The Daily Zeitgeist - "Garfuriosa" Portmanteau Not Powerful Enough, Orcas NOT Based Just Bored 05.29.24

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

In episode 1683, Jack and Miles are joined by TV writer and creator of Gone Native, Joey Clift, to discuss… Orcas Not Based... Just Bored & Juvenile, Boeing Won’t Fix Its Leaky Shuttle Before Launch, The Reagan Movie Will Be Even Worse Than You Think, “Garfuriosa” Fails At Memorial Day Box Office and more! Orcas Not Based... Just Bored & Juvenile Boeing Won’t Fix Its Leaky Shuttle Before Launch NASA and Boeing Are (Finally) Putting Astronauts on Starliner Boeing's first crewed flight to the International Space Station moved to June after 'small leak' on new capsule was fixed The Reagan Movie Will Be Even Worse Than You Think REAGAN Movie Official Trailer (2024) The spy who watched me: new Reagan biopic will be from KGB pov Creed's Scott Stapp Has Been Cast as Frank Sinatra in a Dennis Quaid-Led Ronald Reagan Biopic NANCY REAGAN, SINATRA HAD AFFAIR, WRITER SAYS Woman at Center of Roe v. Wade Stars in Abortion-Themed Movie The Real Jane Roe The plaintiff of Roe v. Wade made a big revelation on her deathbed. Here’s what it means. “Garfuriosa” Fails At Memorial Day Box Office WEEKEND BOX OFFICE RESULTS: FURIOSA EDGES OUT GARFIELD IN WORST MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IN DECADES It Is Not Shocking That ‘Furiosa’ Is Struggling At The Box Office, Despite Reviews LISTEN: Are You Looking Up by Mk.GeeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wee-Bowling Yeah, yeah. We bowling. We bowling. We bowling. We bowling, bro. We bowling, rolling on. Oh, wait, no. Isn't that R. Kelly? Oh, you guys talking about we bowling? Oh, shit. Yes. Yeah, that's right.

Joey, how are you with the we bowling? I would say not good, but I'm a we bowling appreciator, but not a we bowling pro. How are you IRL bowling? Okay, so I feel like I could have been a good bowler, but I like my first 10 years of bowling i just tried to purposely bowl really badly like i would do vertical layups and like fuck up the lane with the ball or it's like i would try to do like no look shots right yeah and it's like yeah yeah totally totally totally it's like i feel like uh if i actually tried i could have been a good bowler, but I was too busy just trying to do it for the lulz, you know?

Right, right. Yeah, because that also insulates you from when it doesn't happen. You're like, dude, I don't care. I'm just doing it. Did you see? I wasn't trying. You had tears rolling down your face. Yeah, that was me sobbing.

That's the better approach. If I wasn't perfect, the second I tried something, I'd rage quit it sometimes. Oh, yeah. No, you got to do everything ironically, man. Don't do... I drive my car ironically. There's quote marks on everything I do.

Yeah, yeah. This swerve. Oh, oh, oh. People look over and you're almost side-swiping them and you're rolling your eyes and doing the jerk-off hand motion. No, I'm just like, oh, this guy gets it. It's not real driving. This is my wacky driving.

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presented by Capital One, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 340, episode 2 of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, a production of iHeart Radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into American shared consciousness, and it is Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. Mm-hmm. 529. We're almost there. 29th, 2024. Mm-hmm. 529. We're almost there. It's also National 529

Day, which is everybody saving up for college. One of those 529 savings plans. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For the kids. Also, National Flip Flop Day, National Coco Vong Day, National Paperclip

Day, and National Senior Health and Fitness Day Get fit y'all Do some strength training Gotta do some strength training olds Gotta do it And mobility Olds And that is how they prefer to be addressed

So I think we're winning some converts right now My dad gets a kick out of it when I say that to him What's up olds? Yeah what's up olds? Yeah With our recent uptick in bird and hummingbird content, I think we are attracting an older and older demo. I, too, am one of the olds.

Yeah. Do some strength training, olds. Don't do cardio. You'll fall over and hurt yourself. Stop doing pickleball, man. Start doing some fucking deadlifts. Deadlifts. My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a.

Been golfing in the streets and hitting my ankles. Swinging my clubs at public pastries. Golfing the streets and out of L.A. though. Golfing with Miles, but it's business talk free.

That is courtesy of Hanoramic View on the Discord. In reference. It's a little peace frog In reference to our conversation about golf Specifically Schoolboy Q Saying he made more money golfing Than rapping Somehow

Let him go on a tour again Hopefully Maybe just golf Rooting for rap to beat out golf Anyways go on a tour again. Hopefully, if he still made it, I'd be like, maybe just golf, dude. Rooting for rap to beat out golf. Anyways, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray!

It's Miles Gray, aka Deadlift Shrimp, and aka... Just thinking about that, telling the olds to deadlift. But anyway, that's me AKA Please take long Till November

Please take long Till November Take your sweet time Please take long Till November Please take long Till November Please take long

Till November Please take your sweet time Please take long Till November I can't believe That this is the last week Of May It's almost June

So all I can say Is take long Till November Take long Till November And give a kiss to my mother. All right. Shout out No Clue on the Discord. That old Wyclef John, gone till November. And as I've been saying almost on a daily basis, please take your time, November.

Take your time. We're good. We're good here, November. Just like the in-between. Just the in-between space. That's fine. That's fine for now. here november just like the in-between just the in-between space uh that's that's fine that's fine for now well miles we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by a brilliant tv writer

performer and enrolled member of the cowlitz indian tribe who's written on shows for nickelodeon cartoon network dreamworks the nick the netflix animated series spirit rangers yeah he's the creator of the brilliant web series gone native please welcome back to the show the hilarious the talented joey cliff hey everybody i'm joey cliff aka oh i'm joey cliff oh guest it on the psych guys take my hand We'll record it, I swear. I'm on the Daily Psych, guys. Shout out to me 15 seconds ago when I realized, oh shit, I have to do a parody song

about myself. You just did that 15 seconds ago? That was off the dome, bro. That was off the dome, man. On the Daily Z! Yeah! We're fucked, Jack. This guy came up with that in 15 fucking seconds. It took an entire Discord server to help us. Yeah. We're fucked, Jack. This guy came up with that in 15 fucking seconds. Yeah. It took an entire Discord server to help us.

Fucking genius. I mean, it's better than usually. Usually, like, you start singing and then I'm just like, oh, shit, Google popular song. And it's just like, okay, can I do the not like us verse, but like about like certified podcast, certified Joey cliff. Yeah. There you go. I had like a little bit of headway. Yeah.

I've noticed a lot of our guests block out the part where we sing in their memory. So it's, they just remember when we start singing, they're like, Oh God, I forgot. This show is weird as fuck.

Yeah. How you been, Joey? I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I really excited to be back in the Daily Zeitgeist. I just won a Webby Award a week or two ago. Yeah. You got a Webby trophy behind you.

I do. Did you go to the ceremony? Not. I did a number of years ago. It was like 2010, maybe? So the Webby Awards, it's such a, you probably know this, but the Webby Awards is such a wild experience.

It's like the Emmy Awards are people who work in TV. The Oscars are people who work in movies. Whereas the Webby Awards is just people who do stuff on the internet. Yeah, right. So it's just like, you'll find yourself in a conversation with like Governor Gretchen Whitmer

and then three seconds later a conversation with like the person who makes memes for the AARP's Twitter account. And then like the fourth blippy body double like in case the first three are out. Oh yeah, like my go-to hangout group for the ceremony was

a person who has a popular website about birds and then also a founding member of the 1970s new wave band, The Go-Go's. It's like... Wow! It's just like a fever dream of an experience. So if you're listening, I recommend winning a Webby. I think it's a good idea. It's a fun experience. Wait, which of the

Go-Go's? Was it Jane? Yeah, yeah. She was super nice. Sorry, I didn't mean to like drop first yeah i feel like but jane weedland is like i feel like the most visible go-go usually yeah jane weedland also uh also somebody in a grimace costume from mcdonald's was there so it's me jane weedland fucking grimace yeah it's like yeah it's like me jayweedland grimace and somebody who has a fun blog who lives in eugene oregon right right right or wiseland i could be do you know

what grimace was being honored for uh i i think it was okay so there was a i'm probably gonna butcher this but i feel like there was like a like a Grimace flavored McDonald's shake that they had like a promo for. It was a big topic on this show. So I'm just curious, did they win for all the like viral clips of the Grimace milkshake, like brainwashing people into like killing? Oh, yeah, it was that. Yeah, I assume it was that. I didn't look. I didn't ask questions. We knew this all along. This was our plan.

You're welcome, the internet. And that was the one. Okay, so folks like Julie Louise Dreyfuss was there. There were a lot of other big folks there. Did not take selfies with any of them, but the guy in the Grimace costume, I was like, oh, I got to document this. How'd that shit smell? Honestly, it smelled kind of nice.

It smelled like a little bit of grape. Just like the milk smells like the milkshake tastes. Blueberry and grape. Best viral PR campaign? Oh, is that what they won? Yeah.

Wyden and Kennedy won that award. Don't you feel like the internet was doing a lot of work for them on that one? I was going to say, look, shout out. I know, I know people who work at Wieden, but come on, man. You know that was us, bro. That was us. That was us. So really, all of us won that Grimace win.

Yeah. That's what you're saying. Exactly. They probably didn't specifically reference the Daily Zeitgeist's theory that it's fully Grimace cum. Because I think a lot, some of the other viral videos like had a more when i uh when i did get a selfie with grimace he did whisper that in my ear and you're like and my name is brett i'm just a guy in a suit you're like oh i thought you were the real grimace oh my god no this is weird now this is so much weirder

all right joey we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a few of the things we're going to talk about later on. We are going to talk about new research into orcas. The ramming incidents off the Iberian Peninsula have not gone away. And in fact, there's been 650 since 2020. So science immediately got to work trying to figure out what's going on. We'll talk about what they found. The answer is not satisfying. We will talk about Boeing choosing not to fix the leaky shuttle before launch. We'll talk about the new Reagan movie starring Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan.

It's a journey. They just released the new trailer and it's a journey. They just released the new trailer, and it's pretty wild. And we might even get to Gar Furiosa. Actually, we'll definitely get to Gar Furiosa. We'll definitely get to Gar Furiosa with our esteemed guest today. So they were trying to do the Barbenheimer thing with Furiosa and the Garfield movie, and it didn't work from a box office perspective,

but your results may vary. I think a lot of people, I know a lot of people who went and saw Furiosa and enjoyed that. And I think I know somebody who might've seen Garfield and enjoyed that. So all of that, plenty more, but first Joey, we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? we do like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history? Okay. So the last thing for my Google search history is a question. Is one pull up a lot of pull ups?

So I've started, like I've, I've, I think I've talked about my personal fitness journey on the daily zeitgeist a little bit, but I've just reached the point after a year and a half of working with out with a personal trainer that I can do one pull-up and I'm very proud of myself for it. I feel like I'm at the point where if I see a bar hanging above my head, I don't care what time of day it is. I don't care where I'm at. I don't care how I'm dressed. I'm going to bust out exactly one very struggled pull-up.

Or do the one, the kind I do where you use your upward momentum from a jump to be like, yeah, man, I'm up and down. No, no, no. I used to be able to do that. No, this is a full hang. Okay, you know, this is a full, yeah, this is a real pull-up. They're probably on HGH or some shit.

Nobody can do a fucking pull-up like that. Oh, yeah, I mean, we're recording this over Zoom. Nobody can do a pull-up. If I can, what the fuck? The entire Zoom window are my muscles, yes. Yeah. I mean, like, look, Brock Lesnar can probably do one, maybe one and a half pull-ups. I doubt it. I'm just saying.

I doubt it. Pull-ups are, that was the one part of the presidential fitness test. Oh. I didn't even attempt. Yeah. I was just like, go up and I'm out of here. I'm not going to let you see me squirm. Anything like that.

The strength shit, like the push-ups, I was like, miss me with that. The stretch, you want to see how flexible these hammies are? Oh, yeah, that's right. You want to see me touch my toes? Yeah. Watch me fuck up this little wooden box with the inaccurate lines drawn on it, like the one we had at our school to gauge however flexible

you were. And then the other one, shuttle run. Killing it at the fucking shuttle run yeah that's impressive yeah oh yeah like wind sprints yeah pull-ups yeah yeah get the fuck away from me man was rope climb universal did everybody do the we didn't have rope climb at ours we we had a rope climb in mine i could not i could i just that was that was my like oh there's just no way i could ever yeah same like the hey pull-ups and rope climb were were a real mess for me well congratulations on the one pull up yeah yeah hell yeah i'm still too afraid to try but hey you can do it man you give hope to

to those of us who just got up there and it's it's hard my body's so heavy the thing is my body's so heavy my arms so weak i can't support my own weight what is something you think is underrated i'm gonna say the chris pratt garfield movie yeah all right i saw it this weekend and honestly okay look there were like a couple minor like you know script issues or whatever but honestly it's, it's delightful. It's really good. It's clear that they're coming from a place of like loving the, you know, loving the world, loving the characters. There's a moment where a character is frustrated. And as an exclamation, they say, Jiminy Davis, like, you know, Jim Davis, the creator of

Garfield. So it's like, it's just clear that there's they're coming from a real place of like love. And honestly, like I went into it, went into it kind of not with the highest expectations, but coming out of it, I was like, oh, wow, this is probably the best piece of Garfield media since Garfield and Friends came out in the 80s.

Mike, I was in a fast casual restaurant with my kids, Burger Lounge, and they had a... Shout out to Burger Lounge. Shout out to Burger Lounge. And they had a little tv with a garfield promotion like happening every 15 seconds and they came away with lots of questions there's a garfield movie like good and is there a garfield tv show and like i was like yeah but i don't think it's good but we can check it out maybe and they're like why what's bad about it I was like, yeah, but I don't think it's good, but we can check it out maybe.

And they're like, why? What's bad about it? I was like, I don't fucking know, man. I don't know, man. I mean, I think, I think, I think you'll have a good time watching that movie. And honestly, like, you know, I feel like there was a lot of conversation about Chris Pratt beforehand. And I would say that Chris Pratt's Garfield is inoffensive. It's like, it's, you know, it's fine. Yeah.

No, the Mario I think was genuinely like bad but like right but his garfield is like fine sure as long as you nail the energy of garfield is there any references to sending od to abu dhabi uh that's what the third act is about no there's that was like there's a couple of like yeah they don't kick od off of a table i think that maybe they've learned something about the whole animal abuse thing. But it's Odie, you know what I mean? Yeah, John, you know, they definitely sanded off the deep incel vibes of the comics. Right, yeah.

Sure. No, it no longer seems like John is a desperately lonely person who's created Garfield or is imagining Garfield and Garfield's actually dead. Right. Oh, I mean, that is what does the third act reveal. That is the whole shit. Yeah, yeah. who's created Garfield or is imagining Garfield and Garfield's actually dead. Right. Oh, I mean, that is what does the third act reveal. Yeah. That is the whole shit.

Yeah. Yeah. The collar falls off his neck. He's like, I am Garfield. I am Garfield. What is, uh,

what's something you think is overrated? The Bill Murray Garfield movies. I think that people like those and I don't think that Bill Murray's a good Garfield. So yeah, I just think in general, the difference between these two Garfield movies to me is I feel like the Bill Murray Garfields were annoyed or too cool to be making a Garfield movie, and I feel like that was Bill Murray's energy is like,

I'm too good for this. Whereas I feel like the Chris Pratt Garfield movies, they're like stoked about making a Garfield movie, and it's great. He made it on purpose. That's always a big improvement, I feel like the Chris Pratt Garfield movies, they're like stoked about making a Garfield movie and it's great. Right. He made it on purpose. That's always a big improvement. I feel like when everybody involved, including the star, is making a Garfield movie on purpose. Yeah. They're like, this doesn't he thought it was a Coen Brothers movie. I don that bill murray knew it was not a coen brothers movie i think that's just a thing that he says to try to maintain his cool points for being in a coffee yeah if that makes sense yeah like i i think that that's like a line that he's

saying to try to maintain his cred yeah right yeah oh i didn't the guy who voiced him in the tv series which is the one i grew up watching yeah lorenzo music yeah i was like what a fucking sick name dude yeah that guy runs so music like i mean lorenzo music to me is probably the best garfield voice yeah that's like me yeah that's not that is garfield yeah yeah yeah in this house lorenzo music is the voice yeah yeah bill murray not my garfield exactly larry is not Garfield. And he didn't believe it was a Coen Brothers movie. Damn, this dude.

Man, I'm, you know, I'm a little bit ashamed that I did not know. Yeah, he was like a big, he was a big sitcom star in the 70s, I believe. And he passed away in 2001. Just a month or two before 9-11. Are those things connected? Maybe. Right. We don't know.

Yeah, we don't know. Just ask Quentin just three days a lot of theories he passed away three days before usher released his iconic 8701 album yeah so it's connected maybe what does 8701 mean you know yeah it could be august 7th 2001 we don't fucking know were those the flights no way to check no way those flight numbers honestly no way to know no we don't know but very well could be amazing all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about some news we'll be right back i'm jess casaveto executive producer of the hit netflix documentary series dancing for the Devil, the 7M TikTok cult. And I'm Clea Gray, former member of 7M Films and Shekinah Church. And we're the host of the new podcast, Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And we're back. Weird. So are the orcas. My mic sounds nice. Oh, I was going to say, your mic sounds really nice. Yeah, I like the intro to the podcast.

That's just a vocal warm-up. What do you got there? Is that a mic everyone uses in podcasting? My mic sounds nice. Let me just guess. Is that a Shure SM7 you're coming out? SM7B? Let me just close my eyes and listen.

Yeah, that's going to be a SM7. Oh, yeah. That's that SM7. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think that's a SM7. Jack, let me hear you say marmalade one time. Marmalade. Oh, yeah.

I heard all those syllables. My mic sounds nice, but it smells like shit. I gotta change this sponge on the top. Oh, man, this sponge has been putting in work since the pandemic. I gotta say, I just,

I also have the same mic. I just smelled my sponge, and it smells gross. I should change this. Yeah, it's, look, we gotta lock the table. Apparently, I drink coffee, is what I'm learning. Anyways, my sponge and it smells gross i should change this yeah it's uh look we got apparently i drink coffee is uh what i'm learning anyways uh put it down here i think i'm spitting bits of ground beef onto mine yeah i mean you are just eating a log of ground beef that's true yeah right but the kind you get at the store that's in the tube you're just squeezing it out like a go-gurt. Like a meat go-gurt.

Take it out of the plastic tube before you cook it. Chewing it like a fucking banana. It's like, oh, I mean, you know, live your life. You should maybe cook that, dude. No, it's fine. It's 80-20. It's 80-20. More fat.

Tastes better. Less bacteria. All right. Oh, orcas. Orcas. We've been fans since 2020 when they've started ramming the yachts of wealthy people. Not the yachts of the middle class and poor. The yachts of the destitute.

One of those poor people yachts. They've specifically been targeting the yachts of the wealthy. targeting the yachts of the wealthy. And, you know, some of us got pretty invested in the ideas that the orcas were going to lead us to overthrow hyper capitalism. Yeah. The proletarian revolution. We thought we, maybe we were on the heels of it, but yeah, like apparently the governments of Spain and Portugal ordered a study because

they're like rich people's boats are getting hurt. We don't, what the fuck's going on and they got all these top experts to come to the conclusion that basically boils down to their kids and they're having fun that's it and i'm like you mean to tell me they also didn't see that mooncat video about crypto and got radicalized no fuck uh no it's just i'm sure some of them did but the numbers actually aren't great with the yeah yeah not great not great um but their testes do have microplastics in it that is one thing we do that is a constant in the natural world uh but apparently they're bored this is uh this is a quote quote the sea is a very boring place for

an animal uh says renal du steanie, president of marine life preservation organization Searcy. Imagine if you're a dog or some other mammal. You can interact with objects around you. But in the sea, there's not much for the orcas to interact with. So they play with the rudders. So they play with the, how you say, rudders? Play with the rudders. Incredibly offensive.

I, first of all, don't know if I'd blame the sea so much as what we've done to the sea by thinning out the wildlife and killing all the life. Here's the thing. It's boring out there. It's made at best. My takeaway from this is that we got to just throw some Nintendo Switches in the sea, you know? Yes. Thank you. Yeah, get them doing something.

Yeah. The scientists believe, quote, young juvenile orcas who tend to be more curious and exploratory started the trend, which then spread through the population. Apparently, as they say in this article, orcas like humans love following trends. The highly intelligent social mammals are known to experience fads among their pods. For example, there was this thing in 1987. There were pods of orcas that were going around

wearing dead salmon as hats for no other apparent reason other than everyone else was doing it. Oh, yeah. I mean, that was me in the 80s, too. I just thought it was a good bug. Dead salmon hats. Freshly cleaned salmon, split it open, wear it right on top of your head. Boom. me in the 80s too i just thought it was dead salmon yeah yeah just this yeah freshly cleaned salmon split it open wear it right on top of your head boom got a got the new headwear in demand

head so i guess this was like their stanley quencher era for orcas yeah it wasn't the dead salmon hats yeah uh i'm just gonna say okay so like i totally understand the frustration of you know we want orcas to be standing up against the bourgeoisie and smashing yachts. But them just being people that are bored and doing stuff to fuck around does make them more relatable. Yeah. It's just as relatable in a different way. And I gotta say, like, look, the

school that I went to on the Tulaliprez, our mascot was the orca. And, you know, I feel like every, yeah, it's like every year I'm more proud of like, hell yeah, you guys represented us well. You know? Yeah. That's a good mascot.

Did you see, they fuck up Great Whites like on the regular? Oh, yeah. I mean, they're called, that's why they're called Killer Whales, you know? Yeah. They were named by Great White Sharks. Yeah, yeah. They're like, yo, get these Killer Whales away from us. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's Killer like, oh, they're fucking killer, yo.

But they also are murderers. Apparently, they like to just rip out their livers. Yeah, they are very wasteful when it comes to a great white shark's carcass. They just go for the liver. You'd eat way more, huh? If you had that opportunity, you'd do way more damage. I'd eat the whole damn thing. There you go.

That's what I want to hear. I think it's interesting. Like if the orcas were literally eating poor people, we still wouldn't have a study completed. But like they ram yachts and they're in operation fucking warp speed to like get an explanation out. I love that. We need a vaccine for these orcas to stop attacking the yachts. But also like this is so vague and diffuse and like this science, the scientist's explanation being like the sea is very boring, you know, they just come like this just feels like what like they needed to come up with a thing because they were afraid of what the orcas had started and so their explanation is both like they're just bored just like you and me we're

all bored and so play with your smartphones dum-dums and also uh they're just like us it's a fad uh like you know how we all like to go shopping hey why don't you go shopping they're also dog piling on Drake very tasteless but just reframing it as like a fun fad that they're doing for boredom like like one of those TikTok dances why don't you go back to your TikTok dances

yeah if you shoot if you shout certified lover boy in a pod of whales they will bloop back certified you know what that was like dude that was a minor that they did all right thank you willie but the one scientific thing that may explain more than anything is that the bluefin tuna population which is like one of their main sources for food has like exploded in the area so it's made like they're they just spend way less time hunting because food is just so

readily available at the moment that they have more time to fuck around yeah that one just rather than be like dude it's pretty mid out there in the straight of gibraltar so like you know they're just trying to turn shit up they They're micro dosing and stuff doing wild stuff. But yeah, it's more just like we have more time because food is just so available. So what if this was like rich person propaganda? Like, oh, it's not because we suck. It's because they're bored. Like, how do we trust this study? Yeah, it's just like rich people being like, oh, the orcas think we suck and hate us, that's real bad PR for rich people. We got to say that it's not because they hate us.

They're bored and they're playing with us because they think we're cool? Yeah, really, we're the cool ones in this situation. Robert, do that character you do, Renaud du Stephanis, and just let them know it's because the ocean's fucking mid as fuck. These journalists fucks will eat it up. Like the ocean's like fucking mid as fuck. These journalists fucks will eat it up. It's also like the explanation is basically like they, what happened to a lot of people when we had like shut down during the pandemic and had more time on our hands,

we all started wanting to attack rich people's yachts. Yeah, like I bid a couple of yachts in 2021. I tried. It was not successful, but we all rammed it with our foreheads. Yeah, yeah. I told you that. I had one real sick pull up on that yacht. Dude, I threw a full 20 ounce Sprite in a plastic bottle right out of the yacht.

Missed it. They knew what time it was. Yeah. You were trying to christen it and they broke it. That's what the poor yacht owners do. You looked at the bow of the yacht and you were just like, nobody's christened this in a while.

Might as well just fill this two liter up with piss and throw it out of the yacht and christen it. Just an update from Boeing. We always like to check in with this company because we're proud of the good work that they do as Americans. Presenting sponsor of the Daily Zeitgeist. Presenting sponsor of the Daily Zeitgeist, Boeing. We can't stop fucking up. with Boeing to build a space taxi. Like I'm, I'm assuming they came up with that title after watching the fifth element that can ferry astronauts to the ISS international space station.

And it's been, it's a little behind schedule. So the original flight test was due in 2017. Right now they're talking about getting it off the ground in june of 2024 so that's a slight seven years behind schedule that so they did an a successful uncrewed flight to the iss in 2022 and it but it wasn't like fully successful there was an issue with the vehicle's parachutes that required modifications and new tests and they also noticed a small leak in the helium tanks and nasa after seven years of dealing with these motherfuckers is just like we're good man let's just fucking do the thing so they're going to do they're gonna go to the

international space station with a manned like flight with small helium gas leak going they're just like uh i don't know i just want to say about that if you're a boeing whistleblower and they offer you a ride on that space taxi don't do it it's a trap yeah but this will be its first astronaut launch and it's going to happen at the beginning of june after spending the past few years struggling with more problems that just like keep popping up they're essentially like i fuck it like yeah they basically we're doing it live fuck it we'll do it live i don't know they could probably fix it when they're up there yeah that's um i mean i don't know like all i think of is like the challenger and just how like little things turn into a lot of things very quickly the challenger was a like the story behind

the challenger was they knew exactly what the problem was with that ship and it was just a thing where a group got taken over by the people for whom it was like more important to like meet the deadline than it was to like be safe and yeah but like the thing that caused the challenger explosion like faulty o rings was the thing that everyone was talking about for the year leading up to that launch they were like we've gotta like we've gotta delay this the o-rings like oh sure ceiling o-ring fine it's just a quote small helium gas leak and it only as they say affects one of 28 booster systems yeah so just stop fucking freaking out man we're getting this thing fucking out of here. I think it's tough. I think that if the space shuttle is or anything like airplanes, it's like there are like probably like a dozen different fail safes on something before you get to a problem.

Right. It's like it takes like in like any given flight, like six of those fail safes will fail. But because the other four are still there, it's still okay. I totally get the logic of, okay, to them, it's probably like, this is a problem that is something that maybe should be fixed, but there's 50 fail-safes that would also have to fail for there to be an actual issue. But it's like Boeing being a company with a couple little PR issues right now. Maybe it's okay to delay it for a little bit just to make sure that this is immaculate going into space. Well, then we have to, that's the reason they aren't fixing is because they say, well, then we'd have to take it apart at the factory. Yeah, that is hard.

Start all over. Oh, mom, this is so fucking unfair. Let me launch my fucking space taxi now the fuck because of one helium leak yeah i mean again i know fucking nothing about aeronautics and like so like and i get to they're like look it's there's 28 thrusters this only affects one of the 28 it's a thruster whatever it'll be fine but yeah i think it's more just like the history of you know terrible disasters that were accidental and you know boeing's track record at the moment you're like this is fine this is right yeah i mean maybe uh maybe they're like

they saw the two tragedies that happened and they're like can we go three for three like let's see you know yeah it's like these things come threes so the sooner we can knock that third one out and go really big the sooner we can like build back if our space shuttle explodes everybody will forget about the door plugs real fast the circle of death yeah yeah all right well we've got good news it was not a boffo weekend at the BO, at the box office, unfortunately. But there is relief in sight. We just got the trailer for the new Reagan movie. Oh, thank God.

Have you seen it? Have you watched the trailer? No. Can I watch it really quick? Oh, yeah. Did you watch it? Yeah, I watched it. I watched it right beforehand.

There's nothing a retired governor can do, but a president. Now he can do a thing. Okay, even eight seconds in, I don't need to see the trailer. I get it. It has a scene where Reagan explains his political skills by recalling that he was once a lifeguard and I learned how to read the currents. Not just the ones on the surface but also the ones deep under the water whale and you say there's a whale under there deep under the

water whale whale killer whales dennis quaid is i don't i don't know if people have been keeping up with dennis quaid's uh political kind of evolution yeah but no problems it's all smooth sailing killing it yeah but yeah so this is going to be just a puff piece like this guy's a hero he predicted everything he was like i'll tell you what our biggest problem is well and unions it's like isn't there a line that's just isn't there a line just like i can't do much to save the country as a retired governor yeah as president yeah exactly please it also features so dennis quaid other familiar conservative luminaries john voight and robert davi one of the brothers the non-joJoey Pants brother from Goonies.

And yeah, Jon Voight. So weirdly, Jon Voight is playing a fictional KGB agent who the story is like told through his eyes. He's like, I remember like my first assignment was whale. He also talks that way for some reason, was tracking this young actor, Ronald Reagan. And I think basically it's just going to be him being like, God damn, this man is cool. We don't have anything like Ronald Reagan in the USSR. He's just too perfect. Yeah.

But also, we should be open to the ideas Russia has as well. I don't want to poison. Yeah, the movie ends with Russia also also being the heroes yeah like somehow like even though i was the bad guy i i feel like we should maybe get along in the future okay he's telling the story to a young boy and then that boy like puts on his jacket and says vladimir putin on the thing and yeah i hope that if they do that it's treated like a Marvel reveal. Like it's a post-credits. Oh, yeah.

It's like designed for an applause break. Right. Yeah. So a couple of things about this trailer. One, the Showbiz Direct logo that you see at the start of the trailer is the most iMovie-ass studio logo I've ever seen in my life. Like I am not a graphic designer. I could make a better logo than that. Another thing,

what's wrong with that actor's face? Like, the Reagan actor, he's covered in way too many prosthetics. It looks very weird. Yeah. Dennis Quaid? Yeah, Dennis Quaid. It just looks,

it's like very Uncanny Valley. I don't know, whatever they did, it does not look good. It looks like, remember those old Duracell battery commercials in the 90s that had like that family that that like all the plastic head family yeah yeah yeah like yeah his face looks like it's made of wax yeah yeah he looks like one of their cousins yeah yeah yeah and then um i was trying to think of like okay so you know there's garfiosa there's

barbenheimer i'm trying to think of what the pairing is for this movie the one other I think big movie that comes out that weekend is the Craven the Hunter movie the Sony Marvel Craven the Hunter movie so I'm like Craven the Reagan I don't know Craven the Hunter Craven there we go

there we go we did it what are y'all doing for Ronald Craven weekend dude fucking nothing get the fuck away from me There we go. There we go. We did it. What are y'all doing for Ronald Craven weekend? Dude, fucking nothing. Get the fuck away from me. As if that cast weren't cursed enough, we also have Creed's Scott Stapp playing Frank Sinatra. Oh, can he take it higher? Yeah.

That Creed, not the movie Creed. He took a lower rate on it because it was his sacrifice. He will play Sinatra for the scenes in which Reagan was the president of SAG. So presumably they're not going to include any of the scenes focusing on Nancy Reagan's long affair with Sinatra. No. As alleged in the Katie Kelly. Oh, she was smashing Frank Sinatra. Smashing the throat goat

and the chairman of the board. There's a lot of stuff on her relationship with Mr. T, though. That's pretty extensively in there. That entire third act is just a love story between the two of them. I would love that.

That'd be great. I love Mr. T. Well, Mr. T, would you mind bedding my wife in the Lincoln bedroom as I watch through a hole in the wall? And then Mr. T says, well, I pity the whale. Well, I pity the whale. Fool.

Ronald, please. His muscles. I love them. He could do one pull-up. You don't understand. Oh, no. So, obviously, as presidential biopics go, you know, we have

Lincoln, which was made by Steven Spielberg. We have Nixon, made by Oliver Stone. JFK, also Stone, but JFK is really not a biopic. Reagan is being helmed by Sean McNamara, who you probably remember

for such movies as Cats and Dogs 3, Pause Unite! Exclamation point. And Aliens Stole My Body. No exclamation point on Aliens Stole My Body. But... Oh, my God. These characters in the Aliens Stole My Body, it looks like a ripoff Star Wars bounty hunter and someone like from memory drew arnold

schwarzenegger's mr freeze from the batman movie yeah okay okay like a fourth grader yeah yeah it sucks perhaps more uh consequentially the sole producer credit belongs to a guy named mark joseph who we've talked about before he previously produced produced right-wing polemics like the anti-cancel culture documentary, No Safe Spaces, starring Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager. Dennis Prager, real person. Not just the name of a terrible website. Yeah. How is he the Prager U guy?

Well! That's Adam Carolla. Well. Well. the prager you guy well well well and uh he also produced uh in addition to the corolla documentary he produced doonby which is about a mysterious stranger played by john schneider an actor who recently threatened to murder joe biden is that his credit that's what he's mostly known for that's on his imdb yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like john snyder uh xenon warrior princess uh also recently threatened to murder joe biden

right so he uh plays a character named uh sam doonby who uh enters a small town and just like reading the plot synopsis i was like well do dunby is clearly a fucking anagram for something right and sure enough it's nobody because he is actually the ghost of a fetus that was aborted by the woman he's visiting god so it's got a message it's got a real message got something to say wow haunting haunting your birth mother as a middle-aged man but this did uh come up before because uh making it even more conspicuously propagandistic the role of the older woman who tries to convince the young woman not to get an abortion in the first place before she's haunted by abortion ghost uh is played by uh norma mccorvey aka j Jane Roe in the Roe v. Wade case. She's been doing a lot recently.

So she did a bunch of anti-choice shit throughout her life, and then on her deathbed was like, hey guys, I gotta come clean. They were paying me incredibly well for that. I am not anti-choice. This was all bullshit. I just live in America and need to be able to pay for health care so uh my bad deuces and then

like that one that one gift of the dude throwing up deuces and then just fading into but yeah she was like i was paid to become a trophy for conservatives and I was paid well. And that's important in these United States. So coming from that guy in an election year, I'm expecting Reagan to be a completely down the middle, interesting take on history. Three stars.

Could you imagine like in the age we're in, like they have to tear down his myth in order to like make whatever this version of the conservative like movement be like, that's where it's at. They have the fucking line in the trailer. Mr. Gorbachev, tear off my balls. Yeah.

Tear up this ass. There's so many good versions of that. You think that there's a monologue in the movie from Reagan that's very clearly shoot in to be about cancel culture probably yeah he says like just like I well I'm afraid of woke Nancy

which bathroom do I use Nancy I don't want to get in trouble now you know but he's asking him because he can't remember which room is the bathroom but his vision is so terrible he's seen out which where do i go for number three nancy number three you know what that is you know what that was code for nancy all right let's take a quick break and we'll come back and of course, uh, talk about Bart. No,

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prequel and Garfield a lot of people were like this is going to be the next Barbenheimer, Gar Furiosa. I don't know if people were seriously saying that, but they made up their names. I feel like it was just me. I was the only person who was loudly saying that. But that didn't happen at all. It was the worst Memorial Day weekend, not counting the pandemic,

since the movie Casper with Christinaina ricci oh my god 1995 yeah damn almost 30 years wow yeah wow wow they really uh yeah they broke the streak yeah they really took it back to 95 our writer jm says uh by the way furiosa is way better than Casper. Oh, Furiosa is fantastic. Yeah. I mean, I can only imagine. We'll hopefully see it. But Casper, by the way, a children's movie in which a ghost who, by my math, is at least in his 40s

relentlessly hits on Christina Ricci as a teenager. Yeah, but he's like a kid ghost. You know what I mean? He's perpetually a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's like a kid ghost. He's perpetually a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's also a minor. Certified Casper. Certified pedophile.

But yeah, Furiosa's $32 million. To put that in perspective, last year Disney's Little Mermaid remake made $118 million on Memorial Day weekend. The year before that, Top Gun Maverick made 160 million. Obviously, those were both massive hits. So let's just...

They're not on the same level like in terms of international fandom. Like, I mean, I get obvious because Fury Road was huge, but not like to the place where you have people who like live and breathe Little Mermaid all the time or like live and breathe Top Gun and shit.

Fury Road was like when it was coming out we were all like this is very silly like this seems like they have given a kooky old man a huge budget to make a film in which people like the names of

the characters were the first thing to go viral because they were just like so over the top right and then it came out and was one of the best action movies ever made. And so I think people like, it's just so funny how people are like, so this Helmer legged it out to 400 million. So expect Furiosa to do the same. And it's like,

well, it's not lightning in a bottle. Like you're not going to always be able to capture lightning in a bottle the second time. And also it's a fucking prequel. How many times do we have to do this? You guys? Yeah. Well, no, I will agree. And that's one of my, I'm a, I'm a huge, like, I know I talk about Garfield a lot, but I'm also just a huge, like Mad Max post-apocalyptic fan. So for me, this was just like, this was genuinely weekend. I was like so stoked about it. And, yeah and um you know that's something that i really love about the mad max world is like you have a character named the bullet farmer who farms bullets and has bullets for teeth and there's a

point in like fury road where he pulls one of his bullet teeth out and then puts it in a gun and then shoots somebody with his bullet too yeah it's just like it's just watching like an insane buddy with his bullet tooth. It's just like, it's just watching like an insane fever dream for two hours. Oh yeah. And I, and I super agree. I think that,

you know, I think that Fury Road was like George Miller, I think is a fantastic director, but I think that Fury Road, just the alchemy on it was like so perfect of, it's just an insane car chase for two hours, you know? And Furiosa,

I think was good, but I do think that it was hurt by the fact that like Fury Road came out like a decade ago. And though it's considered to be like the best movie, the 2010s, Yeah. definitely had buzz of like oh this is a really good movie going into it but it didn't necessarily have the like holy shit you have to see this but yeah you know yeah and and i think it's gonna have a little bit of a long tail assuming they don't just throw it on max in two weeks or whatever it's like i think it's got good buzz and i think that like next weekend and the weekend after that will probably also be good for it i think we'll continue to see like it's just so the thing that happened about 10 years ago is they let the marketing department take over what films got made and how they were developed and so now that like the marvel movies and all the franchises have been like juiced dry they're like now have to like

make movie movies again and so it's like marketing people trying to make movie movies and they're like i don't know make a prequel to that one from the barbie movie like the best thing we we love gosling make a gosling funny movie and it's just like they're pulling pieces out but like this is they the thing that is making those first movies great is like the filmmaking and, you know, the actual like things that actually drive creative inspiration and creative execution. And so I think we're going to continue to see like these types of like hyped movies. Like this isn't,

I think it's weird that this being pitched as like a flop. That's not that big of a flop. It's like about what I would have expected it to do. But like, I think we'll see these movies underperform like big box office expectations. And then we'll see like surprise hits. Like we'll continue to see things like everything everywhere all at once that like nobody sees coming and just like get through by nailing it.

Like nobody sees coming and just like get through by nailing it. I think it's also tough because the industry is very quick to label a movie as either a flop or a hit. Like, you know, day one of it being out. Sure. And like, I mean, I don't know. It's like when I was a kid, like Jurassic Park was in theaters for a year. You know, like like Titanic's Titanic is one of the most profitable movies of all time. Its opening weekend was like fine. know it did like what like 40 million or whatever it's or 50 million it's opening weekend off of a several hundred million dollar budget 30s i remember people were like this is kind of a flop guys but then like but then it's like second

weekend it did like 35 million it just kept going up there like six million you know and it just kept that going for like 12 weeks or whatever and i think that like you know fall guys is another movie that i feel like people immediately labeled a flop but then like you go to any screening week two and screenings were packed of people that were excited to see it it's just like you know a little bit of patience would be appreciated yeah right but because they're they're like uh they're measuring it up against fucking marvel movies it's like well that's not how these are going to perform. Right. Yeah.

It's not going to do a $400 million opening weekend or something like that. it should. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's like, that's my ass on the line. Okay. No,

no. Yeah. It's, it's definitely like difficult. And I think like to your point, Joey, like there is such a rush to immediately be like, this is the impact right now,

just over three days. I can tell you this is hit. This is flop. And yeah, it's not, it's the worst way to like assess a film, but yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if they'll be able to fully quit the habit of like, you know, it's like the sort of development process. Now it looks like they're just looking around the couch, like underneath the couch cushions for stuff that maybe they forgot about they can make a movie into. They're like, oh, what about this fucking thing, too? I forgot about that. Speaking of.

OK, so if Fury or Furiosa was a flop, I got to say the Garfield movie was a hit. It's made one hundred million dollars box office of a 60 million dollar budget so far. I know. Well, but people are calling it a flop. Like the headline is like Garfield and Furiosa flop at the box office. And it's...

It's like, no, the Garfield movie... And the Garfield movie came out in international territories like two weeks ago. Yeah. So just the... But like it's made $100 million of a $60 million budget.

And I get Furiosa a little bit because it's got 150 million dollar budget and it also made like 30 million dollars this weekend or whatever yeah so it's like that just has more of a hill to climb to make its money back whereas the garfield movie it's made 40 million in profit or whatever you know already like and that's not even counting like promotional tie-in yeah well i mean speaking of promo uh i you if you, I saw you getting a lot of retweets this weekend in regards to your Garfield weekend. So this was a big weekend for me. I saw Furiosa, you know, with my girlfriend on Friday and IMAX. And then we planned basically all of Saturday and Sunday to be like Garfield days.

So as you know, any weekend is for me normally. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, we basically set aside. Yeah. Not Monday.

Not Monday. So, uh, we set aside basically two days to do all of the Garfield promotional tie in things like Olive Garden had a deal where they've got like lasagna sponsored by the Garfield movie. There's, how was that?

We were talking about that. Like, I mean, it's Olive Garden. It's always Olive Garden hits, you know, especially those Olive Garden, like Garden hits, you know. My girlfriend, she commented on it was her first time in

Olive Garden in years, and she had a breadstick, and she was like, oh, this is real good. It's the fucking Taco Bell of Italian food. Of course it tastes good. What was great is we walked in the door wearing very elaborate Garfield shirts, and the people at the counter immediately like gave us Garfield children's menu coloring books.

Yes. And then because they were just like, oh, you guys should have these. And then we sat down at our table and our Garfield coloring books were next to us when the waiter walked up. And they were like, oh, do you want us to like wait for your kids to get here? And we were like, no, we're two adults. Yeah. Shut the fuck up. I'm on a date.

Pretty much. So our Saturday, we ate at Allgard. Where do you think my kids are? We two parents are just waiting. Does that happen a lot? The kids are driving separately. Right. Fuck you.

Yeah, for sure. They didn't go to the bathroom on their own or whatever you know but so like we ate at this uh we ate this this three-course lasagna meal at olive garden and then afterwards we were going to check into motel six who has a um a thing they're calling the garfield suite yeah which is for um there's like 10 locations in america that have one room decked out in garfield merchandise that's called the garfield suite it's hard to book you have to like call it in in order to get the room it's like it's and when i called in it was like the most nerve-wracking like oh i gotta book this i gotta book this yeah 12 people like texted to me or whatever so after we had our like off-guard meal

we get to the motel 6 by lax which is the only motel in los angeles that had the garfield suite uh wearing our elaborate garfield shirts we're getting ready to check in they're like talking about like oh you guys must be really big garfield the Garfield suite, wearing our elaborate Garfield shirts. We're getting ready to check in. They're like talking about like, oh, you guys must be really big Garfield fans. Cause we're like wearing our shirts. You're like Garfield? Yeah.

They're about to check us in. They like turn around the thing for me to sign. And they stop and say, wait, we double booked the room. Oh, fuck. And then we looked to the right and saw somebody like two cash registers over

just covered in garfield arm tattoos basically so it was like t-shirt it's tattoo the t-shirt yeah yeah so it was the odds of like we they double booked the room this garfield suite and the two people the two groups of people who booked the room showed up at the exact same time to check in awkward yeah yeah and it was it was intense it was like people were like like they were like tears about to be shed like you know it was it was uh we were all very passionately but like politely but very passionately fighting over this room themed after a 1970s comic book character right um and finally you know kind of the one yeah for sure for sure for sure so finally yeah so the resolution was um basically like we kind of realized okay like there's no way that all of

us are going to get this room you know it's it's it's just not going to happen so instead what we did is we were like will you like give us a refund and just let us take like fun selfies in this room right so they like they said like oh thank god yes and they brought us into the room and we like got we took got like five minutes worth of pictures in the room and then we left and um yeah it was just such a wild experience i hope you defiled that bedroom just for good measure oh yeah i for sure took a shit in the oe uh no no we tried to be like really cool and nice yeah yeah yeah but like so i posted about this on twitter and it like blew up and now it's like i think like the thrillist did like interview me about it this morning wow oh my god articles during write-ups It's like, it's like the producer

of the Garfield movie like posted about it on Instagram. It's like. Dude, hopefully this will lead to something really dope rather than a motel six room

where there's like mere orange stuff on the walls. And they're like, no man, we want to offer you something even better. Yeah,

we want to offer you the Heathcliff suite. Yeah. Oh. The dumpster out back. Wait, so was the, because,

because you seated the room to this other person were they grateful how did that play out i mean no honestly so i i would say that this is a situation of like a bunch of you know for sure grown adults without children who were all just like okay we like understand this sucks and like yeah you know and everybody was very it was like the sort of thing where it's like nobody nobody wanted to use the i need to speak to the manager tone right right but we all like it was more like ah shit are you serious kind of yeah yeah i'm just like can you like don't like i don't know there was a glitch in the system oh and another fun detail is they were like we could like reschedule they were at first they were like we can give you

an upgrade on your motel 6 room and we were like no and then the second thing they offered is like very specific yeah yeah and then the second thing that they offered was like oh yeah we've so we do have one day in this entire promotion where the room is still available and change you to that it's on a monday and i was wearing a t-shirt that had fuck mondays on it I was like, that's even less of an option. Are you fucking serious? Yeah, they offered us a room on a Monday. Fuck with me right now? And I think my girlfriend, my girlfriend, who's very kind and very

sweet, her name's Goldie, said very sincerely to the Motel 6 employee, you don't understand. Garfield hates Mondays. That's a justified reason for us to not get the room on a Monday, which is fair. Right, right, right. Yeah, so the resolution is, yeah, so we took a couple selfies in the room and, you know, kind of seated the room.

And, you know, the other person, they were very grateful. And Motel 6 employees, I think, were just happy to not have, like, a fistfight breakout over a Garfield room. Well, that's good that both parties had self-awareness in the incident, you know what I mean? Yeah, and Motel 6, we talked over social media a little bit, and they're going to send us a nice gift basket. So it's like, you know,

I feel like we're all trying to treat the situation okay, you know? But yeah, just a crazy, unexpected thing. I did not expect to maybe get into a fistfight over a Garfield suite this weekend. Yeah, but you know, I would put my money on you and Goldie, though. Oh, yeah. I don't care how many tattoos.

Yeah, you saw how many pull-ups I could do. Yeah, man. One pull-up? You'd be like, hold on. Before you want to fucking ball your fists up in front of me, watch this shit. You do one pull-up. You like, are you ready now? Very struggled.

Like, I'm definitely going like shaking. 45 minutes later. Hey, where are you going? Where are you going? Yeah, so producer Justin Conner was like, is this going to be minutes later hey where are you going where are you going so producer justin connor was like is this gonna be like the beginning of barbarian like yeah like you check in and then the people show up what if barbarian was in the i think you should leave sketch from garfield right the garfield sketch by the usually yeah yeah amazing well holy shit joey i can't believe we got you on this day.

Yeah, you got the exclusive first interview. You beat out Thrillist. Yeah, hell yeah. Where can people find you, follow you, find out more about your Garfield-related adventures? Oh, yeah, for sure. You can follow me on Twitter and TikTok at JoeyTayment. You can follow me on Instagram and threads at JoeyClift

with like five or six eyes. Also, this is a dorky thing to promote. I just updated my website for the first time in like five years. It looks great. Anybody who's a writer who's listening right now, you know, it's like, you don't update your website very often,

but I just updated it last week. Go to JoeyClift.com. You can see cool pictures of me and fun goofs. That's right. Oh. So yeah, you can check that out. And then, you know, listen to watch gone

native my webby award-winning digital series at gone.tv spear rangers season three just came out on netflix and uh i'm uh actually a freelance writer on paw patrol and my paw patrol episodes i think come out this week so if you have kids yeah watch my paw patrol episode like it's just rediscovered paw patrol like we were we have one TV that's not like attached to any like Apple TV or anything like that. So we just have whatever's on the DVR.

And the only thing on the DVR is NBA basketball and Paw Patrol because like it learned that we like Paw Patrol like six years ago when they were young. And so they started

watching it again and now they're requesting Paw Patrol. So I'm going to, I'm going to watch. I'm going to have a watch party with my kids. And then you pause it and you're like, I,

daddy knows him. And they're like, shut up dude, what are you talking about? That's the crazy thing about like writing on like shows like Paw Patrol is like, I'll, you know,

I'll hang out with my friends who have kids and their kid will be wearing like a Paw Patrol backpack, like a Cocoa Melon shirt, like, you know, a spirit rangers, like, you know,

like book in their hand or whatever. And like their parents will be really excitedly just like, Oh, like a paw patrol backpack like a cocomelon shirt like you know a spirit rangers like you know like book in their hand or whatever and like their parents will be really excitedly just like oh this guy writes for all the shows you love and the kid like that's gibberish words oh yeah 100 what do you mean he writes for it that shit actually happened yeah yeah that dog is a real cop yeah yeah yeah or it's just like he don't look like the characters on paw patrol are you sure he works on part like i remember having that sort of disconnect in my mind. I'm like, well, he's not an animated character. I know this is a visual, this is an audio medium, but on the Zoom window, I do look like a dog who's a firefighter. Yes. Spent a lot of money for this look.

Amazing. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? lot of money for this look amazing is there a work of media that you've been enjoying uh so just i guess on the theme of garfield i've really been getting into the uh the the garfield 1980s musical album here comes garfield it's by lou rawls who's this amazing singer and uh it just did a yeah yeah like yeah he did a garfield album and it's it's honestly it's a musical it tells like a complete story it's the soundtrack to like a tv special It tells like a complete story. It's the soundtrack to like a TV special that came out in like 1981 or whatever. And it's just a good album. It's yeah, Here Comes Garfield. Check it out on Spotify. You know, just indulge, treat yourself. My girlfriend and I had a deal where I could listen to the title track Here Comes Garfield

as many times as I wanted last weekend until we saw the movie and then I could never listen to it again. So I was really getting my fix. Amazing. Miles, where can people find you? Is there work media you've been enjoying? Oh, man. Let's see. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Gray.

You can find Jack and I on the Basketball Podcast. Miles and Jack on Mad Boosties. You can find me talking 90 Day Fiance on 420 Day Fiance. Hey, and if you like conspiracy theories, you can catch me on My Mama Told Me, which is Langston Kerman and David Borey's conspiracy theory podcast. Or I'm a guest this last episode talking about rainbow parties and really digging into the bottom. Where did it come from? Where are we headed as a society? Oh, man. I went to so many of those.

Oh, yeah. Did you? Totally, dude. Yeah. Where? Whose house? house it was like john uh-huh johnny johnny smith uh johnny johnny threw the best rainbow but hold on man your name's john isn't it yeah legally yeah okay so it was your house it was actually yeah it was my house uh-huh and what happened man. It was just like me. In my bathroom with some people. Oh, man. Same. You were on the fucking Roy G. Bibb tip. Yeah. Very literally.

Yeah. Roy G. Bibb and then tip. With my first watercolor set. Anyway, a tweet I like. Another Ellie Cremendall banger at Ellie Cremendall tweeted, Who you are when the airline loses your luggage is your true self. Oh my God. And I think, yeah.

I hope that's not true. That's why I only bring a carry-on. I do not check bags. Yeah, I'm kind of dead inside in a weird way where if it happens, I try to like accept the reality of the situation I'm in because as doing a lot of self-work, you either accept or resist. Not to say like that, like I'm fine with as doing a lot of self work you either accept or resist

not to say like that like I'm fine with it keep abusing me but if I can't do anything about it I'll be like fuck alright just give me a voucher I guess to say Valium yeah just fine give me some give me a fistful of Valium and we'll call it even

fine I guess tase me because I'm screaming at the ticket counter. Tweet I've been enjoying. Katie at Katie Feedy tweeted, entitled millennials are, quote, quiet nourishing, taking 20, even 30 minutes out of the middle of the workday to eat food. We interviewed 87 corporate bosses who hate it. That's just a real trend guys that i think we all need to look out for and then john drake tweeted i'm being hunted for sport but i can't stop eating pistachios so i'm very easy to track uh man when i get going on some pistachios i really

can't stop pistachios are good stuff yeah there's something about the combination of The actual food content And then the peeling Yeah Any foods that involve your hands They just become beloved You know what I mean Alright You can find me on Twitter at

Jack underscore O'Brien You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram We have a Facebook fan page and a website DailyZeitgegeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. Footnotes. Where we link off to the information we talked about in today's episode, as well as the song that we think you might enjoy. Miles, what song do you think people might enjoy? We are going to go off this artist, McGee, M-K-DOT-G-E-E, who's, like, I think from Jersey,

but then is also, like, making music in L.A. He's, like, a producer. We've done other tracks in the past. His, like, style's really versatile, and he just put out an album that has, like, this really cool, like, I don't know, like, old DIY, like, 80s folk rock. I don't know how to describe it.

There's, like, a little bit of guitar, electrical piano, but it's recorded in a way that's, like, 80s folk rock. I don't know how to describe it. There's, like, a little bit of guitar, electrical piano, but it's recorded in a way that's, like, very, not distorted, but it almost sounds like they're, like, recording, like as if he's singing through a guitar amp kind of sound to it. And it's called Are You Looking Up? And it's just kind of got a really catchy chorus and little guitar lick in it. So this is Are You Looking Up by Mick G, or Mick G,

however you pronounce it mcg well it's mk.gee and they always on their thing it says pronounced mc and then hyphen g ee so then i'm like mickey mickey anyway his name is michael gordon there you go okay michael all right michael mike daily zeitgeist production of iheart radio for more podcasts on my heart radio visit the iheartartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to your favorite shows. It's going to do it for us this morning, back this afternoon to tell you what's trending. And we will talk to you all then. Bye.

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