The Daily Zeitgeist - Instagram: Where Love Lives, Asbestos? A**ButtStuff! 12.17.18

Episode Date: December 17, 2018

In episode 295, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Laci Mosley to discuss Instagram's year in review, an Instagram influencer's scam, Rudy Giuliani's thoughts on Trump's crimes, a child dying of dehydration while in ICE custody, shady behavior by Johnson & Johnson, Postmates starting to use robots to deliver food, most watched shows on Netflix, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Instagram Year in Review 20182. This Instagram Influencer Charged $500 For A "Master Class" In Social Media. Now, Angry Students Are Calling It A "Scam."3. Rudy Giuliani on Trump Probes: 'Nobody Got Killed'4. HOW TO HELP IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN THE SOUTHERN BORDER5. 7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion6. DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen re: a 7-year-old girl who died in U.S. custody.7. Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder8. A guiding hand on talc safety research9. Postmates’ to roll out Minion-like autonomous delivery robots in 201910. Content demand: The most wanted television in the United States (25 November – 1 December, 2018)11. WATCH: Jitwam - Alone Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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New episodes every Thursday. Hello, the internet, and welcome to Season 60, to Episode 1 of Dead Daily Zeitgeist! The podcast where we take a deep dive into America's shared consciousness using the headlines, box office reports, TV ratings, what's trending on Googs and social medias. It's Monday, December 17th, 2018.

My name's Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. I was Jack O'Brien when I met you. Tato's O'Brien when I left you. That is courtesy of the Reesmeister on Twitter. And I'm thrilled to be joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. It's a thin line between miles and grave And that's all I'm gonna say. Thank you to J.F. Despresse, a.k.a. at Revenant Saint for that one,

because it is a thin line between love and hate. Great movie with Martin Lawrence, too. Yes. Do you remember that classic? One of the greats. Yeah. I believe it's on the AFL 100 Greatest Movies in the History of Cinema. Do you have the Criterion Collection version? I do, actually. The Steelbooks? Yeah. The Director's. Yeah. I believe it's on the AFL-X 100 Greatest Movies in the History of Cinema. Do you have the Criterion Collection version?

I do, actually. The Steelbooks? Yeah. The director's cut is amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's some alternate endings that will blow your mind. There is an extended dance sequence where Martin Lawrence is wearing fake teeth. No!

Yeah, yeah. Oh, shit. He's breaking it down. Yeah, it's great. Well, we are thrilled to be joined once again by an old favorite, one of the funniest people we've ever had on this show. Yeah. She's been gone.

The prodigal daughter. On the East Coast doing work. And we're thrilled to have her back, Lacey Mosley. Hey. What's up, Zeitgang? It's you. It's me, Lacey's? It's you. It's me. Lacey's mom got it going on.

Yeah, we're going to go light and fun. Does your mom have it going on? She has. Oh, wait. I saw a photo of your mom. I was like, hey, look at Lacey's sister. I'm really tired. I'm tired of that shit, man.

I'll be blocking. I'll be kind of blocking on my mom's hardcore. Because that shit used to be cute. You'd be like, oh, thanks so much. I have a great gene pool. And I'd be like, chill. Get out my mom's hardcore because that shit used to be cute you'd be like oh thanks so much I have a great gene pool and I'd be like chill get out my mom's DMs like what you doing fam like that ain't happening right look over here they're really

trying it but McDank at McDank on Twitter thank you for that oh nice very well done McDank I know I also like your Twitter name I like that you know they did their research. They were like, you know, Lacey's mom's got it going. Whoa.

See, so I shouldn't have used it anyway. I take it all back. Get Twitter on the phone. All right. We're going to get to know you a little bit better and what you've been up to. But first, we're going to tell our listeners a little bit of what they're in store for or what's in store for them. Yeah. Somebody told me a little bit of what they're in store for or what's in store for them yeah somebody told me i said that wrong what's in store for what they're

in store for that doesn't make sense does it yeah whatever gives a shit this is a fucking second rate podcast man this isn't grammar city we're gonna talk about what just use a bunch of fake sayings now from now on. Yeah. We are going to about talk what was trending on Instagram in 2018. They've released their list of, I don't know, random information. Then we're also going to talk about some scammers on Instagram because we have the scam god with us in studio. We're going to talk about Rudy Giuliani's take on Michael Cohen. We're going to talk about a terribly sad story happening at the border and the fact that Johnson & Johnson baby powder had asbestos in it all this time. And they've been covering it up since 1971.

I knew I didn't like that smell for a reason. Right. And then we have a couple fun stories at the end to lighten things up. But first, Lacey, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Where have you been? Okay. Black cowboy memes. Ooh.

Yeah. That came up immediately. And I think it's because I really enjoy on Instagram, like, flex. Oh, man. Shit, I don't want to say this. I don't want to jinx this shit, but the Cowboys have been doing pretty well this season. I'm a Cowboys fan. Yeah, we know.

If you know me, you know I'm down for the D. Not Detroit. Come on, guys. Dallas. Oh. Oh, Dallas. Okay. Yes.

They've been doing very well, and I have been using memes and gifs to flex on, you know, people who are less fortunate very often. and gifts to flex on people who are less fortunate very often. But I don't want to say anything about it because I just don't want to jinx it. It's been so long, so, so long since we've had a successful season. I mean, honestly, everybody thinks until Jerry Jones dies, we're not going to win a Super Bowl. Ask Raiders fans who felt that way about Al Davis.

They're like, yeah, once Al Davis is dead, man. Yeah, then we're going to put it together. Yeah, but Jerry Jones is probably going to live for a long time. He's evil, so he will. Oh, for sure. You know, he got a facelift when I was eight years old. He has a facelift? Bruh, you don't know this is Jerry Jones' second face?

No. This face just settled in. It just settled in. Oh, I can, okay. Yeah, for a while he was looking. He was real tight. Yes. Yeah. I thought he was just traveling in a very fast car all the time and he just got out. He looked like the feeling when you wash your face and don't

put any moisturizer on it. Yeah, but he looked like that. That's how he looked. Black cowboy memes.. So black cowboy memes, specifically black cowboy memes. I just Googled it and I got a bunch of Blazing Saddles memes. Oh, yeah, you got to really dodge the racism when you put it in. It's a lot of racism that pops up. I was just talking about that on Twitter.

You got to know when somebody's going to do racism to you. And when I Google this, I'm fully prepared for people to do racism to me via the internet. But then I find some fun. You've seen those GIFs or those videos of the two cowboys who are black and they dance in sync? No. I don't think so. Oh my god, are you serious?

These videos are so poppin'. What are they dancing to? Are they line dancing or are they like really rockin'? They're just literally in a parking lot in cowboy hats and they dance to music. It's so lit. One of them looks like Carl Tartt. You're going to be mad when I say that. Oh, wait, wait, wait.

Oh, okay. No, I have seen I didn't realize that was like a whole phenomenon. Oh, yeah. I see so many things on the internet. It's very lit, guys. Go look at those. They're very fun. So you use that to just, as you are... To stun all people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, you know, because I look down at black cowboy music, I see a lot of Michael Jordan L faces with cowboy hats on too.

Yeah, me too. Where people trying to flame you. But hey. Yeah, there's disrespect. You got to comb through the disrespect. It's tough being a Cowboys fan too. It is.

But we're America's team. It's a YouTube video. Do you want to be America's team right now? Listen, don't do that video. Do you want to be America's team right now? Listen, don't do that, okay? The Patriots are America's team right now. Yeah, well, anyway. I think the GIFs come from a YouTube video, How People from Texas Dance Hip Hop.

Yes. It's very funny. Very funny. Well done. What is something you think is underrated? Underrated. Okay, this is going to be real basic, but I've been in Savannah and I've been kind of really tuned out to the world.

I was working like a shit ton. And then other than that, like, you know, it was very beautiful there and I would take walks. Walks. Walks, yo. What is that? Like when you go to the bathroom, like when I go from the studio to the bathroom.

Right, right. Or the studio to my car. I feel like we love to workout shame people and be like, you know, like, oh man, I just did a tough mudder. I just crawled. We make some bullshit where we like make mud and dirt and stuff for you.

And then you pay top dollar to crawl through that shit so you can get on instagram and be like i just did a really hard workout i acted like a viking right right meanwhile they set this whole course up for you this is not in the wild yeah like you know marathons like like working out you know diets it's all about doing you know doing the hardest thing and and you know getting popular. CrossFit is just abuse. That's just body abuse. That's how people like to get it in. Listen, I get it. They're like, I'm bleeding.

Oh, it was a workout. I just really enjoy going on walks, long walks and not like the walks you put on your dating profile. I love long walks. It sounds like you literally just said, I love long walks. What's the difference? When I'm there, I'm like air punching walks so what's the difference when I'm there I'm like

air punching I make it really intense right I'm kicking down the street you know I do two steps and I do some pushups like no

like cause think about it if you're not gonna work out one day if you just walked on a day that you weren't gonna work out at all

I mean that still counts for something and you can breathe in some I mean in LA it's some dirty ass air but you but I think exercise aspect aside fitness aspects aside like just enjoying life yeah when

you're able to go somewhere where you can take a nice walk like when i was up in the bay area like for thanksgiving we went like near the uh where was that like point reyes and took like a nice walk and i was like damn man fucking man, fucking earth, huh? Right! Well, I'll be. This shit is big. I'm small. And you can notice some shit, too. Yeah, especially at night, because there's less light pollution, so you can see the stars.

Well, shout out to you for walking at night. That ain't my bad. Right. I'm going to keep these lady parts safe up in the jar at night but during the day did you eat a lot of Zaxby's? I fully missed Zaxby's and I meant to go and I just kind of missed my window

but I ate around Savannah I ate every little did you go to Slow's BBQ? it was some spots that I missed but we went to almost every restaurant no wait I'm confusing it's not Slow's Slow's, that's okay. But we went to almost every restaurant. No, wait, I'm confusing. It's not Slow. Slow's in Detroit.

There's another place. The one time I went to Savannah, Georgia, I tweeted at Big Boy from OutKast, and I was like, hey, where do I go? And he actually tweeted me back. And I was like, really? Big Boy from OutKast? It's a real one. Big Boy brought me on stage once when I was trying to trick one of these, like I had a

student visitor. I used to give tours on my campus, and she was black, and I was trying to trick one of these, like I had a student visitor. I used to give tours on my campus and she was black and I was trying to trick her to come to our school. I was like, oh, yes, lit. Lots of black people. You definitely don't have a good black ass time. And so I took her to this OutKast concert that happened on Carnegie Mellon's campus randomly. And Big Boy was there and I was like, he was bringing people up on stage. I was trying to give her like a once in a lifetime experience.

I was like, oh, Big Boy. He was like, yeah, y'all come on up. He was very nice and then I met him again at a nightclub and he gave me a huge tip and was like super nice. So big boy's a solid dude. And that girl was very upset when she came to the school and realized that it was predominantly

white and not lit. His sun bamboo looks like he's good at football too. Really? He told me to go to Trix Barbecue. Trix. That's what, literally, I will still favorite this tweet to the end of my days. Damn. Big boy.

We are out here. We are out here, big boy. We're out here. Wait, big boy's son is Bamboo? Yeah. Oh, okay. His son is named Bamboo? Yeah, he got a son named Bamboo.

Man, that's lit. You know you lit when you say that in kids. He says that in Bombs Over Baghdad. Does he really? I thought he was just talking about Bamboo. Man, that's lit. You know you lit. He says that in Bombs Over Baghdad. Does he really? I thought he was just talking about Bamboo. No, no, no, no. He has, his son is named Bamboo. That's awesome.

I just can't wait until I'm rich enough and lit enough to name my kids whatever I want because it doesn't matter in their success. I'm going to name my son Carkeys. Like, it does not matter. Just Tesla. Hyphenated Tesla with a Z. Just Flex, yeah. Ooh, yeah.

That's classy. Okay, let's brainstorm with a Z. Just Flex, yeah. Ooh, yeah. That's classy. Okay, let's brainstorm some child names, child Flex names later. For some reason, I thought Andre had Bamboo, and that's probably just because- No, his kid's named Seven, right? Yeah, Seven. But by the time, he'll probably be six. That song, The Day in the Life of Andre Benjamin. That's his child with Erykah Badu, right?

Yeah. It's a real Zen baby. Yeah, Bamboo and 7. Lacey, what is something you think is overrated? Okay, I'm gonna get shade for this, but the Stars Born soundtrack. Turn that shit off. It's done. We listened

to it. Yeah, Bradley Cooper can growl on a microphone. Who can't? Also, I want to shame all of you who've been playing this album a lot because y'all are the same people who disrespect Creed And this is Creed music This is literally Creed music Scott Stapp

That's the lead singer of Creed Did I have to google that? Absolutely But he's been growling on audio For decades Yarling By the wayside look at this photograph Look what I just did there You just did Nickelback though But Nickelback is also Yarlik Yarlik By the wayside Look at this photograph Look what I just did there Look how dumb y'all look

Well you just did Nickelback though That's Chad Well no but Nickelback Is also Yarlik Yeah but she's saying Creed I stand for Nickelback You're right You're right

I'ma throw them in too Okay Yeah Wait so you're saying They both get shade You're saying that The Jackson main songs Are

You're just saying You're coming after Creed And I don't like it Or you're saying That people are just Playing it too much I'm saying they're hyping Korean, I don't like it. Or you're saying that people are just playing it too much. I'm saying they're hyping it like it's

not music that we used to make fun of people for enjoying. Yeah, I don't like the Jackson main songs on that soundtrack. I like just shallow.

Oh, like Gaga. Yeah, and I don't even really listen to it. If you look at my Spotify though, I have that one song

downloaded to my Spotify. So when I go on the plane, I just loop that. I can't listen to that song. It makes me cry. I'll never see that movie again. That shit was so goddamn sad. It was disrespectful.

I started yelling in the movie when I predicted the sad-ass movie. I predicted the ending. Obviously, this movie's come out four times. Isn't it really a spoiler? But I'm going to still give y'all. Spoiler in case you don't know what happens at the end of star is born gets your shit together but here come here it comes yeah yeah yeah so the one precursor they give us when homie is about to off himself when they're just sitting in the rehab center he's like yeah by the way i'm suicidal i'll say oh hell i'm like he gonna kill himself and mind you we watched i watched this movie in savannah

right after the Kavanaugh situation where he was getting confirmed. And we were like, let's go watch an uplifting movie. Our dumbasses had no idea. I was like, Lady Gaga gonna fall in love with this fine man. We gonna see his abs. This is a feel good movie. That shit was so, it was aggressively sad.

I love though that you had no context for what you were jumping into because they are all basically the same premise. It's the same premise. And it was a millennial moment it was a millennial moment for me of like this movie is this is the fourth iteration of this movie and i still had no idea and when i yelled out oh hell he gonna kill himself in the movie theater this lady behind me got up and left really yes and i was like damn i, I'm going to upset that lady. Oh, well. Or maybe you gave her a warning.

Listen, and that's what it was. You're on the right track. She came back in. Look at you, Jack. Okay. She came back in, and she whispered to her old lady friend. She said, is it over? And her friend was like, yeah, yeah, it's over.

She was like, good, good. And I was like, look at me being a blessing. Right. Yeah. Look at you. She was like, it's just too much. So don't tell black folks not to yell in the movie theater. They might be saving you. We might be saving somebody.

It's a traumatic experience. And finally, what is a myth? What's something people think is true you know to be false? Oh, we were just talking about this. And it's just a fun one, a light one. So I was obviously gone working on a TV show for a little while. Obviously. Obviously.

That's where I was. While we were here meddling in our second rate podcast. Acting. Yes. Oh, please. I love this. I love this. I miss you guys. Can we have a hug? Can I hug you, Dizzy? Are we hugging right now? We're all hugging right now. Not too tight. And no one's touching your hair.

No one's touching my hair. I love you guys. But I learned that when you see actors who direct, and this kind of does throw back to A Star I learned that when you see actors who direct and this kind of does throw back to A Star is Born. When you see actors who direct and they're like, oh, they directed this movie. Just please know that they did not direct it. And by that I mean directors

have very complicated jobs where they have to make shot lists and make sure they get coverage, which I know that word may not mean. It's like a jargon word. But there's a lot of complicated stuff that goes into directing something. And when actors direct projects, like when you see TV not mean it's like a jargon word but like there's a lot of complicated stuff that goes into directing something and when actors direct projects like when you see tv shows and it's like this act this episode was directed by so-and-so I promise you they just put on a cute outfit they came and they made lots of hand motions they probably told people how to say a line or two and that was it that's not directing I just want y'all to know so you're

saying you saw directing and you said what I thought was directing. Oh, absolutely. Because I fully was like, oh, I cannot wait to start my directing career. You know what I mean? Shit is easy. I got an outfit. Listen, gesticulation. A bitch got it covered.

You know what I mean? Do you have the glasses though? Do you have fake glasses? I don't have a face for glasses. Okay. I don't. But you need a quirky hat, like an old cabbie hat. Right. I also don't have a face for glasses. I don't. But you need a quirky hat, like an old cabbie hat. You're right.

I also don't have a head for hats. I'm not even kidding. One size fit all hats, that's some bullshit. Because they don't fit my head. My head's too big. Oh, it's too big? Yeah, every time I see one size fit all hats, they don't fit. My mom used to encourage me when I was a kid.

She was like, but that's good for TV. Do you know what size fitted you wear? Like a 7 5 8? Oh, I think it's like an 8. Wow. I've got a big head. It's probably because you've got a thick hair, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know you're coming from my weave. No, I didn't say anything. I've got some braids and some tracks going on. I didn't say anything about a weave. And that's an extra layer. That's like an inch. Your mom's right, though. Actors who appear on TV and film all have big old noggin.

Gigantic heads. Yes. But yeah, directing is like one of those things I think a lot of people take for granted well not that they take for granted but don't realize like

how collaborative it really is to direct and do well like you know even with people we look at we're like oh Alfonso Carbone

or whatever his DP Emmanuel Lubezki like they were constantly winning like hand in hand DP and director like academy awards and you realize just how much you know much one needs the other.

Exactly. Someone has a vision for that. And of course, directors do do a lot, so I don't want to say that there are definitely people who they come in and they're, I'm directing when the creative infrastructure is already there for them to just sort of say, give their notes here and there. And ADs, that's a job that you hear assistant director and you're like, yeah, whatever. That is a hard job.

My uncle is a first ad to this day still and it's the hardest fucking job because you have to scream at everybody crack the whip yeah you do the hard part of the director's job which is like making sure everybody fucking is where they need to be exactly and preempt everything we're like okay we're we're this far off from needing this setup okay blah blah yeah he i don't know how my uncle needs to retire but he's still he's still out here but directing i mean can be a really hard job because it's you know you're running a business basically you like are running a very complicated a lot of operation that just started like right that day like you're having to it's like running a startup every day.

But yeah, I mean, there's other ways that you can offload the directing duties. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, that being said, I fully plan to get my name on some stuff as a director. Yeah, yeah, please. Just know I wasn't really doing shit. You know what I mean? Oh, you're being upfront. Okay, yeah. Absolutely.

I'm upfront with my scams. Yeah, but I think you're also capable of a good finesse scam too where you would be like well this was my vision from the beginning oh absolutely the DP was a joke and you're like

you were working with Emmanuel Lubezki no no no man Emmanuel who? he's a fake yeah listen you mean loser? so producer Anna Hosnia

by the way as we're going to break just let us know that when Miles was asking what the name of Alfonso Cuaron's DP was, she kept saying Chivo. And he was like, no, that's not it.

That is his nickname. I need his legal name, his Christian name. So well done to producer Ana Hosnia. All right. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16, 2017, was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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you get your podcasts and we're back and instagram has clued us into what was going on on the gram on their platform in 2018. I guess love is popular, is a popular emotion, it seems like. Well, they're talking about the most used emojis, most used Instagram stickers. So the most used face filter on Instagram stories, heart eyes. Yes. Most used Giphy sticker on stories, the heart love sticker by Arata. Huh. Number of times the heart emoji was used in comments, 14 billion.

Yeah, but that's not about love. Well, I think, but I think just in general, I think that's just the most overused emoji is probably what it is. Oh, absolutely. Because it's all fake love. It's like, yeah, oh my God, love your wedding. Love your picture. Love your baby. Love your vacation.

It's easier than having the same words. But also, the heart filter is probably the most popular because that shit puts makeup on you. What do you mean? Oh, because it gives you a slight glow up? Yeah, heart eyes gives you blush, concealer. Yeah, flattens everything out. And it makes your face skinny.

Oh, that's why I love it. I look so good in it. But there's also some other interesting things, too. They said that the happiest geotag location in the world, Disneyland Tokyo, because it had the most use of the smiley face emoji in the caption. That's not surprising to me, though. Yeah, because it's already like Asian people are about the emojis. I was going to guess Disneyland.

And then you go to Disneyland. And then you add Tokyo in. Yeah. Oh, that's real Disneyland. And then you add Tokyo in. Oh, that's really it. Their emoji game is fire. I mean, we gave y'all emoji. That's true.

The word is emoji. You're welcome. We being me and my mother. Yes. We worked very hard in the lab getting this done

thanks to the Unicode Consortium for allowing this. Because those are the people who run the emoji game. I was surprised by the top niche community trend, because this seemed like a sort of just fake trend to me. ASMR is the top niche community trend.

I feel like, well, because I get, what, you just get your kicks for one minute in the videos? Yeah, well, it's like, you know, people have that brain tingly thing. But it seemed to me like it was like more of a novelty story where people were like, oh, ASMR, like those videos are crazy. No, they're fucking getting wild into it. Because it's not just people talking. I personally like to watch the crunchy ones. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So it's like where people make slime and then they like sometimes they'll make hard slime or they'll make foam or they'll like have something and like, I don't know, it'll be like a sharp object but they'll have an even sharper object cutting it and it'll just be like,

zhoom. Yeah. wow. Zhoom. And like watching it, it's just like, oh. I watched it so much

that it comes up in my explore page. It's like, hey bitch, you wanna watch these crunchies? You wanna watch these people cut this soap? I'm like, yes.

You know my heart, Instagram. Yeah. No, cause it's not even just people talking although i do love the cheetos and takis girls though i think the other thing too is like the the haircut one i like i've heard too i'm like i don't get the feeling so i'm not fully into it but like when you kind of listen you're like oh i could see maybe i wish i got getting my haircut

like that feeling is great well that's your privilege you know you're not just crying with a fucking hair clippers in the bathroom. Girlfriend asks you what's wrong in there. And I'm like, I think I don't have no more hair to cut. But so ASMR seems like it went a little broader because at first the only thing it was, was like people whispering and like fingernails tapping. And now it's like gone to all things, like all sensory experiences that are kind of weird but yeah somewhat enjoyable pioneers of asmr the ying ying twins

they're gonna be seen as the right brothers hey little mama let me whisper in your ear hey shout out to them see if it's soft just like 22 do you wanna see if it's soft he was saying wild shit to us and we were like yeah yeah sure sure that is such a wild line

I totally forgot that he said that dude see if it's soft he's like do you wanna see if it's soft well I think he was saying he's like mind if I touch it and see if it's soft

cause say you got a sexy ass body and your ass looks soft mind if I touch it see if it's soft and I was like sure I mean you asked soft ass looks soft. Mind if I touch it and see if it's soft? And I was like, sure. I mean, you asked. Soft?

I mean, do you mind if I touch it? Just to see if it's soft. Since you whispered it. Just to confirm my suspicions because your ass is looking soft. Yeah. I think if you ASMR any fuckboy shit, it would sound so much better. That might be like cat collars. Here's one.

Maybe try whispering at people on the street. That might be an approach that works. Actually, that might be like cat callers here's one maybe try whispering at people on the street that might be an approach that works actually that might be real creepy blue dress yeah it's less aggressive you're right it might be creepy it might be a little creepy just creeps with laryngitis seems like they're just trying to hide it but also like yeah yeah but then this is true you would also have to force them like, huh? Yeah. I can't hear you. What did you say?

You need to speak up. That's more attention than I've ever given any heckler on the street. But then they'll maybe be embarrassed. They're like, I've seen your ass look good. What? Your ass is looking good. Your ass looks soft. Do you mind if I touch it to see if it's soft? You know, now that I say it out loud, it doesn't sound as good.

I apologize, madam. I'm going to get back to work. You and your soft ass have a great day. Right. Actually, I have to get back to AutoZone. That's where they work. Yeah. Anything, other interesting things.

The biggest growing hashtag community was obviously Fortnite. Fortnite. The top dance movement, In My Feelings Challenge. Oh, yeah. Popping out those cars. I think the funniest thing about those were all the people who were fucking up their cars doing it. I know some were fake, but other ones you were like, oh, you really fucked your car up because you don't know how to just let a car roll and drive. They're just like, yeah, I think I can keep up with a car going 10 miles an hour and a slight incline or decline.

Yeah, or why not? It's a two-person job, guys. You can't just hop out of your own car and do this. Get a driver. Get the Uber. Somebody, a driver who's super litty. What if you called an Uber and I was like, look, I just want you to do the In My Feelings challenge with me.

Can you tape it? I'll tip you. Another Instagram story we wanted to hit on real quick is there's an Instagram influencer who is offering her followers the chance to join her master's tribe. Master, not masters. Master tribe. That sounds like a very problematic slave owner Native American thing. Master tribe doesn't sound like a problematic Nazi thing.

No, but masters. It's not master race, guys. We said tribe. Master tribe. Master tribe. Master card. Tribe sounds a little different. I guess master card has to go away, too, then.

I think I was trying to make it sound like a master's program. Oh, oh, oh. Okay. But instead it is MasterTribe where she would teach them all the secrets to becoming a six-figure Instagram travel blogger because, you know, that's what they deserve. That's what we all deserve. Anyone who's on the wave who's like, I need to be that has a very terrible sense of self and what their entitlement is. They're like, my job should be to take photos in first class.

Right. Take photos with my bag on the jetway. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I agree with that. Okay. Well, let me tell you something. Oh, wait.

So you do deserve that. Well, one, I think that anything that you want to be a career in America, that's why we set this bullshit up this way. You know what I mean? That's why we're getting shot every day. Like, is this what we're dying for? Is the opportunity to make your whole job flexing on the gram? Yeah, yeah. That's what we're dying for.

Well, let me tell you if you're down with this program, first of all. So this woman, her name is Aggie Law, and she's at Travel In Her Shoes. I don't know what. Travel In Her Shoes. Right. It and she's at Travel In Her Shoes. I don't know what, Travel In Her Shoes. It's a little long. In Her Shoes. She's not traveling in people's shoes.

So she was offering people a 12-week course for $497 called How To Grow Your Instagram. Just shy of 500. And you know, you join her master tribe. You get behind the scenes video

from being broke to woke or not a joke. the wild thing is 380 people signed up for her program so she pocketed 180k for this and this wasn't a thing people had to show up in physical space they're like i'll send you videos and like just advice and like interviews it was and let me tell you something like two weeks in people were like this is a fucking scam so the first piece of advice she was like, start your own online workshop. Well, this is the first. They started smelling shit when they were like, I think a week in, she was like, okay,

here's my challenge to the Master Tribe. I want you to share this course with your followers and tell them to sign up. And you're like, oh, we're building a pyramid, aren't we? Right. So even before she has like hooked them with some sort of brainwashing. Exactly. That was lazy of her. She's like off top.

That was lazy. That's just not how you do it. Yeah. And then she's like, oh, and also I think getting them to sell like her preset IG filters that they could buy. Yeah. She had like, that was like the challenges were basically just multi-level marketing shit.

Right. And then people then they're like, yo, I want my money back. Like, you're not even giving me useful information. Some people were like, I loved it, but I think those are people who probably have

the disposable income to throw $500 away and be like, that was fine. But the funny thing is, they were saying they were promised six weeks of videos,

but like after that, the videos kind of stopped coming. And when BuzzFeed asked this woman, Aggie Law, for comment about like what happened with the uploads, she said she was unable to upload four out of 66 course videos

due to, quote, hurdles with my health and Wi-Fi connectivity. Hurdles with my health and Wi-Fi connectivity. That means being hungover out in the desert. Right. Yes. I think that's what it was. That's exactly what that means.

But then a lot of the people who were in the course were a little confused. It was like, well, how come you're still uploading your own content to your fucking page? You got enough Wi-Fi to flex on the ground. Right. Yeah, you know. Guys, it's coming. Don't worry.

It's coming. Yeah. So she had to, I think she gave a lot of refunds and was just sort of like, oh, I hate to think that people thought I was like trying to take advantage of them. But you know. Because that will not be profitable. But scam on. You know, scam on. think that people thought I was like trying to take advantage of them but you know because that will not be profitable but scam on you know scam on shout out to her for giving refunds because that would have been like the first disclaimer the thing was at first she was like I'm sorry I can't

like this is what it is and then she did it on some platform like called teachable or some some kind of like online platform that where they were like you gotta and they have a 30-day policy we're like yo if you don't like it you can get your money back the coins yeah and other people after the 30 days like i still want my money back this is a blatant scheme or whatever they're like oh sorry like even the woman was being dodgy and then one person like threatened them with a class action lawsuit and they're like okay here's your money back uh-huh yes 380 people were dumb enough to just pay $50 $500 or $500 that's what I meant

$497 is a good scam number it's like just close enough to $500 and with processing fees you're definitely paying over $500 oh yeah yeah yeah

it's crazy though because she could have just if she really wanted to be dedicated to a good scam this is a solid scam yeah

give people some of this bullshit up front yes and then hook them with the spread the word multi-level marketing thing wanted to be dedicated to a good scam this is a solid scam yeah give people some of this bullshit up front yes like and then hook them with the spread the word multi-level marketing thing like she could have had a really great scam here going i'm starting my own church and you know oh great oh is that why you're asking me to help you with that tax paperwork yeah yeah yeah absolutely church of me um church of you you know what i mean it's all about worshiping your inner self anyway i'll get into it in my book but how much is that so it's a paypal book so you paypal me per chapter oh great yeah yeah yeah so you said so like scientology or scientology oh yeah they don't have the t on their building right now scientology building the t fell off damn i'm surprised i haven't gotten

that face they're just going brit. Scientology. Scientology. A bit of cockney there. But also, this could have been a real good scheme. I'm sure you could have. This is why I brought it up, because I know your commentary would be that she fucked the scam up. She did. Mine is like, where are we headed as a culture? Yours is, the scam could have been more fun. Oh, it could have been so fruitful.

One, everyone wants to pop on IG, likes are how everybody gets high these days. People buy Instagram followers. That shit don't work. So it's like you can teach people how to make an Instagram that's full of shit that people will enjoy. Right. If you don't have a private jet, start small. Go to LAX and pay $200 to take photos on a private jet. Bring a few outfits.

It's $200 an hour, guys. Write this down. That's free. There you go. You know what I mean? Like you can fake it. Wait, weren't an hour, guys. Write this down. That's free. There you go. You know what I mean? You can fake it. Wait, weren't you actually telling me about that? Yeah, it's real. It's real. You can go flex on a fake jet.

Oh, that's right. So I'm like, these are real tips that you could be giving these people. Well, first you have to create the illusion, and then people buy into that, and then that's where you get your power once you sell them the illusion. Exactly. Exactly. You could be broke as hell doing this, but anyway, she's lazy.

Obviously, she's living good. She probably got a man. That's what happened. Like, she was out here really trying to make her own empire, and then she met somebody who started paying all those bills. Next thing you know, she high and oh high, and she didn't have time to send y'all the other video. Or she's high off that influencer money. Right. Or whatever they get now. I know the influencer market is dying.

Yeah, because it's too saturated. Yeah. Yeah. They're going after micro-influencers now. Like, people with, like I know the influencer market is dying. Yeah, because it's too saturated. Yeah. Yeah. They're going after micro-influencers now. Like people with like 30, 50K and below. I know. Isn't that crazy? Because they're like, those fans are more engaged.

They see that people will buy more from someone who has a smaller fan base and like a 3 million follower account. Right. Where you can get like 20 people or something. Right. Because they've already been ruined by their success. They've already been ruined. And they've, you know.

Right. They paid for the courses. Right. Because they've already been ruined by their success. They've already been ruined. And they've, you know, they paid for the courses. Right. Alright, let's check in real briefly with the Trumposphere. Rudy Giuliani responded to the details of the Michael Cohen sentencing and just everything by saying, quote, nobody got killed,

nobody got robbed, this was not a big crime. a felony campaign finance that's what he's saying that's where they're at now that's the level of defense coming out of this lawyer is nobody got killed nobody got robbed i would actually argue that people did get robbed yeah american people were absolutely straight hoodwinked but then he followed it up he then had to tweet i goes he goes, correction. Okay, I didn't say payments were not a big crime. I've said consistently that the Daniels and McDougal payments are not crimes

and tweeted a great article yesterday making that point. If it isn't a witch hunt, why are they pursuing a non-crime? So it's a non-crime that Michael Cohen is still having to do three years for? Sounds like a crime after cooperating yes like after the sentence coming down

yeah that sounds like a real non-crime real non-crime but apparently I heard rumblings about the prison facility he's going to

is like it's club fed oh really yeah of course I mean come on teach these people a fucking lesson man

put them in gen pop fucking Rikers or some shit can you imagine I mean what but on, teach these people a fucking lesson, man. Put them in Gen Pop, fucking Rikers or some shit. Can you imagine? I mean, what? But I'm saying like, you know what I mean? That's like the other weird shitty thing about the criminal justice system is like, okay,

and then if you do white collar crime, we don't want to put you with the violent criminal. There's the suburbs of jail. Yeah, because we're putting on white timeout. Yeah, white timeout. Right, right, right. Face the corner. Meanwhile, people are fucking dying in solitary at these other prisons. And they're like, yeah, yeah. And they're like, was the bocce court, was the grass cut low enough for you guys?

Do you want to play a game of petanque later? Right. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, I think it's just very telling of where we're at in terms of the panic levels within the administration. We're actually at the part where because remember Truth Isn't Truth was the last hot fucking single

from MC Giuliani. And now it's ain't nobody got killed, nobody got robbed. That slaps. Honestly it slaps. Nobody got killed, nobody got robbed. We'll see what happens there. I think they know that it's getting worse and worse.

And again, this could be us living in our fantasy world where we're hoping that's the case. But objectively, it looks like more dominoes are falling down. Yeah. Now moving on to a super upsetting story, but one that we feel like we have to cover. A seven-year-old girl died of dehydration while in ice custody while she was attempting to cross the border. Fox's take on this is, you know. Yeah, well, we told people it was dangerous. Yeah.

She was crossing with her father. They were taken into custody in New Mexico in, like, a larger group. And eight hours after going into custody, she started having seizures. And then first responders came. She had a fever of like 105. And then they took her to a hospital. They said she hadn't eaten or had water in several days.

And then once she got to, she was airlifted to a hospital in El Paso. She went into cardiac arrest, was revived, and then eventually passed away. El Paso. She went into cardiac arrest, was revived, and then eventually passed away. And yeah, this is a fucking awful situation. And you would think that the head of the Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, would have a more compassionate take when asked about why a child died in their custody. This was her comment on Fox when she was asked about this tragedy. You know, this is just a very sad example of the dangers of this journey. This family chose to cross illegally. What happened here was they were 90 miles away from where we could process them.

They came in such a large crowd that it took our Border Patrol folks a couple times to get them all. We gave immediate care. We'll continue to look into the situation. But again, I cannot stress how dangerous this journey is when migrants choose to come here illegally. Yeah. They're not people to her. They're not people.

Shame on the father, the parents. Why are you trying to take your child out of a situation in the country you're coming from that is untenable? Right. Now, when she said it took our border agents a couple of times, that is a very important phrasing there because it's like, what do you mean by that? There were so many carloads of migrants.

So they had to go back. Because this is going to be something that needs to be looked into and investigated is like, how long was she in custody? How many, which trip was she in custody how many which trip was she on exactly while people were getting actual attention why were they not paying attention to the condition of these people that they were taking into custody you know there are currently 12,800 children in custody of health and human services like why are they just like yeah just another one throw it on the pile and the kid is fucking dying in your custody.

And it's just worth noting that as she is coming to this very crucial wording of times, she laughed. Yeah. What the fuck? She was like, woes. It was a whole mess of them. It's a nervous tick. Yeah, I'm sure it is, but you know what? You know when you're fully saying some bullshit i also

think she's also fucking there is something missing in you when you can go up there and that's your comment and you go and you can't even for a second have some kind of a shred of humanity about you and you're like i mean this is an example of like hey we told you don't come here and if you do come in the right way, come in legally, but not mention the fact that you've made it seemingly impossible for people to actually present themselves at points of entry to seek asylum. And they have to hang around these border towns with no infrastructure in place for their health or their safety. And again, her outlook is completely indicative of their view of these people, which is they're not human.

Meanwhile, this country, we're doing diet genocide at the border. And we're just like, yeah, let's, you know, what are we going to do? We were talking with Sophia Alexander last week about how we can get desensitized in things like Yemen and places like that where there might not be a lot of coverage. And places like that where there might not be a lot of coverage. And granted, there were a lot of stories that came up that we didn't talk about, about abuse of detainees by Border Patrol and ICE. Because to a certain extent, it was killing me to fucking think about that this thing is going on. But I think I'm partially at fault for not wanting to talk about it to maintain my own sanity. But my God, I mean, I don't know what the fuck we're going to do.

I hope this new Congress can do something about it uh we'll link to the southern border communities coalition in our footnotes so you can look at other ways that you can help uh contribute or get involved uh if you happen to live in a state nearby or you just want to help support from afar but yeah man what the fuck uh i don't know yeah and i mean super producer nick stump before we recorded was pointing out that the thing that's so infuriating about this argument is just how patronizing it is as if the people who are bringing their children who like are the most important things in their world on a 1000 mile journey by foot that they don't know that's dangerous. Right.

No, of course they know it's dangerous. It's just what they're trying to get away from. With no acknowledgement for what might be motivating someone to travel that far on foot with an unknown destiny on the other side. But that's the point. In order to continue to speak this way without people looking at you like you're a horrible monster, you have to only present one side of the story. So it's easy for a lot of Americans, a lot of Americans who just don't have any humanity. I think that racism and sexism and a lot of things that have been instilled in our country have taken the humanity away from people who are on the oppressive side of this. You lose too.

Yeah, we lose our lives. You also lose your humanity. You're not people anymore because this is what you have to do to put people in boxes in order not to lose sleep at night over the fact that you are, you know, complicit in people's genocide and murder. Right. Essentially. It's like to be like, oh, yeah, they just took a risky trip and you shouldn't come in

here illegally. And that's all there is to it. But if you were in that position, it would be devastating and completely different and it's just luck that you aren't yeah well it's amazing yeah and there there can be people who are on the right who are parents themselves and somehow can't can't imagine i guess it's too uncomfortable to think like wow what would that be like right or something Or something like you couldn't process that. But I think you have to because that's the only way. You have to maintain an attitude where these people are not human to be able to rationalize why this is occurring.

And you know what? I think it behooves people. I mean, my top would blow off if I saw Fox actually do a story on like, what are these people running away from? Yes. Oh, God. They'll never talk about that. They can never talk. And they don't really do that in mainstream media either.

You know, like really actually trying to bring the focus to, you know, do you understand what like years of meddling on the side of the U.S. in a lot of these Central American countries has left a legacy of violence, corruption, all this other shit that creates the forces that would drive people out too. And I think it's upsetting and it's not the kind of thing you want to talk about going into the holidays, but this is the reality. And I think this is something we need to be vigilant about when we talk about our immigration policy and that this isn't just some obscure thing. People's lives are on the line. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese investigative journalist who on October 16th, 2017 was murdered. There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.

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a story like this comes along because Reuters investigation found that a scientist came to Johnson & Johnson in 1971 with his finding that Johnson & Johnson baby powder, 1971 with his finding that Johnson & Johnson baby powder, a product that's everywhere from like the fucking scores table and NBA games to on every baby's butt for the past 40 years, that that product causes cancer. It has asbestos in it. Because when you mine talc, which it's talcum powder, when you mine talc, it's often found close by asbestos. And so sporadically, they would just get these big pockets of asbestos that would end up in their baby powder. So it's not that they're adding it, that in the process of mining talc, you'll encounter asbestos that then just gets in the mix. That gets in the mix. Right. And this is like massive productions. Right.

And instead of heeding this scientist's warning, they put him on an internal list of hostile persons. Oh, Lord. And banned him. thousands of cases of people who died from mesothelioma, which is a disease that almost exclusively comes from somehow inhaling asbestos, getting asbestos in your lungs. So that's really how this came to light is people were like, well, I didn't work as best as mine. I got 19 kids though. Right. Yeah, exactly. They wrote about this one woman who had two daughters and was a masseuse and so she just worked with baby powder quite a bit and yeah that's how she

got it fuck how i mean like honestly what you'd think at some level right that if you know about the process of mining talcum or talc right that you'd know that this is a this is something that can happen yep not even just on the johnson and johnson side like on just like a minerals side like a scientist level yeah that you know i'm sure there's some crazy backstory of how many people it took to suppress this information right and we're so this just we're finding this out now that this happened? Yes. Has there been any kind of class action lawsuit or something against Johnson & Johnson about this? Yeah, I think there's been thousands of lawsuits.

Oh, right. But now they have like a smoking gun where they're saying like, hey, I told you in the 70s. Reuters uncovered a bunch of documents where they found out in the 70s that this was happening. Yeah, the 70s were a wild time, man. And that's the thing about lawsuits is you can sue a corporation. Pharmaceutical companies are famous for this. They'll get sued by wrongful death suits and stuff like that. And even after paying all of these suits,

they've still made way more money. So it's kind of just something they factor in. Like, yeah, we'll pay these people off because they died, but then we'll keep selling this product to everyone else. But I thought that talc was like, I thought we all were kind of weary of talc in recent years. I don't know. I mean, I put it on my scrotum. Because there were other, like, spray.

Because of the friction. In between my thighs when I'm walking. Yeah, but there have been other studies that have come out about talcum powder and how it leads to cancer so it's interesting that baby powder wasn't under siege when all of that was happening

I think it might have been just like good PR though they're like yo keep some stories off the spot that's the problem with corporatocracies is these people

who have all the money these giant corporations have all the money to keep stories under wraps and keep people's keep the shit they don't want in the headlines. You know what's funny? As a kid, I hated the smell of baby powder. I fucking hated it.

My mom was like, you just hated that shit. And I would get near it and I'm like, oh. You could smell the asbestos? Is that what you're saying? I don't know what it was. I just didn't like it. Maybe what I'm saying is my olfactory senses were just so off the charts that I was able to sense asbestos.

You're like a bloodhound? No, but I mean. You're like one of those dogs that can smell cancer. Yeah, that's, oh, wow. Those dogs are very amazing. Shout out to Jacoby and Myers, though, and everybody else who's about to start running those mesothelioma commercials again because it's lit.

I mean, yeah, now to know to think. Did you sit front row at a LeBron James basketball game? Right. Because, yeah. Did you go to witness the goat? Yeah. Right. Were you a witness?

Right. Then you might be entitled to cash settlements. Right. So what's the, is there an alternative product for parents other than baby powder? I'm sure there is. Do you use baby powder with your kids? I haven't. No. So what do you use? Yeah, what do you use? What is it Do you use baby powder with your kids? I haven't, no. So what do you use?

What is it for? Just to dry up your asshole? We just use Vaseline, really. What's it for, really? Well, because diaper rash. I don't know shit. You can either go one or two ways.

From the friction of the diaper? No, from like the diapers get moist and like your skin. So changing the baby frequently helps, but also like having some kind of barrier. Some people use diaper rash cream, but that's usually after

the fact that they already have the rash, but powders can keep the area dry so the kids don't, their skin isn't irritated. But you putting some Vaseline on pre-op. Yeah, it works the same way. Wrapping up a brick, okay. Wrapping up a brick, but it's your baby. Right, I've only handled

the only other precious thing I've ever handled. I mean, the shits are worth more than a kid. I've only handled... The only other precious thing I've ever handled. Is bricks of cocaine. I mean, the shits are worth more than a kid. I mean... I don't know, man. You can get for a two-year-old on the market. I'm always just monitoring.

Oh, you're just monitoring? Well, it depends on the ethnicity. It's like the stock market. You're like, hmm. Blue eyes. Uh-oh. Going up. It's like Yeezys.

Right. Anyway, so Postmates, huh? Yeah, Postmates.mates Are starting to use robots The future is here Because they are starting to use Little delivery robots Or they're planning on using delivery robots That they have somehow

Decided will not get kicked over Immediately I mean when you look at this thing I mean I'm 34 and I still want to Just at this thing, I mean, I'm 34, and I still want to just kick the shit out of it like I'm 12 years old. And not because I don't like the thing. It's because I'm a Luddite.

Right. I don't like technology. But yeah, there's something about it that I just feel like, you know, we're not quite used to robots yet. Like, we're already throwing bird scooters in the LA River. Yes.

Because we're like, what the fuck is this thing? Yeah. And some people use them. But I can't imagine you see this little, basically like cooler on wheels with eyes. That's what it looks like, yeah. Yeah, like rolling down the street and someone's not going to fuck with it. Or, you know, you might try to open it yourself and get the food out of it.

Right. Like where you go on a little postmate. Right. I'm assuming it has a very serious lock on it. What does happen? So this thing is capable of carrying, like, I think 50 pounds and can run on a battery that will give it a range of 30 miles. So they say 12 deliveries a day. But Postmate is like, worry not. We're not trying to tinker jobs.

We're trying to help our human Postmates work smarter. So they're saying, like, in places like where parking's a mess, you can just send the robot. Yeah. You can just send the robot out real quick to even bring the food from the restaurant to the driver. So the driver doesn't have to circle the block to find a parking spot. So this is more for like them internally. It's not like I could send this postmate robot to my man's house and see

what he doing. You know what I mean? I mean, I'm sure if you confiscated one and you had a programmer who was savvy enough, you could maybe rework its programming to do that. I use it to go inside his house and see. What are you doing?

Yeah, who's over there? All over there. Inside, you're hiding. You're like, what's your poop? I'm in the boat. You're like, yes, surprise, motherfucker. This would make a lot more sense if it was a drone because you can't kick drones over. Yeah, they're flying through the air.

But how much Chipotle can you carry on a drone? Exactly. That's a good question. Not 50 pounds. Yeah, apparently not. But I guess, facts. They're flying through the air. But how much Chipotle can you carry on a drone? Exactly. That's a good question. Not 50 pounds. Yeah, apparently not. But I guess, yeah. I think the other thing, too, is, though, if you live close enough, they are experimenting with just taking it straight to your house, too.

But L.A., we'll be the first city to see it in use next year. It's too many people out on the street with nothing to do. Yeah. Well, luckily, this isn't a real pedestrian-friendly. No one's really walking anyway. I mean, but they're kicking it like we're talking about like central la oh yeah for sure i mean like other there are definitely places where there's good pedestrian traffic but i feel like like where you know where i live in the valley like there are parts it'll just be like rolling down the lonely street yeah right yeah i i wonder like how this is gonna change just the

feel of the city to have little droids rolling around around your knees. That's the sensation I feel like will be weird. I feel like I'm in a jet-suit. Oh, we're there. I know, but as a child I was excited about it, but now when I really think about it, if I see this thing coming by, I'm going to stop and be like, huh, huh, okay.

So that's where we're here already. Yeah. Like the little robot, little food delivery robots. Maybe that's why I like drones. Just keep them out of my house. Right. Or I don't want the robot coming to my house. I don't know who else is going to tap into this.

I mean, Apple Pay just started and the scammers are already all over that shit. On Apple Pay? Oh, hell yeah. What's the new scam on Apple Pay? Well, you know, Brooklyn is really the heart and center of all scams. Oh know yeah like everything comes out of new york and then it kind of spreads and people learn how to do it elsewhere but right now apple pay is so lit like people are learning how to just like like swipe your yeah they're learning yeah they're learning how to basically hack people's phones or get into their apple pays and then then use their card information to buy gift cards

at stores and rack up all this money. And it's easier than stealing people's credit card information and cloning their cards. So I don't need a little Postmates pulling up to my house. The next thing I know, the scammers have all my deeds. I'll take the regular John, Tony, Kristen is outside. I'll come outside. I come outside. I don't like them coming to my door. Oh, no is outside. I'll come outside. I come outside. I don't like them coming to my door.

Oh, no, absolutely. I don't need that. Because I look like someone catches me off guard for a delivery. I just look terrible. I need to look like a guy. Oh, you try to look nice? Oh, no, I come outside looking awful. It's not that I try to look nice.

I try to look like a guy who's not eating food for three just for one. You try to look like you have a family? I'm like, yeah, hold on. I'll be right out. Yeah, the food's outside. And they're like, yeah, you got a party going? I'm like, uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's a big, big party. Big party. It's very quiet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you know, silent. Well, we have Fuller House on pause.

We're going to do a marathon. Why call it my business? Yeah. So I wanted to talk real quick. There's more information coming out about Netflix. We talked last week about how secretive Netflix is about what their stats are. And there's this independent research firm that uses peer-to-peer file sharing and social media. Social meds.

Social meds. Social meds. To estimate how many people are watching and following different shows at any given time. And we trust their methodology? Yeah, it's interesting. I think some of the things get overinflated by meme shit. Like SpongeBob SquarePants is the number one show overall. And I think that's probably inflated by meme shit. What do you mean?

I believe it. Just from people's love of the memes? Yeah, because they're using social media to gauge mind share. Oh, oh, oh. Got you, got you. Oh, just because they'll have, right. Okay. Yeah.

I watch SpongeBob still. Do you? I do. I think it's a high culture too. A lot of people who smoke weed like to watch SpongeBob. I think SpongeBob might be that lit. A lot of people who smoke weed like to watch Spongebob. I think Spongebob might be that lit. Yeah, Spongebob is good. I've showed it to my kid and I like it way better than him.

No, I don't like it better than him. I like the show more than he likes the show. Ramsey, turn it off. You're being that annoying guy. Dude, did you see that? Fucking Squidward. Let me rewind it. Oh, man.

He lives in a pineapple under the sea. SpongeBob is hella woke, too, though. It's very non-binary, very pro-get. It's pro-everything. It's a very woke show. And I saw someone saying one of the characters is the first mental health advocate who showed people about depression.

Yeah. Is it Squidward? For sure. Squidward. I don't watch the show. I just know the memes. WWE Monday Night Raw is huge. Really?

And South Park. So those are some cable shows. The other ones that are huge are Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Riverdale, all the shit you always hear about. So that's on the cable side. And then on the Netflix side, it's Narcos is enormous. 36 million people who are watching that show. They think.

They think. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, 34 million. Stranger Things, and this was in October, had 31.3 million people. So that means that when the series first came out, or when the season two first came out, it must have been fucking crazy huge. Oh, yeah. Wait, season three isn't out yet, right? No, no, no.

This is just residual Stranger Things. Off the strength. People are just like, oh, I'll start watching it. Yeah. That's crazy. On the one hand, cable audiences, according to these metrics, are still way bigger than the Netflix audiences.

You got South Park at $40 million, and then the biggest Netflix show is $36 million, and SpongeBob's at $90 million, but that's a show that's in syndication and is just always on. And is part of the language of the internet. Right, exactly. But then when you look at streaming digital shows, I'll just go down the internet. Right, exactly. But then when you look at streaming digital shows, I'll just go down the list. So you got Narcos, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Stranger Things, Marvel's Daredevil.

You go through all those before you get to a non-Netflix show, Handmaid's Tale. And then the rest are all Netflix shows. It's The Last Kingdom, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, 13 Reasons Why, and The Haunting of... So it's just Netflix is dominating in terms of the top viewership for all streaming platforms. Yeah.

They got the lit shows. I do love Handmaid's Tale, though. It's good. Yeah. It's white slavery. That's not why I'm watching it, guys. I don't want slavery for anyone. It's just very fascinating.

It's interesting to think about. No, no. I didn't say that. What would that be like no i didn't say that be like i didn't say that guys no i know but it's interesting because like i always thought like i'm not saying anything like that at him high five me under the table oh i would be so bad uh well yeah i mean I mean, the other shits, you know, people... Well, like, I was looking at Big Bang Theory, which is, like, the thing that I had always associated with having huge ratings. It peaked at, like, 20 million people in 2015.

So that's, like, smaller than most of these shows. Well, yeah, Narcos does a great thing, though, too, is that they can energize many audiences because it's bilingual. Right. You know? So, I mean, that's the thing. And Netflix also released their list of, like, the most binged shows this year and the biggest, like, shows that grew in viewership this year. And their number one show is the show On My Block, which I had not heard of.

It's for the youth. Yeah, it's for the youth yeah you them it's for the youth it's about it's like a coming-of-age story like that follows high school kids in Los Angeles yeah but it goes along with something we were saying last week when Sophia was on that like Netflix actually has the data and they're like Oh diversity works like hey would you look at that have a cast that looks like our audience people like that for some reason except for that one non-latina who plays a latino i'm my block oh really yeah she's

the only one who gets some smoke but uh it's all right is she doing the ariana grande thing uh yeah kind of like i'll look a little ethnic but but it is it is to your point though jack like they're doing a lot more than network television is doing as far as diversity goes. But is there anything to the accessibility of these shows? Because when I watch a network TV show, I can't really go back and watch episodes of it other than on Hulu, right? Yeah. Whereas on Netflix, I have access to these shows. Oh, I think definitely.

Yeah, I think people consume them differently, for sure. Well, that's the other thing, too. Yeah, I think people consume them differently for sure. Well, that's the other thing too. Even when we were talking about the Christmas Chronicle, they were like, this is the biggest movie right now or would be if we counted it. There's also that level of like you can be so passive and still consume it and it requires much less energy to break inertia for you to be like, I'm going to watch this Netflix thing versus I'm going to take my ass to the movies and pay for a ticket. But I do think that the reason behind Netflix being better on diversity stuff is not that Netflix is more progressive. It's that they have access to even better information, and they're more driven by data and analytics,

and they're like, oh, we see a trend in this particular thing, which is people like- Like this genre of show, right? With this kind of cast. Yeah. We shouldn't let the fact that a bunch of our executives are white dudes. It's really simple, guys. Just look at population demographics and appeal to those groups and you will have a successful show. I mean, it's also about seeing something new.

Like, I think that sometimes it's hard. God, I don't even want to say this like this, but I have a lot of artist friends who are straight white men and they feel like now their art is not interesting and they're not interesting as people in the world is kind of saying they're not interesting. I'm like, that's not it. It's that you guys just decided to dominate everything so much that it's like okay well once we've seen similar things so much it's like we've seen this so much like you have to diversify just because that's what keeps everything interesting i watched crazy rich asians and

i remembered crying because i was like damn there was only three white people in this movie and i remember they were. No, it made me so, I cried tears of joy. Like, I didn't know anything about Mahjong. Like, I got to learn stuff, and it was cool. Yeah, now you're hustling Mahjong games. Hell yeah, that's my new scam. Listen, break them bricks out, all right? Let's go.

But, like, there were two guys in the hotel, and then there was one guy in the airport hangar who was mixing drinks. Boom. Those were the white people in that movie. Well, you know, again, it's all about representation. Yeah. Look what happens.

And just interesting stories. I just want to see something different. Yeah. No, right. You can only, like, I think you can only rinse and repeat the sort of same structures. And like, yeah, you know, not everyone lives the same way. But at the same time, like, you know, there's certain television shows that have an all white cast.

And I'm like, this is how this show should be because these people probably wouldn't have a black friend, and I'm still gonna watch it. You know what I mean? Like, we're just gonna watch Fuller House. You don't have to tell me twice. It's lit. We're gonna watch Fuller House. I will watch Trash Burn. And that's what I do when I watch Fuller House.

And 90 Day Fiancé. Hey, hey, Fuller House is a great show made by great people. They're great creative minds. Well, L, Full House is a great show made by great people. They're great creative minds. Well, Lacey, it's been wonderful having you back. Oh, so good to be back. Maybe we'll also have you back for one of our shows for next week during our holiday week.

Yeah, if you're not doing anything. Yes. But first, where can people find you and follow you? So you guys can find me on the gram and on the Twitter at the same Hansel. Keep it all one brand. At Diva Lacey. That's D-I-V-A-L-A-C-I.

And is there a tweet or act of social media that you've been enjoying? A tweet or act. This is my own tweet. Stay on brand. Stay on brand, yeah. That I'm enjoying. It's just, nothing matters, so do whatever the fuck you want. And by that I mean just like,

make yourself happy. That was your tweet, nothing matters, do whatever the fuck you want? Yeah, yeah. Great, I love nihilism. Yeah. That's basically what it is, huh? Also, you can find me soon.

There's a television show that I just worked on that I can actually now talk about. It's called Florida Girls. And it'll be on, it's about four Florida women who are very poor and very ratchet, and it's very funny, and I think very revolutionary. It's not about men. There's crazy shit that happens.

There's gang bangs. It's a great show. And it'll be on Pop TV. And it'll be streaming. And the next time I talk to you guys, I'll tell you where it'll be streaming. But yeah, Florida Girls. Nice. So when you're watching Schitt's Creek, watch Florida Girls.

Exactly. And you will. Look, the Zeit Gang will pull up for our own. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey. I like a couple tweets. Wouldn't you like that? And they're not all reductress tweets.

The first one is from CapsLockChrist. All caps. This tweet says, I eat gummy bears two at a time so they don't have to die alone. Another one from Allie Maynard at Miss Maynard. Trump's chief of staff shortlist. Geraldo Rivera. Brian Kilmeade. A racist meme,

Newt Gingrich, boner pills, a pissy mattress, left shark, a Robert E. Lee statue, Miss Trunchbull, NYC pizza rat, or truck nuts. There you go. And last one is from Blair Saki, past guest, and she says, I fucking hate paper straws. Can't we get rid of Dodge Rams instead? I was gonna do that one.

Oh shit, twinsies. Twinsies. Wow. Woo! Well, you can find me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. Some tweets I liked. Pixelated Boat tweeted, Kanye West, like all great artists, is able to take his pain and insecurity

and channel it into being extremely online. He's going through it again. Yeah, what's going on, man? He was out here saying Travis Scott and Drake were threatening him. Yeah. I don't know what happened. Those are soft-ass threats.

What are they threatening you with? Like an R&B remix? Yeah. Drake and Travis Scott are not doing violence to anybody. Well, if you believe it, there's that rumor that Drake had XXXTentacion killed. Bah! It's another wild conspiracy I've seen. Drake wishes he could have somebody cute.

Hey, you never know. I mean, look. That's not his life. I'll send you this thread, you know. That was his Illuminati offering. Listen, as soon as I join the Illuminati, we'll talk. Okay, perfect. And you'll scam the Illuminati, we'll talk. Okay, perfect. And you'll scan the Illuminati?

Absolutely. At Cinesnark tweeted, What even is the point of Jason Momoa's bodyguards? And there's a picture of him with two bodyguards who come up to his shoulder. And it's amazing. Super producer Ana Hosni tweeted, Is it still keto if I boof a cupcake?

Oh. Which she's... Putting all her business out here. She's the best with the butt still keto if I boof a cupcake? Which, she's putting all her business out here. She's the best with the butt stuff. With the boof. That's a weird thing to say, but we asked her what her predictions were for 2019 and she said that she was going to boof a cupcake. Great prediction.

And Blankpatch tweeted, I saw a coyote eating McDonald's on the side of Mulholland. His hair was perfect. And AtCashBones tweeted, Tom Cl a coyote eating McDonald's on the side of Mulholland. His hair was perfect. And at Cash Bones tweeted, Tom Clancy's pro skater too. You can follow me on Twitter at Jack underscore O'Brien. You can follow us on Twitter at Daily Zeitgeist. We're at The Daily Zeitgeist on Instagram.

We have a Facebook fan page and a website, dailyzeitgeist.com, where we post our episodes and our footnotes, where we link off to the information that we talked about in today's episode as well as the song we ride out on. Miles, what are we going to ride out on? This is a track from an artist called Jitwam. And it's like some lo-fi rock kind of thing that I'm really vibing off of, guys. Oh, sick.

Yeah, and the title is Alone. And hopefully you don't feel alone when you listen to this, but I like it. I feel like when I listen to it, I should be on a commuter train just looking out the window and just being like, yeah, about to get this money. All right. Yeah, so use that to motivate you. I don't know how many of y'all take commuter trains, but if you do, please think of me. All right.

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