throughout your
day and just being like I'm having a terrible one.
I got tricked by a video. I saw a baby
in an alligator's mouth and then it crawled out of
the alligator.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
And I saw this black dude fighting gators in the swamp.
There's like one being the ship out all I got
fulled big time on this show. I got one. You
get fooled big time.

Speaker 8 (01:03:56):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (01:03:57):
We do our own overrated underrated on Monday morning, and
my underrated was how much animals are Just like seeing
animals discover trampolines. Yeah, there's like all these videos all
of a sudden the people af forwarded it to me
and I do there there is. One of my favorite

(01:04:18):
genres of videos, like from early YouTube days, is just
like ring camera videos of bears discovering hammocks and like
not knowing what to do with themselves. Just they do
an amazing job of like expressing the awkwardness of like
being in a hammock and like the unsteadiness of like
trying to get into a hammock. And but then they
have a fucking blast swinging on the hammock and then

(01:04:40):
like I started seeing these animals getting on trampolines and
I was like, guys, we got a new banger out here.
Animals on trampolines. And as I was presenting this to
the world, super producer Catherine Law came in and was like,
I think that's fay Man go to jacket. Yeah, exactly,

(01:05:04):
so worked up.

Speaker 8 (01:05:05):
That's such an insidious lie, like cause you're right, there's
not a big jump from ring camera bear and a
hammock to like rabbits or cats or whatever on a trampoline,
So like, really they're just slipping in there and being like, Hey,
you know how your aunt is on Facebook all the
time a little bit too much. We're gonna we're gonna
AI pill her now. She's not even gonna know.

Speaker 9 (01:05:25):
She's gonna be like, there's bunnies on the trampolines. You
need to cover my trampoline covers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
Yeah, I'm so cynical just now.

Speaker 9 (01:05:33):
With AI.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
I'm always like the second I'm like, oh this is weird, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Like, I'm like, let me look at the fingers. How
are the windows shaped?

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Is that an actual door?

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Is that how anything is built?

Speaker 9 (01:05:44):
That's good?

Speaker 8 (01:05:44):
That's what That's what we all should be doing. We
are now like the we're human what do you call
the capture tests or whatever? You know, we're are you
a robot?

Speaker 9 (01:05:54):
We can?

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:05:55):
Right, it's it's definitely because like there are times I'm like,
oh this is interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:05:59):
I'm like, oh, this is fucking what the fuck is this?

Speaker 6 (01:06:01):
Like forty pinterest as somebody who like used to like
like be like oh let me look at like a
shoe on Pinterest or something, or like yeah, what Kennon.

Speaker 1 (01:06:10):
You just got an interest like a shoe.

Speaker 6 (01:06:13):
Yeah, But like now it's just chock full of like
AI bullshit in there where it's like, all right, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
I got another story of getting fooled. It is mostly
animal that I googled and found the story about this
old woman Shoes played by a goose, and I was like,
holy ship, she's raising all those kids and Shoe a
single mom who worked tu jobs. She's trying to reba.

Speaker 9 (01:06:43):
So how do you even get zoned for that? You know,
that's that's your first thing.

Speaker 6 (01:06:47):
It's like yeah, yeah, everyone brings their own sensive cynicism.

Speaker 4 (01:06:51):
They're like, look, I work in permitting, man, there's no
way they're going off thread. Wait what County. Is this said, No, no,
not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Not happening. But now there's a there's a big news
story that's bringing it back into the headlines because there
is a new according to headlines, a new quote rising
star in Hollywood, a completely AI generated performer called Tilly Norwood.

Speaker 8 (01:07:14):
And uh, she's so fucking funny to me, is like
to make a like Okay, we're gonna admit it's AI.
We're gonna admit that it's whatever. And then you're give
it a name like Tilly nor what. Yeah, like this
is I don't know the name. Should we got to
if we're gonna be in the future, let's be in
the future, you know, like give me a Till Norwood.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
But they're doing the opposite thing, you know, they're just
trying to give it, like the opposite the thing that's
gonna make you feel okay. And when you look at it,
like Tilly Norwood is always giving like adorable smiles and
like one of the videos is her like crying on command.
And this is it is also kind of a bullshit
news story, like it feels like the only person So

(01:07:56):
the story is that they created this video about like
a new actress named Tilly Norwood who's like gonna star
in all their future movies. They did like a bunch
of fake interviews with people where they're talking about like
how this is hell like that. They're like, yeah, we're

(01:08:17):
you know, because because everything is hell right now, we
created this AI actor. So like they they're kind of
like in on the joke a little bit. The person
who created Tilly Norwood is like considers themselves both like
a comedian and like digital content creator, and it's like
it's they're also the only source that anybody is interested

(01:08:40):
in signing this actress.

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
Yeah, because they went to an AI summit or the
Zurich summit and like unveiled this thing and like on
stage they muttered, it's like oh man like and we're
getting a lot of interest like in like you know,
from talent agencies. And then that just that generated all
these headlines of AI generated actress could be first to

(01:09:05):
be signed by talent agent. This AI actress is getting
calls from agents. Who is Tilly Norwood? AI actress has
Hollywood agents vying to sign her up, And you're.

Speaker 8 (01:09:14):
Like, that's so smart, that's so smart because there's no
one more petty than like actors, comedians, entertainers or whatever.
So the minute they get a whiff of like what
do you mean they have an agent, I don't have
an agent this, it just spins up the news cycle.
That's genius, honestly.

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And also the news cycle is just
incredibly thirsty for any news that makes it seem like
AI is the future because so many corporations are trying
to lie on that future. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:09:40):
Yeah, I'm excited for like three years from now when
we have our first you know, like.

Speaker 9 (01:09:46):
I'm blaking in this name.

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
There's gonna be like someone who does a heinous crime
in the name of like an AI actress, you know,
like they different like Jodie Foster or whatever, right, Like,
we're gonna have one of those guys, and like.

Speaker 9 (01:09:57):
I mean doing this for Tilly, nor would you know?

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
I mean people have like self taken their own lives,
their own lives because they're like AI. I mean, these
things are so insidious when it comes to, you know,
sending the wrong message to vulnerable people. Uh. There, there's
so many, so much wild shit about AI, like chatbots,
like just like the you know, widely available ones just

(01:10:23):
telling people like yeah you actually you are kind of
crazy that you figured this out. But it's true. You
are in a simulation, and anybody who's telling you you're
not your parents telling you you're not. That's because you're
so smart and they're haters who are their agent smith, right,
you know exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:10:43):
That's what the bunnies on the trampoline are telling people,
right now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:10:48):
But yeah, like this, like the person behind the company,
it's like they're like they said, like, and we're quote,
we're going to be announcing which agency is going to
be representing her in the next few months, which like okay,
because you're begging someone to make you an offer so
you can actually make it seem as if you were
telling the truth on stage. But then the same comedian

(01:11:10):
AI person was like, also, I want to announce the
creation of Particle six offshoot Chaquoya, which is an AI
talent studio designed to create, manage, and monetize a new
generation of hyper real digital starts.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Calls coming from them, they're calling themselves. Yeah, yeah, it's
very what what's Trump's alias when he would call Baron Baron? Yeah,
I got a call from John Baron.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
This Trump guy. I'm John Baron, though and he's very
love him.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
Why are you doing a Donald Trump impression?

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
Sort of like an icon?

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
You know, you can say it's you know, just it
is what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:11:47):
This is just like I don't know what you're talking
about that. It's just like this the middlee.

Speaker 6 (01:11:52):
Donald, Why are you calling it's not me? It's amazing
what I just called you, Donald, And he said, it's
not me. You're identifying yourself as not Nope, it isn't
me though.

Speaker 9 (01:12:06):
He's shutting there, yourself up. Yeah, the worst way to
go down is a self shack.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
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