Weekly Zeitgeist 424 (Best of 3/23/26-3/27/26)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
These are some of our favorite segments from this week,
all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So,
without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a
hilarious stand up comedian, writer, actor improviser. You can see
her at her monthly shows Second Screens Comedy and Facial
Recognition Comedy.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's polonium.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
What the fuck?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Give me a one word suggested? Fuck?

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Give me a one give give me a fu Your
one word suggestion is what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Uh? Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
It smells like he just pisses himself.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Why do you get warm? And they really cold? Did hear?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
What the fuck that is? So you're a fellow pants pisser.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
You've experienced it yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah, I will never It's.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
It's an adreamal response.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
When I like to sit up.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Yeah, sometimes, when I'm sunning my peraneum, I will accident retain.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Guys, put sunscreen on there. Put sunscreen on there. You
can get burned on your parene. Dude, there's some fucking
pharmaceutical drug I heard the ad for and they're talking
about like you can get like a fatal infection in
your paraneum. Was like, it was like, uh, you can't
get a fatal infection like between your rectum and or

(01:49):
anus and genitals. I'm like, what the fuck.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
The triangle of death here about on the face.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if it's I don't even
know if that's a triangle. It just for whatever reason,
this medication like in the thing, it was jarring because
I heard it passively when I was like, what the
fuck in the like, yeah, yeah, deadly.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Curing Alzheimer's in Cuba, and we're like, now you can
get but killed.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah yeah, yeah, feel what it's like to get killed
through your preenion. We're thrilled to have you.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
Oh I'm thrilled to have one of you.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Oh here, okay, I like I like the mystery there, Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yeah, I just I thought some of my you know,
potions may have worked this time.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
But keep trying, keep trying.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Someone's developing a tolerance.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh maybe yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh no, So I was just looking at I was
trying to figure out what the jaradi ants is. One
where it says like it's there's ones like what does
Jardians do to your parandem? There's like a lot of
weird ship. I don't know somebody with medical none.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
I got a look at my paraneum. You're looking at everything.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, we already down there, you Dan. I'm like, yeah, yeah,
they're a lot. But in the mind whistleway work, you
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
I say you that canary is oh canary has croaked.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I killed I killed six canaries with.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
A par.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
That mine is collapsing, Josh Rory, what's something from your
search history that's revealing about who you are?

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Well?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Mine, I feel like mine is lame, but I'm gonna
I'm on the road a lot as a comedian. I mean,
I'm on a tour and I really love coffee and
coffee shops. My last thing, my literal last thing, is
best coffee shops in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
And did you did you get an answer? That felt
I got to leave us.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I got some prospect.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
We got listeners in Alberta. They might they might have
some money.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
One called Monogram that I think I'm probably gonna go to.
If you guys want to know and come hang out,
we can start a prayer circle.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Say what's what's I like that?

Speaker 8 (04:15):
You were like COI like, you're like drafting a team,
and you're like, I actually am not sure he's gonna
make it, but Monogram is looking good.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I gotta say, I looked up five. Monogram seem to
have the best environment for chilling out for about an hour. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, what's your drink?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Are you just?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Are you like one of those people who like likes
the real slow poor over kind of.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Thing, or I don't mind a slow poor over. I
always get an espresso because I want to see what
the pool is like, and if that's pretty good, I'll
sometimes do a nice latte.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Uh. But I guess that's your too. Yeah, and why
would you have guessed that, Sofia?

Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't know. He seemed like a cold BEV person, but.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I do like it.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Josh, what about you? What's something from your search history
that's a revealing about who you are?

Speaker 9 (05:00):
The last non work related search the work related starts
would be boring. Is is it safe to give my
cat ozempic? Or could I give my cat a zampic?
I don't know the exact phrasing of it, but I
see those commercials all the time, and I'm a little
concerned about our cats weight and I was just.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Wondering, there's no way I can get her. What's the
shortcut for this?

Speaker 9 (05:21):
Yeah, I mean diet and exercise works for us. But
I feel like that's not a negotiation you can have
with an animal. Like, how do you get a cat
like cats?

Speaker 8 (05:30):
You literally just give it less food and it's gonna
hate it, but it's gonna get smaller. When I took
one of my cats to the vet, I got told
the most unhinged thing, my fatter cat. But they were like,
your cat, if she were a woman, would be considered obese.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
How is that useful? How is that useful?

Speaker 4 (05:53):
But I'm like, but she is a cat, though, so what.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Are we Sorry? I was trying to use like patriarchical
of womanhood.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
If he were a woman, I know that will never happen.
But if she were, it was so mild. If your
cat was a bird, she would not.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Be She'd be doing great.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
If she was a bee, she.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Could never take off the flower.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
If your cats.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
If my cat was a woman, I feel like it
would be someverely underweight.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Twenty three is not livable.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
It's not No, no, no, that's happened if she were
a living doll.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Wait, so, Josh, was there any insight like are there
gop ones for felines?

Speaker 9 (06:43):
In fact, the answer was no, you should not give
Ozma your cat. However they are, there are variations and
they're working on. Of course they are because they're gonna
make another ten billion dollars on semi glue ties for pets.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
But don't just dose your cat, was the answer.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, that's but I.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Call it jaro when I get to them, and hopefully
that which will help it work. You've been waiting so
long to make that joke.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Yeah, we didn't go with Zempico.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Zempik was right there, my Jao and I got the
m in there. You know what I mean As a
seasoned improviser, I kept my ass on the back wall
until I had to, and now's the time to do it.
I thought. The second you said it, Josh, you just
fucking hit my bright. Here we go, Here we go. Yeah, yeah,

(07:33):
I love this, Josh. Guys, give me my best ship
ever right now? Man? What do you think is underrated? Kaylin?

Speaker 10 (07:44):
I think that practical effects in movie and stuff are underrated.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Just got excited.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Yes, no, I get. This is something I'm very passionate about.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
I'm like, I get so tired of seeing like C
G I and stuff, and like I feel like old
movies like Jurassic Park, like the practical effects are amazing.
And that's also I think why Mary is doing so
well too, Like everything was practical effects.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
I'm just obsessed with physical.

Speaker 10 (08:13):
They went to space, they filmed it.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
There was oh my god, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Oh no, okay, but yeah, I got what you mean.
I get you mean what I.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Love the building of it.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
What your love of the practical effect back?

Speaker 10 (08:26):
I mean, it's it's been there, it's been being there.
I hate this whole Like everyone's standing in front of
a green screen or blue screen. The sets aren't practical,
the effects aren't practical. This has been going on for
decades now. But I rewatched for the first time in
many years for an upcoming episode of The Bechdel Cast. Honey,

(08:48):
I shrunk the kids and all of the like sets
with the kids just like walking through the grass and
like seeing in the big bowl of sios ant. It's
all puppets and stuff. So I just I was like, man,
they just don't make them like this anymore.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's like animation too.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
They don't do like the two D animation that's like
really good, you know, like we had we had to
find that nineties niche you.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
Know, it was so good.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, I mean I think that's why I like, Yeah,
practical effects just look better. You know. It's just something
about when the camera is actually filming something that is
physically existing.

Speaker 10 (09:27):
It's tangible, and then the physics of things like when
there's when there's a c g I effect or care
and look again, one of my favorite movies is Paddington
and that's on the side of that that's a pile
of tennis balls. And then obviously Paddingtonnis CGI.

Speaker 11 (09:44):
But trailer okay, because you're you're kind of the duality
of the films that really capture your mind.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
I mean, like, I know, you've got a Fury Road tattoo, right,
which is.

Speaker 4 (09:57):
A lot of go right.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, got a practical Titanic motherfucker built a gigantic Titanic
out in Mexico ship okay. Yeah, and then and then
your other king is a non existent bear.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
First I contain multitude for you guys saying Paddington is real.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
How else is he doing the musical?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
How else was he at the back door?

Speaker 10 (10:20):
That's why I'm so excited about the musical because it's
it's practical. There is a little person actor inside the
costume on the stage.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, yeah, and.

Speaker 10 (10:33):
It's I'm delighted. I'm excited. But yeah, no, I the
the like the physicality and the lack of like gravity
and just every like the physics of c g I
effects looks like ass yeah, almost never done well, and
I just need everything to be proud.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
I feel like c.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
G I as Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, sometimes the cjazz can get it, but other times not,
Like you're right, yeah, they don't get the thigh thickness
right sometimes. The thing with like I'm trying, Like the
moments I've really been wowed by special effects have always
been practical effects, like even first like even with avatars,
like okay, fine, but like Jurassic Park, I was like,

(11:19):
holy shit.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
Muppets face.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
My first treasure Islands, Christmas.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Carol, Muppets Christmas. I don't know why they would need
to do cg for any of that one, but yeah
why not. But like even with like even Star Wars too,
like some of the first movies I grew up really
being like interested in all the miniatures that were being
used and just how much like to like action movies
were using miniatures to blow shit up. And I remember

(11:45):
always watching on HBO they'd have like HBO First Look.
It would be like the behind the scenes little featurettes
they would put on, and I was obsessed with those
because it always blew my mind that like it was
a job that you got to basically build little toys
to shoot with explode them, like.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
I know, imagine years were gods. Sorry I keep talking.

Speaker 10 (12:07):
No, it's I mean we're just also passionate about this,
Like never forget an Independence Day when they built that
miniature stud of the White House. And then.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, also I.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
Feel like like studios should be aware of how much
people love that ship because like we literally during like
Halloween or Christmas, we will drive to completely different neighborhoods
just to like drive alongside and see like Christmas and
Halloween decorations, and like we go to Haunted House, like
we love practical effects, Like we love being in the

(12:40):
place and seeing all the effort and ingenuity that people
put into it.

Speaker 10 (12:44):
Right, Yeah, and that's what the Paddington Bear experience. That
I'm doing at noon on April.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, you wanted the real practical effects in your face. Yeah,
I get it. Really is something you think is underrated, like.

Speaker 12 (13:01):
Underrated screaming into a pillow as loud as you can.
I found that that has been really helpful, just screaming
as loud as you can. And it's such a good release.
You know, there's a lot of shit going on. So
and that's in addition to therapy, you know, everything like
actual you know, medical things. But yeah, everyone want to
just take a pillow and scream it, like just fucking.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Ye into it.

Speaker 12 (13:24):
And it feels in the pillow matters, so you don't
scare other people, you know this.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Then this started, okay, and you made this discovery after
you found out you were having twins.

Speaker 12 (13:34):
Yes, some other So I bring my own pillow with
me in general.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Anywhere. So any friction in.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
My life, this is my shof pillow.

Speaker 12 (13:45):
If I miss a light, like a like a traffic light,
I'm stuck at a red light, I screamed into it.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
You have a bungee cord above you on the driver's
side goes right back up to the ceiling of the car.
Shot pillow would be a good.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Shout pillow.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
The shout pillow that's like on the top of your
like every just comes.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
With a little yeah you can pull down.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, I love shout pillow.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
But Chinese already have that built into their cars exactly.
They've thought of everything. They've thought of everything.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
That's good tech.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, no, it seems like things are going well for you.
So yeah, the screen into a pillows good? What what's
what's something you think is overrated?

Speaker 12 (14:26):
Street cleaning where I have never seen a street get
more clean when one of those like fan like those
brush samboni. Yeah, yeah, go by, and Jamie Loftus falls
out of the ceiling because.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Yeah, she's mad. Did you mention again?

Speaker 12 (14:48):
She doesn't want to be there, you know, yeahs off.
But yeah, I've never seen them work. And I have
a conspiracy theory that it's a way for local governments
to collect tickets and get money that way, which is
a purely conspiracy, but I believe it's correct.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I have a question about street sweepers that I never
I've never asked out loud.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, go ahead, are.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
They because it does? All right? What is a street.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
They got the two big brushes that appear to the
naked eye to just be kicking kicking ship up, you know,
like in my eyes, yes, right, yeah, just like getting
the dust walking through and just being like this your
sand castle, kick kick kick, Like everything goes fucking flying everywhere.

(15:38):
But I have to assume that in theory, those brushes
are sweeping it into a thing that is like picking
up the ship off the street. Is that mouth yeah, yeah,
that there's a little octopus's mouth under there. Yeah, possibly
with a beak. I don't know, but it's gotta be right.
That's the hope.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's the dream.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's the hope. Yeah, but I feel like I'm shying.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Yes, in the US, it's just a thing that kicks
ship in different directions.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Well, I mean like the other thing is like they're
just getting ship out of the road. It's not to
be like it's like they're mopping the streets. It's like
for debris.

Speaker 12 (16:13):
Yeah, what a street mopper might be a better invention
to your point.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Or sweeping you know there you're saying you want to
see a street mopper. You wanted to be a zamboney
where it's like just a sheen of clean behind it.
You're like, oh, is that brand new concrete.

Speaker 12 (16:26):
Yeah, if you're going to ticket, what are what are
parking tickets in LA now? Like seventy eighty bucks?

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Well, yeah, water park tickets, water parking tickets, parking.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
I went down, I went down the shore, got a
got a boat to go crabbing, and then I got
a wooter parking ticket ticket.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, and then I brought it to my water bed.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
And I haven't had a legit parking ticket in a
few years, but I feel like back last time I
got when I fl was like sixty five or some shit.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Right, I got one at uc LA Miles.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
I told you, Jack, I don't play. I don't play.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Oh yeah, Westwood, that's Westwood prices.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh, but you're playing. You're probably paying their like exorbitant
fucked up campus parking ticket things. Oh, Victor, baby, produce
a Victor just came. My last one was like seventy
eighty dollars. That's that's a lot. And that's a lot
for a baby like that. That's crazy because you're a
little baby. Hey, you don't make money, So how do

(17:30):
you pay that?

Speaker 2 (17:31):
How do you pay that?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Victor?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
How will you pay that?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Stream slippers?

Speaker 1 (17:34):
Do pick up a small debris organic matter dog shit,
I think is essentially what they're saying there, dodge.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
But they hate see we pick up dog shit?

Speaker 2 (17:46):
What else do you fucking want?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
I'm not using my hands. Are you talking about? I Also,
for whatever reason, there's something so humiliating for me to
see a dog just take a dump on like like
on concrete on the sidewalk. Part of me is like,
they don't want that either, No, they don't want that either.
Is designed for grass.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's why I walk around.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
The second reference to dogs shipping on grass in in
as many minutes.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
On Bro figured a way to make that a bar.
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
My dog when we lived in New York, my dog
Miles at the time, what's that? My dog would would
take a ship in the crosswalk As we were like, well,
that's so stressed. For some reason, it was just like
this is the one spot that I feel comfortable taking
a ship.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
That stressed you out so bad, imagine not not to
have like the dogs taking a sh in the strange spot.
But then you thinking like I'm going to hold up
the traffic now, yeah, I'm having at it, and you
get already hear like some made up like New York
city sanitation work would be like.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh oh, and it almost seemed like I had trained
him to do this every single time.

Speaker 12 (19:03):
Your active defiance against the city is to have him
take a ship in a crosswalk when we had those
huge those two big like blizzards this year that my
my dog will only ship on. I'm so glad you
brought this up. He will only ship on grass and dirt.
But there was no grass in dirt, and like talking,
it was too hot. Yeah, so it was just a
night It was a nightmare. My dog was constant, My

(19:24):
poor dog, like, how do I find dirt for this?

Speaker 1 (19:29):
For like somebody you had to like drill down into
the snow just to find.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
The build a fire.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, I bought forty gallons of boiling water out there
to try and melt it.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I erected a shed in the middle.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Hey, you're gonna be a great dad man.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Thank you here resourceful skills like that.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, take the kid to the ship shed. I'm tired.
I haven't got fourteen hours of sleep, I haven't had
my breakfast in bed in two days. I don't feel
what are you doing there? I think I'm like getting
sick or something. Yeah, I feel light edded well, let's

(20:12):
take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk
about Donald Trump moon Base. And we're back, and so
is Stephen cole Bear with a new he already lined

(20:34):
up the new gig. Okay, so we know he's ending
or you know the Late Show is is it going
to be ending in May? After you know, the FCC
came down, I was like, uh, CBS been to our will.
We don't like people that have anything negative to say
about this government or this administration especially, and you know,

(20:54):
other people are like, Okay, what's next for Stephen Colbert
logically or like this guy's comedian, he has a background
and you know comedy, the host a new show.

Speaker 10 (21:03):
He was on Strangers with Candy.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, stranger, Oh, let's not do it all the all
the greats. Do you watch Strangers of Candy Still? I
periodically go back to watch sh it's.

Speaker 10 (21:13):
I haven't seen it recently, so fucking it's so dark,
Yeah that I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Was on TV when it was on TV. Like the
ship that they're touching on, just with the character of
Jerry Blank Amy sin Arras's character, and.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
You're like, I feel like we got away with like
a lot darker stuff back then, because there wasn't as
much like real life dark stuff that we could we
had access to. So like, I feel like even the
cartoons could be like dark, you know, yeah, because.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
She's just like this old, scummy, like seventies person. Yeahs
like racist in the weirdest fucking ways. But I still
I remember as a kid that shit pulled on my
heart strings. I was like, finally, show that's like saying
some I don't know, I'm really fucked with this dark
the dark comedic stylings of Amy Yeah and co. Okay,

(22:01):
so uh for all of that, you know, what could
it be? Is it in line with him? It turns
out the next gig is a Lord of the Rings
sequel movie. So it's just announced that Stephen Colbert and
his son are developing a quote brand new Lord of
the Rings movie.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
So after twenty do we think he developed it or
do we think he had that in his back pocket
this whole time?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Well, here's the okay, So it's interesting, what's the range
job because anyone who knows like Colbert is I think
one of the most famous Tolkien nerds like out there,
at least most visible in terms of like you know,
but whatever list of celebrities on a Yeah, we call
that a but the So in twenty twenty seven, we're

(22:46):
getting Lord of the Rings the Hunt for Gollum, and
then then we're getting We're getting Cold Bear's Lord of
the Rings Shadows of the p And you're like, okay, so,
but how does this work because these movies came out
like fucking twenty years ago, Like what are we talking
about here? So apparently Colbert's film is based on chapters

(23:11):
from the Fellowship. That quote didn't make it into Peter Jackson.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
I'm like, okay, I'm a Lord of the Rings person.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
You're back in, You're back in that.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
I wanted to see Tom in the original so bad,
but they were already like a million hours long.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, so I'm like excited. Yeah, this is what he said,
because Peter Jackson did like a cheeky thing. It's like
and I've got a very special collaborator. And then like
in the video call, like Colbert comes in and this
is what Colbert said, quote, you know what the books
mean to me and what your films mean to me.
But the thing I found myself reading over and over
and over again were the six chapters early on in
the Fellowship that y'all never developed into the first movie

(23:51):
back in the day. It's basically the chapter three is
Company Chapter three through fog on the Barrow Downs. And
I thought, oh wait, maybe that could be its own
story that could fit into the larger story. Could he
make something that was completely faithful to the books while
also being completely faithful to the movies that you guys
had already made. And it sounds like that's what it is.

(24:12):
So the log line quote. Fourteen years after the passing
of Frodo, Sam Marian Pippens set out to retrace the
first steps of their adventure. Meanwhile, Sam's daughter Eleanor has
discovered a long buried secret and is determined to uncover
why the War of the Ring was very nearly lost
before it even began.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
So, wait, who's going to play these people.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Me to hurry? This could be your time. This could
come to me like.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Hitting Andy serkis in the knee.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Right, He's like, it's my voice, really, that's paying and
it's my facial reactions. It's your fucking knee, fucker. Yeah.
So I also didn't I forgot that he was in
Desolation of Smiles yeah, yeaheah.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
He was like so excited to be in it.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
He was like I don't know who he remember seeing
him like with ears like family.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Was like, did his kid get a great cameo?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
He played a spy. Yeah. He was just sort of
like it was there and there it is. So remember
when we saw.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Ed Shearon in Game of Thrones and we were like.

Speaker 5 (25:29):
No, that face doesn't belong there.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
Yeah, well, I mean but he doesn't like he has
iPhone face. I think it was just sort of like
he doesn't I know Ed Shearon when I see him,
and I don't like seeing him in this context, I think?
Is how I that was my reaction.

Speaker 5 (25:49):
Does everyone just have the from Ed Sharon or did
he do something bad?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
I don't know, But the TLC lawsuits like the only
thing I could think of, Oh wait, what was that?
Because he was there like yo, you just basically ripped
off scrubs. He's like, I don't want you. And then
TLC was like, oh hold on, hold on, can you

(26:15):
can you sing that ship back one more time? Because
it sounds like I don't want no scrubs? And then
so that that ended up they ended up getting a
writing credit on that because they sued. But like, I don't.
To me, it didn't seem like egregious or anything. Although
I don't know, maybe okay, I.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Kind of like that he's not a bad man in
the typical way and that we just not like him.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
I like, bring that pettiness.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Back for it, just like I don't like their face
rather than them because there's some kind of predatory Yeah,
bring that back. That's bring back back just hating somebody
because you don't like their face for no reason. Bring
back looks based discrimination.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Body saying.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
I don't like his floppy, ginger hair, I don't like.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
The baby's is off.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Oh gosh, that baby's vibe. I'm pretty sure people are
still saying that today elsewhere. Now, Caitlin, Like we were
saying you got to go to the airport soon, and
by that I mean maybe you should get in line
today because the TSA TSA is acting administrator.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
Ha.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
When McNeil testified and you know, saying like, what's good?
Would a funding give us the status report?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Here?

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Hey yeah, hey, hey, excuse me, mister misadministrator was good?
Can you give us a vibe check out there? What's
what's the feeling, and we've all seen the videos, we've
all talked to people who have been to the airports
that have been slammed. Not surprisingly, she said that the
airports are experiencing quote the highest weight times in history

(27:51):
because again there now we're at like almost five hundred
TSA officers have just quit because the.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Right brothers, we're just bringing people on practice.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Yeah, even then, even though it took.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Years, we're actually factoring in the development of air travel
into that time. Even the centuries people waited prior to
the invention of modern air travel, we still have the
longest wait times in history. And right now some like
absences because people call in sick too, because like, well
fuck it, if I'm not getting paid, then I can't come.

(28:27):
Mind what four percent in some places to over forty
percent at others. That's why it's like, you know, it's
not consistent across the board, because there's also airports like SFO,
and there's like about thirteen other airports that contract private
companies to beat TSA rather than TSA directly, So those
people are getting paid.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
Okay, I'm learning about that for now.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
No, they're just like contracted contracted sort of TSA people
but it's like, but their payment goes through these other
like contractors versus waiting for DHI somebody to come through. Yeah,
and I think, yeah, it's it. This is the this
is the crazy part. So McNeil was asked, so, like, okay,
so you've lost about maybe almost five hundred people. What
does it look like to get restaffed? McNeil said, quote

(29:12):
training for new officers takes four to six months, meaning
replacements would likely not be ready before the start of
the twenty twenty six World Cup. She called the situation
a quote perfect storm, because it's like, you got this
shut down, you got people who just fucking quit. You
got to onboard five hundred people. It takes four to

(29:32):
six months, babes, this shit is kicking off in like
under three.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
So this is crazy.

Speaker 12 (29:41):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
I saw two things about this. I thought we were interesting.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
There's this one TikTok of this girl who like left
her mom's place in Atlanta, went to the airport like
five hours early, just barely made her flight, like after
waiting in line for five hours, and then the flight
took off, and then the airport she was gonna go
to was closed and they had to come back to Atlanta,

(30:05):
So she traveled for two hours to end back at
her mom's place.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Wait could she even land? Or they were just like.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
They landed back in Atlanta, like the.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Land the destination or oh they were just like they could.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
I don't think they could land. I don't think so,
but like it was, and I was like, what the fuck?
Like so even if you get if you breathe that
sigh of relief of like I got on the flight,
that's like until you're off that fucking plane.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
And then also like I saw the.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
Delays effect like every single delay effects every single other flight.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
Yeah, this is also like do you remember when Southwest
was like not doing well during the winter storms.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
And it's because I look this up.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
It's because most airlines have a hub and spoke type
of situation, but Southwest has like a one plane goes
to the next, goes to the next, goes to the next,
So they don't have like a hub and that works
better for fitting as many flights as possible into your
schedule during normal times, but it's terrible for emergencies because
they don't have like a place to like regroup and

(31:09):
like reorganize like the pilots and shit. But this is
like fucking up all the hugs, I think too. So
it's like they can't even find a place to regroup.
And then I saw that like Ice or whoever was
like handing out waters to people online and then they
were forgetting that they had waters and then they were.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Trying to go through security.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
Yeah that's probably on purpose, because I'm like Ice would
never do anything kind nice.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, I mean there I've read, like there have been
so many articles written with people talking to people at
the airports and what their feelings are, and like some
people are like it's fucking gross. Other people like they're
doing fuck all and they're like, yeah, they handed out
water and they're kind of trying to talk to people.
But from what I've seen, most of these people don't.

(31:57):
I think them with their faces out in the open
like that and just being like okay, scared. Yeah yeah,
and it and it's like one of these things too.
We talked about on I think yesterday the day before
show that you know this like woman called into like
the buck Sexton showed and that people are like pointing
at this woman from Arizona calling into a conservative radio
as the as that why like as the genesis of

(32:19):
this idea because she's like, oh, the Libs are gonna
hate it. Imagine if ice is now at the airports
and like helping t s A. And then that that
host went on Fox and pitched the idea, and then
Trump the next day said yeah, we're gonna be putting
ice at the airports. And and then the logic there
was like, I'm gonna.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
Wouldn't it be crazy if the Libs got free healthcare?
They hate that ship.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
You gotta you've gotta be a little you got any
You're gonna to add one more dimension of chess right there. Yeah,
And I'm sure they'll they'll figure out, Yeah, they'll be like, wait,
they won't like it, which brings us though to this
is where I think maybe things might change a little bit,
because the CEO class now is starting to grumble about

(33:04):
TSA checkpoints. And when I say the CEO class, I
mean the CEOs of the airlines. Right now, you have
the head of Delta or No. United he's been basically
saying like, look, dude, this is fucking He said, this
is ridiculous, Scott Kirby, that United CEOs quote, we're holding airplanes,
but when there's a five hour. Wait, we can't hold
for everybody. It's just ridiculous to me that has gotten

(33:27):
it has to get this bad before they can get
a deal done. Please get the deal done soon. This
is a quote political football amid another government shut down,
and I'm sure for them, they're like, dude, we're hemorrhaging
cash because of this. On top of it, can't the
price of jet fuel because of the fucking war. Yeah,
They're like, this is like the worst worst time ever

(33:48):
for them, for the airlines that like to squeeze every
penny out of us.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
I mean, can't Scott Kirby just fill his body with
hot air and float away?

Speaker 3 (33:57):
He could? He should get it.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
Kirby. Think about that video game reference.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Alert, you know, Kirby Fuck with Kirby.

Speaker 10 (34:15):
I never played a Kirby game.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, okay, I played the first one I remember on
gay Boy. Delta Airlines though, I think this is the
thing that might work, because the Delta CEO is like, no,
this is we got to do something about this. This
is the statement that came from the company. Due to
impact on resources from the long standing government shutdown, Delta
will temporarily suspend specialty services to members of Congress flying Delta.

(34:41):
Next to safety, Delta's number one priority is taking care
of our people and customers, which has become increasingly difficult
in the current environment. So apparently at like a lot
of major airlines have like a special Congressional service desk
for members of Congress on Capitol Hill and the to
one's known as the Delta Desk. And I guess a

(35:02):
lot of members of Congress fly Delta and have like
their you know, points with Delta whatever, and so that
desk helps members get like government rates, book their trips,
last minute ticket stuff, just like basic like saving seats,
like you know, it's like a bespoke concierge for Delta
that like will interact directly with members of Congress. Now
they're saying, like, bro, kiss that fucking desk goodbye. So

(35:24):
now you're gonna have to live in our world, which
I hope. I think that's the only thing that will happen.
Might in Congress too, if they have no perks. I mean, obviously,
the only thing that's going to get members of Congress
to do anything is if Trump says something. But at
the very least they have to suffer like everyone else,
because as we look at things that happens with you know,

(35:45):
most policies. It's about those people insulating themselves from never
having to live in our world. And I think thatses me.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Off that I that I'm now finding out about all
these perks that are going to be taken away because
because of this, I forgot that ship.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Yeah, I mean it's not like I mean, yeah, they
get a government rate, you know, same day travel or whatever,
but I don't know. But then you also have to
be in Congress polities, so you know, there's that whole thing.
But here's some good news, so open AI. There was
the big announcement that Sora, the video generation nonsense slop

(36:24):
maker factory is being shut down. Despite all the articles
that said this.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Is going to change Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
This a revolutionized filmmaking. If AI can make everything now and.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Then practical effects ever heard of them?

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Exactly exactly. I don't need to see Darth Vader breakdance
against Elsa from Frozen in a b boy battle.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
That's actually I got.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Darth Vader. Darth Vader can't uprock for ship. Windmills were
sloppy as hell. No fuck that, you got the force
and ship you can't even get it bro, but now
other of the other big tech companies are having to
legally reckon with their mental health eroding apps. Quote. A
California jury on Wednesday found that Meta in Google were

(37:09):
to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman
who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding
her three million dollars in a rare verdict holding Silicon
Valley accountable for its role fueling a youth mental health crisis.
The jurors concluded that Meta and Google should pay with
the woman three million in compensatory damages, with Meta on
the hook for seventy percent of that amount. The jury

(37:32):
also decided that Meta in Google's actions could trigger punitive
damage damages, which means there will be a separate phase
of the trial where the jury will decide what amount
of damages are appropriate to punish the multi trillion dollar
companies for their conduct. Yeah, the plaintiff who just was
like for anonymity Kaylee but was being legally referred to
as KGM, has like a story Like I think millions

(37:55):
of other young people, especially like kids who grew up
firmly in the social media Internet era, where they're like
this is all there's ever been. I think she just
turned twenty years old. And basically their lawyers, you know,
like are arguing, you know, Instagram, it's the reason it's
Google and Meta. It's like Instagram and YouTube were deliberately
designed to be addictive, and the companies knew that, and

(38:17):
they knew the harm that was coming from it. And
we've saw, like there was that whistleblower from Meta who
was like, it's talked about at the company that this
is bad. The people who work on this shit don't
want their own kids using it. Yeah, and that was
like what the plaintiff's team did. The team showed quote
the jury internal documents from Meta in which Meta CEO
Mark Zuckerberg and other executives described its efforts to attract

(38:40):
and keep kids and teens on its platforms. One document said, quote,
if we want to win big with teens, we must
bring them in as tweens. Another internal memo showed that
eleven year olds were four times as likely to keep
coming back to Instagram compared to competing apps, despite the
platform requiring users to be at least thirteen years old.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
Like, it's also like, I'm surprised have there been any
cases of like chat GPT telling you to kill yourself
or like the like.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Have Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that's going to be like any.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Like lawsuits like have they that hasn't.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Okay, Yeah, let me see what happened because last time,
I believe the parents were suing and okay, so character
Ai was one of which I believe this person thought
like Khalisi, he was in a like relationship with Kalisi
or some shit. They they settled she loves me before
before the verdict. But like that's why. So I mean,

(39:41):
like I think a lot of them are trying to
settle before maybe some court precedent is set. Because the
lawsuit with this young lady also had Snap and TikTok
as defendants, but they settled before the trial. They were like, nah,
we're not gonna do that. What you want there, you go,
We don't want any this.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
We don't want the concept of me having a child
to induce aichosis in the child to then suit.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
For money. I mean, this is the thing you the
doc Like, when the companies have documented themselves that they're
doing this ship, it's hard to argue against it. Obviously,
they the lawyers for Met and Google like, well, we're
gonna appeal, We're going to look at our what our
evaluate our options here to skirt responsibility. But here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
I seen emails that are like, we did it.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
We hooked the kids on this addictive substance.

Speaker 10 (40:33):
I mean, they probably just think that they have enough
money and resources and like whatever, powerful enough attorneys that
they will win any case.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
I mean, I think it was just announced too that
like Mark Zuckerberg was named to like the like White
House Science and Tech Council. So trust that this guy, obviously,
because all these assholes are only they they're stiling up
to Trump because they they're trying to figure out how
they keep their you know, evil fucking empires rolling without

(41:03):
any kind of regulation. And like Zuckerberg, when he was
asked about these documents like that are saying like, hey man,
it's saying right here that you guys are trying to
keep these kids here to fucking get them like stuck
in an algorithmic loop. His response was, quote, if people
feel like they're not having a good experience, why would
they keep using the product? Like what kind of victim blame?

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Really bad things.

Speaker 5 (41:27):
I want to say, really bad things about this grown
ass man.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
I think you should make him some brownies, you know,
I think he need the care package. Neighborhood.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
You're immediately arrested and taken off.

Speaker 10 (41:42):
Screen like they're listening right now.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Lore from the show is used as legal evidence in
your child I mean you said it here. You you
you have access to polonium aka lyric you staated like
the Young Thug trial. But yeah, this is like again
right now, there are like this is a belt. There's
two thousand other pending lawsuits brought by parents and school

(42:09):
districts argue that these companies like are like at the
very least, should be considered manufacturers of defective products for hooking.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
We need that PTA energy over on these companies. We
need you to take all of that banning books, momentum
and fucking bring it to these social media companies.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
And in another a great verdict for people who don't
like predatory tech companies, a separate jury in New Mexico
ordered Meta to pay three hundred and seventy five million
dollars in damages for failing to protect users from child
predators on Instagram and Facebook. So the jury there in
New Mexico said, you guys are responsible for misleading consumers

(42:53):
about the safety of your platforms and declaring that the
tech company had flouted state consumer protection laws.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
So saw a real of this lady who used to
post her kids and then now she doesn't anymore. But
she showed examples of images and videos like with her
kids versus without, and like the breakdown of like who
the post was shared to to was like eighty percent men,
ninety percent men for the ones with kids, and then

(43:20):
the ones without kids it was like more women. And
she was like, they're literally using the algorithm to pump
these children in the front and the.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
In front of the eyes of pedophiles. Like yeah, that
is the whole purpose.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
And so like.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Anytime I see like now, anytime I see a child
online that's like saying something cute or whatever, I'm like, oh,
this is sweet, but also get that kid the fuck
off because like of this site, because it's just so scary,
Like it's so scary.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's wild, it's wild, and it's like, I mean,
it's one of those things that everyone without like research
anecdotally saw. They're like, bro, like I'm stuck on these
fucking things and like half to tell them, why the
fuck am I looking at. I mean, for adults, that's
probably what hits your brain first. But if you're younger
and you're not kind of like a fully formed person yet,
your brad shit's probably gonna be like, why don't you

(44:09):
look like this? Why don't you me not wearing this?
How come we don't look like that?

Speaker 5 (44:14):
Instagram stop being like, hey, are you a woman who's
never worked out a day in or fucking life?

Speaker 4 (44:20):
You lazy piece of shit? Do you want to get
abs in two days? As?

Speaker 5 (44:28):
Please stop?

Speaker 10 (44:29):
My algorithm? Is you know, news about all the horrible
things happening in the world. Lord of the Rings memes
speaking of Lord of the Rings cat videos, very well
curiated it is. But also I'm on it way too much.

(44:49):
I find myself just like holding my phone being like,
oh my god, I haven't accomplished anything today because I've
just been doom scrolling. And uh, I'm a full adult,
so I can't even imagine what it would be like
for a tween.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Yeah, they're also.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
Talking about like the inability of kids, especially in the US,
to like fucking learn anything right now. And part of
it is like the pandemic. Part of it is like
teachers not getting paid enough or not having enough resources.
And then part of it is like our cognitive decline
with being online so much and the increase in like
dementia risks with like your scroll time and stuff.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
I mean also too, like you think about the amount
of people who are like outsourcing their like normal cognitive
things to like AI. Yeah, yeah, it's flash. Hey man,
we might have to save this planet. So old, crusty, well,
at least me a crusty elder millennial. Tell kids about
what it used to be. Remember when we used to
put our hand in a one sleeve and then do

(45:52):
the little thing that made us look like your hand
was coming up like this. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
I still write in cursive and I'm.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Like a relic.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
You know that meme where like somebody's riding and it
like lights on fire. Whenever anybody's like, oh, that's like bars.

Speaker 5 (46:09):
I'm like, every time I look at my pen I'm like,
it's like it's gonna quill.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
My pen is fucking spinning magma. Right now, not even
all right, let's take another break. When we come back,
we'll talk about an old school scorge on society. That's
sporge scorge bye, we'll be back and we're back. Uh,

(46:43):
just checking in with this god awful war, military operation
whatever Trump has to call it, depending on the context
in which he's asked about it, because he's like, it's
actually not a war because then I need approval for that.
So actually I'm going to say military operation, and then
if it's then he'll say, but we're winning the war again.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Sinility.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah, this hell of a drug. But he's been scrambling
to find a solution, you know, the second it became
clear that him and net and Yahoo's war on Iran
was not going to end well, first of all, like
NATO nations want nothing to do with attacking the Strait
of horror moves. And it's not because they don't like Trump.
I mean, that's part of it. It's also just again
like every military mind before this, like it's incredibly hard

(47:24):
to control and strategically, there's no plan that we have
available that doesn't end up with just killing scores of people.
So that's kind of why we don't do it. Yeah,
Trump on Thursday morning posted natodations have done absolutely nothing
to help with the lunatic nation now militarily decimated of Iran.

(47:44):
The USA needs nothing from NATO, but never forget this
very important point in time. Okay, so I guess he
doesn't need them. He doubled down on that recently when
he was.

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Asking why are you so mad? Though?

Speaker 3 (47:59):
That's what I mean. He sounds pretty unbothered. That's what
I just want to I just want to play his
own words on this, Sofia, this might change your feelings.
This is him being like, it's not that like I
needed them. I was. It was a test.

Speaker 13 (48:12):
I never thought we needed them. I was more doing
a test.

Speaker 14 (48:16):
I said, I really would love to have you come up,
bring your boats. You can sail through the beautiful Hormo
spits and you can protect people that are being shot at.
They didn't do it, And that's small potatoes.

Speaker 15 (48:30):
Do you understand what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
You understand what I'm saying? It was it was a test.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
Actually I was to bring your boats, not merch, because
that is insane.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Who journalist was going, Yeah, I do I do it? Yeah,
I be like, no, I don't. Can you elaborate further
with go potatoes?

Speaker 3 (48:50):
So far?

Speaker 13 (48:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Could you just kind of describe the shooting at people
with boats?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
What beautiful?

Speaker 2 (48:58):
What name some stuff that beautiful that you personally found
beautiful about the strait that you have ever seen or
didn't and also didn't even know existed until someone told you.
We fucked ourselves.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Also, here's a world map. Point to it.

Speaker 8 (49:11):
Please really quickly define the word straight.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
That's just the only thing I want to be.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah. Yeah, that's why we liked the horror moves so much.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
Is it's we let those know.

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Because it's straight, just.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Like the bisexual one next door.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
Yeah. Yeah, real bad, real bad news over the words passageway,
worst waterway possible.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
He was then asked about a deal, right, They're like, well,
clearly you need Like what's how are you going to
end this? Like there you've you've said that you were
making a deal Monday, and then Iran was like, no,
we didn't even talk to you. What this guy talking about?
And then recently Iran also has came back and they're like, yeah,
I mean, like, we we have our own ceasefire proposal

(50:01):
that we're going to send along, but we're not even
close to negotiating with a group of people who can't
even negotiate with us without attacking us. That we were
in the middle of negotiating when this whole thing kicked off.
So then he was asked, Okay, well, it sounds like,
you know, with the global energy markets being completely out
of whack, you can't we kind of need a deal
right with yourn No, and they're they're like, maybe we're

(50:24):
it seems like the I think he said. He was
commenting on the fact that I think some Iranian officials
are like the US is like desperate for a solution.
And here was Trump's answer.

Speaker 15 (50:33):
I'm the opposite of desperate.

Speaker 13 (50:36):
I don't care. I want to know.

Speaker 15 (50:38):
In fact, we have other targets we want to hit
before we leave. We're hitting them on a daily basis.

Speaker 13 (50:46):
I'm talking about you.

Speaker 14 (50:47):
I can't talk about specifics.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
I'll post about it on truth social, you know, I
want to talk about it. But now he's on, I'm
the opposite of desperate. I don't care. I just I
don't don't care.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
I don't even like you.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
I asked you.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
He said, no, You're a fucking ugly, fat bitch.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Anyway, you know, he tried to find the word for
opposite of desperate.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
He's like, I'm the opposite of desperate. I'm I don't care.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
I don't care my opposite word, whatever the opposite is.
That's put that word there when you write this story.
But all day, all day.

Speaker 9 (51:24):
Did you see heg Seth's face, By the way, when
he talks about more targets. I mean he was so
aroused in that moment. Oh, he was like talking about bombs,
bombing shit.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
He said a prayer earlier in that heg Seth or
he was like, please break the teeth of our enemies
and kill the wicked, like he's I mean a lot
of people have talked about like he he has some
like nutbag pastors that he listens to who are one
million all in on this, Like dude, bring that. Bring
Jesus back by having a nuclear armageddon in the Middle East,

(51:54):
Like yeah, the quickest way to see him again.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Each few old evangelism is crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
I say he's the act. But I think I think
when they say Jesus is gonna come back, I'm like,
I think he's tried to. I think you keep killing
him when he comes back. He's not like a superhero.
He's a human, and you keep killing You probably kill
his mom before he even get it. You're more than

(52:22):
likely are doing that.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Yeah, right, just mathematically speaking, I like the os on that,
and then again back to the Strait of horror moves
and his petulance, it turns out is possessing. We actually
don't even need the Strait of horror moves, the thing
where one fifth of the global oil supply trains. It's
through that's, you know, the cause of all this energy disruption.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
We don't need it.

Speaker 15 (52:44):
Well, we have a coalition form, but they should have
been up here a long time ago, and.

Speaker 13 (52:49):
You know they're affected.

Speaker 15 (52:50):
The amazing thing is we don't need the hormost straight.

Speaker 14 (52:53):
We don't need it.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
We don't need it at all.

Speaker 13 (52:55):
We don't.

Speaker 15 (52:56):
We have so much oil. Our country is not affected
by this. We have more, we have twice.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Okay, hold, okay, where's the oil?

Speaker 15 (53:04):
Though?

Speaker 2 (53:05):
My favorite is if you Rubio's reaction of like kind
of falling asleep then waking up and being like, I
don't know. I think the whole issue is that we
do need it, because if we didn't need it, you
know what we were talking about it at all?

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Wait, I thought that was the whole point of this
fucking thing. We don't mean of Middle.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
Eastern policy is oil.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
I don't know why they don't need to come and
help us with this thing we don't need or care about.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yeah, don't need it.

Speaker 8 (53:38):
And the households for not helping, but we also didn't
need that also and we weren't even.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Trying to do that.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
I mean again, I don't know, you're ugly, like.

Speaker 4 (53:46):
I said, so, I don't even want to go out
with you.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
What's what's gas prices right now in Portland, Sophia? Because
I like the high fours? Oh five seventy was the
cheapest I saw recently from LA to Portland this weekend,
and it definitely was like mid to high fives, like
five sixty.

Speaker 8 (54:05):
Or something in LA, and then it got less as
they got to Portland.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
But I'll take I'll take Trump's word for this because
our country is not affected.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
On this, not at all. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
So yeah, alls well then ends well, well, I guess
speaking of oil and the toll it takes on our earth.
Like I said up top, like you know, if anyone
who lives in the Western United States or areas that
typically get snow in the Western US probably had a
freaky fucking quote unquote winter because it was non existent

(54:38):
basically no, like a lot of places had like no
snowfall for the first time in many years. And you know,
that's like those snow packs are what we count on
for our water once it gets into the warmer months,
you know, like, but ski slopes were bare. They were
relying on snow machines. And also, uh, it doesn't bode
well in terms of the risk for wildfires. Also, and

(55:00):
states are already trying to plan, like how to manage water
usage given the record low snow, you know, as we
find ourselves in the midst of another climate change escalation
and sadly, earth death as we've seen, is a part
is an issue in the US, Like some are just
paid to not give a fuck by the oil and
gas lobby while they secretly like, fuck, man, where Michigan
is that?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Where we go is howere there's fresh water? I wonder
what they're gonna do with their money? Yeah, right, exactly.
It reminds me of the scene on Titanic int The
Titanic when Billy Zane tries to pay one of the
guys to get him on a boat and he's like,
your money doesn't save either of us.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Yeah, just eat, you should have just ate? Is like,
what do you want to fucking do with this.

Speaker 8 (55:38):
It's like, at that moment you have to understand that
money is a construct instead of like it's a real
thing that exists. The real thing is what you're living in.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Yeah, fucking psycho MBMA.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
We just got to get more MDMA out there that
Corey Lacostick will tell you, Reverend Reverend Corey Lacostic will
tell you MDMA will a man brother.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
So the other I think, the other side, if you're
not an oil and gas shill, you might just be
like an anti science Christian, because that's another thing you
hear a lot where they're like, well, Jesus will sort
this out, and you have to have faith. Cut to
Minnesota state lawmaker Mary Franzen during a meeting of the
like state legislature about future weather trends, she decided to

(56:22):
just kind of let everybody know at the meeting. You know,
I'm not really bothered by any of this at all. Actually,
let me tell you why. It's got something to do
with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 16 (56:32):
And so that's why when you talk about climate change,
I don't get upset about it. I don't get worked
up about it. Is because my faith is not in
climate change. It's not in scientists dictating what we should
and should not do to save the environment, because my
faith is in Jesus Christ.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Right, He's the.

Speaker 16 (56:47):
Same today, tomorrow and forever yesterday, and so you know,
if you've read the Good Book, you know, holidays, it's
not with climate change. That's it's my closing speech.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Wait the book. Wait, the book has an ending. That
is the ending.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
Bitch, not know about revelations. What's happening right now?

Speaker 2 (57:07):
I gotta say, is is Noah Zark not a climate change? Right?
Nobody believed him and then they died when they couldn't,
when they drowned.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
No, no, no, it doesn't say the words climate change.
That's the thing, is what I'm saying. I'm a literalist,
so it's that's It's always funny when people say stuff
like well, I don't need to put my faith in experts,
yet you are standing on two legs in a world
based on the achievements of people who study the sac.

Speaker 8 (57:35):
And the knowledge of others, and to just be like, nah,
actually I prefer knowing nothing.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Before I do things.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Yeah, yeah, what an insane take, Just nearly vibing out
on faith when it's like, oh, so do not go
to the doctor either. You're like, hey, I got this
weird dark spot on my skin, doc, which I actually
you know what why am I even here?

Speaker 4 (57:54):
But put my faith?

Speaker 2 (57:56):
But you know, does go to the doctor? Yeah, right, exactly,
Like it's a melody car broke down. What you don't
need a mechanic that's science. No, no, it's just prey. Yeah, yeah,
that radiator fixed.

Speaker 9 (58:08):
There was a scene in season one of The Pit
where someone is anti mask and comes in for a
procedure and gets mad that all the have to wear
a mask in the er and her husband is about
to go up for surgery, and the doctor's like, okay, well,
so I'll just let them know up in the er
that when your husband gets up there that they don't
need to wear the masks or the scrubs or anything. Yeah,

(58:30):
And she's like, I'm okay, I'm okay with the masks, right.

Speaker 17 (58:34):
It's like, yeah, oh yeah, you do the surgery raw,
all right, Well, let's just do it right here with
having a steak knife and a fork and yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:45):
There's also another episode of the Pit where there's a
kid that almost dies because they get measles because the
parents are anti vacs, and they're like, well, his siblings
already got it and they made it, find like through it,
so it's fine. And they're like, it's not fine. Your
son's literally near death, is what we're.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Saying, yea.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
And what we're saying is.

Speaker 8 (59:09):
And actually the reason we do the vaccine is because
you don't know how severe it's gonna be, and because
it can be so severe randomly, you just are like,
gotta let this third one be like, yes, let God
just throw the dice or whatever you think, like insane.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Yeah, which it's interesting too because like they don't you know,
a porn's not in the Bible, but they have real
strong opinions on that and stuff. Yeah, but again that's
the thing when you use the Bible to just be
like because clearly, like you can tell this one is
actually probably terrified at the notion that things are so
out of her control at this point. Yeah, the only
refuge she has sort of emotionally is to be like,

(59:49):
get that fucking get that shit out of your head.
I think that's a lot of people you got Jesus baby,
come on, man, like it's a fuck like your last
bed at the horse track.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Yeah, well, Also people are like, if you just put
your faith than the Bible, then you don't have to
change your use of plastic, and you don't have to
change None of us are going to be perfect about change.
But god, there's a little bit you could do, right,
there's actually the sad thing is there's a little bit
we could all do to mitigate a lot of this.
Like it's always presented like climate change it's hopeless. It's not.

(01:00:22):
There are legitimate life changes that won't affect our lives
in such a profound way in terms of inconvenience. We
just don't want to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
And also like, look, lady, there are actual science. There
are many people who are trying to really figure out
what to do. You just gotta fucking listen.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Does it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
Does it change anything? Is Jesus gonna go hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
why are you doing with climate change? What I say
about that? Yeah, you better put your faith in me
and start rolling cold down the highway.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Such a that's just so how I always interpreted Jesus
like a little aggressive, not that shit off.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
Huh huh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
You want to live with me and my dad? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Yes, oh my god, I do want to live with
you and your dad.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
You better knock it off.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
You better knock it on with me and my dad.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Don't drink bud light. You know who drinks bud Light?

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Right? You know who? You know who knock it off?

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Jesus is also from Budweiser. Yeah, now, I thought they
did with Pride month. Those cans talking about an abomination?
All right, Jesus God, sorry mankind. All right, let's take
a quick break and we'll come back. I gotta get

(01:01:38):
your guys take on one of the smoothest criminals I
think I've seen on the internet this year. We'll be
right back, and we're back so again, crimeless. This feels

(01:02:02):
like a very apt video to sort of check out.
This is kind of blowing up on the internet right
now because this woman had a court hearing she joined
via zoom over some unpaid debt. It's like like small
claims court. It looks like uh, and things to a
turn as the judge noticed that during the hearing that
maybe the defendant was driving in a car. But again,

(01:02:25):
she's very smart. She plays things very smoothly.

Speaker 13 (01:02:28):
You cannot be driving, ma'am. What are you doing.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
I'm not driving.

Speaker 18 (01:02:33):
I'm a passenger in a car.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Just based on what we're seeing right now, it's a
zoom screen. There's six boxes. The woman behind the driver,
the woman is clearly I mean, unless there's like a
really an amazing third row of seating that looks like
the backseat of a car, you might be in the
front and just based on the side, yiss in, that's driver.

(01:02:58):
But but we'll let her keep going.

Speaker 19 (01:03:00):
You're still not I'm not here in cases with people driving.
Where's passengers and cars?

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Okay, I will pull over, right, Jordan.

Speaker 19 (01:03:08):
Of us coming out to everybody's house and doing these
on boats and stuff in the summer, I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:03:13):
I'm sorry, I have an emergency. I'm going out of
town for a family member. But I will have my
driver pullover in on one second. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
I love my driver.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
I don't know how the driver in the car with us, right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
I gotta say, I'm wildly impressed with this confidence.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Yeah, it's yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
If I had just a little bit of this confidence,
I would own a company by now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Right. Yeah, because you have to have the heart to
lie straight to a judge.

Speaker 9 (01:03:45):
Yeah, to a judge's yeah, your honor. You can clearly
see I'm not driving this car because I am in England.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Have you been to England? I see she should have
been a little bit more of her because that's where
she gets caught up, because okay, maybe you got through
the first lazy rounds of questioning, but it's about to
ramp up.

Speaker 18 (01:04:04):
Miss now that I wasn't allowed to be in a car,
but he got one second.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
It looks like she has one hand on the wheel.

Speaker 13 (01:04:10):
Am I crazy? Or does it not look like you're
driving that car?

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
I'm not driving the car. I'm a passenger in the car.

Speaker 13 (01:04:17):
Sir, what side of the car you want?

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
I'm on the left hand side.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Oh, come on, Kimberly, you had it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
You had it truly.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
I thought she would be like, oh when you when
on facetimer zoom lips.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
And then so then the judge is like, are you
so clearly in the front seat? Like how she tries
to recover. She tries to recover.

Speaker 19 (01:04:52):
How would you be on the left hand side if
you're a passenger in the front seat? Am I missing something?

Speaker 18 (01:04:57):
Left hand? Right hand side? I'm sorry, I've been sitting
in a room. I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
He's classic diversion. I've been sitting in a room now
everyone's going, what's going on with the room? They're they're, they're,
they're thrown.

Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
Now do in a life where you're like, well, I
was sitting in a different position in a room.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
So now I'm really confused.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
When I'm in the sky, I was in a room.
I don't know where north is anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
You know how room be. It's confusing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Oh man, Brian Brian Bottom right, hasn't even jumped in yet.
He can't believe it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
Yeah, he's like, his eyes are big.

Speaker 9 (01:05:41):
Yeah, that's probably her attorney. He's like, I'm just my
zoom is not working.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
I'm fro Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
He's like, I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
To do here. I'm gonna get by in this case.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
He's quietly typing a like resignation.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Even I'm sorry, I won't be able to represent you anymore.
So anyway, you know how it is. You're in a
room and left thems right now, the judge.

Speaker 13 (01:06:08):
The seaquels coming after the of the driver's side.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
The judge is so gracious here, he's really calm.

Speaker 13 (01:06:15):
Now you're lying to me, right.

Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
O.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Kimberly, Come on, Kimberly, driver, He said, let me see
the driver, let me see the driver.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
You saw the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Hard drive spinning? Oh it did the driver?

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
Did she not assume this was coming?

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
Bro the flinch, the flinch, and then the next stretch.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
She's like looking off into the future where she gets
out of this right and she's trying to like, maybe
I can manifest She's like.

Speaker 8 (01:06:48):
Kind of can of materialize the driver if I just
look stricken enough's.

Speaker 13 (01:06:54):
Let me see the driver.

Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
He got one second.

Speaker 18 (01:06:59):
I have to ask their permission.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Mark super smart.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
I get it, I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
I can I tell you what I would have done.
I would have gone just quickly like.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
No, don't get out, they want to see you. No
come back. They they just got out quick and ran.
Damn it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Every time I'm in there now I'm stuck in this
parking lot until they come back.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Because I want to Star review.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
That's what star review, and I would drive. But I
love the laws, so I'm gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
She goes on. This is where it gets a little dicey,
because I think at this point she's trying to figure
out how to change the optics a bit where she's like, Okay,
they've they've got me pinned. If there was on the
driver's side and I've got no driver. Oh my god,
Oh my god. So she's now getting out of the car.

Speaker 13 (01:07:55):
We're not in the drive. You weren't in the driver's side.
Do you think I'm that stupid? She's going to the
other side, enter the fault judgment.

Speaker 19 (01:08:03):
Our paperwork says that we can't have that. They can't drive,
does it not, Jennifer.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
I think she's getting me.

Speaker 4 (01:08:11):
Sorry, your honor, I took a breath in and started choking.
Well I missed like this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
I'm sorry. I took a breath and started choking.

Speaker 8 (01:08:20):
Look, a medical emergency is the next natural step in
this lie shock.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Well that was a different He was talking to I
think someone like in the like in an administrative capacity
at the court, being like when people get this, they know,
like we write down that you can't do this in
a car, even if you're a passenger. And she was checking.
But what's great is this woman Kimberly, who is the
one lying. She's now just now she's just standing on
the other side of the car, as if that's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Gonna change it.

Speaker 13 (01:08:44):
He can't be in a car.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
I don't know, you're honor. I'd have to look at it.

Speaker 18 (01:08:49):
A line at it does not say that I cannot
be in a car.

Speaker 13 (01:08:54):
I'm entering it a fault judgment.

Speaker 19 (01:08:55):
You lied to me judgment nineteen twenty one eighty five
sen of your Council and put in their defendant was
not available at the time, and then was driving a
car and telling the court she was not.

Speaker 13 (01:09:09):
I'm entering a default judgment. Have a great day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Thank you, Mike Drop. She had so many, so many opportunities.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
And it also said right that her license is suspended.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Is that what you said?

Speaker 7 (01:09:25):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:09:25):
Yeah, that was That was one of the I don't
know if that she was. I said driver was suspended.
License stunts court with oh yes.

Speaker 8 (01:09:32):
So in addition to all of this, she literally had
a suspended places.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Could have easily not been driving right, it was on
her own, could have easily parked, got out, started the zoom.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
Fall over. Yeah, she could have just done again anything else.
But it like she does, like she lies this the
same way Trump does. But Trump doesn't get pressed with
fire in such quick succession where it falls aparties quickly.
So this one she like, I get it. You just
pushed the boat out into choppy Water's like, fuck it, man,

(01:10:08):
let's just go with this. Yeah, I'm not I'm the passenger. Yeah,
are you sure about that?

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:10:14):
Yeah? What side you on the left?

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
Ship the right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
But I was in a room, your honor the left?

Speaker 8 (01:10:21):
How do you not even bring a blanket to drape
over the seatbelt that it's clear the left side?

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
Like the yeah? Duh? Yeah you driving? Oh you thought
I was in America. I'm in Ireland right now taking
this call?

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
So many options. Yeah, I feel like we've.

Speaker 9 (01:10:42):
Like Rory, we've run into stories like this on Crime List,
and it's always like, when you get caught in the
line that you should immediately tell the truth. But it's
when people don't tell the truth that they get into
these incredible paint themselves into these incredible corners where they
have to keep escalating the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Oh yeah, and it escalates so quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Yeah exactly. And even like if even going like with
your six point plan, Rory, you would have ended up
having to either sprint out of the car do a
really great dramatic performance. It's it's relying on doing some
extra work that you might not be prepared to do.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
But you know, just you didn't graduate from improv Olympic.

Speaker 8 (01:11:19):
I just don't think that you could handle a lot
the judge about driving driving.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Yeah, you just don't have the qualification.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
This is level one improv okay level this is the scene.
You're clearly in the driver's seat, the judges asking you're there.
Figure out a way to convince the judge you're not driving,
all right, and let's go. All right. That's gonna do it.

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