The Daily Zeitgeist - Illuminati Scamz, Ohh BERNIE Sanders… 10.21.19

Episode Date: October 21, 2019

In episode 498, Jack and Miles are joined by Worst Year Ever and Some More News co-host Katy Stoll to discuss the new Clueless reboot, who is ignoring Bernie and who is endorsing him for president, Rudy Giuliani's mess of a Twitter, Trump's new illuminati team, the millennial urban lifestyle, Barney The Dinosaur being rebooted, a Mattel Barbie film, and more!FOOTNOTES: ‘Clueless’ Drama Series Reboot With Mystery Twist From CBS TV Studios Sparks Network Interest Bernie Blindness: a subreddit for noting the way press narratives ignore or smear Bernie Sanders Rudy Giuliani’s Twitter Feed Is a Boomer Conspiracy-Theory Sh*tshow Trump Appoints Illuminati Mind Power Warrior Magic Expert To Education Board The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive 'Barney' Movie in the Works From Mattel, Daniel Kaluuya The Guy Who Played Barney the Dinosaur Now Runs a Tantric Sex Business How the Barbie Role Went From Amy Schumer to Margot Robbie Margot Robbie's Barbie Movie Just Got A Whole Lot Weirder Hot Wheels Movie in the Works at Warner Bros., Mattel Magic 8 Ball Movie in Development at Blumhouse, Mattel View-Master Movie In the Works at MGM and Mattel Films (Exclusive) WATCH: Police Academy - 'Blue Oyster' Bar Music (Jean-Marc Dompierre "El Bimbo" ) Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 105, episode one of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, 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, fuck Koch Industries, as in the Koch brothers, and fuck Fox News. It's Monday, October 21st, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, aka this little Jack O'Brien. He's gonna blow your mind.

This little Jack O'Brien is sure that miles is high. This little Jack O'Brien is sure that miles is high. This little Jack O'Brien loves the daily sight. Jack O'Brien, Jack O'Brien, Jack O'Brien. That is courtesy of, you guessed it, crispy meme donut. He back. Christy Yamaguchi, man. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Last week, I did bassist.

Now it's time for drummers, a.k.a. Max Blunt Roach, Kind Buddy Rich, a.k.a. John Bongham, a.k.a. Eddie Van Inhalen, a.k.a. Dennis Smoke Chambers, a.k.a. Ringo Stark the Blunt, a.k.a. Phil the Bull Collins, a.k.a. Neil Pert Poole Hayes, a.k.a. Meg White Widow,

a.k.a. Neil Pert, Paul Hayes, a.k.a. Meg White, Widow, a.k.a. Ginger Bakeder. Dude, shout out to all those drummers, really. Meg White. Did you say Eddie Van Halen? Van Inhalen. Right. Yeah, I don't know where that one came from. He's a guitarist, isn't he?

Yes. Oh. But also a good drummer? I guess he can play drums. Hell yeah. I don't know. I think that one will just get in there because he's Dutch. So can my son maybe throw him on there.

He can play drums a little bit. No, I think it's Alex. Alex is the best. Alex. Come on, man. Come on, man. Who wrote that for you? Well, look.

Everything else was fantastic. Flawless. Flawless victory. And I will give praise to at Wagonsko. David Good. Okay. Meg White, though, a lot of people don't know. For someone who is actually not the most technical drummer, still held it the fuck down.

Oh, yeah. A lot of people talk shit about her as a drummer. I was always a fan. Yeah, well, I think a lot of people point to the fact that there's not a lot of syncopation happening between the hi-hat and the kick drum. Right. And that's how you get a little, you know, syncopation gets a little funk, but the way they play, you didn't need it. Yeah. Just keep it on the floor.

Just banging. Dang that shit. Yeah, just keep it on the floor, baby. I saw them live a bunch. They were great. Did you? Yeah. I never saw them as the White Stripes.

Oh, bro. Yeah. I only saw, what was that other one group he had that was like the spooky? The Raconteurs? Yeah, but then there was another, what was the one where there was like the all-male band and then the all-female band he had? Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm tripping.

Anyway. Maybe. Who knows? Could be. Well, we're thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented Katie Stoll. Hey. What's up, Katie?

Oh, you know, just happy to be here. I didn't prepare any. Stoll House Cookies. Stoll House Cookies. Stoll House Rock. St house cookies Stole house rock Stole your heart Yes If I ever get married

that's gonna be my wedding hashtag for sure Oh hell yeah Yeah Yeah Fingers crossed Yeah Congratulations on your nomination

Thank you Thank you so much Streamy nominee Streamy Oh I got that Air horn Yeah We're thrilled

Even more news We were surprised and honored. Right. Looking forward to dressing up and looking killer on the red carpet. Hell yeah. And maybe winning. Is it out here?

Is it in Los Angeles? Of course. Los Angeles in December. Los Angeles in December. It's a beautiful time of year. Yeah. It's a Shane Black movie. It is a Shane Black movie.

Well, Katie, we're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to take our listeners through a few of the things we're talking about today. CBS is going to reboot Clueless as a TV show, which it apparently already was at one point on the UPN, which I didn't remember. Yay? I don't know. I don't know what to do about that information. We're going to look at the Bernie Blindness subreddit and just the condition of Bernie Blindness in the mainstream media.

We're going to just do a quick check-in with the whistleblower story. Where Rudy is getting his information from is what we're going to look at. We're going to look at the latest appointee by Donald Trump. He has appointed somebody to the Commission of Presidential Scholars.

And finally, it's someone who knows what they're doing. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Finally an appointee that deserves the job. Absolutely. And we're going to ask the question, where are the good ones? Weren't there supposed to be some good ones?

Yeah. Who were like... Where have all the cowboys gone? Yeah. Where have all the good ones gone? We. Where have all the good ones gone? We're going to look at what's going on with that millennial lifestyle, the urban millennial lifestyle. And just what is it? What's up with these kids these days?

Classic question. And there is another reboot coming out that I'm, this is the most intrigued, like, slash baffled I've ever been by a movie description in the early stages of the movie. Mattel has some new joints coming out of the Mattel cinematic universe that are interesting, intriguing, confusing. We're going to talk about that. are interesting, intriguing, confusing. We're going to talk about that. But first, Katie, we like to ask our guests, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, great.

This one's a little embarrassing. I've got this tiny terrier dog. He's like 10 pounds wet, and he's got a little bit of a mohawk situation going with his hair. And I really want to get him like a little leather vest, a little leather harness, a little leather harness, a little biker baby.

Yeah, a little leather daddy. I would settle for like a cool jean jacket situation with pins. Go leather. But like I think leather is really gonna, it's gonna be perfect for him. If Zyte gang out there, if you're a leather gang too,

let us know. Where's the like bespoke, like are we talking like harnesses, like some bonded shit something hardcore well I mean I would love the actual sense of the word harness

so that I could clip his leash to it right you know but yeah anything there has to be something there has to be something like that

there were some on Amazon I don't really want to support Amazon and they're kind of corny and stupid I don't need that I need something that's kind of tough

because I feel like also though if your dog's that small the harness would be too heavy like leather and metal like on your tiny dog please he's muscular he can hold it so yeah please please send me your recommendations for a little leather baby harness like a like so you'd be fine with a biker jacket a vest something like black leather black leather absolutely chrome accents if it's got some chrome yeah some like studs all about it.

Well, unfortunately, you are in the one city in America where you'll just have no luck finding something like that. I have looked into several little dog stores and I haven't seen anything yet. But I know it's out there. I know it exists. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's that one leather bar by Sunset junction um oh yes yes yes yes it is i felt like the homies around there will help hook you up with some ideas that is i live right by there that is such a good suggestion i'm gonna go there today hi y'all just i'm sure the bartender

be like there's actually a bespoke stuff for harnesses for dogs check it out uh yeah i wandered in there on a date once and it it was very surprising. Was it like that scene in Police Academy? The scenes in Police Academy. That was like a recurring bit where they were like, oh man, this is too good. We gotta come back to it over and over again. I love that song so much. It's called El Bimbo. Oh, really?

Yeah. That's incredible that you know that. As a kid kid every time i was like this was my favorite part of police academy because i just thought where they would just start dancing with him and the music it's funny in japan though too like they use that melody like in game shows for other stuff yeah so i would always kind of keep hearing it i'm like where did this come from and then years ago i was like it's from police academy yeah you know the song el bimbo i'm gonna blast it as i'm driving to the leather years ago, I was like, it's from Police Academy. Yeah. You know the song, El Bimbo. I'm going to blast it

as I'm driving to the leather bar. Oh, it's power music. Yeah. Now, do leather bars often have like a spotlight that just hits you the second you walk into a room? I have a feeling

that may be a bit of hyperbole. Yeah, maybe. What is something you think is overrated? You know what, guys? I'm going to go with spicy food or your extra spicy. Miles just rolled his eyes.

I'm not saying that you can't have a little bit of kick to it. Say what you got to. But your salsas that are crazy, burning your tongue. I don't need that. I don't need my food experience to be unpleasant. I don't need it to give me indigestion. Also, that's not bringing out the flavor profile for me anyway. No, that's true.

There is a fine line between spice and my tongue is numb. I do not mind a little heat. Right. But if you're burning my tongue and taking away the flavor of everything else, then you can keep it. I don't want it. I just live for the burn though. Yeah.

You live for the burn. Yep. Just feeling it. I'm telling you. You know what they say? Spicy in, spicy out. Yes. Yeah.

I really don't want that. Unless you eat bananas before little trick i learned so i gotta eat a banana before i eat my meal i did a youtube video where i don't do that already come on i know i did it on youtube this video where i ate like at the time what was the hottest pepper on the planet the carolina or no the uh maruga scorpion chili right what do you get out of that i'm'm with Katie on this one. I wanted to know because growing up, I loved spicy food. My grandfather had a barbecue restaurant and

he would always make batches of spicy stuff. And as a kid, you wanted to be like, I can be like grandpa. And I would eat the adult level spice. And I remember people were panicking in my family. Get that away from him. And I ate it and they were like, he's the chosen child. He did not flinch. He did not sweat. So now it's a point of pride.

It's become wrapped up in my identity. I mean, truth be told, I don't eat spicy food, like blindingly spicy food that often, but I enjoy it from time to time. But when I was eating it, I knew the rule. Spicy in, spicy out. And if I was like, if I'm about to eat the hottest pepper on earth, the outward part

was a concern. So I went on a message board for competitive eaters who do like spicy food challenges, who eat like really gnarly. They like get that base of bananas in your stomach first. And that helps neutralize the capsaicin. And I hear you. I know. And it's a lot.

It's a lot. Why? Yeah, I don't know. Why do that to yourself? Yeah. You know, why does that one guy free climb without any like harnesses? You know, we just don't know. We don't know any better.

Yeah, you are kind of the free solo of diners. Thank you. Yeah, I do agree that like I like some spice, but I like I prefer a nice medium salsa. Absolutely. I don't need the hot salsa that's going to because it also it like distracts from the flavor sometimes. Like I like a nice balance. Hey, look, I get it. You know, that's, that's.

This is very white of us. It is very white of us. The trenches of culture. I get, hey, I like a nice medium one. And it's not a knock. I like a nice mayo. What about you, Katie? Nothing spicier than mayo.

Like a nice light mango salsa. Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, you go to a restaurant and they restaurant and they put Tabasco on the table. What, are you trying to kill me? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. The banana

trick is also something they tell people to do for I remember this from an old Sports Illustrated article. Somebody went up in the vomit comet, the zero gravity thing, and they tell you to eat bananas before it settles your stomach, and they also taste the same coming up as they do going down. So it doesn't like –

Oh, so it's mostly because you're going to vomit, man. You might as well do something. Wouldn't that really ruin bananas if it tastes the same coming up? I have a slight allergy to bananas, I realize. Oh, you do? Not like in a bad way. I just don't want to eat them. Like my throat will itch a little bit.

You've really got a problem when you're spicy eating them. Yeah. Well, I don't eat everything else I can handle, like hot Thai food or whatever. I'm fine with that. Thai food is next level shit. Yeah. Especially when you go, yo, go to North Hollywood where the Thai restaurants are at and the hot there.

Or at some restaurants would be like, you want Thai hot? Right. That's right. Bring it. That's the question, man. Have you been to Night Market? Yes.

So good. Yes. My wife spent like a couple months in Thailand and like she likes the food like Thai hot. Right. And like we'll sit down and she'll be like, no, he doesn't want it like actually hot. Yeah, she knows.

He wants it like, you know, white person spicy. I just don't want my lip to sweat. Right. I want to be able to taste it. Well, yeah, because Korean people love their spicy food, too. That's the one thing. I wish Japanese food had more spices in it, but, you know, teach their own. What is something you think is underrated?

I'm going to surprise you guys right now. Uh-oh. Windows. Windows 95? Is that stupid? No, Windows. you guys right now uh-oh uh windows windows 95 97 windows what's something that we go through our life taking for granted every goddamn day it's the window oh the windows and buildings the windows and buildings the windows in your car can you imagine driving the windows to the soul eyes the windows to the soul we've you imagine driving without windows is a great question. I cannot, Katie. We were sitting in here in darkness.

Do you think we'd have this energy? No, we would not. We'd be sleepy like birds. Yeah. The birds get sleepy when you put the thing on top. Put a towel over their cage. Isn't that how you put their birds to sleep? That's how I put my dog to sleep.

Put a blanket on him. I want him to calm down. That's what we do with our kids. I put him in I put my dog to sleep. Put a blanket on him. I want him to calm down. That's what we do with our kids. I put him in a parakeet cage and I put a towel over it. I told you he's very small. Just underappreciated. Underappreciated. We walk through life and we never stop and say, thank you, windows.

There's a nice window. Is it that? Can we broaden out a little bit? Is it about transparency? Sure, it can be about transparency. Absolutely. Let's go into that. Absolutely.

There's nothing opaque. There's nothing deceptive about a window. And then this time of deception and lies, I think that we need to just stop and take stock. Did you have a sort of light bulb moment with the window? Or you're like, I'm sorry, windows. I have been taking you for granted. Yeah, yesterday when I was thinking about what to talk about.

So you were trying to complete this as you were driving here. been taking you for granted. Yeah, yesterday when I was thinking about what to talk about today. So you were trying to complete this as you were driving here. Dan, can we pull up that clip from 2006 from Katie's old YouTube channel, Fuck Windows? Listen, we all evolved. You can't hold me to past Katie. Right, right, right. And so you do stand by those comments or no, you've moved on since then? I've moved on since then. Okay, great. So we won't have to play the clip. No, we don't have to.

I apologize for my previous derogatory comments on windows. Right. What do you think about a nice stained glass window? I was just about to say that. That's a lovely addition. I wouldn't want all my windows to be stained glass. Yeah, that's a good point. But a room where you're like meditating.

It's a controversial take. Not all windows should be stained glass windows Yeah, that's a good point. But a room where you're like meditating. It's a controversial take. It's a controversial take. Not all windows should be stained glass windows. Not all windows, but there's room for all types of windows in my world. Right, right. Yeah, to go along with that point, to me, I feel like the most luxurious thing you could have

are floor-to-ceiling windows. Oh, absolutely. I don't know why. Because I guess because you're banking a lot on those windows not really being able to protect you, but look, they're going to bring in all the light. I want to be rich enough to have floor-to-ceiling windows

and then stand naked watching the sunset or something in front of them. That's like a real power move. Although I did flash the street in Las Vegas. Yeah. You got arrested. That's fine. Someone was talking about being in an earthquake in the 90s, some earthquake.

Yeah. I don't know. And being like, the only thing that really happened that was scary was that all the windows shattered. And so there's that. They can turn into like, yeah,

little knives. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, we, we, with everything, there's a little bit of a risk.

Even if you don't even have to be wealthy, you get an old shipping container, cut the front end off, and build a floor-to-ceiling window there. Boom, you've got your floor-to-ceiling window. So you've made it. Yeah, it sounds a very reasonable thing to do. Even if windows break, there's still windows. I think shipping container structures are kind of cool.

Have you seen that one that's a bunch of them stacked on top of each other? Probably. It's on every listicle of like shipping container homes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. Well. Cool. Windows.

I was going to say that Roman from Succession ruined floor to ceiling windows for me. Oh, yeah. I just started watching it. You'll find out. Yeah, you'll see. Okay. But in a way, he loved it. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway. To each their own. What's a myth? What's something people think is true? I can't remember if I said this last time, but, well, cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis. I think you did. Dang it.

And I think it needs to be reiterated. Dang it. I can't even crack my knuckles. People keep telling me that. How do you crack your knuckles? I just crack them, actually. Oh, you're fucked up. What the fuck is that?

Felt fucking good is what it was. I'm a baby. I feel like I have to go to a point where my hands will break. That's why I don't crack my knuckles. I'm like, because I see people do it so casually. I remember as a kid, like one of my friends would always crack his knuckles. I'm like, I can do that. And I tried to get the point at which my knuckle cracked.

I'm like, this ain't it. The one that you're doing now where you smash it like a fist, that scares me. That feels like you can do some, you could just disjoin something. But the general folded hands thing, I couldn't do it. Cody taught me how to do it. And now it's something that I will do for the rest of my life.

I worked on it. Knuckle cracking lessons from Cody then. Nice. It should be noted, Katie's knuckles are giant, swollen. But they are not arthritic. No. You have perfectly normal looking hands. I've always had old lady hands and I'm fine with it.

No, they look like Fjord or Fedor's fucking fists. Wow. I would not want a right hook from you or a left hook. They're very, yeah, they're bony. Isn't that a thing like parents would always say? You're going to get a raise or a doctorate. I remember a babysitter told me that when I was younger and I thought it my whole life until recently.

To think of the fucked up things adults told us as kids that could have fucked our whole perception of the world. Absolutely. How often do you get people saying the same myth? It's pretty common for people who come back and i was like i can't remember if i think the more frequent thing is repeated over underrated i think there will be like a stretch run where like three people will no but not if it's the same person the same guest doing like did i do this overrated before

i was talking about like say tomorrow's guest comes in with the same. Oh, that happens a lot. That happens a lot. Typically, social media is the most common overrated, I think. Right. I hear a lot of. Yeah. Okay. Sure. But I mean, that's part of the conceit of this show is that there is a zeitgeist out

there. There is a collective unconscious. So we're all pulling from the same mind cloud. Cool. Yeah, dude. This guy gets it. Cool. Let's talk. This guy gets it. Cool. Let's talk about Clueless.

Clueless is a classic, a cultural classic. The Amy Heckerling film, canon, canon. Beautiful. It's fucking, I think it's great. I loved it. Yes. And it used to be, I should be able to say Donald Faison's lines from memory. And it's funny

he was like Murray was a role model in a weird sad way I was like oh look at this kind of light skinned dude on the movie screen

and now okay there was I don't know if you do you remember the Clueless TV show that happened like in the late 90s

reading this it had Stacey Dash it had the actress that played Amber the only person that wasn't there was Alicia Silverstone it was another actress

it had like one season on ABC, two on UPN. I clearly have seen it too much. Miles, can you paint a picture of what the new Clueless will be for me using other cultural touchstones? Okay, so everyone's first thought is, well, do we really need this version of Clueless again? We're past this. Come on.

Well, now, this new version, as they say, the new Clueless, Mean Girls're past this. Come on. Well, now, this new version, as they say, the new Clueless, Mean Girls meets Riverdale. Okay. Meets a Lizzo music video. Okay. Also is set in high school. It is described as a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted tiny sunglasses wearing oat milk latte and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when the high school queen bee Cher disappears

in her lifelong number two Dion steps into Cher's vacant Air Jordans. Disappears? Also, Cher would never wear Air Jordans. Let's be real. Absolutely not. I mean, I guess maybe unless she's like really up to now. I don't think the modern cool girls wear Air Jordans. I guess if you dress a specific way, like if you're a sneakerhead, you might have a

pair of Royals. You know, you might have a pair of Breds, Bred Ones. I guess Katie doesn't think I'm a cool girl. I think you're a sneakerhead, you might have a pair of Royals. You might have a pair of Breds, Bred Ones. I guess Katie doesn't think I'm a cool girl. I think you're a cool guy. Aw, thanks. I think you're a cool guy who's trying their best. And you obviously haven't been in high school for a long time. Yeah, that's true.

Which is a good thing. It is a good thing. For a man in his upper 30s. And then it says, how does Dion deal with the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school while also unraveling the mystery of what happened to her best friend? Oh, shit. Like, she legit disappeared.

She disappeared. Yeah, it's a mystery. Yeah, like, Cher Horowitz went ghost. She vamoosed. What? And, like, the cops aren't on it? Oh, come on, Katie. You know how these shows work.

Who solves high school crimes? High school students. High schoolers, exactly. Always. And also in these shows, high school teachers somehow get to have sex with the students without any consequences.

All these shows are always like that. Like in River, I touch on this all the time. The one time I saw Riverdale, a teacher had sex with a student and like the parents were like, you need to get out of town. And I was like,

that's the, I'm sorry. No, you need to get to of town. And I was like, that's the... No, you need to get to jail. Wait, I'm sorry, what? Just go. It is a disturbing message we're getting out there. Because girls are, a lot of girls are, I'm sure boys do in love with their young teachers. Riverdale as a woman,

the teacher was a female teacher with a male student. Yeah. Let's not put that out there that it's okay. Yeah, teachers and student love affairs are chill. Yeah. At worst, you get out of town. Did they happen at you guys' school? Come on, Jack.

Why you got to- Oh, I was in love with my English. I don't think that there was any- Actual relationships. Oh, man. I had a- Really? Y'all believe-

He hooked up with a student who had just graduated. There were rumors like that that were like, the second they were 18 and not a student, there was some shit. And then they got their asses kicked the fuck out. I had a very old teacher, a lovely, wonderful teacher, one of my favorite teachers.

I didn't realize until later, he did marry one of his students after. Sure. I don't know how, but it couldn't. But what was the age difference? A big age difference. And then this is the weird part.

They had a kid and named her after me. Oh, I remember you telling that story on some more news. Like they reached out and they said, we want to name our child after you. Didn't reach out. I like, they named their kid Katie. I'm sure they didn't like the name. They named their kid Katie Stoll after you. Didn't reach out. They named their kid Katie.

I'm sure they didn't like the name. They named their kid Katie Stoll. But you were like their kid. They named him Katie Stoll, and I'm not going to say his last name. Right. But he told my dad, too. Right. He told my dad.

He was like, oh, yeah. You see this one? Named after your daughter. Named after your daughter. Weird, weird, weird. See, we're kind of like buddies now. Yeah. No, not really, sir.

It was so common. I went to two separate high schools. And it was happening everywhere. See, we're kind of like buddies now. Yeah. No, not really, sir. It was so common. Like, I went to two separate high schools. And it's happened everywhere? Yeah, it happened. I mean, that's, you can't discount how the society was moving at that time. Yeah. Where it was just, and even now. Not that long ago, but yeah.

Yeah, that it's just sort of like, no matter where you go, there are lecherous men who are out there. And women. And women, too. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Well, shit. Anyways. Anyways. Clueless reboot. there are lecherous men who are out there and women and women too yeah absolutely well shit anyways

Clueless reboot I'm in actually I guess when they say the Lizzo music video sounded like too cynical like it was

I could just like picture the dude in Hollywood like pitching that and just being like ugh but now I'm on board

that there's a murder mystery I wonder if what they're saying with their the whole when they say it is described as a baby pink and bisexual blue tinted tiny sunglass like that whole thing is it you think gonna have kind of a euphoria aesthetic to it is that is that what they're trying to get at like if they're doing but like a lighter version of it yeah a network version of it uh well what this is describing does not feel like clueless yeah i guess it's like and i understand that they're using right they need the appeal of an existing property to attract people right riverdale did not feel like archie right right but even then

it wasn't like archie archie the new adventures kind of thing right like still was kind of vague but whereas this one like i wonder are they using clueless to draw people in but it's a show that may have well come out before some of the people who would be the target audience were even born oh yeah so like it's weird where like if i was a kid we're like yo bonanza right who coming on my i don't give i don't i don't think that there's many like teenage girls that are like watching clueless well that was the question i had about Riverdale too. Sure. Like, is that just to get the foot in the door with the executives?

Yeah, probably. It's just like, this is an existing IP. Right. That's how you sneak it in development. Dummies care about existing IP. So it's like,

oh dude, it's like an Archie reboot, but it's gritty. Right. Rather than saying it's an interesting, like it's a young adult. That's just for the executives and the New York Times editors who are like, I remember Archie. Well, because when you look at how development works now, most of these people are not very creative.

So you have to speak in terms that already exist because they're not able to ideate originally. So you have to say, it's like this thing you know and this other thing you know. And they're like, great. Rather than maybe describing an entirely new idea. Like, huh. The gritty Beverly Hillbillies. I'd watch that. That's like Breaking Bad? Yeah.

I actually really would watch that. Yeah, Matt Cook moves to Beverly Hills. Right. Yeah, that's the striking oil of modern death. Yeah, Jed Clampett just fucking trapping. Yeah. Wow.

Have you guys seen El Camino? Yeah, I'm almost done. It's weird. Because on Netflix I watch it. You were working through that like it's a fucking Russian novel. Savoring it? No, I just end up, I don't know why I haven't been able to give it a sustained amount of time to watch it all the way through. But I'm loving, I'm almost done actually.

It just really makes me miss it. Making it, yeah. Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad. amount of time to watch it all the way through, but I'm loving, I'm almost done actually. It just really makes me miss it. Making it. Yeah. Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad. Last thing I was going to say about Clueless is, I don't know, CBS doing this? I don't feel like they're going to.

I think they're shopping it. The edgiest of all edgy. They're shopping it around. Oh, they're shopping it. It's just CBS production. I think it may end up them because I think they own the rights to it, but I believe it's getting shopped around. All right. All right. All right.

So that could be, but you know, if this feels like CW, if we're going to be real. It does feel like CW. Because everything on CW is, you know, of that scale.

Is that where Riverdale is on? It is. Yeah. That makes sense. All right. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. This summer,

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And we're back. And there's a subreddit that boing boing outlined. Boing boing. What a great sentence. There's a subreddit that boing boing

just... Welcome to the early 2000s. But they brought to my attention that is documenting a thing that I've noticed quite a bit recently in mainstream media, which is what they're describing as Bernie blindness. That's the name of the subreddit,

r slash Bernie blindness. And it's just mainstream media sources basically erasing Bernie from stories where he, in any other circumstance if it was another candidate he would be the story yeah so there's a poll that showed bernie beating trump in iowa while warren and biden were both like losing by a couple percentage points and uh the hill report on it trump holds slim lead over Warren and Biden in Iowa matchups. And then if you read it, it's like Bernie is beating Trump.

Yeah, but it was like three paragraphs down or something. Yeah, it was in the third paragraph. There's a story about... Go ahead. No, it's more commentary on this entire thing, but we should go through the examples. Right. There's a story in CNN. Debate coach,

a star emerged from the democratic debate. Oh wow. And the image below or the video below it has like a still image of Pete Buttigieg on it. You know, it's like, that's the, yeah, the image that represents the video content.

So the clear implication is Pete Buttigieg is the star, which was the mainstream media's narrative coming out of the debate and then you go to the article and he's like there was only one person who really jumped off the station that was bernie he really debate coach was like the only person who did really well was bernie you think they're doing a thing where they ask an expert expecting they're not going to say b and they're like oh fuck alright let's pretend it's something else or just obscure it or they

I don't know it's just weird. It is weird. Like why even do it? It's so hard to wrap your mind around. I mean it's not that hard to wrap your mind around but whenever I'm like they're not doing this on purpose are they? Right. But they have to be. Yeah of course I mean. They're just doing it's the same thing that

happened in 2016 it's just they can't their brain doesn't have room for the reality that we no longer live in the same world as the one that they've been covering since their career started and whomever owns right different media companies or pulling for somebody, not wanting him to be. Yeah, the Washington Post does it a lot. A lot. MSNBC, all of them do. But I bet it's not even explicit. I bet the editors of the websites and the newspapers aren't sitting down saying, cut the Bernie out of the thing.

I bet it's just they're like, OK, I like that one. I like that Warren thing. OK, I like the the thing. I bet it's just they're like, okay, I like that one. I like that Warren thing. Okay, I like the Biden thing. Like I like the Biden angle, but they're just like not, like they just get a sense that it's like. I don't know. This is so disingenuous to me

that I can't help but think it is intentional. Because again, if you look at the policies that he stands for, it's an existential threat to this billionaire class and these corporatocracies that are you know the corporatocracy but people who work in media hate to be the bad guy so i would i would imagine they're not like being like cut the bernie out of the thing i bet it's just implied or yeah you can tell by the the way stories are getting promoted like oh this person is doing well because they cover bernie way. Either way, it's still intentional.

It's just maybe communicated. Really great seventh story about how Warren is surging. That's what you hear at the editorial meeting. You're going to assume that that's what. One more story that I thought was interesting. From The Independent. So he got the endorsement of the most popular politician in the world, in America, at the very least, AOC. And it turns out that's actually bad for him.

Oh, really? Yeah. Bernie Sanders is, quote, squad endorsements don't point to his campaign strength. They point to its weakness. Oh, really? In the independent. That women of color are supporting him? Yes.

Exactly. Unbelievable. Getting AOC and her peers on board so early in the game suggests the senator needs to change tactic after stagnation in the polls and concerns for his health. I mean, I more get the point of not maybe endorsing someone this early on because you'd hope that you can get one of Elizabeth or Bernie to the actual nomination. But at the same time, that's their prerogative. And these people, let's be real, that's the reality of the future

that they want to see become a reality is the one that Bernie is painting for them. Well, yeah, and I think I'm sure AOC and the squad were like, well, we can't act like we're not endorsing him. He just had a really great debate. It would be weird to just keep pretending. But I guess who else is – how many people have already endorsed one of these people like that? There's a lot of endorsements, and Warren's actually not doing well on the endorsement.

Really? Do you know who she's been endorsed by? I don't. Yum Brands, Subway. I just know that FiveThirtyEight has a collection of them

and it seems like she's just getting frozen out because Bernie's getting the left wing endorsements. Right, a lot of unions too. And nobody who's like

mainstream monoculture is going to endorse her because she has the same policies as Bernie that are going to fuck them over. So she's just like kind of in this middle space in terms of endorsements. I don't know. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe these people coming forward to endorse him because media coverage isn't treating him fairly. And it's like, well, let's give this, while he's in the race, I'm going to throw my support behind him. And you know,

if he doesn't get the nomination, they'll. Yeah. They'll be like, okay, then I'll endorse this person. Then I'll endorse Trump. Yeah.

But the amount of, yeah, gymnastics they do to just be like, this is, it's very deceptive. And if a lot of people do just skim headlines. So you would think even with that Buttigieg thumbnail, where you go, oh, a star is born. Okay. I'm going to would think even with that Buttigieg thumbnail where you go,

oh, a star is born. Okay, I'm going to infer that that means that Buttigieg is the one who's the star. He got a – Bernie got an A and he got a B from this guy who coaches the national championship debate team in NCAA, I guess. Okay. I was D1 debater. Yeah. I was actually D2.

Oh, were you a college athlete? Yeah, yeah, I was. I was a D1 debater. Yeah. I was actually D2. Oh, were you a college athlete? Yeah, yeah, I was. I was a D1 debater. I don't know if you've... It's called mental athletics. And then they also highlighted a troll campaign that somebody found on Reddit where somebody keeps posting the same thing.

As much as I love and support Bernie, it's time to give up. There is no way he is winning and should, nor should he be after having a life-threatening heart attack. Oh, wow. They really did just repost that same thing

over and over. Yeah, they reposted it over and over. And that's just something to- In the same subreddit, not even like fucking going around. It's just something to keep an eye out for because it sounds exactly like how somebody would formulate that. The sentiment of like, dude, I'm saying get him out because I love him so much. So don't paint me as some like fucking.

I care about his well-being. his well-being yeah like the second he does start getting mainstream attention i do feel like russian trolls and also u.s like corporate trolls yeah well u.s corporate money will start going pretty heavily to yeah opposition campaigns yeah unofficial ways of opposing him right all right let's look at uh really quickly just the the whole Ukraine scandal and the whistleblower story. You guys have been doing some great coverage of this story on the Worst Year Ever podcast. Some coverage that even got some media attention. I know. That was exciting.

That was pretty cool. A little write-up in AV Club. Yeah. If you guys aren't listening to Worst Year Ever, you really should be. It's very, very good. You really should, guys. You really should. So before we get into it, this is kind of a minor story, but I think interesting.

It's about somebody just like looked at who Rudy Giuliani follows and was like, so what must his Twitter feed look like? And it's a lot of like rightwing conspiracies and QAnon shit. Oh, like looking at who he follows? Who he follows. So he follows a number of accounts that promote the QAnon conspiracy. 5% of the accounts that he follows have explicit QAnon references permanently on their Twitter pages, either in the pinned tweets or Twitter names or bios or header images.

pages either in the pin tweets or twitter names or bios or header images uh other accounts he follows suggest barack obama is engineering the trump impeachment process to install michelle obama in the white house uh hillary clinton plans to kill off each democratic presidential candidate so that she can become president herself uh ruth bader ginsburg has been dead but dave situation there was also something about also something about how this takes it way back. This is like old school conspiracy among Protestant Americans that the Pope is secretly taking over the world. How far does that one go back? I mean, that was huge during JFK's run for the presidency. Oh, right.

Because he was like a Catholic. They were like, he's doing the bidding of the Pope who's going for the presidency. Oh, right, because he was the first Catholic. They were like, he's doing the bidding of the Pope, who's going to install him, and then he's going to start doing the Pope's bidding. Do Pope shit out here. Start doing Pope shit. I don't even know if I would know what that would look like. Pope shit?

What's that agenda look like? Oh, this is clearly the Catholic agenda, because I feel like if you're Protestant, you're also probably pro-life. Right. So what's the, I'm curious to know. It's like, oh, what? We're going to not eat meat on Fridays during Lent?

Yeah. As a nation? Is that just Catholics? Or do, yeah, during. That's just Catholics? Yeah, and that's only during this specific part of the month. No, very little bit of religion, so I don't know. Yeah, that's what I thought.

Or of the year. I should know this. It's 40 days. I was raised. Look, Monday, Tuesday is your last day to get your shit in. Then Ash Wednesday, you kick it off. Oh, yeah. Do you know what I mean?

There's also a picture that they have that somebody tweeted and was like, how did this not come out when she was running? That shows Ilhan Omar loading a gun while she's attending terrorism class, Somalia training camp, exclamation point, exclamation point. It's a photograph from years before she was born. So not her. So not her. No, that's just another Somali woman.

Yes. Cool, cool, cool. Incredibly racist. Oh, yes. Woman of color with gun equals terrorist. Yep. But then we have all of our blonde Twitter avatars like, hi hi i have a machine gun right no that's just american yeah i know like no that's just patriot man yeah i guess this isn't surprising but it really irritates me

like yeah this guy i mean he can't believe this shit uh but it's maybe he does but you think he does it's like i don't know like, he's just a liar. Because when you look at a lot of the stuff that he's saying around the Ukraine scandal, it's like he's been pushing conspiracy theories. Right, yeah. So in a way- We think he's drunk or losing his mind.

Losing his mind. And it's just that this is the- Or he's just ignorant. This is the input he's getting. Right. We talk about media bubbles like it's five or six separate media bubbles but it's everybody is in their own little media ball it's a media foam there's everybody's

got their own individual foam yeah so he's been radicalized by the media foam by his media foam by his little tiny bubble yeah he exists in i I guess, yeah, you just read enough of it, you start to believe it. But it is so disconcerting that people that have so much power are promoting this. Maybe even not actively promoting it, but legitimizing it by following it and supporting it. Well, but when you look at a lot of the stuff he's even saying about Ukraine and this server, that's straight off his Twitter feed. A lot of this shit is straight off his twitter feed that remember that file of evidence that the state department was like this is what we had and it was a folder with a bunch of

conspiracy theories and shit and it's like they must think on some level a that it's true or they think that because there's a theory there that's enough to sort of you know rationalize or legitimize like their suspicions yeah yeah well what about this though right you know i mean what happened to building seven yep you know i mean i mean when you have the person at the top who is who just believes all the conspiracy theories that he sees then like there's nothing pushing back it's just like why wouldn't his top legal advisor believe that shit right right top legal advisor uh this is only slightly related because it's QAnon I had a

I met my first QAnon-er in real life oh it was my Lyft driver oh shit coming home late at night oh and I

had had some drinks so I really wasn't in a good shape to like have an intense conversation to call him out on it right but he was talking about

he's like have you ever heard of Q? and I gasped like I have yes I love 007 films he pulled over oh and i was like i was like i was like they don't know who q is though right and he's like but we do and he pulled over and he pulled up a picture and it was uh a q the letter q made up of tiny pictures like of different images and he's like like, if you, yeah, like a mosaic. And he's like, and if you zoom in,

you can see right here. And it was JFK. And I was like, JFK Jr. or JFK? JFK. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. And I was like,

it's JFK. He's like, I didn't say it. You did. You're like, cause you showed me a picture. So you do believe it. What? It was, was bro i'm smacked

i'm trying to get home it was wild and then he dropped me off he's like give me a good review what'd you give him gave him a cue he gave him like cue out of cue i don't actually have never seen i don't know how you give reviews but i didn't give him five stars where we go one star we go all i don't think I've ever given anybody anything other than five stars. That was the one time. Yeah. Even when like, I've been saving it

for somebody to do some shit like that. A QAnon driver. Unbelievable. Actually, there was one time that somebody was coked out of their mind and I think I gave him like three stars. Oh, I didn't know you were talking about that. This guy should probably do a drug test.

Yeah. I think just also pulling over mid-ride. That's terrifying. At like 12.30 at night. That ain't right. I think just also pulling over mid-ride. That's terrifying. At like 1230 at night. Yeah, that ain't right. No, that person needs to be reported. Talk all you want. Like, whatever.

I can absorb that. I get it. You're in your car. I can just turn off and you can feel like I'm listening. But don't interrupt the ride to try and like, now you're robbing me of control here at all. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Zoom it. Did he have like, it was just on his phone or something? On his phone. of control here. Yes. At all. I'm like, what the fuck is this? Yeah. Zoom it.

Did he have like, it was just on his phone or something? On his phone. He pulled up. Yeah. His energy was weird out of the gate. Obviously. Right. Right.

Oof. Huh. Well. So you know about Comet Pizza? I'm like, okay, never mind. He might. Yeah. One of my favorite pizza places.

Yeah. Love it. The Doughboys actually went there and had the pizza and said it was good. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you went too, right? I've pizza places. Yeah, love it. The Doughboys actually went there and had the pizza and said it was good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you went too, right?

I've been there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Her Majesty's from D.C., you know what I mean? So speaking of the sorts of people who drove you home, who drive you home late at night, Trump has appointed a person to the commission of presidential scholars so these are the people who are like officially part of according to the writing history according to the department of education so the commission on presidential scholars they're a group of eminent private citizens appointed by the president to select and honor the presidential scholars the scholars demonstrate exceptional accomplishments in academics,

the arts, career, and technical education and an outstanding commitment to public service. That's great. So this board, they pick who we or the president will consider or this commission will be like, these are our finest scholarly

minds. What makes it into the Smithsonian? What makes it into presidential libraries? And who's this someone doing the most right now when it comes to their scholarly works? So he appointed George Mentz, who I have to assume is a great respected scholar. Oh, yeah. And if you're not familiar with him because of this,

you might be familiar with his Illuminati self-help books. Unbelievable. The Illuminati Secret Laws of Money, The Wealth Mindset Manhelp books. Unbelievable. The Illuminati Secret Laws of Money. The Wealth Mindset Manifesto. Unbelievable. The Life-Changing Magic and Habits of Spiritual Money. What's spiritual money? Spiritual mastery.

I'm sorry. The Life-Changing Magic? Yeah. Spiritual mastery. Another one. It Works, the greatest success book to think and grow rich with the power of your subconscious mind. The combined summary ideas of Joseph Murphy,

Napoleon Hill, and Dr. George Mentz. That's the whole title? Yeah. It's too long. He has a lot of these books. It's like one of those late 1800s titles. All the books back then had paragraph-length titles. Here's some other ones.

Wong Ket did a great job putting together a lot of his hits. A Hundred Secrets and Habits of the Illuminati for life success. Unbelievable. The art of the highly effective badass, the path to extreme illumination and the secret rules of crushing it. That's one book. What I just said, that wasn't three titles.

This guy has a book with crushing it in the title. Yeah. He is being. And he's crushing it. I think we can all agree. He is crushing it. Dude, now he's on the, I mean, don't worry. It's not just because he's crushing it. I think we can all agree he is crushing it. He's crushing it, dude. Now he's on the...

I mean, don't worry. It's not just because he's a Trump donor. Right. It's because he deserves to be there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is he a donor? Oh, come on, man.

The president doesn't nominate people just because they're donors. Could you imagine? I just like what that process is. They have to also be blatantly praising him

all the time. Like someone donates and he's like, okay, so what would you like? If he has money to donate, then I mean clearly the guy's crushing it. Well, look at his credentials. This is from his website. The first person in the

United States. Alrighty, when you start something off like that, I'm checked out. To be multi-credentialed as a lawyer, MBA, qualified financial planner, certified financial consultant, chartered management consultant, and registered slash licensed financial planner. The first person. Also, I like he's qualified

as a financial planner. Qualified. I'm a qualified. What does that mean? So now let's dig a little deeper. He used to be the CEO of a thing called the American Academy of Financial Management and is the owner of the ScamFest, the Global Academy of Finance and Management. And this is what was written in the Denver Post about these companies. Both companies award certifications, allowing applicants to add an alphabet soup of titles after their names. For a fee, you can become an accredited life coach, a certified political scientist, a

master Islamic financial specialist, or more than 100 other titles. Master Islamics. Master Islamic. My gosh. That sounds like an SNL bit, like when you're sort of beating the game out and they get more absurd. Islamic financial specialist. Well, I would actually just like to be an accredited Islamic financial specialist rather than a master Islamic financial specialist. There's also a Wall Street Journal article in 2004 found AAFM awarded certifications to applicants who had never taken a course and in some cases had not taken a test to prove they

knew the topic at hand. So a lot of it. That's what the mainstream media wants you to do. Dude, when you look at his credentials, again, qualified financial planner, certified financial consultant, chartered management consultant, and registered licensed financial planner. It's like he made a company where he could give himself these titles. Did he also give himself the credential to be the head of the Commission of Presidential Scholars? No. We don't know.

He may be humble right now. He may be humble. To be fair, I had never heard of the Commission of Presidential Scholars. I hadn't either. But see, based on uh preliminary research it seems to be a real thing we were asking at the end of last week what like you know trump things have gotten so absurd his speeches have gotten so absurd and you know decayed mind sounding that we i was like what what is this going to look like in history books? Like we will have to have a complete change in like what is considered funny.

I think it'll be that the Republicans enabled like a sort of intellectually deficient president for four years and led the country into further disaster. Or he changes through appointments. He changes who is writing history. History is going to remember him. I don't think, I mean, it's going to take a while because I think, just imagine who the first absurd scholar is going to be to try and write a

glowing description of this. They will be categorized. They're just going to be torn down. Yeah. Because I don't think there's a way to be academic about this and look at just the facts that exist and then try and obscure it. I mean, people are going to try to. Of course they're going to try.

This is them trying. I mean, look at how most people don't even know what slavery was like or the Civil War, how that started. Hey, man, a lot of people didn't like Lincoln in his time. But you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but we don't see that now. That's why I'm a Republican. That's right. Because Lincoln was a Republican.

Oh, Kanye. Now, please pass around the donation plate. I am Christ. Right. I can't did I've what did he perform at Howard or something like a couple weeks ago Kanye and started doing mega shit yeah really and it really I was like why it seems like a really odd fit to have someone like that

at a historical black college doing his you know I'm a thinker imagine that went over well. No, but he was bragging about how many people, he was bragging about his crowd size. And the day before, I think DaBaby had a concert. The quad was filled the fuck out. Yeah.

And then a few people were just curious about Kanye. But this is the very first, like even before Trump was the nominee for the Republican Party, we did a podcast at cracked where we talked about how narcissism is like a hack for the this modern version of like the social media media landscape and like the two biggest narcissists like if their narcissism is just allowed to flow freely they will be the last two people standing as giant statues.

I mean, when do you think Kanye will start selling self-help tapes and seminars? Not too long. I mean, he's already, look, he's pivoting to a cult-like figure at the moment. He's doing services, like religious services that put him at the center. Right. It's, oh man, can you imagine what it's like, what is that country, Wild Wild Country? Yeah. Yeah. Right.

It's, oh man, can you imagine what it's like, what is that country, Wild Wild Country? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not, at least like audio tapes or something. Right, right, right. You know, releasing his sermons or whatever it is that he's doing. Yeah. I can see that. Just a lot of ranting.

Ranting. Yeah. Just Trump jazz. Yeah. All right. We're going to take another quick break to contemplate that. And we'll be right back. This summer, the nation watched as the Republican nominee for president was the target of two assassination attempts separated by two months. These events were mirrored nearly 50 years ago when President Gerald Ford faced two attempts on his life in less than three weeks.

President Gerald R. Ford came stunningly close to being the victim of an assassin today. And these are the only two times we know of that a woman has tried to assassinate a U.S. president. One was the protege of infamous cult leader Charles Manson. I always felt like Lynette was kind of his right-hand woman. The other, a middle-aged housewife working undercover for the FBI in a violent revolutionary underground. Identified by police as Sarah Jean Moore.

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podcasts. And we're back. And let's talk about that millennial lifestyle, gang. Okay. There's an article in the end around as possible.

Mr. O'Brien, are you wearing a dangle earring? That's right. I sure am. It's a conversation starter. Just like your boy, Barry Bonds. And you're like,

what? Just like your hero, Barry Bonds. Just like your boy, Barry Bonds. Thanks, Mr. O'Brien. So there's this article in The Atlantic that's talking about like, it's titled,

The Millennial Urban Lifestyle is About to Get More Expensive. Talking just about how there's this concept of the millennial lifestyle sponsorship, which essentially is that like a lot of companies like your Ubers, your DoorDash, your Caspers, your Lyfts, your Postmates, Blue Aprons. They are taking a huge hit by like by making their prices low to get people to use. Right. So because a lot of times you're like, how the fuck it only cost me ninety nine cents for someone to deliver this shit. Right.

And because it's being it's just being like they're subsidizing it through the investments and things like that because they're after like ubiquity. They want to they want to get their user base as big as possible. But the problem is it's not good business. Right. It's not working. Yeah. This article starts off, if you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, order DoorDash for lunch, take a Lyft home and get dinner through Postmates, you've interacted with seven companies that will collectively lose nearly $14 billion this year.

If you use LimeScooters, download Wag to walk your dog, and sign up for Blue Apron, that's three more brands that have never recovered a dime in earnings or have seen their valuations fall by more than 50%. Hmm. Doesn't sound sustainable.

Does not sound sustainable. Yeah. On the other hand, Mm-hmm. this is, like, Amazon, just is like Amazon just back in the day was not a company that was making any profits. I think this kind of goes back. I think it's easy to speculate that these companies are going to go under because they will go under because of the way that the tech sector is completely dominated by four companies that just changed the rules to kill everybody else, essentially. Yeah. Well, I think what they're saying is because at the end of the day, they do know that this is a problem, they're just going

to become more expensive suddenly. And also a caveat, they say millennials here, but let's be real. This is more like young professionals who have disposable income who live in urban areas. It's not the generation itself because I don't know anybody who eats Postmates fucking three square Postmates a day. And if you do your, what's her name? Jessica Simpson. Right. Because we should do like 100K a month or something. Yeah, she was really, really doing it.

On Postmates? Yes. That's obscene. Yeah. Hey, and see, and that's the lifestyle we're chasing. Life goals. Yeah. Goals,

dude. 100K on Postmates, dude. And never have to do your dishes. Right. Yeah. I'll just, I'll just create so much waste and carbon emissions from having people drive around

town for this shit. One that he said specifically, this is by Derek Thompson, I think. Yeah. The writer. One of the things he said that specifically we know now because they like broke it down to units and like per customer, Blue Apron is not making it happen. Essentially, he was saying

that they were basically subsidizing their users and podcast producers. Yeah. Look, they say, look, you buy a subscription for Blue Apron, you pay $100 a month, but then you do it for a second month, a third, but by the look, you buy a subscription for a blue apron, you pay $100 a month, but then you do it for a second month, a third. But by the fourth, you're like, I actually know how to cook now. Yeah. I'll just go to the fucking store like everybody else. Right.

And I feel confident now. Thank you, blue apron. Much praise to you for walking me through this desolate landscape known as trying to learn how to cook. And so your lifetime value to the company is $400 for the four months you paid. Or a hundred. Okay. So, but since that, they have to spend $50,000 to add a hundred new users. So they're spending $500 to get a user who only spend four. 400. Yeah. Yeah. They did the math and they were like, oh, this doesn't work.

Well, that's why again, it's in the list where their revenues have fallen and their valuations have fallen by at least 50%, more than 50%. Yeah, it was some wild number. But it's funny because as a generation, we're relying on our parents and tech companies to be like, can you get me here? Right. Yeah, there just hasn't been – this is the first time that they just haven't let the new generation come in and take over the earning potential that the previous generation did. Because, you know, some might say it's because millennials are lazy and the economy is bad.

Millennials are the brokest fucking generation. Boomers are the most selfish like pathologically narcissistic generation ever and they're just like now we're gonna hoard all of this and then change the rules so that nobody else gets any well yeah

this is the landscape so kind of like get your fill of your blue apron now before it goes away yeah or just like hey get your shit together a YouTube video and start cooking your own food. Yeah. Yeah. Because I think there was this whole boon of like, how do like, what's the Uber for fucking pick any fucking thing?

Uber for hats. Uber for high fives. Uber for windows. I just got a fucking ad in my Instagram that was this weird thing where you pay a monthly fee to have gym clothes and the latest fitness apparel waiting for you or FedEx to you in a city you go to so you don't have to bring your workout clothes on a fucking trip. I mean, that solves a problem that we've all had. Who the fuck is that for? Hey, I'm a coked out business executive who doesn't have a shit together so I bring like a shopping bag

with me as my luggage. I forget my clothes a lot. Luckily my assistant will fucking phone in and I'll get a FedEx package with some Nikes and some like new... It just...

That's where I look at it and I'm like, you also see the bubble that even these investors live in where they're like, yeah, that is a fucking good idea. Here's something that I really would love.

Let's find the people out there that could use this. Uber for yachts. Uber for yachts. Uber for yachts. I saw, I had a targeted ad about LA traffic and it said take a private helicopter to work.

That's in LA now? I know it's in New York to get to the airport. Yeah, no, LA, just to go around town. Now as ridiculous as that sounds, it was apparently a really good ad because that's how you showed up today. That's how I did take a chartered helicopter, and I didn't have to deal with parking, and it was lovely. Now, is the rope ladder that you descended on part of the deal, or did you bring your

own? No, no, no. It's part of it. Well, you rent it. Right. Oh, right. They let you pick. I think there's another company you rent their rope ladder from.

Yeah, when you show up. It's an UberX for rope ladders. For helicopter rope ladders. You show up and you have to wait for them to come. And then you get to pick, though. Right. So, you know, you pick whatever one suits your style or outfit for the day. It was all black everything.

Yeah. I was like, I like her aesthetic. Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty dope. All right. Let's talk about other good business ideas. They are rebooting Barney the Dinosaur.

Oh, man. As a TV show? Finally. No, no, no. Oh, wait. You said Mattel Cinematic Universe, the new MCU. The new MCU is the Mattel Cinematic Universe, or it might be the new Dark Universe, which was when Tom Cruise attempted to start that off with that mummy movie that nobody went

and saw. And there was also the Wolfman movie that nobody went and saw. Oh, wait, there was a Tom Cruise mummy movie? Yeah, there was. Holy shit, I forgot about that. And he, in the end, I think spoilers. Okay, spoiler alert for that movie we don't even notice about.

Right. He ended up becoming a mummy. So it was like, now he's the mummy. But doctor, I am Pagliacci. I am mummy. But Doctor, I am Pagliacci. I am mummy. Right. So you thought it was Brendan Fraser's The Mummy, but it was more Batman Begins,

whereas the origin story of Tom Cruise's Mummy. It's a shame that didn't do well. So that was an attempt to launch an entire old-timey monster movie universe, and that didn't happen. So there are two options here. But the Mattel movies are launching a

Barney film and a Barbie movie. Okay, so let's talk about the Barney one. That's the one that was announced recently. Barney, again, is the Purple Dinosaur children's program. I love you, you love me.

You love me. You love me. Someone from Mattel said that this movie that they're planning to launch will, quote, surprise audiences and subvert expectations. Okay. Their creative partner is Daniel Kaluuya's new production company. Daniel Kaluuya, who is the star of Get Out. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this. Right. Okay, go on. Kaluuya said Barney has culturally

disappeared into the shadows, and that left him misunderstood, which is a dramatic way of putting that. Wait, we're still talking about Barney the purple dinosaur, who disappeared into the shadows, left misunderstood. Yeah, nobody ever really understood

barney miles yeah like where the fuck did he come from and why are these parents letting their kids around a fucking dinosaur advertised by the fact that we just simply refer to him as a big dinosaur uh so it's not clear if it's going to be live action or animated if it is live action they could hire the original actor who played barney was inside the Barney suit. Do we need that? Well, I mean, he knows how to move like Barney. He's got it down. And he's currently running a tantric sex business for female clients that he calls goddesses.

This is nuts. The guy who originally played Barney has a tantric sex business cult thing. Only for females. Only for women, who he calls goddesses. And when asked about his background with Barney, he did say that he used his tantric skills in his performance as Barney.

Okay. Quote, the energy I brought up while in the costume is based on the foundation of tantra, which is love. So now this is... I'm sorry as i just picture him nutting all over i don't know that might be enough to keep him from getting this job yeah we know those things but i understand philosophically tantra my cousin's huge into it went to the island and

shit and fucking is now like i was like for real because i remember in that movie go yeah there's like it's tantra baby where the guy just was like you don't actually ejaculate you direct the orgasm inward right for the power you're cheating I don't know guys that doesn't sound so fun right yeah I'm like I'm I'm fine just doing it old-fashioned right hey look some hey get it I like I'm very goal-oriented you know I like And we're good. So this is just the latest high profile movie announced by Mattel Films. And it seems like they are really trying to make things like dark and complicated because so there's a live action Barbie movie that last time I had heard about it, it was Amy Schumer was going to either play Barbie or play like Barbie's sidekick.

She dropped out. Then it was Anne Hathaway as, and the script was being rewritten by Diablo Cody. Wow. And now it currently stars and is being co-produced by Margot Robbie, which makes all the sense in the world but it's being scripted by Greta Gerwig

and Noah Baumbach this is confusing to me so it'll have like a life aquatic vibe yeah I mean he wrote a lot of Wes Anderson shit right Francis Ha and life aquatic life aquatic

he was involved in the squid in the whale so yeah jam McNabb our writer is speculating that it'll be an introspective drama about the perils of maintaining a relationship in a world

where genitals don't exist maybe maybe yeah I actually that version of it might be very fun in a world where genitals don't exist. Maybe, maybe. I actually, that version of it might be very fun. Yeah. Any other version of it I'm less interested in. It's so surreal, right? Like in a way I could see how a Barbie movie that had a Wes Anderson vibe,

like people our age would be like, you know, I might, it seems interesting. Right. I don't think. Like plastic hair and like it like kind of has like sort of a surreal vibe to it. Are they going to be like that know i might it seems interesting right i don't think plastic hair and like it like kind of has like sort of a surreal are they gonna be like that or is barbie i don't know like that's what i'm just speculating that's what's so hard will it like kind of feel like tim robbins version or tim uh burton's version of the suburbs where like everything is very like cookie cutter

right but i can't imagine mattel would be that self-aware about. Well, but they're doing Barney with Daniel Kaluuya and they're bringing in Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig to script this. So it seems like they are like, now what you think about Mattel is not actually where we're going with it. This ain't the Mattel of your childhood. This is a new A24. Yeah.

This is again, like a lot like the clueless clueless like maybe i'm interested in a story like this but it doesn't have to be barbie you know specifically yeah like something that's dealing with the themes of unless a plastic woman and the expectations of femininity supporting those expectations by not having genitals i don't know that's interesting that could be interesting but you would have to do that, but then that would make people look at the Barbies that kids are buying now and be like, what the fuck? I would love to see

Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, and Noah Baumbach collaborate on a movie. Sure. Just do that. Do that. I don't need the Barbie attached to it. Yeah. Maybe it just starts with a trip out to buy some Barbies and that's as involved as it gets.

Or two people are stuck in a Barbie world and they don't understand like, what are you guys, wake up. Wait, so you're saying like a Barbie girl stuck in a Barbie world? Yeah, wrapped in plastic. It's fantastic. Wow.

You can brush my hair. Undress me anywhere? Come on, Barbie. Let's go party. All right. Come on, Barbie. You guys really had those lyrics right there. I was reaching for them.

I mean, you can touch. You can play. You can say, I'm always yours. I know exactly the, come on, Barbie, let's go party. Yeah, Miles is the one who's bringing all the text. Where are my Aqua fans at, really? Where's that dramatic film about the group Aqua? Something that a lot of people

don't realize is another movie that was set in the Mattel universe was Eyes Wide Shut remember how it ends in the toy store

so yeah that is actually that that's the time they're also doing a Hot Wheels movie

which J.M. pointed out every Fast and the Furious movie is already basically a live action Hot Wheels movie. They are partnering with Blumhouse for a Magic 8-Ball movie, which is the only one that I'm like, oh, I see how that

happens. That makes sense. The IP, clearly Mattel owns the idea of the Magic 8-Ball, and then you combine that with the people who make The Purge and all these other films. Somehow Mattel and MGM are going to make a movie out of the view master. The view master. What's that?

Are we that fucking dumb? The circular, like where you clicked it and it did a new thing. What? Um, I had one that was just of, uh, I think it was just famous monuments.

I'll use to love that shit. That was a kid. Yeah. Okay. Well,, I think it was just famous monuments. I used to love that shit as a kid. Yeah. Okay. Well, maybe this would be a hit. I loved it. I mean, it's just pictures. Yeah, but that's where- That's like saying we're making a Kodak pictures movie.

Polaroids, the movie. Right. Yeah. Don't shake it. That's a myth. And then it's just memento. Yeah, right? That's a good myth for the next time.

Yeah, shaking a Polaroid picture? That's not true. But I think it's what we're talking about, right? How this year was peak fucking IP regurgitation reboot world. A lot of the movies, there's only two movies that made over $100 million that weren't IP. That weren't existing IP. That was

Us and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And then now we're still... And a lot of people are saying, look at the shit that's coming out in 2020. It's not good. No one, Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm so disappointed in all of us for allowing this to happen. Well, but again, this is because,

and I talk about this a lot, the difference of how development has gone in the motion picture industry. It went from people who were creators, like real producers, writers, directors, or people who had an understanding of the creative process to the marketing people who were the people of the creative process to the marketing people, who were

the people who knew what the money was and said actually, this is what's gonna make money. And they said, you know what? You should be in charge of making movies now. Because at least you know how to make this shit pop in from a profit standpoint. And now we're here where we got fucking Viewmaster the movie. Right. It's like they're making movies based on like what trailer

is gonna get you most excited. Gonna get traction online. Fucking Viewmaster? Yeah. He-Man also, which makes sense. I understand how it is. So the He-Man one too, I think there's multiple projects. He-Man projects development.

Oh, really? Yeah. Multiple He-Mans? My boyfriend auditioned for a couple, I think animated He-Man, two different He-Man properties. Two He-Mans. Two He-Mens. Two He-Mens. Wow. I mean, I hope one of them has a very thick homoerotic undercurrent because those toys

are very- Sexy? There's a character that's named Fisto that has just a giant fist. But everybody is ripped in fur underwear. Right. It looks like Venice Beach where they go to work out. I mean, Venice Beach wishes they looked like the human. They would be a real missed opportunity if they don't follow that.

Right. That would be a blockbuster, I think, too. Because it would just subvert like whatever. Yeah, look. Let's do it. Let's do it. But fuck the stupid Viewmaster movie

what's the IP gonna be it's about a magical Viewmaster that when you do it you transport the thing you're looking at fuck out of here I just wrote that movie

and it's stupid or like you're using the Viewmaster to like solve a crime it's like a magic Viewmaster that like gives you clues through it I don't know

I could see like J.J. Abrams making a good one or something like that. Or a perfectly fine one. It's just because it's going to start off, hey, Grandpa, what's in your attic? I don't know.

Look up there. See if there's something you like. What's this thing? Hey, put down, I don't know, View Master? Don't look into it. Click. And they go in some fucked up world. I'm done.

Yeah. Fuck you, View Master. Wow. I don't know why I'm so. Yeah. Fuck you, Viewmaster. Wow. I don't know why I'm so- You're really hung up on the Viewmaster. It's the fucking height of a lack of creativity to take an inanimate object and say- Would it be as released as through,

you can only watch it through a Viewmaster? I don't know. Fuck everything at that point. The new movie theater is a Viewmaster. We've honestly just fucking ended all i definitely think viewmaster of these listed or is the least compelling like i i didn't even right initially know what a viewmaster was right right right i mean there are other things i can see where it goes you know the fucking viewmaster oh no miles or like it could be something dark or it's taking

you to himself and i'm floating right now because i'm so i'm propelled by my rage but it could be something dark or it's taking you. And I'm floating right now because I'm so propelled by my rage. But it could take you on like a dark emotional journey of your worst memories of trauma. And like he has to like or she has to deal with it in some compelling way. Yeah. I mean, the way that they're taking these other ones. Maybe that is. Can I just I can just like hear the creepy. I love you,

like echoing in the background. Like the, I got five. Yeah, exactly. Maybe it'll be interesting. Maybe that would be, and darkly funny. Because they also did, there was an American Girl movie

or they're doing a bunch of stuff with American Girl. I get that. Because even the dolls have a background or whatever. Also, American Girl dolls are very popular. Right.

The fucking view. Can I just read this thing from the Hollywood reporter? Since they were saying that deals with other movies are talking about like the view master pairing since the 1940s view master has inspired wonder and join children of all ages, creating huge opportunities for storytelling said Brenner in a statement. MGM pictures has tremendous expertise in a proven track record and capturing audiences imagination through film, and we're proud to be partnering with them to bring another Mattel

franchise to theaters. This marks another important milestone. I just, there's still, no one even knows what it's about. There's no writer, there's no director attached, because I think anyone's like, I'm sorry, you want to make a what? Right. No, it's actually, so it sounds whack, but it's actually, so picture Me rolling? He-Man

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A couple of tweets I like. Actually, it's really just one. It's from reductress. It's, it's, it has a couple wearing ketchup and mustard, Matt, like complimentary costumes.

It says, Oh, this couple went as ketchup and mustard for Halloween, even though he cheated on her last month. Oh God, you know, everybody knows that. I already had that costume plan.

Yeah, exactly. Like, well, we already got, and I'm not going to go to the car and then explain to everyone. No, just fucking had that costume planned. Yeah, exactly. Like, you can't break up. And I'm not going to go to the, and then explain to everyone?

No. Just fucking don't say anything. Don't want to fucking embarrass me. Yeah. And also, shout out to listener, Rachel Greenleaf, because I was hung up on the thing about the Malcolm Gladwell episode.

I was trying to remember what the concept he was covering about the woman who was the painter at the salon. It was moral licensing. Moral licensing. And how that was working in the prospect of how that was working in the okay yeah sorry uh let's see what have i been liking uh john boyce funny sports writer tweeted something smells fishy in the white house and i'm going to get to the bottom of it. Step one, investigate Donald Trump.

And no more Mr. Wife Guy. Apparently a divorcee. Tweeted, I would like to speak to the squad's manager. And the dad at the dad tweeted, barista, can I get a name? Me. Sure, you can be Coffee Dude.

That's good dad humor. I can i get a name me sure you can be coffee dude um that's good dad humor i can say that 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 write out on Miles. What are we going to be writing into this fine week upon? It could only be one song.

You. Jean-Marc Dompierre. El Bimbo. From fucking the Police Academy leather bar scenes. Hell yeah. If you don't know this, listen to this shit, shit bro it's fucking amazing if you like latin-ish uh melodies a little timbale whatever brass it's got it all and uh it just it'll take you to the blue oyster bar from the police academy it's always just like literally a hole in the wall like it was in an alleyway it's always running away from something here duck into here

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