May 24, 2026 • 48 mins
The weekly round-up of the best moments from season 439 (5/18/26-5/22/26)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeit Ghost. 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
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeit Ghost. What is something from your search
history that is revealing about.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Who you are?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I very recently searched copyright law plus UK. M oh,
we're trying to get the copyright law changed in New Zealand.
So pretty much every other English speaking country in the
world has a carve out in the copyright laws to
protect people for satire and parody, like you guys have
got it as part of your first Amendment. I think
(00:50):
UK it's got, Australia's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
D Al Carvel, Yeah, we have weird Al.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
And we don't have it in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So they're currently is no like legal protection for comedians
satirist commentators.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
They can they can get our ass through the copyright
law at the moment.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
If for making a joke jokes are illegal in New Zealand, yeah,
they are currently And.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Welcome to the brother oh Man.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's kind of a fascinating thing because there's this the
way our parliament works is there's a couple of different
ways that laws can get mooted to get voted on,
and one of them is we have literally a biscuit
tin that MPs can put ideas for new laws in,
and every now and then we'll just pluck one of
them out and then we'll vote on it.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And this got plucked out of the biscuits.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
This is not a real country and not real but
like that's not real either.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's a real biscuit tin that exists.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
It's at that's so funny because like in Indian in India,
if you reach into the parliamentary biscuit tin, you pull
out a sewing kit.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So that's that's the only thing nobody's ever kept. Biscuits
and a biscuit tins. All yeah, and sorry, parliamentary ideas.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah yeah, cookie, he said, biscuits, cookies. Cookie.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Let me let me translate from my American family. So
I'm gonna I've I've put my name down to do
an oral submission to Parliament for the first time either,
so that'll be interesting if I get asked to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The tune of Michael Jackson's beat.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It, I was going to do another Kendrick verse.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Actually, but there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, Kendrick might come from my ass.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
You predict it.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
This is so weird to know that the concept of
weird Awl is not allowed in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
People weird Al tapes on the streets of New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yeah, he's like illegal.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There is weird al known in New Zealand. Does he beloved?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's just?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Is he just regular al?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think, well he does.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
There doesn't New zend energy to the dude.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think, oh, because we're like querky and nice, and
I think.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's that he's the quirkiest and nicest.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I think I knew everything, Yeah, definitely. I knew all
of the words to the Star Wars American Pie.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Here Anakin guy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, yeah, I knew all the works there before I
was like twelve, I think, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And I'm not even a Star Wars guy.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
I never have been one of the kids in my
fourth grade class. His talent for the talent show was
he just sat at a table eating things to eat it.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Instead of be it. That's great until he like made
himself sick.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Basically, weird L is going to be a sad one.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Don't know why he do that. Oh my god, he.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Witnessed my invention very sad one. I like, you didn't
even think about.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
That as a possibility.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It might not be Actually he might be immortal. There's
there's just still yeah, hopefully so many songs left. He's like,
I you know, when I was going through my like
twenties and I was like comedy snobbo was like, we
get it. And now that I have kids who are
obsessed with weird al, I'm like, what are you waiting for?
You should be dropping an album every three months? Man,
(04:21):
Just like.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
You're like a Rihanna fan, You're like, where the fuck
is the album?
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Weird?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So something or my search in history that reveals who
I am?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Uh? What what's Daria Morgendorf for from MTV's Daria up
to like in real life or so no, no, okay, it was.
It was a woman named Tracy Grandstad. She was like
a writer for a lot of MTV shows in the
nineties and basically like MTV animation was just like really
cheap at the time. Yeah, So, like Mike Judge voiced
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pretty much every character on Pevis and butt Head, not
because like you wanted to, but just to save money.
But they just like needed somebody to voice like a
female character. And they were like, Tracy, you're in the office,
get in there, you know. And she does a great job.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, her performance is like so dead.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, well I think that's just how she talks. Yeah,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So she does a great job talking how she talks. Yeah,
for sure, for sure, that's whole great. Oh yeah, that's
a voice actor. I have one mode and that mode
is me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah. So it was at first it was just like
I guess, sort of what this who voiced that character
and all that stuff. It turns out that in the
mid two thousands she just became like an exec at
Comedy Central and now she's like still a very high
level like vice president at Comedy Central, And like that
kind of got me thinking about like I like I
get flown out to like talk to a lot of
like schools and kids and stuff, and they were like
(05:44):
these kids at this one school a little bit ago
that asked me like, oh, I have you ever felt
like starstruck talking to celebrity? And like usually the answer
is no, but like if I was on a call
and I heard Daria's voice. Yeah, I like kind of die.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Yeah, you're like wait, what the fuck?
Speaker 9 (05:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Would you be like, I'm sorry, this is going to
sound crazy. Are you?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Could you say right again?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Because like, hey, can you say the sentence missedic spiral?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Comedy Central had interesting taste, like they they would hire
talented people like frequent guest Andrew t wasn't a Comedy Central.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Exec for a little while.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Really, the head of Comedy Central was the guy who
Kent Alterman, the guy who directed semipro Wow, was like
the lead of Comney Central for like a long time.
They were just like, I don't know, are you funny
and like creative?
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Good?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You're an executive now, I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
That's kind of a that's a good business model.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I know, we're running a comedy company when they were
doing just fucking killing it.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is all about like having a
good eye for comedy.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
So where did you get your mbaye? Harvard Finance got it?
The numbers are hilarious. Did you read the Lamdoon the what.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Question?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What is something that you think is two sides are
the same point? You're underrated and overrated side two points coins.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Okay, I think that it's underrated to have high self esteem.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
It's over ready to have low self esteem.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
People.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
I can't deal with anybody anymore because people. I can't
connect with people anymore because everyone has fucking low self esteem.
Everyone I talk to hates their body, hates their whatever,
hates where they're at. Hit And I'm like, I can't
deal with this. Do you guys need to have some
fucking fucking stand up straight puff you're dude? Did you
see the people right in this country? Do you see
(07:47):
that they're walking proud and tall and ignorant as hell
and ugly it's all fuck yeah, I know women like
the most interesting, beautiful, talented women that are just like,
I don't know. I just don't think I can do this.
I just don't out my bitch, are you insane?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Gestures broadly around?
Speaker 10 (08:04):
Look at this.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Look who's on stage right now wiping over it?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, he's tipping over and you fucking don't like your boobs?
Get out here, bitch?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
What are you talking about? I'm just I'm just tired
of people having low self esteem.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
What's your biggest what's what what's your tip, Because Barcela,
you have an incredible amount of self assuredness. What do
you what's the what's the what's the what's you know?
Be robins real quick for me.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Don't wait until your oldest fuck to realize that you
wasted your whole life worrying about the dump shit, worrying
about the stupidest ship, worrying about because every woman I
talked to, not me, but everyone when I talk to
is like, oh my.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
God, I look at old pictures and I'm like, I'll
never be that thin again.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
I'm like, yeah, bitch, so love the body today because
in ten years you're also not going to look like
how you look today. So I don't understand why you're
so hard on yourself right now. And if also, if
you want look better, put a little effort, just make
a little make a little make that change, you know.
And I'm just really frustrated that people really are like spending.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I just read Christina Applegate's Birophy.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
You guys have the Applegate Oh yeah, comedy, Legend, TV
movie comedy, legon okay a Lodius Kelly Bundy loved her
on the Sweetest Thing Anchorman Dead to Me I mean,
she's an icon.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Don't tell mom the babysitters that get out of here.
I loved everything I read her book.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
The bitch had low self esteem her whole fucking life,
the whole fucking time around here.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Like she was Christina Apple, the Christine Apple, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
The Kelly Bundy, the like. I mean to read how
bad her self esteem was, and then to get to
where she is now, she has MS and it's totally
fucked her up. She's she's on these steroids that have
fucked her. These her her words, not mine, but she's
fucked up her face, in her body, it's how she sees.
And now she's just upset that she spent her whole
(10:00):
whole life feeling bad and ugly, and now she's her
face has changed because of the steroids, and now she's like,
I don't.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Even look like myself. I was so mean to that
other version.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, now the remaining life that I have, I don't
even look like myself and I hate the way that
I look now. And it's like, bitch, you will never
relax if you fucking spend your whole life having low
self esteem.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think there's NonStop symbols coming at like I definitely
sympathize with it. I think there's NonStop symbols coming at
us that like tell us that our discomfort is our fault,
and like it that there's like something spiritually wrong with
you if you aren't like doing great, and so like,
I think people are existing in a system that like
(10:40):
reinforces the low self esteem. And also I sympathize with
you because it's got to be hard to not very
fun to bully people who have low self esteem. And
there is I know, I fucking suck, But.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
That's the thing is that like if the system is
telling you that you ain't shit, but also the system
needs you to pay your tag, so the system needs
you to provide babies. The system needs you to.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Provide so much for our society.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah, like you have value, you are value even Yeah
you have value even a shit shit, And I hear
what you're saying, Like I get it that it is
we're living in a tough, tough world and everyone is
telling you how I mean. But I guess that's the
other fuck up thing, especially when I think abou Christine
applicate because I'm like, she was Kelly Bundy, she was
the standard, so it was like I'm fat, you know,
(11:29):
Like that's crazy to me. She was the one making
us feel bad and she doesn't even feel good.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
That's so.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Show yeah yeah, yeah too.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
That So much of the stuff that we think is
depends on that like external it is some is actually
just dictated by the internal. And I think that mastery
is so important.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like the system that we exist in is like one
of the engines that you can give yourself. Like we're
doing these Icon episodes, we keep running into these people
who are fucking miserable, unbelievable, horrible things about themselves. Like
one of the engines for extreme success is like manufactured
discontent with yourself to just be like and I never
(12:10):
forgot that thing that that total stranger said to me
that I might be misinterpreting, but drove me through life
and made me, uh, you know, think that I was
a piece of shit, so that I woke up every
morning and attained like amazing success. And it's like that
like that's what I mean. It's not it's not just like, oh,
don't read magazines, don't look at social media. It's like
(12:32):
the whole system is meant to be like only work
if you are like I need to do more. I
need more. And if I don't buy into that, then
I'm fucking up.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
So self love is radical. It is self love is radical.
Just remember that radical.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, be radical.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Get stoked, dude, your life.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Like I just I'm begging people not to spend their
whole life looking back and realized they spent their whole life.
They wasted so much energy hating themselves. Jack, I'm talking
to you, Okay, Now I love myself.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, you have to know I because.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
All you do, especially you have kids, you pass that
sh it down to your kids as kids. Pats just
a generational trauma, just fucking living forever. And you know,
I was fucked up too because when I was reading
when there's a chapter talking about her grandparents and it's
a fucked up, you know, situation that they had, and
it's like, oh yeah, no, wonder they all. You know,
it's just generational. It's perpetual. It just never ends. But
(13:41):
somebody's got to break the cycle.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
And I'm just begging people to stop having low self
seem Look at what's out there, Look what's on TV.
Like everything is so terrible and not good, and you're
like you're looking at it going like I'm not good enough.
It's like they're not good enough.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
They're yet absolute. Everyone else isn't good enough.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Everyone else isn't going to.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Be a really good No one is good people.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Motherfucker, what's wrong with you? Sit down, look at this show.
Let's watch the show. What's your favorite show's? Man, this
motherfucker got you feeling that? Fuck that?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Uh exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Let us take a quick break and we're gonna come
back and talk about somebody who should I think really
make everybody.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Feel good about themselves?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And that's one, Jeff. I mean, you look at this
guy like he's supposed to be the uber mensh, the best,
the best of us. Think another one.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
You should look at him, look at him about yourself,
looking at him.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Exactly, look at him like we'll be right back, and
we're back. Yeah, let's let's check.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In with the d o J.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Care for the five o'clock Free Insurrectionist giveaway?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Away?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Give it away, it all away now.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't know if I'm a criminal or a win
nor so.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
We talked about the d o j's January sixth sweepstakes
fund that they're setting up in the name of quote
anti weaponization, especially like anyone that was pursued for crimes
they committed in the name of Trump or eligible for
a payout, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The weapon, Like what do they think that means?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Because they're saying it's unfair that you would go after
like former cabinet officials that were a party to trying
to overturn.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Election assaults or some ship. Okay, you were doing there
was some quote marks in that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Oh yeah yeah for them. Again, it's just as because
it's hard to try and wrap your mind around it,
like you have a legal argument for this.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
They fucking don't.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
It's just naked allus everybody else of doing the thing
that they're doing. Right, Yeah, absolutely, And then I'm also like,
can can people who got like, you know, beat up
and bat it up by DHS agents and stuff? And
they can? They also because I felt like political weaponization
to double that, that's not weaponization at all. They just
got hit with a weapon that's very different. So again,
(16:09):
it's corrupt, it's a bad scheme. And Acting Attorney General
Todd Blanche has managed a way to tell the Senate
about this bullshit with a straight face, acting like it's
not total nonsense. So here's Todd Blanche giving a few
answering a few questions for the members of the Senate
who are asking like, hey, like, so do people who
(16:31):
like attack cops?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Get like are they eligible? And I think you can.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Guess what his answer was. Here's Chris van Holland from Maryland.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Well, individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible
for this one. Well, as it makes plain, just let
me know if they're eligible for the fund.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
As as as was made plained yesterday, anybody in this
country is eligible to apply if they believe they were victim.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Weapositions changed.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Only ask you this, are there going to be rules
that say that if you've assaulted a Capitol Hill police
officer or committed a violent crime, you will not be eligible.
Why not make that a rule?
Speaker 12 (17:11):
I expected that. Well, because I'm not one of the
commissioners setting up the rules, I expect a point of
Will Moore of the five members aren't.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So he's like, I'm not making there was like, you're
appointing for the in charge of the whole thing. Yeah,
rules are kind of sticky subject around here, you know,
do we need them?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And one thing that this is making me think about
is what's stopping all of us from applying for this fund, right, Yeah,
I mean that's again he said anybody eligible.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Anybody is eligible.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So I mean, could the people who the Biden administration
arrested for protesting on behalf of the people apply.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
For anybody eligible to apply? The US government took a
lot of Native land? Could I could? I? Can I
get some of that?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah? I mean I feel like Neil Gore Sitch would
find a way to actually side with the moral consistently.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh yeah, Actually I shot him out in my book,
like specifically, like Neil Gorstch would get a front roceeat
at any power on.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
The Yeah, even though you're you're b litering a lot
of other rights, you've meant to be consistent on this point.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh yeah, for sure. It's one of those things where
it's like across the board, like yeah, probably from one
of the most conservative men that ever lived. But that's
something he writes poetry about, like Native people should get
right more.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, James Cameron. So then there was a follow up,
you know, Chris Van Holland rightfully asked like what about
Like there's a guy who was pardoned by Trump for
the insurrection who's actually went on to molest two children.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
What weaponization to me? What about him?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Is he eligible to get money even if he uses
that to maybe buy his the silence of his victims.
Not a great answer here from Todd Blinch.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
Let me go back to this slush fund, because there's
also an individual who, after being pardoned by the president
went on to molest two children, and that person actually
tried to buy the silence of these children by saying
(19:12):
that he would pay them some of the funds that
he was hoping to get.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Your slush fund. Can you commit to.
Speaker 11 (19:20):
Making the rules so that that person is not eligible?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
This is such an easy one, Todd. Todd, such an
easy one, dude, such an easy.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Payout under this fund.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
Well, you're obviously lying in your question because there's no
way that this person committed to that. But the slush fund,
as you call it, which is not didn't. I am,
but I can't commit, mister.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Terry General, don't ever do that again. I am reporting again.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
He said he said on the expectation that he hoped
to get some of the funds from a payout.
Speaker 12 (19:52):
He's he's been said the slush fund, Senator, and that didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Well, you're talking about the slush fund. He's talking about
a general payout engineer on behalf of insurrectional.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So he's referring to it as the slush fund.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
You're talking about the slush fund, which is not the different. Yeah,
it doesn't get it actually gets worse.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Since he's also the acting Attorney General, he was asking
him like, hey man, just back on that whole.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Thing about the Epstein files.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Just just also do we know like, if you're can
you just commit that you're not going to pardon anybody
from the Epstein files? And again, stellar answer, if you
are here to be an absolute hill for the press.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Can I can I ask you to commit that the
Justice Department will not recommend a pardon for anyone named
in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can you repeat that question? I'm sorry, and you.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Commit that the Justice Department, you, the acting Attorney General,
will not recommend a pardon for people named in the
Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
When you say people named, I have no, there's tens
of people names.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, what is a file? It depends on zoom out
what is a file?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I think he should have stuck with his first which
was I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question. Sorry, you're
talking like you got marbles in your I can't understand.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Let's do one word out of time? Looks like you're
out of time? Center?
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Did you?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Could you actually repeat that?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Run that back?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He really just said.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Files the name.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I'm just fucking English right now.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, the financiers, like the crowd behind him is like,
I can't be the only one. Yeah, it does look
like his in this screencap. His face is very much
just like just like, am I right?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
And then again the Epstein files come up once again.
This time I'm he's being asked a question from Senator
Jeff Merkley saying, hey, man, like these files, What's what's
going on? Like, how what's going on with this investigation?
We have all this ship we know, but it feels
like there's no action. And god damn Blanche acts like
(22:17):
he's went full Memento on our asses, being like, huh, what.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
I want to go on to the Epstein investigation?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Is it closed?
Speaker 12 (22:24):
When you say the Epstein investigation, what are you friends
to someday? Well, the.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
Last year or in July that it had closed the
Epstein investigation, So I'm just using their words.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Is it open or closed?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I don't believe the.
Speaker 11 (22:37):
FBI said that.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
Well, I mean, if you're a friend, you're you're head
of the Department of Justice. Epstein investigation open or closed,
But I guess I don't understand what Epstein investigation means.
And that's well, let me put it down for Epstein himself. Yes,
he's dead. Any investigation into potential other bad guys will
always be open if we have evidence that supports in
any way, shape or form, that we can.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Make a case.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
But we don't know, we're not.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, I like that, Like reading between the lines, he's
basically saying, like, that's an investigation, we're not investigating that. Yeah, Yeah,
it's so.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
And it's this is what exactly what Trump wanted, right.
Pam Bondy was still like half a lawyer and kind
of was struggling with just fully just being totally out
there with it.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
He's found an app just a creature.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know, I don't even know what the fuck you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It feels like a Tim Robinson.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'm gonna have to read up on this investigation, dude,
what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
But it's crazy, like this is this is the stonewalling
he's putting up right now it's just truly being like, oh,
I don't know, like he's dead, dude. I don't want
me to say.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, we actually did do an investigation he's dead.
It turns out yeah, side yeah, so uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
This is like this is you know, this is how
this this administration is to continue to evolve, because this
is exactly how Trump is going to protect himself and
others of this class, the Epstein class hit and just
put someone out there who's just so willing to just
just straight up truly act completely ignorant about everything just
to waste people's time.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I mean, I guess what I wonder is like, are
they literally just like putting these guys through improv classes
or something like that to like, here's a reaction whenever
a Democrat asks any question, you know, like yeah, to
what level of people being coached?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I think it's just it's there. They're being coached by
their surrounding environment and their upbringings, where there are no boundaries.
They've been they're always able to get away with shit,
So you just build this skill and be like I
don't know, dude, like.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You know what this guy's talking about.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah, I was drunk and I hit a guy in
my car. No, dude, there's not even Evin is this
nineteen ninety three. There's no way can improve this, dude,
get me out of here, Like there's it's that kind
of shit. I just think Trump has this ability to
also find other people who are fully just invertebrates, who
know how to just slither their way in and out
of shit. Yeah, and he's like, yeah, this guy doesn't
(25:02):
give a fuck, he has no moral scruples. He'll go
up there, straight face to a Senate panel and be.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
It feels like his entire like basis of picking people
is basically like, are you gonna make me look bad
on camera? And it's like it kind of feels like
that guy's just trying to avoid a SoundBite that makes
anybody look bad, but like through doing that he gets
all these weird soundbites where he's just like Epstein investigation.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Yeah, but I think at the end of the day,
like if that blunts the momentum of any investigation, then
that's probably number one. It's just too frustrating to just
keep asking questions of people.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Who are like, how comparatively right?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Like Pam Bondy couldn't handle getting grilled, right, and she
was like the Dow Jones is up five like.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Fifty, like you're like, holy shit.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Like that's when it was sort of untenable for Trump.
I think he doesn't care if the guy's just being
a total asshole about it, because that's.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh yeah, for sure, It's like he wants that. I mean,
I think like Christinoam is such a great example of like,
oh yeah, you you said all this crazy shit and
did all this like horrible monster stuff, but you didn't
get fired until people started being like, hey, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You give me the guy whose last name is a
golden girl. I like him, bench yeah, as a fan
of her work. Well, speaking of invertebrates that are friends
of the Trump administration, ebola is spreading and people are
recalling the time when the Trump administration cuts to foreign
(26:24):
aid and global health organizations happened, and I think Elon
Musk proudly bragged that DOGE accidentally canceled ebola prevention. Yeah,
he then said it was promptly restored, But that turned
out to be bullshit. As was reported at the time, USA,
it's teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight
(26:45):
an ebola outbreak were dismantled, and that was something that
he was just like, well, if you see.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Again, that's a novelty. He grew up just being able
to say no, I put it back, I put it back,
I didn't take it, and then you just fuck off
and if you continue to recavoc on the world.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, what's like wow to me about that is like,
there are so many people who, like the amount of
people that worked in the Apolo Response Team was probably
I don't a blind guess making it up, like at
least several hundred people or something like that, right, And
it's like those people were kind of in that like
you know, uh, Internet startup bubble of like did our
company collapse? Should I like apply for a new job
or something like that. And it's just like it's not
(27:25):
only the it's to me not only the like the
ability to detect this like horrible disease thing. It's also
the like, oh, now you got all these people that
have worked there for decades that are just like should
I go back to college where that's happening?
Speaker 11 (27:37):
You know?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, yeah, Well I was talking about that on yesterday's
Trending because we were talking about a nonprofit that like
looks at children's entertainment to make sure that they aren't
being like advertised to like yeah, and like that the
children's content and like it was a story about a
(27:58):
educational game that is like for every math question the
children are exposed to like four ads. I was just like, man,
it's wild how any sort of like moral work for
something that's like not making money is just people are
just like what why the.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Fuck would you do that?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Are you fucking dumb?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah? How are you gonna get your paper up? How
you get to Lambeau from there?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Well, I mean there's there's stuff like I mean you
could look at like the like the like the defunding
of PBS is a really great example of like I
mean then speaking to somebody who's worked on a couple
of PBS shows, Like, you know, these are people that
like don't make great money, but they like do the
work because they're so passionate about it. And then you know,
they do this work because like, especially in rural areas,
there are a lot of kids that just don't have
(28:46):
access to like you know, like great schooling and stuff
like that, so have something like Sesame Street that's just
teaching kids how to read. Yeah, like that feels like
that should just be like a net good that does
that costs the amount of like one missile, you know
or whatever. Or it's like I'm sure that like this
costs a quarter of what that like instruction slush fund
is for their entire budget for the year. Sure, and
(29:07):
it like legitimately helps people. And it's like we're losing
that and instead it's being replaced by like you know,
Chatgypt or whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yeah. And I think also because all of these people
are so craven and like these single celled organisms that
only think about themselves, they don't understand that so much
of the infrastructure of the world is being held up
by people who like how are doing the work like this?
And so to them, they're like prevention of ebola because
it's just been invisible or actively like advertised as like
(29:36):
look at this asshole.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah exactly was the was a bullet at the insurrection?
It was okay, it was.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
So is it eligible for a payoff slush fund?
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Anything is eligible for a payout?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yes, everything is. Here's this here's that clip of Elon
bragging about the Ebola prevention canceled.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
For example, with CID, one of the things we absolutely
canceled very.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
I think prevention.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
So we were still with the prevention and there was
no interruption.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But we do need to move quickly if we're if
we're to achieve a trillion dollars Yeah, okay, anyway to
achieve a trillion dollars cuts, that's to me. Nonprofits working
in the DRC say that quote basic medical equipment like
masks and hand sanitizers, plus components necessary for testing are
in short supply do to funding cuts. It turns out
(30:32):
they did move aggressively on getting those funding cuts, all right,
And now there's like.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Something like six Americans that have been exposed to tea
bowl there too, So yeah, but that won't matter that one.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
They'd be like, what were they doing in the Congo?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Should be fine?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I mean that six plus the amount of people and
that's three, and that's right. I have a ball. Yeah,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
I wouldn't go to the Congo, not without not without
Amy with her sign language glove to the other apes.
Now thought her her mining laser exactly, that could just
sheer a limb straight off one of those fair lapes
that they had always.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Movie coming out of they had the Odd. I was
telling my fourth grade Park was good.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Is a way to hear Amy want rain Drop?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
That's a Martini.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I just love that.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Like it's so insane that that movie ends with a
fucking laser rifle. But yeah, yeah, and like Eric dude,
They're like, fuck, I think it's it's a laser. So
we got everything. We saw a bunch of apes in
a half.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
God, thank god they did, you know.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Yeah, yeah, Tim Curry great in that movie. Yeah, Hermoka
romania and then uh Delor Linde says, stop eating, say
send me cake.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's a great line. Any other lines, that's what That's
one of the names of Ernie Hudson's crew. There's one
guy called Cohega that he always calls. He's like and
the guy shows up.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, I got other ones.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah, you could keep going.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Okah, should we take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and we're back.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
We're back, and we bag.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And how are we feeling any any Star Wars heads
in here. We're excited about the new Baby Yoda movie
with Grogu.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I watched The Man, I've watched The Mando series I've watched.
I'm pretty through.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Yeah, I do one, I haven't just I don't think
I saw the Obi Wan series. But I as somebody
who grew up on Star Wars and like that was
my entry point to like sci fi kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Yeah, I am one of those people who like, eventually
will consume everything that comes out of George Lucas's brain
or Kennedy's brain.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I'm not in like black hole.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Eventually I will consume everything exactly.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Dude, and then I'm in that test are acting the
fifth dimension? Dude?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Interstellar?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Is awre you talking about you?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Hell yeah, I'm not as locked in. I mean, I've
seen all of the movies, and I saw bro. I
think the last thing I actually watched was like Rogue one.
But uh, anytime, anytime some muppets get some work, I'm in.
You know what.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, you watch Mandalorian. They're great muppets.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
I've only seen a couple of episodes of the Mandalorian.
I would call myself the Bandalorian.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Whenever I have.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Stack there you go so respect to you know, yeah,
two people out there with money, you.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Know, just forget the millionaires that.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah, give me that name I wouldn't call I wouldn't
be the Bandalorian if it wasn't for the thank you, thank.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
You call that it's most important cultural contribution, your your
nickname the Bandalorian. So the big news is that the
review embargo for the Mandalorian and Grogu aka Baby Yoda
the movie, which as how I'm sure people will be
ordering tickets at the theater. Oh yeah, give me one
(34:05):
for Baby Yoda. Baby Yoda huh so opened on Rotten
Tomatoes at ninety percent has since dropped down to sixty percent.
I do have to wonder that that was like all
in one day. I have to wonder if some of
the reviews were like recategorized because of backlash, because I
just want to here's an example of a score that
gets counted in the fresh category in the binary Rotten
(34:29):
Tomato system. So C plus in essential three good enough
TV episodes much together. We also got Hollywood reporter called
it just good enough to make you wish it were better.
Jesus damn, that's fucked. Actually, that's one of the French.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You could have.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Said dog shit and I would have been like, all right,
that's unfair. But being like it's just good enough to
make it make you wish it were better.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Okay, that's still fir Okay, it's a new tomato, but
it tastes bad.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Right, Yeah, it looks red, but the inside of this
is full of dog shit.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
They might look fresh on the outside, but yeah, so
this me like, I don't know, Like there's plenty of
movies that have come out that are you know, not
critical consensus amazing and I enjoy, but it is just
you know, Metacritic where you're the war. The reviews are
(35:24):
like weighted with like, Okay, this is a two and
a half star review, so we'll give it five out
of ten. This is a C plus, so we'll give it,
you know, six out of ten, Like Metacritic is at
fifty five, and I do just once again, it's a
thing where like the worst version of a thing just
(35:45):
became iconic right away with rotten tomatoes, and now the
studios are taking advantage of that and just being like, yeah,
we you can make anything fresh if you want to.
You just make the pull quote quote something kind of
nice sounding.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah, right, And they.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Burnt the fuck out of the fucking fresh the It
used to be real though, right.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Them when it was closer. Yeah, and now it's uh,
how you say bullshit, how you say manipulated?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
And I think in.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Some cases and in some cases it's probably pretty close
to what they say.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
I think, yeah, even based off the reviews or not.
I mean just I remember when it was announced. I
just remember being like, come on, dude, Like it just
felt like that, like Lucasfilm was doing the thing. We're like, dude,
they're loving this TV show. How do we make more
fucking money off of this very narrow fact? And then
it's like a full feature And now it looks like
(36:44):
the reviews are probably there sounding about like what i'd
expect from something that didn't didn't quite necessarily warrant a
full on feature, full feature film. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
The thing that you really want to avoid with a
TV show turned movie is for it to just feel
like another episode of the TV show, but on a
bigger screen, right, with like a longer run time. I
think that's usually where they land. And it's like that
that that's like them saying that this is three TV
(37:14):
episodes smush together is pretty pretty damning. Yeah, right, yeahs
and amazing.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
The only what you could do that if it's a cartoon.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Right right, because they are already used to You're like, yeah, yeah,
I just need more cartoon, give me the two hour
cartoon now. Whereas Yeah, I think that the stakes get
a little bit higher, especially when it's a Star Wars
feature film. Yeah, and I think that's the thing they
choose to fill over there.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
The Mandalorian as a show, I think was able to
be like acceptable as a TV series when it came
out because it just felt like solid enough TV where
it's like, I get it, you're doing like it's like
Western style contained episodes. A guy moses into town, has
a problem to solve, and Scadadle's and he's got like
a cool sidekick. But yeah, that I don't know, man,
(37:59):
I just I hope do we know? Justin I know
you saw it, he said he saw a screening of it.
Does does Grogu fun ship up? Because that's the one
thing I'm really waiting for. I just want to see
baby Yoda just start fucking with force.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
When he turned the team Yoda.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Baby baby Groda has his moments. Yeah, yeah, it's he
you know.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I love the puppeteering, right, That's that's one thing that
everybody uniformly.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Personally, I think it was just a little too long.
Speaker 13 (38:27):
Like towards the latter half of the movie, I was like, uh,
it was. I could really feel the slowing down and
the lack of a like a galaxy. I wanted to
have like galactic consequences, and it feels like a TV
show Small States, right.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I thought it was when the Mandalorian kept saying what else?
Speaker 5 (38:49):
What else?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Just tapping his fingers like this on the.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
What Rogus over there giving the wrap it up sign?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Yeah, Grogy just shrugging, like what the fuck you want
me to say? Bro, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
I'm a fucking baby.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'm a baby baby.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yeah, everybody's that's puppeteering.
Speaker 12 (39:09):
Good.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Not enough steaks, I think. I think if you're gonna
make a movie version of your TV show, you just
got to bring them to modern day like the Brady
Bunch did.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
That's the best example of anything that anyone. Yeah, so
no longer a long time ago. It's in nineteen ninety
eight and Mandala and Grogu touched down and angels.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Gotta raise the steaks somehow.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
Ye when they probably live in like Mount Washington, because yeah,
you know what I'm saying, that's a good neighborhood to
raise a kid.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
Yeah, like it's it's not the most walkable, but we're
okay together. If you just go right down the hill,
you can kind of get to those feelers at water Village.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, flown around it too nice. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Finally we do have to talk about the Daily Wire. Yeah, guys,
we hate to fucking see this, you know, fellow just
media brand out there doing its best to stay afloat
getting tough times out here millions and millions of dollars
from billionaires who want them to spread racism and their
(40:18):
own pro rich person gospel. Anyways, Earlier this month, The
Daily Wire announced a new round of layoffs, which not
that surprising considering the company is seemingly completely falling apart.
The website has reportedly become one of the great traffic
losers in conservative media. The YouTube channel has lost eighty
(40:40):
thousand subscribers this year alone.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it looks it looks really daunting
when you like look up like Social Blade, which is
sort of that YouTube analytic website, and you can just
see the line just like fall off a cliffs. Suddenly,
over the last year, some.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Of the videos that they still have over three million subscribers,
but some of the videos have less than ten thousand views,
and a lot of the people clicking on these videos
seem to be doing so just to roast how low
the viewcounts are in the comments. One researcher called the
Daily wires disappearing audience the steepest decline of any major
political channel in twenty twenty six. We just had the story.
(41:21):
We just covered the story called the feed is Fake
on Monday. This is a story where somebody works in
digital marketing is like everything is being inflated by social
media firms that are just like churning out clips of
content and artificially getting them attention. And one thing we
(41:43):
do know about the Daily Wires that like from the start,
they have been funded by wealthy conservatives, right, And I
do wonder if you're losing your billionaires support at this time,
like is is what we're seeing them, just like losing
all the ability to like buy and buy and buy
(42:05):
traffic and attention, and like suddenly you're going to appear
to lose popularity because you're losing the part of your
support that was artificial in the first place.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Yeah, I mean there's a few things right, because they
were first became huge because of Facebook News and the
way then Facebook News, you know how like every like
eight years, Facebook's like, oh yeah, we were.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Counting that way wrong. All right, here's the new numbers,
and people.
Speaker 5 (42:31):
Like, fuck, my entire business was built on the idea
that someone passively scrolling past.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Your video was of you.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
They changed like the algorithms for the news for Facebook News,
and that led to like that was like sort of
the first thing that like began fucking up their sort
of like visibility issue. And I think that that, along
with many other things, just sort of began to be
like just chipping away poor business decisions, the political fracturing,
(42:59):
and just and terrible, terrible management.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
It sounds like yeah, but yeah, I mean some people
are pointing to a quote Mega Vibe shift specifically tied
to Ben Shapiro support for Israel and the war in Iran.
That's one way of saying, like Mega has become even
more anti Semitic, right they started out.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Yeah, rather than suddenly caring about Palestinian people, Right, Yeah,
that's not what's happening. It doesn't seem like no, no,
And I think another point on this too, right, is
they fired Candice Owens, who was one of their biggest
earners on that platform. And first of all, and also
she still has a documentary still like on the channel,
(43:41):
so like they're still not able to like, they're like,
she still brings eyes to our terrible streaming service, so
let's not get rid of that. But when she got
ousted because she was way too out there with her
anti semitism slash faux outrage over Gaza, they basically made
one of the pettiest spiteful figures on the internet, puts
you on their ops list, and that also began to
(44:04):
really fuck up the perception because now you have Candice Owens,
who she's like, she reads the room well enough where
she's like, okay, so the vibes are a little more
like Nazi coated right now, So like, let me sidle
up to Nick Fuintes and things like that, and now
we can be the people who'd be like man Daily Wires,
fucking toast man like they're right, they're fucking dated. Look
at them, they're defending Trump and a lot of America
(44:26):
first people, you know, racists like, have been very quick
to be like that is true.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
I don't like I don't like what the Daily Wires
put it down.
Speaker 9 (44:35):
I do.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
So all of these things are true and would be
how the company failed. Like you know, this is how
companies fail. The mood shifts, they fire some of their
biggest draws and like get in the fuse, but they
the fuck up is actually much bigger and more like
(44:57):
a historic a historic, oh first step on their part.
A key element in their downfall is Merlin, the character
of Lore, because that that was who their co CEO,
Jeremy Boring, was obsessed with and was like, I'm going
to do a big budget adaptation of the pen dragon
(45:19):
Cycle fantasy book series.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
The famous gen dragon Cycle.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Is it really no?
Speaker 4 (45:26):
I don't know who the I don't even when they said, I'm.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
Like who, all right?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
So they positioned the show as a more Christian Game
of Thrones, even though the main thing that people liked
about Game of Thrones was the gratuitous frontal nudity. Yeah,
but so I just want to some information about the
the budget on this, So they blew past a twenty
twenty four release date. Finally came out of March twenty
(45:51):
twenty sixth did not was not aware of that personally,
and I was kind of eagerly awaiting it because I
wanted to make fun of it. Not enough outlets reviewed
the series to generate a rotten Tomato score, that's how
much attention it got. So this dumb show that nobody
watched costs. It was budgeted at seven figures per episode,
(46:12):
so that's over at least over a million dollars. But
you know, if they're reporting it, seven figures per episode
is like nine million, nine ninety ninety nine dollars probably,
and Boring ended up allegedly spending nearly three times what
they had green like Jesus, and eventually quote costs became
a burden on the company.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
I mean that's the only thing too.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
It's like they just thought they were they got too
popping because they were such a fucking huge, huge, like
figure in the conservative media space that I think they
were like, that's it, because again it's the Steve Bannon
thing of like, you know, politics is downstream of culture,
so try and affect culture, try and make the content
that is going to nudge people into even more xenophobia
(46:57):
and white nationalism, et cetera. And yeah, they thought they could,
they were gonna somehow capture hearts and minds of their
streaming platform with a multimillion dollar fantasy series, and it's
just like, who did you think? What did you think
was gonna happen? Exact?
Speaker 8 (47:11):
Listen as a as a Washington Wizards fan, I respect
the attempt, right, but I've also gone down this road before.
You could end up you could end up wasting millions
trying to make Wizards work. Also, if you want to
do Christian magic th C. S. Lewis Man, you got
the fucking lion Witch and the Wardrobe right there. All
you made is a guy in a fucking lion costume.
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You don't even need to pay for effect.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Right, that's what the movie adaptation, Lion Wish and the
Wardrobe is just a guy they just hired, the same
guy from Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Right, Yeah, that's what I thought it.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
Please like and review the show. If you like the show,
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
talk to you Monday. Bye.
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeit Ghost. 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
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the Weekly Zeit Ghost. What is something from your search
history that is revealing about.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Who you are?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I very recently searched copyright law plus UK. M oh,
we're trying to get the copyright law changed in New Zealand.
So pretty much every other English speaking country in the
world has a carve out in the copyright laws to
protect people for satire and parody, like you guys have
got it as part of your first Amendment. I think
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UK it's got, Australia's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
D Al Carvel, Yeah, we have weird Al.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
And we don't have it in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So they're currently is no like legal protection for comedians
satirist commentators.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
They can they can get our ass through the copyright
law at the moment.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
If for making a joke jokes are illegal in New Zealand, yeah,
they are currently And.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Welcome to the brother oh Man.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's kind of a fascinating thing because there's this the
way our parliament works is there's a couple of different
ways that laws can get mooted to get voted on,
and one of them is we have literally a biscuit
tin that MPs can put ideas for new laws in,
and every now and then we'll just pluck one of
them out and then we'll vote on it.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
And this got plucked out of the biscuits.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
This is not a real country and not real but
like that's not real either.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
It's a real biscuit tin that exists.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
It's at that's so funny because like in Indian in India,
if you reach into the parliamentary biscuit tin, you pull
out a sewing kit.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
So that's that's the only thing nobody's ever kept. Biscuits
and a biscuit tins. All yeah, and sorry, parliamentary ideas.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah yeah, cookie, he said, biscuits, cookies. Cookie.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Let me let me translate from my American family. So
I'm gonna I've I've put my name down to do
an oral submission to Parliament for the first time either,
so that'll be interesting if I get asked to do that.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The tune of Michael Jackson's beat.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It, I was going to do another Kendrick verse.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Actually, but there you go.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, Kendrick might come from my ass.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
You predict it.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
This is so weird to know that the concept of
weird Awl is not allowed in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
People weird Al tapes on the streets of New Zealand.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Yeah, he's like illegal.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
There is weird al known in New Zealand. Does he beloved?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's just?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Is he just regular al?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
I think, well he does.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
There doesn't New zend energy to the dude.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think, oh, because we're like querky and nice, and
I think.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That's that he's the quirkiest and nicest.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I think I knew everything, Yeah, definitely. I knew all
of the words to the Star Wars American Pie.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Here Anakin guy.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, yeah, I knew all the works there before I
was like twelve, I think, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
And I'm not even a Star Wars guy.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
I never have been one of the kids in my
fourth grade class. His talent for the talent show was
he just sat at a table eating things to eat it.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Instead of be it. That's great until he like made
himself sick.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Basically, weird L is going to be a sad one.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Don't know why he do that. Oh my god, he.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Witnessed my invention very sad one. I like, you didn't
even think about.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
That as a possibility.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
It might not be Actually he might be immortal. There's
there's just still yeah, hopefully so many songs left. He's like,
I you know, when I was going through my like
twenties and I was like comedy snobbo was like, we
get it. And now that I have kids who are
obsessed with weird al, I'm like, what are you waiting for?
You should be dropping an album every three months? Man,
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Just like.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
You're like a Rihanna fan, You're like, where the fuck
is the album?
Speaker 8 (04:25):
Weird?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Search history that's revealing about who you are?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So something or my search in history that reveals who
I am?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Uh? What what's Daria Morgendorf for from MTV's Daria up
to like in real life or so no, no, okay, it was.
It was a woman named Tracy Grandstad. She was like
a writer for a lot of MTV shows in the
nineties and basically like MTV animation was just like really
cheap at the time. Yeah, So, like Mike Judge voiced
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pretty much every character on Pevis and butt Head, not
because like you wanted to, but just to save money.
But they just like needed somebody to voice like a
female character. And they were like, Tracy, you're in the office,
get in there, you know. And she does a great job.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Yeah, her performance is like so dead.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, well I think that's just how she talks. Yeah,
but yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So she does a great job talking how she talks. Yeah,
for sure, for sure, that's whole great. Oh yeah, that's
a voice actor. I have one mode and that mode
is me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah. So it was at first it was just like
I guess, sort of what this who voiced that character
and all that stuff. It turns out that in the
mid two thousands she just became like an exec at
Comedy Central and now she's like still a very high
level like vice president at Comedy Central, And like that
kind of got me thinking about like I like I
get flown out to like talk to a lot of
like schools and kids and stuff, and they were like
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these kids at this one school a little bit ago
that asked me like, oh, I have you ever felt
like starstruck talking to celebrity? And like usually the answer
is no, but like if I was on a call
and I heard Daria's voice. Yeah, I like kind of die.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Yeah, you're like wait, what the fuck?
Speaker 9 (05:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Would you be like, I'm sorry, this is going to
sound crazy. Are you?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Could you say right again?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Because like, hey, can you say the sentence missedic spiral?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Comedy Central had interesting taste, like they they would hire
talented people like frequent guest Andrew t wasn't a Comedy Central.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Exec for a little while.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Really, the head of Comedy Central was the guy who
Kent Alterman, the guy who directed semipro Wow, was like
the lead of Comney Central for like a long time.
They were just like, I don't know, are you funny
and like creative?
Speaker 8 (06:39):
Right?
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Good?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You're an executive now, I mean.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
That's kind of a that's a good business model.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I know, we're running a comedy company when they were
doing just fucking killing it.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is all about like having a
good eye for comedy.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
So where did you get your mbaye? Harvard Finance got it?
The numbers are hilarious. Did you read the Lamdoon the what.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Question?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What is something that you think is two sides are
the same point? You're underrated and overrated side two points coins.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Okay, I think that it's underrated to have high self esteem.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
It's over ready to have low self esteem.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
People.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
I don't.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
I can't deal with anybody anymore because people. I can't
connect with people anymore because everyone has fucking low self esteem.
Everyone I talk to hates their body, hates their whatever,
hates where they're at. Hit And I'm like, I can't
deal with this. Do you guys need to have some
fucking fucking stand up straight puff you're dude? Did you
see the people right in this country? Do you see
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that they're walking proud and tall and ignorant as hell
and ugly it's all fuck yeah, I know women like
the most interesting, beautiful, talented women that are just like,
I don't know. I just don't think I can do this.
I just don't out my bitch, are you insane?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Gestures broadly around?
Speaker 10 (08:04):
Look at this.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Look who's on stage right now wiping over it?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yeah, he's tipping over and you fucking don't like your boobs?
Get out here, bitch?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
What are you talking about? I'm just I'm just tired
of people having low self esteem.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
What's your biggest what's what what's your tip, Because Barcela,
you have an incredible amount of self assuredness. What do
you what's the what's the what's the what's you know?
Be robins real quick for me.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Don't wait until your oldest fuck to realize that you
wasted your whole life worrying about the dump shit, worrying
about the stupidest ship, worrying about because every woman I
talked to, not me, but everyone when I talk to
is like, oh my.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
God, I look at old pictures and I'm like, I'll
never be that thin again.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
I'm like, yeah, bitch, so love the body today because
in ten years you're also not going to look like
how you look today. So I don't understand why you're
so hard on yourself right now. And if also, if
you want look better, put a little effort, just make
a little make a little make that change, you know.
And I'm just really frustrated that people really are like spending.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I just read Christina Applegate's Birophy.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
You guys have the Applegate Oh yeah, comedy, Legend, TV
movie comedy, legon okay a Lodius Kelly Bundy loved her
on the Sweetest Thing Anchorman Dead to Me I mean,
she's an icon.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Don't tell mom the babysitters that get out of here.
I loved everything I read her book.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
The bitch had low self esteem her whole fucking life,
the whole fucking time around here.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Like she was Christina Apple, the Christine Apple, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
The Kelly Bundy, the like. I mean to read how
bad her self esteem was, and then to get to
where she is now, she has MS and it's totally
fucked her up. She's she's on these steroids that have
fucked her. These her her words, not mine, but she's
fucked up her face, in her body, it's how she sees.
And now she's just upset that she spent her whole
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whole life feeling bad and ugly, and now she's her
face has changed because of the steroids, and now she's like,
I don't.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
Even look like myself. I was so mean to that
other version.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah, now the remaining life that I have, I don't
even look like myself and I hate the way that
I look now. And it's like, bitch, you will never
relax if you fucking spend your whole life having low
self esteem.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I think there's NonStop symbols coming at like I definitely
sympathize with it. I think there's NonStop symbols coming at
us that like tell us that our discomfort is our fault,
and like it that there's like something spiritually wrong with
you if you aren't like doing great, and so like,
I think people are existing in a system that like
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reinforces the low self esteem. And also I sympathize with
you because it's got to be hard to not very
fun to bully people who have low self esteem. And
there is I know, I fucking suck, But.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
That's the thing is that like if the system is
telling you that you ain't shit, but also the system
needs you to pay your tag, so the system needs
you to provide babies. The system needs you to.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Provide so much for our society.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah, like you have value, you are value even Yeah
you have value even a shit shit, And I hear
what you're saying, Like I get it that it is
we're living in a tough, tough world and everyone is
telling you how I mean. But I guess that's the
other fuck up thing, especially when I think abou Christine
applicate because I'm like, she was Kelly Bundy, she was
the standard, so it was like I'm fat, you know,
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Like that's crazy to me. She was the one making
us feel bad and she doesn't even feel good.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
That's so.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Show yeah yeah, yeah too.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
That So much of the stuff that we think is
depends on that like external it is some is actually
just dictated by the internal. And I think that mastery
is so important.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Like the system that we exist in is like one
of the engines that you can give yourself. Like we're
doing these Icon episodes, we keep running into these people
who are fucking miserable, unbelievable, horrible things about themselves. Like
one of the engines for extreme success is like manufactured
discontent with yourself to just be like and I never
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forgot that thing that that total stranger said to me
that I might be misinterpreting, but drove me through life
and made me, uh, you know, think that I was
a piece of shit, so that I woke up every
morning and attained like amazing success. And it's like that
like that's what I mean. It's not it's not just like, oh,
don't read magazines, don't look at social media. It's like
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the whole system is meant to be like only work
if you are like I need to do more. I
need more. And if I don't buy into that, then
I'm fucking up.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
So self love is radical. It is self love is radical.
Just remember that radical.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, be radical.
Speaker 10 (12:56):
Get stoked, dude, your life.
Speaker 7 (12:59):
Like I just I'm begging people not to spend their
whole life looking back and realized they spent their whole life.
They wasted so much energy hating themselves. Jack, I'm talking
to you, Okay, Now I love myself.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, you have to know I because.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
All you do, especially you have kids, you pass that
sh it down to your kids as kids. Pats just
a generational trauma, just fucking living forever. And you know,
I was fucked up too because when I was reading
when there's a chapter talking about her grandparents and it's
a fucked up, you know, situation that they had, and
it's like, oh yeah, no, wonder they all. You know,
it's just generational. It's perpetual. It just never ends. But
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somebody's got to break the cycle.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
And I'm just begging people to stop having low self
seem Look at what's out there, Look what's on TV.
Like everything is so terrible and not good, and you're
like you're looking at it going like I'm not good enough.
It's like they're not good enough.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
They're yet absolute. Everyone else isn't good enough.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Everyone else isn't going to.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Be a really good No one is good people.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Motherfucker, what's wrong with you? Sit down, look at this show.
Let's watch the show. What's your favorite show's? Man, this
motherfucker got you feeling that? Fuck that?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Uh exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Let us take a quick break and we're gonna come
back and talk about somebody who should I think really
make everybody.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Feel good about themselves?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And that's one, Jeff. I mean, you look at this
guy like he's supposed to be the uber mensh, the best,
the best of us. Think another one.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
You should look at him, look at him about yourself,
looking at him.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Exactly, look at him like we'll be right back, and
we're back. Yeah, let's let's check.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In with the d o J.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Care for the five o'clock Free Insurrectionist giveaway?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Away?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Give it away, it all away now.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
I don't know if I'm a criminal or a win
nor so.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
We talked about the d o j's January sixth sweepstakes
fund that they're setting up in the name of quote
anti weaponization, especially like anyone that was pursued for crimes
they committed in the name of Trump or eligible for
a payout, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
The weapon, Like what do they think that means?
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Because they're saying it's unfair that you would go after
like former cabinet officials that were a party to trying
to overturn.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Election assaults or some ship. Okay, you were doing there
was some quote marks in that.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Oh yeah yeah for them. Again, it's just as because
it's hard to try and wrap your mind around it,
like you have a legal argument for this.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
They fucking don't.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
It's just naked allus everybody else of doing the thing
that they're doing. Right, Yeah, absolutely, And then I'm also like,
can can people who got like, you know, beat up
and bat it up by DHS agents and stuff? And
they can? They also because I felt like political weaponization
to double that, that's not weaponization at all. They just
got hit with a weapon that's very different. So again,
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it's corrupt, it's a bad scheme. And Acting Attorney General
Todd Blanche has managed a way to tell the Senate
about this bullshit with a straight face, acting like it's
not total nonsense. So here's Todd Blanche giving a few
answering a few questions for the members of the Senate
who are asking like, hey, like, so do people who
(16:31):
like attack cops?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Get like are they eligible? And I think you can.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Guess what his answer was. Here's Chris van Holland from Maryland.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Well, individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible
for this one. Well, as it makes plain, just let
me know if they're eligible for the fund.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
As as as was made plained yesterday, anybody in this
country is eligible to apply if they believe they were victim.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
Weapositions changed.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Only ask you this, are there going to be rules
that say that if you've assaulted a Capitol Hill police
officer or committed a violent crime, you will not be eligible.
Why not make that a rule?
Speaker 12 (17:11):
I expected that. Well, because I'm not one of the
commissioners setting up the rules, I expect a point of
Will Moore of the five members aren't.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
So he's like, I'm not making there was like, you're
appointing for the in charge of the whole thing. Yeah,
rules are kind of sticky subject around here, you know,
do we need them?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And one thing that this is making me think about
is what's stopping all of us from applying for this fund, right, Yeah,
I mean that's again he said anybody eligible.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Anybody is eligible.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
So I mean, could the people who the Biden administration
arrested for protesting on behalf of the people apply.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
For anybody eligible to apply? The US government took a
lot of Native land? Could I could? I? Can I
get some of that?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah? I mean I feel like Neil Gore Sitch would
find a way to actually side with the moral consistently.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh yeah, Actually I shot him out in my book,
like specifically, like Neil Gorstch would get a front roceeat
at any power on.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
The Yeah, even though you're you're b litering a lot
of other rights, you've meant to be consistent on this point.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Oh yeah, for sure. It's one of those things where
it's like across the board, like yeah, probably from one
of the most conservative men that ever lived. But that's
something he writes poetry about, like Native people should get
right more.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, James Cameron. So then there was a follow up,
you know, Chris Van Holland rightfully asked like what about
Like there's a guy who was pardoned by Trump for
the insurrection who's actually went on to molest two children.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
What weaponization to me? What about him?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Is he eligible to get money even if he uses
that to maybe buy his the silence of his victims.
Not a great answer here from Todd Blinch.
Speaker 11 (18:52):
Let me go back to this slush fund, because there's
also an individual who, after being pardoned by the president
went on to molest two children, and that person actually
tried to buy the silence of these children by saying
(19:12):
that he would pay them some of the funds that
he was hoping to get.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Your slush fund. Can you commit to.
Speaker 11 (19:20):
Making the rules so that that person is not eligible?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
This is such an easy one, Todd. Todd, such an
easy one, dude, such an easy.
Speaker 11 (19:29):
Payout under this fund.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
Well, you're obviously lying in your question because there's no
way that this person committed to that. But the slush fund,
as you call it, which is not didn't. I am,
but I can't commit, mister.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Terry General, don't ever do that again. I am reporting again.
Speaker 11 (19:46):
He said he said on the expectation that he hoped
to get some of the funds from a payout.
Speaker 12 (19:52):
He's he's been said the slush fund, Senator, and that didn't.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Well, you're talking about the slush fund. He's talking about
a general payout engineer on behalf of insurrectional.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
So he's referring to it as the slush fund.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
You're talking about the slush fund, which is not the different. Yeah,
it doesn't get it actually gets worse.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Since he's also the acting Attorney General, he was asking
him like, hey man, just back on that whole.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Thing about the Epstein files.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Just just also do we know like, if you're can
you just commit that you're not going to pardon anybody
from the Epstein files? And again, stellar answer, if you
are here to be an absolute hill for the press.
Speaker 11 (20:36):
Can I can I ask you to commit that the
Justice Department will not recommend a pardon for anyone named
in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can you repeat that question? I'm sorry, and you.
Speaker 11 (20:51):
Commit that the Justice Department, you, the acting Attorney General,
will not recommend a pardon for people named in the
Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
When you say people named, I have no, there's tens
of people names.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah, what is a file? It depends on zoom out
what is a file?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
I think he should have stuck with his first which
was I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question. Sorry, you're
talking like you got marbles in your I can't understand.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Let's do one word out of time? Looks like you're
out of time? Center?
Speaker 12 (21:29):
Did you?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Could you actually repeat that?
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Run that back?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
He really just said.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Files the name.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I'm just fucking English right now.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, the financiers, like the crowd behind him is like,
I can't be the only one. Yeah, it does look
like his in this screencap. His face is very much
just like just like, am I right?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
It's just crazy.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
And then again the Epstein files come up once again.
This time I'm he's being asked a question from Senator
Jeff Merkley saying, hey, man, like these files, What's what's
going on? Like, how what's going on with this investigation?
We have all this ship we know, but it feels
like there's no action. And god damn Blanche acts like
(22:17):
he's went full Memento on our asses, being like, huh, what.
Speaker 12 (22:22):
I want to go on to the Epstein investigation?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Is it closed?
Speaker 12 (22:24):
When you say the Epstein investigation, what are you friends
to someday? Well, the.
Speaker 11 (22:31):
Last year or in July that it had closed the
Epstein investigation, So I'm just using their words.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Is it open or closed?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
I don't believe the.
Speaker 11 (22:37):
FBI said that.
Speaker 12 (22:41):
Well, I mean, if you're a friend, you're you're head
of the Department of Justice. Epstein investigation open or closed,
But I guess I don't understand what Epstein investigation means.
And that's well, let me put it down for Epstein himself. Yes,
he's dead. Any investigation into potential other bad guys will
always be open if we have evidence that supports in
any way, shape or form, that we can.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Make a case.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
But we don't know, we're not.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, I like that, Like reading between the lines, he's
basically saying, like, that's an investigation, we're not investigating that. Yeah, Yeah,
it's so.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
And it's this is what exactly what Trump wanted, right.
Pam Bondy was still like half a lawyer and kind
of was struggling with just fully just being totally out
there with it.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
He's found an app just a creature.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
You know, I don't even know what the fuck you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
It feels like a Tim Robinson.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
I'm gonna have to read up on this investigation, dude,
what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
But it's crazy, like this is this is the stonewalling
he's putting up right now it's just truly being like, oh,
I don't know, like he's dead, dude. I don't want
me to say.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Yeah, yeah, we actually did do an investigation he's dead.
It turns out yeah, side yeah, so uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
This is like this is you know, this is how
this this administration is to continue to evolve, because this
is exactly how Trump is going to protect himself and
others of this class, the Epstein class hit and just
put someone out there who's just so willing to just
just straight up truly act completely ignorant about everything just
to waste people's time.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I mean, I guess what I wonder is like, are
they literally just like putting these guys through improv classes
or something like that to like, here's a reaction whenever
a Democrat asks any question, you know, like yeah, to
what level of people being coached?
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I think it's just it's there. They're being coached by
their surrounding environment and their upbringings, where there are no boundaries.
They've been they're always able to get away with shit,
So you just build this skill and be like I
don't know, dude, like.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
You know what this guy's talking about.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Yeah, I was drunk and I hit a guy in
my car. No, dude, there's not even Evin is this
nineteen ninety three. There's no way can improve this, dude,
get me out of here, Like there's it's that kind
of shit. I just think Trump has this ability to
also find other people who are fully just invertebrates, who
know how to just slither their way in and out
of shit. Yeah, and he's like, yeah, this guy doesn't
(25:02):
give a fuck, he has no moral scruples. He'll go
up there, straight face to a Senate panel and be.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Like, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
It feels like his entire like basis of picking people
is basically like, are you gonna make me look bad
on camera? And it's like it kind of feels like
that guy's just trying to avoid a SoundBite that makes
anybody look bad, but like through doing that he gets
all these weird soundbites where he's just like Epstein investigation.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Yeah, but I think at the end of the day,
like if that blunts the momentum of any investigation, then
that's probably number one. It's just too frustrating to just
keep asking questions of people.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Who are like, how comparatively right?
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Like Pam Bondy couldn't handle getting grilled, right, and she
was like the Dow Jones is up five like.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Fifty, like you're like, holy shit.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Like that's when it was sort of untenable for Trump.
I think he doesn't care if the guy's just being
a total asshole about it, because that's.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Oh yeah, for sure, It's like he wants that. I mean,
I think like Christinoam is such a great example of like,
oh yeah, you you said all this crazy shit and
did all this like horrible monster stuff, but you didn't
get fired until people started being like, hey, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
You give me the guy whose last name is a
golden girl. I like him, bench yeah, as a fan
of her work. Well, speaking of invertebrates that are friends
of the Trump administration, ebola is spreading and people are
recalling the time when the Trump administration cuts to foreign
(26:24):
aid and global health organizations happened, and I think Elon
Musk proudly bragged that DOGE accidentally canceled ebola prevention. Yeah,
he then said it was promptly restored, But that turned
out to be bullshit. As was reported at the time, USA,
it's teams and contractors that would be deployed to fight
(26:45):
an ebola outbreak were dismantled, and that was something that
he was just like, well, if you see.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Again, that's a novelty. He grew up just being able
to say no, I put it back, I put it back,
I didn't take it, and then you just fuck off
and if you continue to recavoc on the world.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, what's like wow to me about that is like,
there are so many people who, like the amount of
people that worked in the Apolo Response Team was probably
I don't a blind guess making it up, like at
least several hundred people or something like that, right, And
it's like those people were kind of in that like
you know, uh, Internet startup bubble of like did our
company collapse? Should I like apply for a new job
or something like that. And it's just like it's not
(27:25):
only the it's to me not only the like the
ability to detect this like horrible disease thing. It's also
the like, oh, now you got all these people that
have worked there for decades that are just like should
I go back to college where that's happening?
Speaker 11 (27:37):
You know?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Yeah, yeah, Well I was talking about that on yesterday's
Trending because we were talking about a nonprofit that like
looks at children's entertainment to make sure that they aren't
being like advertised to like yeah, and like that the
children's content and like it was a story about a
(27:58):
educational game that is like for every math question the
children are exposed to like four ads. I was just like, man,
it's wild how any sort of like moral work for
something that's like not making money is just people are
just like what why the.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Fuck would you do that?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Are you fucking dumb?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah? How are you gonna get your paper up? How
you get to Lambeau from there?
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (28:25):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Well, I mean there's there's stuff like I mean you
could look at like the like the like the defunding
of PBS is a really great example of like I
mean then speaking to somebody who's worked on a couple
of PBS shows, Like, you know, these are people that
like don't make great money, but they like do the
work because they're so passionate about it. And then you know,
they do this work because like, especially in rural areas,
there are a lot of kids that just don't have
(28:46):
access to like you know, like great schooling and stuff
like that, so have something like Sesame Street that's just
teaching kids how to read. Yeah, like that feels like
that should just be like a net good that does
that costs the amount of like one missile, you know
or whatever. Or it's like I'm sure that like this
costs a quarter of what that like instruction slush fund
is for their entire budget for the year. Sure, and
(29:07):
it like legitimately helps people. And it's like we're losing
that and instead it's being replaced by like you know,
Chatgypt or whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Yeah. And I think also because all of these people
are so craven and like these single celled organisms that
only think about themselves, they don't understand that so much
of the infrastructure of the world is being held up
by people who like how are doing the work like this?
And so to them, they're like prevention of ebola because
it's just been invisible or actively like advertised as like
(29:36):
look at this asshole.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah exactly was the was a bullet at the insurrection?
It was okay, it was.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
So is it eligible for a payoff slush fund?
Speaker 10 (29:45):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Anything is eligible for a payout?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yes, everything is. Here's this here's that clip of Elon
bragging about the Ebola prevention canceled.
Speaker 8 (29:55):
For example, with CID, one of the things we absolutely
canceled very.
Speaker 12 (30:02):
I think prevention.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
So we were still with the prevention and there was
no interruption.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But we do need to move quickly if we're if
we're to achieve a trillion dollars Yeah, okay, anyway to
achieve a trillion dollars cuts, that's to me. Nonprofits working
in the DRC say that quote basic medical equipment like
masks and hand sanitizers, plus components necessary for testing are
in short supply do to funding cuts. It turns out
(30:32):
they did move aggressively on getting those funding cuts, all right,
And now there's like.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Something like six Americans that have been exposed to tea
bowl there too, So yeah, but that won't matter that one.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
They'd be like, what were they doing in the Congo?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Should be fine?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I mean that six plus the amount of people and
that's three, and that's right. I have a ball. Yeah,
I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
I wouldn't go to the Congo, not without not without
Amy with her sign language glove to the other apes.
Now thought her her mining laser exactly, that could just
sheer a limb straight off one of those fair lapes
that they had always.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Movie coming out of they had the Odd. I was
telling my fourth grade Park was good.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
Is a way to hear Amy want rain Drop?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
That's a Martini.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I just love that.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Like it's so insane that that movie ends with a
fucking laser rifle. But yeah, yeah, and like Eric dude,
They're like, fuck, I think it's it's a laser. So
we got everything. We saw a bunch of apes in
a half.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
God, thank god they did, you know.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Yeah, yeah, Tim Curry great in that movie. Yeah, Hermoka
romania and then uh Delor Linde says, stop eating, say
send me cake.
Speaker 5 (31:48):
It's a great line. Any other lines, that's what That's
one of the names of Ernie Hudson's crew. There's one
guy called Cohega that he always calls. He's like and
the guy shows up.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, I got other ones.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah, you could keep going.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Okah, should we take a quick break.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and we're back.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
We're back, and we bag.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
And how are we feeling any any Star Wars heads
in here. We're excited about the new Baby Yoda movie
with Grogu.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
I watched The Man, I've watched The Mando series I've watched.
I'm pretty through.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Yeah, I do one, I haven't just I don't think
I saw the Obi Wan series. But I as somebody
who grew up on Star Wars and like that was
my entry point to like sci fi kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Yeah, I am one of those people who like, eventually
will consume everything that comes out of George Lucas's brain
or Kennedy's brain.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
I'm not in like black hole.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Eventually I will consume everything exactly.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Dude, and then I'm in that test are acting the
fifth dimension? Dude?
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Interstellar?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Is awre you talking about you?
Speaker 4 (33:07):
That's right?
Speaker 8 (33:08):
Hell yeah, I'm not as locked in. I mean, I've
seen all of the movies, and I saw bro. I
think the last thing I actually watched was like Rogue one.
But uh, anytime, anytime some muppets get some work, I'm in.
You know what.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, you watch Mandalorian. They're great muppets.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
I've only seen a couple of episodes of the Mandalorian.
I would call myself the Bandalorian.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Whenever I have.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Stack there you go so respect to you know, yeah,
two people out there with money, you.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Know, just forget the millionaires that.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Yeah, give me that name I wouldn't call I wouldn't
be the Bandalorian if it wasn't for the thank you, thank.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
You call that it's most important cultural contribution, your your
nickname the Bandalorian. So the big news is that the
review embargo for the Mandalorian and Grogu aka Baby Yoda
the movie, which as how I'm sure people will be
ordering tickets at the theater. Oh yeah, give me one
(34:05):
for Baby Yoda. Baby Yoda huh so opened on Rotten
Tomatoes at ninety percent has since dropped down to sixty percent.
I do have to wonder that that was like all
in one day. I have to wonder if some of
the reviews were like recategorized because of backlash, because I
just want to here's an example of a score that
gets counted in the fresh category in the binary Rotten
(34:29):
Tomato system. So C plus in essential three good enough
TV episodes much together. We also got Hollywood reporter called
it just good enough to make you wish it were better.
Jesus damn, that's fucked. Actually, that's one of the French.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
You could have.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Said dog shit and I would have been like, all right,
that's unfair. But being like it's just good enough to
make it make you wish it were better.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
Okay, that's still fir Okay, it's a new tomato, but
it tastes bad.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Right, Yeah, it looks red, but the inside of this
is full of dog shit.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
They might look fresh on the outside, but yeah, so
this me like, I don't know, Like there's plenty of
movies that have come out that are you know, not
critical consensus amazing and I enjoy, but it is just
you know, Metacritic where you're the war. The reviews are
(35:24):
like weighted with like, Okay, this is a two and
a half star review, so we'll give it five out
of ten. This is a C plus, so we'll give it,
you know, six out of ten, Like Metacritic is at
fifty five, and I do just once again, it's a
thing where like the worst version of a thing just
(35:45):
became iconic right away with rotten tomatoes, and now the
studios are taking advantage of that and just being like, yeah,
we you can make anything fresh if you want to.
You just make the pull quote quote something kind of
nice sounding.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah, right, And they.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Burnt the fuck out of the fucking fresh the It
used to be real though, right.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Them when it was closer. Yeah, and now it's uh,
how you say bullshit, how you say manipulated?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
And I think in.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Some cases and in some cases it's probably pretty close
to what they say.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
I think, yeah, even based off the reviews or not.
I mean just I remember when it was announced. I
just remember being like, come on, dude, Like it just
felt like that, like Lucasfilm was doing the thing. We're like, dude,
they're loving this TV show. How do we make more
fucking money off of this very narrow fact? And then
it's like a full feature And now it looks like
(36:44):
the reviews are probably there sounding about like what i'd
expect from something that didn't didn't quite necessarily warrant a
full on feature, full feature film. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
The thing that you really want to avoid with a
TV show turned movie is for it to just feel
like another episode of the TV show, but on a
bigger screen, right, with like a longer run time. I
think that's usually where they land. And it's like that
that that's like them saying that this is three TV
(37:14):
episodes smush together is pretty pretty damning. Yeah, right, yeahs
and amazing.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
The only what you could do that if it's a cartoon.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Right right, because they are already used to You're like, yeah, yeah,
I just need more cartoon, give me the two hour
cartoon now. Whereas Yeah, I think that the stakes get
a little bit higher, especially when it's a Star Wars
feature film. Yeah, and I think that's the thing they
choose to fill over there.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (37:39):
The Mandalorian as a show, I think was able to
be like acceptable as a TV series when it came
out because it just felt like solid enough TV where
it's like, I get it, you're doing like it's like
Western style contained episodes. A guy moses into town, has
a problem to solve, and Scadadle's and he's got like
a cool sidekick. But yeah, that I don't know, man,
(37:59):
I just I hope do we know? Justin I know
you saw it, he said he saw a screening of it.
Does does Grogu fun ship up? Because that's the one
thing I'm really waiting for. I just want to see
baby Yoda just start fucking with force.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
When he turned the team Yoda.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Baby baby Groda has his moments. Yeah, yeah, it's he
you know.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
I love the puppeteering, right, That's that's one thing that
everybody uniformly.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Personally, I think it was just a little too long.
Speaker 13 (38:27):
Like towards the latter half of the movie, I was like, uh,
it was. I could really feel the slowing down and
the lack of a like a galaxy. I wanted to
have like galactic consequences, and it feels like a TV
show Small States, right.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
I thought it was when the Mandalorian kept saying what else?
Speaker 5 (38:49):
What else?
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Just tapping his fingers like this on the.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
What Rogus over there giving the wrap it up sign?
Speaker 5 (38:59):
Yeah, Grogy just shrugging, like what the fuck you want
me to say? Bro, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
I'm a fucking baby.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'm a baby baby.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yeah, everybody's that's puppeteering.
Speaker 12 (39:09):
Good.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Not enough steaks, I think. I think if you're gonna
make a movie version of your TV show, you just
got to bring them to modern day like the Brady
Bunch did.
Speaker 5 (39:18):
That's the best example of anything that anyone. Yeah, so
no longer a long time ago. It's in nineteen ninety
eight and Mandala and Grogu touched down and angels.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Gotta raise the steaks somehow.
Speaker 8 (39:36):
Ye when they probably live in like Mount Washington, because yeah,
you know what I'm saying, that's a good neighborhood to
raise a kid.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
Yeah, like it's it's not the most walkable, but we're
okay together. If you just go right down the hill,
you can kind of get to those feelers at water Village.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, flown around it too nice. All right.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Finally we do have to talk about the Daily Wire. Yeah, guys,
we hate to fucking see this, you know, fellow just
media brand out there doing its best to stay afloat
getting tough times out here millions and millions of dollars
from billionaires who want them to spread racism and their
(40:18):
own pro rich person gospel. Anyways, Earlier this month, The
Daily Wire announced a new round of layoffs, which not
that surprising considering the company is seemingly completely falling apart.
The website has reportedly become one of the great traffic
losers in conservative media. The YouTube channel has lost eighty
(40:40):
thousand subscribers this year alone.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean it looks it looks really daunting
when you like look up like Social Blade, which is
sort of that YouTube analytic website, and you can just
see the line just like fall off a cliffs. Suddenly,
over the last year, some.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Of the videos that they still have over three million subscribers,
but some of the videos have less than ten thousand views,
and a lot of the people clicking on these videos
seem to be doing so just to roast how low
the viewcounts are in the comments. One researcher called the
Daily wires disappearing audience the steepest decline of any major
political channel in twenty twenty six. We just had the story.
(41:21):
We just covered the story called the feed is Fake
on Monday. This is a story where somebody works in
digital marketing is like everything is being inflated by social
media firms that are just like churning out clips of
content and artificially getting them attention. And one thing we
(41:43):
do know about the Daily Wires that like from the start,
they have been funded by wealthy conservatives, right, And I
do wonder if you're losing your billionaires support at this time,
like is is what we're seeing them, just like losing
all the ability to like buy and buy and buy
(42:05):
traffic and attention, and like suddenly you're going to appear
to lose popularity because you're losing the part of your
support that was artificial in the first place.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
Yeah, I mean there's a few things right, because they
were first became huge because of Facebook News and the
way then Facebook News, you know how like every like
eight years, Facebook's like, oh yeah, we were.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Counting that way wrong. All right, here's the new numbers,
and people.
Speaker 5 (42:31):
Like, fuck, my entire business was built on the idea
that someone passively scrolling past.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Your video was of you.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
They changed like the algorithms for the news for Facebook News,
and that led to like that was like sort of
the first thing that like began fucking up their sort
of like visibility issue. And I think that that, along
with many other things, just sort of began to be
like just chipping away poor business decisions, the political fracturing,
(42:59):
and just and terrible, terrible management.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
It sounds like yeah, but yeah, I mean some people
are pointing to a quote Mega Vibe shift specifically tied
to Ben Shapiro support for Israel and the war in Iran.
That's one way of saying, like Mega has become even
more anti Semitic, right they started out.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Yeah, rather than suddenly caring about Palestinian people, Right, Yeah,
that's not what's happening. It doesn't seem like no, no,
And I think another point on this too, right, is
they fired Candice Owens, who was one of their biggest
earners on that platform. And first of all, and also
she still has a documentary still like on the channel,
(43:41):
so like they're still not able to like, they're like,
she still brings eyes to our terrible streaming service, so
let's not get rid of that. But when she got
ousted because she was way too out there with her
anti semitism slash faux outrage over Gaza, they basically made
one of the pettiest spiteful figures on the internet, puts
you on their ops list, and that also began to
(44:04):
really fuck up the perception because now you have Candice Owens,
who she's like, she reads the room well enough where
she's like, okay, so the vibes are a little more
like Nazi coated right now, So like, let me sidle
up to Nick Fuintes and things like that, and now
we can be the people who'd be like man Daily Wires,
fucking toast man like they're right, they're fucking dated. Look
at them, they're defending Trump and a lot of America
(44:26):
first people, you know, racists like, have been very quick
to be like that is true.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
I don't like I don't like what the Daily Wires
put it down.
Speaker 9 (44:35):
I do.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
So all of these things are true and would be
how the company failed. Like you know, this is how
companies fail. The mood shifts, they fire some of their
biggest draws and like get in the fuse, but they
the fuck up is actually much bigger and more like
(44:57):
a historic a historic, oh first step on their part.
A key element in their downfall is Merlin, the character
of Lore, because that that was who their co CEO,
Jeremy Boring, was obsessed with and was like, I'm going
to do a big budget adaptation of the pen dragon
(45:19):
Cycle fantasy book series.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
The famous gen dragon Cycle.
Speaker 1 (45:25):
Is it really no?
Speaker 4 (45:26):
I don't know who the I don't even when they said, I'm.
Speaker 5 (45:28):
Like who, all right?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
So they positioned the show as a more Christian Game
of Thrones, even though the main thing that people liked
about Game of Thrones was the gratuitous frontal nudity. Yeah,
but so I just want to some information about the
the budget on this, So they blew past a twenty
twenty four release date. Finally came out of March twenty
(45:51):
twenty sixth did not was not aware of that personally,
and I was kind of eagerly awaiting it because I
wanted to make fun of it. Not enough outlets reviewed
the series to generate a rotten Tomato score, that's how
much attention it got. So this dumb show that nobody
watched costs. It was budgeted at seven figures per episode,
(46:12):
so that's over at least over a million dollars. But
you know, if they're reporting it, seven figures per episode
is like nine million, nine ninety ninety nine dollars probably,
and Boring ended up allegedly spending nearly three times what
they had green like Jesus, and eventually quote costs became
a burden on the company.
Speaker 4 (46:33):
I mean that's the only thing too.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
It's like they just thought they were they got too
popping because they were such a fucking huge, huge, like
figure in the conservative media space that I think they
were like, that's it, because again it's the Steve Bannon
thing of like, you know, politics is downstream of culture,
so try and affect culture, try and make the content
that is going to nudge people into even more xenophobia
(46:57):
and white nationalism, et cetera. And yeah, they thought they could,
they were gonna somehow capture hearts and minds of their
streaming platform with a multimillion dollar fantasy series, and it's
just like, who did you think? What did you think
was gonna happen? Exact?
Speaker 8 (47:11):
Listen as a as a Washington Wizards fan, I respect
the attempt, right, but I've also gone down this road before.
You could end up you could end up wasting millions
trying to make Wizards work. Also, if you want to
do Christian magic th C. S. Lewis Man, you got
the fucking lion Witch and the Wardrobe right there. All
you made is a guy in a fucking lion costume.
(47:32):
You don't even need to pay for effect.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Right, that's what the movie adaptation, Lion Wish and the
Wardrobe is just a guy they just hired, the same
guy from Wizard of Oz.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Right, Yeah, that's what I thought it.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
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