Weekly Zeitgeist (Best of 7/28/25-8/1/25)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The
Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from
this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza.
Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Miles.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
We're thrilled to be joined at our third seat by
a TDZ Hall of Famer, one of the very faces
on Mount Zeitmore, a brilliant stand up comedian you know
from I don't Know, MTV, Comedy Central, NBC, True TVE
if you watch it too, just so much TV. Also
Bob's Burgers for our special Live from the Big Dog

(00:46):
is hilarious and you can go watch it right now.
Please welcome back to this show. It's Blair Socker, sun
Zy Games in the building, in the.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Building, Claire, goodness, see you guys. Wow it is I
have missed you so much, and you know, just our
little pre chat, I was like, God, I'm home again.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, I'm home, your home. Though. You can smell
the lasagna in the oven.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Big Dog's Home, Baby, Big Dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is that what the rock's cooking cooking?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Is cooking this whole time?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I love lasagna. I love Marinera is what's your favorite
Italian food? What's my favorite Italian food? If I if
I had to go to like just my full truth,
it would be pizza. But I feel like that's such
like as fine, that's a rube answer.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
But yeah, I like, Okay, if you if an Italian
person asked you whether you would get self conscious about
saying that, we would we do some character work. Hey
what is it? Damn? I lost it right away and
I never had it. Someone say yeah, saying okay, oh,
if I can ask you one question there, what's your

(01:58):
favorite Italian food?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's I tried making that recently.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I fucked up so bad it was so incredible.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh yeah, I fucked up. I look, I'm I It
was my first time at It requires a lot more
finesse than I had.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Miles, you, you have to give yourself a break. You
can't just you know, hit a home run.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
I'm one it, I know, I know, I know. It's
it's like each year old just got into the Hall
of Fame. It's about those little hits.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Totally.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I totally know that person you're talking about right now.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I know, I know you, I know you do.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Miles gets up to the majors in its first at
that doesn't hit a home run, and it is like
this sucks, It sucks.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Quit you got on base. Though you got on base.
I don't care when the home run. I'm done looks
so sid you don't even know me. That's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I feel like my Italian order complete is dependent on
like where, Like if I'm at an Italian restaurant, I'm
going to get a pasta.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Dish because you're gone.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I'm going to fucking like because the bowls never end.
But if I'm going to, like I said, it depends
on like how high level. Yeah, yeah, you know what
I mean, Because like pizza is just the staple. It's
my favorite food. I'm gonna get it anywhere, but at
an Italian restaurant. Even if the Italian restaurant offers pizza,
I feel like it's not it's not always the best

(03:30):
thing they do, you know.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
I had I went to a restaurant that had like
a just a tomato sauce pizza, no cheese on it,
and I was with an Italian person and they ordered
it and I was like, I was like laughing, like
this ain't no pizza, and they're like this is what
we eat in Italy actually, like you'll just have like
cheese less kind of slices.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
With this, And I was like, oh, yeah, that's not
my thing though. I'm a cheese I'm a freaking cheese hat.
I said that cheese from mile away.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
But you know what, I also love.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Snap that ship out like a little freaking canine. I
like a I love a soft ravioli that melts in
your mouth like my dad makes it from scratch. It's crazy,
Like if you get a well done ravioli, yeah, yeah,
it will take you to the heaven.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh like you mean, like not the pasta is not overcooked,
because it's like it's like writing that perfect If you
get like.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
A perfectly executed ravioli, like it is Nirvana.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Like a fresh rao high.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Quality, like the thinnest, softest pasta of a ravioli, I
mean that is like that's our It's life changing, it
really is.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's not something in a bag loose with a bunch
of other raviolis and most of them are split open
like the way that I always grew up with my.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah, you just.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Have to like jam a wedge in there to like
break off a chunk of ral.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
I don't think I ever felt anything for ravioli until,
like my dad started making them from scratch.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
That's beautiful. I'm gonna have to come over, Yeah you should.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
What is something from your search history that is revealing
about who you are?

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Richard Simmons state sale auction something I googled mid time
last week. The late great Richard Simmons. He passed away
at some point last year, and in the last two
weeks his personal belongings have gone up at auctions. The
first auction was at Bottoms, which is a very hoity toy,
very fancy institution all the good rich people. When you die,

(05:31):
you want your shift to go to Bonhoms. That was
the first one that I looked at. I did purchase
two items from said auction, and then a secondary one.
We'll get there, yeah, And then a secondary auction popped
up after the first Bottoms one closed. It was absolutely
like the second waveyard sale version that was just like, oh,
here's just a bunch of random shit we found in boxes, like.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
All the stuff that was ens yeah, like.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Not even that, just like, Hey, did you want some
dealer meal cards that are kind of like water logged?
We got those? Did you want a case full of
VHS tapes that never sold? Got them, just like weird
chochkeys are like, Hey this glass clown, did you want this?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I got that for you.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
TI.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
He was probably trying to get rid of at the end,
like literally his trash.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yeah, just like, hey, here's shit I can't throw away
because I've got too much of it. People will know, Hey,
Richard Simmons threw away all his tapes, like you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Like, how do.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I know this shit?

Speaker 5 (06:22):
But the first auction, the Bottoms auction, was full of treasures,
lots of treasures. We're talking all of his tank tops,
like all of his outfits with the matching glasses and
his shorts. We're talking about the slim in sign that
was on the Slimmons building itself, which I actually went
to and took a class with Richard Simmons a year

(06:42):
to the day that I won my auction, in fact,
or for fourteen years to the day, I should say,
from when I won my auction. He used to have
a studio in Beverly Hills that was incredible to go to.
It was a fucking experience, Like I don't know if
I would call it a workout more than just like
you're just standing there, just like pretending to do the
moves as you watch Richard just bounce around the room
and like sexually assault people. It was incredible. Love could

(07:04):
not recommend it more. I'm so glad I did it.
I went twice. It was fantastic. But I he actually
had a lot of incredible art. So I purchased art
from the surrealist sculptor Sergio Bustamante, who's still a living artist.
He's a Mexican born artist. He's incredible. He does a
lot of fantasy sort of meets Mexican folklore work. All
of this shit's super weird. It'll be like, you know,

(07:27):
like a moon with a weird human face, or like.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
It's just bliesque sort of yeah sculpture, Okay.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
Yeah, he's a surrealist for a real So I bought
and the first thing that I got was these two
sons that are basically like these like beautiful sons and
they're making different expressions and they have weird hands. And
then the second thing I bought, and I did not
realize how big it was until after I won the auction.

(07:57):
And now I am really nervous because it's a very
delicate sculpture. But it is this awesome deer that's painted
like blue and pink, and it looks very whimsical and
like fantasy. And then it has the creepiest human face ever.
And I live out in the woods. We have lots
of deers. There's antlers all over my house. We've talked
about the amplification of my house. Uh you know, the

(08:18):
property is called deer Ridge, so like it fit. I
was like, oh, I need this deer in my life.
But this year I have found out since that it
is three feet high and two feet wide. It like
it's a it's a it's a whole thing, a whole
ass sculpture. So now I have to figure out. I'm
waiting for Bottoms to tell me how much it's gonna
cost to ship this delicate surrealist sculpture from Los Angeles

(08:41):
to the backwoods of Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, if not, great road trip movie for you.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
And looking literally sculpture right now, it is very cool.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Are is it going to be an outdoor? No, it's important.
I'm going to do an indoor.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
It's super delicate. It may or may not be completely
made of paper mache. That's what I've been trying to
research and found out a lot of his works were
in paper machet. So now I'm just I should have
read it more. I should have read the description more carefully.
But sure, guys, gals, if you're ever in an auction,
don't get caught up. Read the detail. Just read the

(09:16):
little things like dimensions.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I should have.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
I just assumed it was like a figurine, and absolutely
it is not. It is a giant sculpture. But now
I'm kind of more excited about it because I like,
this is gonna be cool, like this is and it
was in his personal gym, and like all the things
he really loved the most were in his personal gym.
So it's just loaded up with Richard Simmons good vibe.
So I can't wait. But yeah, what does that say
about me? I like Cirella Start, I like Mexican sculptors.

(09:40):
I love eclectic weirdos from the nineteen seventies. I love
gay men and I want to be writing on them daily.
So I can't wait for the sculpture to get here,
and the when people go what the fuck is that,
I'm like, well, oh, Richard Simmons.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, I love your heir.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
What is that? It's also kind of very serene, creepy.
It looks like something from the beginning of one of
the White Lotus, like you know, the animal with human face,
human with animal energy things that were happening.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
There's so many Serge Piste.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Yeah, and I'm a big fan of Gustamante as well,
and his stuff is quite expensive and hard to come by,
So I was just excited to like get stuff that
was by an artist that I liked, owned by an
eclectic figure that I also like.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, yeah, wonderful, by the way, just to say it's great.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
I can't wait to see how my dogs are going
to react to this three foot sculpture of a beer
with a face on it, Like, I'm pretty sure that
deer is the same size as my candy corso, so
they're going to be like, what the fuck?

Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yeah he was? This guy was this guy? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (10:54):
But yeah, so yeah, that was my search history.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
What is something you think is underrate it?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'm doing this thing recently where I am staying a
little uninformed and I and I know that it's controversial
because I am on a news podcast where I'm about
to be informed about what the fuck is going on
in the world. This is I feel like something that
people talk about on this podcast a lot, actually, but
you know, there's a lot of shame around around like

(11:21):
not keeping up with the news, I think, and it's
not necessarily I think I projected onto myself, you know,
like I'm ashamed, like, oh, I should know what's happening
in the world. But I think I've gotten to a
point where, like I actually understand what's happening entirely, and
I don't need any further updates unless it's like something

(11:43):
and if it is really bad, it'll get to me,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
You're sort of doing the thing where like it got
to a point where like we're cooked, right, Okay, we're cooked.
I mean, if we're cooked, what the fuck do I need?
What else can I learn? So we're cooked. I've done
that with.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
My favorite basketball team, Philadelphia seventy fixtures when they're getting
deep at thirty and like, so I turned the game off,
and I know someone's gonna text me if like anything happens,
yeah back the other direction, or if one of the players,
like legs fall off, Like I'm gonna get twenty texts
all at once. So like I don't actually need to,

(12:19):
And in fact, I did that for the whole season
last year, where I was just like, I don't have
to watch any.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Of this shit. This season of America is bad. Yes, yeah,
let me know if it changes better. I don't know,
I know it's gonna get worse, so but if it
gets really fucked up, let me know. No, I mean,
I totally get that. It's that's where I hope maybe
for people who listen to the show, this is like
a slight service we can offer it to people. Or
it's like listen to we'll say some shit that's going on.

(12:47):
We'll laugh a little bit, but also we get that
we'll let you know too when it's really bad. We
try to, but I get it's it's it is exhausting
and having to look at like the microscopic, granular degradation
of society every day is Yeah, it might not be healthy.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Situation, full shareholder value every day, you know, like you know,
and I'm not you know obviously that I work here,
but as I just mean in general, we're all just
kind of like we're all just working and everything.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Is what we When we enter the dock every morning,
we say a little prayer about shareholder value for heart,
saying guide our hands so that we can make line
go up right?

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Who are in Wall Street? That would be the name.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
But I think to an extent, like I think what's
more important than anything is just like focus on like
what's going on around you in your neck of the woods,
you know, in your neighborhood, what's happening in your community
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, I mean that's a powerful antidote. I always say
that when people get really into the doom scroll, it's like, look,
I know you're seeing shit from around the world that
is happening right now, but go outside into your community
and think about what's happening there, because it's we have
varying degrees of fucked up. But you will feel much

(14:14):
more empowered if you can do these things that are
in your immediate physical space too. Not to say that
you ignore everything else, but that's you'll feel better. You know.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
If anything, did Janie tell y'all how much money she
raised for Palestine relief?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
No, I don't think she.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, I don't remember when she was on here last
but fourth of July I had a party. She raised
like four thousand something dollars for palistine.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Really, that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
We love you, Janey. So oh yeah yeah, but that
was she had hot dogs and beer and whatnot, the
woke beer of course.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yes, of course.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
What is something that you think is overrated?

Speaker 6 (14:51):
I mean, I'm obviously like on a food kick here,
but you know, I personally think getting a macha latte
at a coffee shop or a macha shop is a
little overrated. Not to say I won't do it, because
I will do it, but listen, the macha you can

(15:11):
make at home if you get yourself a good macha,
like a good quality macha powder. I just I prefer
the macha that I make at home. It could be
a hot latte, a cold latte, whatever. Like you don't
have the cute little like instagrammable experience as much, but
for me, the quality that I make is more consistent
and better. And I think that like this whole like

(15:32):
social media aesthetic of like having your cute little macha
is beautiful.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
It looks beautiful.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
But I just want to suggest to anyone out here
who's like getting a macha, a six seven eight dollars
macha every day, like, just try making it yourself, because
I bet you'll be really impressed.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Nothing looks better than a macha. Macha's the best looking drink.
I feel like it looks good, Like I feel like
that might be why some people are ordering them out,
because they're performatively drinking something that is the coolest color.

Speaker 7 (16:05):
I mean, it's so cool. I had. I have to
say I had my first macha.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
I was fortunate to travel to Japan in two thousand
and nine and so like, I, you know, I hadn't
had one before, and I before every tea ceremony, you know,
and like had a macha, was like this is cool.
And then they had this macha ice cream and all
the stuff that they have here in the States today.
I got to experience in Japan, and I remember being like, man.

Speaker 7 (16:28):
Will I ever have this again? And I can only
hope and then boom, here we are.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah. A few listeners on Instagram DMV like posts from
like this company that like makes macha and it's like
these two white women who were like when we went
to Japan, we realized it's like, oh, I'm oh, yeah, y'all,
y'all discovered some now okay, okay, we discovered maya in Japan.
My tip as a Japanese person by by from a
Japanese grower provider, and you know, just you can cut

(16:57):
out the middleman who is doing the I just discovered
Machia company on Instagram. There go, that quality is going
to be straight up ass because it's going to be
sold to people who are just again like like the
look of like I'm drinking green drink. But yeah, it's right, like.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
I mean, you can even go like I did this,
like I went on Amazon and looked for like the
reviews of like the highest quality macha and then went
to that brand's.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Website, right yeah, order like it's not that hard. No, no,
it's not. And typically this is the thing I say, like,
well sometimes cheaper on Amazon. I bet you you go
to the website of the thing you want to buy,
they're going to be like, hey you want fifty percent
off right now, like the second you click on the website,
So you know, leave.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
I got some really cheap macha at a Korean grocery
store near my house.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
It was with Sabby.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
You guys want to be careful. I'm telling you it's
nasty out there.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was in a tube. I should have known.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
How are you because so for my homemade What's Up macha.
I needed to find the right mixing implement because I
got like the macha set with the little like proper
whisk wooden whisky, and I was not skilled enough with
the whisk to like it just wasn't quite as good
as it is like elsewhere. But then I got the

(18:14):
handheld mixer, the little like thing we can press the
thing on and it like spins really fast. It's like
I think it's called a milk frothing. Totally made it,
like so it was indistinguishable from the macha that you
get at the at the store.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah, yeah, I have to say I have all of
those things, and admittedly, like what I do most of
the time when I'm in a hurry, which is not
this is not authentic, Okay, so I am not doing
an authentic method? Is I throw it in the blender,
so I do, like I heat up my milk because
I do like the milk to also be hot. But

(18:48):
it's like I know, Miles, it's in the blunder and
I blend.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
It, Miles is going full.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
And I add ginger, so like that's like, yeah, this
is not like like I did not experience this in Japan.
This is my African American take on mascha. I love it,
but like I add a little bit of either like
powdered ginger, like again, Trader Joe's has like a really
good powder ginger or sometimes like a little frozen ginger cube,
you know, And I just I don't know. I like

(19:19):
it in all of my tea, not just my macha.
But I'm a big tea drinker, and I just like
to add ginger and to everything. So I like that's
why the blender comes in handy, right, because it like
blends it all up. But that like you know, everyone
I would start with a whisk.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, I mean, I grab my face in horror in jest,
but I'm also look, I'm black and ease, I'm also American.
I also look for ways to do shortcuts because the process,
right with the whisk, I understand like as a process
as a Japanese person, it's like this is part of
the tradition. Yeah, you're aerating the macha like with it.
But also part of me does think of like I mean,

(19:56):
what if I'm just trying to get this shit quick?

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Yeah, but I would never like if I had like
a cooking show or something I would never be, like,
do you.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
Mind making mancha throw it in the blood like that?
Like that's not that.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Dude. I went to a coffee shop whereas people had
the bamboo whisk on a fucking power drill. Yeah. Yeah,
like the essentially what I'm doing. Yeah, but I was like, yo,
this is a like it felt like the most American thing.
It's like, I'm gonna put this bamboo whisk on a
power drill. Am I going to blacken Decker this ship up?

Speaker 6 (20:28):
Like should we even be calling it macha or should
we be calling it like.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Green drink green tea? Yeah, it's green tea at.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
That point, green tea?

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, ecdo cooler? Heih see ecdo cooler.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
I do a little shot of hot water and then
spoon the powder on top of the shot of hot
water and then just like mix it in my mouth
as I'm running out.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Is that the traditional? Yeah? And then I put the
frother in electric tooth fresh wis just put on my
electric truth rush just it does it all to one? Yeah? Yeah.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
I will say my husband has gotten into recently instant coffee,
which like he's like a coffee guy right, like he
like I'm a macha drinker. It's my preference. But like
he is super into coffee. And he went to a
friend's house recently for a brunch and he was like,
their coffee is so good. Like I'm going to ask
them what it is, and it's it's from this like
specialized grocery store, but it's their instinct coffee at this

(21:22):
specialized grocery store.

Speaker 7 (21:23):
And so he's like, screw it, like I'm going to
do that now.

Speaker 6 (21:27):
And so he also uses the blender, right, so he's like,
you know, hot water, the instant coffee. He might add
a little something good, you know. And so we're both
like blending our non usually blended drinks lately.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
So it's just this whole thing that's going on in
my house.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Same same blender.

Speaker 7 (21:44):
I feel like, same blender.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Wow, Yeah, I just got to power wash that thing out.
Are you worried about the flavors?

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Worried about those flavors contaminating one of the coffee really sticks?

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Yeah, the maja has to go first.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Definitely order that that I'll do in my mind, Yeah,
blend your coffee afterwards, you're freak.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Yeah, all right, let's uh, let's take a quick break.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
We'll come back.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
We'll check in on the world of science, which I
haven't checked in on since the last time you were here,
Doctor Grant. I have to assume things are going well.
Just a steady march upward, up into the right. We'll
take a quick break and we'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
And we're back. We're back.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
And this is this is a study in the loosest
sense of the words.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, I feel like yeah, I mean, look, we love
a study, study, science, study. We love a study finds
out something headline. And this was one that had basically
been covered like over the weekend. It got a lot
of coverage of saying that a study of dating apps
shows that men are always trying to date out of
their league and women tend to date within their own desirability,

(23:05):
whatever that means. And I was like, okay, whatever, the
what the fuck is this the study? It it comes
from a study that was an analysis of like a
check dating app and like like data from like ten
thousand users heterosexual users. And again they're czes. Sorry, yes,
we've got a lot of locks check, like just checking
out the country checking. And again this they said, quote

(23:28):
research is examining dating app behavior found that men engage
in what scientists call quote aspirational pursuit. This means they
consistently but been targeting women who quote are on average,
considerably more desirable than themselves. Meanwhile, women flooded with options
tend to quote swipe down slightly toward less popular men.
Most aspirational swiping fails to convert into matches. Blah blah
blah blah. I'm like study aside. I was like, anytime

(23:50):
there's something talking about the dynamics of like men and
women dating, I'm like, there's always gonna be some wacky
bullshit comments section. And when I saw that The New
York Post had posted this study as a headline, I
was like, what's the fucking comment section over here? Because
I know it's going to be an absolute fucking crisis.
And this thing has everything. It's got pickup artists, bullshit,

(24:13):
straight up misogyny, anti semitism, all because the study pointed
out that maybe men are a little out of touch
in the era of online dating. No.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
The cover of this study, by the way, as a
picture of the guy from Revenge of the Nerds with
his glasses fogging up, and then like there's a little
windshield wipers that come onto his glasses to clear them
out because he's a nerd.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
And then stuff. First of all, I'm not going to
speak on the veracity of this analysis because I've never
used a dating app in my life. I was out
of the game before the real height of dating app use.
But I'm also like, this study also was taken data.
It comes from July of twenty seventeen. I'm like, that's

(24:57):
that's a different world. We're seven years married.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Unlike you guys who succeeded.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
I was trying to lob this one up for you, Blair.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
I will have to say that we don't have to
worry about that study being back in twenty seventeen. I'm
here to reassure you that that data is absolutely sound,
hard hard data that cannot be refuted in twenty twenty five.
But conversely, I do have to say I'm only on Hinge.

(25:28):
I was on Rayah like on and off, but like
no one ever I get matches, But then no one
would ever ask me on a date. And you know,
I already am in a masculine dominated field. I'm not
going to be messaging first at this point. What's the
point of being a woman. But with Hinge. I am
still on Hinge, even though I forget to go on

(25:49):
it for three months at a time. But I will
say that all the Hinge dates I've ever been on
have all been really nice guys like I. Every guy
has been so kind, And I think my profile is
extremely sincere, like I have nothing joking on there, Like
if any comedy people see my profile, I'd honestly be humiliated.

(26:11):
It's like looking for the love of my life, a
man who will be my so my husband and be
the father of dreams to my children and so like
I it's just since yeah, sincereous.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Fuck.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
But I think because of that, I have only gone
on dates with like the nicest people, like I've surely
never had a horror story.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Mmmmmmm, well the A lot of the comments here are
from like clearly lonely people or angry boomers who are
like the internet comments, what are they like, I'm just like,
it's so wild again, the thing was like very at
the end, they're like the conclusion is like, you know,
people tend to be happier if they're a little more

(26:53):
realistic about like their desirability or where like, rather than
going for maybe their like sort of sexual desire that
are just they're acting out and who they're picking as
a mate. But some of these comments, this is so
like all of them. It's some version of like the
New York Post is trying to fucking destroy white men.
It's sort of like the erl Yeah quote, you'll never

(27:15):
hear anyone telling women to lower their standards. This is again,
like the first thing that they're talking about.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, famously progressive New York Post.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, always so so kind. Yes, they said they're always
encouraged to aim for the hot I'm gonna do it
in a New York Post accent. I'm sorry. They're always
encouraged to aim for the highest fruit on the tree
of life, no matter how unrealistic. Meanwhile, men are constantly
told to quote settle, to lower their expectations and accept

(27:45):
whatever comes their way. Society treats male standards like a threat,
and if you dare to have them, you're labeled toxic
or entitled.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Okay, yeah, who wrote that article? A school shooter?

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Uh, just just a man by the name of j.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah. No, I think Look, I don't like to uh
think too deeply about this stuff because I think that
ultimately we're trying to open our hearts and find the soulmate.
You know, it's not about looks and all this stuff,
and so that is a downside of the apps. But

(28:21):
on the other hand, Devil's advocates, would any of these
dudes be actually approaching a twelve in the bar?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
No, they wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
So, I mean, if they want to shoot their shot
online right behind the safety of their screen, who knows.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
That's not That's what the researchers are kind of like
sort of getting to. They're like, it's much easier for
a person to do this when there it's completely disconnected
from like a physical interaction, and it's like I like this,
I don't like this. I like this, whereas yeah, like
in public it's a much you know, are I think,
at least for me, I was very very like reluctant

(28:59):
to approach people because I just didn't like the awkwardness
of it and I had to get over that.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
And I.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Will also say that men have infinitely way more confidence
than women. Like, you know, if a woman, no matter
how hotious, he's a really hot guy, like, they're intimidated
because there aren't that many hot guys. Women are just
more attractive in general. You know, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
No, I mean you looked right at me when you
said that, and I that many hot guys you lied. Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
It does just feel like this is generally like a
worse way to organize a people. Like just people in
general like aren't like they're not in as many relationships
as they used to be. People aren't having sex as
much as they used to be. Like, it feels like
there's just a lot of ways in which people or

(30:00):
just I don't know, Yeah, yeah, like this like puts
you at a remove and then you were just like,
I don't know, fucking gaming people. It's also funny to
like read the comments of the people who are sexually
frustrated on dating apps and like see how they communicate themselves.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, it's like, oh.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Wait, this isn't working. This this thing where you're saying,
d yeah, it comes to dating. How you stop being
a gold dig in emotional train wreck. Want to be
men ladies? Yes, wait that guy's not mailing it yet.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
I don't want any and I don't want coming after
me looking for a free dinner, you know, like all
this stuff. I'm like, honey, I love that you're worried
about gold diggers. When you make fifteen grand a.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Year, you know, you never know, you never well again,
because that's like a lot of people just ingesting all
of that content and again not being not in practice
experiencing that in the real world. Like a lot of
people just hear this kind of shit, like that's how
the world is like for you, even like I don't
really get up, I don't really talk to anyone. You
can imagine though. There's another one. This is just real quick.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
The guy that I just read the DEI comes to dating.
How about you stopped being gold dig and emotional trait
that that guy put his first and last name one
I know, I just signed that crazy.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
There's one that's a guy named Nelson, and he leaves
a terrible one. He's like, now, men need to seek
Sherman prosecutions against mon monopolistic practices from dating companies, hedgemonds
that run on certain group politics and essentially the fame
men who don't align with politics promoted by the gemony
and offer their unlawful collaborations with defamatory and I'm constant

(31:41):
interested operations by the FBI and local authorities. Before questioning this,
realize first, who is telling you signed Nelson, the guy
who signed Nelson.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
You need to go outside, babe, you need to go outside.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
There's no there's dangerous brown people outside. I read it
here and New York Post. I'm fine.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
I'm also first and last name on that one.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Yeah. First again, it's because it's boom er comments. They're
like leaps to their fucking facebooks.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah, that guy hasn't had sex in like fifteen years.
It also like it depends on what you're looking for
with dating, Like I definitely give a lot of chances,
not a lot, I'm pretty busy, but to people where
I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm not looking at that guys.
But I think that's the difference between men and women,
Like women are able to see like the totality of

(32:30):
a person, Like I go on dates with guys all
the time where I'm not like wowed by. They're like,
oh my god, that's the hottest guy they're seeing. But
I'm like, oh, maybe they're a great person, maybe they
would end up being the love of my life.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well, I think the other part is too, Like I
used to be so superficial when I did I only
wanted to date people that were like me, where it's
like do you like the same shows? Do you like
the same music? And I was not really I was
not experiencing like the fullest breath of life because I
was kind of like really interested in people the exact
same things. And by expanding just my horizons to be like, Okay,

(33:05):
maybe this person doesn't like the exact same shit, I
like that, there's something more to that, and then you
kind of begin to understand what companionship means to you.
It wasn't like they gotta like breaking bad or my
life's gonna suck. It's like, oh, they deeply care about me.
I'm I feel comfortable enough around this person to be vulnerable,
Like those are like the things that I realize over time,
I'm like, oh, that's that's actually when you feel like

(33:27):
you're like, I want to die with this person. That's
what I want. Rather than do they like Belly?

Speaker 3 (33:32):
It takes a long time to learn that.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Stuff, you know, is do they like belly? Is like
how my seven year old, not even my nine years
How my seven year old like ficks his friends. He's
just like, do they like the specific type of legos
that I like?

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Then we're good.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
But for real, if they don't like we have some
work to do. Like honestly, we're like it can still
work out, but like we we need to work at
this relationship.

Speaker 8 (34:00):
Yeah, find a companion. Find a companion. He doesn't like Ninjago.
Oh if he doesn't like Ninjago, Dad, kick him out.
He just didn't like to kick him out. Parents aren't
picking him up for another two hours.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Get him out, all right. I think this is like
a somewhat related story. So in the context of the
CEO and the head of HR getting caught in a
in an embrace at the Cold Play show, immediately like
diving through a window to try and deny the reality

(34:34):
of what we all witnessed. People uh Wired wrote an
article where they're like, this is actually part of a
growing trend, a boom in online private investigators, who people
hire to be like I think my spouse is cheating?
Can you look into this? And then they like post

(34:55):
the results like on they'll they'll blur the person's face,
but they will show like yeah, yeah, it's and like,
on the one hand, it's usually women PI doing it
for a woman who thinks their spouse is cheating. In
at least the people that's covered in this article, which

(35:16):
I think is crucial and makes it much more harmless
than otherwise than like just basically the social media equivalent
of that TV show Cheaters.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
It's just it, just it.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Also, they're like, yeah, all all of the people we
interviewed for this article have their private investigator licensing, and
you know, seem to be doing it from a perspective
of like, we want to give women a place that
feels safe, where they can like look into things and
not have to like hire a guy in a trench
coat who's like also trying to sleep with them or whatever.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Oh this guy's scumbag.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Anyway, you like lasagna, Yeah, exactly, like the men who
get into being private investigators. It's like, I can't imagine
what that.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, that feels like a New York Post comment too.
It's like, fellas, ever since I became a PI, I've
been doing great with dating just to hip.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
You know, you're like, oh god, but I do feel
like it's a it's another thing where we're you know,
at a remove. Everybody's kind of lonely. Everybody's experiencing the
world at a remove and through like digital interfaces, and
so like we're consuming this shit just to like feel schanfreude.

(36:34):
And you know, I guess it's like the same thing
that people used to experience through like gossiping at work
in person. But it does feel like if if it
becomes less and less regulated and more and more just
like fucking I watch Andrew tape videos and I'm also
going to be a pi like that. I feel like

(36:54):
that could go in a very dark direction.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Oh, the perspective in which you try to uncover the
truth for people to help them.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yeah, I have a few thoughts on this. I think
this is really a lot of this is about the past.
You know, five years of people deciding the growing unrest
against billionaires. We saw it with the submarine explosion all that,
and it started to the fact that this guy's a millionship.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Marine explosion is a great example. I've been using just
Luigi Mangioni and this CEO guy. But yeah, the submarine example.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
No, because here's the thing. Women get so angry about cheating,
but you're not going to see men across the country
like going nuts about a dude cheating. They're like, Okay,
that's like multi lat yeah, yeah, that guy's baller. And
but that in combination yeah, Like I think people were like, oh,

(37:51):
and it was just so public and brazen, like you know,
this wasn't like someone getting caught cheating, like when photos
when they're like getting paparazzi found them, like getting out
of a car somewhere, Like this isn't the most public forum,
So it just felt more brazen, like like a few thing.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
You know.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I think like that shot in Freud, I think a
lot of it, Like to your point, like Blair, is
that just generally we feel so powerless in terms of
what like the wealthy do that any kind of any
kind of come upance is going to be embraced immediately
because you feel like I just want to see some
fucking accountability fucking somewhere, you know, because I feel like

(38:37):
a lot of that is sort of simmering underneath a
lot of like, you know, especially in our society, is
like where's the accountability for people that are actually like
affecting our lives negatively truly in a tangible way. And
I think so when the CEO sort of category of
person kind of intersects with that, and then when you
see that, you're like, yeah, exactly, yeah, fuck you, I
got no sympathy for this motherfucker, and.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
I get so hungry for it that will like allow
it to be a submarine implosion that like killed a
bunch of other people will still be like, ah, fucking.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Not me, Like I can't.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
I still my friends are like, you know, I just
I can't celebrate like people dying it like that. But
I do not think this country cares about extramarital cheating
in the way that the reaction to this, it's much
more about him, yes, and the Trump Trump culture where
it feels like, oh, there's just no laws for these guys,

(39:34):
like they're truly running over society, the elon like all
the whole Elon musk mess for the last like year
or two. And yeah, I just think it brought a
lot of people feeling like they could take power back
by witnessing that. Also, the way they freaking dove out
of the way this was exactly I will be vulnerable

(39:57):
with you. For one moment, I was pulling I'm not
proud of this, but I was pulling into my parents' neighborhood.
You know, we got a lot of like family emergencies happening,
and I text my mom pulling up and a cop
drove by me, and instead of putting my phone down sly, slyly,
I threw it like I was that goddamn CEO and

(40:20):
like was at the least like cool you could be
in that situation. And immediately got pulled over and got
a ticket. And I was like and I was like, oh, rightfully,
so absolutely and the and I was like crying because
I was upset about my brother, and I was like,
he was so nice to me. And I was like,
you have a really nice bedside manner for being an

(40:43):
evil demon.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
I didn't say the demon part, but yeah, I meant
to be like for being for me. Yeah, for being
a fucking pig.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Break out your You're a fucking pig, motherfucker. Give me
my fucking ticket. Also, okay, if I get out of
my car to pick up my phone, I know I
threw it out the window while we were I didn't.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
And look, I have been wrong before because of my
autism about I've been wrong maybe one million times. But
I do believe this was the one nice cop in existence.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Sure sure, sure, yeah you found you found that cop.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
It's just a few bad ones out there.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
It was that I'm saying, spoiling the whole.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Bunch except for Mariscal Hargeta.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Yeah, that's right, right right. I remember going up there
was a cop that came to our neighborhood for a
block party and did the macarena and he was all right,
he was all right.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Those cops stories where it's like an old person commits
because they're like whatever, and they come back like and
make them dinner or something because they were hungry, and
you're like, oh, that's good, that's a good cop.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
The thing was that it was just this stripper who
lived in the neighborhood who had a cop, you know,
form because he was he had way too much honey
in those hips when he was in the mock around
a body roll. Yeah, I didn't know until later on.
My mom was like, you know that was a stripper, right,
that was an actual cop, And no, I don't tell

(42:16):
I don't tell tales that it No, I'm lying, oh Jackie,
And I knew that one.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Wait for real, wait, Blair was the person who pull
you over with that stripper? Was that a stripper?

Speaker 3 (42:31):
I believe more strippers should be men, is my personal belief.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Anytime I see a dude properly hit a body roll,
oh my God, they were a stripper. Too many people
are too stiff with the body roll. At the very least,
men need to be body rolling harder, sexier, I mean straight.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
A man being objectified in a workplace setting.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Hey, yeah, speaking of object objectified in a workplace setting,
let's take quick break. Won't come back and talk about
that Sidney Sweeney campaign.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
We'll be right back, and we're back. We're back.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
And I didn't even know about this happening in my
own dang city. There there's a Elon musk Tesla diner.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Were you aware of this, Miles?

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Were you at one of the people in the one
hundred deep line?

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Yeah, I was first in line, first line for your
epic bacon. Hell yeah, for twelve dollars, that's.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
What No, wait, hold on, was that a joke? Is
epic bacon on.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
The Mapic bacon is on the menu, And we will
get to how epic it is.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Carmen, my sweet summer child.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
So he's like just fucking up increasingly like things that
could be cool, Like he fucked up Twitter, fucked up
space travel, fucked up stuff driving cars, fucked up fatherhood.

Speaker 4 (43:58):
Yeah, using your child is a human robot.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
Just like sex. He made sex like awful, Like it's
really hard to fuck up sex. But he's like Malings
reaching out to people.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
On social media fucked up grimes big time, reaching out
the people on social media and being like can I
mail you my sperm? Like is so like it sucks
so bad.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Anyways, he is now coming for diners, which, like, damn it.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
That was the fucking the guy with the spikey hairs job, right, guy,
that was his job.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah, he's too busy being in Adam saying the happy
Gilmore too sequel? How is it he has it? It's
there's just again, there's too many cameo range.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
And then the big takeaway I'm hearing like bad Bunny
is like one of our great actors.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Bad Bunny has ranged, she has comedic crime.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
I mean he was like I watched that uh blit
train movie with Brad Pitt. He was pretty good in that.
That Bunny like just looks great on camera, which I
guess shouldn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
But it looks like spooky ship in it. Spooky shit. Yeah,
hey man, you look like spooky shit?

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Are you okay?

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (45:17):
It's the Anyways, he's coming for the diner, which should
be pretty difficult to fuck up. But this man is
the one, the one genius he has is fucking up everything.
So open a diner in Hollywood, which is like this
retro futurist kind of greasy spoon that our writer Jam

(45:39):
says should be described as what if What if planet
Hollywood was an in cell ufo.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Fucking facts and all the losers were there instead of
all the celebrities?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Oh my god, yeah exactly, and yeah, look well look
that's some other asshole charging their cyber truck there. Sweet.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
So did he build this exterior like that it was
not already existing in La.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
No, this did not This is this is it does
look like it could be something.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, I know, you know how like there's like, oh
that was clearly an old like retro you.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Know dining, Like he like built the okay, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
He built this.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, it's it's like what if like he took the
same unsubtle approach he took to cyber trucks and like
you did that with like, okay, this should be like circular?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
What if we did? Circular?

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Diner open on July twenty, first lineup of nearly one
hundred people, which as somebody who drives around Los Angeles,
like who you know? I have to drive down Melrose
every once in a while to like, I'm sorry, pick
up my kids from camp.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
And there is a line. There are lots.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
There are line lineups of nearly one hundred people everywhere
all the.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Time for daycare pickup Melrose, especially especially get your Crescent Heights.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Yeah, but not just not just daycad No, but I
mean just Melro like just like for brunch for shah,
just hype shit.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Anyways.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Food is served in cyber truck shaped boxes, which some
customers wore as hats because lots of people are fucking moron.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
So they ate the food from the box and then
they put the why why am I the greasy box? Yeah,
with the the epic bacon in it, and they put
the epic bacon grease on.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
The epic bacon is actually a smaller container. It'd be
hard to You could make those mittens if you really wanted,
but not so much.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
A hat from behind the pass in the kitchen, green
Span shouted, customer orders epic bacon tune of melt cheese,
epic bacd Jesus Christ, fuck.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Eric Greenspan too. The fucking chef who's running this. You
fucking lose her. He's like, this is a collabor People
were like, bro, why are you working with this fucking nazi?
Like what's your fucking deals? Like, this is a collaboration, dude,
But he just fucking sucks. Dude. He had a shitty
grilled cheese restaurant on Melrose. I fucking hated. Sorry takes

(48:08):
into this.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
So people seemed really excited that the Tesla Diner will
be selling four strips of quote epic bacon for twelve dollars. Yeah,
three dollars a strip.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Well, hold on, Carmen Jack, describe the bacon that you
sell for twelve dollars.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
So let me get down to where somebody actually had it.
So somebody went viral because they just like went to
the thing and took a picture of what the epic
bacon looked like next to like what they advertise it as,
and it's it's a perfect metaphor something.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
It was billed as four strips of maple glazed black
pepper bacon, served with choice of dip. Because everyone who
lives on planet Earth, that's a bacon loving normy nose.
You gotta dip your bacon. And dip your bacon the
epic bacon.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Fuck that's like fifteen years old now.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Like that right me?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
That's like me and twenty years with my labuboo.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Everyone be like, I mean, yes, you just eating a
bunch of epic bacon too with your labubu right now,
you know. So yeah, that's my Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
So the bacon itself was chewy, not crunchy, of course,
and like it comes in like a fry you know,
like a McDonald's fry container, you know, like one of
the cardboard sleeves, polygon shape and the picture yeah polagonal, polygonal, yeah, polygonal. Yeah,
Like and it has like the bacon just these thick, thick,

(49:42):
old chonky slices of bacon pouring out of it on
the you know image that they sell.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
You on it with.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
And then the actual bacon is like so sad. There's
like one tiny little curl of bacon.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Like like peaking enough to actually yeah, yea be prominent.
I mean again, this is exactly Elon Musk's whole fucking
shtick is like, look at this thing that I'm saying
is cool and its presentation. Oh, but once you buy it,
it's it's gonna be the absolute shittiest version of the
thing I said it was gonna be. I mean electric sauce.
By the way.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Another thing that's just a perfect metaportraits that's just relabeled
Chipotle Mayo. Yeah, it's just Chipolan.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
That's another fucking like fifteen year old food like flea.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Have you heard of this Chipotle Mayo sauce?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
If you trieds electric sauce, dude, get the fuck away
from bacon.

Speaker 4 (50:37):
You gotta get the electric sauce with that big bacon.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Oh, I'm just so glad that people are protesting in
front of this thing, because like, well, there are some
people dumb enough to appear in public patronizing this place. Yeah,
there are plenty of people who are just like, yeah,
this is the Nazi diners, just what you fucking want. Also,
it's a fucking nuisance to the people that live nearby.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Yeah, it's and what pisses me. And I know Jamie
talks about that's talked about this on the pod before,
but kisses me off to note and that those people
that are going and standing in line here and also
buying the blue checks on Twitter, they think that they
are like punk or whatever because they think that they
now that they think that they're on like the fringe

(51:19):
of like you know, public belief, and it's so infuriating
to me, like y'all are so stupid. You're literally yuppies.
You're stupid, Like.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Yeah, I mean it's just so funny too. Of like
if even if they it's like, oh, you think you're punk,
you're like, okay, tell me about punk music, tell me
about the talk about the history of punk rock, right,
because it was that a bunch of people being like,
we love Lee Iacoca, we love the government, and we
love Margaret Thatcher. Are you fucking stupid? This is the antithesis.
Y'all are fucking out here just being like we love

(51:54):
Margaret Thatcher. Basically yeah, cool man, that's fucking sick. Dog.
That's so fucking sick. Cool cool, cool cool, And.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
There were like I do I think, you know, we've
been predicting for a long time that like the eighties
were coming back, where like it was seen as cool,
and like, I think that's what it is. It's like
all the fucking yuppies, like you said, Carmen, are just
like back and they're like it's actually.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Cool to be this to be I bought people.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Yeah, it's really epic.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
They also have to drive in movie theaters. I don't know,
it's it's dude for tesla. Yes, yeah, you can charge
your car and like watch a movie while eating the
world's shittiest food there.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
But like Twitter, like the Twitter posts about the people
who like live nearby, like this thing that people were liking.
It to the Seinfeld Kenny Rogers Roasters episode, Yeah, where
the fucking like the lights were just like wing in
the people's apartments and they were what the fuck man, like,
I can't and it's loud, it's what's all fucked up?

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Just like when he put the X sign up it
lit up the whole fucking where with them.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yeah, and people were like, get this ship down, Like,
are you fucking stupid again? This makes sense that a
person who has no concept that other people exist on
planet Earth that have like a right to peace would
just build this monstrosity that has fans to keep their
gigantic led screen cool like a making it just life

(53:23):
miserable for the people who live next door.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Oh well, that's owning the lips, Like if you're if
you're miserable, you're a lip and they're owning the libs.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
That's called owning it. It's called owning a business. Yeah,
I actually like that.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
I can't even hear the helicopters anymore because of how
loud the fan is. That's cooling the giant led screen. Yeah.
And one reviewer was felt was left feeling mildly nauseated
after the meal, which would make sense since people have
taken photos of boxes of frozen products and milk sitting
out in the dry the parking lot in July heat.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
What's I really want to know what their food safety
rating is, like the kitchen score, you know.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I mean he pays pays for that, pays for an eye,
you know. All right, let's end on some good news, okay,
oslots which are like really cool, jungle cats and possums,
which are.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
My mother's favorite.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
There are marsupial kind of nasty looking by some standards.
Other others would call them cute, but they they have
faces from hell kind of which.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
They have faces from That's okay, I got to my mother.
The possum their faces get fucked up because they can't see,
and they experience the world with they lead with their
face so that's why that ship is the first thing
getting mashed up. If you see out the fucking Fresh

(54:52):
out the Box, Baby.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Fresh Out the Box, it's in one of those spacesuits,
one of the that camera spacesuits they did emmaculate. I
like that, like they just seem it's incredible to me
that this creature has managed to survive this long. Like
you said, they're blind and leading with their face to
the extent that like they just look fucked up all

(55:17):
the time. We have one in our yard and he's
just watching him like waddle across the yard. It's just like,
how's this thing ever gotten away from anything?

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Ever?

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Right?

Speaker 1 (55:28):
And I guess the answer is like by playing dead,
which again is my response, is my trauma response. So
I admire it. It just doesn't always work so well
for me. But apparently the possuma is out here surviving,
and another way that they're surviving is by making friends.
So everyone was like, yeah, I mean, an ocelot would

(55:48):
be the natural predator of a possum, and yet there
are cameras, trail cameras in the Amazon rainforest who keep
capturing oslot possum like Buddy Cup duo pairings just like
paling around.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Wait a minute, I'm looking into this. I'm doing some research.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
I can play a video here.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
Are cool as fun they are. They're like spotted jungle cats.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
It's cool because like the possum. In my mind, I'm like,
maybe the possum would trail the oscelot. But the possums like,
come on, man, we're going over here. What do we
get into? Hey, let's go on.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
This awesome can smell stuff that maybe the oslot doesn't.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
So one of the theories is that the possum is
using the oslos scent to hide themselves from large predators,
so like a chemical camouflage.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
So then a beard if you will.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Right, that doesn't really make sense because the osla would
be one of the pretors.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
So as for.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
What the osclat is getting out of the relationship, there's
a theory that the possums are resistant to snake venom,
which the oscelot is not. So if the osclod is
like a lead blocker for snakes, where like a snake
gets them and then they're just like fuck out of here.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Oh, the possum is the lead blocker. The possum is
resistant to snake venom.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Yeah, so he's there in you know, this is the
fucking Amazon rainforest, so obviously there are a lot of
snakes that will kill you dead. And the Osla is
just out here kind of laying back as the possum
gets bit and then they're like, okay, don't go that direction.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Hey you good? You good O. The fucker bit me
right in my jugular. Yeah, I'm all right, all right,
let's go over here. Let's see if something over here. Man,
I like, so the oscilot might be using the pop really,
it's like, yeah, motherfucker.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
So the possum is an abusive relationship.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
That's in.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
That's what it's like.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
That is the way that humans always interpret animal anything.
Is like okay, it's like they're just using each other
as tools. But also like I've seen enough videos where like,
you know, a family happens to have a dog, like
a big dog and a tiny kitten, and like the

(58:26):
big dog like loves the kitten. Like is that because
it like thinks it can use the kitten as like
a bear bear bait or something like. It's just like no,
it's just like animals are like can be like sweet
to one another every once in a while.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
Man, what concept, Jack, that's you should write a children's book, Jack,
about animals can.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Be sweet to one another.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Yes, animals can be sweet to one another.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Yeah maybe Yeah, that'll help as a metaphor that like
humans are like we're not We don't have to be transactional.
We can just kind of deal with people and enjoy.
It's true, but like, I think it's fine. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
The fact that we can't even look at nature without
being like, how how are they making wine go up
on their about their capacity for survival.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
Is like what the fuck? I don't know. Maybe they're
embracing AI to.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Do more in your mind, to like another possibility where
people are.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Nice. I was like, maybe this is I'm glad they
have multiple examples rather than like just this one, because
it would be funny if to like, yeah, actually the
ocelot was playing the long game with that motherfucker man
they yeah, fuck out of him.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
I've got the maybe defends his the possums babies. I'm
just gonna say that.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
That would be adorable.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
There's like even video where like then I'm sure the
scientists were like, all right, finally the jig is up,
where like the oslot is like batting at the possum,
But then the possum bat's back and they're like clearly playing.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
My dogs. Are you know? This makes me think of
my dogs, who are deathly afraid of any dog that
is like they're very are you aware of their size?
And any dog that is like slightly bigger of them,
they're afraid of it. I'm always trying to convince them
to make friends, because like this is an example. You
want big friends out there in the jungle, you know,

(01:00:14):
so I.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Do just play dead.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
I wonder if that's how it happened, is like the
possum like play dead, and I was like, come on too,
like A.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Right, you're not I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
I would love that, but you you actually look kind
of nasty to me. I'm not trying to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
A writer.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Katie Golden pointed out that this might actually just be
viral marketing for Zootopia Too Oh God, comedy in which
team up to solve racism.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
Genius call writer.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
They could be Yeah, they could be.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
That new trailer just dropped.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Yeah, I've been listening too much d m X that
when you kept saying my dogs, my dog is like
my dogs is with it? You wanted to get it
come and get it. And I was like, Okay, never mind,
we're not doing a rough rider's amplem roughen here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
All right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist.
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I hope you're having a great weekend and I will
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