September 15, 2019 • 48 mins
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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
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
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the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is something from your search history
that's re feeling about who you are? Well? I thought
about this because, um, well, I'm gonna tell the listeners
and you guys about one of the most important things
to me in the world. And I've thought about it
because I liked it. I like it to be a secret.
I like it to be my secret documentary that I
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only know about. And I know that I'm not the
only one who knows about it, but but I know
that if everybody knew about it, it would cause, you know,
people would really go crazy. Um people just riding in
the streets. There would be like shirts and stuff. I think, like, oh,
with about this documentary. But the documentary is called Devil
at your Heels. It's called Devil at your Heels and
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it's on YouTube and it has like all the great
documentary it has like a hundred thousand views or something
like that. But it should have it should have a
billion views. It is okay, so big. It's not about big,
It's about a guy named Ken Carter. And Ken Carter
was known as the Mad Canadian and he was a stuntman.
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Um and he started out as a ramp boy. Uh
and and when he was a kid, he dropped out
of school to be a ramp boy. Which is I mean,
talk about me being born at the wrong time, like
my right arm. To a ramboy, ram just an extinct
job is no job, ramboy. It's a ramp boy, just
a guy who set ups ramps like a dropout ramps
like job I can you'd be a ramp man like
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it's just not as many ramps. It's like being am
not the same ballman. You're a ball boy and a
ballman as a designer. But I think ram boy for
how important a ramp is to someone's performance, you would
want to treat them with respect because I'm ramp boys
they're treating We put it this way in nineteen seventies
six in Canada, you could say like, I'm dropping out
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of school and your teacher was like, what he got
set up? You're probably gonna be on the street. And
he's like, no, I got a job. Set up as
a ram boy and they're like, alright, that's that's not
something you can say. Probably came with a pension too,
so he is all right. So I was watching like
a buzz feed or mash double or I don't know what.
It was, some kind of thing where they do top
ten lists, you know, like top ten car jumps, and
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there was a clip of of a Lincoln Continental, a
yellow Lincoln Continental, trying to jump over. What he does
is he tries to jump over the St. Lawrence Seaway,
which is a mile wide in uh yellow Lincoln Continental
with with wings on it. And he had in the
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documentary he had like a serious team. He had the
best best engine builders. He had a guy on that
camera that's like an engineer saying that he was once
he was in the air, he was gonna be able
to fly the car with the wings like a real
physicist was like, yes, I've designed this so he should
be able to steer it in the air. And and
there's no plan for the landing really, except he plans
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he's going to land in a bunch of roses. And
then they say, well what about these trees? Are you
worried about the trees? And he said, no, we'll be
careful than not not to knock down the trees. And
they weren't saying, you know what I mean, he took
it wrong. They were like, aren't you worried about the trees,
like you're gonna kill yourself, And he's like, oh no,
we'll be very careful with the trees. Ken Carter is
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one of the most inspiring, not that smart people in
the world, and he he will make you so because
he's so confident and he's really he doesn't have a
whole lot of charisma. He breaks his legs over and
over again. He's constantly on crutches. He says stuff like
I'm standing on the threshold of life when he's when
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he's not when he's like forty eight. And he also
he said, I grew up in this poor area, but
I grew up and I'm a I'm a I'm a
what does he say? A beautiful physical specimen something like that.
But he's not at all. He's like he's limping. And
it's a very inspiring documentary. My favorite part is I
don't want to give it away because there's a twist
ending he dies, No, he dies later. He died later.
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He died in a rocket car accident that you can
find on There's also you can watch that on YouTube too.
Um twist ending we won't spoil it. So the twist, dundy,
I won't spoil, but I will say that the jump
does not go well, um at all, like not at all,
you know. And so when I first showed it to
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my brother, this is my favorite thing because it's like, okay,
so they build this hundred foot ramp and like a
mile long runway. I mean, he had funding and he's
gonna be on Why World of Sports. Evil can Els
in the documentary, he comes and checks out the jump
and says that he looking good, looking good. He says
that well, he says, he knows it's gonna be on
Wild World World of Sports. So we can't trash the
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jump totally because they end up not televising it. But
he thinks it might be televised. So he's actually like,
this is a terrible idea, but he has to be like,
but if it, if it does happen, it'll be the
greatest daredevil jump in history. But he he tells ken
that there's no margin of he said, you got no
room for error. But it's like there's nothing, but he
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has plenty of room for error. Like the whole area
off the ramples, everything passed the ramp is room for error.
So my brother watches what happens, which I don't have to.
It doesn't ruin it to say that car shreds. I
mean the car goes off the ramp and it shreds.
I mean because it's going it's a rocket car. It's
going like three hundred four hundred miles an hour, and
they've done nothing to modify the car to make it
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better at this they just strapped a rocket to us.
And that's the thing that's actually really interesting about it
is the whole documentary they have have interviews with like
competent or seemingly comp didn't like engineers who are saying
that this is gonna go well, huh. But the whole
time you're like, how could it go well? And it's
made of the body of the cars made of fiberglass,
which is the reason that shreds, which is I guess
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the reason they thought that would maybe flyer. I don't know,
but um my brother watched it shred and he said
he didn't have any context at the times I was
just like, check out this car jump on mashuble or whatever.
And he said, what didn't happen that was supposed to happen,
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Which is the best question. When you watch it, you're like,
as a fair question. But I'm like, drive that thing
in the air. He was gonna land it. He was
gonna be careful not to break any of the trees. Um.
So he So why were all the sport anyway? Evil's Evil,
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Evil's in it. It's great. He's wearing a cream colored
outfit and he comes out of a cream colored Cadillac
and tells and tells, yes, tells ken Carter, who you know?
Ken Carter looks up to Evil Evil, like, yeah, he
still likes I think he hits. He hits um. He
has a rolled up like like brochure or something in
his hand, probably bures everywhere he hits. He he like
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he hit ken Carter. He's like, I'll tell you what, buddy,
and like you could tell that was the best moment
of ken Carter's life when he was hitting him with
that piece of paper, because he was like, listen, buddy,
you got to be careful. There's no room for error.
And he was like, it's been raining it's been raining,
because that's what ken Carter was like, We're gonna do
it though, we got to do it, but it's been raining.
That's the thing evil. It's been raining. It's been so
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much rain. He's like, yeah, well you're not ready. So
ken Carter is just like, we're still gonna do it.
Ken Carter ends up dying years later. The end of
the documentary is not ken Carter dying. It's a much
more interesting ending. And anyway, this guy is one of
my favorite people. Ken Carter. He's he's he's a he.
He tries that he dries it drives a dragster and
he can't get the dragster because he's too fat. He
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goes he tests he he he's trying to pull gs,
you know, getting ready for the jump. He goes up
in a in a biplane to do tricks or something
that he throws up and he's embarrassed about it. Um
like it's embarrassed. Man. He has a press he has
a press conference in like a romata in announcing that
the jumps delayed. That is one of the greatest pieces
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of footage ever shot. I mean it's in Canada and like,
I mean there's just you can barely see him. There's
so much smoke in that room. You can barely see
Ken Carter announcing that the jump is delayed because everyone
in there smoking. Everybody everyone's drunk for some reason. At
this game, it's like a buffet, and it's like a
buffet for the Ken Carter jump delay announcement, speaking of
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the the ramp boy being inadequate to the job. The
jump that ended up killing him had to be delayed
when he first attempted it because the start off ramp
collapsed under his car when he drove up. Yeah, you
can see it. It's all. You can go on on
there and see it. And there's a whole bunch of
people who have like found the car. And you know,
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he's got like a little cult of people. But I
just gotta say, if you want to a midnight movie,
a movie for you guys to watch when a midnight movie,
like you know what I mean, a movie for you
guys to watch when your stone. If I was in
high school and college, I would just watch this movie
every night. I would have never left the So you
weren't encouraging high school students high school. In high school,
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I was studying and then as soon as I hit college,
I watched documentary Stone. But um, my friends watched the
A Team every day and they put on a red
light and called it conditioned red. They were all Stone.
They all not. Well, what is a myth with something
people think it's true? Is that you think that you
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probably I had such a hard time coming up with these.
You these are absurd. Um, you probably think I'm looking
at Anna. Anna. You probably think that you can't watch
the cur of Oak Island if you don't have cable.
She's been saying that all week. Actually, all I watch
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is people do archaeology type stuff on on YouTube. I
mean right, So, so Curse of Oak Island? You know
that show on the History Channel. You don't know that show?
Oh I should have done that as my big one.
Then oh man, I go watch Devil at your Heels anyway,
but God, you should have. We should have talked about
Curse of Oak Island. Oak Island is this island off
the coast of Nova Scotia, and um, in the late
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kids were out there playing and they found an area
where it looked like it had been dug up, and
they dug dug down, and they dug and they found
a stone with a bunch of markings on it, and
they found uh, um, like a bunch of platforms, like
every twenty feet there's a platform of like uh coconut fiber,
and that wasn't native to the area. And then they
realized that they think there were drains that had been
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created on the beach that was so if you got
down to a certain level of digging, it would fill
the water, fill the pit pit with water, ocean water.
So anyway, these guys, these who hurt. I'd heard about
that story when I was since I was in grade school,
about this oak island and they people kept digging down,
but the water would come in, come in and destroy
the show. The design was in order to flood any
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hull that somebody tried to dig it. They're guarding something. Yeah,
so it's like pretty elaborate. So I've read about it.
People have been trying to find it ever since the
early eighteen hundreds, and the people have died. Lots of
people have died because the because the shafts keep collapsing.
They build these hundred hundred foot deep shafts, and that
some guys died from from fumes from using a pump
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down there, like six people died at once, I think,
or four people died at once, like a father and
his son. Some father dragged his son into this treasure
hunting business, you know, like we're gonna go find this,
and they both died. They both died from a pump
from pump fumes um, And yeah, I should have known
you were going to do this to me, Dad with
your nickname pump Fumes, so old pump Fumes, James pump Fumes.
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So anyway, these guys, Rick and Marty Lagina have a
show on the History Channel, and there are two brothers
that are trying to find the damn except they have
big money behind him and they've got drills and cranes
and but they still haven't found much and the and
they and it's a great show. I love it. It's
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so funny. It's it's great because Rick Lagina is the
dreamer and Marty Laguina, his brother, Rick Lagan is like
the sex symbol, and he is clearly a sex symbol,
Like I have a crush on Rick Lagina. It's like
running neck and neck with Nicola White mud Lark. And
for people, for treasure hunters, I want to fuck uh
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so so anyway, this show is great, so I've been
but here's even the better part of it is that
I don't have cable, so I have to watch. I
have to go on YouTube and watch. But no, that
that's even better. They scramble the episodes like so the algorithm,
so it's like a nonsense version of the episode, which
I still watch. I've watched like every episode of the
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show on YouTube where they've chopped the edit so like
the algorithm can't recognize it because the algorithm will be like,
this is a bootleg. Yeah, they're like, the algorithm will
be like, this looks a lot like a bootleg of
our show that we should take off YouTube. But it's
also gibberish. So it's like they cut the video doesn't
match the audio, and you have to watch it like that,
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And and I like that show so much, you're like,
I'll figure that I watch it on that scramble. A
lot of times you'll see them do stuff like only
show you like the image and like speed up the seen.
I couldn't take that. I couldn't handle them. This sounds different.
This is what I like this one. The images are
all wrong, but the audios right, So anyway, if you
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guys want to. And by the way, Cursive Oak Island
I think is heating up. I think they're gonna I
think they're gonna find something. But there have been six seasons.
Treasure hunting is so much fun to watch. This is
a tribute to me and making sense of my lifestyle.
Is that they've had six seasons or seven seasons, they
haven't found a damn thing. I would say, would that
they think might have come from his ship? I would
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say your appetite for watching people pull just junk out
of mud is higher than many a listener. Possible, But yeah,
but he converts a lot of people. Yeah, I'm not
saying larking is you know for for new listeners, check
out Mudlarking. Larking is like the Thames River. I've talked
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about this previous episodes. You just just London is a
two thousand year old city. They've been throwing stuff in
the river for two thousand years. And you go down
there in the one the low tide, because the Thames
is connected to the ocean, and you and you go
down there and just dig through the mud and you
find everything from a Roman helmets to um yeah, to
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have cell phones from yesterday is something you think is overrated? Uh?
Cards against Humanity. I love comedy and I love games.
I just hosted a game night at my home last night.
You guys did not attend. I realized I also did
not invite you. Would have been amazing on the GRAM.
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I'd be happy to have you in the future. Usually
host him every other week. Um, and we would probably
be happy to have you back on this podcast once
that happens. That work, I mean already I already had
him on my podcast that I'm back. We don't want
to reveal the dirty underbelly that we use our podcast
in part and and I should I point out that
I would have to let you win. I hate that.
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So I know people that win. So I love games
and I love comedy, and I cannot stand Cards against
Humanity and I and even more so, I cannot stand
people posting photos of funny combinations that came up Cards
against Humanity. It's pretty much just well, but I love
class I play a lot of games from the eighties
and the early two thousands. I have no judgment on that.
I just find it completely creative and unfunny. And then
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when people post something of like, look at this crazy
combination of things. It's like, yeah, that would happen because
those things were already preprinted and pre manufactured, and eventually
those combinations would It doesn't mean that you're clever for
having selected them. And and you know, it's based on
Apples to Apples, which is a great game that you
can play with with kids or with with the elderly humanity. Yeah,
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but but at least with Apples to Apples, you're you're
you're a you're learning a little something about what the
certain topics are, but you also you also get some
insight into the people that you're playing with, like, oh,
I think that person would choose that combination of things.
And for Cartagons humanity, there's none of that. It's it's
just all random guessing. Well, I will say I agree
with manufactured outrage. I think there is something though, like
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when you're playing cards, you do have to predict, like
based on their sense of humor. It's like I could
put something that's witty because based on the person who's picking,
or something that's just completely absurd. I'm not saying that that.
It's more it's more about like outright, you know, it's
being being the craziest, wackiest. I just think it loses
its excitement after you play it the first time, I think,
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and the only other times I've enjoyed playing it has
been like I've not been sober, and then even then
the only good chainsaws for arms or whatever that card
is love that one. No, it's like play it once,
be amazed, like, oh my gosh, this thing is so
what rageious and they put it in print. Wow, that's
kind of weird to see something so what ragious in
print and then and then move on to something. That's
why they need all those modifier decks now, because I
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think people at a certain point it's like, right, you said,
the pope likes to jerk off on an old foot
or whatever the weird combo is, and wow, I mean
I'd rather play scategories, but the holy yeah, exactly why
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would he? Guys? I mean, let me let me explain
why it's funny. Yeah, I mean Apples and Apples is
a fun game, but not enough, Pope? What is a coming?
What is a good comedy game to yous? Uh? Well,
I like regular games where it ends up being funny
because people are under pressure and doing something unexpected. So
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For me, Pictionary is always funny money celebrities. One of
my favorite games Balderdash, you can at least be witty
and clever and how you can get people to guess
fake definitions of things. I like those kinds of things,
but also I just have fun playing, you know. There's
also just not much very conversational about that game. Also,
it's like you you're waiting for someone to play something,
they play the wacky thing you make a statement about, like, oh,
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that's so crazy, and then you move on to the
next thing. Like it doesn't It doesn't allow conversation. It
doesn't allow other than being amazed at how crazy those
combinations are. I'm not very tapped into the game world
unless it's on console. But like, there was a version
of Charades where it started off as just sort of
acting something out, but as each round got harder, there's
like the same twenty things people had to act out,
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but you had less and less ability to actually emote
or gesture. So like first you would actually do you know,
proper shirt, you don't act it out. Then you could
only just use like your face, and then as it
got one of the more extreme rounds is you put
a sheet over yourself and then you try and act
it out with a sheet over you And that was
just kind of got funny because you began to just
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pick up on like micro movements that suggest it was
this one answer. But you know, I play that. It's
like people who are too good at celebrity or too
comfortable in a sheet, they just come out from under
in their naked Yeah. Yeah, I've never played a game
of celebrity that didn't include people like laughing their ass
off at each other themselves until I overturned the table
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and then and you're like much less laughter. All right, guys,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back. Let's talk about clowns. Scary clown Are
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you chlorophobic? No, not at all. I don't really have
I have been. I have been interested in in looking
at old TV from the fifties, like clowns were Breakfast
Cereal mascot then they fucking loved him. Seems very strange
to me because they they do seem like scary, like
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inherently not like a thing that children would like. Well,
it's someone who has painted themselves to convey an emotion
that they might not be experiencing underneath implicit they can't
be trusted and they're disgusting, but their danger society, and
I mean that kind of is the general take is
it seems like people are like fun clowns. Clowns are scary,
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so it's not super surprising, but it is interesting to
me that they're still so salient that it chapter two
was set the record for the biggest September opening and
biggest horror movie opening, outpaced only by IT Chapter one. Uh.
And then also the Venice Film Festival gave out its
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awards at the end of the festival, and the Golden Lion,
which has been given to movies like Raschman, Broke Back
Mountain and Roma, went to the Joker movie Joker, which
pretty wild. That's pretty big departure for a comic book
movie to get the award um even though this is
apparently less comic book movie than like Taxi Driver influenced
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character study. But clowns are still a powerful symbol apparently.
I don't know why. Is it because there's like a
generation of us who absolutely did not like clowns, Like
I feel like baby boomers, like my dad. I've seen
like photos of like his room as a kid, and
there was like clowns shit, Like I remember my grandparents
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as they would have some clowns shipped up, and I'm
like this is yeah, no, my grandma collected clowns, right,
and then like maybe maybe then our parents weren't so
into the clowns, and then we're like full on, like
your clowns are fucked up and weird. Like I don't
know if it's is it Is it a the passage
of time. Is it just purely because we or or
maybe we're introduced to more examples of clowns being like
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possibly weird with like John Wayne gaycy Art or like
the other Ship. Yeah, it does seem like a it's
tapping into maybe something like it's just such a break
from the past, like how I inherently respond to the
clown versus how like my grandmother collected them and thought
they were like cute, like little ceramic clowns. Maybe the minority.
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I find clowns neither scary nor entertaining. I just send
them kind of there, all right. I'm just not ambivalent.
I don't necessarily like get upset at the clown, but
I'm also like I'm like, okay, fine, do you know,
I've known people who are like coloraphobic, and I funked
up around them because I didn't take it seriously. Cry
because you show him like a wild montage with clowns
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cut into it unexpectedly. Uh, And you know, I'm sorry,
you gotta jump scare from a did I did from
a coworker and I had to apologize. I didn't realize
what had happened. But like, in a way to me,
I didn't take it seriously, like yeah, yeah, you're doing
that thing where like culturally you hate clowns. And I
was like, oh no, you have a full on yeah,
take people's phobia seriously. Yeah, it was you know earlier times. No,
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I I've done that too. I once I had a
friend in college who was had a like this role
reaction of the word cotton balls and uh. I was like,
oh yeah right and said it like a bunch of
times and she was like like really it really fucked
her up. Um. Anyways, we're just called two horrible people
now host a podcast. But it's still like, why is
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the Joker the character that has brought out like some
of the best performances in film like the It's just
interesting to me that like a clown bad guy would
be the character that draws these you know, iconic performances
out when that as a cultural symbol has become sort
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of irrelevant or maybe it's just been co opted. I
don't know. Symbolically, I think it really sums up like
the waning influence of like white men in America. Yeah,
just in general, to like a clown, right, Like most
of the time, this character is an impotent man who
isn't achieving at the rate of the other men around him,
and then puts on a face to obscure that inner
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failure and sell the clown right, and then resorts to again.
I talked about this all the time. When you are
you feel powerless. The next if you cannot create, then
you will destroy. And that's the next way you can
feel potent is by saying, well, if I can't build
the things I want, I can destroy the things around
me with great effectiveness, which is another thing the Joker does.
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So I don't know, there's like, you know, there's there's
many layers I think to just sort of like what
the Joker could. Yeah, that was pretty that was great analysis.
I just think it's because they're cute. I don't know.
It's laughs weird he's got a red nose, but also too,
but you know, shout out to clowns too. I recently
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saw like a clowning show, like proper French clowning. That's
that's that really is an art form. I think if
people got in touch with that style of conning, we
would maybe we respect our clowns. Baskets was a good show,
is it? Is? It? Actually? Uh funny the French clowning
that you saw it because they all have different emotions,
so there are ones. It was more impressive to me
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as performance, like what the what the clowns can symbolize?
And you know, the facets of our humanity? Well ship man,
that sounds pretty weird anyways, so pretty well you should go. Man,
what is something that is overrated? I think overrated? Is uh?
(25:49):
Is this idea of of of thinking like oh people
are are are are so soft now? And that and
and and you know you can't take Dave Chappelle special
because like I was thinking about this a lot. Uh
when it when it was in the height and you
know I saw it, I was like, okay, yeah, you
know there's stuff I like stuff I didn't but like
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this super like Martyrdom performance that's been going on online
where it's like, you know that people were like picketing
Andrew Dice Clay shows like so like that compared to
someone saying, oh, that's kind of shitty on Twitter, is
nothing like can you imagine trying to walk into your
show and you have to walk across a picket line?
That is not happening, So like the I I think
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that just negates two ideas. One that there is a
new softening of society, and to that it's just so bad,
like cool, yeah, you know that's it's just you know,
freedom of speech, not freedom of concept. I mean softening
of society is a way to not actually accept that
society might be progressing. Yeah, it's just the same thing
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when old heads in like you know, music or or
some art, uh feel that they're the things they like
are being dated and people have moved on from it.
They they try and push this idea of like, oh
music sucks trash, this trash. It's like, well, the people
making money seething, Yeah, their shows are still packed, so
maybe maybe it's not trash and it's just not for you.
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Like I can kind of see the argument from the
left because they're like, well, the left has traditionally been about,
you know, completely free speech and like opening like just
saying whatever the funk we want, but people on the
right being like, man, you guys just try and censor
speech when the right has been like the most all
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about censoring speech, like from Jump Street and like all
along that. They would then act like this is something
new that they would never be a part of. It's
just wild so funny because like, uh, because I've follow
Hassan Abi from the Young Turks and he was recently
(28:00):
under fire because he was cracking jokes on Dan Crenshaw
and his lack of an eye and depth perception. Uh
and uh. And I remember, like, you know, the right
just being like how could you do this? How could you?
And then those same people, the same people are like, oh,
you want to be mad about some jokes from Dave Chappelle'
is like would you just just the words? Haven't finished
(28:22):
escaping your mouth from like dragging Hassan on Fox News
to like debate after he's coming after the guy who's like, yeah,
I lend my handguns out the friends. You never know. Anyway,
I was with Pete Davidson and I flamed him. So
let's talk about Hasbro's new Monopoly addition. Yeah, because Monopoly
(28:49):
socialism was so funny where they like ship on laser
focused sharing things, and now they have to decided to
take a crack at feminism. It seems like with Miss Monopoly.
Oh watch out girl. Yeah, with a nice young woman
(29:10):
holding a cup of starbuck like what could only be
presumed to be like Starbucks coffee right with her hand
on her hip, and it says, first of all, who
is Miss Monopoly? She is Mr Monopoly's niece and a
self made investment guru here to update a few things.
It's about time. Um now when you look into it, though,
this is obviously just a cynical cash grab for people
(29:32):
who are maybe dumb enough to think that this is
meant to be an empowering addition of Monopoly. Uh, they
made her a niece. They call it a celebration of
women entrepreneurs and inventors. In it, female players start the
game with more money than men and also collect more
when passing up what the front cover declares it, quote
the first game where women make more than men. Yes, queen,
(29:56):
I mean, look, it's true. The pay pay gap is
very real, but what a flipping way to deal with it? Right? Also, like,
isn't monopoly? The idea behind actual monopoly is like, this
is how it is out there, guys, Like this is
supposed to mimic actual capitalism, and to mimic actual capitalism,
they're giving women like a leg up like that. It
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just seems like it's I don't know, I don't know
that how that's supposed to feel empowering. Yeah, especially because
like miss monopolies from generational wealth. Obviously, well she's a niece.
You don't know how Mr Monopoly's brother did. He could
be a deadbeat, that's true, you know what I mean?
Maybe she inherited from from him. Could be like that
kid in Succession who was like vomiting in his like
animal suit in that first season and then somehow got
(30:39):
swept up in the company. But the way they keep
going on is, dude, a fun new take on the game.
That's a world where women have an advantage often enjoyed
by men. Okay, then it says, although the company adds
that quote, if men play their cards right, they can
make money too. Great um players rather than purchasing properties,
will quote invest in inventions, created by women, things like
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WiFi and chocolate chip cookies. Amazing. That is incredible. This
was invented by the has BROI by fucking talks Bro.
It's on the cup on the front of the box.
It says, without women, we wouldn't have WiFi or chocolate
(31:20):
chip cookies. Way to like send just full you turn.
I'm like, oh dope, WiFi and chocolate chip cookies. Yeah.
Do you want your head to fully fall off please?
So they're one of the new tokens you can play with,
like you know, like race card thing or whatever. This
one has a watch Okay, but has Bros Jen bozz
(31:41):
Winking boz Winkle told USA Today this is because it's
about time for some changes. That's you know what I mean.
That's I think that conveys that message, says it all.
They should just be like rather mis monopoly should be
like manless earthly, yeah, or all men have died because
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they're useless. How do y'all think first reformed monopoly? Yeah, yeah,
they understand again, you know, cash grabs hollar truly that
is you're really at a loss for words. Yeah, the
chocolate chip thing really sucked you up. Chip cookie what
like that? That's the thing that they keep coming back
to chocolate chip cookies as like, yeah, women can invent things,
(32:26):
like they can bake a neat one of the pieces
should be a whisp. Don't get crazy. Don't let people
think that women are actually capable of creating things like WiFi.
Bring it back a little bit, tamper the WiFi thing
and totally just obscure like the also that, by the way,
(32:47):
the CEO of WiFi do you know what I mean?
Like like that invest in I just hate it so much.
It's like so patronizing already that like I failed to Hey,
look hasbro y'all fuckingp it is not ye wait till
the Black Lives Matter monopoly. White people get less money
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than black people and when they go to jail, Oh,
like I guarantee you that has been at some point
pitched out. Imagine what the discard pile is ideas in
those meetings. Oh my god, I can't. Actually it almost
pains me to think of what things I mean again
(33:28):
every day with the kind of ship that's set out
out in these boardrooms or even advertising agencies. But like
if we got miss monopoly and they made socialism monopoly,
that were such fucking bizarre off bad takes on things.
What what didn't make it through the field? And who
did they test these two? Did they bring people in
that they're like, how would you feel about a miss
Monopoly or a misss Monopoly or you know, yeah, I'm surprised,
(33:52):
Like and in this one, you can play with a
new token, the biological clock, because it's tacking and that
you have to turn on an actual ticking clock while
you're going around the board, and it's like, oh, you
got too successful, We're shutting the timer off. She can't
be self made though she has to be related to
Mr Monopoly. I guess what in their like in the
(34:13):
expanded universe of Monopoly, this unbelievable tiny guy, we like,
we needed to think that he had a niece, and
did they make it a niece so it didn't seem
like too much like there wasn't that much nepotism involved,
or maybe just so that they had the same last
name Monopoly, you know, right, because they didn't want to
make it like his younger wife. Let's talk about face off, guys.
(34:37):
This is one of the most preposterous premises for a
movie that has ever ended up being good. In my opinion,
it's ye, and it's it's a bad movie because of
how ridiculous it is, but it's still it's like a
great plot. Holes are gigantic, you, I mean, the idea
(35:01):
that you're like, okay, man, you're gonna go undercover just
with this dude's face, not even your body, right, you
got the same motherfucking body, your face, and then like
you're supposed to also download like there's no information about
emotional relationships aside from maybe like what you could clean
off a piece of paper, and then you just become
this person. Yeah. Also that voice changing thing they put
(35:21):
on his throat, Yeah, that's the one technology I remember, right. So,
I mean, so they're gonna recast this because I mean,
the thing that made it work was it was Nicolas
Cage and John Travolta at the top of their game. Uh,
And I thought they did a pretty good job like
imitating each other, and Castor Troy was a good character.
(35:43):
Wait wait imitating each other? You mean so when Travolta
became Castor Troy that he did a good version of
the Nicolas Cages Castor Troy. Yeah, and he was like,
oh what a predicament? Yeah, yeah, okay with that. Um,
I mean it's like an acting X your size. It's
like that. That's kind of what's cool about it. I
would love to see a deep dive comparing them, Like,
(36:05):
you know, Travolta really nailed these radiosyncrasies about his performance.
But yeah, like I wonder how much communication there was
between them, because they're both huge stars, Like I wonder
how much he was like so I'm doing this, like
this is my like a little hand gesture that I'm doing,
or if they just like looked at each other's scenes
how they did it. But um, anyways, they're gonna try
and recast it. Uh. I think it should be The
(36:28):
Rock and Nicolas Cage again. Just yeah, Nicolas Cage, I
think should be for whatever reason he's there. I kind
of need him there. But if you're going off of
people who were like fucking crushing this year, you got
like I guess Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson. Yeah, yeah,
(36:50):
like would be one or look, my I say, look,
let's just get it done with Jeremy Renner and Jackie Chan.
Just give the people what they want. Chad had apparently
had a big year in en. I did not know
that yeah, And I was just searching, like highest grossing
actors because I was like, you know, because in my
mind that was sort of the peri for face off,
the original one. I'm like, it's just sort of the
(37:11):
natural who was making the sh money this year? Actually, well,
number one is Samuel Jackson. So Samuel Jackson and The
Rock are one and two for highest grossing and I
think because of Avengers movies. Yeah, he was an Avengers Captain, Marvel,
Marvel spider Man Far from Home. I mean, this dude
is big. They should do like a five person face
(37:36):
off with all the Chris Is, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth,
Chris Pratt. Yeah, because Chris Rock, Chris Paul would be great. Yeah.
I mean, let's just keep one of one of the
worst actors in the history of commercial acts dud. What
(37:56):
if it was Benicio and Nicholas Cage. That would be fun.
And they both have that same they're aging kind of
the same way. They already have faces that look like
fucked up masks. Yeah. I mean that's the one issue
that I see is when it first came out, like
the idea of a face transplant was far enough off
(38:18):
that or like you know, it hadn't been done, so
we were like, could that be done? But now they've
done face transplants, and like you've seen the pictures of
what they look like, and they're they don't they're not
like seamless. Yeah, yeah, I mean honestly, actually, like I
saw a picture of the frenchwoman who was the first
successful face transplant, and she looks really good. Like now
(38:40):
like the face has like sort of adjusted, yes, settled
a little bit, but it's still like now that we
know what a phase transplant looks like and that it
takes years for your like things to settle, uh and
for your body to like not fully rejected. They don't
just lay it on and then a laser just goes
(39:01):
and then you are that's that person put a little
microchip on. My wife can't tell that it's a different
person's dick. Maybe they just had very similar dicks. Yeah,
that's really the deep dive we need to do. I mean,
you know, this would be a great podcast where you
you dive into the realities of these films and really
try and find out there's a there's a scene that
(39:24):
never made the cut where his wife goes, when did
you get circumcised. That would be I'm just pulling it back.
All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back. Let's listen to this clip
(39:52):
from I think it's CNBC. Is that the Financial one? Yep? Yeah,
where Jim Kramer, who I hadn't heard, you can like years.
He doesn't seem to be able to put a sentence
together anymore. I'm not totally sure why, but he's talking
to a couple of business guys. It's one of those
like financial shows where they're like three thousand numbers in
(40:14):
the frame, like on boards in the backgrounds and then
racing by below. Uh and there. Yeah, let's just hear
what they what they have to say about Elizabeth Warren.
I don't know. In the end, I know Elizabeth Warren.
Don't listen. I favor CEOs. You think it's positive to
have a sea I think, you know, maybe not, and
(40:37):
I it is. I don't know. If she becomes the president,
what do you think is going to happen to the banks, Well,
it's not a could be a suboptimal situation. I think
you think Elizabeth Warren pushes banks into they're already down.
But yeah, I just think, you know, there were these
(40:59):
uh yours in the thirties where they what rich people
in front of Congress during the depression, a traction effective
about twenty years later. We had the least discrepancy and
incomes in the fifties and sixties. I don't know what's
gonna happen. Look, I've gotta tell you, when you get
off the desk, you talked to executives. They're more fearful
(41:21):
of her winning. I mean, I've never heard anybody say, look,
she's gotta be stopped. She's gotta be I don't know.
It's she's very uh. She keeps going up in the polls. Wow,
these motherfucker's sound like the people that winter fell when
the White Walkers are coming. They're like, um, uh fuck
(41:41):
the polls. He's also doing a parody of a panic person.
He's like what in the middle. I don't know. I
mean they're either way Bernie or Elizabeth. They both have
Wall Streets number. And I think, yeah, maybe because Warren
is cutting through to maybe people they to more. They're
more afraid because either one of them, it's gonna be
(42:04):
suboptimal for Walters. And it always referenced these things that
when it was the other time that it was the
worst for the working class, like well, you know, the
thirties knew what was happening to rich people. Then someone
after goes but then that followed up with theirst amount
of income inequality because yeah, but you know, but remember
the thirties they had like an existential moment too, or
they're trying to figure out if CEOs were necessary, like
(42:26):
the no one wanted to like handle that thought. They're like, huh, well,
I don't. They were talking about a bank that hasn't
had a CEO, they've just had an acting CEO for
the past like year, and they were like, I mean
CEOs are a good thing, right, Like man, well, I
mean yeah. When you look at what she's proposing, she's
sort of like, I'm going to break up the big bank,
similar to what Birdie's talking about, and they want to
(42:47):
basically separate like a lot of the commercial banking ship
that managed like everyday people's money from the parts of
the bank that do the high risk investment ship. Because
she's going from the inside out and that's what she's
seen everything. And I think like a lot of these
people who are savvy about what's actually wrong with our
banking system and our financial system. They're like, just so
you know, this is what's happening. They're like, our deposits
(43:09):
are ensured by the government, and then they use that
like are basically we're gambling money that's ensured and they're saying,
let's let's knock that ship off. And I think also
to like a lot of it is basically trying to
bring back the Glass Stiegel Act, which was repealed in
nine and that's when it became casino time, casebo time,
and a lot of people say, you know, that's the
(43:30):
financial crisis was definitely spurred along by the fact that
that act was repealed. And I mean, just like we've
been saying with Trump and the you know, since Trump
was elected, the stock market has been doing well, like
it might not do great under Elizabeth Warren, but like
that is not the economy exactly. Well. Her whole thing
is like if we want financial independence and freedom for
(43:54):
working people and to like just make everything more equitable,
we have to go right through the one per cent
fucking face. And that's why, Yeah, you see these shows
and one per centers are hundled up, and like, I mean,
how do we stop the walkers there like a dragon?
Do we have a dragon? You know, it's curious that
they don't mention Bernie whatsoever. And that's like Elizabeth Warren,
(44:14):
That's what I think in their mind, they may have
already dismissed him, because I like, if they're thinking, like
most of these hacks do, it's like, well, he's a socialist.
I'm like, no one's gonna buy that. Like what she's
got is like occupy Walla Street people. And I think
maybe they see because Elizabeth Warren isn't outright describing herself
as a socialist, but someone about you know, what is
it the thing like fair capital or something like like
(44:36):
whatever the other code word for still capitalism is um
that maybe that's why they see maybe her is more
viable and yeah, but it's like but she likes, uh,
what is it compassionate capitalism or whatever? Yeah, because also,
like what's really also ridiculous about this is that none
of them are going to change anyone's minds in that conversation.
There's no one watching that that's like, yeah, should I
(44:58):
go with Bernie and stuff? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah,
they're like, wait, what she's coming for all of our money,
because you know, a lot of the a lot of
the stuff both of them are proposing is about having
to do a lot with like CEO pay and like
you know when these people come in and like buy
companies and you know, just like loot them legally and
then like not honor the pensions that they've actually put
(45:18):
forward for like their employees. Like they're saying no, no,
no, no no, no, we're fucking putting an into that. If
we're elected. Yeah, hopefully neither Sanders or Warren have any
skeletons in their closet because they would have been out
well I mean, I don't know, like maybe they didn't
take them seriously and they were just happy they were
taking votes away from each other. But rich people will,
(45:42):
you know, the corporate interests they've stayed However, how this
long for a reason, considering where we're at, what the
fund could they have done that we're looking at the situation.
We're looking like, you know what, maybe I'm gonna go
for Biden or the mainstream media is very persue ways
or at least influential, and yeah, it's like absolutely, yeah,
(46:04):
I agree. I feel like the mainstream media ignoring Sanders
has hurt his standing in the polls. Well, the bar
is so low that like a mood of centrist Democrat
is like a meal ticket for some people. They're just
looking they're like, well, you know, it's not going to
be Trump, that's time. Why not just And that's what
a lot of polls show recently too, Like there's a
(46:25):
I think close to sixty pcent like fifty of Democrats
and like left leaning independence just want someone that is
going to beat Trump, not someone that they're excited to
vote for. So just that idea of the of a
second term is I guess making a lot of people
circling their wagons around just like just beat him first,
(46:46):
him fucking we'll clean up the mess after when most
people have perished from student dead or methical. But electability
is you know, we've talked about how in the media
it's a way for you know, people sublimate their own biases, like, oh,
she's not electable, and it's like why, you know, because
(47:07):
she's a woman. It's like, yeah, Joe Biden's electable. Why, well,
you know, he just looks presidential. Well, what how are
you defining presidential by the size of their veneers? Took
was a blood vessel to get his numbers down. Burst
vessel in his eye, and people are like, you know what,
maybe he's not the most best choice. Yeah, well look,
(47:28):
although that the media definitely ignored the ship out of that,
I know, right, And he was like, it's like he
was auditioning for twenty days later. Really, He's like, I
was exposed to some experimental chips, been exposed to the
rage back to virus. Yeah, all right, that's gonna do
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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
last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is
(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is something from your search history
that's re feeling about who you are? Well? I thought
about this because, um, well, I'm gonna tell the listeners
and you guys about one of the most important things
to me in the world. And I've thought about it
because I liked it. I like it to be a secret.
I like it to be my secret documentary that I
(00:43):
only know about. And I know that I'm not the
only one who knows about it, but but I know
that if everybody knew about it, it would cause, you know,
people would really go crazy. Um people just riding in
the streets. There would be like shirts and stuff. I think, like, oh,
with about this documentary. But the documentary is called Devil
at your Heels. It's called Devil at your Heels and
(01:06):
it's on YouTube and it has like all the great
documentary it has like a hundred thousand views or something
like that. But it should have it should have a
billion views. It is okay, so big. It's not about big,
It's about a guy named Ken Carter. And Ken Carter
was known as the Mad Canadian and he was a stuntman.
(01:27):
Um and he started out as a ramp boy. Uh
and and when he was a kid, he dropped out
of school to be a ramp boy. Which is I mean,
talk about me being born at the wrong time, like
my right arm. To a ramboy, ram just an extinct
job is no job, ramboy. It's a ramp boy, just
a guy who set ups ramps like a dropout ramps
like job I can you'd be a ramp man like
(01:52):
it's just not as many ramps. It's like being am
not the same ballman. You're a ball boy and a
ballman as a designer. But I think ram boy for
how important a ramp is to someone's performance, you would
want to treat them with respect because I'm ramp boys
they're treating We put it this way in nineteen seventies
six in Canada, you could say like, I'm dropping out
(02:13):
of school and your teacher was like, what he got
set up? You're probably gonna be on the street. And
he's like, no, I got a job. Set up as
a ram boy and they're like, alright, that's that's not
something you can say. Probably came with a pension too,
so he is all right. So I was watching like
a buzz feed or mash double or I don't know what.
It was, some kind of thing where they do top
ten lists, you know, like top ten car jumps, and
(02:35):
there was a clip of of a Lincoln Continental, a
yellow Lincoln Continental, trying to jump over. What he does
is he tries to jump over the St. Lawrence Seaway,
which is a mile wide in uh yellow Lincoln Continental
with with wings on it. And he had in the
(02:56):
documentary he had like a serious team. He had the
best best engine builders. He had a guy on that
camera that's like an engineer saying that he was once
he was in the air, he was gonna be able
to fly the car with the wings like a real
physicist was like, yes, I've designed this so he should
be able to steer it in the air. And and
there's no plan for the landing really, except he plans
(03:18):
he's going to land in a bunch of roses. And
then they say, well what about these trees? Are you
worried about the trees? And he said, no, we'll be
careful than not not to knock down the trees. And
they weren't saying, you know what I mean, he took
it wrong. They were like, aren't you worried about the trees,
like you're gonna kill yourself, And he's like, oh no,
we'll be very careful with the trees. Ken Carter is
(03:40):
one of the most inspiring, not that smart people in
the world, and he he will make you so because
he's so confident and he's really he doesn't have a
whole lot of charisma. He breaks his legs over and
over again. He's constantly on crutches. He says stuff like
I'm standing on the threshold of life when he's when
(04:00):
he's not when he's like forty eight. And he also
he said, I grew up in this poor area, but
I grew up and I'm a I'm a I'm a
what does he say? A beautiful physical specimen something like that.
But he's not at all. He's like he's limping. And
it's a very inspiring documentary. My favorite part is I
don't want to give it away because there's a twist
ending he dies, No, he dies later. He died later.
(04:22):
He died in a rocket car accident that you can
find on There's also you can watch that on YouTube too.
Um twist ending we won't spoil it. So the twist, dundy,
I won't spoil, but I will say that the jump
does not go well, um at all, like not at all,
you know. And so when I first showed it to
(04:44):
my brother, this is my favorite thing because it's like, okay,
so they build this hundred foot ramp and like a
mile long runway. I mean, he had funding and he's
gonna be on Why World of Sports. Evil can Els
in the documentary, he comes and checks out the jump
and says that he looking good, looking good. He says
that well, he says, he knows it's gonna be on
Wild World World of Sports. So we can't trash the
(05:04):
jump totally because they end up not televising it. But
he thinks it might be televised. So he's actually like,
this is a terrible idea, but he has to be like,
but if it, if it does happen, it'll be the
greatest daredevil jump in history. But he he tells ken
that there's no margin of he said, you got no
room for error. But it's like there's nothing, but he
(05:26):
has plenty of room for error. Like the whole area
off the ramples, everything passed the ramp is room for error.
So my brother watches what happens, which I don't have to.
It doesn't ruin it to say that car shreds. I
mean the car goes off the ramp and it shreds.
I mean because it's going it's a rocket car. It's
going like three hundred four hundred miles an hour, and
they've done nothing to modify the car to make it
(05:49):
better at this they just strapped a rocket to us.
And that's the thing that's actually really interesting about it
is the whole documentary they have have interviews with like
competent or seemingly comp didn't like engineers who are saying
that this is gonna go well, huh. But the whole
time you're like, how could it go well? And it's
made of the body of the cars made of fiberglass,
which is the reason that shreds, which is I guess
(06:10):
the reason they thought that would maybe flyer. I don't know,
but um my brother watched it shred and he said
he didn't have any context at the times I was
just like, check out this car jump on mashuble or whatever.
And he said, what didn't happen that was supposed to happen,
(06:33):
Which is the best question. When you watch it, you're like,
as a fair question. But I'm like, drive that thing
in the air. He was gonna land it. He was
gonna be careful not to break any of the trees. Um.
So he So why were all the sport anyway? Evil's Evil,
(06:53):
Evil's in it. It's great. He's wearing a cream colored
outfit and he comes out of a cream colored Cadillac
and tells and tells, yes, tells ken Carter, who you know?
Ken Carter looks up to Evil Evil, like, yeah, he
still likes I think he hits. He hits um. He
has a rolled up like like brochure or something in
his hand, probably bures everywhere he hits. He he like
(07:16):
he hit ken Carter. He's like, I'll tell you what, buddy,
and like you could tell that was the best moment
of ken Carter's life when he was hitting him with
that piece of paper, because he was like, listen, buddy,
you got to be careful. There's no room for error.
And he was like, it's been raining it's been raining,
because that's what ken Carter was like, We're gonna do
it though, we got to do it, but it's been raining.
That's the thing evil. It's been raining. It's been so
(07:37):
much rain. He's like, yeah, well you're not ready. So
ken Carter is just like, we're still gonna do it.
Ken Carter ends up dying years later. The end of
the documentary is not ken Carter dying. It's a much
more interesting ending. And anyway, this guy is one of
my favorite people. Ken Carter. He's he's he's a he.
He tries that he dries it drives a dragster and
he can't get the dragster because he's too fat. He
(07:59):
goes he tests he he he's trying to pull gs,
you know, getting ready for the jump. He goes up
in a in a biplane to do tricks or something
that he throws up and he's embarrassed about it. Um
like it's embarrassed. Man. He has a press he has
a press conference in like a romata in announcing that
the jumps delayed. That is one of the greatest pieces
(08:22):
of footage ever shot. I mean it's in Canada and like,
I mean there's just you can barely see him. There's
so much smoke in that room. You can barely see
Ken Carter announcing that the jump is delayed because everyone
in there smoking. Everybody everyone's drunk for some reason. At
this game, it's like a buffet, and it's like a
buffet for the Ken Carter jump delay announcement, speaking of
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the the ramp boy being inadequate to the job. The
jump that ended up killing him had to be delayed
when he first attempted it because the start off ramp
collapsed under his car when he drove up. Yeah, you
can see it. It's all. You can go on on
there and see it. And there's a whole bunch of
people who have like found the car. And you know,
(09:04):
he's got like a little cult of people. But I
just gotta say, if you want to a midnight movie,
a movie for you guys to watch when a midnight movie,
like you know what I mean, a movie for you
guys to watch when your stone. If I was in
high school and college, I would just watch this movie
every night. I would have never left the So you
weren't encouraging high school students high school. In high school,
(09:25):
I was studying and then as soon as I hit college,
I watched documentary Stone. But um, my friends watched the
A Team every day and they put on a red
light and called it conditioned red. They were all Stone.
They all not. Well, what is a myth with something
people think it's true? Is that you think that you
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probably I had such a hard time coming up with these.
You these are absurd. Um, you probably think I'm looking
at Anna. Anna. You probably think that you can't watch
the cur of Oak Island if you don't have cable.
She's been saying that all week. Actually, all I watch
(10:07):
is people do archaeology type stuff on on YouTube. I
mean right, So, so Curse of Oak Island? You know
that show on the History Channel. You don't know that show?
Oh I should have done that as my big one.
Then oh man, I go watch Devil at your Heels anyway,
but God, you should have. We should have talked about
Curse of Oak Island. Oak Island is this island off
the coast of Nova Scotia, and um, in the late
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kids were out there playing and they found an area
where it looked like it had been dug up, and
they dug dug down, and they dug and they found
a stone with a bunch of markings on it, and
they found uh, um, like a bunch of platforms, like
every twenty feet there's a platform of like uh coconut fiber,
and that wasn't native to the area. And then they
realized that they think there were drains that had been
(10:52):
created on the beach that was so if you got
down to a certain level of digging, it would fill
the water, fill the pit pit with water, ocean water.
So anyway, these guys, these who hurt. I'd heard about
that story when I was since I was in grade school,
about this oak island and they people kept digging down,
but the water would come in, come in and destroy
the show. The design was in order to flood any
(11:14):
hull that somebody tried to dig it. They're guarding something. Yeah,
so it's like pretty elaborate. So I've read about it.
People have been trying to find it ever since the
early eighteen hundreds, and the people have died. Lots of
people have died because the because the shafts keep collapsing.
They build these hundred hundred foot deep shafts, and that
some guys died from from fumes from using a pump
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down there, like six people died at once, I think,
or four people died at once, like a father and
his son. Some father dragged his son into this treasure
hunting business, you know, like we're gonna go find this,
and they both died. They both died from a pump
from pump fumes um, And yeah, I should have known
you were going to do this to me, Dad with
your nickname pump Fumes, so old pump Fumes, James pump Fumes.
(12:01):
So anyway, these guys, Rick and Marty Lagina have a
show on the History Channel, and there are two brothers
that are trying to find the damn except they have
big money behind him and they've got drills and cranes
and but they still haven't found much and the and
they and it's a great show. I love it. It's
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so funny. It's it's great because Rick Lagina is the
dreamer and Marty Laguina, his brother, Rick Lagan is like
the sex symbol, and he is clearly a sex symbol,
Like I have a crush on Rick Lagina. It's like
running neck and neck with Nicola White mud Lark. And
for people, for treasure hunters, I want to fuck uh
(12:44):
so so anyway, this show is great, so I've been
but here's even the better part of it is that
I don't have cable, so I have to watch. I
have to go on YouTube and watch. But no, that
that's even better. They scramble the episodes like so the algorithm,
so it's like a nonsense version of the episode, which
I still watch. I've watched like every episode of the
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show on YouTube where they've chopped the edit so like
the algorithm can't recognize it because the algorithm will be like,
this is a bootleg. Yeah, they're like, the algorithm will
be like, this looks a lot like a bootleg of
our show that we should take off YouTube. But it's
also gibberish. So it's like they cut the video doesn't
match the audio, and you have to watch it like that,
(13:28):
And and I like that show so much, you're like,
I'll figure that I watch it on that scramble. A
lot of times you'll see them do stuff like only
show you like the image and like speed up the seen.
I couldn't take that. I couldn't handle them. This sounds different.
This is what I like this one. The images are
all wrong, but the audios right, So anyway, if you
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guys want to. And by the way, Cursive Oak Island
I think is heating up. I think they're gonna I
think they're gonna find something. But there have been six seasons.
Treasure hunting is so much fun to watch. This is
a tribute to me and making sense of my lifestyle.
Is that they've had six seasons or seven seasons, they
haven't found a damn thing. I would say, would that
they think might have come from his ship? I would
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say your appetite for watching people pull just junk out
of mud is higher than many a listener. Possible, But yeah,
but he converts a lot of people. Yeah, I'm not
saying larking is you know for for new listeners, check
out Mudlarking. Larking is like the Thames River. I've talked
(14:33):
about this previous episodes. You just just London is a
two thousand year old city. They've been throwing stuff in
the river for two thousand years. And you go down
there in the one the low tide, because the Thames
is connected to the ocean, and you and you go
down there and just dig through the mud and you
find everything from a Roman helmets to um yeah, to
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have cell phones from yesterday is something you think is overrated? Uh?
Cards against Humanity. I love comedy and I love games.
I just hosted a game night at my home last night.
You guys did not attend. I realized I also did
not invite you. Would have been amazing on the GRAM.
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I'd be happy to have you in the future. Usually
host him every other week. Um, and we would probably
be happy to have you back on this podcast once
that happens. That work, I mean already I already had
him on my podcast that I'm back. We don't want
to reveal the dirty underbelly that we use our podcast
in part and and I should I point out that
I would have to let you win. I hate that.
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So I know people that win. So I love games
and I love comedy, and I cannot stand Cards against
Humanity and I and even more so, I cannot stand
people posting photos of funny combinations that came up Cards
against Humanity. It's pretty much just well, but I love
class I play a lot of games from the eighties
and the early two thousands. I have no judgment on that.
I just find it completely creative and unfunny. And then
(16:03):
when people post something of like, look at this crazy
combination of things. It's like, yeah, that would happen because
those things were already preprinted and pre manufactured, and eventually
those combinations would It doesn't mean that you're clever for
having selected them. And and you know, it's based on
Apples to Apples, which is a great game that you
can play with with kids or with with the elderly humanity. Yeah,
(16:24):
but but at least with Apples to Apples, you're you're
you're a you're learning a little something about what the
certain topics are, but you also you also get some
insight into the people that you're playing with, like, oh,
I think that person would choose that combination of things.
And for Cartagons humanity, there's none of that. It's it's
just all random guessing. Well, I will say I agree
with manufactured outrage. I think there is something though, like
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when you're playing cards, you do have to predict, like
based on their sense of humor. It's like I could
put something that's witty because based on the person who's picking,
or something that's just completely absurd. I'm not saying that that.
It's more it's more about like outright, you know, it's
being being the craziest, wackiest. I just think it loses
its excitement after you play it the first time, I think,
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and the only other times I've enjoyed playing it has
been like I've not been sober, and then even then
the only good chainsaws for arms or whatever that card
is love that one. No, it's like play it once,
be amazed, like, oh my gosh, this thing is so
what rageious and they put it in print. Wow, that's
kind of weird to see something so what ragious in
print and then and then move on to something. That's
why they need all those modifier decks now, because I
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think people at a certain point it's like, right, you said,
the pope likes to jerk off on an old foot
or whatever the weird combo is, and wow, I mean
I'd rather play scategories, but the holy yeah, exactly why
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would he? Guys? I mean, let me let me explain
why it's funny. Yeah, I mean Apples and Apples is
a fun game, but not enough, Pope? What is a coming?
What is a good comedy game to yous? Uh? Well,
I like regular games where it ends up being funny
because people are under pressure and doing something unexpected. So
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For me, Pictionary is always funny money celebrities. One of
my favorite games Balderdash, you can at least be witty
and clever and how you can get people to guess
fake definitions of things. I like those kinds of things,
but also I just have fun playing, you know. There's
also just not much very conversational about that game. Also,
it's like you you're waiting for someone to play something,
they play the wacky thing you make a statement about, like, oh,
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that's so crazy, and then you move on to the
next thing. Like it doesn't It doesn't allow conversation. It
doesn't allow other than being amazed at how crazy those
combinations are. I'm not very tapped into the game world
unless it's on console. But like, there was a version
of Charades where it started off as just sort of
acting something out, but as each round got harder, there's
like the same twenty things people had to act out,
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but you had less and less ability to actually emote
or gesture. So like first you would actually do you know,
proper shirt, you don't act it out. Then you could
only just use like your face, and then as it
got one of the more extreme rounds is you put
a sheet over yourself and then you try and act
it out with a sheet over you And that was
just kind of got funny because you began to just
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pick up on like micro movements that suggest it was
this one answer. But you know, I play that. It's
like people who are too good at celebrity or too
comfortable in a sheet, they just come out from under
in their naked Yeah. Yeah, I've never played a game
of celebrity that didn't include people like laughing their ass
off at each other themselves until I overturned the table
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and then and you're like much less laughter. All right, guys,
let's take a quick break and we'll be right back.
And we're back. Let's talk about clowns. Scary clown Are
(20:00):
you chlorophobic? No, not at all. I don't really have
I have been. I have been interested in in looking
at old TV from the fifties, like clowns were Breakfast
Cereal mascot then they fucking loved him. Seems very strange
to me because they they do seem like scary, like
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inherently not like a thing that children would like. Well,
it's someone who has painted themselves to convey an emotion
that they might not be experiencing underneath implicit they can't
be trusted and they're disgusting, but their danger society, and
I mean that kind of is the general take is
it seems like people are like fun clowns. Clowns are scary,
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so it's not super surprising, but it is interesting to
me that they're still so salient that it chapter two
was set the record for the biggest September opening and
biggest horror movie opening, outpaced only by IT Chapter one. Uh.
And then also the Venice Film Festival gave out its
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awards at the end of the festival, and the Golden Lion,
which has been given to movies like Raschman, Broke Back
Mountain and Roma, went to the Joker movie Joker, which
pretty wild. That's pretty big departure for a comic book
movie to get the award um even though this is
apparently less comic book movie than like Taxi Driver influenced
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character study. But clowns are still a powerful symbol apparently.
I don't know why. Is it because there's like a
generation of us who absolutely did not like clowns, Like
I feel like baby boomers, like my dad. I've seen
like photos of like his room as a kid, and
there was like clowns shit, Like I remember my grandparents
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as they would have some clowns shipped up, and I'm
like this is yeah, no, my grandma collected clowns, right,
and then like maybe maybe then our parents weren't so
into the clowns, and then we're like full on, like
your clowns are fucked up and weird. Like I don't
know if it's is it Is it a the passage
of time. Is it just purely because we or or
maybe we're introduced to more examples of clowns being like
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possibly weird with like John Wayne gaycy Art or like
the other Ship. Yeah, it does seem like a it's
tapping into maybe something like it's just such a break
from the past, like how I inherently respond to the
clown versus how like my grandmother collected them and thought
they were like cute, like little ceramic clowns. Maybe the minority.
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I find clowns neither scary nor entertaining. I just send
them kind of there, all right. I'm just not ambivalent.
I don't necessarily like get upset at the clown, but
I'm also like I'm like, okay, fine, do you know,
I've known people who are like coloraphobic, and I funked
up around them because I didn't take it seriously. Cry
because you show him like a wild montage with clowns
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cut into it unexpectedly. Uh, And you know, I'm sorry,
you gotta jump scare from a did I did from
a coworker and I had to apologize. I didn't realize
what had happened. But like, in a way to me,
I didn't take it seriously, like yeah, yeah, you're doing
that thing where like culturally you hate clowns. And I
was like, oh no, you have a full on yeah,
take people's phobia seriously. Yeah, it was you know earlier times. No,
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I I've done that too. I once I had a
friend in college who was had a like this role
reaction of the word cotton balls and uh. I was like,
oh yeah right and said it like a bunch of
times and she was like like really it really fucked
her up. Um. Anyways, we're just called two horrible people
now host a podcast. But it's still like, why is
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the Joker the character that has brought out like some
of the best performances in film like the It's just
interesting to me that like a clown bad guy would
be the character that draws these you know, iconic performances
out when that as a cultural symbol has become sort
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of irrelevant or maybe it's just been co opted. I
don't know. Symbolically, I think it really sums up like
the waning influence of like white men in America. Yeah,
just in general, to like a clown, right, Like most
of the time, this character is an impotent man who
isn't achieving at the rate of the other men around him,
and then puts on a face to obscure that inner
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failure and sell the clown right, and then resorts to again.
I talked about this all the time. When you are
you feel powerless. The next if you cannot create, then
you will destroy. And that's the next way you can
feel potent is by saying, well, if I can't build
the things I want, I can destroy the things around
me with great effectiveness, which is another thing the Joker does.
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So I don't know, there's like, you know, there's there's
many layers I think to just sort of like what
the Joker could. Yeah, that was pretty that was great analysis.
I just think it's because they're cute. I don't know.
It's laughs weird he's got a red nose, but also too,
but you know, shout out to clowns too. I recently
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saw like a clowning show, like proper French clowning. That's
that's that really is an art form. I think if
people got in touch with that style of conning, we
would maybe we respect our clowns. Baskets was a good show,
is it? Is? It? Actually? Uh funny the French clowning
that you saw it because they all have different emotions,
so there are ones. It was more impressive to me
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as performance, like what the what the clowns can symbolize?
And you know, the facets of our humanity? Well ship man,
that sounds pretty weird anyways, so pretty well you should go. Man,
what is something that is overrated? I think overrated? Is uh?
(25:49):
Is this idea of of of thinking like oh people
are are are are so soft now? And that and
and and you know you can't take Dave Chappelle special
because like I was thinking about this a lot. Uh
when it when it was in the height and you
know I saw it, I was like, okay, yeah, you
know there's stuff I like stuff I didn't but like
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this super like Martyrdom performance that's been going on online
where it's like, you know that people were like picketing
Andrew Dice Clay shows like so like that compared to
someone saying, oh, that's kind of shitty on Twitter, is
nothing like can you imagine trying to walk into your
show and you have to walk across a picket line?
That is not happening, So like the I I think
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that just negates two ideas. One that there is a
new softening of society, and to that it's just so bad,
like cool, yeah, you know that's it's just you know,
freedom of speech, not freedom of concept. I mean softening
of society is a way to not actually accept that
society might be progressing. Yeah, it's just the same thing
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when old heads in like you know, music or or
some art, uh feel that they're the things they like
are being dated and people have moved on from it.
They they try and push this idea of like, oh
music sucks trash, this trash. It's like, well, the people
making money seething, Yeah, their shows are still packed, so
maybe maybe it's not trash and it's just not for you.
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Like I can kind of see the argument from the
left because they're like, well, the left has traditionally been about,
you know, completely free speech and like opening like just
saying whatever the funk we want, but people on the
right being like, man, you guys just try and censor
speech when the right has been like the most all
(27:40):
about censoring speech, like from Jump Street and like all
along that. They would then act like this is something
new that they would never be a part of. It's
just wild so funny because like, uh, because I've follow
Hassan Abi from the Young Turks and he was recently
(28:00):
under fire because he was cracking jokes on Dan Crenshaw
and his lack of an eye and depth perception. Uh
and uh. And I remember, like, you know, the right
just being like how could you do this? How could you?
And then those same people, the same people are like, oh,
you want to be mad about some jokes from Dave Chappelle'
is like would you just just the words? Haven't finished
(28:22):
escaping your mouth from like dragging Hassan on Fox News
to like debate after he's coming after the guy who's like, yeah,
I lend my handguns out the friends. You never know. Anyway,
I was with Pete Davidson and I flamed him. So
let's talk about Hasbro's new Monopoly addition. Yeah, because Monopoly
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socialism was so funny where they like ship on laser
focused sharing things, and now they have to decided to
take a crack at feminism. It seems like with Miss Monopoly.
Oh watch out girl. Yeah, with a nice young woman
(29:10):
holding a cup of starbuck like what could only be
presumed to be like Starbucks coffee right with her hand
on her hip, and it says, first of all, who
is Miss Monopoly? She is Mr Monopoly's niece and a
self made investment guru here to update a few things.
It's about time. Um now when you look into it, though,
this is obviously just a cynical cash grab for people
(29:32):
who are maybe dumb enough to think that this is
meant to be an empowering addition of Monopoly. Uh, they
made her a niece. They call it a celebration of
women entrepreneurs and inventors. In it, female players start the
game with more money than men and also collect more
when passing up what the front cover declares it, quote
the first game where women make more than men. Yes, queen,
(29:56):
I mean, look, it's true. The pay pay gap is
very real, but what a flipping way to deal with it? Right? Also, like,
isn't monopoly? The idea behind actual monopoly is like, this
is how it is out there, guys, Like this is
supposed to mimic actual capitalism, and to mimic actual capitalism,
they're giving women like a leg up like that. It
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just seems like it's I don't know, I don't know
that how that's supposed to feel empowering. Yeah, especially because
like miss monopolies from generational wealth. Obviously, well she's a niece.
You don't know how Mr Monopoly's brother did. He could
be a deadbeat, that's true, you know what I mean?
Maybe she inherited from from him. Could be like that
kid in Succession who was like vomiting in his like
animal suit in that first season and then somehow got
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swept up in the company. But the way they keep
going on is, dude, a fun new take on the game.
That's a world where women have an advantage often enjoyed
by men. Okay, then it says, although the company adds
that quote, if men play their cards right, they can
make money too. Great um players rather than purchasing properties,
will quote invest in inventions, created by women, things like
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WiFi and chocolate chip cookies. Amazing. That is incredible. This
was invented by the has BROI by fucking talks Bro.
It's on the cup on the front of the box.
It says, without women, we wouldn't have WiFi or chocolate
(31:20):
chip cookies. Way to like send just full you turn.
I'm like, oh dope, WiFi and chocolate chip cookies. Yeah.
Do you want your head to fully fall off please?
So they're one of the new tokens you can play with,
like you know, like race card thing or whatever. This
one has a watch Okay, but has Bros Jen bozz
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Winking boz Winkle told USA Today this is because it's
about time for some changes. That's you know what I mean.
That's I think that conveys that message, says it all.
They should just be like rather mis monopoly should be
like manless earthly, yeah, or all men have died because
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they're useless. How do y'all think first reformed monopoly? Yeah, yeah,
they understand again, you know, cash grabs hollar truly that
is you're really at a loss for words. Yeah, the
chocolate chip thing really sucked you up. Chip cookie what
like that? That's the thing that they keep coming back
to chocolate chip cookies as like, yeah, women can invent things,
(32:26):
like they can bake a neat one of the pieces
should be a whisp. Don't get crazy. Don't let people
think that women are actually capable of creating things like WiFi.
Bring it back a little bit, tamper the WiFi thing
and totally just obscure like the also that, by the way,
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the CEO of WiFi do you know what I mean?
Like like that invest in I just hate it so much.
It's like so patronizing already that like I failed to Hey,
look hasbro y'all fuckingp it is not ye wait till
the Black Lives Matter monopoly. White people get less money
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than black people and when they go to jail, Oh,
like I guarantee you that has been at some point
pitched out. Imagine what the discard pile is ideas in
those meetings. Oh my god, I can't. Actually it almost
pains me to think of what things I mean again
(33:28):
every day with the kind of ship that's set out
out in these boardrooms or even advertising agencies. But like
if we got miss monopoly and they made socialism monopoly,
that were such fucking bizarre off bad takes on things.
What what didn't make it through the field? And who
did they test these two? Did they bring people in
that they're like, how would you feel about a miss
Monopoly or a misss Monopoly or you know, yeah, I'm surprised,
(33:52):
Like and in this one, you can play with a
new token, the biological clock, because it's tacking and that
you have to turn on an actual ticking clock while
you're going around the board, and it's like, oh, you
got too successful, We're shutting the timer off. She can't
be self made though she has to be related to
Mr Monopoly. I guess what in their like in the
(34:13):
expanded universe of Monopoly, this unbelievable tiny guy, we like,
we needed to think that he had a niece, and
did they make it a niece so it didn't seem
like too much like there wasn't that much nepotism involved,
or maybe just so that they had the same last
name Monopoly, you know, right, because they didn't want to
make it like his younger wife. Let's talk about face off, guys.
(34:37):
This is one of the most preposterous premises for a
movie that has ever ended up being good. In my opinion,
it's ye, and it's it's a bad movie because of
how ridiculous it is, but it's still it's like a
great plot. Holes are gigantic, you, I mean, the idea
(35:01):
that you're like, okay, man, you're gonna go undercover just
with this dude's face, not even your body, right, you
got the same motherfucking body, your face, and then like
you're supposed to also download like there's no information about
emotional relationships aside from maybe like what you could clean
off a piece of paper, and then you just become
this person. Yeah. Also that voice changing thing they put
(35:21):
on his throat, Yeah, that's the one technology I remember, right. So,
I mean, so they're gonna recast this because I mean,
the thing that made it work was it was Nicolas
Cage and John Travolta at the top of their game. Uh,
And I thought they did a pretty good job like
imitating each other, and Castor Troy was a good character.
(35:43):
Wait wait imitating each other? You mean so when Travolta
became Castor Troy that he did a good version of
the Nicolas Cages Castor Troy. Yeah, and he was like,
oh what a predicament? Yeah, yeah, okay with that. Um,
I mean it's like an acting X your size. It's
like that. That's kind of what's cool about it. I
would love to see a deep dive comparing them, Like,
(36:05):
you know, Travolta really nailed these radiosyncrasies about his performance.
But yeah, like I wonder how much communication there was
between them, because they're both huge stars, Like I wonder
how much he was like so I'm doing this, like
this is my like a little hand gesture that I'm doing,
or if they just like looked at each other's scenes
how they did it. But um, anyways, they're gonna try
and recast it. Uh. I think it should be The
(36:28):
Rock and Nicolas Cage again. Just yeah, Nicolas Cage, I
think should be for whatever reason he's there. I kind
of need him there. But if you're going off of
people who were like fucking crushing this year, you got
like I guess Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson. Yeah, yeah,
(36:50):
like would be one or look, my I say, look,
let's just get it done with Jeremy Renner and Jackie Chan.
Just give the people what they want. Chad had apparently
had a big year in en. I did not know
that yeah, And I was just searching, like highest grossing
actors because I was like, you know, because in my
mind that was sort of the peri for face off,
the original one. I'm like, it's just sort of the
(37:11):
natural who was making the sh money this year? Actually, well,
number one is Samuel Jackson. So Samuel Jackson and The
Rock are one and two for highest grossing and I
think because of Avengers movies. Yeah, he was an Avengers Captain, Marvel,
Marvel spider Man Far from Home. I mean, this dude
is big. They should do like a five person face
(37:36):
off with all the Chris Is, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth,
Chris Pratt. Yeah, because Chris Rock, Chris Paul would be great. Yeah.
I mean, let's just keep one of one of the
worst actors in the history of commercial acts dud. What
(37:56):
if it was Benicio and Nicholas Cage. That would be fun.
And they both have that same they're aging kind of
the same way. They already have faces that look like
fucked up masks. Yeah. I mean that's the one issue
that I see is when it first came out, like
the idea of a face transplant was far enough off
(38:18):
that or like you know, it hadn't been done, so
we were like, could that be done? But now they've
done face transplants, and like you've seen the pictures of
what they look like, and they're they don't they're not
like seamless. Yeah, yeah, I mean honestly, actually, like I
saw a picture of the frenchwoman who was the first
successful face transplant, and she looks really good. Like now
(38:40):
like the face has like sort of adjusted, yes, settled
a little bit, but it's still like now that we
know what a phase transplant looks like and that it
takes years for your like things to settle, uh and
for your body to like not fully rejected. They don't
just lay it on and then a laser just goes
(39:01):
and then you are that's that person put a little
microchip on. My wife can't tell that it's a different
person's dick. Maybe they just had very similar dicks. Yeah,
that's really the deep dive we need to do. I mean,
you know, this would be a great podcast where you
you dive into the realities of these films and really
try and find out there's a there's a scene that
(39:24):
never made the cut where his wife goes, when did
you get circumcised. That would be I'm just pulling it back.
All right, We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be
right back, and we're back. Let's listen to this clip
(39:52):
from I think it's CNBC. Is that the Financial one? Yep? Yeah,
where Jim Kramer, who I hadn't heard, you can like years.
He doesn't seem to be able to put a sentence
together anymore. I'm not totally sure why, but he's talking
to a couple of business guys. It's one of those
like financial shows where they're like three thousand numbers in
(40:14):
the frame, like on boards in the backgrounds and then
racing by below. Uh and there. Yeah, let's just hear
what they what they have to say about Elizabeth Warren.
I don't know. In the end, I know Elizabeth Warren.
Don't listen. I favor CEOs. You think it's positive to
have a sea I think, you know, maybe not, and
(40:37):
I it is. I don't know. If she becomes the president,
what do you think is going to happen to the banks, Well,
it's not a could be a suboptimal situation. I think
you think Elizabeth Warren pushes banks into they're already down.
But yeah, I just think, you know, there were these
(40:59):
uh yours in the thirties where they what rich people
in front of Congress during the depression, a traction effective
about twenty years later. We had the least discrepancy and
incomes in the fifties and sixties. I don't know what's
gonna happen. Look, I've gotta tell you, when you get
off the desk, you talked to executives. They're more fearful
(41:21):
of her winning. I mean, I've never heard anybody say, look,
she's gotta be stopped. She's gotta be I don't know.
It's she's very uh. She keeps going up in the polls. Wow,
these motherfucker's sound like the people that winter fell when
the White Walkers are coming. They're like, um, uh fuck
(41:41):
the polls. He's also doing a parody of a panic person.
He's like what in the middle. I don't know. I
mean they're either way Bernie or Elizabeth. They both have
Wall Streets number. And I think, yeah, maybe because Warren
is cutting through to maybe people they to more. They're
more afraid because either one of them, it's gonna be
(42:04):
suboptimal for Walters. And it always referenced these things that
when it was the other time that it was the
worst for the working class, like well, you know, the
thirties knew what was happening to rich people. Then someone
after goes but then that followed up with theirst amount
of income inequality because yeah, but you know, but remember
the thirties they had like an existential moment too, or
they're trying to figure out if CEOs were necessary, like
(42:26):
the no one wanted to like handle that thought. They're like, huh, well,
I don't. They were talking about a bank that hasn't
had a CEO, they've just had an acting CEO for
the past like year, and they were like, I mean
CEOs are a good thing, right, Like man, well, I
mean yeah. When you look at what she's proposing, she's
sort of like, I'm going to break up the big bank,
similar to what Birdie's talking about, and they want to
(42:47):
basically separate like a lot of the commercial banking ship
that managed like everyday people's money from the parts of
the bank that do the high risk investment ship. Because
she's going from the inside out and that's what she's
seen everything. And I think like a lot of these
people who are savvy about what's actually wrong with our
banking system and our financial system. They're like, just so
you know, this is what's happening. They're like, our deposits
(43:09):
are ensured by the government, and then they use that
like are basically we're gambling money that's ensured and they're saying,
let's let's knock that ship off. And I think also
to like a lot of it is basically trying to
bring back the Glass Stiegel Act, which was repealed in
nine and that's when it became casino time, casebo time,
and a lot of people say, you know, that's the
(43:30):
financial crisis was definitely spurred along by the fact that
that act was repealed. And I mean, just like we've
been saying with Trump and the you know, since Trump
was elected, the stock market has been doing well, like
it might not do great under Elizabeth Warren, but like
that is not the economy exactly. Well. Her whole thing
is like if we want financial independence and freedom for
(43:54):
working people and to like just make everything more equitable,
we have to go right through the one per cent
fucking face. And that's why, Yeah, you see these shows
and one per centers are hundled up, and like, I mean,
how do we stop the walkers there like a dragon?
Do we have a dragon? You know, it's curious that
they don't mention Bernie whatsoever. And that's like Elizabeth Warren,
(44:14):
That's what I think in their mind, they may have
already dismissed him, because I like, if they're thinking, like
most of these hacks do, it's like, well, he's a socialist.
I'm like, no one's gonna buy that. Like what she's
got is like occupy Walla Street people. And I think
maybe they see because Elizabeth Warren isn't outright describing herself
as a socialist, but someone about you know, what is
it the thing like fair capital or something like like
(44:36):
whatever the other code word for still capitalism is um
that maybe that's why they see maybe her is more
viable and yeah, but it's like but she likes, uh,
what is it compassionate capitalism or whatever? Yeah, because also,
like what's really also ridiculous about this is that none
of them are going to change anyone's minds in that conversation.
There's no one watching that that's like, yeah, should I
(44:58):
go with Bernie and stuff? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah,
they're like, wait, what she's coming for all of our money,
because you know, a lot of the a lot of
the stuff both of them are proposing is about having
to do a lot with like CEO pay and like
you know when these people come in and like buy
companies and you know, just like loot them legally and
then like not honor the pensions that they've actually put
(45:18):
forward for like their employees. Like they're saying no, no,
no, no no, no, we're fucking putting an into that. If
we're elected. Yeah, hopefully neither Sanders or Warren have any
skeletons in their closet because they would have been out
well I mean, I don't know, like maybe they didn't
take them seriously and they were just happy they were
taking votes away from each other. But rich people will,
(45:42):
you know, the corporate interests they've stayed However, how this
long for a reason, considering where we're at, what the
fund could they have done that we're looking at the situation.
We're looking like, you know what, maybe I'm gonna go
for Biden or the mainstream media is very persue ways
or at least influential, and yeah, it's like absolutely, yeah,
(46:04):
I agree. I feel like the mainstream media ignoring Sanders
has hurt his standing in the polls. Well, the bar
is so low that like a mood of centrist Democrat
is like a meal ticket for some people. They're just
looking they're like, well, you know, it's not going to
be Trump, that's time. Why not just And that's what
a lot of polls show recently too, Like there's a
(46:25):
I think close to sixty pcent like fifty of Democrats
and like left leaning independence just want someone that is
going to beat Trump, not someone that they're excited to
vote for. So just that idea of the of a
second term is I guess making a lot of people
circling their wagons around just like just beat him first,
(46:46):
him fucking we'll clean up the mess after when most
people have perished from student dead or methical. But electability
is you know, we've talked about how in the media
it's a way for you know, people sublimate their own biases, like, oh,
she's not electable, and it's like why, you know, because
(47:07):
she's a woman. It's like, yeah, Joe Biden's electable. Why, well,
you know, he just looks presidential. Well, what how are
you defining presidential by the size of their veneers? Took
was a blood vessel to get his numbers down. Burst
vessel in his eye, and people are like, you know what,
maybe he's not the most best choice. Yeah, well look,
(47:28):
although that the media definitely ignored the ship out of that,
I know, right, And he was like, it's like he
was auditioning for twenty days later. Really, He's like, I
was exposed to some experimental chips, been exposed to the
rage back to virus. Yeah, all right, that's gonna do
(47:49):
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