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Episode Date: March 28, 2019

In episode 358, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Ryan Singer to discuss OK Cupid adding a Game Of Thrones feature, the evil Betsy DeVos trying to cut Special Olympics program, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family paying a settlement opioid crisis, what. to do with all the left over 'Mueller Time' merch, Justin Bieber clapping back at people on the internet, a study on why teens should eat breakfast with their parents, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. OkCupid is helping Game Of Thrones fans hookup and find love 2. This is why Republicans are frightened of @AOC. She spitfires truth at them.3. Dems slam DeVos' proposed cuts to Special Olympics, other programs4. Purdue Pharma and Sackler Family to Pay $270 Million in Opioid Settlement5. If Purdue Pharma declares bankruptcy, what would it mean for lawsuits against the opioid manufacturer?6. Mueller grand jury 'continuing robustly,' prosecutor says7. A Robert Mueller Action Figure Exists & You Can Pre-Order One Now8. The Mueller report renders thousands of T-shirts irrelevant9. Justin Bieber Just Admitted He Still Loves Selena Gomez While Clapping Back at a Fan10. Study: Teens who sit down for breakfast with parents have better body image11. WATCH: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - I'm Sleepin' In 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 75, Episode 4 of The Daily Zeitgeist! The podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. It's Thursday, March 28, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Like a Good Neighbor. Jack minds his own business and less asks directly, which he avoids at all costs. Woo! Courtesy of Trey Gang and also Barry Manilow,

who wrote the State Farm Team. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Now, I know a lot of you have been asking for a gangster's paradise, a.k.a. and I've finally been submitting one that's worthy. As I walk through the valley of the Googs and social medias, I take a look at my timeline and read some reductor's tweets. Now I've been hosting this podcast so long that even my Google Docs shows my spelling is strong.

But I ain't never crushed a third meal that didn't deserve it. If I pass a Taco Bell, you know I put work in. I better not hear no squawking like my song rex ain't popping oh my you might be spicy talking here we go let me get this part i can't stand donald trump but i got a note as i host i prop myself on covfefe jokes oh i'm the miles g the whole zack gang wanna be like on my knees in the night smoking weed from an apple pipe our heart takes stock while files, and we know Latin dancer UTI. We'll tell you the latest styles and the rankings of fast food French fries. We'll say what a thousand times, then listen to Lachini's Juice by Life.

That's what you get from Jack and Miles. You're listening to the Daily Zeitgeist. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Let me just come down to earth real quick. This instrumental is fucking heat rocks. I can't stop hearing it. That one was from Year of the Ant at MFC Erickson.

Sir, wow. I mean, you done something. And I did that in one go. I kind of messed A couple parts up But hey Shout out to you For that one

And everyone That was one take That was one take You know I fucked up the part I'm kind of on myself About it Fuck the flow up

Right in there There's too many syllables I didn't realize How to work the math Anyway Man that dude Put in work Like you

Passing a taco bell Yep Oh I put work in Uh well We're going to be joined In our third seat by the very patient and hilarious comedian, Mr. Ryan Singer. Welcome back, Ryan. I got to tell you, I was sitting here admiring the flow. Thank you. That was, in fact, one take.

That was one take. One take cray. I really missed that. I'm, and I can vouch, that was in fact one take. That was one take. One take cray. I really missed that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, MFC Eric. I should have gave that thing a little bit more rehearsal, but I just saw it

and it took me somewhere. That was the soundtrack of my youth, that song. Oh, man. Especially when Michelle Pfeiffer shows up at the end of the video and you're like, what?

They got Michelle for this? Back when they were doing big movie music video crossovers and it of the video and you're like, what? They got Michelle for this? Back when they were doing big movie music video crossovers and you're just like, oh, we gotta catch the new video because we think there might be the movie crossover happening in it. Does she turn her chair around backwards in that

one part? It looks like an interrogation room. And doesn't she come in with a backwards chair and it's like, what's up? Was that in the movie? Or that was just the music that was i think there's a showdown with michelle pfeiffer and coolio in just the music video that's crazy i think that so it makes sense to me that the huge ticket soundtrack eventually went out of style because that didn't really make sense to me as a marketing technique, but I did specifically go see Dangerous Minds because of that song.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Coolio was so hot. Yeah. It was so hot. Yeah. It was peak Coolio, PC. And that movie was not very good.

Oh, look, come on now. I mean, as a... It was... That was probably the one genre of movie that I was familiar with by that point in my life. Oh, White Savior and the Hood, teacher? Yeah, or like Lean on Me, you know, like all those. The Substitute? Yeah.

So like teacher comes in and turns a bad school around. Let me surprise you by my knowledge of your culture. Yeah, right. He's like, actually, I was in Nam, Jr. This ain't shit. That one was not very good. Didn't add much, but, I was in Nam, Jr. This ain't shit. That one was not very good. Didn't add much. But that song was lit.

What was the last film that really had, that didn't have the musician in the film that had a song that was like, this is the movie for that song. Or this is the song for that movie. I remember there was a Spider-Man that had a really good indie rock soundtrack that was like, after movies should be spending

a lot of time on an effort on the on the soundtrack okay like it had that walkman song uh red moon wait that didn't have the like the video because i'm thinking like you know like we're like about bodyguard did that have the video but that was that predates okay that's mine that's back when it was like that was going down okay the most recent one and bodyguard I guess, technically be in the category of A Star is Born, which is like the singer is the star,

it's a musical. Because I would say Shallow for recently, but that's cheating because Lady Gaga's in the movie. Anyway, the industry has moved on.

The industry has moved on. It's all about packaging deals, man, you know, and screwing the writers over. Yeah. I feel like Space Jam, they're going to have to,

when they do the LeBron Space Jam,'re gonna have to do something yeah because that's like that that first soundtrack was pretty iconic yeah i mean who could they just a bunch of canceled motherfuckers yeah like who will be canceled in 25 years from now who's gonna do the theme song like is quad city dj still around yeah still around yeah anyways Ryan we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment first we're gonna tell our listeners just a couple of the things we're talking about today we're gonna talk about a new badge you can post on OkCupid if you're still on OkCupid for some reason we're gonna check in with the married guy with the family no is OkCupid still still a thing that people use?

Yes, it is. I have a friend who uses it. We'll get it. I have a friend who uses it and I'm telling... We'll get into that later. I wasn't making fun of the fact that some people still have to date. I thought that was... It's me making a joke. Mr. Sensitive.

No, Miles, don't say that about me. We're going to tell Betsy DeVos to eat shit. We're going to update what our assumptions are, just how we're doing business here at the Daily Zeitgeist in light of what we know about the Mueller report, which still isn't that much and all of that and more. But first, Ryan, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

This is embarrassing. There's a couple of them. But Mike Myers, what was his pay for hosting the gong show? I went down this rabbit hole. Whoa, wait, what? And I believe it was $3 million. He was paid to host the gong show. I mean, because if you would have told us, a person of a certain age, you know, 15 years ago,

that Mike Myers would be hosting the gong show. What'd you pay him? $50 million? You got Austin Powers to host the gong show? But $3 million. And then, yeah, and so then it took me down a rabbit hole of other hosts and their pay. And Judge Judy actually was the highest, I believe, at $47 million.

Yeah, well, she just closed a deal. That was like the last deal she did. Or yeah, I don't know how recent this article was. Or something with her. Also, her residuals is on another level. She's sneaky. Oh, yeah. Sneaky wealthy. And who is it? Was it Marcela Arguello who was on who was like, yo,. She's like, yeah, she's sneaky. Oh, yeah.

Sneaky wealthy. And who is it? Was it Marcela Arguello who was on, who was like, yo, she's thick too. And it was turned out of Photoshop. Yeah. Wait, so there's a new gong show that I'm just finding out about right now, hosted by Mike Myers.

When did they reboot it? I don't know. I don't even know that. Yeah. I heard that Mike Myers was doing this thing, and I was like, I got to see how much he's getting. Yeah, right. What's that?

So I don't even know when. Oh, and he's hosting it in character as Tommy Maitland. Oh. Wait, is that from the Axe Murder? No. So I married an Axe Murder? What was the character in that? I feel like a lot of his fictional characters are very related to one another.

Most of them have Scottish accents. They're all just very... His name was Charlie in that movie. Okay, so half the gong show is just going to be... Move now! I just remember all his spoken word poetry he was doing. Is there anybody who was paid surprisingly little for their hosting job? I was surprised that of the late night talk show host variety,

that Jimmy Fallon was the highest paid that I saw. I think he was at $16 million. I think Kimmel came at $15 million. Conan at $12 million. Yeah, that seems unjust. I was surprised by that. Well, Jimmy's the safest. Oh, you know who I was really surprised to for, I guess, multiple?

I didn't realize because they were also doing morning talk show hosts. Right. And I always forget that morning talk shows are a thing. Right, right. I'm never up that early. Right. But I believe the highest paid was Robin Roberts. Okay.

But Kelly Ripa is also banking. Just ripping it up. They have to wake up at like three 30 in the morning. That is insane. Yeah. Do not envy that. Like that, that shit ages you.

I'm not going to lie. I had to drink NyQuil last night to make sure I was up in time for this. Wow. You just had to like kickstart your sleep. You're like, as I have now. Cause I've been staying up till like four o'clock. I mean,

cause I'll go down to these rabbit holes where I'm like also Googling like how to create your own deck of playing cards. Right. There's another one. You ever take NyQuil and then you're just like a little bit drunk? Yeah. So you're like not tired. You're just like up. If you push through, yeah.

If you push through the sleep and stay awake, then you can get into a place where my greatest ideas come. Yeah. We can start talking about astral projection if you want to. Okay. I mean, once you get into that vibration, you can get out there, you can get into that creative, that liminal space. I think it's pretty clear by my NyQuil question that I wanted to talk about astral projection.

Obviously. What is something you think is underrated? Something I think is underrated, I've been having a hard time not being excited about everything lately. Maybe it's the NyQuil and the DayQuil. But I think one of the most underrated things is probably gingerbread. Gingerbread? Wow.

Gingerbread comes in under the radar everywhere you go. Like the cookie? Or is there a loaf? I'm talking about the flavor in general. But like, because you know how they say, you know, too much of a good thing is bad.

Well, I think too little of a bad thing could be good. No, I'm not saying gingerbread is a bad thing. It's underrated though. Yeah, we're not appreciating it. The faintest smell of skunk. I love that. Oh, okay.

I love the faintest smell of skunk for a short period of time, right? So I think people who don't like gingerbread, hey, maybe just try a little bit. A little nibble? Yeah, a little nibble. Maybe bust it up into a milkshake. Oh, wow. Blend it together.

But I think gingerbread is underrated for sure. Yeah, you know, I love ginger. Just in general, I think ginger is a great food. Or, you know, what do we call that? Added spice or whatever the fuck you call it. Whatever that falls under. Because you don't just eat the raw ginger on its own. But I like candied ginger. Have you ever had that?

Like dried? I have not. That's actually pretty good. If you like straight straight ginger flavor, that's a good one to try. Okay. I like anything that just clears my sinuses out. Oh, I got something for you. I've been making these.

I've been making my own. I've been making my own. If you hold up the ace of diamonds to your nose. No, but I've been making homemade fire cider. Have you heard of fire cider? Fire cider is apple cider vinegar with mother, you know, with the stuff floating around. And then what you do is there's all kinds of different recipes on the internet, but I've been making my own. From there, I've expanded upon them.

What you do is you get garlic, you get onion, you get horseradish root, you get ginger root, you get jalapenos. I've been adding in habaneros. Sounds like you've got a stew going. Right? And so what you do is you chop all this stuff up, and then you put it into jars with the apple cider vinegar. You let it sit for five. I, they say four weeks. I always go five. My last batch just finished this past Sunday. So I, I was sampling it last night in fact. And so what you get after five weeks is you get these little, and then you take shots of this stuff, and it just clears you out.

Wow. And I made a sweet batch with cinnamon sticks. I made a double garlic batch. Wow. I made a double fire batch, and then I made just a standard batch. And I'll tell you what. If you want – I should have brought some for you. Yeah.

But maybe next time I'll bring you some. But it's like this holistic, ancient recipe that has been around for, I mean, who knows how many? Whenever I've been to like those juice shops and they have like this shot that's just straight garlic and ginger. A lot of those things you're mentioning, like when I take those, I'm like, whoo, breathing air at a whole other level. Yeah, I mean, you can feel it. And it's supposed to be, I mean, I guess the positive effects for general health of apple cider vinegar by itself are well documented. But, you know, you just can't drink too much of it because you'll start, like, rotting your teeth out because of the, you know – Oh, the acidity of it.

Yeah. But you do a shot of this a day. It's supposed to help keep you healthy. Yeah. But then when you start feeling sick, you just blast. I'd blast about four shots a day. I could have used that right now. Blast it. Start feeling like you have new holes in your head.

It's just like air is getting into new pockets. But I will say this. If you chop up horseradish root, be careful if you put it in a blender. Because I took the lid off a blender. Holy shit. I mean, I was blasted by an unholy smell. You know in cartoons when you see people's eyeballs go straight red? Right, right, right.

Like, I have never had that happen to me. Is that why you're wearing two? I took the lid off and the vapors came in and blasted me. I was blind for about five minutes. So you literally caught the vapors. Is that why you're wearing two eye patches today? Yeah, in fact. It's a good look.

Thank you. And the monocles over the ipad feels a little aggressive because i don't know if he's looking at me or his head is in my direction uh what is something you think is overrated oh what do i think is overrated i think the idea that i mean this might be a little controversial oh shit but i think the idea that men and women cannot be friends is overrated uh no way, man. Wait, what? Come on, bro.

Although that might be kind of a myth. We fucking or not. That might be more of the myth thing. Right. No, all right. No, no, no. It's an overrated. You see that shit a lot on TV still, though.

It's a very standard, I feel like, 1980s stand-up comedian trope that just has lasted. Right. Like until now. Yeah. The standard wisdom. Come on. You can't be friends with a woman.

So basically what you're telling, you're telling like half the world. Yeah. The other half is you cannot have a friendship with this person. You have to want to have sex with them. Right. Friendship? No.

Fuck target? Yes. Right. Exactly want to have sex with them. Right. Friendship, no. Fuck target, yes. Right, exactly. There's no such thing. It's like that piece of fake pseudoscience that men think about sex every six seconds. It's like that has never been true. That would make you mentally ill if you thought about sex every six seconds.

What if during the day, though, you think about sex for eight straight hours? Right. Like you would have to- And then you cool it off. On an average, maybe that's every six seconds. Right. We all have those days. We all have those days, yeah.

But yeah, if that was just like clockwork every six seconds, then- Yeah. Yeah, I guess there's a big difference between taking a prolonged period prolonged period of something and then like just averaging it out over like a longer period of time. Yeah. You know, so I guess because I mean, we can go into a mode where maybe like you say, like you think about sex for a long period of time. Sure. That doesn't mean that that's happened. Like, yeah, that is.

Actually, I'm glad you brought that up because I didn't even know that was pseudoscience. I just assumed that was true. So now I actually don't feel so bad about it. What was that report even based on? What constituted a thought about sex? I don't know. It's in that same batch of neurology that's like 10% of your brain and all that shit. It's just like none of that shit is true, man.

Yeah. We just spoke with a neurobiologist who was like, you use a lot of your brain. Were you saying that you felt bad that you didn't think about sex more? Because I did too when I was younger. I was like, got to start thinking about sex more. Oh, my God. All these things. I'm not a man.

I'm not a man if I'm not boner. I'm not a man if I'm not boobs. I'm not a man if I'm not thinking about butt, butt, butt. I guess, yeah, those are the pillars of toxic masculinity. It's like you've got to think about sex every six seconds, and you can't be friends with a woman. Right, exactly. You're trying to tell me that if you were given the opportunity

to have sex with this female friend, that you wouldn't do it. I don't know why I went into that voice, but it felt right. Yeah, it was like Foghorn leghorn with a boner. I said. What is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, this is a good one because this is the world that I'm in too. It's that if-

Well, what's the world that you're in? Tell people the world you're in. I've embraced New Age Woo. I've embraced the Wu. Like, I'm into all that stuff, right? When it comes to, like, mysticism, you know, spirituality, all that stuff. Yes. So, but here's a myth that is in that world that most people take for granted or don't understand or, like, it's just BS.

Okay. And that's, like, all you have to do is think it and it'll happen. Right, right. Or believe it and it'll happen. The secret. The secret, right? have to do is think it, and it'll happen. Or believe it, and it'll happen. The secret. The secret, right? And I do believe in manifestation. I really do believe in the power of manifestation.

But at the same time, what they don't tell you is, you can't just sit back. You can't just say, universe, I'd like a million dollars, and then go home and sit on a chair. Yeah. You have to be active. Exactly. You have to be active. Exactly. And I think the action part of that equation is often left out of the discussion, which is problematic because people are like, I don't know what I did wrong. I told the universe that I wanted to not have to work my job anymore and keep my beautiful home.

And no, it's being – it's like, well, no, you have to be active. Right. I think with anything else, whether it's like pacifism, you have to be an active pacifist. You have to be an active manifester. You can't just – I mean, I try to manifest stuff all the time. Yeah. But I don't just sit in my room sitting there like holding my crystals and being like, I believe. Right.

I believe in the power of – so it's like you have to go out and actually do the work. Well, that's the thing. I think that's why a lot of people like that flawed idea of it because it takes the work part out and they just hone on the, oh, I can think about that shit all day. And I think if you really look at sort of the idea, the concept of manifestation or like, you know, universal energy helping you to push you in this direction, you have to put something out there that the universe can then push along for you. If like you're saying, that's the action part. If you're just there and you're saying,

I want to be successful. I want to be successful. You're not, you can't just wait for some agents to come up to you and be like, Hey man, you got a script. You know what I mean? Oh,

you don't, you don't have a script. Yeah. Well, don't worry about it. Can you get me one? I'll give you $3 million right now. Oh,

don't worry if it can't act. Yeah, exactly. Go out there, put a fucking script out, put a fucking book out put a fucking book out put your art out whatever and then that's your action and then if you know if you're if you're working your mind right and you're in a good state of mind you might see and here's the other part of that it's like what people don't understand it's like if you really want something if you're like trying to actively manifest

something that you truly deeply want and dream of you you're going to be doing it. Right. I mean, with the exception of people who might be like clinically depressed or, you know, or immobilized by some other reason, you're going to be, if you really want something, you're going to be actively trying to do it. And if you don't actively do what needs to be done to get the thing you think you want, guess what? Figure out what it is you really want because you're wasting time here.

Figure out what it is you really want in this life because then you will be motivated to go do it. All this to say, don't worry about failure. Don't worry about failure. That's all it is because that's usually the thing. Failure is my favorite thing. And failure is not, you know, take the bite out of that word. You know what I mean? You're experimenting. You're in the lab. You know what I mean? No doubt. Failure is my second favorite thing. And failure is not, you know, take the bite out of that word. You know what I mean? You're experimenting. You're in the lab.

You know what I mean? No doubt. Failure is my second favorite thing. Yeah. Success is probably my first. But failure is like, it proves to me that I'm still pushing myself and taking risks and, you know, trying to push my boundaries out. But, you know, so, I mean, and also I've had to like, you to, in this business of entertainment for over 15 years or whatever it is, it's like if you can't get comfortable with ambiguity or with failure, you just have

to accept those things. And look at the people who are like, not to say that they aren't talented, but people who are just off pure will, just are constantly at it. Some people might point to their work in any genre or art or whatever. And you can say purely because of their just constant work ethic, you know, that yields benefits too. Yeah. There's a thing.

But going back to the failure thing, there's a thing out in the entertainment industry, word of wisdom or like an idea called being encouraged to death where you just like take all these meetings where people are telling you what you want to hear and saying you're doing great work, but you're not actually making progress or whatever. That's a good thing to kind of keep in mind, I think, in any industry is you can be,

like if you're not experiencing failure, you're probably not making that much progress. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Don't get gassed up by your supporters i do like that i do i can dig that uh all right guys let's talk about ok cupid real quick um real quick you can now put a badge on your ok cupid profile that lets people know you are a throneser. Yeah. You're a gamer of thrones. Yeah, they just want to match people up. And if you answer yes to the question, do you fuck with the thrones, then the icon will appear. I guess to help people, you know, because people want to be booed up in time for those last couple episodes.

Now, this is interesting to me that this has a romantic kind of connotation to it. Because I was talking to a friend who said that game of Thrones was like an important element in their relationship to their wife. But like when they were dating game of Thrones was on. So it was like, you know, their relationship started around season one and that, that was like an important part of their relationship.

What are they going to do after this? Right. Well, they're probably going to have to get divorced. Right. Yeah. They're poor kid. Right.

Yeah. No, but, but that's interesting. Like, I wonder if there's something about the, you know, the violence and the sex and like all the nudity that maybe like adds an element. Really amped things up for them. I mean, I'm sure like just because it's, you're just overtly out there saying like, this is a shared interest.

Yeah. That helps. Yeah. But I mean, I don't know if it's like, I guess there's, you know, deeper meaning if, you know, couples that thrown together, bone together. Uh-huh. Yeah. I mean, that's as the old saying goes. Yeah.

As George R. R. Martin wrote. Right. I think it's important, too, if they agree on characters. Right. Right. Right. Like, if someone's like, I love Joffrey. And they're like, oh, shit. Oh, this is a red flag. Right, right, right like if someone's like i love joffrey and they're like oh that's like oh this

is a red flag right right right all those team joffrey people yeah yeah yeah or if someone was like i love hodor and i'm like hmm this seems a little one-dimensional okay uh but i love hodor yeah i mean i love hodor but again you know do what you want i guess it reminds me of like being younger too and i was like you like the movie belly. They're like, Oh, that's hot. Let's fuck.

Or like, I remember like even before I was getting into more serious relationships, there were a few boxes that had to be ticked. You smoke weed and do like breaking bad. And like, so that was already doing my own. Okay. Cupid. I've actually had a major red flag come up because of this.

Now that we're talking about this, I went to a, a movie with a girl I thought I was in love with. Because she was a Game of Thrones fan? Because, well, I just thought she was, I think I loved her. I just loved her. I was just in love with her. And we went and saw What Dreams May Come in the Discount Theater.

I'd already seen it. This is the Robin Williams film? This is the Robin Williams where he travels to hell to try to save his wife who committed suicide. Oh. And to try to save her, bring her back, right?

Damn. And this was like a very intense movie for me. I really love, you know, big fan of Robin Williams. And I'm crying during the movie and she looks at me

and I'd already seen it and I'm still crying again. And she's like, are you crying? Oh. And I was like, yeah. There's no crying in What Dreams May Come. I just had that like, what the fuck's wrong with you? Yeah, fuck.

Yeah, and she shamed me. Wow. Not for seeing the movie twice. what the fuck's wrong with you? Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. And she like, she shamed me. Wow. Um, and not for seeing the movie twice. No, not twice. And that was like a moment where I was just like, wow,

we're, we aren't compatible. Right. We're like a piece of art or film, like sort of brought that out. And you're like, Oh yeah, we're not on the same page at all.

Yeah. We're just like rolling her eyes the whole time. The movie like, now I'm like really cycling through my mind and i'm realizing all these red flags for other people there's a guy i'm no longer friends with who i saw birdcage with and he freaked out when they kissed oh wow and i remember being really bothered by him yeah having that reaction like can't you watch this movie and enjoy like the love that's happening here and right like freaking out about it no longer friends with that guy um that movie really showed me that

like i don't need to be like we need to i what it should have showed me back then was like i need to have a conversation with my friend to try to open a dialogue about why this makes him so uncomfortable right right but at the time i wasn't you need to kiss that dude yeah i need to i was 97 man it was different time or whenever that movie came out but i wasn't. You need to kiss that dude. Yeah, I need to. It was 97, man. It was a different time. I really should have kissed him. Or whenever that movie came out. But I wasn't emotional. I didn't have the emotional intelligence, I guess they say, to be able to open that dialogue with him at the time. So I just kind of stopped hanging out with him. Well, maybe films and TV are the great litmus tests of our time.

I mean, there was an entire show at that time that every joke was based on gay panic in Friends. Right. Basically, all TV shows at that time were just all gay panic in Friends. Right. Basically all TV shows at that time were just all gay panic jokes. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017, was murdered.

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And super producer Anna Hosnier pointed out that Ryan's litmus test is just watch a Robin Williams movie with somebody. Yeah. Yeah, before I make any big decision with a person, like whether it's relationship or business-wise, I'm like, have you seen One Hour Photo?

He's like, yeah, I'd love to discuss. He's like, why are you putting Bicentennial Man on? What's the robot Williams, though? Before I sign these closing papers, let me just put on goodwill hunting so yesterday on the floor of congress we we talked a little bit about the dude the utah senator opposite of spike lee mike lee mike lee that's right uh putting up just like a he was trolling people with sense uh and the green new deal by putting up pictures of Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur.

Sharknado references. Yeah, Sharknado references. The other side of that coin is AOC just lit these motherfuckers up on the floor, on the house floor. Yeah. Just giving a speech where she spoke truth and sense. Yeah, I'm sure everyone has seen the clip. It went viral because someone prior to her talking, I think it was in the financial services committee where this happened.

Someone was saying like, oh, well, this is just like, this is for rich elites. Like this idea of addressing climate change through the Green New Deal is for, you know, like trying to paint it as elitist. And she just tore it up. Yeah. Just like demonstrating all the myriad of ways where this affects every single person at every single level. And more so working people and poor people because those are the people who tend to be hit the hardest by this.

Yeah. And just shamed them. Yeah. Like bringing up examples from a lot of the districts that, you know, it's like, oh, well, we have parts of the Midwest that are underwater. Yeah. Interesting. There are people in Flint, Michigan who are not even drinking clean water.

And we're out here talking about all these elitist things, but we're just trying to give people clean air, clean water. And anyway, it was a great speech. Check it out if you haven't seen it, but you probably have. Just the difference in approach. It's just, you know, we're looking at an existential crisis here with climate change. And again, people just want to fucking fuck around and meme post and argue in that sense rather than really giving this the kind of debate it deserves. Even if you don't, pull up with some fucking information.

don't they pull up with some fucking information i'm sure the republicans also are like kind of half assuming that they'll just be able to like wally world their their way out of it and just like live in a spaceship on like you know some jazzy scooters or whatever and just fucking not not worry about this shit so yeah because part of me also i didn't think about that like that i mean that makes sense but rich people have always thought that their money will solve all of their problems. Right. But when you come to somebody and be like, you've got a problem, and they've got a needle hanging out of their arm, they're like, there's no problem here, man. Right, right. Like, I don't have a problem.

I don't have a problem. Like, the denial is at such a high level, especially when you consider the Flint, Michigan thing. Right. Yeah. The fact that that's still. Yeah. And, but they don't want to admit that like,

well, you know, the argument you always hear too is like, well, you know, it's a little arrogant of man to think that we can affect something as big as climate change. It's like,

oh, so you don't think we can affect anything. Right. Like, look, I mean, all you have to do is look from space at the way the earth looks now as a flat.

Go on. Well, if you zoom out far enough, it looks like a circle to me, but like just the way the earth looks different from space as opposed to like pre electricity. I mean, to think that we can't affect,

I mean, it like, there's something visual that that's simple. I think, to think that we can't affect, I mean, like there's something visual that that's simple, I think, that someone maybe can kind of understand. But when you think your money will always solve all of your problems, because that's what we've been, you know.

They've been conditioned to think that. Yeah, we've been conditioned to think that. To a point for people who have the means to do that. But again, when earth comes knocking at your door, it's not going to be like, oh, not that zip code. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of problems from Michigan, Betsy DeVos made her way to Capitol Hill to explain the DOE's new budget and why I was getting slashed by $7 billion. Yeah. Because fuck education, keep people broke and uneducated, and then you can control them.

Moving on. One of the programs being cut that got a lot of attention was the Special Olympics. Yeah, not just the games, but the Special Olympics Education Program. Right. And this is not, it's one thing to maybe say like, okay, the special, the games themselves, the Department of Education, whatever. But this is like a program that is meant, okay, so just as it's defined, the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools Program is aimed at promoting social inclusion through

intentionally planned and implemented activities affecting systems-wide change. With sports as the foundation, the three-component model offers a unique combination of effective activities that equip young people with the tools and training to create sports, classroom, and school climates of acceptance. It's about inclusiveness for people who might be neurologically atypical or have any other kind of disability. But I can't see how in any dimension you're saying, oh, we got to get rid of this fucking thing.

It's fucking unbelievable. And it's just so- Oh, you know what's expendable on its face. That program. Right. Like thinking that is- fucking unbelievable and it's just so oh you know what's expendable on its face yeah that program like yeah like thinking that is well and her logic when they asked about is like what are you doing like i forget one of the congressmen from wisconsin was saying you know like i have two nephews with autism and i don't see why you're saying that kids like my nephews or something don't deserve everything that the government or the community, the America can

give them to not feel out of place, feel welcome to be able to achieve things as much as they can. And she was like, well, you know, there's a lot of giving from the philanthropic sector and we just feel like it's not at any risk of collapsing because there's a lot of charitable giving. And that's sort of like what the line is now where it's people like, just when you look at healthcare, it's like, well, they got to go gotta go fund me right and the government is more like our generosity comes to a point we're not in the business of taking care of our citizens i don't pay taxes so your nephew can throw a javelin right right you know like the idea of that and i think you can judge any society you can judge any like culture by do they want healthy and smart citizens?

Right. And where does the future of your civilization end up going? And it comes from those two things fundamentally. Yeah. Do we shelter people? Do we educate them? And do we keep them healthy? And if in this country, clearly, at least on one side of the argument here on the Republican side, they don't care about that.

Yeah. And they don't seem to have any consideration for wanting people to become smarter and healthier and having the basic necessities that you're talking about. Well, I think because they have the means, they have no empathy. Right. It's like, well, my kids are going to go to college. My kids are going to have health insurance because I have a lot of – I have the means to do that. But anyone else who doesn't, I mean, hey, man, work those bootstraps. I got into a heated argument with a family member not that long ago about this kind of similar topic and where I was extolling the – I guess what's the opposite of virtue?

The ills of capitalism and saying that basically the same conversation. And then he said to me, like, the United States of America is the most giving, generous, philanthropic country in the world. Yeah, that's a common refrain. but country in the world. Yeah. And then, and I was like, well, how much of this giving is rich people giving to their own foundations for tax shelter? Right. Yeah. And I don't have those numbers.

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everyone except the wealthy for their problems. Smokescreen, look over there. And it just, yeah. And now we're in this like anarcho-capitalist system where it's like, dude, got everything. I was having a great time dreaming this american dream and then somebody came over the border and woke me up yeah i think there's just a even if they don't believe they can get there there's just a they they believe

in that they want to believe in that organizing principle because especially it's like a lot of even if they're not themselves rich at least least they see, well, all the rich people are white and I'm white. So that means that my people, like my team is better. So not that we just had an inbuilt advantage. So there's also that. to look through some of these cuts that Betsy DeVos is like proposing over a billion dollars to the 21st century community learning centers to help you know people get with modern times right 35 million for Alaska native education yeah what the fuck uh you know because they've had it too good for too long uh yeah I don't understand uh 840 million for full service

community schools right uh I mean there's so many just really ridiculous cuts to things that people need. Native Hawaiian education, boom, out the window. And then she's asking for like 60 million more for like her charter schools. I wonder what the connection, I wonder why they feel like they have to cut funding. Right, who are they trying to pay for? Yeah, and it's like, where did this lack of money start? Where did the money get cut off from? Oh, was it the tax cuts?

Oh, come on, Ryan. Student support and academic. You sound like AOC now. Student support and academic enrichment grants, $1.1 billion cut out of the budget. Because all those educational grants, we know that those are always being misused and thrown away. Yeah, it's not really clear.

And again, for those people who are down and out about Russia or whatever, add these things to your list of shit that doesn't have to do to Russia, which is why we need to change this whole administration out. Let that power you. If you're a little too down, that Mueller time didn't quite hit the way you thought it would. Let's talk about the Sackler family. Keep on with the good times. Yeah. So Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family are just settled. They've agreed to pay a $270

million settlement over their role in the opioid epidemic in Oklahoma alone, which seems like maybe a good start, a good first step, but it also seems like not nearly enough. And it's also not the Sackler family that's on the hook for this. It's Purdue. Yeah, well, they are. So the way that $270 million settlement works out, $100 million goes to a new addiction and treatment and research center at OSU. Then there's the Sacklers themselves are going to contribute $75 million over five

years, but they made $4 billion in the last 10. Let's see, another $60 million goes towards state court costs, $20 million for medicine and addiction treatment, $12.5 million to cities and counties to help them recuperate some of the costs of the epidemic. Now, when you think about how there are 72,000 people died, like in terms of the opioid crisis, 72,000 people died in 2017 alone. I get that, yes, you're trying to help these communities deal with this thing you started, but there's something really fucked up about just settling this out of court or allowing this company to be like, what's the check I got to cut to keep this thing moving? Right. Because a lot of people who are like activists who are really focused on this case specifically were like they should not have let this been a settlement.

Like Purdue needed their fucking day in court and face like larger penalties than the 270 million. Because then that makes a public record, right? Yeah. And we would find out a lot more in the trial about what the actual business practices are rather than like sort of the, you know, little leaks that we get here and there because their executives were full on misleading doctors and patients about this. And that's why they're on the hook legally for this. But Purdue's still looking at 35 more state cases and then this like just behemoth of a federal case that they're also looking down.

And is any of this money going to the families of the people who they killed? Not this $270 million. I mean, that's fucked up. What about that damage to these families who have lost, I'm sure in some cases, a breadwinner? And what the knock-on effect of this is. And if anybody, and i think almost at this point i mean speaking to like the level of epidemic it is i think everybody at least knows someone very close to them that has had the opioid epidemic affect them deeply yeah one of my

best friends i mean it's like her mom's gone she's a ghost and we don't know she doesn't know if she'll get a phone call, you know, jail or dead. Right. And this was a, like, a major breadwinner, like a person who was, like, looked up to, someone who was responsible and, like, made, you know, it's like the destruction of the family unit, it affects everybody. Yeah. Yeah. What's even fucking scum here is the Sackler family has basically tried to pull as much of the profit revenue out of the company as possible to limit the assets of Purdue Pharma, the company. So now they'd be like, oh, maybe we'll declare bankruptcy and kind of do an end around that. So I can't declare bankruptcy to cover my student loans, but these sons of bitches.

Right. No. And then you look at the – And they got all the money out there. Right. The Sackler family. Like, you know, no museum, no anybody should be okay with having the Sackler family's name on the museum. Yeah, I think the Tate in London cut ties with them, Guggenheims.

Everybody needs to cut ties with them. But everyone needs to be like, I'm sorry. Thank you for your tax deduction. Publicly and privately ostracized. They're the worst of the worst. All right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia

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And now that Mueller has turned in his report, we at least have Barr's summary of the report. I think the one question on everybody's mind is, what about all this It's Mueller Time merch that we all bought and outfitted our families in yeah um what to make of all these shirts rugs or my mouse muller saint candle it reminds me of like to some degree where it's like you know the old stand-up comedians jokes of like you know they send all the losing team Super Bowl t-shirts. Yeah, it's a third world country. It's a third world country.

So everybody over there thinks that Jim Kelly won three Super Bowls in a row. Right. And the Bears have been NFL powerhouses. Right. And that's kind of sort of one of the things they're talking about in terms of like donating a lot of this merch. So it seems like a lot of people are you know there there's been so much merch as etsy shops there's amazon you can get anything on amazon and i think some people are sort of like nope it could still be muller time which in fact it could because again

we just don't know what's in that report don't know so yes especially when we don't know about the counterintelligence section of the Mueller report. It's very hard to know what he uncovered in terms of what the real concrete connections he made between Russia and this campaign were on an intelligence level, not a legal level. Somebody was making the point, like, what do doomsday cults do when the apocalypse doesn't happen on the date they think it's going to happen. They don't all just be like, well, we were wrong about that and change their ways. They just pick a new date. And that's what they're comparing us continuing to, you know, look, be curious about what's in the Mueller report too.

But at the same time, there's been some pretty interesting things written about. Yeah, like there are two different standards. There's the counterintelligence standard, which is like what actually happened and what is suspicious behavior and, you know, the things that like basically the CIA standard on things. And then there's the criminal standard, which Mueller himself has acknowledged are two separate, completely separate standards for things. And that is not the sort of distinction that fits on a t-shirt, unfortunately. No, but an action figure that's coming out later in the year, oof, they must, you know, the people who made the Mueller action figure were just like, it's coming early summer.

Oh God. Great timing, guys. Yeah. Well-timed, perfect. action figure which is like it's coming early summer oh god great timing guys yeah well timed perfect um just buy as much muller gear as possible right although they're probably people making this shit too because we have to monetize everything yeah yeah i mean it's like yeah i mean that's i guess that's the world we're in where it's like everything has to be monetized, our causes, our beliefs, our loves, our hates. And it's like, you know, it almost like diminishes the value of, to me anyway, maybe it's like an old crank. Thinking about like, you know, making an action figure of Mueller. It's like, this is like Syria.

This is our lives. We're talking, this is like our country. And it's like, we're making toys yeah uh out of it and it seems like it just seems to be diminishing like this the seriousness in in the nature of well yeah and i think so so many people were i think looking at this to be the again the magical healing antidote to this administration and when I think a lot of people are also just taking, because the reporting is so terrible, the summary that William Barr submitted as being like, okay, well, I guess he's innocent and we've really fucked that up.

When it's like, no, we're getting a very narrow angle, a narrow view of however many hundred pages this is, distilled into four pages. And there's missing a lot of significant chunks. That is really kind of what we've always been suspecting what this whole Russia thing was about. Not did he coordinate with WikiLeaks for these emails? It just is one very narrow lane. And yeah, I think people need to stay a little bit more aware because it's very clear. Again always been saying that william barr was brought

in to make sure there were no obstruction charges brought to like the president would not be indicted for obstruction of justice he he was trans broadcasting that since before he took got even nominated so you know i think the cover-up is ongoing and we're kind of watching it play out very slowly and 150 years from now people are gonna be like what the hell were those people doing like they fucked the world up and they're making dolls yeah and like people were people were wanting to buy the doll and then like i mean it's like the whole scene yeah the whole scene we're just going to be looked at as like there was a real clusterfuck happening uh back you know like when we look back

in history and be like oh how did this group of people like do what like this is crazy that they were all like enlightenment we're like y'all really believe that yeah so some people are just shifting it to their and this is not a joke they're literally sdny t-shirts. Oh my God. Check out my sweet resistance SDNY. Like there's one that has like the fists that, and then SDNY written above it. It looks like a terrible, like shepherd fairy rip off print. Guys just stop grifting on these,

on people's fucking, you know, hopes and dreams. Just trying to make a product out of it. I bet you some of these people who are making the Mueller shit are probably making the QAnon shit too. Yeah. If you're a savvy capitalist.

Oh, you play both sides, right? Oh, fuck yeah. If all you care about is coin because like we were talking about, it goes back to earlier, like being brainwashed and conditioned to think coin solves everything. Right.

But like money doesn't float, you know, like when the ice caps are all melted. Yeah. But, you know, it's, yeah, you play both sides. But yachts do. Right. Maybe Jacob Wohl has something to do with these too. He's probably making ice caps are all melted yeah but um you know it's yeah you play both sides do right maybe jacob wool

has something to do with these two he's probably making a little pro a little pretty profit off of that all right let's talk about justin bieber guys what happened that's the most important thing um yeah i know i was like can we quit with the boring shit and get to the news get to the beeps he posted on instagram it was just like among the most ineffective ways to counter a narrative that I've ever seen. So he posted on Instagram saying, basically like, leave me and my wife alone. And then because people were asking him about Selena Gomez and his people were speculating that he still loved her. And he was like, you guys, leave us alone. This is so messed up. Obviously, I still love her, but I also love my wife. Wow.

It was just like, come on, man. Have you seen the notebook? You can love two people. Just surprised you didn't drop that one in there. Right. But he was like, yeah, okay. So there was an account, I i guess who he was responding to right who it's called at jaylee is a joke justin and hayley okay yeah uh and saying like you are

not in love with hayley you only married her to get back at sg plus hayley sleeps with men like at sean mendez for fame and she's racist whoa where did that last part come god damn i don't know maybe she is uh then yeah he comes back and then but i love the way it's still like in like and she's racist. Whoa. Where did that last part come from? God damn. I don't know. Maybe she is. Then, yeah, he comes back. But I love the way it's still like in like hyper millennial speak, like young, like it's like you're, you are, you're immature. The fact that you have an account dedicated to dissing my wife and I

is absolutely absurd. Why would I dedicate my whole life to someone in marriage just to get back? I mean, he's really. It's pretty amazing. He's feeling it. Because he also doesn't capitalize anything except for I and Selena. Oh. Just saying, man.

Then he says, yeah, I absolutely loved Selena. She will always hold a place in my heart. But I am head over heels in love. Heels. H-E-L-S. Because he's healing her. In love with my wife. And she's absolutely the best thing, full caps, that has happened to me, period.

Yeah, so, I mean, look, my man, if you're married, don't be out here being like, of course I love my ex still. But I think the fact that we're even trying to apply basic understanding of human behavior rules to a guy like Justin Bieber is where the train goes off the track originally. Yeah, right. to a guy like Justin Bieber is where the train goes off the track originally. Yeah, right. Because when you reach a certain level of fame, this is just – I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this. But you reach a certain level of fame and now you've spun off the globe. Oh, yeah.

You no longer have any idea what it's like to be a person or how to interact with other people. Because no one's interacting with you like a person anymore. Exactly. And I could only imagine. I have nothing but sympathy for this kid anymore. Well well anyone who becomes that famous at such a young age like you can just tell like it even destroys your ability to be like responsible especially when you have handlers who are like be up at this time we're going to take you there knock on your door move your body

here right you just don't now you're even losing skills of like self-organization and shit yeah i just worry that like people like this you know they don't make it past 30, 40 years old when they get that famous, that young. Yeah. And when it comes to like even understanding what love is, I mean, if you're that kid, how do you believe anybody? Yeah. You know, on a subconscious level. I mean, because maybe you've spun off the globe and you don't know what it's like to be a person anymore sure but you're still a person yeah like deep down on that level and it's like how can you trust anyone i could not imagine how

paranoid i would be as a person if someone comes like hey what's up paranoid now and i made sixteen thousand dollars last year or whatever you know what i mean like it's like how do you how do you trust anybody when you have what everyone else in the world thinks is total access right and just the same way ryan how do i trust someone wearing two motherfucking eye patches trying to have a conversation i can't see your eyes i don't know if you're sincere that's right i don't know you're facing the wrong way by the way but i'm a believer i. I'm a believer. I think he's in love with this gal, and I think they're going to make it. I'm sure he is. I think they're going to make it.

I'm pulling for him. Oh, you're pulling for him? I'm pulling for him. I have no idea who this gal is, but like- It's what, Stephen Baldwin's daughter? Yeah. Or Billy Baldwin's. Stephen.

One of those. Yeah. Oh, it's one of the Baldwin- Yeah. It's part of the Baldwin- The Baldwin clan? Yeah. Yeah.

Is that changing? Oh, you didn't know that about Jaylee? Yeah. Oh, man. Okay know that about Jaylee? Yeah. Oh, man. Wow, this is... That might change things, actually. Is her father is not the super uber right-wing Christian Baldwin, is he? Stephen Baldwin.

Yeah. Yeah. It is? Stephen Baldwin is the Christian one who was in Biodome and then forgot who he was. How do you forget who you are when you're in Biodome? Viva los Biodome. I have seen Biodome more times than I've seen Citizen Kane, and I'm ashamed of it. Yeah.

But I will admit it publicly. Love Biodome. Biodome. Terrible movie. Terrible movie. Love it so much. And there's shitty people in it. They're the worst.

Yeah. It doesn't age. But look, mansher and classic keep talking about polysher this week classic female like girlfriend archetypes in that movie as far as like we're like obstacles yeah yeah we're just trying to biodome it up all right leave us alone um yeah isn't that the second time we've talked about Biodome this week? Yeah, because Carla Gugino came up because she was in Son-in-Law. Yeah. We've just been, this has been Pauly Shore week.

I mean, I think that's the first sign that you're succeeding. Oh, as I look at Stephen Baldwin's bio, in 2004, he directed Live In It, a Christian-themed skateboarding DVD. Oh, nice. That must be tight. Yeah. Did they do Christ Air, like Rooney Glifberg's signature move from Tony Hawk? A little sacrilegious.

That was a reference for the five people who like the skating references I do on this podcast. Let's talk about the latest study in how to raise your teens. Eat breakfast with them. Yeah. And they may have better body image positivity. So researchers at Mizzou, the University of Missouri, they published a study in this journal called Social Work and Public Health.

And they said after this is a quote from an article is after analyzing standardized survey data for more than 12,000 students in all 50 states, researchers concluded that eating breakfast regularly during the week was associated with positive body image. Eating breakfast regularly with a parent was correlated with even higher rates of body image positivity. So this is like, there's a study that our family was recently kind of talking about that was like, if you eat dinner together, that's even more important than reading to your child is like eating dinner together on like three nights a week. And that seems like it could be like one of those correlation things. Yeah. Where it's like your family just might be better off that like my fucking parents were never home at the same time for me to have dinner with them. Right.

Like, and also breakfast. Who the fuck? Yeah. I'm sure there are plenty of people who fucking did not never had a sit down breakfast with their parents ever and are doing quite fine. But I think I'm sure you can then map. breakfast with their parents ever and are doing quite fine. But I think I'm sure you can then map, you're like, well, these families that are like, have all the means in the world and are doing really well also have kids that are doing well.

I think the researchers were pointing that it was like, it was about forming positive connections with food and then by eating with a parent. Okay, that's what I was like. I'm like wondering the connection to body image. Yeah, that it was that, that's what they were saying is the connection. Eat your, eat your Frosted Flakes, Trevor. Oh, look at those. Use those strong hands to eat those Frosted Flakes.

Yeah, what a champion. Probably not bad. Like having some structured family time around food is probably not the worst thing in the world. But we also live in a world where people are working so much. It's also not realistic. You know, one of the only times I ever had breakfast with my entire family was when my parents told me they were getting a divorce.

Oh, wow. And so I am not a huge fan of like, let's all wake up and have breakfast together. When people are like, let's go brunch. I'm like, what do you have to tell me? I'm actually just now having this realization as I sit here. I don't want to get together with people I love and have breakfast. Because every time I do, they're going to leave me. Thank you.

Holy shit. Let's create that space for him. Oh, God. I feel like I can take the eye patches off now. Oh, God. Put them back on. Put them back on. Holy shit, man.

They're like weeping. The wounds are weeping from your eyes. Not with tears. And I think your eye color even changed. It really is one of those things where, yeah, rich people who have more means are able to do that. More power to you. Yeah. Or not to even say that every person whose family gets together

and eats isn't necessarily rich, but like that growing up with both parents working for me, my dad was out the door very early, or my mom would be at the door early. One parent comes home late. I was the same way. Latchkey kid. Yeah.

After school. So dinner was a crapshoot. Dinner was Geno's Pizza Rolls or JTMs for those people in Southern Ohio area. What's JTMs? They're like these frozen hamburger patties you can cook. Ooh. Wait, why is it called JTMs? It's the company.

It's three last names. Oh, gotcha. It's like Johnson something, something. But I can't remember. But like, so it was JTN's microwaved. So it had the burnt rubbery edges and the cold frozen middle. Right. And then I'd just be running around the neighborhood looking for the secret marijuana garden.

Right. That allegedly was happening somewhere in the neighborhood. Oh, you had one of those things too yeah yeah that we could never find fucking neighborhood myths man yeah yeah

or they'd be like yo that's a trap house we got poison ivy a couple times we smoked poison ivy it's got five leaves it's got five leaves got poison ivy

on your lungs yeah ours was about a mythical bag of weed that was left in the LA river like wash area overpass. And we found it though.

You found it. We found it. He smoked it. Right. Smoked it. And I nearly died. Yeah. It was not good for it.

It was like when I, I don't even know if it's weed. I mean, it was like plant matter in a very old, like not even a Ziploc bag, like the ones you fold over like those snack bags. Anyway. Right.

And that's my biggest life disappointment yeah and that's why i don't go to the la river with friends because it'll be a massive disappointment but this is one of those myths that like if you just try hard enough you'll be able to make your kids successful so just like make sure you eat with them on a regular basis and it's like yeah but i'm sure some of this is just like a much more intuitive thing that if your dad is his own boss you have a better chance of being successful it's like yeah well that makes sense although it's funny though is i know kids who grew up in houses like that and they are totally not totally they also are also missing

a lot of stability too yeah but it's just like hey man life's fucking you never know what you're gonna get the more i think about this the more i think about like wow i mean how badly would i screw a kid up like i mean because my parents were pretty good you know and and their parents were pretty good and it's like i'm such like a maniac like when it comes to comes to just being on my own for over 40 years. Right. So it's like, what would I do to a kid? Does a kid need crystals in his crib?

I love crystals, but I mean, at what age do I introduce the idea that these things... Right, right, right. More than anything, a kid needs crystals in his crib. Yeah, we all know that. I found. Well, Ryan, it's been a pleasure having you, man. Where can people find you? Oh, people can find me at ryansingercomedy.com.

Oh, I want to announce, well, I've got a new podcast I started. So if people are interested in this, it's called This Is Where the Magic Happens. And I have a co-host, Angela. It's about your bedroom? No, it's about actual occult and esoteric and supernatural stuff. My friend Angela Lovell, who's a writer and also a witch, is the co-host. So we have – and she's got so many wild, unbelievable stories of the supernatural her whole entire life. And so it's a really fun podcast where

we talk about all kinds of magic stuff and she's kind of like walking me through as i get deeper into magic and and learn more about like magical practice in my own life so so if people are into that kind of stuff and i also also have my other podcast still me and paranormal you where i interview people with paranormal abilities and stuff um so yeah so all that's on ryansingercomedy.com and ryasing on Instagram and Twitter. Give a follow. Yep. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yes, I've got a great one from the very funny Tommy Jonaghan, who's a hilarious stand-up

comedian, at Tommy Jonaghan. This is about his kid. I should say that in advance. During her bath, my kid tried to be funny and rip a big fart but accidentally shit the tub. It was hilarious. The lesson is

just because a joke works doesn't mean you can't make it better. Keep writing. I've got a tub to clean. Yeah, I mean, the fart in a tub is great but shitting, that's next level.

That is hilarious. It's called an escalation. Yeah. My son has done that, and he did not think it was funny. It really freaked him out. Oh, I'm sure, yeah. He thinks the farts are the funniest thing in the world,

but when it got real, he was not. He was like, what's happening? It just fucked his head up. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray. And let's see, a tweet that I like. It's from Reductress. It says, how to learn to trust again after he reveals his name is actually his middle name.

That's true, man. How do you? I remember fucking meeting people, my own friends, never mind romantic interests, where I'm like, wait, that's been your fucking, ugh, bro, I don't even know you. Yeah. I thought your name was Matt. I'm still keeping it from Sarah that my real name is John. Oh, really?

Yeah. She doesn't know. If she finds out, it's over. Good thing she does not listen to this show. Yeah. Listens to better ones. Yeah. First-rate ones.

Tomorrow's our 11-year anniversary. Oh, for real? Yeah. Oh! Don't let her know, though. Don't let her know. I don't know if I can make it last. What's the gift for 11?

Oh, fuck, man. Oh, yeah. What's the gift for 11? Oh, fuck, man. Oh, yeah. What is the gift for 11? 11's a weird... It's a great number, by the way, but two ones. Steel. Steel. Oh, great.

Steel blade. Just boom. Here's a fucking zwilling knife. I got her a katana sword. Oh, really? Great. Yeah, samurai sword. Great.

The thing... The gift that all women are secretly asking for. She's like, no, it's an exact replica of the one Wesley Snipes had in Blade. Exactly. To scale. You're like, what the fuck? I just see myself in that basement rave and the blood's coming out of the sprinklers. That's right.

What was the you were at my wedding, Denise thing that was happening on Twitter yesterday? Was that? I don't know. Oh, I guess somebody said you're at my wedding. Denise is going to be my new response to everything. Because I guess DC McAllister tweeted, can someone explain to me the purpose of the view? It seems to me to be a roundtable of delusional mental midgets, ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation. And it's a big picture of Meghan McCain.

And Meghan McCain replied and said, you were at my wedding, Denise. So I guess that woman was somebody like a friend of hers who was at her wedding. It's the new, there used to be this one clip I would always hear on this one radio show. There was a moment with,

when Kathy Lee was with Frank Giffords or something and he like cheated on her and there was like a scandal, but she she looked looked to camera because people were like speculating about her marriage just like and just to the critics out there how dare you yeah and it was like this moment so I guess that's the new how you were at my wedding Denise all right I've got a bunch of tweets I've been enjoying Illy B Boshan tweeted, having extra ribs added until I can suck my own dick from the back. That's stupid. And

Allison Raskin tweeted, I want Hillary Clinton to divorce Bill and then start dating Pete Davidson. I don't know why that makes sense, but it made me laugh. And Jules at Julian tweeted, people need to wake up and accept that

Batman regularly commits tax fraud which definitely true that's the only way he's it's not clear to the police

who Bruce Wayne is or who Batman is anyways you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien

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as well as the song we write out on. Miles, what's that going to be? Hey, man. This is off the album Gumboot Soup from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Really? And this one's called I'm Sleeping In for in honor of Ryan's love of sleep. I wish I could see your face right now. Oh, man.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. My man, get in. That sounds like a Twitter handle. I know. The band name just fucking rocks my mind. So rough. Yeah, and like, you know, they're just kind of, they're out there. But they're really good.

A little beat to this one. So, yeah, just, you know, they're from, I think they're from Melbourne. Australia. Melbourne. Sorry. Good on you, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Sorry. Yeah, we'll rock out to that one.

All right. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. And we'll talk to to that one. All right. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast, and we'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. Bye. I'm sleeping in I know in my body I need less from muscle pain I really need a break so I'm sleeping in

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