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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly
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Zeitgeist Canny. We like to ask our guests, what is
something from your search history that's revealing about who you are.
One of my last Google's was chicken hypnotizing. You guys
know about this, you and you know that the jack
knows about this. You can hypnotize a chicken. I truly
don't know what this is for. But you just lay
the chicken close to the ground and then you draw
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a line. It doesn't even have to be a real line.
You draw a line with your fingers in front of
chicken's face and then you just like is in a trance? Yeah,
when you draw a line in front of drawing from
his face. Yeah, out like just rub book chickens face
nor and he moves, yeah, spice, merely just visually moving,
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moving your hand away and you can hypnotize a yeah,
and then it'll just sit there, not move, just in
a trance. Crazy. Okay, how did you come into I
was watching this show called Dream Vet because I am
one of the few people that has CBS all access.
Oh hell yeah that person that works on the corvett.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, weird flex weird corvettsel like a veteran area. No, yeah,
I'm thinking like a vet. No, Miles is always thinking
about muscle cars. Yeah, due to Stingray. Every time we
talk about rock the he thinks it's about the car.
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What an Iraq? Yeah, the irack dude, It's all about
the z dude z boys in the building. I'm sorry,
dream Do they analyze animals dreams? No? I wish that'd
be a We're all constantly dest It's just a show
that show. Okay. Some guy had his chicken in there
because his pet is a chicken, and he was worried
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because the chicken had a lump. And then they were like, oh,
we'll take some X rays. And then the guy who
owns the chicken was like, oh, do you have to
put my chicken under? And then the VET was like, no,
we'll just hypnotize him. I was like, whoa yeah, And
that's when I was like is this a thing? Because
they just throw that line and then how long is
the chicken until you tip him over. We'll just like
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being It's like, oh, on Google it does anywhere from
thirty seconds to thirty minutes or something. Yeah, and how
fucked up the chicken is before? Yeah? Wow? Wait and Jack,
how did you know about it? Because you were like, yep, yeah,
I just saw how quickly you were on what to
do for a living? Yeah, this is right up our
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alley at cracked used to clip the wings off chickens
and sound by the roadside. That's right exactly. Wait, oh,
this is just purely out of like articles on like
cool stuff to do animal hacks. I think Robert Brockway
wrote it. Actually an animal hacks, animal hacks. It was
an animal hack that fucking taco bell dog. Yeah, fucking
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hack that way. Yeah, yeah, that that There's also one
of the things we learned about chickens is that they're
nervous system is such that like not a lot of
it is in their head, So they can live with
their head chopped off for a long time. Al Right,
that's why they can still be running. But like they
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can live for like months without their heads. I don't know,
wait what just this dude was putting a dropper of
food in the hole in the neckhole of a chicken. Oh,
I have heard that cool? That is super tight. This
is this sounds like a podcast I would have loved
when I was thirteen. You wait till they go back
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to school. What is something you think is underrated? Besides
Miles is Huntington's check it out? Oh you know papah Man. Guys,
people aren't hyping Papooses or not. I mean outside for
music is not Yo. That was just a track somebody putting.
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I didn't know there was songs about Papoosa's. Yes, that's
a legit one. That's not me just going off the top. Yeah,
that's about I think that's from my Salvadorian group. Okay,
maybe I'm wrong and papoos Is are hype, but I
feel like everyone here talks like taco trucks. But we
need to go. You need to go Papoosa. Yeah filling,
They're delicious and you get to put stuff on top,
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you get to customize. Yeah, I always get you know,
I always asked for extra. You should go to Beverly.
I believe uh Dave, you know the lad to drink?
Do you ever drink that? It's just a bunch of
chopped up fruit juice. It's a bunch of chopped up
fruit like yes, in a cup though, and it should
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as sweet as fun. And then by the end you're
just chewing a bunch of fruit and it's delicious. Uh yeah. Now,
to me an outsider, the papoosa looks like a what's
the soft taco bell flat bread thing? Gordita looks like
with on top. Tell me, tell me what it is. Okay,
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It's like, um, you know, it's a tortilla and it's
filled inside. It's basically like maybe like a Mexican cal zone.
It's like, yeah, it's like massa. But then you put
you can put if you get you know, that's like
you get pork, cheese and bean in there. Or you
can get it with just cheese. Yeah, you can get
it with cactus. You can get it with rocco. You know.
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There's many styles to the papoosa. But the thing that
I will say is the cortillo, which is the cabbage
slaw that you put on top. I little ham with
that ship so it feels like I'm actually getting like
a vegetable meal, even I'm just mainlining a bunch of
arch in front. You go ahead with all accompanying vegetables.
What's the thing like anytime there's a sandwich that comes
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with like, let me get that extra yard on there.
I was actually a nickname you had. I noticed extra
yard yard? What's up? What is something from your search
history that's revealing about who you are? Well? Guys, Um,
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I heard that Michael Slomanov, who's this wonderful chef, had
this new recipe for smoked beef ribs. And I looked
that up and it's a Yemenite recipe and it had
a lot of tumeric and a lot of human a
lot of black pepper gloves to season that probably. Yeah, exactly,
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we'll stain your skin. Tumer will stain your skin. Guys.
That's true. The struggle is real. No one talks about that.
All the talk about is the anti inflammation properties. They
don't tell you look like a jaundiced card dealer. It's
like yellow orange, right, yeah. Yeah, it's like and it's
not just any yellow. It's like an immigrant to yellow,
you know what I mean. It's like that you're getting
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that at Ralph's. Yeah, yeah, Um, you stopped at the border.
That's what I looked up. I was looking up that
recipe are you do? You cook a lot? I cook
a lot. I'm gonna smoke fucking ribs this week, So
what kind of what kind of smoke are you got?
I have a trigger grill. I got a trigger man. Actually,
I got a trigger. This was kind of a crazy story.
I I do a lot of the cooking. I do
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a lot of cooking on my Instagram stories. I have
a cooking podcast. Um but green Eggs and Dan. We'll
talk about that later. But basically, I was doing a
lot of cooking videos and I wanted to get a smoker,
and I reached out to Trigger. I was like, Yo,
give me a discount. I want to get this eight
smoker and I'll post about it. And they're like, Yo,
we saw your videos, we like them. We're sending you
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a free smoker. They sent me a fucking two thousand
dollars fuck tragger umber line eight fifty. I can cut
the line. I can. I can turn it on from
my fucking phone. Like literally, I walk into my I
clap and it'll start smoking. I gotta get I'm actually
in the market for smoker. You use that at I
will talk to you. I will I will use all
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the time. The remote function you know what. I used
it last week actually because I had some ship going
on and me and my girl went for a hike
and I was in the fucking mountains and yeah, smoke
my ribs from the mountain where we went from for
HiCon Runyon turn off. The smoker smoked my yemin right ribs. Yeah.
I use a lot of Cajun microwave right now. Is
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just like the problematic term is a china box. Wait
is cajun microwave better? I don't know. It's on the
fucking thing. It says like china box in the most
you already know what font it's like fucking might as
well be like. But it's basically just you know, it's
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like a way you can you put all of your
charcoal on top of like sheet metal and then everything
is sort of inside the box, so you can I've like,
I'll cook like a suckling pig or something in there,
because it's big. You're cooking suckling pigs. Yeah, yeah, there, yeah, anywhere.
There's a lot of stores. Yeah, there's pet stores, petting zoos.
I feel like, yeah, pets are making uh, they're making
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a move that they're having a moment. But aren't the
people realizing that it turns into a fucking pig at
some point? Or does everyone have mini pigs? I think
they have the tea cups? Is that is that? Like,
are they being abused? I feel like anytime I see
a tiny animal, that's like they're like that couldn't have happened. Yeah,
it's they like to keep them in a box, like
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you clip their their feet their feet off. Yeah. No,
they're they're very cute, very smart pets. Um. One thing
I was going to say about the hand cooking is
also watch out for cap sasan. Yeah you're ever cutting
up talk about without gloves on? Yeah, my wife got
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those into I think it was we had been in
the ocean that morning just to do another little l
a break, and then she was cutting up halapos and
it was like her hands were on fire for like
a day. Wait, just on her hands, yeah, still on
her hand. Yeah, I mean her hands are covered her hands.
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I'm sorry. There was a terrible de gloving accident where
all of the skin from her hand was ripped off.
It is very cool of you to have married a
leopard that was like very like woke up. What is
a myth? What's something people think it is true? You know,
to ghosts. Okay, ghosts, just give me a break, is it? Now?
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Are you someone who has been just led on by
ghosts or for so long you're like, you know what,
I tried, and I'm just done. I just done with you.
It's one of these things where I just I don't
it why people buy into it so hard or believe it.
It's just it's one of these things that just as
they're telling me the story, the story itself doesn't make sense.
If you have you ever heard this, Okay, have you
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ever heard this? So there's like, I don't know if
it's like a wive's tale or rumor you ever heard
the story about the person dog sitting and and the
dog dies and the family tells them, okay, well you
can put the dog in the suitcase and take it
to this place and drop it off to get it
dog cremated or whatever. I've heard this story from a
couple of different people. I've never heard. So the dog
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comes back to life. The dog is a giant Great Dane,
or it's this always this big dog, and they had
to put in this big suitcase, and they had to
put in a suitcase because there was nothing else to
put the dog dog cast yeah, and it was just
like and they take it um and it was big
blue ikea baggs yeah shopping, yeah, because you don't have
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a big suit case at the thing. But every time
they tell the story, they talk about how how heavy
this suitcases and lugging it around and they just just
they got to take the train and take the train
to the city and take it in this this, And
then they're on the corner and they're like trying to
like figure out where they are, and somebody comes by
and steals the suitcase and runs off with it. And
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if every time I hear that story, it's like, if
this suitcase was so heavy, how did someone just pick
it up and run off with this giant, super strong dude?
The story doesn't make sense. And that's this is what
I feel about the end of the story. This is
the that's the end of the story. And like, so
that person got home hoping up, but it was a
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giant dead dog and it's just like, you dumbest story.
And this is how I feel about ghosts. Every time
people tell me a story about a ghost, and it
just the logic doesn't make sense. I've never seen a
ghost in a Walgreens. People have died in Walgreens? How
many people have died a lot of people died. I
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had on go life. How come there's there's never ghosts
on intersections. People die on the highway. There's there's flowers,
there's those white bikes all over the place, there's you
all these memorials of where people have died. There's never ghost.
Ghost don't like the daytime. They don't like that they
are only ghost. That's that's so stupid. Ghost or not,
like Okay, let's only come out when it's super ghost.
Only come out when it's super spooky when nobody else
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is around in a place that's already like and there's
no other people to back you up exactly, And then
most would be like, well that door did close suddenly,
Like okay did it? It's like your energy though, you
have like a YouTuber who like debates people on whether
ghosts exist, like coming they only come out and they're spooky,
and they never it doesn't make sense, So I just
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love it. It gets It's the one thing. I'm very bad,
But you have like that the vibe though of someone
who kind of wants a ghost to exist. But you've
been so disappointed a friend friend in life, this mortal plane.
Don't we all want that? That would be great? Man.
Uh So do you believe people who think they've seen ghosts?
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Do you think they're lying? Or do you think they
just believe they've seen a ghost? Did they believe it?
But that's what's that's what's crazy to me is that
they they're in a place where their mind could play
tricks on them, you know, and uh, you know it's
in there. It's always like in an old place, you know,
to the idea that a ghost is walking around going
I'm gonna I'm gonna turn the lights off. But really
you know, like that's how you're gonna go go step
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your game up, dud, dude, I don't know what a show.
They're always make a basketball move crazy in air like
in a game like so much like and it goes
in the other angels in the outfield. I mean that
has happened in that documentary and The Sixth Man with
Kadeem Hardison again a ghost? Hell is that a basketball? Wait? Angels?
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Those aren't ghost of those are angels? But so where
does that definitely don't angels now ghosts fuck them. I mean,
how how come I ghost just never just grabs a
bunch of like you're eating a bowl of cheese pups
and it just throws all the cheese pups in your
face or yeah, I mean that's why it moved that
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it moved you. That happens. But people feel so stupid
telling that story that they're just like, I guess I can't, like,
that's not a good ghost story. So you only hear
about the ones who's like a child was like hovering
over me when I woke up and whispered. It's like,
we actually all have ghost stories. Just too embarrassing my pants.
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You wouldn't believe it if I told you, Uh, what
is a myth? What's something people think it is true?
You know to be false. Okay, I'm gonna say a
lot of people think that I'm going to go back
to food. Sorry, guys, I was going to say, but
I think that people think that anchovies are gross. I'll
come then, and I think anchovies are the most underrated,
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delicious food in the world. And I think a lot
of you fuckers don't know that you're eating anchovies when
you are and when you taste something, you're like, Wow,
this is ridiculously good. Where's that mommy coming? Fucking anchovies?
Get some anchovies, Get some fish sauce. Throw that ship
in everything and it'll change your life. Now, the antovies
that I've eaten are very salty. It's like concentrated salt exactly.
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But in general, when you cook it in something you
want to basically just the base. You've got your oil going,
you put the anchovies and it'll melt in there. You're
not even to note see it. You won't notice it,
but you'll sense it in any Yeah, like any pasta
sauce that's really good, there's an anchovy melted antos there. Yeah.
When I was it's the nutmeg of Asia, if you will. Yeah,
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maybe I just bought a whole nutmeg recently because I
was like realizing how much I needed. I was making
a Bolognese sauce, and the fresh nutmeg with a microplane
is really the only way to turn that whole thing up.
One thing, I will say some foods. When I was
in Florence, Italy, actually I was at this well hold on,
I must say. He mentioned anchovies. There's a little little
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place for panini called in Florence and they have an
anchovy and butter panini that I thought was like everyone like,
people like, you'll get that over there, and I was like,
I don't know. I mean, I know it's going to
be good, but the idea was a little bit still
kind of off putting me. Had it one of the
best things ever had? Butter and anchovies fantastic? Also butter
and ham French baby an easy dude, so good. Yeah.
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By the way, this is the longest that's taken for
him to drop that he was in Italy. I'm surprised. Well,
you know, I don't know the company, am I around?
But yes, for the initiated A city full of history anyway? Sorry,
what is a myth with something people think it's true,
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you know to be false? I was going to do
like a now a dry historical one. Is that? Okay?
For people who have not listened to the podcast that
I'm pitching called Noble Blood. The biggest myth is obviously
that Marie Intrinet said let the meat cake, which is
just like the best propaganda line in history that we're
still saying it. Um No, that was just I mean
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totally in like a propaganda newspaper um, which is it's
kind of crazy to have a thing that like, you know,
people just sort of assume and even if they know
it's kind of not true, it's still associated with her,
even though it was completely made up, which makes me
sad about the state of the world and the way
propaganda works and the way um people talk about their
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political rivals. I mean not to make it to come,
but like the way Trump does his like dumb nicknames
for people, and they stay and even though we repeat
them like ironically, it's like, well, maybe in two years
they won't know that we were saying them ironic. Rights,
Like that's the way you know, the it's a very
dull knife that you know history, and so that is,
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you know, the most quote unquote basic example I have
of history. But I think it if you dig a
little deeper, it's it's kind of chilling that we still
associate her with that thing that was written in a
newspaper totally unrelated to our life. Yeah, I hope Moscow
mix sticks, but that's just something about history where the
humor just doesn't translate because no one will ever like
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sometimes you don't get context. But I'm sure when people
inevitably right this chapter in history. It's like, this president
was known for being a fucking idiot on Twitter who
would just give people random names. I don't know if
they'd be like And then there was pencil neck Adam
Schiff Yeah yeah, wait, that wasn't his real name and
when he became president. But I think that's true of
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I believe Caligula is a lot of like, you know,
people are like, oh, yeah, he fisted horses and stuff.
When you think about it, it's like maybe not, Maybe
that's like a crazy rumor that his rivals made up.
And that's what Catherine the Great obviously, right, that's like
one of those things. It's like how do we still
know it because it's a learn but like you think
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about that for one second and you're like, obviously that's
not true, right, And Napoleon being short, Oh yeah, it
was totally normal. Yeah, it was normal for the time.
It was like five six yea sex. That's the problem
with Caligula. There's so many like good, juicy stories, and
they're like these are all fucking just made up by
his enemies, did you know. Weirdly, the way that like
the Popeye spinach thing was because of a printing error
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that like they thought that spinach had way more iron
in it than it actually does. It has a normal
plants amount of iron, which is not that much. But
they put the decimal point in the wrong spot. But
don't they still say like if you need iron, I
mean leafy greens are right okay, Like yeah, but it's
it's like, if you want iron, you shouldly red meat
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or less red meat because the Amazon is burning. So
now leafy greens eat a tonne red meat. Just eat
a bunch of iron. Man action figures. Get Ryan there,
you go. All right, we're gonna take a quick break.
We'll be right back, and we're back. Let's talk about
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a preview of things to come. Super volcanoes. Uh so
is that the vaporizer. It's probably a vaporizer. But once
every two point one million years, a super volcano will
go off. There are ten of them or eleven of
them around the globe and or twenty scattered around the planet.
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And the last time one went off with six thousand
years ago. Uh. It is basically like there will be
huge earthquakes and then the sky will just like go
dark because of how much magma will come out of
the Earth that would hot magma, and uh, the nearest
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one is on her yellow stone and great, I mean
it doesn't it's almost like saying near In this case,
it doesn't make a difference at all because it doesn't
matter as long as it's on the Earth. Yeah, well
it so it would cover most of the Midwest in ash,
like in three ft of ash. Uh that this was
in an op ed in the New York Times. But
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so they they're basically saying that this so it's an opinion.
It's yeah, one of those scientists. It just writes about
his opinions. Opinions. Um. He talks about them as ultrack
catastrophes that would lead to global devastation and even human extinction,
like a major asteroid impact, global nuclear war, or super volcano,
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a super eruption of one of these supervolcanoes. And he
basically is making the point that the volcano is the
one that's most likely to happen in our lifetime, but
we are our current lifetime, as in everyone listening more,
it's more likely mathematically statistically than the asteroid impact. But
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the asteroid impact is the one that we've had a
bunch of movies about. Basically I have a question. Is
this something that it would happen and we'd all die instantly,
because that's the way I want to People near there
probably would. Yeah, people real close by would, people who
lived in the surrounding states would, But we would just
have a slow, painful day. You have a slow See.
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That's the worst. Because also then the people who are
like like have like survivalist things, then they get to
be smug, right, yeah, exactly. People who have been storing
gases for like years, they're like, ha ha, honey, They're like, yeah,
but what about your fifty dollars in beanie babies? Asshole?
What about Okay, I took a l on those. But
you know what, like people with canned food, he's like,
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I've been waiting for this. They get to feel really excited,
and I don't want that. I don't want to live
in that world. And Baker people and her survival buckets. Well,
so this article I'm just something to look for. The
reason I think this is a preview of things to
come is because you remember the year when Armageddon and
Deep Impact came out in the same year. The reason
people think the reason both those scripts got written and
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like made around the same time was because of a
news story that had happened on like one of the
main news channels like nine years before. So nine years
from now, I feel like there's gonna be a year
of super volcano movies because this is like a it's
it's a very vivid peak. We had the success of
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John snow Pompei movie. The volcano movies have not done
that because volcanoes are so boring, that's slow. Dante's peak
was the same year as Volcano. Joe Versus the Volcano. Well,
that's a great movie. Well, but I think it's a
great movie because the volcano doesn't happen. I still have
a promotional bag from Joe Versus the Volcano that my
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mom got in there ye live around the tip. I
think it was made by Orion Pictures because it still
has an old Orion logo on and it's a usable
bag that to this to this day that my family uses.
Good for you, Yeah, that they made a Pumpei movie
that did very poortly, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah. And
there's so many good stories. It wasn't one guy like
masturbating when but that's not a good story because everyone dies.
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Everyone has to be like an art art film or
something where it's like you see that same moment for
people all over the place because it's like sliding doors
or some sliding doors. And yeah, but I don't think
you can make a blockbuster where everyone's like Titanic, that's true.
Did you see the article that people like the Titanics
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like falling apart? And they're like, motherfucker, that's just sank
over a hundred years ago in the fucking sea. It
looks like ship. You get like I was like, I
never thought it looked that good to begin with, first
of all, deteriorating. What are we going to do? Like, y'all,
I don't know if you've seen the Acropolis, it's a mess.
What we're gonna do about it? What happened there? Everyone?
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What happened time? No? Yeah, they're like, we last saw
it forty years ago and it looked better than it
does now. And it's like, well you have being forty
years under the sea, that did you look forty years ago?
Like it was fourteen years ago and the last time
that anyone was down there was James Cameron. Wait, what
do you mean fourteen years ago that somebody was down
in in like diving around the Titanic, remember, because he
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made the Titanic, but then he also got really into
like diving titan I'm pretty sure he only made Titanic
because he really wanted to die down part of it.
Didn't that obsession create new like submersible technology nailed at all.
He that's he does that a lot in films. I
went James Cameron. I went on a tour of his
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workshop once, which is a quotes because it's not really
a workshop. It's like a airplane hangar where he keeps
like it's a van. No, they called it the workshop.
It was like a press James Cameron, like you know,
ten reporters, and it's like, uh, just little things from
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all of his movies and he just keeps like the
thing from Aliens, like the I don't know, and all
the models of the Titanic, and he just seems like
he just there's a dude who happens to make movies
that really loves the stuff toys, making cool things. Yeah,
he's just yeah, he just loves I'm a collector who
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just got into filmmaking. That's a good way to get
access to Yeah, the kind of that's what it felt like.
Like real, Like was it real? Did you have any
stuff from the Titanic in there? Like from the that
not that they showed us. Maybe in his personal home
probably he's like, this is the wheel. Did meet him? Yeah,
he was Jim Jim. But here's the thing I wanted.
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I thought he was nice. But he was nice because
he's like an old man meeting a few reporters like,
I don't think I would want to be married to him. No,
why would you get What was the sense you got from?
I have it, but just from stories. He's not. He
a controlling but I think now that he's of an
agent status where he gets to do whatever he wants.
I think back in early in his career when he
had to yell at people, he was not a pleasant person.
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But now he's he's James. I bet now he's a
pleasant person to be around because everyone says yes to.
One of the early like things he did in filmmaking,
he was, I think, working on the set of a
horror movie and they wanted to have a shot with
like a bunch of like worms and grubs in it,
and he was like, they're not wriggling enough, So he
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just electrocuted the whole thing of grubs and so they
would like start crawling over each other, and which is
brilliant but also really cruel, and I think a good
kind of description of how he treats people in his movies.
He will just like when you look back at the Abyss,
he's like talking about like how how fun it was,
and everyone's like almost drowned night. Yeah. Yeah, people almost
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got that thing like they were breathing water, like the
technology was that, like they would learn to breathe in
fluid like the premise of the movie. Right, but I'm saying, like,
but even having that in your head and like so
the actors are like in these suits that are like
filling up, Like wouldn't the helmets fill up liquid? I'm
sure that would stretch. Yeah. Yeah, man, bring it back.
(29:17):
It was getting so good. It was never getting I
mean it got so wacky though. I was like, well
we'll hold on because before I decided, there was some
weird show and now we're dealing with like some other dimensions.
Dudes on a dollhouse. I'm so mad that they canceled it,
just because like they canceled it. O A is d
o A. No one made that joke. It's just like
(29:39):
no one, no one else is making shows that weird. Yeah, right,
more weird things in the world. I mean, I think
they should do a flash mob to bring it back
with the dancing movement, the movement of the movie, the
climax of it. Because he knows the show creators and
he's salty, not salty. I can't wait for this to stop.
(30:03):
There's Jack actually had the idea for Jack telling about
your stole it from me. Yeah, he was talking about
all these nd ease he had and your death experiences
at water parks, and they're like, hold on, I will say,
there's guys I hooked up with and now I can
never watch anything even tangentially related to them because it
makes me viscerally upset. Yeah, what do you mean, Like
(30:26):
who are these people you're dating? But I canna say
it on the damn Okay, I mean that I live
in Los Angeles like people in the world, I'm the
only thing that reminds me of X is like an
empty TV box. I mean like, oh, I can't watch him.
She's like, I hooked up with a guy and now
I can't watch any of Lebron's games. Kind of sted
for me, especially when he came to the Lakers. I'm like,
(30:48):
of all the towns, really lebron here first? I moved here, asshole.
All right, well, let's talk about other people who shouldn't
knows the V M A. S. I'm fucking crushing these
fantastic Stevens, who is a New York Times columnist who
(31:10):
kind of takes the conservative side of things. Oh all,
I mean he's mr fucking PC cultures ruining us. What
the snow flaker e safe space? Like? He's basically what
Sebastian Maniscalco like this? They think the same. What's are
these trigger warnings and these safe spaces? Safe space used
to be in the bathroom with the lights out before
(31:31):
my dad came home, you know anyway, So is that
a masturbation? Do? I don't know? It's some one's going
to call you after this, gonna be like I need
to hire you as my head writers. Like hold on, man,
you got my tone? Did you hack my eye cloud
or something? You looking at my notes? You're looking at
my notes? Do you hack my brain? Because my synapse
is the firing. I see these kids, these gen Z kids,
(31:53):
they got no prospects for the future. They're looking at
listen to this E d M. What the fund is
that I call it economic distraction music because they're not
paying attention in the futures. Holy fun anyway, So, uh,
this is sort of what his whole deal is. Brett
Brett Stevens. Back to Brett Stevens. He goes, he just
(32:13):
to give you an example, this is something he said,
like he was praising the University of Chicago because they
had a policy that was against having safe spaces or
trigger warnings for you know, students who might have come
through some kind of trauma. First, he's quoting from the
committee at university quote, concerns about civility and mutual respect
can never be used as a justification for closing off
discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable. Those ideas maybe
(32:37):
to some members out of our community. Typical right wing
sort of free speech shit. Uh. Then goes on and
then this is sort of his commentary. Those are fighting
words at a time when professors live in fear of
accidentally offending their own students, and a governor needs to
declare a countrywide state of emergencies so that white supremacist
Richard Spencer can speak at the University of Florida. They're
also necessary words. That isn't because universe ever cities need
(33:00):
the First Amendments most loyal guardians. In the case of
private universities, the First Amendment generally doesn't apply. They set
their own rules instead. It's because free speech is what
makes educational excellence possible. So he's always saying like they
don't care if it's homophobic, it's free speech. So cut
to a couple of days ago when there was like
the story that came out that the New York Times
(33:21):
building had bed bugs or whatever. Um, this professor at
George Washington University, like quote tweeted, like the article that
said breaking there are bed bugs in the n y
T newsroom. And then his tweet was the bedbugs are
a metaphor. The bedbugs are Brett Stevens. Okay, not even
a Miles level joke, a Miles doing Sebastian level. No,
(33:43):
I have done a lot that that's that's crickets all day. Uh,
and I think that thing only got like six likes
or something three retweets. Then suddenly he continued this chain.
He said, I just got an email from Brett Stevens.
See seeing the university provost. He's deeply offended that I
called him a metaphorical bedbug. This is his email. Dear
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Dr KRP, someone just pointed out a tweet you wrote
about me, calling me a bedbug. I'm often amazed about
the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about
other people, people they've never met, on Twitter. I think
you've said a new standard. I would welcome the opportunity
for you to come to my home, meet my wife
and kids, and talk to us to for a few minutes,
and then call me a bedbug to my face. That
takes some genuine courage and intellectual integrity on your part.
(34:25):
I promised to be courteous no matter what you have
to say. Maybe it will make you feel better about yourself.
Please consider this is standing invitation. You are more than
welcome to bring your significant other cordially. Bret Stevens, Miles does.
Bret Stevens is almost as good as Miles does the best.
Then he fucking quit Twitter. He greit Stevens quick quit Twitter.
(34:46):
He said, time to do what I long long ago
promise to do. Twitter is a sewer. It brings out
the worst in humanity. I sincerely apologize for any part
I've played in making it worse and anyway I've ever heard,
Thanks to all my fathers, but I'm de activating this account. Wow,
my man goes on MSNBC and fucking digs the whole
(35:08):
even deep listen to how he even portray what did
you have against bedbugs? I'm gonna be careful with my
words because I know these are going to be examined carefully.
So I think Twitter brings out the worst in its users.
It tends to bring out the worst in its users.
And yesterday, um a professor George Washington University described me
(35:32):
as a bed bug or a metaphorical bedbug, just in
the context of the New York Times having a bedbug
problem in our building. And I think that kind of
rhetoric is dehumanizing and totally unacceptable no matter where where
it comes from. All I would say is that using
dehumanizing rhetoric like bedbugs or you know, analogizing people to
(35:53):
insects is always wrong. Can do better. We should be
the people on social media that we are in real life.
There's a bad history of being called uh, being analogized
to insects that goes back to a lot of totalitarian
regimes in the past. I've been called worse. I wrote
this guy a personal note. Now it's out there for
everyone to see. Yeah, everyone to see how much of
(36:14):
a pearl clutching snowflake you are yourself, sir. So this
is the classic ship that they do well. The right
has been like talking about the infestation of you know,
Mexican immigrants. Free speech man. Yeah, until until that shows
up on my I'm gonna jump in here and say,
I know Bret Stevens, Do I do? I've had dinner
(36:36):
with Bret steven I went to a to a dinner
in New York last year and he was there, and um,
I sat next to him. He was a really he
was a great guy. I can't say a bad thing
about him. I probably like Brett Stevens a little more
than you guys do, and I think that he definitely.
The thing is he must be like searching for like
what everyone everything that people are saying about him, And
(36:57):
this got on his radar because yeah, like I didn't
at him, didn't at him at all, and it had
like a paltry like like to retweet ratio, that's like
you went into the search box. And put your name in.
I don't even think it's a good idea to look
at your mentions like because that is probably mentally unhealthy.
But to actively like be constantly searching your name is
(37:20):
the self harm. Yeah, that's self harm. It's very it's
very dangerous. And I'm sure that you know we get
it as well, because I get like it's funny like
if I put like a YouTube video or there's a
YouTube video of me or whatever, I like just like
kind of rushed through all the positive stuff one negative
thing and I'm like, clear my calendar, I can't do anything.
Just misspelled comment about but it wasn't even that bad.
(37:43):
I mean, it's like you're in the public eye, like
these things happen, and then like, I don't know, I
think like in it that's the I don't know, I
think taking it to like, oh this he didn't mean totaliz, Harry.
He wasn't like doing what like Nazi cartoonists for doing
or anything like that. Why is he even mentioning that
in his like sort of rationalization as to why this
was so offensive? I think he I think you're think
(38:05):
I think he was. I think he's digging a hole.
And I think he's like trying to get out of it.
And I think people like that who are like, you know,
they debate for a living, like they're not willing. It's
very hard to just say, Okay, I'm sorry, maybe I
over reacted, yeah, or just you know, fucking move on, dude, right,
But it's it's like anything he's like, oh no x
X truck nuts for x X. But it's funny that
(38:27):
it was that. It's true. He definitely is the you know,
the kind of flag bearer of like, let's stop being
so sensitive. And this, to me, this being the thing
that put him over the edge, seems it's almost there
must be. I think there's layers to this. Maybe with
this professor, maybe with his history with bed bugs. Maybe
he was called bed bug in college because he was
a stinky kid or something. I don't know, maybe he
(38:48):
had bed bugs. I'm going to be a full disclosure.
I've also had bed bugs. I've met Bret Stevens, and
I've also had Thanet. Like, actually, can we just cut
this out of the episode. If you've never had bed bugs,
you've probably never lived in New York. But it's also
(39:08):
just the worst thing ever. But again, that's that's a tangent.
I think this is ridiculous, that this is what kind
of set set them off. We have bed bugs here
in l A too, really good about the Alexandria Hotel
downtown where people got them from just hanging out there there.
Everybody's staying in there and they're spreading. Are they do?
You have to throw all your ship away when you
(39:29):
get bed But I think the spread in l A a
a little more than in New York, because in New
York they're just like, just fucking you know, put the
deep spread the DDT in your apartment. That's sebast that's
my Sebastian. But here they're like, we don't use chemicals.
We're just gonna rub some on the bed smudge. We'll
just get some stage. Um. Well, since we don't like
(39:53):
to end on Epstein News the World, so that's not
how this podcast works. You guys don't do that every episode.
We don't like to go into a break on that.
So I will tell you The longest, tallest and fastest
roller coaster with speeds of a hundred and fifty five
miles per hour, is coming to Saudi Arabia's new Six
Flags theme Park. There's six flags in Baby, the Falcon's
(40:20):
flight could hit dizzy speeds up to hundred fifty miles
per hour. It's going to be the tallest roller coaster.
Wasn't it called Bone Saw before that? Was it? I
gotta go. I'm constantly fascinated by gulf arabs desire to
(40:42):
outdo the whole world in like dumb shit, like we're
going to make the biggest man made island in the
shape of an art that ever been seen. Alright, alright, right, yeah,
did you see uh MBS's plans for uh like building
Jurassic Park out of robots. Yeah, yeah, he has a
(41:06):
plan for it's like this lunar like park thing. What
do you mean a lunar park. I don't know, like
it's on the moon. No, but it like has some
sort of like space age aspect to it and to
produce around a Hosny and Knows. Basically, he's trying to
create like a futuristic city that's like a like a
(41:26):
party city. It's like a Dubai times a thousand called
There is an actual plan for it's like literally called
like Plan Neon or something like that. We talked about
on Ethnically and Videos that's a plug. Yeah. I think
it's really crazy and I don't know if they'll be
able to do it because it costs like six jillion
dollars or something like that. It's out of control. But
it will have yeah, like it will be like a
(41:48):
lot of space, and it's going to be like, I
literally think, based off the description, will be like a
giant dome. It's they're literally like twelve year old who
have billions of dollars. They're like, we're going through the
We're going to make we need to dinosaurs. It's like, um,
but your jails are full of journalists. I don't have
(42:09):
a dinosaurs. I want to hang with a raptor. I
want to feed the bloggers to the dinosaurs. Uh. Sorry.
The lunar thing is that it's going to have a
fake moon, an extra fake moon, like orbiting it. I
think it's I can't even you know what. I'm just
gonna take everything you say. Is that's definitely planned b
(42:32):
Initially he was like, I want to make a real moon,
another real moon to put around my Jurassic Park. Like,
we can't do that fake moon. It's called neom. It's
going to have flying cars, a fake moon. Grand seven surveillance.
I love it all the things people love one partying.
(42:52):
All right, we're gonna take another quick break and we'll
be right back. And we're back. Well, fortunately we have
one of humanity's finest minds joining the world of academia.
(43:14):
Um so I think we will have global warming self
pretty soon. Matthew McConaughey is finally getting the respect he
deserves and will be a professor at ut University of Texas.
Horns Man. He is finally I'll go back to school.
He's been a visiting instructor since apparently I didn't know that,
(43:34):
but now he is. The Moody College of Communications has
now made has now appointed him as a professor of
Practice to the Department of Radio Television Film Faculty starting
this fall. I don't know what the funk that means.
So will he teach acting? Well, so what he's teaching
is uh, He's doing a co teaching class called uh
(43:57):
Script to Screen and it's going to be with a
director and faculty member, Scott Rice, And it's basically sort
of going like every stage of a film's production inlved
with many things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. That'll be kind
of that's kind of tight. I mean he's great the
thing all right, right, yeah, there is here he is
(44:19):
right now, somebody say pineapple. Yeah yeah. Yeah. It just
seems like he's gone from someone who I thought was
a joke totally and he kind of is. And he's
sort of a meme in his own way. But he
has a lot of knowledge too that I would love
to hear. It's funny because yes, man, yes, I when
(44:39):
we first started talking about this, my first thought was,
what a ridiculous what an asshole. He's a cartoon of
an actor. He goes out there and he's like, have
you ever had sex? Or whatever? And then yeah, and
then as I started talking, I was like, Nope, I
love him. I love I love true Detective. Um, detective
what else? Mud? Yeah, he's Buyer's Club, Dallas, Buyer's Club.
(45:02):
He was incredible. Yeah man, um, Yeah, I'm curious has
he directed anything? Failure to Launch? Failure to Launch? I
think we'll see at home. And he was like, like,
his parents are like, please find it wasn't Terry Bradshaw's
dad in that movie. Oh my god. I hope so
I got to see his movie Failure to Launch. I
(45:22):
fully expected Terry Bright Show to have a huge movie
career after that film and nothing that would be cool
still halftime shows on Fox. Do you remember the one
Howie Long starring action film that came out fires Fire?
In the commercial? Is he throwing a fucking action or
something like through a flame? Like, I don't even know
what that meant? Oh, man, broken arrow, he's a broken arrow.
(45:47):
Oh that's right. There was a period of time where
he was like the third dude in the seal team
or the group of generals or whatever. Yeah. Um, speaking
of that X thing, one of my favorite uh body
sprays man, I'm so happy that you said that. Uh yeah,
(46:08):
one of my favorite body sprayses ax Um. Yeah, it
really helps me have a lot of sex with women.
My secret on these online dates acts. Now there's that.
Are you familiar with the Matthew McConaughey movie. It's a
Rain of Fire? Are the Dragon movie? Yeah? The Dragon movie? Yeah?
That was like a huge they spent massive flop and
(46:31):
he's like steampunk dragon writer. But here's the thing about
that movie, And I'm going, do you mind if I
spoil some shit about this drag about Rain of Fire?
Rain allows to warn our listeners. Spoiler alert from the
Rain of Fire. I'm here to spoil things that have
that came out a long time ago that no one
wants to see now. In the trailer for that movie,
(46:53):
all the build up in the trailer is about how
they're fighting this dragon and Matthew McConaughey is there. It's
all it's said. In the UK, a post apocalyptic England,
Christian Bale is trying to save his little town and uh,
then Matthew McConaughey has is an American general or whatever
who shows up with a bunch of Americans and tanks
and guns and stuff, and he's like, we're going to
(47:14):
take down this dragon. And in the trailer, the trailer
ends with with Mattew McConaughey diving off a cliff with
ax in hand at the dragon, about to ax him
in the head. Yeah, and then the trailer ends and
I was watching that being like, oh, dude, I'm going
to see this movie. And then in the movie he
(47:35):
jumps off the cliff at the dragon and the dragon
eats him. It's so awesome. Also interesting fact the name
of his character Denton really coming back to Denton. That's
because of teeth like um. Also a film that we
failed to talk about, Tiptoes that never saw the light
(47:57):
of day. Arry Oldman plays like a little person. YO,
just search Tiptoes. It's a it's a film that was
never released, but it's about him and his brother, who's
Gary Oldman, who's a little person, and like his whole
family I think are a little It's it's a very
bizarre film that with Kate Beckinsale, Peter Dinklage. It hasn't
(48:18):
just a very big cast of people. You're like, they
did this. The script must have like come with cocaine
or something, because the script you saw it? Did you
see It's it's like a viral thing that the trailer exists,
and you can see that on YouTube. But I'm sure
the films out there somewhere, but I've not seen it.
But the whole this is what the story. The synopsis
(48:40):
is on IMDb and if if the language is problematical,
left to excuse me, because it was written by Earl Baker,
so holly red him. It says two brothers, a dwarf
and one of typical size. Uh, that's just it. Then
it's a period okay, and then it goes and of
typical size period. You have to read it in the
voice of the trailer trailing. When Steve Friend becomes pregnant,
(49:02):
the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit. The
dwarf is m gene matters are complicated still further, once
she finds herself falling in love with Rolf the dwarf. Wow,
and their love is not of typical size. Yeah, there's
a lot of that. Typical size is such an I
know this is what happens in Yeah, um man, there
(49:25):
is a there is. I don't think this ever came out,
but I saw some episodes of a show where and
it's a real show that was shot an entire season,
and I saw it because I knew the editor, and
I think they may be released it briefly somewhere once.
But the show is the exact same as the real world,
(49:46):
except everyone who lives in the house has Down syndrome. Yes,
oh yeah, what was that called? And here's the thing
is that, like, I think it didn't air for because
conceptually it seems like the people in the show are
being taken advantage of the people have Down syndrome. They're
showing people with Down syndrome four viewers or clicks or whatever.
(50:07):
But then you watched the show and you're like, this
is wonderful. Yeah, there was this show and won a
bunch of awards actually for being wonderful. Anyways, Matthew McConaughey,
I would be I wouldn't be surprised if he, like,
is really smart about film, like the way that like
(50:28):
Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood and Ben Affleck ended up
being like good directors because it's like you have to
know how to make yourself look cool in movies. In
Eastwood Early Clint Eastwood. Yeah. Later Empty Chair Clint Eastwood. Yeah,
that was What else do you do? I love that
(50:48):
movie where he brought the chair out and talked to him. Yeah.
I mean he's a good he's a great actor, so
he's already unless his process is so organic where he's
like I don't know, man, yeah, and then like dude,
this professor McConaughey, this doesn't help me. It turns out
every movie he's ever been it is a documentary. Right. First,
(51:14):
what is something you think is underrated? I think the
Amish I was thinking about it and go off. I
just I think the I think it's underrated, and I
think we kind of uh danced danced near it a
second ago with the loom, you know, like it's it's
it's simpler. I was the no technology thing is like,
(51:37):
for instance, I did a show the other night and
my phone's like froze up during the show and I
needed it for this thing, and uh or you know,
I'm uh so much technology. I'm on the phone with this.
Like you know, when their wagon wheel breaks, they never
have to be on hold with customer service for an
hour trying to figure out why the wagon wheel doesn't
work exactly, it's just like time to fix the fucking
(51:59):
wheel and simple enough. You're not like, because so many
times you have everything technology, like, okay, I did it,
I did all the things. Why is it still not working?
You know when you start losing your mind and it's
like the wagon wheel it's broken, Well that's it's because
it's in pieces, or it's on fire, or you know,
it needs to be reinforced. Yeah yeah, and we go
on amish, Yeah, let's do it. Yeah. I think that
(52:21):
was not smart business decision. Shouting out the Windows podcast,
just screaming at the top of your lungs. The barn
raisings are the thing that's always impressed me about the
Amish that they'll just have like everybody come to a
field to build a barn in like a weekend. Yeah,
and it will be done by the end of the weekend.
Just everybody builds it. I mean, based on the TV show,
(52:43):
was it Breaking Amish or whatever, it's always interesting to
people who that show is absurd and stage but hilarious.
But like the people who are like leaving, it's kind
of interesting when you see the people who get spreading
itch so hard to be like everything is like like
you know, modern society has been mothered so hard that
like I can't help but to go there. But maybe
(53:05):
we're like reverse amishing it. We're like, dude, I'm tired
of this modern world. Yeah, I think me. I can't
grow a beard when Amish kids at sixteen do their
rum springer and like come and live in our world,
our sixteen year old should have to go live Amish. Yeah. Yeah,
anyone who lives out near Amish country let us know,
you know people listen. Yeah, well, you know I know
(53:28):
people people out there in Amish. You know p Star
Boy who was smoking big doings out Amish smoking big
doings in Amish. So if you're out in amoush smoking
big doings, let us know what a fucking genius that was.
It's just like video this dude smoking a blunt like
in a cornfield and he's like smoking big donks in Amish,
and it just keeps saying and he's like hitting this blunt.
(53:50):
He's like gang. At the end, it's like over, he's dead.
Because I was. He became like kind of an internet
celebrity me guy, and then when he died, people like
the big links and homage. Dude died get some kind
of like long complex, some kind of respiratory complications. That
sucks because that's completely related to I don't know, man,
(54:11):
I don't want to speculate because then I have to
think about my own blunt smoking, you know, and then
what am I going to die from it? I mean,
but you don't have a lung situation that your brand
is directly under. I don't have a lung situation that
positive thinking can't here. That's right, that's what we've always said.
You can also switch to edible blunts. Yeah, that's way
(54:34):
better than if your lungs are bad. I roll up
they're like, damn, hell yeah, don't Yeah, all right, that's
gonna do it. For this week's weekly Zeitgeist, Please like
and review the show. If you like the show, uh
(54:55):
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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