Weekly Zeitgeist 95 (Best of 9/30/19-10/4/19)

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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
laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is

(00:22):
the Weekly Zeitgeist. What is something that you think is underrated? Yes? Okay, so,
uh was underrated? Is this thing at CBS that I've
been wanting for years? The pharmacy CVS? Yes? Okay, okay,
So in I went to CVS and I didn't have
I didn't have I didn't have much disposable income. Two

(00:43):
years ago, so I was walking around the Halloween Nile
as you do, and there was this little toy called
Twerking Mummy. He was so cool. I was like, oh
my god. And then I was like, oh, it's twenty dollars.
I can't really pay twenty dollars for Twerking Mummy. I'll
get it next year. And then next year around no
tworking mummies anywhere I was. I was like, fun, I

(01:04):
should have just put t working Mommy on a credit card.
So mad at myself. And then last week I was
walking through CVS again because I go every day and
tworking Mummy was back. I got him here. Let me
see what wait? Why is twking? Mommy is trying to
look back at it too, is looking so tworking Mommy

(01:29):
is looking over I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure this
is a pit bull song. Let me know, ready, ready, okay, here, okay,
here he goes. We have they really it really does toork?
Oh yeah, yeah, it's weird. It is strange. I've never

(01:49):
seen like a be be move. It's ass like that.
It looks like you see like a be the lower
half of just pulsating. That's what reminds me of It
almost looks like a can't trying to grow up in
fast motion. Oh, I love it so much. Wetly have
the right stall of pit Bulls catalogs. That won't be

(02:10):
a problem. I like. I like that he has such
a deep voice. I'm a far ball at the beginning.
In the end, all right, go to go off tworking moment.
I love tworking mummy. If you see what what was
that sort of moment like for you? You know, like,
let's pretend this is your inside the actor's studio and

(02:31):
when you bought twerking, mummy, what what did you then
realize about where you were in your career. I've ben't
realized that. You know, even if you do have the
disposable income to get twerking Mummy, it's still not going
to feel good to buck it up to the register
and say, you know what, I want to pay twenty

(02:52):
dollars at my house. I've been It's I don't know.
Sometimes it'll just kind of go off though it right,
which is kind of it does go off there. But
last night it was like four in the morning and
I have it like on the shelf above my bed,
which I have to it fell on my head last
night to kill you. I mean, history is full of

(03:15):
reports of haunted dolls, like there's got to be an
example of like a haunted big mouth billy. I can't
imagine a more cursed item than this. But I fell
asleep watching ten Cloverfield Lane and then I woke up
being impaled by twerking Mummy. Rough night for me. I
feel like it. This sounds like a great short for
you to write where twerking Mummy is actually trying to
kill you. I wouldn't I wouldn't watch that. Thank you anyway,

(03:39):
Thank you, tworking Mummy chose you more than you chose
to working right right true. Yeah, yeah, and the whole
waiting for a two years. I mean that's just that's
just a part that's wrapped up in the orphan. There's
so many dimensions to this. Yeah, first item, fantastic. What's
something that's underrated? I airplane mode and in nature. Okay,

(04:03):
this is like related to experience I had. But recently
I've been doing some traveling because I hate the city.
And I don't hate the city, I just hate my life.
And now and then I've been doing this thing where
I purposely put my phone on airplane mode and so
I'm completely unreachable by anybody, and it's so freeing because
then I'm just taking photos for myself and like enjoying

(04:24):
a tree and appreciating nature. And I went to the
Secoyas recently encamped and did some shrooms, and I was like,
this is the life I want to live, you know,
I want to just look at a tree and be
like thank you. You know, trees are underrated. Flip it up, trees, trees,
you man, that must have been a cool trip. When
you're like, you know what, I'm gonna write this down.

(04:44):
Trees underrated. They are underrated. The only time I get dishrooms,
I kind of do an argument with a wall. I'm
going to try it again. You should go outside. I
should have done that. I got into an argument of
the wall, more specifically a piece of dry wall in
an alley, and it's hard hard for me. Have you
read the That reminds me a lot of that book

(05:05):
How To Do Nothing? Have you read? I think you'd
like it. I think you should read it. It's really good.
It is like it's about like unplugging and going into nature,
but then also like knowing how to like responsibly plug
back in when you need to. Well, that's that's the thing.
As much as I love airplane mode, it is a
full fledged like panic attack when it turns on and
I'm going down the mountain or whatever, and it's just

(05:25):
like emails, like all these texts being like where are you?
And I'm just like I don't And I hate texting
because I don't want to talk to anybody. Yeah, I'm
the same way. I'm bad texture. I'm a horrible texture. Yeah,
I'm good on the phone. I'm old school like that.
I'm like right away, yeah, I'd rather talk than text.
I don't like it. I don't have like a forty
minute conversation with people who like it doesn't need to

(05:46):
be there. Um, yeah, I think you know it's it
is tough too. It's also another thing to consider, right,
is it? Is it the nature of what you're doing,
like four work, the things that are causing you the emails?
Is that a source of your stress too? And is
that the best thing for you? Yeah? What I mean? Yeah,
I think would you rather be get emails from trees somewhere?
Like people being like shream, we need you to go

(06:07):
plant this stuff in the mountain? Like yeah, I do
think like the reality of like I don't know, living
in l A and like trying to be financially stable,
it's like stressful and so like I feel like when
I travel, I'm like running away from something all the time.
And so when I when all the emails come and
just like oh I cannot avoid these all these things.

(06:28):
But I do think trees just appreciate a treat. Trees
do so much, so beautiful. I just planted one little
orange tree, yeah on the front. People know, so people know,
like yo, oranges for free over here? Please, I don't
know what to give you one of those neighbors that
like calls people out when they're like picking your tree

(06:50):
out on their walk. Well, it's good. We would have
to like fully get up on my property. I can
see you doing that. Hey, yeah, I feel you don't
take a ripe one? Yeah, you can take only from
the left side. Thank you letting you have orange? These
are delicious the public service I do. You're gonna have

(07:10):
to play by my rules. You have like a little sign, yeah, man,
because I was in I was driving like from San
Clarita to somewhere like in whatever. But I pulled over
and there was like an orange grove, I guess, and
I like it wanted an orange and I got one
that I got yelled at. Well, yeah, that'll happen. So

(07:31):
I think that I think that's your future. No, man,
fruit is for the people. Man, anything that's growing from
the earth is for the people. You know what I mean? Um, anyway,
but I digress. What is something from your search history
that is revealing about who you are? Uh? I can't
believe that's the first question you guys are going. Okay, Um,

(07:53):
I'm always looking for new shoes always. I have like
three pairs of shoes and that's not enough hundred pairs. Yeah,
like a Milda Marcos that's washed reference. Yeah, like historic,
and I think there's a difference between historic. Is that
the Filipino woman? Yeah? Yeah, okay my shoe Okay? I

(08:17):
was like, wait, is that the Filipino woman that has
like a billion preason of shoes? Yeah? What was her mare?
Was something scene? Yeah? He isn't something like a billionaire mine?
You know he was all the time. Yeah. As soon
as the styles up, like it's kind of so will
you lean into a style take? You know, be like,
you know what this is, this is the moment, but
know that the moment is fleeting and eventually that will

(08:39):
have to be tough unless it's like a classic. Look
for me, like, I'm wearing sneaker wadges right now. I'm
never letting them go. Yeah, sneak right comfortaball you can
still wear them two a club Okay, Bam. How do
you look for shoes because I just look on a
sneaker website because only wear sneakers. Is there like a website?
De is there a wave for you? Totally Google search.
I'm just like all right, pointed toe pump and leopard

(09:02):
friend actual like pony hair, which is actually just you know,
a cow, but it's called pony hair. Yeah, oh, cow
was just called pony hair. Yeah. They call it pony
hair to sound like fancy rather than like cow hair
with the hair still attatched. Yeah, it's like a little
less exotic. So exactly, it's like they did a little

(09:23):
less work. I believe they skinned an animal that little
children squeal over at birthday parties. Yeah, yeah, like that
that's the hook. This is pony hair. This is cruelty
to a young animal. Exactly. Hey, people love vil, yeah, right,
you know exactly what that shi. Yeah. I do wonder
if there was a point where people started liking food

(09:45):
based on how cruel it was, right, because there's the
basis of meat. I think a lot of people probably
don't know, right, Yeah, you know what I mean, Like
you just eat something and then someone's like, you know
what that is? Right, It's like they forced fit a
goose till it fucking died, basically, and they're eating the liver.
That's so sad. I didn't know that. Oh yeah, to

(10:09):
get all the stuff. That's why that's what it's banned.
I think now again in California, because they're like we
can't stand behind this practice. It's oh my god, that's terrible.
I did not know that. Yep, so I'm in the
clare of it. Still, yeah, I thinks gross. See for
a while, I wasn't able to get the fog wa
casadilla taco bell because I was like, they had to

(10:29):
be behind this. I don't have to give that a
firm neck. Like wait, they had like like you can
get the nineteam down their top if you feel like
springing that at lunch, like to Ridos locos with truffle.
Right when truffle got like popular, I was like, there's

(10:50):
no way this is all real truffle. How much of
this is parmesan for sure? Are getting this or just
like the perfumed version, because that's the other thing. People,
there are a lot of truffle oils. If they're not
the real cool it's actually just perfumed oil. There you go. Yeah,
because like a real truffle, I'm like, that's like a
whole too, dude together, there's not enough pigs to sniff
all this out, not to have like a company based
on truffle. And you see like people who are like

(11:12):
truffle dealers, like in the food scene like that should
It's like they're like like I'm sorry, I'm out, Like
I already promised this to this person. They're like go
to restaurant. They're like this is what I got. No,
you're good, all right, I keep moving to the chefs
have their own connect and some of them legs are
already broke. There's like, are there like prized truffle sniffing
pigs or like I don't know one truffle per pig

(11:35):
and then you have to kill the pig. Is there
the babe? Yeah? Right, I think we need to go
into our time machine, um back maybe a hundred ten
years or so. UM because Melville Dewey, who many people
if you grew up in America and are old enough

(11:58):
to remember the Dewey decimal card catalog system in a
library on how to organize library. He's a huge figure
in libraries and recently the American I just want to
say this, right, the American Library Association, they took his
name off one of their top honors, which was the
Melville Dooey Award. The reason why is this dude is canceled.

(12:20):
This is I mean, this is like fascinating. I did
not know you know, well, I mean, I think if
we look back into history on anybody, there's there was
an era where people did terrible ship on the open
and the way we handled it was, oh, that's he's
that's troubling. And it's when stories come up that are
like something that seems so innocuous, like the Dewey decimally,

(12:43):
they're like, fuck, it is an epidemic there. It was
an anti Semitic, racist, misogynist, sex predator. What was the
name of it? May be so happy? What is the
name of the organization that ended up getting his name removed?
Because it was like the so the whole reason was
like they took off what's her name, Sarah Ingles Waller,

(13:05):
you know, they took her name off because of a
lot of the racist she was saying. And that's sort
of been kind of the momentum within the American Library
Association of being like, no, we need to be very inclusive,
Like we don't have time to like obscure people's legacies,
especially when they're completely at odds with our own views. Laura, Yes,
Laura Ingles Wilder Wilder, Yes, thank you, And I will

(13:25):
tell you. So this whole movement came out of the
a l as Social Responsibility roundtables, feminist task force pulling
up the fucking receipts. So apparently this ship goes back
to nineteen o six. He was first censured by the

(13:46):
American Library Association in nineteen o six when several women
quote complained about his improper behavior towards them, including unwanted kissing, hugging,
and caressing in public. Dowy's own daughter in law even
moved out of his home because she was uncom to
ball around. In addition to the sexism, he was also
cited for his anti semitism and racism. He had a

(14:08):
private club that he owned, I guess in Lake Placid
and was like, we have a no Jews and no
blacks policy here God. And when people came to the
like the club, there was pamphlets out there in case
you all were curious, that said quote, no one shall
be received as a member or guest against whom there
is physical, moral, social, or race objection. It is found

(14:29):
impracticable to make exceptions to Jews or others excluded, even
when of unusual personal qualifications. This was also in nineteen
oh six. He had a big year that year. Um
he was basically forced to resign from his state library
position because they're like, this is unbelievable. And you know
what his defense was, what I got friends that are Jews.

(14:51):
Of course, the classic he started, I can't be anti Semitic,
my my lawyer is Jewish. That kind of ship, and
basically said that also, it's a private club, so I
think I should be allowed to choose who as enters
and doesn't. All this stuff didn't stop him from being
for having a legacy a century fucking later. Well that's

(15:12):
the thing, right, because he was still such a big
name that like if you look, I think on his
bio on like some website that's more of like a
governmental website, they describe him having a complex history. They
distilled all of his racism, sexism, predatory behavior as because
that's that's the old school way of dealing with that ship.

(15:34):
It's like, will acknowledge it by saying complex because it's euphemistic.
Enough mistakes were made, right rather than also at the
same time, I'm sure so many prominent people like names
in our history should be canceled, is like the one
like this, maybe this is like one of the exceptions
where there's actual evidence there well right. What's odd though, too,

(15:55):
is like he has a history within this organization where
he's being censured by this organization for this, yet still
did it. And I'm sure the powers that be at
the time found a way to protect his legacy or whatever.
So another just another anecdote from this Slate article says
that in he would do this thing where he like
he championed this thing called simple spelling, where he would

(16:18):
it would quote eliminate extraneous letters. Okay, so basically like
typing like a kid essentially um. And he hired a
stenographer who he described as a dainty little flapper l
I t L because he does simple simple talk and
like jump started the era of like not liking vowels

(16:39):
like tumbler and no seriously and better looking b E
t R. Better looking than I expected. He's naming a startup.
He's a little um so okay. Then he was hugging
and kissing her in public. Um. She was basically was like, yeah,
I'm a file charges against you and settled for two

(17:01):
thousand seven dollars and sixty six cents. That's a that's
a check. It's like a Weinstein style settlement. And the
according to Uh Dewey's biographer. Dewey was upset with the
settlement not because he had gotten in trouble for his behavior,
because he was worried the stenographer might spread a rumor

(17:22):
that she got two thousand dollars for no work. What. Yes,
that was his fear. Wow, we'd come a long way.
And again when he was censured by the a l A.
His response, he said he insisted he hadn't done anything
wrong and pure women would understand my ways. That quote

(17:44):
so much, No, no, what does that even mean? I mean,
that's that is meant to imply that anyone who is
saying stuff about me like that is not like anyone
who isn't okay with me grabbing their ass in public
is uh to impire, is not a virgin like you're
just like what God, women would understand my ways? Oh

(18:07):
my god, I want to birth man. I really admire
the like the task force going because it's like this
is we want to make t shirts. Yea. The fact
that the thing of like the I was not that
I got that she would like threatened me with a lawsuit.
I don't want her to think she got that money
for no what that's how indignant and like not apologetic.

(18:28):
He ever was like he never actually believed he wasn't
the wrong. He's glad he even had to do any
sort of like settlement. That was he was the start
of the bad apologies that we see on Twitter of
are like in the notes that are posted, you know,
bad apology. I think I think we have to call it,
start calling those just non apologies rationalizations for shitty fucking action.

(18:49):
If this dude hit the notes app yeah, it would
be a mess from he was like, I'm upset, but
it's because she didn't work. Council. Culture is going too far?
What's next? Comedy? The librarians aren't safe. I'm afraid no
one is the librarian civil war. I can't I can't

(19:10):
imagine people being like, cancel. Culture is going too far
because we're literally going back in time at this point,
like these guys did this. Yeah, well, I think because
also too right now. Librarians are women, so I think
you know, when they start looking back in their own organization,
they're like this is terribly fucked. Yeah, they're like, one
has a legacy. I think I think that's the thing

(19:31):
when someone is like like revered for like inventing a
fucking system or something, and then their whole name is
the system, Like you know, that's like like receiving like
the Donald Trump friend to Islam, like the Community Service
award where you're like what But at the same time,
at the same time, I just thought of this, like
his children and his children's children, should they be punished

(19:55):
or like should their name be like mild because of
their association? What should you be? Like? I don't thinking
back to add Astro, should you be punished for your
father's crimes? Don't think no, I don't think they're suffering,
And I don't think you necessarily need to be like,
hey man, are you Melville Douey the fourth Milk shake

(20:15):
like that that has nothing to do with them. It's
definitely that I'm just playing Devil's advocate. I dontually agree
with that, but like, I just think it's a funny
thing to think about, Like that could be a possible
argument to be like leave it alone. And also that
system isn't being used anymore from what I understand, And like, yeah,
books from libraries there canopy canopies great because cappy is great.

(20:37):
What is that if you have a library card it's
sucking free screaming service for so many movies. It's so good.
Eli Osburg was just talking about that. Yeah, definitely like
library because we're on letterbox and we have like canopians. Cool. Anyway,
there was another thing too, like he he founded the

(21:01):
Library School of Columbia in the late eighteen hundreds, and
he was like, I think women need to be admitted
as students here because because he gave a speech called
this is but he gave a speech entitled Librarianship as
a Profession for College Bred Women College, where he said
although women had the character intelligence to be librarians, they

(21:25):
were also more likely to get sick or leave the
profession to pursue home life, and women deserved smaller salaries
than men because males, in addition to being capable of
the same library work, could also quote lift a heavy
case or climb a ladder. There are many uses for
which a stout corduroy is really worth more than the
finest silk. A stout corduroys. So you think about it fabric,

(21:53):
when your fabric, I mean, yeah, there's what kind of
fabric we be Let's pivot me. I would be um
the like what I'm wearing right now a soccer jersey,
synthetic material that stinks. That will second you have one
drop of sweat in it. I'm a swishy what's a
swishy It's like swishy pants like like uh like like

(22:14):
jogging stile like old jog suits now, like like pants
that you wear. Yeah, yeah, is that like that fabric
because yeah, yeah, like this. Okay, so you're also a
synthetic You're synthetic gang nylon gang? Yeah, what about you?
Are you organic or synthetic? That's really what it boils
down to. I think it would be like fake leather
because like I want to think like I'm tough, but
really I'm really soft and I don't want to kill anything. Yeah,

(22:38):
and that was made by scientists, or or I'd be
like mesh because I'm like incredibly, I'm just like me.
I have no Like it looks hard and like tough,
but really you can see right through me. Oh no,
I don't think. Well, I think it's like a guy
in a mesh marina. I mean, like I imagine it

(22:58):
as like some type of like like not not tough,
but like more like like cool fashion or whatever. You know.
I don't know it's still trans fabric for all seasons. Yeah,
but it's very probably this could be a really good
psychological test. I like this fabric he has. He's not
useless after all, and fabric fabric people are. And it

(23:23):
says she's microfibers. It done. Some one ever answers wool.
I think they are a serial unpacked That is great awful. Yeah,
if you react to wool like that, like if someone's
like my favorite thing to touches wool, Like you're on

(23:45):
a date, what do you like? I like to touch wool? Okay,
I'm going to use the restroom like like the flush
of an animal or whatever, Like what's the one that's
like really like strage and like very like itchy. It's
like supposed to be like fancy, but I think it
looks stupid. Um fuck you know what I'm talking about

(24:08):
right now? Yes, because she can't afford like threads all
the time. Yeah, I think it looks so dumb. But
it's so fucking like revered as like an expensive ship mohair,
mo hair, that's not mohair. Fucking I hate mohair. Yeah,
I wish. I think it kind of similar to that

(24:29):
phobia of like holes or whatever. But with to me,
I'm not with mesh. I feel like I have glaucoma
when I look at my hair sweater because I'm like,
is it blurry? Like I'm not picking up on the texture.
Mo hair kind of looks like unshaved mesh if you
like shad meh my memoir time that Jamie Lofts story

(24:53):
by Little Zam Forward by Little Zam. Yeah, someone someone
answers wool or mohair run. They're trying to prove something,
but it's unclear what. Yeah. Also, I feel like mohair
every time I've seen it, like or gotten near it,
the ship gets on. Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand why
it's so expensive and like like supposed to be like
this fancy thing because it looks First of all, I

(25:14):
think it looks stupid and also, yeah, it gets everywhere. Hey,
if you're a mohair advocate, please reach out because I
would like to know what's going on with that. I
can't wait to read the interfense what the other thing?
I guess I don't like like animal products like that,
so I think I think it freaks me out to
like wear something and be like this used to be

(25:34):
alive so I'm just like, well, maybe that's why at
least it's a shaved off, you know, yeah, shave culture
is really Yeah, I think it's I think we can
comfortably say it's getting out of hand. It's I think
that shave culture is really getting out of control. Who
will you side with? Yeah? Are you I stand with
the unshaved? Yeah? I mean if I said I didn't,

(25:57):
I would be like an unfeminist at this point. Fantastic.
Well we've said it all right, let's take a break
and we'll be right back, and we're back. What is
a myth with something people think it's true you know,
to be false? Um, the last time I said that

(26:19):
milk is good for you, that was a really good
That was a really good one. Okay, So what is one? Oh?
You know what? And uh, everybody thinks that everyone's hair
is real on TV? Everyone has on a fucking wig.
Everyone has on a fucking wig, from the guy to
if you watch the news every night, all of them

(26:40):
got wigs on. Yes, every single person, honey, like um,
Kelly Ripper, Yeah, like uh, Diane Soyer, that's an easy one.
That looks like a helmet. Sorry girl. Anyway, Yeah, I
know everybody has a fucking wig on, and I didn't
know until I got into wig culture. To TV, it's

(27:00):
good for uh continuity, Yeah, because you have to reshoot
or you have to refilm something. She's sitting right over
there like, okay, got it on, alright, get the makeup done,
and guess what you have no ideas We shot this
two weeks later because its exact same hairstyle sprayed into
place right right right, and so yeah, they call it

(27:20):
news hair. Honey. They are literally. One of my favorite
quotes is from Dolly Parton and someone said, how long
does it take to do your hair? She said, I
don't know. I'm never in the room when they're doing it.
Like yeah, she was outing that ship in the eighties,
just like I'm going to tell you these are wigs.
Like nobody wearing the real hair because you would damage
the funk out of here. Also, do you think I

(27:41):
have this much fucking hair? It's so much hair, all
the fucking the CDC or something exactly. There might be
medical secrets contained to the scount exactly. I'm like you,
I know, her neck hurts, she has to sleep with
that on, absolutely not so many parts of her must hurt.
But yeah, exactly, her back for sure. What is her
actually looked like just like cropped. Look when we don't

(28:04):
need to know, you know, we don't write. Just Dolly
do whatever you gotta do. I don't care what your
tattoos are, you don't care what your wigs are. Just
just to keep Dolly being Dolly, keep doing it. But yeah, wigs,
everyone's got a wig on and you don't believe me.
Oh like Nicole Kidman and big Little Lies. That was.
That was a little that was almost clocky wig. I

(28:25):
was a girl. If they don't give you all the
budget next day, then you need to call my guy.
That was the first time that I noticed it, Like yeah, yeah,
that was when that second season came around. We're both
like everybody were a wig and we're like it was
that bad straight? Yeah, exactly is that? Where is her hairline?

(28:46):
It starts from nowhere? What's your name? The one from
the Descendants who had Ziggy Lean Woodleys was that's too.
He's in a row where two shows in a row,
where there's been a thing on the tip of our
tongue that I know the listeners were probably screaming, you know,

(29:08):
are you talking about the second I thought about it
without a pause, the magic of editing. Boom. All right,
let's check in real quick with Uber before we get
into all this uh whistle blowing. Yeah. Um. You know
they've not had a great track record with safety for passengers. Uh.
And that was like a big thing they've had to
overcome with the new leadership that they had as a

(29:30):
leadership changed. And by overcome do you mean hide from
the public. Yes, probably, you know, like yeah, um, and
you know, like the first step they had the safety
kit where you could like report a driver, call for
help and things like that. Um. And then there's a
new feature called ride check that would know if like
you've got in a car wreck or maybe there's been
a very long stop for some reason. But look, don't

(29:52):
make it hot for people who were trapping out of
an Uber Okay, yeah, what do you want to crash
while we have sex? Um? So now there is a
developer based in Hong Kong has like this rep of
like reverse engineering apps to like look at what's in
the code to be like because people will hide ship
in the in the app that we might not see

(30:13):
the consumers. But that functionality is there for people who
are developing and found something recently that there is a
new audio recording tool inside the Uber app and like
a black box for I was gonna say it's like
a plane. Well it's part of that safety tool kit,
which makes people think it's like okay, so they're not
trying to do cheeky ship to be like okay record
everyone's like messy ass Uber ride in case they're saying

(30:34):
wild shit. Um. But right now the Uber hasn't really
said anything on it, but it seems to be like
a way that they it would allow drivers to like
if you're drivers or passengers, if the drivers like being creepy,
out of pocket, whatever, abusive, you could actually begin recording,
maybe unbeknownst to them, but it could essentially possibly have
a live connection to some Uber safety center where they

(30:56):
can monitor it, send help, or you just have receipts
later on when you're like okay, you don't believe me,
like here here goes. I can't believe that that many
predators out there. I'm just going to get a ride
to the club. It's yeah. I wonder if it leaves
it on your phone or if it immediately uploads the
tube or they're like okay, we have that now and
thank you. We'll be dealing with this and they're like, actually,

(31:19):
we can't do anything because that's a non employee employee
contract exactly with rights, or it's just an automaton but
with human skin. I mean, I've I've wished I had
been recording when I was in Manumber before, but only
because the person was the most high on cocaine human
being that has ever like spoken for without a punctuation
for like forty five minutes straight, just like yeah, just

(31:42):
like I mean about their career as an actor, I
think it was going to the Valley from uh not
the value in their defense, that's kind of just actors.
They cannot wait to talk about them. I'm sorry at
the knocked people. I'm calling all the all out because
I'm not really an actor. I do acting gigs anyway. Yeah,

(32:05):
because you're an artist exactly. So I'm an entertainer here
to entertain you. Yeah. But actors, when you meet like
these die hard actors, they are so like they think
everyone wants to see their one man show, and I'm like,
no one gives a fucking around. But I know animated
actor who's excited by their own narcissism and cocaine definitely,

(32:26):
like sweaty Did you say that is a fine line?
Was it one of those things? Because sometimes you know,
uber driver will hit you with a solo like the
life story. Like sometimes it's unprovoked. Sometimes they find it
in right where they like what do you do? And
you might have said something about comedy, and they're like, oh, man,
love comedy, man, because I actually I was just I
was just up for this audition down yeah, man, you

(32:50):
got any water back there? You're driving it's like four
in the afternoon, and it's like, what the look? I
make sure everybody knows what I do when I get
into a heart with a driver. You go, I'm pretty
sure I didn't say anything. So the first thing you
do five minutes into a ride and it don't says anything.
You go, so you're not a fan? Huh? It's me

(33:11):
and Jack Ober? Okay, do you man? Do you? I
love how your planet cool? But it's okay. Yeah, I
mean I'm pretty chill actually a regular dude. Man. Too
many people want favors in this town. I'm always like,
I work at a library. I don't tell anybody because
I'm like, yeah, what is a myth. Oh yeah, okay,

(33:35):
so this kind of ties into the stuff with a Joker.
It's a myth that Heath Ledger was like all like
went way too into that that character, that he like
like stayed in character the entirety of the filming of
The Dark Knight, and that like he lost none of
that's true, Like where is that born out of? I
think at um? I think it was in general, like

(33:59):
after he died a specially and like after everybody saw
how good the performance was, they just like these myths
started that he had gotten way too into the character
and a bun Jackson came out and was like I
wanted him, Yeah, I warned him that the Joker would
take him down. So I wonder if that fed this
thing that because Jack Nicholson said he warned him that
in fact, the Curse of the Jokers true or something.

(34:19):
And there's like there's pictures of him just like posing
when when he's like he's like in makeup and stuff,
but like smiling with other members of the cast and
like looking like a normal person. There's pictures of him
out of makeup, like eating dinner with everybody during the filming,
Like one of the I forget, which one of his
co star said that, like, no in between shots we
would like talk about his like kids and stuff. Not
not ledgers, I think, but like the actors and like

(34:41):
I from the people who were actually on set with him,
like there was no hint that like he had gotten
Like the actual stories seems to be like definitely in
the wake of his death, that was framed as like, oh,
he got way too into this character and was broken
and that's why he wound up o ding, and the
reality seems to be, No, he just had a drug
problem in the overdose and it's a tragedy, but like
it had nothing to do with him playing the joker
in it taking over his mind. Um yeah, I mean so,

(35:05):
I think the stuff we wrote about on Cracked was
that he like for research in the role, he like
hold up in a hotel room for part of the
time and like did like a bunch of like got
into the character and was like scribbling weird ship And yeah,
I was definitely getting into character my entire time in college. Yeah,
I just don't like he wasn't like he seems like

(35:27):
everyone who ever worked with him said he was like
a great guy to work with and a great guy
to work with. Wouldn't be like staying in the character
of a murderous where should like? I don't know, You're like, dude,
please and if you break another pool queue burns, the
craft services tail down. Why are you? Why are you
still on that nurse's outfit? Uh? Well, all right, I

(35:52):
was actually curious you. You were one of the rare
people who actually put answers next to the categories on
the page. And you're myth was cars. Um, Yeah, I
decided I didn't want to get into that here. But
you have a conspiracy theory about cars don't exist? Ye right,
interesting yep, and only horses do. You've never seen a
car and a horse in the same place at the

(36:13):
same time. Man, I don't know what the funk you're
talking about. All Right, we're gonna take a quick break
and we'll be back. And we're back, Let's talk about
something equally terrifying, the official Duncan Donuts Halloween cost Wait,

(36:37):
there's a Duncan. They nailed it. What the fund is it?
Dunker you as a donut? Right? So we talked previously
about how their Taco Bell is putting out Halloween costumes
food based clothing is the wave right now, fast food
fast food based clothing. Uh, and Duncan Donuts decided to
join the Halloween cost him with so that you know,

(37:02):
there's a saying that we have in these parts. America
runs on Duncan and Uh. The way they express this
is outline of the United States, outline of man running
and then Duncan America run on and then it's above
dunk America run Duncan. I wonder how many hundreds of

(37:23):
thousands of dollars that add campaign costs to put together
and how do we know the tents? Based on those images? Right?
They could running America run. It could be Duncan. That
would suggest that America that Duncan Donuts is run by
a popular like popular vote from I mean it could
also just looking at the image, it could also suggest

(37:45):
that America re enacts the Ministry of Silly Walk sketch
from Monty Python over Duncan. Yeah. Yeah, it looks like
a person could be falling down while trying to do
a yoga post um, but we're superman. They've decided that
they want to the the yellow stick or the pink

(38:06):
stick finger is how they decided to turn the concept
of Duncan into a Halloween costume. Uh. And it is
basically like that, it's Charlie Day but in from Always Sunny,
but in a pink costume instead of a green one. Yeah.
And apparently there's a rubber man from season one of

(38:30):
American Horror Story that is just a person in like
a full black rubber, full body, full face black rubber
like gimp suit, gimp suit essentially, and uh, this is
the pink version of that. It's such a dumb it
has in my I mean, you must really be a
dunkin Donuts fan. I'm sure Jamie LOFTI would know the

(38:51):
significance of this. But if I sawed, like, what the
what some people are now pink man like we're we're
off green Man now. Yeah, it's a terrible idea in
every conceivable way. Um. And the only thing that that
gives me comfort is knowing that the people responsible for
this idea make more money than say, nurses, teachers, Oh
so much more. You could, you could, you could run

(39:12):
two or three schools, and they're succeeding by us covering it.
They are. Yeah yeah, So I mean I didn't say
they didn't earn every dime, yet every penny apparently also
community did a thing and all of the pop culture
references where they do this, it's about reference to how
creepy it is. Yeah, um, well, you know, good luck

(39:33):
to Duncan. I think a donut maybe would have been
a better idea or food item. Oh they don't, they don't,
they don't. They don't play up the donuts part. That's
why they're just dunk a lot. Man. We got Dippie
stickies and Sandy's, and I was not taking outside of
the donut box. Yeah, okay, you guys want to hear
what I would have done as the ad campaign, I've

(39:54):
of course, I want to know what kind of idea
you have about just a just a black poster with
red letters Starbucks coffee smells like cat piss, no other branding,
just just straight up an attack on just an attack
on Starbucks. And have been Eventually people figured out for
themselves who's funding this campaign? Who believe the Starbucks? Yeah?

(40:14):
I think it smells like caps you believe in life
after love. I can feel something inside me say I
really don't. I don't think it's strong enough and I
know that I can get through this, but um back
to the casing. Is it uh? Is it all? Is
it just their drip coffee? I don't really get caught.
I only get there. I only get drip coffee. I

(40:35):
don't I don't like the mixes. But there's beer Duncan man, Huh.
There's like apartness to it that reminds me of drinking cats.
If I'm going to pick a coffee from like a
big chain that's everywhere, I will pick Duncan ahead of
Starbucks all the time. I'll pick pizza ahead of Duncan. Um. Obviously,
Phils is the best of the chains that we have
access to here on the West Coast. They do a

(40:55):
decent Turkish. Yeah yeah, it's not actually Jesuit coffee, but
they put a little bit of card of a minute,
some men, what does a what does a Turkish Turkish coffee? Well,
like actual Turkish coffee when you make it weird, hoot jack?
Does Turkish mean? To just curious what a Turkish was?
It's like, yeah, like they have a special type of

(41:17):
pot that they make it in. But like also Turkish
and Arabic coffee often includes cardamum, which is really good
in a black coffee of your life and sometimes a
little bit of like ment or something. Um, if you
get a sara Jevo coffee, it's a Turkish coffee served
with a cigarette, which is yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like
what they'll give you go into the Balkans. Yeah, they'll
give you a fucking cigarette with your with your cigarette

(41:38):
with your coffee, if that's a sara Jevo coffee. But
if you're like, give me sara Jevo, then if you
don't say give me Saraevo, there's no no, it'll say
it on the menu sara Jevo coffee. That's how I
figured it out, was like, oh, I've tried a lot
of coffee, so I'll try a Saraievo coffee. And it
was just Turkish coffee with a cigarette, like somebody had
smoked part of it. But home dude popped a lighter
out as soon as the I sent the thing down,

(41:59):
he knew I wanted it. Damn well. Fuck that they
didn't write about that. And it's a lot of his
diary Go to the Balkans, EO, did you have to
read that book? It's a lot to his diary back
in the nineties that was about like she was growing
up man didn't need bad happen there at some point.
I don't know, I didn't read it. Yeah, I've only
I've only read the history of Bosnia from to present,

(42:20):
and it seems like a pretty smith right from if
we bear our heads in the sands like we do
in American in the American see, I need my Duncan
is pizza the most caffeineated coffee of the of the
chains I think I read. Is that even a thing? Like?
Are they flexing on each other with their caffeine count? No,
you have to like look at the website Caffeine Informer
pizzas website, Caffeine Informer. Is that a real fun like

(42:44):
you just changed my life caffeine, you know, Sammy, I'm
trying to get jittering now, Oh my god. Caffeine Informer
is great. Caribou Coffee the complete caffeine. Well, this is
I'm gonna have to can sol our recording sessions for
the rest of the day. Yeah, just look at Caffeine Informer. Yeah,

(43:04):
Duncan Donuts Coffee Caffeine content Guide, Damn. Caribou is very caffeinated. Yeah,
also tastes similar to Duncans, So maybe Duncan's more caffeinated
than I thought. Oh, they're really out here like ranking
this ship. They are. Yeah, they do the milligrams and everything.
They have a whole chart if you're like, hey, if
you want luck alone, I've never talked about caffeine informer
on like keeping that you're hiding a child from us, Jack,

(43:29):
You're hiding at child? Okay, Drake of Caffeine, could we
just could we just you are hiding a child? Uh?
Damn dude? Large the large Caribou Brood coffee three and
eighty five milligrams caffeine. That's a lot of a lot
that that is a substantial amount. So for some comparison,

(43:51):
the large uh for Brood of Duncan's is just three
hundred um. That means that a Caribou coffee large has
more than a Duncan extra large coffee. Okay, I'm so
where'd you find those? Uh? And finally big news in
my world the world of caffeine Informer. Uh, my number

(44:14):
one website caffeine. And so the energy drink game is
about to have another player to join the game. H
Coca Cola ever heard of them? Also, Ober of Monster Energy. Yeah,

(44:35):
they're like a huge stakeholder. I don't think they fully
own it, but they have a big old choice of it.
But so apparently they are getting a little insecure about
the fact that they don't have a hyper caffeated sugar
beverage on the market. So we're getting what's called energy coke,

(44:57):
Energy coke, energy regular flavor, cherry zero sugar and zero
sugar spelled weird. Nope, just straight up. It's not like
seems like they have. They're going for a very stripped down,
almost like communist aesthetic where it's just like energy. Do

(45:17):
you want pleasure or energy? Right? I would like the
one for fun socializing? Yeah, yeah, I mean like this
is where as we were talking about, this is not
that much caffeine, right, That's the first thing I asked you,
because I read I read it. I'm like, well, what's
in it? Guarana extra I'm sorry, guana extracts the vitamins

(45:39):
and a hundred fourteen milligrams a cavine And is that
not a lot? It's not. I mean two hundred is
like your average cup of coffee diet coke is like sixty,
So I mean it's it's more most sodas. Yeah, jolt
is like in the high hundreds maybe, but it's not
It's not as much as a cup of coffee. Coffee

(46:00):
is king when it comes to caffeine delivery, coffee and
su down Jack. Sorry guys, he's on the top cruising
it right now, because what a huge, pretty high right now?
What was the deal? Like a grande cup of Starbucks
coffee had like nine sugar and that energy though that's

(46:22):
my other I mean, you're gonna crash, baby. That's what's
also good about coffee is that you don't need to
put sugar in it, so therefore it doesn't have the
sugar crash at the end of it as opposed to
monster energy. I think. I know some people like get
added energy from sugar. I I personally don't, and in
fact it like fox with my energy a little bit.

(46:44):
So I prefer non sugary caffeine delivery mechanism like coffee,
Like coffee. I'm trying to figure out what my beloved
kirk Ciggy cold brew has. Yeah, we've didn't show up
on informer Caffeine and informer I know you're listening, uh,
and that you're one person. Please let us know what

(47:06):
Kirkland signature cold Brew is uh, caffeine delivery was whatever
it is, it's working. Yeah, it's on that. Also, shout
out to somebody on Instagram who messaged me again. I
get a lot of insider information from Instagram, just like
how I had to scoop on the breading for Popeye
Chicken sandwiches. Shout out to you, Um, did you have one? Yeah?

(47:27):
What was it? Gooden fantastic. Shout out to logan on
Instagram who just said, yo, I'm meeting with Costco buyers.
Costco Kirkland Signature Colbrew may have low supplies but are
not going away. So yes, that of cold Brew for
no reason. Sh it's almost gone, is it really? I
mean we're putting in working, you're putting it down alright,

(47:48):
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