The Daily Zeitgeist - Influencer Tears, Rise of WHICH Skywalker? 4.15.19

Episode Date: April 15, 2019

In episode 370, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Katia Kvinge to discuss Kim Kardashian studying to be a lawyer, the new Star Wars teaser, the problematic scene in Meet Joe Black, William Barr being shady, Trump describing his children, a Wisconsin restaurant banning middle schoolers, influencer Jesse Taylor calling the cops cause her account was deactivated, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Kim Kardashian is studying to become a lawyer2. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Might Spark an Old Fight3. I’ve replied to people with this a couple times today now that twitter is discovering MEET JOE BLACK. But I need to post it once more for my timeline to see. It must be seen to be believed.4. The Bigs Can’t Handle Bill Barr’s Cons5. Inside Ivanka’s Dreamworld6. Wisconsin restaurant bans unaccompanied middle-schoolers7. The Instagram influencer whose 100,000-strong following got wiped says she called the police because it felt like 'a murder'8. WATCH: A2D by Shigeto Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, the internet, and welcome to season 78, episode one of Dirt Daily Zeitgeist, the podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness and say officially off the top, fuck coke industry. Welcome. It's Monday, April 15th, 2019. My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. Rollin' down the street slow and simple sweatin' like cold orange juice Safe Jack

So I slide on my tummy and I'm never gonna die. That is courtesy of Trait Gang at TDZ, a.k.a. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! Baby girl, I'm the

man from the big C.A. Won't you come play around my way, huh? And listen to my hot text, huh? Miles Gray. Don't you know I am the man? Got folks here in Japan, huh? Have people shaking my hand. What? Oh, oh. Gotta tell somebody. I don't have the rest of that.

Oh, yeah. We've got the baby queen. Anyway, thank you to Dragon Zordon. Dragon Zordon 1. Doug Ye Fresh for that one because, man, Aaliyah, baby girl, rest in peace.

Such a good song. Baby girl. Sound like Trump talking about Ivanka in the meetings. Baby girl. My baby. Took you too soon, Aaliyah. Why'd you have to get on that plane?

Yeah, we left Dame Dash heartbroken. We are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious actress, writer, comedian, the hardest working woman in show business, Atia Kavinga. Oh, dear me. The great pleasure to be here. Is that your great Scandinavian modesty coming through? Yeah, for sure. Don't know about that.

Everything you say, I hate myself. Just shut the fuck up. Please just tell me that. Tell my part. Go to give some of my flaws as well. What, your flows? My flaws. Oh, wow.

Flaws. My flaws. Oh, wow. Flaws. My flaws. Wow. I don't have a good ear for that accent. She does fear intimacy and cannot be trusted to watch her pets. Is that good? You said some of my flaws. Oh, that lizard.

I was making up flaws for you. Oh, I really hurt her lizard. I really don't know any. She doesn't have any, folks. Katya, how are you doing? I'm good. I'm glad to be back. Today I'm flying back to London. I'm sad to be leaving LA, but I know I'll be back. It's funny because I was saying the last time I was in LA, I had the recall for SNL so I flew out the day before and caught a cold on the flight and then found out that Ben Affleck

and Casey Affleck were in the audience watching and my knees started shaking and I now talk about how I fucked up my audition because I couldn't believe my career was being judged by Batman and a rapist. That's the reboot, isn't it? Batman and rapist. Oh my God.

That's terrible though. Yeah, so I've just been at the Groundlings and I had this weird experience where the week before my SNL audition, I bumped into Kit Harington in London and he was so sweet and he was saying that when I got an SNL to give him a call, get him on the show

and then he just did SNL and now I'm doing my first show at the Grindling. So not quite there, but a little bit. Similar. You guys are both kind of holding up your ends of the bargains. Did he text you before he went on? He's like, don't worry, I've sorted it myself.

You can stop trying to get on SNL now. I bumped into him a couple of times because he lives quite near where I do improv. I don't know if I should say that. But funnily enough the first time... He lives near where you do on Melrose in Poinsettia by the Rounding Theatre.

And he gave me his number the first time and then it's quite funny because his name is Kit and then my nickname is Kat, so there's that chocolate bar Kit Kat and then I bumped into him a second time

he's like Katia I had to change my number so I shouldn't probably even be saying this because some asshole said gave it out on a podcast I don't know

but yeah it is also oh man he's really sexy because yo after what I saw on Game of Thrones, I need to talk to him. He's actually got letters in his numbers. He's at that level where you have letters in your number.

His number is just a wolf emoji. We'll bleep that out because, yeah, probably saying where he lives isn't good, but giving out his number in particular, definitely not good. But that's what the show's about, you know? Yeah. Doxing people from Game of Thrones. Up next, Maisie Williams.

Stay tuned. All right. We're going to get to know you a little bit better in a moment. First, we're going to tell our listeners a couple of the things we're talking about on this Monday. We're going to talk about Kim Kardashian's schedule in law school. She's scheduled to take the bar in 2022. We're also going to just briefly mention what their house looks like. We're going to talk about the new Star Wars teaser and the old Meet Joe Black footage

that people were talking about at the end of last week. We're going to talk about the mainstream media still having trouble figuring out what to make of William Barr, how the president describes his kids in the new Atlantic article, all of that and plenty more. But first, Katya, we'd like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, my search history. Okay. I've been actually Googling a lot of celebrities because I just got told by the BBC I'm doing a show. So I'm flying back to the UK today. And either tomorrow, so it's Wednesday,

I have to do a BBC impressions show. And they've just told me I have to learn 17 new celebrity impressions. And I was kind of like, I don't know if my friend on SNL even has to do that many in a week. That's incredible. 17 celebrities? Yeah, yeah. Like who?

So it's like Ariana Grande. There's like a bunch of British ones. Who are some of the British ones? There's a woman called Caroline Flack. She's like a famous British presenter. I don't think they're not like anyone like Lady Gaga or Olivia Colman. Sure, sure. It's more kind of like radio presenters.

And then I have to do the voice of Spotify. It's just some really obscure ones. There's a voice of Spotify? I have to play Spotify. Yeah, I had to do that, actually. I did an Amazon commercial for Super Bowl, and I had to do the Alexa thing. Oh, you were one of the voices? Yeah.

Oh, wow. Well, I had to voice a bunch of celebrities for it um and then be like the people going alexa slow down and all this kind of stuff oh instead of getting them for like yeah it was to do the pitch like oh got it these so it might be kristen wigg it might be miley cyrus um Minaj, which I was like, I don't know if I can do that. Right. Seems problematic. Yeah. So yeah, I did that. So yeah, my search history has been just trying to like work on these celebrity impressions.

What's your technique? Do you just watch a video and then just speak along and just try and dial it in like that? I'll try and find like what's the unusual thing about that person or what's the thing that sets them apart from other celebrities. So like if it was like Kim Kardashian, like the fact that she's like, honestly, like seriously.

Okay, I'm absolutely shitting right now. No, you don't have to be. Or like, yeah, or I'll kind of see how their mouth sits. Like if they have like a drooping lip or like if their voice comes from like their nose or their forehead or their chest. And then like, if it's like deeper or like. So voice comes from like their nose or their forehead or their chest and then like if it's like deeper or like so which liberty is that

i have a smoker um or like if it's like yeah uh someone that's like that was nick nolte i believe yeah oh that's pretty good nick nolte yeah thank you thank you um so this is a thing that you have to do on the regular is just like suddenly you have to be able to do Ariana Grande? Not always, but yeah, like if I do voiceover work, they'll call me in and say, can you do this voice? And I'll watch a few YouTube clips and go, nope. Or I'll watch them and go, I think so. Yeah, I'll give it a go. Like, can you do a Jamaican nurse?

We'll leave that to Brad. Yeah, we'll give it a go. Like, can you do a Jamaican nurse? Yeah. We'll leave that to Brad. Yeah, we'll leave that to Brad. And then I also have been looking for flights. And because I don't know if you guys ever use, like, Skyscanner, if you keep checking it, it bumps up the price so that you're like, oh, my God, I need to book the flight now. So I've been trying to use a private browser so that it doesn't know that I've been looking.

Is that a thing that people are having to do? Yeah, or that's the benefit of using Nord VPN. You know, VPNs are good too, because it obscures your IP address. And sometimes you could put yourself in another country and be like, oh, these are the rates people from out of the country see when they're trying to book a hotel in this country versus rates that someone within country might see. Right. Sometimes, you know, I don't think it's, I've not necessarily said like, oh, you have to do it that way. But I try every which way because I know, you know, that's how they get people to buy. Sometimes, you know, I don't think it's, I've not necessarily said like, oh, you have to do it that way. But I try every which way because I know, you know, that's how they get people to buy. Yeah.

Oh, we better pick it up. Yeah. Because I would do that. I would book a flight and then it would say it's this much in dollars. So I'd change it to pounds and then it would end up being cheaper in certain ways. Cheeky, cheeky. Cheeky, cheeky. Those corporate overlords.

Yeah. What is something you think is overrated? Overrated. those corporate overlords yeah uh what is something you think is overrated uh overrated um I mean always like nightclubs and noisy bars but I feel like I've maybe said that before in this podcast um but I um I was like getting into a little bit of like because I have anxiety woohoo don't we all um but I was I was like trying to like do some work on like looking at like self-help books and when I was looking into them I was like a lot of them kind of just seem like they turn people into narcissists because it's like you have to be number one like love yourself you can be anything like work towards your goals and I was kind of thinking like oh yeah like a lot of I don't know

like I feel like it can it has good intentions but can sometimes if if it's gone too much one direction can actually be really unhelpful. There's a self-help book I got to share with you that does none of that. It's called The New Testament. And it's got the story of a guy named JC. The book of Lamentations is really great. It's really interesting because it is like a how-to guide for developing a personality flaw or a personality disorder. In a way, yeah. Well, I think it also depends on how you enter getting into sort of the self-help thing, right?

Like if you're sort of open and willing to be honest with yourself about what might be going on with yourself, it's easy to be like, oh, yeah, maybe I do need to put myself first. Whereas if you're in a little bit of denial, that's when like I see this a lot with like I feel people who sort of have a very superficial understanding of like those kinds of concepts and they just take it as like, oh, you know, you hear this with celebrities. I'm like, oh, I don't like the negative energy around. Right. Right. Like I have to focus on me, which is like sort of uses like, oh, you've just used this

as a way to like deflect in your own mind any wrongdoing you may have out there or like anything that might make you feel bad to just avoid it rather than being like, yeah, I can take care of myself. I can acknowledge things I feel and still honor all that. I actually just remember I was at Meltdown a few years ago when that comedy, when it used to run that comedy thing. Yeah, Nerdist, yeah. years ago when that comedy when it used to run that yeah yeah nerdist yeah and i remember actually seeing dimitri martin do a bit about how self-help books it was something like how they if you're an asshole they just make you more of an asshole right sure yeah sort of like drugs yeah yeah or the person you always knew you should have been right that's what i say about okay yeah fair enough i always knew i should have been like this yeah yeah my i think my say about drugs. Okay. Yeah. Fair enough. I always knew I should have been like this. Yeah. Yeah. I think my thing about drugs was actually a Bill Cosby joke.

So maybe I should shut the fuck up because I also use drugs very productively for many years. But yeah, I mean like How to Win Friends and Influence People. Have you ever read that book? No. The Dale Carrion. It's like one of the most sold books ever. Yeah.

And one of my dad's friends tried to get me to read it when i was you know a kid like 10 or something he was like this is gonna be the best thing you ever read my dad was kind of into that like self-help shit so like i yeah i read it and it really seems like the guy is a sociopath and like it's like written through the eyes of a sociopath about like rules for how to like yeah how to interact with people like at a just completely, it really seems like he just doesn't have the capacity to interact with people. And so he's like,

just distill it down to like this formula. And it's useful for people, maybe even people who aren't sociopaths because it just like gives you some rules for like getting people like just to keep in mind. Whenever I see the title, I'm just like, how to win friends and influence people? I'm like, nah, I don't need that. One's like, hey, how to live a worry-free life.

I'm like, yeah, okay. Yes, yes, yes. I'm not really worried about how to influence people. The five-hour work week, just. The four-hour work week. The four, sorry. Actually, they're doing that in Scandinavia. They're trying to make more people work

just four hours a day because they're becoming more evidence that it's healthier for you and yeah just a better quality of life

I mean yeah it's four hours a week yeah but how much are the people up top and the shareholders making with that work right you know that sounds like

a bunch of gobbledygook to me man because the shareholders are going to be pissed that's what the secret of the four hour work cut and bonuses is just's what the secret of the four-hour work is. Cutting bonuses. Is just find a way to outsource all of your work to a bunch of less fortunate people.

What is something you think is underrated? I've got a couple of things. I love how many wacky wobblers there are in America. Those things that are outside gas stations. Oh, the inflatable, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love that. Is that the phrase? I don't know.

I just remember seeing a costume that was like a Wacky Wobbler costume. I was like, oh, you can dress like one of those. I feel like we haven't, do we really have a proper, like, I always call them those arm wavy guys outside of, inflatable arm wavy guy. I say inflatable dancing man normally.

Everyone has a different one. Can't we just I think we need just a succinct term this is the term I like wacky wobbler

wacky wobbler is really good although it doesn't really wobble it more flails doesn't it so the freaky flailer

the funky flailer freaky is probably better actually because freaky evokes more of a tall lean lurch type. So I like it.

Wow. Are you taking shots at Eric Lampere? Yeah, I am. Do you know? I didn't know you guys knew Eric. Oh, yeah. Big, big friend of the pod. No way.

Yes. Oh, my gosh. I used to be on an improv team with him. Oh, really? Yeah. We did Comedian Cinema Club back in London before he brought it out here. Yeah. This is not good for anybody who is under the impression that all

people from the UK know each other. You're already like, yeah, kid Harrington. We all just hang out in a club together. Me and Megs, we're like, that's so funny. Another one actually that

is a bit underrated is, well, I don't know if it's underrated but i found it kind of funny and maybe this isn't funny to americans but you know um so if you guys do the v sign that's like peace yes in the uk if you flip it around that means like fuck off yeah so i was living with this girl out here she was just being horrible so we were having an argument i went you know what and then i gave her the v's and she was like what and then I realized she didn't realize I was being rude so I just flipped it around and went peace and I ended up just like deflecting the argument so she was like okay peace so it came in handy when I was uh last time I was

in the UK last summer I was on set of people just do nothing and I saw like one of the the cast members Steven who like I became familiar with and I saw him across the room and my instinct just as an American is like, oh, what up? And he threw the peace sign and I threw that shit up

and I literally, in a second I went, oh, oh, nope, and brought it down because I'm like, yo, I know they get it. But I'm like at large like throwing it up like that.

Yeah. What is like the, there are many like myths behind why that's offensive right um is it like archer archer french archers cutting their fingers off but that's i think for the middle finger because it was that you need two fingers to pull the the arrow back or the right to draw the bow they would cut the finger off um so then they weren't able to to pluck it so then they weren't yeah they weren't able to fight it. So then they weren't able to fight.

So that's why you show your middle finger to be like, ha-ha, you only have those fingers. Isn't that funny? Puts a lot of the things you were doing earlier when we just started recording in context. You were throwing those up at me a lot. I was just like, peace, peace. She kept looking at me like...

I kept thinking you were saying two things. All right. And by the way, I think Wacky Wobblers, everybody should have one in their front yard. Oh, I love that. That's the America of my dreams. Let's replace the picket fence

with the Wacky Wobbler. I actually was trying to pitch a short film. You know there are those people that have that thing where they fall, like a lady that fell in love with a bridge or a lady that fell in love with a wall. Objective. Objectophilia or something. Objectophilia. I wanted to play a character that fell in love

with a wacky wobbler and I would just slow dance with them. But nobody wanted it. Actually, they refer to themselves as object sexuals. Oh, really? Yes. But that is not a scientific term, in case you couldn't tell. And finally, what is a myth?

What's something people think is true you know to be false? I found out that banana-flavored candy, the flavor of it is actually from an old strain of banana that has died off. Because a lot of bananas are dying off. So that flavor that we know of, like the banana-flavored candy. So a lot of banana that has died off because a lot of bananas are dying off. So that flavor that we know of like the banana flavored candy. So a lot of banana types are dying out. Like I think it's like some mold or something that banana strands are dying out. So the banana flavored candy is from a type of banana that doesn't actually exist anymore. Yeah.

Thank God. Because I hate that flavor. Yeah. Banana flavored candy isn't great. Yeah. Yeah. It is interesting. It's like grape flavor. Yeah. banana-flavored candy isn't great. Yeah. Yeah, it is interesting. It's like grape flavor. Yeah, grape flavor.

It's like plastic. Watermelon is by far the worst kind of fake flavor of fruit I've ever had. Oh, I kind of like it. Really? Yeah. Man, watermelon Jolly Ranchers taste like petroleum to me. Yeah, they are very chemical. It's all about the context, the frame of mind that you go in with.

There's a little bit of petrol in there. Yeah. Sorry. A hard pass for me, mate. Yeah. I think cherry is almost always good, but it's not necessarily accurate in any way. We'll just call it red. Right.

I know what red tastes like, and it's whatever the chemical gods determine cherry should taste like. You know, like Dr. Pepper, that kind of tastes like cherry Coke. To me, at least, it does. Yeah. They have this drink at Trader Joe's called, like, Clementine something. It's like Clementine and orange. Oh, no, no, no. Clementine and raspberry.

That tastes just like Dr. Pepper. But the coloring's different. It's white. It's just clear. Right. It's not white. Oh, but it's like a little tangerine, like a clementine with a raspberry?

Yeah, yeah, you should try it. Yeah, I think it's like, I can't remember. It's like clementine and cranberry or something. Or whatever, but yeah. But it tastes just like Dr. Pepper. You don't gotta do plugs for TJs. Yeah, sorry.

No, no, no, not like, cut it out, cut it out. They have their own podcast. Yeah, they do, actually. Do they really? It's called like, Behind the Floral Print Shirt or something. Behind the Joes.

I feel like a lot of the staff are really nice there. Yeah. Yeah, they seem like they are all on board. Yeah. With whatever weird cult thing they have going there. Hey, man, but they got that cookie butter. Yeah, that's true. Which I will eat with a spoon in the darkness.

First time I came out to LA, my friend was like, you have to try this. And that's the other thing is like American food is like crack. You're like, you take a spoon and you're like, what is this? It's engineered to be that. Yeah. And we just, yeah, we make products that don't need to be made. Yeah. Other countries have their best people working on like building things for the country.

And we have our best, smartest people working on how to make cookie butter addictive. Addictive, yeah. Or how to put as much sugar in as small a space as possible. Yeah. Yep. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist

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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. And we're back. And Kim Kardashian is going to go to law school. Great. Do we know what law school she's going to go to? No, she's interning, I think. So because in California, you don't necessarily have to go to law school

to take the bar. Oh, so typical California. There's another track you can take, yes, where she is going to be working at a law firm, basically, to get her knowledge up. And then we'll take what is, most people say is one of the hardest bar exams in the nation.

I think California and New York, they say are the hardest ones. I went to the David Letterman taping. You know, he's doing that Netflix show. Yeah. And they don't tell you who the guest is.

And he went, this person makes me nervous. And we're like, oh. And he was like, this person is like a firecracker of energy, got multiple personalities.

We're like, who could that be? I was like, well, Jim Carrey, like plays characters. He was like Kanye West. And then Kim Kardashian

ran right in front of us and sat right in front of us. Oh, really? And we were like, holy crap. That's wild. It was so weird. But it was such an interesting interview because every time, because Kim was sat right in front of Kanye. So every time he said something a little bit controversial,

he would look at Kim and she'd be like, no, like, shaking her head, like, don't say that. Yeah, so I'd be interested to see what they kept in cut. Right. Well, I guess we'll find out. Yeah. I mean, she could be a lawyer. Yeah. Well, she was actually speaking about that, how they managed to free someone out of prison.

Yeah, Alison Marie Johnson. Yeah. I would not bet against her when it comes to literally anything. And I would not bet against Kris Jenner paying the California bar assessors to cheat on her score so she could be a lawyer. Whatever she has going on, it works. Her dad is a lawyer

or was a lawyer. Yeah. It's funny, it either plays out in, if this were a fairy tale version, it would be like Kim K goes from just sort of vapid celebrity and media you know, media mogul to like civil rights lawyer, which would be amazing if that, if she's really going that direction. I don't know. I think the more cynical people are like, if she's a lawyer,

she might know how to write her own contracts now and can cut more people out of her deals. But hey, look, look, just, just, just move in the direction of God, Kim K. Yeah. Let go and let God. That does seem like the sort of story that a Kardashian would know is perfectly engineered for the modern media in that everyone's like, oh, shit, and kind of give her credit for going to law school, essentially or being being able to even think about passing the bar but like if she stops going or like gives up on this in two years nobody's gonna notice no no yeah also uh there was a interview with her like one of those 79 questions on 73 questions 73 questions i would be more impressed with 79 uh where it's like a tracking shot that follows her around her house. There's like some cute bedroom stuff with her and Kanye and the kids. And then they go, they do like a walk to the kitchen.

And their house has clearly never been lived in by humans. No. It's the same. I think it was on Valentine's Day. Kanye put loads been lived in by humans. No. It's the same. I think it was on Valentine's Day, Kanye put loads of roses in vases, and it was just kind of like, this is not a home. But there was nothing else there. Just Kenny G. Yeah.

I think it was, wasn't it Kenny G or somebody who was playing? That was like a musician, right? Yeah. Kenny G. Yeah. But it makes modern art museums look cluttered and over... It's just so barren. It's so minimal.

Yeah. They have this one weird sculpture on this 50-foot... It's an Olympic swimming pool-sized kitchen island, and then one weird sculpture on it, and the guy's like, wow, your kitchen is amazing it's like damn dude i guess it's funny because i i'm my old life before uh getting into podcasting i used to make those videos i know you did and uh there's it's what's funny is normally like

whenever they follow a subject around their house they have their back to camera and be looking over their shoulder yeah but i think because maybe kim just doesn't want to have the yeeks out uh was like back like very awkwardly backtracking like i've never seen before yeah uh yeah it's funny though like when to hear joe who does who directs those videos kind of have to be like wow this is this place is great and you're like this concrete bunker right it Right. It's very, very strange. Is it the Vogue ones where they're like the kind of, is it those ones? Yeah, it's that one.

They're all so kind of staged and feel a bit awkward. I agree. And they like try and do these jokes, but they're so like, and then I fell and tripped. Right. Katya, that was some of my best work, okay? Wait, you made those for Vogue? Yeah, yeah.

I used to work at Condé Nast That's why a lot of people they hear me do voice over For like Wired Magazine videos Cause that was from my old life I watched a Wired Magazine video I was like I need that Whoever just said English accent Quit my cracked job the second I heard that voice

I don't know this disembodied voice But I need him in my life Let's talk about the new Star Wars teaser That came out at the end of last week It's called Episode 9 Rise of the Skywalker Is that right? Wait there's a new one coming out?

Yeah it's the final one Katya What? I thought they were coming out every year Well there will be more Films within the Star Wars universe, but the original Tridge was allegedly four, five, and six, and then there was supposed to be a seven, eight, nine, and a one, two, three. And so this would be nine of the originally planned nine films. Try by trilogy?

I don't know. Three by trilogy? Tree by tree. Tree by tree. trilogy. Yeah. Tree by tree. Tree by tree. A tree by tree. But yeah, I think, look,

Rise of Skywalker. Okay. So maybe Homegirl has got something to do with them. Well, that's the title really. I mean,

it's a dope trailer. Like JJ Abrams knows how to make a good teaser trailer. Yeah. But I think the best thing about it was the title

because it, like the question, like maybe my biggest disappointment with the eighth one was that, and I don't know why I shouldn't be disappointed by this, but when they were like, yeah, your parents are nobody, you're, you're, they were nothing. And you just happened to have this immense, like access to the force. It, I don't think I'm a monarchist i think it's because it suggests that the force is just some bullshit you happen to be able to get at if you if you meditate really well you can just like meditate yourself into having the force well not you need metachlorians man right well so the metachlorians is stupid too but it just like when she had no reason to be this forceful,

it, it, it bummed me out. I was like, wait, so the universe is just like anybody can have the force. And it's just like, you have to believe hard enough or something.

Yeah. So Daisy Ridley. Yeah. Daisy Ridley. So then when, now that they're putting back, like the trailer is all about her just doing some dope shit where she jumps over a TIE fighter and fights it with a sword. I have no idea what the force of the Jedis mean. And then I just the other week had to film a BBC thing for, well, it will be coming out, but for May the 4th,

where I play all the Star Wars women. So I had to do impressions of Carrie Fisher, Natalie Portman, Felicity Jones, Daisy Ridley, and Emilia Clarke. And I didn't know anything about it. So I was doing these impressions just trying to say the lines. Like, I think think i don't know learning the language phonetically yeah exactly and i had to like look at the star wars website and like learn the bios of all the actresses and i was like i still have no idea what this means like

she conquers the journey of the like you bloody scruffy yeah. It's like, that isn't, okay, well, I guess that'll count for Leia. Okay, we'll count. Yeah, exactly. So the title, Rise of the Skywalker, does suggest that that question is, like that mystery is at the center of the ninth movie. Yeah. Who is the Skywalker? Is it Daisy Ridley?

The Rise of Skywalker, yes. The Rise of Skywalker. Is it Adam Driver? Oh, I was going to say old-ass Billy Dee Williams. Is it old-ley? The Rise of Skywalker, yes. The Rise of Skywalker. Is it Adam Driver? Oh, I was going to say old-ass Billy Dee Williams. Is it old-ass Billy Dee Williams somehow? Does Luke suddenly come back and he's like, nah. Nah. It's just plain.

And also, speaking of the return, I do want to just talk about Meet Joe Black because Meet Joe is back on social media. Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm on fire.

Yeah. I'm on fire today, Miles. You don't have to say it. Everyone knows it. No, that's why I'm dialing 911, dude. Yeah. To call the fire department. Doctor, it's happening.

Yeah. People are just rediscovering this movie. And one of my favorite scenes of all time where Brad Pitt gets just totally wrecked by traffic going both ways at the beginning. It's like one of the opening scenes of the movie. people can help us with this because I might be legitimately losing my mind, but I thought I saw it for the first time on Thursday night. And apparently Miles and Nick thought that we had talked about it on the podcast before. But let's just play a brief moment. This is when Brad Pitt, who is being inhabited by the body of death, like the Grim Reaper, suddenly breaks into a Jamaican patois, I think. It's very... It's very accurate, no?

Yeah. No be a sister, no devil, no dopey. Everything gonna be irie. Go with the doctor, lady, mom gonna be fine now. Right. Those are all... Be evil, I not evil, oh man now. Right. Those are all Brad Pitt. I'll be evil. I'm not evil, Omar.

Yeah. And what you is then? That's not right. I'm from that next place. That is him. That's him. I'm from the next place. So they're saying that if Brad Pitt meets the devil,

he becomes Jamaican? He can just do whatever he can inhabit. So he's speaking to her in her language. What? and it is don't worry no me not the dappy me not devil right also me offering a special on two for one pair of sailing on montego bay just sign this way of a no oh man it's an indemnification agreement in case you are injured during the experience. I don't know what. Again, man. Cool.

Great call. Brad Pitt, Jamaican icon. Yeah. Yeah. He's like the Lee Scratch Perry of acting. Do you think, is it offensive or is it just bizarre and surreal? I don't think it would be like today. It's a mix of everything.

It's so weird. It's so offensive that I'm trying to understand how it happened. Yeah. But also I get in the creative mindset of a script, you're just saying this person has a physical presence but can tap into many spiritual things and therefore is channeling this Jamaican. Yeah.

But I think it'll always be jarring to see, especially that stage Brad Pitt, when he had the beautiful golden blonde hair, suddenly acting like he's the mayor of Trenchtown. The movie is Brad Pitt maybe at his most beautiful, as a human being. He looks like he's glowing in every scene. Yeah.

He's pregnant. Exactly. He looks like he's glowing in every scene. He's pregnant. And it also allows him to eat a lot in the movie, which I found out not by watching it, but by doing a bunch of research. But that is Brad Pitt's... That's the number one thing Brad Pitt likes to do on camera. Eat? Yeah, yeah.

Have you seen Ocean's Eleven? No. Oh, yes, I have. His character just is eating and everything. He just knows that he looks cool eating. So in this movie, he is death, so he's inhabiting a human form for the first time, and he gets to try peanut butter for the first time.

And so you see him like he really gets to ham it up when it comes to ham, when it comes to eating. All right, let's talk very briefly about serious shit. The mainstream media is still, they still haven't figured out how to deal with William Barr. No, at all. Yeah. They do not know how to observe something

and then describe it out loud in certain terms. Wait, who's William Barr again? William Barr is the Attorney General. So he runs the Department of Justice. And the reason why he is very important is because the Robert Mueller report, which is supposed to look into all the interference and obstruction charges or allegations against the president, that report was supposed to be, or we thought, would be given to Congress

so then they can see what the evidence is. But William Barr has decided to only first give out his version of the report, which is very, it seems like to minimize many things that's in it.

And especially when people who worked on the report are saying, oh, his description is very inaccurate of what this says. And then now he's just been dragging his feet about,

you know, when he's going to release it and how much detail it will be released. So he's, you know, a lot of people suspected from the beginning, especially on the left, that he was brought in to do a job which was to either end the Mueller investigation outright or to basically try and protect the president as much as possible by not releasing the report.

And that's what he's been doing, essentially. But he's been doing it in a very clever way because he'll say things and then walk them back later on or have people from his office walk the comments back. So on one hand, he'll give the base or the conservative GOP media machine their talking points. For example, when he said he thought the intelligence community was spying on the Trump campaign during the election. Right. And that word spying, you know, everyone's like, OK, look what you're you're feeding the paranoia, the conspiratorial shit, like the deep

state stuff by saying that and then have people come out right after like, well, that's not what he meant. It's actually like just a term to him. It means no difference than doing, you know, a counterintelligence operation versus surveillance. It's the same thing to him. And he was just saying that like that. It's not to mean that they were overstepping. But at that point, the cat's out of the bag. And then you have people like Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, on Fox News sort of taking this and being able to run with this deep state idea.

So this is them on Fox. The deep state, guys, does exist. By the way, it still exists. But it does exist and it did exist. And you see all these emails between FBI people about insurance policies and other things. You see dossiers that were paid for by political candidates that were leaked through people's wives. I mean, it's really incredible. But guess who the first person is that called him out? Donald Trump, way back when. And he's always right. You might not like it when he says it, but he's always right.

So again, they use a little bit of spying thing to then be able to relitigate this idea of, you know, another government that is actually the shadow government that's really in control of things and trying to ruin the president. But don't worry, that's only how over 40 percent of the population legitimately thinks. Right. They're like, he's always right, guys. Right.

You say he's wrong, but, you know, give us enough time to find something to convince us that he's right. And turns out he was right. Right. It's like, huh. Well, then so then you get things like on CNN when everyone's looking at this and go, William Barr is trying to obstruct Congress and the media, the people obstructing our access to the truth. And they describe even his comments. This is on CNN. They say, Mr. Barr, who began his career at the CIA, did not intend to imply that spying was inherently wrong, according to a person who has discussed the matter with him, but was not authorized to share their conversation.

Mr. Barr sees no technical difference between the term and surveillance. He indicated that the issue was not the act of surveilling, but whether officials followed proper procedures. And they just, so again, they're doing it a very like, oh, well, this is what the explanation is without really giving any attention to like what the effect is of this very implicit and premeditated strategy. Yeah. And I just want to once again raise this kind of fear that I had when the Mueller report first came out and Barr was like, you know, gave out his impressions that it was, you know, no collusion, no collusion, no collusion. Him and Mueller are best friends.

People have pointed to that and were like, he's Barr's secretly a trojan horse for the resistance and he's gonna go in there and end it but you know who knows like how much influence bar had over him to get him to just kind of ease up and fucking end the investigation like he's their buddies i don't know like we we like to think to think of Mueller as this like beyond reproach, like, you know, lawyer superhero,

but he, but I think just as easily, even he could have let Mueller do his thing and bark and just do his completely separate from that. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, that's true.

This is just my bullshit conspiracy theory, but I'm just saying like it, it does seem like that is more likely than Mueller, like, getting him to turn on Trump. No, yeah. And I think our people point to the fact that William Barr is part of, like, the old guard of Republican operatives. And they're like, they realize that Trump is just such a disruptor that maybe he can do it. But again, all the Republican interests, which is the wealthy corporatocracy, they're being serviced by this administration. So it all works out.

All right. You know, at the end of the day, what I can say about all of this, right, is that we just don't know what is in the report. We just don't know. So it's not good to speculate, Jack. We just don't know. All right. Enough serious shit. Let's talk about the president.

He was in the Atlantic talking about his children. And there's just a great quote that is so revealing. Yeah. The whole article, it's called Inside Ivanka's Dream World. And it's just sort of talking about just the bizarro reality she's living in. But some of the funny things in here, or not funny, whatever, at this point, we're just we're living in a fever dream um is again i think people this has been sort of reported here and there but

they again are reporting that uh donald trump does still refer to ivanka as baby even in official meetings having to do with government issues uh and officials so it's was like, baby, what about this? Anyway, do you know anybody whose father refers to them as baby? No. I'm trying to think of it. Maybe that's a thing? That's a thing? Well, if you're black, I hear that shit.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. My aunt calls me baby. She calls her my cousin's baby. Oh, yeah. Okay. But that's different. That sounds, I think, in the vernacular,

it's a little bit different than if you're a waspy family. Right. Baby. But I don't know. And trying to convince people that you're not practicing nepotism. Well, right. You can't stop from calling the person baby. Everyone has weird names.

I'm sure their parents still call them to this day. I can share that with us. Whoever has the weirdest one, maybe we'll discuss. Maybe not. So then about this nepotism thing, right? Trump also, they have quotes of him saying, you know, he was thinking about having her replace Nikki Haley, who was our ambassador to the UN when she stepped down because he says she's a natural diplomat. She would have been great at the United Nations as an example.

And then they further asked, like, well, then why not nominate her if she would have been great? If I did, they'd say nepotism when it would have had nothing to do with nepotism. But she would have been incredible. I mean, yeah, they would have said it was nepotism because I put my daughter who has no governmental experience in the position of UN ambassador. Yeah, exactly. I don't know how you could have. Do you believe these people?

I know. There's just a bunch of haters. And that's what you got to do. You got to you got to brush the haters off and focus on you. I loved his attempt to give compliments to his other children. So this is I think this is a direct quote uh baron is young but he's got wonderful potential so that's kind of a compliment and tiffany's doing extremely well don is he's enjoying politics actually it's very good and eric

is running the business along with don and also very much into politics. I mean, the children, the children have been very, very good. Oh, my. So clearly a doting father who adores Don and Eric. That gave me chills. I don't know if you know. So proud of you guys. I don't know if you had friends whose parents, for whatever reason, maybe because they're

too busy with their careers or whatever, aren't around a lot. Yeah. Like trying to come up with shit. Yeah. Like when you really don't know shit. And it's just from like phone calls where you're like, well, the kids are really into science right now.

Yeah. Yeah. My kid, he's into science. Yeah. And, uh, that's very good.

Yeah. And, uh, Baron is young, but he's got, I don't understand the construction of that one. Baron is young, but he's got wonderful potential don't understand the construction of that one. Baron is young, but he's got wonderful potential. So he's like saying...

He's like, I tried to let him run a part of the business and he failed, but he's got wonderful potential. But he's 13 or whatever, 12. I tried to get him to fire a bunch of people for me and he broke down into tears, but I'm told that's because he's young. Because he's young. And he's still got wonderful potential because genetically he's got my genes.

And it's funny, too, that he's like, Tiffany's doing extremely well because all the reporting is that she's in law school and all she does is talk shit about him. Yeah. How does he come up with such a- Is that his other daughter that he doesn't really talk about? Yeah, with Marla Maples. Yeah, I don't know how he comes up with such a detailed compliment of somebody.

Extremely well. I guess, yeah. It's everyone's doing well. Yeah. And it's just about what modifier of well or good you're using. Because you can be, they're doing well. You can be extremely well. You can be good or very good.

But with Don and Eric, it's just things they're into. And what's wild too is he also said that he was thinking of having, like, Ivanka could have ran the World Bank. The World Bank? Yes. And the quote, she would have been great at that because she's very good with numbers. Oh, motherfucker.

It's amazing, the World Bank. But very good with numbers, yet the other kids are just descriptions of, they like politics. Uh-huh. But I love baby number one. Baby, baby. Wait, is she the eldest? No. I don't think so.

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And Super Producer Nick Stumpf just pointed out, he said, the best part of Joe Black is that it's three hours of that shit. Wait, it's three hours long? It's three hours. You know, it's funny. For a movie that I know certain things about really well and not seeing, it's amazing. Purely off of my love for Claire Forlani did I venture into that film. She's very striking on camera.

Like, she should have been Jennifer Aniston. She should have had an amazing career. She did. She was in Mallrats. Right. And then what else? What else? What else?

All right, guys. No, she's been in other stuff. Hold on. I don't want to do her dirty like that. Oh, that's right. She was in The Departed. She was in The Departed? Departed.

Who did she play in The Departed? She was The Departed. Oh. She left. She's the one that left? the departed she was in the departed who's she playing the departed the she was the departed oh she left she's the one that left yeah she was like sorry boys i've gotta departed uh-huh oh i love that part that's amazing and then mark walberg's like what the hell man what the hell what the fuck bro you're gonna depart you just going to depart like that without telling me, bro? Let's talk about Wisconsin, since we're doing the accent already. So Wisconsin restaurants, or a Wisconsin restaurant, has banned middle schoolers. And this story just brought me back to a time in my life when I was a middle schooler, just a shitty middle schooler looking for some grown-up behaviors

I could do with my friends and fucking it up beyond reproach. Hold on. While we were talking about this story, I don't remember Claire Forlani being in The Departed. I don't either. Nick Stumpf. She's not in The Departed.

That's a Mary... What's her name? You burned me, Stumpf. You burned us. Let's her name? You burned me, Stumpf. You burned us. Let's talk about this Wisconsin restaurant. The band Middle Schoolers. I would have had no place to order water and try and buy cigarettes out of the back, like cigarette vending machine, and then fight over a $12 bill with my friends. I mean, I had done this.

So apparently Tom's Drive-In. Tom's. Fuck, sorry. That was me. Yep. So apparently Tom's Drive-In in Fox Cities, Wisconsin has had it. Tom's, you burned me. So they put a sign up in their window or on the door.

It says middle school students highlighted. Due to mistreatment of Tom's Drive-Ins property guests and staff. You are no longer inside of the building without parental supervision. For those who did not cause any of the incidents, we are sorry for this inconvenience. You may still purchase food

through the walk-up window. Now, WFRV Local 5 News. They were saying that this has been a problem because they've just been acting out of pocket. So we're talking carving into booths, drawing genitalia with Sharpie markers, making just a fucking mess of the restaurant and bathroom, stealing soda, fighting with customers, yelling profanities at the manager, even tattooing. yelling profanities at the manager even tattooing so i think they were using like jailhouse shit with pen ink and needles like when the like the only the wildest middle schoolers do shout out to uh my homegirl sarah uh who has like a smiley face to this day that looks like a crying circle um and it says yeah so anyway these the so the cops aren't even called they were just trying to deal with it and And apparently they broke. Yeah.

And I get it because honestly, being a young child with no job at a restaurant, like as a patron, you do not know how to act, first of all. Because normally for me, when I was in a restaurant, I was with my parents. And then the second I'm in there feeling like an adult, of course I'm going to act out the dumbest shit while six of us are trying to spend $13 on fries and then fighting over one drink. Yeah. Totally. I remember when I went, we used to always go to Pizza Hut

because I lived in Perth in Scotland. So it was like a small town. So it was like one Pizza Hut that like allowed all the kids in. And we would get all our- There was one Pizza Hut? Well, I mean, it was just kind of where we would all hang out.

And I remember we'd get our ice cream and pizza and the chili flavors, the parmesan. We'd put it all in one thing. And it would be like, I bet you 20 pounds. If you drink that, I'll give you 20 pounds. And all the guys were like, no way, no way. And I was like, I'll try it. And I actually enjoyed it. It tasted amazing. It was like like, I'll try it. And I actually enjoyed it. It tasted amazing.

It was like, weirdly tasted like licorice. And then they were like, they almost didn't want to give it to me because I was enjoying it. Because you didn't drink. It just didn't look difficult. You're like, I'll have another. Wait.

Do it again. How rich were y'all? Y'all had a 20 pound note like that where you're like, yo, I got this on it. Yeah, I don't know. It was probably a birthday or something. Okay, I'm just making sure. Oh, we got to treat ourselves. Yeah, I was't know. It was probably a birthday or something. Okay, I'm just making sure.

Oh, we got to treat ourselves. Yeah, I was like, because I'm like, wait, what year was that? I'm thinking the exchange rate. I'm like, that's big money. I've never seen math magic, like what would happen when there was like 10 middle to early high schoolers at a restaurant and the bill comes and everybody has put in. And we're still $50 short on this bill somehow. Somehow. Somehow.

Somehow, Dion Scott. Oh, you forgot your wallet when we went to Vitello's before prom? Fuck out of here, bro. I still remember that shit. And I was like, oh, I only had a salad. Motherfucker, don't. You were eating my motherfucking pizza, though, too, Dion. Mine was Friendly's in Centerville, Ohio Ohio that's where we used to fuck shit up I live there in middle school

and uh RIP to friendlies I think they've gone out of business well you know so sorry to the kids you know got to learn how to at least you know don't be I'm surprised that they're tattooing each other that was my favorite little detail like I'm like of course kids are gonna draw dicks on stuff and stick gum places and just be farting up and screaming and doing dumb shit but like the fact that like someone would look and be like is that child tattooing the other one with just like penning and then he oh god bad kids in Wisconsin man uh well speaking of out of business Jesse Taylor, the influencer that called the cops on Instagram for deleting her account. Yeah, so she had about 100,000 followers, and then her Instagram was deactivated.

Do you know why? When the, quote, haters reported her account. Maybe it had something to do with the racist shit she had said in past streams. Anyways, we have some audio, not of the 911 call. Right. Well, let me first, just a little bit of background. So there was an interview with her, an insider, and she, first of all, was claiming that she was making $500,000 over the last three years from her Instagram account.

How old is this child? Uh, 21, maybe 22 or something like that. And she was basically, she said that when the second that was taken away from her, she had no other option but to phone the police because it was a fucking, it was a death as she describes it. Quote, I felt like it was a homicide. Like somebody murdered me and then went online to say i murdered this girl i don't know what that i called i called the police actually and told

them about this and they said you can't compare a murder to this and i was like no that's exactly what it felt like okay so then she goes on youtube like right after her shit got deleted and just delivers this victim's monologue straight out of a bizarro Lifetime film. I don't know what. Just listen to this. Hey, guys. So I'm in the middle of editing and my Instagram account got deleted. And I have nothing without my following. I have nothing without my following. I am nothing without my following.

I want to say to everybody that's been reporting me, think twice because you're ruining my life. What some of you guys have to realize is I have no skills. I have no job qualifications. I could never work a normal job. I am worthless. I bring nothing to the table. Zero. I bring nothing to the table zero i bring nothing to the fucking table when it comes to that i always get in fights with people i always get kicked out

of places like i'm not work material i will never be work material so stop fucking reporting me on motherfucking instagram the last thing i want to do is be a fucking homeless prostitute in the fucking street doing math that's just what norwegians say to each other day to day a little back to keep us humble we we cut that down uh there are moments where she said she was a like she worked at a strip club and she claims she was a prostitute for some of that time oh and then but there are other parts too where she goes after working people she's like i'm not like the fucking 90 okay who you guys just go do your nine to five okay that's why i moved to la so i could do instagram because i i'm not trying to live that boring life and then just comes at like working people wow uh so clearly the comments were not kind to her and even like her and then her ig was restored and instagram said it was deactivated

like in an error or some due to error or something now this is where i'm become a little bit i'm a little dubious okay because this is either the saddest indictment of the social media generation i think or it is a very very clever marketing thing because this has been written up so many times on the pure face of Instagram influencer calls police because account is deleted. And you get like everywhere from the sun to motherfucking business inside. Like everybody is writing about it. So in a way, I'm like, that's a good way to bring some attention to your account. Or I mean, she was seemed like those tears were legit. It did.

Yeah, at first I thought they were fake. I mean, it did seem like the pain of someone who has no values. It is the most pathetic and greatest performance since Bill Paxton in True Lies. When he's like, I got a little dick, it's pathetic. Yeah, she was basically. And then really does not do much for defending herself because every time she's like, I'm not saying like, okay, like that you're lame if you have a job or whatever. She's like, but like, fuck that. I would never work a job like you.

But, you know, Jesse. Yeah. I mean, those are, those all sound like good things to consider as you decide, okay, I need to broaden my skillset. Maybe like the things she was saying, it's like, Jesus,

man, I don't get along with, I don't get along with people. So I probably need to like hit a therapist at least once a week. Uh, I don't have any skills. I can't like go places without getting thrown out. Like, yeah, those are all problems that like you are using this Instagram thing to, you know, shield yourself from.

So let's look at those. But also like I don't know where she's going to get any. No one's going to feel bad for her because there are plenty of people with like legitimate disabilities who still go to work, who still find a way to do things. And like this is that's why I'm like, oh, God, are we going to have to take things. And like this is – that's why I'm like, God, are we going to have to take care of these like young dumb kids who are just like, what the fuck? I don't know. I don't want to work. Because you see a lot of people like when she said,

I moved to LA to do Instagram. I'm like that struck a chord with me because I'm like this is sort of the mirage about this city that people do really believe because of shit like they see on keeping up with the Kardashians. Like this influencer really is a coveted career. Yeah. And, and then I'm like really worried when you see people were like,

just shattered over this. And I don't know where the 500,000 comes from. Cause I didn't see many sponsored posts. I remember the first time I walked down Hollywood Boulevard, it was a rainy day. And I've like, I was like, they never show this on TV. It is like a hooker without the glitter. It is just all rotten teeth and so creepy.

Yeah, no, there's a really bad drug problem in Los Angeles. Yeah, I mean, at the same time, I do not want to say it's a generational thing. We're just or generation. They're probably smarter than millennials who are smarter than Gen X, who are smarter than the baby boomers. I think there's one in between there who is smarter than my grandpa. Yeah. Not smarter than any of our grandpas. They were the smart. Oh, if you think about my grandpa didn't go to college with his high high school education, knows more than people that go to college, I feel like.

Yeah. Well, I just feel like, just in general, like, the grasp of, like, there are things that I'm surprised that people who graduate college just don't know. Right. Like, basic stuff. Right. And I'm like, wow, the education system used to be more robust back then. Yeah. But I feel like.

But anyway, I'm saying my grandpa's the smartest guy on earth. Yeah. And he's old as shit. I do feel like judging a generation by their influencers. I just don't... We didn't have the baby boomer equivalent of somebody who got famous for just being an idiot, right? There were fewer famous people, right?

In the UK, they have eight girls. They're kind of like celebrities but no that I remember in the 90s yeah right yeah

that was before I feel like we like the maybe the most equivalent we've had is like reality stars up to this point yeah reality

ushered in the era of social media of fame being the achievement rather than you became famous for achieving things or for a talent.

Yeah. That flipped around. Well, I mean, I think it's always sort of been getting there, but reality TV just blew that door open because now it's like, oh, yeah, the person who screwed everyone over in that competition game show is now like a celebrity. That's right. Well, Katya, it's been a pleasure, as always, having you.

Thanks for having me. Where can people find you on social media since finding you in person is going to be difficult since you're going to be flying all over the damn place. So I'm on Instagram and Twitter. I use Instagram more. I've got a Facebook fan page if people use that. They're both just Katia Kvinge.

K-A-T-I-A-K-V-I-N-G-E. I almost had to think for some of my own name. That is not... I am tired. I need a nap. Yeah, I will post about shows. I've kind of just been writing

and filming, but I will eventually be doing more live shows. So pop along. Okay. Pop along. Pop along. As we say. Is there a tweet you've been enjoying? Oh, oh my gosh. Not a tweet, but I saw on Instagram, it was they had sped up the footage of the moon landing

and it was one of the best things I've seen where it was like, they're like, like bopping around. So sweet. That's amazing. Yeah. Miles, where can people find you? Find me, follow me on Twitter and Instagram at milesofgray.

A tweet that I like, brought to my attention by the Zeitgang, from attherealheemd, not individual in your display name, you put me onto this tweet, from atandrewchamings. Chamings? Yeah, we'll go with that. It says, me, do you think Chewbacca has pecs or a trail of tiny teats like a piglet? Uber driver.

Why did you sit in the front? Hey, what do you think, though? Chewbacca got teats or pecs? Teats. It looked like he got pecs. Yeah, he looks like pecs. That would be funny, though. Or he's got a third nipple.

Yeah, where he's got the defined pecs. And then if you just pull the hair to the side, he's got wild little teats on the abs. Oh, like on his six pack, little teats on each pack. Yeah, each pack. Great. As you know, I have incredibly high nipples. Yes. We won't talk about that.

Call them shipples because they're on your shoulders. Shoulder nipples. Johnny Soon tweeted, does it still count as a depression nap if it happens at 9.30 PM and then you sleep for 15 hours? Colin tweeted, Benihana style pizza restaurant where the chef is a big mustachioed stereotype guy and he comes out and throws the dough in the air and says mama mia and stuff maybe his adult son could come out at one point and he'd scream at him in front of you hey what, what are you doing? That's so true, man.

Fucking Benny Hunt. Ugh, fuck. Problematic. The same shit, just like I was talking about the Good Luck Bar. Right. And they're like, Asian,

or what is it, Chinatown-themed bar. Like, come on, bro. We are the most oriental, quote-unquote. They're like, oriental-themed place. You know,

that's, in the UK, if you go shopping like at Tesco's or Sainsbury's, they'll have a section that's called Oriental, quote unquote. They're like, oriental themed place. You know, that's in the UK. If you go shopping like at Tesco or Sainsbury's, they all have a section. It's called oriental food. Yeah. And I came out here and I said, I miss oriental food. And they were like, you cannot say that. And I was like, oh, I didn't know.

They're like, sorry. Well, if you had dominated that part of the globe, you would say orient too. And Andrew Thomas tweeted, hey, Miles miles and jack if you weren't impressed by the zoomed in blurry picture of the black hole check out the zoomed out version much cooler my opinion it is much cooler i was trying to find that shit last week before we recorded uh and yeah go find the zoomed out version it is really really fucking cool so check that out uh 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 us to the information that we talked about

in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what's that? This is from Shigeto and Zeloopers called A2D. Shigeto is a dope producer,

I think from Detroit. Maybe not. Anyway, I know he's Japanese, Japanese-American, and he makes sick beats, but this is no different. So get your week starting off with some good beats and raps.

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