The Daily Zeitgeist - ET Looked Like S**T, Luigi Update 08.13.26

Episode Date: August 13, 2026

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What? Just that. It's been one day since 9-11 on 9-12. That's a good one to do? Man, just to say out loud. What is happening? Not a lot. I think I just said, man.

I have one of those microstrokes. Do that's a good one to do. That's a good one to do. No, right. I said I did. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, man.

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Weird Al-Yankovic. Yeah. A genius. This week we did. Helen Keller, a dope. Real fucking dumb, no. Also a genius. A weird owl level genius.

We've done Miss Piggy and Carrie Fisher with today's guest. They're the episodes that drop on Monday morning with icon in the title. But here, right now, It's Thursday, August 13th, 2026. So close. You almost got me, Jason Borges, but not quite. Thursday the 13th. One day off asshole.

What do you think he does on a Thursday the 13th? He's like that. Oh, fuck. He gets to like get near people, but that's it. Yeah. Oh, do you think he can get near? Maybe. I don't know.

He's like, come on. I don't know who his deal is with. It's just the establishing shots of him like looking at people, but he never does anything. Yeah, yeah. Just like a pervert. Just looking through it Kitchen window They're like, hey, get out of here

He's like, no, you're right You're right I'll go It's August 13th Jack, it's your day It's left-handers day Hey Shout out them

Shout out my mom too Also a left-hander Also likes Prosecco It's national prosceco day Also likes a piece of red meat It's national filet mignon day It's also women's and family day And also in Japan

And it's the beginning of the Obolm Festival, where you go and you, like, you've got to give it up to your ancestors and clean their headstones and shit like that. I got to call my mom, shout out to your mom. What a day, me, loving for seco drinking,

Obolm celebrating women family. Women family. I got a woman family. I have to call my woman family. It's urgent. This is actually to celebrate the promulgation of Tunisian women's rights. is what is Women's and Family Day.

I knew that. Some international flair. Tell me something I don't know. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I fear these melons are growing in my tomb tonight. Oh, Lord. They're mercifully short one from David Lesser

in reference to the sciop that we're planning to run on the Geistrout to make him less afraid of watermelon seeds. Just to embrace them, man. Just to embrace. They're there. They're there. You don't even know they're there.

I think that's the thing. I got to scare the shit out of him with proper black seed, O.G. Watermel. This is a bad strategy. Start with the scary thing and then work your way back. Okay. But they're not scary. They're fun.

He tries to pick the seeds out of seed list. I was telling Jack. I was like, maybe I could get your kids because when we went to the Bahamas, was my kid like idolizes Jack's kids. Like one day. Oh, they're the cool big kid. Oh, they're the cool big kids. We don't even dinner one day.

He made his one son just like, he's like, hold my hand. We're walking through this goddamn lobby. It was amazing. He grabbed his hand. Really? Because he wanted to have like that sort of older brothers. I'm like, I got to get them to eat the seedless watermelon in front of my kids so he can have that big kid example.

He'll be like, oh yeah. What the fuck was I fucking tripping about? God. It's so, it's so cool. psychically manipulating your children into making better choices. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're like, can we have a cool kid do this?

I was debating what to do. I'm like, because I'm not trying to fucking beat like Wanda Vision, my kid like that. But also part of me is like, is it that crazy to just be like, oh my, my can't believe my dad. Wanda vision. I didn't think seedless watermelon was all right. Yeah, it's going to be thousands of dollars in therapy debt.

100%. No, I mean, I wonder, do you remember ever having like an older kid convince you that something... Drugs. Like, I was like, it is one of the dare... What? Like, what do you mean? Convincy that something was cool or something was bad?

They're always trying to give me joints for free in the 80s. Joints and cocaine. Lucy's? Yeah, yeah. Hey. Oh, have you tried this? As a bad example or is like an nefarious plot to be like, look, I got that kid to eat glue. No, like a cool kid, like convincing you something innocuous was cool.

Oh, sure, sure, sure. I mean, I had an older sister who was cool. So like all day. There was the thing. I remember one of my, like, he's kind of like my big brother, Ty. He was the first kid to only kind of half open a 12 ounce can of soda. So it was like the tiny little sliver of a hole and you just slow sip the soda. You never did that?

No. Not fully popping the tab. That's like how I get shit dribbling down my mouth. No, dude, that was like the little kid move. That's cool. You never did this. I saw it. I didn't, I didn't fucking.

You know, fully pop just enough to. So then when you sip, just a little bit comes out. What does that say about you? I don't know. But I remember, I was like, bro, this is like the swaggy sweet to drink a soda. For me, it was smiling with all of your gums out. There was like a girl who had a huge smile. And for like this would have been like first grade and she was in.

And we were all trying to smile like her, but she just had like an interesting mouth. Yeah. So you try and like raise your mouth up a little bit and smile? I'm trying to go Grinch mo. Yeah. Creating new teeth that weren't even there before. She was a toothy kid, but she was cool. She was cool.

I do wonder if watermelon's growing in your stomach when you swallow seeds was a sigh up by the seedless watermelon people. You know, to be. Is that white people? Yeah, yeah. The seedless watermelon people. My people. The seedless watermelon people. That's the worst avatar tribe.

The fire was, well, what do they do? Watermelon seedless. Oh. Yeah, they think a little different. Do they commune with animals? No, honestly. Just make these. They're not even not be.

Watermelons that aren't. Yeah, kind of better. They're five foot six. You guys are metanites, right? I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's Miles Gray, a.k. Eat those seeds and you'll be cool for life. It won't work if you keep pushing aside.

If you eat all those seas tonight, watermelon is will not grow. All right, right. So this is like canon right now. We're talking about watermelon every single day. I talked about it on Monday morning. Apparently, it's activated the Zike game. Yes. I mean, it's a very scary idea.

Watermelon growing on your tummy? Did you ever? Yeah. Wait, did you believe that? No. I never, this is my first time hearing about it, and I will not be touchy a watermelon any time. I didn't occur to me that that could happen. And now I'm telling your fiance, throw that watermelon away now.

We're just easing off of a month and a half of nothing but lettuce diarrhea based. Taco Bell diarrhea. So we welcome this one. This is, thank you. Let's get a new green. But it's funny because like the same way for people who own cats and you have to transition them to a different litter. it's clear that's like there's still some in there. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.

Because there's some, there's still some I see, I see you out there. The Shid AKs are still there. They're still there. And we honor you, the shit AKs. Miles were thrilled to be joined in our third seat by one of the very faces on Mount Zipemore and Emmy nominee, writer, artist, comedian behind many of the acclaimed

podcasts, many of the most acclaimed podcast of all time. What was I? Just read for the... Oh, because we were talking about IQ tests in the Helen Keller episode. And I was like, like my year of mentor. Right. It's just household.

And then before that, we mentioned how this person believed that Eddie Murphy lived at the Griffith. Oh, yeah. We did. Oh, yeah. Incredible. Amazing, amazing work. The New York Times bestselling author of Rod Dogg. Mm-hmm.

It's Jamie Lops! Jamie! Hey! I forgot to ask for an AGA, so I'm like, I'm just going to scream. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Are you good at Minionese? What?

Are you good at minionese? Minanese. What? Balo? Bhopai. Banana. Banana. That's all I got.

Okay. But one of the best, the answer is no. Okay. But I do know some loose lines. You dabble. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's like, it's one of those. You sound like a woman who travels to Japan or recreationally.

I know, I know some Japanese. I spent, I've spent some time with the minions. We've been friends. Among them. Among them. Mostly a respectful observer. Fully immersive. of mignonese approach to learning.

I don't dare to utter anything other than minionese in front of them. I don't want to be disturbing. Of course. One of the best lines in minion canon is during, in Rise of Gru, when grew, when young Gru has been kidnapped. And the villain calls Kevin the Minion. He goes, hello, Kevin Le Mignon. And you're just like, oh, they're so cute.

You're so fun. Have you seen the latest? Of course. I was there at midnight. How was it? It was awesome. It was so good. It was really, really good.

It was so fun. From older people that it's good and then from people who are 10 that I'm speaking of my one nephew. Okay. It was like it sucked. Dude, you're not only was he like, I didn't like it. He was like, you're going to fucking hate it. Does your nephew hate a love letter to old Hollywood? I think so.

Yeah. Oh, he didn't like when. Okay. Spoilers for minions and monsters. Have you seen it? No. Okay. They're doing Citizen Kane and you're like, how good kids not think this is funny?

They're doing Citizen Kane and then instead of Rosebud, he says poop. He says poop. And the whole midnight minions crowd was going nuts. Putin and hollering. There you go. Putin and hollering. Amazing. Well, Jamie, we're thrilled to have you here.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. about today. We are going to check in with one Luigi Mijon. Yeah. Yeah.

Lots happening. Okay. We're going to check in with the kid from Big Daddy. Thank you. I don't know. I guess you'll call him Dylan Spouse or Cole Spruce.

I was like, that was his spruce. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I prefer to pronounce it. Spruce. Don't get me down.

Spruce. We'll talk about law enforcement. We'll talk about. about baseball, baseball, Ray, and Field of Dreams, all of that, plenty more. But first, Jamie, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Well, I did look up, every couple days I look up Minions Domestic Qum.

Do you? Yes, I like to keep up on Minions Domestic Qum. I actually had that question. How are we doing? Yeah, how are we looking at. It's slow. It's been a slow one this time. It's been a slow minion season, you know, releasing it this close to Toy Story 5.

Wouldn't have been my choice. Yeah. Wouldn't have been my choice. And a follow-ups, I don't know if this is the exact term, but I know that I Googled prior to not going to Toy Story 5. Do the toys make peace with the iPad? And the answer I got was close enough to a yes that I was like, I'm just going to go see minions again. I would be seeing minions again. So they didn't fucking rip it apart?

I'm getting to a point with like Pixar movies where obviously I'm not the target audience, but I just, and kids like it. But it baffles me sometimes that it's like Pixar movies are now fun, like sentient toys behaving like rational adults. Yeah. And making peace with their oppressor. And I'm like, this sounds horrible. What is the metaphor here? Good message for the kids. Yeah.

I can't believe they make friends with the iPad. Wait till they remake goonies. Oh, yeah. The kids just like that. Actually, Troy was right. Yeah. Troy's dad has actually had some good ideas for what to do with this neighborhood. Wait, but wouldn't we love them all?

Wouldn't we love high-rise apartments? Yeah. I do feel like that's like the soft politics of like a lot of kids movies at the point where they're like, well, the iPad's inevitable toys. So we definitely shouldn't kill the iPad. Like it's like... Resistance is futile. Why can't we kill the iPad? Kill the iPad painful.

Just like break it into a iPad. I'm about to get 400 DMs that are like, actually, the iPad had a really interesting in your life. Shut up. It's a fucking iPad. It's an iPad. Haven't seen either. I think we're going to do minions before we do Toy Story 5. I think I, I hope so.

We're an old fashion. Certainly. My kid says, my kid pronounces it, how my mom pronounces it, because my mom speaks to my kid in Japanese most of the time. So in Japanese, you pronounce it, me nil. Minial. And he always, so like, so it's funny because sometimes, like, Her Majesty will be like, he'll like, I want to watch Minion. And she's like, what the fuck?

What's the saying? I'm like, Minion. It's about Minions, please. Respect the Japanese take on Minion. It's a man of class, man of taste. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We might have a Minion's iconograph coming up in the not too distant future. Jamie, you know anybody who might be a good guest for that?

I know a couple guys. All right. It does have to be guys. I'm ready. You said it. Guys, they're all guys. I've been making inroads in the minions community. They're all really chill.

People dress up for those, right? For the minion premieres? Kind of a slow one for that, too. Oh, really? I think, yeah, the gentle minions, that came and went. I was wondering if the gent... Do you remember them? Yeah, that's what I was referring to me.

The gentle minions did not return. And maybe that's what took the dent out of the Bafo B. The domestic cube. Yeah. I love to say that. Domestic. Domestic. But it's going to get leggy on us?

You think it's going to leg? Good. We have to keep an eye on the domestic cube. Why don't you just call domestic cum? Miles. It's a children's movie. Jesus Christ. It's just what it's spelled.

I didn't know. Yeah. I didn't know that's how it's pronounced. Is domestic cum. Cume. Yes. It's our domestic cum. Ah, yes, yes.

Yes, some really impressive domestic cum. Yes. Leave your. Oh, man. What is something you think is underrated? it, Jamie. Okay. I, so I, I, this is like mostly movie stuff, but it's all over the place. I have not seen The Odyssey. Okay. I have not seen Spider-Man, Big New, Big New Dog. Big New Dog. Big New Little Caesar Samsung Galaxy. B.N. I haven't seen them yet. Spider-Man the big red

dog. The other night, my friend sent a. The big red dog. It's so stupid. Just clips. with a Spider-Man costume on. Who's that? Spider-Man the big red dog, man. He got... He's stomping around New York City. He was just a big red dog that got bit by a radioactive Spider-Man.

Anyway, I'm sorry. So you were looking at those movies? Wait, please. I got an unexpected... I do think the way that, like, A-List, A-F-A-List works is so bizarre because your friend can just be like, guess what, bitch?

You're seeing... Jamie. That's how I feel when I get. What's going on with your friends? Well, it feels like when someone reserves, like I got a text saying, are you free tonight? I said yes. That sounds nice. And then someone, I immediately got, your friend has booked a ticket for you to see one night only at the AMC Burbank.

That's a little. That's really, guess what bitch comes from. Like, guess what bitch? We're seeing one night only. seen One Night Only. Yeah. And I saw One Night Only. Oh, do tell.

The movie itself is not underrated. The experience of seeing it in a room full of people who are also very confused by the premise of One Night Only was really fun. It was like a lot of whispers. Like a lot of people. Yeah, what was it like? It's like a flavor of conservative I'd never tasted before. Oh, interesting. So weird.

I mean, this guy. Domestic Qume, if you will. It's a domestic. The domestic hum for one night only, I don't think will be very good. Yeah, yeah. Might be low. But, yeah, it's too hot people. But the whole, like, premise of it is.

Yeah, it's the one. Yeah, it's the one. Merge. Imagine looking for love on the one night a year where single people are legally allowed to have sex. I hate this night. And that, that's the, what's his name? Not Glenn Powell, do Elipas husband?

What's his name? We know who it is. Yeah, that guy. The guy is not Glenn Powell. It's just like a weird movie because, spoiler alert, they obey the law the whole movie. Yeah, we read about it last week. And like, I just remember just from what I had read about it, I was like, wait, so gay people are like exempt from this law? Because like, isn't there a gayer just like, it's for the straits?

And it's like, and you're like, I'm mostly unclear. I mean, there's, the implications have been discussed far and why. But there's like, they make the consequences very unclear. People are behaving as if there are like snipers on top of every building that will. And then they're also obsessed with, and maybe this is me being disgusting. But like they, there's a whole thing where they're looking for a directs condom. They like, Monica Barbaro is lowered into a sewer grate. So she can get a condom.

A condom. I'm like, at that point, you're going raw. I'm not like to lower. lowering myself into a sewer gray. When she died to have a direct condom. So like do you get double killed, double jail if you don't use a direct condom? She was in a sewer grade. And then she was like, thank God. Because she wanted to fuck the main guy?

Because she wanted to have sex with Dula Lipa's husband. It's weird. And then at the end, and now I'm like undercutting. This is fine. No, no. We basically gave a summary of the film last week. Everybody who saw the movie. Nobody saw this movie.

We were Hibn and Holley. Two things are an issue at the end. In the last scene, they finally end up together, and they're like, let's wait for next year. And then we fast forward to the next year to ensure that they've continued to obey the law, which they have. But in the last scene where they decide not to have sex, there's also some of the most diabolical Duncan Donuts coffee acting I've ever seen in my life. Doolipa's husband. Duncan did. a big ad spend on the weirdly Republican sex perjury.

They know where the crowds are at, for sure. The ones that jumped out to me were Duncan, Durex, and Totinos. They don't want us having sex. And we're on board with us. A lot of prominent Totinos. But at the end, yeah, Duelip's husband comes running with, like, her coffee order. And he's like, I got this for you. And then he goes like, whoopsh.

He's like, I got your coffee order. He would be in the hospital if he was. actually holding a cup of hot coffee. Wow. Does he just forget he has it? Or he does that on purpose? No, he's just like flailing around with what we are told is a cup of piping hot coffee. Like an empty cup where he's just like.

Yeah, he's like, here you go, babe. This is the one night a year that you're allowed to have hot coffee, so I don't know how to operate. Your Jamie's going, the fuck is wrong with this reality, bro. That's a hot cup of Dunkin coffee. He's just sat like that? He's like, okay, terrifying implications. aside. Let's handle the dunk. Well, let's at least put water in the cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It looks ridiculous. Prop Master's fucking up on that. The implication is that they're all,

anybody who breaks the thing is being shot in the streets, right? Like, if they're that adamant about sticking to it, something like that, I don't know. It has to be an existential threat for you to be like, well, then I'm not going to fuck. Right. Yeah. And it's only single people, right? It's only single people. Everyone has these, like, tattoos. that light up and turn off. Jesus Christ. The implications of that, I was like, really? That's what we're going with?

It takes less than six seconds to install. Visitors to the United States. Mandatory must also install these sensors. It's very fine. Okay, just get on board with fascism, guys. There's a Nicholas Braun character that is only there to explain how the tattoos work. And he's doing the Nicholas Braun thing. He's like, so yeah.

It was really. And then the other thing that there's like a lot of little details about one night only, I'm like, why? Why? You get to choose the shape of your tattoo that tells you whether you're legally allowed to have sex or not. Like a bunny rabbit or a heart or a diamond. Which is like how like our version of fascism would be. Yeah, yeah.

Which emoji deal. It's like, you get to do like a fun one. It's like, ooh. I got a Nike swoosh. Yeah, yeah, right. I have the snowboarder. Oh, cool. I have the jump man.

He had the, he had a bat. She had a lighthouse, which is the story's way of telling us. These people are boring. Oh, okay. with fascism. They love it. He's actually an enforcer of like the fascist thing. What is something, Jamie, you think, is overrated?

Something that's overrated. Oh, I can say very much the same thing. Right now, I'm going to say meeting the deadline. There's such, like, I think... For the one night or year that you're allowed to have sex? Exactly. I'm going wrong. I'm not getting in the sewer for directs.

Get that candy wrapper. That's nasty. No, I'm, uh, yeah, I, I, I, I, there's a big, I've really been enjoying, I think all basically me, this looming, I have like a book deadline coming up and I'm, it's really like, here it is. But I, I've been thrilled at sort of the edging that I've managed to do with the deadline. I think when you're really avoiding getting to the finish line on something, you're trying things. You're just trying things out. You're like, no, this I need to see, truly after this, I'm going. I'm going to see Muppet Treasure Island in theaters. There you go. That's the kind of edging up on the deadline. Did you see that?

For some reason, it's kind of like the one night a year that you can have sex. This is a one day at AMC where you can see where single people can see. Muppet Treasure Island. You have to be married. You see that, miss. Yeah, I have a tattoo that it's green today. So I can go. It's Kermit.

But yeah, it's like just today for some reason. Oh, wow. It's an anniversary or what? But I was like. So, I mean. How much, like, actual writing do you have left in a quantifiable sense? Like, how much? Not very much.

Okay. Not very much. Just use chat of GPT, then. Have you heard of this? Yeah. I'm really looking. Have you heard the ads on their show? Apparently they were running ads on our show.

Yeah. Jesus, gruddy. This is the common thread with our show where our listener was like, oh, Kyle Rittenhouse opened the show last week with a black rifle coffee yet. And we're like, yeah, I don't know that. Zygang is so strong. I, yeah, have you started to hear that? I hear it sometimes in like YouTube channels that I have listened to for a long time.

You start to hear like the chat GPT cadence coming. I'm like John Green. No, I'm not talking about him, although I did hear that. Because he like read it in a way and the people were like, this sounds like AI. And he's like, and I appreciate. Guys, wait, I was, I'm ashamed of myself. Creators. I'm specifically talking about, I'm really into tarot you.

YouTube. And one of my, one of my girls, there's, there's videos more frequently and the things that I'm, it just all of it's, it's, it's mostly like introductions, interstitials and ads. There is this like cadence that you start to recognize after a while that creates such a like it, it sucks. Yeah. Uh, not just that she's doing it, but that she feels like it's necessary to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, and also just like creates all of these. I, I'm like, been avoiding looking at them. But now, like, anytime anyone releases anything, there's going to be someone who's like, uh, M dash, M dash, dumbass. It's like, you know, those existed prior to Chad. They stole it from all the people using the M dashes.

So I live in fear of that. But yeah, so I'm looking for some deadline edging activities. Yeah, yeah. Watch that. That's a good one. Yeah. And it's a time, I mean, like waiting until the last. minute is that time-honored tradition of genius procrastinating.

That's right. You need that, you've got to be up against it to be like, let's fucking lock it. It's like, it's Santa University logic that I'm like taking to a, I was going to say, I'm very surprised by this because you usually send us Santa University scripts like weeks in the same. I ask for notes about characters. A lot of time. Yeah, a lot of revisions. It's going to be Santa University 10 this year.

Yeah. 10. 10. I'm like, I want to go big. She just go to, she just do a theater? I was honestly like, maybe she's going to do like a dynasty typewriter show or something. That would fucking rip. I mean, if you guys were down to do it.

Because I was like, you can't, I don't know, it's Bechtelcast's 10th anniversary and Cent University's 10th show. You're just like, damn. So it's, uh, I'm ancient. I thought Becdell cast predated, uh, TDZ. It does. It does. Yeah, we started.

10 years would be 2026. November 2016. Yeah. We started. two days after the 2016 election. Oh, perfect timing. Yeah. We knew. We knew. What do we know? When do we know? Had a feeling.

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We're back. Oh, man. Luigi, huh? The Mangione himself. Mr. Handsome. The Man Gioni. How are you been keeping up with him? Not as much as I should, to be honest, but I...

I wanted to keep this news because I knew you were coming on. I know... You know, I'm a fan. Admires of his work. You know, I'm a fan. I wish I know. I have in the car my LA. And I can separate the art from the artist.

Right. You know, I just want to let that. I think what Luigi does is art. Exactly. And that's the conundrum I find myself in. So a lot's happening already. Just even in the time it took me to just sort of summarize what's been happening. So on Monday there was a hearing where we found out that the trial will not be, there's nothing going to be broadcast live because that this doesn't happen in New York.

there will be like overflow accommodations for those interested. So it's live only event. Close circuit. Close circuit. In that overflow room, there will be a feed of the proceedings. Okay. You know that Luigi's going to be like courtroom couture. He's going to be looking good in that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just Googled Luigi outfits. And I don't know what I expected. I don't know what I expected. I'm getting the green one. Yeah, literally. You really got to use the last name. The SEO isn't not popping yet.

He's going to knock him right off the top. When the trial starts, the SEO will invert. Thank you. Unless he starts wearing those outfits to the trial, which would be. I know, and everyone's like, oh, he's kind of doing too much now. I don't like this. That is hair green. Remember Super Mario Bros.

It's me. Sir, Mr. Mangione, counsel, I'm going to need you to tell your client to please not raise his voice. Here we go. That's Mario. That's Mario. So is it to me. There's not a lot of unique lines for Luigi. I'm really aware.

I'm a John Leguizamo in the one when Bob Hoskins was a Mario. And the 9-11, the Twin Towers? No, I'm guilty. Okay. What was the relation to 9-11? Remember because in that Mario Brothers film, that was the one of like the towers are gone? And people were like, the Mario Brothers film Pre-stage 9-11. Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, for those that know they know. I think that truly, like, with Luigi's outfits, if Law Roach wanted to be truly the coolest person in the world, he'd be styling Luigi in for him. I mean, his hair, he had a nice tapered fade when he came in on Monday. He looks good all the time. Everyone's like, he is, he is clearly the most well-liked person in prison right now. Right. You know, like, there's nobody. He's getting the good prison haircuts.

He's getting the good prison haircuts. the different gangs are fighting over who will protect him. Right. You know what I mean? Like it's they all, they all just want a bit of Luigi. So the other thing is happy and relaxed. Well,

yeah, it does. And then a lot of people too, because a lot of incarcerated people are like, just so you know, like even if you were good, it's not a good existence. Right. Right.

I mean, however, if you were the most well-liked person, that would be the best version of being incarcerated that you could go through. And then a lot of you were also saying that like, you can feel buoyant before trial because things aren't, they aren't certain yet.

Yeah. And once that happens typically, obviously, like that's when the realization that you're, you know, you will be incarcerated, kind of sets in. So anyway, the other thing we found on a Monday, too, is the jury selection process.

So for starters, the judge is going to keep the jury anonymous due to his concerns of radicalized supporters and their health care grievances, becoming a distraction. Oh, they can't find a American court, like an American journey, a jury full of people who are neutral on

health care? We don't know. But the thing is, we want to keep it anonymous to not put the people that, those 12 people that will decide out of any kind of harm's way. It's not unprecedented. It happened with like Derek Chauvin's case. Like Zimmerman with Trayvon Martin. But to a live event like this, how do you keep them? Will they have mask on? No, no, no. It's just more that like there will be, you have no way of knowing who, who like what their names are. So unless you saw them and you're like, oh shit, that's fucking Lisa. I just feel like that's going to be easy to do. Yeah. In our modern world, you'd have to be in the court. Because we're all wearing the meta glasses. I was going to say, are they doing like the Dave Chappelle comedy bags? Right. No, no.

When you go to court? Well, the other thing is, too, like, the who's in there is going to be very tight. That's why, like, for the people, like, the women who've been dressing up as Luigi, the character at Luigi's other hearings who have been like there in support, they will not be even in the courtroom. Oh. So, and also, like, you never see a camera angle trained on the jury. jury. So it's just like, yeah, you'd have to be in there and be like, who is this person. I mean, in a time to kill, I did see that shot, actually, that angle. Yeah, well, that was a film, Jack, we've gone over that. Um, so anyway, now, like, the jury selection is going, is the process is

next and the defense and prosecution are now, like, crafting their jury questionnaires, you know, like that's step one so they can begin weeding out the people who they feel may help or hinder their cases. Um, the prosecution, to your point, Jamie, they're looking for people that, I'm not sure exist in that they want someone likely to be someone who's like familiar with health care, but doesn't see any problems with the status quo. So they're looking for kind of like a bunch of credulous dipships who have never had a problem before? They're like mostly other health care CEOs, probably. And so are you a health care?

Madam, are you a health care CEO? Are you a what about you? Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Huh. Huh. Another non-health care CEO. What is happening?

I'm sorry. We need a new venue. This has to be somewhere else. So the other thing, too, meanwhile, the defenses also had to do some tinkering. Like, they were initially considering an extreme emotional disturbance defense, relatable. But since he is facing both state and federal charges, the timing of the trials makes this difficult because, A, he can't use that defense in federal court. and B, to use it in state court, it's before the federal case.

So he would have to admit to the killing before the federal trial even starts, which would already be like, oh, okay, well, that's, nope, so I can't do that. So the strategy for a jury trial is a little bit easier for the defense. Find people who are, like, interested in, like, Medicare for all, or people who maybe have their own grievances with the health care system, or basically anyone under 35 is like another thing, too. So they have access to most of the state. Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like I like their chances better. Yeah. In terms of jury selection. Oh, yeah. And however, that ends up because they might find him guilty on other accounts, but here's the thing. So now, as I was writing this, we found out that his lawyers were asking for a hearing this Friday. And people were like, wait, well, they just sorted out this other thing.

So now that's feeling speculation that maybe he's going to take a plea deal. Oh, come on. Oh, Louie. And there's been rumored guilty to being adorable. And then he was just like, smile, great haircut. It was so funny because on one of these subredits, they posted a picture of him in court, and just everyone,

there were so many thirsty comments. Not even talking about the trial. It's like, Wood. One was just a, like a meme of a group of, like, figures made of wood.

Right. And they just posted that. I'm like, yeah, man, I don't know. Man, Luigi has really set a very special precedent for people.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's, again, for a case with this kind of scrutiny, like,

it's, there's a lot of interest. And like, so the other thing, too, is if it goes to trial, who knows what's going to happen with this hearing that's coming Friday, but like, they're like, can we get more overflow rooms? And the judge is like, look, man, like, is this going to turn to a circus. Yeah. And so we might as well set it in MS. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, MSG full of MetLife Stadium.

Hawkgirls dresses Luigi. Yeah. To the rafters. Hang his banner up. Hang his banner up. All right. Should we check in with the kid from Big Daddy? Yeah.

One of the Sprouse. Sprize. Spruces. Spruces. The spruces too. Don't give me down. Spruce. Yeah. Well, I only brought this up because we did an icon's episode on David Lynch.

David Lynch. And, you know, outside of his creative work, David Lynch is mostly known for his voice. Yeah. That goddamn hair, had a hair of his. The weather report. Yep. And cigarettes. And so then, so this story just came out because Dylan Spouse, who I will only recognize as one of the two twins that was the kid and Big Daddy.

That's a microgenerational thing then because it's like. Yeah, that's the sweet life of Zach and Cody. I don't know what the fuck that is. And then for like younger people, they're like, Cole Spouse was in Riverdale. Right. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Which I remember watching initially because I remember seeing the name in Her Majesty's like, oh, we should watch this show.

I'm like, oh, yeah, I know. That's the Big Daddy kid. I didn't recognize him because he's like in his 20s. And I'm like, no, this is weird. And also I think the teacher had sex with one of the students. And then the parents just told him to leave town. Yeah, yeah. That happens in every team show.

It happens in pretty little Irish as well. It's always like the fucking the consequences are, hey, man, you better get out. We could tell you guys that sounds like it's your fault. Yeah. What the fuck. So anyway, I do just want to say, to your point, I looked on Wikipedia to be like, what else has this kid done? There is not a mention of Big Daddy in the text.

It's on the list. And they were also the kids from friends too, right? They played, like, they played the, yeah. Millennials, that's how millennials, the elder millennials know the Sprousees. Yeah. So they mention his meedery, which is the thing that makes mead wine. He makes mead. He makes mead wine.

What a fucking dork. Child star business pivots are so funny. I'm also a luthier. or I make my own mandolins, which would actually be kind of cool. That would be cool. So Dylan Sprauss, he was just on a podcast

and he talked about, he said he stopped smoking because of David Lynch in a sort of indirect way. And this is from the Mary Stittal. I will just say David Lynch's letter about why he had to quit smoking was like driving me

to want to start smoking again. What was his letter about? It was just like, I love the feeling of the smoke going into my lungs. fucking my lungs with nicotine. But he just like made it set. He was like, do I regret it?

No. I'm dying here, but I like, don't regret my years of smoking. I loved everything about it. Wow. All right, David. Good lesson for the kids on that one. So this story begins at Chateau Marmal.

This is quote, behind me, I hear a voice, which I just know is David Lynch. I'm a massive David Lynch fan. How'd you know it was me? So I'm saying, He said, I literally

froze. He said that his wife was encouraging him to say hello, but he was so nervous. He's like, no, I can't fucking go. And she's like, just say fucking high to him. Like, what are you doing? Yeah. So then he says, this is what I'm always talking about.

Yeah. With you. So then he gets up, he says, quote, I'm out there. I go and I just go outside to have a cigarette. I go to light up my cigarette. David Lynch walks into the smoking section and goes, excuse me, young man. Do you happen to have a cigarette?

Sprouse then did what any person would do, gave one to cigarette, and a light proceeded to separate corners of a smoking deck, then enter Nash. I think they're outside, like they just parted ways. Oh, oh, they're just like separate corners of the smoking deck. Yeah, yeah. They proceeded to separate corners of the smoking deck. Yeah, yeah, sorry. I don't know how to read. Because he was afraid to say hi.

Oh, my God, he already handed the sig. That was your moment. Yeah. But if you've already, like, kind of been a chicken about it, that second operation. opportunity. I'm just like, I fucking suck. I was nervous.

Kill me. What? Hey, will you, if I smoke this, will you stick it in my eye well and sleep? Like fucking right here, man. While you look at me. Just take me out, man.

Oh, no, let me get my, let me get my breathing mask out. So then he says, walks up fucking Laura Dern. So he's getting the full fucking experience right now. Laura Dern walks up to Dave. Lynch and asks him for a cigarette.

Dylan Sprouse, or what is it? Dylan Sprouse, yeah, goes on to say, quote. And Lynch goes, sure. And he pulls out of his pocket a fresh pack of cigarettes and hands her one. She's like, can you light it for me? And he goes, yep, he lights her cigarette for her. So he has a lighter too. And it goes on, he was confused.

He's like, what? That's interesting. Oh, he's like, you had cigarettes? David Lynch loved sweet life. Yeah. And he says, and then until Lynch turned to him on his way out and said, quote, I just want to tell you, you're very polite. Thank you.

And walked away. And then he said, he stopped smoking because, quote, I'll never have a better cigarette than that in my entire life. The host of the show was like, dude, I would be smoking cigarettes harder. Yeah. Looking for him. Looking for him three packs a day. I got another one.

Yeah. That is God. Especially because if you're putting yourself in like Dillen's process position, when David Lynch turns back to you, you're like, wait, do you know who I was? He says, you're very polite. Thank you, young man. I mean, and I think that's when they were started speculating. It's like he, they feel that, you know, David Lynch could tell he was,

I clocked them and was like wanting to say something and then got up. So then he's just like, well, let me make the interaction then. And I'll ask you for a cigarette, even though I don't need one, but at least we can have that. And then, yeah, when Laura Dern pulls up, then, yeah, I got my own fucking cigarettes, of course. What the fuck you're talking about? But, you know, that's really sweet. Over a cigarette.

I love when people stop someone. smoking too. So good for Dylan Sprout. Yeah. Yeah. You love when people stop that's a big thing for you? You like like specifically at heart you do? Uh, yes. Because I know that it is like very hard. So, so, so, so, so, so hard. And yeah, I have, I mean, I hate cigarettes so much. Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever smoke? No. No. No. Both my parents smoked. Right. And so me and my brother growing up were like, never. And, and yeah, it's so, it's so crazy too because it's like my, my, uh, my dad, uh, who, died of cigarettes and, like, stopped drinking at some point. And I was like, which was, he was like, a hundred percent, like, stopping drinking was three million times harder. Or, no, three million times easier than stopping cigarettes. Yeah, because you can just do it in the world and meet David Lynch. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Why would you stop doing something where you might meet David Lynch while you're doing it? I'm doing it now. Honey, he's dead. Don't know. We're going to bring him back. I'm here, David.

He died from cigarettes. blowing clouds in the sky. But he said it was worth it. That is a crazy piece of business. That is so bizarre. Yeah. If you smoke it, I will come.

The read of that that he was just basically like kind of following this person around that he could tell was super into him. It's like interesting that he's just like. Yeah. Feels very lynchian. Yeah, very lynching. It does feel like, yeah, you're having like a weird dream where you, someone takes a cigarette from you, but then they have so many.

Yes. And they say you're polite and then leave the room. Like, I guess that's just how he operates. He barely has to write. Yeah. He's just like, what do they do today? Like if there was a nice person in a David Lynch movie. You know, because usually it would be like something, the thing they would say to you as they left would be fucking harrowing.

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so a story dropped while I was out of town on August 1st from the Wall Street Journal my favorite my favorite website about how bad the police botched the Nancy Guthrie investigation and it's

the mother of Savannah Guthrie the mother of Savannah Guthrie who went missing that video was fucking so scary where the guys like walking up and covers up the door bell camera. Right. There's just like so many stupid, stupid details of the police doing the dumbest shit. The charges in the homicide case were dropped for insufficient evidence.

Stivers and his detectives arrived at Nancy's house in the late afternoon on Sunday, February 1st. For hours, they gave little regard to the dried blood on the front porch, said people familiar with the investigation. They suspected the blood might have come from some unrelated head bump, nose bleed, or other incident incidental injury. He's like, so much out of their period. It's a lady. Yeah. She's a lady. By the door, right?

Yeah. Yeah. My wife does that. I've seen this a hundred times. On February 3rd, the sheriff opened his late morning news briefing by apologizing for any confusion he might have caused about the theory. of the department's theory of the case. I'm not used to everybody hanging on to my words and then trying to hold me accountable

for what I say. Holy fuck. Wow. He's got the language for it and everything. You said that out loud, man. He's got the therapy speak. He's just like, this is crazy. I've never been held accountable for me. If this was like any generation besides a boomer,

like the boomers will be like, you see? Yeah. You see what they're like? This kid doesn't know that they're, They got to, their words mean something? God. Dog it. God, dog it.

God, dog it. But I was just thinking about this yesterday, as we were talking about how everybody is backtracking their like woke one takes about defunding the police and like the police being bad. And it's just like, why isn't there a consistent group that is just constantly prosecuting the fact that. the police are fucking terrible at their job. Right, that you're trying to do the thing of like not freak out the people who are like, but we need police. Right. And just going, dude, these guys are, they fucking suck at their job.

I think it is the smartest in. Yeah. Do you feel like, what the phone? This is an Anna Guthrie's mom. You start going, dude, I could have fucking done. I would have like, yeah, that's fucking blood right. At the door. Yeah. At the door. Yeah. And it's like a, a new story that grabbed national media attention and like, Nobody took that angle at all.

They're just like, well, this one guy's a dope. And it's like, no, you look at any police case. That's what's happening. Just like, treat it as endemic of like what is happening. And you'll be able to like win some of these arguments when people are like defund the police. What the fuck you got to go out there. You know, just be like a progressive candidate. Like look, cops.

Hey, love you guys. But, man, you guys got to start fucking doing some work, man. Right. You got to be better to do your job. I can't keep a sign of these checks. Like one good job. I think probably a lot of this is connected to just like the how dismantled journalism is now too. It's like the cops have not gotten more competent.

People are just more scared of the state. But like there's not, I feel like the same level of rigorous reporting. Like I'm glad this piece exists, but like you don't really see that as much as you see it five years ago because they're all fired. Yeah. Yeah. They're all gone. Yeah. But yeah, I do feel like just a wing of the, you know, the leftist movement that is just constantly laser focused on like being like, it's not like that in theory that'd be great if they solved crimes. They don't. They do a bad job. And right. You're more like sort of like kicking out sort of the rhetorical defenses of policing. Yeah. Like one is always like, well, we need them to be safe. Okay. Right. How come they can't solve a fucking crime. How many. Riddle me this. People are there. Riddle me that.

They address this in one night only, you know? Do they? What? Yes. Monica Barbaro has to go to. Wait, they're actually. This is such, I didn't realize it's that much of a right-wing fantasy. It's, well, let me know what you think.

It kind of skews. We get to the center almost. Sure, sure, sure. In this one scene with the police where they were taken in for suspected fucking or whatever. And Monica Barbaro was like, do you really think this is a good use of your time and your life and taxpayers money. And the police officer's like, not really, but it's my

job. And then the movie just keeps going. Wow, just doing my job. So we just got just doing my job. She's just doing her job. And Monica Barbaro is like, all right, well, I can only have sex for 11 more hours. So I'm going to be leaving. I'll be on my way. I have to go dive into a sewer to get a

to, I'm sorry. To get eight hours like, oh, oh, oh. That I'm going to rinse off. Yeah. Is the world such that like condoms are like the golden tickets in Charlie and the chocolate factory. Oh, like they're like quailudes.

Like they stopped making them in the fucking 80s. No, they're still, they're sold at crazy inflation. On the day of. On the day. But it's like wouldn't people be stockpiling them like crazy? Also, married people can always have sex. So I imagine that they can buy or maybe they're not allowed to buy condoms and it's that. That's not.

That's actually gay sex. According to that one right-wing guy we talked about last week where he said if you're having sex to not procreate, then that's basically gay sex. Wow. All right. So you would have to like sit outside like I used to do when I was like 13. You sit outside of a liquor store and be like, hey man, could you buy me something? You'd just be like outside of a CVS looking for married couples going in. Hey man, you guys get some jimmies.

Rubbers. That's my favorite song of the summer. Oh, yeah. That's still happening. That still happens, which is I found comforting. When I saw obsession in Wisconsin a couple months ago, and there were like a couple, like 12-year-olds, there was like two or three 12-year-old girls that I guess they weren't allowed in because it's rated R. And they're like, could you pretend to be our aunt? Oh, that's good.

Could you pretend to be our aunt? I thought you mean they were like, can you buy alcohol for us? I was like, Jamie, no. No, they just wanted to go to obsession and then got turned away at the door. But I did say no. I was just like, I can't bring some loose kids into obsession. I can't do it. Slippery slope.

It's also, they will. Like I did that for lethal weapon three. I went to lethal weapon three. Too young. My dad got the tickets. Took my younger sister to see Ferngoly. We went into lethal weapon three and 15 minutes in the fucking people came and got our ass. Yeah.

What? They took you out? They took us out? Yeah. They, you got sent in and then somebody fucking narked on us because I was a fucking tipper gore or something. I was like, ultimately, I'm like, let the kids into upset. Like, I know it's not good for them, but it's like, it's a right of passage. I mean, I think we all think of, we all grew up seeing shit that was well above our mental pay grade or experiential sort of like database we could draw from.

I was like, these kids grew up on watching those demented YouTube videos where Spider-Man gets run over by a car. Like, I think they can have the hedgehog comes out of his mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they grew up with pregnant Shrek. Like, I think they can handle it. You're giving this whole speech outside of obsession. You're just trying to get, look, girls, I'm not going to pretend your B or aunt, but you will get in. Come with me.

I'm going to have a talk with this other teenager. Right. How do you know how old she is? Oh, she's your sister. Right, right, right. You were really going to have me sands up. Well, I think she should be allowed to see someone fucking explode or whatever happens. I haven't seen an obsession.

Is it good? Yeah, fine. Yeah. That's what I hear from everyone. They're like, this is the thing that is like the movie of the summer. It's interesting. Andy Richter should have gotten a good kill. Oh, he hired Andy Richter and then they didn't even kill him in a fun way.

Oh. It's crazy. He deserved that. I felt that way about the Odyssey, too. I felt like they're. Who'd you want to see Die? Well, just. I just.

I just like when you're stunt casting, it's like you have to do something fun. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, I get that. It felt like Robert Pattinson's death. Like, they really build it up and you're like, I can't wait. Yeah. Oh, that was him. You're right.

Yeah, yeah. I saw it too. Damn. I. They give him like the close on the face orgasm death where he's just like, oh. Like his eyes go out of focus. Yeah. That's what he looks like when he's coming.

Yeah. Yeah. And we know. And we know. And that is actually probably what the people want more than like an hair to the throat. Fucking. beggars, dude. Have you seen those memes, though, Jamie?

Are you aware of the Robert Pattinson beggars memes that keep coming up? Yes, yes. It's like the one thing that's escaped containment that people who don't know, they're like, is that the one where he's saying beggars? It's because his emphasis on that line, you know, in the film, he's like, get these beggars out of it.

The way he's hitting that explosive bee. Everyone's like, it just become like a giff and shit. Yeah, it's good times. He's such a little worm. He's great. And has to meet Chris Hanson. He's on a, I can heat her right now.

I know. Dude, him is great. It's going to be great. It's got to be great. Oh, he looks like he's like, it's like a look like half body horror, the trailer. And he's like, yeah. Like trying to fight his demons. Like, do I entrap people for prime time views?

My, my, I think there's going to be some, some Edward Cullen in, in the Chris Hansen performance. Oh. He plays a really sinister, scary guy and still make you be like, but let's hear him out. Yeah. I mean, he's kind of given that in Odyssey, right? He has his moments where you're like, he's a little charming. I hated his ass the whole time. No, I was rooting for him.

The most beautiful character a whole time. Be Tom Holland's dad. He's your daddy, Tom. He can't do nothing about it. Oh, my God. He's going to be so sad about this. Wait, what? Do we care about Field of Dreams?

Baseball? You care about baseball at all, Jamie? Do you remember Field of Dreams? I've never seen Field of Dreams. Was it that, no, I see, I always mix up Field of Dreams with Angels in the Outfield. Angels of the Outfield. Angels and Outfields great. Baseball Angels.

Yeah. Field of Dreams is baseball Angels as well. Yes. Okay. Big time. Okay. And Danny Glover, too. The lethal weapon in Angels in the Outfield.

Okay. Not in Field of Dreams. No. No, unfortunately. Okay. So the field from Field of Dreams, they do a baseball game there now. Okay. In Iowa.

In Iowa. The twins are playing the Philadelphia Phillies there. Everyone very excited about this. I thought this was a joke poster where David Harbour had lost a lot of weight. I don't know if you've seen this. You guys see? Wait, what is? I was like, this isn't real.

I don't even know what these two bases. That's David Harbor, I think. It does look like David Harbor like 1997. Yeah. Right, right, right. I'm like, oh, okay. So those are really really. That is a real place.

That's a real thing. Yeah, good to know. Okay, that's a guy. The movie Field of Dreams is guy builds a baseball field into his cornfield and ghosts from the 19, early 20th century come back and play baseball in his field. Okay. Which is really cool. That sounds cool. Losing his mind.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Unraveling, there's no ghosts. There's no ghosts. Okay. Let me guess. It's about fathers and sons somehow. And daughters. And daughters.

Daughters? Wow. Okay, twist. So it's a little progressive. Okay. But I don't know. It seems dumb because they're not even playing in a cornfield. They're just playing in a field now. So that they're playing near a cornfield. Yeah, everyone's alive. They're playing near a cornfield. That's like, it's not even David Harbor playing the Philadelphia. Not even David Harbor playing the Philadelphia. Yeah. I got, I got invited to like a viewing party for that tomorrow. And then I just kind of was like, What the fuck are you talking about it? What are you saying to me? You mean watch a baseball game? Why are people? Yeah, would you have like, I would niff or do that unless it was Hello Kitty night at the Dodgers. Oh, yeah.

But what, what? Trump's going to be there. What? At Hello kidding. No, I was fucking with you. I was like, no. Because the Dodgers have been so Trumpified with the ownership. God, yeah, they are going to have Maga Kitty.

Right. No. Well, I feel, you know, Hello Kitty is great for MAGA because she doesn't speak. Oh. Oh, wow. Thank you. Uh-huh. She's not.

You're going to let them claim her. Like, everyone's like, actually, this is the hottest thing. Have you ever heard that broad talk? Exactly. Yeah. Why do people care about this? It's a great question. I mean, Field of Dreams is a movie that, like, people fucking love.

It makes men cry, right? It makes men cry. It's like the first, yeah, they're just one thing that they're allowed to cry at. So they're like, oh, watching Field of Dreams again tonight because I need a good cry. It's a release film. Yeah. I saw a picture of my uncle. That reminded me something.

My uncle. Put on a field of dreams. There's all sorts of like local politics about like what there's like a local developer who are not a local from the big city of Chicago developers like trying to turn the field of dreams place into like 27 baseball fields. Yeah. It's like you know what's better than one good baseball field? For who? Wait. For what purpose?

You know. Just capitalism. Baseball City. Baseball City. Welcome to baseball city. Welcome to baseball heaven. Right, baby. You remember obviously the message of the film, the original intent of the film.

It was kind of the original data centers because everybody who was like on board with it got run out of office. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. 27 baseball fields. Right.

I'm thinking like Santa University style. I'm like if we're doing a field of dreams game, only one of the players is going to be alive. They all have to live. Yeah. And then the next year. They're all playing to live. Right. Like to go from ghost back into the living world.

Oh, it's kind of like the jellicle ball in that way. Yeah. Except I guess those cats want to die. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just let me die.

But yeah. So I hadn't really thought about the premise of field of dreams, but it's kind of mega-ish. It's about nostalgia for baseball, like how good baseball used to be, in a simpler, better time. And they're talking about a time when the league was segregated. So they're like doing the... When is the team from? Like the 1918 or it's like the Black Sox, the team that got caught cheating in the World Series and it was like, when America lost its... America lost its... Falling asleep. Innocence. Yeah. I think it's also a megacoded because it sounds kind of boring. Yeah. Boring is shit. It's difficult to watch. Okay.

loves corn and uh and uh things used to be better right when only whites played baseball anytime like that's always like the the such a good indicator of someone where they're like they talk like they talk about baseball and nostalgically because it is just one of those few sports that american cultures dug in to be like we can't fucking let this change too much like when kangaroo junior wear a hat backwards the fun with that practice motherfuckers lost their dad's tradition. Yeah. This field that they are playing at was built with COVID relief money.

So I do respect that. They're like, you know what? Well, shit. That's, ah, man. We got to do the rounds again on the COVID relief money because every once in a while, you find out where it went. And how did your business thrive? Oh, yeah.

I bought every happy meal toy that was ever created for my collection. Right. That's what I do with my COVID relief money. So he's losing his mind. And ghosts come back and play baseball. And it's like, people are like, it's actually anti-capitalist because he is like losing his farm because he's not making enough corn or fucking whatever because he built a baseball field into it. So it's like, does he do it for the love of baseball or the love of capitalism by selling more corn again, very boring? And then in the end, he's like, I'm actually able to keep my farm because I'm going to charge $20 per person to watch the ghosts. ghosts. Wait, he turns it into a business that is proof of the afterlife and he's only turning 20 dollars. No, I don't ask any questions

how that business will operate. When people go, holy fucking shoe is Joe Jackson, they fucking kill it. They would bring in like the guys that killed E.T. If that's, they would have been like, what's going on. I didn't know he turned his farm into an amusement party at the end. Ray Leota and Shulish Joe Jackson, one of those tents like E.

He's like, oh. They're like, you're killing them, man. Now, that's a good movie. It's just like a ghost. Yeah, Field of Dreams, too. They kill the ghosts the second time. That's wild that they just turned it into an amusement park.

Field of Dreams, too. And this one has two, two baseball parks, and then, like, all the way up to 27. Yeah, it's just about the modern baseball complex that's been built. But yeah, now tickets for this year's Field of Dreams game going for over $1,000. So I think he was... The fuck is paying for this shit. I don't know. Men are sick.

That's... Sickers. I just... They're all just, they cut to the crowd and they're all just weep crying. Like, live baseball. They're all saying, my uncle in unison. My uncle. Our uncles.

That's, yeah, they do like the wave. The wave. The wave. Yeah. Yeah. Good for them. Let me get it out of your system. Yeah, I don't fucking shoot.

God. They now I'm, I think, because we recently covered Honey I Shrunk the Kids. And there's one line in Honey I Shrunk the Kids that implies that the reason he's doing this shrinking technology, this kooky fun, Rick Moran's technology, is so he can sell it to the government and become a military contractor. And you have to think there's a way in for the field of dreams guy. Right. Like 20. He's thinking too small. Now I'm sort of like on his side and I'm his business.

consulting. Oh, yeah. Like $20 tickets. An army of the undead? My man. You have a zombie army. Yeah, I'm going to be all right. He's like, I'll bring back William,

Tacomsa, Sherman, fucking general McNamara. I can summon these fuckers. I feel like, don't freak out, but I am going to call the guys from E.T. Just to take a look at them. Just to see what's in there. We just want to make sure they're okay. He was so, he looked like, E.T.

looked like such shit, dude, when they had him. When they find him in that fucking string. and he's all like pale and shit. He looks like a dried up dog shit. He does. E.T. makes me cry every time, but that scene always makes me laugh when E.T. is like. It's crazy because I'm also feeling how I'm supposed to feel, but it's like it's so funny. He looks so busted and he looks like dried up dog shit when it turns white on the outside.

And I had made that connection in my unconscious mind, but I hadn't consciously made it. That's why I would always like, look, he looks like. You know how if you leave shit out too long? Or what were those like things that would be in like trail mix in the 80s that were like, it was like kind of like a fig? No, but it was like kind of like a white coating on the outside. The things that get a white crust when it's like too oxidated or whatever. That's anyway.

I'm just. Anyway, he looks like shit. Yeah. He looks like shit. He also can't read. E.T. looks like shit. Probably can't read.

Can read your mind. I think you have a way to pivot the. Wait. I have a stunt cast. E. T. Jamie laughed us. I'm going to rent a rubber

costumes. And I'm like, I've got way too much shit on me. You get the dying E.T. I'm like, it wasn't, it didn't look like this. Oh,

that would be so great. If you had two kids and one kid was living E.T. The other was dying. It's a good sibling costume. That is really good. It's nice. Jamie.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's such a pleasure having you. Where can people find you, follow you? You know what? You can find me on Instagram at Jamie Christ Superstar. While you're at it, you can find me on Blue Sky. And I still have a Twitter account. I have only posted on it once in the last calendar year. And it was a minion gummy that I had that melted. And it looks scary. And I wanted to share that with my long dormant audience of bots. Really excited.

Yeah, and then you can also buy my, you can pre-order my next book that comes out in June. It's called The Tower. It's a novel. It's perverted. Oh, no. Sorry, it's scary. How can you make something perverted in a world where you can only have sex one night a week? It takes place. One night a year. I didn't want to bring it up, but I do feel like there's a bit of a premise steel situation because it does take place on

the one night a year where we're single we can still have sex. I hate this night. I love that line in the trailer so much. I hate this night. Sex is gross.

Am I right? Didn't they cut all the sex out of the movie too? It's like not a very sense. Was there any nudity? He cut up a lot of the nudity, right? There was one nipple, and it was

Daniel Craig's daughter? Oh. Not to just... She's in the movie? No, in real life. But anyways, she was great. She had my favorite character

in the movie. She was having fun. But everything else, no nipples, no, no shirt. I mean, Duelap his husband was shortless a couple times. Didn't do anything for me. It is a very sexless movie. Yeah. To the point where the end is, isn't this amazing?

We waited. Like that's the, we waited to have. Promise ring. Yeah, truly, it is very chastity built culture. And my book is not. So the tower, you can, you can reorder it now on bookshop. There you go. Yeah.

Is there where comedia you've been enjoying? Yes, I'm looking for it. It's a blue sky post from a Star Wars convention of a whole, wait, I texted it the other day. It's a blue sky post of Jabba the Hutt's Sons. It's like a herd of people all wearing Jabba the Hutt's Sun cosplay, screaming down a hallway, I'm my own man. I have to find it. I didn't even see that movie, and that's saying something because I'm a big Babu fricking.

I didn't even see it, and it just took me the fuck out. It's just so, I'm my own man. I like that he's been adapted as camp. Did you see that movie, the Mandalorian Grogo? No, it was not of my business. It's not of my business. That was, okay, here it is. Here it is.

Wait. And they're wearing like the most cumbersome looking costume I've ever seen. Is that what Jeremy Allen White wears in the... Jeremy Allen Hut. Yeah, that is his character. He's like jacked Jabba. Wow. I like it.

I've been seen it, but I'm like, you know what? It's kind of fun that they just kind of ran out of ideas. What if Jabba the Hut was fucking ripped and hump? ripped and insecure. The problem with Jabba as a character is like, I want to fuck him. Miles, where can people find you? Is there working media?

You've been enjoying. Yeah, find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. I'm talking about 90-day fiancé, I'm 420-day fiancé. I'm talking about football, soccer, on Aina Footie with Jamal Johnson and Chris Martin. Please subscribe to that show. It's going to be independent.

So you won't be able to be able to. catch it on this feed anymore. So to support, please subscribe to the A&Footy. Go subscribe. Won't you? Don't you please? Visit me at my mausoleum. And also, just a thing that I've, not really like a funny tweet, but Jared Holt,

past guest, friend of the show, he posted just this thing because right now, the establishment is like so thirsty to fucking try and blunt like the momentum of progressives and like, you know, DSA, or leftist candidates. And he posted, as from Blue Sky, Jared Holt. B. He's got a social posted, the centrist think tank, third. Dirtway is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as, quote, anti-extremism work, which I find completely disgusting.

So, yeah, this is where it's at now where there's no point. I don't even think they're like, usually we could co-opt this. And then like, I think we're not to do everything. We'll try and co-opt it. If we can't do that, look, we'll get Kamala to start talking about like Palestine a little bit. We'll just see what we can come up with, or we'll just have to kneecap them. All right. We'll see.

Speaking of DSA, because this comes up, so I'm there, in L.A, there's a DSA prom happening on Friday night, and I think there's still tickets. I'm one of the chaperones. Oh. So everyone's encouraged to wear a prom. People who are dancing too close? No horny people. I'm going to be bringing one night only energy to the DSA prom. This is the one night here.

The GSA people are allowed to have to. Let's check those tattoos. is looking red to me. What is she doing? Why does she have a machete? He keeps licking the blade and looking at me. But it'll be fun. It'll be at Friendship Auditorium.

So if you're in the area, you should come. Nice. Yeah. Tweet, I've been enjoying. Patrick Fisackerley. Nailed it. I tweeted. On the George Lucas talk show,

Jared Harris said that when they were working together on Lincoln, at the end of the day, riding back to base camp, Daniel Day Lewis, still doing the Lincoln voice just asked him a bunch of questions about madmen. Wow. I just really imagine that.

It's so nice thinking about Daniel Day Lewis being a fan of somebody. I know. Yeah, exactly. Instead of him like, what are these newfangles like? So Don Draper. Seems cool. Oh, I just, you see the New York Post or California Post wrote about DSA Pro? I just saw it.

No, really? And in like the most bad faith. Yay. No complete misunderstanding of what anything means. politically said DSLA Cashes in on nostalgia as it's set to host Y2K prompt and they're charging for tickets.

Nothing says down with capitalism, quite like selling tickets to a party. What do they think? Is that capitalism? Wait, this is great. They captioned the flyer, the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America

is throwing a Y2K theme prompt Friday night. And the glittery affair isn't just about reliving the days of low-rise jeans and Lil John. Totally, totally. I do actually think that that is like largely what we'll be doing, but there will be some really cool people there as well. This rocks.

Their promotional pitch asks, do you hate capitalism but love to dress up? The answer comes with a ticket. The mission is pay what you can with community listings recommending a $15 starting tier and higher tier is reaching $40 and beyond. Why? That's sick. What the fuck? I'm actually, I'm not.

I'm going to believe in money. You're socialist, but you, hold on, you have money? I'm dropping out. I'm sorry. Why do you have currency? You're not allowed. You're not allowed to have money. You can't pay for things with money.

You can't have post-billion. You can't have money. You can't have dresses. You can't have dance. Yeah, sorry. Not in this economy. Not allowed. No, it's going to be so much fun.

It's going to be a prom full of socialist. You actually have to give me all your money. If you go to that prom, you have to give me all your money. I think pay what you can is particularly violent. How dare they? Yeah, exactly. Interesting. They're just not giving all their money to them.

Right. That's what I thought you're supposed to do. Damn, Doug. Shout out post. Hey, maybe we're socialist too because we bought a ticket to something. That's crazy. To the field of dreams. It's just kind of interesting.

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