The Daily Zeitgeist - Googly Eye Bandit vs. Kraven The Hunter 12.17.24

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

In episode 1793, Jack and guest co-host Blake Wexler are joined by writer, comedian, and co-host of Yo, Is This Racist?, Andrew Ti, to discuss… Backpack CEO Being Called a Snitch / Threatened After Telling Cops Shooter Was Wearing Their Product, Bend, Oregon’s “Googly Eye Bandit” Goes Viral, Kraven The Hunter = Worse Than Morbius? And more! Backpack CEO Being Called a Snitch / Threatened After Telling Cops Shooter Was Wearing Their Product Bend, Oregon’s “Googly Eye Bandit” Goes Viral In Boston, All Aboard Googly-Eyed Trains Kraven The Hunter = Worse Than Morbius? Box Office: ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Makes $2 Million in Previews Audiences Curse ‘Kraven the Hunter’ With Worse CinemaScore Than ‘Morbius’ and ‘Madame Web’ Is Kraven the Hunter the End of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe? LISTEN: Raat Ki Rani by Arooj AftabSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oh, this is actually costing me more money to do myself than to actually just have someone who knows what, like who won't fuck it up. You know, like anything like breaks, I won't fuck with the breaks. Yeah. Oh, sure. Yeah. But that's so the opposite of me. I'm like, the breaks are the easiest.

I fuck with them all the time where I used to. One thing I will say, there is that place, bicycle kitchen in, is it like kind of Silver Lake? Oh, Spoke is it? Or, um. I think it's called bicycle kitchen or it used to be called. I know it's the thing that I said it was called Blake. Yeah.

Oh, um. It's like, can it? Blake? Blake Barn? Are you talking about Pedal Palace? But they have all the stuff and people who are like repair folks to help you out, but you know, nominally you're supposed to do everything. So I, that's the kind of join I used to go to in Brooklyn. But again, cannot stress enough.

It's not going to happen. I wish I was more of a tanker. Yeah. I'm always impressed. Instead of a Taylor Soldier spy. Yeah. I wish I was more tanker, I'm always impressed. I'm a Taylor soldier spy. Yeah, I wish I was more Tinker less Taylor soldier spy. It's like three jobs and a hobby.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello the internet and welcome to season 369, episode two of Dead Daily Zeitgeist! A production of IR radio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. We now have a YouTube channel, YouTube slash at Daily Zeitgeist pod. You can go check it out. Check us out saying stuff like these words. It is Tuesday, December 17th, 2024. Just a day in a week out from the big day.

I don't know. I don't keep track of these official days when Miles is out, but I think I got that right. I think you're right. The big day. Yeah. Because we can't legally say and bleep this Christmas, right? Right. Yeah, yeah. We can't say Christmas. So the NFL does have a trademark on the word Christmas.

So we're actually not allowed to say Christmas. We just call it Big Baby Jay's big day. Huge baby. Gorgeous baby. Yeah. People talk about the magic of Jesus, but he was a gorgeous baby. Gorgeous baby.

How pretty he was. Yeah, and I mean, not just gorgeous babe. Some of those crucifixes, he's Shredsville. Yeah, I mean, thank God they waited till he was a grownup to put him on those. Cause if they put the baby version of him on a crew... It would have been not good. It would have been...

No bueno, my man. Anyways, my name is Jack O'Brien, AKA, we two hosts of TDZ are casting zites and trends to afar, arrest and outtune us scams from from Hawk to drones on the Jersey Shore Oh No, I'm just kidding. I won't keep going that is courtesy of fighter of the night man On the discord shadow fighter of the night man on the discord I am thrilled to be joined and I'm just realized I didn't didn't put this guy's name I'm just realized I didn't put this guy's name in the thing.

Uh, so fuck. No, I wrote, I have admin rights now. Okay. So I was able to fix, I fixed the whole document. The amount of errors that were in that thing. Okay. I appreciate it. Crazy. Yeah.

No, of course. Thrilled to be joined, uh, by a very special guest co-host who, uh who you've already heard from because he won't shut the fuck up. Brilliant comedian, writer, actor, who's special, Daddy Longlegs. You must go check out right now on YouTube, one of your favorite guests on the one hand, on the other hand, the coiner of the disgusting phrase, Plumpers, to describe his thighs. Please welcome the brilliant, the coiner of the disgusting phrase plumpers to describe his thighs, please welcome the brilliant, the

talented, the riding a recumbent bike in short shorts is Blake Wexler! Always great to be back on I love radio. This is Blake Wexler aka. What's that in the Jersey sky propellers lights we're gonna die take a shitty picture with your phone. Oh drones, give me some drones. Drones that go pew, pew, pew, pew. Oh drones, I love my drones.

Drones that go pew, pew, pew, pew. Thank you, that was drones. And I threw that together in two hours. It took me two hours of revisions to put that together. A lot of work. The writers room on that idea was pretty fun. They had this whole game around lunch and taking out the lunch spots. Working lunch.

Yeah, you can't argue with the results. No, no, no. Nor should you. That was a union room. Yeah. You can't argue with the results though. No, no, no, no, nor should you. Blake. That was a union room. And nobody accused you of not being, but now I am suspicious. Now it's suspicious. They're all union rooms. Maybe the story I was remembering is that you paid them with lunch.

Is that what it was? And exposure. I'm going to, they have a follow Friday coming their way that's going to really send them into the sky. But yeah, no, it's great. I'm glad I'm very busy in general, but despite four minutes notice, I was able to do this because it's raining outside. So whatever it's raining.

But he's right on the edge. He's right on the edge. So he's physically sick. He's physically sick. Last second was like, I don't want to do this. So we brought in the big gun. Yeah. No, he's the big gun.

I like that. This is what happens when you don't get vaccinated like miles. You just get sick. So this is a telling story. But now he's going to be able to say, yeah, I've been immunized because he's going to be able to say, yeah, I've been immunized because he's been exposed. Blake, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat. What a lineup today.

One of the very faces on Mount Zypmore, two of the very faces on Mount Zypmore on the same episode, a hilarious and brilliant producer and TV writer. You know him from the Yo Is This Racist podcast. It is Andrew T. Get ready, y'all. I saw three takes come sailing in on Christmas week, basically Christmas week. I saw three takes come sailing in like eight days before Christmas in the morning. Wait, and where are these takes from Andrew T, from Andrew T, from Andrew T, and were these steaks from Andrew T on Christmas week in the morning? Yes, they were.

They were. They were. Yes, they were. You raised a question, and I was on the edge of my seat. So thank you for answering that. Great news. I went to Tamo Shantor, and my friend Tamo Shantor is a, I guess, like, steak restaurant, Prime Rib restaurant in Los Angeles.

Prime Rib, yeah. That remains open against all odds. It's still somehow open. Well, I feel like they do a lot of their business during Christmas time, because it's like a, I don't know, like a... It has a very strong vibe. It's got a pub kind of like tavern-y vibe, and they have carolers all

through the month of December and my friend requested that song and this is the one piece I want to bring to the world. Did you know that song is not called On Christmas Day in the Morning? Three Ships. Right? It's called Three Ships. Yeah. That's crazy. Three Ships. I like it. I like a Christmas carol that like gets kind of artistic with it. It's like no this one's actually called Three ships. I like a Christmas carol that gets kind of artistic with it. It's like, no, this is actually called Three Ships. And nautical. What the fuck are you talking about, three ships? That's what they saw, man.

That's like the whole motivation for the fucking thing. I fucking don't like any of this. Also, what the fuck are they talking about? Is that like a nautical version of the Christmas story where the people are ships? Is that like a nautical version of the Christmas story where like the people are ships? Is it like in the Cars universe? Christmas story in the Cars universe where the wise men are ships? Baby Jesus sort of starts out as like a kayak and then turns into a tugboat, a catamaran. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was so annoying.

My friend was like, I'd like three ships, please. And of course, everyone else at the table was like, what the fuck is this? That's not a Christmas carol. And then the other part, this is just a note for Tam O'Shanter, a place that is doing fine. Huge fans. They have- The restaurant themselves are big listeners, big fans of the broadcast. They love it.

Someone's got to be. The Carolers have worked in this dimension now of like bits. They kind of do sort of like a, I guess like a Victorian era version of the Rat Pack kind of deal. Thank God. And I strongly dislike it. I think just do the fucking carols. There was a guy who was some cross between Ebenezer Scrooge and I guess Dean Martin doing bits.

I don't want bits from the carolers. Drunk Scrooge? Yeah. Drunk, vaguely horny Scrooge. As opposed to infamously sober Dean Martin. Yeah. The whole thing was just like, guys, let's just fucking do the carols. I know we're on video.

Character work. I just really went to town on my face right now. It really bummed me out. We, uh- I don't like characters. Just sing. We were at a Christmas party, an annual Christmas party for my children's school yesterday and the carolers were like, I just saw, like I came in at the same time as the carolers, as I always do.

To make sure that I'm announced. As the carolers, yeah. Yeah. And I just watched them go through the process of like, they had amazing costumes on, like Scrooge-era costumes and rose-up cheeks with like makeup. And then, you know, were immediately like ignored by all the children running between their legs, and just not what they had in mind at all, and just stuck through it like champs, and did their best.

I think carolers, if you're dressing up in costume and you're caroling, you're really going for it. Again, but maybe you got a little bored and you decided today, this is the year I'm gonna do a little fucking bit. Character work. I will also say, this is a real pitch for I guess whoever makes the iPad app

that handles sheet music, which I assume is someone, because most modern singers, I think, put all their music, you know, they don't have like sheet music anymore, they just have, everyone's got an iPad. And if you are the maker of this app, I beseech you put on like a, just like a soft yellow filter onto your thing. Cause everyone else has like got their iPad in the tavern and just blue light blasting on their faces from beneath and it looks crazy. So at least fake it so it looks like a candle or something. But if you really want to go the extra mile,

put in a candle flicker. But that shit, that shit really took me out of it. I got a lot of it. I liked that a lot. I think now I am not one to waste paper as you both know me, but if you're giving a speech, I do feel like it adds another element where like, if you're giving a wedding speech, for instance, having it on paper or note cards makes it seem like you put salt, like, like a hundred times more effort into it than if you're reading it off your

phone, even though it's still the same thing. And having it on a yellowed scroll, even better. A yellowed scroll. Yeah. Even better. With like the width. The edges burnt a little bit. I'm highly flammable.

Yeah. And reading it by candlelight. Perfect. I do like that idea of the, you know, changing the white balance. I feel like just generally like the white Christmas lights are sometimes too white. I feel like whoever makes the two bright headlamps, fucking what are they called? Headlights of cars like has gotten into the Christmas tree light game. They're making these like bright white blue Christmas lights that are like blinding and like look cold.

I like a warmer, yellower glow. And I think you can do either one. So I'm just telling my neighbors, you fucked up. Yeah, big time. Justin, edit all that out. Edit all that white bullshit that Jack was just doing. Weird, cold, ice cold. Weird, cold, ice cold.

The cold light is fucking with us. It's bad. It's freezing. Something's wrong. cold. Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold,

cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, Andrew, I also can't remember which one of you is the guest and which one of you is the other guest. Andrew, what's up? I prepared stuff. What's some of you find to be rated? Andrew, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, a couple of things that we're talking about today.

We're going to talk about the backlash against the CEO who snitched on Luigi Mangione to the cops and was like, hey, that's our backpack that he was wearing. FYI, I don't know what I can tell you about that. But anyways, people are mad at him. We'll talk about that and just the ongoing response to the Luigi, the man Gioni of it all. We'll talk about Bend Oregon's googly eye bandit. The googly eye bandit can't stand it.

So that's the green eye bandit anyways. Andogly-eyed bandit can't stand it. So that's the green-eyed bandit. Anyways. And then we'll talk about Craving the Hunter. They keep making these fucking movies, these Sony Spider-Man universe non-Spider-Man movies. Another one just dropped. I did not know that's what it was. I never know that that's what it is until they come out. Nobody sees them and they're like, well, Sony tried to trick us again, but again, nobody went and saw this fucker. Look at all this money this movie lost. It's like, oh, that was probably why.

But this has an incredible detail in this story that was like a real fucking plot twist for me. Yeah. We'll get to, but we'll get to at the end and that is called a tease. Nice. You can stick around. This is a harder job than it seems like. The tease thing people don't talk about when you have to put in a tease. Like you are a good host, Jack. I think I'm sorry for all the things I've said in the past about you. I think you are pretty good at this. Like that's so nice of you. Unfortunately, we edit all those things out of the show. So none of the listeners know what the fuck you're talking about, but

Oh, well, I think you're a huge fan of mine. So I am now, now I am. Nobody's allowed to say anything bad about me on this show. No, but you both know that you signed the contract, the yellow scroll contract that I made, yellow yellow. you signed the contract. I never, yeah. I didn't read it. The yellow scroll contract that I made. It was so yellow. It was pitch yellow. I don't even read it.

Just signed it. Just signed that shit. Before we get to any of that, Andrew, we do like to ask our guests, what's something from your search history? Oh, fuck that. Sir Chister. Fuck yeah, motherfuckers, get ready.

Yeah, okay. I know, it's really stupid. I searched for, well, so I went to five holiday parties, but really Christmas parties in two, no three days. Whoa, too much. And I also sort of volunteered to cook too much. And I added on an additional cooking thing yesterday for no real sensible reason. But the first one was some of my friends, new friends ish who moved here from London, so they're fucking English as fuck. Yeah.

Yeah. They, they had a Christmas roast. Are they new ish or they're your friends ish? No, they're new ish friends. They're very nice. Yeah. Okay. But they're, you know, Yeah, but they've only been here

a year and change, I think. I just wanted to clarify for their sake because- And these lobster backs that you're friends with are at a similar age, the red coats that you're friends with? Lobster backs. So yeah, I'd say probably. I don't actually know. They're not like good enough friends

that I know everyone's age. No, that's not true. I went to a birthday party that I didn't pay attention to what was happening. Actually, one of them said, I lost track of the candles to be honest. Indisputably an age. I just don't remember it. But I thought I would get cute and make an English trifle for dessert. And then I, just because I clearly have too much time on my hands, I thought, oh, instead of doing just fucking pudding, I'll like get this stuff. And this is where my search history comes in called

birds custard powder, which is the shit you're supposed to use to make English trifle. It's that kind of, it's thinner than pudding. And it comes in a little, you know, it's powder. It's basically cornstarch and another stabilizer powder. And what I learned about myself and America and the rest of the world, because I made a batch and I did not realize that because America is America

and the rest of the world is the rest of the world, Bird's Custard is not inherently sweetened. Like it has vanilla flavoring, but no sugar in it. So it is not sweetened. And I just assumed every other prepackaged mix in America, even shit you don't wanna have sugar has a fuckload of sugar in it. So this was disgusting and I ruined my first batch

of trifle, which was like, honestly, like kind of a lot of ingredients went in. So it was disgusting, but you made it the way that it was intended to be made or? No, I just didn't. I was just like, obviously this has sugar in it. It's a mix. Okay. So I just, I just kind of like skimmed it and I didn't clock that you're basically supposed to put in as much sugar as powder God has also fucked up when you think about a box of jello And it was the final result of that was still less sweet than just like your average jello pudding

But yeah, you're a big cook. Like do you like is that are you enjoy cooking or is this something? Yeah, I'm pretty I'm pretty Pretty good at like the big a big cooking thing like doing a lot of stuff. So also on yesterday, that was Friday, and then yesterday, I made lasagna for my friend's lasagna party, which was too much. And then because I had borrowed the trifle dish in the first place, and I was going to return it to my friend, And I still had a fuckload of bird's custard powder and like all this milk that I didn't really want around. I made another trifle and put it in the dish to return it. Now, what is a trifle? I actually looked up what a trifle was like

over the weekend for some reason, like my kids, maybe there was a song that mentions a trifle or something like that. I forget why, but we were looking up what a trifle is. Trifling is different. It's Bills, Bills, Bills, yeah. Yeah, okay. That's right. We trifling is. It's bills, bills, bills. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

That's the talk. That's right. We're listening to bills, bills, bills. Yeah. So that was the other thing that I didn't search, but I probably should have, which is how does fucking trifling derive presumably from trifle? Cause trifle, as far as I can tell, is humongous, humongous and labor intensive. as far as I can tell is humongous, humongous and labor intensive.

And I mean, it's ultimately not my favorite, but trifling seems much worse than that. And, and there's a smallness implied in trifling. It's flavor. It's a mere trifle, but a mere trifle. Yeah. But this trifle dish was like easily a gallon worth of pudding, whipped cream, cake, port, jam, and fruit. Wow. It's fucking crazy.

I love port. I put in, I got Costco, of course you pick out the alcohol one. Jesus Christ, Blake. Which yeah, Blake. Custards last stand over there. Yeah. Call your cohost and alcoholic. Is this something you call miles a drug addict?

Huh? Cause he is one. Yeah, we can, this is all coming out. Anyway, that's a fucking trifle. Trifle is just like a big ass fucking custardy mess. It's good, I think, but it is one of those things where you're like, this is fucking ridiculous. I guess it's most similar to a pre-made strawberry shortcake in flavor profile.

The kind of like when you buy a strawberry shortcake that's been sitting in a cooler for quite some time. Yeah. I just remember what it was. It's a children's book called The Worst Children, Part 2, The World's Worst Children Two. And it talks about a baby that eats a trifle and they make it seem like it's a big amount of thing that he's eaten, which yeah, that's why I looked it up. I was like, wait, is a trifle like big? So I was having the same exact experience with you via David Williams is the world's worst children too. Here's what we're going to do.

I'm just going to wear it. If you're on YouTube, you're getting a preview, but this is like, you know, the closest size comparison. Did you make that? Yeah. Is that your thing? That's really that's what you made. Damn.

Yeah, dude. So this one's not going up on YouTube, but I wish it was now because it was a beautiful, beautiful cake. I mean, it's not. It's just like a huge, it's just like if a pudding, like, like pudding and cake was in like a gallon, it's like literally a gallon. It's so, so much of this shit. Yeah. Yeah. You got to be a real, a real British lad, a little, little Lord to enjoy this. Was it, do you think that they were like originally like trifle being small was like sarcastic? Like trying to figure out how they got there. It's but a trifle. It is British sense of humor for sure.

That is something they find very funny. Let's take a quick break and we'll be right back talking about overrated, underrated and other shit. We'll be right back to talking about overrated, underrated and other shit. We'll be right back. Hey everyone, it's John, also known as Dr. John Paul. And I'm Jordan or Joe Ho. And we are the BlackFatFilm Podcast. A podcast where all the intersections of identity are celebrated.

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eBay. Things people love miles. Whoa, what are you doing here? It's Jack over here in this giant novelty gift. How did you even get it in here? I didn't even- Merry Christmas, brother. Wow.

It's bigger than my tree. I knew something was going on when it smelled like sweat last night. Were you, how long you been in the box? Oh man. Yeah. You can see just an outline of my body on the side of this box. Sweat right through the box. Look, man, I'm stressed out. We got the white elephant party coming up, the holiday party coming up.

Yeah. And I'm freaking out. Did you find me something? Too many good ideas for GIFs. I did find something actually perfect for you. And I love how easy it was. I just went white elephant GIF and I go, yeah, that's for Jack. Oh yeah.

Guess what I found for you, Jack. Oh my gosh, what'd you find? This is a wonderful ornament. It looks like a box, but peekaboo, it's John McClane in a vent from Die Hard. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hey, cause I always like to have this really interesting

conversation where I tell people, I think Die Hard is a Christmas movie. I know, I know. And people are always blown away. It's kind of my thing. People are always blown away and think it's interesting. They're like, this guy's still saying,

these are takes from 15 years ago. I don't know, man. My favorite Christmas movie. Nobody said ago. I don't know man. My favorite Christmas movie. Nobody said that. Nobody's asking you that. My favorite Christmas movie have to be Die Hard. Yeah, that's right.

Sir, please be quiet. This is your children's Christmas recital. It's not, thank you though. Go on, go on, sing kids, go on. I could have gotten you these dang flat top golf tees. Wait, what's a flat top golf tee? So they're golf tees and you can't even stick the ball on top because dang top is flat.

Oh, dang novelty. Yeah, you know me. I'm always hitting the links. There's no concavity to the top of the dang golf tee, bro. Well, look, golf, unfortunately, isn't my thing, but we all got a thing. We do all got a thing. And it's on eBay. Maybe it's fashion, car parts, trading cards, retro movie posters, anything you can collect. So go find the thing that keeps you up at night. Whatever you love, find it on eBay. eBay. Things people love. And we're back. I just did a lap around my desk. Record time, by the way. Barely

winded at all. We did, we did good work while you took your headphones off. We did really good work. That's the first time we've ever had to break in the middle of an overrated underrated, so that's how long this episode's running. We're going, this is going to be forever. I can, I could filibuster about custard forever. Also the other custard that was available was Ameds custard, which I took the

colonizer mentality and went with birds, but obviously Ameds. How could it not be superior? Yeah. Couple with a couple birds at the party. All right. I'm going to stop. That's yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, mate. Yes, mate. Yes. Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby. All right. We needed to get I was just So much better if it wasn't you was about to be me I was What is something you think's underrated

underrated how much gambling debt this country is about to be in? I did not realize, because I'm just not built like a sports guy in this way. But obviously, I understand sports huge. I like my few esoteric-y sports. And listen, I all recognize that what I'm about to say is people will perceive this with a tinge of irony. But I was playing poker at the casino the other day, and there was a fucking kid at my table who was holding up the table because he, I mean, I'll just, you know, I'm not here to judge anyone else's poker play, but let's just say he was pretty bad at it

and very sort of aggressive, relatively splashy. Splashy as in it felt like he was just there to get his money away. Splashing chips around, not knowing what he's doing. Yes. But not holding the table up with a handgun. Not that type of holding up. No, that's true. He was holding up. He was holding up play.

Holding the works. Holding up the works. Holding up play. Junior. Because while he was meant to be in fucking poker hands, He was holding up. He was holding up the play holding the works holding up the work up play junior because While he was meant to be in fucking poker hands This is also he was in every hand because he was just you know calling everything attention How old was this child like how child are we talking? But I mean he felt like he was in his mid-20s maybe Maybe okay. Okay. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah, this is not a casino

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but this this dude was holding up play because he was on FaceTime with a lady friend of his who was placing Draft Kings bets for him while he was gambling, you know, playing poker rather badly. And I was just like, oh, we are like fucked fucked or like people's like, money, there's just a new quicker dimension for people's money to leave them. Yeah. With legalized sports gambling. Yeah. Then I realized. I was just like- It's only gonna get faster and worse

in this administration. It's really wild, yeah. Cause I was just like, well, a lot of like relatively stable countries have legalized sports gambling. Like how bad could it be? And I was just like, oh no. This is like truly wild. And look, I mean, I know, again, I'm a I'm a poker player. I don't do any gambling related activities that I don't at least believe I have a mathematical engine. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't have your mathematical edge because that Kenny Rogers song. That's what you told me. Yes, exactly. You said that you just studied that song and now you're really good. Yeah, that's all you need. You know, and data is bearing it out, but I do not currently have enough large enough data set to be sure I'm a winning poker player, but things seem to be trending in that direction. Yeah. I have a friend who made, who kind of made his living for a number of years playing poker and it was just, it sounded like it was a monotonous grind.

It was like a four hour, like at least four hours at the table, just waiting, waiting, waiting. And then like, you know, preying on people who don't know what they're doing. Yes, exactly. It's that, that's the tricky part is like just having a good enough hand, tricky slash depressing part is just waiting till you have a good enough hand at the stakes I play out to just take people's money and it's yeah Really unpleasant, but it was wild how much like this guy was like I got a system to beat draft kings Yeah, it's like you're right. This feels like do you know how much like the amount they spend in?

Advertising alone. Yeah means they need to be so profitable, which means your ass doesn't have a system. It's like super size me where he's like, I'm going to beat McDonald's. Like, no, you're not. You're just too, it's too big. My, um, one of my best friends is a professional poker player and it is when the same thing happens every single time we're out, people ask you what you do and I say comedian. And then he says professional poker player and people are so psyched to talk to him about it.

And it is always the least interesting thing where the reason why he does it professionally, he clocks in at nine. He clocks out at five. He doesn't go to the casino. He plays it professionally. He clocks in at nine, he clocks out at five, he doesn't go to the casino, he plays multiple hands, he will then take a break to pick up his kids from like, it's the most like standard, he's very, you know, professional and treats it like a job.

So he's like, yeah, I have a bunch of hands open, I play them, I fold, I don't get emotional about it. It's all, like you said, Andrew, like just mathematical, like playing the probability. It's more, it's, I've started is this is a thing I've gotten into this is truly revealing too much about me Is a friend of mine is is going pro and he is in this group of pro poker players But one of them has ambitions of becoming a screenwriter written a pilot. So we are Trading with me with this like very high end poker pro.

I love it. Like literally sessions of poker coaching and like screenwriting class. And it has been so this is sort of formalized my practice. I have all kinds of graphs and data and shit like that. And the way I'm like the romance of potential like romance of pro poker player and the reality being like the number of spreadsheets that are involved in being an actual profitable poker player. It's like kind of indistinguishable from being a pretty low level Wall Street guy.

Right. Yeah. It's only math and large numbers. And that's, that's how you handle the variance. It's really... The spreadsheets, like he has something capturing the hands and then basically like putting that directly into a spreadsheet. And then he analyzes and like sees where he could have improved.

Yes, basically, yes. Let me see. It will be incriminating if I hold up my laptop with a graphic. I don't want to do this, but I literally, I'm just like gathering hands and like putting them in graphs and then analyzing the play and then choose. Just sucks all the fun out of it. Yeah. And then going to Teddy KGB's warehouse game with all the richest guys in town, uh, where you get a royal flush at the end and probably, um, and win in dramatic fashion and your girl

leads you, but in the end it's like, it's better for her and you gotta be like, Hey, you know, that's the breaks of the game. No one to hold them. No one to fold. Yeah, that's right. Never counting your money when you're sitting at the table. I think about that line all the time in the most pathetic contexts, like if I'm winning at fantasy football.

And I'm like, should I go check and see what place this will put me in if I win? If I get what I expected? Then I'm like, nah, Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rogers said never count your money when you sit at the table. I will just say if anyone really likes poker and does is just getting into it, almost every piece of advice from poker media is you almost want to do the exact opposite. Right. Always know how much money you have. Almost always, you know, you never can your money. Everything for rounders is crazy. Like it's just like, don't do any of that. You don't listen to the Oreo cookies to see which way it wants you to go.

It's so if you had if you had a tell like that, why would you tell the man, just take his money every day for the rest of his natural life? Got a built in theatrical little tell that I do for no discernible reason. Yeah. Andrew, what is something you think is overrated? Oh man, talking to your friends, dumb kids. I was at another holiday party. Take that, Jack.

No, I'm just kidding. I didn't mean that. That insinuated that your kids were dumb. Your kids aren't dumb. I'm sorry. I wanted to insult you and I insulted your family as usual. You know what? I'm going kidding. I had insinuated that your kids were dumb. Your kids aren't dumb. I'm sorry. I wanted to insult you and I insulted your family. You know what?

I'm going to tell you this. My kids are probably pretty dumb. Jack's kids count as dumb kids. Yeah. I haven't even met them, but they're within the... You know what? I think actually, I think the problem is my friend's kid is smart for a kid. Yeah.

Because she was at a holiday party with mostly adults and doing fine. I had two realizations. One is just because of the way my life is configured. Regrettably, I, as a single person with no kids and no real responsibilities, was the adult who was by far the closest to this, I want to say 11 year olds life experience.

What time you wake up on the weekends? Yeah, literally. I was just like, I kind of just like, oh man, yeah, it's like funny that I'm talking to the, like the kid. And then I kind of looked around the party and I was like, I'm her closest peer at the party. You're both asking for rides to the mall. 100%.

I would just like, like, oh, everyone else here has shit, like real family life responsibility shit happening. And I certainly do not. And that means me and the kid are the same. So yeah, so don't talk to your friends, dumb kids, because it'll really make you question a lot of shit about yourself. Yeah, or myself, most importantly. But also, this kid, understandably, didn't the hallmark for me an old person is is how long it takes for them to understand 911 was a pretty

bad day. And it took a very long time. and I was like, you know what? Fuck you kid. Wait a second. That's what you do in your conversations with kids is you're trying to convey how bad 9-11 was. Yeah, that's how I start. This is not a trick question. I'm doing the opposite of George Bush reading The Hungry Goat. I open with this to see if the kid can handle it to like, you know, are you, are you, are you really, um, no, the kid brought up how

sad she was that fucking January 6th was upcoming and I was like, uh, you know, I think her friend had a birthday on January 6th and I, I countered with, well, I got a bunch of friends who have birthdays on September 11th. January 6th ain't shit, kid. That's a long beat. And then she's like, oh, right. Nine eleven. And I was like, you know what? Fuck you.

You forgot. Oh, man. Yeah. Anyway, a second plane has hit the tower. We're under attack. There I was a clear Tuesday morning. that's how you open the conversation yeah I have a different postures I do I have a little audio clip to just make it richer of like very you know what's her like stings just like really yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

it's sort of like a little radio play I do for children and then ends with like a star spangled rendition of Star Spangled Banner by a children's choir. And I am crying a little bit by the end. Yeah. You do stick the landing. I've seen you do it and it's, it does stick in your head. Yeah. Thank you.

I'll never forget a performance. All right. Well, thank you, Andrew. Enough fucking off. Enough fucking off. Enough fucking off. We've really been talking quite a long time. We have been talking a long time to get those stories? But as you heard when we were previewing the stories, nothing's really happening

So we can just you know, we got plenty of time to talk about these these three bullshit stories We talked about the New Jersey drones Yesterday on the trending episode from the weekend, but do you guys have drone takes? Are you believing? Do you believe? I'm pissed off. I'm really pissed off about these drones.

I live in North Jersey and have not seen a single drone, and I've been looking. I've also have never... I've just been wanting... No one's smart walks around looking at the sky. You know what I mean? Maybe look where you're going, but I didn't realize how many things are in the sky near New York city. And it's like, there's three of the biggest airports in the world are within 15 miles of one another

in this area. There's helicopters, there's fucking consumer drones. Andrew's about to cue the tape with the sound, sound check with the jet engine flying by. Please, play it, play it, play it. Shit, shit, shit. It's just someone. But yeah, I don't know.

I don't really think it's that big of a deal. I'm here and I don't see any of these fucking drones. Yeah. I think there's a lot of drones in the sky constantly because people are allowed to have drones and they just change the laws to make it even more possible to fly them wherever the fuck you want. And people are just catching up to that fact.

That is my official stance as of this moment. But I do famously want to believe. I coined that phrase, I want to believe. And yeah, I'm one of them. Yeah. You did hope too. Or in Aliens.

Yeah. Andrew, any, anything? I will say I had completely been ignoring this because I was like, there's, yeah, there's so many fucking drones. I did not realize how much of the discourse had veered into alien business. Come on, guys. It does a disservice to the drones, to this American made technology. I know. Oh, God.

I think it does a disservice to the USS Nimitz sighting where the real alien sightings, these are just drones people, but that's the type of annoying person I am to be stuck talking to. I can't even get to the second sentence with an 11 year old. They're just like, this guy's fucking talking about drones. The worst case scenario of course is that these are like us Owned anything which they almost certainly are because they're flying around the US. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know All right. Yeah, we there is we got nothing for you folks

If you if I'm missing something big, please hit me up, but I'm just like I've seen drones do cool shit I've seen lots of drones fly together at the same time in Coordination with one another I have yet to hear of like something that these drones are doing that is like more impressive than what? I've already heard of your own stew. Yeah something very funny happened yesterday We're at the Eagles game in Philadelphia There was a flight they do those flyovers of like military planes. And then people like around Philadelphia started being like, what the fuck these drones? It's like, no, there are these F-16s that were booked four years ago to fly over this stupid stadium.

Anyway, do you buy in at all to the idea that it's just something endemic to the people of New Jersey? It be like New Jersey was the place famously. They bring drones? Well, no, they were famously the people who got fooled by the War of the Worlds teleplay or radio play back in the day. The farmers in New Jersey were the ones who were like, I'd like to see Orson Welles and his aliens come out here holding a shotgun. That might be it. I think they want something. you know, like New York has its own thing.

Philly has, you know, like it's the, you know, they have their own thing. They want like, can it be drones? Can it be aliens? Can we please have something? And no, the answer is no. The answer is not yet. Yeah, not yet. Yeah.

The aliens are going to get fought off by our-ass drones. That's right. Fuck. Yeah All right. Let's talk about the backpack CEO peak backpack actually before we get into any of the stories Let's take one more break. Yes Yes, jam through these motherfuckers. All right, what are you doing push-ups? What are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah I'm gonna do 40 push-ups be right back. Here we go What are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah, I'm going to do 40 push-ups. Be right back.

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We're I'm laying two to one that Jack's next lap doesn't beat the time on his third. I did two laps that time, so. Well, yeah, my heart is really, uh, at its breaking point. Those two laps. All right. Can I talk over the commercials? Is that a problem? Can I just talk over the ads? Is that a big deal? We assume that's all staying in. Yeah. Did you guys, have you guys heard of the peak CEO, the CEO of the backpack company that made Luigi Mangione's backpack.

He like kind of with real pick me energy reached out to the New York Times and was like, hey, by the way, I recognize that backpack. That's one of ours. Sorry, the NYPD. Easy to mistake with the New York Times. But I mean, stay on your grind, obviously market all the time. The, the cannot not capitalize on an opportunity to get your brand out there. And this is, I mean, you know, he had them, he was a maker of the most famous backpack for easily a week and you got a fucking, you got it.

You got to snatch that W, you know, but he doesn't know backpacks. They didn't like, they are like really nice backpacks that are expensive. They're like top of the line. So maybe like people, maybe the NYPD were like, uh, yeah, maybe, maybe we got a rich kid. Maybe that's how they started like putting together a profile of who it was. Oh my God.

Plus all that monopoly money. But then, so I don't know. I don't know what information he thought he was going to provide. Like it feels like telling. So right after the shooting, I couldn't stop telling people that I had stayed at that hotel the week before it was actually like two months before, but I was like, so excited when you were here. I was right there. I was right there. It was actually like two months before, but I was like, so excited. I was like, I was right there.

I was right there. It could have been me. Yeah. I should have been, you know, damn it. It should have been me. I get real grizzled. That should have been me, man. He did nothing.

That poor, innocent man. He didn't deserve that. Not completely. Yeah. This feels like him just trying to like get, trying to make the big story of the moment be about him or involve him in some way. And then he immediately got started. People started calling him a snitch and he had to post all these things like, we won't

violate your privacy if you register your bag with us. Because you know how all companies, like all they want is for you to like buy their product and then be like, and this is all of my information cause we're friends now. So that was the immediate question is like, well, if he's talking to the cops, then he must be, he must be like providing the serial number,

but like basically he called the cops, was like, Hey, that's our backpack. They're like, great, is it registered? And he was like, I don't know if I can tell you that. And I don't think ultimately told them anything. And then had to post to be like, I'm not going to snitch on you guys, I swear. But yeah, I don't know.

I think people were immediately like, this is CEO solidarity. And the comments, the menacing comments that came from people are like, definitely like not the fun, the fun Luigi Mangione memes. These are like, y'all left with the wrong people. Enjoy what is left of your company. It's just like, it sounds like 12 year olds trying to be like bad guys in a movie. Closing sale event coming soon.

The tertiary effect of Luigi Mangione bringing out all these like. Tough guys. Yeah. Has been like a little depressing. I'll be honest. Like, you know, just there's no, none of y'all are killing a fucking CEO. Come on. Let's be honest.

I think the fuck out of here. Yeah, I do hope that actually that company starts to go under because these backpacks are so nice. Like they're great. And they are like $300. So if you can cut this in, like, I don't know, like maybe 75% off, but whatever you have to do to tank this company so I can get an everyday tote pack in a 20 liter bone I would love to do it because right now it's 179.95 and I can't.

By the way, a lot of people are like speculating about Luigi Mangione's motives. This whole thing has been a very long piece of sponsored content for what Blake just said. It's all been a piece of SponCon on the Daily Zeitgeist to get people to drop their guard so we can tell them how fucking nice these backpacks are. Holy shit. They have added a funny money pocket in one of their bags. So I don't know if that was, you know, if they thought of that before,

if that's a new thing, but... Wow. Yeah. Oh, man. It's nice. I guess the problem is any political and political adjacent murderer, they're never what you want as far as clarity. The very first thing I said, I was like,

this, you guys are going to be disappointed. Just have my eye. This is not going to be who you hope it is. Yeah. Yeah. At least in America. But people, it, yeah. But people were really, and seem to continue to be really willing to overlook the differences

in this case. Yeah. All that being said, I do think everyone should just take a peek at the concept of jury nullification if you're in New York City. I agree. Just throw it out there. Just take a peek. Just a thought. All right. How do you guys feel about the googly-eyed bandit?

I'm sure you've been all over this. Bend, Oregon's googly-eyed bandit? I'm not, but I do have a pretty, pretty, pretty significant take, especially this part. There's a portion where the city of Bend is complaining about how much it takes to take these eyes off. How hard it is to remove googly eyes. Yeah. Yeah.

So just real quick for anybody. Yeah, sorry. In case you've been living under a rock that doesn't have googly eyes stuck to it, there is somebody going around sticking googly eyes on sculptures installed in Bend, Oregon. And they're being called the googly eye bandit because nobody knows who's doing it. And the city is pissed. They're saying, yeah. I will just throw out all public art is only okay at absolute best. So who gives a shit? And in what world does it cost $1,500 to take plastic eyes off?

How could you damage, to put it charitably, this fucking juvenile garbage that you call art? Yeah. It's a sculpture of a deer. Yeah. Who cares? It's a sculpture of like a rock on top of rock around the rock. It was just a boulder on top of one. But I do have to shout out the makers of googly eyes.

Like I did not know that they had such size variants that like you could get googly eyes that fit onto like a life-size deer sculpture and look comically big. They look fun. I do like just, you know, my kids will stick googly eyes on things around the house and it's very fun. It's really cute. I will say contrary to the idea that you need a budget of $1,500 to remove the googly eyes from installations.

Those shits fall off themselves. Like I have every googly eye that has ever been applied to anything in this household has ended up on the ground stuck to the bottom of my socks. Like they never stay where they're supposed to stay. Like they are at best post-it note quality. Oh man. Yeah. So really great.

Domestic terrorist. I'm sorry, go ahead. Oh, I was just gonna say one that worked. I'm just loving this picture. I guess it'd be what, Toy Story 6, the villain, just a sock with a thousand googly eyes on it. A thousand googly eyes on the bottom, dirty sock. Very, very scary.

That was a big part of everything everywhere all at once. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This person's a hack, not an artist. That is true. Yeah. Yeah. Hacks on hack. It's hack on hack crime. Hack on hack crime. The worst type of crime that is criminally uncovered. It's not covered at all. So apparently this is like a thing, like a thing the worst type of crime that is criminally uncovered. It's not covered at all.

So apparently this is like a thing, like a thing that some strange adults like have, you know, not strange, but like adults, very specific adults are kind of obsessed with. Earlier this year, some people in Boston campaigned to have googly eyes stuck on the front of trains. Kind of looks like a Pixar movie in which all the characters have googly eyes stuck on the front of trains kind of looks like a Pixar movie in which all the characters have been day drinking.

But they're big again, they're like the right size for to turn the front of this tea train into a cartoon character. Oh, that's a commuter rail. That's a commuter rail. Jack, that's the commuter rail, dude. That's the commuter rail? Jack, that's the commuter rail, dude. That's the commuter rail. You talking about the commuter rail? Yeah, that's the purple line.

That's the commuter rail. All right. I'll take you to August. Oh, man. Four hours. You're going to beat the shit out of me for making that mistake because you're from Boston. Well, yeah, obviously. He's going to beat the shit out of you, period.

And you made a mistake. That's right. Boston Strong. You looking at something, bro? Boston Strong. I'm like, I'm going to get the shit out of you, period. And you made a mistake. And you made a mistake. Boston Strong. You looking at something, bro? Boston Strong. I've had people try and fight me because I was watching a sporting event on a TV and they were like at the bar, but below the TV.

And they were just like, I think that fucking kid's looking at me, bro. Have I ever told you guys this story? In my 20s before I wear eyeglasses now, but I got them very late in life. And when I lived in New York, I had a run in my 20s, you know, going out of bars where I was like, constantly almost getting in fights. And then I realized when I was like 27 or something that I needed glasses, it's because I would sort of like

stare squint at people like constantly. Yeah. And I was evidently starting shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like a real thing. So it was just people randomly walking up to you and like, the fuck is your problem? Yeah, truly, yes.

Like for like a couple months period when I was like, I don't know, probably 26, 27 somewhere, I was like, what the fuck is happening? These amorphous blobs keep challenging you to fights. It really was wild. I was just like, oh man, this is something's up. It didn't help that at the time my roommate had started doing jiu-jitsu. So he was like very up for a fight.

So it really turned into a- So he just says, hey man, to you and then your roommate just comes flying in from the side. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, meant Craven the Hunter news. So this one hurts guys. We've been looking forward to this one all seven years that we've had this podcast, Craven the Hunter featuring starring the actor from Badass. Was that the name of that movie? The like young kid super kick ass.

That's the one kick ass. And also whose name is also Craven the Hunter. That is his real birth name. Yeah. But this is the latest Sony movie set in the Spider-Man universe that in no way features Spider-Man. Again, I do not know that was the case. They do not advertise that.

They're just like, obviously, you know, Craven the Hunter. I assumed it was like a video game character, but just like Morbius, Madame Web, and Venom, I guess, is the one that worked out because it had Tom Hardy. So that's the answer to the question of like, why do they keep doing this? It's because Venom did well,

well enough to like spawn its own trilogy that did just okay. The second one did really well, the third one tanked. Yeah. Anyways, this is the first R-rated entry in the franchise. Nice. It did not do well.

The movie cost, its production budget was $110 million. It made $11 million at the domestic box office, just like I think 15 at the international in 60 countries. So not what they were looking for. And yeah, I don't know. So people were thinking they were gonna end this idea of doing like non-Spider-Man, Spider-Man universe movies,

the theory of why they do this has always been that they're doing it to keep their, like they have something in the contract where if they don't make a movie in this universe every X number of years, their right of ownership like lapses essentially and so they have to like on a technicality keep making these but I just want to read this section from one of the articles about this they say the wraps reporting

suggests that Sony might be pivoting away from this strategy of making these movies about background Spider-Man characters without Spider-Man in them. And instead, trying to make more Spider-Man movies with Spider-Man in them. What? Whether these films would feature Tom Holland Spidey having non-MCU adventures or whether they would be something new is unknown at this point. That was an option this whole time, which you just be making Spider-Man movies

and they were like, instead they were like, Craven the Hunter instead. Let's go with Craven the Hunter. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, I think that it feels like they were just like, well, since we had to loan Spider-Man to the MCU, let's not confuse the issue.

Because our movies have a tone that's not MCU. It's dark. Yeah. So let's make movies in that tone that nobody will like, thus ruining that tone for people. Yeah. I go to the movies for the tone. I like just tone. I don't need characters.

I don't need writing. I am into movies for the vibes, mainly. That's true. I like popcorn. They could have just like been. I love popcorn too. Yeah, I do like popcorn. All right.

Yeah. What's your what's your candy that you go with with the popcorn? Are you know, I bring my own yams. Yeah, I had I knew that, Blake. I was asking Andrew because that's disgusting. And I put some of Bird's Dust on it. Bird's Custard Dust? Hell yeah, bro.

Yeah. Oh yeah. I mean, my problem is- Bird's Custard Dust-ed, man. I got a fucking pass to Alamo Draft House. So my actual go-to is a fucking order of mozzarella sticks. Okay. I like that too. They're not the highest quality on earth, but I've probably, I would say confidently

that in Los Angeles, I have eaten more Alamo draft house mozzarella sticks than any other human being alive. I love that. I'm going to say it. I'll say it right. That sounds like a movie snack. That sounds like something you should use in your next conversation without a letting go. Hey, kid. How many mozzarella sticks have you had?

You know who you're talking to? Do you know who you're talking to? Los Angeles' premiere. I kind of have this thing where I'm just like, because I actually kind of like the idea of Spider-Man movies, and these are all pitched to me. The fact that I admittedly I do see most of them, but I haven't enjoyed any of them is a bummer.

I do think there's a little bit of the same thing that happened to DC, which is they got fucked by the success of the first one, and misinterpreting what the secret sauce was. that happened to DC, which is they kind of got fucked by the success of the first one and misinterpreting what the secret sauce was. The secret sauce, of course, is marinara. Yes. But they thought it was just not being the MCU. And so they keep trying to replicate this thing that I personally think does, I'm trying not to talk myself out of any potential

jobs ever in my life, kind of think that even though the executives are geniuses, they are geniuses, in this instance only, they may potentially have misinterpreted what it was that was bringing people to the movie theater. The art. Yeah. I have some fucking crazy to say. And Jack hasn't asked this yet. Jack has glazed over this multiple times.

So I'll just fucking ask it. Fried cheese curds and mozzarella sticks. Not that different as a product. Correct. Yeah. And yet I've had ranch served with, um, fried cheese curds. And also this is more ketchup. Let's like, let's dive past that. And also marinara, of course, never ranch with mozzarella sticks. And I feel like we could very conceivably bring ranch into the mozzarella stick side.

Correct. Is that crazy? Interesting. I think the difference is cause a cheese fried cheese curds have more, uh, acidity and a little more like pain to them that yes that I think Ranch. Yeah. Yeah with cover ranch. Whereas if you do mozzarella sticks and and ranch, what are you doing? It's just too Too salty too. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot. It is a lot. Okay good. I'm glad I asked it That's why I asked I didn't I thought about this. Yeah, and I'm glad you shut that down because we're gonna invest in a

In a restaurant concept. That's just mozzarella ranch I have a drone Kitchen is ghost kitchen and drone The craziest the craziest condiment they have at Alba Dress House is with the chicken fingers They just give you a side of gravy, which is the same Which is insane. Oh, Jesus Christ. Whoa. That's fucking nuts.

The first time I had, I, in the dark, dipped a chicken finger in gravy and put it in my mouth, I literally thought like I had COVID. I was like, whatever this tastes like, something's up. This is not right. There is kind of a mucus-y quality to gravy that I'm going to try and forget. A surprise gravy in the dark is like, you can't. Yeah. Surprise gravy in the dark.

Surprise gravy in the dark. Yes. Andrew T, what a pleasure having you on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you, follow you, all that good stuff? Oh, man. You know you got to come down to blue sky dot. No, it's not blue sky dot com. It's B Sky. What the fuck? B Sky B Kentucky.

Is everyone mad at blue sky now, too? We're just everything. It's it has been like there's been a noticeable drop off, I feel like. Yeah. Listen, I I have been loving looking at Twitter and its equivalents way less. So yeah, don't fucking find me. I guess find me on Instagram at Andrew T because I got, you'll see pictures of trifle

every third day apparently. And I don't know, Yozis Racist, that's my podcast. That's it. Yes, good. Thank you. Yes, good. Thank you. Yes, good.

Thank you. Andrew, is there work in media that you've been enjoying? This is not new to anyone, but they put episodes of Taskmaster, which is this British show online. I think they actually tried an American version that didn't work because those interpretations never work. But it is great to have on while you're writing.

It's sort of just like adult double dare a little bit. It's that they're competing in dumb tasks. It's a little bit better than that, but it's just like adults doing dumb stuff, comedians doing dumb tasks. It's a little bit better than that, but it's just adults doing dumb stuff, comedians doing dumb stuff. And it's just very, very nice to have on when you're doing something else, I find. By the way.

I've only heard people that I respect comedically and intelligently recommend that show. I've never heard someone be like, oh, I'm not gonna fucking watch that, fucking idiot. It's all people, not to blow smoke, or smoke well-blown to you. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, Oh, I'm not going to watch that idiot. Like it's all people like not, not to, not to blow smoke or smoke. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

No, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, Blake was kind of talking about me too.

When he was saying that, task master, when you Google it is, is, and I wasn't Googling it because I don't watch it. I was Googling it just to make sure it was the one that I watch all the time. Sure, sure, sure. It is a fictional character appearing in the Marvel comics. So we could have a Taskmaster film at some point that makes $10 million on a $300 million budget. Nine million in Boston. I think actually Taskmaster in the MCU is, isn't it David Harbour? It's someone. Oh no, it's Olga Kurylenko. Yeah, they're there already. So don't worry, they won't be ruined by Sony. It'll just be kind of ruined by ABC.

Just fooling around, Marvel execs love what you do. That's right. We love you, we thank you, geniuses. All of us would love to write for you. Hey, Blake? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there work of media you've been enjoying and where can people find you and not in that order?

I'll answer that not in that order. I will be in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, doing my show, the reviews are in, it's a variety show that I host. I'm doing that on January 4th, March 15th. I'm doing standup in LA at the Ice House in Pasadena, headlining there. And then April 4th through 5th,

I am performing at Sisyphus in Minneapolis. So all those tickets, well, most of those tickets you can find in my link tree on BlakeWexner.com and work of media, Paul F. Tompkins on Blue Sky, who might've been one of those people who suggested Taskmaster in some medium or another. Yes, almost certainly. Almost certainly. And he said, imagine being the person who cancels Sesame Street and just living your life after that. So, uh, HBO and Max is not renewing Sesame Street.

So Sesame Street doesn't have a home for new episodes. I believe they announced today. No, they got, they got taken. Yeah. They, like, uh, like max or discovery max, like Turner or whatever. Yeah. It's fucking. It's cool.

I mean, you know, we need the drones. This is, you know, Kermit's got a great samples. I'm sure he's going to find work somewhere else. Like the important thing, the real thing to think about is like, you know, your Bunsons and Beakers, like they don't have that many options. So like really like you got to not in this. I think science is out. I think of the wrong. I'm thinking of the Muppets are not.

You're thinking of the Muppets, but I like hearing about it. So I didn't say anything. Beakers actually got a huge only fans following. So, yeah, it's Elmo. It's Elmo and it's Elmo Elmo Elmo's fucked almost fucked you guys Yeah, I love actually killing Big Bird actually might be fucked because there's a huge bird Yeah, that bird is can we talk about how big that bird is? Insane. It's like an eight foot bird. Yeah This year about there there was a day where Big Bird had this big carefully coordinated media campaign about how Big Bird's a small bird now,

and he feels small and has lost his meaning and context, and it was a mental health metaphor. Then Elmo was like, hey, how's everybody doing? Everyone's like, fucking Elmo. They start yelling at Elmo. Elmo just effortlessly took over the conversation. Cancel Elmo. Yeah, exactly.

A couple tweets I've been enjoying. At shut up Mike Ginn tweeted, if you told me the story of Jesus for the first time, when you got to the crucifixion, I would be certain that he was going to use his powers as a carpenter to get out of it. That's why it must have been included. Then Coraline Jones, Coraline X. Maria tweeted, why did I just watch a 10-minute analysis of the Wicked movie by Ben Shapiro and also why is he cooking? He needs to give up alt-right drifting,

embraces blatant bisexuality pivot into musical theater commentary because it's clearly his true passion and I'm being so serious. She links off to a two-minute video of Ben Shapiro just having the most impassioned and serious takes about Wicked and the performances they're in, and just like a theater critic's take on Wicked. Yeah. It's very interesting. I did not know.

Clearly a failed theater kid that went Nazi was the only lane left. Yeah. It's wild. Which is like a lot of those dudes. Yeah. It really is. All right. You can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien and on blue sky at Jack OB One the number one you can find us on Twitter at daily zeitgeist read the daily zeitgeist on Instagram We have a Facebook fan page on a website daily zeitgeist comm where we post our episodes and our footnotes That we talked about today's episode as well as a song that we think you might enjoy

Super producer Justin Connor, is there a song that you think people might enjoy? You can't say three ships. Oh man, damn. All right. I got to pull one out of my ass. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah.

All right. Well, okay. I have one, I think. This song came across my timeline a minute ago, and it's so cinematic and dreamy, I could immediately picture film scenes in my head to this all day. This song is called Ratki Rani. Appreciate it. Oh no. Which literally means Queen of the Night in Urdu, but it's also the name of a type of jasmine flower. It's apparently about a person who's allure, magnetism, and charisma floats through a beautiful evening garden party,

according to the songwriter Arooj Aftab. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. And you can definitely feel that vibe in every note. So check out this song. This is called Raqqeerani by Arooj Aftab, and you can find that in the footnotes. Footnotes? It's not a mistake that that charisma, the charisma of that song came to your mind when we had Blake Wexler and Andrew T on the show. If you weren't going to say it, we were. It's just oozing out of their pores. You guys have garden party energy.

Just like a person who's drifting through a garden party, absolutely killing it. Specifically an evening garden party. You guys turn on on at night time. Truly the roads. I'm just covered in insecticides so I don't get bit. That kind of charisma. All right well the Daily Ezeite guys is a production of iHeartRadio for more podcasts from iHeartRadio. Visit the iHeartRadio app Apple podcast or wherever you list your favorite shows that's gonna do it for us this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you what is trending and we will talk to you all then.

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