The Daily Zeitgeist - Hurricane > Nukes, Popeye’s Saved $23 Million 8.27.19

Episode Date: August 27, 2019

In episode 461, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Kimia Behpoornia to discuss nuking hurricanes, Popeye's Chicken's free advertisement from black twitter, Trump ignoring climate change, Amazon lacking some serious quality control on their site, Hasbro buying Death Row Records, NFL playing Andrew Luck retiring, and more! FOOTNOTES: 1. Scoop: Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S.2. Nuking Hurricanes: The Surprising History of a Really Bad Idea3. Popeye’s Chicken Sandwiches Get $23 Million Free Advertising From Black Twitter4. Trump’s wall is child’s play compared to Bernie Sanders’s climate plan5. Bernie Sanders’s climate plan will take us nowhere6. Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products7. Why Hasbro's $4 Billion Studio Buy May Trigger More Media Mergers8. WATCH: PJ Masks Gekko Saves Christmas | Christmas Books for Kids | Christmas Book for Preschool9. Retired NFL Fullback Le’Ron McClain Pleads For Help On Twitter, Says He Needs To Get His Head Checked10. Andrew Luck of the Colts Retires From the N.F.L. After Spate of Injuries11. WATCH: Patrick Watson - Fireweed (Official Video) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 97, Episode 2 of Dear Daily Science, guys! Yeah! A production of iHeartRadio. This is a podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say, officially, off the top, hey, fuck Coke Industries and fuck Fox News. Oh, fuck you. Fuck them both. It's Tuesday, August 27th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Thus Twote Zarathustra by Free Jack Nietzsche.

The Republic by Plato O'Brien. The Fresh Prince by Nicola Giacchiavelli. On the Coal Gas Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau O'Brien. Whatever, that was courtesy of Trey Gang. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. When I'm over Italy I ain't even gotta speak

I'm a ballpark casser, goddammit, motherfucker And I got E.D. How you rolling your blunts? Like that you get shunned. We'll never stop shitting on Fox and Coach because you know this one. Oh, okay. That's just a taste of a verse. Could have gone the whole way.

But I did it because my heart would have exploded. Because you can only dabble with Missy Elliott verses so much before the energy can return to you and destroy you. Yeah, your brain or your face was like getting real red. There's not a lot of oxygen flowing. If you could have seen, if there was a way to show you what I was seeing through my eyes, you wouldn't have believed me. I blacked out. Yeah. Thank you to Anna Claire Hodge at Anna Claire Hodge for that Missy Elliott gossip folks inspired AKA.

Shout out to you also for telling your friend to look out for us at podcast movement and came up to Jack and I. Oh yeah. Yeah. Remember? And I was like, Oh, he's your friend's not a fan of Jack.

Oh, right. Yeah. Oh, you just had to slide that encounter in there. Didn't you? Yeah. Well,

I think it made it more awkward for him. Yeah. He was like, Oh no, there's a Jack on the show? She never mentioned him. Never mind. Anyways, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat

by the hilarious and talented Kimia Bepornia. There you go. What's up? Kimia Bepornia, aka, get it right, Kimia Bepornia. Bepornia. Yeah, totally. There you go. Oh, you added some spice on there with that.

I did my best. There you go. Just try it, you know? Every day. Hell yeah. Every day in every way. He's feeling stronger and stronger. How are you?

I am good, thank you so much. That was very enthusiastic. That was enthusiastic. I like it. Yeah, man. Do you drink coffee? I do, but guess what? Today, I had three sips.

Oh, wow. And that's it. Okay. Is that what I should do from now on? That's all you need? I do, but guess what? Today, I had three sips. Oh, wow. And that's it. Okay. Is that what I should do from now on? That's all you need? I don't know. I guess.

This energy, this energy you got, you should bottle that up. Yeah, man. Yeah. Okay. Well,

thank you and welcome. New morning routine, I guess. Three sips, toss the rest of the pot out. There you go. Yeah. It's like,

why does she always make a full pot though? And toss it. It's the, it's the act. Over the shoulder. Well, Kimmy, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we are going to tell our listeners a few of the things we're talking about today. We are going to take a look at a brief history of nuking hurricanes, that idea, where it comes from, why it's probably not a good idea.

We're going to talk about the week of Popeyes. Last week was a big week for Popeyes. Big week, big bucks. We're going to look at the president's take on climate change that he revealed at the G7 summit. We're going to talk about Amazon's quality control issues. We're going to talk about Amazon's quality control issues. Yeah. The Wall Street Journal came out with an article over the weekend that was kind of timed exactly right for me personally. I'll explain why.

We're going to talk about Hasbro because in addition to making a socialist monopoly, they are now the proud owners of Death Row Records. Yep. We're going to talk about Andrew Luck retiring. All sorts of shit. But first, Kimmy, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? One of my last Googles was chicken hypnotizing. You guys know about this?

No. You know about this. Jack knows about this. You can hypnotize a chicken. I truly don't know what this is for, but you just lay the chicken close to the ground and then you draw a line. It doesn't even have to be a real line.

You draw a line with your fingers in front of the chicken's face and then he just is in a trance. When you draw a line in front of his face? You draw a line out from his face. Like just rub a chicken's face? No, you start at his face. And you move his, yeah, you move your hands to the front. Oh, by merely just visually moving your hand away.

And you can hypnotize a fucking chicken? Yeah, and then it'll just sit there, not move, just in a trance. Yeah. It's crazy. Okay, how did you come into contact with this? I was watching this show called Dream Vet, because I am one of the few people that has CBS All Access. Oh, hell yeah.

That person that works on a bunch of sick Corvettes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Weird flex. Weird Corvettes and stuff. Oh, like a veterinarian? No, yeah. Oh, I'm thinking like a vet. No, no, no, no. Like a sick-ass vet.

Thank you for noticing my flex. Miles is always thinking about muscle cars. Sure. Dude, a stingray? Every time we talk about a rock, he thinks it's about the car. What, an IROC? Yeah, the IROC. Dude, it's all about the Z, dude.

Z boys in the building. Okay, I'm sorry. So you're watching DreamVet? Yes, I'm watching DreamVet. Is DreamVet, do they analyze animals' dreams? No, I wish. That'd be a way cooler show. We're all constantly derailing.

Hey, listen. It's just a vet show. What the fuck was it? It's a vet show. Okay. Some guy had his chicken in there because his pet is a chicken, and he was worried because the chicken had a lump. And then they were like, oh, we'll take some x-rays.

And then the guy who owns the chicken was like, oh, do you have to put my chicken under? And then the vet was like, no, we'll just hypnotize him. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa to put my chicken under? And then the vet was like, no, we'll just hypnotize him. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They're like under a spell. Yeah. And that's when I was like, is this a thing?

Because they just, he just drew that line and then that chicken sat there. And then how long is the chicken? Until you tip him over. He'll just like be in it. It's like, oh, I looked it up. On Google, it says anywhere from 30 seconds

to 30 minutes or something. Wow. That's a big window. Yeah. Depending on how fucked up the chicken 30 minutes or something. Wow. That's a big window. Yeah. Depending on how fucked up the chicken is before. Yeah. Wow. Wait, Jack, how did you know about it?

Because you were like, yep, yep. Yeah, dude. I just saw how quickly you were on. I know you know a lot. You know what I used to do for a living. Yep. This is right up our alley at Cracked. Yeah, you used to clip the wings off chickens and sell them by the roadside.

That's right. Exactly. Exactly. Wait. Oh, this is just purely out of like articles on like cool stuff to do. Yeah. Wait. Farm animals. Yeah, animal hacks.

I think Robert Brockway wrote it actually. Animal hacks. Wow. Animal hacks. Bro. I'll tell you it was an animal hack. That fucking Taco Bell dog. Yeah.

Fucking hack, that one. Hey, rest in peace. Yeah. R.I.P. Wow. Too soon. Too soon. Yeah. Fucking hack that one. Hey, rest in peace. Yeah. R.I.P. Too soon. Too soon. Yeah. There's also one of the things we learned about chickens is that their nervous system is such

that not a lot of it is in their head, so they can live with their head chopped off for a long time. Oh, right. That's why they can still be running around. Yeah. I've seen that. But they can live for months without their head. Oh, that is- I don't know. Wait, what time. Oh, right. That's why they can still be running around. Yeah. I've seen that. But they can live for months without their head. Oh, that is-

I don't know. Wait, what? No way, dude. This dude was putting a dropper of food in the neck- Like its neck hole? In the neck hole of a chicken. Oh, I have heard that. Yeah.

Oh, wow. Tight. Cool. That is super tight. This sounds like a podcast I would have loved when I was 13. That's right. Fuck yeah, dude. Wait till I go back to school.

What is something you think is overrated uh i think the getty is overrated wow yeah which one the well the villa is cool i like it yeah it's outdoors and you can enjoy the views the getty getty the one you know the big one and the sepulveda pass yeah that's right that has like its own firefighting mechanisms built into it oh yeah yeah man i don't know i just i grew up here in la so i've been to the getty like a lot of times and truly every time i go i'm like this is gonna be cool i'm gonna have a great time looking at the art and feel very cultured and smart and then i get there and it's and i can only be there for 10 minutes i get get truly bored. Nothing is that cool to look at. It's so wild. Wow. What's on the show right now?

I don't even know. I don't know, man. You just walked in like, ah, no. I just was like, no, man. The Getty. I've tried it too many times. It's one of those things where it's like you have to take everybody who's in town

to like check it out. Because then sometimes, because you can like drink wine up there. Oh. You know what I mean? I think you can. No, it's like a restaurant. You can drink wine there. Yeah, well, no, I think you can like, I might have been- You know what I mean? I think you can. No, it's like a restaurant. You can drink wine there.

Well, no, I think you can walk around. I might have done this ratchet with my family. But like- Walk around with a flask? Yeah, but put a little picnic down on the side there. Oh, you can do that picnic. Turn up on your own with a little bit of wine. But yeah, I think there is something.

After it opened in 97, I remember there was like such a huge wait to get in. Like it was built up for years because the parking was so hard to figure out. It's like in the middle of this pulpit of pass. You had to take a tram up. It was just like, oh my God, have you seen this? Have you heard tell of this Getty? Right. And then you go and you're like, oh, dope.

And then it begins to wear off a little bit. But the villa I really like. The villa's great. That is not overrated. Well, also at the Getty, it's like they have all of the hot stuff on the website. So with the exhibits, you can just like look at a pic of it online.

You don't need to go up to the Getty. I mean, yeah. They say that about Picasso's Guernica. Yes. Just check it out online. Just check it out online. Just check it out online. You don't need to see this massive piece overwhelming you as a commenter in the Spanish Civil War. I'm sure the Guernica, which I have not seen in person, is probably more impressive in person.

But like the Mona Lisa, less impressive. It's smaller than you think it's going to be. Yeah, I mean, you know. They need to update art museums for like lit millennials. Exactly. Just make a window that people can just like look through real quick. A filter, yeah. Got it.

That's it. Got it, thank you. That's sort of like, you know, when I was in Florence, Italy, actually home of the David statue, I did not have time to actually wait for this. And I thought about paying for it. Where was I? Anyway.

Yeah. What I will say about museums in LA though, the Huntington Library Gardens. This I like. Tremendously underrated. Yeah. And I know I'm not the guest right now, but I just want to say that because it's expensive.

Look, I'm thinking about getting the pass because what a fucking treat for your eyes. Up near Pasadena. Yeah. And they have so many different styles of garden the asian gardens yes they also have the stinkiest plant oh they have the stink flower they have the stink flower like opens up wait what i know about that from the dennis the menace movie oh my god wait what there's this plant that smells so bad when it blooms. It's like a garbage plant. Yeah. It probably, like, you use it to attract, like, flies maybe or something?

I don't even know. Everything's evolutionary, right? Right. Where in the gardens is it? I don't know which section of the gardens it's in. Fuck, I feel like I go there, not a lot, but I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice by not trying to embrace the stinkiest fucking plant. It probably blends in all times of the year that it's not in bloom.

Yeah. But part of me just wants to mainline that shit and just know how disgusting it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love terrible smells, guys. Okay. Things you don't know about me. Okay. It's in the, I just looked it up.

Trash sniffy is what they're called. The stank ass section of the museum. Oh, so that's by the desert section. Yeah, man. You should know. Yeah. Why he said he likes a stinky plant. Yeah, but I didn't know.

I didn't realize I could scratch that itch there. We're going to cut that out, and it's just going to sound like you just said Miles stinks. Damn it. Man, you stink, bro. What is something you think is underrated besides Miles' Huntington libraries? Check it out, man. Oh, you know, pupusas.

Hey. Yeah, man. Guys, people aren't hyping pupusas enough. A mi me gusta las pupusas. Okay. Con curtido y salsa de tomate. Are you waiting for music? It's not coming.

Yo, that was just a track somebody put me onto. I didn't know there was songs about pupusas. What? I didn't know that. Yes, that's a legit one. That's not me just going off the top. Yeah. That's about, I think that's from a Salvadorian group.

Okay. Maybe I'm wrong and pupusas are hype, but I feel like everyone here talks like taco trucks, but we need to go, you need to go pupusa. Yeah. Filling. They're delicious. Ooh, and you get to put stuff on top. You get to customize your old pupusa.

Yeah. Get that slaw. I always get, it's the curtido, you know? Okay. I always ask for extra. You should go to Atlaclat, Beverly, I believe. Ooh. Tef, yo, the ensalada drink.

Do you ever drink that? No, man, what? It's just a bunch of chopped up fruit juice. It's like a bunch of chopped up fruit. Ooh, it's like a fruit salad juice? Yes, in a cup, though. And it should be sweet as fuck. And then by the end, you're just chewing a bunch of fruit and it's delicious. Okay. Yes.

Uh, yeah. Now, to me, an outsider, the pupusa looks like a, uh, what's the soft Taco Bell flatbread thing? Oh, a chalupa? The gordita? A gordita. It looks like a gordita with coleslaw on top. Tell me what it is.

Okay. It's like, you know, it's a tortilla, and it's filled inside. It's basically like maybe like a Mexican calzone. Yeah, it's like masa, but then you could put, if you get revueltas, you know, that's like you get pork, cheese, and bean in there. Yeah. Or you can get it with just cheese. There's a vegetable.

Yeah, you can get it with cactus. you can get it with just cheese yeah you can get it with cactus you can get it with lo roco you know there's many styles to the pupusa yeah but the thing that i will say is the curtido which is the cabbage slaw that you put on top i fucking go ham with that shit so it feels like i'm actually getting like a vegetable meal yes even though i'm just mainlining a bunch of starch and fry you go ham with all accompanying vegetables. What's the thing? Like anytime there's a sandwich that comes with like a little sour. Oh, like a giardiniera or something? A giardiniera.

Yeah. Like extra giardiniera. Let me get that extra giard on there. I was actually a nickname you had, I noticed. Extra giard? Yeah, giard. Giard, what's up? You know what it is.

Kimmy, what's a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, well, I guess this isn't a true-false, but I did want to tell you guys about this. You see those Shen Yun posters all around town? Shen Yun. We were talking about this. Oh, yeah, so you know.

Yes. Go on. Okay, so Shen Yun, it's like this big dance performance, like an Asian cultural dance performance, and they have billboards literally everywhere. And they have posters in every restaurant you can ever go to. And I was like, God, the budget for Shen Yun is wild. What even is this dance performance?

Guys, it's secretly a Chinese cult that is like banned from China. Wait a second. We were just talking about how great the show is. You got God. Falun Gong. second we were just talking about how great the show is oh you got god balan gong well see i was so we were talking i was realizing that the cult label is thrown around a lot by the chinese government yes but because they're not really they don't really have any documented instances of like violence or coercion it is but i get it is a very odd their thinking is very problematic no they're like Scientology of China.

Yeah, exactly. And it's weird because they're just harsh anti-communists, which is why the Chinese government's like, get the fuck out of here. But also why they are big supporters of Donald Trump. Because they're like, God sent him to take down China. And then so it's interesting, you know, maybe we'll see Trump at a Shen Yun performance soon. Well, I also checked out some Yelp reviews on Shen Yun and those are pretty funny because

they're like, wow, the dancing was beautiful. And then I think there was a lot of propaganda speech in the middle. Right. It's like really crazy. The dance, I think, is sort of an illustration of like their oppression. It is. It's all about like if you pray, then you will be cured of everything. So there's this like dance where there's a blind guy and then he prays enough in a dancerly way and then his sight returns.

Fantastic. Oh, geez. Is that true? Does that happen? I read it. I read it. You better pray. Yeah, man.

We got to pray just to make it today. Oh, yes, we pray. Pray. MC Hammer. Yes. Cool. All right, guys. Sorry. Cool. Cool. day oh yes we pray pray uh mc hammer yes uh all right guys cool yo side side note uh my dad was a tour photographer on the mc hammer pepsi world tour 1992 or 91 i still have the backstage laminate i wore that shit to school yeah i was like guess what if there was a show i could go backstage if

i was my dad was that the one that started that started out with Vanilla Ice opening for him? I don't know. My dad said I was too young to go to see the show. Oh, okay. Because I went to that tour when it came through UD Arena. What's UD Arena? University of Dayton Arena. It has a name that I'm forgetting. Oh, boy. Dayton's Ike Gang, let us know. But, yeah, it was a great show.

And En Vogue opened for him. So En Vogue and Mr. Vanillice. Vanillice was supposed to open for him, but pulled out is the rumor. Oh, so. That they stopped being cool. Damn, that must have hurt for you, huh? It did. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I was like, two and one? Hey, representation matters, man. Come on. I know. That's right. You're like, I don't feel seen at this show. Were you wearing cross colors and shit back then?

No, it was pre-cross colors. It was like when I was wearing MC Hammer pants and like- And a silk shirt? Yes. And a hyper color shirt. Nice. Yeah. And an erasism hat.

That's right. That's right. Those are all things. I used to get all my fashion cues from the end of In Living Color. When all the cast was at the back, we're like, thanks so much. We had a great show. And whatever Keenan Ivory Wayans was wearing, I'm like, okay, I need a leper skin, silk shirt, and an erasism hat.

All right. Let's talk about nuking hurricanes. This is in the news because our president is apparently suggesting it behind the scenes. Yeah. In meetings when a hurricane is coming, developing in the Atlantic. Multiple sources. It makes sense. I've said, yeah.

Just fucking blow it up. There's a big thing coming at you. Blow it the fuck up. Blow it up. Now, I just, in all fairness, we should just say, before we really get into this piece, that Donald Trump denies he ever said anything like this.

The usual. Okay? So no matter how stupid it sounds, no matter how asinine this idea seems to be just know that is the fake news media i never said anything like this even though there are nsc notes right document this so the first one a hurricane briefing trump said oh god this is where it kills me the way these quotes are trump said this is a this is a quote, I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?

They start forming off the coast of Africa. As they're moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane, and it disrupts it. Why can't we do that? Why not? Indeed. Well, then the briefer, who was even the one presenting this information to the president, they say, quote, was knocked back on his heels.

Quote, you could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, what the fuck? What do we do with this? Now, I think that is obviously a little bit of hyperbole because no one could actually hear a gnat fart. I've tried to hear a gnat fart. This is from Axios?

Yeah. Who's our source here? Someone in the NSC probably. Who speaks very vividly. Yeah, I think that's someone who, that sounds like the thing where you're like sick of your job, so you're going to be real spicy. I'll give you a quote.

Dude, it was so fucking quiet in there. Right. Fucking hearing Nat fart. Yeah, just spending a lot of time writing. All right, I got to get back to vaping. Detailed emails. Yeah. So yeah, again,

this was just one of those things where a lot of, there's like a balance in the room of people who have to be like, fuck no, dude, to the president and also be like the people who've like learned to elegantly

just like spin off these ideas. I'm like, that is an interesting idea. Right. Interesting. Sure. Thank you for raising that. It's like the creepiest kid in your like kindergarten class

who's like, oh, if you guys had caught a butterfly and took it home, what would you want to do? And he's like, squish it. And you're like the creepiest kid in your like kindergarten class who's like, oh, if you guys had caught a butterfly and took it home, what would you want to do? And he's like, squish it. And you're like, that's a great idea, Bill.

So interesting. So good. But what if you, you know, fed it and watched it instead? Squish it, squish it, squish it.

Smash it, clap it. Let's clap it. Where I put it in my hands and I start clapping. Okay, Bill. So not only is this a bad idea. Yes.

Because you generally want those nuclear bombs when you're dropping them to not blow completely off target. That's just one of the reasons. Well, unless you use a submarine. Right. And you launch it from below. That's true. Then you're not dealing with the wind. I guess I'm the one who's wrong then.

That's why I'm the president, Jackie boy. But this isn't even an original idea. It's not even an original bad idea. The head of the US Weather Bureau said in 1961, he could imagine the possibility someday of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea. of exploding a nuclear bomb on a hurricane far at sea. See, and that was the beginning. That was the beginning. So just creating that idea for whatever reason, just putting that out there, like caught in people's minds, because then there was a hurricane coming for Texas,

and Texans in an op-ed were wondering, could Hurricane Carla have been broken up or greatly modified, or its course turned back to sea by nuclear bombs, asked an editorial on the Longview Daily News. So that was also in the 50s or 60s. And then a meteorologist named Jack Reed pitched it at the Plowshare symposium in 1959 now it's important to note that uh people thought dropping like nuclear weapons was going to just be a thing we did all the time i mean it ended a world war right so why can't we why can't we just do this for others they thought it was going to

be the new dynamite uh and so he suggested uh that this was used as a way to alter the course of hurricanes in the same symposium where people suggested nuking our way through Panama for the canal, for the Panama Canal, blowing up a chunk of land in Alaska to create an instant harbor using nuclear weapons. That's great. That's great. That's great. You know, great. These are all great ideas for, because it's funny, the whole Plowshare thing was just sort of like, how can we use our nuclear arsenal for good? Right.

These are the fucking ideas. Terrible. Let's just try and blow up half a continent. Let's just carve out chunks of land. The thing that, you know, everyone points to, this is such a constant myth that the NOAA,

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they on their fucking government website have like a tropical cyclone myths page where they instantly like don't even think you can bomb one of these. It just doesn't work. Oh, my gosh. Partially a you don't want to just like throw a bunch of radioactive fucking waste or material into basically a gigantic wind machine. Yeah. Because all that fallout. You think that would get out? I don't know. Maybe.

I mean, yeah. I think that's an engine of wind and rain. Yeah. Soak a towel in gasoline near a fire and then start whipping that fucker around near it. And you tell me if that seems like a good idea. And then on top of that, also, there's a huge energy factor to consider also, because a hurricane isn't just some fucking, it's not just all wet and water, you know, there's fucking massive amounts of energy being released.

Quote, the heat release from a hurricane is equivalent to a 10 megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. Right. Oh, yeah. So you would need a lot of big nuclear bang bangs. Just all of them. Just drop them all. Well, because just to displace all that air and heat, it's not so simple.

At the same time, though, that would be so satisfying. Get back at those fucking hurricanes. Oh, hell yeah. Just sticking it to us, making us look like idiots this whole time you know oh i just that's right i'm on youtube right now watching hurricanes getting pwned by bombs yeah we should do a segment on the show where we look for other stupid ideas that trump is probably gonna pick up on because he's basically like a radio antenna for dumb ideas if it's convenient yeah if it's convenient

and it's just like out there and it's like circulating think with the power of this show we could even seed an idea incept him from the like create like if it's a thing where you get the entire zeitgeist gang and on to amplify like a fake news story get it to the actual like get conservative media to be like have you heard about this thing because it happens all right is susceptible to it and then eventually wait a year or something trump gets this new idea because look this one makes sense because we have hurricanes rather than saying well are our unpredictable weather patterns part and parcel of climate change or is it just that we don't know how to bomb these fucking things right we have not tried bombing them yet and so we just

need another big issue that's on trump's you know menu of things he'll never solve right and create something that's convenient yet seemingly logical right just like look on at the yahoo answers like example of right how the very first thought best thought of like how to solve something. Like if you go on Quora and say, how do we stop Kim Jong-un? Right. And then take whatever that first answer is, get past all the nuance.

Some racist answer. Yeah, get past the nuance stuff. It's like, you know, he wants basketball. Right. He wants to see Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Bill Cartwright, BJ Armstrong, very specific bulls team to play michael jordan assassin oh michael jordan is an assassin first of all we know that from his career oh well yeah okay like he has the heart of an assassin oh okay i thought we were starting to speculate on somebody's passing this was the rumor because we

know we have fears on that too. But maybe. No, but then he, see that's where it's too. We'll have to work on that. We can't come up with it on the fly. We can't save the world in one podcast. Again, it doesn't need to be our idea. Like none of Trump's bad ideas

are original ideas. He's like what he did between when he ran for president and it was like a blip and then actually won the presidency was he spent eight years just listening, like ingesting all the talk radio and just like took it all in

until all his instincts were just to tell people who listen to talk conservative talk radio what they want to hear. Fuck, I bet we could get Rush Limbaugh to fucking pick up on something. I just feel it. We can save hurricanes. Did you guys see this?

It was like season, first few seasons of Shark Tank, some dude like pitched a machine that is like makes its own hurricane because hurricanes leave behind gold. So it was like if you just bottle up a hurricane, all of the wind and the energy and all of that will result in like panfuls of gold in the end. So if you just like bottle up that hurricane, gold will be left over.

No one. So hurricanes are worth it because they. Of all the gold, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He loves gold. So don't nuke him.

Yeah, go on. Save that gold. Dude, those sharks, none of the sharks. This is how we'll do it. This is how we're gonna pay for the wall. Bottle the hurricanes up,

get the gold. Oh my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. it doesn't sound that crazy in that voice fuck we gotta find this guy yeah get him to do a radio tour yeah all right we're gonna take a quick break we'll be right back Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now.

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Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them boys. I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious.

She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

And we're back. Brief recap of last week's news. The only story that I remember is that Popeye's brought out a chicken sandwich. We tasted it. It was good. It destroys Chick-fil-A. It's the Chick-fil-A killer. And yeah, somebody is estimating that that just bringing that sandwich out was worth about $23 million in advertising.

Yeah. Just like the way that people responded. What they call $23 million in equivalent ad value across digital, print, social, just for all those mentions in those 11 days since August 12th when it launched. It's such a cynical way of viewing it. It's like, man, putting out an actually good product really gave them great market equity. It's like- Yeah. Well, it's one of those things- Well, they just did a good one. They did a good one.

Yeah. Well, I think they also said, they were also comparing it to this David and Goliath situation because it started with Chick-fil-A putting a post out and then Popeye was like, oh, y'all mad? Or y'all worried or something? Right. And then it created all these people to defend Popeye's and the mentions and starting retweets and all these other things. And it's funny, like in this dry article, they're like, you know, and it was very a vibrant conversation on black Twitter also. Yes, true.

But I think there's a lot of things about this sandwich that's being left out of these articles a lot. There's a couple of things that I think aside from just obviously things happening on Twitter, because other articles are like, this is probably going to be a blueprint for other brands. Cause like they're taking it as like, they stepped to Chick-fil-A and then people were like, ended up actually liking Popeye's better. And that's why this was so genius. There's a few things like, I think a on the internet, there's already a very defined segment of consumers who have issues with Chick-fil-A and the causes they give to. Obviously, the company itself has ceased giving donations, but they have the Chick-fil-A Foundation

that gives to charities and certain groups that are just unequivocally against anything LGBTQ and very much into the idea that like, you know, any, any like gay people are entire abomination to Christ and everything like that. So yes, I think there's a lot of people who were, who desperately wanted a solution to, I like chicken sandwiches and I don't like thinking that I'm actually giving directly to causes that I, that I don't sit with. Yeah. That don't think I should exist. Right. And I, but not that that was the biggest thing, but I think that's one metric that caused a lot of people,

especially you see like on comedy Twitter, that was sort of like a sigh of relief for people like, Oh, thank God I can have a chicken sandwich and it's not this other thing. Yeah. And then the other part is too on black Twitter, especially the Jay-Z NFL deal had just been the biggest thing from the week prior to that.

Right. And there was a lot of energy. I think a lot of people, I was very much like, oh, fuck. Like these are the need to win. This is the good guy, bad guy thing I'm dealing with right now. And the Popeye's Chick-fil-A thing immediately was like, no, no, no, let's talk about this because trying to figure out whether or not Sean Carter is doing the right thing by Colin Kaepernick or these people who are actually in the streets trying to bring awareness to police violence.

We're still not sure if that's what he was trying to do or if he was getting a big ass check that made people feel sick and we got a distraction. That's my two cents. One thing is for certain, everywhere across this town, across New York City, San Francisco, across New York City, San Francisco, there are executives talking today about how we are gonna launch your Popeye's chicken sandwich experience. Right, exactly.

But like taking all the wrong lessons, like you said. Yeah, there was already so much fuel for this sandwich because it started when the sandwich came out. The first thing where people were like, y'all, I think this is an alternative so we don't have to feel bad about buying Chick-fil-A.

Certainly there are many people who don't give a fuck, and that's their prerogative. And, I mean, if you look at anything you buy, there's a fucking 80% chance you're giving to the destroyers of this earth. That's just the nature of the system. But, like, I think the sandwich thing became so well-defined for people that it just immediately gave people a side to fall on. And luckily, Popeye's came out with a crunchy-ass sandwich.

If it was just a good chicken sandwich, I still don't think it would have had this level of pop. I think they went in. But I don't know if you get the same buzz if it's not being used in the context of just contextualizing it as a thing, as an alternative to Chick-fil-A. Totally. Yeah, no, no, no. I think it was like four different things had to go exactly right for them to get. And that's why the brand should be talking to us, the triumvirate of three minds, to get your new viral kit. Didn't Wendy's try to sneak in there on that Twitter thing?

So many people did. So sad, Wendy's. Yeah, and everyone got just smashed. viral didn't wendy try to sneak in there and on that twitter so many people did sad and every yeah and everyone got like just smashed yeah and when it was like whoa oh like people zaxby's like y'all talking about chicken people like get the fuck out get out zaxbojangles get out just get out right now it's between these two giants because already and that's the other thing popeyes already has like a very strong support system not maybe as big on social media, but if you know people who like their fast-fried chicken,

Popeyes, you have to talk about it. Well, let's talk about the president again. Okay. Yay. So conversations about climate change, conversations about the fact that Amazon is on fire ended up being pretty prominent in the G7 summit.

And, you know, Trump. A whopping $20 million, I think they pledged to support. Yeah. And Trump being the leader of the free world. Isn't that funny that we used to refer to the president of the United States as the leader of the free world? That is pretty funny. He, you know,

stepped in and had some really interesting thoughts on what he wanted to do. He fucking skipped a whole session with the G7 leaders to talk specifically about climate change. He's like, I'm doing bilateral, like the officials from the White House, like he's doing bilateral meetings with them separately.

So he sent an official instead. I just think he hates being in the room where everyone knows he's fucking stupid and is going to corner him and be like, hey, asshole, get your head out. Because Merkel, he does not like her. Macron, he doesn't like him. There's just, there are too many people in that room that just make him feel small. So of course he wasn't going to be there on a topic. He has no, it's, he's in an indefensible position on climate change.

Aside from him just being like, well, I don't know. I think that's what Obama wanted. That's not like, that's not a reason. That's not a reasonable excuse to deny this. So at a press conference right before that, he was asked whether or not he was still a skeptic on climate change because he's talked about this and just never really came down on a real decision. And his answer was basically like, we have so much wealth. If you look at natural gas, if you look at these other things, ANWR, nobody opened up Alaska. Reagan couldn't do it. I did it. And he just went on

this weird rant about wealth and essentially just boiled down. He's like, so why are we going to put money into solar and electric? He's like, so why are we going to put money into solar and electric? He's like, those are losers. Right. So the argument was basically, I don't want to upset existing industries. Right.

It was essentially it. There's an existential threat from climate change, but I'm not going to do anything because I don't want to upset these businesses. Because his brain isn't capable of conceiving of it. Well, and also he's just so fixed in the, you know, system that is this corporatocracy in this country that it's like, yeah, you can't just sort of unilaterally be like, I'm sorry. I actually don't think this is actually good for the country at all.

This is what we're going to do because there are way too many stakeholders and just wealthy donors involved that can derail this stuff. So then the same thing is kind of happening with Bernie Sanders. He put out a very, very ambitious Green New Deal plan last week. And again, you saw the same kind of like real interesting centrist op-eds from the Washington Post because you know, Amazon and Bernie love each other. But a lot of these criticisms were essentially just sort of like, but this a lot of these criticisms are essentially just sort of like ah it's not realistic it's too much too soon where is the money gonna come from and it's just sort of this thing where they are not really looking at the problem itself because they're looking at things like carbon capture he's like saying that is not going to work we got to get rid of gas powered vehicles that's not going

to work and if you look at the positions these like op-eds are taking, it's essentially like, we are the same thing. We don't want to upset existing industries. And when you look at these claims of like, oh, well, it's just unrealistic. Yeah. There are things, of course, when you look at how Congress works, you're not going to get fucking $17 trillion out of nowhere because we're too busy throwing that away on defense. But the idea that it's unrealistic and therefore should not just be considered, I think is the exact reason why we're here is because we need, unfortunately, we need unreal, quote unquote, unrealistic plans because the media and the government was acting like this problem was nothing and they refused to address a

realistic problem in an unrealistic way by just ignoring it cut to where we are now so it's just uh it's another one of those moments where you see like yeah centrism and like you know the gop and just there's there's a fixed system here that when you begin to upset it you see all these op-eds come out about why it's lame rather than like no hold on like we are like we need to fucking do something really drastic. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like, I mean, uh, a mammoth poll recently came out that said that, uh, the democratic field is Warren 20%, Sanders 20% and Biden 19%. Uh, that's not the, you overall consensus on 538 but it does seem to be the direction things are moving and i just think it's interesting that like the two people who

were deemed like too far left by the mainstream media are are getting the lion's share of support because yeah i just think people are are done with the establishment at this point. Well, yeah, the thing is there are people who are just sort of like, yeah, business as usual, business as usual. And then there are people who are starting to figure it out that business as usual is the reason why things are so bad as usual. And those candidates who seem extreme are the only people who are saying like, well, the business as usual is how we got here. So we need to upend this in order to create something new. This guy would have us doing communism as usual. Yep. There you go.

Business. There you go. See? Thanks, man. Communism. No, yeah. Let's talk about Amazon, guys. Communism as usual.

In addition to shitting on Bernie Sanders. That'd be a sick podcast. Communism as usual on bernie sanders that'd be a sick podcast communism as usual so in addition to you know owning the washington post amazon is a business have you ever used this business amazon oh.com yeah amazon.com yeah yeah yeah online retailer um so i've noticed that like some things are slipping like sometimes there'll be like something shows up damaged. My family just ordered four wine glasses online to our house because we're adults. And daddy needs something fancy to drink his diet Mountain Dew out of.

Okay. Well played. But what arrived instead were two dirty wine glasses that weren't even like wrapped in anything. They were just loose in a box. I swear to God. I just love the problems you're having. I ordered four wine glasses. Two of them are dirty. It's like the slaves at the warehouse

were not on their game. Two of them were dirty and two of them were missing. Only two showed up. Oh, and they were both dirty. Well, well, well. But this weekend, the Wall Street Journal published an article that fucking blew my mind about how many of Amazon's products are unsafe. Basically, they would not pass federal regulations. And they're from what they call third-party retailers but they have like over 2 million third-party retailers so they

just can't possibly focus on quality control and so people are like one story they tell in the article is about somebody who died in a motorcycle accident because they bought a motorcycle helmet off of Amazon, assuming that because it is a retailer that is like a famous, well-respected brand name, that it does some manner of quality control, and it just popped off the second the accident happened. Oh, man. happened. There's all sorts of children's toys that are way, way above the levels of allowable lead in

children's products. Where are these third-party sellers from? Just all over. I mean, they're... But these lead-filled ones. Yeah, I mean, they're made in... Big lead. Big lead. I mean, it's anything from lead poisoning to balloons that don't have the required choking hazard warnings.

But these are things that you don't get with like Walmart or, you know, virtuous companies like Walmart. You just wanted to point out how great Walmart is. What dimension are we in? So it comes back to this thing that happened. So in 2001, most of Amazon sales were from established brands that they had established relationships with. Third-party sellers made up 6% of physical merchandise sales. And then Bezos came up with this idea for what he called a virtuous cycle, where more third-party vendors who want to sell on Amazon would add more products at less expensive prices,

attracting more customers, which would attract more sellers. And basically, it became this enormous thing where now most of the products sold are from third-party retailers that don't have anything protecting you from being a lead-filled motorcycle helmet that doesn't work. It's like making your way to a physical Walmart store, but in the parking lot are a bunch of shady people trying to sell you other shit. You're like, oh, I think I can get it. And they're like, no, it's cheaper, dude. No, no, no, it's way cheaper. It would be like that if they were selling those products on the same shelves as the other products.

Oh, right. At least it's lending its legitimacy by selling being sold by Amazon. Because one of the, like a xylophone we bought for our kid is one of the lead things. We didn't buy it from, it's not like broke ass toy store or something. Yeah, you're like prime that shit. Island of Misfit Toys. I think it was an Amazon pick, like an Amazon choice. That's when I know.

Whenever I see that, I'm always like, no, this ain't it. No way. Because most people don't know what the fuck they're doing. Yeah, I can see why suddenly your guard's down. He's like, oh, of course. Thank you. You're not going to send my child painted lead chips. Right.

You know, they said that they will make it look like on the site that it is from Amazon, that it like Amazon basically manufactured the product when it actually came from a third party seller that's like, you know, 20 inches down the screen in really small type. Oh, man. So, I mean, I think, yeah, one thing that they fear Sanders presidency, if you're Jeff Bezos. Right. One thing they could do to, you know, improve this is just make it very clear the distinction between the products that are screened and from official sellers and the products that are more like going to a flea market and just kind of taking – you have to be careful and do your own research to clear these things because they just don't have the ability.

Like they're trying to do the thing that Facebook tried to do, that all these huge tech companies try to do, where they're like, well, we have software to screen these things. And it's like, that does not do it. Oh, really? Because there's people whose entire job it is to fool your software. So software never works. People always find a way, especially if you got to hustle.

Like, sure, there are rules, but if you're really about your money, fuck a rule, man. You're going to do whatever you have to do. So to give you an idea of the numbers, the Washington State Attorney General's Office examined school supplies this year and found 35 out of 41 Amazon products tested contained amounts of cadmium, lead, or both above federal or state limits. Damn. School supplies, that's sad.

Wait, so only six were not fucked up? Six were not fucked up. Geez. Out of 41. Yeah, they're batting 146. Oh, no. Yeah. Well, don't buy your school supplies from Amazon.

It's fun to walk in the store. That was my favorite part, walking in the store, twirling around, getting my school supplies. But this is where this whole system's all fucked up, right? Because you'd imagine the people who need very cheap school supplies are probably teachers because their fucking classrooms aren't funded. They're going on Amazon to get the cheap shit. And then they're spreading all that lead.

Right. And then on top of it, it's just such a vicious fucking cycle where it's like, maybe this wouldn't be that big of a deal also if like the classes were funded. But now it's like, oh, we have to turn to like sketchy goods for kids on Amazon. Right. Because my GoFundMe only allowed me to get this much money from kind meaning strangers on the internet. Yeah.

There's no, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. And we saw it. We've seen that with Amazon with regards to how they treat workers in the warehouses that are shipping you packages. We're now seeing it with the quality of the products that you're actually getting. So, yeah, their official statement on the school product like reads like, have you ever seen that Dan Aykroyd sketch on SNL where he is like a CEO selling wildly dangerous toys for children. Like a bag of glass. What? It's just a bag of glass.

Right. Character building. Yeah. The Amazon spokesperson says the company, quote, worked with our selling partners to verify that the school supplies and children's jewelry in our store are safe and enhanced our processes to verify the safety of these products moving forward. We welcome ongoing collaboration with the attorney general and other agencies to promote customer safety. So basically, they're going to wait to get caught by the state's attorney general.

And then we'll work with them to figure out what the heck happened there. Yeah. My first radioactive teeth collection. Something happened to these kids. Yeah, and it goes with electronic equipment. Like there's no really good governing body that's testing the electronic equipment that's on there. Magnetic toys for children that have been deemed unsafe because kids will swallow them, and then the magnets will connect inside their body.

Oh, my gosh, right. Yeah. Yeah, there's all sorts of i remember the when i i saw a news report i think when i was 10 or like as a kid that was about then like and the children swallowed magnets and i was like the fuck is that and then my dad very vividly was like so he just took two magnets i can imagine this is one magnet right and this is another one and they're both floating in your stomach and then like when they come together he's like that's your intestines ripping apart right and i was like okay i will i guess i'll take these magnets out of my mouth yeah i will stop eating magnets yeah yeah it just tastes so good and they make my feelings feel cool i'm not gonna stop eating

magnets but well you're an adult you just have to be careful one at a time one at a time make sure it passes make sure it passes. Make sure it passes, exactly. Always hold a magnet over your poo to know it passed. I've found, you know, a rate of three at a time usually works for me. Wow. Oh my god. Gambler. Gamble alert.

So fun. Hearing the snap inside your stomach and just praying, Oh, did it? No. They're in the same spot. Having to flex your small intestine to make sure. Anyways.

All right. We're probably joking about a terrible, like the worst way you could die and then just die of like sepsis. Right. Yeah. Well, look, it's not our fault. It's Amazon's guys. Blame them.

Well, yeah. So I guess just don. It's Amazon's, guys. Blame them. Well, yeah. So I guess just don't trust products just because they're on Amazon. And the Amazon pick designation, which I have used to just be like, oh, that looks good enough, actually is based not on the quality of the product, but on shipping time, cost, and- And whether or not Amazon makes it. Right. Exactly. Because half the or not Amazon makes it. Right, exactly. Because half the time it's their shit. Right.

So, yeah, it's basically the Facebook equivalent of buying stuff. So I guess all this to say we can count on you returning to Sur la Table for your wine glasses. Of course. Okay, good to know. Of course. I mean, just these wine glasses, though. We have an extensive collection. All right, I'll shut up.

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We're the hosts of Let's Talk Offline, a new podcast from LinkedIn News and iHeart Podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions, like how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? podcasts. When you're just starting out in your career, you have a lot of questions like, how do I speak up when I'm feeling overwhelmed? Or can I negotiate a higher salary if this is my first real job? Girl, yes. Each week, we answer your unfiltered work questions. Think of us as your work besties you can turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in experts who do, like resume specialist Morgan Sanner. The only difference between the person who doesn't get the job and the person who gets

the job is usually who applies. Yeah, I think a lot about that quote. What is it like you miss 100% of the shots you never take? Yeah, rejection is scary, but it's better than you rejecting yourself. Together, we'll share what it really takes to thrive in the early years of your career without sacrificing your sanity or sleep. Listen to Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports, where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about

women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really near them. Why is that? I just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is unapologetically Black. I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game?

And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. This new season will cover all things sports and culture. Listen to Naked Sports on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. I'm Keri Champion, and this is season four of Naked Sports,

where we live at the intersection of sports and culture. Up first, I explore the making of a rivalry, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. I know I'll go down in history. People are talking about women's basketball just because of one single game. Every great player needs a foil. I ain't really hear them. Why is that? Just come here to play basketball every single day and that's what I focus on. From college to the pros, Clark and Reese have changed the way we consume women's sports. Angel Reese is a joy to watch. She is braggadocious. She is unapologetically black.

I love her. What exactly ignited this fire? Why has it been so good for the game? And can the fanfare surrounding these two supernovas be sustained? This game is only going to get better because the talent is getting better. Listen to the making of a rivalry. Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

And we're back and Hasbro is back in the news. I was saying today, Miles, this makes me feel like the Matrix is glitching because Hasbro, I hadn't said that word in like five years and then last week Hasbro was in, we were talking about Hasbro because they make Monopoly and they made this like really shitty knockoff like version of Monopoly making fun of socialism. That was yesterday. And so now that Hasbro is in our collective matrix unconscious,

now they own Death Row Records, the most important music label of my childhood. I've never been tweeted at or IG dm'd so much then when this i don't know did you see this hasbro right it's death row yeah what's going on um yeah as a headline you're like what the fuck because most of them like hasbro is now the like now owns the entire death row records catalog right um which is interesting but when you really look at you got to zoom in a little bit, folks. You got to see or actually zoom out because right now you're just looking at the deal and say,

yes, now they own it. Really what happened is they, yes, they've spent $4 billion to buy Entertainment One, which is a media company. But really the reason they did it is because Entertainment One's biggest asset is Peppa Pig. And Hasbro is in the toy making business. And it is huge in China. So for them, this is just a huge play to get into the Chinese markets with their toys and their products. Because now they're the ones that own Peppa Pig. One thing I did not know is that Peppa Pig has been endorsed by the People's Liberation Army in China. No way.

So, you know, you're like, yeah, it's a wrap, dude. We got to own Peppa Pig. That is one person's decision that makes that like suddenly Peppa Pig has a theme park in Shanghai that opened in 2019. Like it's enormous.

Yeah. And also because like they have their hands in film, TV, music, everything, they also have a sizable music division, and that just became part of the deal because they bought the whole thing. And they purchased, prior to Hasbro, all the Death Row catalog in 2013 because they were fully out of money back then. They also, man, the amount of acts that are on Entertainment One,

it's not just obscure stuff. They have their hands in everything. I know, like PJ Masks. Oh, yeah, that's the other weird thing that they were pointing at. They're like, it's all about Peppa Pig and PJ Masks. And I was like, you mean TJ Maxx? And I don't know, what is PJ Masks? Do you know PJ Masks?

I just looked it up. Kids like superheroes. So what could be better for tykes than becoming superheroes themselves? Yeah. That's what's happening at night for young friends Connor, Amaya, and Greg. So I have been exposed to PJ Masks. I'm sorry. How long do you have to live?

My hair's been falling out for months now. PJ Masks exposure is no laughing matter. Through my nephews who are a little bit older but it's basically a comic book but it seems like it's being written by a five-year-old who's making it up as they go like to the point that i think they've figured something out that like just like taps directly and during Yeah. Well, it's all action that just- I'll read a passage from this book that I found. PJ Masks, Gecko Saves Christmas.

I was going to say, a book I read, PJ Masks, Exposure, and You. Owlette pushes a button on the owl glider and a gust of wind forces Luna Girl off her Luna board. Cat Boy jumps out of the owl glider and chases Luna Girl. Owlette runs to grab the Luna board, but Luna Girl summons her moths.

Owlette, look out, shouts Gekko, but it's too late. The moths catch Owlette. Quick, Gekko, she says, fly the Luna Board away from Luna Girl. And then it just goes on from there. What was that? No, yeah, that's definitely a kid's story. I do story pirates, so we read actual elementary school kid stories all the time. And they are just that where it's like this action happened in this section.

Then this person did a crazy thing. And then there's a new action. And then make that a show. Moss let go of Owlette and the heroes meet up with one another. Gecko, are you OK? Asks Catboy. Yes, says Gecko. But I knew I wouldn't be able to fly the Luna board.

Sorry. It's OK, says Catboy. Let's just go after Luna girl. I'll let you fly and we'll follow you from the ground. Like it really seems like something that a five-year-old like is writing. Like it's just, it's like stream of consciousness. It's really hard to understand because they use the full name of the superhero in every sentence instead of using a pronoun.

Right. Yeah. It's a lot. It using a pronoun. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot. It's a lot. Wow. Yeah. It is, yeah, it just has this like, you know, if I could just be a development producer for a second, I'd be like, first of all, I don't know what the stakes are for your characters

here. Right. I mean, you got a lot of names here, kid. You got a lot of names. I don't know what the stakes are. I don't know what's motivating these things. Do we, is there a protagonist in this? Yeah, it's the three superheroes.

The three friends. And where'd the moths come from? Luna Girls has moths. Well, that's her power. Also, there was no exposition in this entire treatment. No. I didn't see one expository scene. I'm totally lost.

That's on me. But I will tell you that the only inciting incident is their ice skating. And they're like, ice skating's part of Christmas, just like Christmas trees. Look at the Christmas tree with decorations. The decorations are missing. Ah, now we've got some. Go on now. And then they're just like, Luna Girl must have stolen it.

Damn this. So I get it. It's all about this Luna Girl. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, okay. All right. We'll option that.

That's three million sound. I mean, it's an IP factory, man. I mean, yeah,. All right, we'll option that. That's three million sound. I mean, it's an IP factory, man. I mean, yeah, this whole thing, man. PJ Masks. Wait, and who is there? A person named PJ Masks? No, I think it's PJs because when they put on their pajamas, they turn into the superheroes. So their PJs are their masks.

PJ Masks. Damn. Damn. I didn't know we had an expert on. Dude, I read one wiki paragraph and here I am. And that's all you need, because that's what? How simple this show is.

So it's almost like referring to the technology of the PJ mask? I don't know. Like PJ masks, it has nothing to do, they don't collectively identify as PJ maskers, masking, maskatory. It's like X-Men. They're, you know. Yeah, but I know who the X-Men are. Yeah, no, there's three PJ masks.

But it's, you know what I mean? Owl Girl, Catboy, Gecko. Yeah, they're called the PJ Masks. Oh, together they are. Yes, yes. See, I just thought it was a technology. Like if you called Wolverine just Adamantium. No, no, no.

You know what I mean? That helps his skeleton be lit. But that's not who he is. No, no, no, Miles. Miles, you sound like a fool, right? Yeah. See, and this is why I don't get it, man. Shouldn't have passed on Peppa Pig either.

I'm like, is this a recipe? I love Peppa Pig. Peppa Pig. That's what you said? That's exactly what he said. That's exactly what I said, and now I'm in podcasting. That's crazy. There are other children's books that sound like that.

Yeah. Wow. But I guess that you have to- No, but the ones I'm talking about are written by kids. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got it. That's what we do at Story Pirates.

We teach kids in elementary school how to write stories, and then we take their stories and turn them into a show and go back and perform them for them, and they all sound like that, which you told me was written by an adult, but it sounds like all the stories I read that are written by kids. I think they have a room full of children

chained to typewriters, would be my guess of how PJ Masks is written. Yeah. And in no way can I be sued for saying that. No, allegedly. Yes, allegedly. Boom, safe. Nice, done.

Boom, you're a lawyer, legal. I posted a disclaimer to my Instagram, so you cannot sue me. Yep. I do a disclaimer to my Instagram, so you cannot sue me. Yep. I do not agree to have my photos used by Instagram. Boom, legally binding. Let's talk briefly about Andrew Luck, one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL who announced two days ago, just two weeks before the NFL season was to start,

that he is retiring. He was 29. People were shocked. Was it shocking? It was pretty surprising. Because what? What's the shelf life of a quarterback? Like 35 maybe you can get to?

Yeah. If you're not totally concussed out. He was seen as somebody who hadn't even hit his potential yet. He was going to be a Super a super bowl winning quarterback oh really yeah see i'm so disengaged from the nfl but like i know his name i didn't i didn't know why people were is it is it for a controversial reason or he's just like he's just like tired of being hurt he's been hurt and like rehabbing and but he also said there's like a mental exhaustion to it and this is not that uncommon there was a 49ers defensive player i think uh who had like one of

the best rookie seasons at his position in years back in 2014 like he was people were like this guy's great he's gonna make hundreds of millions of dollars and he retired after his rookie season because he was just like it's not worth it to me to like deal with the head trauma and be treated like a fucking piece of meat man so yeah this is interesting like it's it's a definite shift because i think what the last super bowl two super bowls ago was sort of this generational gap where you had the last era of players who were told to ignore concussions. Right. Playing some of the earliest generations entering the league who have been told from very early on to be careful with your head.

Right. And it seems like now we're seeing people be like, let's see, what's my bank account look like? Right. Great. Do I have constant headaches? account look like right great do i have constant headaches and like am i living with the like possibility of being completely uh medically disabled by continuing to play yeah and in some ways this is bringing attention to the idea that nfl players bodies and lives are really like they're sacrificing a lot by going out there and doing that but this is somebody who has

dozens of millions of dollars, probably a hundred million dollars in the bank already. And there are plenty of people who aren't quarterbacks who are really struggling. And it was wild the day that Luck retired a fullback who used to play for Baltimore and was a really good fullback, but that's the guy who blocks for the running back. It's not somebody whose name gets called a lot by the commentators, was on Twitter saying, need to tell my story how my head is crazy and how football did it. Please someone help me get this out.

The at NFL puts paperwork in our faces and that's it. I have to get my head checked playing fullback since high school. It takes too fucking much to do anything. My brain is fucking tired at NFL. I need some help with this shit. Dark times and it's showing. Fucking help me, please. Yeah, and it's just like I know.

Did they respond? What's going on? I think people are reaching out to him, but I don't know if the NFL is. They're kind of behind the curve on this they just acknowledge that there's a connection between cte and uh nfl careers and their owners are pushing this year to take the season from 16 games to 18 games they want a longer season which if you've an evil if you've ever paid attention then I felt like you know the season is way too long it was like

they built the schedule when players were not you know flying around at 25 miles per hour and like 300 pounds of defensive linemen were like crashing into each other right on their heads so like the the owners are pushing for more games uh and it really just does expose that they don't give a shit about the players it's an exploitative new plantation system right where majority of the players are people of color and they're putting subjecting their bodies to this kind of fucking damage consistently it's a really a trip too because i was watching this show on netflix called last chance you which is about a juco where a lot of kids who are trying to get into d1 schools again

because it's literally their last shot to try and get picked up by a division one football team like they got to play at these top junior colleges to get the exposure. And so many of these people have the same story where they are supporting a family off the dream of being in the NFL and are constantly having these moments where they're like this one kid, he's not even on a D he's at a junior college and he had multiple concussions in this one season. And he was like, he had to work glasses.

He could barely focus and shit like that. But at the end of the day, he's like, nah, I have to get into the NFL. Like I, this is the only way I'm going to make the kind of money that i need or in his mind his only option was to subject himself constantly to the sort of physical damage because the carrot on the end of the stick was like this mirage too where such a small percentage of these people with the same dream actually you know are able to fulfill it and it's just really it's it's heartbreaking to then know it's like even at that level man

they're just gonna fucking squeeze you fucking every fucking thing you've got even meant like in your brain even yeah and then be like thanks man right we got this uh we got that new uh dominoes deal or whatever uh and we you know very little support or consideration for what these people's lives are like after the fact yeah yeah would people not watch football if they switched it to just like two-hand touch or flag for nfl i mean i think are we all in it for people like bonking each other i mean like if you're gonna do it watch like the ufc if you just want to watch people to fuck like destroy each other put it in that context but again that's the thing it's like one of those things where before it was all fun and games when like people weren't like there's such advancements in performance technology for human beings that it's like the people are like exponentially

stronger and faster and bigger than they were back then it was easy to be like oh yeah i got a little lump on the head here and there but But now we're dealing with like, you know, destruction derbies where the cars go so fast, they can actually vaporize on impact. Right. And that's the consistent, you know,

that's the level we're at. And I don't think there, there's not been a way to fully reconcile these things. Yeah. I mean, they're doing things with the helmet. There was a big controversy because the best wide receiver in the league was like,

I don't like this new helmet. It's too big and too protective of my head, basically. And he was used to his old helmet. And that was a controversy where it seemed like the NFL was doing the right thing. But all you need to know is that the owners are pushing to go from 16 to 18 games. One weird wrinkle that I think people are kind of talking about in the background of the Andrew Luck story is the XFL is coming back. We were already going to talk about the fact that the XFL is coming back.

That's the Football Alternative League by Vince McMahon from World Wrestling Entertainment. Used to be Vince McMahon. Oh. They had a brief run. When was that? 2000? It was like early 2000s. Back then, they were pitching it it as like the NFL is for

sissies. This is going to be like the real tough, tough version of football. It's not clear like what their pitch is going to be, but really coincidentally, I guess Andrew Luck's dad is the CEO and commissioner of the XFL. Could you imagine? He suits up in an XFL uniform in February. He's like, gotta save my body for February 2020. Right. When the XFL comes back. I mean, that league was really like sort of the answer to like being like,

how do we make the NFL more fucking brutal? Because they were sort of building it on like, dude, no fair catch. Watch these people get their fucking heads ripped off. Right. do we make the NFL more fucking brutal because they were sort of building it on like dude no fair catch watch these people get their fucking heads ripped off right and now uh they finally got their shit together I mean I know we teased it like in the first year of doing this show where we're like yeah that'll work and now we're like oh wait February it's happening now and even in this article I'm reading Commissioner Oliver Luck said, right. Oh man. The names are pretty rough. Like they need to work on their names.

Well, they're all like meant to not give any, they're supposed to be as like masculine as possible. Like there's no, there's nothing you could, you know, Dallas renegades, Houston roughnecks,

the fucking New York guardians, the St. Louis now Hawks is a badass bird but not masculine enough the St. Louis Battle Hawks Seattle Dragons Tampa Bay Vipers DC Defenders

the Seattle Fuck Dragons and LA has the softest one Wildcats but you know what? We're more than just sort of like our ideas on masculinity in this city. You know what I mean? We come together and we create something wilder than a cat. Well, Kimia, it has been a pleasure having you. Oh, thank you so much.

Back on the Daily Zeitgeist. Where can people find you and follow you? Oh, you can follow me on Instagram at Child Clown. That's right. And I'm also on Twitter at Child Clown underscore, because I gotta say it. Some other weirdo had to be Child Clown. Ugh. Yeah, man. I hate that. And is

there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is just a tweet from one of my friends, Monica Vasandani. It's at Monica Vas. It says, I injured my right hand and have to write with my friends, Monica Vasandani. It's at Monica Vas. It says, I injured my right hand and have to write with my left, so my grocery list

looks like the kill list of someone who absolutely fucking hates fruit and three different kinds of cheese. I stuttered, but it's hilarious. And then there's a pic underneath of her just left-handed writing the word breadcrumbs, and it's terrifying. Oh, breadcrumbs.

That's what my regular handwriting looks like, but I am a lefty, so it sucks. Miles, where can people find you, and is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Yeah, you can find me and follow me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray. A tweet I like is a quote tweet from Pablo Hidalgo at Pablo Hidalgo. First, the thing he's quote tweeting is from the associated press is breaking G seven countries have agreed to an immediate $20 million fund to help Amazon countries fight wildfires.

And then his comment was Netflix paid $100 million to stream friends. There's been a lot of tweets with that same construction. And also one thing I do want to point out, I don't know what the tweet is specifically, but Kimia adopted a dog and the images, please pin this to your homepage. Well, I'm not going to tell you what to do. But check out Kimia's Twitter page because you adopted a dog who has one eye. Yes. And then when you were cleaning up the dog's toys, you discovered that this dog was biting the eye off of any eyed toy.

So if there's a squirrel with an eye. But just one eye. Right. Leaving all of the dog's toys to look like him. I'll pin the picture up there. That is incredible. And look, if you're a veterinarian or something, a dog psychologist, what's going on? A dream veterinarian. Oh, shit. Dream vet. That is incredible. And look, if you're a veterinarian or something, a dog psychologist, what's going on?

A dream veterinarian. Oh shit. Dream vet. Please dream vet. Yo, tell her a dream vet. She's in Australia, I think.

Oh shit. I'll tell you what's wrong there. Bit of eye envy. Yeah. Yeah. And so check that one out too because it's, I just can't get,

I get the biggest kick out of seeing that because it's so clearly just biting one eye off of these toys because it's so clearly just biting one eye off of these toys what a narcissist at Eric Curtin tweeted my favorite part of getting

an oil change is when they're done and all the employees come out to give you a kiss before they give you your car back Dan Sheehan tweeted fellas this fall is all about Lord of the Rings masculinity. That's right. We're going on long journeys with the guys.

We're swearing oaths to our buddies. And if you say goodbye without a soft forehead kiss, then buddy, you fucked up. That's it. And then Travis Tug Hellwig tweeted, I will bet $10,000 that a network will buy a pitch this year called adulting. I've never been more sure of anything in my life. And unfortunately I would not take that. Uh, by the way, it was Michael Trevino who said, let Eddie Murphy be his own musical

guest. You coward. Uh, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can find us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram. We have a Facebook fan page and a website, DailyZeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode,

as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that going to be today? This is going to be a song from a canadian uh songwriter patrick watson a great artist if you already know but this is a track uh i just like the title called fireweed but uh the track is really good i first saw it in a skate video from like nine years ago of this skater killian martin check out the youtube video it's called killian martin a skate regeneration uh andeneration. He likes to do the little flatland tricks and shit like that. But it works very well. You wouldn't think acoustic guitar goes well in a skate video. It does.

And also, I do want to shout out Patrick Watson. He co-wrote one of my favorite albums of all time called Muffalure by Cinematic Orchestra that came out in 2007. I'll throw to that song too. I can't get enough. He has a great voice. This song is fire. And if you aren't in front of a screen, you can just close your eyes and imagine me doing some sick

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