The Daily Zeitgeist - Bannon Surrenders, Elf On The Shelf = CIA Op? 11.16.21

Episode Date: November 16, 2021

In episode 1031, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Chris Calogero to discuss Bannon surrenders, How Republicans are ACTUALLY winning…, Look I love Reese’s but WTF is this shit?, The Elf on the Shelf Ban is, Sadly, Not Real and more! Bannon surrenders Here’s how Republicans are ACTUALLY winning… Look I love Reese’s but WTF is this shit? The Elf on the Shelf Ban is, Sadly, Not Real "Elf on the Shelf" May Be Making Your Kids Paranoid How Elf on the Shelf Became a Surveillance State Apparatus LISTEN: First Little Rollie by Sam Wise Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 211, Episode 2 of Your Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It is Tuesday, November 16th, 2021, which of course means that it's National Check Your Wipers Day, as if we need a national day for that. I've already checked my wipers a couple times today, but yeah, we to i actually it's a good thing that you said that i i'm like one of

those people because it doesn't rain enough in la it does and i put my wipe or now they're not wipers they just turn to smears yeah it's just like oh this ain't getting the wind fucking rain off your windshield it's just merely will smear the moisture. So I will check because I think I have a floppy white light. Yeah. I was driving down from San Fran down to L.A. As the locals call it. Down I-5. Cisco.

Down I-5, man. And just going through like fog sandstorm type deal or fog dust storm. It was brown fog. And it was getting all over my windshield unfortunately though sandstorm too yeah i checked the i checked the shit out of those wipers uh that's not true anyways my name is jack o'brien aka shark i just met you and this is crazy but here's my toesies come chew them maybe that's courtesy of absolute garbage total nonsense and utter reddit aka gerald rice and i am thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host

mr miles gray i cried so hard for that kid-sized car but in the end dad just texted santa started to ball he said he'd call but in the end i just posed for a picture okay that's from marky mark aurelius that's from the child hack where we said if your kids want something just take a photo with it at the toy store and say you're sending it to santa to cease the complaining and the crying yeah so shout out that's on santa if you don't get it man yeah and then you'd be like honestly man it sounds like we might have to go to north pole and tighten this motherfucker up which city son yeah or yeah i guess santa's just very busy yeah oh, could you imagine just being such a coward parent? You just start painting Santa as, like, a dude who doesn't give a fuck about your kid.

Like, I don't know. I guess, like, he really dropped the ball on that with you. It had nothing to do with you, though. I think I would have remembered him. Santa's a scumbag. This elf on the shelf shit. Hopefully, we'll get to that. But that thing is wild and ongoing. I have yet to experience it. But we can get to that. But that thing is wild and ongoing.

I have yet to experience it, but we can talk about it. What do you mean? Just the elf on the shelf culture? Elf on the shelf culture. It's, you know, social critics have pointed out that it's normalizing the idea of like a CCTV surveillance state culture. To the point that there was a really a product that sold well that was a elf camera. Didn't have an elf on it was just a fake surveillance camera that you put in your kid's room. And we're like, if the if the red lights on it means it's capturing everything and sending it right to Santa. OK, so we'll talk about that. But Miles, we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a very funny comedian writer

you may have seen on Twitter playing original characters such as a surprisingly progressive uncle, existential henchman, shitty X-Men, and gender reveal event planner. He's been featured in the New York Times, Funny or Die by Fusion TV, Pace Magazine, and has performed at festivals and on stages across this great land. He hosted a podcast called Morning Coffee in which he discussed grief, loss, and death with comedians, and is the co-host of the stand-up late-night show

Not Quite Midnight. Please welcome the hilarious and talented Chris Colangero! Hey! We're here. We're doing it, baby. Happy Wiper Day to you to you yes thank you i i like i check your wipers days i all i could think of was like like somebody in the 50s using that as slang for like a part on a woman or something like check out the wipers on her yeah yeah check your wipers

also miles great angry white kid, nu metal voice. Oh, I mean, look, like I, I'll always say Hybrid Theory was the, the album for kids whose parents divorced. Oh, yeah, 100%. And you didn't know what to do, but they gave you, they gave you something to scream about.

They gave you an outlet. Oh, yeah. Hybrid Theory will always be my top, my top 20 albums. just because it captured a moment of my emotional development so clearly uh yeah i can't let it go yeah you could like sense the baggy jeans as you were singing that oh yeah and like me like getting in a fight in the staples center parking lot after a high school hockey game because i'm so turnt up off of that shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Emotionally, too. Yeah, it was... Did you ever have a lip

ring, Miles? No, I don't know. I only had earrings. Right. I only had the diamonds. And I remember one time the ref was like, hey, man, your diamonds are too big. I can see them through your helmet. I'm like, that's your problem, fam. How do you... What do you think I'm playing for out here? I thought this was ice hockey.

Exactly. I don't know know i might refer you to the track by cameron because i'm gonna get you that shit that gretzky skate on what do you mean gretzky oh you mean buy me diamonds okay that's for people who are really into cameron cameron yeah yeah that's what this show is hockey cameron fans yeah welcome nice well in the end it doesn't really matter it's true all right chris we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners a couple of things we're talking about ban and surrendered so we're gonna talk about that we're gonna talk about the packing and the cracking which is how republicans are doing this how they

keep winning all these fucking elections, even though they don't have the numbers. We might get to that elf on the shelf. We will certainly get to the Reese's pie. What do they call it? Just Thanksgiving pie. I mean, they're just they went for it. They were just like, this is the pie now. Right. And it may not be wrong. They may not be wrong. It's just a big Reese's cup. So we're going to talk about how we feel about that. Plenty more. But first, Chris, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history?

Oh, okay. So search history. So here's the thing. I took a thing from my search history on TikTok. Okay. I use TikTok a lot. And one thing that I'm always looking up, but it's from my search history,

is opening sandwiches. Okay. So I searched this thing that is people on tiktok go to sandwich places and then just kind of very sexually open the sandwich like they crack it open so that you can see like what is inside of it like how it looks and how it's constructed so i'm like i'm real deep into sandwich talk right now that's like where i'm at what's a notable like example the the horniest that a sandwich opening has ever gotten you chris right well so like you know a real good not to say that accusatorily no no i accept where i'm at uh in my life and uh in the culture right now uh but there's a place in brooklyn called uh federov's roast pork and they do like this insane philly cheesesteak and so you know

when it's open it's already dripping baby like it's it's it's happening everything's happening and the commentary is just like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah they're like it's like but it starts like everything starts like with them like the sandwich all wrapped up right and they just like put it down and you're like oh what's gonna be in there baby and then they you know they unwrap that like white paper off of it and then they just grab two halves and you're like at that point you're like just do it man just open it i'm ready bust that shit open yeah let's see it and then they just show it to you and then they're like yeah and you're like yeah and then you're like i can watch it again or i can move on to a different sandwich right really depends on how into the sandwich you are is there a backstory like what like with are they like oh my teacher's

here and they said that i've been very bad and i need to eat this sandwich. Yeah, there's a lot of stepmoms getting stuck in furniture. Right, right. Stepmom trying to fix oven. Right, and she's like, I'm stuck. Can you help? And you're like, let me open this sandwich and grease my hands up.

Right, there you go. Pull you out. Was there ever a sandwich that like, I mean, is the appeal just to be like damn like look at that thing fully loaded because i mean i'm i love sandwiches i love food yeah and i get like you know and food influencer culture the thing used to be like the burrito spread where like people will make the wildest burritos then you cut it in half and then you just kind of break it open yeah yeah yeah is this you have the hand movements down by the way yeah you know i

watch a lot of those burrito uh flicks and they just don't do it for me anymore i'm trying to find something that gets me excited and i'm hoping the sandwiches uh are like that or oh yeah well the appeal is like that i have become like i do the thing where i open my google maps and i and if there's a place i want to go i mark it i save it as you know you can like flag places as i want to go here because i used to always be like oh i want to go to that place and then just never remember where it is or like when i'm nearby so my map my google maps is just like littered with green flags that are all just like places to eat that i haven't been to so yeah the thing is like it tells you where the place is like what

the best sandwich is and you mark it down to go there and then that's it all right so the appeal is like a future sandwich for you yeah yeah because i'm like the same i don't i'm not as i need to move to your level where i start actually marking them in like irl maps because i just like them on tiktok and then i go back to my likes and i'm like then i'm then i'm like an idiot looking at tiktok where then i just watched the one same video like yeah fucking hits and i'm like what did i come here for and i'm like that's right the pupusa pizza right that's what i wanted to get and that shit is on my list of tiktok food or not you know shit that i places to go yeah yeah pizza size pupusa oh my god that sounds incredible yeah do they ever do they ever do it with like national chains like a subway tuna sandwich opening i wish they would i wish i wish

there was a tiktok dedicated to somebody just being like oh look at the bk big fish right hell yeah the cheese is threading oh it's it's real solid cheese it doesn't move oh they made this three hours ago yeah that are like those gross lunch places in like new york that are just or every every smell of food just congeals into one smell that is yeah the hot bars the hot bars yeah with the hot bars it just smells like hot yeah yeah no Yeah. No, I don't know. Yeah. That's where I'm into. I love them.

I love them. You don't have to get on my level and mark them down, but I recommend everybody mark down the places you want to go. Well, I think there's so I think it's just speaks to like the amount of information we're bombarded with. And especially when it comes to shit like you like, you know, because he's out, this shit is so sophisticated. They're like, look, bro, I know you want to see some food. And I'm like, oh, you know, because he's out, this shit is so sophisticated. They're like, I know you want to see some food.

And I'm like, Oh cool. And it's always like, and this is, you know how it's always like this hidden spot in Alhambra. You have to check it out. Yeah. Like,

like robot voice, always narrating. And I get so overwhelmed. I just like, I'm like, so no, I, I think for me to take this to the next step,

I will take the map. Yeah. I get really mad when they, when they do those to take this to the next step, I will take the map tip. Yeah. I get really mad when they do those, like, influencer things that are like, here's a little corner that we just found that has blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? And then they, like, name the restaurant. Like, they, like, flash it up at the end for, like, one second. And you're like, what are you doing this for? Like, why are you doing this to me?

I want to know how to get these Southwestern egg rolls that you're talking about. Please let me know where they are. The cheesecake factory oh oh okay you guys both named different southwestern egg rolls yeah hey i love it we're kind of uh it's sort of a east coast west coast degenerates yeah we're eating nonsense all day cheesecake factory though you gotta like you gotta do it like a bible verse man you gotta You got to put where it is in that gigantic menu. You have to figure out where it is. Between the local ads and shit, you're like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's humongous.

That's why I just say the same thing. I'm like, give me those fucking avocado egg rolls and my chicken littles. Let's go. Yesterday. Smart. Yeah. I bring my own Cheesecake Factory menu that's dog-eared and has little like. Oh, like a good Christian bringing their Bible to church service?

Yeah. And, like, little notes about what you had before? Yeah. Licking your finger. What is something you think is overrated, Chris? I'm going to go that show You. You know that show You? Oh, yeah.

I haven't seen it but i don't that's like the one that's about stalker right yeah it's like this uh penn badgley is a stalker and it's on like season three and i just like i can't i can't with that show man i i don't know why it really bums me out but i watched the first season and i was like oh this is interesting he's a stalker and then i was like i mean how many seasons are we supposed to spend with this bad he's a real bad guy yeah and it's a bummer someone's saying like they're like but that was like the mastery of it's like and then you're kind of like whoa am i rooting for this stalker yeah it kind of was conflicted feelings about that it was like in the first season maybe it was just like we watched like the second you know i've tried to watch like the

second season of it and he like moves to la of course you know he made it big in new york so now he's moving it to la and it was the like i know the writing is not going to be great on that show right fine whatever but like the jokes about like la culture from him were so jarringly bad oh really yeah? Hit me with one of his observations. It was just stuff like you would hear at an open mic. Oh, I guess they just love kale.

Stuff like, you know, you're like, oh, that was 10 years ago. That was a 10 years ago joke, and now we've moved on to different things. Do the people of Silver Lake know that there's We've moved on to different things. Get them. They're like, have they? Do people know? Do the people of Silver Lake know that there's other beers other than Pabst Blue Ribbon you can have on tap? Dude, yeah, that's exactly.

It was like a coffee, seven bucks. I remember when you could just. Right, right. A Greek man would spit in your cup and that was good enough. Right, right. Greek man would spit in your cup and that was good enough. Right, right. It's called You because these are all jokes that you would

come up with on your very first... You, the viewer, would come up with on your very first try at coming up with something if a gun was put to your head. The you they're talking about is the worst guy in your office. Yeah. Right. It's so funny, man. There's so many articles about their

perspective on la um the mary sue you season two has a los angeles problem buzzfeed the la in you is a fantasy oh really it's so funny wow yeah it's and i just like that people go crazy for that show and it's like it's not for me man i'm out i'm out on it i think it's overrated i don't think it's good and it's not even fun bad to me. You know, like where you're like, this is bad, but I love it. Yeah, right. It just makes you mad. Well, you know, I love a terrible L.A. joke, so you might have sold me.

Yeah, you might. You might want to check it out. I actually might have been sold here. Yeah, you might enjoy it. What is something you think is underrated? All right, underrated. I'm coming in hot with an underrated thing. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's properly rated. But I'm going underrated mayonnaise.

Mayonnaise, I think, is the most underrated thing in the refrigerator. I was holding onto my butt with both hands. That's because you were doing your Ace Ventura asshole a meal bit. Yeah. The whole show, by the way, for people who can't see, I've been doing the whole show pretending to call my butt. Yeah, it's worked pretty well. I actually got fooled right when I logged on.

Especially when you did it, when you hit their daily zeitgeist. That's just. Yeah, really. Yeah. And putting a putting a really long beard on it was helpful. Oh, that's not. Oh, it's not. Oh, OK. Yeah. I've it's not? Oh, okay.

I've heard about that. But you were saying? Mayo. Mayonnaise. Or we're weak. My wife would physically fight you on this one. She hates mayonnaise? She doesn't like mayonnaise. She really does not like mayonnaise. But mayo is

the base of so many great dips and sauces. And you throw it in a pan when you're making a spaghetti sauce sometimes. And that'll give it a little bit of life. Wait, what? Yeah. That's a little hack I hadn't heard of. Throw some mayo in there. Yeah, throw some mayo.

Throw some mayo in where, when, how, why? Throw some mayo in when you're making a little when you're making a little sauce man thicken it up give it some flavor wow yeah is this something you discovered or this is something you read like on a like a like a italian i think i think it was like we do like some hello fresh every now and again yeah and they were like here put mayo in this and in this sauce and and and they gave you packets of mayo and like it actually came out really well it came out great wow yeah you ever see like the how disney makes their um grilled cheese oh they slather with mayo they slather with mayo and fry oh yeah that's how you get that color yeah yeah so that's in there baby i don't know i also have used mayo for uh grilled cheese and it does work oh yeah that's in there, baby. I don't know. I also have used mayo for grilled cheese and it does work. Oh, yeah.

That's the only way you get that color. Yeah. Because I used to do butter and I'd be like, what the fuck? It only gets to a certain point. They're like, no, it's the sugar and the mayonnaise that you need to normalize. And then you get that nice texture. And I'm like, I didn't know that. I do like you yelling at butter, though.

Oh, yeah. You should see me. What are you doing? It's a fucking aggro nightmare. And I'm like throwing shit getting mad at mayonnaise but yeah i love i mean i'm a big japanese kewpie mayonnaise fan yeah that shit on fucking everything and yeah i don't know i mean it's uh i get in some places where people get upset about mayonnaise but at the end of the day it's just like a fat delivery vehicle right

it's all the things you like anyway yeah eggs olive oil all that stuff but like um i feel like it takes a bad a little bit of a bad a bad rap and i'm like a big mayo proponent well i think if you're like if if you're putting mayo on everything like it's ranch then sure i think there's a thing with like you know mayo i i get to a certain point like it is necessary for a lot of things but then you do do like, I've, I've reacted to seeing things where it's like just extreme amounts of mayonnaise being used for something that I didn't realize mayonnaise was in. And I'm like, yeah,

that's fair. That's fair. But, and it does, I am Italians. Please call in with your thoughts on mayonnaise for your Sunday sauce. Well, not for the Sunday sauce.

Not for the Sunday gravy. Not, not, not in the gravy. sauce this is not more of a wednesday not for the sunday gravy not not not in the gravy okay but uh but if you're going a little outside the box yeah i don't know i really i felt like i need to just stand up for uh for the mayo people but i do agree with you it some people do that gross thing where it's like it's too much and it makes the noise and it doesn't it doesn't make an appealing noise in in a big bowl now if you're mixing it up yeah really really aggressive do you fuck with a mayo chup is that what we're calling it instead of oh like oh yeah catch a nays hey catch a nays yeah fancy sauce that's just fancy sauce right that's the burger king uh special sauce right everyone's got

their name yeah yeah i love my own ketchup mayo and uh frank's hot sauce that's good stuff yeah yeah that's a good dip oh i just gotta say i was reading into this the you the netflix u la stuff yeah i just love okay so just to give you an idea of one of the things that like sort of pissed them off. It says it's love. That's one of the characters, right? Yeah, she's the one that he like, I think he falls in love with or something. Okay, who serves as Joe's guide to Los Angeles and who serves up that Jay Gold line. She introduces him to the city via the search for his quote, perfect bite, taking him on a tour of food trucks and strip malls okay

got it then it's like stuff about like everyone's drinking green juices yes this is what i'm saying yeah okay yeah fair enough i mean we would never do that i have an empty green juice right next we never do that because we keep our glasses empty yeah yeah exactly i think it's fine like that people do actually do it but i think at this point we need to i think it's fine like that people do actually do it but i think at this point we need to have grown up and been like that's just what happens and it's no longer like oh oh you guys like your juices green yeah of course right yeah you know if it's and if it's really behind they're gonna be like hey man you want to go to a poke bar i like that guy i like that character hey man you want to go to a poke bar oh man this poke that's a little bit of all right man

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Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. So Bannon has surrendered. Yep. He surrendered. I hadn really like read through all the details of what that what they got on him but it's pretty it's not it's not good for him i mean it's enough that they're like hey you need to talk to us right yeah yeah because you know the things that they were looking at are talks he had with Donald Trump, like at the end of 2020, December 30th. And he was just apparently telling him, like, you got to focus on January 6th. You got to put your eggs in a basket on January 6th.

This is the moment. But that and then he was also at a meeting. people who have also been served with subpoenas at the Willard Hotel, which is on January 5th, where plans were pretty, I guess, robustly discussed about like how we can try to overturn the election results. And so they're like saying, yeah, this is also an interesting thing that we may want to speak to you with. And also on his like podcast radio show on January 5th, he said, quote, all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. So they use that as evidence that quote he had some foreknowledge about extreme events that would occur the next day that seems fair huh dude it's like at this how they were it's getting it's every it's all so explicit like we've had enough info where people are literally like on january 6th we would like to run an insurrection

and they're like right we got to talk to this guy i think yeah oh i didn't mean insurrection like that and then like the da is like oh okay he didn't mean insurrection like that i guess we're good here yeah was trump at the uh willard hotel meeting on january 5th i don't think his reps i think everyone else was there. Yeah, everybody but him. Could you imagine? They're like, what's this fool leaving the White House

to go to this hotel for? Yeah. Very hard to travel clandestine when you're the effing president. But, you know, so Bannon, he ignored his

congressional subpoena because, again, as he said and many others have said, he's like, well, Trump told me to exercise executive privilege

over that, so I'm not gonna go but like he and many others are quickly discovering donald trump is not the president no matter what percentage of americans believe that and uh and then also bannon has not been in the in the executive for years so it's like this isn't even like what no yeah none of this applies sir you can't just say things like you can't just say the things that you think will work even though like i guess you kind of can because a lot of those guys still haven't even like been arrested like bannon you know right but right yeah they're and again being like no no i can do this actually and then the

fact that we don't see much movement like again everyone was like is merrick garland gonna actually right get this thing going and look they he was indicted on friday and then bannon terms and turns himself in on monday but yeah i mean i think that's the thing about being a white criminal in this country too it's like playing like tag where like you know when you're a kid and like one thing is like like safe you know like oh no i'm over here so i'm safe but it's like these people though those are gonna be like oh no my shoes are safe actually right can't like but they're like we didn't even agree on this like yeah but i just said it so what are you gonna fucking do about it and they're like yeah and they're like yeah they're like he said it i mean yeah we gotta think about it because he did say it he did say that so i guess this subpoena

is meaningless all that to say is he's gonna i mean as we record this he's probably seeing a judge who will make his plea which will probably be not guilty so then he can prolong this and then go to a jury trial uh and then there'll be a whole other shit show from there mark meadows the chief of staff uh who is you know the chief of staff on the sixth has also ignored his subpoena as well so we'll see what goes on there but me in the meantime like the republicans are like they're already vowing to exact revenge for this yeah what so they're they're promising to haul in biden aids oh yeah when they're about afghanistan congress well if we do that oh afghanistan or whatever i mean sure this is the thing anything jim jordan is a fucking loser a monster loser yeah and he all he does is you know he said he's like i can't wait to be back at the chair of the

the judiciary committee and he's acting like he he's gonna haul all these people in it's like motherfucker y'all have been the republicans have had control of the congress for many years and we've seen what happens the best y'all do is like some just nonsensical Benghazi thing. Nothing that's like actually amounts to real anything aside from just grandstanding or creating like a, you know, an avenue for some increased propaganda. Yeah.

Or they like start a whole thing that immediately gets cleared by like, there's no, there's nothing there. They're like, you know, we're like, Oh, we're going to haul you in for this. And then everybody's like there's no there's nothing there they're like yeah you know we're like oh we're gonna haul you in for this and then everybody's like yeah that's actually not anything so you they're like you can't even issue a subpoena for it oh well we did so and then they're like okay and my lawyer said i this is literally nonsense like oh really yeah re clinton you're like huh i'm just a podcaster, but thank you.

So, yeah, that's where they vowed. I mean, again, that's their weird idol threat. I mean, more than anything, it is. I think the biggest threat is, yeah, it's realistic that they take control of Congress again. Oh, sure. And then they're completely, you know, shut down everything that that's more realistic than you better not. You better not or I'll call your aides in and they'll have to talk

about their job out loud. But it does the overall work of making the insurrection the fact that they were trying to hang the vice president before he could. Trying to hang with the vice president. Oh, my bad. Yeah, that was a big that

was a big misnomer they were trying to hang out with mike pence yes so that that was an argument but then they realized that nobody wants to hang out with mike pence that's impossible for a human being to want to hang out with mike pence so that they threw that legal angle out yeah i can't imagine the the amount like of balls and like what how knowing you're that untouchable to just ignore a subpoena i would shit my pants if somebody if anybody subpoenaed me for anything there's no way i would ever ignore it but like the amount that they know that nothing will happen to them to just ignore a subpoena is wild right yeah i that's wild again that's what and that's the the place we find ourselves in and just like with trump entering the presidency all the norms that were just being being like yeah maybe you

normally do that but i don't give a fuck yeah. And now we're just seeing it's continued to like we're just seeing how much of the like don't don't normalize this. We can't let this be known. It's like this is. Well, hey, guess what? Just by virtue of him being there. This is where we're at now. Right. I feel like it's not all Trump, though.

It's also like the Brooks Brothers riot like that where they took hold of the vote counting in Miami-Dade County and like went in and started like wreaking havoc and they got the vote count suspended. And it turned out it was like a bunch of Republican operatives like that's something that was just normalized. And we were just like, yeah, that happened. But I think the difference was the media wasn't reporting on that for what it was you know like you'd have to really be interested in the brooks like to like at the time you wouldn't have known who the fuck was down there getting involved with it because i don't think the attention was on it but yeah that that not to say that donald trump completely shifted everything but i think it was just done in such a brazen way

right people were like holy shit dude this guy's just fucking we used to pretend yeah yeah they used to pretend like it almost seems like they're you know the more we do this show and pay attention to politics the more it seems like there's a tacit agreement by both the democratic party and the mainstream media that like we need the republicans around like they need the republicans around to remain powerful and so they like let shit like this i don't know like there's so many legal technicalities and political technicalities but it's just like i don't know it it feels like there's a lot of like there's no it's out of our hands at this point shit that's going on that i feel like that they recognize that they're in a better position like the centrist and like big d democrats are in a better position if they're just in a binary against like this far right like yeah maybe to not

like inspire them to do better as a party right i think that helps but in terms of like raw power like they're losing that but oh yeah completely and i think that's where it's like well then what are y'all about because you know you're getting this smash put on you right now as we speak but it's like yeah it is a bummer to see them always be like to imagine that any like the other side is going to play but they still like think that they're going to play by the rules you know oh but i have enough evidence that if we can convince them i'm like you know you can't you haven't maybe it's like we both get money from the same companies to keep things going and we

all stay rich no matter what and at the end of day, we will never see the fallout of our failed policies because we're too insulated. Maybe that. I think that might work. Yeah, that sounds like a plan. Well, speaking of a plan, Republicans are going to retake the House and the Senate. And one of the main reasons they're going to be able to do that without any sort of demographic growth or appealing conversion of the base is through gerrymandering, which is something that we've been talking about since, you know, for decades and is only getting worse. Yeah. And you know, the plan has always been, you know, you saw Arnold Schwarzenegger. I remember a few years ago, like we got to stop the gerrymandering,

like these idiots, they want to, they just want to carve up the state. And it's true. Republicans all over are doing it. Democrats are doing it too, because that's really the only way you can try and carve out like seats that seem like safe,

basically trying to create as many non-competitive seats as possible. So there's no need to appeal to the broader electorate. You can now completely change the environment for a politician where it's now you're beholden to the base because guess what? There's not going to be a group of disaffected voters in your district who can somehow mobilize and then find the majorities to oust you. So this has been happening even more aggressively since the census data was released. And now they're just carving the fuck out of it. And like you were saying at the top of the show, they do it like the two main ways to do it is to crack a district or pack a district. When you pack

a district, that's when you're just finding a demographic group. And then you're saying, well, here's a group that we can maybe just try and dilute their power. So what you can do is try and carve up districts that will sort of not give them as much centralized power in any given place. Just pack them into these certain areas. Sure. Maybe like in one sense, it can be fine. Let them have that district or another. Be like, well, if we carve this one neighborhood up and like so that's like five districts end up having a piece of it right guess what now they can't do shit right right or cracking it is the same thing where you just kind

of want to just really just like dilute the actual vote so cracking is the thing you were just describing where they dilute where they break up like a let's say you have a neighborhood that is like a million democratic like strongly democratic people you break them up into like six different things and then it's like yeah yeah but then packing is when if they decided okay well we'll put that one million person neighborhood as just a single district and then we break up everything around it. And so you get like, you know, if you if you're looking to like split up five districts worth of a population, you put all of the Democrats in one of them and then you give yourself four districts basically yeah is yeah and now it's like well guess what if uh only republicans live here now because of these weird like i mean when you just look at some of these districts you're like oh my god oh yeah like dude how did you even do this jim jordan have you like his district yeah is like nuts yeah it looks like a vascular system yeah yeah it's just like it's

just like spread out through ohio this part of oh Ohio that is just like it's like like putting the game on easy mode or something. And like it doesn't make any sense. Like how is this all his? But like they just like have cracked it up and broken it up into so many different pieces. Right. And then you look at it, you know, this is the most chilling fact, right? This is from The New York Times article about like sort of the of the redistricting efforts. Quote, on a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party, the Republicans, has added enough safe house districts

to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone. Right. So you'd be like, well, guess what? I just changed these, and now those are solidly Republican. Sorry, folks. You're going to have to try a lot harder to maintain your majority in the House. be like well guess what i just changed these and now those are solidly republican sorry folks uh you're gonna have to try a lot harder to maintain your majority in the house so it's an uphill

battle and i think that's why there's many articles especially this week coming out where people like the democrats like know what right right do they know what's going on that like kind of goes back to my earlier point like they know that this is happening they know like like we said we've been talking about this for decades they know that this is happening they know like like we said we've been talking about this for decades they know that this is how the game is played but they don't i just feel like that there is a bunch of strategists who are talking to democrats and being like you guys are actually in a better position when you're like fighting out of power when you're like the other party i don't know and so well because i mean there's a few levels to it right a strategist might come as on

as a consultant and say like you guys are like completely missing with the messaging and the legislation you're going after like someone who's like thinking that like they want to win elections or the more of sort of zoomed out cynical view is dude if we get too much momentum we're actually going to have to like change things like we'll actually have to deliver on progress so if we can just fuck up and do the same thing like oh well now they got it for a couple years and go guys we gotta get this thing back from them huh yeah let's take this thing back and not do anything about it and you're and we're and then you kind of get stuck in this place where just like where there's like the you know revolving villain trope of how there's always going to be

some obstacle to change within politics where right now kirsten cinema and joe mansion have like very swiftly taken that up where now everyone be like it's these two people that's why people's wages are stagnating and it allows for a very convenient explanation for a lack of progress and i'm sure with this there is a level two where whether it's the most cynical consulting me like dude you blow this election you do some fucking wild fundraising off the back of this because people are going to be in such pain under republican leadership that it'll be like fucking 20 fucking 2018 all over again bro yeah yeah i do like i it is like annoying too when when they're like getting their asses kicked on

this stuff like the gerrymandering and then they just go back and they're like all right well we have a bill that is maybe gonna get through and joe mansions come on bud and you're like that meanwhile the republicans are out there just like redrawing maps and like they're like taking over places like risk and just like we're like all right but we have we have this plan that we're trying and it's like also always on the federal level and never like the republicans are always playing on the state levels and the local levels just like right where no one's paying attention. Yeah.

We're just like tinkering and like taking over every seat down there. And we're sitting here with like one bill that we're blaming on Joe Manchin. Yeah. I think that also would take an extraordinary amount of work to implement if it even passed. So it's like nothing basically. Yeah. And I think people also need to really begin to get on board with the idea that the ideology of the party isn't is one that is like antithetical to progress it's right right it gets to a point but at a certain level the remedies are existential threats to these people's

power so i can't it's very hard to imagine that they would and and when you look at how much these people act out of self-interest would be like yes i embrace these reforms and these laws which almost completely upend the balance of power in this country right because i think the more people start to be like what's wrong with them they're losing rather than be like this whole thing's a mess because we're not actually looking at what a politician needs to be we're not actually take we're not actually looking at what a politician needs to be. We're not actually having serious conversations about what it means to protect people or provide for them. It's too much of like, is it blue or red?

Because either way, people are still ending up with terrible outcomes. Yeah, Republicans definitely with the gerrymandering are like the big brother who just starts changing the rules of the game as you're playing and your little brother is somehow winning. Actually, we don't roll dice anymore.

That's not what we do. Your parents aren't home, so your little brother Oh, you rolled a seven, huh? I win, right? That's a losing. That's the new snake eyes. I feel like it's more like the little brother is doing it and the big brother is just letting him because the democrats have the fucking numbers right the democrats have like a majority of americans but they're letting the little brother change the game like you know just and perpetuating the the game because

they want to keep playing or something what What if they're the same brother? It's one brother. It's Tyler Durden, dude. What if? And they're both acting out in the interest of the same thing, but they're just presenting it to us in different ways. I don't know. That would be a radical thought.

Because I don't see either of them actually providing in a meaningful. I mean, like, yes, there are some interesting spending programs. But when you talk about what the what is the actual need of like people in the United States and what they're clamoring for and what is being offered, it's like. Right. They're playing different games. Wait, so is the mom the doctor? I can't operate on this this is my son yeah that's the that's the operation and it's exactly jack the u.s is standing on a fucking block of ice yes that's what's happening yes all right let's take a quick break we'll be right back

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And we're back. Apparently, the new Marvel movie, The Eternals, has a plot element where the reason the Earth is heating up is not because of fossil fuels, but because there's like some like baby giant that's hatching inside the planet. Oh, finally, my theory gets some air in the mainstream media. Isn't that amazing, though, that they would like, I don't know, that that movie seems like it. Justin, what's that about? Producerin saw it what happened in that so basically there's a giant uh titan that titan jack yeah yes these cosmic gods the only way that they can be born is if they take all the life force. Baby Titans. Baby Titans. Baby Titans.

Yes. Basically, the mission is to abort a giant baby. And spoilers, they successfully do so. That was my pitch to Marvel years ago. A big abortion, and they said, get out of here. Get out of here. Now they've taken it and used it with no less unbelievable what happened but justin is it true like don't they suggest that like that's

causing the planet to heat up yeah yeah it's basically they it's an earth destroying thing they need it to uh in order for this thing to be born, it needs to heat up and destroy the Earth as it awakens itself into the universe, I guess. Wow. Yeah. So if you believe the fossil fuel shit, you need to, you know, do some research. Do your own research. I would love to hear, like, in our world, like, that is proven to be true. There's a little baby titan in the earth, right?

And that's what's causing global warming. And just to hear, like, Mitch McConnell try and, like, downplay the baby titan. Right. Would be, like, such a beautiful thing to say. Let's do something about this baby titan. Well, if people think there's a baby titan, I mean, there is a bunch of malarkey from the main street.

Like, they don't believe it. Right. That's why we're teaming with our Sentinel Army from Genosha to address this. Okay. Sir. All right. But we do have to get to the most important news. Yes.

Which is Cam Newton is back. Oh. Yeah. Cam Newton's back. Shout out to Cam Newton. Love to see it. Beat the shit out of the Cardinals, although I think they were injury depleted. But

Reese's. Apparently I say Reese's Pieces. Oh, you're a Reese's Pieces guy. Reese's Pieces. Yeah, you said Reese's. I never fucked you because I respect that from childhood. I've been hearing that and I'm like, yeah, he's been fucked with the Reese's Pieces. Reese's Pieces.

Anyways, people are like anybody else gets so annoyed when he says it i i didn't even realize i was saying that shit my bad you're doing the right thing and i will continue saying that shit yeah now uh but anyways uh reese's has uh announced a new product besides their pcs which is a pie sized reese's cup yeah they call it thanksgiving pie hell yeah this shit is a nine inch three and a half pound fucking circle three solid chocolate and peanut butter oh my god it's gotta be thick as hell i can't you're gonna break your whole fucking mouth trying to even bite that shit but i'm i'm having a lot of trouble with this because i fucking love reese's peanut butter it's like

my fucking favorite and like when i first saw this image i said oh shit they just made a pie version that looks like a peanut butter cup and then i'm like no it's just a fucking nine inch gigantor version of it yeah and i'm having a lot of trouble trying to be like are they like my teeth hurt looking at it like i can already like cavities are developing for me just looking at the picture but there's something about it i don't know why it's like i'm i'm drawn in like a moth to the flame but the siren song of it is i i can feel i can feel how i will feel sitting on a couch after having some of that like just that like sugar rush like crash and full and gross and the taste of like it in your mouth the aftertaste the sugary like yeah fake chemically after oh my god but i want it real bad

that first bite though you're gonna feel like you're traveling at light speed. Yeah. It's going to start blurring on the periphery. Right. Right. Like, you're like, all this sugar. I picture, like, when Bart has the Slurpee concentrate on the Simpsons and he just, like, goes crazy.

In a millhouse. Yeah. Yeah. Their eyes go. Yeah. That seems like where we're headed. So it should be noted, like, people shouldn't get their hopes go. Yeah. That seems like where we're headed. So it should be noted, like, people shouldn't get their hopes up too much because this is a limited-edit offering that I'm sure is only going to be out

to, like, a very few number of, like, influencers or some shit. They got 3,000 of them on deck. Now, I'm not going to sell these for them because they didn't give me one so i'll leave it there you can look it up for yourself i feel like you guys could get one man if we if you like i feel like you guys could just get one yeah i just learned how to pronounce reese's pieces yeah they're like yeah we we were considering you all but jack doesn't even know our brand we called it feces butt rages but yeah like i'm um god i just don't know what to do with myself looking at it like it's it's like i feel like in that old chapelle show sketch where he saw that gigantic crack rock

yeah like i mean it's everything i love but in a large form, I don't know if this is safe for anyone. Yeah, that's how I feel. But I just will say I've been because like right now is kind of the year for like really interesting Thanksgiving recipes and like must have items of shout out to people on Twitter who have sent me their like scalloped potato or hash brown casserole recipes like I asked. Thank you so much. But I just, like, if we're talking about junk food, sort of inspired Thanksgiving dishes, I just saw this recipe on Vice for sour cream and onion mashed potatoes. And that, to me, I'm like, okay, this feels a little bit more safe. You know what I

mean? Like, I can reconcile all of these things being together. It feels right. Plus, it's one of my favorite chip flavors but like everything put your attention there once you see reese's peanut butter pie and the size and in in poundage of it everything below that will seem reasonable that's true oh right the overton windows like completely yeah it's just blown apart because like that is the is one of the most indulgent things I can imagine. I mean, slicing it into pie pieces. Eating a Reese's cup with a fucking fork.

It just seems so awesome. I guess you could imagine you were in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, right? Right. And have a real good time, maybe? Oh, I would definitely just take that down myself. Yeah, I cutting it up in a closet somewhere just like if frozen i feel like you could break someone's skull with that oh so here's the thing they have dramatized this with a you know somebody cutting a piece of it out like it's a you know thanks like it's a thanksgiving pie and it is holding together in a way that suggests to me that they used a fucking diamond cutter to oh yeah to

cut that thing because it's just like such a perfect like i feel like that shit would get real messy it would be hard to cut but absolutely which is why i would just eat it all myself i do like the confidence of coming in and just calling something thanksgiving pie yeah a holiday that is famous for i pies being like nah fam we got you this is the pie yeah where's the pizza place that's doing thanksgiving pie but the thanksgiving pizza i mean that sounds fucking gross man i mean it sounds gross but i feel like Yeah. Where's the pizza place that's doing Thanksgiving pie, but the Thanksgiving pizza? That sounds fucking gross, man. I mean, it sounds gross, but I feel like I would eat that shit if there was like a stuffing-based crust. Like a turkey?

Yeah, turkey. And then you just drizzle that shit. Like I said, I'm disturbed when it comes to fantasizing about food. I'm the same way, though. Anything like that, I'll try. Yeah. I would try that, 100%. I do.

I feel like the reason it sounds bad to me, the Thanksgiving pizza, is because cheese features so rarely in Thanksgiving food, right? Other than your scalloped potatoes, your hash brown casserole. That's what I'm saying. It might be a slightly cheese free affair but i just feel like i could eat i could eat like a slice of something that

had everything on a thanksgiving plate on it like if done right yeah why not just put it all on top of a slice of thanksgiving pie from recess just get that shit all done at once do you put anything on the things like the reese's thanksgiving pie? Are you thinking people are supposed to put whipped cream on top of it or something? Is there anything else you're supposed to be putting on there? You can't at that point, right? I know. I'd imagine one slice is like 3,000% of your daily sugar intake. So, Miles, funny you should mention that because on the Hypebeast's article about this,

they show the box, the limited dish box, Reese's nine inch cup pie. And it lists the calorie count as 160 per serving, which means like, again, you would need a laser cutter to fucking get something that is that small. I feel like just smelling it is 200. How many servings? You're like, oh, seven million smelling it is 200 how many servings you're like oh seven million servings you do need to uh be good at geometry and have uh they're like if you open the box and you're not wearing a respirator you'll go into diabetic shop yeah that's how this thing is a sugar cloud is coming off that thing it's worse than fentanyl in a copaganda video oh i wish they like had a video of it like being cut with lasers i feel like that's the only way

you could cut i honestly like when you think about it right like because i remember as a kid like my mom or my dad like man you can't eat a whole like you're fucking you ate way too much candy let me have half yeah cut it and then you try and cut that shit and just like fell apart oh yeah so i don't know how you could like it would have to be like a hydraulic stone cutter or like you're saying like a laser cutter yeah laser cut it yeah i saw that on reddit though someone cut a pizza with a laser recently you know what would be good for this one to like kind of help with the structural integrity you put it on top of a graham cracker crust and put it in the oven for a little bit and then you have a little

bit more structural integrity and just a little so you can get cut through the chocolate though yeah i also just love a graham cracker crust you're adding the graham cracker crust underneath it i'm adding it this guy's adding stuff over here. Well, because if you think about everything is too melty at this point, right? Like the bottom's melty, the sides are melty. Like that shit is going to, I don't know. Look, if someone ends up buying it, how the fuck are you going to eat it? I don't think it's something you've,

I think like it's a shame secret. It's like the portrait of Dorian Gray. You keep it in your attic, then you nibble away at it and right you know prolong your life through this little bit how much does it cost i think it's like 40 bucks or something 45 bucks is that right i bet you get like two for one at cvs i bet this will be sold for it's gonna be a stock x 10x the yeah yeah and hey Reese's I'm willing to be convinced if you want to send me one of these to my house for Thanksgiving I will try your Thanksgiving pie I will start pronouncing your

name correctly Reese's P no it's pie well it's the same as pieces and that's that's pieces not now you're gonna tell me so it's Pisces Reese's Pisces I mean that's how I not Pisces. Now you're going to tell me so it's Pisces, Reese's Pisces? I mean, that's how I said it when I lived in Kentucky, but Reese's Pisces. I'd love to show up to the family Thanksgiving and just drop that on the table. Just let it slam. Right.

We actually bring green beans, Chris. Yeah, boom. Put your green beans on here. Let's chop it up. Yeah. be like that king vader video where he does the bottle flip and then walks out everybody just like falls over backwards right oh my god yeah that thing's like a cornucopia is blowing out of someone's hand all right let's talk about elf on a shelf so it's back in the news uh in the context of like should these things be banned but it was like a joking thing a judge in Cobb County Georgia jokingly banned Alf on a Shelf uh in a mock court

order on Twitter which is apparently a thing judges can do sounds pretty fun so just in case you're wondering uh why the judge is focusing on Twitter jokes, it's because there's nothing else important going on in Cobb County, such as like recently when parents were literally suing the school district for its refusal to implement a mask mandate and a bus driver died of COVID after they didn't do that. They weren't allowed to do that. Well, I think the judge did issue a mock court order on that on twitter so yeah let's be fair to the legal system i think he posted a meme about it so yeah yeah but his whole thing was like we're gonna ban elf on a shelf this year because as a gift to tired parents so it's just like some real straight down the middle Jay Leno type shit.

Wait. So I'm sorry. Look, I, whenever this shit has come up, I'm so confused about elf on the shelf culture. I remember many years ago I posted on Instagram. I said,

here I'll, I'm willing to do a cultural exchange with a white person. I'll tell you about Japanese holidays and Kwanzaa. If you can explain elf on a shelf to me, please. And how is this a gift to tired parents? Isn't the point being like, yo, the elf will fucking make sure you're acting right? Yeah, right.

I thought the elf was doing the work. How is this a gift to tired parents? I'm so ignorant. This is tired parents of the lowest possible standard of on parenting variety they have to get up in the middle of the night or like just after their kids are in bed and move the elf and if they forget to move the elf like that's the thing i always hear is people being like damn my kid caught me moving the elf for like realized i didn't move it and i had to say the elf on the shelf got drunk and not me if i got drunk i'd be moving that elf on the shelf got drunk and not me.

If I got drunk, I'd be moving that elf on the shelf, man. Right, yeah, that's all I'd be doing. I'd be coming up with wild shit to do. Yeah, just put it in the shower, you know? Yeah, having it drop out of a closet like a dead body on Halloween. Freaking people out. Yeah, dropping from the ceiling.

Oh, man. Also, wouldn't the gift to tired parents be making school easier for the kids like the guy keeps refusing to like a mask mandate probably would help tired parents yeah but i mean that he had that joke locked and loaded about tired parents or something so he probably had that like in 20 he wanted to use it last year he's like fuck man don't the environment's not right for this one quite yet yeah one of the real tragedies one of the real tragedies of the covet 19 pandemic is he wasn't able to use that last year this guy this judge's twitter drafts that are fucking rotting yeah yeah they're all

fake court mandates right so it does seem to be like a part of like american christmas culture that has been just like officially adopted like it was it's people last year were like posting pictures of their elf on the shelf in a glass jar quarantining which is terrifyingly it looks like it's one of those fetuses from a fucking... Big island of Dr. Morrow type thing. Yeah, like in a glass jar. Pretty dark. Yeah, I mean, that is...

Just Google elf on a shelf quarantine and try to convince yourself that a child won't... Why does this one have a small toilet? Well, Miles, if he's quarantining for 14 days, where the fuck is he gonna go to the bathroom oh i'm sorry yeah wow somebody's not thinking through i'm sorry and what the fuck does this elf eat then lysol and clorox wipes that are in there with him he eats christmas spirit he consumes christmas spirit yeah through through the glass with his eyes piss but they

don't need to eat or drink but yeah a child will clearly one day be tearfully describing all this to their therapist. But there's, like, more subtle shit. One parent got tired of, you know, doing the Elf on the Shelf thing and told their child that the elf had died from COVID. Oh, smart. Yeah, that's helpful. But Elf on the Shelf's popularity is apparently only increasing. Last year, Netflix acquired the rights to Elf on the Shelf in a massive seven-figure deal. And pediatric experts are already pretty concerned that the toy could, like, I don't know, having a magical spy living in your house will make kids paranoid.

Yeah, right. 100% Using a small toy to control their behavior will likely be ineffective and potentially harmful down the road, since it's basically, this is just indoctrination for a surveillance state, like living in a state where closed caption TVs are everywhere. I mean, look look let's all give it up for the original elf on the shelf uh god who i figured i was taught in school being like this motherfucker knows everything y'all yeah he's right even if you say some shit i remember as a kid i would apologize to god for saying oh my god and i wasn't even christian like that but

the school i went i was in an environment where i was like, oh, you said the Lord's name in vain. And then I was off that shit. I'm like, come and get me. So I did somebody was asking on Twitter about like first, I think reconciliation is the like part where you do like confession. Right. Which you do at age seven or I did at age seven. I don't know if that's still the case. I was kind of advanced in my Catholicism as a kid I was yeah I was confessing to shit when I was four

I was crying my fucking eyes out all the other kids were just like going and being like I pushed my sister on the stairs sorry and I like had been like cursing at God in my brain yeah and i like was i was so distraught and the i was like sobbing my parents like went up and talked to the priest afterwards they were like is everything all right i was like he's gonna tell them fuck what'd you say jack it's a legit traumatizing but it was like at a time when i was just learning to swear and i was like what is the traumatizing. I said, eat my ass, God. I told God to eat my ass. But it was like at a time when I was just learning to swear and I was like, what is the worst thing I could do? Oh, damn. And then I couldn't stop my mind. I didn't have

the impulse control. Oh, dude, it was swearing was like when I was a kid. When you're that young or whatever, it feels like chaos. It feels like inviting chaos into the world. Right. Like you're like a war crime yeah yeah you're just swearing you're just like you're like this feels good but i'm supposed to feel bad i think and i think yeah especially like i confess the same shit i was like i was like i'm swearing

with my friends too much and this is like a priest yeah yeah it's fine who cares man yeah i guess all that to say is i'm like damn like at every level you have these small things to be like someone's watching your ass. Right. Yeah. Right. But at the same time, it's it's just. But this one's tied to toys. So like perfectly consumerist and also to have it like be a specific like spy in your house that is always watching you and reporting back to the higher authority of Santa.

watching you and reporting back to like the higher authority of santa and now they're so the elf on the shelf uh website now has a teacher resource center with free kindergarten to grade five lessons plans and lesson plans and classroom resources to use elf on a shelf because it's just like assumed that everyone's family has fucking elf on a shelf and so and assumes every family celebrates christmas as well. Yes. One nation under God. Thank you very much. Indivisible. And if you don't want to be divided, get the fuck out. I like to think that some kids get real hardened

to the elf on the shelf and just stop giving a shit. There's fuckers everywhere. What does it even matter anymore, man? I don't care. Watch me do it. Look in my backpack. See what I got.

Yeah, a fucking lol pet. I got that shit. And I'm fucking up in front of the elf. Tell me this guy isn't full of shit. Yeah, and I'm taking a dollar from my mom's pocketbook. Do what you want to do, elf on the shelf. Watch this. Fuck.

See, nothing. Nothing. I hope we don't have any children listeners. But we do i mean if we do like that that elf should not have a head tomorrow morning get it now right you're like oh look it's the elf proletariat has arrived you're like wait but yeah there so there was like a deep dive story in, I think, Columbia Journalism Review talking about how this contributes to the shaping of children as governable subjects and to accept, not question, increasingly intrusive modes of surveillance. And when that came out, it was featured on Drudge and the Washington Post as like, look at these crackpots. But then a couple years later, a product was released called the Elf Surveillance Camera, which is a fake CCTV camera to make children think that an elf is watching them at all times, complete with a red flashing light that makes it all the more real and sure to keep the children in line.

Those are quotes from their fucking website. From the fucking box. So does the box sell it as like a direct line to santa or like is it still the elf who has to take in the raw data and parse it to give the files to santa claus yeah i mean i think i think they're probably like selling it as a raw feed to the elf yeah then because it's called the elf cam not the santa cam right right so they still have to do all that cia work and create a dossier on you and everything right yeah yeah i

mean i i just love it again you know like but in a way i'm like sorry elf because organized religion has been doing this for a minute yeah but also i love that they're introducing kids to the concept of the panopticon right like and just philosophically get into that kids. If you're into Jeremy Bentham or if you're a lost fan, that's how I found out about Jeremy. Because that was one of Locke's nicknames. And I was like, yo, Jeremy Bentham guys talking some shit right now. The Panopticon. But all that to say is like this fucking surveillance camera.

It reminds me of like the kind of shit. Right. Because I remember like in the like 90s and shit my grandparents used to have a chili and barbecue restaurant like off crenshaw or actually sloss in an overhill by the home depot shout out to warren's famous chili and at the time surveillance cameras were like the new thing but not everyone could afford them so you would buy these jank ass toy ones that had a light that would give you the impression that it was an actual operating camera. And like when I look at this one, I'm like, oh, this looks like when you go places like, oh, that's a fake ass camera that like someone's like, yo, dude, just print Elf on a Shelf cam on these. Yeah.

Rebox that shit. We got a whole other fucking life for this thing. Yeah, it's It's wild. And like the reviews on the Amazon product for Elf on the Shelf cam, one parent claimed the camera was good for older kids who don't believe in Elf on a Shelf, but do believe in, you know, the replica camera you just installed in their room. Don't believe in Elf on a Shelf, yeah. Don't believe in Elf on elf on a shelf but understand being recording right exactly yeah understand that the whole world is watching yeah just mad i'm just mad at this you know like fuck it's stupid yeah fuck elf on a shelf like i remember man because i had a very

quick fucking like pipeline to not believing in like organized religion or fucking santa because like at first i remember like at school it's like will you pray and you act good and then you ask god and then maybe god will give it to you well i didn't get mario paint for super nintendo that year so i don't know where the fuck he was out on that one and then my parents were very clearly just like look if you act right we can make this transactional i will get we'll get you one of these things you want but you have to act right and if you don't guess what you can you'll have a very different experience on christmas that was enough for me you know am i am i like am i too cynical and being like man we gotta get these kids off of whimsical

i didn't have it but i guess like you're teaching them to like game a system where you're like okay I have to do all my dirt and like the room that doesn't have the elf in it like yeah well that they should understand that there's certain places you can go to to be creepy and weird right and not just do it not do it in front of everybody okay but

yeah it is weird to be like to have like an old man like but like we just trusted that Santa was just watching us jack off or whatever. And that was hot. That was enough. That was enough for everybody. Santa got his thing.

I got my voyeuristic thing. Everybody was happy knowing that there was no physical thing in the room watching us. Just the idea of it. Trying to shame the omniscient Christ. You're like, oh, so, okay, Jesus, you a freak, huh? Watching this. Oh, you're nasty.

Yeah, you like it, you little creep. Okay, I'm going to give you one. You can leave. But if you want, that's all you. Okay, you're nasty. I know you're here every time. Damn, that dude can't get enough. Yeah.

Off of this. All right, Chris, such a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you, follow you? Oh, thanks, man. I really had a great time. I'm at Real Chris Cal on all the things, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, all that stuff. So at Real Chris Cal. Nice.

And is there a tweet or some of the work of social media you've been enjoying oh yeah my friend had a uh a tweet that i really enjoyed his name is james heskey and uh he had a tweet last week he's at james heskey and he said ah shit the judge in the written house trial is going around the room and making everyone say one nice thing about guns oh my god and i thought that was very funny so yeah follow james heskey miles where can people find you what's the tweet you've been enjoying uh you can find me on twitter and instagram at miles of gray and the other show for 20 day fiance we're talking 90 day fiance with sophia alexandra it's a wonderful time stop on by uh some tweets i like first one is from at adderall black and it says in parentheses depressed borat my life

another one is from uh chesty and testy at at underscore sugar tits is quote tweeting a page six article that says taylor lottner engaged to longtime girlfriend Taylor Dome. And to which Chesty and Testy tweeted, now they both going to be Taylor Lautner. Wow. Hell yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, they are. Wrap your head around that one.

I guess that's happened before, right? Yeah. I don't want to think about that, but yeah. All right, let's see. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Oh, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Some tweets I've been enjoying. Kafka-esque, as in Esquire, tweeted,

In 2022, Zoomers will discover the Bud Light Wazzop ad campaign and start repeating it incessantly. That's going to happen. Andrew Knox tweeted, nobody. Raspberries, you have 24 hours. Mike Scullins tweeted, I have a cousin at Quaker Oats and he says, oops, all

berries was no accident. And then an entire Eve's Trough in the Garbage tweeted, when it comes to super literal names, you can't beat Fireplace. Oh yeah. I saw that one. You can find us on Twitter

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Miles, what song do we think people might enjoy? I'm going to think they're going to enjoy this little ditty from the UK, from rapper Sam Wise. And this track is called First Little Rollie. And, you know, I just like, I like international rap. What can I say? I've had enough of American rap, so I like to put my ears elsewhere. And the UK scene is always delivering.

But yeah, this is just a great production. I love his flow, lyrically, wonderful. And again, the instrumental, I really enjoy the instrumental. So check this out. Again, First Little Roly by Sam Wise. All right, well, go check that out. The Daily Zyka is the production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. That's going to do it for this morning, but we are back this afternoon to tell you what's trending, and we'll talk to you all then. Bye.

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