The Daily Zeitgeist - Hooters: The Movie? Midterm Horse Race Update 09.01.26

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

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My clickbait on my TikTok is always trying to say that some random celebrity died, but like 90% of the time it's Bindy Irwin. Like the top searches of Bindy Irwin passed. Why? She didn't, right? No, she's fine. Why would people be obsessed with Bindy Irwin being dead? I don't know, but it was like so weird. Because I think it was Steve Irwin's death just came out of nowhere.

And is that kind of just like a teasing of that? It's just like, I'm stuck in. people's brains. I'm not saying it's not tragic, but it didn't come out of nowhere. Okay. You're right. It's not like if I was killed by an exotic animal, that would have come out of nowhere. This is the craziest thing. Chris Bell leaves is doing a podcast and a fucking stingray got him in the heart. That would be a lot more out of nowhere. That would be really surprising to, I think, a lot of people. Yes. It is interesting though. I mean, I think that that just like there is just something.

I was talking about this when we reran that Dali Parton episode, but like the bloids, the tabloids, when we first started doing the show, we had a segment called Bloid Watch. And the tabloids for every, like, every week were something about Dali Parton's failing health and like how

Dallie Parton was dying. I think there's just like this guess and check thing that happens where they're just like, okay, and weirdly, this person's death would be a huge deal to people. And so they've just like landed on Bindy Irwin. I'm sure there's no art to it. It's just like they put a million different celebrities names in there and see which ones get the most clicks. It's a real

convalement, actually, if you keep getting served your own name, you know, it's like people care about you, right? Yeah. Is that true? Because I heard there was like a, every year's like carrot top for a while, it was like died or something in like the 2000s. I think that's it doesn't make sense. I'm not saying it makes because like when I was a kid, the thing that everybody talked about was a kid from the pop rocks commercial. Oh, yeah. I remember that. It was a kid. It was the Kach Ching guy who I think what was that ad? Do you remember that ad? It was like 90. You might have been too young for this. But it's like maybe a kid at like operating a drive-through and they're like, would you like fries with that? And they're like yes. And he's like, ching. And then he's like,

do you want a larger drink? And they're like, yes, please. And he's like, cha-ching. And keeps like, maybe. That man has died. And that was the person who everybody was always like, the Chiching kid died horribly. Him and Bobby McFarren. Oh, yeah. What an interesting combo. An incredibly talented musician and a service worker in a commercial, you know? Oh, and the Chiching guy was Seth Green.

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We also have a new non-news history version of the Daily Zykeyes dropping each Monday morning called the iconograph, where we do a deep dive into the zeitgeist through the lens of a different icon. Past two have been Madonna and, more importantly, Garfield. Ah. We also re-ran Dolly Parton the other week. But Garfield, man. I did not. We basically did the Garfield episode because we have one of our fave guests,

Joey Cliff, who's like a huge Garfield fan. I was like, I mean, Joey's really smart. So like there must be something to this Garfield thing. And there is. It's a fascinating episode. There's a lot of interesting people who love Garfield. And it did reveal to me my new favorite theory, which is the Indiana, the state of Indiana, was the center of the world during the 1980s.

So you can go check that out. You dropped a Garfield episode on a Monday. I mean, that is talking about doing that too. Kind of fucked up. That is really fucked up. No respect. No respect. I tell you, Garfield's famous catchphrase.

I didn't do good research on this. And as we all know, Garfield's famous catchphrase, no respect. I tell you, they give me no respect. Odd that he was then did that show Rover Dangerfield. But there he is, a cad of many talents. All right. It is Tuesday, September 1st, 2026. it's a September.

Yeah. God damn it. It's already September. In my mind, now summer's over. Yeah. This is the month. It's over. We're all back to school.

We all got our trapper keepers. Yep. Yep, we do. It's also American Chess Day. Is it a different kind of chest that's like stupider? Yeah, yeah. It's where you lose that chest to a year. It's just a slang term for checkers.

See, it's actually a picture of kids playing with rocks. Yeah, it's American Chess Day. Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, acne positivity day. Shout to the Garfield. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. Yeah, look at that. And we did that on purpose.

We, exactly. Pink Cadillac Day, National Tofu Day. Shout out on my soy boys out there. That tofu tow through me. I'll tell you what. Oh, God. Oh, no. Is you seen that what happened to tofu?

You had some very bad tofu. You sure that was tofu? My name's Jack O'Brien, A.K. Early in the morning, and just after lunchtime, farts might be a roaring. Class will lose their minds. But here in my classroom, there's a sacred place where you can just let one go, and no one makes a face. Okay. In the fart corner, kids can let it rip.

There's some febrize in a can, so the stink won't make me sick. That one is from no clue on the discord in reference to the fart corner story that we talked about is a second grade teacher designated, which she calls the gas station, the fart corner where children can go to fart with impunity. Was it because kids were just farting too much that it necessitated a corner? She's apparently not built for second grade teaching because she's like, it will make me physically sick. these kids farting around me. But inadvertently, I think she discovers something because she's like, we've been doing it and people, because everyone was immediately like,

that's just going to, like, I have a eight-year-old, like he would turn that into a stage to like perform. How could you not go to the far corner and start farting? And start farting and like doing it in the funniest way possible. And, you know, like that's, and she's like, no, everybody's just going there quietly farting and then coming back because like once you take the mystery away from it is just a place to go. There's no stigma.

The thing that is calling it the gas station, it's like you don't understand how gas stations work. We put things in at the gas station. We don't let things out. It's almost like you get filled up with farts there. In this case, this is the you are the big tanker truck. Oh, you're the gas station. You are the tank. You are the tank.

Yeah. I understand. I think it is the coolest thing to be. There's a manhole cover. The kids have to lift up and then swat down into it, fart down into the hang of the buried tank. I do think that there should be like a little confession booth where you can go fart. So it's like behind closed doors and also, you know, you're acknowledging the sin that you're passing. No, no shame and farting. No shame and farting. This is where my Catholic brain takes me. I am like your son. I was the boy who farted. as if that were an instrument.

Yeah. And I was pleasing God with my music. Oh, I've, I've been thrown out. I remember I was thrown out of class multiple times for farting too much. Yeah. And then I got sent to the principal because I then started timing them for like the second a teacher would end a point. And she's like, and that's what I'm going to. And she's like, that's it.

You have to go to the principal now. And I'm like, I can't help it. I can't help it. Fart it on the way out of the door. Oh, yeah. Did that thing where you go to the. the principal and you have, they're like, why are you here? And I'm like, I don't know. They're like, why are you here? I'm like, well, we're going to go ask the teacher.

So why do you just tell? Okay, I right. I was far and I was far and too much. Yeah, you should go ask her. I've got a gift. How about that for my answer of why I'm here? Let's just say my art is a little ahead of its time. Dean of Men, if that's how, if that's what you want to call yourself at this school. Is that what they called them? Dean of Men? The Dean of Men was like the male, the male, the mayor. principal at my Catholic high school.

Oh, there were separate principals for boys. Well, they were like, they were the, they were the bad, like there was the principal, but then there was the dean who was the inf, like that's where you went where you were in trouble. Something tells me that the dean of women was not getting a lot of, uh, farts, like deliberate fart punctuation sent to them. Yeah. Our dean of men too, he had like a cue ball, like shaved head and he will, he was sometimes he'll wear his earring.

We couldn't wear earrings, but sometimes he would wear his little diamond. stud trying to look cool. And like, look at it. It's inspected from every angle. He's like, yeah. The divorce is going fine. Ask another question, though. Why are you here?

Because you're farting. Amazing. Well, I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Yes, it's Miles Gray, aka, why do they all call me mookie? The mooky. My mom said it, and it shook me. Now I shave my head. Now I shave my head.

Because now I shake my head. Okay, shout out to you, Bird Turgler, again, because my mom, one of the first people say, you look like Muky Betts. And now, I've multiple people have told me I look like Muky Betts this summer. So, yes, this summer of Muky. Thank you, Bird Turgler, for that. And combining one of my favorite baseball players with one of my favorite rappers, Fred Durst. One of the greats.

Also, not the worst person to look like. Very, very, like, great athlete. No, I wish I was, I wish I was Moogie Betts. I guess I'll have to settle for being the mooky bets of a daily podcast. That's right. Even that's not too bad. Miles, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the author of the book. Humor Me, How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy.

He also hosts the How to Be a Better Human podcast, as well as the National Academy of Sciences, Live Traveling Game Show. Wrong answers only. Welcome back to the show. The hilarious, the talented is Christophie. Hello, days. Thank you. Thanks for having me. glad to be here.

The Duff Man. I can't breathe. Yes. It's good. I'm good. I'm glad to be here. So I'm excited. I'm ready.

This is the big, this is the highlight of my week of my month. Frankly, this is the highlight of September. Oh, come on now. Come on now. How's the book doing?

How's it out there in book world pushing books? Oh, you know, it's a, it's a, every day is a thrilling adventure through the world of books. As I,

you know, occasionally someone says, Hello, will you sign this? And then they say, it's not for me. I won't be reading this. I'm going to be someone else. What's the point of doing, man? I mean, it's sweet that they're going to give it as a present, but it's funny to say, like, just so you know, this copy is not for me.

I would just never read your book. I would never. I don't need help in learning how I can be just more, you know, present or creative. Actually, you know, another, an interesting thing about, like, this is my first book I ever wrote. And there's like a really robust and thriving. scam ecosystem out there targeting authors. Where, like, every single day I get an email from like an obviously fake email address saying, like, I represent different celebrity book club and like for only $500, like,

we'd love to put your book in front of all of Duolipa's fans. And then you're like, I don't think Duolipa emails from like duelipa bookclub at hotmail.co. Right. Three dot, duelipa.book club. Yeah. And that one's like a real one. But I'll get like a lot of ones from. some slubs that don't even have the book club, where it'll just be like, hey, like, would you like

to be in the, you know, Ryan Felipe book club? And I'm like, I don't think that's like a relevant thing in any way. Definitely not real. Yeah. That is so set because like when you, like I, I worked on a book years ago over, over a decade ago. And I remember even then they were like, yeah, so we don't really have like a marketing apparatus. So you guys. You guys. You guys. are going to mainly do that. So there are enough desperate authors out there that this cottage industry has risen up. I'm sure they're being generated by AI because they also all start with like the same kind of like vague compliments or they're like, you wrote something that is really important and transformational. But it's not being seen by enough people. This could help people. This could really help people.

And I'm like, could it? I kind of think it's just like a funny book. I don't know that it's really like It's interesting because just from like the description, I haven't read the book yet. Okay, but you're going to give it to a friend and you like be done. This is for me. It's not, this, laughing not really for me, Chris. But I like philosophically where you're coming from about just sort of being like being more open and being more open to the like our abilities to have humor about ourselves, our risk taking and things like that. So which does feel like such an important like message. Yeah, yeah.

I'm underselling it. I do think it's an important thing. I mean, you guys get it because it's like. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, it's not a good message at all. No, I mean, the real message in my book is, like, people, I think people are way too focused on the, like, performing part of comedy. Like, people are like, how do you tell a joke?

How do you, like, make people laugh? How do you tell a story? And I think the most interesting part, which I wonder if you guys agree with, but I think the most interesting part is, like, how do you see things and realize that there's something funny there? Like, how do you walk around the world and see the thing that inspires the laughter that inspires the joke, which that's the thing that I think everyone should do. Right.

I don't think we need, like, everyone to be a comedian or a comedy. writer or host her own podcast. But I do think if everyone could walk around the world and be like, that's a little bit off. That's funny. I'm going to laugh to myself about it. Or I'm going to notice the funny things of myself and have a sense of humor about myself rather than being so self-serious. That's the stuff that I'm most interested in. I feel like it doesn't get a lot of attention. So that's really what the book is about. Yeah. That sounds great, ma'am. I personally think the only thing that's interesting about comedy is asking stand-up comedians, who are your guys? and then also just asking them for their general thoughts on politics and like how things have changed and like nobody nobody's allowed to laugh anymore.

Yeah. I didn't vote for this. I kind of personally think like one of the most important things we can be doing is like giving, you know, like far right politicians a chance to kind of show they're just like us. You know, I kind of laugh with them about stuff. That's right. Yeah, yeah. That is what comedy is for. Chris, we're thrilled to have you here.

We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell the listeners a couple of things we're talking about. We're going to continue to look toward the midterms. We're now mere months away from the midterms, and people are starting to see some issues for the Republicans. We're going to ask, how are they doing? How are they adapting to the changing landscape? How good are they at ignoring it? We're going to talk about ICE deporting, ICE fan, Milo Unopoulos.

We will talk about the Hooters movie. all of that plenty more. But first, Chris, we do like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? You know, probably the most revealing thing in my search history is that right before the show, I had to Google how to see Google search history.

So I Google that. And then I looked in, a lot of it was just locations of places, but the two interesting things that came up were metaphysics definition. Because I feel like I hear that. I had no clue what it actually was, and I had to finally admit to myself. And then I got to tell you, The definition was still over my head.

I still don't understand what it is. And then how do people from Maine talk? So those are my two. What's a main phrase? Is there a mainer accent? Well, I learned that one typical, like stereotypical main phrase is they say downcella. We're going downseller when they go downstairs to the basement. So that's like a classic main phrase.

I'm going downcella. Everything else exactly the same. Normal. Everything else is like every other New England accent. Yes, downsella is a main thing. But I'll see you later. But I'll have to go downcella. to go get something in there.

Okay, I'll be right back. Yeah. Are you working on a bit a main character? Are you planning on running for office and main? You're trying to hop in there? There's a really cool opening for me. So I was like, I think I could get there. And I could really seem like I'm from there just by spending all my time in a basement.

So that's what I'm doing. This economy has gone downsella. This economy is downcella. Like a lobster out of Rockport? Is that a place? No? I don't know. I love Kenny Bunkport, man.

I'm dressed in like all LLB in attire with a tag still on, and I'm like, I'm just like you. I'm one of you. You got your Portland Sea Dogs hat on? Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. Hello, this guy knows Maine.

Hey, I was carpetbagging. I was trying to run for Senate in Maine. Yeah, I, you know, I interviewed someone who is a writer from Maine, and I was like, this could be the way to connect as if I was like, here's some phrases. And then I was like, I don't think Downsell is going to come up in this. And also, like, man, we have so much in common, Chris. You didn't have to, like, go overboard with the Maine stuff. That's right.

Really trying hard to connect. Hey there, fella. You princes of Maine, you. What was it from a cider house rules? Oh, yeah, cider house rules. Yeah. Anyways, Chris, what's something you think is underrated? I got, you know, I think a lot of stuff is underrated.

One thing I think is underrated is all you can eat restaurants. I feel like we do not. People complain about the quality. But in this economy, all you can eat a restaurant. I love it. I think we need to be celebrating them more. And then also, you know, from all you can eat food to poetry, I think the poet Sarah Kaye incredibly underrated, love her writing. I think she's an incredible writer, incredible poet. People should be reading Sarah Kay's work. Okay. She has nonfiction. She's got poetry. She's got all sorts of stuff.

Is she from Maine? She's not from Maine. She's from New York City, unfortunately. And that probably has never been in a set. New York City. What is she write about a lot? Like what's her, what's her her prose about typically. She has, well, her prose, she's, she's working on this book that is about, she is half Japanese, half Jewish. I mean. And she has a grandmother who, during the time of internment, was able to get out of the camps to serve as a teacher on a Native American reservation. And she's writing a book about her grandmother's experience. That's like, so interesting and beautiful and really like a unique look at that period in history, which I think is very relevant right now.

Right. So, yeah. How so? Yeah. I'm not familiar. You know, I think with Milo, we're going to get around that. Milo is kind of, Milo is the, oh no, he got the straight through. He got to pass straight through.

Luckily, he knows a couple of people. Yeah, he knows a couple of people in the administration. All you can eat buffet, I love a buffet. And it's funny when people talk about Claudine, like, you don't go, like, when you go to a buffet, your, my expectations adjust immediately. I'm like, this stuff just better be good enough. I want seconds and thirds. And typically it is.

I just never eat pizza at a buffet. That's the one thing I just never, never have ever. That's like for kids. Whenever I see pizza and people go for pizza at a buffet, I'm like, no, no, no, no. Yeah, I also feel the appeal of it all you can eat buffet to me is that you can try like wild combinations. You know, you can like build a, you can build a little log cabin with ribs and then put chicken fingers in the middle and then there's jello on the plate too. And like, you would never in a million years think to combine those things if you weren't at an all you can eat.

I remember when I lived in Kansas. Kentucky for three years. One of my best friends there, Matt, shout out to Matt, had this legendary relationship to this All You Can Eat Restaurant called New Orleans House. And he would like always talk about it. He'd be like,

dude, you can like, they just have like so much. They have like frog legs, but it's not even gross. Like the frog legs are fucking incredible. And like we finally went there after like two years of him talking it up. And it was all right.

Yeah. Okay. You know, but it was just so funny. Like the concept of like this like kind of fancy all you can eat restaurant was like so mind blowing to us. Yeah. You know, especially when you're like eighth and ninth grade. You're just like so hungry all the time.

Yeah. That's when they see you walking through the door and they go there's no profit margin on these kids. Yeah, yeah. These kids are growing. The frogs legs are going to, we're going to get cleaned out. Fuck. Oh, no. Look at how hungry these guys are.

I've been watching these, um, these tick. I mean, everyone's been watching these. The TikTok videos of the guy with the mullet reviewing All You Can Eat Chinese buffets in Ohio. Have you seen this? Oh, no. Oh, it's incredible. This guy with a real big mullet, he goes to Chinese buffet restaurants, all you can eat, and he's going until he gets food poisoning.

But he's on day like 75 now, and he is eating some wild stuff. And it is a real odyssey. I think it's literally called mullet reviews. And he is going because his intention is like, I'm going to have to get food. Like, is he implying that you're going to get food poisoning? Well, he's going to poorly rated All You Can Eat buffets. Oh, so he's like, what's the janky? Let me go to the jankiest buffets and you see.

Jackass of food reviewing. Yeah, but the thing is, apparently it's very hard to get food poisoning for this man. Right. He has eaten some things where I thought there's no way. And then you really, it gives me in a time where I'm worried about lettuce and I'm worried about, you know, the blueberries and the raspberries, everything. It's inspiring to just see a man eating like a 20-day old egg that has been sitting in, you know, a warm bath of its own water. And he's like, this tastes bad. And then he's still back the next day.

That sounds incredible. Good. That sounds like such good content. Yeah, but he eats the pizza every time. Yeah. God. Why? Such a waste.

Dude, you know that's not like even, even with mashed potatoes at a buff. I'm like, they could come out of a bag. I don't know. I can still envision a reality where like someone is your best case scenario. Yeah.

But with a pizza, I know 100% with like, there's no ambiguity there at all. I think that's, and that's the magic of the buffet. my brain choose to engage in. Yeah, there's no way they don't have like a brick oven in the back of the buffet, all you need buffet where they're cooking up a fresh pizza.

Bring out the pizza bag. They just like squirt the pizza out of the bag somehow. They squirt it into the circle and it's kind of forms in that sense. What is something that you think is overrated? I'm going to say, like, we're already, we're already on the dining zone. I'm going to say fancy restaurants. Fine dining. No thanks.

I think. No, thank you. I know all these people. Even New Orleans House? What do you say about New Orleans House? You know what? New Orleans House gets a buy because it's all you can eat. So it falls into a different category. But I just think, you know, chefs, my opinion is chefs don't have to be artists.

It's okay if you just make food. You can be like a nice person who makes good food. I don't need you to be like a genius where I spend a lot of money and then I'm still hungry afterwards. Not a fan. Always take the cheaper option. That's my. I want to feel like this food was made by somebody who, whose relationship to their staff could best be described as psychopathic.

Exactly. That's the only way that... You can taste it, yeah. Yeah, you can just taste how mean they were to everybody who works for them. I definitely want tears. I want to feel that there were tears and suppressed rage in everyone. The people who are serving me this food to seem terrified. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But also like they feel like they're also in an internship, like they're building towards something, but they're being abused while they're building towards something. Right, right, yeah, yeah. I saw a description of an internship. I saw a video on Instagram. I forget who the creator was, but just sort of like lamenting what Bourdain has done to the idea, like, for a lot of people's idea of, like, what a chef is. Like, you have, like, being this tortured guy who's, like, had, like, has to go to the most remote, like, reaches of the world to come up with a new food concept. Right.

Or also, like, reaping the benefits of not being, like, looked at as, like, an eloper, like a usurper who's bringing foreign food. And we're like, this is my version of thaw that I'm doing. People are like, oh, wow. Oh, you know what I mean? But yeah, the super high-end dining is also just so expensive. Like before things, like that was like a fancy meal was still like, I can fathom a plate of food costing that because it's a nice place. Now it's like, yeah, before you get a fucking reservation,

we're going to run your credit. Yeah. And then you'll. With Klarna. Yeah. I think that actually is the thing. Food just needs to be. Definitely.

Like where. I'm in. trouble with the people of Clarno. Let's just say that one. And you're not allowed to say that word on this podcast lot. I know the costs of food are super high that causes things to be like even more expensive, which I think that's what makes even high-end dining even dumber because you're like, dude, even McDonald's is overpriced now. So I'm not going to pay, I'm not going to pay for like a dessert of witch hair on a bed

of macadamia nuts for $72 at the fine dining place. Well, the food, the ingredients are expensive and so are the drugs, the chef needs to be on in order for him to have the credibility I require. They're doing the same. He needs to be fucked up. I'll say this, man, the drugs they're doing at Spago, they're doing the same drugs out back at New Orleans House. Oh, for sure. It's the one unifier. They're buying that from New Orleans House. There's no doubt about it. Yeah. Step on bullshit. All right.

Lul. R slash Louisville. Anyone else missed. New Orleans house. Yeah. Wow. A popular restaurant that operated in Lexington, Kentucky in the rear of the South Park shopping center on Nicholasville Road. Oh, there's a commercial, dude. Oh, really?

Oh, look at that. That is incredible, like already, the quality. Yeah. I guess you could call it fancy. Is the place where you can get all the shrimp you can eat. All the king crab you can eat. And all the oysters on the half-shell, all the steamers, scallops, barbecue ribs, a seafood feast.

Yes, we guarantee you and your friends a dining experience you won't forget. The New Orleans House in downtown Louisville and on Shelbyville. God, damn, that song was epic. That was a fucking buffet right there. You go there to change your life. Exactly. The gladiator of all you can eat restaurants. That's instantaneous.

Oh my God. That's amazing. That really brought me back. I really. I like that they made it look like it was like a fire lit. Oh, yeah. That like soft focus on everything. Just like soft filter on everything.

It was just like clearly just some guy just putting fucking eight pounds of shrimp on a fucking tiny plate. And the logo is just a lobster. Nothing to do with New Orleans. Yeah. That might actually be a crawled at. Oh, okay. That might be a crawl daddy. Uh-oh.

I always think of a crawed daddy as a curl. You know, they had a curl. That was a straight up and down one. But I guess it could be. They got a little scorpion going on. Oh, yeah. If they're not curled up, don't eat those. Those ones were dead before they cooked them.

That's how you know. Never eat a floppy, an unrigid crawlfish. That's how you know they died before. Also, never vote for a DSA candidate. They'll never do that. Never vote for a DSA candidate. Never eat a floppy crawledad.

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When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for 9.5. months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the survivor files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them.

There's stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the message. reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone,

I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people. smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself.

So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Hayes, Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host

The podcast, Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, aka the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicists for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on his head, right?

How about we flip this script? Okay. What is the surprise woman? Who actually you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Adam Scott. This entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never expect. I have.

I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I'm open to it. I'm always going to accept. You know, Danny McBride. ride, fine. Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity. Exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed?

Nope, it's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. You know what I mean? They're like, oh, what's a state. Everyone's so dumb. And fake. Right, fake and also not interested.

Or just like, oh, I've got my. I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. Both sides.

Both parties are both. Both sides are having to make do with some uncomfortable things that they're not comfortable with about like who, who are. the candidates. Where is the energy? Why is it not right here behind the party leaders, the very specific people, Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer? Why isn't everybody just excited about them? Yeah, man. I mean, a lot of the horse race midterm coverage is getting an extra dose of, uh-oh, this week, because aggregate polling in battleground Senate races show Republicans trailing. And you're like, but how? How? What, what's going on? Well, the biggest issues are affordability and off of that gas prices. Two things Trump is physically incapable, mentally incapable. Not the second grade classroom

kind of guess. No, no, no, no. I just had to specify because I think a lot of people who heard us talk about that story are confused now. Yeah, the supply there is just booming. Yeah. We have a certain production is really going on. The supply charts. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, these are all things. Very low demand. Just the demand is like a line at the very, very bottom.

Demand was stayed flat. But supply has skyrocketed. For the past 3,000 years. So again, Trump only understands grifter politics. So that's not, that's not a good sort of instinct to have in a moment where all of the Congress, members of Congress are telling the White House, dude, we have to be able to do some of this. I'm getting my just my ears ripped off with people screaming at me about these things and why aren't we doing anything. And each region that there's like a consequential Senate race

that could decide the balance of power is dealing with specific headaches that voters can connect directly to Trump. So like in farm country, right? It's, I don't like to hear that they're feeling headaches. That sounds uncomfortable, Miles. Very specific headaches, I must say. And by that, I mean, existential dread about not being able to provide for themselves or their families. In farm country, it's all about the price of diesel fuel and fertilizer prices going up. And Trump, like, recently importing a bunch of, like, rancid Argentinian beef. The beef imports like... I can't serve that here.

And he's like, bring it up here. We're... We got to bail them out. Meanwhile, beef producers in the U.S. are like, what the hell? Like, can you help make the market... sort of open to our product rather than just bailing out other countries while we continue to languish. In border states like Michigan, Maine, Alaska, residents are reeling over gas prices and the trade war with Canada since they count our neighbors as significant sources of business.

So to have more tension be introduced through these tariffs, you're now having all these local businesses being like, what are you doing? Like this is unnecessarily interrupting my way of living, my source of income. And huge Canadian solidarity. I mean, Canadians are really like, we are not going to buy American anymore. We're buying Canadian. We talked about that yesterday. There's like this poll recently that CTV did.

And most people were like, I don't give a fuck if they all die. Kind of like they've had it. Obviously not in those words. But they were like, no, they're like, like one guy they interviewed said, I bought a garbage can at the hardware store. When I was turning it over, I noticed there was a made in U.S. say I took it right back to the store because I'm done with this. Oh, you thought we were a polite motherfucker? Oh, you thought we were a fucking polite hoser?

These are people who can survive a Canadian winter, right? They don't back down. No. And, you know, they're most, they've got, they've got their hearts in the right places because I was mentioning on yesterday's episode, some of the people pulled were like, well, I do feel bad about some of the American people because they're not, they're not doing this. They're not so bad.

Don't worry. We are not the corporation. And maybe they need the message just absolutely drilled into their brain. So now what? If the GOP does nothing, the only thing they can really rely on for somewhat of a winning strategy is that more Republican voters have just become rigid and unwilling to ever vote for a Democrat. So they're like, well, some of these people are just nailed on no matter how bad their lives get. And then the other thing was just sort of like, and we can just sort of use these like red scare tactics to be like, the Democrats are communes. that want gas prices to come down.

Okay. And so I'm not sure if that is going to be that those aren't those aren't the best tactics to be relying on. And then now they're also contending with polling that now shows there's like a widely held belief with their voters that Trump does not give a single fuck about American suffering with the high cost of living. Where did they get that? Do you think it was the times he has said explicitly that? that he doesn't give a fuck about I could be that where that idea came from? Is that affordability is a myth?

Well, he never said he doesn't give a fuck. So it can't be that. So it can't be that. Because he never said that. But that's how they feel. I mean, I would, I would bet he has said that. He just necessarily hasn't said it's a camera. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's always been like these quotes where he'd be like, these people are fucking whining or whatever. Yeah. They're, you know, they'll say behind closed doors. But yeah, as like I think last week, we talked about how MAGA, Inc, which is the main. that's sitting on a bunch of campaign money that Trump controls.

They're sitting on like $400 million. And every campaign that's dealing with midterms problems is like, can you start spending it on the candidates and doing some ads here? But Trump does not care about that. And everything he wants to do is now just doing ads that are about what Trump has accomplished as a way to fight off the potential blue wave. This is where having both generated. an entire smoke screen of bullshit

and then like that getting into your air system. So now you are encased in your smoke screen of bullshit. That's where it becomes a problem. He's just like what are you talking about? I'm doing great.

I'm hearing incredible things. So let's just keep putting that message out there because clearly that's going to keep resonating with people. Do they know how many things I put my name on? Right. Okay, but here's Here's my question. As a person who is, you know, a liberal who, like, loves to hear these stories and then has been burned so many times in the past. Because I always am like, okay, people are finally turning. They finally get that. He doesn't have their interests at heart. He, it's actually happening. And then bam, nothing changes, if anything, like more people. I think, I think the really the only likely outcome probably is it's like the House goes to the Democrats and the Republicans barely hang on to the Senate. Right. And that's kind of where you net. I think the reason why people are.

Again, because every midterm in a Trump administration has led to massive losses for the GOP. So like that part, you're like, okay. Yeah, to the larger question of like, will this bring about some form of class consciousness that will be able to break people out of like the mental sort of chains of just like all this infighting? No, no, no, we're not close to that. But in the horse race of the congressional math, I think this is where people are kind of looking at this year to maybe being like 2006. When the backdrop of a self-dealing administration and a war in Iraq led to a collapse in GOP power and the Democrats took both chambers, I think that's kind of like the only thing that people are potentially thinking about. Because again, to your point, Jack, too, you're saying in the beginning, the Democrats also have problems of their own with not having a unified direction with more progressive candidates entering office and the establishment trying to like fight them off.

Yeah, it feels like both sides at war with their voters, like with their big. And so, you know, the Republicans are a little bit more fucked because they're denying there's a problem. Yeah, they're denying there's a problem at all, whereas the Democrats at least have some populist candidates who with like populist economic policies that people really like. And then the Democrats are just not quite taking advantage of that and instead, you know, devising purity tests about Hassam Piker for for those candidates to deal with. Yeah. So I'm not super hopeful that like they're going to sweep to power because I think they still have a lot of the problems that people were responding to when they decided not to vote from mainstream Democrats. But if you're just like a person who's not paying that much attention and you're like pissed off, it's pretty clear to you're like, well, these people are the people in power right now. I'm pissed off something else. That has to favor Democrats that. Yeah. And you have all those voters like first time voters who voted for Trump. in 2024 who were like, oh, man, I honestly wasn't paying it. I just voted for Trump because it just wasn't that.

It wasn't what it was at the time. And that was a huge mistake. So yeah, you definitely have people who still vote for like, well, who is it now? Nope, then the other guys. Right. Because I don't like now. Also, a lot of people, I feel like I heard a lot of those, like, first time Trump voters saying that they were voting because of anti-war stuff. They were saying, like, if I don't vote for him, it's going to be World War III.

And now they're like, turns out. Second. Hold on. Seems awfully close to the thing that he said he wasn't going to do, which is the Third World War. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's still time. You know, maybe he'll come out with some kind of change of heart. But again, there's even like people like in the, like they're having like a mini convention in Dallas pretty soon where they're going to talk about like some midterm messaging strategies and things like that. But like one of the people that spoke to Politico for this article was like, dude, it doesn't even matter what's going to happen there. Because all. it's going to take its Trump to be like, no, I want to do this other wacky thing. And it won't even, all that work will be for nothing. So it's just like there are, even the people that are, you know, supposedly supposed to be helping shape this strategy are all just sort of resigned to the fact that like it doesn't even matter. Like is at the end of the day, senile old man will just give an edict that changes everything. I think this is the thing that's interesting for me as like a person who has

always been progressive my whole life is I always thought like, well, the one thing that the Republicans really have that they like consistently have is incredible message discipline. And now they've totally given that up because it's just like they have discipline and that they say the same thing as Trump. But that's the wrong message. But he's so undisciplined that it changes wildly. And that, you know, they were able to say like drill over and over and over like, we need to do the Iraq war.

We need to do this. We need to do this weapons of best restriction. Whereas with Iran, like every single day. Yeah, I don't even know what their message was for why they started. It was nuclear weapons briefly, but like that was all. also a thing they had said like weeks before was not a problem and that they had like taken the right. Then it was like, we have to do this for to free the people. Then it was the economy. Then it was back to like, you can't threaten us. We threaten you. Like it's just they don't have that. They don't have

the gift of the message discipline anymore. Yeah. And I think also the fact that there's no middle class that you have enough insulated voters who do not feel the feedback, the instant feedback of policy that allows the party to have people in the streets being like, you know, being like, oh my God, it's great. Everything's great right now. It's like, oh, I'm sorry things are hard for those people, but things are great for me. That number of people is just diminishing at such a rate that you don't even have people who can even dilute themselves into being like, no, things are great.

They're like, no, like, this Iran war is terrible because I see what it's doing to gas. the prices have tripled for certain types of fuel or whatever, that I can see that. And I can't trick myself into thinking with American exceptionalism or, you know, whatever propaganda that this isn't a thing that's affecting me anymore. Yeah, if you live in a border state, you used to be like, we're on the cool side. And now you're like, I'm going to go to Mexico for my health care. And if only I could get into Canada for the high quality goods. Please take me.

The safe safe eggs that won't kill me. And also their hotels are cost less. And so does the gas. Why can't I get up? there. Yeah, for a long time it was just like politics was like a branding contest between like Coke and Pepsi. And it's like, I mean, it's the same shit basically. But like one of them makes this argument and one of them lights Michael Jackson's hair on fire. I guess we'll go with the other one. And that works when it's only like a smaller portion of, of the population is suffering from inequality and has no access to like upward mobility, like social mobility or. or any kind of access to increasing their wealth or their wages.

So, yeah, when you don't have that. Now there's actual consequences. People are paying attention and what they're seeing. It seems like they don't really like from the current administration. And the people who've been running the messaging, they aren't, they still aren't getting that that's the reality right now. Like, that playbook is cooked. That playbook worked when you had enough of like a middle class or enough wealthy people

who could seemingly, you know, carry the brand's positive message, you know, across the country. But now it's just everyone is so fucked up over the cost of everything that that's now just sort of the default agreed upon discussion in this country. Like, oh my God, everything's so fucked up and expensive and what the fuck is going on. Yeah, that's the one thing we can all agree on. Everything is so fucked up. Yeah. It's expensive to run a country that can't promise to feed you mangoes that aren't covered in salmonella.

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moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, then that is the Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to pro society on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. On the new podcast, Solita, We share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B.

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What is the surprise woman? Actually, you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Adam Scott, this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never expect. I would never set expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen. I am open to it. I'm always going to accept.

You know, Danny McBride, fine. Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed? Nope, it's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. You know what I mean?

They're like, oh, what's just a state. Everyone's so dumb. And fake. Right, fake. And also not interested or just like, oh, I've got my life. I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy.

Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. We're back. And you hate to see stuff like this. Milo Yanopoulos. an immigrant, right? You know, to this country? Yeah, visa overstayer.

Once proclaimed that he would like to publicly jack off to ICE arrests, but, you know, overall, okay, actually, did he actually say that? Yeah, yeah, so I'm going to read a quote. Oh, what is the etiquette if you're going about your business and find yourself observing an ice raid? I want to show a little respect and decency. Are you allowed to master?

where you stand in the street? Or should you find some kind of awning or motor vehicle? Edge Lord! Onning? Awning? Orning or motor vehicle? Awning. Now, if I saw someone jerking off under an awning, I wouldn't say, I'm so glad they showed a little respect to you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would not be my first reaction. Yeah. Car, okay, at least, you know, there's some sort of glass between you and me. Yeah. Oning specifically is only respectful to Google Earth. otherwise nobody I can't believe

that a Nazi like Milo Yanopoulos who is Kanye West campaign manager would say such it wow really I really he like was

Kanye's like right hand from like 2012 to 14 is that right or no no 2022 to 2024 yeah more more recently just like being his

sort of like main connection to right wing politics and Kanye had a show in New Orleans the day, the night that Milo arrived in New Orleans

and was apprehended and quickly just excreted back to the UK. Without much time in being held in an ICE facility. So ICE was like, guys were treating him just like we would. Anyone else

except, you know, he got to skip the 52 days of being unlawfully held. Not disappeared at all. There was no mystery about where he was. He was given food and water and then sent back to a totally safe place. Yeah. Yeah.

It's amazing, too. It's like, look, we didn't want to have to have him go through all that normal stuff. Because look, when you're a neo-Nazi with ties to the right-wing propaganda apparatus, we just kind of get, there's a little bit of a different way to treat them. But it's also funny, too, where, like, Tom Holman was asked. Like, hey, did Laura Lumer tip you off? Because she was claiming that she tipped you guys off. And he basically said, quote, a lot of people tipped ice off.

But Laura Lumer, quote, probably was one of those people among them. So a lot of people pointed out the fact that this person who loves to get off to ice raids himself might be, you know, in violation of our, you know, humane immigration laws. I mean, this is like that, the most extreme example of that. Like, whatever you let them do to someone else, they will eventually do to you. Right. Yep. You don't like to ever root for ice. But this is the one case where I'm like, that's an immigrant we don't need in our country.

But it's also funny too, but even then he still gets the white power treatment. Totally. You know, like where it's probably like just being like, hey, man, you got to go. Are you cool with that? Can we go to the airport now? You're going to London. All right, buddy. All right.

See you later. Hey, could you give us a grumpy looking picture? just so that it looks like we treated you like shit. Like, yeah. Oh, that's great. That's great. We actually called your parents. We called ahead and there so they know you're coming.

And like they're, you know, they're not going to be worried about you. Here, we have your mom on the phone. Yeah, do you need to call someone? You can wait under the, if you'd like to wait, we have an awning set up for you. You can get that right over here.

Yeah. If you want to jack off to your own apprehension by ice, to your own ice raid, we've actually made that remarkably possible for you. We have a mirror and an awning and just a whole lot of, a lotion for you. So please just step over here. Put you in a small booth on your flight back and I'm

going to give you the body cam footage of this. Whatever you want. Yeah, yeah. I mean, to me, one of the many horrible things about the way ISIS is treating people in actual dissension camps, I have a friend who's a journalist working on immigration stories and he was telling me that

one of the big things that he's noticed now is they're deliberately treating people worse and worse so that they can get people to willing signed like self-deportation papers because that's the fastest way to get. So they're not giving them enough food. They're not giving them enough water. They're, you know, deliberately putting them in overcrowded places.

And so, like, Milo has none of that experience, right? He just, like, gets to go home. Yeah. It's almost like it serves them in two ways where it shows, like, we can, I'm a very powerful, far-right provocateur, but you're not as powerful as Laura Lumer. But then it also serves them being like, it can't be that bad. Look at what happened to Milo. Right.

Yeah. He's fine. Well, and I think also just again, to help underline to everyone else, it's like there's like three, three levels of justice that you can experience. And most of you will not, you're not going to get the Milo-Unopolis treatment because, yeah, it's designed explicitly to harm the people that they, that they want to. And for those that, you know, get the privilege of sidestepping that, yeah, then you can just go and tweet about KFC. I think there's the last thing he just tweeted since he's been back in the UK. He, like, retweeted an ad for a KFC sandwich. He was like, oh, fuck off.

So things are going well for. Why is he mad at us? He's not mad at us, is he? Must be. Must be. Must be. What the fuck, dude. Yeah. Yeah.

He's mad at KFC. It's actually a really hilarious understanding of ice. They control the immigration enforcement in this country. I mean, like, yeah. Like, to your point, fuck off. Like, to your point, Chris, about, like, the, the conditions in ice centers, every day, you're just hearing more and more. more terrible things about abuse and the violence and the, you know, the lack of food and all

these other things. And the arrests have gone up. Yeah. But of the percentage who have ever committed a crime has gone way, way, way down. Oh, yeah. Exactly. And Mark Wayne Mullen, who's head of DHS, he just, he did the tired ass sort of defense. Just being like, oh, these stories are hoaxes.

But, like, even this, like Tom Homan was on CNN where they were kind of talking about Miliannopoulos. and he was asked about like the abuse that detainees are experiencing and he quickly changes the subject because god don't want to bring any kind of information to this discussion to a new york times story out this morning an account of 10 deportees who said they experienced or witnessed abusive or violent treatment by ice officers when some resisted debboarding a plane in liberia a country they had no ties to. They said they were, quote, forced onto the tarmac by ice officers who yanked and twisted their handcuffs, pinned them to the ground, and pressed their knees directly onto their necks. Another said they treated us like we were wild animals like beasts. Are you

comfortable with this treatment? No, I don't think that treatment occurred. It would be investigated, but we get allegations a lot. Every law enforcement agency in this country gets an allegation and mistreatment. But look, we know that threats against ICE officers are up over 9,000 percent. Actual tax grew up for. So, yeah. Also like Tom Holman, right? Yeah, that's Tom Holman. How could you not trust the guy who's been filmed accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI? Yeah. And then facing no consequences. It seems it's possible that that guy wouldn't be like the most honest forthcoming man in the world. Also, like, I don't know if saying, look, man, law enforcement, they deal with allegations of mistreatment all the time. Is the defense you think it is?

Everyone is accusing all of us of doing this thing that is a widespread pattern in our community. Yeah, and some of the stuff that was well documented and multiple camera angles. It's just, you know, but the threats against us. People keep sharing these videos of us doing the things that you're upset about. I'm wondering, I mean, like we, for such a propaganda-addicted administration this is, I'm surprised they haven't cooked up some, like, ice officer, like, sob story about like, Oh my God. I mean, you know, it must be terrible for this person who died in custody and wasn't able to see their families.

But what about this person who can no longer play pickleball at his local pickleball center? Because he was doxed as a kidnapper. Because someone, like, shook him, like crossed him up. Those are my favorite YouTube videos where ICE agents are like going at someone and they just like give him like a slight juke. And on the city bike. Or just like suddenly on fucking skates. just like, do you. Yep, sending our best.

He tore his ACL when that guy did that to him. Yeah. And that guy wasn't, and that was just a citizen who said, fuck you. These hardworking American civil servants are no longer going to be able to hear the sweet dink on the pickleball cart because of you. Because of you.

Not because of their actions. All right. And finally, it turns out that there is one corporate origin story that we're aware of that major studios won't bankroll. That is the origin story of Hooters. Oh. But that don't worry not, cinefiles. A Hooters-centric movie titled Hooters, colon, the movie, is reportedly being produced.

You don't say it. But independently, by the chain's original founding partners, one of whom co-wrote the script. Oh, this is going to be good. I can't wait to see this shit. This is going to be. so good. What kind of fake-ass history with this beat? It's going to be directed by the filmmaker who previously helmed Bench-Wormers 2, Breaking Balls, which I don't know, is that one of those, like, transphobic ones? No, I don't think so. No, probably not. I think it's in the Criterion

collection, though, right? Yeah, unfortunately, I don't have, I haven't had my trip to the Criterion closet yet to pull out on. A lot of people are picking Bench-Wormers, too. Yeah. Oh, what a cast. It's got John Lovitz, Chris Klein. Chris Klein. That guy, Lockland Monroe from Dead Man on campus. Oh, yeah, that's where I recognize him from. Yeah. I was looking at this story, and one part that really threw me is that the screenplay is by Ed Drosty,

and that is also the name of the lead singer of Grizzly Bear. And I was like, that guy was a co-founder of Hooters, but it turns out it's a different Ed Drostee. Yeah. Wow. Different Ed Drosky. The story is about two lifelong friends from a small town in Iowa who accidentally launch a national restaurant empire. Accidentally. This happens after one of them becomes infatuated with Diane, whom he first sees from afar when featured in a spring break commercial, which I'm assuming that's going to be like one of those like perverted, problematic.

What's a girl's gone wild thing? Yeah. I don't think it's going to be like a female empowerment at. Right. No, definitely. It's going to be something about like complete, just revisionist history about how like this is actually the most feminist shit you could ever do. Yeah, for sure. It doesn't sound like it.

I don't think these guys are capable of that. Yeah. Remember, it is the original. The original co-founder's other ones making this movie. Yeah, yeah. Not explicitly, but to them be like, no, what we did was good and like the ladies liked it. Oh, they're definitely going to say this was good. Yeah.

Sorry, that was my depiction, my description of how they would do it. In this story, so he sees a girl in a commercial for spring break, goes on a road trip to Clearwater, Florida for spring break, and is able to woo this girl to be the very first Hooters girl because apparently your creepiest uncle's favorite dining establishment owes its existence to interstate stalking. Do you think the founders were like, damn, man, if flock cameras were out when we were trying to do this,

we would have found her way sooner. Their plan is that the sequel is sponsored by Flok. Flock, yeah, yeah. Hooters 2, the Flock story. Yeah. Flock, yeah. Honestly, Flockia is better than any line that has been written in this movie. I guarantee you.

So it sounds like the real story doesn't involve that road trip, and instead it was six people founded a restaurant. And one of them was ogling the winner of a bikini contest. He happened to be walking past on the beach one day and hired the winner to work for Hooters. And then she became like- And her name was Diane. Her name was Diane.

Yeah. Her name was not Diane. No, no. Her name was Lynn Austin. Diane was, they changed the name of the person. They didn't even give her. That has to be so that she did not get money or royalties from this movie.

Oh, for sure. They're like, this is a fun story about how she was in on it, but not the actual her because then she would have to get paid for this movie. Yeah. Wow. So I'm sure this is going to be an incredible. I mean, it was a wild run because, like, at their height, like, they had a jet and stuff.

Like, they were... It does feel like it could be a good movie. Unfortunately, I do think that the truth behind the scenes of the, like, the last time they tried to do a food service, like, movie that was like an inspiring origin story, it got a lot of attention for, like, not necessarily being true. The Flaming Hot Cheetos story. Oh, yeah. And so I bet that scared the studio.

off. And that's why they're like, okay, we actually have to fact check this one. And then they, like, looked under the rock that is Hooters corporate history. And they're like, oh, my God. Even I, a corporate film executive is grossed out by this shit. So many bugs. It's funny to me that your idea of what scared people off about the Hooters movie was that it might not be factually accurate, as opposed to the entire premise of the movie. I think the premise is actually golden. I think if they could do like a, you know, a social network version of what it was like, you know, like Wolf of Wall Street kind of a thing. Maybe you have a movie there.

But like their own masturbatory autobiography version is just, I think that's what they're like, dude, no one's going to, like we can get more people to watch like Sound of Freedom with people buying fake tickets than we can for this Hooters thing. In the social network version instead of the guy coming and saying, lose the Facebook is cleaner. It's someone going, you're making a restaurant, put a bee in front, restaurant. Oh.

Because that's what they call it, right? Don't they call it a restaurant? Yes. He's at a whiteboard. That's what about it. And then he just goes and draws it, puts a bee before it and then walks out. Call it a restaurant.

Drops the whiteboard marker. Yeah, exactly. Turns a business in a restaurant into a dollar sign. Boom. Okay. I have never eaten at a hooters. But one thing that always amazed me is that they offer delivery and that there are people like ordering delivery from Hooters

because I was under the impression the whole thing. People swear by it. I thought the whole thing was going in. No, yeah, you go there with a fake ID when you're 18 like I was. And you can only afford one beer because you have no money. And you're like,

dude, we're fucking men, huh? This is sick. And then the second one of the servers comes up to approach you, you become a nervous mess. And you're like, hello, young lady.

You don't have to squat down like that to speak to us. Please. You may stand up. That's some dignity. I don't want to look down your shirt, madam. That's not the point of why I'm at this establishment. But I remember, like, one of my friends worked at Hooters, and she told me about, like, like, the menu hacks there. And then I remember, like, the next day taking my friends there acting like I was like the

fucking God of Hooters, who I said some shit off menu. What were the menu hacks at Hooters? It was like one of the things was getting the wings grilled and then sauce. They're like, get them. They're like, you had to say like Daytona style or something. There's like a way. Had someone with Daytona in it. It's just like the funniest, jankiest version of an in and out order.

Get a Daytona style. Yeah, exactly. We're like, they weren't breaded, but then they, like, they had like a nice caramelization to it. So anyway, that was like the thing that wasn't on them. It wasn't like that crazy, but I would always be like, yeah, bro. We're running off the menu today. As though, the waitress is like, wow, you really know a lot about what's. I'm impressed.

Are you single? Are you 18 but have an ID that says you're 37? Hold on. Yeah. And your name here, it looks suspiciously like Red Man, the rapper's real name. Reggie Noble? Interesting. Did you really have a fake ID that was Reggie Noble?

My nickname was Reggie Noble after my favorite weed rapper at the time, Red Man. Yeah. That's incredible. Shout out of New Jersey. Yeah. Chris, such a pleasure having you, as always. Oh, such a pleasure being here. Thanks for having me.

Where can people find you, follow you, hear you all that good stuff? Chris Stuffycom. It has links to all the stuff right on there. There you go. Is there a work of media that you've been enjoying? You know, I think we already talked about it, but the mullet reviews. A man with a mullet in central Ohio, eating at all you can eat buffets until he gets food poisoning. I think that is, that's really something special.

And I think we should all be appreciating that. Mm-hmm. Okay. Hell yeah, man. Miles, where can people find you? Is there a working media you've been enjoying? Find me everywhere at Miles of Gray. Find me talking about 90-day fiancé on 420-day fiancé.

And check out Ain't It Footy, where we were talking about the current season of European football, mostly focused on the Premier League, with Jamel Johnson and Chris Martin. That happens every week. So check that out, please. Work of media I like. Okay, so this is just sort of in line with what I thought my, you know, experience going to Hooters would be like. This is just a funny video from it's at Digo.boop. It says how dudes with no close friends, no jobs, no social skills or effort and no social media expect to meet their soulmate?

And it's just like this dude just like walking through his apartment rubbing his mitts, like being so passive. and just like in a dirty apartment and then he goes to his computer and like he's playing like he's playing a game on the computer and a woman from outside the buildings looks up at him through a window and knocks on the door and he's like I saw you playing

video games can I watch and just keeps escalating it just like so it reminds me of peak dumb guy thoughts and then then usually it boomerangs background like dude like women are just like they wouldn't fucking get it dog like you know what I mean like I'm in here alone, not talking to anybody, doing anything.

So check that video. It's really funny. Damn, no. That's actually how I met my wife. I saw you playing a rocket league. I was a lot of rubbing my hands together. Oh, yeah, type shit. All right.

Type shit. Type shit. Let's see. Trap Dad at Dude Understore gang said, white people be like, let's go get drunk at a brewery with all our small children. let them run around everywhere. We do be like that. Someone's been to go to Golden Road Brewery in L.A.

Oh, yeah. It's the epicenter of Let Those Fuckers Run Wild while we get shit-faced. Ricky Hollywood tweeted Canada renaming each lake after one of the 9-11 hijackers, which is just a soft pitch that he's putting out there. And then there's a video of like a, a Wu-Tang reunion, Posse Cut with Inpected Deck and Method Man and Tom Hardy for whatever reason. Yeah, with his mask on. It's like pretty good.

Yeah. It's like he's pretty good. So I was enjoying that over the weekend. It's wild how much of an actor he is because he's rapping like he's from New York. Yeah. Like you wouldn't believe that's Englishman Tom Hardy rapping. Yeah. Anyways.

His name is Face Pooler or Frankie Pooleet, aka Frankie Pullet, Frankie Pulitzer. Yeah. Face puller. Which sounds stupid as hell, but so do most Wu-Tang names the first time you hear them. And then you're like, oh, yeah, no. You mean Ghost Face Killer? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You mean my favorite rapper? Yeah. What were you going to say? Did I what? Oh, did you see that there was that clip of Rayquan going to Palantir headquarters? No, what? Yeah, bro. Oh, no. I know. I'm sorry. It was one of those things. Everybody was like, God damn, Wu-Tang is for the surveillance state?

Yeah. See? Strictly for the Cuban invasion. Right. Yeah. 16 years later, he returns. He's been before. First visited in 2010.

I'm like, Ray, how long you've been on this shit for? For fuck? Yeah. So, yeah, Ray Klohapos said just got to Palantir Technology's headquarters. If you don't know about them, Google them. Yeah, we have, Ray. That's actually, leave that and be shit alone. Yeah.

Oh, my God. I didn't realize how, like, look how, look at this. That's Rayquan wearing a Palantir branded jacket like 16 years ago with Nas. With Nas. Wow. Jesus. They were ahead of, they were fucking ahead of it. God damn.

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Miles, is there a song that you think the people might enjoy? Yeah, there was this, again, found another vibey person just making music on their own on Instagram. This guy just plays under the moniker Bay Leges, B-A-Y-L-D-G-E-S. And it's just him with his acoustic guitar. He's got some interesting sort of like pedals on there, like some chorus and things like that just to kind of give it like a kind of a vibey, spooky sound. This track is called Loving Arms. And it's just kind of, it's just him rumping and tumping on guitar, but it's just got a good feeling. So this is Bay Ledges with Loving Arms.

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