The Daily Zeitgeist - 2 Cold 2 Breathe, Wokest Dude Awards 1.30.19

Episode Date: January 30, 2019

In episode 319, Jack and Miles are joined by Smart Mouth podcast host Katherine Spiers to discuss the all time coldest temperatures hitting the country, the FaceTime bug allowing users to eavesdrop, the government shutdown slowing down the investigation into the Trump administration, Black Panther playing for free, Pepsi's new nitro version, Baby Shark, and more! Plus super producer Anna Hossnieh joins to discuss the UAE giving out gender equality awards to only men.FOOTNOTES:1. Special report: A 30-year alarm on the reality of climate change2. More-Persistent Weak Stratospheric Polar Vortex States Linked to Cold Extremes3. ARCTIC CHANGE AND POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON MID-LATITUDE CLIMATE AND WEATHER4. 'Minimize talking' outside: Polar vortex bears down on North as Deep South braces for snow5. Washington Park Apartment Building Residents Say Their Heat, Hot Water Have Been Out For Months6. FaceTime Bug Lets iPhone Users Eavesdrop, in a Stumble for Apple7. UAE's gender equality awards won entirely by men8. UAE releases pictures of disappeared princess Sheikha Latifa9. Dithering GOP Stalls House’s New Trump-Russia Probe10. Here’s how to catch ‘Black Panther’ for free in theaters this week11. Pepsi to launch nitro version for people who think soda is too dang carbonated12. Gassed Up: Pepsi To Launch Nitro Soda13. WATCH: Baby Shark Dance | Sing and Dance! | Animal Songs | PINKFONG Songs for Children14. Investors Are Singing Along to ‘Baby Shark’15. Baby Shark (Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo) Billboard Chart (Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo)16. How Death, Dismemberment, and Jesus Helped ‘Baby Shark’ Become a Hit17. The long, complicated history of Baby Shark — and the artist fighting for credit18. How the Bermuda Triangle Works19. WATCH: Sunken - Over The Days Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 67, Episode 3 of The Daily Zeitgeist, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness using the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on Google, and so she means. It's Wednesday, January 30th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. O'Brien, oh na-na. Jack of my heart is in O'Brien, a.k.a. O'Brien, oh na na.

Jack of my heart is in O'Brien, oh na na. It's always good when you can hear Super Producer Ana Hosnier groaning before I even get the first part of my a.k.a. out. Yeah.

Hashtag Havana, hashtag shout out to Hannah Soltis and I'm thrilled to be joined As always by my co-host Mr. Miles Gray Thank you so much Miles Gray also known as Miles Mexi Melt Gray For my love of the Taco Bill

Taco Bill Taco Bell is a guy I grew up with in North Hollywood Taco Bell Hand Taco Bill is a guy I grew up with in North Hollywood. Taco Bell handheld food item. I couldn't sing today because my voice doesn't feel good. But thank you, Nathan Hansen, because you listen, my man. You know that I only order Mexi Melts at Taco Bell. And my voice never feels good, just so it's like getting nuts.

I have to be careful, man. I know. I know. You got to be careful with those pipes. I'm Jackson Maine of this shit. Yeah, yeah. Peeing myself in the studio. careful man i know i know you gotta be careful with jackson main of this shit yeah yeah peeing myself in the studio well we are thrilled to be joined once again by an amazing guest the host of the smart mouth podcast katherine spears hi hi what's up thanks for having me we just had a very

very enthralling discussion yes about and zeitgang enlight us. Is there a way to make the Ore-Ida tater tot at home using your own ingredients? A homemade tater tot with that perfect shape. How do you do it? Yeah, the shape is the thing that's really stumping us. Yeah. Right. Is it a thimble? Is it a little shot glass?

Oh. Shot glass. I don't know. Film canister? You really want to be a film canister, don't you? You want to be right. Well, my dad is a photographer, so I grew up with film canisters all around. And I used to fucking put rocks in it and sell it at school.

I'd be like, yo, I got these rocks that come in the case. And they'd be like, yo, you're selling me rocks in a film canister. I'm like, shut the fuck up. You went to school with very gullible children, it sounds like. You can say dumb. So don't film canisters have all sorts of chemicals and shit in them? Yeah. But who cares, right?

Right. Added flavor there. Well, Catherine, we're going to get to know you a little bit better, find out what you've been up to in the last year. It's been a while since you've been on. Hasn't been a year. Years. It's been some amount of time.

Past couple years. You're in the fall. So we're going to ask you a couple questions in a moment. First, we're telling our listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. It is the all-time coldest air that a quarter of the country has ever experienced if you're under the age of 25. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the FaceTime bug that allows people to eavesdrop on your conversation before it begins. We're going to talk about the Emirati government giving out a gender balance award to only men. We're going to talk about the government shutdown and its

effects on the Mueller investigation and just all sorts of things. The conclusion of that Vegas mass shooting investigation, which was not satisfying, did not come to any conclusions, all of that, and Baby Shark. But first, Catherine, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? I searched songs about Friday night. Okay. But I'm not a sad person, I promise.

Okay. It was cool that I did that. Very cool. Oh, yeah. You look very sure of yourself. And I'm not a sad person, I promise. Okay. It was cool that I did that. Very cool. Oh, yeah. You look very sure of yourself. And I'm not a sad person. Just a cool guy hanging out. Just seeing what Friday nights are like for other people.

For other people. They're as fun as mine. Were you just like looking for something to kind of groove to while you were doing a clothes trying on montage or something? Yes, I'm always doing that in my cute apartment. No, sometimes I can't think of outro music for my podcast, so I Google stuff. Because I learned all about

music rights and what we're allowed to do and it just has to refer to the conversation. So I just put in some terms, some things we talked about and come up usually disco. So why Friday night? Was it an episode? Well, actually because we talked about and come up. Usually disco. So why Friday night? Was it an episode? Well, actually, because we were talking about Taco Bell. And my guest said, it's Friday night.

Go to Taco Bell. Fantastic. That's good enough for a music cue for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fantastic. What was the song? Friday Night Lights theme song. I almost went with that.

I might. I still have time. I might switch it. What's that called? Like Hearts on Fire? It's got some crazy name. So inspirational. Yes.

But also speaks to the truth of the American heartland. Also does not feel anything like Friday night. It feels more like, you know, you're thinking about your existence on the plains of Texas. Yeah. On a Friday night. No, I went with a disco song, a little known disco song whose name I'm forgetting. Called Friday Nights Are Alright With Me. Friday Nights Alright For A Fight.

There you go. That's a Saturday Nights Alright For A Fight, the Elton John song. Was that released back when he was still trying to be a tough dude? Yeah, like macho? Or is it just like a fun, campy thing? Are the lyrics about fist fighting? Yeah, it's like Saturday night's all right for a fight. Get a little action.

It could just be like a domestic spat. That's true. You know what I mean? That's true. Friday night. How come you didn't wash the dishes after a week when you said you would? The vibe of it is more rollicking than that Radiohead song about divorce.

It probably means like three different things. Yes. Taupin. Let us know. I know Taupin is a big fan of the show so let us know, Bernie.

What is something you think is overrated? Doctors. Just generally doctors. I think they're horrible. Okay, so here's the thing you know Kim Porter who's the woman who had children with Sean Combs she died a few months ago and it just came out

that she died of pneumonia which is the same thing that my dad died of and she didn't get adequate medical care no one ever gave her a chest x-ray which is the same thing that happened to my dad he went to the hospital they said he had dry mouth and to suck on lozenges and then he'd be fine. And then he died the next day. So and then Kim Porter, who's like a famous person

or a rich person, died the same way. And I'm like, nope, doctor's out of here. Done with you. Wow. So you'll never go to a doctor again? Is that what you're saying? I mean, if I can help it. Wow. No, I don't know what the right answer is for people to hop in i know no i bet you mean yeah well a similar thing happened to uh my aunt too who has cancer and she had pneumonia recently and they didn't figure out to like way late she's alive still but it was like one of those things a very similar thing having to do with pneumonia yeah and then they put it together like basically at a very crucial moment. Yeah.

I mean, we put doctors up on this pedestal. But if you think about it, you go to restaurants and sometimes the service is really good. And sometimes the service is really bad. That's right. But they're both called servers. Well, sometimes doctors can be really bad too. That is absolutely true. And we forget that.

But there are good doctors for the record. Yes. There are good doctors. I will acknowledge, Dr. House does exist. Oh yeah, also your wife is a doctor. That's what I call my wife, Dr. House. She's the doctor who lives in my house. What were you talking about? Is that why Teardrop by Massive Attack is on loop in your house all day?

Yes, yes. What is something you think is underrated? So last time I was on the show, I talked about quiet Canadian comedies. I'm going to recommend a quiet Northern Irish comedy this time. It's called Dairy Girls. Oh, on the Netflix. Yes. On Netflix.

They've only aired one season so far. It's so cute. It also will teach you a lot about the troubles. Yeah, the troubles. Yeah, without you noticing that you're learning. The young people on it are adorable and gross, and it's great. Yeah. Everyone should watch it.

I was just watching another Irish comedy on Netflix, too, called Hardy Bucks. Oh, I haven't even seen that. It's just like these dudes. It's like four broke dudes just trying to make it. There's really no storyline, except you kind of get a glimpse into these guys' weird schemes and scams. But I love a good Irish show. There's a really cool photo series of

Irish, like it's an Irish slum where all the kids for whatever reason have access to ponies and they all ride ponies around. It's really weird and has nothing to do with what we're talking about except that it's Ireland. Alright. There's also a weird YouTube subculture of guys calling each other out like Irish It's really weird and has nothing to do with what we're talking about, except that it's Ireland. All right. There's also a weird YouTube subculture of guys calling each other out, like Irish guys,

like calling other members of other clans out and talking about how they're going to beat them up. That is must-see TV. Oh, yeah, for those bare-knuckle fights. Yeah, bare-knuckle fights. There's a really good documentary about that of the long-standing feuds between families, like over 60-year-old feuds between families like over like 60 year old feuds that like generations have been fighting it out for yeah just completely uncharismatic men speaking in like really thick irish brogues at the camera like wwe wrestlers in front of like a

like a rusted out car husk and their. And their family behind them like, tell them, tell them, boys. And you're like, hell yeah, this is some shit. It's just a pinhole into some crazy universe you had no idea existed. But the Irish are my people and I love them and it's a beautiful country. Oh, sure. What is a myth? Oh, so the myth that you have to refrigerate your eggs. Okay.

Which is only true if you buy them at the supermarket. If you have your own chickens that lay eggs or if you get them straight from the farm, actually eggs are self-contained and self-sanitized. You don't have to refrigerate them. But when you buy them from the supermarket, they've actually been washed at the factory because we're so obsessed with hygiene. So the washing removes the cuticle on them, which is a layer around the shell that keeps them safe. Yeah. Oh, interesting. Are they slippery when you get them from the farm?

No. It's not like placenta. No. You're just dropping them. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know how to take these darn things home. I know that when Americans go to like Europe and South America for vacation and go to the grocery store. And they're like, the eggs are just out.

The eggs are out. Yeah. Why are they out? And they usually get like a little xenophobic about it. And they're like, ew, don't they know how to refrigerate their eggs? No, it's us that's gross. First time I saw that was when I went to Africa. And I had the same initial reaction.

At first, I didn't say nothing. Because then my logic kicked in. I'm like, they're doing this because you can do it. Right. And this life has existed on this continent for centuries and millions of years. Other countries are way more in touch with their past than the United States. Well, everything is, yeah. Like you said, we're so obsessed with things being so sterile and things like, it's not in the box.

Yeah. He just took four loose eggs. So we go too far. Right. Yeah. And over-sanitize. Yeah. But we're silly. Another thing that doesn we go too far. Right. Yeah. And over sanitize. Yeah. But we're silly.

Another thing that doesn't need to be refrigerated that people think does, milk. No. Ketchup. Yogurt. Right. Ketchup does not need to be refrigerated. That is something that the humor columnist Dave Barry told me when I interviewed him for the Cracked Podcast.

He was like very adamant on it. I was like, all right, man. I mean, I never said it did need to be. He was very adamant on it. I was like, all right, man. I never said it did need to be. That doesn't seem like a hill that Dave Barry would die on. But also, do you refrigerate butter? If I'm not going to be using it immediately, I'll put it in the fridge. But if I'm in a toast mood and I'm having toast for breakfast all week,

I don't put it in the fridge. My dad's family growing up didn't refrigerate it. He just had a little butter dish with a little thing on top. It's never gone bad on me. No, you'd have to work really hard to make butter go bad. Yeah, true. New experiment. Catherine, that was all fascinating stuff.

Oh, good. We are thrilled to have you here. We are going to talk about the news right now and specifically the fact that it is the coldest, for a quarter of the people listening to this, it is the coldest temperature they've ever experienced, presumably. Wednesday morning in Minneapolis or in the Minnesota area is going to be all-time low, it's saying. I think minus 65 on Wednesday morning. What? It is so cold. So that's like 97 degrees below freezing, technically? Yes.

We generally don't cover weather on the dailies, I guess. No, because we live in California. We're like, dude, do you know how cold it is? It's like 64 today. Right. This is the cold equivalent of like a hurricane, though. It's a polar vortex, which is when like a piece of polar air just like gets trapped and like breaks free from i don't know how it works guys but something bad to be an

authority but it does uh it's a vortex that keeps all the cold air it's a vortex you know you know and it's a vortex bro so just leave it there um but it is so cold this is the thing that caught my attention that they're advising that you not talk avoid talking minimize talking when you're outside and avoid taking deep breaths oh because you don't want to ingest or bring all that cold air into your lungs it's just that cold that it's gonna upset your body it's like what the please be safe i know for y'all out there because i read i mean it's like it's going to upset your body. It's like, what the fuck? What is that? Please be safe for y'all out there. Because I read, I mean, it's basically fatal cold. Yes.

You know, people may perish depending on their situation, right? Yes, absolutely. If you're exposed to this. Yeah. I mean, as always with weather disasters, it's most dangerous for the disadvantaged and the poor. Right. You know, we spoke during hurricane season

about the fact that people from poor countries and cities and neighborhoods are the hardest hit and the most prone to, you know, loss of life. Even in the U.S. too. Yeah. I mean, just look at Katrina or the neighborhood from Moonlight. Because of global climate change, people suspect it's being knocked down to build upper-class condominiums, and it's because it is one of the only places in Miami

that is above sea level. But anyways, there's a building in Chicago that has been without heat and hot water since November, and a local news report finally, with this insane cold snap coming on, finally reported on it. And now it seems like. All of a sudden it was fixed? Well, yeah.

Now the error has been temporarily fixed. And the person who was in charge of it, apparently it's owned by an out of town owner, which I don't know why we can't. Like we should be able to shame these people. Absolutely. Fuck yeah. This is people's life on the line. So what, they can save a couple bucks because they don't want to fix some shit?

It says so much about the human condition that the only way people will act right is if they're shamed publicly for it. We're awful. Right, and also that now we're at a point where the climate and the weather has gotten to a point where your lack of attention being paid to a building

will lead to catastrophic results for the tenants yeah whereas before it's like man the heat doesn't work i gotta fucking use the oven heat right like that risk carbon monoxide yeah i mean that's what one of the women who was interviewed in this local chicago news story was saying that she had the oven on and open and their carbon monoxide dangers there um They were also using space heaters, which have a lot, you know, an entire apartment building worth of people is using space heaters that can, you know, you're bound to get some fire risks there. So, yeah, guys, stay safe and stay warm.

Also, is that so cold? How quickly can something freeze a minus 65? I think they said that your skin exposed to those sorts of temperatures will start experiencing frostbite, where it will eventually have to be removed in five minutes. Oh, my God. Man, I'm so fucking ignorant to that kind of coldness. Yeah. I watched a documentary once about living in Siberia, just living there, and it looked

miserable. Yeah. But we should ask them for some tips. Yeah, seriously. Where'd you grow up, Catherine? Seattle. Okay. See, we're the temperate people.

Right. Well, how cold does it get in the winter? It doesn't get super cold. Right. Yeah, it's pretty regular year round. We get snow sometimes. Oh, really? Yeah.

Not all the time. Gosh, I haven't seen snow. Oh, really? Yeah. Not all the time. Gosh. I haven't seen snow in years. Really? No. I have not. But you've seen the ocean. I have seen the ocean once.

What? Yeah. Whenever I... I just don't like to look at it. It doesn't like to go to the west side. That I understand. Even when I flew to Japan, I asked the person next to me, will you please shut your window? You asked for a middle seat.

Yeah. I do. And I put my eye mask on and it just freaks me out. you please shut your window? You asked for a middle seat. Yeah, I do. And I put my eye mask on and it just freaks me out. All right, guys, let's talk about the FaceTime bug. Do you guys use FaceTime? Do you FaceTime with people? I like to FaceTime people that are hungover. My mother and stepfather insist upon it.

Right. I think it's, so this is bad news for people with kids and parents. Is it nerd? Yeah. Fucking step parent. I'm sorry. Sorry.

I'm dragging shit in from yesterday. You don't FaceTime with your stepmom? Yeah, this is bad news for people with kids and parents. And I wouldn't. Right. Men who shop for things for their wives like me. That's when I FaceTime people in long distance relationships presumably. We have kids, right? You already said that. Yeah, yeah. If you have kids

and parents, like that is, you're constantly on FaceTime or kids and siblings because everybody wants to see your kids. My mom will ask to FaceTime if she hasn't seen me just to like, she thinks like if she hasn't seen me, suddenly I'm like scarred and disfigured or something. She doesn't know.

Let me see. Right. And I Face. She's like, let me see. And I FaceTimed, she's like, hmm. So you got round. I was like, yeah, mom. Thank you. You got round. And then she's like, okay, I will hang up now. I was like, good. Good to check in with you. Damn. It's also good training ground so your kids know how to like surf face. Oh, yeah.

Hit your angles. Hit those angles. Surf face. Young people just know their angles better. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's amazing. Yeah.

They're just like, and, and no like shame about just like looking in the phone for like five minutes. My favorite is seeing a parent tell their young child to take a photo of them together. That's rough. Like they have like a seven year old and they're like, now take a photo of them together. That's rough. Like they have like a seven-year-old and they're like, now take a picture of mommy and daddy. And the kid is like knowing how to like put the light balance like on just so

it's not blown out. And you're like, what the fuck? Okay. My buddy Cassidy used to do a bit where if we were like at a museum or something, he'd walk up to a couple that had a baby and ask the baby to take a picture of them. And just like speak to the baby

as an adult like, hi, do you mind taking a photo of us? Weren't the parents like, yo, get the fuck away from my kid. Actually, a lot of times he's one of those people who can get away with it. Yeah.

They're like, ha, ha, ha, ha. He's got really long eyelashes and blue eyes. So, you know, everyone's just, oh, he'd be white. That's right. People of color, try that experiment at a museum.

See what happens. Anyways, the FaceTime app has a vulnerability. So they were bringing in this new feature with where you could do FaceTime with like multiple people. Group FaceTime. And apparently there was a vulnerability that allowed people to eavesdrop on your conversation before you picked up. Yeah. So if you were like,

ah, hold on. My dumb aunt is calling, is trying to FaceTime me. Let's see what she wants. Hey, she could actually hear that. She was like,

I heard you motherfucker. Right. So the way to do this to people was that you would add your own number to the conversation as a third party and then you would be able to hear what they were saying uh but they closed that shit up so well they didn't even it wasn't even a bug they just like okay we're gonna pull the group facetime thing until we can figure this right it wasn't like we will release a fix for this they were just like it's gone yeah I feel like it's weird when people are surprised when things like this happen. Right.

With this, like, communication technology and, like, with the Alexa when you accidentally upload and send files of you and your wife talking shit about one of your friends to said friend. Right. Like, I feel like let's not be surprised about these things. Yeah. These are all invasive. Also, let's just accept that we talk shit about each other. Yes. That's really the taboo talk shit about each other. Yes. That's really the taboo

we need to blow up. So what? That's what I would say. Stop blaming the bug. Yes, I don't like this about you. Right. This is actually fostering

more honest conversations. We don't like our friends. Yeah. Face it. I'm glad I only use you because you have good sports tickets that sometimes you get rid of

and I want to be thought of Not you. I know you offered me tickets earlier. That's not Freudian fuck-up I Don't think that counts as Freudian because it's like right there on the surface. What do we call it? Just asshole? Just yeah mean Freudian asshole you mean to your pal jack i think is what that's well we'll take a break so i can uh you know bask in that and we'll be back in a moment definitely caruana galizia was a maltaltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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information about this just step forward for womankind uh yeah, you know, the Emirati government, who is known for being super into women, decided. Well, they are like seen as in the region, some of the best governments or one of the better governments for, you know, gender equality. That's comparatively. Right. But it's comparatively. Yeah. So we're going to see what that actually means. Not much. Because what was it?

The categories were weird. It was best personality for supporting gender balance. I don't know why that's an award. That means dude who acted the wokest. Best performance as a woke person. Yeah, then best federal entity for supporting gender balance, which that makes a little bit more sense, but it's kind of sad that that even has to be an award. That they'd be like, thank you, federal entity for acknowledging women, kind of. Yes.

And then best initiative for supporting gender balance, which I'm assuming in a normal circumstance would a non-profit or a charity or something. Yeah, some sort of initiative. Who knows? Yeah. But of course, the words were presented by men to men. Oh, look at that. And yo, all... The pictures are wild.

I mean, if you've ever needed to say, Siri, what does an ally look like? It's all these really ashen-faced men just like, mm-hmm. Yes. Thank you. I've done it. How does that even happen? How do they have gender in the name of the event and no women are there? So they, you know, they got a lot of criticism because they're like, oh, these are all men.

And then they pointed out that last year, like, women did receive this award. It just happened to be that these entities that were being awarded were headed up by men. Right. That's still nonsense. Right. Just the optics of it are just like, I'm sorry. It seems too basic to mess up.

And the tweet is not like something from Western media thing that selectively edited it. This was tweeted by the Dubai media office. Right. And it's just a picture of a man giving out the award to four other men. And that's just a picture of a man giving out the award to four other men. And that man is Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashad Al

Maktoum, who is technically, I believe, the leader of, or the ruler of Dubai and the vice president of the UAE. And what is his background? He's also the father of, they call him Sheikah, which is kind of like the daughter of the Sheik.

Little Sheik. Yeah, little Sheik. That's heavy. Well, Sheikah Latifah, who was, if you remember a while back, a woman escaped Dubai and she was the daughter of a ruler. The ruler we mentioned before. Right, the guy giving out the award she escaped because she was being held for three years drugged and tortured and held in solitary confinement for for the most part being in quotes too much for a daughter in the sense that she liked to skydive and like you know read books yeah like be just a normal

girl who likes to have fun growing up um so she escaped and went to i believe helped by like a french agent to get out of the country and then was basically recaptured and not heard from for a very long time until the UAE made a UN rep, a former UN rep, come and like hang out with her in their house. And they released all these photos like, see, see, no big. She's totally alive and smiling. No, no. Those shackles. That's the new jewelry right now. That's really it.

Right. And she looks like like they just woke her out of a drug spell. She's totally alive and smiling. No, no. Those shackles. That's the new jewelry right now. That's really it. Right. And she looks like they just woke her out of a drug spell. She looks so out of it and confused in a hoodie and looks very like, help me. And then the UN Working Group unenforced their involuntary disappearances. They say there remains very serious concerns as to her state of health and whether she continues to be detained against her will. A photo opportunity like this probably isn't that hard to set up. You have somebody who has a good relationship with somebody who was in the UN

and just get them to leverage that relationship into that person coming and being like, UN with the person you're worried about. Was money exchanged, do you think? Who knows? I mean, it's UAE, so yes. There seems to be a lot of money. Dude, this guy looks like Ringo Starr. He does look like Ringo Starr. Angry Ringo Starr.

He's also great friends with the Queen of England. They love to go to horse racing events together. Oh. Delightful. Yeah, they each love watching horses race. Have you ever seen awards like this given out in America that are this backwards? You know, what I'm picturing is the diversity awards, and it's all white managers of companies. Oh, I'm sure.

I'm sure that happens all the time. Oh, my God. I mean, Richard really went above and beyond with his hires this quarter. There's Romero. We love him. And we just want to thank you. You know what I mean? There's something just about this.

The imagery is so out of here, out of this world. They didn't think about the feedback they'd be getting. Right. I don't think they need to. Correct. Yes. Feedback? Yeah, from outside these fucking walls.

And then what happens? Anyway. So good to know that that's what Angry Ringo Starr's past is. Right. And the reason, the only reason we found out about his daughter was because when she escaped, she like put a bunch of videos on social media from like a boat that she was in. Right. Yeah.

Explaining her situation. Jesus. And that, yeah, apparently she tried to leave when she was a teenager and that's what in. Right. Yeah, explaining her situation. Jesus. And that, yeah, apparently she tried to leave when she was a teenager and that's what really got her. And she was also trying to get asylum somewhere too,

wasn't she? Yeah, she was trying to, but there was a raid, like an MRAD-y raid where they came and found her off a yacht off of India and brought her back. Right.

Jesus. So awful. And guess, I'm assuming money from like taxpayers were used to do that. I don't know. It just seems like their vibe to take the public's money. Be like, I'm assuming money from like taxpayers were used to do that. I don't know. It just seems like their vibe to take the public's money.

Be like, you don't understand. Like his daughter's out there probably, you know, living her life. Right. Hey, but the cop cars are Lamborghinis. So there's Dubai. Right. Are the cop cars Lamborghinis? Yeah, man.

People are always so like, whenever I hear people talking about Dubai, it's always like, they have jet bikes that the cops are practicing on right now. And it's like, let's not talk about the other parts of what's going on. It's like the Billy Wayne Davis, you know,

a guest on the show. His joke is that Dubai is a city that it's like rappers designed. Right. What if a rapper designed a city? Yeah, exactly. All right. Thank you so much,

super producer Ana Hosniye. No problem. Always here? Yeah, exactly. All right. Thank you so much, Super Producer Ana Josie. No problem. Always here. Oh, she just walked out. Yeah, there she goes. That's weird. All right. Let's talk about the shutdown because there are some effects of the shutdown that haven't

been that widely covered. Yeah, well, there are benefits to the shutdown. And it's mostly for the Trump administration because what they have been doing is now that the Democrats have all this oversight power in the House and they're a lot of these ranking members or the the the leaders of these committees are asking, you know, hi, we'd like some documentation on things like these hush money payments that Michael Cohen gave out. And also, how the fuck did Jared Kushner get a security clearance? Right. We'd like to know. The eternal question. Yeah, can we just see what happened there?

Because everyone said this person is definitely compromised in some way or form. Yeah, that was a big thing for a while there is he could not get security clearance. Right, exactly. Among many other people who had dodgy backgrounds who suddenly were like, yeah, yeah, here's really sensitive information. We trust that you aren't just going to talk to this person. We have evidence of you talking to a lot. Anyway, so because, you know, the Democrats are basically saying, like, hi, we're here to oversee what's happening and understand what is going on here. They've been dragging their feet and now they've been using the shutdown as a way to like be like, oh, yeah, sorry, we would get you those.

Just the shutdown, man, really fucked us. We just need a little more time on that. And they've just been able to drag this out a little bit longer and longer and longer. And they've used the shutdown as a sort of blanket excuse to not produce these relevant documents. And so that's delayed the work of these committees pretty significantly. And I'm sure Trump loves this. these committees pretty significantly and i'm sure trump loves this um but also like the other the other sort of machinations of all this fuckery that are coming out is the also the thing that republicans haven't named or given out all the committee assignments for their members in the

in congress or in the house so they're like okay you know are you you a member of the agriculture committee or armed services or you you know, Natural Resources. They've done most, like Democrats have assigned all of their members. Republicans have almost, except for a couple, the Ethics Committee, the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, and more importantly, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which used to be the one that was doing most of the quote-unquote investigating prior to the midterms, which is now headed up by Adam Schiff. So the reason now without these committees fully staffed up and have all the members seated means they can't officially do any business yet.

So by dragging their feet on those ones, weird ethics, climate and intel. What a coincidence. Yeah, that they're able to sort of kneecap the momentum of these committees because a lot of the things they're trying to do is, for example, give Robert Mueller official transcripts from the closed-door sessions that happened in the last couple years. So you can see the specific lies they told. Exactly.

Because back then when it was headed up by like, you know, Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy's in there, they, everyone who went in there knew they could just lie their ass off and he's not going to go over that shit and just let it rock. And they can be like, okay,

great. So you don't know anything, especially with Donald Trump jr. Being like, oh yeah, I don't know anything about anything. There's like a Russian baby. I think I had a meeting with in a tower.

I think it was SIM tower. I was playing Russia. I don't know. I really don't know. I have to go actually. And now when you have all that on wax, Robert Mueller can now look at that and be like, oh no, honey. You've been doing lies. Which is why Richard Blumenthal was saying like on Rachel Maddow last night or the day before about how he has real concerns over Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony because he's like, I really feel like maybe he was not being fully honest about what had happened. of certain investigations by not fully naming people to committees and also, you know, just blaming the shutdown, which is another reason why I'm like, oh, maybe they really do. Like for the purposes of the Mueller investigation, I guess that was a big, huge benefit to them of just being able to blame shutdown to not, you know, cooperate with at least the House when they're trying to get to the bottom stuff.

I feel like Donald Trump Jr. is kind of like the Billy McFarland of politics in that I sometimes think Billy McFarland didn't know what he was doing or what was going on around him. Right. When he was doing Fyre Fest. And I kind of feel the same way about Jr. Like, he's bad. Right. But I also think he's pretty dumb. And also a very stupid looking mouth on both of them.

Yeah. They do look like they're from the same planet, though. Yeah. Yes. Wait, so you think Billy was... He didn't know anything about what he was doing? No, not anything

but it occurred to me that like I could kind of see how it could snowball. Like he's like, oh, we ran out of money for this. Let's get money from this. And being like a bad person to start with

but not really understanding that what he was doing was illegal which is no excuse because not knowing something is a crime doesn't mean you can do it. Sure, sure.

Oh, but you're saying he's like one of those idiots who didn't know how to say, like didn't know how to call an L an L and say, okay, this is not going to work, but just was like, fuck, man. And like his parents thought it was cute that he was selling crayons at a dollar a piece and all that kind of stuff.

He's probably like, oh, I'm thinking. My parents say it's smart when I figure this out. I was always told I'm really good at ideas. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, having ingenuity and being able to make money or being a hustler are all things that America worships and idolizes. Yes.

So it's just that sometimes you follow that thread to the end, and it ends with your good family friend being willing to suck a dick for Evian water. Oh, God. I mean, I think he was I think he was full of shit from the jump. I think he thought he could pull it off. But then I think he just said, fuck it. I'm wealthy and white. I can figure it out. Yeah. And I'll just do six years. Right. That's it. Think about that. I got scared every time in both documentaries where people would talk about how charismatic Billy McFarlane was because it doesn't translate across the screen. No. That's for damn sure.

There's a nervous wreck in that. I was like, what is happening? I hope he's not charismatic in person. I hope they're lying, actually, because that's really scary. Right. They actually got duped. Right. Oof.

They actually got duped? Right. Oof. I mean, one thing that did occur to me while watching those documentaries is that Woodstock was a total clusterfuck. Yeah, the first one. The first one was a total clusterfuck. It became legendary because the musical acts were incredible, but people died. People were run over by cars because they were just lying in the mud, just totally covered in mud.

There's no food. Yeah, there's no food. People were just pooping everywhere. But it didn't matter because everyone was incredibly high on LSD. And the LSD happened to be good. I think that helped, too. And no promises were made of luxury at Woodstock. Right, exactly.

It was like cum and roll in mud. It was exactly what they said it would be. Yeah, exactly. This is going to be disgusting, You filthy hippie freaks. And they were like, yeah, man, that is my impression of an entire generation. the Las Vegas shooting that killed 58 people. We were just talking about it this morning and realized we couldn't even think of the guy's name who did it, which is maybe a victory. It's also probably a sign that there are way too many of these shootings, but at the same time, the fact that you don't become immortalized

for killing a bunch of people is probably a good thing. I don't know. It's like SoundCloud rapping. Right. Is it good that I can't keep track of all of them, or is the bigger problem that this is even a thing?. I don't know. It's like SoundCloud rapping. Right. You know, like, is it good that I can't keep track of all of them? Or is the bigger problem that this is even a thing? Yeah, that's true. And I think, for me personally, I couldn't remember it because of all the shit that has happened since then.

Yeah. My mental hard drive just has ran out of disk space. Absolutely. But a lot of the questions in the immediate aftermath of the shooting was, why did this guy do it? I always thought it was going to be a tumor thing because the first mass shooter was the guy who climbed the Texas clock tower and started shooting University of Texas students. And it turned out he had a tumor pressing on the part of his brain that regulates rage. And he kind of knew it. He like left a note that was like, look into my brain.

I think something's going on in there. And I suspected that might have been what was happening here because people were just like, this kind of came out of nowhere. We don't know why. But they looked at his brain. His brain is normal, you know, just normal old guy brain with like plaques in the blood vessels, but nothing like super out of the ordinary. He wasn't on drugs. He wasn't drunk. And they still have no idea why he did it.

And it remains the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, which is saying a lot. I was trying to figure out who he hated. Right. But the headliners at the concert that he shot up weren't all women, right? Right. So it wasn't automatically a woman thing. Right. And it was weird.

Like, I don't know. I'm sure Alex Jones will probably tell us soon enough. I mean, this is the sort of thing that lends itself to conspiracy theories. Right. I've already heard conspiracy theories popping up in the last year about, like, well, it's all part of the Illuminati plot. theories popping up in the last year about like well it's all part of the illuminati plot or you know i'm sure there will be theories about like who among the dead are like connected to some government thing or another but it could just be the fact that the united states gives way too easy access to way too deadly weapons um and then some of the people who survived that shooting were

killed in the thousandand Oaks shooting. And so that just shows how horrible America is. But some people will think it's proof of something, some conspiracy. They're like, what was that person? Yeah, yeah. If you want to kill a specific person, there are better ways to do it

than to shoot them from thousands of feet away when they look like little ants. So true. So true. So true. Yeah. That's like that guy. We all agree on that.

That dude, Stomo Yamaguchi, who survived the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. Man. Shit is wild. Anyway. Unbreakable. That movie's about him. All right. We're going to take a quick break.

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Black Panther is going to be staging some free screenings from February 1st through the 7th. Just to celebrate, you know? That's nice. It's flexing on everybody. Yeah, 250 AMC theaters will be doing two free screenings a day from february 1st through the 7th 2019 just first come first serve yeah damn i don't know how you do it i mean i'm sure you just pull up and you're like uh let me get that free black panther ticket yeah i'm like yeah great great great i to go. Yeah. I wonder if this will have any impact on its chances at Best Picture because, I mean, it's

the first comic book movie that's ever been nominated for Best Picture. Right. I mean, it's definitely marketing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Even if they didn't mean for it to be. It's a marketing move. Right.

And it's also a marketing move that's like, we're just going to have people see our movie as opposed to send you a bunch of gift baskets and shit. Right. Yep. Maybe has, you know, it's Black History Month too in February. So they're really trying. Disney's really trying to be woke-eth. Right.

Like it's Black History Month. Black Panther free for one week. But one question I have is why is there no White History Month? Yep. That's called January through December. That's every month. And I just died in the studio. The most innocent way someone shows their racism.

Really? Or like their benign, or they're just sort of like, I know, and this is, I'm curious. This brings me to my next question. I mean, you know, there's no straight pride parade. Right. Oh, boy. Really? Fuck.

Do you need one? Right. Because you're so inundated with gay culture all around you that, anyway. I think another thing about this, I love it because I love that. But back to the Oscars, I was just thinking about how people are really kind of getting worried about how bad the Oscars are going to be, considering that Rami Malek won at the SAG Awards for best actor and Glenn Close won for best actress. And both films are like, that's not the best performance. best actress and both films are like that's not the best performance like glenn close i get like it almost feels like a thing where it's like look my you've been nominated so many times you are one of the greatest actresses yeah it's about you know winning for scent of a woman yeah yeah exactly

but even her fans like this role she took not that it was bad it just doesn't have the depth of some of like the real films that she probably should have won an Academy Award for. And then other people look at Rami Malek and like, what? It's as if he's doing his character from Mr. Robot with fake teeth. I'm pretty sure they even cut around his performance in the trailer because they never showed him in the trailer. Yeah, he's pretty wooden at moments. They cut around him like he was Henry Cavill in Superman. They were just like, yo, we can't show what this dude is doing.

Burn. Yeah. Have you watched those movies, though? They're always at times when he should be on camera, they're just like, let's do a wide shot again of what the background looks like. Let's get that dog scratching itself behind the ear really quick. I like that. I like that. I like that. Let's get that dog scratching itself behind the ear really quick. I like that. I like that. I like that. Let's slow

that down. Well, speaking of ill-conceived ideas, maybe not. I don't know. I don't know. Nitro Pepsi. Let's have our takes. I'm Ian Catherine, resident food expert. Nitrogen. We use

it for cold brew, craft beers, teas even Guinness you know what I mean and I understand nitrogen there's smaller bubbles they're finer

and they give more smooth taste but for Pepsi they're talking about like having a real creamy like luscious head

on like every pour which I feel like is not what Pepsi is all about in the first place I feel like Pepsi drinkers don't want that. It's just going to be flat Pepsi, isn't it? I mean, it's still supposed to be bubbles, but they're supposed to be smoother or something.

The bubbles are finer. Yeah. And I feel like that's the type of thing that a food scientist who's in the lab tasked with coming up with new bullshit so we can have a new marketing angle. Maybe they can taste the difference because it's like their job. Yeah. Right. But does the regular person really taste the difference on something like that?

I mean, I definitely taste the difference between Guinness and other beer because other beer tastes like it has bubbles in it where Guinness like tastes flat to me. It's just smooth. Yeah. Because the bubbles are finer. Right. The bubbles are so fine that they don't even register as bubbles to my extremely sensitive palate.

I mean, the way they describe the Nitro Pepsi, it sounds more like a float, like a Pepsi float. Right. I mean, they call it creamy and stuff like that. Yeah, which is odd. But they're going to have an irregular and vanilla flavor. There was a blog post someone was pointing to from the Deschutes Brewery in Oregon, basically saying that CO2 is acidic, so therefore it amplifies bitter sensations on the palate. Nitrogen doesn't.

So since they're finer, it means the bubbles do less to, quote, scrub flavors away from our tongue. Interesting. So I guess that's why people believe CO2, like traditionally carbonated beverages, to be more refreshing because just the flavor goes away more quickly. The crisp flavor? Yeah, whereas nitrogen just hangs around a little bit. Right. Is that why flat Pepsi tastes like a nickel? I don't know.

It would be. You drink a lot of flat Pepsi? Have you ever had flat Pepsi? It tastes a little like, it's got a little metallic. To be honest, I've never had a Pepsi that was fully carbonated. Really? Yeah, I'm always just going around opening up people's flat bottles of Pepsi. Yeah, that is true.

You do do that. I don't understand. It's called saving a buck pepsi i don't know why it's conceptual yeah i mean i don't know i understand that there must be people who drink it but i don't i feel like i don't know those people right it was our team pepsi like yeah who's who likes pepsi i was when i was a kid so the thing that pepsi has as opposed to coke is it's sweeter. Like the taste is sweeter.

And so I think when you're a kid, you're just like, fucking sugar, man. Yes. And so I remember preferring Pepsi to Coke. But Diet Pepsi is trash compared to Diet Coke. Diet Pepsi would give me a seizure. It's so fake sweet. And I think Pepsi, just in terms of brand, you know, Pepsi came along second and they pitched themselves as the,

basically their version of millennial, like the baby boomer. Generation next. Yeah, the choice of a new generation. And they were like kind of, it was the cool thing to be like, I'm going to have a Pepsi instead of a Coke. Hell yeah.

I remember the Spice Girls were in that commercial. I was like, yeah, all right. Right. But I do agree that they've kind of lost any sort of place in the sort of zeitgeist now. They're just the people who sponsor our halftime shows. They have big branding plays they do. But really, I don't know too many people who are like, we're a Pepsi family. I posted an Instagram story about Panda Express.

And I was like, also, why do they serve Pepsi products? And someone who works at Panda Express DM me and was like, we're switching to Coke soon. Oh. So I don't know if I just dropped a huge secret. Bomb shell. And maybe they're just ruling it out in some locations. And who knows? Maybe they'll change their mind.

But that's what someone said to me. Oh, because it's not like it's a Yum brand company. Well, see, that's always the confusion. I believe that Panda Express is still independent. Right. But I do think that Pepsi probably makes all their money from selling to the Yum brands. So like every KFC in Asia, which is the money-making ones. Pizza Hut, Taco Bell.

No, Panda Express is a family-run, independent organization. Family of pandas. They're the sweetest pandas. Wait, it's really a down-home company? It is, it's local to LA. Oh, we're the only people that have the panda? No, no, no, the owners. Oh, I are the only people that have the Panda? No, no, no. The owner is the owner. Oh, I was joking.

Just for us? I was joking, calling it a family-run operation. It kind of is, though. Oh, wow. The founder still runs it, I believe. Well, look at me. Oh, yeah. It's a fast casual restaurant.

Yep. Founded by Andrew Cheung, Peggy Cheung, and Ming-Sai Cheung. C-H-E-R-N-G. Oh, wow. Look at y'all panda alright I mean think about how much money they have had to turn down

over the years to resist selling that company oh shit it started in Glendale okay yep San Fernando Valley

what's up we got the panda in the building I would have sold when like in 1990 someone was like a million dollars for your Panda Express. I'd be like, a million dollars?

Cut to you spending the last dollar of that million and looking at Panda be a global empire. Do you have any idea how many pogs I can buy with this? Let's talk about Baby Shark. Oh, okay. Let's do it. Miles, you tweeted the other day that every conversation is only two what is it two questions away from being about fucking baby shark a toddler ordering

alexa to play baby shark yeah i i've overheard that conversation i'm not joking like eight times yeah like with actual toddlers no with other people being like, and then Bianca goes, Alexa, play Baby Shark. And then it comes on. I'm fucking losing my mind. It's at a bar where parents go to neglect their kids. But yeah, it was just like, I've heard so many iterations of whether

it's like, the kid knows how to play Baby Shark or like, all I hear is Baby Shark. I've just constantly been hearing it. And there are some great videos of little toddlers like ordering it from Alexa or not being able to and then the mom orders it and then they dance joyfully. Right. And then it became what,

like basically the most streamed Billboard song ever recently or some shit? I mean, it broke into the Billboard charts and not a lot of terrible youtube baby songs break into the billboard charts uh it reached as high as 32 currently is sitting at 37 and it's got 2.2 billion views on youtube so it's among the 30 most viewed videos of all time okay and our writer jm mcnabb kind of was wondering well first of all he wasn't he was totally apparently this hasn't made its way up to uh canada yet because he was totally blindsided

well he's a new parent he has a very young child so which isn't quite in like a baby who's like has content they fuck with yet right you know i mean because right now content for like a sub one-year-old is like waving a empty book and box in front of it. Also, that stat is really misleading because the thing about little kids is once they like something, it's the only thing they like until they're done with it. So that's just people playing it over and over and over again so their kid doesn't cry. Yeah. Hours at a time. Which I think also explains why they're trying to blow their brains out over Baby Shark.

Right. Yeah. I mean, I love that my son can order things from Alexa, but I think it's cute still, but eventually it's going to get very annoying. Is he always asking for Baby Shark? No, he doesn't ask for Baby Shark. He usually asks for- He's like, play Devil's Pie by D'Angelo.

Yes, exactly. It's very subtle. Fuck the slice, want the pie? Uh-huh. Does your son know what Baby Shark is? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh is yeah yeah okay oh yeah yeah he's just over it he has it tatted now he usually asks for happy or uh by pharrell yeah okay or uh the justin timberlake song can't stop the feeling okay or wheels on the bus there you go so you

know it's got a eclectic palate. So where did the baby shark even fucking come from, though, is my thing, because I didn't know about it until it was a thing all parents knew about. Right. And now it's getting,

now it's finally breaking into, like, people who don't have families culture. So the video was uploaded in 2016. It was up there for about a month, and then it was embraced by K-pop bands who thought it was cute, and they started, like, doing this dance to a month and then it was embraced by k-pop bands who thought it was cute

and they started like doing this dance to it and then it became an indonesian dance craze so the song was not created by them for this video this is basically like a an old campfire song it's like one of those songs like wheels on the bus or the hokey pokey or like shit like that that kids learn to sing when you're just learning what music is and what it is to sing. It's an old sing-along song that a lot of the versions are surprisingly gory with the shark tearing off limbs and murdering someone. Yeah.

This is the G-rated version of a very dark song. And since it was sung by a lot of church groups, some versions include going to heaven. And apparently there's a version where the dead swimmer is reincarnated as the baby shark. So it's an eternal loop. That's not very Christian. Right.

That sounds like some Hindu stuff to me. And this isn't the first time that it's broken into the zeitgeist. In 2007, it became a German dance hit that included the screams of the devoured swimmer. That's extremely German for them to do that. Yes, I know. Everybody's playing to type here. Yes. Wow.

But yeah. Wait, so it started as a church in Korea, you're saying? Okay. I guess it was in Korea, yeah. Wow. Although it is a song that's in English, so I don't know necessarily where it originated. How do you fit in all the lyrics about going to heaven and shit?

You just rewrite the lyrics? Go to heaven. Go to heaven. Come back as a baby shark. Die for your sins. Accept Jesus into your heart. For God loved the world so much. He gave the world.

Anyways. You got it. Yeah. John 3, 16. And now we're apparently going to owe a lot of money because there is a guy who is suing. Just get hit with a wild lawsuit. Who is suing Pinkfong, even though it's like an old in the commons song. suing Pinkfong even though it's like an old in the commons

song there's a dude who is suing Pinkfong because he has like some whack YouTube video where it's he's like a probably been hired out to a couple children's parties children's singer but his video is very low budge

his name is Johnny Only and he wants to be the only one who makes money off of Baby Shark. Wait, so who's Ping Fong? Ping Fong is the production company that made the original video. They have just signed a deal with Netflix. They're going to be making these short videos for Netflix. Dude, man, I feel so bad for the people who are under pressure to come up with the next Baby Shark.

Oh, yeah. Oh, fuck. How are you going to follow that up? Can't catch lightning. Sophomore curse, baby. Yeah. You're not going to do it. Nope.

I'm sorry. I don't care how many drugs you do. You're not going to find something like this. And the harder you think about it, the worse your product will be because this was clearly like a lark. Right. Right. Yeah, yeah.

They weren't like, this is going to break the internet. Jesus saves you. And then Baby Shark. It is interesting because there are all these songs. One of the albums that's on most heavy rotation is just a children's group singing all these old staples, old American songbook songs. And they're all these songs that were passed down. They're like always about railroads and shit. It's like so but there must have been a time when like people were writing that like I got the new hit.

Right. And it's like about a goat eating someone's underwear. That's all Woody Guthrie's music. Right. Yeah. It's basically so like there is this traditional, like there is this tradition. I just, I'd love to see the music scene back then when they're like, yeah, you hear about his, the working on the railroad. You know what that song's really about?

You know what that song's really about? What? Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah. Uh oh. Playing the old banjo. Whoa. I think you know what I'm talking about, man. She's having an affair.

Yep. Oh yeah. But then you sing it to your song because you're a wild, passive-aggressive parent. Black diamonds in the kitchen because your mom is cheating because I'm cheating too. Whoops. That's why you don't get married kids. Anyway, so that's cool.

Yeah. I mean, look. Hey, man, that's cool. Hey, that's pretty cool, man. Hey, I like Baby Shark. Although someone else hit me with a link to the Finger Family song. They're like, yo, if this is the other thing that's pretty cool, man. Hey, I like Baby Shark. Although, someone else hit me with a link to the Finger Family song. They're like, yo, if this is the other thing that's melting my brain, tell me why I watched six minutes fully of a 30-minute Finger Family song. Yeah. Daddy Finger, Daddy Finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am, how do you do? Yeah. Oh, I remember that. Oh, man. Yeah. See, I had old, My dad would be like, let's talk about shortening bread. That little baby got shortening, shortening.

That was shit. That's a good song. That's what he would sing to me. I got them shits. And then I would get Japanese songs. Like Zou-san, which is about an elephant. Yeah. Zou-san, Zou-san,

Ohana ga nagai no ne, So yoka-san mo nagai no yo. That's so nice. The music clearances for this episode. I mean, we're getting sued, baby. Yeah. Our most played CD is actually Korean nursery rhymes. What's your favorite Korean nursery rhyme? I don't know any of the names. My dad would sing me the Popeye song, but with the lyrics changed.

Popeye the Sailor Man, I Live in a Garbage Can. I Like to go swimming with bare naked women in Popeye the Sailor Man. Hell yeah. Damn, I didn't realize. But yeah, I bet a lot of those songs

when they started out were like adult songs that people sang at bars or whatever. People turning like limericks into stuff for kids. Like there once was a man from Nantucket

who had a bird so happy he would suck his own dick. Ah, damn it. Damn it. I tried. I keep trying to rework this, and I can't, Bill. I can't. Well, Catherine, it's been a pleasure having you, as always.

Where can people find you? At Catherine Spires on Twitter, at Catherine underscore Spires on Instagram, and my podcast is called Smart Mouse. I have Instagram for that Smart Mouse podcast. And I'm going to be in Portland on February 16th doing a live podcast. It's part of the Listen Up Portland Festival. So if you go to Listen Up Portland, you'll find tickets there. Awesome.

And do you want to explain to people why I mispronounced your name? I mean, that was an inside joke, obviously. Obviously, because we talked about it. I just wanted to. We talked about it ahead of time. Everybody always says Spears. And so I just wanted to see if you noticed. You were just making fun of everyone else who does it.

Right, exactly. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Just generally, I'm enjoying the entire oeuvre of people dunking on Howard Schultz. Yeah. I just think it's so funny to hear stories of how he gave people like literal tea bags as bonuses. Yeah. I find it delightful.

The tea bag is a bonus? He is the cheapest. Yeah no this woman told a story about like getting like a little shopping bag and not opening it in front of him because that's tacky and when she got back to her office she opened it and it was literally loose tea bags. And then he's back to her office, she opened it and it was literally loose tea bags. And then he's like, they're Tazo. Right.

There's another story that's like that and same gift, except there was a gift card in it. And the person assumed it was like the black card that you just had Starbucks for life. And they went and ordered like some fancy drink there and gave them the card. And they were like, OK, you owe 18 cents. That gift card was for $5. Yeah. From the CEO of Starbucks. Such good stuff. Hey, ground up is the name of his memoir because he is a cool and clever dude.

Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at miles of gray tweet I like yeah is from the account just called it's all bollocks at it's all bollocks and it just said very simple so did the

Bermuda Triangle just like stop doing that very true what happened do we just stop flying through yeah i guess it's one of those things a couple things went down everyone's trying to figure it out yeah and then people just like forget it just modern technology has eliminated that yeah i don't know i'm sure someone there's probably some kind of phenomenon uh i believe how stuff works did something about that there's an article that explains why.

Shit was going down? Yeah, and I think it's like a weird wind tunnel thing that's happening. I don't know if that's exactly it. Don't quote me on that. But it's something to do with the air and then how it runs the currents. And I think it's very dangerous for some reason. Well, great. Just how everything hits.

Yeah. So for the record i guess the bermuda triangle is still doing its thing we're just more we just respect the triangle now right which is always good yeah no like it's easier to follow the planes once they go down now than it used to be yeah so producer anna hosney is there anyone you would like to shout out on twitter oh yeah thank you so much. This is so fun. Wow, that's amazing. Okay, hold on one second.

Fantastic. And moving on. Wait, wait, wait. I do have something. I want to shout out Rachel Sennett at Rachel underscore Sennett. She tweeted, do you think Bradley Cooper's wife

is sort of, in quotes, over Lady Gaga by now? Oh, my God. That footage of him coming out of her Vegas show and she's like praying at his feet. I'm like, if I was with Brad, I'd be like, what did I say about her? You should have fucking told her to move. I look like a motherfucking fool out here. God damn it, Bradley.

Take Lady Gaga's ass. Crying. I have a couple tweets I want to call out. One from Sean Clement saying, Everyone who's clowning on Howard Schultz should honestly ask themselves, what are some other mean and funny things we could say about Howard Schultz?

Because I'm loving it. Me and Sean feel the same way. Then Chris Buckles tweeted, January, February can be a tough time any year, but it somehow feels tougher in 2019. Stuck as we are between the theatrical release of Welcome to Marwen and the home and digital video release of Welcome to Marwen. Oh, is it already out? No, we're stuck between it. But it's about to be, I'm saying.

Like, that's how small that window is? Yeah. I mean, it's coming in February or March. Damn, remember when we used to wait like 14 months? Yeah, it's so short now. I mean, it just seemed like that because of movies like Welcome to Mar-a-Lago. It just seemed like an eternity. No, I remember how long it took for Ace Ventura, the first one to come out.

Oh, yeah, it did take like a year, right? Yeah. Childhood trauma. Does not hold up, though. Very problematic transphobia. Oh yeah, it did take like a year, right? Build up. Childhood trauma. Does not hold up though. Very problematic transphobia. Oh yeah. Anyway, anyways, you can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien.

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This is actually a great song. It's Wednesday. It's hump day. And let's have a song that has to do with hump day. Because a hump, you have to get over, right? And then we're into the back nine of the week. And so this is Over the Days by Sunken. See, I took a little...

See, now we can't get sued because I know we're going to get sued for all the Japanese Christmas songs or Japanese nursery rhymes. Just come to me for all your legal advice. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, how much to keep you on retain?

Like five bucks. Just give me an actual old orthodontic retain. And I'll do it for that. We'll be good. All right, we're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye.

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