Weekly Zeitgeist 72 (Best of 4/22/19-4/26/19)

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. 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 Zeitgeist. But first, if we like to ask
our guest, what is something from your search history that's
revealing about who you are? So I went to my
search history to look, but then I saw something that
bloom because I don't know how it got there. I
don't know where it came from. I don't know that. Yeah,
I popped in my reading list and it has uh

(00:43):
you know, documents six that links to like alay casting
makes sense. Then hardcore trainer fat loss stack at bodybuilding
dot com makes sense. Your Amazon dot Com makes sense,
Black Taylor dot store collections, some track suit makes sense. Okay,
so far in brand. The last one is an ex
videos and it says Judy hopping on some dick, Judy

(01:07):
getting the Fool's Utopia experience. I don't know where that
came from. I don't think this is me, but it's
in my phone. It's it's not only so you like
to get down mobile. I don't know what how this
how this ended up in my reading list? But yeah,
you think you're reading this? Yeah, I don't know how

(01:30):
I got it in there. That Fool's Utopia experience. How
does anybody know what that means? Yeah, Judy, Judy, what's
her face from the Rabbit Rabbit? Yeah, I don't know
what how this is in my phone. I'm not trying
to you know, Look, I'm just trying to imagine if
it's like the really the Sloth, if it's like that,

(01:52):
so it's just extremely slow motion, or like if it's
if it's like a Ponda Ponda floor major laser video
style like off the Ladder Daggery. I don't know. I'll
look into it tonight for the first time. Ok. Wait,
so how do you suspect that ended up in your history?
I think it's probably one of those things where like
I was trying to bookmark another video and then it

(02:14):
clicked the next one over Judge, Judy, Yeah, you know
how much I want to get that. You know, Danny
was on last week and you know she brought she
brought the porn take. Yeah, man, I'm glad if you
just needs to do a porn yeah, yeah, or just
turned her different into porn. Yeah, hey, I'm good with

(02:37):
the titles. Yeah, that's why I do what I do,
Porn in l A, right, you know what I mean,
porn in l A. Or we could just reboot that
one show that was on HBO with seymore Butts where
you'll remember that it was still no. It was like
it was a reality show about his like porn business,
and it would follow him around and like sometimes you

(02:58):
got to see some boobs, which is why, like young
if he was into it, but it really was like
following like the behind the scenes of family business. Yeah. Yeah,
that was just like too real. Like that was just
like sometimes sometimes things that a little too real. Yeah,
what I mean that was that was some ship that

(03:19):
I watched when I was a kid, Like same as
real Sex. It was like, you know this is on TV.
I can watch it with impunity. And you would have
been in your twenties when this show came on. Oh
really yeah, because it came on their early Real sex
was real sex was watched when that tap tap professions
were also put me onto adult things. I did not

(03:41):
know where possible. What was that one about? Like it
would show like the it was like something in John's
and it was like all the sex workers. There was
pimps upose down. Yeah, okay, then there were hookers at
the point, and then that's the one I followed. I
think I followed the whole saga. Yeah, they had a
whole yeah. And then there's really it was weird because
like it was probably like a compelling look at sex work,

(04:03):
but like young if he was like sometimes they showed
silhouette of sex happening. Yeah, that's right. Yeah that was yeah,
that was like that. The pimps uppose down was more
like about pimp culture and stuff. And then there's that
one dude, Mr. White Folks who was the white pimp. Yeah,
it was just like you thought he was a character
from the Waynes Brothers show Man. Yeah, all that all

(04:24):
that TV. Just call him Living Color. The Wayne's Brothers. No, No,
I mean like the when Martin because there was that
character white Mike. Wasn't that All Ways Brothers? Yeah? Yeah,
I have seen waiting to come on. Now you did
you watch Wayne's Brothers with Shawn and oh you just
watched in Living Color until man? No, that was like
mid nineties. Yeah, or you you're onto like you know, okay,

(04:48):
that time I was really into in Living Color when
I was like ten eleven. Yeah, yeah, that was I
watched it all the way to the end. Yeah, not
a well at all. Did they celebrate their anniversary, right? Yeah? Yeah.
I feel like any sketch comedy show isn't gonna age
well because it's such a because the nature of sketch comedy.

(05:11):
Because what happened recently was there was that like Inheriton
episode and they had that nerds sketch and a lot
of nerds got uh real offended at the depiction of nerds,
and it's like, well, the nature of sketch comedy is
to have these blown out, exaggerated characters. Like in sketch comedy,
they're never saying this is what the thing is, like,
you're that's that is the nature of writing sketch, which

(05:34):
was which made it even more offensive when people are like,
I'm a nerd and I can write a better sketches,
like no, because you just simply missed the main what
sketches you You are saying you can do something better
when you are proving you don't understand the nature of
the medium that you're trying to go into. That's just
you know, like, and I think we have YouTube to
blame for that, because there's a lot of stuff that

(05:55):
gets away with being called sketch comedy where it is
like more you you have these more subdued characters because
people kind of get it. But the nature of SNL
and those type of like live sketches, you're playing these
blown out characters. So anyway, but sometimes the humor is
from coming from like actual homophobia. Yeah, exactly, like you
couldn't play Handyman in the Tiny Avenger now. But that's

(06:17):
what I was saying, is like that the thing of
it is when you're when your whole medium is based
off of stereo blown out stereotypes, eventually it's just gonna
like it's it's already walking that line and then let
a few years pass and it's like, oh, this is
just trash, this is this is not good. Plus like
I will say, I'm not defending that that sketch, by
the way, it was not funny. There were no jokes

(06:38):
in it. The jokes were like what if nerds are nerds?
But I feel like it's very like a lot of SNL.
And I realized that's more like the older I get
is just like the impression that like Middle America would
have of like mainstream culture. So it's like, here's what
a nerd would be. Just like they're coming from exactly

(06:58):
the middle of the culture. It's like not yeah, yeah,
they don't have a point of view. And I feel
like that's why they've been able to last that long,
is like they are just like always trying to find
the dead center of it's And it's funny too, because
it seems like they're the ones that everyone celebrate or
blows are are always the niche ones when they do
make a need like that. What was the Tiffany Hattish

(07:21):
one where she played like a fighting game character? Oh yeah,
so funny, And it was because it's like such a
niche thing that this is the one that the Middle
America isn't going to get. You went with a clear
point of view and choice, and it was hilarious just
talking about how characters just rock their body. Yeah, oh
it's so good. Yeah, I love King Vaders. What is

(07:46):
something from your search history that is revealing about who
you are? I mean, I think you're looking at your phone,
you're like shaking your like I mean, I love when
it live because they haven't had an opportunity to actually
like edited out. So what you got? What we got?
Do you want me to just read them off because
they're really not Okay, one's John Snow soft boy, soft boy,

(08:10):
soft boy. Okay, let hold on, let's explore that a
soft boy that's not just my rapper name. It's kind
of like a funck boy but not see that's why
I googled it to make sure it's like a it's
like a variation of fun boy, where like a soft
boy is like act very soft boy who suffers from
e D. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll think that's so funny

(08:34):
eating disorder, right, yes, erect hole this functions trying to
create visibility. Um um, that's interesting is that no phrase?
Is that a phrase you're trying to get more in?
It's pretty culturally it's like kind of it came out
after funk Boy was popular. People are like, well, what
about the soft boy, and like that was like a

(08:56):
year ago maybe, But that's meant to be a pejorative
because someone's not being on like acho. It's no, it's
not like what's you know, because soft you would use
a years to like, you know, like in a hyper
heteronormative thing. It's all right, no woman, no, no, no,
it's still a shitty type of man who like acts
like he does all the boyfriend things like he's like

(09:17):
emotionally available and like yeah yeah, he like acts like
he iss it together, interested in you, but turns out
he's he's still an that's called a boy that's like
this dude on Married at First Sight, because I think
that's a lot of dudes actually, because you'll hear that,

(09:40):
like some dudes of fun boy who you're like, wait, no,
no way, that dudes like super like a nice sensitive dude, babe,
and Dave, have you seen the smoke clouds that dude?
You know this dude other guy on Instagram actually animated
one of his smoke trick video and look at a

(10:01):
way cooler dude because he puts like lightning bolts around
the rings and ship. Yeah, what's something people think is true?
You know to be false? Are good? The buffets are good? Yeah? Wow?
Okay all buffets? I mean yeah, like I guess, I

(10:24):
guess there are exceptions every rule, but yeah, generally generally
they all suck. What do you think when in your
mind the kind of buffet being like, that's that's a
bullshit buffet. What do we what are we talking? Like
Vegas buffet, like any I don't know anywhere sup plantation
any like anything of what those many ice creams you know,

(10:44):
I mean I don't really. Yeah, you could get you
could get ice cream somewhere. That's very totally. I didn't
know that though after the show, if you could tell
me some other places, I thought it was only a
super plantation. I just you know what. The only reason
I recoiled was because I love breakfast buffet, and that's
where I think it's a little bit different hotel in

(11:05):
the morning. Yeah, like on a cruise ship, like I'm nasty,
I like a funk. I just want to blow the
plate up with I'm a nasty breakfast eating motherfucker. And
I just want to have like because on a cruise
ship they have like international breakfast, so you have bangers too,
you know, and then they also have like little eggs benny,
you know, if you want to if that's your jam,

(11:25):
and then Asian stuff too. I was like, what me,
So soup and eggs with bacon sounds gross. I'm not
gonna Yeah, I know, I know that's what I'm saying.
And I'm a self proclaimed nasty buffet dude, But I
know that they're also when but when you get into
like the actual like a dinner buffet, that's when the
quality is just like ship, I think, just breakfast, it's

(11:47):
easier for me to lower my bar for quality. The
qualities grows also, I mean, it's so much easier to
guess it because people aren't just hing stuff with their
hands and like doing the most it's so bad. Yeah,
well breakfast buffets and then yeah, but even when, like
in Vegas too, there's like the ones that are like

(12:08):
good or like sixty five bucks, and even then you're like,
let's just go to a restaurant, but it's all you
can eat and you expect it to be good and
it's not. And also like the service is usually okay,
like they come and fill your drinks up or you know,
however however often is right yeah yeah, And I bet

(12:32):
those people probably don't even get like tipped or anything
because people are just like sposed to. Yeah I know, yeah,
right that people be like I actually did all the work,
even though you cleaned up my nasty ass mess, like
in between me getting new plates and ship. Yeah yeah again,
always tip, always tip. All right, we don't normally get

(12:53):
into digital security on this show, but we are going
to today because apparently some folks out there needed. Yeah,
we gotta look out for some of y'all. Uh. I
mean every year, there's always like these lists that come
out of like the most overused passwords to stay away from,
UM and a recent one is no different than this,

(13:15):
but in like identifying like these just very particularly vulnerable passwords,
they pulled out ones that weren't like the usual, just
like password or q W E R T Y or
like ABC one to three. They're like, there's some like
very specific ones that are also surprisingly very common, and
they're like, you should also stay away from these. And

(13:36):
I'm gonna start from the bottom going up to the
most I love you. Okay, that makes don't do that one?
Cowboys one the number one? Okay, yeah, NFL team might
makes sense, Michael, I'm not sure why actually why does
Cowboys one as as opposed to Cowboys? Probably because the
one means extra security. You've got the Dallas Cowboys fans

(14:00):
are like just that extra amount of either cocky or
aware of their limitation exactly exactly. Then Man United, Uh yeah,
I mean it's a very very large football club. Then Superman,
then Livabool for Beatles fans, for Beatles fans, and probably

(14:21):
for LIVERPOOLFC, which is has appreciates global support um. And
then finally at the very top of overused specific passwords,
blink one two, what do you sound like? Very male
centric passwords blink two. I could see like everybody when
I was in like seventh grade. Oh, I was obsessed.

(14:45):
My Yahoo email was like blink to eighty one or
something like that. Oh, I don't get it. Oh ship
she saw hackers and she's like, I'm not sucking that
pink to eighty one. That's funny because I bet like
if they took the you know, gender breakdown. It's like

(15:08):
males who are using these passwords because we're the ones
who aren't like thinking, he's not afraid, Yeah, into my cloud.
They're not gonna we don't have enough healthy fear. So
we're just like, that's probably cool. That's what patriarchy does. Yeah,
EXA grew up with this kind of privilege, and you're like,

(15:31):
they're gonna do I'm not vulnerable. Society's condition to me
to think on the dominant whatever I mean. I wonder
I wonder if it's because it's like one of the
main pop culture things that combines letters and numbers, and
there are passwords that's say you have to combine letters
and numbers. Wait sorry, yeah interesting, Oh yeah yeah yeah,

(15:53):
you know. So that's why we get Cowboys one, which
I get Blink one, which is I think maybe the
people who are behind it, you're like, we have to
I think explicitly just like force people to have these passwords,
because lazily there's gonna be like password like please just
add a fucking exclamation for it will actually help when
people trying to just do brute force password cracking. Yeah, alright, guys,

(16:17):
let's talk about Playboy Club, where I grew up inside
a Playboy club. Apparently they're not doing well. Um, you know,
as someone who used to work at play Yeah, just
like Jamie Loftus, things aren't going well there. And Hugh
Hefner's son, I believe, is a driving force behind bringing

(16:38):
nudity back to the magazine and also going like just
pedal to the metal with opening up this Playboy club,
which you know, if you recall, we had an opportunity
here from Glorious Steinham recently and She famously went into
worked at a Playboy club undercover to write about it,
and when she heard that it opened, she's like, how
is this even opening? Right? Because most people are like,

(17:01):
who is this? Four? And apparently one of their biggest
problems it seems to be the service, because page six
they're getting very messy and they have a sort of
it's like, yo, it's hell in there, apparently, um but
essentially the managers are just they say, are more worried
about how the prospective hires looked, and of course it
in fluffy tail than their relevant experience in the service industry.

(17:22):
Service has been so bad that new management had to
be brought in and they fired half of the bunny staff.
Now the club has hired real waiters and called the bunnies,
although it has kept some of the flappy eared friends
on with adjusted job descriptions and slashed paychecks. So now
they're basically just having the bunnies just take the drinks
from the bar to the tables rather than like actually

(17:42):
doing any of the waiting and things like that. And
they've like slashed their pay from forty dollars an hour
to twenty five dollars an hour. The things just kind
of in free fall. And when you look at the
Yelp reviews, I was like, what's the help got to say.
It's a mix between like people who are like Wall
Street bros, who are like, oh, it's fucking sick, dude,
it's the just fucking place. I feel like a fucking king.
Then there are people who are like the food is ship.

(18:05):
Then there are other people saying it's not toxic enough
for them. They're like, dude, they're not even hot in there.
One star for that. People are like one star because
it's so aggressively like out of touch. So you know
it's being pulled in many directions. But there's also a
lot of five star reviews that I suspect are maybe
friends of the people who rent it, because they're like
the vague ones, like you know, the homie five stars

(18:26):
were like, oh great time, five stars, no detail really
loved it, awesome place. Food is sick. I mean I
got sick from the food, that's right. So I've never
been to one of these. I actually was didn't know
they existed prior to this story. It sounds like it's
like a mix between a strip club and a theme restaurant,

(18:47):
like a Jacqueline Hide. Yeah, it's like it's like a
Hooters if it went to college or something like. It's
like this weird fake air of sophistication, but it's still
the same aggle the server staff type vibe, but like
also made you know, that's trying to create that that
playboy ship that they're chasing, like the dude who walks

(19:10):
in and it's like, you know, fond over by beautiful
women and blah blah blah. So I think actually they
should lean into the strip club model a little bit
more and have the bunnies be the entertainment. They don't
have to dance or anything, but they can talk to
the patrons and like then have real good servers. Yeah,

(19:32):
they just don't know. That's the problem with this company
is like they just don't know. They had a club
in l A that was on the Sunset Strip that
was like this little tiny bar and it was just
like another business that wasn't ran well where you know.
The thing that like the battle crying that company is
that like the Playboy Bunny is like I think the
second or first most recognized logo on Earth, Like without context,

(19:55):
people know what it is, and that behind the Swoosh
I think, or maybe Adidas, but like those are like
people just no matter where continent, like internationally, know that
that logo and they're just sort of coasting off the
strength of that thing and without realizing like it's a
dying brand that's left over from a bygone era and

(20:15):
they've not really been able to figure out how to
evolve with the time. So I think they've just resorted
to their old ways and just hope like, well, we'll
just catch the people who still think this is like
a thing they want. Yeah, it's a little bit too
late for sure, but I don't know, I feel like
they can make it work. Yeah, right, if you're gonna
if they did it right, if you're gonna be like
a brand that's about objectifying women, they're half asking it.

(20:38):
And that's why people are like confused. If you're just
gonna be a disgusting brand that's gonna just like full
on just be like yeah, come in, like you can
just talk wild to these bunnies and do whatever the
fuck you like, just be some gross dude. It is
what it is. But I think trying to thread the
needle of being like it's fine dining plus like women
in course it's and like it's just like people are

(21:00):
I don't know what to make sense of this play Yeah,
I mean Hooters for sophisticated people seems to be like
by definition like an error, like does not compute. Those
two things don't really overlap in a way that oh,
sophisticated people can't like the sight of a beautiful woman. Jack.
Oh god, I remember, like when you were talking about

(21:21):
the Playboy Club. I thought we were talking about the
two thousand and eleven TV show where they were trying
to make the Playboy Club. I think it was basically
Madman came out. They saw that that was a hit,
and they were like, Playboy was like, how do we
get in on this? So they had a show, had
a show. Uh, let's see here. First episode date September nineteen,

(21:43):
two thousand eleven. Final episode date October three, two thousand eleven.
Their three episodes. Whoa what network? Was it on NBC?
It was like a big, a big vent. Yeah, a
lot of dudes walking around in suits being like the
Playboy Club is gonna change everything. But it had the
bunny in the Bunny logo in the title, so it

(22:05):
was like an official Playboy joint where they were like,
our brand is gonna explode, yeah, because the people who
owned it up until recently, we're just like a licensing
company who they're they were getting their money out of
owning Playboy by just slapping the logo on anything and
selling it m And then a dude who has no
experience running restaurants or clubs was like, I'm gonna take

(22:28):
this over, yeah, and has no experience doing anything. That
being you have NER's son working in that, that place
is a time war you. I couldn't believe the ship
I would hear of working in there, even from the playmates. Man,
some of those players has some racist ass fucking takes
on Jesus, because I was there, like in the midst
of the election heating up for the sixteen, like going

(22:51):
into and like there were just times not even having
to do with the election itself, but like you know,
when I was doing video there, we would be like
make content like let's let's do a profione this playmate
or whatever, and asking about like people they would date regularly.
I would have to cut shit on like that was

(23:12):
that was racist. They're like, um, no thugs, Like I
don't like thugs like I'm not about thug life or
like saying like then you're like, oh, you're cuddling this
ship out, um, but yeah, look shout out to y'all.
Got some healthcare from you. All. Good on you, good
on you, good on you. Then uh, let's take a
quick break and we'll be right back and we're back.

(23:42):
What is a myth? What's something that people get wrong
that you? I mean, you know, what's a myth that
you're just looking out there? But I think I think
the God of the Old Testament gets a real bad rap.
I think people think he's mean and they don't like him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jehovah, yeah,
all of that. I think he gets such a bad rap.
When you're growing up, you're like, oh Jesus, what a

(24:04):
good guy. You know, he seems nice and stuff as
you follow your sins. But that's not the kind of
guy when you get older that you want to be
rolling with. You want a guy you can count on
that what his word means something, you know what I mean,
he stands for it, So he loses his cool sometimes.
But you know, I mean, I love I'm I used
to be a pastor, so I was a minister at
a mega church you were Yeah, okay, yeah, at Faith

(24:26):
Community Church in West Covina. I hear it's not doing
some West okay in the building. Yeah, but I grew
up in the Great Tips. Yeah, I'm a I'm a
l a local native, so yeah, so I grew up
with that, and I I never liked the idea of

(24:49):
Jesus or I didn't like the idea. I knew even
then that the apostle Paul ripped off like the Jewish religion,
like the way he tagged on the New Testament to
the Old Testament was always kind a shady, Like I
knew that in my heart. But I was mad at
God for murdering people, uh in the Old Testament, which
he murders a bunch of people. But what the older
I get, the more I'm like, well, come on, he

(25:10):
could do whatever you're like, he said, yeah, you'll violated.
And also, if you look at the Bible chronologically, the
Old Testament, especially, a lot of people put God over time.
They say God's above time, so he doesn't exist in
the pastor present. But if you put God in time,
the Bible makes a lot more sense. Like if you

(25:32):
were an all powerful being and you created these things
and they you would murder them at first, you wouldn't understand.
So you see that if you look at God in
time and that he was learning to interact with us
as a species, as a people, then you can see
that he's growing and learning. People don't like the idea
of growing God growing or learning, right, because he's supposed

(25:53):
to be omniscient. Yeah, but how if you're an all
powerful being and you've never interacted with people that aren't
all powerful, of course you're gonna have there's gonna be
a learning. It's like when Dr Manhattan like pulls up
and he's like, oh, ship, I don't know. I just
touched that dude and he exploded, just like God was like, yeah, homie,
if you've said kill your son from me real quick,
let me dial that back next season season two on God. Yeah,

(26:16):
like the Pantheon of Greek people, they're like putting axes
in each other's heads all the time and eating each other.
That's just fun. It's like a cartoon. Well, that makes
more sense. That's why all the Greek gods all that stuff,
they look like us. That makes sense that there's a
bunch of different gods. Oh okay, if that ft up
thing happens, and that was the God of war. Are
that kind of thing that makes sense when you just
have one god like that, he gets a lot of

(26:37):
golf because a lot of bad things happen on this earth.
But I'm just saying not to me though. Yeah, he
was a capricious youth, you knowing young guy and then
older gods, older god let him get a six thousand
years under his belt. Watch his drop step real quick.
So obviously you know Twitter is a healthscape echo chamber

(26:58):
for people, uh real quick. Because I think this is
true for Steve too. I think we vaguely disagree with
that sentiment. Right, Yeah, I don't I love Twitter, but
I want to hear you do your thing and then
we'll get we'll get cooking. No, no, I mean, let's
talk about Twitter up up front. What are your feelings
about it? What do you mean? I just I think
for me, I think too many white people don't just

(27:21):
block the bigots like interesting, yeah, because I'm like and
and to me, you know, I know the echo chamber
thing that that is reminiscent of that. And maybe it's
just because when I do go as this racist, I'm
exposed to all this, but I'm like, right wing thought
is available super Oh no, No, What I mean is
just like for whatever side you're on, it's there for you.

(27:41):
You can get caught up in it, however which way
you want to, is what I mean. Of course you can.
You're like, you know, I'm I follow a few different
people who I like to see what's going on on
that side of events. Um yeah, yeah, but yeah, out
all the time. I do see a lot of you know,
white writers, now that I think of it, I wouldn't
have thought that, But I don't host a show called

(28:02):
yo as this racist? Uh they do say like oh this,
they'll just tweet about it. Oh this, this website is
making me sick and I can't believe I'm back on it.
I've just always you put down your phone if you want. Yeah.
I think I think that's what it does too. I
think part of subconsciously what feeds me my perception of
it being a housecape is also the feedback loop that
would pull you in. Yeah, where I do that more

(28:24):
on Instagram, where like I just go through stories and
I'm not even looking at them ships I'm just like
tapping and I'm like, yo, my brain, I think it
just gave out. Anyway, that's beside the point, because what
we're talking about now is so there was a few
research study that just came out that wanted to answer
the question of, like just how different Twitter users are
from just a general United States population and just to

(28:45):
kind of see, like, is Twitter actually even a like
accurate depiction of what people in the United States feel
where they where they are demographically. And they did this
by taking a survey of about almost hundred United States
adult Twitter users UM and then they also shared their
handles so they could use Twitter's api to kind of
get some more information about them UM. And they compared

(29:07):
that with existing demographic information they had, and the conclusion
they came to Twitter is a lot different than the
United States. So Twitter users are younger, they're more likely
to identify as Democrats, They're more highly educated, and have
higher incomes than US adults overall. And they also said
Twitter users also differ from the broader population on some
key social issues. For instance, Twitter users are somewhat more

(29:30):
likely to say that immigrants strengthen rather than weaken the country,
and to see evidence of racial and gender based inequalities
in society, and it also seems too that the noisiest
ones are making the bulk of the content that you
see on Twitter, because about ten percent of the most
active users are responsible for of the tweets created in
the US. Yeah, so damn this ten What you're seeing

(29:53):
really like over and over and feed is like around
the ten percent of people who are very prolific. And
I think the something comedians, Yeah, I know, I talked
to I'm a stand up. So I've seen over the
years now that what people get all worked up about
on Twitter. And then I'll go Bartend and Covina and
I have an open mic on Thursday nights too, and

(30:14):
I've just know, like they regular people have no idea
what the hell everyone's worked out exactly so that it
doesn't try And I mean I could see it on
the same day, So I know whatever everyone's worked out
about online, specifically Twitter, because people talk, they're more than
Facebook and stuff that if you even bring up a
joke related to that, you're gonna look like a moron. Yeah,
and I think most people, yeah, like it's most the

(30:35):
most engaged people tend to be on Twitter, not that
they're exclusively on Twitter, but that's a trait that they have,
and that vibes with the New York Times report recently
that was saying that Democrats who don't post political content
on social media tend to be more moderate than people
who are more outspoken online, and they're also more likely
to view political correctness as a problem, less likely to
join protests, and less likely to donate to political organizations,

(30:58):
and less like Democrats who are not on as outspoken
online tend to fall into that demographic. Old Democrats and
even like even younger people who I know who are like,
you know, will vote Democratic, but aren't really engaged there
the same way where they're like, oh, really, like you
say something and they're like, oh, that's going on. And
so I think that's all to say that, you know,

(31:19):
we a lot of the emphasis, even the news puts
on what's going on on Twitter is a little bit
misplaced because you know, it's a very specific thing. So,
you know, I think I think a lot of the
healthscape thing comes from people who are surprised at the
bad part of Twitter, you know what I mean, like like, oh,
there's so much more racism than I thought in the world.

(31:40):
That's surprising to me. So of course you can extrapolate
who would be surprised by that sort of thing. So
it's just one of the things where it's like, I
think people don't realize that even though Twitter is a
he escape, let's say, like, but the bad part of it,
most of the is overrepresented in the part of the

(32:01):
population that's not on Twitter, like all the ignorant ship
that's much more pervasive in the non Twitter part of
you know, not by a lot, but like a little bit,
you know, it's that's surprising like that that was the
thing about two thousand sixteen. I think for a lot
of people that we might know in places like Los Angeles,
it's like a shocking number that we're surprised by ship

(32:23):
and you're like, oh, like I'm from Michigan, right, Like
it's like this always sure. Sure. The reason it's funny
because in that study, it's almost like I don't post
that much about politics, especially since two thousand sixteen, because
it was such a battlefield. I don't post that much
about politics because I do feel like it is mostly

(32:43):
other liberals and Democrats, especially people I now, so why
it just feels foolish to me to be like just
throwing my hat out there now I will. I have
been crafting my coming up for Elizabeth war and presidential
nominee tweet. It's gonna launch at some point, maybe next
Friday tweet. I've been retweeting other people's I think. Chris Cubis,

(33:04):
a comic from Austin, wrote like, I like what Elizabeth
Warren has to say, and I retweeted it. But yeah,
that's one reason I don't. I wouldn't post about political stuff.
It's because it's for you. Feel like I'm not offering
anything to that conversation. So many people, it's congested, everybody's
saying the kind of same things about that stuff. I don't.

(33:27):
And also, like I said, two thousand sixteen was a
big lesson where I don't want to be fighting with
my friends. I have so many people who I disliked
because of two thousand sixteen now that if they weren't
posting the way they were on Twitter, uh, that I
would think better of them. I think the Internet. I mean,
I'm very careful about what I give the Internet, and
I don't give them too much of my real self.

(33:47):
I write a lot of jokes, but I just don't
think these strangers don't deserve my real thoughts or my
heart or anything like that, or even just in general,
you don't want to You're giving your power away in
a certain extent by even being candid in a certain
to a certain level. On the Internet. Yeah, absolutely, on
a podcast, I'll talk about with my friends, I'll talk
about anything. But I just know that there's I see

(34:08):
the way people interact online and it's like, you wouldn't
say that to my face, and so why are we
doing this here? And so I just in that way,
And I know the Internet as good for a lot
of people who have never had voices or anything like that,
but I think in that way it's pretty bad. So,
especially with politics, I don't want to interact if I
felt like I was doing some good. I'm a bartender

(34:28):
in Covina, which is almost the Midwest basically, so I'm
talking to Latino guys about stuff, you know, all the time.
You know, I'm talking about politics there and when I'm
talking to them face to face. But I don't think
it does much good on Twitter. Sure, alright, guys, let's
get onto important news. Is will cheating on Kate? Okay, Jamie,

(34:50):
you wrote this headline as fun Brexit is will cheating?
On Kate. Okay, there's a lot. There's already like some
attempts I think from within in the royal family to
spend this. William is on some sort of press tour
right now to like draw attention away. I'm just going
to share a thread from a writer really like Nicole Cliff, Yeah,

(35:13):
who is very has really uh really thought this story
all the way through. So basically, of course, you know
Prince William, he's from a cursed family, which I love.
I love a cursed family, and you know, like all
he has to do is not cheat on his wife
to break the curse. Right, turns out he cheated on

(35:33):
his wife. Here is the story. Okay, so I'm quoting
Nicole Cliff here. So last week The Sun ran a
very odd piece about how Cayton Wills had broken up
with their couple best friends, the cholmondelis it's pronounced Chumley. Really,
that is wild. Yeah, it looks like a five syllable name,

(35:54):
but it's a two syllable name. The piece included the
phrase rural rival, which was the only indication that there
was a real story here. The Chumleys are Rose, a
former model, and Rose's husband much older very rich, very
appropriate to be friends with the Cambridges. Wills and Kate
flipped and the Sun got one of those more serious warnings,
there's no story here, backed the buck off as the

(36:15):
story begins to spool out, and uh and and we
were talking about before. It's been mostly on US media
to cover this story because UK media needs to stay
in the good graces of the Palace or they can't
cover anything anymore, so they send out the little t
dumping weasels to get the story for them. So that

(36:36):
will was caught having an actual affair with Rose, and
Kate severed the social connection with more verve than is
her usual style. Giles Coren tweeted and deleted how impished
that the affair had been common news for months if
you were a fancy person. The source for the story
is widely supposed to be Rose running her mouth about

(36:58):
it to her friends. So basically like William is cheating
on Kate with one of their friends who's married to
some old guy, which seems to be how rich people
like role based on that's really how my parents marriage ended,
and they didn't have They have four dollars on each

(37:19):
other's friends with each other's friends my really putting him
on blast d Yeah, just like people just like each
other's friends. And then and then you know you have
unhappy children. Yeah, that's what happens. The Jeff Bezos thing
was like he was sleeping with that dude's wife while

(37:40):
he was like staying at their house like as a
friend of the Yeah, it was very I don't know, shady.
And and then like they were at a party together,
him and his new girlfriend with the ex husband, and
like they were like photographed together just being like, hey,
we're rich, we don't care. It's it's just I don't know.

(38:01):
So that's the prevalent theory. It seems to be like
increasingly well sourced. It's really hard for UK reporters to
report on it. Uh, there's another much like the Bezos scandal.
I think just from the few pictures I've seen that
Rose and Kate looks so similar that it's like why
do this? Just like just like Bezos, the woman he

(38:24):
cheated on his wife with was a doppel like a
dead ringer for his wife. It's not about the women,
it's about the numbers and younger and better or the
I personally think like a psychopathic need to conquer and
be like I got your wife, like in the tergdering
the matter because I value he as a person. Anyway,
you basically stole my trophy and we're going to make

(38:45):
more money tomorrow. Who cares that? The words? The main
question is are we all doomed to become our parents?
He literally looks like he was doomed by some manner
of curse by become his father, because there was like
a point where he was considered very handsome and then

(39:06):
like it just flipped and he turned into like it
was like he morphed into his father, like that scene
and Thriller where Michael Jackson becomes aware wel off. It
was just like his years started growing out and like
his his hair started falling out. It was very sudden.
I mean I have been like right around the time
he started to assume more of his responsibilities rank, which

(39:27):
is probably went according to Nicole and some of the
others that are reporting on this, like he's been cheating
on her since they first got together. This was kind
of always his Like is that part of the responsibilities
cheat after Charles, Yeah, it just sort of became part
of the drawer. I just feel like this is so
much more of a a betrayal for because people follow

(39:49):
the royal family and you don't really serve any other purpose.
And to sort of the canon Potter slash entertainment like citizens, right,
So like your dad when you cheat on your mom,
there was like some like he Arie Kmill, like the
one who's cheating with like he was in love and
like the crown wouldn't let you be what the person
you want to be with. You had to marry like
the right person. Dope, we scrapped all that. Now you

(40:09):
could just marry pretty much whoever. Like, they're pretty cool
with it. Just like talk to us. We'll get the
media trained that will cut off whatever their former resources were.
I don't let them be in the palace. It's fine.
So if you don't really want this girl, you could
have just left her alone. We like Kate now, we've
grown accustomed to her, like she's your high school sweetheart.
Uh So for him to just be like I don't

(40:30):
really care, I would thresh went to the spotlight and
then destroy you because even though no one's gonna blame him,
it's definitely gonna be her fault. Um. It's kind of bullshit,
and it's frustrating I do. I mean, it's like every
time a story like this comes up, there's always like
the edge lord to dive into your mentions and who
cares you don't. It's like I've been trying to where
I think with the sixteen election, I got too sucked in,

(40:53):
and I think a lot of people got too sucked into,
like politics as drama and like hearing it as these
are my stories and not like going to affect everyone
I know. So now I cling to the royal family legitimately,
don't they like literally nothing they do matters, And it's
where I can get that that hit. Yeah, I don't

(41:15):
care what they think about a damn thing. I just
want to know who's having sex with who I want
my stories. This is a great development in my story.
And it's not just gossip magazines. Guys. Scientists, specifically body
language scientists are are thinking that there's a frost nous

(41:35):
has entered there. They're sort of physical relations, not just
that they're British. It's not just that they're British. Right, Um,
So yeah, I mean that's as good as done as
far as I'm concerned. All Right, we're going to take
a quick break and we'll be back with less important
news and we're back. There's a story that got a

(42:04):
lot of coverage because it just has the right combination
of words netflix and sex basically. Um, but it was
that because people are watching so much streaming on Netflix
and they're programming is so good, uh, that the Netflix
is to blame for the low uh, you know rate

(42:27):
of sex in America. Because that's something that like sociologists
and people who study American lives have been you know,
puzzling over because it gets a lot of headlines the
question of why Americans today are having less sex than
they did in decades past, and we're also having fewer kids.

(42:49):
There's just like no reason to be horny in this
country right now. There's a few reasons to be horny.
Women are just like times up on all of it,
all the dicks away. Please. Yeah. That such an interesting
Uh well, I mean, I guess it's not a surprising
culprit because it's an easy culprit to be like people
are because they're watching TV. For like, TV has been

(43:10):
around for fifty years, it's been running on a twenty
four cycle. For gosh, you're forty years now, closer to
six or seventy years now, and we've had twenty hour
TV since like the mid eighties, since we have came out.
So no, we're all. We're all fine. Netflix programming can
be good. I'm not going to call it so great.
It's stopping people from intercourse. I've never let yeah, I've

(43:34):
never let an episode of Grace and Frankie stop me.
Frankie wants you to have good sex. If anything is
a very horny show. I love man make my own
charcuterie board at my house. Watch they taught me all
about sex pays for the elderly, and I did. Yeah,
now I'm informed. I love it. I love that this

(43:56):
is viral marketing for Grayson frank just so everyone's aware.
But two things that made me question the study. One
is that the scientist behind it is the same scientist
who a couple of months ago was talking about how
Generation Z is like headed for the worst mental health

(44:17):
like crisis ever because of social media. So she seems
to be like one of those people who was like,
this guy is falling because of the latest technology, and
that's generally a bad bet. If you look through history,
this is one of those things that gets written out
of history, But there's always, always, always a freak out
about new technology. You know, they they're great horror. Yeah,

(44:42):
there were freakouts about written music. When they started writing music.
They were like, now everybody's going to be able to
steal my sonnets and steal my symphonies. And they were
like really pusy about that. So, like just any sort
of mediaor technology is going to freak people out. I
do think. I feel like corporations and people who are

(45:05):
trying to addict us to like little skinner boxes are
like better at reaching us now than they ever have been.
I just think it's weird to call out Netflix because
that is the one medium that we like do do
together with as couples a lot of the time. So
it's like, why would that be the one keeping us
Like I think a lot of like mobile games and

(45:26):
social media on mobile phone, like our phones are definitely
like solitary devices. But like Netflix, and you know what
the TV phrase around get on and watching Netflix, it
seems like the weirdest place to start the attack. Yeah wait,
what is it? That's what that? Uh yeah, so I

(45:52):
don't know, Well, we'll see. It's all who the funk
knows why people are having less sex. Whatever. Sex is boring.
Sex is boring. That That is the my main conclusion.
Sex is not as good as the stuff we have now,
and it's boring, and that's why people used to have
so much of it. Guarantee satisfaction, right yeah, yeah, like
there are some things I know deliver more consistently. All right,

(46:17):
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