The Daily Zeitgeist - Droidsexual, You Thought Laurel Vs. Yanni Was Weird … 5.18.18

Episode Date: May 18, 2018

In episode 151, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Caitlin Durante to discuss the black magic version of the laurel/yanny debate, Star War's character Lando coming out as pansexual, the one year anniversary of the Mueller investigation, the NRA giving money to schools, bloidwatch, royal wedding prop bets, the death of Young King Dave aka the 'smoking big ole doinks in Amish' man, & more!  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That is courtesy of at Year of the Ant on Twitter, and I am thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Today's a.k.a. I'm going to keep the Ace of Base thing going because Miles that she wants is another gray bear. She's going tomorrow, boy. Miles that she wants. Isn't that a gray bear? Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. I do lead a lonely life. That's true.

As the song suggests. And thank you to Jeremiah Alexander at Cascadian83. I think is how I said that. Yeah, on Twitter. So, yeah, shout out to you. Yeah. And that is also how you lead your life, just kind of looking for people to have a baby with. So you can get on that welfare scheme, right?

Basically. I mean, or at least just, you know, I want my mom to visit. She said if there's a grandchild, she would. Well, we are thrilled to be joined by the hilarious comedian and co-host of one of the best podcasts out there, the Bechdelcast. She's Caitlin Durante. Hi, thanks for having me. Hello. And a little bird told me that it's your birthday.

A little happy birthday is in order. Happy birthday. And by a little bird, I mean you right before we started recording. That's right. But no, I saw on social media and I found out yesterday afternoon that I was invited to a party for your birthday, but it was on Facebook and I don't use that anymore. So unfortunate. So that's her fault. How did that go?

It was really good. Happy birthday. Thank you so much. My birthday was yesterday. Yes. Good. Happy birthday. Thank you so much. My birthday was yesterday. Yes. Happy belated birthday. Technically, I'll say that. You know, I'm 32 and I feel great.

Hey. Hey. Right? Yeah. Doesn't it feel good to be in your 30s? Yeah. I feel like now I can puff my chest out about my life experience a little bit more than like when you're 20 or you think you know everything.

I'm like, I'm slowly approaching where I know more things i don't know everything i don't i don't really don't know shit about much but being in my i'm really enjoying yeah you're the youngest adult yeah exactly yeah so yes you seem ancient to children like super producer anahosnia sophie licht, our super producer, Anna Hosnier. They're like, oh, what? Are you like 45 or what? That's the running joke about mostly you. Okay, dad. Caitlin, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are?

I just searched for sleep patches. Sleep patches? Sleep, yeah. Was that a fentanyl patch? Well, I don't know what that is. That's a painkilling patch. Anyway, I'm sorry. Yeah, someone sent me a link because they know I have trouble sleeping,

and apparently there are things called sleep patches that you just slap on your arm, and it helps you, like, releases nutrients, it says. I could not find out more information about it. Wait, is there an ingredients list? I thought you were gonna say medicine. Well, I don't know. It sounds like it's bullshit to me. It sounds like a scam.

Wait, can we, let's explore this though. I don't wanna, in case, you know, this could be a remedy now. So I was looking for, at a specific brand, Clova with a K, K-L-O-V-A. Clova, huh, okay. Miles does not like the spelling. You said KKK before.

I think you were just getting your rhythm going, but okay, we'll say Clova. That was a weird vocal warm-up before we started recording. K-K-K. Clove cigarettes, Dejarums. Now, you're looking into Clova. Now, are they like the top brand or something? I'm not sure. I'm just finding out about these patches.

And I don't think I will follow through with them. But I was curious. I was like, hmm, maybe because I have really bad insomnia. And I have been trying different remedies over the course of my whole life. And I was like, well, maybe this. But because the website for these Cloova sleep patches didn't give more detailed information about what exactly is in the at least not that i could find i also i did not investigate that like don't worry about it you don't have to put it in your mouth look you're

slap it on yeah you're tired right so stop fucking asking questions throw this patch on baby trying to go to sleep right um it's's interesting. Yeah, you're right. You go on the website, even like when you say the how it works section. Yeah, it doesn't say anything about- Can you tell me how the ingredients fucking work, my guy? They just tell you how sleep works. Caitlin, what's something that is overrated? I think weddings.

Okay. Just all weddings. I think they're one of the dumbest things that a lot of people still do. I don't know. That's probably not a popular opinion. But, yeah, I hate wedding culture, and I don't like love in general. Oh, wow. Okay.

That's not true, but I am pretty cynical. Well, okay. Is this because of the royal wedding? That's why I'm thinking about it. Is that sort of compounding this sort of overratedness? Yeah. Are you maybe just a little bit mad that you weren't invited? Maybe just a little bit.

Yeah. Other people's weddings are rough. Unless they're like good. You know what's the worst thing? If you've ever been to a wedding where you're like, these people don't love each other. Yeah. And you have to deal with that being there at the wedding.

That's a fucked up kind of wedding. And like usually the energy is bad at those weddings to begin with. Like they're the kind of weddings where no one wants to party after. Like, all right, guys. It's nine. I'm going to go home. Yeah. Those can be painful.

I love a good destination wedding though. Oh, yeah? Yeah. See, I would be mad if I got invited to a destination wedding. Well, destination not so much as like going to like Europe or something. But if it's like, you know, I'm going to a destination wedding. Well, destination, not so much as going to Europe or something. But if it's like, I'm going to take a drive, enjoy the ocean, the trees. But yeah, part of me really fears for the amount of money that people spend on weddings. That's what I really hate about them.

Is this hyper-consumerism necessary? Right. If it's really about the love, right? Yeah. What, Jack? I would say weddings are probably the event that took the biggest fall in enjoyability. Like when I stopped drinking, it's like weddings went from fun to being like exhausting. Oh, right.

Because you're permanently the guy who shows up to the party when everyone's drunk. Right. And you're sober. Yeah, that or driving. Driving is way less fun now. Hey, man, those kids got to get to school. Caitlin, what's something that is underrated? Do you guys know the movie Storks?

No. Is it an animation? It is an animated children's film from 2016. But it's got an all-star cast, and it's really funny, and I like it a lot. And it like totally went under the radar, I think for most people. But it's really good

and I want people to check it out. Okay, elaborate. Film buff. It's just, it's an animal. Wait, are they delivering babies? Like what's the, you know, give me the elevator pitch.

Yeah, so it's, I mean, I've only seen it once. Is it a hero's journey? I mean, what are we looking at here? Okay, so it's about a mean, I've only seen it once. Is it a hero's journey? I mean, what are we looking at here? Okay, so it's about a colony of storks who deliver babies to people in this, the world building in the movie Storks is that babies come from somewhere and then the storks deliver them to the parents. So they've still obscured the actual process of procreation.

Right. Okay. Which I'm, you know, I'm very supportive of that. I'm a very sex negative person. Yeah. That's why I love storks. This movie came out in 2016 and made $182 million. Oh, wow.

I did not know that. Yeah, no one has heard about it. That's definitely on the radar if they got that much scratch. Anyway, I'm sorry. So they get together. Their job is to deliver the babies. Yeah, and there's one stork in particular who – something about like he's not good at his job or like no one wants him.

He keeps like messing up. Does he drop babies? They're like, damn it, Harold. You've dropped another baby to his death. I'm not going to be able to give a good recap because I don't remember it. I just remember liking it. You just came out of there. Had a good feeling.

Did you see it in the theater? No, I didn't. On Doved? On DVD? Yeah. On Doved. On Doved. Okay, beautiful.

Wait, do you really still have a DVD player? I still have a DVD player and I still get DVDs from Netflix. Hell yeah. DVD Corporation. Oh, because there are a lot. There is a ton that is just not on the streaming service. Are they still connected? Yes. Like you get the delivery with your streaming?

No. That's what I mean. Because it used to be like when you had the regular Netflix like, well, it'll give you the streaming. They've separated. I pay separately for the DVD service. Oh, also give you the streaming. They've separated them. They've separated. So I have to I pay separately for the DVD service. Oh aren't we doing well. Remember when they were thinking about renaming themselves?

Yes. Oh yeah. Flickster or something like that? Yeah Flickster. Yeah. Was that they were going to call their streaming service Flickster or the mailing service? I think the mailing service was going to be the other name. For all I know they could have renamed the mailing service because I'm looking and reportedly only one person still uses the mailing DVD service. Oh, wow.

And it's me. And it's you. No, my mom too. Yeah. She has to get all her BBC dramas and stuff that she can't get anywhere else. Or she just gets it from the PBS website. Caitlin, why were you watching Storks? Had somebody told you, oh, it's good.

It's got apparently Andy Samberg. Yeah, Key and Peele are in it. It's an all-star cast. Kelsey Grammer, I love her. Jennifer Aniston. Oh, I love him. Danny Trejo, hell yeah. Oh, Danny?

Danny's in it. Fucking hell, Machete? Dude, I was telling somebody about how amazing he is. When I used to work at Power 106, he came in when Machete was doing press, and he did his own hair for a radio interview. He came in, and he was like, hey, man, good to meet you. You guys got a dressing room? And I was like, not really.

This is radio. Most of the time, motherfuckers just show up because it's fucking radio. Should I not have come with full hair and makeup? I know. You look amazing. You know because we do the photo at the end, so you will look beautiful for that. But it's weird that she set up her own lighting for the recording. Yes, that is true because there are no cameras in here.

But yeah, he goes in, and we just set him up in this conference room. Someone had a mirror for their makeup, and he had a bag. He had a bag he had a brush and a hair dryer that's amazing he just straight up tended to his locks so amazingly and he was so low maintenance it was kind of dope to see someone kind of do like this high maintenance like sort of this is my image thing but also not really trying to bother anybody with it he was like yeah okay i just need an outlet and it was just like me and it was just so funny to watch danny trejo just straighten his hair uh by himself for a radio appearance this is huge for me though as uh somebody who my my kids

are reaching the age where they're going to be able to watch children's movies soon children's entertainment uh so i i really appreciate the uh oh of course yeah sorry show them paddington paddington 2 i've heard, and Storks. I've heard the Paddington franchise is amazing. Eraserhead, too. It's so good. Eraserhead would also be good. Well, my birthday party last night was Paddington-themed.

Really? Yeah. Because I have been to a two-year-old's birthday party that was Paddington-themed, and it was lit. Really? It was fucking amazing. What does he wear? Like a slicker and like a rain hat?

What's Paddington's like? Garb? Yeah, it's like a duffel jacket, a blue duffel coat and like a red hat. I don't know what you call that style of hat. Yeah, like a fisherman,

like a seafaring hat. Yeah. I'm sure someone will tell us. He keeps a marmalade sandwich in there for emergencies. Inside the hat? Mm-hmm. How long has it been in there?

Do they talk about how much he switches it out? They don't talk about that, but- I'd hate for that thing to just be rotting upon his head. And he's like, oh, I got a sandwich in here. It's melted to my head. Paddington. Right now, my son is into a show called Terrific Trucks. That's just trucks driving around that they've CGI'd

eyes onto. Oh wow. And I'm just realizing it has like really problematic politics. Like the leader of the gang is just this like very like gruff military type guy and then like there's like a gay truck who's like really into his image and then

there's a woman truck who speaks with an accent who's like very dizzy and like never knows what she's doing. And he has to like keep her on task. So I was just like, Oh man, this is bad. But, but he's just into trucks.

Yeah. Yeah. You should check out terrific trucks. Terrific trucks. Terrific trucks. Is that the theme song? Yeah. Oh, very creative yeah yeah no it's like

perfectly made for the two-year-old boy's mind uh what is a myth what's something that people think is true that based on your experience you know to be false oh okay so um this ties into a recent experience of mine um that that people are lonely, unproductive, just kind of sitting around not doing anything, which is a bias that I am sad to say that I have participated in. But I was recently asked to teach a stand-up comedy class at the Los Angeles LGBT Center for seniors. Nice.

So I've been doing that for the past few weeks, and I'm learning that the class is full of such wonderful people. They're all so sweet, and it's just so exciting to know that they're trying stand-up comedy, a lot of them for the first time right and they're like you know fulfilling this dream of theirs and they're like doing stuff and that they're creative and they're so um and i also it was like you know old people are out of touch uh because this like i mean the old people that i knew like my relatives right extremely so i was like but like they're all just like so like woke and right right smart and like they're all just so woke and smart, and they're keeping up with everything.

And it's just so wonderful to know them and to just be working with them. She's like, Laurel or Yanni, not without my hearing aids. Am I right, kids? Yeah, I agree. And they've done studies on happiness. I think for whatever reason, people assume that as you get older, like, well, now my life's over because I've hit like 50 or 60 or whatever. And people, most people get happier as they get older, like because you just learn how you like to live life and like figure things out. And at that point, you probably can recognize your own like self-defeating thought patterns and be like, oh, am I stressing myself out like this?

I've done this for 70 years now. Maybe this might not be the strategy. Yeah. That was good news when I learned that. And I'm glad you're spreading it. Was there a real standout comedian from your class that you were really impressed with? There's a few. And they are ones who have done comedy in the past,

so they already kind of have a head start. But yeah, overall, they're all really funny and they have such interesting stories and it's really great. I'm still in the middle of it. Are they mostly about World War II? They're like, never trust a Jerry with a bratwurst. What?

So my best friend is holding his guts. They're doing a showcase on May 30th at the LGBT Center if anyone wants to come. Oh, okay. What's a counterintuitive tip that people who try stand-up for the first time don't know to? Isn't there something like you're supposed to tell stories and not like tell jokes yeah um right uh i've been telling them to just tell yeah true stories about their lives and themselves and things that have happened to them things they've done and to like mine the comedy from that because some of that like a lot of beginning comedians will um just try to either like make something up for the sake of a joke or, yeah, just like get worry about getting a laugh or saying something, you know, kind of shocking or just funny. But we can we as audiences can often tell that those things are fake and fabricated.

Right, right. So, yeah, if you want to start. Tell the truth. Yeah. Truth in comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Truth in comedy. Yeah. Okay. Let's get into the latest in the Laurel Yanni saga.

Oh, boy. I know. Sorry. I can't let it go. No, not even like that. I'm just, it is a saga, and I really feel that this, yeah, we've reached another point in this auditory illusion world we're in. Yeah, I give up after this one. So somebody shared this with me on Twitter.

I should find out who that is. But it's going all over the place. People are sharing it quite a bit. So this is another sound clip that you hear one thing or the other. We're going to play it for you first. And Caitlin has not heard it. So first you're going to hear this weird power-up sound. That is

not what we're talking about. And then there's going to be a computer voice that says something. to me it sounds like tornado but not i don't know i don't know what that sounds like you may have been hurting green needle maybe play that again and then can you hear green i could yeah i can hear the green needle Maybe play that again. Can you hear green? Green needle. Yeah, I can hear green needle. Green needle.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So now think about the word brainstorm when you hear this. Okay. Think about that. Now listen. Green needle.

Was I supposed to maybe hear brainstorm? Yeah. Did you not? Not even at all. Oh, weird. Wow. I can hear both. So this one is a new one where it's brainstorm or green needle.

Just depending on what you go in with in your mind. Yeah. When I saw the clip, it was like brainstorm or green needle. So in my mind, I was like, okay, brainstorm. And then I heard it and I was like, all right, let me listen for green needle. And I heard it. And I thought, well, maybe this is just alternating.

But the clip is just- That's what I thought. I thought it was like alternating between sound clips. Yeah, but it's just that one clip that you can bring your own bullshit to, whether you want to hear green needle or brainstorm. So one more time for, if you're listening, we'll play it. Turn it up,

Nick. Turn it up. No brainstorm. No, I don't hear that at all. Green needle for me. Green needle. You're with her.

You can't hear me. It doesn't work over the, there might be something about the... Oh, I heard it both ways. Yeah, I did too. I think it's another thing though too where for whatever reason, the frequency range is more audible to me

that I can hear both things. But again, I don't know. What's freaky is that I can hear both depending on what I want to hear. Right. Not like Laurel or Yanni where I was really only hearing Laurel until we had to alter the pitch and I was like, oh, there's Yanni. Oh, I see. to hear right not like laurel or yanni where i was really only hearing laurel until like

the they actually had to alter the pitch and i was like oh there's oh i see yeah well i just tweeted that i don't hear yanni or laurel because men's voices don't register with me just don't hear men's voices um so if you guys have been talking i don't know i have not heard a single thing yeah it's like when i think about the one word i can't hear the other and when i think about another i can't like i i can only hear the word that i'm thinking i tried to hear it where i heard green storm yeah or like brain needle and it fucked me up whatever the first thing i tried to think of it was like it just sort of informed how i heard the rest of it. Yeah. But I mean, this is probably the best example yet that we hear with our brains and not with our ears. Like there are no objective

realities. What you hear and see is based on what you want to hear and see, except for Caitlin, who is an objective vessel of scientific observation. That's right. You were hearing Yanny before anybody. Yeah. I remember when you came in and we brought that up. I was like, Caitlin Durante was in here and she heard Yanny, I don't trust her. Yeah, yeah, that's true.

You were in the office when that whole thing was breaking. Yeah, yeah. You were the only person who heard Yanny. No, I didn't hear either. Oh, you heard it like gargley. Yeah, I thought it was like Gollum just being like Gollum. See, and slowly this podcast will turn into something about all auditory illusions. Right.

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But first, we wanted to talk about Solo, guys. So Solo, the new Star Wars movie, is coming out next weekend, and people are starting to talk about it. And specifically, people are talking about Donald Glover's performance as Lando Calrissian. Who isn't? Yeah, who isn't talking about Donald Glover just in general?

A lot of the, I remember initially, everyone was like, oh man, the guy playing Han Solo needs a lot of help. Yeah. Who isn't talking about Donald Glover just in general? A lot of the, I remember initially everyone was like, oh man, the guy playing Han Solo needs a lot of help. Yeah. So it was very easy for people to be like, oh, but Donald Glover is amazing as Lando. Right. One of the angles that people are covering this from is that he plays the character almost as a sort of pansexual being who is attracted to men, women, and droids. Tell them. And that there's the dialogue between Solo and Lando

kind of takes on a flirty nature. But it's not overt within the movie. And now the writers are saying that they intended this angle to be taken and saying, like, I don't mind people reading into it, which is cool, but... But it's not even that they said they don't mind reading into it, right? They were, like, explicitly saying that Lando,

like, was pansexual, no? Are they? When they talked to Jonathan Kasdan, the person interviewing said, is this character pansexual? And then Jonathan Kasdan said, I would say yes. There's a fluidity to Donald and Billy Dee's portrayal of Lando's sexuality. I mean, I would

have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it's time, certainly for that. And I love the fluidity, sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of. He doesn't make any hard and fast rules. I think it's fun. I don't know where it will go.

So, I mean, it seemed like they were like, yeah, he is. Yeah, he could be. Right. But we're not going to show you that on screen. Right. That is the way. So this is the new way that, you know, Hollywood has decided to portray characters who are LGBTQ in blockbusters is that you'll have it maybe open to

interpretation within the movie and then you'll be brave in the press junket about the movie essentially. So yeah I don't know. I guess it's a step in the right direction but I don't know. It's weird. I mean you can't it's so stupid like to

like why not just represent these characters in the film? Right. Then just doing the half-assed woke version of being like, oh, yeah, I think that's fair. Because are you afraid you're going to put off the small group of homophobic audience members? Who are going to be like, oh, I'm not going to this movie now. Right. Because what? Didn't they do this with, I don't watch Harry Potter, but wasn't that with one of the characters in Harry Potter?

Yeah. J.K. Rowling later said that she intended all for all along for dumbledore to be gay right which um but like what's the point of that to me if you're gonna have representation of lgbtq characters on screen to have it only be like implicit and not yeah like showing like having two men on screen kiss normalizes that and that will help like i think turn societies around in terms of like their views of homosexuality right um but if it's not normalized and if it's just if it main stays as like implicit or also like not showing it mean showing it makes it seem more secretive or that it shouldn't.

Or it appeals to that diet homophobia that people have where it's sort of like, I don't mind what people do in their own home. Right. I just don't like it in front of me. And that's the same thing with movies. And it kind of takes that same stance.

Yeah, I don't mind what happens off camera, just not on camera because then it becomes some weird liberal movie or whatever the fuck it is i mean yeah i think i don't understand again this is just the way i think hollywood works too is because they have their calculus of like what's too far what's too much representation sadly but yeah this is a i guess time-honored tradition of just sort of obscuring these these characters identities in that way. I guess it's better than,

because a lot of movies have this problem as coding characters as gay and usually villains. So Disney will code a lot of their villains as gay and then that sends a message to young people's brains. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, early 90s movies, I feel like all the hits had gay or effeminate lead villains, like Scar from Lion King and the serial killer in Silence of the Lambs was like...

Oh, yeah, that's a hugely problematic transphobic... What's his name? Buffalo Bob? Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill. It was Buffalo Bob. Did I just make that up? Right.

In that respect, it is somewhat progressive comparing it to movies where they just like villainize and demonize sexual fluidity and stuff like that. This could be seen as a step in the right direction, but it does still imply that this is something to be hidden. Right. Yeah. as a step in the right direction, but it does still imply that, you know, this is something to be hidden. Right. Yeah. And it's just so crazy that, you know,

people, conservative people call liberals snowflakes when like, we can't even show somebody who has a lifestyle that you disagree with without people like freaking out. Like that's why we don't show them in movies is because they're scared of like letter writing campaigns and you know right boycotts from or that they're trying to snuff out straight white male characters in star wars movies yeah exactly people still fucking go then they will go even if you have lando calrissian

be this sort of sexual fluidity on camera. Right. Honestly, I want to see a man fucking a droid. I want to see that on screen. And we might get that. Who knows? I don't want to spoil anything, but let's keep our fingers crossed and our droid digits crossed. Yeah.

One of the best characters, I think, underrated performance is Jude Law as the fuckbot in AI oh yeah I like the way he clicked his neck and music came out like alright there's tons of movies where like a femme like a female presenting android all the men like have a sexual fetish for that Blade Runner 2049

Ex Machina yeah but like for it to then be like a male human and then whatever gendered robot, that's too much. Right, right. But I would love to see if Lando, he hooks up with IG-88, the bounty hunter robot. Oh, yeah. That would be tight.

We'll see. I don't know. Let's check it out. All right. So we are all celebrating. I think it was yesterday, a huge anniversary. And I'm not just talking about Caitlyn's birthday. It is the one year anniversary this week of the Mueller investigation. So one thing that I've just been hearing over and over again from conservative media and conservatives I encounter in the real world is that, let's wrap it up. They haven't found anything.

Let's come on, guys. So FiveThirtyEight did an update of this chart that they had made a couple months ago where they have the timelines of all the different special investigations since 1973 that resulted in charges. And they kind of point out that the only ones that are as big as the Mueller-Rush investigation are Watergate, Whitewater, and Iran-Contra. And all of those lasted over four years. And nobody during any of them was like, wrap it up, man. Come on, let's get this over with. And this sort of window of saying that this is taking a long time is completely created by the conservative media. Yeah, well, because they have to create some argument to be like, oh, we got to get this done

because clearly they're afraid that this investigation could unearth something. So why give it this pressure of, oh, it needs to wrap up? But it's interesting to also hear how like, you know, most GOP senators and Congress people prior to this were like, you know, let the investigation happen. Let it, let Robert Mueller do what he has to do.

Let's not interfere. Even though they wouldn't offer any sort of legislation to protect him. It seemed like the talking point was, yo, let's, you know, let it rock, let him do his thing.

And now you're starting to hear them say, eh, maybe we should wrap it up. Maybe like it's, it's gone from leave the man alone to some people. Now you can kind of see how they're, oh, they're starting.

Now we're starting to see the change in some of these politicians who are now just saying, who are following this sort of wrap it up rhetoric. Yeah. And I mean, in terms of things that we have, we have Donald Trump Jr. opening that Trump Tower meeting with a Russian agent by saying, so I understand you have something for us. Right. After saying, oh, if it is what you say it is, I love it. That is explicitly an attempt to collude with Russia to affect the election. And we also know that Russia intervened on their behalf. So it's like the other thing that I hear is it's been a year and we still don't have any

proof or evidence. And it's like pretty clear that, you know, there's something going on there. That whole meeting, though, wasn't there? I felt like this week they were trying to defend that. It's like, well, yeah, they offered stuff, but it wasn't good. So we're like, nah. Yeah. Like we weren't going to use it. So you still met to try and exchange some kind of information.

And then you decide, oh, well, it's not good. So I'm not going to fully follow through with this plan to, you know, just to leak information that's damaging. This is not normal, like opposition research stuff. The, you know, one time during the preparation for the debates in 2000, the Gore campaign was given like all the questions and preparation and answers that George W. Bush was about to use in a debate. And they immediately turned it over to the FBI because it's a huge violation and somebody was clearly trying to cheat in a presidential election. And that's what you do is you contact law enforcement officials and say, hey, this is going on. And they made absolutely no attempt to cooperate with any sort of investigation. So, yeah, I say take your time.

But, I mean, they'll probably fire Mueller within the next fucking month. Well, who knows? Yeah, they got to get rid of Rosenstein first. Right, right. And then slowly hamstring it. But again, you know, this whole investigation isn't something that's so centralized that by simply removing two people that all the troubles go away. Right. So it's much more complex than even, I think, I don't know, I guess if it's going by the sort of simple A equals B equals C sort of sequence of events that they think is going to happen, I think it's probably not going to be as easy as they believe. But again, I don't understand why they should know that it's not going to be

that easy. So why try and even present this as like a sort of simple case of, well, he's gone too far and he needs to end and then that will be all of our troubles over. Right. We do want to bring up the school shooting. We do know now that there are 10 people dead in this shooting at a school in Texas, in the Houston area, I believe. Santa Fe, Texas, I think. So we wanted to talk about the fact that not only does the NRA pay candidates for elected office. They also have money that they grant to schools. Now, back in 2014, they created this idea of doing a plan where they would sort of prepare schools for shootings by sending in their security people to focus on whether a school was prepared for an active shooter and basically like turn schools into uh military compounds or like police wait so like the orcan man who's like all right so

you might have roaches coming through here or whatever it's the nra yeah yeah okay you want to fortify this door yeah like a peephole here they specifically talk about like making the windows and classroom doors bulletproof wow so actually we have a clip from the video where they're suggesting this. You go in and you assess a school from all the way on the outside exterior perimeter to the building exterior to the building interior. And you're looking at areas that could be exploited if it was someone that was seeking to do harm. This is not just about an armed intruder. There's a lot of violence in schools, period. And this process doesn't just secure against armed intruders. It secures the entire school for a lot of different things.

Okay, why is the music so minor-key? Right. Really, you're really just trying to create that suspense. Just after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012. And unfortunately, they only did this program at three separate schools. The school shield program is what they called it. But the tax records show they only gave these grants to turn schools into bunkers to three schools, or they gave three grants out under the School Shield program. So what did they do with all that other money that had been given to them

to give out to schools? Wait, so how much money were they dealing with initially? So between 2010 and 2016, they had $7.3 million to give out to schools. And other than those three grants to schools for the School Shield, like defend the lives of children program, they gave out competitive grants meant to promote shooting sports. So, yeah, so. Oh, like a shooting club, like,

hey, we'll hook you up with like targets and stuff. Exactly. So that way the kids will like the guns and. Right, and you get kids early on hooked. It's like Joe Camel style, you know, getting the guns into kids' hands early. And amazingly, and I can't believe a bigger deal wasn't made of this, the Parkland shooter Nicholas Cruz was on one of those NRA-sponsored

shooting teams. Interesting. I mean, not that one relates to the other but like yeah that's because yeah the nra really is like in it's an organization that is trying to fight for a dying interest like a hobby that is like waning right so they're really having to do like a full court press of like okay how do we unearth like this next generation of basically what they're trying to do or find more people who are going to step up for the NRA come down the road? Not just sort of like, oh, we just we want to protect schools or just allow for, you know, help kids get into competitive shooting.

They're trying to create this next sort of generation of people who are going to take up for them because it seems like, yeah, right now, boy, NRA couldn't be more unpopular with young people. Well, it's like, wasn't the KKK, like, opening their doors to, like, people of color and stuff like that? Because their numbers were dropping, and they're like, yeah, you know, we hate black people, but if you're black and you want to join the KKK, like, we need the numbers. Guys, I guess beggars can be choosers. It's so crazy. And there's so, money should be going to schools not to fund, you know, gun sports and to like make them into like military barracks is basically. But like, I don't know, more resources and textbooks and pay teachers better and like that. No, no, no, no.

That costs too much money. That costs too much. But here, have some guns and bulletproof glass. Right. I wonder who, really curious to know, because that's like something the NRA has been pushing for a long time is like fortifying these schools and like that's really what needs to happen. I'm curious to know what companies really stand to benefit from like,

you know, like who's building these like reinforced doors that they would put in or making the kind of bulletproof glass that feels like is suitable for a school. Yeah.'s a lot of people well they only gave out three of those grants so it could have been too big a racket no but i mean even in general because now at a federal level you know you have trump after the parkland shooting he was like someone's got to step up to the nra and then meanwhile at the convention he just did a 180 into a full 69 with the nra and was like oh oh yeah, we got it. Man, the knife crime is crazy in the UK. Like, you know, just doing his whole crazy fear-mongering

thing that I'm sure that if there were a push at a federal level, like, yo, all our public schools, we got to sort this out. That's a massive contract. A 180 into a full 69 is at the very least athletically impressive. I've always been impressed by that. All right, we are going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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And we're back, and it's time for another edition of Bloid Watch. Bloid Watch. So it's a big weekend for Bloid Watch. Oh, my goodness. But you know what? It's a huge weekend, but we still couldn't see the coveted Bloidfecta yep where one story is on every single tabloid we've always come close haven't we sophie sophie when she when we look at the bloids we always look for the bloidfecta and you'd think this weekend with the royal wedding it'd be on fucking every cover right

but couple magazines had to be think for themselves like star OK, and completely omit this information from their covers. Mostly because I don't think it's a fucking story. Right. They're also, a lot of them are owned by the same people. Yeah, they probably couldn't just do the same story or weird iteration of the same story on every magazine. Yeah, but that is something that we've've been kind of we always track trends on google trends and they have this chart that they've had at the top of the page for the past six months i think they've been waiting for uh interest in britain's royal wedding to kind of kick back up

because it was off the charts back in nove when it was first announced that, you know, an American was engaged to one of the princes. That was a big deal. So back in November, you see this huge spike. And ever since then, there's just been nothing. It's just been basically flat crickets. Yeah, because I guess functionally there's no information aside from they're getting married. I guess the next thing would be like on this date.

And then every other thing that becomes like, I guess, quote unquote, newsworthy, just like this could be the ring she wears. It had a diamond from Diana. This is the dress. She might be friends with Kate Middleton. Like it's just non there's no real information aside from like the details of the wedding, which, again, I don't think most people really care about, as you say, because weddings are overrated. Right. Thank you. Okay.

Boom. Settled. In England, this is a big-ish deal. It's not as big as William's wedding because Will is the next in line after Prince Charles. So he's, you know, a couple deaths away from the crown. Harry's like six deaths away from the crown. So he's got a lot of work to do. A lot of murders.

A lot of poisonings. Yeah. So they're not even giving people a day off work for this wedding, which is why they had it on Saturday. Usually a royal wedding will be during the week, and they will give you the day off work. Oh, shit. But this wedding, they're why they had it on Saturday. Usually a royal wedding will be during the week and they will give you the day off work. Oh, shit. But this wedding, they're just like. Wait, why?

Because he's. Just because of stature? Yeah, he's just so far from the crown. Man, they're going to do Meghan like that. And Harry, my birthday twin. Shout out to Harry, my exact birthday twin. You know, again, sure. For whatever reason, they keep putting it on the tabloids.

Based on the Google Trends stuff, I just don't see where the thirst is for this information. But again, I think it's because, is it just like a pattern that we're used to in media coverage where it's like, oh, something big royal must mean we all have to care again. But I'm still having trouble. Who are the people out there who are really, really, really into this wedding that are fueling the sales of these magazines like this. I mean, it seems like it should be a big deal, at least in America,

because she is the first American princess, right? Yeah. It's pretty cool, and she's mixing things up a little bit instead of everybody- She's bringing some melanin to the royal family. Instead of everybody being cousins or second cousins, they're, you know. Got someone new.

She's from America and she's of mixed race. Here's the thing. Now, I love, though, because there's no actual actionable information coming out, that the tabloids just have to wildly speculate, which is why we talk about the tabloids. Right. And this week's In Touch is really next level. the tabloids right and this week's in touch is really next level and sophie lichterman super producer was showing me just just kind of how crazy this is on the cover it says megan's pregnant exclamation point i can't wait to be a mom which is a quote now that quote is taken out of context

of an interview where she simply verbalizes the desire to have a family. Right. Eventually. Eventually. As the same thing with Harry. So when they point into here, there's no like, oh man, we found out that she's actually two months pregnant or blah, blah, blah, three weeks. It's just no. They're just saying, oh, he's been touching her stomach a lot. Oh, dead giveaway.

As we proved last week, Brad Pitt looked stressed out and he was touching his stomach last week. So it means he got somebody pregnant. Yeah, they were saying he got a 26-year-old woman pregnant. Oh, that means he's pregnant, I think. He's touching his own stomach? Yeah. It's all about whatever the stomach is being touched, that is the one that is carrying the child.

So, you know, Brad Pitt might be doing something really special. Progressive. Yeah. But, yeah, again, it was just really, like, the fucking flimsiest news just to put up a cover like Meghan's pregnant. Come on now. Leave her alone. Yeah. Why aren't they talking about her career?

She has no career anymore. You know what I mean? Like they've completely reduced her to the woman who's marrying Harry. Is she good enough? But I think the royal family, like her becoming a part of the royal family means that she's expected to like end her career and just be a princess just like do appearances at different places oh yeah but don't touch people right remember there's like those rules we were yeah about what it means to deal with like your subjects right be pleasant to your subjects but never talk to them for more than

like two minutes yeah you don't want them to think you're overly invested. Or get their germs. Yeah. So yeah, there's all sorts of prop bets that are actually the most boring prop bets I've ever seen. I think because I'm not British, I can't. So there's a prop bet of what artists will perform at the reception. And it's Elton John, Spice Girls, and then Stormzy and Liam Payne. Wait, why?

Wouldn't we know that already? Like, is that like a secret? Yeah, apparently it's a secret. Oh, damn. They were still taking bets up until fairly recently on who was going to walk her down the aisle because of her father's heart trouble. It was rumored that he wasn't going to go and now that's been confirmed. So, you know, you could have made a lot of money if a couple of days ago you had taken Prince Charles at 18 to 1

because that's who's going to be walking her down the aisle. That's a good bet. That's what I... Oh, you're saying bullshit. the aisle that's a good bet oh that's what i oh you're saying bullshit one of the reasons i hate weddings is because like in a hetero wedding when a woman is getting married to a man it's actually she's the property yeah yeah it's a giveaway and then it's like here now i bestow this property onto you the man that she's married now give me my oxen right so i can fucking plow this field like why do we still do that cow i know but milk cow. I know, but again, that's why, again,

yeah, those are the sort of old traditions where, like, we're still honoring the commerce transaction part of what a wedding used to be rather than, like, two humans are dedicating themselves to each other. It's like, we still gotta have touchstones to when the man literally just says,

here you go, bro. Right. Take it from here, guy. It also used to be the best man was your friend who was the best at killing people because what?

he had to be there to protect in case somebody like ran up and tried to like steal your wife no he would be there

like with his sword to just fuck people up that's what the best man that's like the historical tradition of the best man yeah because someone might try and gank your bride

yeah that's actually pretty cool yeah what's the maid of honor? I don't know is there anything like that where she's like Because someone might try and gank your bride. Yeah. That's actually pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then what's the maid of honor? I don't know. Is there anything like that? Where she's like, just in case you want to run away, girl, I got the car running.

Right, right, right. But I doubt it's that woke for that kind of thing. Also, I love that Stormzy is four to one. Yeah. What the fuck? I don't even know who Stormzy is. Man like Stormzy? Stormzy is a rapper from Croydon.

Yeah, he's a rapper. Oh, he is? Yeah. I love that. Him too? Do people actually place bets on this? They must. Oh, yeah.

Wow. I mean, I guess what are they taking that, like a paddy power, like one of the online betting sites that they have in the UK? Right. That makes sense. Yeah, paddy power, exactly. What else they got? So the one that seems the most interesting to speculate about is when will she announce that she's pregnant? What year will she announce that she's pregnant?

They have 2018. She is 25 to 1. Now, as we just learned, she's definitely pregnant because he's been touching her stomach. So you can make some good money on that. 25 to 1 means you can win $25 for every $1 you bet. So that's not too bad. I'm going to put down $10,000 right now based off this magazine cover. Yeah, get it in. Get it in. Oh my God. I might just retire, Jack. I'm sorry, bro. But you know what? The Daily Zeitgeist has provided because without Bloidwatch, I would not know how to make this bet. Thank you touch uh 2019 is two to five 2020 three to one

2021 or later six to one uh so i the other one i like is yo leave prince williams hair alone they're taking odds on this shit like okay buzz cut shaved head full head slash hair transplant slash lebron slash jamie fox ponytail 100 to and wig. Why the fuck would you even list a ponytail or a wig on there? Just to take people's money. Ponytail? Like, what the fuck? They might as well put on, like, Afro wig. Right, yeah.

No, I think it's the equivalent of, like, putting a novelty toy out. Yeah, so that people can spend money and have the ticket. Right, and just be like, hey, guys, I got it right here, $10,000, that he's going to have a ponytail at the wedding. It's crazy. We're now at the point where young people no longer believe. So producer Sophie Lichterman is in her early teens, I believe. She's really bad at it.

Age blindness is what you have. And we were talking earlier today, and she refused to believe that Prince William used to be considered the hot one. Right. She was like, never. Never. Because he is, like, morphing into his father, like, very slowly. He's, like, just, it's weird.

His whole thing is falling apart. And Harry used to just be, like like the weird redhead looking dude, but now he's considered the hot one. Yeah, William was rocking it. And I remember as a kid, I was like, damn, I'm in line with Harry, who's like the washed one. Miles takes so much pride in sharing. I do, you know, I have to, you know,

because I'm feeling good. I might as well be getting married without any of the costs or the risk or the headache. But you share a birthday with Harry? We're born the exact same day. Yeah. So when I was being delivered, I've told this story literally probably 700 times, even though we've only done 150 some episodes, that like the nurse came in when my mom was giving birth. And they're like, Princess Diana just had her baby just now.

And I was like, OK, it's on. Because she's such an anglophile. I think she, I don't even, I'm not going to say she timed it to be like that, but she might have. I'm just saying that if you had to take odds, which of you, you or Harry, would be marrying? Meghan Markle? A young woman from the valley? Yeah. Right, right, right.

I think people would have bet on you. Yeah. Yeah. It's a shame yeah it's a shame but again I love prop bets because they're so funny to me but the other ones I just don't understand the future titles

like what is that even so the queen I didn't realize this about the royals but first of all they are funded by tax dollars still like when you pay taxes in england you are partially just giving them money to blow on fucking you know crowns but it all goes to the queen the queen is like everything happens at her discretion well yeah she's the queen no but like they don't have money like harry doesn't have money. Prince Charles doesn't have money. He just has money that she deigns to give him.

Like everything is just taking handouts. Yeah. They're all on the dole from the queen. Oh, they have like an allowance? That's science. Yeah. It's like really pathetic. Mommy.

Yeah. Mommy. Yeah. That's why if you read stories about Prince Charles, it's hilarious because he is, you know, an arrested six-year-old who's just really mad that nobody will take him seriously. Right. While at the same time being literally impossible to take seriously because he behaves like a spoiled six-year-old.

He goes on dates with Camilla. She's like, are you paying? He's like, yes. Or is your mother? Right. I have my own money. Right. Just be real insecure.

You're the Prince of England. But when it comes to the titles on the day of the wedding or around the day of the wedding, the queen will determine who they are the Duke and Duchess of. Oh, so she blesses you. Yeah, she's like, you are the Duke and Duchess of, I think the easy money is on Sussex right now. They think she's going to make them. And the last Duke of Sussex was Prince Augustus back in 1801, and he never had a wife.

So Meghan Markle will be the first Duchess of Sussex if the Queen does decide to give them that. Also, if you break that word down, it's Sussex. Yeah. I don't know what she're trying to flame them. Right. That's how I look. I'll be like, wait, what you mean, queen?

Sus sex. That's what people think Lando's pansexuality must be. Right, exactly. There it is. It's permeating everywhere. She's not the best in the biz for nothing, guys. And in one of the less disturbing Bill Cosby stories that we've heard in a long time, the tabloids went through his garbage. Is that right, Miles?

I guess that's what they claim they did. What did they find? Is that legal? Yes. Once it's on the street, right? Yeah, time-honored way of... Of violating someone's privacy. Doing tabloid journalism.

Yeah, so when they go... Usually they're not so obvious about it. They're not like, we went through this person's trash. Look what we found. They're just like, sources tell us that this person is- Yeah, so what he has, they found inside this bag of garbage was evidence of illegal drug use. And by that, they mean they took a whiff of a bag that had a pungent scent of marijuana. And then also, it looked like some hemp wraps.

So good for you. Trying to twist up some blunts, I guess. Reduced guilt chips. They're literally called reduced guilt. He's trying to get rid of his guilt. Actually, no. I don't think he has guilt for what he's done. Because he's had all these chips.

So maybe he's had enough reduced guilt chips. Probably because he got so high, he was like, wait, hold up. You just say reduced guilt chips? Did I do that? Okay, let me eat those and reduce my guilt. Maybe it's coming out. Maybe it's coming out of his subconscious. I doubt it.

Or maybe he thinks they literally, like he ate a bunch of them before the sentencing. He's like, this will handle that. And then also they found 300 lotto tickets. More than 300 lotto tickets. Like the computer generated ones, he has scratchers. I don't know if, is somebody bleeding him dry

or is he also just like on some weird YOLO shit? Right. He's like, you know what, give me this YOLO, I'm gonna smoke weed, fucking have these lotto tickets. I think the only lottery he should be participating in is the one from the short story,

The Lottery, where they get stoned to death at the end. Oh, what short story is that? It's just called The Lottery. I forget who wrote it. You don't know that short story? No. Is it an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? No, it's the other famous short story

that everybody read in middle school. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't think I read that one. Yeah, it's pretty good. Who wrote it it who's the author upon that a famous writer shirley jackson shirley jackson no you know the shirley jackson y'all read a short story about a kid getting stoned to death a woman a grown adult woman

yeah wow and now you y'all read that in junior high yes wow man they were fucking up at my lutheran school then i was learning about jonah and the whale yeah it also has like some weird ritualistic aspects of it so maybe they didn't teach it in religious schools because it's like they just as a community it's it's basically what the hunger games is like partially based on with like the lottery like that's what i when i first heard the premise of the hunger games i was like yeah that was that short story we all read. It was basically Hunger Games just took the short story, The Lottery,

and glued it together with the great piece of cinema, Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Running Man, and they just put those together and created Great Earth. Yeah, the only things I remember like that are... I think you're saying Battle Royale. Yeah, no only things I remember like that are obviously.

I think it was like Battle Royale. Yeah, no. That's what you should have said. Other ones too. Yeah. Great work of cinema. I just love Ambrose beer, so that's why I always bring up An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. No, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was like.

It's trippy. Blew my 12-year-old fucking mind. And then I was like, you have gray eyes? Because they say gray-eyed people were snipers in the Civil War. I think that's like a line in the thing. Yeah, yeah. It's almost like there's no such thing as gray eyes. But there is.

I think it's just a sort of tint of blue. Anyway, we digress. We do digress all over the place. All right. So before we go, we have to say RIP to one of our favorite people at Daily Zeitgeist. Yeah. Young King Dave. And if you don't know Young King Dave, you'll probably remember this clip.

Out here in Amish smoking big doints in Amish. Big old doints. Gang. So that dude who we played early on in the show and he was sort of a patron saint of the Daily Zeitgeist. And myself, yeah. Young man and of Miles. Yeah, he was 19, man. Was he really?

Only 19. Yeah, he had been in the hospital for a while because he had a collapsed lung and then he passed away uh and during his recovery from complications so you know what smoke a big old doink in your honor my god biggest of doinks the biggest of doinks and shout out to uh at the good tyrant on twitter for pointing this out to me because that was kind of a deep cut reference from early on in this the show uh but to bring that news back yeah you know you know, it's hard when viral

memes literally pass on. Yeah, it is. That dude ruled. Caitlin. Yes. Speaking of passing on, you are passing on from this show and back on to the

Bechdel cast. That almost got morbid. Where is this going, Jack? You're passing on to the next dimension. You will no longer have your physical presence. Where can people find you, follow you? You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Caitlin Durante.

And you can check out the Bechdel cast, which I co-host with frequent guest Jamie Loftus. I've heard of her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It wasn't her birthday recently, so she doesn't matter. Exactly. Clearly not.

She's the one who planned the Paddington-themed birthday party for me, so I'm very grateful for her. Are y'all best friends? We're like best friends. But are y'all road dogs outside of just the work you do together? Do you really like-

Oh, yeah, we hang. Hang heavy. We hang. Oh, we hang. of just the work you do together? Do you really like- Oh, yeah. We hang. Hang heavy. We hang. Oh, we hang. Yeah, the way you just said it. We hang, motherfucker. Your face even changed.

You're like, oh, we hang. All right. Anyway, you can listen to our podcast, The Bechdel Cast, and follow us on social media as well. What's the latest episode? The one that came out yesterday was oh my god what was it oh Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

oh yeah and then next week is Disney's Frozen ah Eternal Sunshine what a movie yeah I think I saw you

when you were recording it I was like one of the first lines in the movie where Jim Carrey's like why do I fall in love with the first woman that shows me any attention

hit me at a time when I was so broken up in life and I was like I know this anyway yes Eternal Sunshine great movie that shows me any attention hit me at a time when I was so broken up in life and I was like, I know this was sad. Anyway, yes, Eternal Sunshine. Great movie.

Shout out to Michelle Gondry. There's also episodes of the Bechdel cast with Miles of Grey on that. Miles of Grey, yeah. We talk about The Rock. The Rock. The Rock. And of you, Jack.

Yeah, I did Snow White, the first Disney movie the one that set the tone for all future brilliant works of feminism that is the Disney catalog Miles where can people find you you can find me on Twitter and Instagram and again Zyking

if you're a plumber at Plumbing Expertise hit me up on Twitter at Miles of Grey I'm about to put in a valve on my anyway look just holler at me because I'm probably going to end up FaceTiming one of you as I put this thing in. I mean, that's what we do

because that game comes together. Miles is using our podcast like it's Angie's list. Wow. I am. Yeah. I am. But you know what?

I'm out here, you know. I'll help y'all. Yeah. That's cool. I do script coverage if anyone wants script notes. Oh, yeah. I'm also going to...

I'm here to advertise my services. Oh, yeah. Okay, great. notes, I'm also going to be here to advertise my services. Oh, yeah. Okay, great. So hit me up. All right. You can follow me at Jack underscore O'Brien on Twitter. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on and Miles, what's that going to be today? Today we are going to do like a remix of a song called I Don't Want to Leave.

This is by Durando and it's just like a, you know, more sample based kind of groovy kind of stuff that you have come to expect from me when I ride us out on something. Durando? Durando. Cool name. It's really close to Ray Jean.

Yeah, exactly. If it were Ray Jean. Also, God, he's a great roller skater. If you really want to watch a cool video, watch Ray Jean Rondo bounce rock skate. Oh, really? He loves to roller skate. I thought you were saying Durando. No, Ray Jean Rondo is like completely into OG four- to roller skate. I thought you were saying Durando. No, Rayjean Rondo is like a,

literally into like OG four-wheel roller skate, not inline, like roller skate. Strange dude. Yeah, strange dude. Very strange. Large. I thought you were going to go out on crossroads for Big Ol' Doinks and Amish.

Oh my God. Tell me what you gonna do. Nah, you know what? Big Ol' Doinks and Amish. Nah, you know what? This one's fine because it's I Don't Want to Leave. I'm sure he didn't either, and we didn't want you? Yeah, go to San Amish. Nah, you know what? This one's fine because I don't want to leave.

I'm sure he didn't either and we didn't want you to either, my guy. Alright, we're gonna ride out on that. Have a good weekend everyone.

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