The Daily Zeitgeist - Lunchables: Ciggs For Kids, Pelosi Not Scared 11.21.18

Episode Date: November 21, 2018

In episode 279, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Teresa Lee to discuss the weekly Google trends skim, a deeper look at the attack on diplomats in Cuba, Democrats gripe with Nancy Pelosi, the 30th anniversary of Lunchables, Thanksgiving plans, and more! FOOTNOTES:1. Tech’s ‘FAANG’ stocks have lost more than $1 trillion and counting from highs amid tech rout2. Chiefs vs. Rams was an incredible (college) football game3. Tekashi 6ix9ine Faces 32 Years to Life in Prison on Racketeering, Firearm Charges4. The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome5. Pelosi’s bid for speaker imperiled as public opposition grows6. Happy 30th birthday to Lunchables, the lazy, still-popular lunch kit7. WATCH: NICKELUS F - I AIN'T CRIED YET Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My name is Jack O'Brien, a.k.a. 20, 20, 24 hours to go. I want a daily zeitgeist. Nothing to do, nothing to Jack O. I want a daily zeitgeist. Just get me to the airport, put me on the plane. Hurry, hurry, hurry before I'm miles gray. I can't control my fingers. I can't control my fingers.

I can't control my Brian. Jack, oh, oh, oh, oh. Ow, ow, ow. All right. And I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Ah!

Ah! We're here for a second-rate podcast show Needs a LA sun where the hot takes flow The spirit of our time With zeitgang across the land Mark Trump's hordes laugh and cry I would go further, but I could not find a good instrumental version of that song. Every version. Why didn't you just ask me to do it?

Well, you're right. Did you just hear that? No, you're right. Nick, can we take that for the time? But that was from Priyanka Das. Thank you, at Priyanka L. Das, for that one. And you even hand wrote it and proved that you did it. I get it. Thank you so much.

Not only was that one of my favorite of your AKA vocal performances, but right as you started it, our guest's dog just leapt into your arms. And I didn't even let that faze me. I just went, you know what? It was the call of the wild. Also, I read in your tweets that that was actually, shout out to your Twitter-less boyfriend,

as you put it, Cody Crowfoot, or Crawfoot. Sounds like a loser to me. Yeah, tell me to get on Twitter. You know what? Actually, erase that, because, you know what, Priyanka, you're the one that submitted it, so you get to shine, and I see your nice manicure in the photo, so shout-out to your silver fingernails. And my IKA was courtesy of Melissa Jordan at Pig Me Hippie.

And we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat by the hilarious and talented comedian and writer, Teresa Lee. What's up? It's me, Teresa Lee. I thought of a roast for myself. Okay.

A roast? That could maybe work as an AKA. Okay, let's hear it. I look like I've definitely cried to a Chainsmokers song. Oh, no. Wait, what would that mean? Like, you know, they're not good musicians, but I feel like Chainsmokers. Have you listened to their music?

Yeah, I have. It's very much like Sad Drunk Girl, but it's like trying to be deep. Like, oh, man, like, yeah, you're right. New York does make me sad. It's still like EDM-ish, right? Yeah. Right. So like it's age appropriate, too. You look like. New York does make you sad. Because it's still like EDM-ish, right? Yeah. Right. So like it's age appropriate too.

Like you look like the age. Oh, maybe that. Really be into Chainsmokers too. Well, you know what? At every rave, you will always find a young lady crying her eyes out. Yeah. Inexplicably. I used to work a lot of raves and that was like a trope you'd always see was person beyond,

like they cannot be consoled crying for whatever reason. Inconsolable raver. Yeah. Like with all the way in their candy, all over their neck and all that. Actually, that's going to be my new Twitter handle, inconsolable raver. Inconsolable raver. Teresa, you've been here before, but we're going to get to know you even better in a moment.

But first, we're going to tell our listeners what we're talking about today. We're going to do a quick Google trend skim. We're going to say happy birthday to one of the most delicious and unhealthy lunch snacks that we all got. Most delicious and least nutritious. Exactly. I'm going to talk about why I might have been wrong about the Havana thing, the attacks, the sound wave attacks or whatever, magical attacks that are making diplomats' heads explode. We're going to talk about the challenge to Nancy Pelosi.

We're going to talk about white supremacists actually being taken seriously by American law enforcement. We're going to talk about a lot of things. And then we're going to wrap it up with just some talk about what we're up to for Thanksgiving, favorite Thanksgiving memories, favorite Thanksgiving foods, just, foods, just all around reminiscence. But first, Teresa, we like to ask our guest, what is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are? Oh, I searched, do you have to tip magicians? For a birthday?

Because I went to, no, well, I went to went to the magic castle oh that's awesome i've never been it was for a birthday but i was like i've heard that sometimes when you walk around people will do magic right at you and i was like oh do i need to get cash because my friend's sister had like kind of covered you know the evening but i was like do i need a bring tip and you don't because they can just take the money from your pocket using magic. Right. They don't need money because they have magic. Right.

But have you guys ever been? Oh, yeah. I have, yeah. There's just like a magician that's on the wall who I imagine was like famous at the time and good and whatever. I don't know him. I'm sorry if I'm butchering your culture, magicians. But he's like in yellow face and his picture is like all over the wall oh really yeah he's got like it's

like his name is like Ching Su Wu or something yeah and it's like a white guy with like a you know like a braid and wearing Chinese garb and his his photos all over he's doing like some shtick from like the 20s yeah I mean it's an old's like an old picture. It's an old one. I'm sure he's dead. But so I don't know. Maybe it's like homage. But it's weird. It's like sort of weird. No, that's not it.

It's weird. No, that's definitely a problem. I don't know. I thought you were going to say Magic Castle. Because the pictures that are in the Magic Castle are so funny because you also see what I feel like inspired even Joe Bluth, like that character. Because like you'll see like the overly done headshots. You're like, you are taking this very seriously, 1988.

But yeah. I can imagine what that act even was like. Already, I come from the Orient. Yeah, there's probably a gong in it. Oh my gosh. So many gongs. Oh my God. So many guns.

I feel like that was a big stereotype in early American culture, like in the 20th century, that Asian people are magical. I mean, they could be right, but- I mean, yeah, we live all along and shit. We live all along. Yeah, exactly. How the fuck is that? We have empathy. No, I'm just kidding.

How is the magic? The magic, I No, I'm just kidding. How is the Magic Castle? The Magic, I think, is actually just shame-based culture. That's our magic. Do we think that people, listeners, know what the Magic Castle is? The Magic Castle is a restaurant and magic club and hotel, I believe, also. It's a club, yeah. It's a castle. It's a club.

Yeah, it's an actual castle off Franklin in Hollywood near Yamashiro Restaurant, another great place for weird quasi-Asian things. Right. But it's a private club. You can't just pull up and go there. Someone has to be a member and the member can grant access

to a group of people to go in there. And then it's like, you know, it's like getting on the Haunted Mansion. There's cool stuff inside that's kind of freaky, spooky,

and the piano that plays itself and all this other stuff. Yeah, it kind of feels a little bit like Disney-ish because there's secret, Iaky, spooky, and the piano that plays itself and all this other stuff. Yeah, it kind of feels a little bit like Disney-ish because there's secret... I mean, there's different rooms that you can go into. Magic just happens.

But yeah, it's cool. It actually looks like... I mean, you guys know this, but for people who don't, it looks like a castle. Yeah. So it's kind of cool to go inside. And there's magicians just roaming around.

Like magicians hang out there and then there's like 10 different magicians doing up-close magic shows, which is like you just sit across a table from them just roaming around like magicians hang out there and then there's like 10 different magicians doing up close magic shows which is like you just sit across a table from them or like 20 people sit around and they just do wild magic the last time i went was one of the guys who consults for david blaine and then i learned a lot more about even how the magic trick game works how like these like these are like the producers who work with the artists who they're like okay you could take this trick on the road or whatever yeah this french magician but uh it's also weird because they make you wear a suit in there yeah you have to dress up yeah and then by

the end like everybody's just fucking smashed in there so it just ends up looking like the end of a wedding yeah so you know whatever yeah it's fun though it is i i have discovered that i'm more of a fan of magic than uh I would have liked to believe. Really? Yeah. I really liked the David Blaine special, and then I watched Magic for Humans. Yeah. And I was like, yo! Magic!

This is fucking crazy! Yeah, I like it. I like magic because I like getting lied to. Yeah, there's something. Till you meet that magician who is actually using magic. Right. Yeah, no, get out of here. This is a rom-com waiting to happen. I know.

Wait, how has there not been a magician rom-com yet? I'm sure there is. Ugh, gross. Don't even say that. It's called Now You Love Me. Right, exactly. Now you don't. And yeah, I mean, one of the greatest magic tricks that magicians pull off is making a lot of women like them, it seems like.

Yeah, which is strange. Yeah, the patter is always, like old school magicians, the patter is always kind of cringy, like smooth guy talk. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's super pickup artist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, don't try and fall in love with me now. Don't worry, you're gingivitis and halitosis halitosis has handled that Teresa what is something you think is overrated um I

think that living a long time is overrated because I feel like not and I don't mean this in a morbid way because I'm not like oh we should all die but I just feel like as a society we're always talking about like trying to live a long time, but then you're not actually, you spend so much time trying to figure out how to live longer without actually just living. Does that make sense? Like there's a lot less living in the moment and more like, okay, how can I pack everything? You know, I want to do so I can make more money so I can buy more things and live longer. And then your life is over. And then you're like, oh, the whole point was just to live. And you didn't do that.

Damn. Right. You have a near-death experience or something? No, but I like to think about death and life a lot. But I just think the whole idea, because whenever you die, like it's going to be now, you know. Like I think we think of death as this faraway thing where it's like, okay, when it happens, I'll be able to look back on all this experience I've banked and be like, I have this. But you won't like, you're not, I mean, most of the time we're not looking back on, even now I have, we have like whatever decades of experience and we still think like there's so much more.

So wherever you are, you're still going to have more. So I don't know. I just think it's not about like thinking too far in the future. Yeah. We've hanged by a thread, you know? And that's true. Like you never know. You never know when it is time for you to,

your physical existence to cease. Yeah. Because I like to look at it. Yeah. Yeah, and also, living a long time is not necessarily good, I think. I don't think we should all die young,

but like... Nah, nah. Only the good. It's not inherently good, yeah. Yeah, if you live super long, you're just gonna find more problems to deal with and you're probably gonna have

more good moments, but also more bad and it all kind of balances out. so it's not inherently a good thing i think if you're in a culture where people respect their elders and like want to learn from you like learn all the things that you've learned then i think it can be like valuable but right yeah i think it can also suck if you're just like put away in a home somewhere and right it's just like and you're a burden to the people you love yeah and yeah but i i think that's more of a that can be a cultural thing

oh yeah yeah uh what is something you think is underrated i think uh smoothies are underrated all right so la i bought a what is this 1997 well i bought a blender. Oh, what kind? It's not like super fancy. It's just Black & Decker from Target. B&D from T? It's actually okay. It's not even that great. But yeah, B&D from T.

And making those S's. No, but I've been making smoothies every day. And I don't know, there's something really empowering about it. Because I don't even cook a lot. So just being able to make something that's so simple, even though I'm like, I could just eat this fruit and yogurt separately, but I put it in and I'm like, ah, I made a thing. And I'm going to walk around my house and sip it. And it's just like one little thing I did to start the day off and I feel accomplished.

Nice. Yeah. It's, you're making something, even if it's just like the easiest thing to make. It is, it is technically like cooking well that's what the thing about cooking yeah you get feedback instantly because you sip that shit and go

fuck or you'll be like this is delicious yeah they all taste awful but at least I did yeah I was gonna say that yogurt is probably too old

if that's such a thing wait what's this what inspired you did you see someone else live in smoothie life and you're like I need to get on that wave no I'm not good at that

because whenever I see people doing stuff I'm like I should do that but then I don't no I had to buy well I're like, I need to get on that wave. No, I'm not good at that. Cause whenever I see people doing stuff, I'm like, I should do that. But then I don't, uh, no, I had to buy one. Well, I bought one cause I wanted to make margaritas. Um, I don't even, I don't even drink, but it was like, I had people over and I made margaritas and so I bought it. And then I was like, well, now I have a blender. And then I was like, Oh, I've always wanted to eat more fruit. Uh, so then I just started doing it, but I just started, oh, I've always wanted to eat more fruit. Yeah. So then I just started doing it. But I just started and then I did it every day.

And so I made a habit. There you go. And now I do it every day. Do you have a recipe that you recommend or like one that you're like, oh, that's actually good? Or even an ingredient? No, I kind of pick like a couple of things when I go grocery shopping and then I kind of mix and match.

I usually like have a banana. I'll put them in the fridge. I'll put like a banana, frozen banana in the fridge and then it's easy to blend. And then, I don't know, I like berries. I like have a banana. I'll put them in the fridge. I'll put a frozen banana in the fridge and then it's easy to blend. I don't know. I like berries. I like mangoes, peach. I've been doing mango, peach a lot. Can't go wrong with red berries. I like to get a lot of the shit that

I would normally have to choke down in a salad in a smoothie. Just like the leafy stuff. You put that in there and just jam that in under the cover of a banana or two and it works out well what is a myth what's something people think is true you know to be false okay this one's maybe on the more cynical side but the myth that you should always keep going and never quit specifically in comedy or industry.

Because I think, like, I don't mean, like, you should give up if you're sad about it, but, like, people are always, like, I think people get insecure when someone talks about quitting and everyone's like, oh, no, no, no, you got to keep going. Like, you're going to make it. But some people just don't want to keep going. And I think we get really insecure about if someone quits, what does that mean about me? Like, I don't want to quit. It's like, no. And am I an idiot? Yeah, and I think it's like, I don't want to quit. It's like, then no. And am I an idiot?

Yeah, and I think it's like, I don't know. Sometimes people just change their mind or move on. Yeah, your priorities change, yeah. Yeah, and I think it's totally okay. It's not a failure if you try something and you don't like it. But I also think the whole idea, like, everybody's going to make it is a myth because everybody who wants to and works at it and keeps improving will make it as long as you're, like, always looking at yourself okay, what did I, where am I falling short?

How can I get better? But people who just, I mean, there's people who just stick around doing the same thing, the same act for three years or whatever. And they're probably not going to make it until they change what they're doing. So I think that's a myth because we kind of just tell that to ourselves over and over. And I'm like, well, we should stop saying that because that's not's not true it doesn't it's not hopeless right but if you want to get better you gotta get better never give up yeah no matter what it doesn't just mean like hold on to the hull of the ship as long as you can yeah you gotta you have to take your craft seriously and hone it and like yeah those people who do have experience success but i think yeah there's

some people literally just like well i've been hanging around for years. What's going on? Yeah, if you're on a sinking ship, you don't drown. You can learn to swim. And then maybe you want to be on an island instead. I don't know. Or take some kid's life jacket. Yeah, sure.

And I also think like- Steal people's jokes. Don't do that. Adapting what your definition of making it is. Oh, yeah. Like is important. And, like, being, I interviewed Barry Sonnenfeld, the guy who directed Men in Black.

And, like, he said that one of the, like, he never had a roadmap for his career. And, like, his career was his way of figuring out what he wanted to do. Yeah. So he would, like, just try different things and stuff. And I think that's a valuable way to think about it. Oh, hell yeah.

I'm sort of the same way. Because I started doing comedy and doing UCB. And then I just couldn't, the hustle of it, I just didn't have the heart for it. And I was sort of trying to do, I just realized it wasn't feeling totally right. And I just tried to be less rigid about defining what my career could be or what I have to offer. Yeah. And I just tried a bunch of shit. And look, here I am on a second-rate podcast.

Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. And keep in mind that people who we look at and say, oh, well, they've made it, don't think they've made it. Oh, hell no. Well, and they also don't think, like, if you know someone for one thing, they might be trying to, jealous of some other thing. Like what you're saying about you used to be, I would never have thought that's something you're doing because you're doing very well doing what you're doing. But I also recently have been – you're welcome.

Thank you. But I recently had that thought because I was like, I feel overwhelmed saying yes to everything. And then I was like, I'm not trying to do this. Like if someone's like, hey, do you want to do this character show or whatever? I'm like, oh, I got to write a new character for this show because someone asked me. I'm like, well, it's not a thing I'm working on. I could just say, oh, no, I don't have a thing. I'll just do stand-up.

Scold what feels right. Because if it feels right, you might be saying, yeah, hell yeah, I'll do that. But if you start feeling like, I don't know, there's no reason to drag yourself through it. And you also have a finite amount of time and energy. So yeah, like being selective about, yeah, exactly. It all ties together.

We should just end the show right now. That was such a good search history over yeah, exactly. Oh, it all ties together. We should just end the show right now. That was such a good search history over and under that we could just end the show now. You know what that makes it reminds me, the person who probably is trying to live long is the comedian who hasn't changed their bit. I just got to be alive for 80 more years. And they're a germphobe. Don't shake my hand. Don't shake my hand. I'm going to live as long as possible without changing anything about myself. All right. Let's do a quick check-in with Google and the Google Trend Skin. One of the things that's trending is Facebook stock because it has been falling for weeks and months. And this is going to be the longest quarterly losing streak that Facebook has ever had as a company.

has ever had as a company. The latest drop is because of that New York Times profile that we talked about a couple episodes back where it was revealed that just sort of the inner workings and how Sheryl Sandberg, who is supposed to be like the rational humanist, sort of a human ambassador to Zuckerberg, the robot, is just like really kind of head down, bullish and just like charges through problems

and is not who I think a lot of people thought she was based on this profile. And yeah, just all around tech stocks are having a bit of a losing streak. I actually heard a new anagram. FANG isANG acronym is what they're calling the new I had heard GAFA before which is Google, Amazon Facebook and Apple but FANG

Facebook, Amazon Apple, Netflix and Google Netflix has entered the conversation they're losing so much money non-stop I feel like from people I've talked to, I think their idea is they think Google or Apple is just going to have to buy them out. So they're like, we'll just deficit spend till the wheels blow off this thing. But they're so big now that

it seems weird. Like what would that, that would be the largest acquisition in the history of acquisition. I don't know. Hey, look, if you guys know how that business model runs with all that what do they spend like 20 billion i don't know it's crazy yeah but i mean it would make a lot of sense for apple because people have been talking about how apple is like perfectly situated to have this huge content offering but they haven't really like done it they've just been like sitting back and being like yeah wait wait till you see what we come with. They've been saying a lot of cool names that I'm like, oh, okay,

let's see where you go with it. But I have not seen anything. So maybe, maybe Apple. They started doing, they have video podcasts on Apple. Right. It's like a small tab,

but it's not quite podcasts. They're kind of like episodic. Right. So it makes me wonder if on the other side, Netflix is going to start doing audio. Yeah. Like podcasts. I know that there are people out there who are investing

and raising money for a Netflix of podcasting. So that's coming your way. Yet another product to... And we won't be good enough for that. But another thing that's trending is Rams. Oh, yeah. I saw part of this game. Did you? Okay. I, yeah. I saw part of this game. Did you?

Okay. I missed it because I am still – my family just moved, and so we do not have cable. Whatever. Always making excuses. Just admit it. You're not a bro anymore. I would have watched it, I swear.

But my kid plus – no, but people are saying it's the best Monday night football game of all time, maybe the best football game ever played. Everyone was watching it besides me. What did you see, Teresa? What did you see out there? I didn't watch the whole thing. I watched most of the first half. And then, yeah, I mean, it's very exciting.

It's cool watching. These teams were, in the last few years, not – I think the Chiefs played well last year. But it's cool to kind of see a team that's not like the Patriots or whatever playing really, really hard. And like Mahomes, it's so cool to watch. But it was a very exciting game because I think it just kind of was very close and tight.

And I didn't watch the end, so I don't know how that ended up playing out. Yeah, I know the final score, but who won? Yeah, I was rooting for the Chiefs. The Rams won. The Rams won. Oh, all right. The Los Angeles Rams.

The Rams uniform looks fake. It looks like when you have a Disney movie about football fans. That's what they look like. Yeah, it's just so yellow. It looks like high school music. San Diego Sharks. Los Angeles football players.

I feel like Kings a lot of the time is the name of the team They are my favorite squadron Yeah, the Rams and the Chiefs are basically the two best teams this year And they're following this trend which is like all offense, not a lot of defense Because they've changed the rules in the NFL to basically protect the players from getting injured too badly. And by making it less violent, they've actually made it more athletic and more of a passing-based game than it was even before. And the Rams and the Chiefs both have really great passing games.

There were a lot of flags, so I wonder if there's more of that now. I haven't been keeping up as much this season in the NFL. Yeah. And then racketeering is also trending, which I was confused by. But, Miles, you were saying Tekashi69. Yeah. Dude, I don't know if you guys know who Tekashi69 is. I mean, generally the listeners and anyone in this room.

He is a rapper who, you know know he's just a goon uh he like he keeps calling himself the king of new york and caused a lot of problems he's not a great rapper he had some child pornography charges that he let he skirted a while back he looks like a unicorn frappuccino yeah he's just like a i don't know i he's just part of this new crop of rappers who i'm not really feeling and like he's just wildly problematic shit that he does and says uh you know like using the n-word when you're not black shit like that but anyway uh he basically got caught up he's facing i think 32 years to oh maybe possibly life depending on how like wild these charges go, for racketeering because of his involvement with the Nine Trey Bloods gang in New York. And he's always said he's a blood or whatever,

and there's been all kinds of back and forth about his gang affiliation. But essentially, he's caught up with racketeering charges from intimidation, stuff with guns, like a shooting that happened at the Barclays Center earlier this year. And I think, yeah, many people are like, wait, Tekashi's going to jail because he's a huge rapper. Don't get me wrong. A lot of people like him for whatever reason. But yeah, so I think a lot of people are like,

yo, wait, what's racketeering? And that's when you use criminal acts to basically make money or take money from people over and over again so it's usually like protection like when they're like oh I'd hate for something bad

to go wrong with your business here like the mob days like that kind of protection shit is like you know you're running the mill racketeering

but yeah just you know seems like he got caught up with some organized crime shit and we will see what happens of the young man he's got an album

coming out i think next week or some shit i feel like he's really into harley quinn because he looks kind of like her his hair looks like her yeah well he's had an interesting like he kind of came out of nowhere i mean before like they always show pictures of him like how he was not living this life uh but you know i don't know i don don't get these young kids with the rainbow teeth. Rainbow teeth. And also you could tell because I remember when the Breakfast Club, like Charlemagne was like, hey, man, you got to tone down your cocky behavior.

Like you're going to get in trouble. Like whether it's with other people in the streets who are really gangster or legally because you are living wild and dangerously out here. And it seems like the latter may have happened. So, you know, keep your noses clean, kids. We'll keep an eye on that. And we're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you.

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How do you feel about biscuits? Hi, I'm Akilah Hughes, and I'm so excited about my new podcast, Rebel Spirit, where I head back to my hometown in Kentucky and try to convince my high school to change their racist mascot, the Rebels, into something everyone in the South loves, the Biscuits. I was a lady rebel. Like, what does that even mean? The Boone County Rebels will stay the Boone County Rebels with the image of the Biscuits. It's right here in black and white in France. A lion. An individual that came to the school saying that God sent him to talk to me about the mascot switch. As a leader, you choose hills that you want to die on. Why would we want to be the losing team? I'd just take all the other stuff out of it. On the segregation academies, when civil rights said that we need to integrate public schools,

these charter schools were exempt from that. It's bigger than a flag or mascot. You have to be ready for serious backlash. Listen to Rebel Spirit on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And we're back. And a story that we might have teased already, but we're finally getting to it. I never like to admit this. This is why I've been putting it off so long. I might have been wrong about that whole Havana diplomat attack that then became the just diplomats in both Havana and in China being attacked by some invisible, mysterious ray gun. What was your initial take? My initial take was that it was mass hysteria.

Oh, I think I remember this being on an episode I was on. Oh, yeah. I talk about it nonstop. I've really gone out on a limb on this one. So why are you preparing the crow for eating? Okay. I've really gone out on a limb on this one. So why are you preparing the crow for eating now? Okay, so the New Yorker came out with a deep dive on the subject, and it kind of just implicitly dismisses the idea that there's mass hysteria. Like they don't even really go into that as an option.

And it's mostly based on the fact that they put this like dream team together of neurological researchers and medical experts, and they examined all the brains. And there were definitely cases where people were like, yeah, I too feel sick and nauseous. And I was in that same office, and they examined those people, and they were like, oh, but you don't have these scrambled brains that we've been seeing on these brain scans but it seems like they're able to look at the people who were hit by this ray and say yes this shows definite signs of actual physical trauma like something definitely happened verifiable damage something happened we just don't

know what uh which makes this story in addition to me being wrong about it it makes it like way more interesting because that means that there's a weapon out there that not only do we not have access to the weapon we don't even know how it's physically possible that there is a thing like like technologically technologically we don't know the physics of what it's doing to people's brains or how it's happening. So it suggests there's a blind spot

in the scientific method that the Western world has been pursuing and communist countries have burrowed into some other. Maybe it's the magic of the Orient. Right. Well, but there's all sorts of Soviet science projects that were undercover that we never found out about and that maybe that's what's going on. A lot of people suspect it's Russia. But it's – I mean, this article definitely leaves you with more questions than answers.

Right. But it also made me much more, I'd say I'm still more agnostic than like firmly on one side or the other. But it definitely pulled you away from these people just tripping. Yeah, exactly. I'm curious about,

so like if you say they have different science, it's more like on a military level, right? Which we probably also do because if every country is kind of like trying to hide the science it's probably hidden from their people too right oh yeah it's not like it's like everybody there knows it's been published and we haven't just read about it right right it's like the new taser people walk around like oh you don't have a sonic ray right but our military still can't

figure out what's happening but if there was like a big scientific i mean i don't know what this is but like let's say yeah there was something like oh now we can have telekinesis right i feel like it's that's huge enough for humanity that as a scientist even if you're working for the soviets or china or whatever a different country i feel like it would break through the secret layer because there's just so much like it's on a scientific level teresa they not publish that's what i was saying do they not talk to other science you know what i mean like it's very a scientific level. Teresa, that's what I was saying. Do they not publish that stuff? Do they not talk to other scientists? You know what I mean?

It's a very confusing story. It wouldn't just live. It feels like in the realm of conspiracies where it's like, it's probably something, but I doubt it's this whole secret thing where they've unlocked time travel and we just don't know because it would be really hard to just keep that even within a military level. I mean, if it is in that line it could be something that they were working on and then they just stumbled upon like a different application

they're like wait a second with these couple tricks right we actually have this whole other thing i'm like shut the fuck keep that low though which is actually how most scientific discovery happens anyways is by accident and yeah it's entirely possible that like wasn't febreze meant for something else before yeah or penicillin but febreze is probably the more important one yeah oh for sure like what's pen a what you know that's another reason why i think look trump you should look at this to mr president and be like oh we're even falling behind in the weapons world where we got wacky shit we don't know about or if this is the case world where we got wacky shit we don't know about. Or if this is the case, that it is in fact a weapon we don't know about.

But yeah, it seemed like earlier today or the day before, I saw an interview with the mother of a diplomat who was in China and sort of how at first they thought it was the air and the other things, but they also noticed that the pets that lived with her were also avoiding rooms that they were hearing stuff in. And like the dogs wouldn't want to go back to the apartment. Oh, yeah. So, I mean, you know, if the rumors are true, dogs are pretty good at hearing.

Yeah. At the same time, that also sounds like the sort of shit you hear from people who are like, my house is haunted. Yeah. My dog will never go in that room. Sure, sure. Because it's got an evil spirit in it. But you know, there's something about that. Maybe it's not an evil spirit, but maybe there's something we don't know.

Because there are reports of sometimes very, quote unquote, haunted areas. Multiple separate people will have stories. And then it'll be like, oh, well, maybe it's not a ghost, but what is it? Maybe there's something we don't know that's causing like that energy or something. It's a loose wire. I mean, it could literally be like something like that. Like maybe some, whatever, that's built on a tilt

and it makes you feel uneasy. Like it could be something like that, but if you don't know what it is, it doesn't mean there's nothing. Yeah, we've covered how infrasound a lot of the times, which is like a sound wave that the human ear isn't capable of hearing. It's like below the register that we can hear.

But a lot of the times when there's like a really haunted area or something, it can cause hallucinations in people, and it also just gives you this feeling of dread. So you believe in hauntings? I believe that there's a scientific explanation for most hauntings. Oh, can I show? Wait, so what? What's up? Wait, hold what? Wait, wait, hold on.

But wait, go on then. So if ghosts, what do you mean? So like if there's like a pipe that is like. Oh, okay. So you're not saying like there's some, well, you can measure it. No, it's called infrasound. And like, because we can't hear it, we're not aware of it, but it's like giving you a weird feeling.

What are things that cause infrasounds, though, that are like out there? Like machines or, yeah, like all sorts of things. But then that's what the ghosts want you to think, I think. Right, exactly. Wait, can I share a quick thing that made me think of? Because I don't think I believe in aliens, and I never thought you did.

Oh. No, okay, I don't. But I want to share the story because I don't believe in aliens. It's fun to read about. But the other night, I was about to go to sleep, and I was just kind of having like a more panicky night. And I kept seeing this, you know, sometimes it's a panicky night. It's called Sunday. Yeah, Sunday night.

And I saw this light that kept blinking and I couldn't tell where it's coming from. And I started freaking out. So I was like, okay, it looked like it was coming from under my bed. And I was like, there's nothing there. And I looked and I was like, it's probably just something. And it's my phone or something. And I was like, there's nothing there. And I looked and I was like, it's probably just something. And it's my phone or something. And I was like, I'll just go to sleep and ignore it. But then my boyfriend thought too.

And he was like, okay, let's figure it out. And then we got spooked. And this is why I'm like, I don't believe in aliens. But for a moment, I believed in aliens. Wait, why do you think it was an alien? That's the thing. I'm like, this is how you know if you really believe in it or not. When you're in a situation of unknown, what's your first thought?

And my first thought was like, I'm scared. that deep down i probably believe in that but because otherwise i wouldn't have been scared um but then we figured out it was the way that my like usb drive was facing it was reflecting off of the mirror and like basically causing this really weird it was a weird looking light and it was spooky so you think just go just to go back to your alien thing, you think with the universe being so vast that we're the only life forms in existence in the entire universe? Well, I don't think that necessarily, but I don't necessarily believe in the whole like aliens are

coming to abduct us to study us. Okay. Yeah, like I don't think they're coming through my window. Well, let's talk after this. I will show you some freaky stuff. We'll call my uncle. We'll verify all of this. All right. Let's talk about Nancy Pelosi.

Yeah, Nancy. Well, you know, so there's a lot of new incoming freshmen, Democrats, into the House. And a few campaign on the idea that, like, I will oppose the leadership of Nancy Pelosi. A lot of incumbents said that in their reelection campaigns. And so now there was a letter release or 16 signatories to the letter saying that they would oppose Nancy's claim to the speaker's gavel to become speaker of the House. Now, with the math of like this conference, this process of her being confirmed or, you know, just sort of chosen as the speaker, she can only afford to lose 15 votes, like 15 no votes from the Democrats.

And there are 16 signatories to this letter. Now, we don't know if that means that they might say they oppose it and might vote present at the, like on the floor vote, which would just mean it's like a half-assed no, which wouldn't count as a full no. But, you know, a lot of people are like, uh-oh, this kind of messes up the math for her to become speaker but you know as much as i have take issue with some of nancy's positions

the people who signed to this letter are mostly these like boring centrist white male democrats are more conservative who are already like in districts where Nancy Pelosi is a fucking ghost. Right, liberal boogie monster. Liberal boogie everything. She's the Babadook of politics, basically, in their districts. And I think for them, they need to outwardly show, you know that woman you're so afraid of? I'm against that.

That's why you voted for me. And I can't just have my first vote will be a no against her leadership. And like, I'm I can't just have my my first vote will be a no against her leadership. I thought that. Yeah, I thought that the opposition was coming from like the AOCs and the. No. And even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez herself was like, look, if you look at that, this push from these 16 people, if anything, creates a vacuum for a more conservative speaker to move for the for Democrats. more conservative speaker to move in for Democrats. And I mean, like when you look at the people who like are putting their names in the ring, like Marsha Fudge from Ohio. I mean, she even said like she's kind of fallen back a bit. She hasn't, you know, initially said, I will challenge her.

You know, I'll challenge her to become speaker. But she's sort of fallen back. And a few other people were notably not signatories to that who said they might challenge Nancy Pelosi. So it's, you know, I don't know. I don't know what's actually going to go on with it. But I think, you know, when you look at it, I understand what, you know, people on the left of Pelosi feel is like, you know, it's time. It's been too long. We need new leadership. And look what's happened, like over few years. The Democrats have just become stagnant. But I think for such a crucial two years coming up, there is something to say about her experience. Granted, I don't like how she likes to play ball or do any kind of bipartisan activity, especially with this White House. But it would be good that she can,

at the very least, transmit this knowledge to whoever is going to take over and i'm i could live with this if nancy's like okay this next two years and then if we keep the house i'll hand it over hasn't she sort of suggested that she said with hillary transitional thing right when she said if hillary uh won she said she would step aside or step down you know if like because she there would be a new era but i think she knows too i mean she has acknowledged that it needs to happen right um but i think a lot of people you know especially when you look at a lot of these super progressive democrats that have come in they weren't taking pac money or you know all this other shit and or corporate money nancy pelosi does and there's a you know the new wave of guys aren't really feeling it. But she's still decently progressive.

I do have to say that. I think it's the fact that there are times that she makes decisions that are like, you just are head scratchers. Like recently, she agreed to a rules change that would basically require a super majority to raise taxes on the bottom 80%, which I get on the surface. You're saying, okay, it would be harder to raise taxes on just the bottom 80. But you're also giving veto power to these Republicans who will never, ever vote for a tax increase. So it's like, we don't need that right now because the real... Don't agree to these

rules changes when we're trying to have a real seismic shift in tax policy too and begin setting the table for that as well and just to clarify alexandria ocasio-cortez is not one of the names on the list no i mean no no what do you mean to to oppose nancy pelosi no no she she isn't signed to it it's you know it's a very she's just saying she in theory likes the idea of maybe getting some fresh blood in but she was one of the names yeah and she said you know her, she was looking at it, you mean not to become Speaker, right? No, no, to oppose.

There's 16 people on this. Yeah, yeah. I mean, she's always said we've needed change, but she hasn't been like, I'm going to vote no, because she's like, as far as I can see, the people who, you know, this letter is whack because it didn't really even specifically say what their gripes were with her. It was just saying, it's time for something new.

And they didn't even offer an alternative. It just feels like it's probably for more conservative areas, and they want to, it's just a political thing. Well, Linda Sanchez is one of the few people on there who's voted less with Trump than any of the people on this. She's probably the most progressive person on that list of people who did sign. But a lot of these people, like Seth Moulton in massachusetts who totally fucking took a l at a town hall a couple days ago he was like trying to tell his constituents he's like hey you know uh people democrats really

want to get rid of pelosi and the whole thing goes no no and he was just like he's like yeah i was just kidding yeah but you know we'll see. We don't know. I mean, yeah, I just think, again, I could handle it if it's just two years because I don't know what the alternative is because she, you know, there's... Like now is not the time to be more divided. But, yeah, she is for sure like a very lifelong politician type. Yeah, and that's what I worry about is like, you know, and I said this before, is that if she wants to work with Trump, I don't think that's going to help us or progressives going into 2020 is like handing him wins that he can totally claim all the credit for being like, I lower prescription drug costs.

You know, the infrastructure said I did. And that's where it gets a little tricky. So, you know, but based on the options, I don't know. Right. I mean, I would love karen bass to uh step up but we'll see who's karen bass she'd like heads the progressive caucus african-american woman she was the ran the state assembly of california she's you know i could see her she's experienced and i like her progressive streak more than nancy pel. But again, I don't know if the first thing going into these

very crucial years, like just a eviscerating in-fight, you know, democratic fight is going to be the best thing. Although this would be the time to have it, right? Would be now as opposed to in a couple, like, or in a year, it's now would be the time to have a in-fight. And, you know, I was listening to somebody was saying that like when I'm thinking about how important Nancy Pelosi is going to be over the next two years I'm thinking about the last two years when

you know Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were like kind of the main faces of the Democratic Party because they were opposing Trump and they were the only people to oppose him but this person was pointing out that actually in the next two years, you're going to have the 25 people who are running for president on the Democratic side who are going to be the face of the Democratic Party.

But the speaker has tremendous power in setting the agenda of what kind of legislation is going to go through the House. And that's where I get like, let's not water down shit. There's a potential for shit to go House. And that's where I get like, let's not water down shit or, you know. Right. There's a potential for shit to go wrong. And who knows? I don't want to, you know, I'm not a wise man. Do you think that there's a bit of like just playing the politics game though

when they're saying like, oh, we got to get through these next two years. Like, oh, we don't like her either. Because then like, then it's the two years and then it's the election. And like, there's always kind of going to be a next benchmark, even if the Democrats win or even like if let's say we whatever trump gets elected out of office then there's gonna there's still the opposition where there's gonna be like oh well it's really tight

now so we really got to just status quo until the next and i feel like that's a little bit of a tactic that they're always gonna use exactly and i think that's why it's what makes it a little complicated because you also don't have someone who's really stepping up and saying, I'm the person to go up against Nancy Pelosi. Like even the progressive wing is still trying to figure out like. So, I mean, January 3rd is when like the new Congress is sworn in and that's when the floor vote happens for speaker. And that's when people have to go on the record because there's a caucus vote that happens earlier. But that's all confidential. You don't know how people voted but the one that matters is on uh in january when like people

will put their name on the vote well because if things go let's say if things go really well and whatever pelosi's takes over and everything's like whatever strawberries and cream and good and then democrats take over then there's going to be the argument that like, well, why change our winning streak? Yeah. So I feel like either way, it's kind of like, it's kind of a rock and a hard place.

And it's like, well, what's the, what is the thing that we want now? Maybe is the best way to look at it. All I know is people who know shit about politics keep mentioning Karen Bass. You mentioned her. She's not the head of the Progressive Caucus. She's just a member of it.

I don't mean to say that. And she was a speaker of the State Assembly. She also gets shit done. Yeah, there are plenty of people you could look at and say, like, yo, there's some good people out there that could, that have experience and have a vision of the future that is like a very working people first kind of agenda. And I think that's what's really missing.

But that's what a lot of people got into office campaigning on. Yeah. All right. We're going to take another quick break. We'll be right back. I've been thinking about you. I want you back in my life. It's too late for that.

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Listen to In Our Own World as a part of the My Cultura podcast network available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And don't worry, we promise to avoid any black holes most of the time. And we're back. And just real quick, we want to say happy birthday to Lunchables. They just turned 30. They were invented in a lab by a food scientist who then pitched them to a bunch of tobacco executives because at the time Oscar Mayer was owned by R.J. Reynolds. And they were like, oh, my God, this is brilliant because we can make it super addictive and they are

really bad for you and oh wow I was gonna have a happy take on this it's not just cheese and ham like it is but it's super salty and ham is not actually like a a lot of the things that it doesn't just like come

directly off an animal's body. I think it's processed or at least the version. Yeah. I mean, it's just like pink. Right. It's like has ham. It's like just a ham disc. Right.

And the crackers are like buttery and the cheese is cheese. And I mean, I love I remember because my mom, I know they were at the store. She would never buy like, would never buy immigrant parents. They don't buy the shit all your American friends eat for lunch. And I'm like, I want this. She's like, fuck no. But then I had to be like, yo, you don't have to do shit, mom. Just send me out the door with this fucking thing and you're good.

And she got it for you? She did once. And then she looked at it and she's like, this looks like just garbage. And then maybe it was like two months in like fourth grade when I was rocking Lunchables and then put the kibosh on there. We really took for granted the great food we were getting.

Like my mom would make me like in a thermos, like beef noodle soup. Right, right. Like really good food. And then I'd be like, oh no, I want to eat pizza.

Yeah, exactly. I'm like, this is gross. Everyone's making fun of me. And then, but then I'm now I'm like, wow, that was like good.

That was the shit. When I was really young, my mom used to make like a obento, like the bento box, you know, looked at all flying shit and people were like, what's that? Right. And I'm like, it's, it's, it's like miso fish. Yeah. And then like they were eating like salami sandwiches and I would just cry. Right.

I like begged for a tuna and then, so she finally started making tuna. And, but I was like, I don't know. I just wanted it because other people had it. Yeah. And then looking back but I was like I don't know I just wanted it because other people had it and then looking back I was like yo y'all are eating shit

eating gourmet shit but yeah Lunchables you know apparently they're still doing very well because Kraft Heinz just sold them

for nearly one and a half billion dollars so parents are still lazy I wonder what they are now if they've updated

the types of food well there was the pizza one you mentioned the taco bell one the dessert pizza too did you guys ever have that? they had dessert pizza at Lunchables it was like chocolate, sauce on it M&M's

on what? on a little bread thing oh yeah, this is wild. And that was the main course or that was just the dessert? I can't remember if that came. That sounds elaborate. Was it part of the regular pizza or was it its own? I can't remember.

But I do remember eating a dessert pizza. Yeah, I think. No, I definitely saw an image of that. I think they have all kinds now. Yeah. And they are also the smoothies of children's lunches in the sense that you get to feel like you made something. Oh, yeah. You're like, oh, I made a sandwich and another one.

They have so many. It's funny. When you go to Lunchables.com, it's like, are you a kid or a parent? And the kid one's like, you need this shit. Right. And the parent side is like, Lunchables with a drink. You want 100% juice. You want Lunchables organic.

100% juice. Yeah, with Capri Sun. That's funny. That used to seem like a testament of how healthy something was, 100% juice. And now I've realized juice is really bad for you. Juice is so bad. What does that even mean when they say that, 100% juice? It's just like it's actually they squeezed it out of a piece of fruit.

As opposed to it being like sugar water mixed with like some grape flavoring. Oh. Oh. So it just means like we use fruit to make like sugar water mixed with like some grape flavoring. Oh. Oh. So it just mean like we use fruit to make this sugar water. Yeah. Sugar juice. Yeah. Oh, because it wasn't juicy juice.

I remember as a kid there was like, it's 100% juice. Yeah. And I thought it was healthy. I'm good on that. Give me my fucking Mondo. So full of sugar. All right. Let's talk Thanksgiving, you guys.

What are you guys doing for Thanksgiving? We have to. I can start out because I'm really excited to not be going fucking anywhere. I am staying here. Last year, we flew back to the East Coast with two young, young children in tow. And it was actually just one. Yeah. I had to think about it.

Wasn't it the time of morning, February? Yeah. One on the way. So it was one on the way and one very young child who's not at a great age for travel or wasn't at a great age for travel at that point. So I'm happy just to be chilling out. We're going to do our first Thanksgiving in our new house. One of my wife's friends is coming over. She's a great cook.

So we're going to do it. And also we are going to be able to drive around Los Angeles with everybody. Oh, that's nice. That is how Los Angeles was meant to exist. I'm going up to the bay to see Her Majesty's family, and I'm hoping that the drive won't melt my head, but

it should be fine. But that's my favorite thing about LA in the holidays, is like when anybody who's a transplant or just has somewhere to go, and it's just empty, oh, it's like a fantasy or just has somewhere to go like, and it's just empty. Oh, it's like a fantasy world. I'm like,

yo, do you want to go to the West side? Four o'clock? Yeah, exactly. twice in a day. Yeah, right.

Visit all your friends on the East side or on the West side. Yeah. I'm driving to the Bay too. You are? Oh my God. You got a carpool. Well, my doggie and my sister are coming.

Okay. but, uh, I'm, uh, I, I'm excited to go home, but I, I'm similar, but cause when i used to live in new york i never came home for thanksgiving because it was too close to uh christmas and it's far away and i love staying in the city because everybody leaves

and and then all the people who stay kind of get together and do something like have their own kind of ordeal or watch football or you know and. Friends giving is a phrase I made up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I never heard that before. But I like that feeling. And to the point now where, like, when I was invited to Friendsgiving this year, and I won't be here for it because I'm going home, I was like, oh, man, I'm missing out. But, like, the whole point of Friendsgiving is to help people not feel like they're missing out.

But now I feel like it's more fun than actually Thanksgiving. I know. I feel like this year Friendsgiving, like like blew the fuck up in a major way like I was seeing theme Friendsgivings like next level Friendsgivings used to just you would see people but like for the first time I was looking around on in social media I'm like damn these people are doing like going all out yeah Friendsgiving people get vulnerable on things of Friendsgiving because it's like all the or people who aren't going home and then they're like sort of sad but not and then

everyone's like opening up and you're bonding and I'm like that's a real nice moment. My dad never loved me. Shut up with that man. Pass me the pie. What are you going to eat? You said your family friend is a really good cook? Yeah she's a really good cook. You specifically pointed that out so

you must really be looking forward to this cooking. Yeah, no, no, no. Well, I'm going to get the groceries, which is another thing I like to do. I'm going grocery shopping. That's like a de-stressing activity for me, for whatever reason, is hanging out in grocery stores

just because it's like consumerism Disneyland. It's just everything and nice little organized rows. Do you remember going from being like a broke college kid going to the grocery store to kind of having a job and going to the grocery store? First time you're like, yo, I could get this shit if I want and I'm going to buy two kinds of ice cream today. I don't know why I still, I do get a kick

out of the grocery store. I'm going to try to make my mom's sweet potato casserole this year and that is a big thing if I can pull it off. What about you? Well, my mom doesn't like when I'm in her kitchen. Oh, shit. Yeah, she's very particular.

She's like, don't get, get out of my kitchen. Like, because she's super particular about where everything goes. So, last couple of years, I'll just make a dip for the appetizers because she's like, oh, you could take care of the apps for people. So, I used to make spinach artichoke dip in college that people like so I was doing that spin dip yeah it's not really a thanksgiving thing but like she just she has everything covered um I like making pie but I don't yeah really when I'm home I'm really not supposed to be in the way of the kitchen so it has to be things that are nice able to do in like very short amount of time and get

out of the way what kind of pie do you make? I like pumpkin pie. I made that, yeah. It's probably the easiest one to do. Is it? Yeah, because you just do the- It's just putting the filling in a pie crust? You just kind of mix the filling in. Oh, shit.

I never really thought about that. You make your own crust? No. Oh, okay. We can take that over and say yes. Yes, handmade. Do you guys have any favorite memories? Do you guys do the, when you go home,

do you see all your old friends and stuff? I live where I grew up, so. Right. Yeah, I see them all the time. No, but do all these people come back? Yeah, like the Friday before. James Frankel always goes to hang out at this bar in my hometown the day before Thanksgiving.

And it's kind of annoying because people always go and then he just camps out at a table and people just go and like gets a bunch of attention. Yeah. Where's Dave? Dave is on the side like, hey, I'm here too. Last year I did, my mom and I went to San Francisco to do community service in the morning of Thanksgiving. We went with my college friends and it was really fun.

So I might try to do it again this year. I guess I have to sign up. I haven't done that yet, so maybe it might be too late. I almost got wrangled into doing a fucking jog. A jog. Yo. You guys were talking a lot of shit about white people running before the podcast started.

Well, because I became that meme. I forget. It was like this black dude, and it was like, you know, one of your white girlfriend's family on Thanksgiving Day is like, let's go for a 10-mile run. And you're like, what the fuck? No. And her master was asking me if I wanted to do a turkey trot.

Zeitgang, if you didn't know this, over the weekend, I busted my pinky till I pretty much broke the shit and stepped on two dead bees. So I have two bee stings on the sole of my foot. So I'm in no shape. He got a bucket stuck on his head. Bucket stuck on his head. Stepped on a bunch of rakes. Yeah, slipped on a banana peel. And that was that.

Yeah, the idea of exercising on, like I could play soccer or something. I know like that's, like people will play flag football or something. I could do that. Yeah. A run is so fun. Does it happen before or after the meal?

Before. Okay. Oh my God. Could you imagine? That would be just punishment. Yeah. I like what you said. I can't remember if Jack or Miles said it, but that running is white people dancing.

Oh, yeah. That's what I was saying. Yeah, because if you're just like, I don't know. Let's do something. Let's run. Yeah. You could dance. That was the white person whose feelings were hurt.

Oh. No, no, no, no. No. You know, everyone can dance and run. Asian people like karaoke at parties. That's a big thing. Oh, yeah. Everyone can dance and run. Asian people like karaoke at parties. That's a big thing. Oh, yeah. That's fun.

My in-laws, they go out to one in the morning karaoke in Koreatown every time they come to town. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And they got no rules in Koreatown. There's some of those places where you could straight up smoke cigarettes inside in a basement. That's why they go, man. Old world rules. They're just hacking butts.

Oh, did you ask if I had a good memory? Yeah, or like a great Thanksgiving. You know what's odd? My best memory is all involved food that was made. Yeah. Because it's always the same thing. I see my cousins and everybody and we're having a good time. But a couple years back, my uncle had the Salt Lick in Austin,

had FedEx brisket for our Thanksgiving. And my goodness, it was the most pleasant surprise ever when I was like, yo, what? You bought Texas brisket? What the fuck? And you were okay with the meat that wasn't turkey? Yes. And I'll get into that probably on our Black Friday episode later on. Oh, yeah.

I was going to say, barbecue for Thanksgiving? That sounds awesome. Yeah. 100%. We're not having turkey this year. We're doing a chicken and a ham. Ooh. Ham.

Ham. Ham. A lot of ham talk. Also, shout out to Ham Horn. They had to change. They had to get rid of that sound bite from 30 Rock of her going, ham, because I think they got hit with a cease and desist probably. So my favorite memory from Thanksgiving weekend is this tradition that I told former Zeit guest

Soren Bui about, and he's going to incorporate it into his family tradition. It's a tradition that came down from my dad's family where one of Santa's elves, like that after Thanksgiving, it had to be between Thanksgiving and Christmas, was like Ichabod season. That was the name of the elf.

And one of the closets in our house, he would like visit. And so my dad would make like a big show of thinking he heard something and like go and check in all the different closets until he found the one that the elf was in. And then he'd have a weird like long conversation with the elf where he was like, yeah, he's been all right, I guess. But then you get like one Christmas present early, and there's something about getting one present early and you appreciate that present so much. And also it's just cool to, for some reason, just having, seeing your dad interact

with a magical creature was so dope. Would he go into the closet, close the door behind? So you were only hearing conversation. No, no. He would like be standing there. We'd be on the other side of the door and he'd be like kind of talking, like making eye contact with the elf. But you could only hear his side. No, it's a real elf, you guys.

It's a real, no, I'm just kidding. But you could only hear. Right. It was one side. Only he could see and hear him, including my mom, which we're going to update that so Sarah can also see and hear Ichabod. But yeah, we're doing that for the first time this year with my kids. So I'm pretty psyched about that.

Oh, that's so fun. And Ichabod should be bilingual, too. Yeah. Keep your kids bilingual. Right. Exactly. The first time you do it, are you going to explain it? Are you just going to be like, there's a...

Holy shit. Let me check out what's happening up there. Let's do a tradition my dad going to explain it? Are you just going to be like, there's a... Holy shit! Let me check out what's happening up there. Let's do a tradition my dad used to do to get us excited about Christmas. Don't be so literal, but yeah. Wait, what the fuck is elf on a shelf? Okay, so this is a thing that I've heard about, and I think I'm vaguely familiar with, but it sounds like a version of what I just talked about,

except there's a toy elf that sits on different places in the house and he moves every day and leaves a different present for you every day, I think. Wait, so you have to move him? That's creepy. Yeah, the parents have to move him

in the middle of the night. I know, it sounds weird. Good people of the Psyche, cultural exchange opportunity. Please explain El Phonish Elf andsyche gang, cultural exchange opportunity. Right. Please explain El Fonishaw and why you guys love that so much. Yeah.

And I'll tell you why Japanese people love KFC. My mom ruined Santa and... We don't have young listeners on this, right? No. I hope not. Fuck it. Santa and the Tooth Fairy. Fuck it, young kids.

For my little brother because she got in a fight with my dad once because he was a born-again Christian. And then they were kind of like, it was early on. They've worked through it. But early on, they were having a lot of issues with that. And my dad wrote as the Tooth Fairy about God, like trying to convert my brother, but as the Tooth Fairy.

Oh, my God. And so she got mad and she was like, it's not real. It's your dad. Santa's not real either. And he was so upset. Oh, my God. But I believed it until i was like 12 too long that santa was real yeah damn i was just talking with somebody about that how i from the

beginning i was just so cynical yeah i just couldn't understand i'm like okay maybe but i've never seen santa and also i think my parents did a bad job of like inoculating me. They didn't sell it. Yeah, the season or whatever. But I remember being in like fourth grade and kids would be like, well, Santa got me this, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, yo, you're dumb, bro. You're fucking Santa. It's the little things like writing the letter and then

actually going to the post office and little things like that as a kid you can't fathom. Well, how could you fake it? We mailed a letter. Santa got it. Yeah, and that's I guess, you can't fathom. Well, how could you fake it? Right. We mailed a letter. That's true. Santa got it, you know? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and that's, I guess, yeah, my parents was fucked up and they were like, what do

you want? I actually, I remember finding out that he wasn't real and like being like, so they just lied to us all this time? And that like pissed me off so much. Oh, wow. It was like being a college student who's a communist. Capitalism's a lie. It was the same emotions.

Aren't there schools who are trying to tell parents it's not good to say some gifts are from Santa because then if some kids whose parents don't have as much money, their gifts are less lit. And from Santa, then that could create some kind of self-worth issues. Or like, why didn't Santa bring me the PS4 with all the shits? And I just got this- Because you were a bad kid. These shin guards, and I don't even play hockey. But that's what those trees are for in the mall.

Right. You can grant a kid a Santa gift. There you go. Oh, they have that kind of thing? They have those toys for tots. Oh, toys for tots. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you buy a kid's wish list, and then they get Santa gifts.

Man, I want to tell them it's from Miles. Well, sometimes they get nicer ones, because my mom would always do that when we went shopping. And she'd be like, oh, they want like, yeah, like PlayStations and stuff. I'm like, I don't get that. She's like, well, you're not. You just get a medium gift. Teresa, it's been a pleasure having you. Where can people find

you? I have a podcast. It's called You Can Tell Me Anything. You guys can listen to that. And I'm also on Twitter at Larissa T. What's the premise of your podcast? It's comedians telling me something they've never told anyone. Yeah. Secrets. Learn some secrets. Messed

up shit. No, I'm just joking. And is there a tweet you've been enjoying? I've been really enjoying dog tweets. There was one of a dog running into a pile of leaves, but I don't know if I can... Dog named Stella. Look this up. Dog named Stella.

This dog just enjoys fall so much. The door opens, he runs out of the house and straight into an enormous pile of leaves. And it's the cutest thing ever. And he just runs around in it and fucks it up. Oh, he just. Wow. That's a lot of yard work for somebody else, Stella.

Well, that is also the biggest pile of leaves I've ever seen. That's awesome. He just disappears. Oh, shit. Yo. Man, see, that's the problem with no seasons here. I know. I remember wanting to just jump into a pile of leaves as a kid.

Instead, I just jumped into a pile of trash and got pricked by a hypodermic needle. Oh, no. How did you not elaborate on the Japan buying KFC for Thanksgiving? Well, somebody has to explain Elf on the Shelf to me better, and I'll let y'all know. All right, all right. Oh, she could Google it. It's a big thing, though. It's a post-war thing.

It's a tradition?, though. It's a post-war thing. It's a tradition? Yeah, the colonel is just... It's like, you know, after MacArthur came through at the end of World War II, bringing all the American companies and meats and shit like that, KFC just kind of became this thing that people were, like, really fixated on. And because Christmas was basically not known until G.I. started coming into Japan. Oh, that's so interesting. It was just like this conflation of the two. And Christmas is more of a couple started coming into Japan. Oh, that's so interesting. It was just like this conflation of the two.

And Christmas is more of a couple's holiday in Japan anyway. A couple's holiday? Like Valentine's Day? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And New Year's is much more of a family one. Yeah, that's the one where you go home and you eat for five days straight and you don't do shit, which I love. That sounds great.

But yeah, it's more couples. You buy short. It's like you see the jewelry commercials and shit. It's like, for Christmas. And then the Colonel is like Santa? Yeah, I mean, the Colonel is just kind of, people just love the Colonel over there. But although Japan has actually been not fucking with KFC as much,

I think the younger people aren't really buying into the whole KFC Christmas thing. So Popeye's. Yeah, because they used to be like cups that you would get every Christmas that came out and those shits

were like collector's items. Like the Starbucks holiday cups? Yeah, in a way, but less controversial. And you get a Christmas cake too. That's another Japanese thing.

Christmas cake. It's like a short cake. Oh, I had a friend who visited from South Korea and he was so excited about, when I lived in New York and he was so excited about it when I lived in New York, and he was like, can we go to KFC?

Right. And I was like, what? Why? Because it's so damn American. You're not going to like it. The best restaurant in New York. Miles, where can people find you? You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at Miles of Grey.

I have two tweets. One, predictably, is from Reductress. Miles of Gray. I have two tweets. One, predictably, is from Reductress. This one is a photo of a policewoman with her arms crossed looking very confident. And it says, horse girl from high school, a cop now. It's just so funny to me.

Because everybody knew the horse girl. There's always a horse. Somebody, some equestrian out there. And then another one is from Alyssaissa caco at alissa caco it says a millennial savings account is just a twitter account with 10k followers just in case you need to crowdfund for medical bills which is wild uh also guys uh i'm like only a few away from 10k so come follow me add miles of gray follow him and help my twitter savings account my millennial savings account all right uh i enjoyed zach borstein's tweet don't think trump realizes this will all end with everyone he's ever met testifying against him like the finale to

seinfeld uh i like the tweet from italian alex perrine who tweeted this National Review article that the headline was, The same left that despises President Trump despised George W. Bush long before him. And he tweeted, Fuck, they got us, owned by our own logic. I was just like, what is that? Anyways, 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. We link off to the information we talk about in the episode as well as the song we write out on Miles. What song are we going to write out? Today we'll do a track by Nicholas F., who is a MC from Richmond, VA. And I don't know if you remember, on 106 and Park, he was, like, winning Freestyle Friday over and over again.

And I forgot about him until I saw this track from him called I Ain't Cried Yet. This is for all my old hip-hop heads. You know, I just want some sample-based beats and some good lyrics. So this is from Nicholas F. I ain't cried yet. All right. We're going to ride out on that. We'll be back on Friday with a special Black Friday episode of the podcast

that has nothing to do with Black Friday. It just comes out on Black Friday. Yeah, it just comes out on Black Friday. And then after that, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. Talk to you later. Bye. Bye.

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