The Daily Zeitgeist - GOP Exodus 2.0, Hot Dog = Ice Cream 8.5.19

Episode Date: August 5, 2019

In episode 447, Miles and special guest host Blair Socci are joined by comedian Caleb Synan to discuss Katy Perry's music, WaPo shilling for insurance companies, a GOP exodus, that the GoFundMe wall is even more of a joke now, Oscar Meyer making ice cream sandwiches, Netflix tracking more than how many episodes of the Office you watch, PETA slamming Tarantino, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Katy Perry’s Dark Horse Deemed A RIP OFF By The Courts2. Washington Post Editorial Board Shills For The Insurance Industry In Op-Ed3. Republicans Rattled After Surge of Retirements4. GoFundMe Border Wall Is Now Partially In Mexico?5. Oscar Meyer Hot Dog Ice Cream Sandwich?6. Netflix Beginning To Track Physical Movement Data7. PETA Slams Quentin Tarantino For Once Upon A Time In Hollywood8. WATCH: Rapsody - Ibtihaj ft. D'Angelo, GZA Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And to say officially off the rip, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, okay? August 5th, 2019. Yes, we made it another week. My name is Miles Gray, a.k.a. Uh-oh. Mm. Hungry howling outside Where does this stop?

Where did you tell me to board this line? You've been to Florence, no, then you must go Don't even think about it, you must go Ah, Italian things that you should do. Yeah. And you can do almost anything that you want to do. Yeah. But I can't go back.

No, no. No can do. I can't go for that. No, no. No can do. Okay. Thank you for that. Another no can do. Can't go for that. No, no. No can do. Okay, thank you for that. Another no can do.

Can't go for that. Hall & Oates inspired, a.k.a. this one is from SirDefiable at 56PCcertifiable. If you are a certified personnel person who can repair PCs, hit them up. I think that's what that means. If not, I'm sorry that I botched it. And again, I'm loving Hall & Oates. You know what I think I want to do? I want to give people a theme of the week and then give me AKAs based on one song.

So for this week, hit me with Just One of Them Days. Okay? Give me an AKA based on that. Just one of them days that a girl goes to. Give me that shit this week. And that's what every AKA I'm going to do this week will be off that. Okay? through. Give me that shit this week and that's what every AKM will do this week. We'll be off that, okay? Don't disappoint me.

And if you do, then I'll go back to regular stuff. Anyway, I took too long for that. I must say, I am thrilled to be joined by my co-host, a special guest co-host, a fellow Bruin, okay?

Somebody who is from SoCal who understands the vibrations. One of the greats. The talented. Thes. The talented. The hilarious. The agile. You're a libero, right? Defense specialist?

Yes, you were all over that motherfucker. Digging it out like a fucking miner. Like you were in the book Holes. You're digging holes and you're digging whatever the fuck. Please welcome Blair Saki. What up, Daily Psycho? Oh, shit. Damn.

That trademark, that scruffy voice of yours. Thank you for blessing us with it. How have you been? Thank you for having me. Oh, my God. It's so great to be here. It's been great catching up. We have a lot to get to today.

We got a lot to get to. You have a great hat on. Oh, thank you very much. You too. I grew up with Stoosie. It's really lot to get to. You have a great hat on. Oh, thank you very much. Yeah. You too. I love, you know, I grew up with Stoosies really close to my heart.

Really? Yeah, I could draw that. I could draw Stoosies with my eyes closed. Do it right now. Literally, no, close your eyes, motherfucker.

You just said with my eyes closed. No, no, I want to see. Just for an experiment. I know it's a podcast, but let's just see. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Your eyes are fluttering at an alarming rate. Also, there's not even ink coming out of the pen right now. Okay, this is a failed experiment. But without further ado, let's welcome our guest today. A man who came on in the early days of this office, has been around the sun a few times, and has come back to Earth to visit us.

Please welcome George's very own, uh, the very funny and talented standup comedian, Caleb signing. Oh my God. That made it sound like I was really old. No, I've been around the sun. Yeah.

At least once. Right. At least one year old. Oh wait, I've been around the sun. Okay. That like every year. Yep.

Oh, Caleb, when you were, I don't, I've never heard sayings. When you were 14, did you still have the feel of a 39-year-old man? People have always thought I was an old soul. Oh my God.

I don't know why. I mean, I'm not mature. I don't have stuff together. Were you raised in the church? Yes. So I think that was maybe part of it. You also talk like an old-timey newscaster. Thank you.

You're welcome. What do you mean? What does an old-timey newscaster. Thank you. You're welcome. What do you mean? What does an old-timey newscaster sound like? Like Caleb. All right, what do they say? Yeah, this is a storyline.

Tell us that the Germans have surrendered. The Germans. How about this? How about, at 145 today in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead

by the... Yeah, there you go. Damn. Tell us. Tell us. We should have the weirdest show where it's Blair, like a time traveler newscaster, and then me doing my drunk voice for the most absurd morning zoo show. Hey, give us the fucking weather, dog. Before we dive into your brain a little bit more, Kayla, let's tell people what we're talking about today.

Katy Perry took an L in court because apparently her track Dark Horse with Juicy J. Shut the fuck up! That was for me. Shut the fuck up! That was Nick Kroll, I believe. But I should have loaded up my Juicy J one. Anyway, she lost a lawsuit because that track apparently sounded too much like a christian rap song so we'll get into that you'll you'll be able to decide for yourself uh if the judge ruled correctly uh then uh the washington post not hiding anymore they're full

on just shilling for the insurance industry their editorial board just came out with a cool attack on bernie sanders and elizabeth warren for for thinking for thinking Medicare for all is even realistic. And then also, let's talk about the GOP because a lot of people are jumping ship as the election draws closer. Oscar Mayer has a hot dog ice cream sandwich. Yeah, let that sit in a second. Netflix is watching us, maybe.

And we'll talk a little bit about Tarantino's new film because we've got some ideas. We've got some thoughts. We've got some feelings all over. Now, let's get into it. Caleb, what is something from your search history that is revealing about you? Well, the last thing I Googled was how to French press a coffee. Okay. Because I had never done it until this morning.

Wow. And you ever tried that? That's some 39-year-old man shit. Well, come on. It's my first time. Yeah. But you, I mean, like, that's pretty good for, like, how old are you? Like, 24?

I'm 21. Savage. Nice. No, I'm 28 now, and it's my first French press. Are you a big coffee drinker? I love 21. Savage. Nice. No, I'm 28 now, and it's my first French press. Are you a big coffee drinker? I love coffee. I've always done it with the pot. Like just like an automaker kind of thing?

Yeah, because that takes one second. A French press takes, I swear it took 30 minutes. You have to like boil some water. What did you think was happening in that coffee pot? I don't know. I don't want to do it. The coffee pot does all that.

And so the boil water that takes forever. That's like so long. And then you got to grind the coffee and then you put it in there and you pour the water on it. And then you, then you just wait for like five minutes. Yeah. And then you got to press it. And then you push the thing and then you wait again and then it's just and but then by the

time you have it it's like not not good i guess do you like coffee enough to feel like oh actually that was delicious you don't give a fuck you just want your coffee uh anything that i have to do is not it doesn't turn out good the more steps where it's like oh they go you know if you do that yourself and i'm like uh nah every time it's not gonna taste good enough by more it honestly tasted worse than anything yeah and you like probably did it all wrong i did every grounds in your mouth there were like 10 steps i did all of them wrong i watched a youtube tutorial and uh it was a horrible morning so back to folgers for you. Right. That's why I was so happy to get here. I'm like, ooh, Zevia.

You know? Do you fuck with Zevia a lot? I'm fucking with it. No, before today. No, before. Have you heard of it? I didn't know what it was. Me either.

Oh, really? You found it in the back of the fridge here. My God. You guys must not be skinny Instagram models. Something's up because there's nothing in it, but come on. If it's sweet, something's up. It's all Stevia.

It's all just you know uh fake sugar that's derived from whatever the fuck it is that's why look just if you're gonna go for it just drink sugar man you know what i mean just get yourself to write no way this is good for me right uh well let's make this podcast about something shout out to zevia keep at it what's overrated? overrated I think places like everyone thinks ooh LA

New York I gotta London everywhere I've ever been is just as good as where I left I don't think anything's that great

I don't think people go like a lot of joy in your life yeah no I forgot that you are stirred emotionally by nothing

yeah wait so what's the what's the only have you ever been somewhere and been like that was a cool place No, I forgot that you are stirred emotionally by nothing. Wait, so what's the only... Have you ever been somewhere and been like, that was a cool place? But I'm always like, where I was was cool. This is not noticeably better than where I was. So to you, every place on earth is equal. I honestly, yeah. Have you ever been upset before?

Not, I mean, when was I mad? I don, yeah. Have you ever been upset before? Not, I mean, when was I mad? I don't know. You did get a kick out of everything in the office. Like, whoa, that's cool. He's like, what about, oh, breakfast is nice. Everything's great. Pop secret. I don't know.

Yeah, what is this? This is great. You been to Europe? No, maybe that'll get me. Yeah, I think Europe is probably a cool place to start off with, especially if you've never been to Tuscany in Italy. The sound of Europe? The sound of the

Tuscan hills in a way. There's a way. I know you might not be moved by normal places, but this, my friend, is no place. It's a moment and it's an experience that I feel that every person should experience. Well, I bet I would like it because everywhere I go is fine. God damn it,

Caleb. I wouldn't dislike it. Jesus Christ. I wouldn't dislike it. So if you bite into homemade pasta, you don't feel like anything emotionally? That's the big one for you? As an Italian?

Homemade pasta? Yeah. I was in danger because That's the big one for you? Yes. As an Italian. Homemade pasta. Yes. Oh, my God. Like, yeah. I mean, I was in danger because this guy was, like, trying to make me homemade pasta. And I was like, you know, I don't feel like if I go over there and eat this, like, I could fuck him without. So I didn't, you know. You looked out for yourself. It would have too much of a pull over me.

Yeah. It's very easy to make, by the way. Just some good semolina, you know, semolina, semolina. Yeah. I'll give you a YouTube to look at later. What's something that's underrated? Underrated. Oh, here's one.

People go, oh, I got I'm lonely. Oh, I think being lonely is great. Nice. People talking about. Are you ever alone, Caleb? I feel like you're never alone. Ooh. I think being lonely is great. Nice. What are people talking about? Are you ever alone, Caleb? You need to. I feel like you're never alone. No. No, I've never been alone.

Do you ever just like spend a day alone? No, you have people around you all the time. All the time. Yeah. So it's like, maybe that's why. I don't know. Wait, so overrated. Not alone enough.

Overrated would be. Being with people. Being with people. Underrated would be. Wait, so overrated. Not alone enough. Overrated would be being with people. Underrated would be places. This makes me sound insane. I should have just said tuna from Subway. Hey, we'll go on. Underrated

tuna from Subway. I couldn't agree more. Oh, I agree. Now you've righted this shit. Here's one. The rapper Scarface is underrated. I've always thought it. From Houston? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Love Scarface.

I've been listening to him all summer, and I don't know why he doesn't get brought up more. I think it's because he's really ugly. But other than that, wonderful music. Do you ever... I mean, I think Scarface is... Yeah, you know, he's not rated enough to people who don't really listen to a lot of hip-hop. And hip-hop people already know. They acknowledge Scarface as, yeah, you know, he's not rated enough to people who don't really listen to a lot of hip-hop.

And hip-hop people already know. They acknowledge Scarface as just OG. But I think outside of that, people should get into it. Right. If you're just a regular, casual listener, you probably check him out. It's great summer music by The Pool, you know, smoking some weed, Margarita. You're going to love it. That's a party.

I've never heard of him in my life, but don't you guys also think that sometimes really ugly people are hot? They are. Who's someone that is not traditionally beautiful that you're like, I'm ready? I don't know. All my friends say that about all my ex-boyfriends. That they're all ugly no no but like sometimes if someone's face is just like absolutely mangled like they had to like cultivate extra terrestrial personality traits that to

overcome this just wow you looks based society yeah and so they've cultivated these x factors that just grab you without you even realizing it you know what i mean well it sounds like to me that you're just not as superficial like that you're despite someone's looks you're like what's that what's that energy coming off you oh my god what's that what's that x factor personality you guys i am receiving what you're saying and that i'm an incredible person. Yeah. But also, but also that can be dangerous too because you think someone's charismatic and then they just like. They were just on coke the whole time.

They're on alcohol. Right. Yeah. I like, I think traditionally attractive people look great. Oh, great. Damn, that's the thing.

You ever seen like a model? Yo. Like that you see on a billboard? Right. Oh my God, underrated. I'm glad you came. You see like a... I was worried when I saw you on the schedule

because I'm like, yo, Caleb's about to come in here with these inflammatory takes that could just upend the universe. What's a myth, Caleb? What's something that people get wrong? That money can't buy happiness. Every time I've gotten money, I feel so much better than right before it happened. And it literally, all the things I like, it gets for me. Wow.

I don't understand what the problem is. Does it- Margaritas and sitting by the pool. Margaritas. My phone bill. I can't even talk to my loved ones without money. Right. A Scarface CD. You got a Scarface.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, money's great. Well, how long does that last for? The money happiness. You said right before it feels better than right before you got it, and then you get it, and then how long can you ride that for? Until it runs out.

Then once more, when money runs out is bad is bad and then when it comes back great great so i honestly that to me seems like the uh that's the key to life is money yeah yeah that's weird because a lot of these people are so focused on like you know don't tie your happiness to something so external like money and the objects that it brings. Yeah. And that's just bullshit. But you'll die without it. Yeah, exactly. So you got. Get money. My parents were very.

Sleep and money. Realist. Like my dad's a preacher and stuff. So they taught me all that. But their main thing was like, they're like, you need money badly. So go. Like Jesus is tight too. Get a job.

And it's going to be hard. Right. Yeah. So father, son and the whole credit score. You know what I mean? Make sure them things are right. Oh, yeah, credit score. Oh, my God.

Do you have a good credit score? No way it's good. Oh. You haven't even checked? That's the attitude of someone who's not even bothering to look. Yeah. There's no way it's good. There's no way it's good.

I checked a couple weeks ago. It was fair. Oh, okay. I want to be so rich. I just want to be so fucking rich. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then what?

I don't know. My life is good. My life is good. You just want to turbo charge it with some cash? Without being rich. So I can't even imagine the heights I will soar to. It'll be so crazy. You cure cancer. cure cancer what are three first three things you're a billionaire overnight what are your first three things the really the things i care i want to sit

first class i am tired of just like being cramped all the fucking time i want to eat at any restaurant the main thing i care about is restaurants and pasta. And then I'll have a personal trainer so my body will be so fucking sick even though I'm eating more than I ever have in my life. Oh my God. And that's about it, really. Pasta, personal trainer, and first class.

Yeah, that's it. I just like immediately, to be a billionaire, it's first class. Yeah, I want to sit first class. Wait, you're asking me the three things I would do? Yeah, what are your three? Or buy. I'm simple.

I would buy, I would probably buy a Nissan Skyline GTR. Is that a sponsor of the podcast? No, this is a car I love. I'd buy a Casper Mantra. An R34. It's a wrap. I would buy a car. I would buy an old Chevelle and try and make

an actual pod racer from Star Wars with it using jet engines it's from an article I read in Electronic Gaming Monthly from 1998 what else and then honestly I would probably just travel I would always you know there's probably I mean

if I had that money the first thing I would do was just board a jet and find my way to the hills of tuscany a place that is already like heaven and in a way even without the billions of dollars i feel like i am so i feel a little conflicted do i need the money anyway wait also not to make myself sound like the incredible hero that I am, but I would get all my friends and people these incredible gifts they would be so psyched about. I would just buy someone a car, and they'd be like,

what the fuck? And I'll be like, yeah, bitch, I did that. I think I would just do that. I would spend a little money and then give it all away because billionaires are fucking illegal. So how about that? That's right. I reject the premise of your question, sir.

Here we go. Miles Morales. Yeah. I would hold a big meeting. As I say it from my castle in Tuscany, get the fuck away. Because there's only like 2,000 billionaires on Earth. I would hold a big meeting with a big theater.

I'd be like gathering of the billionaires. And then I'd burn it to the ground. Wow. While everyone was in it. Oh, so you'd be like Khaleesi, basically, how she had all the calls in that tent and was like, guess what? It's a fucking fire party. But I would want to live so I could be the only billionaire. Yeah, but you would come out.

But you would invest in your suit so you could emerge from the flames similar to Daenerys. No. He started this and then it turned out it was Machiavellian the whole time. Who's that? You. Machiavellian? Yeah. What'd he do?

Oh, boy. Well, you know, before we get into that, we'll get you a copy of The Prince. Tupac. Nice. His name is Tupac, actually. Let's go get a copy of The Prince, and we'll read that during this commercial break.

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Future Juicy J. If you don't, I'll play a little bit of a clip before we're sued out of existence. Give me one moment to get the vinyl record out. Okay, let me put out the needle there and just play this. So this is the beat. Let's rage.

And here you are. You're gonna come to me. And here you are. But you better choose carefully. Okay, I mean, we all remember that. We've all been to a halftime show. But so she got in a little bit of a legal dispute um because a federal jury federal jury decided uh after a week trial that there was a copyright lawsuit that basically

claimed that dark horse was too similar to a christian rap song from 2009 of by marcus gray who is not my cousin that I know of. But if you did get a lot of money, I will hit him up because I'm trying to go back to Tuscany. This is how his track sounds, Joyful Noise, and it's pretty similar.

I would have got dinged. You don't think that's too similar? How many chord progressions are there in the world? Like 12, 13? Well, okay, so apparently the court ruled that it's just too similar. And there were several elements. I think it was one that it was that sort of little descending synth line plus the beat was very similar. But Katy Perry's legal team was basically saying, like, look, they're just just trying shit out this is how you arrive at stuff and i i totally understand that

argument uh but you know she did try to take that uh church away from those nuns and los filas and i'm team none she did what yeah she tried to buy this old this old property in los filas that these nuns were like uh that was owned by a church or something. And she was like in a long court battle trying to get it. And eventually, I think she lost out. I didn't know that. Or maybe she did win the house and then something happened where it proved God existed. I forget.

Something like that happened. But don't fact check me. I'm in a federal court. You can't steal beats from God. God will clap back. God will sue your ass dude don't you come for the king bitch so you know my thoughts and prayers are with katie perry as she gets through this difficult time i hope she can cry on her gigantic pillow of money

or as my mom calls her kate perry oh wow is she adamant that she's Kate Perry? My mom just like doesn't. She just shortens people's names. She calls Brad Cooper. Oh, wow. As if they're her close personal friend. Brad Cooper. She doesn't know she's doing it, though. Like people named Michael or Mike?

Yeah. Okay. I like that. One thing. Okay, so last week we were talking about the debates. You know,

that was a big focal point for everybody in comedy and Twitter and I guess in journalism too. I mean, I don't really pay attention

to that part. But a lot of the takes we were seeing were like essentially that Bernie and Elizabeth were like too far left and none of their ideas were working

and like Decentris proved that like that's the way forward which was basically by not doing a fucking thing and just being like, no, everything's chill. Let's just like kind of tweak things a little bit. Let's not rock the boat too much. Well, the Washington Post editorial board just fully shilled for the insurance industry. They posted a opinion piece from their entire editorial board that just said, why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work?

And that was a reference to when Elizabeth Warren was talking to, you know, John Delaney and saying, I don't understand why anybody goes to the trouble of running for president just to talk about what you can't and shouldn't fight for. And everyone was like, damn, yeah, all right, what the fuck, we'd like that. Because, yes, there's a lot going wrong in our current political system and just how the economy functions, et cetera. So they come out with this piece and just off top, they just sound like people who just want to take the biggest dump on Medicare for all, even as a concept. It just says, proposals should meet a baseline degree of factual plausibility, a bar that,

for example, the Medicare for All plan that Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren favor does not clear. The senators cannot deliver a system that provides far more benefits than other single-payer systems they claim as their model while preserving the level of care and access that insured Americans currently enjoy. They should make the case for a government monopoly on health care if they want, but they should be honest about the trade offs. Now, look, I'm not here to say that switching to Medicare for all or trying to go through this process of having a single payer system is going to be simple because there are many complex issues at work on trying to take these private insurance plans and figuring out how employment works and all these other things,

how the care will be given. But that's not to say that the idea itself is like a feasible one at the very least. And it's a valuable discussion because right now we have people who are just basically dying because they're poor. And I think it's really disingenuous of the Washington Post to not even sort of take what their critique is about what this system is and at least offer something to say a less our owner of the newspaper is a massive billionaire take would be, yes, while there are complex issues in switching to a Medicare for all system, like they need to be clear about how exactly to do that and what their solutions are rather than just wholesale writing them off about being like, oh, nice idea. It's not going to happen.

Because it seems like, you know, based on a lot of the people who got into the house during the midterms were running on a Medicare for all ideal and shows that people are hungry for that. And this like talking point, it's like, well, what about the people who get their health care taken away? No, that's not how it's working. It's about providing Medicare or providing health care for every person. Right. It's so weird to be like, like who like, it makes me wonder who is the health and health care for Washington Post. It's got to be so lit.

It must be good. Because they're like, don't invite him. Come on. I mean, you think about, again, Jeff Bezos likes to say, I really have no influence on the Washington Post reporting. It seems like that kind of for the most part. But when you see shit like this, because the policies of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would go after precisely these kinds of people who are who are wealthy beyond even the exercise

we did earlier like i couldn't even put myself in a headspace where i had jeffrey bezos's money yeah if i did i would not wear clothes like fucking ever no clothes i would live in a room made out of your balls are gonna get hung on, no, it would be a velvet room. I would live inside of a giant pillow basically with a TV and like food in Tuscany, but that would be it naked in Tuscany. But I think that's the kind of thing like they go on to say, you know,

let me just, this other part was just really fucking absurd. Big donors and billionaires may exercise too much influence, but democratic primary voters should be wary of candidates who use that fact really fucking absurd. Big donors and billionaires may exercise too much influence, but Democratic primary voters should be wary of candidates who use that fact to explain away all opposition to their ideas. I'm sorry, they can't even acknowledge that corporate interests in this country have such a factor in how policy works that they're saying that does actually explain away most of the opposition. If you look at who is funding a lot of the attack ads or a lot of the campaigns against Medicare for all, they're vested interests in private insurance.

So, again, what the fuck is that? It's got to be weird to be a reporter because you get into that because you're trying to, like, do checks and balances of, like, justice in the country. Sure. And then like, do you think that these people just get sweat? Like do they feel pressure to write under the way of their owner or do they work there because their actual thoughts align with them? I think so. Because at a certain level,

you know, the, this sort of traditional media, these like legacy companies, them. I think so because at a certain level, this sort of traditional media, these legacy companies, they've always basically never served to fully rock the boat on how the United States operates. It's like to report on things that are happening, but to be like, we're in the latest stage of capitalism and we're seeing all of its manifestations everywhere. Do we need to rethink capitalism or how we're moving money around

or what the rights of workers are and things like that and how corporate interests are poisoning the country? That's just not how these things work. They just want to be like, ooh, what's the tea at this bank? There's a scandal, you know what I mean? When the shit is much bigger. And they go on to say,

even if you undid Citizens United, which is the decision that allowed the corporations to have a First Amendment right, essentially, and put money into campaigns and politics and enacted campaign finance reform, sustainable policy in America would emerge only by means of principled compromise. Really, because that's I'm pretty sure that's why we're fucking here, because of this idea of principled compromise. You can't compromise on certain ideas that are going to leave people in the lurch. And I think that's where, again, nice try, Washington Post, but come the fuck on. I just also like going to Canada one time and you're like, oh, this is great. Oh, so you were moved. We went to a place and you were moved.

Well, that was only by the health care, which I could not access. Oh, we caught you, bitch. We caught you. We caught you, Caleb. I'll change my mind on my own opinion. Oh, so you were moved. We went to a place and you were moved. Well, that was only by the healthcare, which I could not access. Oh, we caught you, bitch. We caught you, Caleb. I changed my mind on my own opinion. Oh, my God. Canada's great. You know, going to other places, I changed my mind. Other places are great.

I like Japan. I went there. Good. That's a good answer. That's a good answer. Where else was fun? I liked going to Newfoundland. Wow. That was a cool place. You went there? Mm- going to Newfoundland. Wow.

That was a cool place. You went there? Mm-hmm. Wow, good for you. Yeah, I don't even know what I was talking about. I think I just hadn't had my skinny pop yet. You know me, I get grumpy. I was grumpy.

That's the grumpy version of Caleb. All places are the same. I also do that. I'll literally reverse my most deeply held belief over a cup of coffee. I don't care. Oh, man. Well, other people who are just abandoning their beliefs are a lot of Republicans in Congress. Because we are starting to see a lot of retirees pop out.

So, yeah, in the last few weeks, there have been five Republicans saying, yeah, I don't think I'm going to seek re-election. Because having Donald Trump at the top of the ticket and trying to be like, yeah, vote Republican is a tough proposition for some people, or at least people who maybe are starting to realize there might be a human inside still. And people retiring is obviously normal, but it's tough when you're the party trying to regain power. You want to keep as many seats as possible. So you're just like, okay, we have our seats. Which ones do we need to pick off rather than like, oh shit,

now this one's up for grabs. This one's up for grabs. It changes the math a bit. And while most of the people who are retiring come from districts that are pretty solidly Republican, a few more have become competitive, which isn't what you want. And so I think there's a few reasons. A, you don't want to align yourself with the president. And there's a lot of people who are in the House right now in Congress, about two thirds of them, they've never actually served in the minority.

They've always been like, when the Republicans have had the gavel, they've always been like, yes, it's fucking wonderful. but part of that means when you go in the minority you give up better office spaces you get less perks uh your budget your committee budgets kind of go down so i think they just maybe want to take their toys and go home oh possibly i didn't know it was like that yeah well i think it's other thing is just when you look at sort of how it's hard to be attached to the devil probably. Well, yeah.

I mean, seriously. Because like, and he turns on everyone. So it's just like literally, it's like entering a bridge where someone just lit half of it on fire. Right. You know? Well, and then you have Susan Brooks, who is like a woman who leads, like she recruits new people to run in the House. That's sad. She pissed off too.

So now you have like, okay, you're already dealing with very few women who are in the Republican Party. And then also on Friday, Will Hurd, who is the only African-American GOP congressman, he was also like, no, I'm not running for re-election. And he was very much like, you can't hear stuff like this from the president and have them think every American is welcome in this party. And I think for him, he's also an ex CIA analyst. He was also like not feeling his like, district, I believe, is in San Antonio. He, you know, having a majority Latinx district, he didn't want to then be like, vote for me, a Republican, and also have to answer questions about like, what about the president, the head of your party? And I think that was just like, nah, we're not doing that. It is weird, too, because I feel like the only Republican who can stay in office and like, you can agree with trump a hundred percent but if you just kind of think he's a dick right and that gets out he like tweets you and like yeah it's like insane and the only one who can get away

with it is mitt romney because of the because he's like king mormon yeah they'll be like yeah you can he's the only one who can like openly talk shit and stay yeah because even whatever trump says yeah they don't care they're like no no and i'm like hey give it up to the mormons Yeah, he's the only one who can openly talk shit and stay. Yeah, because even whatever Trump says. Yeah, they don't care. They're like, no, no, no. And I'm like, hey, give it up to the Mormons. Hey, circle the wagons, y'all. But the thing with Will Hurd especially, it's like, yeah, you speak out, you're fucked.

You speak up in support of soul, you don't want to go into these elections defending some of these policies, especially when you don't fully believe in them. Yeah, and your whole job is to speak on every policy and to speak on the president of your party. Exactly. And it seems brutal. I really actually need to pivot to this very important story because i don't understand why this is a thing um oscar meyer has a hot dog ice cream sandwich it's called an ice dog sandwich do you guys hear about this yeah this is pretty gnarly and and i'm like such a hot dog person but this is like when a 60 year old-old woman gets her boobs redone.

You know what I mean? When a 60-year-old woman gets her boobs redone? Yeah, just gets a huge fake rack and you're like, all right, we're trying to- Have you seen that a lot? We're trying to change things up here.

Oh, you're from Orange County. Oh, yeah, the land of fake racks. That's how you know someone's 60. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, I don't think she has a new rack yet, so I think she's 58. Yeah.

My first special is going to be called Huge Cans. No, but I feel like I'm like, why would you go ice cream and hot dog? Which and I'm like, I love hot dogs like more than anything. And for me, I can't even conceive. But I also hate when people try to take two good things. Like when people are like chocolate and bacon together. I'm like, no. They're masterpieces by themselves.

You're doing too much. Well, just listen to the description really quick of how this is even made. So the ice dog sandwich contains candied hot dog bits. Candy. Whatever the fuck that is. I've already got it. No. That's not right.

Dude, hot dog sweet cream. I got to see a picture of this. Hot dog sweet cream? Is that to say they take the hot dog water and make that ice cream flavor? Hot dog water. So gross. Then spicy Dijon gelato. No.

And a cookie bun. No, fuck you. No. No, no, no. Wait a minute. Now, fuck you. No. No, no, no. Wait a minute. Now, I don't know. Apparently, I mean, they must have done this in a way. Oh, this doesn't even look like a hot dog.

It's an ice cream sandwich, but they want to evoke all these fucking flavors. This is like when you lose a bet. Oh, go to hell. Look at this. And you have to eat this. Right now, it's going to be, I think, going to other places of the country. It doesn't even look like a hot dog. Oh, my God.

That's morally wrong. Oh, it's horrible. If you're in New York City, August 12th, that week, look for the Wienermobile. They are serving it up. If you're in LA, Cool House, I think, will also be serving it. Maybe we should go. I don't think so. We have to try.

If you really fuck with hot dogs, we have to try this. No, Miles, let's just go eat regular hot dogs. I'll do that. Okay. God. But you wouldn't even entertain trying it? What if somehow they pulled it off? No, they can't pull it off.

Why are you so adamant that they can't pull it off? Why are you so resistant to change? Oh, Seth Mixer, I've never felt an emotion in my life. I can't be moved by any geographical change. I changed my mind about all that. I love everything. Like, I love a hat the second day wear. Oh, my God.

You need God. You need God. God's great. Ice cream is not. Okay, so this is what? A hot dog is like summer, and ice cream's like summer but this is a totally different thing this it's hot it's spicy it's like it shouldn't be an ice cream flavor no it's wrong i have a feeling this is like this is the kind of energy that is like what rom-coms are

built off of because then you're gonna have your first bite and then you're going to have your first bite, and then you're going to be team ice dog sandwich. Oh, my God. Every time I say I hate someone, I end up fucking them. That's how it goes. John Cusack. Somehow the hot dog, that made me madder than Trump. It made me madder than, like, poverty and health care. That's crazy. It is different than what I thought it was going to be, though. That's the first feeling I've ever felt.

I just thought it was going to be a hot dog with ice cream on top of it, which would be better than what the fuck that is. Yeah, I would rather have a hot dog with ice cream on it. Look, it's not ideal, but at least we're not getting fucking wild space age engineering in a lab, you know. There's a lot of thought that went into that. Hot dog sweet cream already to me sounds like the pink goo that they make the Franks out of anyway. You know what I mean?

Just think about it. If you ever saw a hot dog get made, whatever, it is what it is. I know. That's my biggest thing is when people bring that up to me when I'm eating a hot dog. I don't care. I'm like, look, I've clearly chosen to enjoy this. Okay. You sound like Big Hot Dog is funding this podcast, and you're just a corporate shell.

Like the Washington Post editorial board. Just like Jeff Bezos. Look, I told you that I would kill for money. Well, let's go on to another thing that's in the works. The GoFundMe border wall is running into problems. GoFundMe border wall has running into problems already. Somehow this fucking joke of a wall is now has like parts of the wall are technically in Mexico at this point. It's not even like on its own land because they're I guess they're borders or boulders that they use to put it like the foot of the wall that they were placing. And they were putting these boulders in what is legally

mexico and it's now sort of like a mini international incident um that dude who started it brian colfage is like screaming shit like this is like this un-like organization is harassing me and this commission that is calling me out is 50 percent mexican owned okay so this commission that he's talking about is called the international boundary and water commission and it was established in the fucking 19th century uh with a commissioner from each country one of the american one is a trump appointee and they look at you know sort of how land is used and how water is flowing between the two countries like to basically be like this is how we figure out our borders like from a sort of geographical uh standpoint and anyway so now

like colfage is very dismissive and telling like this commission to go fuck itself because they're like uh these are in mexico like you have to do something like well uh you know the people move them there like you can move them back if you're so if you're so mad about it um and he is just basically saying well it's funny because with this whole idea of him thinking of keeping foreign bullshit out of the country, he still can't even look at Mexico's viewpoint here

and be like, I'll get this foreign bullshit out of our country. So the wall is like a bunch of boulders? No, well, see, I think it's a few different, the wall itself isn't boulders,

but I think they have boulders near where the actual, because the wall isn't really being built yet they're still like developing the fucking land so it's still like a big grift from what i can tell and this is just part of like the process of it being built i mean it would be funny if they just put a fucking couple four foot boulders and like yeah that's it you can climb over this. The thought of him acting like a victim is just so funny to me. I'm just like, how the men, the gymnastics.

Right. I. And he's mad that the half of the commission is Mexican. Yeah. Like what? Well, exactly. And it's like,

yeah, because, because it's a partnership between the two countries, because it's dealing with the border between these two countries. That's a lot of mexicans but that's the kind of shit that he has to tweet to his followers to like sort of use this weird fucking rhetoric to be like defend his dumb idea um the funny thing is he's like colfades this dude was saying like well the landowner in mexico uh he says like he doesn't have a problem with the

rocks being there but the commission uh who was like who they gave their comment was the concern about the encroachments was brought to our attention by the mexican government which is the entity we deal with so we don't give a fuck about what your friend who owns this property thinks of this is what the government has witnessed anyway i feel like so many so many uh racists uh not only dumb but like like another level. I think they have this cartoon idea of Mexico in their brain where they don't have a government and they think of it literally like a cartoon with like tumbleweeds and it's like crazy. Yeah, right. I really think they're surprised when they're like, wow, the commission. Like, I really think they think it's the Wild West and they just don't understand it's a

real country. I truly believe that because most people who buy into all that rhetoric have such little idea of some of the nuance, not even nuance, it's just the facts of the world. Yeah. I gave them too much credit. Apologies to ignorant racists everywhere. JK, fuck you. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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are y'all cheersing your lacroix's oh wow thank you cheers jimmy buffett over here what a great day let's do some shots after this netflix uh got caught uh recently when a user discovered that the app on Android was collecting physical activity data. And this got a lot of people just like the conspiracy theories ensued. Because a security research, yes, play the, well, that's not mine. I have the X-Files sound, but we don't. What was that? I like that. That's for Jack when he does conspiracy theories.

Because it's meant to undermine him. Oh, this is, that was Curb. Yeah, it's from Curb. Oh, I like that. That's for Jack when he does conspiracy theories. Because it's meant to undermine him. Oh, that was Curb. Yeah, it's from Curb. Oh, I love that. So last, I think a week and a half ago, a security researcher just opened his app as well and saw that there was a menu added that asks for permission to access your physical activity. asks for permission to access your physical activity. Now, most people were saying like, it's probably Netflix making use of this new Android Q update that lets like developers,

you know, tap into the sensors to detect step counts or classify like how a user, like what their activity is, like if they're walking or biking or in a vehicle. And Netflix was like, yeah, yeah, that's what's going on. That's what's going on. And that could be the case. But again, the conspiracy theories abound and not even like that they're that good. One person I think at Gizmodo was saying like maybe they're trying to get into like the exercise space because there was like that show Make It that they launched. And this one person had an idea of like using – like you had a pair of socks that could tell when you fell asleep while binge watching to automatically pause the show you're watching and they're like maybe it has something to do with that socks yeah somehow like this person's idea was like based on how much you

move your feet at a certain point it would detect your sleep based on movement and it would send a signal to pause i would never wear those i already feel like it's so fucking violent every time Netflix asks me if I'm still watching. I'm like, yes, bitch. Do you need to make me feel bad? I'm here. Still here. I get it. I've been watching The Office for four and a half straight hours.

What do you do on your Sunday? Jesus. Am I not allowed to have The Office on while I'm passed out? Yeah. I want that half in my dreams sometimes. It helps me dream nicer. And that's not good for their numbers or whatever. Well, the funny thing, too, even about those socks,

the thing failed on so many levels. Like, if you used a blanket, it wouldn't transmit the signal. If you were, like, someone who moves around a lot, it would never think you're asleep. Yeah. Also, who the fuck is sleeping with socks on? Pervs. Do you sleep with socks on? Huge pervs. You ever is sleeping with socks on? Pervs.

Do you sleep with socks on? Huge pervs. You ever sleep with your socks on? I don't do nothing with socks on. I take mine off. I don't have mine now. But my feet are 20 degrees colder than the rest of my body. I don't know why. So sometimes during my awake life, I have to keep them on.

For sure. If I take a nap or something, yeah. But do you get in bed with your socks on? No, I keep them on. For sure. If I take a nap or something, yeah, in my sleep. But do you get in bed with your socks on? No, I take them off. I take them off. Are you lying? Blair, are you lying? No, one of my things is I never lie.

Really? Yeah. What do you mean, one of my things? Like on your dating profile? One of my things is I never lie. You can trust me. No, my dating profile, I tried to say how I actually felt, like, the truth about my life. And my friend Joe Cozzola was like, literally nobody is going to swipe on that.

So he changed it to say, I've never had water. What's it taste like? And then a million matches. Oh, hell yeah. Guys just want someone to be dumb as fuck. Seriously. Looking for breathing lessons. Please.

Quick match before I die. My phone exploded. Yeah, right. Show me how to blink. What's it taste like? Honestly, that's a very good question. Oh my God. What's this water taste like?

You're sick. There was another one too that they said there like, a personal trainer that was on this show. That was, like, I guess one of those Fitbit devices that could pause your show every time you stopped moving. So I'm guessing that's, like, for people who, like, watch Netflix at the gym. I've never been to a gym, but I guess that's what people do is watch shows on a treadmill. And if you do, then why do I need it? I can do that at home on my couch. Yeah.

I do work out while I watch TV sometimes. Yeah. Well, that might make sense, though. Yeah. And another one was saying, like, maybe it could be a thing where, like, if you were, like, exercising, Netflix could send a motivational quote from a Netflix character. A lot of people were, like, trying to connect these dots. So it could be something like that. And also there are like a lot of rival streaming services coming out. So maybe they do have an eye on how to differentiate themselves.

But when you also look at like Tesla came out and said that you'd be able to start watching Netflix in your car. Yeah. But they were saying only when it stopped, because obviously that'd be the fuck. How the fuck could they, I mean, I think that's maybe in the future when you have driverless cars, great.

You can just watch it because you're not. And honey, I can't wait till that day. When you and your billionaire friends are just cruising nonstop. When I don't have to drive, oh,

I love to be driven. Do you? I love it. Yeah. What's your favorite, what's your favorite driving experience that you've been in? Well, I mean, I don't know. I've been in

some nice ones, but I just don't like to have to focus, pay attention. Right. You want to be lazy as fuck. Yeah, or just like I want to just deeply stare wistfully out the window. You know? Okay. What do you think about when you're wistfully out the window. You know?

Okay. What do you think about when you're wistfully staring? Oh, baby, a lot goes through this night. And it ain't all good. So, I don't know. A lot of rumors abound about this Netflix thing, but we'll see. We'll see. I mean.

Isn't it crazy, though? They are literally keeping track of every. I just assume my phone knows every single fucking thing about my entire existence. Every secret. Yeah. But they pay so much attention. That's like for comedy specials. That's why they started making them shorter because they're like, oh, literally nobody watches past 15 minutes.

Right. Yeah. If it gets slow, too. Yeah. Okay. Let's also check in quickly with Tarantino's latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It's, man, it's pissing a lot of people off. And it's making others very happy.

It all depends on how you look at him, his work, and his approach to everything. But it was funny to me because there's such a plurality of people that are upset. It was funny to me because there's such a plurality of people that are upset. Obviously, you're going to have people who are upset because his films are rife with just violent scenes against women, especially the hateful eight was wow. And a lot of the times, like the death of women are used as a punchline. Well, they were a hateful, hateful bunch. Yeah. Yes, they were.

They're anti-woman. And then they're also, you know, people were upset by like the casting of like Emile Hirsch, who I had no idea had choked a woman out at Sundance in 2015. What? I thought Emile Hirsch's career was like full done. I was extremely surprised when his ass popped up. And I kept being like, I was so surprised that I kept being like, is that Emile Hirsch? I kept going back and forth with myself for a while. The tale of him choking this woman was like, he was at a night, like,

there was a pop-up nightclub put on by Tao. Oh my god, I forgot about this guy. Wait, and this was public, too. So whenever someone is violent publicly, I'm always like, oh, what shit has gone down? If they don't give a fuck that much. It's because it was 2015.

That's when people were still like, yeah, is it that bad? You know what else I think he's getting away with? If it's fooling me, it's fooling someone else. I thought he died in Into the Wild and actually died. What? No. Are you serious? I never consciously thought that.

You look very serious, though. I never consciously thought it, but in my head, I'm like, oh, no. Oh, no, Hersh is dead. That movie felt so real. That's why I thought his career was over. I was like, oh yeah, I thought he was dead. He died in that bus. So method, he died?

Not really. Like when Shia LaBeouf actually had sex in that movie? You know how people think there's a genie movie with Sinbad, but there never was? It's like that. I thought Milt Hirsch was dead. Well, Shazam. I thought he was dead like,

you know, River Phoenix or The Joker. Wait, was it? I thought he was one of those young guys that died. Oh my God, Caleb. But Shazam was the genie though. Caleb, what are you talking about?

No, Kazam. Shazam. Shazam. I mean, no, people mix up the name, I think. Yeah, yeah. Kazam. Shazam. I mean, no, people mix up the name, I think. Yeah, yeah. Kazam and Shazam. Yeah, anyway.

Wow. We are giving people the fucking truth today. That's right. So yeah, there's, again, always, there's always these sort of criticisms. But anyway, back to Emile Hirsch. So just read this. At a VIP booth at Tao Pop-Up Nightclub,

several hours and drinks later, eyewitnesses say that two people had to physically pull the then 29-year-old actor off a female film executive who he choked unconscious. They said, like, when he got there, apparently from police reports, he said, she started kind of causing a ruckus, and I sort of started getting intervening, and this happened. Wow. I guess this is how fucked up he sounded when he gave this quote. I don't think it was much more than that, to be honest. I think she had a go at me i probably defended myself so what happened was the according to this woman he just started talking shit to her he's like you're just rich you know and you

probably don't fucking anything with your life just fucking some rich dude's fucking daughter what have you fucking done huh you're just fucking pretty girl dude fuck you done i'm fucking i'm out here dude fucking town nightclub dude and fuck you and apparently kept touching her hair and shit and i think at one point she's like yo get the fuck off me it escalated and choked her so apparently when the cops got there when they said what the fuck's going on i was like i don't know you know it's kind of hazy he's had a few drinks but i think i can patch it up with her he kept kept insisting the cops. He's like, no, I think I'm gonna patch it up. And they're like,

no dude, he was charged with like felony assault. And then like he took a plea deal because at first she wasn't going to press charges because again, that's how fucked up the industry was. She was really concerned about her standing as a develop because she was in a development executive and was even named it like powerful executives under 30, like in theiety or something. Don't choke the industry.

And then eventually she was like, nah, fuck that. This is bullshit. Press the charges. And then he took the plea deal. And again, I think it was 2015. I had no idea this had happened. Wow. And then a few other things just about Tarantino's filmmaking style.

We talked a little bit about how he forced Uma Thurman to drive basically a rickety old car, and she got in a fucking car accident because he was so insistent that she drive this piece of shit. What? I also didn't know that in Inglourious Bastards when Diane Kruger's character is getting choked to death, those are Quentin Tarantino's hands. He insisted that he was the one choking her

for the shot. So that's the backdrop of all of this. You think that's why he said the N-word so much? So people focused on that instead of all his other creepy shit? Maybe. I mean, there are moments that, like, the whole film, to me, I wasn't like, oh, this is one of his greatest films.

And I wasn't like, oh, this is the worst film I've ever fucking seen. It all depends on how familiar you are with his work anyway, knowing there's going to be some dumb shit, some overly offensive shit. So let me just go through some of the lists of the other people. We got to the people who were upset about the casting and these other things. First, he was pissing off Bruce Lee's family

because there's a moment where Bruce Lee is in it and it's like a caricature of him. And it's just like this dumb scene where he gets like, like beaten, like one punch or whatever. And to me, most of Quentin Tarantino's characters are fucking caricatures. So I was just sort of like, of course,

this is just another caricature of a, of a, of a real life person. The thing that pissed me off was like, Bruce Lee would not have fucking lost to this motherfucker in a fight. That's the part where I felt they did him dirty. Not because of the overly hard done, like lame version of Bruce Lee that the actor was doing.

When I was watching, I was like, I don't think this is anything like Bruce Lee in my life. Sure. And I think again, his daughter came out and was like, this is a caricature that he came off as an arrogant asshole or whatever. It's like, I get that. If they were doing my dad like that, I would be mad about it.

But I don't know. But it's also fiction. Yeah. Like, none of it was. Sure. That's why I'm like, okay, that's fine. I mean, I don't think there's any reason for me to take argument with people who were offended by that. I certainly see why you could be.

But for me, the thing I was more pissed off was like, Bruce Lee would have had that ass. Okay. I'm sorry, Brad Pitt. Next. The thing I was more pissed off was like, Bruce Lee would have had that ass. Okay, I'm sorry, Brad Pitt. Next, PETA was mad because of Brad Pitt's character who had a pit bull and apparently used some breeder to get this dog or whatever, and that pissed PETA off.

That dog was fucking vicious, though. You know what I mean? The dog comes through. The end. No spoilers. So what happened to the dog? I think they were upset that there was a pit bull, and it was sort of portrayed in this film as like a really aggressive dog,

or this like, you know, tough animal. And it's already like a very abused animal. So of course PETA comes in. And I think they also maybe got it from a breeder who was, you know, a problematic pit bull breeder. The next thing. Druggies. There's a scene where Brad Pitt smokes an LSD-dipped cigarette and gets high.

And now you pissed off Miles. And now you're pissing off me and all the drug people because I'm an LSD truther, okay? Because let's really think about this, man. Fucking LSD breaks down chemically around 36 degrees Celsius or 98 degrees Fahrenheit, okay? Now, a cigarette, that shit burning around fucking 900 degrees Celsius or 98 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay? Now, a cigarette, that shit burning around fucking 900 degrees Celsius. 900.

So the lysergic acid would not survive this process. Wait a minute. It would basically render the LSD inert from the heat. Like, you couldn't smoke, like, once it's being heated up, it's done.

I mean, you could have got it from touching the cigarette or whatever, but in the film, he's never tripping from handling it. But again, whatever. Well, that also sounds like some kind of bullshit 60s drug where they don't even know they're doing it wrong, and they're just like, yeah.

Look, the movie was fucking good, okay? Yeah. But now I want to get to you and your love of Brad Pitt. First, I want to say that the young actress in it who is like the little girl, I was very impressed with her acting skills. And, you know, the character provided a little bit of relief at times. Also, Leonardo DiCaprio, he was so fucking transparently insecure. And like his self-pep talks had me laughing.

Yeah, he was good. I liked it. Now, Brad Pitt, you said Leonardo DiCaprio who? Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay. liked it um now brad pitt you said leonardo dicaprio who yeah oh my god okay well i do want to preface i want to preface this with saying i have not seen any tarantino movies that's amazing i saw kill bill once when i was like young and i don't remember it so i went in there hung over as hell and i was like i'm gonna have just like a an afternoon with myself i got myself a large popcorn a extra large diet coconut went in there and what happened was i was like i love

this movie i love 60s hollywood it was so cool seeing all the old spots and he didn't use cgi so it's all just real i i loved it brad Brad Pitt 55 years old like I don't like old dudes damn he's 55 the shit out of him oh my god I didn't even yeah I didn't even notice he looked you could see it in his face but not in those abs Leonardo DiCaprio was in the movie I could not he's a movie star he's a movie star Brad Pitt Pitt? Yeah. You're vibrating. Yeah. Like off of your seat. You're nearly levitating.

Unreal. I was like, this movie isn't long enough. If they could add a few more hours. Just watch it at half speed next time. So does he take his shirt off and stuff and do like cool Brad Pitt stuff? Yeah.

And he's also just like brusque masculinity. Yeah. And he's also a guy who kills his wife. Yeah. And he killed his wife and i was like that's so fucking hot so well it's not even like a scene it's like this weird dimension of the character that like they just touch on once well no since we talked about all this and since i read all the articles i was like oh okay now i should feel guilty that i liked it um and i i didn't know about the feet thing now i want to watch it again

he loves his feet and then robert evans uh who this is a real sentence is back from syria he is in the he was in the studio today and we were talking and he was like did you ever read that article about the woman who like was like basically hooked up with him for the story and tarantino essentially was like very, like it didn't seem like it was any kind of predatory thing. He was essentially, they were in a relationship or like being dating or something. And he was sort of like,

yeah, like even without sex, like I would love to just like lick your feet and masturbate. And she was like, yeah, for the story. All right. He does look like a guy that likes to lick feet and masturbate though.

Yeah. Is there a type? I mean that smile he has, that's like a, you know. There's something. Ted Cruz has the same sort of, like, smile. Where you're like, licking feet. That's a foot-licking smile. I can, well.

What? Uh-oh. You might say, like, there is no face type for that man. Oh, wow. You're a lean back. Okay. No, okay. man oh wow you're a lean back okay no okay i will say you know uh margot robbie she didn't have that many lines yeah are you still thinking about this dude whoever is the foot licker in your mind

that you pictured oh okay anyways i will watch it through a different lens now knowing that Tarantino is not treating women in a great way. He has a subconscious hatred of women that he wrestles. I don't even think he wrestles with. He just acts them out in his films. Yeah, but maybe that was also a little true to the time. Absolutely. time absolutely i think there's also there's also an argument about like you know even with brad pitt's character being like a guy who killed his wife and like didn't go to jail and it's just a rumor that everyone knows but he still works it's a very like 60s thing it's like yeah he may have

killed his wife like that is i i get that but at the same time i understand these criticisms just having characters like that who aren't really redeemable either yeah but you know this is that you pick your poison that being said oh huge relief when brad pitt didn't fuck that teen yeah wow wow okay yeah having not seen this movie this is this is crazy what kind of movie is this? But yeah, I think the parts that I really did enjoy, though, were just seeing old LA and also the amount of places. It was funny. I saw it at the Cinerama Dome and people were cheering when they showed the Cinerama Dome. Yeah. Because we're here.

I know. I saw it at Arclight and I was like, this is fucking cool. But, you know, check it out. Let us know what you think. A lot of people loved it. A lot of people hated it. I'm ambivalent towards it. And Blair's take is, I'll fuck Brad Pitt's 55-year-old face all day.

Right? You said it. Yeah. I think I summed your take up. To me, I think you didn't even come away from it being like, I love the movie. I think all it did was activate your libido when you saw Brad Pitt. I didn't even know that I liked Brad Pitt.

Like I've never felt anything for him in my life. Really? Yeah. I'm serious. You say that so, so sure of yourself. So you've seen like, I've never felt anything for him.

Joe Black and like, Fight Club. Oh yeah, I forgot about that movie. Or him in Snatch when he's all shirtless all the time? I haven't seen Fight Club. You know, there are large gaps in my cinematic history.

Yeah, I know. How many movies have you seen? Like four. My friends like to... Look, I read a lot, okay? Okay. I read a lot. Oh, that's right.

You're a speed reader. Yeah. You have to show me your technique. But my friends are always just like, oh yeah, of course you haven't seen anything yeah right but you've seen what you've seen probably some show like nine times over and over oh yeah what show is that um there's a lot uh what's the latest true blood oh wow okay yeah do your thing yeah all right vampire gang in the building uh well caleb thank you so much for stopping by.

Best day of my life. Oh, damn. I believe you. Every day. Thank you. That's how I keep it. You know, I've changed my mind. I love everywhere and everybody. And today's the best day of your life.

It's great. I think it was at Zevia. Yeah. You know what it is? I think it was at Zevia. Yeah. It's that today is the first day of the rest of your life. That's never not true.

As my religion teacher said. Anyway, where can people find you, follow you, support you? At Caleb Sinan. C-A-L-E-B-S-Y-N-A-N. Get at me or CalebSinan.com. Just follow me on Instagram. It'll be great. Come see me do stand-up in your city.

And I'm going to go watch Once Upon a Time in Hollywood if you want to come see me do stand up in your city and uh i'm gonna go watch once upon a time in hollywood if you want to come see it with me okay when put that on later today okay let them know i'm going to the arc light um and what's a tweet is there a tweet you like recently from anybody oh i saw a good one uh oh it was probably one about Alan Strickland has all those ones about eating ass. No, there's a good one I saw. I forgot about the tweet thing. Oh, yeah, Rob Hayes had one that I really like where he says, what's going on with Bill de Blasio's sideburns?

We haven't had a president with sideburns in 100 years. Just really made me laugh. Holy shit. Follow Rob Hayes. Very funny years. Just really made me laugh. Holy shit. Follow Rob Hayes. Very funny comedian. I love Rob Hayes. I think he's one of the funniest people alive. He really is.

He's so good. Blair, what about you? Where can we find you, follow you? Oh, you can find me at Blair Saki, B-L-A-I-R-S-O-C-C-I, but not if you want to write me about my voice. Yeah, and that's on Twitter and Instagram and I post all my shows in LA and other cities and stuff. Boom. Yeah.

What's the tweet you like? I don't know who wrote it, but it was so funny. It was like a quote tweet of an article about Leonardo DiCaprio that said, life after Leo, like where his girlfriends are at now. And the person wrote in their mid twenties. Oh shit. I loved it. That's such a funny one too.

I love those. It's like, we can all see We can google these women's ages We see a pattern You can find me And follow me on Twitter and Instagram At miles of gray

Tweet I like Let's see This is from Dana Donnelly At Dana D-O-N-N-L-Y I do unfortunately find teen girls really hot because I needed to try to have something in common with my last boyfriend and I was having way too hard of a time getting into basketball. I literally was going to say that one.

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