The Daily Zeitgeist - Hurricane Free Yacht, Scooters Are The New Velocipede 9.20.18

Episode Date: September 20, 2018

In episode 236, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Ryan Singer to discuss Kylie Jenner's first experience with cereal and milk, the new Space Jam sequel that was announced, more on the Kavanaugh situation, whether or not Bert and Ernie were in a loving relationship, Sony re-releasing the PlayStation Classic, modern-day scooters vs 19th-century velocipedes, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Kylie Jenner gave us the courage to admit some of the foods we've never eaten2. LeBron James Sets 'Black Panther's' Ryan Coogler to Produce 'Space Jam' Sequel (Exclusive)3. Opposition to Kavanaugh grows, support at historic low: Reuters/Ipsos poll4. Kavanaugh in 2015: 'What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep'5. Senator Specter on Anita Hill Testimony6. WATCH: Tucker: The left think all men are guilty7. Subject: WH Travel Pool Report #58. Sesame Workshop says Bert and Ernie are 'best friends' and not gay9. A “SESAME STREET” WRITER SETTLES THE QUESTION OF BERT AND ERNIE’S RELATIONSHIP10. I Know What and Who Bert Is: Frank Oz Weighs in On Bert and Ernie Gay Debate11. Mississippi Agency Votes for a TV Ban On ‘Sesame Street’12. First They Came for Bert and Ernie13. Introducing PlayStation Classic, with 20 Pre-Loaded Games14. Quiz: Are these writers complaining about modern-day scooters, or 19th-century velocipedes?15. WATCH: STEVE LACY - SOME Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey. It's a pleasure to be here. Hey, man. We're thrilled to have you. Once again. Once! What's up? Hey, it's a pleasure to be here. Hey man, we're thrilled to have you once again. Once again. Second time? Yeah, and then you were on the Crackin' Podcast. Well, Ryan, we're gonna get to know you a little bit better in a moment, but first we're gonna tell our listeners what we're gonna be talking about today we're gonna be talking about the fact that Kylie Jenner just had cereal with milk for the first time and various things that we've not done that we should have we're gonna talk about this Kavanaugh thing just spinning out

into history's most predictable clusterfuck we are going to talk about the president being in the Carolinas just healing hearts and minds with his tactfulness. We're going to talk about how he's also just ready to bring this whole democracy thing crashing down around us with some very targeted declassifications. We're going to talk some internet debating around the subject of whether Bert and Ernie fuck each other. We're going to talk about the fact that Sony is launching the PlayStation Classic again, but as one of those little versions that you can buy, hook up to your- Games are preloaded.

Televisor. And then finally, we're going to play the game of the century, Velocipede or Scooter. But first, Ryan, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that is revealing about who you are? Well, I've got two things that are very closely related, if that's all right. Oh, yeah. Please do it. And I think it really tells a lot who I am. I had to Google the lyrics for Beans,

Beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. Yes. And that's all I know. Yeah, and I couldn't remember all the words to that song, so I had to, and it was like a desperate Google. The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your beans at every meal?

There are apparently... Many versions? So many versions out there. But yeah, that's the one I'm familiar with. Yeah, because we grew up in the same place. And so then I also had to Google Morse code audio detector because I received a voicemail from an unknown number that I thought may have been a Morse code. And you want to decrypt the message. And it just turns out it was a voicemail from a phone that probably had the worst connection in the world.

But I was like, oh, man, this is like, you know what? This is like S, O, S. I hear some beeps in here. And so it took me a while. So then I had to download the voicemail. Then I had to send it to my computer. And then I had to upload it to this site. And it turns out it was just a lot of the letter A and D, which I have not been able to decrypt that code yet at this point.

Add, add, add, add. But, yeah. I think it's telling you you have ADD. Yeah. It may have been. Or you're a Dadaist. I mean, this was all at like four in the morning. Yeah.

Of course, I would. If you said it was in the waking hours, I'd be like, something's going on with you. Yeah, and that, so like after the results came in on that,

on the Morse code audio detector, I realized, you know what? Maybe I should just kind of, you know, get out and do some normal stuff. Right. No, man. Because I can get into like the weird, and should just kind of, you know, get out and do some normal stuff. Right. Nah, man. Because I can get into like the weird and I can kind of get lost in the weird stuff

a little too much sometimes. Did you ever sing that song that was like, this land is my land, this land is yours? The joke version? Yeah. What was the joke version? I got a shotgun and you don't got one. I'll blow your head off. If you don't get off.

Oh, we flipped it. Okay. This land was made for poop and pee oh we didn't have poop and pee oh yeah that's how we rocked it

in LA as a kid blow your head off if you don't get off yeah I forget how we ended that forget how we brought that one home yeah we brought it home

with poop and pee yeah cause it's like it's basically telling you to get off the toilet right I don't know this land is my land it's not your land I got a shotgun

you don't got one if you don't get off i'll blow your head off this land is made for poop and pee it's what six-year-old kids say yeah get in trouble i mean it without the poop and pee it's very menacing it's like oh yeah it could just be a thing about like xenophobia which is i think how i learned it when i lived in west virginia oh that makes sense maybe you know what that's me being oblivious to how like awful the song is when a bunch of kids are screaming, and you're like, yeah, wait, wait, what is this song? I think mine ended, this land was made for only me. Oh, wow. Like, get the fuck off my land, motherfucker.

See, California's more woke, so we just joked it up. Yeah, we just joked it up. Poop and pee, because we all poop and pee. That's a great punch up. I'm going to go back to the neighborhood I grew up in and tell the kids. Yeah. There's so many different versions of all those kinds of songs.

I'm always curious to know what second base is. Like, when you slide into first and your pants are about to burst. Diarrhea. Yeah.

And you go into second. What is, I used to say, and a bird begins to peck it. Because I didn't know the words. Like, I don't know what are the words for second.

I didn't realize there was a sequence. We just had them, like, isolated. When you're sliding into third and you was a sequence. We just had them isolated. When you're sliding into third and you feel a... A giant turd. Yeah. And then home, pants are full of foam.

Wait, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pants are full of foam, bro. Wow. You got that bubbly. Yo, I didn't have the structure. You got that bubbly. We didn't have structure.

We just had isolated ones. You'd just be like, when you're in a 57 Chevy and your pants are feeling heavy, diarrhea. We just ended. And then we'd be like, what's another one? When you're blah, blah. We didn't have the first, second, third home structure. Well, we didn't have second, though. So we weren't completed.

That I know of. When you're sliding into second and your pants are second. No, this is the first time I'm hearing about first and home. Maybe that's why I had to just kind of come up with a bird begins to peck it. Yeah. Peck it. Yeah. I don't know.

Maybe there is no second. Yeah, maybe not. Hey, Zygang, if you know what sliding into second diarrhea is, let us know. Shout it out. What is something you think is overrated? Something I think is overrated is, I said wet wipes. I came up with wet wipes. Wet wipes?

Yeah, wet wipes. Overrated? Overrated. Like for your asshole? Yeah. Swear by those. Oh, okay. Because, I mean, you could get a little holier than thou on this one just because of how

they can be so bad for the environment. Oh, right. Because they say like, you shouldn't really flush those shit. Well, not all of them are biodegradable or flushable, but people kind of just flush them all. And England had a huge problem with this, I guess, a few years back, where it was, like, really backing up the sewers and everything. Right. Some of the pictures are just really grotesque, where you get basically these, like, barges or these, like, dams in the sewer system of just wet wipe. Oh, wow.

So it's pretty gnarly stuff. Well, welcome to the Daily Butt Wipe. Yes. So what's a better version? A bidet. Oh, wow. So it's pretty gnarly stuff. Well, welcome to the Daily Butt Wipe. So what's a better version? A bidet. Oh, yeah, just hose it off. Probably the most underrated, I mean, bidet. I mean, that'll change your life. A good bidet.

I learned a lot the first time I used a bidet. I guess this is kind of all kind of butt. Poop related. Beans, beans, a musical fruit. Diarrhea, xenophobia, and butt wipes. Yeah, no, I think, yeah, the first time, the bidet is a real, it's something else. And now that we have like those, you know, if that brand wants to sponsor us, we can name check you. But you could put the attachment now to make any toilet bidetable in the U.S.

I've got a bidet off eBay. And I got to tell you, don't buy used. I mean, everyone knows don't buy used. Of course, don't buy used. I mean, everyone knows don't buy used. Of course. Don't buy used. You can't buy used. You said it like, you're like, don't buy used. Uh-oh.

Oh, no. Wait, wait, why? I thought we all were using the same bidet. There's a type of bidet in Europe that they have that is just the hand nozzle from the side of a sink, you know? Oh, okay. It's like a hose with a hand nozzle. But that kind of grosses me out because-

You got to touch it. Yeah, you're touching it. You got to really clean it. You know that you're touching something that somebody was touching when they had just gone to the bathroom and- I'm sure they have tips. It's also there's like all sorts of like places for germs to hide on something like that. That's why I'm terrified of zippers.

Yeah. Zippers. Zippers. They can hide anything. Oh's why I'm terrified of zippers. Yeah, zippers. Zippers. They can hide anything. Oh, wow. Nature's petri dish. Yeah. I mean, like, the zipper has to be the most... place in the world, right?

Yeah, probably. I was reading something that, like, the top of a toilet seat is actually even grosser. Anyway, who knows? Anyway, yeah. The world is covered in germs. Yeah, it is. I guess we just have to – the more we're exposed to them, the more we can build up a tolerance to them maybe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What is something you think is underrated? Well, yeah, that was the bidet I think. The bidet is underrated. Yeah, the bidet is underrated. And I also think – oh, my gosh. The Reese's Pieces filled Reese's Cups. Reese's Cups have just come out

everything's rhyming with feces now oh my god I didn't even think about that feces butt rage this is what we used to say I didn't think I used to think that

you know too much of a good thing is bad right no yeah but like that unholy union the Reese's Pieces inside of the Reese's Cups

is so good is it really it is wow I wish I didn't just add some like crispiness in there? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's amazing.

It's reception. Oh. Yeah. Wow. Wow, I gotta try this. But you have to get the king size. You gotta get the king size cup. Oh, yeah.

Really lean into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's what that book's about, right? Lean in? Yeah. It's about buying candy. Buying candy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What is a myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Well, I've got a couple of these myth? What's something people think is true that you know to be false? Well, I've got a couple of these, but I think the one that I think that I know to be false, at least through personal experience, is you can't open a wine bottle with a shoe and bang it against a wall. Fuck. Fucking right.

Have you tried that? Yeah. And I, man, and if anybody who was working with me in politics, remember when we were in Vegas, I bought a bottle of wine because I just had to drink myself myself to sleep every night and i didn't have a wine key or whatever and i saw on youtube or whatever grainy video use a shoe i fucking shattered the fucking thing and it got all over me and the whole it was it was a mess yeah it's a mess and you'll like shake the foundation of your apartment you'll get a noise violation people will will be like, someone is jackhammering in the apartment next to us. It just doesn't work.

But then I see videos of people actually doing it and I'm like, am I not getting it? I think it's fixed. I think it's fixed. The fix is in. Yeah, the fix is in somehow.

Oh, wow. There's probably some people who know how to do it, but it just sounds like it's not a good thing to attempt. Here's the other thing. If you're going to drink that fucking bottle in one night anyway push the fucking cork in yeah that's true yeah yeah that's the easier version you know i mean just i used to do that until someone cork in oh god yeah but i'm don't drink enough wine to know the difference anyway so

i don't either i got really hillbilly white wine drunk at the Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams concert at the Greek Theater like a month ago. And I didn't even, I never drank wine. And we drank, me and a buddy of mine split like two bottles of white wine at the show. Yeah, a couple carats. And then I stood up at the end of it and I was just like, whoa. I felt like I was on like a different, like there was different gravity. Oh, right. Like you're on Mars now. More or less. I'm not I was on a different, like there was different gravity. Oh, right.

Like you're on Mars now. More or less. I'm not familiar with this gravity. It felt like there was more. More gravity. And it was fluctuating. Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah.

And I was just like, oh, this isn't good. Oh, no. Yeah, what brand of wine was that? Seriously. Man, last time I was at the Greek, I got super wine drunk too, watching the Gypsy Kings. Oh, yeah. Gypsy Kings. With all the middle-aged people.

It was a great show. All right, guys. Let's get into what people are talking and thinking about right now in the zeitgeist. Last night, Kylie Jenner admitted, or two nights ago. I don't know when this happened. September 18th, so two nights ago. Kylie Jenner admitted to the world, last night I had cereal with milk for the first time.

Life changing. What? So the food blog, The Takeout, decided to take this in an empowering direction. And rather than being like, what kind of pod were you raised in? They were just like, well, that's cool. We also have not had lots of food that people think is weird. And movies, too. And movies, yeah. It's a thing that people have secret shame about things that they haven't experienced.

Food blind spots, as they call it. But before we get into that, how have you never experienced cereal with milk before? I would say that 60% of my calories up to age 12 was cereal with milk i would say that that's 60 percent of my calories up to age 12 was cereal and milk yeah yeah that's like all i ate but also we're old washed people so maybe this is like a new generation where kids are like you drink it wet you eat it wet right why i also think oh wait is this like this is like a liquid kind of conversation not like an almond milk soy milk conversation no i think this is just saying was kylie jenner was just eating cereal by the handful or not at all i took it to

mean that she just never used real milk right no i'm i'm almost positive it's oh could she never well no because why would she i i'm pretty sure like she could have you would underline that yeah she could have had cereal with almond milk last night. I mean, milk is milk, I think. Yeah, either way. I think it's just any liquid going with cereal. Oh, okay. Yeah, because then once I started, man, vanilla almond milk with your cereal was like a double dose of sweet for me. And I was like, yeah, this is how I do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and Frosted Flakes just branched out. They got cinnamon. They got pumpkin. Are they good? They do? I haven't let myself dry them yet oh yeah

because you know what I got into I got into this you get some vanilla bean ice cream you throw half a box of cinnamon toast crunch in the blender

with a little bit of almond milk now you've got yourself a cinnamon toast crunch milkshake oh baby okay but yeah

I don't I think a lot of people think it's gross right the liquid in the cereal with the bowl people think it's gross, right? The liquid in the cereal with the bowl. People think it's gross? I've met people who are like, I can't. That seems like a gross soup.

That's the way they look at cereal. Yeah. So I can understand someone not doing the milk cereal thing. I will say once I had cereal with milk that actually wasn't skim milk, I was like, wow, what the fuck was I missing? Skim milk is not good with cereal. It's white water. It's like white water. But that's what I grew up on.

So that's just like what I. In Japan, like the fat content of milk is so high. And it's like milk for kids is so decadent. Oh, yeah. I would just black out on like super fatty milk and cornflakes. I've talked about my- Corn frosty, as we call it in Japan. My cereal Ouroboros.

Oh, right. But yeah, the fact that once you have milk left, you have to pour more cereal in. Of course. And then once you get all the milk out and there's still cereal in, you have to pour more milk in. And then it just never evens out until the whole bowl is gone. What's food you've never ate? We tried to think and I just

don't want to come off as some dude who's like, well, I've had everything. But I haven't, though. One thing I can say that is like something that a lot of people in America eat that I haven't had are pierogies. Right. I don't think I have. Never had a pierogi. Oh, yeah. I'm missing it. Yeah, me neither. I don't think I have. Never had a pierogi. Ooh. Yeah.

Oh, a good pierogi? Yeah, see, that's what I'm talking about. No, I see them frozen at the store, and I'm like, man, I know that's not going to be even close to what the fuck people are really excited about. Anything that's doughy with a surprise meat inside? Yeah. Potato balls, pierogies,

these are all things that I enjoy. Are pierogies potato-y? I feel like- I've had some potato-y thing that should be called pierogi. That seems like an appropriate name, but I don't know what it was. I know. It's a filled dumpling by wrapping unleavened dough around a savory or sweet filling. So it's a dough.

I guess maybe you could have a potato in it. People right now are probably screaming as they listen. Like, it's nutty. Get away with this. Motherfucker. You know what it reminds me of? Like, a pierogi reminds me of the,

oh, see, I don't know the names of a lot of foods, but I just don't know lots of words. Yeah. I don't know words.

I just throw things into my mouth. Eat. Yeah. But it reminds me, oh, I'm thinking, well,

I'm not going to try to find it because I can't, but a pierogi is delicious because it's, you know, if I'm not mistaken, it's deep fried. It's like this unleavened dough that's wrapped around this meat and then it's fried.

Like into like a fry basket. Or you can probably bake it. That's what I see is that it's boiled. Oh, boiled. Cooking in boiled water. Yeah. Yeah. I've had like friends, one of my good friends in college, like I was with him when he tried a banana for the first time.

And it was just really weird. He was just like, yeah, man, I never had one. Like I thought, I always thought they were kind of weird. I thought they were cartoon characters. Yeah. And he liked it though. He was like, yeah. I worked with somebody who never had an avocado and was not interested in trying one either.

Yeah. Which is very interesting. It's a weird color. It's like a bro trust fall. Like when you have to like, hey man, put this thing in your mouth that you've never had before. And like a lot of bros will be like,

whoa, whoa, whoa, you want me to put something in my mouth? I'm not closing my eyes this time. But avocado is weird. Like if I'd never had peanut butter before, you couldn't make me eat it.

Well, also this was a woman and we live in LA where there's fucking avocado everywhere. That's probably weirder than her never having had cereal and milk is not having had avocado because

like avocado is to their generation like what unavoidable. Yeah like Kylie Jenner hearing that you've never had an avocado before she would just like tear your I don't know. Oh you can eat it you can put it on your face. Exactly. It's a milkshake. Some people have phobia

I dated a woman who had a phobia about chunks she couldn't have anything that was chunky. I dated a woman who had a phobia about chunks. She couldn't have anything that was chunky. I dated a woman who had a fear of dreadlocks. I'm not joking. Same fear, I think. Chunky hair. No, and I fucked with her so bad. I had a Rasta wig that I wore, and she would be asleep, and I would wake her up.

I'd be like, hey, wake up. She'd be like, ah! And I was like, what is it? Because I wanted to make sure it wasn't some sort of really weird deep-seated trauma or anything like that. She's like, And I was like, what is it? Because I didn't want to make sure it wasn't like some sort of really weird deep-seated trauma or anything like that. She's like, I just think they're gross. She probably saw Marked for Death at a young age, maybe. And it was like a very ignorant take on dreadlocks. It was like, how do you wash them?

Like, you fucking, you can wash your hair. You know what I mean? But her immediate assumption was that. So I think I had, I just like to torment her. Oh, heroin. I've never had heroin. Oh, okay. Yeah. So that's weird. You really think I just like to torment her. Oh, heroin. I've never had heroin. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So that's weird. You really got to get on that, man. You know what's something I never had until... I've had it once, and I got to go to the Magic Castle just a few days ago. I've never... This is kind of like a category of... I've never seen magic. Have you guys seen this shit?

That whole place is magic. Just sprinted out of the room. Jumped through the window. No, no! I believe in seen magic. Have you guys seen this shit? That whole place is magic. Just sprinted out of the room. Jumped through the window. No, no! I believe in God again. The devil is real. I've seen it. I had never had off-menu special.

Ordered off-menu, like the daily special. I'd never done that before. Wow, interesting. And I didn't realize that the off-menu special is substantially more expensive than anything that's on there. Yeah, yeah, because you have to ask how much it is, unless they tell you. I had no idea that that was a thing. And I probably won't be doing that again for a while. Yeah. But it made me feel fancy.

Yeah. But I don't know. As far as food, a specific food goes, I don't know if I've ever had tapas. Okay. But other than that, I think I've almost... Most staple things. I don't know if I've ever had tapas. Okay. But like, other than that, I think I've almost staple thing other than like crazy, like, and tapas, like alligator,

things like that. I, you know, I've never had that stuff. Yeah. So I think I've had, maybe I've never had ostrich, but like I,

I learned it, uh, like a while ago that Darwin ate all the animals he discovered. Like, that was just one of the ways that he, he was like, okay, so you like learn what how

they behave in their natural habitat you like smell them you like lift them up weigh them and then you eat them to like see what their meat is like and i was like oh so that's like a scientific thing so i've always wanted to try is it a science is that is that a workaround yeah that's a weird thing darwin's cookbook yeah right everything did everything. Did they talk about what the preparation was? I think he just cooked it. I don't know. Probably so bland. It's just like everything tastes like chicken.

I just see someone showing up like, Darwin, you did not discover people. I have to try people. Yeah, but I guess some of the things that they're calling out here, just to see if this jogs any of our memories, Alison Shoemaker from The Takeout wrote that she's never had an apricot that wasn't dried, which I maybe have not. I never had sardines. I've definitely had those. I definitely had an apricot after seeing that movie with Timothee Chalamet from last year. That got me interested in apricots.

And a bear claw. Call me by your name. claw. She said she's never had a bear claw which I might be with her on that. I had a bear claw because of Tommy Boy. That's like a big donut thing, right?

Right. It's just a big donut. Is it chocolatey? No. I think there's chocolate on top and then it's full of cream. I've probably never

had a bear claw. Maybe I had a janky one. It just looked like a fist. I kind of stay away from the heavy chocolate stuff. What's a movie you've never seen that people would be surprised by? That's another thing they said, and I was surprised at some of the things. I'm not surprised.

I don't know these people. I don't know if people would be surprised by this, but I don't recall ever seeing fried green tomatoes. How dare you? Have you eaten them? Yes, I have. I saw Steel Magnolias, though. Yeah. I don't think I've seen Steel Magnolias.

Oh, wow. Like a big movie I've never seen. We'd have to go classic. Yeah, it's more. Like, I've never seen any of the black and white ones. Casablanca. I've seen Casablanca. I've never seen Casablanca.

I've seen Casablanca and Citizen Kane, but. I've seen Citizen Kane for college. I never saw Donnie Darko. Wow. I never saw Boondock Saints. Oh, you're not missing anything. And those are movies that the kind of people I remember at that age were like, yo, you gotta see it. I'm like, I

want nothing to do with you. You definitely do not have to see Boondock Saints. Donnie Darko's worth seeing. Yeah, Donnie Darko for sure. Growing up, Irish Catholic, they showed Boondock Saints at my church. That was the sermon? Yeah. All right, everyone.

I grew up Irish Catholic, and I don't know if I was just at a point where I was over that style of filmmaking or something, but I was just like, you've got to be kidding me. That whole movie just made me- Is this some gangster shit? It's just some gangster shit. It's very Tarantino influence, but it's so absurd. Is it like belly

for Irish people yes and I love anything I've never seen belly you've never seen belly I've never seen belly oh wow you guys

it's very white of me Hype Williams baby movie is not I mean I can't I can't watch that film objectively it has so many

of my favorite rappers and I'm like this is fucking looks good script not great what I was gonna say was like the Boondock Saints, for me, I love any movie that has a crazy story attached to it.

Like the story about the screenwriter. Right. It's just so bonkers. I mean, because we don't need to talk about it. So I love anything that's got a great story, like that Mars Volta album that was recorded in the studio that they thought was haunted and then they lost the recording. I'm like, I have to listen to this album.

So anything that's got a great story attached to it really reels me in. That's like J Dilla's Donuts. He was making that on his deathbed while he was undergoing treatment, and they had to sneak an NPC into the hospital for him to make the album in his hospital bed. See, I have to listen. And when you hear it, he cuts samples together that are really weird. There's one where he's chopping stuff up

where it sounds like he's saying, is death real? And all this other stuff. And when you know that this is sort of his last thing and he's making it as he's dying, it's very, very special.

Oh, man. Because there's no limitations now on what you will do because you don't have to be... Maybe in your mind, you're like, I'm not going to be around to be criticized for this.

I'm going to do exactly what the creative... Maybe he's channeling the muse from the wall. Oh, man, not going to be around to be criticized for this. I'm going to do exactly what the creative, like maybe he's channeling the muse from the wall. Oh man, I gotta hear it. Gone with the Wind. Never seen Gone with the Wind. That's probably the most popular movie of all time. So that's a big one. Is that the most popular movie of all time? When you do box office adjusted

for inflation, it sold the most tickets. It was like insane. How many people want to see it? Schindler's List. Haven't seen Schindler's List. I was just about to say Schindler's List is on the top 10 of movies. Singing in the Rain I finally saw. On the Waterfront I have seen, but that's one that I saw just like workman-like, just sat through it like I got to watch this shit.

I just know I could have been a contender from it. Right. Lawrence of Arabia I have never seen. I've never seen it either. Maybe it's time we have a leanender. Lawrence of Arabia, I have never seen. I've never seen it either. Maybe it's time we have a lean night. I did see, however, what is it called? Sahara? Isn't that Matthew McConaughey?

Oh, yeah. And what's the homeboy's name? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Steve Zahn is in that too. I love Steve Zahn. Great guy. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Do you ever wonder where your favorite foods come from?

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How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County rebels with the image of the biscuits. It's right here in black and white in print. A lion.

An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I just take all the other stuff out of it. Segregation academies. When civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools, these charter schools were exempt from that. Bigger than a flag or mascot.

You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back, and there is some breaking news. Super producer Anna Hosnier let us know that King James, LeBron James, and Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther and Creed and Fruitvale Station, are teaming up to make, to produce a Space Jam sequel, not a reboot. Thank God. Wait, starring LeBron?

We don't know yet. Oh, but we just know he's producing. I mean, if he's a good producer, it will be starring LeBron. Yeah, yeah. Because he would be the player, the only player. Yeah, and Michael Jordan can't fucking act, so he's fine. Right. Yeah, and they have to do it in a year that they're not really gonna, you know, really contend for a title. Yeah, that'll be right now.

So they have to do it now. Right. Yeah, they gotta get it done. Before Jimmy Butler signs. I like, though, that they're like, it's not a reboot, it's a sequel. Yeah, because you don't want to disrespect the mythology of the first Space Jam. What threads were left hanging after the first one? Well, you don't know, man. mythology what threads were left hanging after the first one well you don't know man fuck the monstars up yeah did you ever see that video that uh yahoo made the parody that it was like a 30 for 30 about the game between monstars and

the tune squad yeah i think it's so fucking stupid because they take it so seriously he's like he's like one of the guys just smushed up a bug's bunny I've never seen anything like that on the court. All right. The Brett Kavanaugh situation, I guess. Saga is spinning out of control. Shit is going down. At least that's what Drudge is saying. Chaos continues. The debate has now shifted to whether Dr. Blasey Ford

should have to testify in a sort of he said, she said type of situation hearing in front of the Senate or, you know, should be insulated from that. And, you know, as we talked about earlier this week, Anita Hill wrote a op ed where she was kind of giving urging, urging caution on the part of the senators questioning her and some of the things that were asked of her. So I remember when it happened, and I remember I've read articles about it, but just like being reminded of the things that senators were asking Anita Hill. Like they were like, are you a woman scorned?

And I think Arlen Specter specifically said that he thought that she was just mad because he had rejected her sexual advances. And also said, we say things like large woman's breasts

all the time. That's fine. Yeah. So that's fine. Yeah. It was very. I mean, it's really no different than now,

except now rather than just being so aggressively trying to smear this victim, it's just more being like, yeah, we'll hear it and we'll just ignore it. But we won't like try and it's locker room. Yeah. Right. But I think who knows? I mean, if whether or not this will happen, because, yeah, now her lawyer is asking for the FBI to just vet this a little bit further. So at least the senators have some form of factual evidence in front of them before. And I think that's reasonable. I think it's especially reasonable in light of how the Anita Hill thing went down because that was just, she was not given, you know, they just asked questions that were beneficial to their point of view. And, you know, it does seem like each side has their mind made up and the majority side is not going to be

interested in her saying anything that will make it difficult for them to approve Kavanaugh. So it makes it like really shitty though, too, is that they're so aggressively already sort of signaling. It's like, well, I've already made my mind up about this. And you're like, this is exactly what's wrong with the legal system in this country when it comes to situations. Especially when you consider the circumstances surrounding specifically what everything is. I don't know if you guys have discussed this a bunch, but to me, it's one of the most outdated remnants of an old system, a lifetime appointment of someone who can actively affect policy on a large and on a level that affects Americans' daily lives personally, generationally, every single person.

And when it comes to having a lifetime appointment, first of all, I think those need to be—we need to get rid of that. And I think a lot of these problems might go away, and we can change with the times a little better. But the least you can do is really vet somebody. Right. Like bringing the FBI, like like like you said, like when it comes to, you know, the what is it, 12 or whatever people that are allowed to be on the Supreme Court for life. I mean, if there's ever a time you go above and beyond, it's in the Supreme Court situation. Yeah. Right. And they're instead being like, well, the FBI already looked into it. I'm not going to ask them to do it again. Well, and then Trump was like, I don't think that's their job. And it's like, hold on. Yes, it is. First of all, anything can be their job.

You ask them to do it. And the way it works is, too, is like when they initially vet someone, they'll give the file. Like, here's what we found when we vetted this person. And then the president could easily say, oh, can you further look into this, too, as part of this investigation or your vetting process? And they go, yeah, sure. Right. We'll do that. But he was just trying to be like, oh, yeah, I think the senator. But it's been interesting to see how measured Trump's sort of rhetoric and response has

been to questions about this, because normally when it comes to accusations, he will smear the victims fucking like just as a reaction. Yeah. Immediately. Right. And this time it's been very measured like, well, yeah, like we'll hear her and blah, blah, blah, which shows you that, you know, there's a lot at stake for the Republicans with this because it's now become a much more like multidimensional issue going into

midterms. And I think they know that like just steamrolling this guy through with these kinds of allegations and not like properly hearing this woman will look bad because they really need suburban women to turn out for them. If they want any chance of not, of, you know, trying to fight back a blue wave in the house and like, you know, could,

could throw the Senate into a little bit of a confusing situation. I feel like Kavanaugh has turned, he started off as like a spring break tattoo. Like, yeah, I'm going to get this and probably have it for the rest of my life. But now he's plastic surgery. Right.

You know what I mean? Like you can get rid of a tattoo eventually somehow, but like plastic surgery is done. And so now people are like, well, do I really want to change my face? You know, like, so they're pulling back a little bit. And I wonder too, if Trump's not even already at that point where he's like, you know what, I do want to make some money after all of this is done. And no one's going to pay me to talk except these whack jobs. He's going to maybe start measuring back a little bit towards the last

two. I doubt that's going to happen. If he's singing that far ahead. Fingers crossed. I think he's probably pretty happy with his situation for making money after he's out of the White House just because of all the deals he's making right now White House just because of all the deals

he's making right now. But I don't know how to judge the accusation and Kavanaugh because we haven't seen either side speak. And I think if she doesn't want to speak, then it should be left up to the FBI since it doesn't seem like putting them in public in front of a bunch of people who have a lot of reason to steer things in one direction or the other is something she's comfortable with. I can tell you that I'm finding Brett Kavanaugh's

complete and utter denial to be hard to buy. He was definitely a hard partying kid. And as recently as 2015 said that whatever happened at g-town like his exact quote was but fortunately we had a good saying that we've held firm to by this day which is what happens at georgetown prep stays at georgetown prep i think that's been a good thing for all of us uh so it's not like he's, I don't know, the fact that he can then say something like that, but then be like, I would never and have never, and definitely not in high school. Absolutely not. Just seems, strikes me as disingenuous.

Of course. And he's only making it worse. You can't, you know, on one hand, they're like, well, And he's only making it worse. You can't, you know, on one hand, they're like, well, when you have the argument, well, even if he did do it, is that disqualifying? I think if he's denying it and it happened 100 percent, the only time you even have a shred of like a possibility for redemption is to admit to something and admit to knowing that something is wrong. I'm not I don't think even if you admit in this case, I think that should be disqualifying if you're going to be a fucking Supreme Court justice. You don't need allegations of attempted rape against you when you are, you know, such heavy legal decisions are going to rest on your shoulders. But even that idea of like, well, it shouldn't, maybe if he did or didn't, it's, this isn't

about a criminal thing. And I think people are getting so lost into like, well, it's been and people change and they're we're not really talking about his utter denial of it he has a very weird explanation of it first i think chuck grassley said like well he told me he wasn't even at that party right and then another time was like he doesn't then they kind of dialed pulled that back and we're like well he doesn't remember being at a party like that. And yeah, there's just a lot of it's just very murky. And you'd think at this point, this is just a headache that the GOP doesn't want. This guy has so much baggage and everything from the documents that we can't see to the Democrats, like allegations of him committing perjury or at the very least being dishonest

while he was testifying to the Senate judiciary. This, like, come on. Like, what are we fucking doing here? Where's the accountability? Yeah. If you can't have accountability at that level, then it's just, I mean, you hold, I remember when I was a teacher for a very short time. Like, you had a 10-year-old kid who you wouldn't continue, or at least I wouldn't continue class. And, like, you're told not to.

Like, if the kid does something wrong, make the kid admit that they did something wrong. Right. And then they realize that there's a punishment for that. But guess what? We move on. We move on. You have a shred of responsibility. Yeah.

I mean, like you said, in this case, I don't know if you move on as far as him becoming a Supreme Court justice. But if you can't be accountable as a Supreme – like if you're a Supreme Court justice, it's like you are one of the very select – the few people in the world who should be able to pass all these smell tests. Like you're not a creep. Yeah. You're not a bastard. You're not a thief. You're not a cheat. You're one of those people who grew up thinking I'm going to be something really special one day.

I'm going to be one of these people who deserves to be able to make this kind of thing, right? Like, you don't just, like, you know, but I mean, I guess that's, you know, when you look at the president. Yeah, right. That also used to be a position where you thought, I have to live a pretty good life to be able to achieve that. And it weakens our trust in the legal system when we're like, dude, this guy's a, like, these people, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, they're up there and they're making these decisions that are life-altering for people. It degrades our trust in the rule of law also when you're like, but we're elevating these people. The idea of the Supreme Court was usually like,

these are like near deities of legal minds where they're like, yes, bring it to the Supreme Court where we'll be fair and just interpret the law and give you what our interpretation is and just over the time it just become now it's turned into this like politicized partisan body and it every and every nomination it becomes clearer and clearer that we're moving away from the sort of the sanctity of the rule of law and just bringing people who are everyone can agree that these people will interpret the law fairly to now you'll just get get the homie in there because we got to tip the scales. Yeah, for sure. If we're going to keep pretending to be these fancy beasts, which we are, you know, like we're just beasts that like to be fancy every once in a while.

Like stick to the rules of what it means to be a fancy beast. Right. You know, every once in a while we wear a tuxedo to get into a certain event. And also we have these laws that we created that we have to follow because we are beasts that are now fancy. You know, it's like, you know, you can't just throw all that out the window or now we're just beasts again.

Right. Yeah. I don't even know if his immediate response was like, well, women deserve to be believed. And I don't, I was like a shitty kid in high school. And like, I have definitely like changed the way I think about things like that, and completely owned up to, I think women should be believed. I mean, that's a complete hypothetical, because his initial response was just deny, deny,

deny. But who knows how that would have played out. But I think in this specific instance, like his response just seems like to be a part with everything he's done, which is anytime he gets in trouble for something, he denies it and lies, whether it's under oath or, you know, he says whatever he thinks is going to make him look good. Yeah. Well, it's a sad too, to see all the pundits and then politicians on the right, just use all this tortured logic to try and defend it. And like, I think Ann Coulter had some hot takes on Fox the other night.

And then Tucker Carlson really brought it with one of his opening monologues, uh, like a couple of days ago where he was just, I don't know, just listen to Tucker Carlson. Oh God. Is there a meme out there yet with that? That remember that song? Like it wasn't me, right? Yeah. I feel like that should just listen to Tucker Carlson. Oh, God. Is there a meme out there yet? Remember that song, like, it wasn't me?

Right. I feel like that should just be playing over and over again. That's what happened when the op-ed in the New York Times came out when it was, we are the internal resistance to the White House. That's when everybody was like, it wasn't me. But yeah, listen to Tucker Carlson just try and wrap his head around, you know, why this whole thing's out of control. It's not just Brett Kavanaugh who's guilty. It's, quote, the men of this country, every single one of them, because they're men. Christine Ford, meanwhile, is telling the truth because she's a woman. She's female. You must believe her. That's a command from the United

States senator. It's not optional. It's mandatory. So repeat after Maisie Hirono. the United States Senator. It's not optional. It's mandatory. So repeat after Mazie Hirono. Men always lie. Women never do. One sex is evil. The other is holy. That's the catechism of the church of late stage feminism. Wow. Oh, Tucker. I mean, we could look at precedents here. Yeah. I mean, we're talking about a judge who has to, you know, evaluate like the history of law and cases and all of these things that set up like future decisions. If you want to look at precedence, you would have to come to the conclusion that, yeah, men are evil and women are holy. Yeah, there's a lot of examples to back up both sides and in the other direction, too. But I think using that as a defense is like absurd. It's just don't generalize it to that.'s like well because man guilty because woman we must believe

right no no no that that's that's not that's not the crux of this whole argument either but you know yes and i've heard conservatives be like this reflects poorly on the me too movement and it's just like such a bad faith. Well, because those people are looking at it through the lens of this is only because it's for politics. Right. Rather than for a second, let's remove that layer of this whole discussion and look at Dr. Blasey Ford and say, this is a person who has this trauma in their past. They didn't think they would have to revisit it they hear that this person is going to become a supreme court justice and now they feel like an obligation to let people know what this person's character is like rather than just like you know the idea that like oh they just dug someone up who they paid like george soros paid them a couple bucks to fucking lie yeah and that's

such an odd way to look at this kind of thing all the time granted because it's this is happening in a political setting people always try and use that to discredit something. But just for a second, even if they're so truly believe that Brett Kavanaugh is holy and should be a Supreme Court justice, then just invite the investigation

and be like, yeah, it'll be fine because he'll be exonerated. Right. For them to argue that the Democrats are people who want an investigation or acting in bad faith, but then trying to connect this to a movement that has made them, has been gnawing at the back of their mind

ever since it started the Me Too movement. It's like that is the most bad faith behavior that you can engage in. And as a governing body, they have the worst track record with dealing with this kind of behavior. So of course they don't want to get anywhere near it or have to be self-reflective about how they've behaved or how the house and Senate as a body has behaved when people bring up these kinds of things. And it's very in keeping with the Fox news movement to, you know, there is a long history of women being not believed and being disbelieved. And the second you ask them to give a single woman the benefit of the

doubt then it's like oh what we're gonna believe all women now we just believe everything a woman says just because she's a woman and it's the same way they react to race stuff right it's like well what now now white people are under attack and it's like no no no we're talking about specific incidents and again tucker cross I'm saying all men are evil are evil right just you yeah i mean it's like we're living in the upside down you know like uh sometimes i feel like i don't know have you heard of the mandela effect yes like that theory about we split off into an alternate universe sometimes i feel like maybe we did like we're living in a world where like the predominant the people in power want to like make the word sanctuary right a bad word it's like sanctuary is one of the most beautiful words. And the Me Too

movement is about victims finding justice. And where is sanctuary and where is justice for victims? When are these bad things? And sure, it's just the nature of us. When something first happens, maybe, sure, we react and we go a little too far maybe at first with it, but it always pulls back and it becomes where it's supposed to be. Yeah. And I think it's a beautiful time to be alive, to be able to say I was a part of this when this was happening. Yeah. And we're trying to correct just a longstanding societal failure. And it's very transparent if you just look at, okay, who is objecting the most? And it's people

who have a lot to lose if the status quo changes. No doubt. Because they've just had a huge advantage forever. Do you remember being a little kid and you'd be in school and you'd be learning about the Holocaust and you'd see photos or

the civil rights movement and you'd be like, how could those people be on the wrong side? Right. Everybody was like, oh, the right side is very obvious. Right. And I remember being a kid like, how could someone be on the wrong side? And now we're living in a situation where those same kids who were saying, how could they be on the wrong side are like actively choosing to be on the wrong side but don't realize it because for whatever reason they think they're on the right side or whatever

and it's it's mind-blowing to me how clear it is between the wrong and the right side right yeah well i think partisanship has like further put people on other sides and then your own self-preservation kicks in where you're like well i'm already i already bought the jersey for this team yeah so i gotta just figure out in my head, however the fuck I'm going to rationalize this and not, and it probably ignore as much as you can to avoid having to be honest with yourself. Well, we went for a long time on that, which I think is appropriate because this is what a lot of people are talking about today. Just really briefly, the president is down in Carolina, in the Carolinas healing the country.

Just a couple highlights from that that I wanted to point out. There was a poignant conversation as Trump was walking through a destroyed neighborhood. He crossed the street to a small... I'm just going to read from an article from the New York Times reporter Mark Landler. Trump crossed the street to a small brick house where he stopped to greet an older man in a t-shirt. Behind the house, a large yacht had washed ashore and was shipwrecked against the wooden deck. Trump gazed at the yacht saying, is this your boat? The owner said, no. Trump turned and replied with a smile. At least you got a nice boat out of the deal. Speaking to a reporter, and then he wouldn't let that go. He keeps being like, well, we don't know whose boat that is,

but maybe they should get to keep it. Because it was a fucking natural disaster. Right. The deal being a natural disaster that killed dozens of people. And he also at one point asked how Lake Norman was, which is a lake that he has a golf course on. And he was like, I can't tell you. He said, how's Lake Norman doing?. And he was like, I can't tell you. He said, how's like Norman doing? And then he was like, I love that area. I can't tell you why,

but I love that area. So he's just properties. Yeah. He's just being like the fun, you know, business guy, like clap you on the back, trying to be like,

we're all in this together. People are just like weeping, unable to connect like what he's standing in the middle of and being like oh wow this this might be tough for you and being like hey free boat huh yeah it's like he walks into a funeral home during a wake like sorry your husband died but you got some free mints in this bowl wow the food is great though beautiful flower arrangement love an irish wake love an irish wake all right but like you know one other thing though that you were saying from this article when they were talking about the insurance company didn't want to pay for the damage to his home, and Trump goes on, we're going to find out the name of the insurance company.

I think it's incredible what we're seeing. This boat just came here. They don't know whose boat that is. What's the law? Maybe it becomes theirs. What the fuck? What is this, new hurricane law? Where it's like, hey, if some shit blows into your yard, it's fucking yours, baby. Finders, keepers, losers may have perished in the disaster, and I don't want to lose sight of that.

It's like, what the fuck, man? It's so shitty, man. When you look at just from the environmental concerns of these pig farm cesspits that are just becoming overflowing, or livestock death and human casualties. And yet he just, I guess, because in his mind, he can't really deal with something that heavy. So he just hits the slick jump shot with the paper towels or just like, yo, big up to you on the new yacht.

Yeah. All airplane travels now by calling shotgun. You just show up at the airport, shotgun. Okay, you get on the plane. Your first class, baby, good job. Here's an ideologue of the ideology of whatever the biggest and coolest thing in front of him at that moment is.

That's what he believes in. Yeah, that's amazing. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I am Lacey Lamar. And I'm Amber Ruffin, a better Lacey Lamar. Boo.

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iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back and two days ago burt and ernie were trending on twitter which caused many of us to worry about which world leaders penis had been compared to which muppet but it was actually in response to a bunch of reports that a former sesame street writer had confirmed what we all suspected that Bert and Ernie were gay. And the person, basically, he is gay and wrote for Bert and Ernie and said that this was just kind of always what he had in mind, that they were a gay couple. And then Sesame Street came out and said they were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves and basically said they're not gay. They're more asexual, which Muppets. That vibe.

That works. I've seen the Muppets. Right. They're not asexual. Muppets are not asexual, guys. Come on. Miss Piggy's sole motivation is to fuck Kermit in public over and over again. You're telling me that's asexual?

The idea of, though, like, pushing back on it is so funny. Frank Oz really came out. Yeah. He's like, they're not gay. And, I mean, you could view it as, like, everybody had their own interpretation. The different people who were performing and writing the characters had their own interpretation. I think that's probably okay. And I think it's fine to ask different people what their interpretation is.

I mean, I think it's important to keep in mind that some people do interpret, like some viewers have interpreted them as being gay. And that's been both good and bad. Like in Mississippi, they banned Sesame Street for being too progressive. Oh, when it first came out? Yeah, when it first came out. They're like, what are blues doing hanging out with greens?

Exactly. And there was a preacher who was like, didn't want children to be allowed to watch Sesame Street and asked the government for it to be banned because Bert and Ernie were two male characters who lived together and he was assuming they were gay. Oh, and it wasn't that they sew together and tend to plants together or something? Yeah, therefore they must be gay.

It's funny though too because for such a show that was very progressive and was all about inclusion and you have kids with disabilities, you'd be surprised that they wouldn't have a couple that was gay to just show, like, yo, love comes in all these forms and we don't have to be cryptic about it because that's what Sesame Street is. That's the vibe.

And I think that's why I'm also like, why are you getting caught up in whether or not, why don't you just come out and just create some characters for young kids to see that represent people in same-sex relationships that, hey, we're all out here. I feel like Allen Iverson, remember his famous quote, like, are we talking about practice?

We're talking about puppets? Are we talking about puppets here? I mean, I think the idea that people are getting so outraged or these conversations about puppets and and i understand like oh it's this the mythology or the archetypes and all these other things that kids are seeing and they're learning lessons and all that stuff yeah but they're puppets at the same

time yeah you know what i mean i when i was in college and creative writing classes you'd write a story then you have to read it in front of your classmates and then everybody would dissect it right and then all these people would add in all this meaning that they read from your story, like, oh, I really love the symbolism you did here. And I'd just be like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, well, thank you. And I'm like, I had no intention of that symbolism, right? But once you release art into the world, like that Wilco song, it's like, it's no longer yours, right? Now it belongs to the world. And I do think that sometimes that stuff is present and it's just a part of your mind that you didn't have access to that was working on that stuff sometimes. Oh, that's interesting.

Yeah. But I agree that there's a lot of stuff that's not intended. I just wonder if some of the other people might not have been intending it and some people might have been intending it, but it doesn't matter because it's creating its own meaning in the world right and i think it's one of those things because there have been multiple people who have either voiced them or been the puppeteers or wrote for them that a lot of people have had their hands on it and sometimes people did have those intentions other times people didn't right you just have to accept that if everyone's bringing their own thing to it like you don't have to shoot down someone's interpretation of it to be like they're not gay right and if you don't want

them to be gay then like whatever yeah they're not gay to you man yeah and if you want them to be great but i think at the very least i think in terms of a representation standpoint you should just be like if if i think as a show i think you can put you can have characters like that or just have that represented with whether it's through them or other people. I don't know. The truth is a lot of the time they behave like a gay couple who lives together. And a lot of the times they behave like six-year-olds. Like our writer, Jam, was pointing out.

They love rubber duckies and they take naps during the day. They're babies. Yeah. Sometimes they act like babies. In one storyline ernie gets lost at the mall and starts crying like that shit happens oh yeah for maria yeah yeah that fucked me up yeah so i mean like yeah we're not actually we're missing the actual point here how the fuck old are these people right exactly yes because if you're six years old

what the where the parents at right and if you're And if you're adults, as JM wrote, what the fuck is their job? Right. It's like Kramer. Although Elmo's parents, I guess Elmo's parents do come around sometimes, right? Parents do exist in the Sesame Street universe. I'm sure. I don't know. But Elmo is like literally a baby.

Yeah, Elmo. Yeah, that was pretty good, actually. Elmo baby. Wow. Elmo is here. Wow. In our fourth seat, Elmo. Yeah, that was pretty good, actually. Wow. Elmo is here. Wow, in our fourth scene is Elmo. Elmo thinks everyone's getting too focused on the oriental. Anyway,

but yeah, are they adults is really what I need to know. How old are these Muppets? I would love to see a breakdown of all of the Muppets' ages. I would love it if Oscar the Grouch was like 14. Just a low-teen 14-year-old. Yeah, he's a fucking angry teen. It's like, what are you scared of, man?

When it comes to this whole world that we're living in, it's either fear or love. Where are you operating from? Do you want to build a wall because you're scared? Or do you want to let refugees in because you love it? It's like, what if these puppets are gay? What are the gayest things that exist in the world what's so scary about that to you yeah well i think that's the funny thing is when especially when the like in california the whole prop 8 debate was going on about uh same-sex marriage the sort of conclusions that they were drawing was usually the one i heard

the most from people in the street who are like who were like yeah man we have to stop gay marriage i'm like well why and they're like well what's next right and that was always a thing well what's next right like uh you can marry like a fucking horse and i'm like okay what you don't have to marry a horse kid doesn't like what what's i don't understand like it's that thing we are right but i'm saying like i was always yeah like you say like what is the existential threat to you of other people living their happiest life right is that they are going to force you to live like them because but i guess because essentially that's what those people are trying to do to people who do want to have a same-sex relationship they're like no you can't have you have to do what we do is you fuck the opposite right you know what i mean and that's

because i'm trying to exert this control on you the logical end game here is that if this happens you're going to try and do that to me maybe frank oz is so scared and came out so hard against this not only because maybe he's homophobic but maybe he also doesn't want to admit that he's a puppet oh wow he doesn't want to admit they say like it was like an analog for his relationship with Jim Henson. Yeah, they said it was usually based on their friendship. And one of them, I think Frank Oz was Bert. Whoever the more conservative. Who was the more?

Bert. Bert? Yeah, and Ernie was kind of the more fun dude. Look at those devious eyebrows. Yeah. Yeah. Bert? Eyebrow.

Wait, which one was Ernie? Ernie's the one with the orange. Like the skinnier headed one. Oh, that's Ernie? No, that's Burt. Oh, wait, that's Burt. Yeah. Man, I don't even know anymore.

Yeah, I don't know either. I just know that he had caterpillar eyebrows, right? They kind of could move like on their own. Hold on. Before we just fuck this whole thing up, Burt is the one with the fucking, his head is shaped like corn. Right. With the shit going off in the unibrow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. Okay, and Er Bert is the one with the fucking, his head is shaped like corn. Right.

With the shit going off in the unibrow. That's right. Okay, and Ernie is the orange man. Or boy. Ernie's the homie. Bert is kind of got that like,

he's always aggravated a little bit about something. But they have a great relationship. Like no matter what type of relationship you want to imagine it as, they have an awesome relationship.

And it does teach you important things about having friendships with people. It's like a fairly accurate friendship for being puppets for six-year-olds. It really is. There's a lot of ways that their personalities clash that they make work that I think is good for young kids to see.

Speaking of young kids, Miles. this is big news for young Miles. Well, oh, yeah, Sony PlayStation Classic is launching this December. Now, Nintendo has done it with, like, the Nintendo thing, and, like, there's emulators. You can get all this kind of – SNK did a version where you could get consoles that had, like, you know, a bunch of games preloaded. But now PlayStation is throwing their hat in the ring, and they are throwing out the Sony PlayStation classic,

the OG version. It's like half the size, but has 20 games on it, but they haven't released the full game list as of now that I've seen. But the one thing that is on there is a game that I love, Final Fantasy VII will be on there. And I lost hours of my life to that game alongside Tekken 3 Ridge Racer Type 4. A part of me feels like I won't buy it because I've seen too much of where games have gone. And like the nostalgia thing works for a little bit and then eventually gets a little bit old. But for this, I am becoming more and more invested because like these were games that like were really coming. Like around 94. Yeah. Like being what, 10 to 14 years old, those are the formative gaming games.

There's one game on there that I bet is not on the list, and I wish it was. Did you ever play Risk on the original PlayStation? No, of course not. I remember it didn't have a Napoleon on it or something screaming with an explosion behind him. I feel like there was like a— No, I don't think it had any like even the graphics never really got that great but risk was so great on playstation right the box art the box the box art yeah it was like this oh yeah yeah and holding a machine gun

it's like oh that game was so i lost so much of my life to risk on playstation playing the computer yeah well playing friends playing the computer yeah Yeah, well, playing friends, playing the computer. Yeah. Because it's a little bit quicker than the board game. Right. You know, and you have to worry about,

like, the computer now has the dice. So, I mean, that's a little, you know. You don't know what you're getting. But, oh, I love, oh, I love it. The Yellow Army. I would call myself

the urination army spreading through the latrines of the world. Like, that game's not going to be, but to find that game is very expensive for the original PlayStation. When I just searched it, $11.97. Ships within 24 hours.

Oh, well, hey, time to go. Time to go. I gotta go buy this. Ryan just ran out of the room. Weird. Alright, and finally, Ryan, we want to play a game with you. It is called Velocipeder Scooter. Miles, do you want to explain what the book is? In the Washington Post, Christopher Ingram wrote this sort of article about how the new debate is about, well, there are all these scooters, like the lime and bird scooters that people just leave on the streets and if they're safe or not.

And realize that this same kind of thing happened with the Velocipede, the big wheel in the front bicycle, the predecessor to the bicycle. Late 19th century. Yeah, exactly. And the same criticisms are very similar. It's like two-wheeled menaces blazing down the city streets and sidewalks, piloted by thrill-seekers with little evident concern for their own safety or that of others. So they put together some quotes to find out if this is a quote from the time of the Velocipede or an op-ed about now and the bird scooter.

So first one, the new two-wheeled transportation options are no casual amusement. That's the Velociraptor. The Velociraptor. The first one. The Velociraptor. We'll call it a bike. Yeah. Actually, it's about the scooter.

Oh, really? Yes, that was from a Washington Post. Who the fuck wrote that? That seems like a little old-timey. I know. They're like, oh, no casual amusement. Well, what about this? The most senseless and ridiculous mania that ever took hold of the public.

That's got to be the Velociraptor. The Velocipede? We're going with that one? Velocipede. And yes, you are correct. Attributed to an American newspaper writer commenting on bicycling in 1869. Ah, that's amazing. Next one. These vandals are destroying

or desecrating the vehicles in disturbingly imaginative ways and celebrating their illegal deeds. That's the scooter. Yeah, that's the scooter. Yeah, because we saw people throwing them in the fucking sea. That's crazy to me.

You hate people not driving cars as much that you're going to throw these into the water? Right, it's so short-sighted. It's just like some... People are mad. Just some weird Luddite type shit. Fucking scooter!

I do not recognize this thing! Yeah, exactly. It must be away! But yeah, I think also people like local, especially in the west side though, people like are very NIMBY-ish like in Venice and like Santa Monica. Like if that shit's like in front of your house, you're like...

It's dropping the property value. Right, right, right, exactly. And is it? I feel like it're like... It's dropping the property value. Right, right, right. Exactly. And is it? I feel like it's a... I don't know. It's like your neighborhood's cool if you have one of those. I don't think anyone's been like,

you know, I fucking took a bath on that real estate with both those scooters outside. An absolute bath. Yeah, this is an action. Seize, break, destroy all such machines

found running on the sidewalks. Sorry, what? Seize, break, destroy all such machines found running on the sidewalks. I mean, that has to be the scooter, right? Yeah, I'd say that has to be the scooter. It's a bicycle.

1819 newspaper. Found running on the- In New Haven, Connecticut, railed against the sudden popularity of the velocipede. Seize, break, destroy, or convert to their own use as good price. All such machines found running on the sidewalks. I remember a time in this country when the sidewalk was for bipedal people. Exactly.

So did they just not know how those worked and they thought you could leave them running? I have no idea what, yeah, I don't know what they're talking about. I think people were just getting hurt and then they're like, how does a simple leg motion create all such energy? It was an interesting time. Another one. Considering that the use of X is becoming more general, access to public promenades and sidewalks is hereby prohibited.

That's the scooter. Promenade? Public promenade? Feels velocipede. It's the bicycle, you're right. Yes. Wow. Another one from 1869.

And lastly, we'll do this one. The gentlemen X-ing, cooling across our city streets and sidewalks at 15 miles an hour, the wind gently flapping their ties and tussling their hair, are indifferent to your angry glares. That's the velocipede. I'm going scooter. Scooter. Yep. Yeah, see?

It's tough to know. It's tough to know. Yeah. We are who we thought we know. It's tough to know. Yeah. We are who we thought we were. We've been the same. Have you been on a bird yet or one of the scooters? I have not. And I actually was running yesterday, and they were laid across the sidewalk, almost

like an obstacle. Right. And I had that momentary inclination where I was like, I should just throw this shit into the street. But I didn't. And it was early. Nobody was around. And I had that momentary inclination where I was like, I should just throw this shit into the street. But I didn't. And it was early. Nobody was around.

It was 2.30 when I ran. I like you go, nobody would have seen you. Yeah, no, I could have gotten away with it. Wait, 2.30 in the morning? No, I was just joking. That's it. We talked about earlier how Mark Wahlberg wakes up to work out at 2.30. Oh, my God. He eats like three meals by six in the morning.

It's amazing. What a guy. Ryan, it's been a pleasure having you. Hey, thanks for having me. This has been great. Where can people find you? People can find me at ryansingercomedy.com. I'm very excited.

Next month, I'll have a free new album. Whoa. A live stand-up comedy album. It's called Free Love. That'll be out in October. But my website will have a free download, all that kind of stuff. I'm excited to give this one away for free. Very cool.

Is there a tweet that you've been enjoying? This is a new thing we're asking people since the last time you were here. This is a pretty poignant one that really applies to, I guess, everything that's happening and what we talked about today. Who's it from?

Aparna Necherla. She says, can we amend boys will be boys to predators will be predators so we're not ascribing violent behavior as normal to an entire gender expression slash identity? Wow. Which is so poignant. I mean, it's not necessarily over-the-top humorous. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, but what she's- Such common sense writing.

Yeah, it's just like, yeah, stop saying boys will be boys. Stop making boys, stop ascribing that to boys. Yeah, right. Let's make it predators. And she's just wonderful. Yeah. She's one of my favorites and has been for a long, long time. Yeah.

All right, Miles. Yes. Where can people find you? Oh, you find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. And a tweet I like actually came yesterday. If you follow me on Twitter, usually when Donald Trump tweets some shit, I just quote tweet and I go, you eat pieces of shit for breakfast? I just like, this is stupid and I love it. But the other day I was doing a thread about just all the ways you could break down MAGA or DJT into things about his penis.

And then someone, Monty, at HotCha33 said, mushrooms literally eat pieces of shit for breakfast. Hey. And I was like, oh, shit. My man. That's very true. So shout out to you, Monty. Got the Portuguese and American flag. So obrigado.

Yeah. I was going to, one of my tweets that I was enjoying was going to be at miles of gray. DJT equals dick just trash. Yeah. Because we wanted that to be our title yesterday, but. Can't post that. Can't put dick in the title. Oh, God.

Yeah. Political correctness. Or it should have been MAGA. Mushrooms are genitals. You know. political correctness. Or it should have been MAGA. Mushrooms are genitals, actually. Yeah, exactly. This political correctness is out of control. It's out of control.

I mean, POTUS, penis on the unusual side. And I also like the tweet by Yusuf Roach, who tweeted, Wakanda could have used vibranium to solve the AIDS epidemic. But yeah, let's build more flying armored elephants or whatever. Yusuf was on the show last week. He's hilarious. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us at Daily Zeitgeist on Twitter.

We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes. We link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. You can also find that information in the info on whatever app you're listening to this episode on. Miles, what song are we going to ride out on today?

I think we are going to go out on some Steve Lacey, who is just a man from the internet, but just a great guitar player, a producer, really, really into his music. We've played some of his produced songs before, but this is one of his tracks called Some by Steve Lacey. And this would definitely get your big toe just jumping around your booty a little bit. Jumping around, eh? Yeah. All right.

We are going to ride out on that. We will be back tomorrow because it is a daily podcast. We'll talk to you guys then. Bye. Bye. Bye. I know there's lots of love in your heart, but who you gonna give it to? I'm sure there's lots of guys that you see, but I swear the night is cool I could take you where you wanna go, if you wanna ride

We could watch a movie Get the picture just to link it up We could do whatever you want to do Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Baby, I want some of your love, your love, your love. Baby, can I have some of your love, your love, your love. I'm a son of your love You're not the only baby Can I have some of your love?

You're not the only baby I'm not your man Your man Your man Kay hasn't heard from her sister in seven years. I have a proposal for you. Come up here and document my project. All you need to do is record everything like you always do. What was that? That was live audio of a woman's nightmare. Can Kay trust her sister, or is history repeating itself? There's nothing dangerous about what you're doing.

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