Weekly Zeitgeist 412 (Best of 12/15/25-12/19/25)

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 419 (12/15/25-12/19/25)

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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. What is

(00:25):
something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Very typically this week, I search the term space potatoes.
It is a term used to reference objects that are
not large enough ms to become round in space, and
I want to figure out how to formalize this term
as because it's sort of a nickname for these objects.
As it turns out, I thought it might have there
are some sort of frivolous terms in astronomy that get

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stuck pretty hard and become more official. Space potatoes more
of a date name for these objects that retain sort
of an odd or lovey shape. But in my search
I learned that the Fishercats out of New Hampshire, a
I want to say double A baseball team did play
as the Space Potatoes for a few games, and I

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hope that that returns again next year. They did three
nights in twenty twenty five as the Space Potatoes. The
logo is sick there. The merch sold out super fast,
but in trying to learn how formal a name space
Potatoes was, I learned that it was really only formal
for a New Hampshire double a baseball team for three

(01:32):
games this year. Still a good nick nickname those projects
that are not large enough to round out.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
The logo is wild because it's a great It's like
an angry potato, either resisting being beamed up from a
spaceship or getting sent down. And it's like, got a
baseball bat, and I'm like, I'm going to fuck all
of you earthlings up right now.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm going to beat every earthling at baseball.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Does seem like it's got flame coming off the top
of his head, so it does seem like it's coming
at us as if it was said by angry aliens.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Right right. Yeah. I was like, yes, space potato. I
was like, oh god, in the era of internet lingo,
I'm like, who is it?

Speaker 3 (02:10):
What do we A lot of directions, but it is
not a chocolate covered potato. It is indeed something that
is not big enough to get round in space.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Really like a thing a boomer would call someone who
like asks a weird trippy question and fotato potatoes over
here or maybe that astronaut Scott Kelly if there's like
anti Irish sentiment.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Potato.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
So I didn't, I guess I hadn't really thought about
the fact that it's the planets round because closer a
lot of gravity, so a lot of mass, a lot
of gravity, so everything gets pull them in, pull them
in together.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Gravity works from the center out, so as your mass increases,
it depends on what you're made of, So there's not
a specific tipping point, but depending on what accretes together,
what globs together to create you a blob in space,
maybe be kind of become a planet. Maybe you're just
an asteroid. That just an asteroid. I'm not trying to,
you know, dismiss the validity the way gravity works from

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the center and it's active in all directions equally. So
there's a tipping point in your size depending on what
you're made of, where the force of the gravity that
you have becomes stronger than the material you're made of.
And one that when that happens, gravity can change the
shape of that material, and the most natural shapes take.

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If gravity is working from the center equally in all directions,
is a sphere, So things tend to get rounded out
once they have enough mass because of the effects of gravity.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Are there, like, are there like anomalists small things that
end up getting anomalists?

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, they're made of is a density or easily malleable. Essentially,
gravity could round you out and you could be tiny.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm just trying to make sure there's there's paths for everyone. Also,
I said that astronauts Scott Kelly, and I was like, wait,
did I say Mark Kelly's name wrong? The senator who's
also a NASA guy? I because identical twin brother. His
identical twin brother is Scott Kelly.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Also, have they admitted that or are they just going
around as one person trying to break everybody.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I don't know who they should do, Like, now we
got to catch Mark or so got forgettable names?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, yeah, they're doing a prestige. Yeah, so that I
mean that that goes along with the roundness of the Earth.
There's that Neil Degrass Tyson concept that if you shrunk
our planet down to the size of a cue ball
would actually be smoother and rounder than a cubeball, even
with like all the mountains and ship like. That's how

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how perfectly round the planet Earth is.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
We are pretty around. We do have a little football
e bulge and Neil degras can he uh, he'll talk
about this tube but swings around us because of the
Moon's gravity shifting the center of our planet back and
forth over time as it swings around us. We have
a little bulge. We got a little football, American football.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, yeah, nuy.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Dense.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Then we would be super super smooth. Could we have
laid you down in your crib differently to not have
your head shaped like that as a baby? Maybe you
know what, I still think you're beautiful. I still think
you're beautiful, toy.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
What's something you think is underrated?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Using air quotes because people can't see me using poor grammar,
I think is actually awesome. I think there's a reason
that we called what we now call grammar.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Please.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
You used to call them grammar Nazis back in the day.
And there's a reason we called them Nazis. It's because
you're bad people like let people just communicate, it's fine,
and so I am very pro using any kind of
incorrect grammar. If you are communicating in a way that
like your audience understands you, you have successfully communicated congratulations.

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You don't get a cookie or a gold star or
more rewards in heaven if you use the Queen's English,
like just let people.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Be, well, what's like, what's what's one pet peeve? You
see where people are calling out like irregardless, oh like
stuff like that? Yeah, not like they're there or there?

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I mean, who cares about that?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Like on again, if you know what the person's saying,
it doesn't actually and now if you're confused by it.
And this is why I personally I hate the Oxford comma,
but I use it because it is clarifying. So I'll
just say that right, just so that what I'm communicating
is clear to people.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
But I you know, I stopped because Jack doesn't use one.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Hell yeah, don't use it. Use it the style guide.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Use an ox You don't use an Oxford comma, do you, Jack?
I don't know, Yeah, yeah, because I'm not I'm not joking.
Early on in the show, when we would be writing together,
I would have like an Oxford comma. And I remember
you saying some shit about the Oxford comma and I really,
I guess I don't need that ship asshole.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
No, it wasn't even like an asshole take.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I was just talking. I think I noticed. I was like, oh,
you know, fuck with an Oxford comma and You're like, nah,
not really, I don't never know, and I was like yeah,
and then I like it was sort of like one
of those things. I'm like, damn am I Jinko jeans dorky?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Now? Yeah, the classic peer pressure. Yeah, I'm an Oxford comma.
Dude using an Oxford Okay, and then I start using
it because you commented on my not using it and
it was just ships in the night. Yeah, oh you're
using it again, no are you? Yeah? I agree with

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this take. I think I think this is right. I
think spelling all that ship. I'm so bad at spelling now.
I've just been fighting into programs that spell check ship
for me for you, Yeah, yeah that. I just have
things that my my son asked me in front of
his friend, like at a cup Scout meeting. He was like,

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how do you spell business? And I tried to spell
it out loud for him and I was like, b
U S S I n E S S and like
the other dad was like no, no, no, no, no,
he was like.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
It's not Mississippi, dude, e s s.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yes, that's oh no, you spelled busting. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
I thought that was what he said, b u wes
s sci yet.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, anything that I didn't spell correctly once where processors
came along in you know, middle school, I still do well. Yeah,
and I'm alright with that, and I'm alright with it. Yeah.
It's how language innovates get things like uh like slop

(09:04):
being a new word of the year, right, yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Do you remember how they used to do you remember
how they every at the end of every year, like
a bunch of all the online publications would be like
here's the slang words we're canceling from.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
This oh yeah, yeah yeah, and it.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Was all like it was all just like any word
a black person had said in the last twelve months,
They're like never.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Again, like again, that was fun, Well it lasted, were
done here, all right.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
It was like a yearly thing online if you're online
in like the mid aughts, that was like every single December,
like here's the words we're canceling.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
M M.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
You can't, you're not allowed to use slang. It was
just like someone at some point was like, you guys,
this is racist as fuck.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
What are you doing like you're you're just there. The
person gets to delete words. Really stop stopped talking like that.
You know we're doing. We're not gonna drink Hennessy at
the club anymore, Like what.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
The fuck is that? Like?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Pull your pants up and we're not gonna wear sneakers everywhere.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
I thought you were talking about words. Now this is very.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Just for everyone or bust or golf polos. That's the
most casual thing I can bear to see as a
golf polo.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
We were all dressed in business casual back then. Anyway,
I don't know what the fuck we were doing.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Because because it was all the racist door shit.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
That was like no hats, no baggy jeans, no moodies.
That was that was That was the reason why we
had to pull up looking like a fucking job. Interview
christ I had to remember buying remember buying leather shoes
so I could go to the fucking club. It was
so stupid, and that was one of the reality. That's like,
I I was off that ship so quick. I was

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just it was like a waste of money. And also,
I mean I did have fun when I could, when
I when I went, but no, it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So are people saying grammar police now instead of grammar Nazis,
Like now the there's real Nazis.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
I've been saying grammar police. Yeah, I mean that's what
I've been saying. But maybe maybe I'm just only in
the woke corners of the Internet and other people are
still saying grammar Nazi.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
I don't know, Yeah it does. It does feel a
little weird to use Nazi lately now that we have
real Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's something you think is overrated.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
I don't know if this is going to step on
future bits, but I was going to say Erica Kirk
not just like overrated in terms of like people like her,
because it seems like they don't, but like the idea
that you're going to get insight from the closest person
to someone who like died violently, Like did you guys
not see the Diddy documentary of the Reckoning? Do We

(11:48):
tried this once and it worked out like really badly.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
I just said this on Monday. I said, it's underrated
that we're not like that. Erica Kirk is the p
didty of right now. Yeah, she's doing the thing of
like Okay, so if I go out there and be
like he was my best friend and all this other stuff.
It's like I can raise my stock for whatever the
purpose is. But it has a weird knock on effect
of coming off very insincere, which I think, for whatever reason,

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a lot of people are like, she doesn't care. I'm
sure on some level she does. It's just like the
intensity of the pr after the fact to get out
there is a.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Little the assumption that she's gonna have something valuable to say.
It's like she's out there on stage talking over the
sting song and we're all pretending that it's you know,
it's good, but yeah, yeah, no, yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
And similarly, did he did not become a good rapper
all of a sudden, We're like, a, maybe this is
gonna be the one. Yeah, no, that was my favorite.
Was like a communic. Well maybe it's like the Santa
Claus where it's just like on death passes to somebody
who killed them, or he starts getting weight, like Biggie
he's like, oh shit, oh my god, my eye is

(12:53):
starting to drift. But yeah, Erica, that that uh interview.
I mean, we could talk about that interview now because
it's that there was very little to learn from it.
But she went on, it'll make you dumber watching like
much dumber. She just really, I mean she sounds like
if you ask like an ordinary you know, high school,

(13:18):
high school, public high school, like see student to like
answer big questions on a thing like in the aftermath
of a tragedy, and it's just like, I don't know,
it's like he's his favorite word was earn and that's
because he really wanted he really liked people to earn stuff.

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He was like the most brilliant man ever of all time.
But that came.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Out after Barie Weiss, after you know, just kind of like, yeah,
a lot of people are like getting up, getting the
words mixed up, huh, Like it's pretty unfair, like what's
going on with them? And you know, like and a
lot of those words are things like the Second Amendment
is worth a few dead boy, or the Civil Rights
Act was a mistake or shit like that. And I

(14:05):
think she was like, oh my god, guys, it's like
you need to you need like the whole context of
that clip, not just the sentence that's of a very
clear value that he's espousing out loud on live internet stream.
And then then you get the thing was like, Okay,
he it wasn't that he didn't like black pilots. He
loved that people earned things and excellence, you like black excellence.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
That that was the one that She's like, that one
thing was somewhat taken out of context, and that he
was using that idea to argue against affirmative action. Ye,
and therefore you're not allowed to say anything bad about
any of the other wildly, rais.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
You allowed to talk about the fact that his last
words were basically, what about black crime?

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yeah, exactly what about black crime?

Speaker 5 (14:54):
And then he got shot?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
When asked about the Second Amendment thing about the gun deaths,
she said, quote, there's a lot more here, a lot
more there than just the one little sentence. But if
you say shit like I hate black people, I don't
know how you dress that up on either side of
that statement where you're like, oh, he loves them, right,
he's you said that he.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Was quoting someone else. It's called tough love. He wants
them to earn his love, that's why.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
But I mean, again, she's not that wasn't that would
be so vile if she tried to like sort of
really fucking skirt that and give that as an explanation,
but like to your point, these aren't this isn't the
person that could be defending it, because also it's indefensible.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Yeah, she's also doing the thing that she talks, sort
of the way that like chatchibt does. I don't know
if you see those like chat gibt commercials, it always
has like this tone of fake portentousness where or like
like fake.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Uh you can say portent I believe you like it.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
Has it has this like false intentionality that you guess,
like on LinkedIn, where it's like the commercial will be like, uh.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Chat GBT, like what's like a good date, what's like
a good.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
First date activity, and then the chat GBT will be
like listen up, we got this.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
And that's kind of like the way she was sense
and agreeableness.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Yeah, it's like listen and it's like she she's doing
this weird amount of like prefacing where she yeah, she's
taking these long, dramatic posites and then saying the dumbest
shit you've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, she's been media trained, but like media training can't
make you have anything smart. No.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, well, and especially in the again, the position you're in,
it's a very difficult position, like you would need a
really talented, you know, bullshit artist, you'd have to be
the fucking antepit and be like, actually, he didn't say
that stuff, and I'm going to make you believe he
didn't mean mean any of the bad stuff he said.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
There was another like, there was another part of that
same interview where they were like asking her if Donald
Trump deserves some of like the blame for raising the
tenor of you know, the political discord, like if he
deserves if he deserves the same kind of backlash for
like violent rhetoric as as everybody else they were talking to,

(17:17):
and she like her answer was based the way by
the last person who asked him a question at that
debate before he was shot.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
Yeah. Yeah, he was like I'm still gonna ask a question, yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
And then her answer was basically like you know, it
starts at home, and you're like, well.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
I don't think I don't think we can blame one person.
It starts at home.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
It's like she's just doing she's reading off like the
list of answers you give at a pageant, and that
like she that was the one she said on you
know what it's really about?

Speaker 1 (17:47):
Parenting. Okay, so you can blame uh, you know, people
who are underemployed, underpaid because of the terrible economy. But
I don't want to put it. I don't want to
like point the finger at the most powerful and visible
person in the world and of the last fifty years. Yeah,
I think we're good. Anyways, I think she's doing great.

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Let's take a quick break, we'll come back, we'll talk
about the news. We'll be right back. And we're back.
And a rare moment where the president has put outside

(18:33):
of his comfort zone, has to do something that like
he wouldn't normally do and just has to like kind
of improvise on the spot, and that is tossing a coin.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Doing the coin toss for the Army Navy football game.
And my god, I just thought, again, this was a
very odd coin flip. Let's doll you. We'll play the
audio from it and we will watch it for a second.
But like, just know, look it up because I don't
even know how to describe what it is. It's like whimsical,
robotic and mindless all at the same time. Yester, President,

(19:11):
would you do He's got it in his hand, he says, oh,
like a magic trick flat he just didn't get one
of the players.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Okay, so that was I don't know if that was
a flip more so as like letting a carrier pigeon
go off into the sky like.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
And even then it really had that energy.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, not a flip. And I feel like for how like, uh,
you know, like most maga men are, and how like
rigid their idea of masculinity is. I don't I can't
imagine any of them watch that and go like, holy shit,
dude Trump. It was just like it was just odd,
like it was also I think just also it was
funny because my non like super into politics friends. I mean,

(19:58):
they're into it because like we talk about all the time,
but usually that's not the bulk of our conversations. They
were sending that. They're like, dude, what the fuck is this?

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Imagine committing a portion of your life to service, in
addition risking your physical safety to play a game in
honor of the branch of the military, your serve for
the commander in chief, the man in charge of your
life comes out to toss a coin for you, and
he basically just releases it to the wind with a

(20:30):
gentle touch. Of his pumpy like and I get it.
He's wearing gloves and he's seventy nine. He simply doesn't
have the motor control anymore to do that. It would
have with all that handshaking, it would have just contributed
to the bruise that we see forming. That's definitely not
for an infusion due to dementia at all.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
It might be some coin tossing injuries. Talking point.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
He was working so hard to ace it for the
Army Navy game that he.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Took himself right out of contection and right on the
back of the hand where an infusion port would be
crazy crazy, how this fucking coins out of control? I mean,
like again, a did it even flip? And also has
he even seen a movie where like a character like
flips a coin all cool? Like isn't that some ship
from his era? Like people are like she like flicking

(21:17):
a fucking coin up in the air and be like, Wow,
this guy's cool. He's manipulating a coin with his hands.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
And it's called flipping a coin.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Like it.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Yeah sort of A yeah me, And in this instance
that he did.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Not seem familiar with when he when he went into
it as he was executing it. Yeah, it didn't seem
to have much of an idea. It does bring back
when he drank water, we said, we got to see
him drink water and like he had his like two
little dainty like both of his hands were like holding
either side and drank it like a like a squirrel.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Like yeah, or like a mouse, a mouse eating a
rich cracker, just like yeah, yeah, Like how do you
hold a bottle like that?

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Okay, I wish I could dip this in chocolate. If
that's what he needs to do to drink water, like
do it.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
That's great, but you sand land shakes might be involved there.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
You also don't get to make fun of people who
don't have full lampatory use of their body if you
have to drink water.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
That way, Righteah, Well that's be that.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Guy who's like, yeah, I'm president despite the fact that
I have to use both my hands to bring a
glass to my lips, Like awesome, I'm murder.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
You imagine that.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
He's like, look, guys, I'll own it. I'm not as
sharp as I used to be, but that doesn't mean
I'm not as dedicated as I've always been. And people like.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
That required to mention for Donald Trump, that's what.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
God, who knows what we're in store for as this
because the frequency of the weird o posts increases, just
the behavior, it gets more and more odd, and we'll
get into the Christmas reception he had. But also the
polling right is not improving for Trumpet. Could be all
the new Epstein photos of them together, or maybe the
need more.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Why are people wait, like are we trying to establish
a connection, like you need more? I just we're at
this tip like you can't anyone who's not already convinced.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Kayla and I saw the fifteenth picture this week, new
picture of him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein over the weekend,
and I said, Caitlin, we got him, We got him
some questions. We've crossed to the magical threshold that's going
to make people start to suspect something might be up
with this guy.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Right, I mean, so there's a lot of controversy. I mean,
it's also it could be the recession that shall not
be named, or we'll just keep saying all the numbers
are going down. I don't know payroll. Yeah, but then
again I did like, we don't know what it is,
but right now he's at forty two percent, and like, I.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Just want to say, because he's lower on other this
is a this has been like his strong favor hole. Yes,
and he's dropping like in other poles he's in the
mid thirties. This one he was in like the mid
to high forties, and now he's dropped to forty two. Yeah,
every pole is pointing downward.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Everyone yes, And I think the real the interesting wrinkle is,
like I think it's stand like the people republic registered
Republicans who don't identify as MAGA they are they are
getting lower like that that cohort is becoming less and
less on board with what's happening. But what's interesting is
that the people who have responded to the pole, who
are considered themselves MAGA Republicans, they approved his job performance

(24:39):
at seventy percent. But that's a drop from seventy eight
percent back in April. So that's not a huge that's
not like nothing. And again that doesn't mean like it's over, folks.
But I'm wondering, I'm wondering if it could just be
all of the humans suffering around him that he has
no he has no interest in solving or remedying or

(24:59):
is not even capable of it. But luckily Trump is
as sharp as a wine cork, so he's got to
get some action going on the economy. And he said
this at the Christmas I believe it's at the Christmas reception.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
This is just if you didn't know, don't worry. He
didn't know where he was either.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, this is him again being like God,
the economy, don't worry though, I got I got somemmon
in store. And the specificity of his plan, I think
it should make us all feel much better for the future.

Speaker 7 (25:29):
To Europe. They went to Mexico, Japan, they went all
of them, they went to South South Korea, and now
it's just the opposite of they're all coming back. We're
gonna we have an age that's coming up, the likes
of which I don't think this country has. This country has.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Never seen, I think for worse, not for better.

Speaker 7 (25:49):
But okay, and I just look so forward to the results.
You're going to see results in six months to a year.
I think you'll see results. We've never had anything like it. Again,
there's never been any country China.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Going just goes. No results like this that you'll see
in six months to a year.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Who is he saying was leaving to go to other countries.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
They were talking about just manufacturing and guards and the
other countries, and they're coming back and where the he
said an age, This is such like I'm not gonna
saw this is me in high school, like begging my
high school girlfriend and not break up with me. I'm like, babe,
the miles you're gonna see after summer breaks is to

(26:33):
twelve months, the likes you've never seen, the way he
will listen to what you have to say, the way
he will be more emotionally present. Oh, I mean, you're
never gonna see something like this.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
But not going forward, not on a go forward basis,
in six to twelve months. I got I need some time, babe,
you need some time to work on myself.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Hey, yeah, they didn't burn Rome down in a day,
you know, or I don't know how that goes. But yeah,
we're talking six to twelve months. I sure maybe he
thinks he has that kind of time. But again, this
is we're living in an era where they are distributing
firewood for people whose power has been cut off to
be able to heat their homes because energy costs have

(27:19):
gone so high people's wages are down the like all
these other things, and all he can muster up is like, oh, guys,
you're the wait, do you see this shit I'm about
to do with the economy.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
In six to twelve months. But also doesn't help that
he's also saying that it's already awesome, So it does.
It doesn't Like if I were worried about this economic
situation and he was like, first of all, it already rules.
Second of all, it's gonna rule, I'd be like that

(27:49):
first of all, maybe we have different definitions of like
how good?

Speaker 2 (27:53):
No, it rules, It rules, and guess what, it's gonna
rule even harder in about six to twelve months, right, Okay.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Talking exclusively to the ten people left to own companies,
there's the audience here is very narrow. But I can't
help but thinking about campaign trail Trump, who was already
off his rocker in the second campaign, just.

Speaker 8 (28:13):
Like you know, the most recent I'm going to get
in there and two to three days, I'm gonna fix
everything this last guy missed.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
I got Ukraine twenty three minutes, Economy sixteen minutes. I
got this. You're all gonna.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Actually it on a Google calend minutes. I have the
first day on a Google calendar.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
And he just holds up like a my first calendar,
a piece of paper like it with Google eyes on it.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
I don't know. The weather report has like a frownie
face rain cloud.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's the longest timeline for a goal I've ever heard
an issue. And I also think he mistook a diagnosis
in terms of like length of life less recent doctor's
visit in six to twelve months. The economy might get better.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
There is a chance, there is a chance.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
He is just like that movie, the.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Way he's being carefully band aidd and just sort of
led around a white house full of signage to let
him know what room he's walking into at this point,
Like we know the characters behind the scenes that are
just let like just pushing at his diapered rear, holding
him in place so that they can just stay behind

(29:26):
that behind the scenes to do what they're saying, like
Russ Watt is the lighted Stephen Miller's perfectly happer happy
to let a tottering Trump just sort of toddle his
way through the White House, bumping from sign to sign
to identify where the Oval office is. The theory that
the ballroom.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
The ballroom is just to.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Keep him busy, Like he's doing two things. It's distracting
an agitated dementia patient and it's allowing him to recreate
an environment that's familiar to him. So should he live
long enough to see the ballroom, it will look just
like Marlago, which he just sort of screams like he's
in all the time.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Sure, yeah like that.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, it's giving drunk luciel.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, it's givna. It's it's also giving parents in the
eighties and how they would deal with children is go
to McDonald's and put them in the ballroom. Yeah, exactly.
Time they're just like, I don't know, give them a ballroom.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh huh oh, I mean there's there was Kevin Hassett,
who's the Economic Council Director, was on Face the Nation
on Sunday and he was asked directly like Trump's just
kind of like lying about the economy. It's just out
here in Pennsylvania saying like shit's better.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
But it's better better than anyone has ever seen.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, and he and he was asked point blank like
like what are you even fucking measuring this off of?
And I think the answer is pretty telling.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
What data is he looking at? What's your benchmark?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Right?

Speaker 9 (30:45):
Well, one of the things that if you saw his
presentation in Pennsylvania does he put up a bunch of charts,
which he loves to do, where he went through the
individual items that have we've already sort of made a
bunch of progress on. And so for example, under Joe Biden,
prescription drugs were up nine percent. So far this year
they're down six ten percent. Gasoline is way down. It

(31:08):
was like the highest ever vide and so on about Yeah,
you're talking about it. And so I think the way
to take about inflation, of course, is that there are
like micro effects like.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
The all that just is what he mentioned were things
that are pretty like meaningless in the grand scheme of
like that's pretty cherry picked information.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
To cherry picking. Yeah, there's this one's.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Cheaper than ever. It's never been cheaper than to go
gather fruit from your neighbor's yard to prevent your own starvation.
Never been cheaper to go labor in fields that is,
never been cheaper to hire labors. Oops. Sorry, I wasn't
supposed to say.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
That one, right, But yeah, they're coming down, they're coming down,
and it's stuff we've made progress on already. Is like,
I think again, not anything new, nothing you're going to
do in the future, just dumb talking points where you're like,
I don't know. Incidentally, come pnaratively, this price came down,
so we're gonna go ahead and say we're we're doing
we're doing ship.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
As he pointed out, the price pharmaceuticals has come down
six tons of a percent. Damn, we're hanging our hat
on six tons of a percent.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Printing petties anymore.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
How are we.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Supposed to get changed for that?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
It is wild? How I like, I really get the
sense that everybody behind the scenes talks about him like
a toddler, like he was. She was like he mentioned eggs.
He was like, yeah, yeah, he mentioned Like that's apparent
talking about the child's weird obsession with like like turtles, Yeah,
he loves turtles. Little fucker loves turtles. I mean they

(32:39):
asked her about the I like turtles. Yeah, he loves
The president loves turtles, doesn't It is going to be
I think increasingly like an unprecedented you know what, what
would Reagan's second term have looked like if nobody could
tell him no you're not allowed out in the public eye,
and he was just like, yeah, I'm actually a fucking genius.

(33:01):
Everything that comes out of here is motherfucking bars. Homie.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Yeah, Mitt that Mitt, that shit. That's right, that shit.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I mean briefly, those pictures came out ninety out of
ninety five. The Trump administration again went with cherry picking,
which they were like, you guys are just cherry picking
pictures of me with a child trafficker. What about all
the times I didn't hang out with him? Why aren't
you releasing photos of those?

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Because your daughter is still getting groped in those photos,
and you're still surrounded by fifteen year olds in your
beauty Patchet, Like, it's harder to pick photos in which
you do not look like alectorous monster.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Eighty seven of ninety is what I went in those pictures.
Eighty seven of those I wasn't in. It's like an
a you know, let's talk about that.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Pretty good, Pretty good.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
I'd have to say the thing that you were just
playing where he was talking about the economy and how
it's going to be so good in a year that
came from his like Christmas reception that happened over the weekend.
First of all, he was like sweating profusely, which I
don't know man like he he usually is pretty dry.

(34:11):
So he's really kind of all over the place. It's
the wattery, can't really he's just splashing it in his face.
Drinking problem. But he ended up spending forty minutes talking
about venomous snakes.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
You want to hear old on let's let's let's not.
Let's hear he might have said something cool at a
Green Miss reception.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
In some respects, it's cool.

Speaker 7 (34:37):
Yeah in uh Peru and.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
You're you're christmasress. Okay, going, what about Peruser.

Speaker 7 (34:49):
And it's known for being a rather rough place in
terms of physical creatures, scrolling around twenty eight thousand people
die you a year or from a stake by a
certain snake. It's a viper, right, It's said to be
the most poisonous snake in the world.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay, I mean he sounds like he's about to fall asleep.
Like imagine being there, dude, this room.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
He's drowning in his own mind, and he's grasping at
things that seem tangentially connected to what he's talking about
to seem like he's got it together. Like he's like
he knew he had something to say about Peru and
then he's just rattle off with them, like the viper
does not cause the most deaths, Like come on now,
like you can, you can look this up. But anyway, sure,

(35:36):
or maybe you're talking about specifically summer, but I don't
fucking know. But that's his whole Like why be like
that's known for some snakes, Huh.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
The stage of life is usually limited to your family
or during care careers where yeah, like you're just getting
driven into your next MRI and whatever kind soul in
your life is still able or willing to drive you
just sits there and goes there. There are a lot
of snakes in Peru, Grandpa, And like, none of this
is based in any kind of We've all known that

(36:06):
Grandpa talking at Christmas dinner isn't spitting facts. Grandpa talking
at Christmas dinner is just remembering a dream he had
about snakes in a place he decided was Peru.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
It's it's using people with other family members.

Speaker 10 (36:20):
Yeah, like be like George, George, is that you which
also happened immediately after that. I do just want to
play this clip where he stops his speech to talk
about how he keeps confusing someone in the crowd with Ivanka.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's so wild, and then he's like, look, turn turn around.
Let everybody see how he.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Said turn around for the cameras, like it was a
fucking beauty path. Whatever. Here we go.

Speaker 7 (36:46):
This is the most interesting story.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
What do you look like?

Speaker 7 (36:49):
Evanka? Has anyone ever told you that I'm looking? I'm saying,
could you just turn around for the camera? Does she look?
Does she look like Evanka's unbelievable thing?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
So I wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
I didn't want to take a chance. I say, is
that ibodka?

Speaker 1 (37:06):
You look just like avodka?

Speaker 7 (37:07):
Which is a great He looks just like Sirchabaka.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I didn't want to take a chance. Did he mean
that he like, didn't want to call out? In case
it was in case it was Ivanka, in case it
was that's your daughter, you wanting around the.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
White House just being like Jared, you know it's Stephen Miller.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Second minute, they don't talk to you anymore? Are you?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Are you.

Speaker 7 (37:37):
Here?

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Brown roots just get screened.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
At yes again like this obsession with we we see
this and at the end of Magnolia with old people dying,
we see it in all sorts of movies where they're like,
I've made some mistakes. Go bring my son home so
that I can speak to him. He also spent so

(38:03):
from his thing about snakes being deadly in Peru, he
then talked about how nature always wins. He then talked
about how when he dies, his son, Donald Trump Junior
is not going to spend much time there because he
always likes to go out and hunt. And but then
was like, maybe he shouldn't be because nature. Nature always ends.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Baby, Yeah, he said, when I kicked the bucket, someday, someday,
I figure, I think he'll be here for about two days.
He'll go and pay his respects, and they'll say, where's
don he'd rather be. He won't jungle, won't be there
from and he's a really good hunter. But remember this,
wildlife always wins, unfortunately in this case, So your son
hates you so much he'd rather be outside killing it.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
And then you implied that by missing your funeral to
go hunt animals, he will then be killed. Like he's like, right,
isn't that what he's say? You never know, Remember this
wildlife always wins, unfortunately in this case.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Or in this case, it means that wildlife will always
his son will always prioritize not being around him in
favor of wildlife.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, that's yes. In the room, skirt is not here.
Rather shoot an endangered animal than be in the same
space with you, Like, that's.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, because he can at least do cocaine on his
hunting trips without being in bare Like he's like, it's
going to be really hard to be snorting coke at
the whole.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I do that he's a good hunter, Like he pays
to have good hunters take him out and tell him
where to point his high powered rifle to kill things.
Have no idea how they.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Capture a rhinoceros and put it in a steel box
with a hole in it right where its head is,
And they say, yeah, go ahead and put your gun in
the hole and pull the trigger, and they go, good shot, sir,
you got it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
I have always had trouble humanizing Trump in anyway. He's
a very easy figure to just sort of viscerally, but
he is not planning this anymore. Like when Trump's like
narcissism and egomania was at the wheel and driving, it
was much harder to humanize him. But he he is

(40:14):
deep in a cognitive decline and is no longer his
hands can't even find the steering wheel. We watched him
try to flip a coin. So he's in a Christmas
trying to celebrate Christmas and asking for his daughter and
aware that the son will not warn him.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Like Christmas, very good, Christmas passed all the way down the.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Well of empathy here is shallow, but like what we're
watching is a deep decline, and it is like all
the best you can hope for at this phase of
your life is that your family is in the room
and does care for you, and they do not. They
are not there.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
I mean it sounds like, yeah, it's playing out just
as American as possible too, where it's just like and
you know what, dude, fuck you man, We're gonna inherit
your money and then you could just go here do
But I think that the hard part too is like
just like with my own in my own family, just
having like family members have dementia and things like. The
thing that really freaks me out is that like he's

(41:15):
in power as all of this is melting away, a
sign has.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
To point him to the office his administration is in power. Yeah,
it's like using the contents of his dipe to draw
a new image of a dangerous snake that he says
it's from Peru, Like he's not in the building anymore.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's fucking frightening.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
It's frightening.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
All right, let's take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll talk about the new Animal Farm movie.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
We'll be right that.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Enter back. And the New York Schools band Phones at
the beginning of the year with their thing was like,
kids are on their phones in the classroom. We've got
to stop this ship. So they banned them. They gave
the kids a little pouches to put your phones in.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
That at the Comedy Mothership.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Yeah, exactly, at the Comedy Mothership. So now the teachers
can finally legal again for those teachers.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
And special ed teachers are like, finally I'm about to
let you'll know what you're like, Oh no, no, no, no, I.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
You know part of me. I think a lot of
people were like this. Teenagers are smart, they'll find ways
to get around this ship. Like this shit isn't going
to work. But overall, like the effects. So the New
York mag went back and like checked in on the schools,
and it's kind of it's kind of crazy to hear,
like at one high school. So this is one example

(42:49):
of like what I saw would happen at one high school.
An entrepreneurial senior bought a pouch unlocking magnet on Amazon
and tried to charge classmates a dollar per jail break.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
That was me. That was me as fuck.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
But generally they say there's quote a pleasant buzz in
the lunch room, chattering the hallways, and an alphabet of
new analog hobbies popular just about everywhere. They have card games,
board games, sports equipment. What one teacher hands out volleyballs
every lunch period and he says, he hands up listen

(43:23):
to weirder. It gets weirder, he he said. The kids
are playing this. He said, it's no net, open open space,
forming their own circles of ten or twelve kids hitting
it up to each other, an equal number of girls
and boys.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Most boring ass. Hey, I guess we could just bump like.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
The sticks and ship. They're going back to the kid
hitting a hoop down the street, but with a stick.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
I also love that they've been so on their phones.
You're like, wee ball.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Exactly That's what I'm saying. Like the kids could figure
this shit out if they wanted to. I don't think
they want to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
I don't, like we're hard lined to just be playing
with each other.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Yeah, Aidan, I mean a ninth grader at Hunter College
High School? Aiden, Oh mean sorry? I was like, what,
Oh wow? Yeah? Is that is that weird? Hiding out
as a ninth grader at Hunter College? In Hunter College
High School is in a friend group the congregates in
the school for foyer to stack okay, play tiles, and

(44:26):
compete at sorry and other tabletop games during lunch. Quote.
I'd say it's made us closer. Honestly, half the people
I'm playing board games with I didn't know at all
before this. Damn.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I didn't realize how cooked these kids were.

Speaker 11 (44:41):
Like we weren't playing board games at lunch, I know,
but we.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Don't have phones, so we're just like talking ship and
like making fun of each other like you did.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
Like they they'll discover that in the spring, they'll discover
talking shit and making fun. But like, it really feels
like they've like gone back. It really reminds me of
like the end of Wally when like their devices go
down and they just like look around and they're like, huh,
like they wake up from like a forty year.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Nap, right right right.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
A lot of gambling. It seems like kids are like
gambling with hair ties. It sounds a lot like prison.
They're they're like, yeah, they're playing poker, gambling for hair ties,
and then there are side wagers going on on the games,
prop bets, prop bets on the gambling from the poker game.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Yo, the teacher's gonna fall the tea, You're gonna fog
at twenty on I twenty Yeah, Yeah, that is that
is so wild because I do think about like how
at my school, like people like people had yo yos
and ship right, you know.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Went through a yoyo phase and like my friend and
year of high school.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
We were backing. Yeah you know, uh god, I mean
like it's it's heartening to hear that it's it was
pretty seamless, like where sudden it's like no phones are
like board game talk to friend. Yeah, I'm shocked.

Speaker 11 (45:53):
I was not at all.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
Yeah, And the fact that they're like describing it as
like an alien thing that there's a buzz in the
cafeteria when all the kids are there, makes me like
realize that it was like dead silent before and like
that was actually something in our old our show Miles
and Jackot Matt Boostie is our old NBA show. Somebody
was reporting that, like now when you go into NBA

(46:16):
locker rooms at halftime, it's dead silent because everyone's on
their phones. Yeah, No one's like talking to each other.
Everyone's just immediately goes to their phone to see what
people are saying about the first half. So like, yeah,
I guess it was like weird silent spring shit in there,
like before this in a way that I hadn't fully understood.

(46:38):
And now they're like it's crazy. The kids are like
talking again.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, just luck. Yeah, And it makes you realize, like, yeah,
through evolution, like this is our normal mode of existence
is to collaborate, to communicate, to hang out, and then
like the glowing screen in our hands had everyone just
like looking down. But I feel like I'm fortunate to
be like a forty one year old who still has

(47:02):
a lot of those skills intact from like you know, yeah,
but the pre phone era or even like early phone,
because phones weren't even smart enough for me to be
like on that shit all the time.

Speaker 11 (47:11):
No, same, I'm the same age.

Speaker 12 (47:13):
I had a pager, yeah, right exactly. The pager was
an absolute waste. Just what was the point of that?

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Yeah, but you got to put in like a cool
mint green case, you know, and make it customize it.
But I think, I mean, like for me, like the
most like exhilarating shit was like passing notes and shit,
write a note and then someone being like, yo, did
you see this note that Kristen romeking And you're like,
you got it, and then you'd like reading it. People.
I remember people with xerox fucking notes in the library

(47:45):
custody and like mash distribute like a messy note and
they're like, yo, bro, they're not going to be friends anymore.

Speaker 11 (47:51):
Oh I miss that. That's so beautiful. They'll never know
what that is. The little notes that were folded like origami.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
Yes, I'm sure they're I mean, they got to be passing.
That's a tails.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
They're evolving back to that. They'll discover notes like next
school year T eight two, calculator games, you know, yeah,
or whatever. But like I do, I've always admired in
this generation their ability to come up with creative shit
to do when board like they we we've talked about
the people who made uh chocolate chip cookies with the

(48:25):
like hand grabber toys, like you weren't allowed to touch
any of the ingredients with your actual hands. You had
to like crack the egg with a and like that.
There's a I was talking the other day about like
kids who just like stood there trying to throw a
piece of fruit onto the pointy tip of a light
pole like for four hours, and then they like got it,

(48:47):
like running around like they just scored the World Cup
and like I yeah, Like I feel like maybe by
having like had to exist on these phones for so long,
they've giving themselves a new They can be like boredom artists,
where they create great creative things to do out of

(49:07):
just complete boredom.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
A lot of those trick for a lot of those
trick shot things are just kind of like TikTok live
money grabs, because it'll be like a like a kid
trying to throw a quarter in the slot of a
piggy bank from like ten feet away and like they're
just sitting there with like coins around, like hey, what's up?
I just keep going and they keep going, and then
people cut those down like when they do it, like,

(49:30):
but there's like thousands of people just tune in to
be like, I don't.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Know, dude, this guy's doing a ping pongo.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yeah, I like fourteen pans.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
I understand it now.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I watched my mom.

Speaker 11 (49:39):
Well see I'm not on TikTok, but my mom is
a TikTok freak and I watched her make one yesterday
and I couldn't believe.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
It is what was it up?

Speaker 11 (49:49):
It was like she had an all girls slumber party
this weekend and they made a human bicycle. What I'm
gonna link you guys so you can share it. It's
like there was like ten women and they formed a
human bicycle and they like rode around.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
But it was just women's are the wheels. It's just
women's bodies are the wheels.

Speaker 11 (50:11):
More of them were the wheels.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
All right, we don't have to put this in the thing.
But what's her handle? So it's second summoned the video
and we could watch really, Oh, it's.

Speaker 11 (50:19):
Well, she posted it on Instagram too. It's a row
yahia or yeah row Yeah. I think it's on Foxy
Roxy Yeah, Foxy Roxy.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, okay, is it everyone wearing red bottles.

Speaker 11 (50:32):
Yeah, it was everyone wearing red. Oh that's a oh
my god.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Wait wait, oh my sorry, we won't be able to
play this.

Speaker 11 (50:46):
But hold on, wait till you see this part.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Where's the bicycle?

Speaker 11 (50:53):
I don't know. I think that one just went on.

Speaker 13 (50:55):
TikTok oh wow wow, okay, that's my mom.

Speaker 11 (50:59):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Yeah, but having a good time, Yeah, have a great time.
Those cute how they turned a roll of paper towels
into a trumpet.

Speaker 11 (51:08):
That's my favorite part of the video.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yes, very yeah, beautiful, beautiful, amazing.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Well, good luck to you young people rediscovering what it's
like to actually be aware of your existence. Hopefully, hopefully
this starts a trend. Finally, we just want to go
out talking about Christmas movies. There there's a trend going around.
I guess I'm MPRS. Pop Culture Happy Hour debated the
topic of the worst Christmas movie of all time. They

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mentioned Jingle All the Way Love Actually Scrooge, Scrooge and Marley.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Oh oh, that's about Scrooge and Bob Marley.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, that's right, that sounds.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Kind of tight.

Speaker 11 (51:46):
There's a book a dog in it. No, or that's
I love Marre Marley and.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Me Scrooge and Marley is a gay take on a
Christmas carol set in modern day Chicago, co starring Bruce
vill Lanche as.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Fezi Wig as a character from what it must be Oh,
because there's the where the Marley's or whatever hunt Ebenezer Scrooge.
I just know that from the Muppet Christmas characters like
we're Marlee and Marley. Oh anyway, classic. I think this
is an interesting idea just to rank a Christmas movie

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because to me, Christmas movies don't need to be good
and aren't supposed to be good, like it's its own
odd form of filmmaking. Yeah, as long as.

Speaker 11 (52:33):
That's me, they have to be cozy. As long as
they're cozy, they're great.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yeah, it's like, what's I mean? Yeah, jingle all the
way fucking sucks. I guess if you're like analyzing and like.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
This story is dumb. None of this is believable.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
But like if you just want to hear him, go,
I got the Timbleman doll and you know it's too
little time, great, great, and Sindbad gets to be a
postal carrier with a bomb. Perfect.

Speaker 11 (52:57):
Yeah, I mean, like the one I hate the most
is this is controversial, but like it's a wonderful life
to me, is like an absolute depression.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Wow. I watched that for the first time for the
first time for this show, and that's what an episode
that's coming out in oh god, few days.

Speaker 11 (53:15):
Yeah, do you hate me now? It's just like the
black and white of it all. It is like I
need red.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I saw the shitty colorized version.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
I saw the black.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
It was so I remember one of my first notes
as I was watching, I go, bro, this is so
fucking dark. This dude had beaten this kid like one
of the first ten minutes. Yeah is this Yeah, it's my.

Speaker 11 (53:35):
Husband's favorite, and I'm like, dude, take this off the screen,
Like I wanted to kill myself?

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Because like the torture porn is so intense until that
third act where they just like and it all worked
out beautifully.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
Right.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Doesn't that a great release?

Speaker 11 (53:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
You thought your neck was gonna get broken there for
a second.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
That cop tried to shoot you, man, Yeah, like multiple times.
I Yeah. I think if it's not delivering coziness the
aesthetics of Christmas, I think I think that's a problem.
Polar expresses Polar expresses bad I think Polar Express is
a good one. This is my son was briefly but

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ravenously obsessed with trains and we watched it a lot
during that period. And the eyes are icy, like it
just sends a shiver through your soul.

Speaker 13 (54:30):
The character's eyes, characters's eyes they roll over white when
when they go to drink their hot cocoa, their eyes
roll over white like a shark.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
No, it's just it's it's just off. It was just
that they were trying to do something the technology wasn't
capable of a real controversial one. Have you guys seen
Christmas with the Cranks with Kim Allen and so this
is officially ranked on Rotten Tomatoes as the worst Christmas
movie with over twenty reviews. So you're not counting your

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Cameron say to Christmas. I watched like the first twenty
minutes of it. I couldn't really get through it the
but it is very popular, like it's beating elf right
now in HBO Max in terms of like Christmas streaming movies,
which is weird, it.

Speaker 11 (55:27):
Sucks and isn't it like doesn't it take place in
the summertime or there's some summer involved in the place.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
They want to go to the they want to go
to the they want to go on a cruise.

Speaker 11 (55:35):
Oh well, that's why I hate it already.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
It's like they don't want.

Speaker 11 (55:38):
Also, Tim Allen sucks. I don't need to be seeing anything.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
With him in it.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Yeah, not even the Santa Claus.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Yeah, even the Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Yeah, that's another one where I guess even now, like
I don't need sand I don't really like the movies
with Santa in it. No, it's weird, right, I want
to see people. I think it's really just because it's
I just want to see people in the cold during Christmas.
It's really got that. I'm like, yeah, this is cool. Yeah, fine,
you're doing it.

Speaker 11 (56:05):
I need like red balls everywhere and a little bit
of snow.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yeah, that's it. Christmas with the Cranks being five percent
is pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
I can't Yeah, I can't believe it's that they were
that out on that movie. Is it just Tim Allen? Right?
At that point, Jamie Lee Curtis is ain't going to
do shit with her career.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
It's like what they write in that one, like should
be lucky if she ever gets nominated for an Academy Award.
After this shit and Tim Allen.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
I did recently watch The Santa Claus with Tim Allen
and like he is a like the part where you
first meet him, and he's just supposed to be like
a very divorced guy. He's thoroughly unlikable. Like he's just
he's like, what do you want? You want me to
cook for you? God's yeah, your observational comedy is like

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it's hard to be a single divorce to dad, and
it's just like, I don't know, man.

Speaker 11 (56:58):
I just realized my father in laws and that movie.
Oh really, yeah, he's yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
He's.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Sorry, Yeah, I didn't mean to spill it like that.

Speaker 11 (57:08):
No, he plays one of Tim Allen's co workers. Oh really,
I mean it's not a claim to fame, but I
just it just hit my.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
It is it could be watched it.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
So your father in law is Judge, Sure, Judge Reinholds.

Speaker 11 (57:25):
He's a David Crumbholds. He's like coworker number two.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Oh okay, okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
I like, oh yeah, I actually loved his work in that.
It's funny though too.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
When you look at like rotten tomatoes on the site,
it's like the critics fucking hate it right. It's like
a comedy so broad and barely dents its targets and
a patronizing world conclusion that goes against everything it's protagonist
originally stood for. The exhausting it is another one, the
exhausting parade of white people's Christmas problems for his only banality, blandness, whatever.
Then you get to audience ones. We watch this movie
every year. It's a Christmas rision, pretty funny, always enjoyed.

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Tim Allen. Christmas at the Cranks is a loud, corny
holiday comedy and it embraces so absurdity, Like so people
that who aren't the critics are like, yeah, I don't know,
sucks shit, but I'm not. I'm not mad about it.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Like it's just because it's it's a texture. It's a
Christmas it's a texture.

Speaker 11 (58:12):
Yes, Oh I love that.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
Yeah, there you go. A writer Jam wanted to put
in a word for the worst Christmas movie being Santa
Claus the movie, which I didn't really it doesn't really
exist in like the way Christmas with the Cranks is
like for some people a holiday classic. This was like
a fifty million dollar production in the mid eighties. Oh

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my god, it was like, this is the definitive cinematic
story of Chris Kringle, and apparently it's just complete dog shit.

Speaker 11 (58:42):
Who I want to watch that? That that's cool, like
a Shindler's List about Santa's life.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
It's just it's for this hero for starters. It's creepy
as fuck, opening with Santa's origin story, which involves him
and missus Claus nearly freezing to death along with their
reindeer before being rescued by eerie elves who want to
fulfill an ancient proper I'm watching this tonight, you guys.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Yeah. Then there's like a part where like a poor
kid goes to a McDonald's and just like looks in
at people eating McDonald's and they're like, God, McDonald's is
so fucking goosh.

Speaker 14 (59:14):
The end just a hobo Hamburger scene. Can Santa Claus
the movie? The movie easy to remember?

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Damn me meat?

Speaker 11 (59:27):
Texting you guys tonight being like, wait.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
What was it called Santa Claus movie?

Speaker 2 (59:31):
You were talking about? Santa Claus?

Speaker 1 (59:33):
The man's googling porn again. Fuck it on the back
of the iPhone?

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Will do?

Speaker 1 (59:42):
All right? That's gonna do it For this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
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